Top Gear Evora Video

[MickOpalak]

Originally Posted by shokwaves

Yep, Boxster with the C for Cayman = Coxster. They simply consider the Cayman to be a Boxster with a hard roof.

So when you see one on the streets, you really see a Coxster

Actually when Top Gear first reviewed the Cayman Clarkston referred to it as the Coupe form of the Boxster, thus the Coxster. C is for coupe, not Cayman.

[...m...]

Originally Posted by ads_green

It's just a persona so they can chop and change drivers due to scheduling conflicts and what not.

...well, if any of you stuck around to watch the end of the episode, it featured a hilariously incompetent lap in the reasonably-priced car by the stig - i suspect they'll use his reveal as a mechanism by which white stig lost his stigginess...

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Originally Posted by ads_green

The MS lap was outstanding - 1:10 even in a barely legal race car is just stunning. IIRC that is faster than the caparo F1 which was removed as it couldn't clear a speed bump (be interesting if the FXX can).

...i fully expect them to disqualify it as they've made such an issue many times before that the power lap board is for street cars only (hence the speed bump test), which the exclusively-track-trailered FXX clearly is not...

[mikeyd]

Originally Posted by ...m...

...i fully expect them to disqualify it as they've made such an issue many times before that the power lap board is for street cars only (hence the speed bump test), which the exclusively-track-trailered FXX clearly is not...

Are you a betting man? I would bet you ANYTHING that a condition of (Ferrari Ambassador) Herr Schumacher's appearance on the show was that the FXX lap time was 'to forever crown' the top of the Top Gear leaderboard, and I would also wager that the same contract stated that if the FXX had failed to beat the Gumpbert or the FXX was to fail to complete the lap, break down/crash etc then no broadcast would be possible.

Oh and apparently all 3 presenters are ordering Evoras!

[...m...]

Originally Posted by mikeyd

Are you a betting man?

...hey sure, why not - let's bet our respect that it comes down by the end of series 14...

[mopho]

Originally Posted by ...m...

...i fully expect them to disqualify it as they've made such an issue many times before that the power lap board is for street cars only (hence the speed bump test), which the exclusively-track-trailered FXX clearly is not...

The Gumpert Apollo can't make it over a speed bump either

(the article fails to mention that it took more than just the passenger getting out, people had to lift up on the car)


I agree, the FXX shouldn't be included



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[mikeyd]

Originally Posted by ...m...

...hey sure, why not - let's bet our respect that it comes down by the end of series 14...

Firstly apologies for the assumption that you are a guy - Myrrh is more likely a Female name? as is your avatar?

Secondly - I would like to take you up on that bet - BUT the theory of 'respect' is an intangible I have little time for.
The respect of others is arbitrarily bestowed, inconstant and whimsically withdrawn and I find tremendous freedom in not giving a flying f##k what other people think of me!

however a bet is a bet - if the FXX is withdrawn from the Top Gear board by the end of series 13 (because of the ride height issue) then I must purchase for you a gift of my choosing and send it to you.

You in return may do as you please!

Do we have a bet?

[...m...]

Originally Posted by mikeyd

If the FXX is withdrawn from the Top Gear board by the end of series 13 (because of the ride height issue) then I must purchase for you a gift of my choosing and send it to you.

Do we have a bet?

...just for clarification, it's not strictly the ride height issue, but the general fact that the FXX is a track-only car, neither intended nor available for street use...make that the end of series 14, to allow any immediate ferrari pressure to wane and give opportunity to run another properly fast car, and it's on - i'll send you a gift of my choosing likewise...

[...m...]

*ahem*

(...hey, at least it's something to salve my ego after my pitiful autocross debut today...)

[mikeyd]

Originally Posted by ...m...

*ahem*

what's wrong? sore throat? Ok ok - it's a bet - end of series 14 etc!

[...m...]

...oh, you haven't seen episode two yet?..

[DeanG]

Is episode 2 posted somewhere? Is the Evora lap shown? Is it? Huh?

[rnr]

Episode at http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/13/2/

Nothing further about the Evora

[LotusStig22]

Originally Posted by fitfan

not on the show - the guy (forget who it was now!) spilled the beans on his own accord... that spawned the black stigs return video, and no doubt the schumacher one. the black stig was kicked into the ocean after he revealed himself (again, outside of the show). so i suspect the MS thing is a symbolic stig "transition" ceremony. that why i wonder if they will stick with a white stig? bring a black stig back?

Oh, Perry McCarthy or someone. Yeah, it was in his autobiography, and they threw him off of an Aircraft Carrier in a Jag.

Now I know what you're talking about. Thanks

Btw for anyone who hasn't seen episode 2, they took the lap down because the tires were Slicks.
But M, technicalement, MikeyD doesn't owe you anything because it was due to Slicks not the ride height, or the street-use or not. So they say

[...m...]

Originally Posted by LotusStig22

Btw for anyone who hasn't seen episode 2, they took the lap down because the tires were Slicks.

...just one of many convenient reasons - per jeremy clarkson, the power board is for street cars only...

[LotusStig22]

I know, which is why they took the Renault F1 car down a few seasons back as well. But what he technically says is the Slicks. And Clarkson-Word is law in LT Country. As of today.
I kid, but still you both might as well drop the bet because (I argue a lot, sometimes to cure boredom, but still I know quite a bit about arguing) both of you could argue that either of you are right with valid points on either side, so I think this bet is now null. Mikey wins on a technicality, you win with suspicion that JC's covering up a real reason. Everyone's a winner!