TopGear Season 20 thread

[vshah]

i thought yesterday's was great, except for the motox vs freerunners, that was boring. the taxi race was hilarious!

 

[Aharami]

Clarkson makes boatloads of money. Why the fuck can't he fix his teeth? That shit is disgusting!

 

[Zivic]

Clarkson makes boatloads of money. Why the fuck can't he fix his teeth? That shit is disgusting!

because he is british....

my wife will watch with me from time to time and we were laughing about how bad he looks. Clarkson is only in his early 50's. easily looks 10 yrs older. his teeth don't help him look any younger

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Clarkson makes boatloads of money. Why the fuck can't he fix his teeth? That shit is disgusting!

Doesn't he still smoke?

 

[ThatsABigOne]

DP

 

[punjabiplaya]

Doesn't he still smoke?

Yep. And lots of drinking.

 

[busydude]

Clarkson makes boatloads of money. Why the fuck can't he fix his teeth? That shit is disgusting!

I don't think many people care about that aside from Americans. It is like unibrows for us Indians, I have them and never even been conscious of them until I landed in the US. Every damn drinking session ended up with one in the group talking about unibrows and why Indians don't seem to care about them.

 

[punjabiplaya]

I don't think many people care about that aside from Americans. It is like unibrows for us Indians, I have them and never even been conscious of them until I landed in the US. Every damn drinking session ended up with one in the group talking about unibrows and why Indians don't seem to care about them.

Hammond and Jimmy Carr care about teeth.

 

[Aharami]

because he is british...

I have a few cousins born and living in England. They all take care of themselves and so do their friends.

Clarkson is just a disgusting bumbling idiot.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I have a few cousins born and living in England. They all take care of themselves and so do their friends.

Clarkson is just a disgusting bumbling idiot.

"Disgusting" is subjective. I have never seen him appear bumbling either in action or speech, and he is most certainly not an idiot - he is a highly intelligent, wildly successful man.

 

[Aharami]

"Disgusting" is subjective. I have never seen him appear bumbling either in action or speech, and he is most certainly not an idiot - he is a highly intelligent, wildly successful man.

Looks like someone's a fan :awe:

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Looks like someone's a fan :awe:

True, but I would say the same thing of any number of other people who I am not a fan of. I actively dislike Piers Morgan, for example, but he is most assuredly neither bumbling nor an idiot.

 

[Aharami]

Honestly, Piers Morgan comes off looking intelligent on his show. Clarkson comes off anything but. I'm sure Clarkson is a very intelligent man, he wouldn't be where he is if he weren't . I've read some of his blog entries on the top gear website...and he is a very eloquent man, and probably the brain behind the script of top gear, but he comes off as a man-child on his show.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Honestly, Piers Morgan comes off looking intelligent on his show. Clarkson comes off anything but. I'm sure Clarkson is a very intelligent man, he wouldn't be where he is if he weren't . I've read some of his blog entries on the top gear website...and he is a very eloquent man, and probably the brain behind the script of top gear, but he comes off as a man-child on his show.

It's a character he is playing. Very intentionally and very successfully. And his fans know it too.

I am a fan of the three of them. They have fantastic chemistry.

 

[darkswordsman17]

It was an ok episode, not stupendous but not bad.

Yeah, there was something strange about the pacing of it. I don't think it works well when they have two road tests in one episode (actually I'm not sure I've ever seen that). The F12 segment felt rushed to me. The taxi race was predictably a little tired. I never love those "let's bring in touring car drivers to race (insert vehicle here)" segments, particularly not where the cars themselves are kind of boring, as they were here.

It was pretty weird for them to have two performance car tests.

I actually like those but this one was just staged crap comedy stuff, although that makes sense as there's just too much difference between the different vehicles, but it kinda made the segment pointless. I also hate the London cabs, but then I don't know if there's any cab that I think is all that interesting.

i thought yesterday's was great, except for the motox vs freerunners, that was boring. the taxi race was hilarious!

Yeah I didn't especially care for that bit. It made for some impressive shots but was otherwise pretty whatever.

 

[Aikouka]

The best part of the motocross vs. free-runners had to be the end. ...and no, that isn't a joke about, "Yay! It's over!", but rather that jump. I was thinking to myself, "No, he isn't going to do that; that would be silly!", and then he jumped it. I did notice how much his rear tire compressed when he landed. Is it normal to run with that much air in the tire (possibly just for the unique characteristics of this race) or did he let some out specifically for that landing?

Another moment was when the one taxi crashed through the limo! I wonder if the drivers were still in there when that happened as that would probably be a huge liability for well-known drivers to take.

 

[Aharami]

The best part of the motocross vs. free-runners had to be the end. ...and no, that isn't a joke about, "Yay! It's over!", but rather that jump. I was thinking to myself, "No, he isn't going to do that; that would be silly!", and then he jumped it. I did notice how much his rear tire compressed when he landed. Is it normal to run with that much air in the tire (possibly just for the unique characteristics of this race) or did he let some out specifically for that landing?

Another moment was when the one taxi crashed through the limo! I wonder if the drivers were still in there when that happened as that would probably be a huge liability for well-known drivers to take.

Wait...do most people think that all the stunts they do aren't all pure set up and creative editing?

IMO those are all set up. The motocross jump is probably just jumping onto a huge inflatable pad and the landing they show is probably just a jump from a 5' high ramp or something. I also think the limo breaking in half is a total set up. No way would the limo break in half so cleanly if it wasn't. Also the taxi would've taken a lot more damage than it did.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Not a bad ep this week. Too bad to have no real car performance test, but I liked the "budget supercar" test. I have to say I was impressed with the amount of damage they did to the McLaren and particularly the 458. God knows what it would cost to repair that Ferrari between the body damage and the underbody destruction.

The abandoned airport is a real thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Real_Central_Airport

 

[punjabiplaya]

Not a bad ep this week. Too bad to have no real car performance test, but I liked the "budget supercar" test. I have to say I was impressed with the amount of damage they did to the McLaren and particularly the 458. God knows what it would cost to repair that Ferrari between the body damage and the underbody destruction.

The abandoned airport is a real thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Real_Central_Airport

Yeah. I would have liked to see them tell how much it would have cost to repair the damage they did.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I am not sure the R8 was the most appropriate car for that comparison. I would have personally preferred the 911 Turbo Spyder.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Another moment was when the one taxi crashed through the limo! I wonder if the drivers were still in there when that happened as that would probably be a huge liability for well-known drivers to take.

are you serious? the show is fake as hell. they take a nugget of reality, and bury it under tons of trickery and outright bullshit. but if you were to call them on it, they would point to that nugget and claim the rest is just entertainment.

for example:

the wanted the veyron to be faster than the f1, so they repeated the race all day until the veyron won once, and that's what they showed.

they wanted the teslas to fail, so they made sure they failed.

they say "look at the amazing adventure we've had with cheap shitboxes" but hide or downplay the small army that keeps them moving, at a cost many times that of the cars themselves.

they say "james may (who i like and his other programs are excellent) found the source of the nile" but they don't mention they hired the geographer that would have claimed it to point them right at it.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I am not sure the R8 was the most appropriate car for that comparison. I would have personally preferred the 911 Turbo Spyder.

Fair, but obviously the current 911 Turbo is at the very end of its production.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

are you serious? the show is fake as hell. they take a nugget of reality, and bury it under tons of trickery and outright bullshit. but if you were to call them on it, they would point to that nugget and claim the rest is just entertainment.

for example:

the wanted the veyron to be faster than the f1, so they repeated the race all day until the veyron won once, and that's what they showed.

they wanted the teslas to fail, so they made sure they failed.

they say "look at the amazing adventure we've had with cheap shitboxes" but hide or downplay the small army that keeps them moving, at a cost many times that of the cars themselves.

they say "james may (who i like and his other programs are excellent) found the source of the nile" but they don't mention they hired the geographer that would have claimed it to point them right at it.

Huh? I love the F1 and don't love the Veyron, but the Veyron is in fact considerably faster and quicker.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Huh? I love the F1 and don't love the Veyron, but the Veyron is in fact considerably faster and quicker.

ron dennis was pretty vocal about it at the time, which says a lot in itself since he is Mister Composure.

i had the opportunity to crawl over, but not drive, both cars in a day. they couldn't be more different, but each is totally special. if i could have one, i would simply must have the other as well

 

[Fritzo]

Clarkson makes boatloads of money. Why the fuck can't he fix his teeth? That shit is disgusting!

He doesn't care, and he smokes 18 packs of cigarettes a day so any amount of dental work will not help.