Your chance to get Top Gear in the US!!!!!

Post by **sachmo12345** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

http://www.bbcamerica.com/abou...n.jsp

Hey, go to the link provided and you can request to have Top Gear aired on the BBC america channel!! It takes 2 seconds, just click on the link, then mark the "Top Gear" box. Looks like this could be the only way we get the show on the US side of the Atlantic!!

Post by **Bunta240** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

I voted. But I dont even know what Top Gear is. Care to elaberate?

Post by **sachmo12345** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Top Gear is a british car show which i 10x better than anything on TV in the US now

Post by **sachmo12345** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

everybody do yourselves a favor and vote for it

Post by **SeVa-S13** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

It's with the hilarious English guy who just goes out and tests awesome cars, and gets paid for it. It's sweet, vote for it.

Post by **The Mic** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

i doubt it can top inital D....

yes, i just lit the torch

Post by **Bunta240** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Cool, I got it confused with Top Gun for awhile. But yea, I agree with S13GUY, nothing can replace Initial D for me.

Post by **milo** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Top gear is real :/

mark monty python as well

Post by **Rockenreno** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

top gear is awesome

Post by **SeVa-S13** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

I think I'm the only person who despises Initial D...I think I saw like the first 10 minutes of a movie of it or some crap...(Final Stage?)Every car had an annoying-as-hell fart can and the main kid was talking to his friend about how advancing his timing and adding a giant tach made his Corolla so much better and feel special or some 5hit like that. After I stopped laughing, I turned it off.

Post by **Eswift** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

vote for top gear. tiff is better than some ghey cartoon.

Post by **nomuken** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/

If you've never seen Top Gear, do a google or p2p search for some episodes, It's one of the best car shows in existence, Jeremy Clarkson and Tiff Needel are great fun to watch and listen to

Post by **nametakennow** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Too bad I won't get it even if they do bring it here. I don't get BBC America

.

Post by **dr!ft** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

milo wrote:Top gear is real :/

mark monty python as well

You better vote for Monty! I want to see it again.

Oh wait, I have the entire Flying Circus on DVD (

) and can laugh to my hearts content. Nevermind...

YouTube · Post by **EZcheese15** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

SeVa-S13 wrote:I think I'm the only person who despises Initial D...I think I saw like the first 10 minutes of a movie of it or some crap...(Final Stage?)Every car had an annoying-as-hell fart can and the main kid was talking to his friend about how advancing his timing and adding a giant tach made his Corolla so much better and feel special or some 5hit like that. After I stopped laughing, I turned it off.

The problem is, you didn't start watching from the beginning. Everything in Initial D, when it comes to the mechanics of the car, is 100% accurate.

Advancing timing *does* increase power. The tach he added was an 11000 rpm tach. The reason the car made more power is because it was tuned for an 11000 rpm redline, and Takumi was shifting at the stock redline, before the power band. When he started shifting at 11k, he was actually USING the power band of the engine.

As far as the Corolla thing goes, the AE86 corolla chassis is one of the best handling chassis of the 80's. Much like a sentra SE-R was in the early 90's. The whole point of the series is that the driver makes the car fast, not the car itself.

YouTube · Post by **EZcheese15** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Oh, and yeah, btw, do what sachmo said, and vote for Top Gear. It truly is the best car testing tv show there is. What do we have to compare to it now? C&D test drive? <sarcasm>Yeah, that's what I want, somebody to go over how many cup holders the newest escalade has.</sarcasm>

Post by **Onizuka** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Request sent. I want to see this mainly so speed TV will start losing veiwers to the BBC (HAHA) and realize we dont need no stinkin' NASCAR.

YouTube · Post by **EZcheese15** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

J-Spec Tuner wrote:Request sent. I want to see this mainly so speed TV will start losing veiwers to the BBC (HAHA) and realize we dont need no stinkin' NASCAR.

Here, this might help you understand why Speed shows so much Nascar...

http://www.uponone.com/videos.php?id=665

Download the Dave Despain video

Post by **Rockenreno** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

SPEED was fine back when they actually showed rally racing... now it just sucks

Post by **Onizuka** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

Im mean, they play speed racer durring prime time.... SPEED RACER. Yeah i want to see a ****ty cartoon from the 70's over rally or road racing :rolleyes

That Despain clip is hilarious EZ. Does he hate nonstockcar or what? Ive never seen that show (no speed TV on the college TV network)

YouTube · Post by **EZcheese15** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

J-Spec Tuner wrote:Im mean, they play speed racer durring prime time.... SPEED RACER. Yeah i want to see a ****ty cartoon from the 70's over rally or road racing :rolleyes

That Despain clip is hilarious EZ. Does he hate nonstockcar or what? Ive never seen that show (no speed TV on the college TV network)

No, quite the opposite. He hates Nascar. But the thing is, everybody blaims him for all the Nascar coverage because he does it. But he's just trying to make a paycheck. He is complaining that the only reason there is so much Nascar on speed is because there are so many Nascar fans, and it's not his fault.

Post by **Mr1der** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

bwhahahahahaha that's some funny ****...

I personally don't mind nascar, so long as it's a high lite reel, can't sit around and watch 3 hours worth of it though...

Post by **Eswift** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

speed still has rally coverage, you just have to know when its on, because it is quite outnumbered.

They are still showing clips from dakar, and WRC rally monte carlo was just on 2 days ago.

Post by **milo** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

SeVa-S13 wrote:I think I'm the only person who despises Initial D...I think I saw like the first 10 minutes of a movie of it or some crap...(Final Stage?)Every car had an annoying-as-hell fart can and the main kid was talking to his friend about how advancing his timing and adding a giant tach made his Corolla so much better and feel special or some 5hit like that. After I stopped laughing, I turned it off.

I'll vouch, I watched 10 minutes of Initial D like you and got bored realllllllly fast.

However, I decided to give it another shot, and started watching it from episode #1.. after that I was hooked.

Post by **jdmfreak** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

I voted, but Ive never heard of the BBC channel.

Post by **Onizuka** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:43 am

cmon its the BBC, the british broadcasting company. So when will we see results anyways?

Your chance to get Top Gear in the US!!!!!

Your chance to get Top Gear in the US!!!!!

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