Top Gear

[Chester025]

But the car did win the race, and was there before the train.

That may be so, however most of it is staged/fixed, like the caravan fire!

 

[ralphchadkirk]

That may be so, however most of it is staged/fixed, like the caravan fire!

I seem to remember an interview with one of the produces who said that the races are staged, but only to the extent of planning them so that the finishes are very tight, and thus make good TV!

 

[HST Power]

You mean the one where Clarkson gives it a proper test, with various questions [one of which is "Is it green?", to which he replies "Yes... Very], and ultimately finishes with something to do with water? The one where "Basingstoke" appears in the credits?

Of course! I couldn't stop laughing when he drove it through the shopping centre, under pursuit from the Corvette!
The 'is it green' part was hillarious. I think the part you mean with the water is when he takes the Fiesta on a beach assault with the marines.

 

[Andrew Nelson]

As someone who last drove in 1973(!) I enjoy Top Gear - even the repeats on Dave. The 'races' (Verbier, Kristiansand, etc) are too contrived - they have to be in order to be filmed properly. Clarkson has TOO much power, cos he's pro-car and anti-everything else, including trains, AND he's too narrow-minded.

I don't think He's too anti rail, after-all, He did suport IKB for greatest Briton.

 

[SS4]

I don't think He's too anti rail, after-all, He did suport IKB for greatest Briton.

That just means he was a fan of Brunel. I don't have be a Christian to appreciate a church's architecture.

I find it hard to believe that he's as pro car in reality as on the show but the issue is people see what's on the show.

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Hmmm, well...
Show opens inside Barrow Hill, with the presenters (TOC chief execs) standing on the turntable. Features include:
"The News" - gen, sightings.
"Top Track Challenges" - something involving 380 failed doors, rush-hour, and two hundred angry Scottish commuters. Or mistakenly driven, not through the washer, but into the asbestos-removal incinerator.
"A Racer in a reasonably-bad Pacer" - yes, motorsports drivers attempt to get a Pacer down Old Dalby test track in the quickest time.
"Loco bashing" - think what they do to caravans...only this time with old locos.

Naah, I can't see it catching on.

I can see this catching on! There's me, ralphchadkirk and Ivo on the turntable with me and ralph arguing all the time and Ivo calling us both idiots in true Clarkson style

And i love the idea of a racer in a reasonably bad pacer, I am wetting myself over there

I love Top Gear, it is great, it is an real laugh and some of the cars are fab

 

[HST Power]

Clarkson is anti-truck (slightly) and anti-caravan as far as I can tell, not to mention anti-Labour, anti Peter Mandelson, anti Heat magazine, anti people who try to look cool in fifteen year old Fiesta's, anti football, anti German kitchens....
But he's great, isn't he?

Long live Top Gear!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I think rail transport is best portrayed in paper media (i.e. magazines) rather than visual media (i.e. TV). One of the few areas you could say that for possibly.

I mean, really, how many people would want to watch three middle age men discussing Class 37s working Felixstowe Dock trains stood on a turntable in a preserved railway in the Midlands?

 

[ralphchadkirk]

I can see this catching on! There's me, ralphchadkirk and Ivo on the turntable with me and ralph arguing all the time and Ivo calling us both idiots in true Clarkson style

I could see that working!

 

[IanPooleTrains]

I could see that working!

Did I forget to mention that everything that goes wrong, we blame on you

 

[Ivo]

I can see this catching on! There's me, ralphchadkirk and Ivo on the turntable with me and ralph arguing all the time and Ivo calling us both idiots in true Clarkson style

And i love the idea of a racer in a reasonably bad pacer, I am wetting myself over there

I love Top Gear, it is great, it is an real laugh and some of the cars are fab

I'll start writing a script (Like Clarkson said when they won the BAFTAs-or-whatever-it-is for non-scripted a couple of years ago and said he couldn't attend because he was "too busy writing the script" so Sacked Stig went!)

Tonight, on Top Train...

Ian disagrees with Ralph,
Ralph disagrees with Ian,
and I call them both idiots.

So if I'm Clarkson, which of you two is Hammond and May? And who is going to be our Stig? Or... Do we keep that a secret until the autobiography?

 

[HST Power]

Bring on Top Train! Tonight, we burn down Pacers...

I will be whoever is left as there are three positions and just two applicants!

 

[Darandio]

Clarkson is anti-truck (slightly) and anti-caravan as far as I can tell, not to mention anti-Labour, anti Peter Mandelson, anti Heat magazine, anti people who try to look cool in fifteen year old Fiesta's, anti football, anti German kitchens....
But he's great, isn't he?

Long live Top Gear!

I think you should change your username in honour of Mr Clarkson.

"HST Powwweeerrrr"

 

[HST Power]

I think you should change your username in honour of Mr Clarkson.

"HST Powwweeerrrr"

Is there such an option?

 

[Ivo]

I think we need a better name though; Top Train was the best I could think of. I wanted something similar to Top Gear, but it wouldn't flow properly if we said something like "Eighth Throttle".

My brother has just suggested "Off the Rails"; another I've just thought of would be "Top Tender"? (I would say "Top Tank", but people would get the wrong idea.)

You have to ask the Mods

 

[IanPooleTrains]

So if I'm Clarkson, which of you two is Hammond and May? And who is going to be our Stig? Or... Do we keep that a secret until the autobiography?

Oh yes, we have to keep that secret, you know what these paps are like

Well seeing as how me and you are going to be blaming ralph for everything, he can be James May and I'll be Hamster

Another name for our program could be Third Rail? We have a Top Gear, 5th Gear so why not Third Rail?

 

[Ivo]

And now it's time for us to put a Racer in our Reasonably Bad Pacer.

Now, my guest tonight... is not the railways' most popular person at present. She even went as far as to criticise Phillip Hammond for failing to meet his manifesto commitment to bringing electrified rail to South Wales, in spite of confirming electrification to Cardiff. And she even had a sister in Parliament who was heavily caught up in the Expenses scandal. And yet, all the while, she sounds like a bird. Ladies and gentlemen, Maria Eagle.

[Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!]

Ian: I like. Third Rail it is.

 

[HST Power]

I think it would be better to call The Stig 'The Driver'.

And I hereby claim the position!

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Well seeing as how me and you are going to be blaming ralph for everything, he can be James May and I'll be Hamster

Great. I'll be the one with the superior intelligence!

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Great. I'll be the one with the superior intelligence!

You mean you'll be the one that gets lost all the time and has to follow one of us into work

 

[Ivo]

And now it's time for one of our EPIC races. Tonight, we are going to be racing from Cork to Cardiff. Now, usually, this would be simple enough; just go via Waterford to Rosslare. But Irish Rail had the brilliant idea of closing the line. So now Ian and Ralph will have to find some kind of alternate means of travelling from Waterford to Rosslare. All the while, I will be heading up to Dublin and across to Holyhead ready for the Arriva service to Cardiff.

Actually, I'm going to make a thread for Third Rail!

 

[90019]

Clarkson is anti-truck (slightly)

He's anti bus, not truck.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

He's anti bus, not truck.

I agree with that. Buses are just horrible. Being in a car stuck behind one is just thouroughly miserable.

 

[Ivo]

Here you go!

Hammond is more anti-bus than Clarkson. By a long distance. He could be England's most anti-bus man. (If he's tall enough to be called a man.)