NEW New new new New top gear ON HOLD, RIP?

[rantingYoof]

If you liked the car porn on main TG I'd suggest checking out Extra Gear for Fairlady 240Z action.

 

Notwithstanding the unnecessary damage to the two star cars, that was the best episode of Top Gear for a long, long time.

 

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[MorrisItalSLX]

I have not watched a single episode of new new Top Gear, and I don't intend on doing so.

[Yoss]

It was the best episode yet mainly due to the subject matter. But it could have been so much better. That auction was mental. I wanted a proper look around the yard. At one point there was a Renault 4 behind them and they didn't bat an eyelid. But then I guess it's not Autoshite TV is it?

 

I'd like to have seen more of the Toyota Crown Taxi too. And maybe it's just me but I find the kei cars interesting too because we don't get most of them here. It's a completely different world.

 

Rory's bit was good though. Makes the average UK cruise look tame and if you're going to have a supercar a genuine Le Mans Porsche 962 is about as super as it gets, at least to people of my age. That is such a beautiful car especially in the Rothmans livery. Shame he blew it up. That must have been expensive!

[HMC]

That 962 was mental, apparently one of the Rossi family had one of the Martini Racing Porsche 917s turned into a road car which if anything would be even more unhinged.

[dollywobbler]

Ok, I'll give it a go. Sounds far better than the 'hilarious' trailer.

 

Harris uses his own 2CV in that episode, and the 2CV race community was involved too. I have high hopes.

[dollywobbler]

You need MightyCarMods. They've done auction episodes, and lots on Kei cars.

 

Indeed. The Mighty Mira rebuild was utterly ridiculous, and entirely fascinating.

[rantingYoof]

No star segment either!

 

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[xtriple]

I liked it just fine... until the end when they trashed those two cracking cars   That made me sad.

[lesapandre]

It was the best episode yet mainly due to the subject matter. But it could have been so much better. That auction was mental. I wanted a proper look around the yard. At one point there was a Renault 4 behind them and they didn't bat an eyelid. But then I guess it's not Autoshite TV is it?

 

I'd like to have seen more of the Toyota Crown Taxi too. And maybe it's just me but I find the kei cars interesting too because we don't get most of them here. It's a completely different world.

 

Rory's bit was good though. Makes the average UK cruise look tame and if you're going to have a supercar a genuine Le Mans Porsche 962 is about as super as it gets, at least to people of my age. That is such a beautiful car especially in the Rothmans livery. Shame he blew it up. That must have been expensive!

There was a lot more humour to be mined. Those tiny-pickups looked fun why didnt they race them themselves or make some. And what happened to the Porsche that could have been funnier. I'd like to have seen more Japanese- maybe they could have met their car show equivalents for a drive off or not? And what about wrestling a sumo for the keys to the Mazda? 

[lesapandre]

I'd see Japanese cars as where the real classic car interest is going...Kei, and some of the nuttier models...Celica GT4 etc.

[Keymaster]

 

 

I'd like to have seen more of the Toyota Crown Taxi too.

They're ace. They ride like an ocean liner and the rear passenger door is operated by the driver using a lever up front (all the drivers go bananas if you try to open/close that door yourself) The massive hinge means guaranteed bruised ankles if you sit in that seat.

[meshking]

 

I watched this today, I really enjoyed it. I still don't quite get why driving a car sideways with smoke pouring off the tyres is an indication of a good handling car, but perhaps I'm just getting old.

 

 

 

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[Yoss]

Aha, so it probably wasn't a Renault 4, I thought that was a strange thing to find at a Japanese auction.

 

It was probably a Suzuki Lapin (Rabbit)

With a Renault 4 bodykit. Because why wouldn't you? Just spent an enjoyable half hour googling kei cars. So there's a size restriction and engines are limited to 660cc and 63hp and yet they seem to manage to have more variety than the entire European car market.

[Chris2cv]

Last night had the first bit of Clarkson style "did he really say that" humour I have heard on the show for several years. As they enter a restaurant in Japan, Matt says "Do you like Wanko Soba", Harris replies "I usually have a few beers first!" This sort of silliness is what appeals to me, rather than10 minutes of drifting.

[face]

I liked it aside from wrecking that RX/7.

 

Loved the Manga graphics, but I like all that shite anyway.

[Yoss]

Though once they'd bent the RX7 you could see white paint in the door shuts. Like it was a white car with a cheap yellow blowover. So it may not have been the smart car that it first appeared.

[Pillock]

I thought that, plus I was looking at RX7 prices on some Japanese autotrader thing and they're not mega expensive for a standard one so perhaps it's like coming to the UK and trashing a BMW 320i.

[alcyonecorporation]

I finally got to watch NNNN Top Gear in Japan (innit), and I didn't mind it, despite some top class mitherposting on here.

 

Ebisu Circuit actually appeared twice; the LC500 / Civic race was on Higashi (East) course and the slightly cringeworthy R34/FD drift sequence was on Minami, the one with the infamous jump that made a mega star out of Daigo Saito.

 

GunSai also appeared but we only saw the pit and a tiny bit of the track. I'm glad they paid Best Motoring/Hot Version some dues, too.

 

Also, that '962' looked more like a Dauer in race livery rather than a bona-fide Porsche, but I could be wrong.

[The Moog]

I quite liked it. Better than Bigfoot nonsense last week.

[AnthonyG]

I thought it was good, the drifting bit was a bit crap but the rest was enjoyable. The fact there was no ‘star in a car’ segment certainly improved it.

 

Oh, and it was definitely a real Renault 4 at the auction - an last of the line 1980s one by the look of it.

[flat4alfa]

I have not watched a single episode of new new Top Gear, and I don't intend on doing so.

 

Being where you are, do you follow the Top Gear Australia series?  We cannot get, though I have watched a few that have been ripped and uploaded.  Not many though.

 

The noisiest, youthful and manic one has to be Top Gear Korea.  It's refreshingly* sexist and puerile in places.  Like the good old days*

[flat4alfa]

...the rear passenger door is operated by the driver using a lever up front (all the drivers go bananas if you try to open/close that door yourself) 

 

I have done just that - I think it thumped him in the side, as he flinched forward.  The other gaijin in the car with me gave me a ticking off.  Bl00dy tourist.

[flat4alfa]

Ah yes, that's no Lapin that's a proper La Régie with the 3-bolt hubs

 

[Yoss]

I thought it was but then started doubting myself when I found this Lapin thing. In that case he's definitely looking the wrong way.

 

I wonder if it's RHD. Did Renault sell them over there? If not it could be an ex UK car.

[Junkman]

They sold them RHD in the UK as well as Japan as well as all other RHD markets.

They built them (among many other places) in Heidelberg, Australia as well as Naas and Wexford, Ireland.

RHD versions were definitely also made in France.

 

Going by the headlights and side repeaters, it's a Japanese market model.

 

Complete* list of 'trelle production locations:

 

Algiers, Algeria (CARAL)
Billancourt, France
Casablanca, Morocco
Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico
Envigado, Colombia
Guarda, Portugal
Heidelberg, Australia
Ljubljana/Novo Mesto, SFR Yugoslavia (today Slovenia)
Los Andes, Chile
Milan, Italy (Alfa Romeo)
Montevideo, Uruguay (Renault Mini 4 - local version)
Naas, Ireland
Santa Isabel, Argentina (IKA)
Valladolid, Spain
Vilvoorde, Belgium
Wexford, Ireland

[Dirk Diggler]

Video of The Stig's Guinness World Record attempt for tractor land speed record; sorry it won't all me to imbed the video

 

https://www.independent.ie/videos/entertainment/watch-fastest-tractor-in-the-world-driven-by-the-stig-smashes-former-speed-record-36733382.html#play

[scruff]

I encountered the Top Gear Tracktor earlier this summer. 

 

It's basically a Chevy blazer or some similar yank pickup with big wheels on the back, the roll cage to make the tractor shape, and some really rather toss wiring. 

 

A few people had tried to get it to go to no avail, so I gave it a tow half a mile or so to it's transport back to Beaulieu. 

 

[HMC]

8pm tonight- line up mcguinness, flintoff and Harris.

Will there be seeds of banter and personal chemistry that characterised the original relaunch; and perhaps more importantly do you think you will like them as a group?

 

Im hoping for a few old banger road trips- tonight’s episode at least in part is from Ethiopia- sounds promising?

[beko1987]

Ive been watching clips on YouTube and am looking forward to it tbh, I like paddy and Harris. I'll have to grab it on iplayer after it's aired I think but will watch it. 

[iainrcz]

Not seen any of the "new" one.
I like Chris Harris though, watch quite a few of his YouTube videos.

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