[Vwdiesel] Top Gear

[Dave Cook]

I think you are talking about a segment on USA series, where they were talking about how NASCAR started through moonshiners.  (And doing their own "moonshining" challenges.)


Though Top Gear Britain has trashed plenty of cars, though usually they are pretty ratted out cars purchased inexpensively.

I guess my thought on it is twofold:

1) I decided that other than laughing at silly spoilers and such, I'm not going to worry too much about what people do to or with the cars they own. 


2) Gotta have a sense of humour.  Might as well have a laugh at seeing what happens when someone tries to turn a car into a boat or build a limo out of a 2 seat convertible, or turn a caravan (camping trailer) into the cabin of a blimp.  I don't know about others, but I know that when I was little I imagined these sorts of things.

:) 


Dave Cook


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 From: peter blake <pila47 at yahoo.com>
To: Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> 
Cc: diesel <vwdiesel at vwfans.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Top Gear
 
Dave,
  Is that the same show where they trashed a really cherry caddy
by crashing it on purpose?  along w a honda and some other car?
I lost interest after that.  I'm sure there are some entertaining
segments but I won't be watching them. 
Peter

--- On Tue, 9/4/12, Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Cook <davevw at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Top Gear
> To: "VW Diesel Group" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 8:27 PM
> Cool!  I only watched the first few
> episodes of the US version.
> 
> Speaking of Top Gear, I'm currently working my way through
> the British version.  I've seen a lot of the episodes but
> not all.
> 
> In the episode I am currently watching (From season 3, in
> 2003) they compared a TDI Lupo to a similar Gas Lupo.  The
> TDI Lupo got 75 mpg, which I assume is British units, but
> still impressive.  Jeremy was even arguing in favor of the
> TDI version and they are usually loathe to admit a diesel
> engine is any good.  Despite that, it is probably my
> favorite tv show ever.
> 
>  
> Dave Cook
> 
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 8:49 PM
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Top Gear
>  
> Was just watching Top Gear.  They had a driving challenge -
> 700+ miles from Seattle to San Francisco on one tank of
> fuel.  Rutlege (sp?) used a 97 Passat TDI and easily beat a
> 2013 BMW  driven by Tanner(I really hate that guy) and the
> other guy drove….a Ford F350 pickup with a full tank of
> gas and a full tank of propane (still used up both tanks of
> fuel which was actually cheating anyway).  The Passat
> easily won the race and had fuel left over even though the
> other guys put 400 lbs of cat litter in the trunk.  Always
> good to see an old diesel perform well on a national
> stage.  Hayden
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> fair share. They sometimes made it possible for millionaires
> to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10% of his
> salary – and that's crazy. Do you think the millionaire
> ought to pay more in taxes than the busdriver?  Ronald
> Reagan
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> they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation
> as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step
> toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to
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