Chip

Brilliiant ending to a great series.

See, F1 fan, it's not all doom and gloom , we do still do some things right in the UK

dpb

Is that the very last episode

nik52wrx

Agreed, good show tonight and makes me proud to be British

Nik

Chip

Of this series, yes.

Osimabu

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James May needs to understand acceleration though. In his bus test, he said it "accelerates at 1m/sec". What he meant was 1m/sec/sec, otherwise he was stating a speed, not a rate of acceleration.

Other than that, another good one in my opinion.

chopperman

Was a good show tonight. Anyone catch the car show on afterwards about the British and German motor industry? really enjoyed that show too.

tony de wonderful

No.

They will make Top Gear forever.

dpb

Is that the xmas special?

cjquicksilver

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Awesome ending!!

f1_fan

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LOL, I was wondering what you would say about it

To be quite honest I was very pleasantly surprised even if for the higher volume industries it's a shame none are British owned. It was surprising in another way as it was Clarkson who three series ago was all doom and gloom about the UK manufacturing sector himself!

That Jag looks and sounds bloody awesome too!

f1_fan

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Yes, that kind of brought me down to Earth with a bump LOL! The saddest thing is we have lost our work ethic as a nation That'll be in part the welfare state and another part the spineless nannying governments of the last 30 years then!

Matteeboy

Loved it! Followed by a program telling us how cr4p our car industry is!!

f1_fan

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Exactly, typical BBC!!!! No accident that bit of scheduling!

tony de wonderful

Work ethnic was always a bit of a myth anyway. Working people dug ditches and worked in mills for reason other than a work ethic, i.e., work or starve.

f1_fan

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Sorry Tony I don't agree. I was brought up to believe that you worked for a living, nowadays the benefit system has bred those who are brought up to think that working for a living is a mug's game when the state will handout enough to live comfortably on! It's their right don't you know!

tony de wonderful

So put them in the poorhouse doing penal labour?

f1_fan

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Not quite, but I reckon anyone able bodied and on jobseekers should do however many hours a week community work that their benefit equates to at the minimum wage.

I feel desperately sorry for those that want a job and for one reason or another can't get one and there are planty of them, but I suspect theyd have no issue with the above. The other side of the coin is that there are people out there who don't want to work and feel why should they if the state pays them not to (which in essence it does). These are the ones that need a kick up the **** and they are perfect ammunition for Cameron and his cloud cuckoo land cronies to label all benefit recipeints as workshy scum!

Then there is the small fact that 2.5 million people in this country are on disability benefit.... do you believe there are 2.5 million people unable to work through sickness because I don't!

The Trooper 1815

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TG was good.

F1 SHUT UP lol.

tony de wonderful

Maybe, but the only 'problem' is that they are the 'wrong sort' of people who don't want to labour. Our society gives free passes to more powerful people who don't fancy working 9-5.

warrenm2

no one commented on the ******* bit last week....

New_scooby_04

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Completely agree: you take from the community (benefits), you should give back to the community! It would also help instill self respect, foster a sense of community, generate links with prospective employers!

Back on topic though: TG was great! I always like that show though; I see it for what it is: entertainment.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Was good to see Webber finally beat Vettel at something

Peedee

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Not exactly the most interesting of blokes though. Could have got someone with a bit more personality for the final show!

jonc

+1 Typical of F1 using any opportunity to go O/T to have yet another bash at the Government!

The programme afterwards was also good. Christ did we build ****e cars back then. Was hilarious watching those old cars bouncing everywhere and cornering on it's door handles!

f1_fan

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Sorry, but where have I specifically singled out your beloved Tory government for criticism here?

You really are such an insufferable party political animal all too ready to blindly jump to the defence of your heroes even when they are not specifically being criticised ... it's quite laughable!

jonc

And where exactly have I specifically singled out the Tory Government? You mentioned Cameron, not me!

JTaylor

f1_fan

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You said:

There is only one 'the government' right now and it's Tory in all but name and then of course you are a Tory as is demonstrated by many of your posts. Put it this way I doubt you would be complaining about anyone criticising Brown or Blair unless you have had a personality transplant (wouldn't be a bad idea in your case ).

My original post was generally critical of governments of the last 30 years (as many of my posts are) assuming you can read... I did mention Cameron in passing, but then he is the only PM who wants to tag all benefit claimants as workshy scum..... even Brown had more class than that!

So stuff your up your ****

Anyway back on topic the programme was the best of the series and it was good to see how much Britain does actually produce in the various vehicle sectors.. as Chip pointed out in post 1

Peedee

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It's strange how almost every thread in this section ends up as an argument involving f1_fan? Lol!

f1_fan

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Yes if you wern't all such ***** it would help