Top Gear on 60 Minutes this Sunday
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UPDATED: Thursday, November 4, 2010 23:11
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Man, why can't america get quality television ?
This is some good stuff - been watchin clips and a couple left me in complete hysterics, Car Darts ?
Bwaahahaha
Hell, Toyota oughta use that poor Hilux in a commerical, goddamn, man...
And I looooved that Smallest car one, I WANT one of those, hell, Wendy does too, lol.
-Frem
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Man, why can't america get quality television ?
This is some good stuff - been watchin clips and a couple left me in complete hysterics, Car Darts ?
Bwaahahaha
Hell, Toyota oughta use that poor Hilux in a commerical, goddamn, man...
And I looooved that Smallest car one, I WANT one of those, hell, Wendy does too, lol.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
Frem, you'd love it - Wife and I just saw a Peel P50 (that tiny car that Clarkson is driving around inside the BBC offices) driving in Austin a couple weeks ago, on a busy street. "Tiny" doesn't do that car justice. It's the size of an Igloo cooler.
And yeah, Toyota should be right goddam proud of that HiLux. My buddy Jim had one for years and years. He went through three 4WD transmissions and a transfer case, and there were large holes rusted completely through parts of it, but the damned thing wouldn't stop running. Last I heard, he had over 390,000 on it, hoping for 400k. It's lived through a few Hurricanes, including Rita and Ike. It's been flooded, washed off the road, and damn near had a house dropped on it in Rita, but it still survives...
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I'm watching the anphibius car challenge online right now. The indestructible Toyata is being turned into a 'ToyBoata.' This show is awesome!
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Seriously. I was just agape; I could not believe anyone could get away with this shit.
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If you watch nothing else, at least catch the last minute or so.
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Oh my, oh dear... pretty sure most over-sensitive, easily-offended americans would shit a brick over THAT one, depending on when it was filmed.
Myself being of a much darker bent in humor, I am tempted to ask them if they too made the mistake of having Morton-Thiokol build their lift platorm...
Well, that and my mother owned a Renault Alliance, which I mentioned the soul-searing awfulness of a couple times, so anything that ends with a Renault in pieces is gonna give me the giggles anyway.
The little ole ladies doing handbrake parking was a scream too, although my granny woulda wowed em, she had this beat up black 1969 impala, and whenever she'd get into it with grandpa and go off in a huff to go "bowling" (duckpin bowling, which is a local thing, and done with the application of copious amounts of beer) she'd come flying backwards out of the driveway into a J-turn and lay rubber all the way down the street, which was kind of the signal for everyone in between Glen and Greenwood to GET THE HELL OFF THE ROAD, cause hot-damn she was comin through - no sense tryin to pull her over neither, local cops couldn't CATCH that damn thing and she'd have taken it as a challenge, not to mention no judge in town would do anything but wind up hiding under the bench from her sharp tongue and waggling cane, a holy terror that woman was.
Damn shame she's gone now, she'd have loved this show more than I do!
I was, of course, by my mothers directive, not allowed in that car whatever, which OF COURSE resulted in me sneaking outside to sit in it, starting a lifelong adoration of muscle cars - seriously, the old sideways speedometers had a coolness factor you just don't get today.
-Frem
PS - I think Chrisisall would LOVE the Botswana trip, it'd appeal to his road warrior fandom quite a bit, and I was much amused by the smugness of the Opel driver, heh.
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Btw, eff you Mikey, for gettin me addicted to this.
I just rewatched the Botswana one, and followed up with their american trip from FL to New Orleans...
Us yanks being oversensitive and having a pissy, easily offended mean doesn't stand us in good stead with the Top Gear crew, not to mention showing the realities of america on film is kind of a faux paus of the greatest order - but *I* liked it, dammit.
Of course, it'd prolly get em lynched, and most certainly thrown off any of OUR networks, these days.
And good gawd, the pile of lawsuits which would land on them when they started revealing "american made" cars for the shit they really are, would kill the show all but instantly - since this is why no video game with licensed models is allowed to have realistic damage to them.
But curse it, I LIKE the show, and be damned to the easily-offended!
-Frem
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I warned ya, Frem!
Jeezus, but that Southern U.S. trip was a goddam hoot.
Dig up their Viet Nam adventure, too.
And yes, "addicted" is probably the best word for it.
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Btw, eff you Mikey, for gettin me addicted to this.
I just rewatched the Botswana one, and followed up with their american trip from FL to New Orleans...
Us yanks being oversensitive and having a pissy, easily offended mean doesn't stand us in good stead with the Top Gear crew, not to mention showing the realities of america on film is kind of a faux paus of the greatest order - but *I* liked it, dammit.
Of course, it'd prolly get em lynched, and most certainly thrown off any of OUR networks, these days.
And good gawd, the pile of lawsuits which would land on them when they started revealing "american made" cars for the shit they really are, would kill the show all but instantly - since this is why no video game with licensed models is allowed to have realistic damage to them.
But curse it, I LIKE the show, and be damned to the easily-offended!
-Frem
Clarkson is rather unbashedly a pro US basher, but I can't argue with any of it, just his manner sometimes. "You can't be American, you're not FAT." It's all pretty much like that, playing on the stereo types that we kind of deserve, "was that a murderers car?" and it is funny if you aren't too sensitive, works both ways. Which reminds me - have you seen the Detroit clip Frem? Clarkson in Detroit with one of the few American icons he actually likes and even owns:
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Yup, out of all the supercars and exotics they get their hands on, Clarkson was impressed enough with the price/performance compromise on the Ford GT to buy one with his own cash.
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Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
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Oh that's great, I was laffin my ass off in the first sixty seconds.
They really did a good job of capturing Detroit, the desolation, the ever present mournful howl of the Detroit wind.
And yeah, the GT40 is freakin awe inspiring, that and the Viper are where modern american carbuilding really shines, sticking to the muscle car roots, but taking it to the next level, if not far beyond, cause we're freakin nuts like that.
I think that's up by Darwin road he's driving on, which is even funnier given his Baazelbub references, cause a left turn and a little patience would have taken him to Hell, Michigan, rather shortly - and the roads down that way are paradise for a sports car run anyways, pretty, twisty, and EMPTY.
I can tell he REALLY liked the car too - although if he'd told the camera crew to lay low and hung around the casino district a while longer he coulda had some REAL fun when the heavily blinged rice rockets came out to play, but I figure the DPD woulda prolly threw a hissy... pity.
-Frem
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