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the Ferrari looked intersesting, cant say the same for Bolton.
Drive a model 3, you won't give a monkeys about panel gaps (which are fine unless you're a motoring journalist being paid by the word).
The lad and I enjoyed it, I'll watch most things where the presenters seem to genuinely get on and enjoy what they're doing.
Easy watch escapism all you need. Thumbs up from me 👍🏻
Drive a model 3, you won’t give a monkeys about panel gaps
wouldn't want to drive a car that looks as crap as that, one drove past me today and i actually thought it looked worse than on the tv. and for the same cost as a v8 mustang, i know where my money would go.
I’ve got a Model 3.. in white.. I’m the first to admit it is a curious looking thing especially looking dead on at the front of the car, a bit frog eyed and sad almost.
However, I’d echo the above that they are much easier on the eye in the flesh and as soon as you look away from dead centre at the front they look great IMO. The side profile is fantastic and you can really see the slippery aero body shape. I think the main reason it looks odd is the very low scuttle height and HUGE windscreen that makes the split of body to glass at the front disproportionate. But as above, what it does make for is the best view out of a car I’ve ever known.
Not sure where Paddy was getting his numbers from mind as the LR version certainly hasn’t got 500bhp.. more like 360bhp. Our performance model has 475bhp I think after an over the air update.
But the Tesla is so much more than the way it looks. I’m a total convert. It’s so smooth and easy to drive and 1 pedal driving really is excellent, you only need to bother the brakes if the batteries are very cold and regen is limited. The big touch screen takes a bit of getting used to as pretty much everything is on it but it’s fine. It really is a special car to drive, I had a Model S loaner and it was awful.. 2017 MY and felt decades behind our Model 3.
The M3P will do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds and with the right tariff it’s about 1.5p per mile in fuel. There is nothing else that even comes close to the performance at this price point. I’m extremely fortunate though as I lease mine through work and with BIK @ 0% it is great value for money.
There’s no vroom vroom noises though.. but as much as I loved the sound of my old inline 6 M135, the Tesla is a much much better car and I haven’t looked back since getting it.. even despite a few dodgy panel gaps!
Drive a model 3, you won’t give a monkeys about panel gaps (which are fine unless you’re a motoring journalist being paid by the word)
I’m not w motoring journalist so I’d be buying the car not testing it. So at the price of model 3 I’d want it to be built well.
Think I managed about 10mins before I had to switch it off, bill and ben were less wooden
Nobody wants to watch car reviews. Modern day cars are dull as ditchwater and are mostly the same just re-badged. It’s not entertainment. That is why the clarkson eta shows morphed into adventures and challenges in various assorted vehicles which to me was far better and more interesting if not a little staged. And if you want to see a car hooming around a track it obviously has to be something a bit tasty. Something like an mx5 is brilliant to drive, but are slow and don’t look good on tv so who wants to watch a slow car being hooned around a track? I’d much rather see a Ferrari or something setting tyres alight.
But not a fan of this TG. Harris is great but can’t stick the other two. I’ll watch it but fast forward to the tyre smoking Ferrari.
Nobody wants to watch car reviews. Modern day cars are dull as ditchwater and are mostly the same just re-badged. It’s not entertainment.
Try Harry’s Garage some very good reviews, including this beautiful car
Thanks FuncyDunk, already on it. Also love Harry's Farm. He's done some epic adventures himself.
Nobody wants to watch car reviews.
I think the success of various YouTube channels would suggest otherwise...
and for the same cost as a v8 mustang, i know where my money would go.
I think if you are comparing a Model 3 to a Tesla then you are not really getting the point of a Tesla!
I think the success of various YouTube channels would suggest otherwise…
Indeed but that’s where they’ll stay, thankfully, as it’s not exactly prime time entertainment.
Caught up this am with TG more of the same stuff but easy to watch. That Ferrari was beautiful a car I will never likely afford but was nice to see being driven well.
but was nice to see being driven well.
Are you talking about the Stig's lap or the populist Harris smoking the tyres nonsense? Because that's not driving well. Skillful yes, well no. Not fast, and not as intended (though of course with that car it sort of is as intended as it has a button to do it for you!). I'd rather watch a road going supercar being driven on a lovely road in a beautiful bit of the world or a track car being driven as fast as it can be around a track, ideally against other cars at the same time. I find the smoking wheels shizzle pretty dull and repetitive - a dish best served to teenage boys.
I’d rather watch a road going supercar being driven on a lovely road in a beautiful bit of the world or a track car being driven as fast as it can be around a track, ideally against other cars at the same time.
Wouldn’t that be the old Top Gear then? Or even bits of TGT?
I have to confess I can’t watch the new TG and wand Paddy and Fred to be forced to snog Trump with tongues right now. Not broadcast though...
I’d rather watch a road going supercar being driven on a lovely road in a beautiful bit of the world or a track car being driven as fast as it can be around a track
But the track driving at silly speeds (and pointless tyre smoking) makes better tv. It would be very difficult to fully appreciate the performance and handling of a supercar being driven briskly on a nice road. It would be a bit like watching cross-country MTB riding on the telly - really rather dull.
Are you talking about the Stig’s lap or the populist Harris smoking the tyres nonsense? Because that’s not driving well. Skillful yes, well no.
Yes and no, the well part is when he switched everything thing off and tried to control that beast, he managed to do that. It was race track they wanted to test the super cars performance and capabilities not pop out for a picnic. They always do a scenic road drive in the series that’ll be coming, you can sit sipping your horlicks and wearing your favourite slippers then.
It was race track they wanted to test the super cars performance and capabilities not pop out for a picnic
Still don't get it. He turned everything off to see if he could still drift it. As you say it was a race track - clue is in the title - why not see if he could tame it to go quickly with the controls off rather than see if he could still make it go (relatively) slowly and sideways? They make drifting cars specifically to drift which they do very much better than a super car ever will if that's what floats your boat. Why feel compelled to test drive super and hyper cars as drift cars rather than what they have actually been designed to do?
why not see if he could tame it to go quickly with the controls off rather than see if he could still make it go (relatively) slowly and sideways?
'Cos he was styling it innit.
Why feel compelled to test drive super and hyper cars as drift cars rather than what they have actually been designed to do?
They do that with the fast lap. Besides if I think getting the back end out is a valid test. He actually said it was nigh on impossible to control with the traction off. Lots of people buy sports cars and like to turn the computers off. Made me think that I would have no chance of controlling that car on the limit if he couldn’t get the back end out in a controlled manner. To me it was a valid test.
Lots of people buy sports cars and like to turn the computers off.
There's lots of videos of those on YouTube too.
Quite, quite short videos.
Lots of people buy sports cars and like to turn the computers off.
Hah! Yes! I did that once several years ago in a brand new standard Audi TT (ie, the lowest powered engine) and very nearly lost it when overtaking having told the car to stop nannying me. I almost dropped my load and still feel embarrassed about it now 🙁 It is no wonder there are so many stories of people in their new supercars (or car technicians driving customers' supercars) binning them very soon after first getting in them.
Yeah I turn them off on various vehicles I’ve drove or owned. It’s fun but I end putting them back on and let the computer worry about it all.
Still don’t get it.
Here you go then.
Ohh, tyre adhesion LOL!
convert
Still don’t get it.
Part of the slidey, skiddy, drifty bit was showing how clever the car was though - in the setting beneath 'all bets are off' mode he said that he basically had his foot planted to the floor and the car was maintaining the drift so I guess it was looking at yaw, slip angles etc. & modulating the power, probably braking to individual wheels etc. to keep it drifting.
He said at one point something like "it's very clever, but I'm not sure it's fun".
But, I imagine for your elderly millionaire who wants to show off his pure skillz, being able to let the car do awesome skidz while reducing the chances of smashing it into an armco is perhaps quite appealing.
Part of the slidey, skiddy, drifty bit was showing how clever the car was though – in the setting beneath ‘all bets are off’ mode he said that he basically had his foot planted to the floor and the car was maintaining the drift so I guess it was looking at yaw, slip angles etc. & modulating the power, probably braking to individual wheels etc. to keep it drifting.
He said at one point something like “it’s very clever, but I’m not sure it’s fun”.But, I imagine for your elderly millionaire who wants to show off his pure skillz, being able to let the car do awesome skidz while reducing the chances of smashing it into an armco is perhaps quite appealing.
I grudgingly admit that for that specific car because of that mode there is a little bit of merit. But that's not getting away from the fact that EVERY car test feature is just a copy and paste of some screeching and some smoking.
The push bike equivalent would be a feature on a cool new road bike and most of the edit being footage of it being wheelied.
Didnt enjoy it unfortunately. Like the Ferrari segment but the company car but was dire. Not funny, done before and entirely predictable. Also who gets a£50k company car budget? I’m surprised some of the brands lend them cars. Volvo must be a little annoyed
Volvo must be a little annoyed
Their car featured on one of the world’s most popular car shows? I doubt they’re bothered about a dented door.
I’d be more worried about the can of Surstromming that got opened than the knackered door!
The push bike equivalent would be a feature on a cool new road bike and most of the edit being footage of it being wheelied.
Well no - supercars are designed to go very fast. Bikes aren't designed to wheelie.
Well no – supercars are designed to go very fast. Bikes aren’t designed to wheelie.
Thank you for making my point for me! Exactly - supercars are designed to go very fast; they are not designed to go comparatively slowly making lots of smoke and tyre squeal. Your average hot hot hatch would beat the ferrari around a lap if Harris was at the wheel of the Ferrari in trash a set of tyres mode. Driven like the stig (i.e. as it is designed to be - very fast as you pointed out) and the hatch would be lapped in a handful of laps.
I actually do wish it would start evolving back at least some distance towards the old format. I'm sick of the arsing about lads having fun aspect now. It doesn't have to regress all the way back to Angela Rippon, but it isn't half tired.
I'd have the Volvo btw. And I skipped the Ferrari bit, although I like Chris more than the other two.
as per usual a well filmed and interesting as well as humour filled stuff about boring cars, if only the cars had a bit of personality like the presenters/drivers.
Out of the 3 of them, Harris is the only one who should be driving these types of cars, the other 2 just don’t have the skill, paddy should be made to pay for the Diablo out of his own pocket!
The wall of death stunt! 🙈
That was a cracking episode.
I want a XJ220.
Always have done.
Looked like a spaceship from the future then, looks astonishing now. What a car.
McGuinness is dire, though. Just dire.
Mcguinness should only drive shit cars from now one due to that
Enjoyed that a lot. I even thing that Paddy is OK!
That Wall of Death looked shit-scary and was way more tense than the Guy Martin thing a couple of years ago. Did they build it for the show or has Ken Fox got one set up there for the season (that didn't happen)?
Did they build it for the show or has Ken Fox got one set up there for the season (that didn’t happen)?
Good point, hadn't thought of that.
It was a big structure, that's for sure.
Much better this week, Old supercars and wall of death stuff especially.
Glad the FRS got saved too.
Much happier seeing write-offs being used or saved rather than the old trashing of good stuff, gives the cars a second life.
That wall of death was proper danger though, even if they had all the safety kit. One silly move and you could be either slamming down on the door or over the top.
Good stuff, enjoyed most of that - willful damage of cars I'll never be a fan of, but the rest was all reet!
Enjoyed that. The wall of death was properly scary and tense to watch. That Maserati sounded absolutely amazing and had a proper turn of pace. Interesting listening to Harris talking about the F40, basically just a massive go kart and his favourite road car ever. A truly special car.
Paddy and the Lambo.. I knew it was coming but couldn’t believe how quickly it happened! Wet slippery road and thick end of 500bhp in a 30 year old Italian super car.. no thanks. Really feel for the owner watching their pride and joy like that.
Would have been good to tie in whether or not the Diablo had been written off or saved!