Top Gear on BBC America

snow

Anyone ever watch the Top Gear show on BBC America? I watched my first episode tonight and I have to admit its funny as hell



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mutelight

I have literally watched every single episode of the true BBC version. I absolutely love that show!

In fact here is an old picture on my old setup with it up on the tube. :cool:

SBrown712

I watch it every chance I get. I also have downloaded a lot of episodes and watch them on the computer. I think it is probably the best car show ever on TV.

shadowofnight

THE STIG


I watch it pretty regular...loved when they tried to beat The Stig across a local finish line in a kit car they hobbled together ... as The Stig had to start hundreds of miles away. That poor kit car....

SWFalken

If you want to see every episode from series 1 episode 1 to series 12 episode 8 as they originally aired on the BBC, go to www.mininova.org, they have torrents of every episode available. Another good resource is www.finalgear.com, they have links to the shows and countdown timers to the coming season. By the way, the downloads on mininova are usually Divx encoded, which works out good for me because my Blu Ray player plays them natively.

TNRabbit

Top Gear is hilarious. I've been watching it for years.

bobman1235

One of my favorite shows.

heiney9

One of my fave's. The cool thing is they have nice cars, etc......but they never take things to seriously. I hope that show lives on forever. Just the right balance of entertainment, wit, and information.

Fireman32

I love that show. Was watching it last night.

snow

SWFalken wrote: »

If you want to see every episode from series 1 episode 1 to series 12 episode 8 as they originally aired on the BBC, go to www.mininova.org, they have torrents of every episode available. Another good resource is www.finalgear.com, they have links to the shows and countdown timers to the coming season. By the way, the downloads on mininova are usually Divx encoded, which works out good for me because my Blu Ray player plays them natively.

Thanks for the info.

heiney9 wrote: »

One of my fave's. The cool thing is they have nice cars, etc......but they never take things to seriously. I hope that show lives on forever. Just the right balance of entertainment, wit, and information.

Agreed an all around great show. I rarely watch TV and if I do have it on its usually on a music channel for background music but I happened to be surfing through the channels when a scene of a black Bentley caught my eye so I watched the rest of the show and was pleasantly surprised at how well put together the show was.



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bobman1235

My favorites are probably the road trip episodes. The Vietnam one, or the one in Southern US, were fantastic. I love how the guys eff with each other.

shack

bobman1235 wrote:

My favorites are probably the road trip episodes. The Vietnam one, or the one in Southern US, were fantastic.

Thats the one where they each bought a motorcycle for 15 million dongs (about $1,000 US). Funny stuff.

heiney9

Vietnam was a classic epsiode.

zingo

The thing that frustrates me about the show, is that since it airs in the UK, they have the internet rights to it. On the BBC website, there is a place where you can stream the show just like on our network channels, but you have to have a UK IP address in order to use it. Crappy...

ohskigod

even when they bag on current year mustangs, do comparisons saying a car is a mustang gt when its actually the 6 cyl model (when they raced the horse with it)

even with them talking smack about my car, I still love that show

heiney9

Thing is Lou, they don't discriminate............they'll talk smack about ANY car brand or model. They surely don't get much of their funding from advertisers who expect a compliment about their product every other show.

Jstas

If you want to watch TopGear, Fifth Gear or any of the other versions from Australia, Russia and so on, it's simple.

Download this: http://www.utorrent.com/

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I have cataloged and archived every season of Top Gear, even some of the shows from the first run when Clarkson was just a TV journalist and not the executive produced.

And if you're waiting for the BBC to air shows, last I checked, BBC America was at least 2 seasons behind.


Oh and, BTW, the shows aired on BBC America have been drastically edited to fit the advertising template here and to edit content that they think would offend U.S. views. So the BBC America version isn't the whole deal and that kinda sucks because you miss out on alot.

ohskigod

heiney9 wrote: »

Thing is Lou, they don't discriminate............they'll talk smack about ANY car brand or model. They surely don't get much of their funding from advertisers who expect a compliment about their product every other show.

your definitly right there, and it's one of the things I like about the show....the shear honesty.

sometimes there off on facts, like the Mustang GT / 6 cyl thing with the horse race. they also compared a Shelby gt500 to a Rousch GT and said they liked the other because it handled better with the "independent rear suspension" ........ problem is, it has a solid axle just like the GT500 and my car, just with better suspension parts (hence the better handling). It was an awesome handling car despite the axle (hence an axle, while certainly dated, can handle damn well if done right), but either they neglected to recognize it, or just didnt want to.

they lose it on some details, especially with american cars. that said, I still like to watch the smarmy ****

pablo_rodz

Top Gear is hands down THE BEST TV SHOW EVER!!! Ive been watching it for years!! Even my wife likes it.... I didn't know it was back on... I'll have to check my DVR

nadams

I have every episode of both the original (80's, early 90's) and the current format show. I'm a Top Gear nut. Even my GF likes watching it! The challenges have always been great, especially the cheap car challenges. How much fun must their jobs be???

unc2701

Anyone see Clarkson's Insight review (print)?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article6294116.ece?print=yes&randnum=1242604714984

"So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more."

"....And the sound is worse. The Honda’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone else’s crying baby on an airliner. It’s worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open. Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer."



Hilarious.

snow

bobman1235 wrote: »

My favorites are probably the road trip episodes. The Vietnam one, or the one in Southern US, were fantastic. I love how the guys eff with each other.

Well I downloaded the Vietnam bike trip via the bit torrent thing and watched that tonight. That was quite a trip for sure, the traffic in Saigon looked pretty hellish allright, did anyone notice the motorcylists were all under the age of 30 there? I think thats because thats your maximum life expectancy if your riding a bike there


All in all a great show, thanks for reccomending it.



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roygrady

Love Top Gear!

cnh

I watch a number of things on BBC but I've never even heard of this. But then again...I'm getting to old to think much about cars. If it moves and its reliable I drive it. That's why I'm now in the safest insurable age bracket...over 50, married with kids and a home.

But I know it's a big hobby for a lot of people so that's cool.

cnh

bobman1235

While the show is about cars, the cars aren't the best part of it, it's the hosts.

I find it hard to believe that you watch anything on BBC and have never seen at least an ad for Top Gear. It's one of the most watched shows on the PLANET - they estimate a quarter BILLION people watch it worldwide.

cnh

Thanks bobman,

I may track it down....it's seems like it might be a bit like listening to Cartalk on NPR! I don't really listen for the auto stuff that much but because the T-brothers are such a lark, and they're from my part of N.England.

cnh

heiney9

Top Gear is 100x better than Cartalk, IMO

obieone

The best episode I've seen so far, was the one where they were taking the American MUSCLE cars to the Bonneville salt flats:D
One of the hosts was BITCHING about driving a Cadillac CTS-V(IIRC), and was complaining about the car....UNTIL, he got to the windy mountain roads of CA. Then he was happy:p
Too bad a Mustang didn't make an appearence in that show. It would have been nice to see all 3 US flagged cars represented, but 2/3 was nice.

I think the F-150 Lightning episode, might have had something to do with it,:rolleyes:

[Deleted User]

The Vietnam one was great! Been there many times and heading there again this June. Gonna record video while there, the traffic is among the hardest to navigate in the world. I completely enjoyed that episode from start to finish. A beautiful country.

Halen

unc2701

obieone wrote: »

Too bad a Mustang didn't make an appearence in that show. It would have been nice to see all 3 US flagged cars represented, but 2/3 was nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2MYm1bjto

Fat bloke in lotus vs Stig in mustang

Vette C6.r

They seem to have a hatred of American cars, minus the ZR-1 and CTS-V. Still a great show none the less.