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Originally posted by thepits thepits wrote:

Originally posted by Bigian Bigian wrote:

will it not be on bbc i player
yes it isn't

but, if you look hard enough, it might still be

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Access bloked by IT!  Must be dodgy!

Yes you can watch the whole episode on iPlayer.

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on again ............ now

 

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I thought that was rather a good test drive Jeremy gave the Fiesta
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Originally posted by Misty Morning Misty Morning wrote:

...Fiesta

the what? "BMW Feista"? Nope - never heard of it

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Just watched "Pimp my ride UK" and thet put a BMW front body kit on a Fiesta mark 3.
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Originally posted by Misty Morning Misty Morning wrote:

Just watched "Pimp my ride UK" and thet put a BMW front body kit on a Fiesta mark 3.

No they didn't - its still a Fraud!

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Oh yes they did
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Originally posted by Misty Morning Misty Morning wrote:

Oh yes they did

oh no they didn't
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More like this I think...
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That vid seems to be a recording of the original - better quality here (down right hand side)
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Fiesta

Is that not a mens adult mag.

will watch later i was watching ratatouille on sky + at time
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Just PMSL watching TG repeated on Dave about The Nissan Blue Cube. I had forgotten how funny it was, and how revolting.
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I presume that most of you saw JC test the Tesla recently.



Well, here is their response:
Quote For the record: Thanks to The Stig's impressive turn behind the wheel, the Tesla Roadster gets a higher ranking in Top Gear's performance board than a Porsche 911 GT3. Jeremy Clarkson, a die-hard "petrol head" with a clear bias against green cars generally, said that it must be "snowing in hell" because he had such a great time driving the Roadster and now considers himself a "volt head" thanks to the Roadster's amazing performance. This is amazingly high praise from Clarkson, whose entire schtick is to savage even his most beloved petrol-guzzling sports cars.

However, I would like to clarify a couple things. Never at any time did Clarkson or any of the Top Gear drivers run out of charge. In fact, they never got below 20 percent charge in either car; they never had to push a car off the track because of lack of charge or a fault. (It's unclear why they were pushing one into a garage in the video; I'll refrain from speculating about their motives.)

The "brake failure" Clarkson mentions was solely a blown fuse; a service technician replaced the Roadster's pump and it was back up and running immediately. They were never without a car, and the Top Gear testing did not put the Roadster's reliability or safety in question whatsoever. Again, I'm going to leave out comments as to why the good folks at Top Gear might have mischaracterized the blown fuse as a brake failure, which is was decidedly not.

I am also unclear as to why Clarkson said it took 16 hours to recharge the Roadster without qualifying that statement at all. The vast majority of people who have taken delivery of their Roadsters (and there are more than 100 of them now) have much faster systems that recharge from dead to full in as little as 3.5 hours.

However, I really enjoyed Clarkson's suggestion that, if people want to race Roadsters 24-7, they should simply buy two. ;)

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Outstanding car shame about the price
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Originally posted by Bigian Bigian wrote:

Outstanding car shame about the price

Exactly. 

Electric cars can be very quick as electric motors produce a very high torque as soon as they start to spin.  Petrol and diesel engines need to be revved to get the high torque.  High torques give quick acceleration times which equals fun!

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