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Can't wait to see the part they shot over here in Belfast. Something to do with trying to remake the Italian Job, and I know it ends with them trying to drive off the pier onto a boat or something.
 
I saw this thread and had a heart attack because I thought maybe it was on last night and I missed it. :lol

It's been a longggg summer without the boys. Glad to see them back.
 
Man, I wish they would air day-date for America on BBC America. :(

Sucks we only got "New" Season 7. Ugh.

I mean, it's great (someone that's a late comer to the series, but stuck around because he <3 Hammond...) we get repeats of older stuff, but COME ON! Quit sitting on the modern Top Gear episodes, BBC!
 
Probably not going to air for ages in Australia- expecially now NBN has the series next year- I assume SBS will only show repeats until then- so NBN will show the new season next year or some shit.
 
trinest said:
Probably not going to air for ages in Australia- expecially now NBN has the series next year- I assume SBS will only show repeats until then- so NBN will show the new season next year or some shit.
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Yeah, and then they wonder why so many people download tv shows....
 
From the blog of the first episode. First guest is Eric Bana.

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/11/12/top-gear-is-back/

except:

However, The Mole has to share with you what was LITERALLY the most amazing thing about yesterday’s recording and it happened some miles
from the studio, on the way home.

Sitting at a roundabout behind a Mercedes E500 and a Porsche 911 Carrera S – powerful cars both – it was hard to ignore a black Fiat Panda containing none other than TV’s James May which had drawn alongside them.

The roundabout cleared and Captain Slow made an uncharacteristically brisk leap away from the line, straight onto the knuckle whiteningly tight slip road that feeds into the A3.

The Porsche tried to pull out to get around a dithering Volkswagen ahead, the Mercedes clinging to its tail, but before either could make a move James had seized the advantage, taking the OUTSIDE LINE around all three cars and disappearing into the distance.

There can be only one conclusion. There is a keen and remarkably fast driver with a black Fiat Panda in the Guildford area and he looks a lot like James May.
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TheSeks said:
Man, I wish they would air day-date for America on BBC America. :(

Sucks we only got "New" Season 7. Ugh.

I mean, it's great (someone that's a late comer to the series, but stuck around because he <3 Hammond...) we get repeats of older stuff, but COME ON! Quit sitting on the modern Top Gear episodes, BBC!
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I'm not sure (in this day and age) this is a huge issue... via finalgear.com you're appraised of as soon as a torrent is available. The torrents are generally good quality and available shortly after the ep is finished.... plus BBC America would probably edit the eps like they do now.
 
Dartastic said:
Oh god yes it starts in two days!

...in news that would be sure to make the show...

http://www.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=792e1da427373dfb

WTF WAS THAT MAN THINKING!
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About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay.

The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.
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He dropped his fucking cell phone destroying his Bugatti Veyron. Not enough facepalms in the world.

The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.
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:_(


DrForester said:
Was caught on film too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bI3uJo_5BQ
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"Pretty sure that's a Lambo, dude"

Come on!
 
NomarTyme said:
The guest is the most useless part ever. Very boring all de time.
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Often, but not always. There have been some great guests, Brian Johnson springs to mind. Bana loves cars, races when he's not making movies, and started in comedy. He should be good.

I can't wait for the new series.
 
I went to top gear live last Sunday. I thought it was pretty awesome. Stunts, fireballs, lasers, supercars, stig (or stunt driver stig) doing a loop the loop etc, top gear lads usual gags, interactive cool wall and much more!

I'm not sure if it's already been publicised in the previews or website but whilst we were there, Clarkson said that this series will see another feature length special like the America, and Vietnam in
Bolivia
 
Zyzyxxz said:
Pretty sure it's a Lambo?

Come the fuck on, Lamborghini only makes two cars, the Gallardo and the Murcielago it ain't that hard to know if its a Lambo.
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1) It's Texas. They are most likely not very well acquainted with fine European automobiles.

2) "Lambo" has been making cars for a while actually.
 
DarienA said:
I'm not sure (in this day and age) this is a huge issue... via finalgear.com you're appraised of as soon as a torrent is available. The torrents are generally good quality and available shortly after the ep is finished.... plus BBC America would probably edit the eps like they do now.
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Yeah, but it probably isn't subbed. :(

I don't think OpenSubtitles is that fast for episodes that just aired.
 
Tonight's lineup in the UK is crazy awesome:

7pm Doctor Who
8pm Top Gear
9pm Flag of our Fathers
then Letters From Iwo Jima

Om nom nom.
 
Ash_69 said:
I went to top gear live last Sunday. I thought it was pretty awesome. Stunts, fireballs, lasers, supercars, stig (or stunt driver stig) doing a loop the loop etc, top gear lads usual gags, interactive cool wall and much more!

I'm not sure if it's already been publicised in the previews or website but whilst we were there, Clarkson said that this series will see another feature length special like the America, and Vietnam in
Bolivia
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Sunday? That's odd. The recordings are on a Wednesday. Unless this has nothing to do with the recording of the show.
 
Dabookerman said:
Sunday? That's odd. The recordings are on a Wednesday. Unless this has nothing to do with the recording of the show.
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Top Gear Live is a live show type thing I think. The kind of thing you would see at the NEC in Birmingham.
 
Top Gear in HD tonight, then the fucking stunning Planet Earth beating Life HD series tomorrow night.

The BBC has got its groove back methinks.
 
A decent start to the season, but nothing we haven't seen before in some form. Wonder why there was no opening season montage?

Pristine_Condition said:
I'll be happy to speak up for all Texans in saying "go fuck yourself, jackass."
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It would appear Texans do not appreciate finer language either. My point exactly. Tsk tsk.
 
Big huge post form Andy Wilman on this season.

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2009/11/15/series-14-the-detail/

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If you’ve read the Mole’s thingy, you’ll doubtless know how the record of show 1 went, and may I say I concur on the “Bana is a good bloke” verdict. Not only did he stay but he stayed and drank beer; sadly I too saw him eat from the Terrible Buffet of Out of Date Things, so I wish him well as he heads once more for the lavatory at 35,000 feet on his long flight back to Oz.

I hope you enjoyed show one, and while I can see the pulling power of X Factor, I hope you didn’t watch a pile of Z-listers eating earwigs on I’m A Celebrity. There is a higher purpose to life than that, which is obviously Jeremy shouting “Powwweeerrrrrr.”

So here we are, series 14. You’ll have noticed there was no series preview montage for it at the start of tonight’s show. But don’t worry, we haven’t turned to crap, we just haven’t filmed enough stuff yet to make a decent montage – there are still four biggish films to shoot and, basically, we’re up to our necks.

The Christmas Special in South America took way longer than we’d planned – things went to shit out there with weather and illness and vehicle breakdowns – so the knock on effect is big. On the plus side, we think this Special will be right up there. Let’s face it, Vietnam, funny show, but hardly pushing us to the limit, whereas this one is much more hardcore.

I just started cutting it together and the opening sequence alone, which we estimated would be three minutes or so, makes 20 minutes of telly. And the editors and I were pissing ourselves at Richard, who hates creepy crawlies, having a big crisis moment when a monster flies into his cab.

So running through the line up, I think show one is strong and show two, where the boys build their own electric car, is, I would humbly say, a belter – a little bit of magic happens when they’re all together in one car, Renault Espace convertible stuff.

Show three, is, gasp, for people who like cars, because we want to explore this question of which car company made the greatest number of great cars – and we’ll be asking you for your thoughts v. soon on that one. So yeah, show three is a bit geeky, and to balance that out we’ve got James’s Caravan Airship film, which will take an exalted place in the pantheon of Cutting Edge Cocking About.

Show four is Clarkson in Belfast with the Twingo, doing his road test in the sewers, in an ice hockey match, trying to catch a ferry that’s left – you get the picture, plus for those of a mental age from one to say, two, we’ve got the airport vehicle race.

As for the next show, God knows. A right gamble there, because we’re setting taking on the art world by setting up our own Art Exhibition of motoring stuff. There’s a lot more to it than that, believe me, and it should pay off, but you can’t say we’re not pushing ourselves as we go on.

Then there’s the Special around Christmas, and then the Shit Show in January, the one where we have no money left. And believe me, we have no money left, not a frigging bean, so fans who’ve been on this eight-year journey with us, stick with us that night. Car-wise, the Merc SLS will be in there somewhere and the Lexus LFA is in the can, as is the VXR Insignia.

That’s a sort of roundup, and now we must put it all together. I’ll paint a picture of life in the edit for film geeks one day, it’s my favourite place and you never know what body odour will waft through the door next.

Just a bit of housekeeping whilst I’m here. You may have read that Jeremy called the studio audience “oafs” when we gave a talk in Edinburgh this Summer. Naturally the papers had a good time with that, but I just want to clarify the situation. Are the audience oafs? Well yes, they are, but it’s meant as a compliment.
By oaf we mean one of us, one of the Top Gear clan, which is basically a fashion disaster who loves cars. That’s James, that’s Jeremy, that’s Richard, that’s our office. We are a brotherhood of nerds, and long may it be so.

Now to finish, I’ve noticed when people post a comment to these blog things, they usually say things like: “Top Gear’s great”, or “Top Gear’s crap” or “I fancy Sabine”. Well let’s move on from there by applying, as James would say, a little intellectual rigour. I’ll pose a question and you answer.

Simple stuff, so let’s go for: who are your top three F1 drivers this season? Mine would be, in no order, Hamilton (fought like a lion all season, and showed the spirit of a fighter pilot even when battling for 15th), Vettel – just class, and finally, I’d go for Raikonnen, who dragged that dog of a car way higher than it ever deserved to go. Right, you know the drill; get typing…
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