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Top Gear is quite easily the best car show of all time, and probably my favorite TV show to watch. If you love cars, or even just mildly like watching pretty shiny things, you definitely owe it to yourself to watch Top Gear.
Discovery airs the show in the US, but the episodes are really chopped up. They mix up bits from different episodes and cram it into an hour with commercials (whereas the BBC airing is one hour without commercials).
Definitely the best way to view the show (if you don't have access to BBC TWO) is to find episodes online. TorrentSpy and Mininova both seem to have a good selection.
Best Top Gear moment? Driving an Audi V8 diesel 800 miles--from London to Scotland and back--on a single tank of gas and making it back with negative fuel left in the tank. Or perhaps racing a car from London to the south of France against a bullet train and coming down to the wire.
Actuarian
May I direct you to the thread in Cinemania?
Your point stands, though; this show is amazing. Even people I know who have no interest in cars whatsoever like the show, because they do a hell of a job in making the show's segments legitimately interesting regardless.
-Dippy
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Cinemania? Who goes there? And why is Top Gear cinema?
Hah, thanks for the directionAnd yeah, it is pretty rad that the show appeals to pretty much anyone, not just car junkies. My girlfriend likes watching the show with me. Pretty impressive execution of enthusiast TV.
Now why can't someone do video game programming like this...
take some kah!
I want top gear dvd boxset!! *drools*
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Do they make that?
take some kah!
Not that I know of...Originally Posted by MarkRyan
I doubt it.
Unashamed Sink Urinator.
They do but they are Pal.
I make my own. I can get 5 episodes on a DL disc and still have excellent video quality. The 700MB verisons of the shows that are on the torrent networks convert quite nicely.
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Would a PAL DVD display properly on a NTSC TV if played through a non-region locked NTSC DVD player?
You need a converter box to change the signal from 50 to 60 Hz.
You can usually find full episodes off of google video, albeit at obviously compressed video quality. However, it's nice not having to wait for the video to download.
By the way, here's Top Gear Winter Olympics
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