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Old 1 Nov 2008, 08:26 (Ref:2325253)   #1
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Top Gear - Season 12
Well its that time again! Season 12 starts tomorrow (nov 2nd) at 8pm! Woohoo!

Timing is just right, well an hour gap, between the F1 and the start of Top Gear!
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 09:47 (Ref:2325278)   #2
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I haven't seen any 'leaks' about what's on this year's series apart from what you can grab from the promo ads on BBC.
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 10:38 (Ref:2325303)   #3
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I believe someone mentioned something about busses....
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 12:28 (Ref:2325341)   #4
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my brother is into buses so much, he can't wait to see what the busses are up to! so is the stunt man going to be on or was it cancelled, i can't rememeber?
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 14:53 (Ref:2325390)   #5
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From the ad I saw they will be doing some driving of HGV's on a vehicle testing ground. Looks funny.
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 17:07 (Ref:2325435)   #6
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apparently they are buying second-hand HGVs and driving them in some challenges, also a lamborghini is in there as well!
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Old 1 Nov 2008, 19:07 (Ref:2325490)   #7
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The buses were at Lydden (looking very "spare" the other week), from the trail I saw on BBC1 it looked like they were on the rallycross circut?
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Old 3 Nov 2008, 02:36 (Ref:2326576)   #8
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Anyone else besides myself notice the Super Aguri rear wing on the Avantime in the series promo?
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Anyone else besides myself notice the Super Aguri rear wing on the Avantime in the series promo?
it certianlly made me laugh when i saw that. it was on the wrong way round aswell when i had a re-look on youtube
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Decent first programme overall. The lorries piece was funny and Richard seemed a little peeved that the GT2 Porky was summarily 'dismissed' by Clarkson in comparison to the Gallardo LP thing.

Interestingly, I wonder what happens now Porsche and Lambo are directly part of the same umbrella.....

Elsewhere, is it me or could The Stig's intro by Jeremy do with being dropped, getting a bit bored with the 'Some say he's.....' bit!!!
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the "some say" bit is getting a bit pantomime now, it was better when it was just a casual item that didn't require so much audience approval to work!

i thought the lorry bit was funny, and it really isn't as easy as it looks, they're completely right! a hill start would be easy once they'd had a bit of basic instruction though which they blatently had, and the coupling and uncoupling bit was quite funny too. it's a shame they didn't get a chance to do the parking exercise that features in the test, that could have been very amusing!
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James May actually won a race.

The Apocalypse is coming.
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Old 3 Nov 2008, 13:33 (Ref:2326956)   #13
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the "some say" bit is getting a bit pantomime now
The whole show is getting a bit pantomime. It's in danger of becoming little more than a series of in jokes.

What was the point of crashing the trucks, or are they desperate to become the new Jackass?
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entertainment. i think we're in danger of taking a car themed entertainment programme seriously here!
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I must say I'm getting fed up as well.

I want Noel Edmonds back and serious road tests of hopeless hatchbacks. Where are the fuel figures, the insurance quotes? Why did they get rid of Jason Dawe after just one series?

It's all WRONG!
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They could do a fuel consumption test, driving with Jason Dawe as passenger and without.
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Knowlesy, go watch www.whatcar.com !

Leave the entertainment to people who enjoy it
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The programme really has become more about entertainment and less about the cars, so in that respect I have to agree with Knowlsey. There should be at least one fairly serious test of a car (and I don't just mean Clarkson ruining a set of tyres doing powerslides) during each show.
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so what consists a car test, then? reading the relevant page in the magazine out loud whilst driving down a motorway?
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entertainment. i think we're in danger of taking a car themed entertainment programme seriously here!
I'm not suggesting a return to the Chris Goffey's review of yet another Subaru Forester, but the show has become very predicable.

Take the truck challenge: Clarkson buys the big powerful truck, Hammond has the small sporter number, May has the middle sensible option. Who would have guessed!
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The buses were at Lydden (looking very "spare" the other week), from the trail I saw on BBC1 it looked like they were on the rallycross circut?
i thought i recognised that circuit
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In previous years, they had the perfect balance of cars & tomfoolery but now there's too much tomfoolery.

It's jumped the shark now I reckon.
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everyone said that last season and oh look, they're still watching

i think you're all overanalysing. it's only telly! lighten up
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It was far better than anything else that was on at the same time
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