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Top Gear Season 10, Now Showing On Youtube

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shoudl be yet another interesting season with a Cheap Alfa Romeos Challenge as well as as episode where the Top Gear team square up against the crew from the German Auto show from (D TV ? :unsure: ) The TG blokes will also try to make or improve Cop Cars! :lol:

Theres also said to be a tribute to Touring Cars & the F430 Scuderia is due to go aorund the track! :)

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I dont know exactly how often they have them, but i LOVE the 1 hour specials they have every now and again... like reaching the north-pole on the hilux, driving across Africa in 2WD cars etc etc.. those i must say were just awesome! are they like season finales or something?

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I dont know exactly how often they have them, but i LOVE the 1 hour specials they have every now and again... like reaching the north-pole on the hilux, driving across Africa in 2WD cars etc etc.. those i must say were just awesome! are they like season finales or something?

the North Pole episode was a special and occassionally they do others on thier own such as Richard Hammond's story on Evel Knievel and non automotive stuff like the "Top Gear Ground Force" feature...

The African thing was just an entire episode from the 10th Season..

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By Dave Coleman|Photography by Christopher Gifford

Feb 20 `09

The new Honda Insight hybrid is expected to get 43 mpg on the highway. A Toyota Prius or Volkswagen Jetta TDI will get you roughly the same. Look beyond that one number, though, and the three cars share a common thread: They all have spectacularly low lifetime CO2 output, because each and every one will bore you to death before you get a chance to refill the tank. Each of these greenies will do 0-60 in about a week, they're all styled like lumps of cold mashed potatoes and every last one handles like a couch. If this is what it takes to save the world, maybe the world isn't worth saving.

No, if we're going to stop the terrorists, rebuild the polar bears' igloos and somehow turn on the global air conditioner, we're going to need much more impressive mileage and, more important, something that's actually worth driving. You can't honestly expect us to give up driving fun just for a silly little planet, can you?

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So if 45 mpg doesn't change the equation, how about 70? Suck on that for a second. Forty-five is probably a lot better than whatever you're driving, but it's still within the realm of the imaginable. But 70? It's absurd. Perfect, then.

On top of unlikely mileage, we need it from something with a little soul. We don't need supercar performance, but we should at least be able to outrun a minivan. Naught to 60 in 7 seconds is about as slow as we can stand before our minds wander. Come to think of it, breaking the 7-second barrier will also roast a Ferrari 308, which will help keep that Magnum P.I. fantasy alive.

And then there's the price. If trees and puppies and little green frogs make your heart go pitter-patter, the Insight's $20,000 price tag is downright reasonable. Lovers of the other kind of green will always do the math, though, and inevitably determine that it will take 18 years of fuel savings to pay off their investment, so they might as well keep driving that Hummer. Price, then, is key if we really want to save the world.

For absolutely no other reason than the fact that a good theme seems to be developing entirely on its own, $7,000 seems like the kind of irresistibly low price that would make even Arnold give up his monster truck.

So there it is, the top 10 cars that get 70 mpg, do 0-60 in less than 7 seconds and cost $7,000 (and have sexy Italian styling):

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No? Well, then, it's official. TopGear.com America has a new project.

We've got the ground rules (7,7,7 plus sexy Italian styling), now all we need is a plan. First thing to think about is where we want that gas mileage. Most hybrid cars get their great gas mileage sitting in traffic, while diesel-engine cars do their best hypermiling on the open road. Never mind the fact that a typical hybrid battery costs more than our entire project budget, we have no interest driving in traffic. Diesel it is.

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Now, sexy Italian styling that we can get for cheap and stuff full of diesely goodness...Let's see, DeTomaso Pantera? Too flashy. Alfa Romeo Spyder? Drop-tops aren't aerodynamic enough. Volkswagen Scirocco?

Don't let that German name fool you. The Volkswagen Scirocco didn't become an international icon of modestly priced sex appeal based on its cold, calculated engineering efficiency. No, sir. It was the mighty Italian straight-edge of hired pen Giorgetto Giugiaro that empowered the Scirocco with its babe-magnet charm. Being little more than a half-squashed Rabbit, the Scirocco will also swallow a Rabbit's diesel engine like it was designed to be there.

But wait. While converting a gas-powered car to diesel power is technically simple (replace the engine and the gas tank), it's bureaucratically cumbersome. Our creation will need a license plate, and that license plate requires a registration, and renewing that registration will require some kind of emissions test (unless you're fortunate enough to live in one of those hillbilly backwaters where they haven't figured out why the air is yellow). That test will require some state-sponsored bio-robot to perform an inspection where he checks off boxes indicating the greasy bits under the hood look basically like they did in 1975, and that the stink coming out the tailpipe still smells right. If the book doesn't say the Scirocco's pipe gas should smell like a diesel, we're dead in the water.

That narrows us down to one last choice, one last diesel-friendly product of Giugiaro's origami period: the Scirocco's upright, responsible older sister, the Rabbit Diesel herself. Aerodynamically, it's no Pantera, but we can get one cheap, we can put a plate on it and maybe, just maybe, we can glue on enough aerodynamic wizardry to make her slide through the air.

So just like that, we have a plan.

Step 1: We'll buy a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel right here in New York City.

Step 2: We'll drive it across thousands of miles of frozen tundra to Regina, Saskatchewan, where CWS Tuning will skillfully replace the clattery old oil burner with a modern, computer-controlled, turbocharged VW TDI engine.

Step 3: We'll head south to sunny Southern California to thaw our bones and have UCLA aerodynamics professor John McNulty show us how to make a brick slippery.

Just because the sexy Italian thing was handled so easily, don't expect the three 7's to be dispatched without a fight. Hitting 70 mpg will take more than a diesel engine and some aero tricks. We'll have to get clever with gearing, we'll have to learn about low rolling-resistance tires, and we'll have to use special low-friction oils. Every trick will have to come out from up our sleeves.

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But before we begin, there's one crucial thing every project car must have: a name.

This is where you come in. We've been calling this project the Sipster simply because it's all our synapses can do to get past the words "sexy Italian styling." Please come up with something better than the Sipster, Mileage Maven, Pump Dumper, Mangy Miser or Wabbit Warrior, and when you do, leave them in the comments below. We'll throw the best up in a poll on Monday and you'll all decide. The winner gets a shwag pack with Top Gear merchandise

Source : http://www.topgear.com/us/features/more/we...d-a-70-mpg-car/

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Ultima claims Top Gear lap record

Sports car maker Ultima is claiming to have beaten the Top Gear track time time record

19th October 2009

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British sports car manufacturer Ultima is claiming to have beaten the time set by Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari FXX around the Top Gear test track.

In a privately conducted but independently verified test, an Ultima GTR720, powered by a 720bhp Chevrolet V8, lapped the Dunsfold aerodrome circuit in 1min 9.9sec, beating the 1min 10.7sec time set by seven-times world champion Schumacher in his £1million trackday-only FXX.

An Ultima spokesman said Top Gear had ignored repeated requests to feature its cars, so the private test session was organised instead. The GTR720 had been optimised for the circuit, but the spokesman said it was still completely road-legal, unlike the FXX.

A video of the lap can be viewed

Source : http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/243778/u...lap_record.html

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No no no DZ, you've posted a new lap record. I'm talking about the quickest 0-60100mph and back to 0 time. This was done a few years ago by a regular Ultima GTR. In fact, Ultima have set and broken a slew of their own records several times.

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No no no DZ, you've posted a new lap record. I'm talking about the quickest 0-60100mph and back to 0 time. This was done a few years ago by a regular Ultima GTR. In fact, Ultima have set and broken a slew of their own records several times.

oops totally my bad machan - i saw Ultima & Top Gear track and assumed you'd missed the posts above! :lol:

Thanks for the video :)

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