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PaulKey
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:18 am Posts: 385
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I'd buy a Merc like that.
Oh.... and I echo everything said about Seb Vettel. What a thoroughly nice guy.
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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I think what they were getting at is that you can now buy a car for £7000 that would have cost £82000 when new (in the case of the CL600). Just shows what depreciation does to expensive cars.
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:40 pm |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Yep, he is depressingly very nice, down to earth and funny. I still want to snap his f****** index fingers off.
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:43 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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A friend of the family was trying to talk my father into a Bentley Type R when they were £15000. "They'll never be cheaper!" was the refrain. Over the last 5 years, we've watched the prices plummet. I was recently window shopping for cars at around the £4000 level, and there's some bargains to be had. I think I made a post about it here somewhere. Was tempted by 2.8 Z4...
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Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:57 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Scalextrix do a Top Gear set. Now Honrby have no excuse but to follow suit. I’d buy it.
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:05 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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presumably it would have to not set on fire though.
Bit of a filler ep tonight I thought. The trains stuff was OK but a bit predictable I thought. I can't imagine even an oaf like Clarkson is actually surprised the Jag couldn't pull four 'carriages'. May would certainly have known. Jag vs GT-R was a nice illustration of how good the GT-R is (and how Ferrari & etc are taking their buyers for idiots) but even I didn't expect it to murder the Jag in straight line quite the way it did. News segment was good but not great. Rowan Atkinson is naturally funny, obviously, but I don't think the interview actually amounted to anything and if he's been driving an F1 for 15 years and actually does race, he's always going to be quick round the track.
Overall... 6/10 ish I think.
Jon
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:24 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Any excuse to smash a caravan though. 
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:18 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Hope you've got an extra 1200 quid to spare 
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Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:10 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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I've only just watched Episode 1 on iPlayer, so a bit of catching up to do. One thing that pi$$ed me off no end was the line-up of GTI cars. They missed out the MK5 and that's the one that clarkson had said was return to form - as fast and exciting as the original. Quite convenient! The animation stuff was nicely done. Really enjoyed it, along with the Tron track. Really? I found the whole thing contrived. Cool to see the scale but crap on everything else That would be good, though I wonder how many of those bangers are now locked up in sheds and forgotten about. I almost had a tear in my eye. JC should run for PM. In the last three or four weeks, I've noticed it loads of times - one of them is in some puff perfume advert. Another one was sports related. I listened to the soundtrack during my revision every day for something like two months. I would have liked to have seen a comparison with the Golf R and Audi RS3 for that price band. No hatch is worth buying at over £30k IMO (and at that price, it'd better have every option ticked with free serviving thrown in!).
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steve74
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm Posts: 1798 Location: Manchester
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Particularly liked "The Interceptors" spoof in this week's episode! 
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:15 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Yes when can we expect it on ITV3 or Dave?
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:27 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I've missed the last two  Bloody work. They'll be gone from iPlayer by the time I get back too 
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Rather enjoyed the most recent one. None of the parts were filler, they were all pretty good. The interceptor thing was rather funny, Clarkson driving the Lotus 'f1 car' was interesting, and the whole 'knocking down buildings' thing was exactly the sort of 'cocking about' they don't actually seem to do much of any more. However I think Heather should send the photo of her car she posted recently to their news department, because it beat either of the ones they showed in the new segment.
Jon
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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I thought exactly the same thing. I may well do it, though I think this series has now ended.
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belchingmatt
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 3:16 am Posts: 6146 Location: Middle Earth
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Rowan Atkinson crashes and burns his F1, in hospital with a shoulder injury.Might as well go in this thread as he was on TG a couple of weeks ago talking about it.
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