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Title: top gear returns
Post by: Andy on June 19, 2013, 08:22:28 pm
30th June.
Looking forward to watching it.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Nodz on June 19, 2013, 08:29:13 pm
thanks for the heads up  :happy2:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: nathangallo on June 19, 2013, 08:29:52 pm
+1

Somewhere in the series is going to be a 130mph Honda lawnmower, 0-60 in 4 seconds :party: :scared:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: vRS Carl on June 19, 2013, 08:42:37 pm
Cheers for the heads up. Planner will be set.  :happy2:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: DDM on June 19, 2013, 09:21:38 pm
in this series you'll see them up our neck of the woods in a ferrari and a saab bud.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Andy on June 19, 2013, 09:29:10 pm
in this series you'll see them up our neck of the woods in a ferrari and a saab bud.
Look forward to that then - wonder it they go over the butter tubs
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Kalpsn2000 on June 20, 2013, 09:32:49 am
thanks for the heads up  :happy2:

+1 :happy2:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: MAT ED30 on June 20, 2013, 01:47:12 pm
I am on a short list for first day filming in a few weeks so hope I get tickets
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: mb on June 20, 2013, 03:15:27 pm
I am on a short list for first day filming in a few weeks so hope I get tickets

I've applied for tickets later in the series.  I've been before and you're there all afternoon.  It's very good and as you can imagine a fair amount can't be broadcast...!
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Kalpsn2000 on June 20, 2013, 04:35:55 pm
I am on a short list for first day filming in a few weeks so hope I get tickets

I've applied for tickets later in the series.  I've been before and you're there all afternoon.  It's very good and as you can imagine a fair amount can't be broadcast...!

I've also applied for a later show but not heard anything back yet...
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: MAT ED30 on June 20, 2013, 04:37:17 pm
Not heard anything back so think I am out of it oh well as filming Is next week
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: wise gti on June 23, 2013, 11:58:52 am
Cheers for the heads up.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: SRC on June 24, 2013, 09:09:44 pm
How do you apply for tickets - and did you wait long?

(I know I could Google the first question, but I pay tax and they don't). :wink:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: mb on June 24, 2013, 10:07:45 pm
How do you apply for tickets - and did you wait long?

(I know I could Google the first question, but I pay tax and they don't). :wink:

You need to register here & your name gets added to a list so you get an email to apply for tickets when they become available  http://www.applausestore.com/home.php

A friend got the tickets when I went. I've applied for each series since & not been lucky
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: MAT ED30 on June 24, 2013, 10:45:38 pm
Yep me too  :sad1:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Andy on June 30, 2013, 07:54:22 pm
on tonight bbc 2 at 8pm
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Baz_doc on June 30, 2013, 09:10:56 pm
2 words Rachel Riley

That is all....
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: doylebros on June 30, 2013, 09:12:16 pm
Sailings not for me after watching that - hire car rental seems much more fun! :driver:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: dub singh on June 30, 2013, 09:14:44 pm
Found it a bit boring tbh...
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: GrayMK5GTI on June 30, 2013, 09:16:51 pm
Sailings not for me after watching that - hire car rental seems much more fun! :driver:

X2

As for it being boring, I find some episodes are better than others. Safely say its better than a lot of the other drivel on tv these days  :smiley:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: james on July 01, 2013, 01:42:11 am
that place is down the road from where I live,  90mile beach rocks!  just don't get stuck in the tide :signLOL:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: edd666999 on July 01, 2013, 05:19:28 am
the races are boring these days.


I however cant wait until VW bring out the feature to be able to play the noise of a Lamborghini through the speakers as i accelerate.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: simonp on July 01, 2013, 06:57:24 am
What happened to the blue car? I skipped to the end coz it was so dull.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: MAT ED30 on July 01, 2013, 07:58:07 am
He broke it  :signLOL:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: garrardrj on July 01, 2013, 08:30:42 am
The sailing bit was a total waste of air time , their banter still makes me smile though.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: MAT ED30 on July 01, 2013, 09:23:30 am
It's an entertainment programme so it's a bit of fun and lucky for us it's got cars in it
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: xjay1337 on July 01, 2013, 09:49:34 am
How are people saying it was dull? It wasn't the "best" episode they have ever done but I wouldn't have called it boring.  :driver:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: JoeDarKa on July 01, 2013, 10:10:57 am
Some of the episodes are so ridiculous im actually bored watching them. At least this was a good mix
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: garrardrj on July 01, 2013, 05:57:44 pm
The humour is very predictable and its like hearing the same joke time and time again . When TV becomes predictable it becomes boring , doing that sailing bit in New Zealand was not really funny or entertaining , bearing in mind how much it must have cost to do it . Jeremy crashing into walls and stuff was stupid .
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: DRM92 on July 01, 2013, 06:20:16 pm
I felt like he should have used a car that he could review at the same time? But was still amusing regardless
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Max99 on July 01, 2013, 06:25:30 pm
have to agree, got bored watching lots of it and found myself fast forwarding through it. Happens with quite few episodes in recent years i've found.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: jbc on July 01, 2013, 08:28:48 pm
I felt like he should have used a car that he could review at the same time? But was still amusing regardless

That Toyota Auris is a fairly new model (launched since the last series of Top Gear was aired) so there's no reason why they couldn't have given at least some sort of review. Instead they just trashed it for entertainments sake!

Also interesting that manufacturers are prepared to give them brand new cars to write off just to get some air time on BBC.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: simonp on July 02, 2013, 01:59:56 am
Pretty poor episode, I reckon. Still not as bad as the one where they were tarmacing a bit of road in the middle of the night, though...
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Hedge on July 02, 2013, 08:32:56 am
As has been discussed many times before it is a motoring based entertainment programme.

If you don't like it turn over.  :stupid:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Scottymon on July 02, 2013, 08:44:32 am
I get the entertainment show rather than pure car fest, however it wasn't really that entertaining either.  It was ok, there's far worse sh!te on.  Next week will be better... How many episodes this season btw?
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: phil1975 on July 02, 2013, 09:08:41 am
I get the entertainment show rather than pure car fest, however it wasn't really that entertaining either.  It was ok, there's far worse sh!te on.  Next week will be better... How many episodes this season btw?

6 episodes this series :happy2:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: phil1975 on July 02, 2013, 09:22:32 am
Top Gear is like any long running series (now the 20th) not quite as good as it was in is hay day. Its must be difficult to invest all that time and money in something like sundays race and then when you edit the film you realise its not as good as it could have been.

I for one keep tuning in for the moments when it all comes together and its one of the few things on telly that genuinely makes me laugh out loud. For me top gear works when you have all three presenters together not just when its two, it just never quite jells for me, they need each other for the banter to work.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: vRS Carl on July 02, 2013, 11:01:38 am
As has been discussed many times before it is a motoring based entertainment programme.

If you don't like it turn over.  :stupid:

 :notworthy: x2
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Max99 on July 02, 2013, 12:10:48 pm
As has been discussed many times before it is a motoring based entertainment programme.

If you don't like it turn over.  :stupid:

 :notworthy: x2

didn't realise we weren't allowed to voice opinions ;)
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: vRS Carl on July 02, 2013, 12:26:17 pm
No one said you weren't :confused:

All that is being pointed out is that it as an entertainment program and if you don't like it then turn over. I find it funny that people will sit and say "yeah it's boring now" but then still watch it.

Maybe it's just me, but if something bores me i generally switch channel or find something else to do.

 :smiley:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: DaveB@Vagbremtechnic on July 02, 2013, 12:30:59 pm
Its the nuggets of comedy genius that notwithstanding the fact that theyre getting rarer and rarer are very good when it comes together.

Getting the German Top Gear presenters to meet them at Goodwood and then doing a victory roll and parking next to them in a spitfire was just fookin hilarious, completely inappropiate in this modern age and long may it continue!!!!!!
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: vRS Carl on July 02, 2013, 12:38:41 pm
Its the nuggets of comedy genius that notwithstanding the fact that theyre getting rarer and rarer are very good when it comes together.

Getting the German Top Gear presenters to meet them at Goodwood and then doing a victory roll and parking next to them in a spitfire was just fookin hilarious, completely inappropiate in this modern age and long may it continue!!!!!!

 :signLOL:

I nearly spat my drink all over the TV when i watched that. I was crying laughing  :grin:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: garrardrj on July 03, 2013, 08:31:16 am
As has been discussed many times before it is a motoring based entertainment programme.

If you don't like it turn over.  :stupid:

Its BBC funded which makes it more important to the Masses to be Good  :innocent:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Sunglasses Ron on July 03, 2013, 09:41:31 am
Even though I know what to expect when Top Gear is on, the races they conduct seem to be getting very very tedious and it would seem they have decided to not even review the car they use now..  :stupid:

We all know that Top Gear has become an entertainment programme and not just for the motoring enthusiast. But for me they have gone too far with it now and seem to squeeze a car review in the first few minutes of the show so they can then spend the rest of it with the same races, stunts, jokes, interviews etc..

You just need to see how many actual cars do they test in a average series.. Not many.
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Tamiyoman on July 03, 2013, 10:23:15 am
Rachel Riley is a bit of a unit, pretty face.............. Like Holly Willoughby.........

As for the episode, it was OK, I enjoyed it, always enjoy watching James May Suffering lol.

Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: simonp on July 03, 2013, 07:34:34 pm
No one said you weren't :confused:

All that is being pointed out is that it as an entertainment program and if you don't like it then turn over. I find it funny that people will sit and say "yeah it's boring now" but then still watch it.

Maybe it's just me, but if something bores me i generally switch channel or find something else to do.

 :smiley:

That is the problem, though. People are watching wanting, nay, expecting to be entertained, but these 3 and their scripted frivolities hardly ever come up with the goods, do they?

I don't want to turn over, I want to watch Top Gear AND enjoy it and don't feel that is too much to ask!
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Scottymon on July 03, 2013, 07:42:02 pm
TBH, I watch them all, even Dave re-runs, there are some quality episodes and some bloomers... but there's always a saving grace, last episode was Rachel Riley. :jumpmove:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: markymark on July 03, 2013, 08:24:37 pm
The Top Gear boys were in Stratford last week dicking about on the Avon in there new "Hovervan"
Basically they have turned a transit van into a hovercraft! :laugh:
http://www.stratford-herald.com/local-news/6839-video-top-gear-in-town.html
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: SRC on July 04, 2013, 06:57:33 pm
TBH, I watch them all, even Dave re-runs, there are some quality episodes and some bloomers... but there's always a saving grace, last episode was Rachel Riley. :jumpmove:


Cue contribution from Red Robin (I hope)!
 :wink:
Title: Re: top gear returns
Post by: Scottymon on July 04, 2013, 07:04:57 pm
Haven't seen Red robin around these parts for some time.  Was hoping for some scantly clad pic of Rachel Riley...