Good news for Top Gear fans!

[misle]

Just finished watching it. That was bad ass!

Can't wait for them to return this fall.

 

[crt1530]

Essentials for the arctic crap:
Arctic expert: Take your gun with you, put your bulk roll on your gun and take a shovel.
Hammond: Take your gun to the loo?
Arctic expert: Absolutely. All the bears love to creep up on you when you're taking a crap and you've got your trousers down.
Hammond: That's not exactly sporting of them, is it really?

 

[GTaudiophile]

I applaud them for this! What a tough race. Heck, I bet James wanted to quit his job at times.

 

[rh71]

The production quality of this show is unmatched, IMO.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

That was great, but I really felt bad for Richard toward the end. He was definitely the moral victor IMO.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: DonVito
That was great, but I really felt bad for Richard toward the end. He was definitely the moral victor IMO.

Yeah, he worked his ass off while the other two sat in a "warm" car and drank coffee and such. And to think a year ago he was in the ICU.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: rh71
The production quality of this show is unmatched, IMO.

I agree. I don't think anything offered anywhere else in this world on public TV can match it.

 

[zoiks]

Hopefully they'll be reviewing and showing some new cars as well and not just dog sledding to the north pole.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: zoiks
Hopefully they'll be reviewing and showing some new cars as well and not just dog sledding to the north pole.

This was a one-time special. Not the start of Season 10.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: rh71
The production quality of this show is unmatched, IMO.

yea, esp compared to fifth gear. I like Tiff better, but the show's just so damn bland.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rh71
The production quality of this show is unmatched, IMO.

yea, esp compared to fifth gear. I like Tiff better, but the show's just so damn bland.

Definitely, and I dislike the fat guy and HATE that asshole Jason Plato. Sadly, Fifth Gear is still better than most American counterparts - Car & Driver TV sucks, and Rides is insanely dull.

 

[Shlong]

Great Episode... I like how Toyota UK is showing off the truck on their front page http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bi...screenRes=1440x900c32&

Also this part was cool http://www.phyrefile.com/pic/2...p.H.264.AC3.2.0.s2.png

 

[rh71]

I was amazed at what transpired (how resilient the men, dogs, and machines were) but I have to say the episode as a whole was not up to par with previous races. Maybe also because all we saw was just snow, snow, and more snow. I should've just grabbed the 350mb version.

 

[Martin]

I just saw this yesterday, it was pretty freaking great.

Just two problems with it:
-they raced to the magnetic north pole, not the geographic north pole and the difference was not stated very clearly. Now, a 600km+ race north from Resolute is not trivial, but going to the geographic north pole would be much much harder.
-The end. Jeremy's an entertainer, not a scientist. He should stick to entertaining and leave the science to people that know wtf they're talking about.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Martin
I just saw this yesterday, it was pretty freaking great.

Just two problems with it:
-they raced to the magnetic north pole, not the geographic north pole and the difference was not stated very clearly. Now, a 600km+ race north from Resolute is not trivial, but going to the geographic north pole would be much much harder.
-The end. Jeremy's an entertainer, not a scientist. He should stick to entertaining and leave the science to people that know wtf they're talking about.

Oh, I totally loved his jab at global warming

 

[abaez]

I was in tears when he was thrown in the water. When I saw that I was like ok, no way they are going to jump in, they'll crack a few jokes and act like they know what to do... then he was pushed in. :laugh:

 

[coinz]

episode was great

 

[ElFenix]

that was fantastic!

 

[GMI]

did anyone notice the ending credits, they all had Sir titles? Joke or they all got OBEs?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: DonVito
The torrent is up now at a site purports to be the final site for fans of Top Gear.

I am grabbing the 700MB version from Mini...

they have full hd quality now
8~gb!

finally top gear in hd!!

the episode was amusing heh no footage for the trip back though..
and yea i noticed that sir thing too i guess they knighted themselves for the accomplishment lol

 

[JJChicken]

Awesome!

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Shlong
Great Episode... I like how Toyota UK is showing off the truck on their front page http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bi...screenRes=1440x900c32&

Also this part was cool http://www.phyrefile.com/pic/2...p.H.264.AC3.2.0.s2.png

yea pretty kewl site, has detail on all truck mods and comparison with regular truck

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: rh71
The production quality of this show is unmatched, IMO.

yea, esp compared to fifth gear. I like Tiff better, but the show's just so damn bland.

Definitely, and I dislike the fat guy and HATE that asshole Jason Plato. Sadly, Fifth Gear is still better than most American counterparts - Car & Driver TV sucks, and Rides is insanely dull.

Agreed, though "the fat guy" (Tom Ford) writes for Top Gear magazine (if you can't beat em, join em) and I like his car reviews in print.

Tiff used to do reviews for Top Gear, way back in the day before the current version of the series. But back then, Top Gear was duller than even Fifth Gear.

 

[Tommouse]

That was pretty good. I really feel bad for Hammond though . Some of the Icelandic tricks are well known to anyone up in the snowbelt. The rocking, and lowering the tire pressure was something they did in WW2 on the beaches.

Regardless, I love the show, and I tip my hat to the whole cast, and an extra one for Hammond, because as someone mentioned he was in the ICU less than a year ago fighting for his life, and now look at him. Going to the north pole on dog sled.