Top Gear BBC2 8pm Tonight

Look, its an entertaining show, just see it for what it is.

One annoying thing was, i got all the DVDs for xmas, a lot of the cars on them had been featured on top gear before.
The SLS merc was on top gear just before xmas, then it was featured in clarksons xmas dvd, bit cheated by that tbh.

Whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge... Dunno why I thought there might be some interesting debate about the Atom Vs RR...

Without whinging, chatting poop yadder whinge blah..... (try it guys...).

good little race. Atom is mega, supershort gear changes, mid power drift, turned me on like a virgin in a strip club.

Bike was SO much faster in a straightline. Think its the hammerhead, the car had the exit/power down out of the bend and the bike had to play catchup to that fast right hander. So slower exit, but still quick enough to get in front on that short straight. Problem is, is he went in too deep on the brakes, and had to swing left, the hard back over to the right to get the line through the "tyre" fast left hander hence loosing shed loads of speed to make the move. Thats where the atom re-gained and carried on momentum, and whilst it lost out on the next straight, it had enough to keep with it until the brakes at which point it was always going to over-take again.

But, still, £150k, or £14k....

I know from Performance bikes as well that the BMW in full power mode with exhaust etc, does 0-178mph in just over 12 seconds. No car, not even a Veyron would be in sight until top speeds are achieved (wouldn't want to try one from 100 up though, would be much closer).

Rest of the show, normal modern Top Gear really. Know what to expect so not geeky enough to moan about it. If I don't like it, I turn it off and dont' feel compelled to jump online and moan. I think this sums it up...

I quite like TG, take it at face value and apprechiate that its entertainment and not a documentary. EG the Skoda Yeti... well those tests werent even close to been fair. erm NO 5HIT!
The porsche / beatle race... Hammonds hair suddenly grew between the tg test track and him going to africa, those pieces were shot out of sequence. erm NO 5HIT!

Its a larffff and it rips a new one in watching any of the alternative parrrrpp shown on a sunday night.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by specialone

Look, its an entertaining show, just see it for what it is.

Indeed, usual mix of chat / banter / entertainment. Its far removed from being a show about cars anymore. I'd much rather watch this than another soap or another series of celebrity slipping around on ice dancing in a jungle or whatever.

I would have liked more stuff on the Atom, more techie stuff about how they developed it etc etc, but then I have been following its development via my brother who works at Ariel so I have an idea about its difficult birth...

I enjoyed it, far better than anything else on TV on a Sunday night IMHO.

t'was fab as always!!!

loving tiff's new clothing too !!!! lol

I get it's an entertainment show, just wish they would come up with more original ways of doing it, rather than the 'set something on fire/say pussy a many times as I can in 5 minutes' thing.

And daimo, if people feel compelled to write about how good they think something is are others not allowed to voice their own opinion? Or do you want the Internet to be a nice place where not a bad word is spoken?

Originally Posted by Daimo

Whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge... Dunno why I thought there might be some interesting debate about the Atom Vs RR...

Without whinging, chatting poop yadder whinge blah..... (try it guys...).

If I don't like it, I turn it off and dont' feel compelled to jump online and moan.

Yeah you definitely don't jump online too often, I mean look at how few posts you have contributed to the org...

Im not a post whoare, i reply to decent topics usually. Ditto for youself noob. Still, nice to see your contributions and informative topic context about either the bike, car, or show in general. In fact, all I can see is yet another whinge. What actually have you replied about TG there? See image above....

Tatcom, ohhh its the freedom of speech thing now You've had your nice say, so i as a user of the internet, MUST say something, negative, that been written every single week on the interwebz, AGAIN. Jjust to have my say and contribute, without actually contributing at all.

Fizzy, indeed, i'd have like to have seen more about it. Im sure its got a 10,500rpm or so limit, nothing mentioned. There was nothing really technical about the car, but as you've said, i'd been watching its progress for a few years, just never got to hear it. Sounded quite muted for what I expected really. Hefty powerband though, you could see the way tiff was giving it just enough throttle to step out, but not too much that it lost performance.

Wonder if we'll ever get to see a Caparo Vs Bugatti Vs Atom V8 Vs Caterham Levente....

Now thats a lineup i'd like to see them drag race

Originally Posted by Daimo

Im not a post whoare, i reply to decent topics usually. Ditto for youself noob. Still, nice to see your contributions and informative topic context about either the bike, car, or show in general. In fact, all I can see is yet another whinge. What actually have you replied about TG there? See image above....

Noob, nice contribution.

If you refer back to the OP, you'll see there was mention of hope that the new show was better than the xmas special. That, IMO, was a comment about the quality of the show and its content. I was quite right to comment therefore, on the quality of the show, and in my view, how it has deteriorated into being something too predictable.

It would seem that your WHINGE about other users was in fact more off-topic than my first comment. Go ahead, have a read.

I'm not keen on Top Gear any more, and was interested to see the BMW vs. Atom feature (again, as mentioned in my first post). You might still enjoy its repetitive nature, after all, you're having to have other people's views explained to you more than once. That's fine, just don't complain when other people decide they want to air their opinion too.

HTH.

"must reply, must, its the internet..."

Or look, laugh, point, giggle, carry on. I lost a few Internet points. Ohs noes.