Top Gear Appreciation Thread.

[HBK]

O Hai, as the title says, this thread is dedicated to the best car magazine TV show on the planet........ TOP GEAR!

As a big fan myself, I probably seen all the episodes from 2002(re-launch) onwards.

So here's some of my favourite moments:

Spoiler:

All the episodes are in parts, so just follow the order Hurrr Durr

Botswana Special: YouTube - Top Gear Botswana Special 1 of 7

Vietnam Special: YouTube - Top Gear Botswana Special 1 of 7

Bolivia Special: YouTube - Top Gear Bolivian special 2009 part 1...©BBC

USA Special: YouTube - Top Gear American special (1 of 6).mp4




The Boat Challenge: YouTube - Top Gear - Car-Boat Challenge - BBC

Limo Challenge: YouTube - top gear limousine challenge part 1

Bugatti Veyron vs Eurofighter Typhoon: YouTube - BBC: Bugatti Veyron vs Euro Fighter Typhoon Drag Race - Top Gear

Good Ole' Bus Racing: YouTube - Top Gear - The Challenges: Bus Racing

Oh and this beast

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9u0LxIWJk

So much more I would like to put here, but I have to go now, moar later!

TOP GEAR ENTHUSIASTS! UNITE!

and share & discuss your Top Gear fandom here.

GO!

I watch some shorts on youtube and love them... thats about the extent of my exposure, hopefully gonna somehow get more top gear

[MoleMania]

^If you TV has Dave, you have top gear!

Apparently I look like James May. I have the same hair, wear similar shirts and I'm somewhat old fashioned. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but I think he's awesome nonetheless.

Anyways, top gear is incredible. Massive fan right here folks! My fave moment has to be when they went to America and got owned by some rednecks lol.

[oneinchwunda]

Originally Posted by MoleMania

^If you TV has Dave, you have top gear!

He lives in Chicago. i.e. not in England.

Originally Posted by MoleMania

Anyways, top gear is incredible. Massive fan right here folks! My fave moment has to be when they went to America and got owned by some rednecks lol.

Man Love Rules OK.

[abc]

Na I preffered "nascar sucks!!!"



ju ju just yes. yes.

Best moments? the ones that spring to mind

FXX & Schumacher/stig joke.
May crashing hot air balloon.
May not being allowed to fly at night.
Exige & Apache
Caravan trip to dorset + chip pan fire

[MoleMania]

Originally Posted by oneinchwunda

He lives in Chicago. i.e. not in England.

I forget to look there sometimes....

[Voodoo]

Originally Posted by abc

Na I preffered "nascar sucks!!!"



ju ju just yes. yes.

Best moments? the ones that spring to mind

FXX & Schumacher/stig joke.
May crashing hot air balloon.
May not being allowed to fly at night.
Exige & Apache
Caravan trip to dorset + chip pan fire

don't forget when they used live rounds to shoot the WRX to shit,
and nascar is awful, if i wanted to watch 100 cars go past in a circle i'd go outside and watch the fucking free way

[abc]

Originally Posted by Voodoo

don't forget when they used live rounds to shoot the WRX to shit,
and nascar is awful, if i wanted to watch 100 cars go past in a circle i'd go outside and watch the fucking free way

It was an Evo 8. You mean the drug dealers evo 8 that got chased across salibury plain by a bunch of warrior armoured vehicles and shot at with lots of 50 cal HMGs?

The one interesting thing about nascar is pit stops under safety cars and VERY SELECT overtaking. Most overtakes just end with compromised exits so the othr guy just ducks inside again. That is boring. The best overtakes seem to take 5 laps of extremely careful cornering around the outside gaining about two feet per corner & straight.

[Nibbles]

I don't even drive a car and find Top Gear to be brilliant and one of the few things on TV these days that I actually look forward to. It is more the personalities on the show than anything else though and the odd stuff they get up to - they could be talking about pottery for all I care.

Though it is all a bit cartoonish these days. I'm not sure it currently qualifies as a serious car enthusiast show (though who am I to say when I dont drive a car) which is what it started out as many years ago, but damn it's entertaining!

[Voodoo]

Originally Posted by abc

It was an Evo 8. You mean the drug dealers evo 8 that got chased across salibury plain by a bunch of warrior armoured vehicles and shot at with lots of 50 cal HMGs?

That's the one. I was thouroughly amused by that. I thought it was a Rex.. hurm, either way it was a very cool segment. My memory is going at 18 -_-

Top Gear nut!!
One of my favourite bits was the 3 supercars in paris. Trying to get them out of the multistory carpark..v funnny
Or the race with the Veyron and the stinky truffle. watching and listening to that beast. Car porn t it's best

[HBK]

<3 The Stig

The Stig's extended family:

Spoiler:

The Black Stig


The Stig


African Stig


American Stig


Trucker Stig (even has Trucker arm Sun burns lol)

Some say.........

Spoiler:

• Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves...

• Some say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...

• Some say he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue...

• Some say he is illegal in 17 US states, and he blinks horizontally...

• Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells...

• Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic...

• Some say that he lives in a tree, and that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals...

• Some say that his heart ticks like a watch, and that he’s confused by stairs...

• Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has two sets of knees...

• Some say that he’s terrified of ducks, and that there’s an airport in Russia named after him...

• Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin’s, and that wherever you are in the world if you tune your radio to 88.4 you can actually hear his thoughts...

• Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight...

• Some say that his politics are terrifying, and that he once punched a horse to the ground...

• Some say that his tears are adhesive, and that if he caught fire he’d burn for a thousand days...

• Some say he can swim seven lengths underwater, and he has webbed buttocks...

• Some say that his heart is in upside down, and that his teeth glow in the dark...

• Some say that his ears aren’t exactly where you’d expect them to be, and that once, preposterously, he had an affair with John Prescott...

• Some say he has a digital face, and that if he felt like it, he could fire Alan Sugar...

• Some say that his genitals are on upside down, and that if he could be bothered he could crack the Da Vinci code in 43 seconds...

• Some say his ears have a paisley lining, and he’s been banned from the Chelsea Flower Show...

• Some say that the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nurburg ring, and that if you give him a really important job to do, he’ll skive off and play croquet...

• Some say he invented Branston Pickle, and that if you insult his mother he will headbutt you in the chest...

• Some say that on really warm days he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason he’s allergic to the Dutch...

• Some say that his first name really is The, and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they’d all be pregnant including the cameramen...

• Some say that he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp, and that long before anyone else he realised that Jade Goody was a racist pig-faced waste of blood and organs...

• Some say that he once had a vicious knife-fight with Anthea Turner, and that he is in no way implicated in the Cash-for-Honours scandal. All we know is that he's called Lord Stig

• Some say that he is a CIA experiment that went wrong, and that he only eats cheese. All new know is that he's not The Stig - he's The Stig's fat American cousin

• Some say that if you lick his chest it tastes exactly the same as Piccalilli, and that at this week’s Brit awards he was arrested for goosing Russell Brand...

• Some say that he sucks the moisture from ducks, and that his crash helmet is modelled on Britney Spears’ head...

• Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve...

• Some say his scrotum has its own small gravity field...

• Some say because our producer rigged a phone vote, he now has a new name...all we know is, he's called Cuddles...

• Some say he's banned from the town of Chichester...

• Some say in a recent late night deal he bought a slightly dented white Fiat Uno from the Duke of Edinburgh...

• Some say he gets terrible ezcema on his helmet...

• Some say if he'd been the video ref in the World Cup Rugby Final he would've seen that it was of course a try you blind Australian half-wit...

• Some say to unlock him you have to run your finger down his face...

• Some say if he were getting divorced from Paul McCartney he'd keep his stupid whining mouth shut...

• Some say he thought Star Wars was a documentry...

• Some say he recently pulled out of I'm a Celebrity because he's frightened of trees....and Australia...Koo Stark...and Ant...and Dec...

• Some say he knows two facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong...

• Some say 61 years ago he accidently introduced Her Majesty, the Queen, to a Greek racialist...

• Some say when he slows down, brake lights come on in his buttocks...

• Some say if he'd been the manager of the England football squad last week he wouldn't have been a feckless-ginger-gum-chewing buffoon who ruined it for all of us...

• Some say he once lost a canoe on a beach in the northeast...

• Some say he once did some time in a prison in Canterbury because his teddy is called "The Baby Jesus"...

• Some say that after making love, he bites the head of his partner, and that he's had to give up binge-drinking now that it 's got to £1.18 a litre. All we know is he's called the Stig.

• Some say that each of his toenails are exactly the same as a woman's nipples. And that he thinks the credit crunch is some kind of breakfast cereal. All we know is he's called the Stig.

• Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York. And that he has a full-size tattoo of his face - on his face. All we know is he's called the Stig.

• Some say that he is not allowed by law, within a hundred yards of Lorraine Kelly. And that he's never seen an episode of Top Gear because he's a huge fan of Midsomer Murders. All we know is he's called Bergerac.

• Some say it's impossible for him to wear socks. And he can open a beer bottle with his testes. All we know is he's called the Stig.

• Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York. And that he has a full size tattoo of his face, on his face.

• Some say that he is not allowed, by law, within 100 yards of Lorraine Kelly, and that he's never seen an episode of Top Gear, because he's a huge fan of Midsomer Murders!

• Some say it's impossible for him to wear socks, and he can open a beer bottle with his testes!

• Some say that he sleeps inside out, and that he once had full sex with Russell Brand's answering machine.

• Some say his favourite ever song is Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward, and that he has the world's largest collection of pornographical material.

• Some say that he invented November. And that if he had won the World Championship in Brazil last weekend, there might have been one photograph of him without his father, gurning in the back of shot.

• Some say one of his legs get longer when he sees a pretty lady. And that I haven't done one of these for some time and I've forgotten to make up a second thing.

• Some say that he doesn't like to get his helmet wet. A point that was proved last week when he was caught in the back of shot by an eagle-eyed viewer.

...All we know is, he's called The Stig!

[MoleMania]

^I love those stig jokes.

[oneinchwunda]

Originally Posted by HBK

...and that he has the world's largest collection of pornographical material.

Yeah, right. HBK's is pretty big...

[HBK]

Originally Posted by oneinchwunda

Yeah, right. HBK's is pretty big...

Originally Posted by oneinchwunda

He lives in Chicago. i.e. not in England.

I wish I had Dave

[HBK]

Top Gear facts:

Spoiler:

1. The show has a worldwide audience of over 350 million people in more than 90 countries.

2. Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds fronted the first ever episode of Top Gear, which was made by BBC Birmingham’s Pebble Mill in 1977.

3. In 2005, Top Gear won an International Emmy for best non-scripted entertainment show – despite being largely scripted. Clarkson later said he couldn’t attend the show in person because he was busy writing the next episode.

4. The show was also named Most Popular Factual Programme in the 2006 National Television Awards, beating the groundbreaking Planet Earth. Referring to Richard Hammond’s crash, Clarkson said: “I told you if one of us had a car accident, we’d win this.”

5. After Richard Hammond’s 288mph jet car smash in September, Clarkson said: “When I heard, I rushed to see him. He had a nasty biff on the head, but was reading Auto Trader.”

6. More than £230,000 was raised for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance in the aftermath of Hammond’s accident.

7. In 2005, motoring organisation Transport 2000 called for Top Gear to be axed and replaced by a more educational ‘Third Gear’.

8. One episode in July 2006 received 155 complaints. Two made about Muslim comments, three made about comments against an audience member who ‘looked like Jesus’ and 150 from angry caravan owners. Later, In December 2006, Jeremy Clarkson was berated by BBC bosses for referring to a car as ‘gay’ and ‘ginger beer’.

9. The BBC was forced to pay £250 compensation to a Somerset Parish Council in February 2004 after Clarkson drove a Toyota Hilux into a 30-year-old tree to show the strength of the pickup truck.

10. Jeremy Clarkson has a clean driving licence.

11. When Clarkson described the Toyota Corolla – the world’s biggest selling car - as dull, the manufacturer banned the show from test driving any of its models.

12. It took 33 16-hour days to make the 32 minute film of the infamous Bugatti Veyron race, where Clarkson drove the world’s fastest car from Italy to England against May and Hammond - who were flying.

13. The Stig is introduced each week with a random fact. Strange ‘Stigisms’ include ‘He is banned from Chelsea Flower Show,’ ‘invented Branston Pickle’ and ‘he always points magnetic north.’

14. The fastest road legal motor to lap the track is the Koenigsegg CCX, which completed the course in just 1min 17.6secs. This was after the Swedish manufacturer fitted a spoiler to the crazy supercar on Top Gear’s advice.

15. A Sea Harrier jump jet managed the course in 31.2 seconds.

16. The slowest car to do a ‘power lap’ on the track is the Overfinch Range Rover, which completed the circuit in 1min 44secs – the same as Stig’s time in the ‘reasonably priced’ Suzuki Liana.

17. Despite spending most of her time circumnavigating the globe in a boat, Ellen MacArthur has the fastest lap time for a celebrity in the Liana – 1min 46.7secs. F1 star Jenson Button – whose time doesn’t count on the celebs’ board - was just two seconds quicker.

18. Snooker ace Ronnie O’Sullivan’s lap time in the Liana was the same as the sport’s maximum break – 1min 47secs.

19. When Jonny Vegas took the Liana on a lap, the Suzuki was fitted with L-plates, as the comedian didn’t have a full licence. He still beat four other guests including Harry Enfield.

20. Gambon Corner refers to the final corner of the Top Gear track when acclaimed thespian and lunatic driver Michael Gambon nearly rolled the Liana.

21. Ex-soldier Billy Baxter claimed he could do a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car lap quicker than the late Richard Whiteley – despite being blind. Baxter beat the Countdown legend and Radio 2 stalwart Terry Wogan on the way.

22. The waiting list to watch the show live is now between one and two years.

23. Despite being perceived as a male-dominated show, the studio audience is always split 50/50 between men and women. Audience members have to be over 18, because of the “constant swearing” which takes place.

24. Even though it was named Top Gear Car of the Year in 2003, the Rolls Royce Phantom is still deemed ‘un-cool’ in Top Gear’s hard-to-fathom Cool Wall.

25. The Hamster also beat Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt to be named the person most people would like to share a car with in an Auto Trader poll.

26. While Clarkson is laughed at for his suspect fashion and unkempt hair, Richard Hammond is a ladies’ favourite and was named as the number one weird celebrity crushes by Heat magazine in 2005.

27. James May, (or ‘the other member of the team’ as he refers to himself) also presented Top Gear alongside Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tiff Needell in 1999 before it was scrapped due to low ratings.

28. Jeremy Clarkson is ten inches taller than Richard Hammond. Jezza is 6ft 5, while the diminutive Hamster stands at just 5ft 7.

29. Top Gear Dog is a Labrapoodle – a cross between Labrador Retriever and a Poodle.

30. The theme tune to the show is a version of the 1973 song ‘Jessica’ by southern rockers The Allman Brothers Band.

[Platy]

Love this show.

Favourite moment for me, so many to choose from but...

Spoiler:

The first 2 minutes are priceless.

[Tatemylightning]

without a doubt the single greatest Magazine and Tv show about cars in the world.

JEREMY CLARCKSON FOR PRIMINISTER!!!!m (< bad spelling)

i love the races they do, like the one were james and richard flew back in a sesna and clarckson drove the veyron.

or when they took cocaine cubes in the atacama desert and hammond wouldn't stop babbling, hilarious.

[Platy]

It's Clarkson and Prime Minister

I want to do the Vietnam journey. Go over there and buy a moped and ride to the north of the country with a couple of mates.

[GhostHands]

I <3 Jeremy Clarkson. My fav moments were when they did the double decker race with the steering up top and braking and acceleration in the car below. And when they ran the Veyron.

[HBK]

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