lol i can’t wait.

woo cant wait. i think richard will win because he loves his muscle cars and i think captain slow will come last because he will get lost.

He likes the vette anyone that watched Jeremy’s good bad ugly knows that and Richard likes the charger even since he sore the first 2005 pic

I think Jezza will fall in love with the Corvette. I mean, he does like the standard C6 version, but this ZR1 has that 638bhp supercharged V8. And we already know what he’s like with overpowered engines…

I am sure , the boys will come through with another masterpiece of on screen genius and I make a prediction that the Cadillac will win! And that the truck driving Stig last week was actually a thin person with many layers of other clothes under his racesuit?

Sounds like it will be a bit of a “porsche” argument with Richard arguing with Jeremy whilst James looks on with a wry smile on his face.Should be magic so!!!

p.s. Is Richard still in a state of “porsche hypnosis” these days or did someone remember to reverse the spell?!

one day i will comment on one of these first….

i can’t believe you get paid to do that….no effing fair

Jezza screaming POWWERRR!! Hamster trying to see over the steerin wheel and James ending up in Canada!! Can’t wait.

Jeremy will secretly like the ZR1 but complain about the interior. But the Cadillac has the same engine (with a bit less power) and an amazing interior, so Jezza will love the CTS-V.

Honestly, the ZR1 is an amazing machine (I’ve driven it), a great value, and the interior really isn’t all that bad, but I’d be greatly surprised if Clarkson admitted to liking it. He might even go so far as to say “I want to like it, but…” but that’ll be it.

Oh and as for the Dodge Challenger? It’s a piece of junk. Pretty from a distance, but pretty nasty up close. Not to mention it’s just too big to have any fun driving it. A man of Richard’s stature is going to struggle even more so.

From reading the Sunday Times, I think that the CTS-V will be well liked. ZR-1 is supposed to be comfortable, so perhaps that will be well liked also. The only question is the Challenger, which is a good looking car if not anything else.

I’m off to one of the best automotive museums in Pennsylvania and perhaps in the entire world now, what an excellent weekend this will be!!!!

i am buying on of them ZR1 as soon as it dose come to the uk. if it dose come to the uk

why does everyone keep calling the challenger a charger? i noticed that the other day

looks brilliant

dont add anything telly 26

jeremy is going to rant on and on about the “plastic boyband feel” of the inside of the zr1. but once they are on the the open road he gunna stop and say ” but i dont care”. richards going to make a mess in his pants over the retro challenger and lames is going to love the caddy.. cuz well… its a caddy

Simply cannot wait for this film. I had a look at the Corvette C6 earlier this year and instantly fell in love (to the extent that I was threatening to remortgage my house while I was still in the showroom, and I eventually had to be evicted with a crowbar). This from a woman who normally dreams of restoring old Triumphs and Hillmans! I have no idea what that car did to me. I suspect I may get very excited watching the ZR1 so shall be watching on Sunday with spare underwear at the ready

i cant wait till sunday for the show

I think Jeremy will win because he always does, and if he doesn’t he’ll cheat to make sure he wins. James will probably come last, because he’ll get lost. Anyway, I can’t wait until Sunday.

can not wait till sunday, its going to be great

Hamster loves his muscle cars (he got a challenger at the moment), Jeremy well… u can guess he gonna be really competative and captain slow well… lets just say he bound to get lost or beak down so i say richard gonna win but… COME ON JEZZA

i like when jermery drive the aston martin dbs
i like when he drive the audi r8.
The top gear is so good in the world ever i watch it ever sunday on bb2 at 8.00
from lee

“every trucker’s new favourite telly presenter”
funny lol

Anyhow, the first show in the series was brilliant and this one looks set to be amazing too!!!
Keep up the good work!!!!

clarkson will hate the american trip hope fat stig is on

lee clift?

they r doing some record thing u can hear jeremy saying about going down in history.

can see hamster on the flat salt.

This should be interesting.

vic

Jeremy likes all three!

Clarkson will like the Corvette for an all-rounder.

No-one can wait
I wish that Top Gear was on Saturday instead of Sunday. Cos then we don’t have to go back to school or work the next day after watching it. That almost ruins watching it!
Well, I did say almost!

I’m on pins and needles waiting to see what they think of the hills in San Francisco with 3 big cars that will probably get jammed stuck in the dips between hills.

if its anything like the last usa special it will be mint

jeremy will break down and hammond will fall inlovewith his car and ship it over here with a personalised numberplate.
any takers?

I think Jeremy will be set on fire and then drown, James will end up in Alaska and Hammond will go into a dentist tooth-whitening surgery pretending that he meant to get something to eat.

cant wait till sunday it looks great

hope no rednecks try to kill you

I don’t think James will even bother to join the challenges even though he won challenge the most… Jeremy!

ah should be an awesome show, i am a big muscle car fan, so can’t wait to see what the guys think of these cars.

the zr1 seems pretty good

Got to be hounest with you all i would have the Dodge Challenger out of the 3

USA USA USA

Besides being born in the same year, liking Harleys, and Evil Kenival, that’s about the only other thing Richard and I have in common. Otherwise, DON”T TELL ME! I want to find out for myself Sunday night. I’m very excited about it. YES!! Bring it on! Top Gear Rules!

what will captain slow get up to this time

My guess is that they’ll like the power, but will find the interiors rather cheap, and the handling not quite up to snuff with the european and japanese cars, although I bet they will find that the handling has improved from past generations of American cars. I bet that they will also comment on the fact that if you give similarly sized engines to any european car company they would come up with significantly more horsepower then what the americans can develope. And they’ll last longer too

that ZR1 has massive power, so i expect a lot of Jeremy’s classic POWEEEEERR
also, the Caddy is rubbish, and i think it’s been designed by someone with no joints in his arm, and the Chevy, well it’s a Chevy so i’d expect it to be as well built and as advanced as a Romanian road (those of you who have been to Romania know what i mean)

looks well good

The Corvette will come out on top. It’s more focussed than the Dodge and a lot handsomer than the Caddi.

Footage_Hoon said…
Honestly, the ZR1 is…a great value

please take me with you on your next trip to amsterdam!

the challenger is a retro muscle car built to a budget, and like most American budget muscle cars it goes like hell in a straight line and then wets it self at the thought of a corner. the corvette is leaps and bounds better than the challenger in almost every way possible. I’m not to sure about the caddy, it probably will be pretty good, but if were going good old fashioned muscle cars, shouldn’t the new cammaro be involved? In any rate I still cant wait to see what the guys have to say about some good old fashioned American muscle.

the corvette might be rather good, but i’ve always said and maintain that american cars just aren’t cars, they’re as evolved as a brick

it would be nice if they make a program comparing the caddy and the m5, i love euro and american cars, but i doubt they will do it

they will never give a credit to the Caddy or the vette even if GM make the cars with gold

I do belive that the corvette as well as th challenger will impress jeremy.
I dan’t fancy the cadilac’s looks at all.
Personally I can’t say it belongs with the corvette and challenger.
I hope the challenger’s turning isn’t “dodgey”.

DARN YOU GUYS!!! You came all the way across the planet to right in my backyard and didn’t even tell me!! I am a HUGE fan of the show so it pains me that I didn’t get to see you here in California. The picture in this post is “Twin Peaks” in San Francisco, a vista that looks over the whole city. I have been there many times and it is wild to think the top gear presenters have as well now. Also, just because I live in this area doesn’t mean I am a crazy, and doesn’t mean I love nascar the muscle cars. Actually, I am very against San Fran, take f1 over nascar anyday, and refuse to own a car that isn’t european. Enough with the stereotypes! Next time you guys come out here, which will probably be never, give us a shout!

Post 45.
Your not well informed the challenger is from Dodge. not chaevy

I bet J.C. won’t make it out of California since the roads to Nevada have ruts deep enough to bottom out the vet.

Who bloody cares ! GM and Chrysler will probably both be bancrupt by Monday afternoon .By the time that you export any of these and put in a right hand drive they are so expensive you should just go buy the Mercedes that you really wanted in the first place . There is no such thing as the American muscle car anymore , they are all crap and plastic, designed for the NAASCAR fan who can only turn left .

very your handsome

I wish the new Camaro was out when they made this film, for two reasons. They could dump the Challenger for it, making it an all-GM affair, and although that sounds like plugging, I think they make better cars than Ford or Chrysler/Dodge. It’s like they’re the only American car company willing to evolve with the rest of the world’s motor industries. Also, Richard said last series – “What if the Camaro isn’t rubbish?” and the other two said no, that would be fun to see.

Another thing I’ve just realised, the Challenger, driven by Lofty Hammond, is the least powerful. What on earth will James do with 550bhp!? And, judging by the trailer, he drives a Zonda F convertible later in the series!? WHAT!?! Awesome! Can’t wait!

being American all three will be the same but look different.
thats why i like the challenger best of all.
its so cool!
im shan’t even consider buying any of the three though because ill just get a Monaro.

They could have added a Camaro, Mustang(gt500 in a bullit edition maybe), Viper ACR.

That’s the funny about american car makers, they might be dying bleeding money, but they still manage to deliver all these cool cars.

They maybe are not the best cars in the world, but they keep that american feeling, that gorgeous look and coolnes only a muscle car can deliver.

Can’t wait for Sunday

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!

i think the dodge is the best …and Jeremy i cant wait to see u drive man …
and mr hamster go on in the challenger ..
jemas wake up dude …

Gosh the Dodge and Caddy look great!
But I despair that the ‘Big-Three’ will go out the same way that the ‘Three P’s’ did back in the day; unless they get contracts to build Government Issue delivery-vans.
The U.S. though, still has enough Non-Duel Citizen millionaires, and you’d think that they’d buy a nice looking Caddy or two, for patriotism’s sake, surely? …to keep ‘em afloat eh?

will be tank

Hi im fan from Ukraine i liketo wach this program but in my country it was once a week.

Good to hear from some people in Ukraine

Cant want

oops sorry no very good at typing. i Mean cant wait

i think that james will win

i think that j.c will talk about killing prostitues again and wil get done

Can’t wait to download it since we only get the lame version of it aired in the States.

JEREMY RICHARD YOU ARE COOL YOUR GREAT AND JAMES IS AN OLD FART LOL CANT WAIT FOR MORE OF THE NEW SHOWS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

didnt mean it your top james and funny

james will win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i want a job…….

i reckon they will be stu[id and funny challenges and i bet the dodge charger wins

lmao
i can’t wait
yay it’s bak
i’ve been waiting forages
yay

I’m pretty sure Hammond is gonna love the Dodge and Vette as he loves em big ol american muscle cars.

Bout clarkson, he’s usually not a big fan of em. But i think the Vette should definitely impress him. It does look like Chervorlet have finally made a decent attempt at building a proper sports car that can match up to the performance of the Ferraris and Lambos.

Bout James, i think he might like the Cadillac as he usually likes such things…

JEREMY I am on your side…..American pieces of can garbage that are supposed to be good? cars couldnt even straighten your curly bonce at speed even though some are convertibles, surely this must of been hammonds (another new set of teeth) idea. Duh? When will he learn?

i think that this weeks top hear episode sounds sick and i will watch the boys (JEZZA,JAMES AND RICHARD)and it will also b a gd episode. G-star Tom

Looks graet, can’t wait to see it!

Can’t wait for Top Gear this Sunday….It’s nice that they’re back in an 3rd world country, ie, USA…..Oooops i said that out loud just then. >=D

What??? That photo makes it look like they are in LA!!!! That is like 30 minutes from my house!!!!! I cannot believe I missed them!!!

lol i think that this ep will be propa class

You are all wrong, the vette will be a bitch to drive on American roads, they’re too bumpy, as for the Challenger, it can’t go around corners, but the CTS V will come up on top as the best to drive no matter where.

i think he was practically in love with porsche before the hypnosis thingy im pretty sure anyway i cant wait for this weeks installment i will go as far to say i am addicted and want that job as tg presenter

As like me top gear is one of the best TV program however for me it was a favor.

im frm Botswana(Africa), nd i enjoy the show..i think jeremy will like the Challenger out of all of them,but for serious power,he’ll go for the vette…nd to make a statement,the cadillac..

Did the boys not dare another trip to Alabama?

I think the Corvette is bar far the nicest looking car there, the Charger looks nice at first glance but then after a few seconds…not so nice. It to bad they couldnt have used the new Chevy Camaro, now that is a nice looking car!

Just wait until you walk on that ZR1…the Z06 was something else at 505hp so wait until they try 638hp in the ZR1. Its not really a musclecar though…It’s a true sports car and will outclass and certainly outrun the other two. I’m jealous though as I won’t see this show till next year in Canada and my wife is over at her mothers in Christchurch so she will be tuning in and I’ll have to get the story from her till I can see it.

oooo cant wait
this will be interesting
Acschualy i am a muscle car fan

i think it is more likley that j.m is gay joe bloggs

I am not Jeremy Clarkson… though I do like to scream POWERRR in the bedroom and I’m assuming he does as well. I’m am expecting this episode to rival your last adventure to the states. Here’s hoping and thanks for your quality work!

This episode looks to be a good one, I can’t wait for the Vietnam roadtrip!!! Just bought The big nook of topgear, it’s immense!

Ha, can you imagine James struggling to clean those vertical AC Vents in the Caddy with his paintbrush!? Hahaha!

can you kick the aus veson off plz!!! and contaced me on evo_greg@hotmail.com
plz!!!!!!

jeremy will hate the corvette because on his dvd it said it was good on a track but awfull on the road and i thinl the jokes last week were really rather funnyand i dont no what all the fuss is about :L
hope it dosnt change the humer of the program
x

Will bet that James makes a mess of his pants when he drives the Caddy. Jeremy will love the ZR-1 but say that the interior is rubbish and that all American cars are garbage, though he will secretly love it. They will agree that the Challenger is the best looking, but will say that it is under powered and the suspension is too soft.

Trust me the Caddy will smoke any 4 door production car that the Germans make, plus Jeremy actually likes it, and admitted it.

Winner is the 556hp Caddy CTS-V.
Second ZR-1
Third Challenger

Am I the only one that finds it odd that the last time the boys were in the states
James drove a Caddy,
Hamster drove a Dodge, and
Jeremy drove a Chevy?

i think jezza will like the corvette. he’s crazy over overpowered engines… i can’t wait! is the fat stig appearing this sunday?

“every trucker’s new favourite telly presenter”
haha

Anyway, this should be a really good episode, cant wait

that is going to be a really nice test. I think the best since BMW vs merc vs audi.

pretty sad tho that they didnt put the camaro there as well. and the viper. but ftw who cares

top gear the greatest show on the planet easily

the america ones gonna be good but it would be cool if they used old muscle cars like 69 charger and 68 mustang and the corvette stingray that would be cool

i just wont to say i love top gear i live in ipswich and mr mole is a joke it was funny about the truckers my friend is one and lol keep going and its the best show on the bbc so please can you take the p…s out of the mole .

All I know is that if you guys enjoyed filming it, I will definitely enjoy watching it!!

**SPOILER**

This week’s ending is that the Alabama rednecks were also on a road trip ending at Bonneville. Next week’s show will be live from JC’s new hideout in Mexico, with Che Hammondista and Fernando May.

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Another episode with looryes..:))….Top Gear rules…

cant wait!

Few hours to go.

I geuss Hamster will be in the Dodge Challenger. He loves his muscle cars. Anyway, Jezza for the Corvete and Captin slow in the cadillac.

Hope Richard wins this one and his Dogde.

DEAR JEZZA I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN MISINFORMED ITS AN EASY MISTAKE TO MAKE. THE FACT IS THAT WE AS LORRY DRIVERS HAVE PROGRESSED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WE NOW KILL POLTICIONS MANY THANKS DAVID

They are going to say that all american cars are rubbish and all americans the same.
But i think, or at least hope,that its going to be great.
I wrealy hope The Stigs american cousin is there.

this should be really really good. I adore that corvette

I hope someone is torrenting this for the people who love top gear but can’t watch it until next millenia, because of the hopeless country they live in.

South Africa, everything comes out a bit too late. I think they’ve just released the BMW 318i today in SA.

Please someone torrent the show tonight! Why can’t top gear release internationally with a new series? Then I could just watch it on tele here.

Thanks!

i love it, is it on at 8:00 still?
x

Let’s rock’n'roll!!
Best ever motor show on Earth!
Bring it on!
Can’t wait, seriously!

hey, cant wait…its like american roadtrip part 2 lol

hey! bob her……. top gear better be good 2nit! if not ill complain!!!!!!

can’t wait til next show and since its in America James will probably get lost again.

dus

hay

I LOVE TOP GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWW

OH YES!!! OH YES OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new charger is awesome although the new camaro i would have also have liked to have seen!

Thank you so much for this show, it’s helping me get through the pile of work that is A Level exams. Hope it’s good tonight!

^.^

I bet they’ll say there all crap.

Can’t Wait For Tonight’s Show Loved Last Weeks Show Had My In Stitches

Jezzer Makes My Laff Evrytime He Says Anything

Can’t Wait For Tonight’s Show Loved Last Weeks Show Had My In Stitches

Jezzer Makes Me Laff Everytime He Says Anything

top gear rocks

lol nutter!! the inside cam could put behind the driver to give a better view whilst driving

lovely

top gear rocks man

hi my katie and im 12 years old i love your show

hi my katie and im 12 years old i love your show is so cool and funny

great show top class wish it came to ireland lol

Fantastic episode. Great car review. A star in a car who could talk cars and the trio just being petrolheads.

No obvious fakery. No stupid “oh wont this be funny” japes. Petrolheads being petrolheads. And three good friends being good friends.

Brilliant. Best episode in ages. Make them exactly like this please.

Fantastic.

would love to see them cover the pikes peak race….or even take part !

LIKE THE CORVETTE LOOK – WANT TO KNOW HOW IT GOES BUT US POOR LOT DOWN UNDER IN KIWILAND WILL HAVE TO WAIT A WHILE TO SEE THIS – WE CAN HARDLY WAIT – JUST HOPE WE CAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING JUST AS CHALLENGING FOR THE TOP GEAR TEAM – PERHAPS MYSELF AND FELLOW COPS CAN COME UP TO SCRATCH AND GIVE HIM A KIWI UNIQUE CHALLENGE – ARE YOU UP FOR IT JEREMY?

WHY DIDN’T THE STIG GET AT SHOT AT THE AMERICAN CARS?!?!?!?!?!!?

yeh that episode was wicked!! I couldent wait 4 it! couldn’t hammond have kept his challenger since he liked it…

Oh one more thing ……………………………. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TOP GEARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also think that Clarkson, Hammond and Captain not so slow after Sunday should let the STIG take the cars round the track and see which is the fastest…

I didn’t enjoy ep 2 yesterday(sunday), they were holding back on everything funny even though most of the time they were at the plain dessert(not needing to over-fear the police), and they even cut out that 1 in a million years chance, of seeing captain slow making jeremy eat dust, he he he he he ………., but then they became stupid when they were in the city, and its then they wanted fun, and drew the attention of the police to them; they showed far less of the scenery then we normally would see;
the music was not heart-pumping and fitting;

it was just utter crap it made me wimp!
I don’t know what it’s goin on in their heads, did bird flu get them or what’s the reason they miss to keep the winning formula together,
i mean what loony-toon approved tha?

It’s almost like they ”Want” to be utter rubish, rubish in it’s truest sense!

I don know

I agree with the above, the lack of humour in the last episode was almost a joke in itself, (probably deliberately so), but I wouldn’t be surprised if the americans got a bit petit about the teams last escapade there, mind you, it makes more sense to mock their arrogance than for them to mock us, when our country has done nothing wrong except given them the language they speak today, and the names for many areas of there country New England, New York, etc

Actually to be honest who cares…There is no reason for us not to be able to mock the Americans, its only because there isolationist so they take it too personally. Trouble is, there too many things to go on, such as their inability to point out France on a map. Their general rudeness. (And obviously) there inability to take a joke…So why is it then that they are allowed to make every bady in their films english, and we’re not allowed to satirise them, when actually most of the things we criticise have an element of truth in them.

good said!

Not making any jokes, was a joke itself, but as we all no, looooooooooooooooooooonnn g jokes ARE NOT Funny!

If T-Gear has problem with re-creating tha winning formula, all you need to do is to watch series 10, series 11 with JC in a fast car documenting about it, and hamster and Slow playing catch up using public transport.

I find the bit at series 2 with – the one …
with tha drowned hamsta – was a good one, basically testing Theories out related to emergencies in a car, and finding out for the public what is the right thing to do + explanation & demonstration, naturally.

then series 4 , the one ….with all the poo;
Why no? we all shi virtually never ending?! making money out of it is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
he he he…..hahahahahaah…oho hahaha….

ehheeeem!, yeah, so on the scientific part u don’t want to miss out, seriously, using solar, bike-pedal-charging ect. examples, building it urself, trying stuff out; you could win awards if u get it right.

Of course the tire smoke, never forget tha, test both normal cars, and supercars at every episodes, i lik the ”abarth” it was cool, faster and more powerful than ” dE MiNi ”

Things like Sandblast from series 5 testing cars and there agility and gripiness, brilliant

then last, army, the phisical comparison, between a very good car that specifically is good in one or two areas, like reaction, fast acceleration, power-distribution & balance ect.
ex. series 6 – Tank v Range

using does winning formulars in balance, not too much not too many(concerning Quantity) but squeezing 150% out of 100%, will make every episode a success.

That was just a short explanation(like a hand-drawn house without ruler), not lenghty but presents the main elements.

Keep an eye on the, Top Gear Racers -TGR

I am feed-up with Clarky spinning wheels on some luxury vehical. What about the million’s of people who drive a car that you couldn’t spin the wheels if you tried. Any chance of seeing what Clarky calls the Oily Bits,it would help your viewing figures. I for one would not complain.

Cars that most people can’t afford is what TopGear is all about. We might not be able to afford any of the cars on the cool wall or the Top Gear lap board but we enjoy them through the boys…Keep up the good work Clarkson, Hammond and May.

Loved lastnights show, the American drive is something I’m planing to do for my birthday next year in a GT350 Mustang, might have to check out the Saltflats now.

That was a brilliant episode, what i wouldnt give to own that Corvette

I have dog.

What did they mean Bruce Willis? Bruce Willis is a wuss. Chuck Norris would kick Willis’ ass then blow the helicopter with a round house kick.

And kat.

In a country that produces Land Rover and Jaguar. I am amazed that they can put down the better American cars at all. Land Rovers have what can only laughingly be referred to as ergonomics and the plastic is made from old tooth brushes. Cars like the Viper and Challenger are too large for most British streets. This is why they purpose build cars for the streets of our elder sister. But when raced in real world Continent to Continent conditions like IMSA sorry but Viper finished 1,2,3,5 and 7 against the European Rival. In most cases cars that retail at 4 or 5 fold.
Say what you wamt but if anyone out there knows of a Triumph, MG or Jag that hasn’t had an electrical fire count yourself lucky!

I love TG as i said so can anyone tell me whats next week coz i dont know yet. I have the mags. that tell me everything but i don’t know wots next week :@

lol that happened ages ago lol ha ha

does anyone like may??????????

that’s captain slow to you lot lol

yeah i like may, he is very intelligent and has a complex way of thinking. I would enjoy if T-Gear would talk a bit more about the aero-dynamics, Suspensions and balance, power to weight ratio and more factors that contribute into making the cars they test on their tracts a winner; and i am sure, its there where May abilities of explaining that all will be appreciated; It’s not just all ”POOOOWEEEEEEEEEERRR” !

Ok, so who on the Top Gear production team is a videogame fan? I distinctly heard Hell March 1 from Command and Conquer Red Alert in the show on Sunday? Whoever it is, i like your sense of humour (for those not in the know, the composer is from Nevada)

is the stig taking of his/herr helmet??

ha ha ha , i have to say, they guys TGRs did put some funny stuff inside the 2nd ep, thate made me laugh for 20 min, i had to re-play , re-play and re-play again, what it was that made me laugh like that; was the 47th and 48th min, the 47 with C.Slow turning intor Captain HIDE, and the 48th min with jeremy showing the police man some old fashioned british attitute, whoa haha ha ha…. it’s not tha middle finger alone, but the way he showed it with his shaky hands, ha ha ha, tha made me crack crack and crack again………
whooooooahahhahahahahahah ahhaaah…………..

When is Jeremy going to drive the new Viper SRT-10 ACR ??? also I hope they go to the US again when the new Camaro and the new Mustang are release the next year…

omg i luv the Corvette it is buiet

Am I the only one who really wants to see where the ZR1 places against the other cars on the board? I’d love it if it came close to the Enzo. All the better that it makes it’s power with a modified pickup truck engine and not some exotic hard to maintain bespoke powerplant. Compared to a Ferrari, a Vette is a car that won’t ruin you with high maintenance costs. I also fail to see how a Corvette is any more vulgar than a Ferrari or Lamborghini.

I would say driving a Fiat 500 was as down to earth as we’d want Top Gear to be. And talking about the Renault Twingo is within the grasp of the everyman.

Anyone complaining that a performance car show is constantly talking about perfomance cars has to remenber that the reason they drive cars like that is:

1)Because it’s fun for them and they want to enjoy their work

and 2) So people like me who can’t afford to buy or hire any of the exotic cars featured, get to see and live the experience in some small way.

I don’t scorn the guys for driving the ultimate cars the world has to offer, i thank them for letting me know they exist in the first place.

From time to time they do note ‘real’ cars of interest – hammond driving the pink micra cc for example,

but really, if you want a less entertaining show (or factual when in america) and one with a less polished feel to it watch Fith Gear and complain about how there isn’t enough comedy in that show.

Leave Top Gear alone, because they ARE balancing the Cars with the comedy and the facts with the entertainment, and doing it well.

I Agree mostly with clarksonknite, T-Gear don’t ever switch up to 60% Normal cars, and 40% Super cars; stay always at 70-80% Super, and the rest normal.

Yeah he is right, if the TGRs wouldn’t drive this hot-spankingly fast cars and show them to us, most of us wouldn’t even know they exist!

Serious, don’t change to some stupid 100% factual car show or anywhere near that.

Anyone who wants some boring show, can line themselves with all the other 90 year olds watching Fifth Gear!

The TGRs surely did the boring american trip on purpose to show us, how boring it could turn out if they were to leave out the flamboyant cars, and the crazy races and stunts, with no adreneline, no fast heart rush; boring and slow as Fifth Gear.

END OF DEBATE

U can put this debate in a archive file and say, uuups, it ”Accidently” landed in the shredder.

Don’t become Fith-Gear.

If u want to show us i bit of factual stuff, what u can do is to show us more clearly some vids and photo shoots of the car exterior interior, for example, on ep2 I didn’t see the back-seat of the Fiat 500 Abarth properly to judge how big it is in reality, and i would like to hear ”all the exciting” obtions you can have with that car.

And that’s the Factual Thing done,

Case closed

ha ha lol u r a weirdo

The best car is gigul who agree with me?

American here… LOVED this episode! ( download torrent ) Top Gear is absolutely my favorite show. Hey and don’t worry my British friends, we can take a joke over here. Keep the good stuff coming Top Gear!

I am thinking of buying a Mercedes Benz 1.8 SLK Kompressor Convertable on manual.

Body:
Long Nose
2 seater
Convertible
Bucket seats

Engine :
Power – 184 bhp
Torque – 184
Turbo-charged
Direct Injection
Manual

Performance:
Top speed 147 MPH
Fuel economy 36 mpg
0-60 = 7.60 secs

Fuel tank 60 Litres, 60 Litres – 16 Gallons;
16 Gallons x 36 mpg = 576 miles before fuel stop. London to Oslo 1.320 Miles, that’s 40% of the Journey

Cost : £28,875

What you guys think? is there anything better for this price range in the merc’s list?

Basically I search for a hurt pumping, road licking, Power-insane, roaring, drifting, speedy roadster convertible Rural Speed Demon.

So a car for fun, scaring the living Daylights out of me with its ground shaking rooarrr and heart-stopping speed.

Suggestions?

sorry, the exact name is
Mercedes Benz 1.8 SLK 200 Compressor Convertible 2d 1796cc

A good contender is :
Mercedes Benz 2.1 TD C220 CDI Elegance Estate 5d 2148cc

Body:
4 seater
Convertible
Long back

Engine:
Power: 150 bhp
Torque: 295
Super-charged
Multi-point Injection
Manual

Performane:
Top-Speed: 139MPH
Fuel Economy: 46mpg
0-60 MPH = 8.50

Cost 27,170

not bad, is just too long, and is a 4 seater instead of 2; with a 2 seater there’s less weight and better balance when drifting.
although the SLK easily can over-steer if under bad control, its a challenger, for realy good drivers who can feel how much to give, when to give it and how to tackle the control problems, and get the car under full control.

A proper car, for proper drivers;
Drivers that can tell the difference between 2 sugars and 3 sugars, the difference between 0-60 in 8.80 secs and 0-60 in 7.70 secs!

Suggestions?

American musclecars may be rubbish to the three wiseguys, but does anyone really think they can get anything even remotely resembling those cars at the same sticker price anywhere in Europe?

Musclecars are just that – cheap thrills. who cares about the plastic? And those who say that today’s musclecars can’t perform when it comes to corners and curves hasn’t owned one of today’s American musclecars.

Yeah your right, in the UK you would struggle to find a car in the ‘muscle’ genre for the cheapness of the cars they drove in episode 2,

it would cost us around £40 grand for the challenger alone, which is near as damn it double the list price in america

the cheap thrills thing is in no debate, the conclusion on the show was a positive one saying that all 3 cars were good cars.

the problem is we’d have to come to america to enjoy them, because the fuel costs here would be unbearable, i have family over in the US, and a 3.0 v6 is considered a small engine, over here for general runabouts the engines are much smaller with BHP outputs of around 100 – 200, most people don’t go beyond the 2.0 four cylinders

so in conclusion the reason why we bang on about interior quality so much is because we have to, there’s nothing else to compensate for the lack of it.

and since we live in a country with much smaller, winding streets, handling is massively imprtant to us too, we don’t usually have the mass expanse of long wide straight roads.

it will reach the point where we all meet in the middle somewhere with car production, similar goals on economy and quality however i suspect even then the ride set ups will be different for each country based on the terrain needs and driving styles.

bosh

Is it me?…. or is the Hamster’s fondness for 1980’style coral necklaces troubling anyone else? And is it me?…or is Hamster growing his hair and wearing battered leather jackets in order to look like captain slow?

Fastkrusty@177:

Does this mean that pretty soon we’ll start seeing JM with more closely cropped, spiky hair and “product” and tooth whitener?

This is starting to remind me of the rather regrettable film Freaky Friday.

Listen to the episode properly, then you will find out that Hammond & May were wearing that for a bet, as similar did clarkson on ep 1 with his shiny dark night-sky upper sleeping pijama .

richard make sure the sign i sent will be on the top gear show

Why does Captain Slow want to carpet bomb Burford?

I was wrong. I had written in other posts that I would love to see the boys drive some American Muscle but they would just hate the cars before they even drove them. I particularlty thought this would be the case after a earlier poor reveiw they gave of the CTS. – I had driven that care before and thought was fantastic and had won COTY from Motor Trend.

I guess maybe I was half right, Capt Slow didn’t like the Caddie at first sight, but in the end they were fair and it was by far my favorite episode, bar none. Loved the salt flats

I think james will like the Caddy, he likes big, slow cars, Jeremy will like the Corevette and Richard will like the Challenger.

THE USA ROCKS!