On Top Gear October this 24th

[PATo355]

Well as always top gear will come with a very crappy show , not very good cars , just common shit , here is the list :

Sunday, BBC2 at 8pm


The TV show is looking for cars with an interesting history, which need restoring. Find out more.

The TG TV team has had its summer break, with the mayhem resuming on Sunday October 24. Thrills and spills are guaranteed each week, including:


The Crap Porsche Challenge
Ferrari 575M GTC v Aston Vanquish S
Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster
New Porsche 911
BMW 1-Series
New Ford Focus
Supercharged Ariel Atom


Hahahaha , Hahahaha , this guys are fucking crazy :D

[yg60m]

Life will be hard for 5th Gear :lol:

[komotar]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

[PATo355]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

Nope , just checked topgear.com and that info was all i could find

[mindgam3]

gonnna be grrrrrrrrrrrreat ;)

[TT]

Can't wait of course!!

[PATo355]

Dont know how they will fit all those tests in one Hour ... but lets hope its 90 minutes now :D

[Ford Capri 2.8i]

Of course im looking forward for the program

[FPVPSI]

WOOHOO...i can't wait, Top Gear is far superior to 5th gear, more entertaining, better reviews... :P

[chest3r]

Finally Top Gear is back :o :o :o and with promising beginning

[ferrari550]

Can't wait, just can't! I want to see the ferrar vs aston rematch.
although the porsche challenge sounds cool

[AlienDB7]

Looks like it'll be another great season. Can't expect anything less from Mr. Clarkson ;)

Wonder how will the Supercharged Ariel Atom do on their track. The NA version was very fast already, will the supercharged version beat the CGT?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info pato, can't wait for it to start, actually quite looking forward to the car restoration pieces, should be interesting :D

[yg60m]

Dont know how they will fit all those tests in one Hour ... but lets hope its 90 minutes now :D

I think that we will see these cars all along the series and not only in the first episode :wink:

[nthfinity]

definately looking forward to TG... but we still have the rest of the season for 5th gear, which im also looking forward to

[twboy1999]

cant wait..
so many awsome cars

once again is going to kick 5th gear's ass badly

[PATo355]

Dont know how they will fit all those tests in one Hour ... but lets hope its 90 minutes now :D

I think that we will see these cars all along the series and not only in the first episode :wink:

Might be on the first show , no Ferraris in the lineup

[komotar]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

Nope , just checked topgear.com and that info was all i could find

Thanx anyway.

[No.1]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

Nope , just checked topgear.com and that info was all i could find

Thanx anyway.

I Know :mrgreen:

Basically they (the presenters) each buy a shit Porsche... one of the cars they regard as Porsche's worst. They then compete, or see which will last the longest

That's as far as i got into the story as i lost my copy of this month's TG :oops: .. an i ain't payin anothe £4 for a copy either :|

[Anonymous]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

Nope , just checked topgear.com and that info was all i could find

Thanx anyway.

I Know :mrgreen:

Basically they (the presenters) each buy a shit Porsche... one of the cars they regard as Porsche's worst. They then compete, or see which will last the longest

That's as far as i got into the story as i lost my copy of this month's TG :oops: .. an i ain't payin anothe £4 for a copy either :|

LOL Jeremy isn't a porsche fan :P at least hammond is their to stick up for them :D

[Schwalbe]

Can't wait too..

And I hope that Top Gear will test the new E60 M5 this season. :wink:

[Ill Dottore]

THanks for the heads up

Can't wait to watch the show

Cheers

[FoxFour]

Car restoration, eh? Seems like they have been watching too many of these 'reality' shows that feature the same thing. But I bet it will done per Top Gear's wacky sense of humor. The Crap Porsche Challenge? I like the sound of that :lol:

[coloradosilver]

Excited for this season to start as always. I wish Top Gear could be an all-year thing, but I suppose it's just as well, they need time for the new cars to come out in order to test them. But anyway.......Lets get it on, Top Gear!

[CMonakar]

I suspect the 575c will rip the Vanquish S a new one around the test track. I can't wait to see the results.

[SilviaEvo]

WOW! i cant wait!!! all this in one episode? or am i missing something?

[jamberl]

Thank god this is coming back on again!

You guys are right, this dumps all over 5th gear

[homemade wrx]

I wish we could get top gear here, but we don't. we just started getting 5th gear though.

[tigerx]

LOL Jeremy isn't a porsche fan at least hammond is their to stick up for them


really? then why did he put the porsche 996 Turbo on the second spot on his Top 100 car list? ahead of his own ferrari 355?

and yeah i'm so fuking happy now that TG is back :D. Jabba are you ready for some ripping? ;)

thanks for doing it btw.

[Fleischmann]

OMG!! It seems this is gonna be the best episode ever!! 4 supercars in one episode!!

[yg60m]

OMG!! It seems this is gonna be the best episode ever!! 4 supercars in one episode!!

I repeat that I doubt they will test all these cars in only one episode. It must be a preview of the season like on the previous season ...
For the BMW M5 I fear we will have to wait next season ...

[jakaracman]

10 days to go ...

[Jabba]

LOL Jeremy isn't a porsche fan at least hammond is their to stick up for them


really? then why did he put the porsche 996 Turbo on the second spot on his Top 100 car list? ahead of his own ferrari 355?

and yeah i'm so fuking happy now that TG is back :D. Jabba are you ready for some ripping? ;)

thanks for doing it btw.

Yes and I should be uploading it less than 30 mins after it finishes.

[yg60m]

He's got a weapon :wink: : an ultra-fast computer :lol:

[Jabba]

Yes and I should be uploading it less than 30 mins after it finishes.

How can you rip it so quickly? If I edit some digital video and then start the compression process, it takes always at least one hour. I don't even want to say the rendering times for digital video :D

3.8 - 4.0 ghz P4...check out the computer section for more details. Its no accident and with lots and lots of work that I can encode a one hour divx video in less than 15 minutes.

Think I am bullshiting ??? ask anyone that has access how quickly Mondays 5th gear appeared.

http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/808.JPG

[Jabba]

That also incudes the rendering time as I add a custom logo throughout the video and titles with a transition at the beginning...sounds like your using premiere that can be a bit overkill in certain circumstances.

[Darkel]

Supercharged Ariel Atom :)
I wish I had BBC2 ...

[TT]

Well, you don't need BBC2 when there is JW :D

[Darkel]

That's right, but I wanted to watch it BEFORE :mrgreen:

[bmwmpower]

when will be in top M5? i cant wait,
i think time will be 1:30 on the wet, can be better

[possessed_beaver]

yeh the M5 will be awsome, i cannot wait to see it again!!!
seemed like it only finished the other day!

[TT]

On a side note, short quote from evo #73:

The car (Koenigsegg CCR) was fitted with a stronger, sintered clutch, in preparation for Jeremy Clarkson's test in a few weeks' time

nice :D

[yg60m]

On a side note, short quote from evo #73:

The car (Koenigsegg CCR) was fitted with a stronger, sintered clutch, in preparation for Jeremy Clarkson's test in a few weeks' time

nice :D

VERY nice :wink: It seems that Koenigsegg chose Jeremy Clarkson to become well-known by the public :P they couldn't made a better choice :twisted:

[Wutputt]

I can't hardly wait!! I already programmed my videorecorder :D



LOL Jeremy isn't a porsche fan at least hammond is their to stick up for them


really? then why did he put the porsche 996 Turbo on the second spot on his Top 100 car list? ahead of his own ferrari 355?
Why did he destroy a 911 in one of his videos?
I think he never liked the 911, until the 996 Turbo, 996 GT3 (RS) and so on.

[schnell318]

Hmmm, can´t wait!!! Looks like a great show

[jorge]

It seems it´s gonna be great, as always.
Top gear is getting better and better than 5th gear. :|

[crayzayjay]

The wait has been long. Too long.

but lets hope its 90 minutes now :D
I wish.. sometimes the tests are too short :(

[bmwmpower]

CCR can beat GT time, its has more power than GT

[mrpushrod]

can't wait...

Porsche challenge? sounds interesting. Any details?

Wich of these cars will be in the track test?

Nope , just checked topgear.com and that info was all i could find

Thanx anyway.

I Know :mrgreen:

Basically they (the presenters) each buy a shit Porsche... one of the cars they regard as Porsche's worst. They then compete, or see which will last the longest

That's as far as i got into the story as i lost my copy of this month's TG :oops: .. an i ain't payin anothe £4 for a copy either :|

Just read through my copy of Top Gear, that's about all the info they give apart from Clarkson having a 928 and May having a 944. Both sound like complete sheds so it's bound to be a laugh. They also say they will be launching an ice cream van off a ramp to see how high it will go. Oh, and they buy a bus which gets turned into 'transport fit for the gods'. apparentely.

[philios55]

The best car tv show is back!I can't wait for it!

[crayzayjay]

CCR can beat GT time, its has more power than GT
Maybe so. We can only wait and see ;)

[possessed_beaver]

CCR can beat GT time, its has more power than GT
Maybe so. We can only wait and see ;)

woulden't be so sure, but we all know it's going to be very intresting!

[yg60m]

The program for the 24th of October :

Yes they're back! Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May return for a new series of Top Gear. The power of the new Porsche 911 is put to the test on the track, the Brits take on the Americans and Australians when the Jaguar S type goes head to head with the Vauxhall Monaro VXR and Chrysler 300C; what happens when an ice-cream picks a fight with a bouncy castle; and you get the chance to help to save a bit of motoring history in Restoration.

[crayzayjay]

what happens when an ice-cream picks a fight with a bouncy castle
ROFL.... where do they come up with this shit... those guys must get stoned all the time :lol:

[bmwmpower]

i think that CCR will be slower than GT in corners,

[HeilSvenska]

Ferrari 575M GTC v Aston Vanquish S

...hmmm do you think Damon Hill will return for this one too?

[crayzayjay]

I hope not. F1 champion and all, but that man is dry.....

[Wutputt]

In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

http://img92.exs.cx/img92/1196/ResizeofIMG_2769.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2769.jpg) http://img92.exs.cx/img92/8539/ResizeofIMG_2770.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2770.jpg)

[mrpushrod]

Cool bit of info, I see Clarkson is as well dressed as ever, lol.

[TT]

In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

http://img92.exs.cx/img92/1196/ResizeofIMG_2769.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2769.jpg) http://img92.exs.cx/img92/8539/ResizeofIMG_2770.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2770.jpg)

Talk about terrific "car sighting"!

[Anonymous]

In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

http://img92.exs.cx/img92/1196/ResizeofIMG_2769.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2769.jpg) http://img92.exs.cx/img92/8539/ResizeofIMG_2770.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2770.jpg)

Very cool Dude, Jeremy's a real Jag fan so his review is bound to be cool...

[evoWalo]

was your friend able to meet JC?

[evoWalo]

Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

[Darkel]

In one of the upcoming episodes, JC will make a review of two Jaguar S-type 2.7d's and a S-type R on the Nordschleife. They were spotted by some friends of mine mid September.

http://img92.exs.cx/img92/1196/ResizeofIMG_2769.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2769.jpg) http://img92.exs.cx/img92/8539/ResizeofIMG_2770.th.jpg (http://img92.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img92&image=ResizeofIMG_2770.jpg)
Wow, that an amazing sight :D

[Jabba]

Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained.

[Anonymous]

Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained.

Indeed but the result is more than watchable IMO and you provide Hi Res features of the best bits too which is cool :D . Not sure how much difference HDTV will make :? my brother was going on about it the other day.... 2006 i think we get it over here. :roll: **EDIT** also if you bumped the file size up too much those with slower connections will take ages to get it.... not to mention the upload time for you :wink:

[Jabba]

Jabba: do you receive HDTV for your Top Gear/5th Gear episodes? Do you source them in directly to your rig or do you have it converted to analogue before it enters your computer?

There is a post all about this somewhere. Basically I have a dedicated PC hooked up to my Sky + Digital box which provides excellent results. However no matter how good the source is cutting a file down from 3 GIG to 180 MB obviously looses a lot of the extra quality gained.

Indeed but the result is more than watchable IMO and you provide Hi Res features of the best bits too which is cool :D . Not sure how much difference HDTV will make :? my brother was going on about it the other day.... 2006 i think we get it over here. :roll: **EDIT** also if you bumped the file size up too much those with slower connections will take ages to get it.... not to mention the upload time for you :wink:

Yep... do you know what the resolution for our HDTV is going to be...with some luck it might be similar to a DVD or something.

[evoWalo]

HDTV resolutions are 1920x1080i (i for interlaced) and 1280 x 720p (p for progressive) while PAL is either 720 x 486, 720 x 576 or 768 x 576. The PAL resolution is the same with DVDs.

"Capturing" HDTV signal into a TV is like downloading vids off the Net. No more need for convertions. You just need a HDTV tuner and a very fast rig ala Jabba's monster computer. After removing the copyprotection flags it's just a matter of transfering. A 44min 1920x1080i HDTV program weighed about 5.1GB. I'm guessing Top Gear would be about 7GB and 5th Gear about 3GB. Needless to say this is grossly impractical for almost all.

This isnt a real good comparison but this is the best I could find. Hope you get a picture (pun intended) of what am talking about.

BTW Jabba I've seen your Top Gear - Stig Compilation.avi encode and so far it's the best looking Top Gear clip I've seen so far.

http://www.wmfe.org/dtv/images/16x9aspectratio.jpg.

Most of the XVid HDTV program convertions I've seen have a resolution of 624x352 @ 350MB for a 44min TV program but increasingly some encoders are now offering 1028x576p (p for progressive) @ 700MB for 44min TV programs. Either size are perfect to be stored on a 700MB CD-R, if that's your thing. Heck some encodes even come with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound but that's useless if you dont have that kind of setup.

If anyone's interested I have a Chevy commercial of the pickup convertible (the very one made fun by JC) whose resolution is 1280 x 720p. Just downloaded it cause I was wondering how it looked like. So if anyone has an ftp and wants to host it send me a PM. It weighs in at under 25MB for a 30sec clip.

[Jabba]

I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

[Anonymous]

I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound

[evoWalo]

true surround sound involves digital coax cable or a optical cable. anything else is just emulation.

[Jabba]

I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound

I have done a few divx rips with 5.1...quite easy to do.... you just add the AC3 5.1 track to the video you are encoding with something like virtualdub.

If someone wanted to convert the Divx later to make a proper DVD and enjoy the 5.1 on a home cinema setup or something...then they only need to separate the sound channel and import it into a good dvd authoring programme that supports 5.1. I still use the very old programme "spruce up" to convert the many movies that I have downloaded that have been encoded with 5.1 sound.

[Anonymous]

I never bother with any of the early movie releases unless they feature 5.1. I am pleased to see that many of the DVD-R creations now do though. Spider Man 2 that I recently uploaded being a good example...although I don't think it was true 5.1

LOL i'm, not fussy though obviously i prefer dvd rips to some horrible cam jobs... and was suprised to get a decent quality rip of the bourne supremacy recently that included 5 channel sound... didn't know that was possible with divx.... though we played it off my laptop at the time so we don't know is it was "true" surround sound

I have done a few divx rips with 5.1...quite easy to do.... you just add the AC3 5.1 track to the video you are encoding with something like virtualdub.

If someone wanted to convert the Divx later to make a proper DVD and enjoy the 5.1 on a home cinema setup or something...then they only need to separate the sound channel and import it into a good dvd authoring programme that supports 5.1. I still use the very old programme "spruce up" to convert the many movies that I have downloaded that have been encoded with 5.1 sound.

Cool, my dvix dvd player played the 5 channel sound no problem too.... i think sorround stuff for the front room will be next on our to buy list... after cable tv :wink:

[Jabba]

Yep its not that expensive to buy now either...I don't have the best set up in the world...but I do have an active sub...and with something like T2 with 5.1 or DTS its certainly worth every penny.

[Anonymous]

Yep its not that expensive to buy now either...I don't have the best set up in the world...but I do have an active sub...and with something like T2 with 5.1 or DTS its certainly worth every penny.

One of those all in one packages or did you buy seperate "bits" (the technical term for it :P )

[Jabba]

Kind of... Sony seperates all slung into the same box though.

[evoWalo]

# Jeremy tests the new Porsche 911
# James tries out the Chrysler 300C, Jaguar S-Type R and Vauxhall Monaro VXR on Pendine sands
# Richard sees how many bouncy castles he can jump in an ice cream van
# The launch of Top Gear Restoration
# The Stig power laps the new 911
# Anthony Worrall-Thompson cooks Jeremy a special treat with a difference

[Anonymous]

# James tries out the Chrysler 300C, Jaguar S-Type R and Vauxhall Monaro VXR on Pendine sands
# Richard sees how many bouncy castles he can jump in an ice cream van


Back to pendine cool, I didn't know that... counting down the hours already :P , and of course jumping bouncy castles what will the think of next? Of course the hamster got volunteered for that one :P

[stradale]

Tonight's the night my favourite car show starts for a new season with undoubtedly lots of fabulous action! Can't wait. I already set my alarm a week ago so I won't miss a second... :D

[Schwalbe]

Me either I dont want to miss this Top Gear, especially because it test the new Porsche 997. :D

[PATo355]

tjhe show shoud be started just rite now :D

[TT]

And soon it will hit JW :D

[No.1]

tjhe show shoud be started just rite now :D

Ermmm.. i'm in the England and there's still another 1hr 40mins before it starts :wink:

[PATo355]

And soon it will hit JW :D


Cant wait ... i should go to the store and buy some pizza and coke to see it :D

[Darkel]

Argh, UK is GMT +0, I forgot :(
I was still refreshing the page every 10 seconds :mrgreen:

[PATo355]

tjhe show shoud be started just rite now :D

Ermmm.. i'm in the England and there's still another 1hr 40mins before it starts :wink:

I thouyght there was a 5 hour difference between the UK and Chile , its 1520 here

[Darkel]

I thouyght there was a 5 hour difference between the UK and Chile , its 1520 here
20:27 here :roll:

[PATo355]

Nope , were gmt - 3 , so it should start at 17 hours

[TT]

Sadly I will probably be already to bed when the vid will arrive.. so everybody will see it before myself :D

[PATo355]

Sadly I will probably be already to bed when the vid will arrive.. so everybody will see it before myself :D

Cool , that will give me a chance to be first !!!! :lol:

[Darkel]

Who we'll be the first :twisted:

[evoWalo]

I'm watching JC spinning the new 911 around the track. He seems to love it other than the removable gearshift lever.

I love the onboard computer. It keeps track of the lap times for you. :)

[No.1]

tjhe show shoud be started just rite now :D

Ermmm.. i'm in the England and there's still another 1hr 40mins before it starts :wink:

I thouyght there was a 5 hour difference between the UK and Chile , its 1520 here

:oops: :oops:

my clock was wrong.. part of the reason i missed the first 15mins of the show :oops:

[bmwmpower]

i dont see this top gear, stig time with 911