New Top Gear Series Tonight! (2/11/08)

[Guy]

Nope it was Festival Place in Basingstoke.

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2008/12/07/316/

[Powderhound]

Was that Westfield Shopping Centre? Was cool to let them do it there. Was quality. I think that ep must have blown some budget!!

I think not-

• The shopping centre sequence included a lot of shots of shops, which is effectively stealth advertising on the BBC
• The armed forces probably did it for free given that Top Gear's main audience also happens to be their main recruitment source

Cynical...moi?

[Gerrard]

Not at all cynical. Like the race between the Veyron and the Typhoon, the military will do a lot to get good PR at the moment; so sequence like that shown yesterday was very beneficial to them.

[TheAnimus]

as has been mentioned, the grenade holders cracked me up!

The royal marines couldn't buy better advertising than that.

[staffsMike]

Ford could do a lot worse out of it as well.. it made their rediculous adverts look feasible lol

[Stringent]

Not at all cynical. Like the race between the Veyron and the Typhoon, the military will do a lot to get good PR at the moment; so sequence like that shown yesterday was very beneficial to them.

Are you cold?
Just wind down the window and shoot through that!
Hows the room in the glove compartment, room for a couple of mags ...

Still can't get over how that car managed to get onto the beach, that water was so deep!

[Zoom7000]

I thought the same thing. Shouldn't it have been totally flooded?

Best Line: Is it green? Yes... very!

[staffsMike]

This is hilarious!

(They have s swear filter but it doesn't seem to work all that well)
http://www.fastmarinamagazine.com/vi...e84c27b07faa57

[MadduckUK]

This is hilarious!

(They have s swear filter but it doesn't seem to work all that well)
http://www.fastmarinamagazine.com/vi...e84c27b07faa57

thats still got legs as well, will keep having a look in

[MadduckUK]

they have spat there dummies out and now you need to be registered to read

[Mike Fishcake]

they have spat there dummies out and now you need to be registered to read

What did it say?

Anyway - a brilliant episode. Completely ludicrous test for the Fiesta, I couldn't believe what I was watching at the time, and considering it survived driving through the sea (well, it carried on going until the end of the filming, god knows what state it's in now) that's got to be a brilliant advert

edit: i fast forwarded through the Boris Johnson bit (as I do with most of the "star in a reasonably priced car" sections) - did I miss anything interesting?

[AledJ]

What did it say?

i fast forwarded through the Boris Johnson bit (as I do with most of the "star in a reasonably priced car" sections) - did I miss anything interesting?

No! I went to get some more food when i saw who the star was lol

[staffsMike]

What did it say?

Essentially that the Marina used in the communist car video on the show was bought on ebay from one of their members (he started the post).

He was assured that it would not be mistreated/smashed/blown up and that it was going to a loving home..

[MadduckUK]

there was also controversy on whether the killed car was his, someone connected with the show had e-mailed to say it wasn'tand they had cleaned up a scrapper for that bit

[SteveL]

Nope it was Festival Place in Basingstoke.

Certainly was. I recognised it straight away, being a Basingstokian! Very strange seeing them racing around the shopping centre where we were last weekend!

Just popping into town to see if I can buy the Corvette from Birthdays!

Steve

[MadduckUK]

have to bump for the brilliant rebuttal to the morris marina crowd that just happened. that'll learn em