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#47
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I'm not a fan of drifting-can't really see the point-but you don't take high HP cars into high speed slides and hold them for long, if you don't know what you're doing. Like VR says, the producers probably promote this for entertainment value.
#48
Very nice stuff indeed. Jame May in near-space in a U2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZL...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmYItnlY5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOX3deFhbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZL...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmYItnlY5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOX3deFhbw
#49
The Rebel
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I agree with most of what's been said.
Some of the funnier ones, I'll paraphrase:
"...why use an airfield, we have allot of short tracks..."- You don't think they have a ton of tracks in England? They use a private airfield because it protects the Stig. If they use a regular track that anyone could go, that would open the door for the Stig's times to be beaten by anyone. This way that can't happen. It also is part of the "coolness/image" of the show.
"...TF drifts too much..." Clarkson has been known to blow the tyres off of some of the cars he's testing!
Guys it's the first episode...give it a chance. Some of you are reacting way too quickly. Will it be as good or better than the TGUK probably not but then again what is? This does sure as hell beat most of the Speed (err I mean NASCAR TV) programming.
Some of the funnier ones, I'll paraphrase:
"...why use an airfield, we have allot of short tracks..."- You don't think they have a ton of tracks in England? They use a private airfield because it protects the Stig. If they use a regular track that anyone could go, that would open the door for the Stig's times to be beaten by anyone. This way that can't happen. It also is part of the "coolness/image" of the show.
"...TF drifts too much..." Clarkson has been known to blow the tyres off of some of the cars he's testing!
Guys it's the first episode...give it a chance. Some of you are reacting way too quickly. Will it be as good or better than the TGUK probably not but then again what is? This does sure as hell beat most of the Speed (err I mean NASCAR TV) programming.
#52
I agree with most of what's been said.
Some of the funnier ones, I'll paraphrase:
"...why use an airfield, we have allot of short tracks..."- You don't think they have a ton of tracks in England? They use a private airfield because it protects the Stig. If they use a regular track that anyone could go, that would open the door for the Stig's times to be beaten by anyone. This way that can't happen. It also is part of the "coolness/image" of the show.
"...TF drifts too much..." Clarkson has been known to blow the tyres off of some of the cars he's testing!
Guys it's the first episode...give it a chance. Some of you are reacting way too quickly. Will it be as good or better than the TGUK probably not but then again what is? This does sure as hell beat most of the Speed (err I mean NASCAR TV) programming.
Some of the funnier ones, I'll paraphrase:
"...why use an airfield, we have allot of short tracks..."- You don't think they have a ton of tracks in England? They use a private airfield because it protects the Stig. If they use a regular track that anyone could go, that would open the door for the Stig's times to be beaten by anyone. This way that can't happen. It also is part of the "coolness/image" of the show.
"...TF drifts too much..." Clarkson has been known to blow the tyres off of some of the cars he's testing!
Guys it's the first episode...give it a chance. Some of you are reacting way too quickly. Will it be as good or better than the TGUK probably not but then again what is? This does sure as hell beat most of the Speed (err I mean NASCAR TV) programming.
It will take time to develop chemistry and their own style (if they do).
Greg
#53
All shows need to gel a bit before they become good. I certainly hop that it comes together and becomes a show that we all can enjoy. However with such an icon as Buz Aldrin, how can you really mess that inerview up like they did? Also, any background on these two other fellas? Car enthusiast or someone that just use cars for sterile transportaton?
#54
Like TG UK never does that....
I'm not a fan of drifting-can't really see the point-but you don't take high HP cars into high speed slides and hold them for long, if you don't know what you're doing. Like VR says, the producers probably promote this for entertainment value.
I'm not a fan of drifting-can't really see the point-but you don't take high HP cars into high speed slides and hold them for long, if you don't know what you're doing. Like VR says, the producers probably promote this for entertainment value.
I do hope it will get better, but thus far it's hard to see much of a future when the challenges are lame and the presenters have no chemistry and no personality, so their bad analogies come across as them being retarded, rather than funny.
#55
Oddly enough this was pretty good. No UK version by any stretch but more watchable then that **** they passed last week...
Link:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-...-2_2092026.htm
Link:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-...-2_2092026.htm
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Oddly enough this was pretty good. No UK version by any stretch but more watchable then that **** they passed last week...
Link:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-...-2_2092026.htm
Link:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-...-2_2092026.htm
PS: My kids and I have running game where we try to guess what color windbreaker John Davis will be wearing at the opening of each MotorWeek program. He must have 15 identical zip-front windbreakers in a range of colors. That said, one time he wore leather.
#58
Burning Brakes
+1 it was that or Pinks. Would have been real nice if they could have re-aired the 24-hrs of LeMans or the F1 season instead of this crap. SPEED got none of my view time over this period.