Top Gear: Series 19

I used to have an Astra SRI 1.9 CDTI 150 and because Courtenay Sport are only 5 minutes from my house I had to have it modified.

Ended up at around 230/400 (can't remember exactly) and could hardly drive it.
As soon as the turbo spooled up it would pull so hard to the side that it was useless.
I guess that is where an LSD would have worked wonders?

It scared me a bit when trying to overtake so I sold it and bought a yob-mobile (Impreza), I hope to never own a FWD car again.
Everything through the front wheels just seems like you are asking too much.
 
^JP^ said:
I used to have an Astra SRI 1.9 CDTI 150 and because Courtenay Sport are only 5 minutes from my house I had to have it modified.

Ended up at around 230/400 (can't remember exactly) and could hardly drive it.
As soon as the turbo spooled up it would pull so hard to the side that it was useless.
I guess that is where an LSD would have worked wonders?

It scared me a bit when trying to overtake so I sold it and bought a yob-mobile (Impreza), I hope to never own a FWD car again.
Everything through the front wheels just seems like you are asking too much.
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You say that, but the focus RS handles 300bhp+ easily through the front wheels. A little torque steer, but not enough to overcome one hand on the steering wheel. The problem is too much power through a substandard drivetrain setup.
 
MrLOL said:
anybody know how what service / website they were using to track clarkson ?
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[TW]Fox;23745458 said:
Google Latitude will do this.
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You can also try Glympse.

I had great fun with it on a recent two car road trip, watching the other car travel right into the direction of a well known traffic blackspot on a Friday evening and tracking their movement at <10mph whilst we cruised at 70 :)
 
Season 19 Episode 4 of 7
Jeremy Clarkson puts the new Kia Cee'd through a rigorous but peculiar road test featuring eels, curry, a rock legend, an American police officer and an unusual game of rugby involving James May. Richard Hammond gets behind the wheel of the Mastretta MXT, but worries about the repercussions of a comment he made in a previous episode about Mexico, the sports car's country of manufacture. Plus, three high-performance hatchbacks are driven with gusto around the test track, and Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton - who has switched from McLaren to Mercedes for the 2013 season - gets a second chance to smash the lap record
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I suspect this is going to be one of the weaker of the series, depending on what the three hatchbacks are and how long the daft Kia Cee'd feature lasts.
 
I'm sure the hatchback section is the new Focus ST, Astra GTC and Megane RS. Something I have been really looking forward to. Interesting to see how Top Gear's review compares to the one done by Chris Harris...
 
Have to say so far a very car info orientated episode, impressed by new Astra seems like a great hatchback for the road, trip to shops and odd track day, looks great too. Megane seems great as a track weapon just like Meganes of the past and also looks superb. The Ford however just looks rubbish, boring to drive, just good in a straight line.

Still they all beat the GT86 lap time, but none come close to the fun of GT86, still I'd like to see a GT86 on AD08's, a track geo and about 250BHP just to see how it would compare.

KIA Cee'd no longer a cheap car then at 17k :eek:
 
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