S12 Car Mod Challenge

Mineworksfine · October 16th, 2008, 12:23 PM

TG TV's new Mole has a new blog.....

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.co...s/#comment-916

If you can't be arsed to look at the link they've been challenged to modify a secondhand motor so that it will put in a scorching lap time at the TG Track, although from the outline under the tarp it looks suspiciously like a Vauxhall Zafira or similar. Should be a good spot unless it has the overscripted and contrived feel of similar pieces from Season 11.

Final Daihatsu · October 16th, 2008, 2:50 PM

My guess will be a Renault Espace.

matt2000 · October 16th, 2008, 2:52 PM

the page only shows up as text for me, for some reason. images/smilies/wacko.gif

Soup? · October 16th, 2008, 3:14 PM

That's a fantastic challenge!

Or rather, that has the potential to be a fantastic challenge!

leviathan · October 16th, 2008, 3:14 PM

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My guess will be a Renault Espace.

Exactly my thought. They might take it, already having the experience of modifying one - and that one went 100 mph images/smilies/smile.gif

Or some other people carrier of sorts.

vikiradTG2007 · October 16th, 2008, 3:48 PM

Will they try to replicate the Espace F1 in the "Ambitious, but Rubbish" way? I'd like to see that.

PaperBiro · October 16th, 2008, 7:38 PM

Sounds great!

My guess is it will be a Hummer.

_HighVoltage_ · October 16th, 2008, 8:50 PM

Don't judge by the picture on the website.
My GUESS is that it's an old picture, look at James' sweater - the same one from season...8? (or maybe 9), and it the same one from the Alfa 159 test (which was filmed at the same time).

Mineworksfine · October 16th, 2008, 9:06 PM

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Originally Posted by _HighVoltage_

Don't judge by the picture on the website.
My GUESS is that it's an old picture, look at James' sweater - the same one from season...8? (or maybe 9), and it the same one from the Alfa 159 test (which was filmed at the same time).

Knowing James' feeling about clothes I would guess he only stops wearing an item of clothing when it's no longer servicable and uses it to clean his motorbike for a while before finally binning it.

Chupacabras · October 16th, 2008, 9:25 PM

Ya James is not big on change... he wears the same stuff quite often... and in other shows he presents as well.

iam-nobody · October 16th, 2008, 10:02 PM

A Reliant Robbin ?
I hope not they don't corner well at high speeds thats if you can get it past 30mph

mclarensmps · October 17th, 2008, 12:40 AM

Yay, Jeremy's gonna catch fire again!

Cobol74 · October 17th, 2008, 12:43 AM

It is not a current model Zafira (I have one - egg on face time do you think?), think it may be something Japanese (Nissan something possibly)- name escapes me at the moment.

Now about a Poll?

It is a UK market MPV of an older variety - there can not be too many of those?

/EDIT My guess ta da - Nissan Prarie / Axxess

logifuse · October 17th, 2008, 12:49 AM

It's not very tall (imagine it next to them on the ground), & the seemingly raked angle of the windscreen could just be because they're dragging the cover off & it's stretched.

minigolf · October 17th, 2008, 3:06 AM

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Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007

Will they try to replicate the Espace F1 in the "Ambitious, but Rubbish" way? I'd like to see that.

That would be great.

Surely they could afford an old F1 Ford engine from the 60s or something. images/smilies/tongue.gif

smitman556678 · October 17th, 2008, 4:54 AM

LMAO, you KNOW it's gonna be funny when someone on Top Gear shows up on the back of an AA truck!!!

Mineworksfine · October 17th, 2008, 9:07 AM

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Originally Posted by logifuse

It's not very tall (imagine it next to them on the ground), & the seemingly raked angle of the windscreen could just be because they're dragging the cover off & it's stretched.

You have a valid point there - Mitsubishi Space Wagon possibly?

leviathan · October 17th, 2008, 9:19 AM

I just came to think of it - they had the Renault F1 car lap the track once, it was the record holder - an they refer to "a very specific - and very brisk - benchmark on the current power board". They seem to be working with Renault a lot (remember Richard driving the F1 car, and the whole Espace things they did over time), so I'm actually quite sure they'll try and get the lap time of an Espace up to that of the F1 car. I know this sounds ambitious, but this is Top Gear images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Mineworksfine · October 17th, 2008, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by leviathan

I just came to think of it - they had the Renault F1 car lap the track once, it was the record holder - an they refer to "a very specific - and very brisk - benchmark on the current power board". They seem to be working with Renault a lot (remember Richard driving the F1 car, and the whole Espace things they did over time), so I'm actually quite sure they'll try and get the lap time of an Espace up to that of the F1 car. I know this sounds ambitious, but this is Top Gear images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Renault F1 car doesn't count as it can't get over speed humps and isn't therefore allowed on the Power Board. The Gumpert on the other had can and therefore (currently) tops the board.

controlspecimen · October 17th, 2008, 10:29 AM

I'm going to guess they have to match Richard Whitely's time.

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Cobol74 Joined: Mar 21st, 2006 Last Online: 10:50 AM Location: Southampton Posts: 8,592 Car: Vauxhall Zafira 1.9 TDI Slush box. Rep Power: 126	It is not a current model Zafira (I have one - egg on face time do you think?), think it may be something Japanese (Nissan something possibly)- name escapes me at the moment. Now about a Poll? It is a UK market MPV of an older variety - there can not be too many of those? /EDIT My guess ta da - Nissan Prarie / Axxess __________________ Lotus 7 Registration Mark = KAR120C : Engine Number = 461034 TZ Ross Brawn genius or what? Last edited by Cobol74; October 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 PM.

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logifuse Joined: Jan 7th, 2008 Last Online: November 19th, 2009 Location: Sydney, Aus Posts: 194 Rep Power: 17	It's not very tall (imagine it next to them on the ground), & the seemingly raked angle of the windscreen could just be because they're dragging the cover off & it's stretched.

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smitman556678 Joined: Jul 20th, 2008 Last Online: July 19th, 2009 Location: Comox, BC Posts: 47 Car: 90' Nissan 300zx Rep Power: 0	LMAO, you KNOW it's gonna be funny when someone on Top Gear shows up on the back of an AA truck!!!

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leviathan Joined: Oct 7th, 2007 Last Online: 2:38 AM Location: Darmstadt, Germany Age: 20 Posts: 258 Car: '01 Audi A6 2.4 Rep Power: 20	I just came to think of it - they had the Renault F1 car lap the track once, it was the record holder - an they refer to "a very specific - and very brisk - benchmark on the current power board". They seem to be working with Renault a lot (remember Richard driving the F1 car, and the whole Espace things they did over time), so I'm actually quite sure they'll try and get the lap time of an Espace up to that of the F1 car. I know this sounds ambitious, but this is Top Gear

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