612 RACES A TRAIN TOP GEAR ON DISCOVERY NOW!

Why not? Its a Ferrari.

Gotta show love for all the models.

 

Discovery shows Top Gear? Damn!

 

Wenesday's at 10 PM and repeats again later that night at 1 AM and I would imagine 4 AM as well. It is a collection of last year's 'shorts.'

 

Actually, it was a Ferrari against trains, a plane, and a bus or three. The air route team really made up time on the flight (heathrow to geneva), but lost a lot between trains, and taking that last bus ride up the switchbacks (compared to the Ferrari on curves). (What, no taxi for that last stroll?)

On the cheap P-car episode, Clarkson mentioned that he had the mechanical skills of a duck. Now I believe it, when he tries to fix a floating wiper by taping down the wiper blade. Doh! I mean, doesn't he have any experience with wiper weather in London?

 

I just saw the show on Discovery Channel @ 10pm here in CA. It actually turned out to be a really great race with a funny ending. I lived in London for 3 months, and ever since, Top Gear is my favorite auto-mag and auto-tv show. If you go to the website of the London newspaper "The Times" you can access all of Jeremy Clarkson's car reviews. They are the funniest of any other car reviews I have ever read. One of the best is the review of the Dodge Viper, when he says its as about sophisticated as a Russian hammer.

 

this was one of the best sequences ive ever seen. i was literally on the edege of my seat. great great show, im so happy they are making if for america now. and the cgt part was before it.mmmmmmmmmmmmmm cgt.

 

^I agree, great show all the way through.

 

Great episode. I on the front of the couch the entire time. When he was in the hills at the end. ehhhh. I was sitting there, come, come, step on it.

 

there seems to be just too many "clarkson wins the wacky chases at the death" on that program. but it's all good entertainment . Got to love the 612 though. It has a beauty that grows on you.

The current series has just finished which includes the 430 review. Clarkson's ravings about this car is amazing - "the best car he has ever driven" albeit challenged the following week after he drives the M5. Also interesting comments from Ferrari re the OEM tyres explaining why the 430 times on the Top Gear test track are not as fast as expected.

 

These cars are awesome. There is a fellow who comes to our usual Sunday Morning car guy hangout with his 612. One morning this spring he came with his two full grown sons and a buddy. When they left to go home some guy in a C5 corvette started bothering them. At about 80mph they both stomped on it and the 612 with four passengers just pulled away as if the vette was stuck to the ground. It was a very impressive sight as the 612 just kept pulling and pulling until he was doing 150 or 160 and had maybe ten or fifteen car lengths on the vette! What is not to like about a 612?

 

That ENTIRE episode was awesome. I was on the edge of my seat, then laughing, then on the edge of my seat again. VERY well written and presented.

 

I thought the rattle from the wipers was a bit odd.

 

I watched the show too and it was terrific. Great to see cars like the 612 and the Carrera GT on Television, instead of all those horrific reality T.V. programs. I'll take my exotics/sports/luxury cars on television anyday(doesn't happen every day). I'm really glad to see this show come over here in the U.S.

The 612 does start to grow on you, saw 2 on the track last weekend at Ferrari/Maserati days.

 

What a great show, they really do a great job with the variation of types of cars , and their creativity in challenges really makes the show fun to watch! Glad Discovery is finally showing it over here!

 

It's UGLY!

 

http://www.racingflix.com/getvideo.asp?v=933&p=6

 

Wait for the episode when he races the SLR against all other modes of transport(mostly boats though).

 

Excuses excuses excuses. Ferrari brought their own cars and they could've switched out to softer compound tires if they wanted to. Porsche could've said the GT3 RS would've been faster on softer tires; heck any car on their times list could say that. Ferrari just can't admit a stock (OEM) F430 was slower than a stock CS.

 

My favorite part was The Stig cracking the 1:19's with the Porsche GT.

We won't talk about the 612's wipers causing a very nasty buzzing at speed that drove Clarkson bonkers though

 

Ferrari didn't say anything about it, there are no excuses. It was the Stig (the driver who does the fast laps for Top Gear) who said he thought the 360CS's advantage was due to the tires

 

This was the best episode I've seen yet! What a way to travel!!

 

I could be wrong wrong but I thought I heard Clarkson saying that it was a Ferrari test driver not The Stig saying that the F430's OEM bridgestones couldn't match the 360CS with it's specifically designed for p-zeros. Who that test driver was I don't know.

 

Not after you've owned other Italian cars.

They explained it at the end -- a mechanic leaned on the wiper arm and bent it.

The fix:

If you're Clarkson: You try to nail it down with sticky tape, forgetting that he's driving to snow country (and that water sometimes comes from the sky).

If you're an Italian car owner: You just bend it back. (Okay, I haven't tried this on a 612, but it's the standard adjustment on all the Alfas I've owned, and seems to work on the 328, too.)

- DGS