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Top Gear - Clarkson drives the Vauxhall VXR8
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lol @ his Aus accent impression
run it in the dry i say...
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lol you can kinda see how he shit himself when he realised there were two beefy ozzys in the crowd when he finished doing the impression

Think he liked the car for the same reason he liked the monaro. High Speed low price.
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If you look closely, it ran a slower time than the Monaro

then again, it's run wasn't in dry conditions
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Definetley is great value and the turn in on a wet track is bloody impressive mate
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He did later in the show mention that the dif lost all of its oil.
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accepted that a wet track - 4sec for a dry track. Considering that the track was wet, it got d@mn close to the 911T (both on a wet track)
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He loves Aussies until we beat them in something.. Which would mean he hates them.

Good review but the car is far from ugly they just drive cars all the time that are worth 5-10 times more.
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he'd probably prefer the calais then since it's the same sort of thing just a bit more of a luxo interior and less over the top looks
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He did later in the show mention that the dif lost all of its oil.
greasy track...yet hamiltons laceti wet lap time was still 0.3s faster than the stig's dry time!
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greasy track...yet hamiltons laceti wet lap time was still 0.3s faster than the stig's dry time!
no, slower..and 0.1 slower than Mansell's dry time...
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no, slower..and 0.1 slower than Mansell's dry time...
sorry..thanks for correcting me there
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sorry..thanks for correcting me there
no problem, on top of that I think the little limo that is being hustled along the track is not a Laceti, but something like a Suzuki Liana or so...
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no problem, on top of that I think the little limo that is being hustled along the track is not a Laceti, but something like a Suzuki Liana or so...
hmm the first reasonably priced car was a suzuki liana, the new one is a chevrolet (daewoo) laceti, that i am positive of. Note that when the new car came in the old times became a little obsolete, so the other F1 drivers times arent really comparable due to the new faster car.
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hmm the first reasonably priced car was a suzuki liana, the new one is a chevrolet (daewoo) laceti, that i am positive of. Note that when the new car came in the old times became a little obsolete, so the other F1 drivers times arent really comparable due to the new faster car.
I think Hamilton still drove the Liana.
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