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Eeyore:
Okay, Ladies and Gentleman,

Here is the definitive question regarding Top Gear and the D3 'up-a-mountian' test - were they right or were they wrong?

Your vote and comments appreciated.

Remember, were not dicussing the vehicle (which is 2.7 tons of slightly overweight desire), but what they did with it!

Happy voting!

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

Eeyore:
FWIW, I'm running with the squirrel option  :evil:

cheers
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Eeyore

SteveH:
slightly difficult one, while how they presented what they did was wrong, so is everything they do, if they started every piece on the show with dont try this at home or get permission first etc then it would detract from the show, their expectation seems to be that the viewer should realise that you cant drive your car sideways at 100 plus any more than you can belt down pendine sands or drive off road. I'm not saying that the assumption is correct, just that it is there. Clarkson wrote summit about it in his coloumn in the mag a few issues ago, will try and dig it out.

keithdixon:
I think we can take it for granted that TG went through the correct channels to request permission for doing what they did.

Granted they could have been kinder to the environment but would that have gained the interest from the viewers, which is what their main reason of being there is.

I would agree that it would bore the pants off the viewers if at each stage on the program they stopped and did the whole health and safety advice thing.  Would we be discussing the fact that they launch a crappy car into a caravan??

It's just our biased opinion, which is making us sit up and speak out.

With regards to the winch use (of which I am no expert) ((actually less than that have never used one)) are we all saying we have NEVER stood close or touched a winch rope whilst under tension?

But finally you have to remember that whilst filming they had a full back up crew with ambulance which had scaled the mountain first...

turtle:
I watched the show with great intrest, I was very intrested if they could make up, but thinking about of course they were that was the idea of the show.

I did wonder about there winching methods "lets hold onto the cable while winching" umm not a good idea in my books?

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