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Wait, no, I meant it as a compliment. It occurred to me during the header discussion... bajajoaquin was saying jeez, commando1 moves the goalposts all the time (about which cars qualify for the discussion, etc), and I realized he was doing it in a charmingly cranky way and the discussion was fun to read. Like Clarkson, suddenly laying down new rules in the middle of a challenge or news bit...
 
cld said:
Wait, no, I meant it as a compliment. It occurred to me during the header discussion... bajajoaquin was saying jeez, commando1 moves the goalposts all the time (about which cars qualify for the discussion, etc), and I realized he was doing it in a charmingly cranky way and the discussion was fun to read. Like Clarkson, suddenly laying down new rules in the middle of a challenge or news bit...
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Oh don't worry .. Stan is going to take that as a HUGE compliment

And you are wrong ... about it being charming. If you can't see Stan agenda at the start of this thread you need to hang out a lot longer
 
Jeremy was my hero.
He came out with quips that left me pissing my pants laughing.
"Kill a prostitute" lmao
Top Gear is dead.
Top Gear U. S. sucks.
 
My favorite car show on TV, and the only one my wife will watch, because of the chemistry of the guys.

One of my all time favorite shows was Jeremy driving the 3 wheeled Robin, I never laughed so hard and I didn't even know 3/4 of the famous British people who just happen to be strolling the streets, to set him upright once again.

The BBC is stupid and up tight.
 
The all time Best of the Best TG episode was whn the crew was forced to drive through the U.S. Deep South with slogans that would rile the the most meek of the Redneck. As close to seriously getting lynched as you can get. ROTFLMFAO!!!

Oh don't worry .. Stan is going to take that as a HUGEcompliment"
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Greatest honor ever bestowed on me. I am truly humbled....
And that includes the award given to me when I single handedly stopped a school bus full of Nuns and orphans from going over a cliff with a dynamite factory below.
 
I think they were very lucky to get out of Argentina in this season. There was some serious hate, forming into a scary mob size and were lucky to get through one of the smaller town with no personal injury.

It is all fun and games until someone get hurt. :)
 
One of my favorite quotes from Jeremy is when he was driving that late 80's 305 inch I-ROC Z & was telling the other two that it had 180 HP. Then said in his Jeremy way that "Ferrari gets that much out of one cylinder"
 
commando1 said:
Jeremy was my hero.
He came out with quips that left me pissing my pants laughing.
"Kill a prostitute" lmao
Top Gear is dead.
Top Gear U. S. sucks.
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Amen. I loved that one too. I think the thing that really set them apart from every car show I've ever seen on TV (notice I'm leaving out some of the new online shows) is that they let real emotion come through, even if stuff was scripted. James' test of a mid-1970s Aston Martin Lagonda was just so good. Richard's test of the Morgan Aero -- the same. Such a weird looking car but maybe the best sounding one I've ever heard, and they let that through in the videos. Jeremy's test of that re-done Jag E-type, or the XF, or the DB9 when it first came out with that wonderful baritone V12 bellow (I used to live near the Aston dealership in Dallas, and to hear potential buyers test cars up and down Inwood was a nice treat with Saturday morning coffee). Anyway, on TG they always let the car speak in the ways that real car people (petrolheads in the UK) would want it to. Like "listen to this incredible noise" and then they just let it rip without stupid GD guitar riffs covering it up like every GD car show in the US on Discovery, Speed, etc. (and I say this as someone who loves classic rock, I just don't want to hear it over a glorious intake or exhaust sound).
 
cld said:
Amen. I loved that one too. I think the thing that really set them apart from every car show I've ever seen on TV (notice I'm leaving out some of the new online shows) is that they let real emotion come through, even if stuff was scripted. James' test of a mid-1970s Aston Martin Lagonda was just so good. Richard's test of the Morgan Aero -- the same. Such a weird looking car but maybe the best sounding one I've ever heard, and they let that through in the videos. Jeremy's test of that re-done Jag E-type, or the XF, or the DB9 when it first came out with that wonderful baritone V12 bellow (I used to live near the Aston dealership in Dallas, and to hear potential buyers test cars up and down Inwood was a nice treat with Saturday morning coffee). Anyway, on TG they always let the car speak in the ways that real car people (petrolheads in the UK) would want it to. Like "listen to this incredible noise" and then they just let it rip without stupid GD guitar riffs covering it up like every GD car show in the US on Discovery, Speed, etc. (and I say this as someone who loves classic rock, I just don't want to hear it over a glorious intake or exhaust sound).
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That's how bullit was made No music just the sound of those glorious v8s
 

Honestly I never Watched it !!!!
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The cinematography on Top Gear is/was second to none.
 
Yes, the cinematography and sound editing was amazing. And as much as I love cars, the non car parts were often the best parts. For instance, the South America episode in the Andes (the Bolivia and Chile one, not Argentina)... when they were in the desert sierra and beginning to suffer altitude sickness, that was clearly real and an amazing look at that environment and its pressures. I did my PhD dissertation fieldwork for years in that exact environment. Took me right back to it. I drove vintage Land Cruisers and Nissan Patrols through that... it was like they made a video of the inside of my head.
 
detmatt said:
The cinematography on Top Gear is/was second to none.
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Yes I didn't even think of that part. Very true even the areas you may never want to drive or visit were very well captured on the show. Then there would be areas that were breath taking beautiful drives.
 
I love the show, but who can punch there boss and not get fired. He has been in quite a few arguments with the producers. Loved the episode when there where using American trucks to rescue Richard from the Canadian mountains.
 
bulldogchesty said:
I love the show, but who can punch there boss and not get fired.
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He crossed the line absolutely. I understand they, the BBC, had to for that one for a variety of very valid reasons.
Workplace physical confrontation cannot be tolerated.

Now had they been in a bar......
 
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