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29th Nov 08 at 18:34

[quote=Ment-Al]I tried to search but turns out that it wont let me...

I dont know if this has been mentioned here, would assume that it had?

The Renault in Top Gear that they tried to get round the track quicker than an Evo X was tuned by Torque of the Devil, not James May himself and they were actually quite naughty as they changed the engine for the V6 from the Clio V6.

They wanted to put Nos on it but were scared that the Stig would kill himself.

It would appear that TOTD just mapped it for them.

Goes to show that TG is just an entertainment programme and actually not very factual considering they neglected to mention an engine transplant.

Apologies if this is a repost, wouldnt happen if the search worked!

[Edited on 29-11-2008 by jr]

Rich H

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29th Nov 08 at 18:36

I'd heard that TOTD had worked on it, but not about the Clio V6 lump being put in it! Without searching for specs, whats the difference between the 2 different V6 engines?

Bit more than a "service" then!!

John

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29th Nov 08 at 18:39

quote:
Originally posted by jr
Goes to show that TG is just an entertainment programme and actually not very factual considering they neglected to mention an engine transplant.

[Edited on 29-11-2008 by jr]

Are there still people that seriously think it's a factual programme?

SVM 286

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29th Nov 08 at 18:44

Did anyone ACTUALLY believe that a television presenter was capable of anything more than talking a bit of shit?

Are there people that genuinely believe Mr May was responsible in any way for any work carried out on anything ever, never mind a car, never mind a French one?

Mobby

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29th Nov 08 at 18:47

its completely fake, how did they think they could not tell me about changing the exhaust!!!

Ben G

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29th Nov 08 at 18:48

lieing bastards

noting new there anyway. they always chat shit ''to make good television''.

and it did, you can't deny that

Rich H

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29th Nov 08 at 18:53

quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
lieing bastards noting new there anyway. they always chat shit ''to make good television''.

and it did, you can't deny that

Agreed - I'd love to see a whole series of this kind of thing

SportBoy

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29th Nov 08 at 18:54

there idea of a service is about the same as mine

[Edited on 29-11-2008 by SportyBoy]

Hammer

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29th Nov 08 at 18:58

I thought James May stayed up and did all the work himself in exchange for a bag of chips

SVM 286

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29th Nov 08 at 19:00

mwg

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29th Nov 08 at 19:03

I wondered why it sounded an awful lot fruitier afterwards

Robin

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29th Nov 08 at 19:20

I know of another company who have done similar for them recently.

Joe

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29th Nov 08 at 19:24

quote:
Originally posted by Robin
I know of another company who have done similar for them recently.

Vsport?

Rich H

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29th Nov 08 at 19:26

quote:
Originally posted by Joe

quote:
Originally posted by Robin
I know of another company who have done similar for them recently.

Vsport?

They'd still be waiting to finish the car off if VSport had done it...

Joe

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29th Nov 08 at 19:27

At least it would have had a Corsa Depo front headlight conversion with all the sets Dave had.

Ojc

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29th Nov 08 at 19:32

Thorney do loads of work for them as well.

Kano

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29th Nov 08 at 20:02

Very little difference between the 2 engines..

N3CRO

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29th Nov 08 at 20:24

quote:
Originally posted by Kano
Very little difference between the 2 engines..

I thought the original engine had way less than 200bhp whereas doesn't the Clio V6 have 250 - 300bhp depending whether it was the 2.5 or 3.0.

[Edited on 29-11-2008 by Necromancer]

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29th Nov 08 at 21:51

quote:
Originally posted by Hammer
I thought James May stayed up and did all the work himself in exchange for a bag of chips

doubt it very much

DaveyLC

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29th Nov 08 at 21:54

quote:
Goes to show that TG is just an entertainment programme and actually not very factual considering they neglected to mention an engine transplant.

No really???? Shocking! Never suspected a thing!

Bonney

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30th Nov 08 at 13:01

Still...Its better than watching hartbeat

JM_16v

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30th Nov 08 at 13:10

dont care tbh, shows they actually put there brains and did something that we prob would have done. its just a shame they didnt say

deano87

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30th Nov 08 at 15:17

'mazing.

alan-g-w

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30th Nov 08 at 15:55

That's shite.

Entertainment or not, they still did something where they had a budget and said they'd stick to it.

OK if Top Gear was a drama, but it's supposed to be non-fiction. How do we know that the Pagani they had there last week wasn't just a shelled up LET Nova?

Have just noticed they've started doing things like this in recent series. I'm not getting too bothered, but it's the same kind of feeling to if you found out Santa wasn't real.

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30th Nov 08 at 16:25

quote:
Originally posted by Necromancer

quote:
Originally posted by Kano
Very little difference between the 2 engines..

I thought the original engine had way less than 200bhp whereas doesn't the Clio V6 have 250 - 300bhp depending whether it was the 2.5 or 3.0.

[Edited on 29-11-2008 by Necromancer]

All clio V6s have a 230/255bhp 3.0 engine.

[Edited on 30-11-2008 by Corsa_Sport21]

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