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I find Top Gear to be much more entertaining than Fifth Gear. I get bored of Fifth gear when i watch it. Anybody see the latest ep of the Race from Northern Italy to London in the Veyron?

yes i watched it last night

the veyron is unbevievable

i cant find words to explain it

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haha yeah its even got a guage to shoe how much HP its using. When he was cruising on the freeway it was using 50HP, imagine adding another 950 lol. Its bloody nuts, 10 Radiators, going flat out manages to finish a full 100ltr tank of petrol in 12 minutes and can stop from 250mp/h in 10 seconds lol

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i was dissapointed with the veyron test.

they did not show details of the car, like even the interior in detail, and they did not talk about how it handles apart from one comment afterwards (like an elise YEAH RIGHT!)

all he was going on about is the POWER. also noticed there was not sort of backroads or good cornering shots, also no track test with the stig.

basically i am pissed off because i was expecting a proper review, look at a review of any other major new car such as the one on the f430 and you can see that this one is lacking a lot.

i figure maybe the manufacturer told them they were not allowed to do certain things with the car? (IE ANYTHING APART FROM BORING FREEWAY DRIVING!)

Im surprised no one else mentioned this, didnt anyone else notice???????????

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The final episode of top gear for this series just aired, and for those waiting to see the GTR you will be very disappointed as its in this final episode for the series for around 2 seconds doing a donut.

Its in a story about old school and new school cars where they race a stupid looking pug 206 with around 400kg of sterio gear and other rice against an austin healey on a hill climb track, and the austin beats it.

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Watched the last one of 2005 and Clarkson tried to see if he could do as well on real race track at Laguna Secca in an NSX as he could on PSX Gran Turismo 4. Well he was better on the PSX 1.41, only 1.57 on the track. Goes to show the fear of crashing affect a person, racing drivers cope better. I managed 1.28 in an R32 GTR like mine :P

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My Father in law got a book for Christmas labelled something like "Jeremy Clarkson's 100 cars that make you go 'Phwoar'" - it was a bargain basement book from 1998 or so

The R33 GT-R makes it into the list and in a tidbit of information JC mentions that he is the honorary president of the UK GT-R owner's club.

Wonder whether that's still the case??

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TOP GEAR = WORST SHOW EVER.

The clincher for me was the "performance test"of the monaro vs chrysler vs jag (I think) on the beach.

Yeah lets get some new cars and flog em on the beach, beacause that will let us know what they're like to drive in real life.

Fu<king wankers.

That is all.

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I'm pretty sure they got to test drive the Enzo properly.

It would be a shame if Volkswagen didn't let them test drive the Veyron properly.

Ferrari wouldn't give them an Enzo for their test track:

At the Top Gear office, there are only really two cars that we haven't been allowed to take out for a spin. The first is the new City Rover. The second is the Ferrari Enzo. You couldn't just pitch up at a dealer and expect to buy one, Ferrari have to invite you. And because it costs half a million quid they weren't keen to lend us one, and we had to find someone who they were prepared to sell one to and borrow it. It turns out that Pink Floyd drummer and master author Nick Mason was prepared to lend us his. And what did he ask for in return. Not a sausage, although by sheer coincidence he happens to have a new book out. And the Enzo wasn't so shabby either, it is amazing fun to drive, and probably the fastest car we've ever seen. And if you want to know how fast, check our Power Lap times.

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/series_5/prog_2/

Hopefully someone in Britain has a Veyron on order, a book on sale and a good sense of humour so another deal can be made :(.

mmm crazy.

miles feet yards... stupid measurement system.

What about all the "forgotten" imperial measurements like fathoms, furlongs, leagues, rods, hands, poles, perches, links, chains... STUPID STUPID STUPID!!! :lol:

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Ferrari wouldn't give them an Enzo for their test track:

The enzo held the record until they tested the new maserati, which is basically the same engine, drivetrain setup as the enzo in a lighter body and it got the quickest time around their track until in the last few episodes when new pagani zonda became the quickest.

Its a pity they didnt get to test the bugatti on their test track.

All the episodes from this season and the last few are available through bittorrents.

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The only reason they have some no car related people on their show is for a segment where they put a celebrity in a Suzuki and let them have a lap of their test track.

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TOP GEAR = WORST SHOW EVER.

The clincher for me was the "performance test"of the monaro vs chrysler vs jag (I think) on the beach.

Yeah lets get some new cars and flog em on the beach, beacause that will let us know what they're like to drive in real life.

Fu<king wankers.

That is all.

bahahah

worst show ever? so what's better? top gear is an entertainment show... it entertains like nothing else for me.

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What about all the "forgotten" imperial measurements like fathoms, furlongs, leagues, rods, hands, poles, perches, links, chains... STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!  :lol:

My favourite obscure measurement

The "poronkusema" - a finnish unit of measurement that measures the distance a reindeer walks between urinating (approx 7.5 km) :(

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