Top Gear In Vietnam

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Most of the other images were of the same scenes anyway. Although, I didn't get any with Andy Wilman in them, but at least we know he was there too. ;)

There's a chance I may get some other sneak peek pics in a week or two. If that comes to fruition I won't be shy in letting you know, haha.
 
uhm...it looks like that guy in the brown shirt is skratching his...bottom.

lol.
 
Great pics!

It's a shame, though, to see James and Jeremy smoking, because James said he doesn't smoke, and Jeremy said he quit.

Maybe it's just a casual thing.

Anyway, this episode will be AWESOME!!! :D
 
A couple of thoughts occur off those pics up there.

Firstly, how ignorant would I look if I asked who the cute blonde in the camo top is?

Secondly, since it looks like they're riding scooters... Vietnam is the logical place to do the test (no really) considering what JC wrote in The Times the other week.
Perhaps they know what I know: that actually Japan is ahead of us but still some way behind Vietnam, where everyone has a small motor-bike. They are used as family saloons, lorries, pose-mobiles and taxis. And the system works, even when it rains, which it does, hard, and often for nine months of the year. I really can see a day when London looks much the same as Hanoi does today.

Funny, isn?t it. Vietnam never quite caught up to the West but now it?s accidentally overtaken us. Even as we speak, I have a small Vespa in my garage. Soon, I may be forced to go out there and see how the damn things works.
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Soup? said:
A couple of thoughts occur off those pics up there.

Firstly, how ignorant would I look if I asked who the cute blonde in the camo top is?

Secondly, since it looks like they're riding scooters... Vietnam is the logical place to do the test (no really) considering what JC wrote in The Times the other week.
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Firstly: Not ignorant just typically male :p

Secondly: There was a pic of James on a smallish old motorbike (not clear what it was). I reckons it'll be bikes, not scooters.
I'm curious about the bundles of paper Jeremy is clutching in the rain and the piles on the table in front of them. Something they have to deliver?

And smoking? They all smoke. They all regularly give up and start again. James usually hides it because it upsets his mum!
 
Momo63 said:
Firstly: Not ignorant just typically male :p
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*doffs cap*

Momo63 said:
Secondly: There was a pic of James on a smallish old motorbike (not clear what it was). I reckons it'll be bikes, not scooters.
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Suddenly options appear before me.

This could be similar to the American and African challenges but with Motorbikes.
It could also be like the London race (bear with me here); James on a motorbike (since he collects old motorbikes), Hamster in a Land Rover (given his off-road perversion) and Clarkson in... I don't know, a Huey?
Momo63 said:
I'm curious about the bundles of paper Jeremy is clutching in the rain and the piles on the table in front of them. Something they have to deliver?
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Map? Route? Schedule? phonetic translations for "Gin and Tonic"?
 
I think they are all on bikes -- The picture of Jezza and Richard is outside a crash helmet shop (with the owner ? )

The paper is more than just a map.
Gah! I'm turning into one of you FG lot - over-analysing everything! :?

I'm really looking forward to this - Vietnam is a beautiful and fascinating country, I'd love to go back there.
 
Momo63 said:
I'm really looking forward to this - Vietnam is a beautiful and fascinating country, I'd love to go back there.
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Sure, you don't have to live there! :D My girlfriend had to basically sneak out of the (typical miserably poor, communist) country, or risk her little brother being kidnapped and held for ransom if anyone found out.
 
Censport said:
(typical miserably poor, communist)
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I'm avoiding the temptation to point out that Vietnam's not communist.

I'll not mention that your post came from an American either.
 
Soup? said:
I'm avoiding the temptation to point out that Vietnam's not communist.
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Go ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Government_and_politics

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state. A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, replacing the 1975 version. The central role of the Communist Party was reasserted in all organs of government, politics and society. Only political organizations affiliated with or endorsed by the Communist Party are permitted to contest elections. These include the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, worker and trade unionist parties. Although the state remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, the ideology's importance has substantially diminished since the 1990s. The President of Vietnam is the titular head of state and the nominal commander in chief of the military of Vietnam, chairing the Council on National Defense and Security. The Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung is the head of government, presiding over a council of ministers composed of 3 deputy prime ministers and the heads of 26 ministries and commissions.

Further, my girlfriend, when trying to find income in her poor, communist country, once applied for the military. She was denied entry because she refused to be a communist.

I'll not mention that your post came from an American either.
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Because your point would be... what?

Yes, America is where people from communist, socialist and other oppressive regimes usually flee to. Only to find people proposing the same idealogies as the leaders they fled.
 
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Go ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Government_and_politics

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state. A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, replacing the 1975 version. The central role of the Communist Party was reasserted in all organs of government, politics and society. Only political organizations affiliated with or endorsed by the Communist Party are permitted to contest elections. These include the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, worker and trade unionist parties. Although the state remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, the ideology's importance has substantially diminished since the 1990s. The President of Vietnam is the titular head of state and the nominal commander in chief of the military of Vietnam, chairing the Council on National Defense and Security. The Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung is the head of government, presiding over a council of ministers composed of 3 deputy prime ministers and the heads of 26 ministries and commissions.
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There simply being a 'Communist party' does not make it a Communist state, which in itself is an oxymoron. In a communist system, the state does not exist or exists in a small form purely to administrate, which is not the case in Vietnam.

As for the episode, I'm quite looking forward to it - should be a blast.
 
lol, I wonder how they'll do that.
 
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