currently watching the new top gear...

and enjoying it tremendously. can we just have a real time feedback thread on it?

I'm enjoying the [probably planned] irony of the LR starting and the LC not.

i know! that cracked me up to, that and the "3-wheel-drive" samurai

My first thought on the Samurai: "Hmm... I wonder if it has locking hubs..." as a friend who had an even newer Tracker still had manual hubs.

Dammit you got me all excited for a new season but it's just the last episode of last season.

mosts of my interests lie in things like m3s, however i understand the manual ones are much better as the automatic/electronic ones are finnicky. i like the samurai despite its open front diff

evanb, r u watching the south america 4x4 adventure? im pretty sure this is a new episode

Hammond's Toyota is full of win. Me want.

In a past life, I was really into 4x4's... Samurais are good little 4x4's... much like early Jeeps.

Sorry Evan...

Well it's new for BBCAmerica, I watched it when it came out in December (torrent).

That's the joy of auto ADD - got sports cars and off-roaders. Taking a friend on the first trail ride this weekend

o well lucky you evan! ya i would easily give my third testicle for that cruiser

"lung nectar"

EvanB wrote: Well it's new for BBCAmerica, I watched it when it came out in December (torrent).

ARG, you BBC America guys are killing me... I always think you mean NEW top gear :(

I just watched the whole Death Road segment with my internal monologue screaming MOTHER BERKLEYER!!!

My wife told me that if I buy a Land Rover, I'll find myself in South America.

Appleseed wrote: I just watched the whole Death Road segment with my internal monologue screaming MOTHER BERKLEYER!!!

People usually moan about bits of TG being staged and scripted, and they're probably right, (not that it detracts from the entertainment in the slightest); but that Death Road crossing was terrifyingly real and intense.

Wonder how much editing had to be done. It was originally 90 minutes. In the US with commercials fit into a 1 hour time slot you saw probably 46 minutes of it if you're lucky.

They ran it in a 100-minute extended slot, so I doubt they cut too much.

I really didn't need to see this - now I want an old Range Rover. And a jungle to hack and drive my way through.

I missed it last night. Time to check On Demand.

Yes it is on. And the wife aparently allready watched it.

didn't they create this icelandic volcano crap.

02Pilot wrote: They ran it in a 100-minute extended slot, so I doubt they cut too much. I really didn't need to see this - now I want an old Range Rover. And a jungle to hack and drive my way through.

funny thing about this episode is that you can go to expeditionportal.com and get the link to the people who followed the top gear guys through the jungle in proper trucks and set up their camps etc...

In a few shots of that episode you can see some properly kitted toyotas.. They did the work, they also fixed all the crap that broke on all the vehicles to keep them running. Yes.. they had mechanics fix every single one of those vehicles.. constantly. The range rover durability bit, is fairly fabricated.

Most of Top Gear is fairly fabricated (watch any of Clarkson's "making of" DVD's).

And I don't care.

P71 wrote: Most of Top Gear is fairly fabricated (watch any of Clarkson's "making of" DVD's). And I don't care.

I don't either..

but driving an old rangie into the amazon without a full crew to fix the damn thing.....

Well It'd be quicker to drink hemlock.

I'd rather watch staged Top Gear than staged Pawn Stars and their "lets go get something healthy to eat, oh I know, how about a turkey sub from Subway?!?!?" BULLE36 M3!