Top Gear - The Greatest Car of All Time is the Land Rover [Archive]

Omaroo

22nd March 2006, 07:52 AM

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ I suddenly adore my Land Rover even more..... https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
One thing about Top Gear, they have always judged vehicles based on overall design and function merit - not its popularity or sales volume. If it does what it was designed to do - they give it praise. It it does NOT do what it was designed to do they give it hell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/images/greatest/winner_feat_lead.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/greatest/winner.shtml

The votes have been counted and the Land Rover is a clear winner with 29 percent of the vote. Here's how the others measured up: McLaren F1, 17 percent; Audi Quattro, 16 percent; Jag E-Type, 15 percent; Ford Mustang, 10 percent; Citroen DS, 6 percent; Fiat 500, 4 percent; Black Cab 2 percent and Rolls Royce Silver Cloud 1 percent.

After such lengthy service, the Land Rover really deserves a knighthood, but the greatest car award will do nicely.

(Apparently this isn't new news, but I've not seen it until now.)

NOZ

22nd March 2006, 07:56 AM

Any Victory is SWEET :wink:

rick130

22nd March 2006, 08:24 AM

Hehehehe, can't wait to tell the Patrol driving SWMBO. This will be soooo sweet.

FenianEel

22nd March 2006, 08:35 AM

No surprise there https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Ace

22nd March 2006, 09:16 AM

Well things just keep getting better. Its unfortunate that the guys at overlander and 4wd monthly dont realise it. Matt

Farnarkle

22nd March 2006, 09:18 AM

Landies deserve it so much that I voted 235 times :twisted: :twisted:

stevo68

22nd March 2006, 10:49 AM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'> Its unfortunate that the guys at overlander and 4wd monthly dont realise it.[/b][/quote] Tall poppy syndrome mate, you knock what you know is good or better 8) ,

Regards

Stevo

NOZ

22nd March 2006, 10:52 AM

So true Stevo :roll:

Ace

22nd March 2006, 10:58 AM

Originally posted by stevo68
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'> Its unfortunate that the guys at overlander and 4wd monthly dont realise it. Tall poppy syndrome mate, you knock what you know is good or better 8) ,

Regards

Stevo[/b][/quote]

Couldnt have put it better myself. Matt

Quiggers

22nd March 2006, 02:05 PM

So where's the Cruiser and Patrol eh? Who???

Maybe the resale prices will improve outta sight, after this.

Needs a sticker!

Cheers, GQ

disco95

22nd March 2006, 07:04 PM

You could give a Land Rover a knighthood, but in the words of a Top Gear presenter, "it wouldn't show up, it'd be too busy doing something important" https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

hiline

22nd March 2006, 07:43 PM

Originally posted by disco95
You could give a Land Rover a knighthood, but in the words of a Top Gear presenter, "it wouldn't show up, it'd be too busy doing something important" https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

i really liked that phrase when i first heard it https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

and still do now :wink:

stevo68

22nd March 2006, 07:49 PM

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>i really liked that phrase when i first heard it [/b][/quote] First time ive heard it and I agree, I know mine when it can is out doing something fun or exciting https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Regards

Stevo

FenianEel

23rd March 2006, 11:48 AM

Originally posted by disco95
You could give a Land Rover a knighthood, but in the words of a Top Gear presenter, "it wouldn't show up, it'd be too busy doing something important" https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Why deface it with meaningless crap, it already has awards that actually mean something :twisted:

She may drive a Defender "on the farm" in Scotland, but i wouldn't let that old pensioner near my Disco :twisted:

Omaroo

5th June 2006, 04:43 PM

http://www.lrfaq.org/images/BBC-TopGearLandRover.wmv

4.5Mb

Even if there are those that don't like Landies (please ask them to put aside their biases for the moment and take the video for what it is) - this video is a pretty good indicator as to why 4WD's are important to those who drive them - and why the anti-4WD brigade had better come up with a damn good reason to be without the humble 4WD.

I'm proud to drive a Land Rover.

Enjoy!

(As pointed out by Greylandy)

disconut

5th June 2006, 05:43 PM

Gotta love that!
Unbiased, factual and well presented.

"Of course I drive one"

Trev.

White 110

5th June 2006, 05:52 PM

Just sat here and watched it three times - wonderful!!

Makes me want to go outside and drive it for the fun of it!!

Now I couldn't say that about a Forrester or a Cruiser

solmanic

5th June 2006, 06:02 PM

I have been trawling torrent libraries looking for the Top Gear episode which featured this story and cannot find it. Does anybody know the date of the episode or even the series and episode number?

White 110

5th June 2006, 06:21 PM

have you tried www.topgear.co.uk ?

It was some awards they did in 2005 I think

solmanic

5th June 2006, 06:26 PM

Ahhh - that could be so. I am still missing a half a dozen episodes from the summer (UK) 2005 series. I'll just keep on downloading and see if it turns up (or my ISP cuts me off - whichever happens sooner).

EchiDna

5th June 2006, 06:41 PM

http://www.finalgear.com/

I think you will find this link helps even more than the official webby!
there are episode synopsii for each and ever one...

cheers,

disconut

5th June 2006, 06:43 PM

http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/videos/

Trev

stevo68

5th June 2006, 06:43 PM

Great video, havent seen that one, dont it just make ya proud to be a landy owner :D

Regards

Stevo

dullbird

5th June 2006, 08:00 PM

now i dare someone to go and post it on the toyota website,

show them what a real car is

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :eek: :eek: :D :D :D :D :D

great video does make you a proud owner

dobbo

5th June 2006, 08:10 PM

Marvelous, brought a tear to ones eyes

crump

5th June 2006, 08:10 PM

Well Ive already emailed it to every Toyo owner I know.:D

PCH

5th June 2006, 08:14 PM

Iconic :) :)

"Land Rovers only do important things"

"70% still on the go"

Proud to be a Land Rover owner.

Chris

DiscoDave

5th June 2006, 08:40 PM

Wow! What a buzz! :D Thank you for posting that Omaroo - I'd never have seen it otherwise.

Now I'm going outside to promise my SIII that I'll get it running so it can get on with doing something important again. :cool:

Phoenix

6th June 2006, 07:59 AM

I've got that topgear episode (ok, i've got almost all of the "new" series :blush: ), so if you can't find which one it is I can dig it out and let you know. It was from the 2nd or 3rd series from memory in a competiton to find the worlds greatest car, and it won :cool:

solmanic

6th June 2006, 11:05 AM

I have only got Top Gear episodes from December 2003 onwards (series 3). The Final Gear torrent archive doesn't have any of the "new" Top Gear episodes from series 1 & 2. If anybody knows where to get them I would be interested.

Phoenix

6th June 2006, 11:59 AM

You can get most of the older topgear episodes (including soem from the 80's ans 90's) from some of the FTP's that you can get access to on the finalgear forum.

p38arover

6th June 2006, 01:17 PM

I have downloaded a number of Top Gear episodes that feature Landies. Too bad I have nowhere to host them.

Ron

boggo

7th June 2006, 09:12 AM

That should be shown in schools

Ace

7th June 2006, 09:15 AM

Seen that one before and love it, brings a smile to my face every time i watch it. Matt

adnic

19th June 2007, 08:12 AM

top gear voted the landie the greatest car ever.
almost brings a tear to your eye!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHGysBc2-o

solmanic

19th June 2007, 08:20 AM

Maybe we should just have a sticky for this clip - it comes up about once every three months.

Phoenix

19th June 2007, 10:11 AM

It is also available for download in our Files section

PAT303

19th June 2007, 10:13 AM

I'd like to see Toyota match that!!!! Pat

HangOver

29th October 2007, 11:09 PM

it's still worth watching every now and again though !:D

Downloads section ?

mittadisco

30th October 2007, 06:13 AM

Thanks - hadn't seen that one before.... (because I'm a newbie...)

disco2hse

30th October 2007, 06:30 AM

I'd like to see Toyota match that!!!! Pat

I wouldn't ;)

Quiggers

30th October 2007, 08:57 AM

I wouldn't ;)

Because it couldn't...

Hammond would probably need a booster seat to drive a 'cruiser:D:D:D:D

GQ

weeds

30th October 2007, 09:12 AM

always good to watch

Disco_owner

30th October 2007, 09:59 AM

That is a Great Tribute to Land Rover.

JES

18th December 2007, 09:13 PM

Not sure if this has been posted before..... if so I apologise, particularly to those who are on dial up, but I found it to be a great watch with interesting statistics.

YouTube - Top Gear shows Land Rover's heritage (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S0uSxqHPWGk)

hiline

18th December 2007, 09:23 PM

sorry mate but its been posted a few times now ;)

bloody great vid all the same :D

HAK

19th December 2007, 06:49 AM

its hard to run anything past us we seen all thats got to do with LR :D

its a great watch though and Im going to watch it again as I have seen 4x4 is born about a million times :D

Phoenix

19th December 2007, 08:58 AM

Not only posted, but available for download on AULRO :D

for those that don't know it's from that motoring institution Topgear!

digger

16th February 2008, 10:30 PM

this is almost 5 minutes long but I think it sums a lot up...

YouTube - Top Gear Land Rover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbJxHQKVl2E)
enjoy

digger

p38arover

16th February 2008, 11:03 PM

this is almost 5 minutes long but I think it sums a lot up...

A repost but an oldie and a goodie! :)

ellard

17th February 2008, 05:37 AM

Hi there Digger

I havent seen it before - Well done and quite a good presentation.

All the best

Wayne

slug_burner

17th February 2008, 08:50 PM

I have a copy on my PDA so when I am away and a little home sick in places where LRs are not prevelant other than punssie RR Sports etc I get my dose of series one.

olmate

18th February 2008, 05:47 PM

Like it .... a good clip mate.

easo

18th February 2008, 05:55 PM

Bugger wish my sound worked.:mad::mad:

cjc_td5

19th February 2008, 07:52 PM

I have a copy on my PDA so when I am away and a little home sick in places where LRs are not prevelant other than punssie RR Sports etc I get my dose of series one.

Can you copy the video off YouTube??
Would be good to have a copy on my computer so I didn't have to download it every time I wished to watch it...:)

slug_burner

19th February 2008, 10:03 PM

Don't know about keeping copies from you tube. I got it from a BBC site IIRC. Just had a quick look and did not find it, if you want it I can send a copy. pm your e-mail address if you want it.

DiscoDave

20th February 2008, 05:02 PM

Can you copy the video off YouTube??

There are a number of sites/applications that let you download videos from YouTube - I'm running the Firefox browser and there's a plugin called 'Download Helper' that gets the YT videos for me. They appear on my computer as 'flv' files that only plays in silly flash players at about the size of a postage stamp so I use video conversion software (CinemaForge in my case) to change the format to the more usual 'wmv' type.
If you don't run Firefox there are sites which claim they will convert YT videos for you to download (although the ones I tried didn't work). Google "download YouTube video" and see what turns up. ;)

sschmez

20th February 2008, 07:06 PM

Ummmmmm.........

It's available for download .... right here (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/local_links.php?action=jump&id=15&catid=3) from this great place:D
Click on "files" above....
Then General Land Rover Related (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/local_links.php?catid=3) ......
and it's on page two.....

it's been there for a while thanx to Pheonix ....
......... but I still hafta smile every time I'm reminded that it's there

DiscoDave

22nd February 2008, 08:22 PM

Mick-Kelly

28th October 2008, 11:57 PM

Evening all
What was the original top gear program number that showed the 'land rover heritage clip' Ive attached it below but i dont know if the attachment will work. It was the one that had the Hamster extolling the design features of the series vehicles and talking about how they were the greatest car ever made.

it wont let me attach the clip for some reason.

foz.in.oz

29th October 2008, 09:38 AM

http://www.cqlroc.org/BBC-TopGearLandRover.avi

This is the clip. Don't know the episode though. Sorry

solmanic

29th October 2008, 10:21 AM

It was done in series 2 (2003) but I don't know the episode. The torrent that is available for download has several episodes cut down for commercial TV so that particular segment is missing.

Phoenix

29th October 2008, 01:20 PM

There are places you can get the original version. That article was cut out because it was a part of a phone vote competition for the greatest car of all time, which was won by the land rover.

If you go to the new topgear.com website it should say which episode in series 2 it aired in, otherwise visit finalgear.com ;)

Dmmos

30th May 2009, 12:57 PM

Sorry in advance for what I'm sure will be a repost, but I think it's worth it :D

YouTube - BBC-TopGear LandRover

Cheers, Dave.

Grover-98

30th May 2009, 01:59 PM

I remember seeing that on telly a long time ago..

How proud does it make you to own a Land Rover! and it makes me want a series even more! :(

BMKal

30th May 2009, 02:19 PM

Dunno if it's a re-post or not, but I hadn't seen it before.

And even if I had, it's worth watching again .............. and again ...........

If I knew how to copy and post these video clips, I'd put a copy of it over on that other 4WD forum just to counter some of the constant tripe Roothy spruiks on about how that other brand was the beginning of 4WD'ing in Australia. :twisted:

(I like Roothy in general - just get a bit sick of some of the tripe sometimes). :p

p38arover

30th May 2009, 03:02 PM

Sorry in advance for what I'm sure will be a repost, but I think it's worth it :D.

We won't mention how many times that has been posted on here. :p

keithy47

30th May 2009, 03:52 PM

That was good, i hadn't seen it before

Sleepy

30th May 2009, 04:02 PM

Yup, hadn't seen it thanks.:)

I gotta wonder about some of those "facts".:angel:
"Some say that 70% of all Land Rovers....." and
"It has been said that 80% of the developing world...."

You gotta admit those pommies are proud of their Land Rovers.:D

Yorkie

30th May 2009, 04:37 PM

excellent, really describes the brand for being more than just a means of transport. :)
cheers
yorkie

mjm295

30th May 2009, 05:35 PM

The Hampster looks young in that.

Mick-Kelly

30th May 2009, 06:36 PM

Does anyone know which episode this originally aired in?

lardy

30th May 2009, 10:27 PM

C0L0N3L

30th May 2009, 10:50 PM

Does anyone know which episode this originally aired in?

nope.. I have just skipped through all the episodes and seasons I have (1-12) didn't see it. I don't rember watching it when I watched them all properly either.. as mjm295 hammond looks pretty young.. but they also have the cool wall.. so it must be in the first 3 seasons I suspect...

C0L0N3L

31st May 2009, 07:36 AM

Double post.. get over it..

Season 2 Episode 5.. Is the same as the bit at the end.. Jeremy saying Renault Clio wearing the same looking clothes with the exact same facial expression.. but its not in that episode.

Panda

31st May 2009, 03:08 PM

Thanks Dave, worth watching again & again & again ... :)

p38arover

31st May 2009, 03:37 PM

Double post.. get over it..

More like sextuple/septuple/octuple post! :D

crl

31st May 2009, 04:05 PM

Great clip thanks mate, hadn't seen that before.

bcr2734

31st May 2009, 04:15 PM

Love this one tho:

YouTube - Hitler gets a Land Rover

Panda

31st May 2009, 04:56 PM

That's a brilliant clip. Even though seen it before, still nearly pee'd myself laughing. :Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

Love this one tho:

YouTube - Hitler gets a Land Rover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDU2WScmDw&NR=1)