View Full Version : Top Gear - season 7 - ep 4 - 4 Dec
chest3r
11-16-2005, 02:31 PM
On this week's Top Gear can you buy a decent mid engined Italian supercar for under ten grand? What is faster in a race through the streets of Lisbon - a mountain bike or a car? A British sports car - the Marcos TSO-GT takes to the track and record breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur is this week's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
A feature in Lisbon :shock: :o What a surprise!!!!
I bet the bike will be faster!! :P
yg60m
11-16-2005, 03:06 PM
Thank you for this info mate. But where did you get it ?
chest3r
11-16-2005, 04:38 PM
In another forum :wink:
Anonymous
12-04-2005, 04:24 PM
Have to say well done to top gear for the richard burns tribute, think we should start upping a few vids in his honour. Otherwise the episode has been very good thusfa :D
Have to say well done to top gear for the richard burns tribute, think we should start upping a few vids in his honour. Otherwise the episode has been very good thusfa :D
It was a nice touch, instead of the usual rambling about the news. In the press over here, rallying isn't that big, and with the death of George Best in the same week, Burns' life hasn't been celebrated enough IMO :bah:
A good episode... the £10k supercars was a funny feature again, with a very suprising winner. A questionable way to spend £30k of TV licence payers money, but i think it was worth it :twisted:
Ellen MacArthur suprised me. She is simply such a strong character, and a determined person, that her lap time was well deserved
The Zonda F feature was a little short for my liking, especially with such a fast laptime. It was to be expected really though :wink:
The Clio Vs. Bike feature was fun, again. The biker was crazy, and May drove pretty horrendously again :P The driving was a bit reckless IMO... not a very good example, but i'm sure it was all 100% safe
A great episode. Less of the surreal supercars, and just more entertainment. The big one's next week 8)
yg60m
12-04-2005, 05:38 PM
The Zonda F feature was a little short for my liking, especially with such a fast laptime. It was to be expected really though
Did they test it ???!!!! :drool: :D
Jabba
12-04-2005, 05:42 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
PATo355
12-04-2005, 05:44 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
Can we get the full show first ? As the Feature of the 10k italian cars will be huge , around 200mb ... :D
yg60m
12-04-2005, 05:50 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
If you look like your avatar I love you :wink:
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
Can we get the full show first ? As the Feature of the 10k italian cars will be huge , around 200mb ... :D
Jabba will do it how he wants to i think... features first, then the full show later
@Yann.... Hammond drove the Zonda F around the airfield, then the Stig lapped it. It is an awesome car 8)
Anonymous
12-04-2005, 06:09 PM
The Clio Vs. Bike feature was fun, again. The biker was crazy, and May drove pretty horrendously again :P The driving was a bit reckless IMO... not a very good example, but i'm sure it was all 100% safe
Well yeh you can bet the people were cleared out and that certain shots were edited in later ;-) just like the big races, still made for another unexpectedely entertaining feature IMO, I'd rather not think of the practicalities! Still actually a few more normal cars would be nice occasionally, not much has come out though recently I suppose :bah:
Jabba
12-04-2005, 06:12 PM
Pagani Zonda F Feature posted :D
Jabba
12-04-2005, 06:13 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
Can we get the full show first ? As the Feature of the 10k italian cars will be huge , around 200mb ... :D
Yes your quite right and no you cant.
Jabba
12-04-2005, 06:13 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
Can we get the full show first ? As the Feature of the 10k italian cars will be huge , around 200mb ... :D
Jabba will do it how he wants to i think... features first, then the full show later
Well said :wink:
PATo355
12-04-2005, 06:17 PM
Yes and will be uploaded in about an hour.
Can we get the full show first ? As the Feature of the 10k italian cars will be huge , around 200mb ... :D
Yes your quite right and no you cant.
No problem then ... i dont sleep till i get the full show neways ... :D And thx again !!!
yg60m
12-04-2005, 06:24 PM
Pagani Zonda F Feature posted :D
:D Big Thanks Jabba !!! I love this car :love: I saw it in Top Gear studio's in the last show and I wondered why they didn't use it for the Supercar feature but now I know they didn't forget to test it properly :P
The Clio Vs. Bike feature was fun, again. The biker was crazy, and May drove pretty horrendously again :P The driving was a bit reckless IMO... not a very good example, but i'm sure it was all 100% safe
Well yeh you can bet the people were cleared out and that certain shots were edited in later ;-) just like the big races, still made for another unexpectedely entertaining feature IMO, I'd rather not think of the practicalities! Still actually a few more normal cars would be nice occasionally, not much has come out though recently I suppose :bah:
Well i must say that at the moment even a new Clio is out of my league, price-wise... let alone anything else :oops:
I mean... what would you rather have? A Ferrari 308 GT4 or a Clio 1.4? :P
LOL at me and my practicalities... Captain Slow driving a bit quicker than usual suprised me :wink:
Anonymous
12-04-2005, 07:24 PM
The Clio Vs. Bike feature was fun, again. The biker was crazy, and May drove pretty horrendously again :P The driving was a bit reckless IMO... not a very good example, but i'm sure it was all 100% safe
Well yeh you can bet the people were cleared out and that certain shots were edited in later ;-) just like the big races, still made for another unexpectedely entertaining feature IMO, I'd rather not think of the practicalities! Still actually a few more normal cars would be nice occasionally, not much has come out though recently I suppose :bah:
Well i must say that at the moment even a new Clio is out of my league, price-wise... let alone anything else :oops:
I mean... what would you rather have? A Ferrari 308 GT4 or a Clio 1.4? :P
LOL at me and my practicalities... Captain Slow driving a bit quicker than usual suprised me :wink:
sure I don't mean normal normal I mean more attainable normal :P Hoping for Brera etc early next series. The ASBO was good though and as for being out of reach well everything is out of reach for me to :P even a set of £200 alloys are looking distant until I have a job again :lol: When I get a bank statement these days they save themselves the bother and print it on red paper ;-)
LOL... we're a bunch of poor bastards here :mrgreen:
I'm hoping these cars don't stay out of reach for too long... i'd love to pull up at the lights in something like the Cockster :P
Anonymous
12-04-2005, 07:36 PM
LOL... we're a bunch of poor bastards here :mrgreen:
I'm hoping these cars don't stay out of reach for too long... i'd love to pull up at the lights in something like the Cockster :P
Well depends if ya go to uni or not I suppose :P :violin: But well I'm allergic to depreciation so I'm sticking with my modern classics for now. Thinking 205 gti or mk1 golf GTi or mk 2 Scirocco. Bizarre as insurance is in this country it will cost me £200 more to insure a Scirocco than the Mini (which is staying) which has a mighty 40bhp if you are lucky. hugely off topic I know but well insurance stops us having fun as illustrated in the episode Jame's quote :lol:
chernobyl
12-05-2005, 09:04 AM
Anyone else think the Zonda's lap looked really slow?
Anyone else think the Zonda's lap looked really slow?
Eh?? :?
It was the fastest ever. Perhaps becuase the car is so natural, or that the camers wern't frantically tracking it. The car corners very neatly too, so it may have disguised it's true speed
Maybe TG use clips from all footage of the Zonda lapping instead of the true hot lap.
Jabba
12-05-2005, 02:10 PM
Maybe TG use clips from all footage of the Zonda lapping instead of the true hot lap.
Good point and it wouldnt surprise me...also seemed like quite a foggy day.
Caplax40
12-05-2005, 03:41 PM
Anyone else think the Zonda's lap looked really slow?
Eh?? :?
It was the fastest ever. Perhaps becuase the car is so natural, or that the camers wern't frantically tracking it. The car corners very neatly too, so it may have disguised it's true speed
Maybe TG use clips from all footage of the Zonda lapping instead of the true hot lap.
I think he meant it "looked" slower than it actually was. I was thinking the same thing. The Koenigsegg and MC12 looked like they were just flat-out fast the whole time, and for some reason the Zonda F appeared slower than it (obviously) actually was.
Anyone else think the Zonda's lap looked really slow?
Eh?? :?
It was the fastest ever. Perhaps becuase the car is so natural, or that the camers wern't frantically tracking it. The car corners very neatly too, so it may have disguised it's true speed
Maybe TG use clips from all footage of the Zonda lapping instead of the true hot lap.
I think he meant it "looked" slower than it actually was. I was thinking the same thing. The Koenigsegg and MC12 looked like they were just flat-out fast the whole time, and for some reason the Zonda F appeared slower than it (obviously) actually was.
Actually, that makes sense :oops:
I guess i wanted to ensure the Zonda F's honour was held high :P
911GT1
12-05-2005, 08:39 PM
It was a nice touch, instead of the usual rambling about the news. In the press over here, rallying isn't that big, and with the death of George Best in the same week, Burns' life hasn't been celebrated enough IMO :bah:
Ellen MacArthur suprised me. She is simply such a strong character, and a determined person, that her lap time was well deserved
The Zonda F feature was a little short for my liking, especially with such a fast laptime. It was to be expected really though :wink:
Yeah I'm not really a big footie fan but I think Burns did more for UK rallying than Best did for UK football. It's pretty sad that the latter get more attention. I remember when Burns came on top gear and they threw a bucket of cold water at him. What a sporting guy... He will be missed. Can't say the same to other sports personalites.
I bet Ellen can go at least 1/4 sec faster or at least equal Damon Hill laptime. She really suprised me. I guess it's true, with proper dicipline anything is possible. Even beating a world class F1 champion.
Zonda feature is kinda short although amazing. Still my favorite car on the planet. BUt the real reason of it being short i think is because next week that laptime will be throughly smashed by the veyron by a mile stone. I bet the veyron will clock at least 1.18. I'm willing to put a fiver on that, any takers?
Edit: did you guy notice that almost all of the shot of the race incl the interior shot of may driving have been refilmed? The clue is in the side mirror, May fold his at the start of the race and for most of the video it's open but at the finish, it's closed again. Pretty good editing I must say.
chernobyl
12-06-2005, 12:51 PM
did you guy notice that almost all of the shot of the race incl the interior shot of may driving have been refilmed?
tbh, i doubt any of the race was refilmed. Standard procedure would be to have the race run without any of it being filmed and then go back with camera's and stage certain things for dramatic effect.
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