Top Gear on at 9PM tonight..

kleefarr

Why??

It clashes with a film that wifey wants to watch at the same time.

When is the repeat on please?

carchaeologist

That would be the wind that shakes the barley im guessing,i have the same trouble here...:D
Think theres a repeat during the week sometime.
You'll have to get sky plus!!

Jemmy

guys dont think its on tonight anyway.

The tax man

Didn't they stop the mid-week repeats for this series.

Watch Dave and you'll catch it in a couple of weeks. Monday nights show the current series.

The tax man

Jemmy wrote: »

guys dont think its on tonight anyway.

Why? Are you posting from the future?:p

carchaeologist

Its on at 9??

Jemmy

The tax man wrote: »

Why? Are you posting from the future?:p

Nevermind it is! Got mixed up! lol sorry!

peasant

moved from motors

(like every week )

ninty9er

Surely there's more than 1 tv in the house??

kleefarr

carchaeologist wrote: »

That would be the wind that shakes the barley im guessing,i have the same trouble here...

Nope, it's the old curiosity shop. :rolleyes:

qz

Have you not trained your wife to stfu yet?

kleefarr

ninty9er wrote: »

Surely there's more than 1 tv in the house??

Yeah, but not sky multiroom.

implausible

Use the bbc's iplayer on the oul interweb! Don't know how quickly they put the programmes up though.

kleefarr

qz wrote: »

Have you not trained your wife to stfu yet?

It's nearly Christmas.

kleefarr

deemark wrote: »

Use the bbc's iplayer on the oul interweb! Don't know how quickly they put the programmes up though.

Didn't think that i-player jobby worked over here.

implausible

You're right, it doesn't sorry! Presumed it was the same as Channel 4's yoke.

niceirishfella

Thank God for DAVE!

RS6

It looks like a crap episode anyway.

niceirishfella

Agreed...last week was piss poor.

crisco10

Assume it was moved out of the graveyard slot that clashes with the sports personality of the year on bb1

L-M

Have the Wind that shake's the barley on dvd for any of those who want to borrow it after top gear:D

Busi_Girl08

I thought tonight was really good!

The V8 rocking chair, the Awards, where Jezza got taken down a peg or 4, always good, rofl!!

Did anyone else love James' "flirting"??!!




"hello"
ROFLMAO!!!!!!:D

I went a bit wobbly at the knees there!!

mike65

It was moved to give The BBC Sports Personality of the Year wards show a free run between 7 and 9.

L-M

Lol, seems to me like they're struggling to fill time.

I think i wee'd laughing so much at Jame's "Hello" hahaha

HungryJoey

A very lacking episode, aswel as last weeks. But a few funny bits in the second half nonetheless.

mike65

I thought the Honda bit was interesting, ditto the battery powered Lotus/Tesla feature, the V8 thing was daft as was the Jag with caravan but its good to see one less caravan.

I forgot the touring cars bit - it used to be real hoot. Motor racing for men.

towel401

Jaysus. This must have been one of the best episodes. I been waiting for them to review the tesla for years now.

and the Caterham got car of the year, not some dull low-spec family car or that horrible GPS speed limiter infested Nissan

qz

That Honda bit at the end was very good I thought, especially when coupled with the Tesla test. And while the bit on the BTCC was good it does feel as if they're running out of ideas, but it's still the only show I'll watch religiously. Well, that and Lost.

JohnGalt

Excellent episode in my opinion, touring cars bit was cool, as was the Telsa and Tom Jones. I thought the hydrogen fuel cell section had a real sense of optimism and scientific discovery about it.

Busi_Girl08

Agreed, I suppose it gave everyone a bit of optimism the fact that there is something else there after we burn all the oil.

We are a pretty greedy bunch, but at least we will have something else to rely on.

AND at least it's not crappy, time and money consuming power that we have to rely on.

THANK YOU Jeremy Clarkson....for killing the electric car....again.

Mossy Monk

As I watched the start and they showed the caravan I thought to myself that they are ripping off Fifth Gear. That episode incidentally was only on Dave today. But then it became clear what they were doing.

Great episode though.

Busi_Girl08

Are the episodes of FG that Dave shows the actual current ones?
Or are they reruns.

I caught a bit of one ep, about 30 seconds was all I could muster...but I got a bit of a ...4 years ago impression off it?


Or is Fifth Gear just that crap?

L-M

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Are the episodes of FG that Dave shows the actual current ones?
Or are they reruns.

I caught a bit of one ep, about 30 seconds was all I could muster...but I got a bit of a ...4 years ago impression off it?


Or is Fifth Gear just that crap?

No, it's just four years old... You can smell it off it haha

skelliser

they've been researching hydrogen fuel cells for years now but there is still loads of problems which May failed to highlight one of which is that it is extremly explosive!!

towel401

skelliser wrote: »

they've been researching hydrogen fuel cells for years now but there is still loads of problems which May failed to highlight one of which is that it is extremly explosive!!

they were full of praise for that car but they also didn't bother mentioning that the fuel cells themselves don't last very long. and that it uses those god awful lithium ion batteries as a buffer, you know the ones that go downhill after about 500 charges? this being a prototype the fuel cell will probably ****ed long before the battery.

its like all the disadvantages of an electric car and all the disadvantages of a petrol car put together, but then slightly worse

and they will most likely all be repossessed and crushed once Honda realise they are better off making petrol cars for another 30 years

skelliser

i read somewhere, not sure where tho, that there is enough coal left on the planet for something crazy like 100 years and even tho the cost of turning that/refining it back into oil is alot it will become a viable option.

towel401

skelliser wrote: »

i read somewhere, not sure where tho, that there is enough coal left on the planet for something crazy like 100 years and even tho the cost of turning that/refining it back into oil is alot it will become a viable option.

or just put it directly into your steam powered car.

skelliser

towel401 wrote: »

or just put it directly into your steam powered car.

take the piss all you want but this is a reality. even tho there currently using gas instead of coal it wont be long before they perfect coal conversion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process#Utilization

mike65

skelliser wrote: »

there is still loads of problems which May failed to highlight one of which is that it is extremly explosive!!

So is vapor of petrol and LPG, we still manage to drive using both for 100 years.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

towel401 wrote: »

they were full of praise for that car but they also didn't bother mentioning that the fuel cells themselves don't last very long. and that it uses those god awful lithium ion batteries as a buffer, you know the ones that go downhill after about 500 charges? this being a prototype the fuel cell will probably ****ed long before the battery.

its like all the disadvantages of an electric car and all the disadvantages of a petrol car put together, but then slightly worse

and they will most likely all be repossessed and crushed once Honda realise they are better off making petrol cars for another 30 years

If the cars last too long or are too reliable then the manufacturers will go out of business.

skelliser

mike65 wrote: »

So is vapor of petrol and LPG, we still manage to drive using both for 100 years.

liquid/compressed hydrogen and oxygen is way way more explosive then petrol vapors, its one of the main reasons they use it in rockets

120_Minutes

I was wondering when they'd get around to the tesla, i read about it 2 years ago!

Plug

Electic powered cars are in very early stages of development. Battery technology is still crap. I'll give it another 100 years before we will be driving around in them things.

niceirishfella

120_Minutes wrote: »

I was wondering when they'd get around to the tesla, i read about it 2 years ago!

+1 - been around for years!

towel401

Sean_K wrote: »

If the cars last too long or are too reliable then the manufacturers will go out of business.

probably explains why its mostly small manufacturers making the decent electric cars.

they need to do a review of the Lightning GT. Its ridiculously expensive but it's got much better batteries and charges in 10 minutes.

h3000

For those who missed it it will be repeated on the 21st @ 7pm see here.

You will need to tune in BBC Two (England) on your Sky box though (See instructions to do so here).

Busi_Girl08

That's only for BBC2 England, not NI.

NI is the only one aired in ROI, they used to repeat it on Wednesdays on BBC2 NI, but not this year.

So basically, no-one in Ireland or NI can watch repeats on BBC

h3000

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

That's only for BBC2 England, not NI.

NI is the only one aired in ROI, they used to repeat it on Wednesdays on BBC2 NI, but not this year.

So basically, no-one in Ireland or NI can watch repeats on BBC

Please read the second line of my post ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Busi_Girl08

Correction.

No-one in ROI or NI who don't have a Sky Box can watch the repeat.

It might be on Youtube in bits though

towel401

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Correction.

No-one in ROI or NI who don't have a Sky Box can watch the repeat.

It might be on Youtube in bits though

you can get BBC 2 england on free to air satellite