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Title: Top Gear Post by: Bogus Dave on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:04:07 :shock:
WOW Title: Top Gear Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:04:39 That's a bit cryptic
Title: Top Gear Post by: Samdy Gray on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:06:16 I want to go to the north pole in a Toyota Hilux 8)
Title: Top Gear Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:12:18 That was ace 8)
Title: Top Gear Post by: blinkpip on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:12:55 Yeah Yeah it was smashing.
What are you lot on about? Title: Top Gear Post by: Bogus Dave on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:22:32 Probably the best top gear ever
Title: Top Gear Post by: Sussex on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:22:54 That was quality viewing! Shame we didn't get to see Hammond reach the North Pole though.
Title: Top Gear Post by: Batch on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:48:47 Brilliant, just finished watching on Sky+.
The tree huggers were less impressed mind Quote A RACE across the Arctic Circle by the three stars of TV’s Top Gear show was yesterday condemned by environment campaigners. Greenpeace described the race to the magnetic North Pole involving gas-guzzling 4x4s as “beggaring belief” and “highly irresponsible” and said the BBC – a public service broadcaster – should not screen it. In Top Gear – Polar Special, Jeremy Clarkson and James May race specially converted Toyota Hilux vehicles against Richard Hammond driving a sled pulled by Canadian inuit dogs. The latest outcry follows another controversial Top Gear shoot in Africa when the team drove across the fragile Makgadikgadi salt plains in Botswana. Emily Armistead, of Greenpeace, said: “The Arctic is one of the areas most endangered by climate change. “Perhaps Clarkson and his cronies felt that climate change wasn’t destroying the Arctic quick enough, so they decided to do this. It’s quite astounding really. “Unfortunately, Top Gear presenters and their producers represent your typical 4x4 driver. “They are taking some of the most polluting vehicles on the road to spew out far more CO2 than is necessary in an area that is suffering the worst damage from climate change. “We’re already seeing the impact on polar bears where the ice cap gets thinner and thinner every year.” Although the BBC has recently broadcast both Saving Planet Earth about endangered species and the Live Earth concert, Armistead also criticised the corporation for screening the programme. SEARCH NEWS / SHOWBIZ for: “It does matter that Top Gear keeps on doing things like this,” she said. “All right, they’re like naughty boys, we recognise that, but it is supposed to be on a public service broadcasting channel. You would expect a bit more responsibility. Top Gear doesn’t take seriously any of the issues facing us on transport.” In response to an earlier Greenpeace campaign against 4x4s, Clarkson and his friends chained themselves to buses at Hammersmith Bus Station in London. Armistead said: “When you’re dealing with that sort of thing, I say leave them to it and let the world be their judge. But Clarkson is a problem because he has represented some climate-sceptic views and for someone to be on national television saying that is quite alarming.” Emil Grimmson, chairman of Arctic Trucks in Greenland who modified the vehicles for the programme, said that Clarkson and May “did quite well for novices” on the 2000 kilometre trip. On environmental concerns, Grimmson said: “Anything you do anywhere will cost energy. The Hilux is quite a light vehicle actually.” But he did concede that the project could be environmentally damaging. “I think any expedition, or vacation, is going to be quite bad,” he said. “But I think we did this project quite nicely in those terms. Everybody was thinking about that while we were doing it.” None of the presenters or the producer would comment. Title: Top Gear Post by: Bogus Dave on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 20:59:14 Surely driving that 4x4 400 miles over the arctic is no different than driving a 4x4 from london to scotland :?. Whats the big hoo-ha
Title: Top Gear Post by: STFC_Manc on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 21:35:33 has top gear started again? if so i will have to dl it! what season we up 2 now?
Title: Top Gear Post by: Bogus Dave on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 21:36:38 Was only a one off i think. Repeated again sunday
Title: Top Gear Post by: axs on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 23:18:04 i missed it but just found a torrent:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/808898 avi version. Title: Top Gear Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 07:40:08 Quote from: "STFC_Manc" has top gear started again? if so i will have to dl it! what season we up 2 now? It's summer, but if you look outside you wouldn't believe it. Title: Top Gear Post by: STFCBird on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 08:44:41 Thought it was ace, but finished a bit abruptly, could of taken the piss out of hunky hammond a bit more at the end
Title: Top Gear Post by: Northern Red on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 11:37:28 Driving to the north pole through a ice boulder field while drinking a gin and tonic :mrgreen:
Title: Top Gear Post by: Gazza's Fat Mate on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 11:50:10 Fucking ace and lets be honest, does any one like ice? if it melts no skin of my nose I live at the top of a fuck off hill bring on climate change warmer summers etc etc
Title: Top Gear Post by: Barry Scott on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 11:54:36 Quote from: "Gazza's Fat Mate" Fucking ace and lets be honest, does any one like ice? if it melts no skin of my nose I live at the top of a fuck off hill bring on climate change warmer summers etc etc I'll give you that one. That made me chuckle. Title: Top Gear Post by: cib on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 13:59:40 Quote from: "Gazza's Fat Mate" Fucking ace and lets be honest, does any one like ice? if it melts no skin of my nose I live at the top of a fuck off hill bring on climate change warmer summers etc etc whats so special about a fuck off hill? Title: Top Gear Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, July 26, 2007, 14:27:55 It doesn't get flooded!
Title: Top Gear Post by: pumbaa on Saturday, August 25, 2007, 19:55:38 YAY! Top Gear has reached BBC America!
I have never laughed so much at a hour's TV as I just have. Another to come! Driving a home-made convertible Renault Espace through Woburn Safari Park :shock: Nutters. Title: Top Gear Post by: Summerof69 on Sunday, August 26, 2007, 07:19:03 Quote from: "pumbaa" YAY! Top Gear has reached BBC America! I have never laughed so much at a hour's TV as I just have. Another to come! Driving a home-made convertible Renault Espace through Woburn Safari Park :shock: Nutters. Just wait until they show the episode where they took a caravan with they and 'accidentally' set fire to it. Got to say my fave episode is when they have a race from Italy to the Nat West tower, with Clarkson in a Bugatti Veyron (the concorde of the car world) and with a price tag of £850k,with May and Hammond in a light aircraft. Best part is when Clarkson is going through France, and he phones up an insurance companies to see how much it would cost to insure. He gets diverted to India, and the guy thinks he's asking about a Rover. :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Title: Top Gear Post by: Sussex on Sunday, August 26, 2007, 07:52:40 Quote from: "pumbaa" YAY! Top Gear has reached BBC America! I have never laughed so much at a hour's TV as I just have. Another to come! Driving a home-made convertible Renault Espace through Woburn Safari Park :shock: Nutters. Can you get Bravo over there Coxy? Repeats of Top Gear on every day.. Title: Top Gear Post by: pumbaa on Sunday, August 26, 2007, 12:39:35 Quote from: "Sussex" Quote from: "pumbaa" YAY! Top Gear has reached BBC America! I have never laughed so much at a hour's TV as I just have. Another to come! Driving a home-made convertible Renault Espace through Woburn Safari Park :shock: Nutters. Can you get Bravo over there Coxy? Repeats of Top Gear on every day.. Yes. Whilst the channel shares the same name, obviously the programming is different. Yesterday was the first time I'd seen TG on the schedules here. And about time too! |