Genuinely funny though
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I can't believe no-one has started a thread on this yet, so I will. I know they used a TVR chassis to get around IVA (did anyone say side impact
protection?) but surely "Geoff" cannot have been roadworthy. They got an MOT on all those sharp edges?
Genuinely funny though
[Edited on 23-11-2009 by smart51]
MOT's dont check for sharp edges!! They took it to MIRA and it "passed" there - what more do you want? LOL
Havent laughed out loud at a tv programme in ages. TG gets more and more stupid by the week but is better for it.
[Edited on 23/11/09 by Steve G]
I mentioned to Swmbo about how there didn't seem to be any side impact protection on the chassis! Was hilarious, but I don't know how they don't get pulled over - it was the same with the boats and chop-top espace I think tho - there must be some way of getting around some of it. Their Limos had to be SVA'd tho, I remember that.....
could they have been registered as "floats"? Geoff certainly looked like one!
Gotta say that I found the whole thing completely stupid and irritating. There has been some incredible humor/films/challenges/races etc on Top Gear
over the years but this predictable drivel proves they have just about run out of inspiration. 
If they had turned down the slapstick-act-like-dumb-idiots knob just a little then it could have been a good item.
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Originally posted by AdamR
Gotta say that I found the whole thing completely stupid and irritating. There has been some incredible humor/films/challenges/races etc on Top Gear over the years but this predictable drivel proves they have just about run out of inspiration.
If they had turned down the slapstick-act-like-dumb-idiots knob just a little then it could have been a good item.
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Originally posted by Steve G
MOT's dont check for sharp edges!!
anyone got a link to a vid i missed it 
adam
I would say that the whole thing was just one continuous rolling traffic offence!
Taking it on the dual carriage-way knowing full well the impact it would have on traffic was a cut and dried dangerous driving charge. I can only
assume they had asked for the BiB's permission and were suitably accompanied.
I thought it was one of the most desperate pieces on TG yet (but not quite as desperate as Hammonds hair... WTF!?).
I only watch it to see what gems James May comes out with now!
James May definately got the biggest cheer at top gear live. The others are too annoying.
found it how did they gat around useing the milk floats reg and that car.
adam
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TG is all getting a bit yawn inducing now!
Stupid stunts, poor presenting and next to no real content, but its like a car crash, you have to look! 
Well, bollox to you all I love it 
If I want car consumer advice I'll watch Watchdog or Fifth Gear, for entertainment I'll watch Top Gear.
AFAIC it gets funnier every series
If it bothers you that much, switch off the TV ! If you search the torrent sites there are some old TG episodes available, you know, the ones with
Angela Ripon and Noel Edmonds extolling the virtues of wind-up windows and wing mirrors I know which incarnation I prefer.
[Edited on 23/11/09 by UncleFista]
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Originally posted by oadamo
anyone got a link to a vid i missed it
adam
So they have cheesed the morris owners club off....and had a good go at the TVR Oc as well.
Its all in good fun......fook life is too bloody serious as it is.
They came dangerously close to talking about kit cars. Wasn't that a GTM Libra they showed outside the 'TG Technology Centre', and it looked like the chassis of a kit car in the back of the workshop - maybe a Ginetta?
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Originally posted by carpmart
TG is all getting a bit yawn inducing now!
Stupid stunts, poor presenting and next to no real content, but its like a car crash, you have to look!
I must say I was very frustrated by TG about a year ago; annoyed that a car program was being 'ruined' by silly stunts.
At some stage I had a kind of epiphany and chilled out about it. I laughed a lot last night. I now realise that proper information on fast cars
comes from EVO or other sources and that TG is just a laugh. "Star in a....." bores the life out of me as do some of the other features but
'Geoff' was FUNNY.
Projecting edges do come under MOT regs under condition of vehicle --- but it is basic commonsense rules that apply ie no sharp edges that could
catch on somebodies clothing.
It is deliberately worded a bit ambiguously to allow for all the nasty sharpbits on some very old vehicles.
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Originally posted by Rosco
They came dangerously close to talking about kit cars. Wasn't that a GTM Libra they showed outside the 'TG Technology Centre', and it looked like the chassis of a kit car in the back of the workshop - maybe a Ginetta?
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Originally posted by scootz
but not quite as desperate as Hammonds hair... WTF!?
funny - yes. but why couldn't they have just used the chimaera body, spent a bit of cash getting that fixed up and take the big engine lump out
and fit a couple of electric motors. Stick all the batteries up front to give similar weight distribution, still got a boot and best of all: no where
for Hammond to sit with his all too familiar reactions and captions.
Top Gear has started to look all a bit staged - Geoff rolling down the hill, pushed back 'into' the fans - but can't dispute that it
was laugh out loud funny.
if you don't like TG, you know what to do...
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Originally posted by hoots_min
Top Gear has started to look all a bit staged
It is funny...... and I do think the lighthearted/comedy approach is excellent - but it is getting to be about the time for some new ideas.......It
has made James May a star which is a good thing as his Toy Story programs are excellent - but Top Gear just keep doing the same sketches over and over
which is not such a good thing.....
i'm not sure how much of this latest series will be repeated on daytime dave
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Originally posted by blakep82
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Loved this weeks show.
I think their joke attempt of an elcetric car, was aimed as the joke electric cars out there at the moment.
I actually looked into the G-WIZ, until I worked out that the running costs was higher the my Subaru outback
I did like the Genny in the back
Off course Geoff was a joke, they bought an electric vehicle and canabalised it to make another one, If it habe been serious they could have built it
for alot less than the 6 or 7 grand that monstosity cost. But it was entertaining. I do wish they would put more car reviewing back into topgear,
I'd also like to see more history type segments aswell.
The problem with 5th gear is they are always trying to be topgear but half there presenters are just annoying. Used Car roadshow is where its at for
the real consumer advice.
was anyone else actually curios to see how the Gwiz would go up the hill and dissapointed that they didn't do it? I love to have a go in one just
to see what its like, but you could have a real car for the same money.
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Originally posted by D Beddows
iT made James May a star which is a good thing as his Toy Story programs are excellent -
I still say they should compulsory purchase all that stuff and rebuild it, then hold the GBGP there.
F1GP at brooklands? You do know half of it is now offices and houses.
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Originally posted by morcus
I still say they should compulsory purchase all that stuff and rebuild it, then hold the GBGP there.
So we should build new tracks?
I really don't understand why that stuff was built there in the first place, did people not realise how important Brooklands is when they gave it
the go ahead?