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Anyone who hasn't seen Top Gear, you really need to find a way to get every episode. They just finished series 7 (was shortened because Jeremy's back problems wouldn't allow a full season of thrashing cars about) and the production quality is so good compared to anything we have here that it makes me sick to watch anything we have in the States.
Seriously, go find every episode if you can. I have every single one from series 1-7 and I watch them religiously. I have even converted a few over and watch them on my ipod when I get pangs away from the computer.
They (The British/Europeans) actually understand what cars are all about and understand the difference between "HUGE HP BURNOUT DRAG RACE OMG SO MUCH POWER" and a car that is designed to be nimble, handle and be tossed through corners at the limits of acceptable behavior. 150 hp can be more fun than 500 when you can take turns at 75 as opposed to 40, but manufacturers over here can't understand that, and get the biggest, heaviest, highest hp version of everything and give it a shitty interior and a leaf spring suspension. (Granted our roads don't warrant anything else other than that but I digress).
Also, here is more ranting and raving by the mad 1g asshole.
How does Car & Driver TV showcase the new Range Rover Sport. Go drive it slowly around the countryside putting small blurbs on the screen how much power etc it has and then talking about how great everything is about it. Want to know how Top Gear tested the Sport? They took it out and tested it against a fucking tank, to see if the tank could get turret lock on it before the Sport could make it across a huge field.
Know how they tested the Boxster versus the new AMG SLK? They had each car drive through a military training village and see how many times Jeremy got shot by snipers while driving each car.
Wanna know how they tested the new Lotus Exige? They ran it around a track against and APACHE FUCKING HELICOPTER and tested to see if the chopper could get missle lock on the little fucker without leaving the track boundaries.
Yeah, our car shows are that good too.
Also, they are no longer going to show Top Gear on Discovery anymore. They are creating their own version so we will no longer get Jeremy, Hammond and James. We'll get some ripped off, half as good clone, and it will still blow the doors off of everything we currently have. Our car programming sucks balls.
Also, if you haven't seen this one yet, you're an asshole and deserve to die. I'm kidding but watch it anyway.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5410308909760829459&q=top+gear+bobsled 
It's running again shitheads.
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