Best Topgear article ever?

Skii · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:47

I forgot my other favorite - the Audi RS4 vs free climber . I've rarely felt such utter admiration and disbelief as I did watching that chap scramble up that vertical and overhanging cliff face, regardless of over dramatised shots and sequences I was blown away ... and the car was pretty nice too, or as Clarkson put it 'biblical'

alle · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:28

...Winter Olympics.

khimbar · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:38

Sabine Schimitz nearly beating Clarkson's Jaguar Nurburgring time in a van. The woman's a hero. :eek:

wez130 · 31 Oct 2007 at 20:20

i like all the challenges they do, car vs train/plane/ boat etc and i like all the 3 car challenges.

malcolm · 31 Oct 2007 at 20:37

khimbar said:
Sabine Schimitz nearly beating Clarkson's Jaguar Nurburgring time in a van. The woman's a hero.

Agreed, Clarkson eating humble pie for once!

alexakasloth · 31 Oct 2007 at 20:45

excaliborg said:
the small car on sunday, hilarious!

That was hilarious, seeing it at the back of the news studio

thepharcyde said:
Fantastic bridge

That has to be the ugliest thing i've ever seen.

pmbuzz · 31 Oct 2007 at 20:51

Skii said:
Probably the Lillehammer Bobsleigh team vs the Evo Rally car

Snapper^ · 31 Oct 2007 at 21:38

TOYBOATAAAAAAAA!!!!

big_white_dog84 · 31 Oct 2007 at 23:12

I think a lot of the stuff they do assumes the viewer is of below average intelligence. If I remember correctly in the Clarkson vs May and Hammond in the plane they both ended up getting the Eurostar across the channel.
Somehow they still went for the whole race to the finish thing after they had got off the train. I struggled to understand this - they either got on the same train, making it a draw or they didn't, making one of them a clear winner well before the finish line.

I also don't like the way they think it's OK to block Britain's roads in the name of a TV show. If one of them blocked my route to work with a ridiculously low car trying to go over speed bumps, an immobile stretch limo that can't take corners etc I'd go absolutely mental.

weringo · 1 Nov 2007 at 00:43

I quite liked the race between the SLR and the train, but Clarkson driving that tiny car around the BBC building on Sunday topped everything

hittman · 1 Nov 2007 at 03:01

has it really been tens years with the current format? :O

fini · 1 Nov 2007 at 03:29

big_white_dog84 said:
I think a lot of the stuff they do assumes the viewer is of below average intelligence. If I remember correctly in the Clarkson vs May and Hammond in the plane they both ended up getting the Eurostar across the channel.
Somehow they still went for the whole race to the finish thing after they had got off the train. I struggled to understand this - they either got on the same train, making it a draw or they didn't, making one of them a clear winner well before the finish line.

You can't take a car on the Eurostar (unless it's the one from Sunday

). You take a car on the Eurotunnel. They're operated as (almost) two separate companies. The Eurotunnel will have dropped Clarkson off at Folkstone whilst the Eurostar took the hamster all the way to Waterloo.

Clarkson will have thus entered England first, but had to drive through Kent whereas the hamster only had to bus it from within London.

GT3 · 1 Nov 2007 at 08:46

hittman said:
has it really been tens years with the current format? :O

Nope, about 5.

Glaucus · 3 Nov 2007 at 16:26

I like the aygo football.

Glaucus · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:07

The american one is on now, on dave

..

haha I love this one, especially as they get stoned in the petrol station.

Azagoth · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:50

AcidHell2 said:
The american one is on now, on dave ..

haha I love this one, especially as they get stoned in the petrol station.

I watched it earlier. They edited out that part at the Alabama petrol sattion for some reason. All they had was that redneck woman threatening to "go get the boys"! :mad:

Glaucus · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:52

Azagoth said:
I watched it earlier. They edited out that part at the Alabama petrol sattion for some reason. All they had was that redneck woman threatening to "go get the boys"!

yeh

.. I suppose there all cut down to allow for adverts.

Greenlizard0 · 11 Nov 2007 at 21:03

Just watched tonights edition - I was well chuffed that Hammond won considering he had the hardest method of transport out of all of them lol! Fair play to that man!

Darryn · 11 Nov 2007 at 22:30

Greenlizard0 said:
Just watched tonights edition - I was well chuffed that Hammond won considering he had the hardest method of transport out of all of them lol! Fair play to that man!

I hate you... Im watching this on my PC now (recorded on EyeTV) and Clarkson has just cleared the Thames barrier... Grrr.....