The "Top Gear", Season 24/25/26 thread

mrk · 21 Mar 2021 at 20:51

This Roma looks crap and sounds crap. How did it go so wrong? Looks like it's on stilts from a side profile. The styling seems unsure on what other marque it is trying to resemble.

The Alfa on the other hand, all day long.

Astonishing that the 4 cylinder Alfa sounds considerably more like a raw sportscar than the Roma.

ahenners · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:02

Pretty meh episode apart from the half car racing. Hopefully next week in the Scottish Highlands will be better.

Yaayuh! · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:04

The Roma just seems to be a bit meh all round, for Ferrari standards of course. Chris was right about it looking quite Aston Martin as well.

Nursing a semi over the Alfa though, lovely machine.

PinkFloyd · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:04

Quite like the Roma to be fair, not as fussy as any recent Ferrari to look at. But I'd have the Alfa every day of the week!

Armageus · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:15

Roma looked alright apart from the body coloured "grille". Would be better with a more normal grille like the 458 or California T.

Alfa was lovely although lol priced.

Decent enough episode imo.

rodders · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:23

Did sparks come out the front wheel of the electric buggy when Fred was racing it?!

Clarkey · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:32

rodders said:
Did sparks come out the front wheel of the electric buggy when Fred was racing it?!

Yeah that's normal.for aggressive racing brake pads.

Nasher · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:57

Sounds exactly like the RC car lol. Awful noise but at least the race will only be 10 minutes

rodders · 21 Mar 2021 at 21:59

Clarkey said:
Yeah that's normal.for aggressive racing brake pads.

Makes sense, didn't know if something fell off and went wrong

azazl187 · 21 Mar 2021 at 22:03

rodders said:
Did sparks come out the front wheel of the electric buggy when Fred was racing it?!

It looked like an added in effect to me

Jonnycoupe · 22 Mar 2021 at 00:50

Sounds like they only want 10mile heats for extreme E anyway. Battery is only 54kWh but very high power.

That Aston DB5 was a bit tragic really, all the toys, not road legal and flashing muzzles.. £3M quid.

Malevolence · 22 Mar 2021 at 06:32

That Alfa though, the BBC are very brave having such pornography on pre-watershed BBC1.

ChrisD. · 22 Mar 2021 at 07:52

mrk said:
Astonishing that the 4 cylinder Alfa sounds considerably more like a raw sportscar than the Roma.

It probably has an open cone induction kit on it. It sounded very Honda like to me, high revs and aggressive intake noise.

Clarkey · 22 Mar 2021 at 08:02

It's a highly tuned engine on ITBs, bit more exotic than a K&N cone on a K series

Nasher · 22 Mar 2021 at 08:31

You can put ITBs on a K series. You'll get more power from one too (assuming its the Honda one we're talking about)

mid_gen · 22 Mar 2021 at 08:41

Hadn't watched TG for a while but ended up watching it with the other half last night. Really good entertainment, Paddy is a little OTT at times but in general their banter and excitement feels genuine and made us both laugh. So much better than the cringe-fest the old TG had turned into.

Will definitely start watching regularly again.

ChrisD. · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:29

Clarkey said:
It's a highly tuned engine on ITBs, bit more exotic than a K&N cone on a K series

It's a 2.2l isn't it? 240 bhp doesn't seem that highly tuned even running on ITBs.

Diddums · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:29

What Alfa was it? I haven't seen it yet.

wesley · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:31

what alfa model was that?

edit, found it. GTA-R 290

Jonnycoupe · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:31

https://www.alfaholics.com/our-cars/completed-builds/gta-r-290-021-far-east-market/

Tuned for flexibility and suiting the car, no wizard variable valve to allow a degree of best of both worlds

i don't really know what the Twin Spark is in terms of engine hierarchy ? Says it was introduced 1914

Guess its something out of a 156 or 166?