Fifth Gear

[Matra et Alpine]

Latest one was a good laugh.

Tiff Nedell at the UK launch of GT4 - in a hotel with ORIGINAL cars as raced in the game on show and it looked like people could climb in and out - DAMN :(
best part was him getting his ass whipped by Kazunori - the developer :)

Also interesting snippet on the A1GP cars with that prat Plato.
Making out like he has a CLUE what an F1 car is like to drive.
What a plonker.
Clearly the Sheik Macktoum of Dubai is sinking a LOT of money into the track and the cars and enjoys pushing cars around the track himself - Plato made it out that the Sheik is often out on track in his CATERHAM ( an interesting choice for a man who COULD afford ANY car in the world to chose to drive :) )
The cars look so-so, the rear wing looks like a 70s affair and I don't see it taking off as - other than the Sheikh's money - it seems not a match to F3000.

Still worth a watch if you get the chance !!

[Esperante]

Lucky poops in the UK.....:(

[Pinin]

Missed it. :( I'll download it later.

[deffenbaugh03]

This is pretty much on topic...
Does anyone know where to get 5th/Top Gear Episodes online? now that viper007bond's site is down i don't know where to look. Plus I was wondering when Top Gear started their new season, i was thinking it was in April, right?

[Matra et Alpine]

http://gear.lettlurt.no:6969 and use BitTorrent.
Latest episode has just been seeded :)

[deffenbaugh03]

Thanks Matra. I should have checked before i posted but Viper got a new site www.finalgear.com.

[SIMPLETON]

If you miss 5th gear its still on thursdays and saturdays at 7:30 eastern on speed. If you didnt know

[Merrill]

Nice…

[Coventrysucks]

Fifth Gear:
10 mins adverts/ competition
10 mins about the socio-economic conditions in Dubai
10 mins playing a computer game

That's the half hour up then. Where are the cars?

[eros]

how do you downlaod the movies. i don't get it whit thouse torrent I don't know what to do.
Can somebody help me???

[Matra et Alpine]

www.bittorrent.com a d dowload one of the clients - or do a google, there are lots of different ones out there.
I still stick with ABC.
Install it and then when you click on a bittorrent link it will automatically load the torrent details to the client adn start the sharing.
BE AWARE, that you are SHARING with bit-torrents. So your ISP may monitor your usage and report you to the authorities for illegal music/video/film/file sharing :)

[Coventrysucks]

FWIW next week's episode should derfinately be worth watching:
TVR Tuscan 2
TVR Sagaris
VMAX - featuring a bunch of nutters in various RUFs (R-Turbo, CRT, GT2), 911s of all shapes and sizes, Lamborghini Diabolique and Murcielago (the one from Evo's fast fleet), some Ferraris, a few TVRs etc.

Pics of event attached.

[Matra et Alpine]

Not sure about the "19 year old doing 200" taster they gave :)

[Mustang]

when is firth gear on now ive never seen 1 of this series yet didnt know it was on :p

[Matra et Alpine]

when is firth gear on now ive never seen 1 of this series yet didnt know it was on :p
Mondays 8:30, repeated on Fridays 7.30

http://www.five.tv/home/frameset/?content=2278491

hmmmm, VBH ..... :) The only thing preventing Top Gear being undisputed champion is some decent totty :)

[Coventrysucks]

Not sure about the "19 year old doing 200" taster they gave :)

Yeah, he only hit 195mph through the traps in the CTR YellowBird, but i've seen a couple of videos of it doing 200+mph in previous years.

"His" red R Turbo does a solid 200+ as well. Lucky bastard, but fair play - if I had the means that's what I'd be doing.

The fastest at that event was the Ruf GT2 at 197mph, followed by the CTR at 195 and the R Turbo at 192, then a Porsche GT2 at 187, the Murcielago at 182 and then the next four fastest cars were 993 or 996 Turbos in various states of tune.

Seems to indicate that if you want to go fast - forget Ferrari and Lamborghini and head for Porsche. Three F360s hit 172.

[Matra et Alpine]

Seems to indicate that if you want to go fast - forget Ferrari and Lamborghini and head for Porsche. Three F360s hit 172.
Well just that RUF are serious enhancers of the engine and suspension :)
There isn't anyone really doing the equivalent outside of the race track.
ProDrive Ferrari anyone ?? :)

[Coventrysucks]

Well just that RUF are serious enhancers of the engine and suspension :)
There isn't anyone really doing the equivalent outside of the race track.
ProDrive Ferrari anyone ?? :)

The Ferraris and Lamborghinis, barring the Murcielago were definately chasing the Porsches:

Ferraris:
550 - 174
F360 - 172
348 Spider - 161

Lamborghinis:
Murky - 182
Diablo - 168

Porkers:
996 GT2 - 187
996 TT X50 - 180
993 TT - 175

And with so many Porsche tuners out there you can probably get a 550bhp+ 996 TT for the same money as a new F360/ F430