Show 6, the penultimate programme in this series of Top Gear, has been written, rehearsed and recorded. And it all went very well, ta.
So, after a long day at the studio how do you think the presenters get home?
Well, Top Gear is a pretty popular show now and it’s seen by millions of people all around the world so you might reasonably imagine that by now Jeremy, Richard and James have gone all P Diddy and make their way to and from Dunsfold in panda skin-lined limousines or private jets that run on Cristal champagne and unicorn tears.
Not a bit of it.
Most of the time they just drive themselves and instead of the stretched Hummer with the panda seats, James is usually in an actual Panda, made by Fiat.
This week, however, our normally modest presentational team got a bit flash. After the recording, James flew himself home in his private aeroplane, Richard headed off in his helicopter, and Jeremy was whisked away as a passenger in someone else’s plane.
Although this being Top Gear, James’s Super Decathlon is tiny and makes a noise like a farting mouse, Richard’s Robinson was openly scoffed at by a rather saucy female audience member who happened to be one of the RAF’s Merlin chopper pilots, and whilst Jeremy’s ride home had twice as many propellers as James’s kite, it wasn’t exactly a G5 jet.
In other words, in the one week when the boys tried to be unusually rock ‘n’ roll, they were still a bit ambitious but rubbish.
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What do you think?
Kaye commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 7:00 am
How Rock ‘n Roll is this?!:
AMSTERDAM – The police in Amsterdam are seriously worried about a new trend in the Dutch capital: Smart tossing. Drunk and rowdy youths are throwing the small cars in to the city’s canals during the weekend.
According to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf this new trend takes place mainly during the weekend, after many youths leave the pubs and clubs.
Patroling constables are now extra vigilant around the canals. In many cases the cars are declared total losses once they’ve been recovered to dry land.
You can find this article at http://www.nu .nl. It’s in Dutch.
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RAF typhoon pilot commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 7:21 am
your attempts were feeble ha ha!!!!
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bb commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 7:31 am
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mrhomo commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 8:09 am
tbf james plane may be small, but at least he can afford a plane!
id love 2 see jeremy turn up on a push bike lol
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Helen commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 10:23 am
We know, it’s only Rock ‘n Roll, but we like it!
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madaboutcars commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 11:30 am
So you’re all taking to the skies now huh?
So James is ‘Captain’ Captain Slow;
Richard is ‘Captain Hamster’
And if Jeremy jumps on the bandwagon he might be
‘Captain Jezza’….No?
“Hello, this is your captain speaking…”
Roll on Sunday! x
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Nathan commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Can’t wait!
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Ambitious butrubbish commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Love it!!! I didn’t know Rich could actually fly proper,i knew he was learning,wow come land in my garden!!
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jack c commented on this article
Friday July 24, 2009 at 10:28 pm
get a life mole
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NCTopGearFAN commented on this article
Saturday July 25, 2009 at 9:37 am
cant w8 for da 370z my new fav car!
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Jeremy4PM commented on this article
Saturday July 25, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Gordon Brown is a one eyed fat silly c@nt whom can’t even make a decent slice of buttered toast let alone run this country.
Will that comment by me make the news, no of course it won’t. When will people learn that Clarkson is right about the PM and insults towards the silly c@nt are correct and what happened to freedom of speech.
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Anonymous commented on this article
Saturday July 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm
chumathakay
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lner commented on this article
Saturday July 25, 2009 at 8:55 pm
dont worry all is good quin quale
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quin quale said commented on this article
Saturday July 25, 2009 at 9:04 pm
hello
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jezzas crimper commented on this article
Sunday July 26, 2009 at 8:57 am
A Robinson- with their track record I thought this would be the last thing that Hamster should be allowed near! In fact any whirly lawnmower makes the unstable Typhoon look positively rock solid
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J03 commented on this article
Sunday July 26, 2009 at 9:46 am
when is thwe new series going to come on?
I can do without waiting for bloody ages again
ANYONE KNOW???
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a. commentator commented on this article
Sunday July 26, 2009 at 1:02 pm
there’s no other way to say this boys, but, tg is going downhill. at least last series there were some good films (vietnam, polar) that was the best series yet! but this eries is clearly not the pull out all the stops thriller we were all looking foward to
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Dickie Bo commented on this article
Sunday July 26, 2009 at 7:39 pm
@Jezza’s Crimper:
The Robinson is a fine helicopter and the R22 is used as a trainer in countless whirlybird schools around the world. Do we know if Hammond has the R22 or if he’s stumped up for the more manly R44?
Apparently May’s got ONE of his planes up for sale… it would look lovely next to my C152…
Or maybe the Morris Marina owner’s club should buy it and drop a piano on it?
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bokudoraemon commented on this article
Monday July 27, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
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somesay'' commented on this article
Monday July 27, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hi all I would like to put forward a suggestion which I think would be fun and useful.
My suggestion is as follows.
The topgear website could set up a lottery for fans to enter at a cost say” 1 or 2 pounds per entry at the end of each season one name is pulled out and that lucky person will get tickets to show and a timed lap in the suzuki leana during one of next seasons shows.
the laptime would go on the board marked as joe soap lap time or something’
The money generated from this could go to a charity of the winners choice.
Any way that is it here’s hoping”
regards [somesay'']
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jezzas crimper commented on this article
Monday July 27, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Dear Dickie Bo
An R44 being “more manly”- this is like saying that Alan Carr is more manly than Julian Clary.
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Linda commented on this article
Sunday August 23, 2009 at 4:17 am
Tell Dickie Bo to look me up on Facebook to connect.
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Ariste commented on this article
Monday April 12, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Thank you for great work.
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