Vauxhall VXR500

Post by **Shonky** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:14 pm

Now if only HSV had the balls to whack a supercharger on the new VE.

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:15 pm

"horsepower value"

Other than that, really looks like a Top Gear clip

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:39 pm

Yeah its 5th Gear, which is virtually the same as Top Gear. Indeed when the orignial Top Gear ended (briefly) all the hosts (other than JC) moved to ITV I think and formed 5th Gear. It now models itself on the new Top Gear. No where near as good though.

GT VIRUS · Post by **GT VIRUS** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:43 pm

Quite good that guy. Independant or from a show?

Having said that: i can't wait for Top Gear to get there hands on the VE

Rots · Post by **Rots** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:34 pm

That was quite entertaining

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:47 pm

GT VIRUS wrote:Quite good that guy. Independant or from a show?

Having said that: i can't wait for Top Gear to get there hands on the VE

It's Tom Ford. His segments are usually the only ones worth watching on 5th Gear.

Top Gear should poach him. He'd fit in much better.

Jiminee · Post by **Jiminee** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:01 pm

He is usually pretty funny and tests a pretty wide range of cars.
Of course Vicki Bulter-Hendersen makes the show very watchable, that is until that scum bag Jason Plato puts his big ugly, worthless head on.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:20 pm

I hate Vicki Bulter-Hendersen's voice. Or I should say the way she's mic-ed. It always sounds like she is speaking through a tee-towel. Jason Plato ?? Tiff Needel is on there, I don't think I have seen Jason Plato. Besides, what makes Plato a scumbag ??

Jiminee · Post by **Jiminee** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:45 pm

Bathurst 2004

I see that program pop up on UKTV occaisionally and my wife just leaves the room because she knows it is just going to be a constant stream of abuse (at the TV, not her, she's great). I dont think I will ever get over that, to wait so long for something and then have it taken away by that twat!

Post by **norbs** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:50 pm

Vicki is very hot IMHO. Tiff gives me the shits now for some reason. I wish I could dig up the old Top Gear shows with him and Jezza. He didn't seem as much of a tool on them.

Jiminee · Post by **Jiminee** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:35 pm

Usually too busy ripping Plato to notice Tiff, though I did see a fill-in on Fox Sports last week from the Goodward revival where he was racing a Jag and running people off the road and then having the nerve to shake his fist at them in disgust! So you could be onto something norbs.
Afterall that racing is supposedly just for fun and given the value of the cars/their lack of safety and the dangerous circuit battling for positions is generally frowned upon, that is until a frustrated TV presenter with an over inflated ego turns up.
I wonder if he will get invited back?
Looked like a cracking way to spend a weekend though, certainly something to add to the 'things to do before I die' list.

DarrenM · Post by **DarrenM** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:15 pm

Vicky is hot but the last time I watched she was starting to act a bit too dippy, carrying on about Tiff all the time. In the first season or 2 she was a lot more watchable.

I hate the way Tiff speaks. Constant little 1/2 laughs like he's got a gerbil up his arse.