Top Gear - New Series

[Trevsked]

Saw it on Iplayer last night. Much better than some episodes of late. Have to say that all three of them did very well to crack 200mph on that banked circuit. Pretty scary stuff having to place your faith in the tyres that don't last long at all under those conditions. Given Hammonds last speed run not going so well it was probably he who faced the greatest challenge.

Trevor.

[Billy111S]

Damn i'd love a track day at Imola!

[internets]

Great episode I enjoyed it, loved the Lambo and Noble....not convinced by the McLaren tho..

10 points for anyone that spotted the full frame DeLorean .OK OK ..

Edited January 31, 2012 by internets

[Stirling_Villeneuve]

I missed it... any idea when its' repeated?

[Bibs]

BBC iPlayer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0129r3z

[Nelly]

Repeat was 7:00 last night on BBC2!

I have a feeling its also repeated on BBC3 Saturday early evening, at least it used to be.

[Stirling_Villeneuve]

Cheers but I just caught in on BBC3... great episode and I loved that McLaren!!!

I wonder how the new Esprit will fare against that lot?

[V8 FOU]

When the Noble broke down, there's no way the clutch that Hammond had was from that car. A wee clutch like that won't handle 600bhp or whatever the output is. I would guess it has a multiplate clutch.

Sorry, in Pedant mode....

[Frosty]

My word, what's going on with Richard Hammond's hair this week!? Is that dye as well as a Hitler special...?

[Bibs]

That is a proper Hitler cut!

[rocket63]

Absolute trash this week.

[GordonMasson]

I thought things were looking up but that was just an hour of my life wasted with the exception of the "star in the car" segment.

I am sure there will be plenty who will argue but where i can see the justification of the cars hitting each othe during the chase, the bit with the air cannon and running the jag into the caravan was just a waste of OUR money.... didnt like to see the jag like that!

[red vtec]

I thought things were looking up but that was just an hour of my life wasted with the exception of the "star in the car" segment.

I am sure there will be plenty who will argue but where i can see the justification of the cars hitting each othe during the chase, the bit with the air cannon and running the jag into the caravan was just a waste of OUR money.... didnt like to see the jag like that!

I should think the film company paid for them, as part of the PR budget for the film.

[B1 RMA]

Last nights was a waste of my time and my licence payers money.

[nigeninja]

yep, worse one so far

[Nelly]

As much as I hated the india special, and as much as it was so obviously scripted & acted, I actually found it funny.

Agreed it was the worst of the series though,

[Kimbers]

Not only was that tedious but I felt like I was just watching Jezza and Richard show off. "Look what we did!" sort of thing. And to devote nearly the whole program to it was rediculous.

Either they have run out of idea's or the Producers need to rein them in and get them back on track.

Rubbish!

[peteyg]

Utter tosh!

[esprit s2]

Really? I thought that was the funniest one I've seen for ages! Even the wife was laughing and she hates Top Gear!

[molemot]

Never been one for wanton pointless destruction....detest "doughnuts" for the same reason. (Not the jam ones, though!!) Smashing cars up for "entertainment" really turns me off. I did like James May's roadtest of some Vauxhall hatchback...the Corsa, was it? but the salient bit was how much more fun cars are when you reach the limit, or thereabouts. This is the major problem with high performance vehicles, you have to be going so bloomin' fast to get to this threshhold. I had far more simple FUN in my supercharged MG TC, the Bertone Alfa GTV and my race tuned 998 ex-Gas Board Mini-van-with-windows than I get from the Esprit. All of the three had enough power and pretty skinny tyres, so one could drift everywhere...the handling well outstripped the road holding! Probably not allowable in "modern road conditions" but huge fun...I remember drifting around the roundabout going onto the Westway in Chiswick...in the GTV....in formation with my brother in his GTV! The Esprit is great, too, but for different things...it doesn't have the accessibility to the limit that "lesser" vehicles can give. I wouldn't dream of trying to drift the Esprit around a roundabout, not and keep my license, the results of any error would be beyond the pale.

[gghc87]

Didnt think it was all that bad. Not the best by a long way but parts of it made me laugh. Still an entertaining show when you compare it to most of the nonsense on TV these days.

[Bazza 907]

I had a long journey to make last night but I put off leaving as I wanted to watch it.

Really wish I hadn't bothered, the worst one I've seen for a long time.

[Stirling_Villeneuve]

Didnt think it was all that bad. Not the best by a long way but parts of it made me laugh. Still an entertaining show when you compare it to most of the nonsense on TV these days.

Exactly... it wasn't a classic show but we all still watched it and probably even laughed! Compared to most of the crap on TV these days it's still a great show... let's face what we really want to see is the Stig thrashing the Exige V6 or the Evora GTE round the track and we'll be a happy bunch!

[mr.oogieboogie]

poop of epic proportions

[Vulcan Grey]

Haven't seen the one from last night yet. But I tend to appreciate the britishness of Top Gear, and don't mind that they aren't accurate or factual...

If you want to see what American car tv programs are like, take a look at these...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am8Epp92S0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssy0kUTI44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6vJrBFUzQI

Sooooo boring!!!! but very factual!