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July 6th, 2006, 01:28 PM
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| Previously Known As Jamesd  Joined: May 3rd, 2006 Last Online: 06:05 AM Location: Adelaide, Australia. Posts: 2,174
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 I think he'll like the new corvette too much to do that, he liked the Z06  Maybe some crappy other car? | ||
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July 8th, 2006, 04:47 PM
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| Joined: Jul 8th, 2006 Last Online: August 2nd, 2006 Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0  | New DVD contains all sort of goodies - XLRV , Z06, shelby and rouch mustangs, viper, SRT 8 and some brilliant races and mega destructions |
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July 8th, 2006, 06:31 PM
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| Hormone Induced  Joined: Jun 21st, 2005 Last Online: 06:10 AM Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5,917
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July 8th, 2006, 11:52 PM
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Rep Power: 0 | you've got to wait till nov 6th im afraid although you will be able to preorder on amazon.co.uk from next week |
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July 9th, 2006, 12:33 AM
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| Joined: Jun 13th, 2006 Last Online: August 7th, 2008 Location: Long Island, NY; USA Posts: 84
Rep Power: 0 | wow, thats a really long wait. I cant be waiting taht long. Doh |
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July 9th, 2006, 10:34 AM
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| Joined: Jul 8th, 2006 Last Online: August 2nd, 2006 Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0 | Not a lot you can do - but having worked on the production i can tell you it is well worth the wait |
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November 8th, 2006, 01:41 PM
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 Joined: Jul 9th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Chester, NJ Posts: 1,137
Car: 86 944 Turbo, 2000 Trans Am, 02 Jeep Rep Power: 22  | Got the DVD from amazon.co.uk last night... Not as action packed as older Clarkson vids. Here are my initial thoughts. - Z06 review that kicks off the DVD is virtually identical to the Top Gear review. Jerermy couldn't even be bothered to change any punctuation marks in the script. - Still complained the Z06 doesn't work on the street. Having driven a Z06 and the Ford GT he worships back to back, he is completely insane. The GT is completely impractial on the street -- way too tight steering, way too stiffly sprung, wandering rear end, German pillbox visibility. I'm starting to think Jeremy had his opinions fed to him and can't put an ounce of critical thought into what he's saying. - Racing a Land Rover against a Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2 in an offroading test? WTF? Jeremy, you don't take a bling-mobile on 22s for its offroad capability. Let's make it fair and throw a Wrangler Rubicon and Grand Cherokee against that Land Rover next time. - I think Jeremy nailed it on the head about America's disposable culture and how that shows up in the poor car design. He's right, they're designed to be replaced. Planned obsolescence. But it's part of how America works -- creative destruction, destroying the old to make way for the new. Take New York city and its landscape and architecture, the city constantly reinvents itself and very few artifacts remain of prior iterations (Brooklyn Bridge, brownstone apartments, etc). A very interesting observation I want to explore further. Also, FWIW, he notes America's lack of sense of time compared to Europe, which I agree with; however, using Vegas as a starting point (est 1971) isn't quite the same as the older cities on the East Coast that are at least hundreds of years old. More later...
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November 8th, 2006, 01:53 PM
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Rep Power: 0 | any mustang???? |
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November 8th, 2006, 02:34 PM
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| I AM OT!  Joined: May 28th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Oslo, Norway Age: 28 Posts: 3,533
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November 8th, 2006, 05:55 PM
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| True Viking  Joined: May 26th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Norway Posts: 2,918
Rep Power: 21 | Hahahaha! How BORED must he have been, and how much brown beer did they pay him for that one 
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November 8th, 2006, 06:54 PM
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Car: 2006 Yamaha Fazer LFS Status:  Rep Power: 32 | I don't see why people are complaining about the Range Rover test. Thats's our "Bling-mobile" over here so its a fair test. If you wanted to use Jeeps then you would have to use a Land Rover which again would be a foregone conclusion.
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November 8th, 2006, 07:09 PM
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| True Viking Joined: May 26th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Norway Posts: 2,918
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And to be honest, if you're thinking of the H1, the H1 does not work on the road, while the Range Rover DOES. And to be honest, he could had gone up the hill in a Defender, and he still would've won. Not to forget, the Defender would get home afterwards, while the H2 probably wouldn't. 
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November 9th, 2006, 04:46 AM
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| Banned Joined: Nov 27th, 2005 Last Online: 05:58 AM Posts: 3,296
Car: Too many Rep Power: 0 | just in my humble opinion this has to be the best Clarkson DVD todate the new music helps alot hehe, as well as the fact that i can relate to it since its in america, even if im here in Michigan, yes their was some weird loopholes, but they were forgivable, the first mustang test, clarkson says hes driving a GT with a 4.6 V8, but thats deffenetly a V6 model, as tons of my neighbors have various mustangs its pretty easy, and uncontestable it doesnt annoy me that he used a V6 for the test, it annoys me that he blatently lied about it, but for entertainment purposes it doesnt really matter so im still happy 8) i suppose i should be so lucky as to know i live pretty close to the guy who owns the GTX1, the car people are the one thing that makes Michigan livable, as our economy is currently blue in the face Last edited by Ottobon; November 9th, 2006 at 04:49 AM.. |
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November 9th, 2006, 07:04 AM
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| Ambitious but rubbish!  Joined: Jul 12th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 18 Posts: 9,196
Car: 1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5L Rep Power: 41 | Chat about it in the new thread: http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-host-shows/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-discussion-thread-14610/  |
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