liamC
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Top Gear filmed Hammond racing one along the Liwa highways here at the weekend, 200 miles into the desert, around some of the worlds largest dunes.
To be screened in July so look out for it 
Scenic wise, it will be something like this
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daymoon
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W
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Very nce place!
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C2RL R
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thats one cool looking road. i like my corners but in a quick car that road would be awesome.
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mwg
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Do they do corners in Abu Dhabi?
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FruitBooTeR
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 so cool!
Cant wait till the new season starts..hopefully clarkson will have more of a voice this time 
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dannymccann
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I like the way in Abu Dhabi they build roads with a capacity far exceeding the use the road will ever get, whereas we work backwards way round in the UK, forcing rush hour traffic to commute on a single lane road lined either side with parked cars 
Either way, yea that road is 
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liamC
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Hammond drives this silver Mercedes McLaren SLR 722 along our seafront in the city
Small YouTube video of the cars as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIC9L3TdREI
Here's a pic of the Lambo in Liwa
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FruitBooTeR
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They seriously do have one of the best jobs in the world 
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drunkenfool
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jibjob
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this car came through my work on the way to the top gear test track doubt it was the exact same car but it came through with all cameras and stuff attached to it and had £15 of normal unleaded put in it 
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FruitBooTeR
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Where you work mate?
And 15 quid will last like a couple of laps and regular unleaded in a lambo =
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liamC
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A couple more uninteresting ones
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mwg
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fucking state of his hair
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
I like the way in Abu Dhabi they build roads with a capacity far exceeding the use the road will ever get, whereas we work backwards way round in the UK, forcing rush hour traffic to commute on a single lane road lined either side with parked cars
Either way, yea that road is
Think about it real hard 
When was our road/rail infrastructure put in place, and things built around it, hence leading to issues when trying to expand....
Now what about those who've only really recently joined the industrial world (say the last 50 years), and have infiniate amount of space to build, also using the most modern materials. Don't forget our road structure has been in place for a long time now.
I can assure you, in rush hour over there, the road (even though sometimes 6-7 lanes) have problems with the traffic.
Its the same in America, 7-8 lanes because they built them like that to start with. We built ours with 1-2 lanes, put houses either side, then people don't understand why we can't just "make the roads bigger"
Liam - Good shots, gussing its for this years TG. Obviously getting lots of shows done at once.
Wasn't May out there a few years back testing the Tampon shaped Bentley W12?
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sand-eel
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How do you build a road on sand 
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corsa - gus
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
How do you build a road on sand
Thats a good question
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BluKoo
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Building the road wouldn't be the hard part.
Keeping it from being covered everytime there is a sand storm would be a bitch. Immagine the sand-drifts you'd get.
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liamC
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quote:
Originally posted by BluKoo
Building the road wouldn't be the hard part.
Keeping it from being covered everytime there is a sand storm would be a bitch. Immagine the sand-drifts you'd get.
Along the highways, within the main areas of population, we have trees planted either side to stops alot of sand coming onto the road.
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Simon
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Build a road on sand? Imagine building the pyramids
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corsa - gus
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Its not going to be easy to make the road stable though, the sand could move which would cause cracking of the road surely. Also, the sand blowing onto the road would be an absolute bitch
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Mike GSi
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the breaks on that red bowler type thing
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ljames555
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I want his job
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