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Another Top Gear Isle of man feature on the way :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/is...an/4315444.stm

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Originally Posted by BBC News

Roads on the Isle of Man will be closed next week to allow presenters from BBC Two's Top Gear to take three sports cars for a spin.

All three of the programme's stars - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - will be filming on the island between Tuesday and Thursday.

They will be reviewing three high performance cars for the new series to be shown later in the year.

Executive producer Andy Wilman said: "We love the Isle of Man."

He added: "The roads are stunning and the opportunity to grab a few hours to film on them in complete safety will allow us to make some fantastic television and hopefully do the locations proud."

The Mountain road between Ramsey Hairpin and the Bungalow will be closed between 0930 BST and 1530 BST on Tuesday.

The Sloc Road and Marine Drive, Douglas, will also be closed for certain periods between Tuesday and Thursday.

Tourism minister David Cretney said the publicity the programme will create in the UK would benefit the island.

Now anybody here live there/ fancy a trip :P

Cool :D Any clue as to which cars will be tested there ??

Interesting, though if I lived on the isle of man I don't know that Id be too happy with them shutting down my roads.

Wahey!!!

At least this will shit-stir it with the road safety/pro-gatso campaigners 8)

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Originally Posted by Fleischmann

Cool :D Any clue as to which cars will be tested there ??

not that i've seen, trying to think what cars ahave come out recently theat they havn't tested

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Originally Posted by AL123

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Originally Posted by Fleischmann

Cool :D Any clue as to which cars will be tested there ??

not that i've seen, trying to think what cars ahave come out recently theat they havn't tested

well... there are the new Evo/STi's that have just come out... but there would also have to be a third contender... mabey a golf R32?

i would assume they would bring very good handling cars, but not obtuse power, nor super wide...

Z06?
civic?
lexus is?
cayman?
ect

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Originally Posted by graywolf624

Z06?
civic?
lexus is?
cayman?
ect

With as few shows as they're doing this fall and given how difficult that it has been for even the US to get their Z06's, I doubt that you'll be seeing the Z06 at all this fall on TG.

Actually.. Im wondering if they already did for the video given there comments about the vid with a suprisingly good vette.

not only that, but GM has been actively giving european jurnalists the new Z to drive

wow this feature will be good! but i wonder if James will take advantage of the no speed limits

http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArtic...icleID=1219697

Details on the cars that went to the isle of man, sounds like an awesome feature :D :D :D (very slow to load here though)

also, interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/eur...an/4338798.stm

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Originally Posted by dani_d_mas

... so we have the cars - 997, M6 and AMV8 :P

It will be a great feature, that's for sure!! :D

and the stig thrashing them on closed roads :D :D

Wow, on every season I wonder how they (Top Gear and 5th Gear) could do better ! But they always surprise me so that I don't know which season is the best :shock:
How lucky you are in England having 2 extraordinary shows ... and how lucky we are to have Jabba :wink: