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denishogan
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Topic: Top Gear Posted: 28-November-2005 at 06:52 |
I missed Top Gear last night! Went to
The Transporter 2, should've stayed in to watch Top Gear!! Just
wondering if anyone knows if it'll be repeated during the week?
If not, does anyone around my neck of the woods have it recorded?
Thanks!
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kbannon
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 06:59 |
It should be repeated on Tuesday @ 7pm on BBC2
I also missed most of it and will be working tomorrow night
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denishogan
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 07:06 |
Brilliant thanks!!
I would offer to record it for you, but we've two VCRs here and they do nothing but chew tape, sorry!
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T.J.
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 08:14 |
Transporter II - I was amazed they got funding for a sequel! The 1st one was hilarious.. the bit where he kicks off the pedals and fights the boys on the oil...
I'm a deffo for round II!
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sleeper
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 08:20 |
have you bumped your head TJ?
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lesurely
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 08:39 |
try'n to get those 3 cars out of the carpark, you'd feel a real prat sitting there with everyone watching holding up the traffic. The Ford GT was the one for me.
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denishogan
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 08:59 |
lesurely wrote:
try'n to get those 3 cars out of the carpark, you'd
feel a real prat sitting there with everyone watching holding up the
traffic. The Ford GT was the one for me. |
Was the frogeye sprite hillclimb car vs the modded 306 on last night?
I'm almost ashamed to say it, but Transporter II was actually fairly
entertaining. There were one or two scenes that were OTT. (i.e. like
the jump on the bridge in Gone in 60 Seconds), but on the whole, it was
a good laugh - not a total waste of €8.50. Anyone who has seen the
first movie will pick up on loads of little funny bits in the second
one!
'Twas also good to see a sequel of a (non-arty) european movie that
wasn't a complete joke (like Taxi 2 - the french one, or the American
re-make of the original Taxi - with Queen whats-her-name).
As for the transporters new drive... the jury is still out, although it does sound great!
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Peter Fenwick
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:14 |
You didn't miss much, it was the usual drivel from Clarkson. An hour of my life I will never get back
Ok so it wasn't that bad, but he is a bit of a prat
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Fey!
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:20 |
Prat he may be, but if Clarkson wasn't there, would so many people tune in?
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denishogan
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:21 |
Peter Fenwick wrote:
You didn't miss much, it was the usual drivel from Clarkson. An hour of my life I will never get back
Ok so it wasn't that bad, but he is a bit of a prat |
I'd love his job though! I'm just not sarcastic enough!!!
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steven.seed
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:34 |
denishogan wrote:
Peter Fenwick wrote:
You didn't miss much, it was the usual drivel from Clarkson. An hour of my life I will never get back
Ok so it wasn't that bad, but he is a bit of a prat
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I'd love his job though! I'm just not sarcastic enough!!!
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But at least he thinks the M6 is cool, as for Hammond the Hamster he should be made to eat an Allegro then fed to the snakes at Chester Zoo. M6 not cool !!!! the little poodle loving t*t
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Nigel
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:38 |
Bit of an anorack one this guys, but see if you can spot it.
Clarkson is talking to the Minister for transport, and says that as the ( whatever car) can stop in half the distance the highway code says for a given speed, it should be allowed to go at twice the speed.
As you will all know ( I hope) when you double the speed you quadruple the stopping distance, not double it
Don't worry if you didn't know, the minister didn't pick up on it either !
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steven.seed
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 09:51 |
Nigel wrote:
Bit of an anorack one this guys, but see if you can spot it.
Clarkson is talking to the Minister for transport, and says that as the ( whatever car) can stop in half the distance the highway code says for a given speed, it should be allowed to go at twice the speed.
As you will all know ( I hope) when you double the speed you quadruple the stopping distance, not double it
Don't worry if you didn't know, the minister didn't pick up on it either !
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Talking of stopping distances did anyone read the article in Autoexpress a couple of weeks ago. Nice to see the 3 series doing so well, 3rd shortest stopping distance from 85mph behind a Porche fitted with £5800 worth of ceramic's and a new EVO. Pretty impressive I'd say.
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thepits
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 10:35 |
Nigel wrote:
Clarkson is talking to the Minister for transport, and says that as the ( whatever car) can stop in half the distance the highway code says for a given speed, it should be allowed to go at twice the speed.
As you will all know ( I hope) when you double the speed you quadruple the stopping distance, not double it
Don't worry if you didn't know, the minister didn't pick up on it either !
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What he actually said was that as a particular car could stop in 1/2 the stated distance at 70mph ....
so 70mph = 315ft/2 = 157.5ft.
If we assume the same formula applies at 140mph = 1120ft/2 = 560ft
which is only a 56% on the stated 70mph (and roughly equivilent to the HC calulation for 96mph)
(bl**dy pendants! )
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Nigel
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 10:45 |
the formula :
20 x 2 ,30 x 2.5, 40 x 3, 50 x 3.5, 60 x 4,70 x 4.5, 80 x 5, 90 x 5.5, 100 x 6, 110 x 6.5 and so on
I've no idea where they get the original figures from.
The interesting thing about this, is clarkson is talking about new cars, as soon as it gets a few miles under its belt, up go the stopping distances, more to do with dampers than brakes and tyres.
You do a lot of track stuff pittsy, have you any data on different damper to stopping distances ?
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thepits
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 10:51 |
a simpler formula is: -
(speed*speed)/20 +speed = stopping distance in feet
"You do a lot of track stuff pittsy"
eh? what? not me - ask Uwe!
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sleeper
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 10:58 |
Nigel wrote:
Don't worry if you didn't know, the minister didn't pick up on it either !
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oh, how surprised am I!
I got the impression that they were told to be niceish to him, as he could really seem to defend himself!!
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sleeper
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 10:59 |
Nigel wrote:
....You do a lot of track stuff pittsy...
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apparently not, he just looks like he should!
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Peter Fenwick
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 11:04 |
sleeper wrote:
Nigel wrote:
Don't worry if you didn't know, the minister didn't pick up on it either !
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oh, how surprised am I!
I got the impression that they were told to be niceish to him, as he could really seem to defend himself!!
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But he wasn't really there to defend government policy on speed cameras. Even so I thought he gave a good account for himself. Even Clarkson admitted that cameras are no good at generating revenue.
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Fey!
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Posted: 28-November-2005 at 11:07 |
WRT stopping distances, wouldn't another variable there be tyres - cheap, crap tyres = no stopping distance?
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