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Magnus Walker on Top Gear America
On tonight's new episode. I thought you folks might be interested.
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Well, last night was episode 3.
It's going to take this cast a season or two to coalesce. That said, I've liked all of the iterations of Top Gear. I even liked the last US cast. The only person I couldn't stand in any version of Top Gear was Chris Evans.
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Damn, I missed 2 ;-) Agreed with all of the above, Evans was insufferable, the other shows were not great but still decent, better than watching Jeopardy !!! I like the new UK TG now, more than the Grand tour, more cars and less scripted stuff...
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Poor Magnus...from hero to jerk in one short drive with a TV gal aboard...
Not a fan of the USA version after watching one episode.
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What's the story Paul? I seem to recall he used to be active on this BBS, but I haven't seen him in years.
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Huh. I found the thread. It apparently happened the same week I was moving back from Georgia. No wonder I missed it.
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He drives as good as Richard Hammond.
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This series has some good short 'films' about cars or locations with cars but they are so short they get underdeveloped. The rest of the episode is just not worth watching. The segments are so short and clipped that it is not cohesive and a bit contrived. I too like the new TG with Chris Harris. Much better than the interim fix that was just horrible.
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I've worked with Tom "Wookie" Ford, one of the hosts. I absolutely love that guy and saw he was doing something with Magnus' 964 on IG the other day.
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i dont know who Magnus is..but he crashed that car, fair and square. i assume anyone else does it, it would be a bonehead move? how is this different?
he almost took out that sweet benz.
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(edit) Here, I'll make it easy for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQE48YdscQ
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I have a question; can LE issue someone a ticket for something they did not see or know about until they saw it on YT? I seem to remember reading about that happening. Asking for a friend, of course. 
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i cant imagine a video that makes it okay (or not okay) to almost hit another car from fancy driving. i'm good with my first time hearing about Magnus. badass name btw.
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Magnus used to show up at our annual gathering ("Treffen") in the early days of the R Gruppe. Hell, I got my first ride around Streets of Willow riding shotgun in the red, white, and blue car at one of our track days as a part of our Treffen. Really nice guy who was more than willing to help a guy out who had never seen that track before. He's done quite well for himself, starting with very little. I guess I don't understand why folks would begrudge him that.
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Don't know the guy, don't think I've ever met him .
If i saw those videos back when I was 16 y.o. I would have been thinking, wow that guy is totally cool. I'm a long ways from 16 now. |
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