Top Gear FTW: Spoilers (Pun intended, but really, spoilers)

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:07 am 0

Dio wrote:So I was quite right with the flamey stuff then

Oh yes!

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:37 am 0

Spoongod wrote:
Firefox wrote:Can't believe Prodrive aren't going to build the P2! That's just a crime!
That car is how the Subaru Imprezza should look. I hate the Imprezza for a multitude of reasons, but the P2, although still visibly based on the same vehicle, I utterly seminal. Wicked car. It's a pity they're not even doing a short run. I will cry now.

yep it's quite a stroke of luck that only the original scoobyz are teh b0ll0x, lucky for my bank account that is!! hehe

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:48 am 0

Quite a car. I particularly appreciated the look of deep concentration on captain slow while Jackie Stewart was abusing him. He's a bit of a git teaching people to shoot too, but he does know his stuff.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:26 am 0

Old_but_still_a_kid wrote:
Spoongod wrote:
Firefox wrote:Can't believe Prodrive aren't going to build the P2! That's just a crime!
That car is how the Subaru Imprezza should look. I hate the Imprezza for a multitude of reasons, but the P2, although still visibly based on the same vehicle, I utterly seminal. Wicked car. It's a pity they're not even doing a short run. I will cry now.
yep it's quite a stroke of luck that only the original scoobyz are teh b0ll0x, lucky for my bank account that is!! hehe

Indeed, they are the only shape I'd consider buying. Here's why.

But I guess I just have taste.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:34 am 0

Portland wrote:He's a bit of a git teaching people to shoot too, but he does know his stuff.

Is that outside the UK? I thought gun shooting was banned in the UK after the Dunblane massacre.

I read a while back that that was a problem for the origanizers of the 2012 Olympics as the gun shooting events (not really sports but they are still part of the Games) would have to be held outside of the UK in a country where it was not yet banned.

BlackJedi · Post by **BlackJedi** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:42 am 0

DutchLlama wrote:Is that outside the UK? I thought gun shooting was banned in the UK after the Dunblane massacre.

Handguns were banned after Dunblane. Jackie Stewart uses a shotgun.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:49 am 0

.22 caliber handguns are illegal, due to law changes after Dunblane.

Some handguns and rifles are legal if you own a firearms license

Shotguns with clips of up to 8 cartridges can be owned if you have a firearms license.

Shotguns with a capacity for 2 or less shots are legal if you own a shotgun license. Technically you can get a cart in the barrel of aemi-automatic shotgun and 2 in the clip, so you could carry three. Anymodification to fit more rounds will be frowned upon and punished heavilly.

Air and CO2 rifles and pistols are legal although age limits and usage laws apply.

Airsoft (guns that fire low velocity plastic BBs) are legal in the same was as other 'air' guns although may be outlawed for no reason what-so-ever in the near future.

Just so you know.

Edit: Oh, and Pump-action shotguns are illegal. *shrug*

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:51 am 0

BlackJedi wrote:
DutchLlama wrote:Is that outside the UK? I thought gun shooting was banned in the UK after the Dunblane massacre.
Handguns were banned after Dunblane. Jackie Stewart uses a shotgun.

Yup, get ye to Scotland and you can receive instruction from the Maestro.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:23 am 0

Spoongod wrote: Indeed, they are the only shape I'd consider buying. Here's why.

But I guess I just have taste.

It's you, innit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjUjJ0kJyc

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:25 am 0

Portland wrote: Yup, get ye to Scotland and you can receive instruction from the Maestro.

No, they don't do cheap family cars these days, remember?

Simon B

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http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=53726&start=0

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:56 am 0

Just want to say, I hate most Imprezzas, the WRX in particular.

Thought I'd better clarify that. Mazda RX series man, me.

Personal favourites:

Mazda RX7 Type RB 'E-FD3S'

Such a cool car.

Mazda RX8

Again, oozes pure style and is still pretty nimble (although not as insanely so as the RX7 FD).

Mazda RX3 Coupe, Series I

Yeah, fuckin' 70's style. It looks awesome, but I hear they are complete bastards. Many no longer retain their rotary innards, replaced by Cortina engines and the like. Still nice though.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:29 pm 0

Oooh, Mondeo ST Vs Mazda Series 6 Vs Vectra. Big fan of the 6, but the Mondeo ST is a nice car when set against other saloons. The Vectra can fuck off IMHO but it's not a bad car. Just a very predictable one, and one without any class or style past being a bit of a colour-coded chavmobile. Don't care how quick it is in a sraight line, really. It is fucking quick in a sraight line, however.

We have the exact same model of scrolling LED display on the shop that they had in the back of the caravan.

All in all: LOOOOOOOLAEG

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:43 pm 0

ooo another Top Gear thread, I can't resist!

I wouldn't want the Vectra either. Its interesting, but I was reading a book Clarkson wrote 'I know you got Soul', and he made a very good point about one thing he hates in cars.

He hates it when it's a company filling a niche in a market, rather than the resulat of passion. Like someone dreaming about making cars as a boy, then doing it in real life, as with some of the great British names. I wonder if anyone dreamed of building the Vectra as a little boy/girl?

However, he did also point out that some people are motorists, and others are drivers. I guess the motorist doesn't care for shelling out big bucks, and the Vectra is good enough.

And Clarkson is a twit. A funny twit though

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:34 am 0

The Vectra's understeer was just pathetic, really really dangerous aswell, if it did sell well there will be a lot of lane changing crashes

Have to say I would have the Mazda, but would never buy a new car, some other bastard can go bankrupt on the depreciation for a year or two! LOL

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:34 am 0

The thing about handling in a car is that if your drive within your cars limits you shouldn't crash. Therefore, if you're the sort of person who's likely to thrash your car about and you buy a car with incredible understeer, you're very silly. It's silly to thrash about on public roads anyway, but to do so in a car that will get you killed is really foolish, IMO.

So it's Mazdas all round? I wonder if they come in six-packs, I could have one for every day of the week and keep my '98 Accent for sundays.

I forsee much after market modification on the steering and suspension of that Vectra. It's so fast that it's almost sad to see it handle that way. I mean, my car understeers simply because its FWD, but that Vectra was barely turning going into some corners. Their didn't seem to be much roll despite Clarkson's dispair of the chassis, it just wasn't going where it was supposed to. The lap time actually surprised me, I was expecting somewhere just in the middle thrid on the board.

Still looks like a chav mobile though, with that colour coded V. It sayd "we don't do Novas no more, but you're a little older now so why not drive this instead?"