File this one not under good, not under bad, not under ugly... but under that fourth heading called "strange".
The Toyota wheelchair: as soon as I saw that I figured it'd be the leftover bit from the series 11 preview. If it was filmed in Japan, where
stayed on to have the Nissan GT-R smash him to pieces at Fuji, and
ferried a couple of sumo wrestlers in a fake Roller, then, logically, what was
up to at the same time? And when he said "you know, we've already had this in the UK..." did anyone else think of a Sinclair C5? I wonder if Sir Clive himself saw this episode?
Very Tomorrows world which was also cack!
Go back and watch some old clips of Philippa Forrester again and
then tell me it was cack. I win a hundred and twenty-twelve pints of stout if you can't do it.
Finland: in short, watch out world of motorsport,
is coming to beat you all up. Unless you're Finnish. I was actually hoping Mika would get something wrong and shout "Perkele!" into the cameras with it getting through uncensored due to the prodteam having no idea what it means, but it was not to be... I'll have to go back and watch the ending of
Learn Finnish With Bastards for my fix of Finnish road rage.
And, what is this business with
giving his first "supercar review" (if that's how they put it); does his 252 mph run in the Bugatti Veyron not count? And what are they going to let him loose with?
The V8 blender: did this remind anyone of series 1?
Clearly,
has been watching
Bottom rather a lot ("the Bloody... Awful!") which
countered with a half-reference to
Red Dwarf ("it's put hairs on my eyeballs!") A further hundredandtwentytwelve pints of stout says 99% of watchers missed both of those.
Mark Wahlberg: didn't mention
Rock Star once. Bugger. I was also hoping we'd see footage of him destroying the Lacetti the way David Soul and Lionel Ritchie did with the Liana.
Avantime: who was it who was moaning about them spending a load of the budget on brakes, tyres and suspension? Go back and watch
's
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly video again and see which of the two Mustangs was faster round the track: was it the Shelby with its enormous power increase, or the Roush with its not-so-enormous power increase but uprated brakes and suspension? Answers on a postcard to anyone but us.
Stig's Morse Code message: ...and I had the spectrogram all set up and ready to record one. Bah.
I would have posted this sooner, but I was doing something as out-of-the-ordinary as this TG episode: I carried on watching the
Dragons' Den behind-the-dragons programme afterwards. Mainly because it involved Levi Roots and his Reggae Reggae Sauce.
Thank goodness it wasn't just me, I had a feeling I was going to be in line for an arse kicking if I said what I felt about tonight's show - but now it's clear that I'm not alone
***SARCASM*** "I don't agree with you! Have negative reputation!"
***SARCASM***
But seriously, it'd take the mother of all cataclysms to make me burst forth with an all-out "This is shit!" For instance, if anyone remembers the time some meddling busybody tried to turn TG into
Third Gear and only ever talk about road safety and slowing down and saving fuel and praising speed cameras and...
if they actually did this instead of pointing and laughing, as we'd expect them to...
I don't care that it was bloody stupid filler crap, I loved it! So funny.
Great that they brought this car back on the show. And the last stig lap looked stunning.
