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Top gear transit van.
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loving the double car racing too
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get a few bikes in that van too
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ideal, you'd get to the trail a lot sooner
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Saw it at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last year, complete with builders ladders on a rack on the outside!
It was actually pretty quick up the track too...
Now bear in mind the engine in it is in a pretty standard state of tune, but with bigger turbos and a remap those 3.5litre Jag V6's can make 1000bhp!
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Ferrari GTO (the old one) sex on wheels!
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I laughing so hard, so not expecting that.
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what has boris done to his face?
botoxed the bejeesus out of it and eaten some pies ?
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you could tell it was going to be quick - big wheels, low profile tyres, lowered... must be a hoot blasting off the lights
Top Gear is a bit pants at the moment - same old guffPosted 1 year ago # -
TWR built them (think there at least two origially) for develoment hacks for the XJ220. Should think that many a boy racers were blitzed around the leafy lanes of Oxfordshire by them.
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This no fair!!! Pics please?
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i heard the van is an XJ220 that was written off with a transit put on top!!
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We had the van next to our race truck at Donington last year. From memory they had to move the rear wheel arches forward on the van to match the wheel base of the XJ220.
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It wasn't a write off, it was an engine and running gear testbed. I don't remember there being two of them, but they were built by a different department to the one I worked in, so it's possible there were.
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Rallying was great - looked like tatton park?
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Oh, the fun to be had with that van. And the original GTO was sweet. Saw one in that London some years back, near the Royal Albert Hall, just parked on a street corner, unattended, with the lights on. Me and my mate looked at the car, at each other, said ‘shall we?’, then thought better of it. Terribly tempting, tho’. シ
Wonder how many people that new one will eat?Posted 1 year ago # -
Was really hoping for more of a feature on the 288, quite disapointed to see the new one instead!
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andrewh
Was really hoping for more of a feature on the 288, quite disapointed to see the new one instead!
Yes, agree with this. 288 gto criminally underused. Rest of the show was cack. As usual.
I think the XJ220 wheels on the van, and instrument cluster were a bit of a give away.
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Friend of my old boss has a 288GTO, it's stunning! His old man is supposed to have one as well. Very jealous !
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Anyone else reckon that "The Ginger Whinger" donated to the BBC in order to have his car on Top Gear but wouldn't let it be driven.
£12M - worth it?
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I thought the 250 GTO was Nick Mason's ?
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The 250 GTO on last night is Nick Mason's (with the numberplate 250GTO) which is the traditional shape, whereas the one Chris Evans bought has a different front and back end and is much rarer as I've never seen one in the flesh.
Here are the details I found:
Evans paid £12m for the 1963 250 GTO (chassis no. 4675 GT) at an event held by RM Auctions. The car is one of only 36 250 GTOs originally produced and one of a limited few with Series II GTO bodywork.
Chris Evan's 250 GTO:
Nick Mason's 250 GTO:
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Rest of the show was cack. As usual.
There is this button see...Posted 1 year ago # -
What do you reckon that if the Post Office were given a fleet of those Transits they'd still deliver late?
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You've obviously not see a Royal Mail van being driven round London. Apparently they have digital throttles and brakes. They are either fully on or fully off
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Who was Rally Stig in the Proton? Petter Solberg?
It certainly wasn't Tiff Needell this time.
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Was really hoping for more of a feature on the 288
Agreed - I thought at the least they could do a lap time in it (OK so it might be a race car, but it's road legal isn't it?)Posted 1 year ago # -
I think the XJ220 wheels on the van, and instrument cluster were a bit of a give away.
You lot are real anoraks (or lying) - even on watching again I can't see anything particularly special about the wheels (low-pro yes, but how many rubbish normal transits are hopped up with those?) Impossible to believe Hamster didn't know, but then it's hard to believe anything on that show is real.Posted 1 year ago # -
I also spotted the XJ220 wheels on the Transit at first glance. It's not magic. I didn't guess the details of what was hidden inside; I thought it was just going to be a big V8
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aracer
You lot are real anoraks (or lying) - even on watching again I can't see anything particularly special about the wheels (low-pro yes),but how many rubbish normal transits are hopped up with those?
They are Jaguar XJ220 wheels. As in, they are the wheels off a jag XJ220, that's what is special about them. It's obvious to a car nut. There are probably 2 transits in the world with those on, so not many.
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It's obvious to a
car nutanorak
FTFYPosted 1 year ago # -
it definitely wasn't an XJ220 chassis underneath, they're nearly 2 feet wider!
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The daddy of souped up vans was the Renault Williams F1 Espace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaW_35KPDBY
Not road legal of course.
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Off at a slight tangent.
http://www.worldcarfans.com/110040925594/jaguar-xj220-left-to-perish
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