top gear tonight

[johnnyvxr]

Astar vxr on top gear tonight on uk g2, sky. missed first time round, johnny

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2nite

and on vroom vroom sky one 8pm

[98RON]

Rumour has car was a proto type, wrong suspension... Top gear new this, but did not stop the Clarkson from saying his bit !! that said he has said since it is a real drivers car, yes you might die in it !! but that a good thing.. kind of back handed compliment me thinks !
Oh you rear wheel drive die hards :? will you ever get the hand of front wheel drive

[clarkeda]

stage 3

98 ron,
what will you be getting with a stage 3 upgrade?

[Aussie]

the model Clarkson drove was the first pre production model sitting on the SRi chassie and suspension set up, the VXR the stig drove was a correct spec pre production VXR, now in saying that the pre prodcutiom models run a different map to our own production spec VXR's and having driven both there is a noticeable difference in both power delivery and throttle response

[98RON]

Re: stage 3

98 ron,
what will you be getting with a stage 3 upgrade?

Jon would not give me specifics however there is definetly something in the pipeline, cant wait though , big brakes and more power its just gets better !

[clarkeda]

stage 3

could it be something like a intercooler and a fine tune map?

[98RON]

Whats Stage 2 + ?? octane booster :wink: :wink:

[clarkeda]

stage 2+ is stage 2 with no cat, no octane booster

[Sparky]

To be fair to Clarkson he said it was bonkers! and actually did not say it was bad, and you know he says what he thinks. In a further program he actually admitted he would have one,, but won't buy one, has to be good.
Haven't seen the Vectra on there , hmm wonder why.

[98RON]

To be fair to Clarkson he said it was bonkers! and actually did not say it was bad, and you know he says what he thinks. In a further program he actually admitted he would have one,, but won't buy one, has to be good.
Haven't seen the Vectra on there , hmm wonder why.

Yes agreed your right, the fact that he said he would have one is the best praise you can get ! given his past VXL track record this speaks volumes

[clarkeda]

To be fair to Clarkson he said it was bonkers! and actually did not say it was bad, and you know he says what he thinks. In a further program he actually admitted he would have one,, but won't buy one, has to be good.
Haven't seen the Vectra on there , hmm wonder why.

Yes agreed your right, the fact that he said he would have one is the best praise you can get ! given his past VXL track record this speaks volumes

yeah clarkson usually hates vauxhalls, the only vauxhalls ive heard he liked are the astra and monaro vxrs and then he preffered the monaro cos its a holden

[beema45]

Is all this stuff Clarkson spouts relevant. We will all find the car different to each other. Why not go by your own instincts and don't be swayed by some one who is and always has been self opinionated. He can be funny, but he can also be obnoxious. Its Stig who could probably give a better testimony of the car. There seem to be lots of you who love the car, his comments wouldn't put me off buying mine, infact I am even more impressed, thanks Jeremy.

[Aussie]

its interesting seeing this topic come up again with the same comments
should have seen last year (July) when it was first aired
the posts on the thread on astra-sri.co.uk
http://astra-sri.co.uk/forums/showth...light=top+gear
was a few hundred after the episode
and to see it all again
http://www.vxrregister.com/forum/vie....php?p=356#356