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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: albitz on 15 February 2013, 23:46:01
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Apparently Hamilton is back this week to try to topple Vettel as the fastest F1 driver in the sh1tebox. Should be worth watching. :y
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he will only crash or break down :y
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Iirc last time he did it,it was wet and he was still almost as quick as everyone else had been ? If its dry I think he will beat Vettel easily.Hes naturally a quicker driver imo.
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Iirc last time he did it,it was wet and he was still almost as quick as everyone else had been ? If its dry I think he will beat Vettel easily.Hes naturally a quicker driver imo.
Have to agree there, quite a wet track. Also think a car they had blew its diff, Clarkson saying there was oil over track too.
Its a good test, same car, same track hopefully same conditions :)
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Bring it on. Apart from the odd F1 wet race, it may be the only thing he wins this year. :y
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Iirc last time he did it,it was wet and he was still almost as quick as everyone else had been ? If its dry I think he will beat Vettel easily.Hes naturally a quicker driver imo.
Have to agree there, quite a wet track. Also think a car they had blew its diff, Clarkson saying there was oil over track too.
Its a good test, same car, same track hopefully same conditions :)
A Monaro, if memory serves? :-\
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Iirc last time he did it,it was wet and he was still almost as quick as everyone else had been ? If its dry I think he will beat Vettel easily.Hes naturally a quicker driver imo.
Have to agree there, quite a wet track. Also think a car they had blew its diff, Clarkson saying there was oil over track too.
Its a good test, same car, same track hopefully same conditions :)
A Monaro, if memory serves? :-\
Sounds right, I remember a jibe towards Mark Webber too :-\
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Well, I enjoyed that... :y
...although I do feel a bit uncomfortable with their sexual innuendos when the programme goes out at 8:00pm and my 12-year old daughter is watching. :-[ :(
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Didnt Hamilton do well top of the list ..shame he wont do the same this year in f1... ;D ;D
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Havent seen it yet.Did a 12 hour shift ,with a nasty dose of man flu.Got home at 7.50pm and laid down and went to sleep ,waiting for the grim reaper to come and get me. Looks like he has given me a temporary reprieve.
Anyone know how long it takes before its available on iplayer ?
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Hamilton did well but I thought rest of the program was rubbish
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Was there a Vauxhall Astra VXR or something on tonights ep so i've heard ? ( Don't get to watch top gear here till 10pm bloody snooker)
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Havent seen it yet.Did a 12 hour shift ,with a nasty dose of man flu.Got home at 7.50pm and laid down and went to sleep ,waiting for the grim reaper to come and get me. Looks like he has given me a temporary reprieve.
Anyone know how long it takes before its available on iplayer ?
Man flu? You'll be dead before it makes it on to iplayer. Sorry.
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Hamilton was proper quick but I still think he's a bit of a knob,and a vauxhall that Clarkson liked :D :y
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Was there a Vauxhall Astra VXR or something on tonights ep so i've heard ? ( Don't get to watch top gear here till 10pm bloody snooker)
AHHHH Snooker is still going :o :( ;D
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Iirc last time he did it,it was wet and he was still almost as quick as everyone else had been ? If its dry I think he will beat Vettel easily.Hes naturally a quicker driver imo.
Have to agree there, quite a wet track. Also think a car they had blew its diff, Clarkson saying there was oil over track too.
Its a good test, same car, same track hopefully same conditions :)
A Monaro, if memory serves? :-\
Sounds right, I remember a jibe towards Mark Webber too :-\
Nope, it was the VXR8 (hence the jibe at Webber, as it's basically an Australian Holden) :y
I've got the original episode kept on my sky planner. ::)
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Was there a Vauxhall Astra VXR or something on tonights ep so i've heard ? ( Don't get to watch top gear here till 10pm bloody snooker)
AHHHH Snooker is still going :o :( ;D
Snooker is still going, looks like i'll have to watch tomorrow.
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i thought the episode was excellent. I LOVE that Astra.
i thought that mexican car looked like that smart car (not the little one, the elise type looking one). crap!
and lewis was fantastic. i never liked him at all. but every time i see him on TG i like him more every time. although he wont win f... all at mercedes :D :D :D
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Just watched it.First half was excellent - Clarkson almost admitted to liking a Vauxhall,a little bit of Eric Clapton playing guitar,and Hamilton blitzing the record.Doesnt get much better.
The rugby thing was shite,did it before with football,shows they are really running out of ideas.The road test of some little mexican car - why ?
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Nice to see Hamilton top of the leader board. I wonder if Vettel will come back and try to beat the time? It would be nice to see a few other top drivers too.
I agree the rugby was totally boring. Just a "free" commercial for Cee'd's's
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Was there a Vauxhall Astra VXR or something on tonights ep so i've heard ? ( Don't get to watch top gear here till 10pm bloody snooker)
AHHHH Snooker is still going :o :( ;D
Snooker is still going, looks like i'll have to watch tomorrow.
Love to have swapped places with you..We dont get to see the welch open here. Your so lucky. ;D ;D ;D I see that short tempered scotsman won it. :y
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The rugby thing was worse than boring. It annoys me that all those virtually new cars were bashed about in the name of light entertainment. Except it wasn't. Oh and how it dragged on. Pitiful. TG is stale and well beyond its sell by date
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I watched it until Lewis had done his lap then, once I heard about rugby with cars, turned over. Worth watching for the first half hour or so.
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Lewis' lap... Superb :y Proves he is a good driver when on a level playing field ;)
The rugby... Mildly amusing but what a shame to wreck the cars, although fair play to Kia for supplying them for the advertising :y But what a shame to trash Twickers :o :o
It does seem that TG are running out of things to do though, which is a shame
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Lewis' lap... Superb :y Proves he is a good driver when on a level playing field ;)
The rugby... Mildly amusing but what a shame to wreck the cars, although fair play to Kia for supplying them for the advertising :y But what a shame to trash Twickers :o :o
It does seem that TG are running out of things to do though, which is a shame
I'd say twickers was due to be dug up and re-seeded anyway,can't see that being allowed with matches due ::)
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Lewis' lap... Superb :y Proves he is a good driver when on a level playing field ;)
The rugby... Mildly amusing but what a shame to wreck the cars, although fair play to Kia for supplying them for the advertising :y But what a shame to trash Twickers :o :o
It does seem that TG are running out of things to do though, which is a shame
I'd say twickers was due to be dug up and re-seeded anyway,can't see that being allowed with matches due ::)
Well, that's obvious ;) But they could sell that turf on eBay and make good money for charity/themselves ;)
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give it a day or so and they still can,
it will settle down after rolling.
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Could hardly believe my ears,praise for a Vauxhall!That must have hurt them.But why are Ford bothering to do a Right hand drive Mustang for over here only to lumber it with a 2.0litre Ecoboost engine?
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Nice to see Clarksville stubbornly admit a Vauxhall is good. As for the rest of the show i think the phrase scraping the barrel comes to mind.
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Watched this last night - the car rugby bit was a waste (and they've done it before with a different shaped ball); I guess they're scraping the barrel of reusable ideas now..
Still, the segment on the hot hatches was good - even prompted my other half to ask if we'd get better mpg out of one of those and would I like one.. the answers being yes and yes, but not at £26,000!
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Whats wrong with a Vectra mr clarkson :( Should of had a go in a 2.5 :P
Could hardly believe my ears,praise for a Vauxhall!That must have hurt them.But why are Ford bothering to do a Right hand drive Mustang for over here only to lumber it with a 2.0litre Ecoboost engine?
Ecoboost , does that mean its got twin turbo's :-\ ;D
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It's a single (tiny tiny) turbo on the back of a 2.0 I4 engine with variable intake & exhaust cam timing - essentially the same engine in the Focus ST, some Volvos etc:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Turboside2.0.jpg/800px-Turboside2.0.jpg)
AFAIK, anyway. Not what you'd want in the Mustang really - the only reason to buy one are looks & the V8 noise, after all ;D
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But it would be better on fuel and no need to redesign the fuel tank ;D
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Wonder how fast the Stig can get around that track with the same car?
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Whats wrong with a Vectra mr clarkson :( Should of had a go in a 2.5 :P
The V6 Vectra-B was a bit shite. Admittedly not as shite as the (less cramped) V6 Vectra-C
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Whats wrong with a Vectra mr clarkson :( Should of had a go in a 2.5 :P
The V6 Vectra-B was a bit shite. Admittedly not as shite as the (less cramped) V6 Vectra-C
That's interesting TB. I thought the Facelift Vectra B was a really nice car to be in. I owned 1 (a V6), and later a Vectra C (albeit not the V6) and the interior of the 'C' was so uninspiring, just very dull, much like the exterior.
As for driving experience, the 'B' won hands down for me everytime - In fact, if I could find a nice 2.5/6GSi, I'd consider buying it.
Of course, cars are very much like the opposite sex...... what is attractive to one person is minging to the next! ;D
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The rugby thing was worse than boring. It annoys me that all those virtually new cars were bashed about in the name of light entertainment. Except it wasn't. Oh and how it dragged on. Pitiful. TG is stale and well beyond its sell by date
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Prefer 5th Gear now (even if VBH is married now) ::)