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My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« on: July 14, 2007, 05:06:20 pm »
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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2007, 07:07:28 pm »
Ah, but they couldn't kill it! It now resides in a place of honour in the TG studio. :)
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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2007, 07:36:37 pm »
My fave is the Lotus-tuned Lada episode.  The Toyota one comes in a close second though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbOfA5JvYgo

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2007, 03:33:20 pm »
This is old, but I love it. Destroying a Toyota Pickup.  :o

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrk6vsb77xk&NR=1

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc4Ksz3nHM

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk

Enjoy.

That is great. Curiously I "destroyed" my 88 Toyata 4*4 with less abuse than that. Of course that was with the new fancy schmancy V6 with EFI and the IFS. I guess they were already losing their toughness.

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2007, 09:42:14 am »
Maybe they could take my Lotus and turn it into a LADA.....................Oooh wait i already DID.... :-X..maybe if i camped outside their works gate they'd take pity on ME......lucky Lada LAD...............
THERE IS NO CURE FOR "LOTUS"......ONLY TREATMENT.....

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2007, 03:09:50 am »
I'd have to vote for the Toyota one as well, with the new American episode a close second.  Third place is a tie between the "Toybota" and the Ariel Atom face-deforming shenanigans.



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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2007, 11:44:16 am »
haha yeah....I love the American roadtrip as well. Was the redneck part REAL?

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2007, 01:08:17 pm »
A lot of the show is staged (like the races across Europe vs. Captain Slow), but I'm not sure about the redneck attack.  It does seem way too stereotypical to not be staged...

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2007, 02:19:30 pm »
Squishy...how did your face get like THAT........d'ya own an ATOM Blaster...??? ::) :P

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2007, 02:32:55 pm »
I wish.  Is that thing even legal in Canada?

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Re: My Favorite Top Gear Episode
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2007, 02:45:03 pm »
..ask Id..................