Top Gear - S9 EP4 - 18th February, 2007 - Discussion

[vexor]

Jeremy finds a touch of the night in the new Porsche 911 Turbo, The Stig tears up the track in an insanely-tuned Mercedes SL, and Richard and James make one small stumble for man as they attempt to build a working space shuttle out of a Reliant Robin. Plus, Hot Fuzz actor Simon Pegg is the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car.

[5vz-fe]

Looking @ the preview so far, looks like Topgear and 5th Gear are going to opposite ends LOL. I hope the Turbo will go around in a dry track.

[ARMAN]

Reliant building will be a laugh but I am afraid I know what wil happen - Richard will try to add million of different stupid gismo's and all of them will be glued to the interior so they can fall down while James will explain him that its all "rubbish" and try to put a leather sofa inside :mrgreen:

[martin100]

Sounds like a great ep once again :D 997 Turbo!!! The Reliant Robin shuttle build thing will surely be hilarious! And the Brabus SV12 S :shock:

[TopGearNL]

This is going to be an awesome episode! :D

[poltz]

997TT, nice.. although a bit late.

Now they just need to test the R8, LP640, GT3 RS and the 599GTB.

And that's it.

[r2r]

Finally getting back to the roots of testing interesting and exciting cars!

[Stoopie]

Can't wait, again :D

[Firdosh7747]

when are they gonna do the LP640 :?:

[vexor]

when are they gonna do the LP640 :?:

No idea... yet

[crazidude]

I'm interested what this "insanely-tuned" SL is and the lap time for the 997T. The 996T did a pretty poor lap time in the rain.

[martin100]

More detailed info from the TG homepage:


Strap yourselves in ladies and gentlemen, because this week's Top Gear is even more power-crazed than usual.

Jeremy goes seriously schnell as he takes the latest 720bhp creation, from mentalist German manufacturer Brabus for a spin on the test track.

We give Porsche's latest 911 Turbo flagship a full shake down, and see whether the everyday supercar has become a bit, well, everyday.

And Richard and James embark on Top Gear's biggest ever challenge, as they try to turn a Reliant Robin into a space shuttle. Trust us, you really, really don't want to miss this.

Plus comedy actor Simon Pegg will be joining us in the studio and doing his bit on the test track in our reasonably priced car.

[poltz]

CAN'T... WAIT... !

[HeilSvenska]

"Salivating in anticipation" :drool:

[Stikz]

Looks fantastic. It must really burn Tiff and Plato that they are stuck with 2nd Gear.

[novass]

Cant wait to see the Brabus :shock: :D

[martin100]

Yep they got the exact car from my signature :D

[TopGearNL]

Yep they got the exact car from my signature :D

That sounds great indeed then! Always read the specs of that in your sig! :twisted:

[vexor]

Discuss the episode here if you've seen it

[gis]

was a great episode tonight,funny as usual.the review of the 997 turbo was good,personally i beleive it is to date one of the best all round cars.the Brabus mercedes......well indeed the power is brutal,but impossible to drive as quick as you would beleive.

the space shuttle test.....amazing,impressed at the result i must admit. :D

[gucom]

the turbo review was nice, the brabus was always gonna be a pointless car... indeed the space shuttle did a lot better than i expected, was pretty great :D me likes big bangs :P

[Dubai]

997TT, nice.. although a bit late.

Now they just need to test the R8, LP640, GT3 RS and the 599GTB.

And that's it.

+ Audi S8 ;)

[TopGearNL]

It was a nice episode, cool to see the 997TT and the Brabus!

The rocket thing was pretty fun, it did go well! Too bad the release mechanism failt..

[Jabba]

Porsche Feature is now up and ready for downloading :mrgreen:

[coolscarz]

when are they gonna do the LP640 :?:

I think that it will be next week :lol:

[TopGearNL]

Porsche Feature is now up and ready for downloading :mrgreen:

Fast as ever! 8)

[gis]

god dam Jabba thats quick,lol
i will be waiting for the whole episode :D

[pagani]

Love the porsche feature i would love to see what could do round the track the topgear space shuttel was well funny.
And the brabus was cool but further a useless for anything less than a straight road.
Overall this episode was pretty good.
:D :lol: :lol: :lol:

[jon_s]

The Brabus was crazy - twitching everywhere! I still love it though :)

[novass]

Good ep IMO.

I love the 997 Turbo and the feature was pretty good but I would have liked to see it go around the track.

I thought the Robin Space Shuttle bit was great. There were a lot of funny moments and the end result was great. It did a whole lot better than I thought it would and who wouldn't love the huge explosion at the end?

The Brabus was as I expected it to be.....too much LOL I still like the car but I already had a feeling that the thing was overkill.

[racingfreak]

Cant wait to watch it, cant wait...aaaagh! 34% downloaded...

[HeilSvenska]

The Brabus was crazy - twitching everywhere! I still love it though :)

At times it looked like the wheels were warping!

[SPEEDKILLAR]

The Porsche part was too short, too bad, but he made some good points why someone would go for the Turbo instead of the Ferrari. And I like the light effects they used, couldn't get enough of that.

The Reliant shuttle, first I was sceptical, but it turned out quite nice, and they put a considerable amount of work in to it, too bad the main booster didn't come off and it crashed like a missile to the ground, wich was also quite nice to see, BIG BOOM.

And the Brabus, WOW, way too short imo, I wanted him to go on the german autobahn and go at the speed it is capable of, just to see that thing fly by when you are doing 250 km/h must be awesome. Besides that I liked the rims and the 12 piston callipers and the huge discs, the car had an evil presence about it, just to know that you have a monster of an engine, maybe if it was 4 wheel drive it would corner better and accelerate way faster, because we have to keep in mind, that it is still detuned, so the added weight wouldn't make that much difference if they would let is as it is, FULL POWER. But that would be nearly impossible and way too expensive, too bad.

[McLaren4eVa]

The porsche feature was great but no lap which was very dissapointing as i would have loved to have seen how fast it was compared to the ferrari f430.

The reliant feature was really funny and i was on the edge of my sofa waiting for the for the final fuel tank on the rocket to drop off, instead just another huge bang but great entertainment.

The brabus feature was great aswel. I also get the feeling now that there are going to be a hell of a lot more plug-ins just so they can get the big actors in.

[Jabba]

I guess its your lucky day :wink:

[stmoritzer]

Added my comments to each feature already in the VV, but the space shuttle challenge blew me away, simply AWESOME!!

the best challenge they ever did and a expensive one...
not to speak about the difficulties to launch such a thing.
Big respect that it flew from beginning (that rocket isn't symmetric with the shuttle on top and the size is impressive for a model rocket :mrgreen:) , too bad the seperation of the shuttle didn't work, they were very close. From the explosion at the end, I think there was some fuel in the main booster which didn't went off earlier :hmm:


Thanks Jabba!