Top Gear - 2006

[Trem]

Aww, and there was me expecting to see you standing at the back of the shot in Newcastle Junior waving one round of sandwiches consisting of two slices of bread...

There is only 1 slice of bread in 1 round of butties, you n00b

 

[caLLous]

Of course there is dear.

(spoken as if you're 5)

 

[Trem]

 

[caLLous]

But yeah, to try to wrestle this thread back on track (seeing as it was my fault it went in the first place), next week's episode looks helluva good.

Spoiler

Richard Hammond travels to Cyprus where he pits the new Porsche Cayenne Turbo S against the RAF's freefall parachute display team The Red Devils. Jeremy Clarkson employs a top interior designer to convert a Mercedes S Class into the ultimate luxury car - with surprising results. The BMW Z4M flexes its muscles when the Stig power tests it on the track, and the star in our reasonably priced car is Hollywood A lister - Ewan McGregor.

 

[old.user4556]

Mon' the Z4 M !

I had a Z3 M, fooking loved it; this could be a potential car when my Mrs starts working.

 

[mank!]

ewan mcgregor is skill

does anyone actually know who stig is?

 

[old.user4556]

The original Stig was Perry McCarthy, the latest Stig (after a bit of google) is F1 driver Julian Bailey.

 

[old.user4556]

Also a wiki page on The Stig, rumour has it that specific cars may have had specific drivers.

It appears that some rarer, privately owned cars may be driven by their owner, masquerading as the Stig. This was the case for the Maserati MC12, privately owned by Frank Mountain, a successful property developer; the car was at the time the only one in the country [citation needed]. Heikki Kovalainen (the Renault F1 test driver) admitted to driving the Renault R24 F1 car around the track in the 2004 series, clothed as the Stig [citation needed]. In a Winter Olympics special episode of Top Gear, the Stig was also shown doing a ski jump using a ski mobile, suggesting that this may have been another person dressed as the Stig doing the extremely dangerous stunt. According to the Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet, the snowmobile driver performing the ski jump stunt was Dan Lang, a Swedish snowmobile cross driver.

 

[DaGaffer]

Mon' the Z4 M !

I had a Z3 M, fooking loved it; this could be a potential car when my Mrs starts working.

Just read the first review of it; the hardtop version is well hardcore apparently; a real track car.

 

[mank!]

cheers big g, that's quenched my thirst for curiousity.

a can of special brew is in the post