Matt Smith better than Tennant and Eccleston...

[Starkers]

...at driving really, really fast, as anyone who saw Top Gear last night will know

I think he was faster than Billie too.

As always he came across really well in his interview with Clarkson.

 

[Saul]

Not to take it away from him but he was driving a faster car I think. Eccleston didn' have much driving experience and drove an automatic. I am slightly disappointed they didn't do the materialization effect for the car.

 

[Cutter John]

Charges in, ready to witness a fan war the likes of which even God has never seen....Oh.

Great headline Starkers.

I'm gonna have to search Youtube for this one.

 

[auntiehill]

HERE it is.

Nice little video; I loved the story about the ocean and Eva Green.

 

[Starkers]

Charges in, ready to witness a fan war the likes of which even God has never seen....Oh.

Great headline Starkers.

I'm gonna have to search Youtube for this one.

I'm mad but I'm not stupid...

 

[USS KG5]

Not to take it away from him but he was driving a faster car I think.

Indeed the current Kia C'eed is a 1.6 with 125bhp, so not actually too sluggish in such a lightweight car. The liana and Lacetti were both slower by a fair margin.

If anything the Kia is a very good car by any standard, just lacking a good badge.

TO CLARIFY - for anyone who doesn't know, we have a different attitude to power and engine size in cars here in the UK than there is in the USA.

 

[23skidoo]

Didn't John Barrowman wipe out doing a Top Gear a couple years ago? I seem to recall reading that he was involved in an accident doing one of these shows.

Alex

 

[auntiehill]

^I think that was on Fifth Gear. He rolled the car several times and got some glass in his eye, but came away with only some bad bruises.

 

[Anachronus]

I found his rendition of "Singing in the Rain" quite good. Though "A Clockwork Orange" has forever altered how I hear that song.

 

[Geckothan]

Apparently they cut out the best parts of the interview for some reason or another. Wonder if there's any BBC employees lurking around here that have access to them?

 

[PorthosShadow]

Didn't John Barrowman wipe out doing a Top Gear a couple years ago? I seem to recall reading that he was involved in an accident doing one of these shows.

Alex

You might be referring to Richard Hammond being in a serious accident while filming a segment for the show.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

John Barrowman did have a accident, he was in his top gear, it involved skids, and in a roundabout way it was a wipe out. LOL

 

[Cutter John]

Found the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvCkeFWMI4

Never heard of Fifth Gear.

 

[captcalhoun]

^it's Channel Five's Top Gear rip-off/replacement after TG got canned before being revived.