Disturbing Article about the future of Top Gear - Page 6

feistl · May 26th, 2006, 1:45 AM

Simply, if people are going to complain about noise and pollution give them an altermatum, the put up with Top Gear or everyone who loves Top Gear will go buy Monaro's and drive around in second gear at 6500RPM at 2am images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Peter3hg · May 26th, 2006, 9:27 AM

Somehow i doubt that would really help the cause.

Jezzabelle · May 27th, 2006, 8:17 AM

I wonder if any of you would like to add your names to a petition in order to save Top Gear by making a case for their license to be renewed? The people from the local area of Dunsfold are asking for the license NOT to be renewed because of 'noise pollution', which, as many of you have rightly said on here, is ridiculous seeing they chose to live by an airfield, which is by design, a noisy place!

There is already a petition here

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveTopGear/

which got over 100 signatures in it's 1st 24 hours. We would be grateful for more signatures!

The licence which Top Gear have been granted for the next couple of weeks is only a temporary one! There is much campaigning still to be done!

Many thanks!

Jezzabelle · May 1st, 2007, 1:47 PM

OK, shoot me for digging out an old thread, but I thought this was the best place to post the info which I have.

Now, don't read this as fact as it is just word of mouth at present, but I have been given a few hints about the proposed construction on the Dunsfold airfield.

The land owner has properly back tracked after having 'serious disagreements' with the contractors who want to build the housing development, and is reconsidering the sale. There may yet be hope that TG stay at Dunsfold for the time being!

I do hope they find somewhere which isn't 'subject to change' soon though.

ahpadt · May 1st, 2007, 1:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jezzabelle

OK, shoot me for digging out an old thread, but I thought this was the best place to post the info which I have.

Now, don't read this as fact as it is just word of mouth at present, but I have been given a few hints about the proposed construction on the Dunsfold airfield.

The land owner has properly back tracked after having 'serious disagreements' with the contractors who want to build the housing development, and is reconsidering the sale. There may yet be hope that TG stay at Dunsfold for the time being!

I do hope they find somewhere which isn't 'subject to change' soon though.

What happens to this then?

http://www.dunsfoldpark.co.uk/mpimages/aerial1.gif

Jezzabelle · May 1st, 2007, 2:26 PM

Ummm, the mouth which the words come from is not available at the moment to check details with, but I think it is just the one landowner who owns the whole lot, so if he does back out, none of it will get redeveloped for the foreseeable future.

Please remeber this is word of mouth, I have no hard facts, YET!!!

avidvideo · May 1st, 2007, 9:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartboy9891

o wtf, thats not sound pollution, its music

Testify!

Narcolepsy · May 1st, 2007, 10:27 PM

Maybe if the BBC had the balls they could make this land owner a better offer if that is indeed the case. Plus, if they started doing more syndication they could make enough ad revenue to BUILD a track. This noise and pollution thing is ridiculous. Its been said, its just an effective platitude for getting a track shut down for NIMBY's. It makes no more noise than a motorway, and a sports car pollutes about as much as...oh 2 regular cars. Absurd. Out of hand. These greenies smoked some bad granola.

robybobey · May 22nd, 2007, 4:44 PM

Mercedes Mclaren test SLR's on the track and Plans motorsport are often driving supercars around there, so its not just TG

Wheelman286 · June 4th, 2007, 1:07 AM

Environmentalists need to shut up and stop ruining all our fun. there's nothing wrong with having a little guiltless fun with the motor vehicle. sure, we should be building cars that get better gas mileage. but not if it means they don't have souls. surely they can give us Exctacy and Environmentally Friendly in one easily disolvable sopository. it's unfortunate that top gear has to deal with so much crap in those little euro villages from the environmentals, hardasses, and public transport provincialists.
If only they could relocate to america. noone ever gives me crap for driving my lifted Jeep... maybe they're afraid to. But, in a lot of midwestern states, few people seem to care. theyd have to stop making fun of us though. i can take a joke but some can't.

pepitko · June 4th, 2007, 9:08 AM

pollution?? it is an airfield, what about airplanes?? one car flying around the track cannot do as much noise or pollution.. that is just riddiculous.

AnGuRuSO · June 4th, 2007, 9:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pepitko

pollution?? it is an airfield, what about airplanes?? one car flying around the track cannot do as much noise or pollution.. that is just riddiculous.

no way man! F1 cars are fucking noisy

Loz · June 5th, 2007, 2:42 AM

There is a lovely little unused airfield outside the town where i live. It apparently was an F1 track after the war, and saw the first sucess of Lotus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Davidstow_Moor

Just kick all the sheep off and resurface a bit of it and there is a perfect track.

Mopar Man · June 5th, 2007, 3:31 AM

Guys look when the article was published.

February 20, 2006.

We're a year past that, so I don't think we should worry about anything.

Peter3hg · June 5th, 2007, 7:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loz

There is a lovely little unused airfield outside the town where i live. It apparently was an F1 track after the war, and saw the first sucess of Lotus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Davidstow_Moor

Just kick all the sheep off and resurface a bit of it and there is a perfect track.

It's a bit of a tip but other than that it would be ideal, just take a lot of resurfacing.
The runway is in very poor condition. As you can see the grass has taken over quite a bit, it would give them a lot of area to play in however.

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5370/runwayzg8.jpg

http://www.cjukx.plus.com/photo/davidstow/large/davidstow006.jpg

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/D/images/davidstow_moor_03d.jpg

theboyG · June 5th, 2007, 1:59 PM

Dont worry for now. The next series in Oct will be at Dunsfold.

TommySVT · June 5th, 2007, 5:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theboyG

Dont worry for now. The next series in Oct will be at Dunsfold.

Cool.

Cobol74 · June 5th, 2007, 6:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter3hg

If they moved here at least the Top Gear office is a bit better that what they use now. ...

Loz · June 6th, 2007, 6:28 AM

Would be good if they cam to Davistow, but there are a few setbacks with it...

1: My Uncle is a building contractor, and has been diggin a bit of it up for dun dun dun... Houses, but they are in the foresty area i think. Dunno if its true or not, but thats what my Nan said as she is his sister.

2: Weather, 364 days of the year its usually foggy.

3: Animals. There are wild horses i belive, aswell as farmers sheeps.

4: That thin Y shape going from left to right is a public road, wich is higher that the runways.

5: The military use it for training.

6: Its still a sort of working airport for Microlights.

Good points:

1: A Cheese Factory, food for the crew images/smilies/tongue.gif

2: The old buildings for the TG Production office.

3: Top Gear Dog could have fun with the sheeps images/smilies/tongue.gif

Jezzabelle · June 7th, 2007, 7:51 AM

I have now heard that final planning permission wasn't granted, so Dunsfold is safe again, bizzarly, thanks to the NIMBYs who didn't want a housing estate near their mansions!!

May 26th, 2006, 9:27 AM	#102
Peter3hg Joined: May 3rd, 2006 Last Online: November 20th, 2009 Location: Manchester, UK Age: 20 Posts: 4,536 Car: 2006 Yamaha Fazer LFS Status: Rep Power: 44	Somehow i doubt that would really help the cause. __________________

May 1st, 2007, 10:27 PM	#108
Narcolepsy Joined: Sep 17th, 2006 Last Online: September 7th, 2009 Location: Philadelphia, USA Posts: 558 Rep Power: 13	Maybe if the BBC had the balls they could make this land owner a better offer if that is indeed the case. Plus, if they started doing more syndication they could make enough ad revenue to BUILD a track. This noise and pollution thing is ridiculous. Its been said, its just an effective platitude for getting a track shut down for NIMBY's. It makes no more noise than a motorway, and a sports car pollutes about as much as...oh 2 regular cars. Absurd. Out of hand. These greenies smoked some bad granola. __________________ 05 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT 94 Mercedes-Benz C280 (Retired.....by a tree)

June 4th, 2007, 1:07 AM	#110
Wheelman286 Joined: May 19th, 2007 Last Online: November 5th, 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Age: 23 Posts: 5 Car: 92' Jeep Wrangler, 00' Honda S2000 Rep Power: 0	Those D* Treehuggers** Environmentalists need to shut up and stop ruining all our fun. there's nothing wrong with having a little guiltless fun with the motor vehicle. sure, we should be building cars that get better gas mileage. but not if it means they don't have souls. surely they can give us Exctacy and Environmentally Friendly in one easily disolvable sopository. it's unfortunate that top gear has to deal with so much crap in those little euro villages from the environmentals, hardasses, and public transport provincialists. If only they could relocate to america. noone ever gives me crap for driving my lifted Jeep... maybe they're afraid to. But, in a lot of midwestern states, few people seem to care. theyd have to stop making fun of us though. i can take a joke but some can't.

June 4th, 2007, 9:08 AM	#111
pepitko Joined: Jan 22nd, 2007 Last Online: 12:14 AM Location: Prague, CZ Age: 23 Posts: 633 Car: diesel Skoda & Peugeot scooter Rep Power: 21	pollution?? it is an airfield, what about airplanes?? one car flying around the track cannot do as much noise or pollution.. that is just riddiculous. __________________ "I don’t really want a Lamborghini Gallardo. But I don’t want to live in a world where it doesn’t exist." - Jeremy Clarkson

June 5th, 2007, 2:42 AM	#113
Loz Joined: Mar 1st, 2007 Last Online: 5:47 AM Location: Cornwall, UK Age: 20 Posts: 973 LFS Status: Rep Power: 30	There is a lovely little unused airfield outside the town where i live. It apparently was an F1 track after the war, and saw the first sucess of Lotus... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Davidstow_Moor Just kick all the sheep off and resurface a bit of it and there is a perfect track. __________________

May 26th, 2006, 1:45 AM	#101
feistl Joined: May 26th, 2006 Last Online: November 2nd, 2009 Posts: 25 Rep Power: 15	Simply, if people are going to complain about noise and pollution give them an altermatum, the put up with Top Gear or everyone who loves Top Gear will go buy Monaro's and drive around in second gear at 6500RPM at 2am

May 27th, 2006, 8:17 AM	#103
Jezzabelle Not A Dude Joined: Apr 12th, 2006 Last Online: October 20th, 2009 Posts: 247 Car: Mercedes Rep Power: 17	I wonder if any of you would like to add your names to a petition in order to save Top Gear by making a case for their license to be renewed? The people from the local area of Dunsfold are asking for the license NOT to be renewed because of 'noise pollution', which, as many of you have rightly said on here, is ridiculous seeing they chose to live by an airfield, which is by design, a noisy place! There is already a petition here http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveTopGear/ which got over 100 signatures in it's 1st 24 hours. We would be grateful for more signatures! The licence which Top Gear have been granted for the next couple of weeks is only a temporary one! There is much campaigning still to be done! Many thanks!

May 1st, 2007, 1:47 PM	#104
Jezzabelle Not A Dude Joined: Apr 12th, 2006 Last Online: October 20th, 2009 Posts: 247 Car: Mercedes Rep Power: 17	OK, shoot me for digging out an old thread, but I thought this was the best place to post the info which I have. Now, don't read this as fact as it is just word of mouth at present, but I have been given a few hints about the proposed construction on the Dunsfold airfield. The land owner has properly back tracked after having 'serious disagreements' with the contractors who want to build the housing development, and is reconsidering the sale. There may yet be hope that TG stay at Dunsfold for the time being! I do hope they find somewhere which isn't 'subject to change' soon though.

May 1st, 2007, 2:26 PM	#106
Jezzabelle Not A Dude Joined: Apr 12th, 2006 Last Online: October 20th, 2009 Posts: 247 Car: Mercedes Rep Power: 17	Ummm, the mouth which the words come from is not available at the moment to check details with, but I think it is just the one landowner who owns the whole lot, so if he does back out, none of it will get redeveloped for the foreseeable future. Please remeber this is word of mouth, I have no hard facts, YET!!!

May 22nd, 2007, 4:44 PM	#109
robybobey Joined: Nov 27th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Wigan, Lancashire, England Age: 20 Posts: 686 Car: 2006 Renault Clio LFS Status: Rep Power: 44	Mercedes Mclaren test SLR's on the track and Plans motorsport are often driving supercars around there, so its not just TG

June 5th, 2007, 3:31 AM	#114
Mopar Man Banned For Being A Lying Asshat Joined: May 7th, 2007 Last Online: April 17th, 2008 Location: Toronto Age: 23 Posts: 636 Car: 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 Mega-Cab Rep Power: 0	Guys look when the article was published. February 20, 2006. We're a year past that, so I don't think we should worry about anything.

June 5th, 2007, 1:59 PM	#116
theboyG Joined: Jun 7th, 2004 Last Online: November 19th, 2009 Posts: 156 Car: 911(996) and BMW 330i (aka Crap!) Rep Power: 24	Dont worry for now. The next series in Oct will be at Dunsfold.

June 6th, 2007, 6:28 AM	#119
Loz Joined: Mar 1st, 2007 Last Online: 5:47 AM Location: Cornwall, UK Age: 20 Posts: 973 LFS Status: Rep Power: 30	Would be good if they cam to Davistow, but there are a few setbacks with it... 1: My Uncle is a building contractor, and has been diggin a bit of it up for dun dun dun... Houses, but they are in the foresty area i think. Dunno if its true or not, but thats what my Nan said as she is his sister. 2: Weather, 364 days of the year its usually foggy. 3: Animals. There are wild horses i belive, aswell as farmers sheeps. 4: That thin Y shape going from left to right is a public road, wich is higher that the runways. 5: The military use it for training. 6: Its still a sort of working airport for Microlights. Good points: 1: A Cheese Factory, food for the crew 2: The old buildings for the TG Production office. 3: Top Gear Dog could have fun with the sheeps __________________

June 7th, 2007, 7:51 AM	#120
Jezzabelle Not A Dude Joined: Apr 12th, 2006 Last Online: October 20th, 2009 Posts: 247 Car: Mercedes Rep Power: 17	I have now heard that final planning permission wasn't granted, so Dunsfold is safe again, bizzarly, thanks to the NIMBYs who didn't want a housing estate near their mansions!!

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