Top Gear Special-50 years of Bond Cars

paddy147

Monday 29th October at 9pm on BBC2

Top Gear Special


http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-james-bond-special-2012-10-15



Its celebrating 50 years of the Bond Cars and all the gadgets on them.

Could be an interesting watch.:)

colm_mcm

Saw this in the paper today, I'll definitely tune in, wouldn't rate the cars in the new film though (except the DB5 they resurrected yet again)

savagecabbages

If only 5th gear did it!

AugustusMinimus

I'd tune in for the Lotus Esprit alone. Should be good.

h3000

Just going to give this a quick bump.

paddy147

I really hope they make a good programme and not just fcuk it up with silly jokes and the silly carry on that they are known for doing.

The Bond cars deserve a good showing and a good programme about them.

bazz26

It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about when the car franchise was under German tenure.

CianRyan

It's Top Gear, expect Top Gear.
If you want 5th Gear then you should watch 5th Gear.

I'm looking forward to it.

advertsfox

Aaannnnnnddddd it's Sky+'d!

MetzgerMeister

Anyone know when the new series of Top Gear is starting??

I just read on tg.com that this is the start of the new series but on a Monday????

bazz26

I think they usually start around the second or third week of November and have a run of 6 episodes upto Christmas, the last one being the annual Christmas special.

Assuming they follow that trend of course.

Chavways

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Anyone know when the new series of Top Gear is starting??

I just read on tg.com that this is the start of the new series but on a Monday????

Jeremy said on his Twitter about a month ago that they had only filmed 2 out of the 24 car reviews and short films that they had to film for the new series and that it would around January before its back. Hopefully he got that completely wrong though.

Jeremy Clarkson ‏@jcrclarksonesq

Each Top Gear item takes 2 weeks to prepare, 5 days or so to film and 2 weeks to edit. So far we've done 2. We need another 22. Do the maths

Paddy001

bazz26 wrote: »

I think they usually start around the second or third week of November and have a run of 6 episodes upto Christmas, the last one being the annual Christmas special.

Assuming they follow that trend of course.

The Christmas special is on in February according to Clarkson on FB a few weeks ago!

RMD

From what I've heard the Christmas special is going to be a stand alone episode and the new series will kick off at some point in spring.

padd b1975

I remember reading somewhere that they decided to delay the new series until the new year because of all the Strictly Come Dancing and X Factor hype.

Bottom line, no new series until the new year.

Alanstrainor

Bump

paddy147

Starting on BBC2 in 2 minutes time

Osborne

Ready to go with beverage, snacks and duct tape over the missus mouth.

paddy147

The granny with the machine gun....classic.:D

I8A4RE

The nicest car so far - The toyota 2000gt convertible handsdown

paddy147

I have to say fair play so far to Richard Hammond.

Hes doing the cars justice.Some interesting facts on how the Toyota became a convertible for the film.


Thank god Clarkson and May are not involved,as they would just fcuk it all up and ruin the programme.

Marty McFly

Fcuk just seen this thread now will it be shown again? Damn it :mad:.

paddy147

Marty McFly wrote: »

Fcuk just seen this thread now will it be shown again? Damn it :mad:.

Its still on BBC2.:D

cup of tea

top notch stuff so far

paddy147

Old Stig (Ben Collins) is a driving instructor for the Bond Skyfall film.

CianRyan

Well I ended up eating cake and carving pumpkins there so I'll just have to download this.

Pilotdude5

You should write a book.....lol

Marty McFly

paddy147 wrote: »

Its still on BBC2.:D

Ah yeh but id only be catching the last few minutes rather see it fom the start and take it all in .

delad

OSI wrote: »

Heh, I love the sly digs Hammond was giving Ben Collins.

Collins deserves it, he seems like a complete prick

paddy147

And Robbie Maddison does all the motorbike chase scenes.

Remember Robbie Maddison??

Chavways

This is a brilliant documentary. The best parts of all Bond movies in one place.

h3000

delad wrote: »

Collins deserves it, he seems like a complete prick

How so?

paddy147

Well done Richard Hammond.

Very good programme on the bond cars with no fcuking around.

guttenberg

delad wrote: »

Collins deserves it, he seems like a complete prick

To be fair, the other 3 milk being a part of Top Gear with countless books/dvds and other crap that I seem to get every Christmas. Why exclude him? plus it was a open secret who he was(not that I knew, but a lot of people did). Great episode, not really a bond fan but there was plenty of interesting little facts there.

savagecabbages

Very good overall, bar the expected Hammond Brainiac crap (of which there was much less than expected)...

Voodoomelon

For me, Dalton's Aston V8 Vantage Volante steals the show.

delad

h3000 wrote: »

How so?

all the crap he pulled trying to sue top gear, wearing that t-shirt saying i am the stig, he just seems like a complete wank3r

Mar4ix

really great, i enjoyed.

delad

guttenberg wrote: »

To be fair, the other 3 milk being a part of Top Gear with countless books/dvds and other crap that I seem to get every Christmas. Why exclude him?

Because he was employed with the specific requirement that he remain anonymous.

I8A4RE

Respect to D Craig for picking out the Toyota, never knew there was one in a bond film

Whetted the appetite for new top gears

h3000

delad wrote: »

all the crap he pulled trying to sue top gear, wearing that t-shirt saying i am the stig, he just seems like a complete wank3r

I don't want to go far off topic but, the BBC tried to sue him when he wanted to bring out his autobiography. As stated above the others make a fortune out of all their books DVDs. Why can't he tell his story? Most people with any interest knew he was the Stig anyway. I've seen him in other program's and he seems like a decent bloke.


One the program. Excellent

paddy147

Black Stig was a chap named Perry McCarthy.

He got the boot too,over something similar.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig

Atlantic Dawn

Have to say of all cars the Lotus Espirit is my favourite.

paddy147

Black Stig was fired off an aircraft carrier,never to be seen again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiJkQzpzRc

paddy147

Anyway it was a good programme,and I rather liked the invisible transit van/tv screen idea.

It did seem to work,but only from a distance and out in the countryside

The Lotus submarine was good too.

Sunny Dayz

Just seen this thread, any idea when it may be repeated?

h3000

paddy147 wrote: »

Anyway it was a good programme,and I rather liked the invisible transit van/tv screen idea.

It did seem to work,but only from a distance and out in the

Mercedes done it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To0sSJKqeEk

alias no.9

paddy147 wrote: »

Anyway it was a good programme,and I rather liked the invisible transit van/tv screen idea.

It did seem to work,but only from a distance and out in the countryside

The Lotus submarine was good too.

How the hell did they get it out of the water

Daniel S

delad wrote: »

all the crap he pulled trying to sue top gear, wearing that t-shirt saying i am the stig, he just seems like a complete wank3r

I noticed he was wearing that T-shirt over another t-shirt. Looks fresh out of it's packaging too, I'd say Top Gear did that specifically so they could have a few digs (which Collins obviously agreed to). Also, watch the episodes of him on Fifth Gear and what people said about "The Stig" when they were being shown around the Top Gear Track, sound lad.

h3000 wrote: »

I don't want to go far off topic but, the BBC tried to sue him when he wanted to bring out his autobiography. As stated above the others make a fortune out of all their books DVDs. Why can't he tell his story? Most people with any interest knew he was the Stig anyway. I've seen him in other program's and he seems like a decent bloke.


One the program. Excellent

Was very well done, can't wait for the new series!

knucklehead6

of course it was done for the digs and the giggles, and you can bet that collins agreed to it too.

ednwireland

alias no.9 wrote: »

How the hell did they get it out of the water

exactly what i thought !

would have been great without hammonds voice-over tbh, the only thing that spoilt it for me (tends to annoy me on most of his shows so generally dont watch them)

thought the transit was cool