It did for me, i thought it was great!! Can't wait to see the rest
Was it up to standard? Did it fill your expectations?
It did for me, i thought it was great!! Can't wait to see the rest
I thought it was good. I loved the Porsche especially in that colour. Golf was awesome though it's been around a while now.
Will definately watch this series.
Thought it was good.
so long as it is taken in the context of the guys actually knowing very little about cars, it's a great program, very very good.
but the arsonists at fifth gear are far more knowledgable and more usefully factually based
Not much different to the last series to be honest, same style, same made up bits (like Clarkson would book a hotel in the dodgy end of town)
Acoustics in the warehouse was a bit dodgy, and some of the pictures from inside the porsche were horrible.
Who would have thought a golf with 'hot wheels' wheels and rubber paint for tyres wouldn't have been able to go round corners.
p.s. what had hamster done to his hair? and why did clarkson let him get away with it?
I was waiting for some kind of 'Angora Hamster' flak to be thrown at some point
Usual stuff really with no surprises - I didn't hear about the fire damage to their props though.
The Golf was daft in an interesting sort of way. I still can't get the image of a naked Captain Slow out my head 
i thought it was a bit poor compared to other shows, past series etc. hopefully thats just because it was the first of the series though. i'll still be watching though!
I didn't realise it was a new series, when I read the blurb on the sky planner I thought it was a repeat - the one with the pagani, ford gt and
ferrari f430 when they had fun getting them out of the underground carpark.
all a bit predictable/obviously staged but entertaining all the same. I was suprised how directly they slagged 5th gear and the presenters by name
though.
Ned.
All good fun - I'll be watching the rest of the series
Cheers
mark
I want to drive that road. I've sky +'d the program to rember where it is. It's got to be done.
I thought it was good
Never saw/read that thing bout the fire though, only heard bout it lastnight
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p.s. what had hamster done to his hair? and why did clarkson let him get away with it?
Damn! Is that what Im having? Kit car, getting back into flying toy aeroplanes and a 23 year old GF!
(actually the last bit is out of date, she was to high maintanance so had to go!!!!!)
I don't watch it that often but the "finding the best driving road in the world" went on for a bit.
so if memory serve me well, in 1 hour they actually reviewed 1 car, the golf - the "best road" bit was really just self indulgence - nice
job if you can get the gig.
the program is popular now due to hype and the celebs rather than have any proper content about cars.
still enjoyable though and better than watching the plethora of reality shows/unknown celebs dancing/skating/farting/cooking /and and dec crap.
[Edited on 8/10/07 by 02GF74]
I did in an Audi A4 and think that it's too tight, narrow, unsighted and busy to be classed as a 'driving road'.
All you can do is the odd 50yd of acceleration before you have to slow down for the next hairpin. I went at a quiet time but still got stuck behind
an 80's Merc SL who wouldn't let me past. Then the road was closed to clear a rockfall about 3/4 of the way up. The rest of the way I was
about 10th in line behind a small coach.
The way down to the Italian side is more open, but still narrow and largely unsighted. The road in Switzerland looked more like it to me, but the
roads in Scotland are very similar and much closer.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
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still enjoyable though and better than watching the plethora of reality shows/unknown celebs dancing/skating/farting/cooking /and and dec crap.
[Edited on 8/10/07 by 02GF74]
An interesting read: http://www.topgear.com/blogs/planettopgear/074-top-gear-returns/
Looks like they should be sticking a bit more to cars this series which is good news.
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Originally posted by John.Taylor
The road in Switzerland looked more like it to me, but the roads in Scotland are very similar and much closer.
And the mountains are bigger in Switzerland. As said, it was just an excuse for a holiday and pratting about in cars, not really a feature, but if you can get away with it, then good for you!