Top Gear Is Back!!

Kainz · 14 May 2006 at 20:55

rofl@hammonds face in the loo when he realises the song has ended

Trick · 14 May 2006 at 20:55

Flibster said:
Anyone know if the radio show they did is available to be downloaded??

This is fabulous.

Simon/~Flibster

I'm just looking on the bbc website for it now. There's a press office report on it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/04_april/27/clarkson.shtml but no link to download

Trick · 14 May 2006 at 20:57

This is brilliant!

4T5 · 14 May 2006 at 20:57

Superb trashing of local radio i love it.

Steedie · 14 May 2006 at 20:57

ahahahaha that woman, think she was a bit miffed

subxero · 14 May 2006 at 21:01

Stig rocks

Steedie · 14 May 2006 at 21:02

yeah that was awesome that bit at the end, just walked off lmao

Simon · 14 May 2006 at 21:03

loved the bit about armed police for caravan drivers

Luseac · 14 May 2006 at 21:09

The radio bit was hilarious.

Gibbo · 14 May 2006 at 21:11

Hi there

That Corvette was a bit mental and is the car I've been eyeing up for my next purchase. Good to see that they can corner as good as the best just the build quality thats a little off putting but It is made out of plastic/fibre-glass I suppose. Wonder how harsh they deem harsh as been for our roads, though I suspect that 7.0l engine drinks the fuel so maybe the 5.7l 400BHP varient is a better choice, but for now the Mustang is staying.

Still impressive beating a Zonda and the Ferrari F430 around the track with an American Muscle car which many deem as crap handling.

mattpc · 14 May 2006 at 21:53

Next purchase you haven't even sold your GTO yet have you?

Gibbo · 14 May 2006 at 21:58

mattpc said:
Next purchase you haven't even sold your GTO yet have you?

Nah I am just having my very own car collection!

I will be selling it late June as it needs MOT sorting so can't be arsed with sorting it all out, for now I am just keeping it clean and driving it at weekend to keep everything in running order. Once I've come back from Italy I will get the car MOT'd and then get it advertised properly and get rid, but will certainly miss her.

Flibster · 14 May 2006 at 22:19

And the BBC are certainly quick...

Streams of the show are up and running.

256kbps Realmedia
rtsp://rmgeo.bbc.net.uk/bbctwo/media/programmes/topgear/bb/topgear_140506_full_16x9_bb.rm

256kbps Windows Media
mms://rmgeo.bbc.net.uk/bbctwo/media/programmes/topgear/bb/topgear_140506_full_16x9_bb.wmv

Enjoy.

gord · 14 May 2006 at 22:30

No, i want the proper radio show...

Another great epsiode! Always seem to be running away from whatever they get involved in though..

PeterNem · 14 May 2006 at 22:41

me too, bonus points if anyone finds out if the show is available anywhere. Had kind of hoped there might be a stream of it on the BBC site.

Stellios · 14 May 2006 at 23:13

Gibbo said:
That Corvette was a bit mental and is the car I've been eyeing up for my next purchase.

To be honest, when i seen it i immediately thought Gibbo as you seem to be one of few that would go for something like that in the UK. Feel free to throw the stang my way if your feeling generous

But £60k, for a Corvette :eek:

mattpc · 14 May 2006 at 23:42

To be honest it was not one of my favourite shows ever but there were certainly some amusing moments.

Nimzicki · 14 May 2006 at 23:49

I thought the camera work and the way it flowed with the music was particularly awesome in this show, lost track of the times when I just went "wow". Just little things like when Clarkson says something along the lines of "then came the Germans" and that bimmer and merc come over the crest of the hill side by side.

Awesome direction, just purely awesome.

Gibbo · 14 May 2006 at 23:53

Stellios said:
To be honest, when i seen it i immediately thought Gibbo as you seem to be one of few that would go for something like that in the UK. Feel free to throw the stang my way if your feeling generous

But £60k, for a Corvette

IN 18-24 months I reckon they will be in the 30-40k range.

You can get a new Corvette now with the 5.7l engine at 400BHP for approx 36k and those will be sub 30k in 12 months. The main problems with Corvettes they seem to depreciate really badly.

gord · 14 May 2006 at 23:58

Nimzicki said:
I thought the camera work and the way it flowed with the music was particularly awesome in this show, lost track of the times when I just went "wow". Just little things like when Clarkson says something along the lines of "then came the Germans" and that bimmer and merc come over the crest of the hill side by side.

Awesome direction, just purely awesome.

Nah, the best shot was the low level super-slomo of the Jag wheel spinning on the gravel... fantastic!