Top Gear's potential cachemobile review

[rhinogeo]

<p>If you missed last Monday's episode of Top Gear, they reviewed some great potential cachemobiles </p><p>The Qpod certainly would allow you to arrive at caches in style </p>
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[diesel69]

Yes but the Bentley that they took to the middle East for testing is much quicker and just a tad more stylish

[swampgecko]

I always wanted a hovercraft, but I was drooling for the entire segment....

[pprass]

Fantastic! One of those (two seater as well) and a skeleton key to open those pesky locked gates across "management vehicle only" tracks and we would be off. Wonder what the fuel economy is like?

[rhinogeo]

I just saw the news that Richard Hammond has been seriously injured whilst driving a jet car for Top Gear

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 365676.stm

[swampgecko]

Does anyone know how far behind the UK we are with Top Gear episodes?

[rhinogeo]

Does anyone know how far behind the UK we are with Top Gear episodes?

<p>About 13 months behind</p><p>As far as I can tell (courtesy of the Qpod website), last Monday's episode was originally screened in the UK on 31 July 2005</p>

[Magpie]

I just saw the news that Richard Hammond has been seriously injured whilst driving a jet car for Top Gear

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 365676.stm

That sucks!!! Top Gear is the only show I actually look forward to watching each week!

I'll take one of the buggies though, good for getting those FTF's

[ArgusTuft]

Wonder what the fuel economy is like?

If you have to ask then you can't afford it!

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[pprass]

Wonder what the fuel economy is like?

If you have to ask then you can't afford it!

That's so true - but what I was meaning (and should have been clearer) was I wonder how far a tank of fuel would take you. No use in getting to a far flung cache and then find that you need to call someone for extra fuel!

[Horus]

Does anyone know how far behind the UK we are with Top Gear episodes?

The show that airs next monday is the last of Season 6, which went to air on the 7th of August 2005 - so rhinogeo was pretty well spot on.

HTML based epsiode list here, other more comprehensive episodes guides can be found here at the excellent Final Gear Forums.

Season 9 returns to UK screens on October 8th, or at least was meant to before Richard Hammond's accident, no news yet as to if it'll keep this schedule.

[The Garner Family]

For those who follow the show you might be interested that Richard Hammond was critically injured in a car accident while filming for the show just today. Search google for the news stories - there are plenty around including details of his current condition - which is good.

[rhinogeo]

For those who follow the show you might be interested that Richard Hammond was critically injured in a car accident while filming for the show just today. Search google for the news stories - there are plenty around including details of his current condition - which is good.

<p>I posted a comment on the Hamster's crash 14 hours earlier</p><p>An update on his condition is available here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 367616.stm</p>

[The Garner Family]

I posted a comment on the Hamster's crash 14 hours earlier

My apologies... I thought I was following the thread but had obviously missed that bit.