I add the next caps in the gallery
Cars and planes would be much more interesting if we could see their working parts
After many years of experimentation, I think I have finally identified the best seat on a British Airways Boeing 747. It’s 16K, by the window to starboard. I’m in it now. I used to think it was better to be much farther back, behind the trailing edge of the wing, where it was possible to watch the operation of the screw jacks on the flap mechanism. But that was just a treat for take-off and landing, and only if you are a bit nerdy.
This is much better. Unfortunately, it’s a Club Class seat (someone else was paying) but it’s probably worth the extra dosh because it faces backwards, and now I can see straight down the barrel of a Rolls-Royce turbofan. If I extend the fingers of my hand like a fan, and wave them up and down in front of my face to create a crude stroboscope, I can occasionally glimpse the helical stripe painted on the spinner of the fan itself, as if it were momentarily stationary.
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I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this before, and largely because I haven’t dared, but some months back I bought myself an old Porsche 911.
This sort of thing can easily happen in your 40s. Some people buy a time-share in a Spanish villa, or build a small extension onto the kitchen, or take up clay pigeon shooting or salsa dancing in an attempt to keep the impression of cloying, middle-aged ennui at bay. But I, like so many others, have bought an old 911, a car I should have owned in my 20s and might have done if I’d knuckled down and got on with something useful.
Furthermore, by any 911 bore’s standards I’ve bought the wrong one entirely.It’s a 1984 3.2 Carrera in Guards Red, the colour normally reserved for those ketchup dispensers in the shape of a tomato.
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It turns out that the start date for the new TV series has changed from June 15th.
Or, if we’re being honest, maybe never was then at all.
Basically we heard a rumour and jumped the gun a bit in all the excitement.
Sorry.
The worst news is that the schedulers haven’t confirmed the new date either, so we can’t even tell you when it will be.
But it definitely won’t be the 15th. Or January 1st 2008. Or May 12th.
Or even the 18th.
It’s not our mate’s birthday on August 2nd, or the last F1 race of the season on November 2nd either.Basically, your guess is as good as ours’, but we’ll let you know as soon as we do.
source: topgear.com
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sorry about the downtime we had the past couple of days. I’m doing some updates to the site right now.
I add some new images in the gallery
Also a new column is up on the telegraph websit
The car key conundrum
It’s high time we didn’t even have the problem of where to keep them
Daily TV and radio listings telegraph.co.uk/arts On a shelf in the corner of the May kitchen is one of those large, highly decorated plates that holidaymakers pick up in places like Spain and Portugal, and which has never been used for any type of foodstuff.
Instead, it is used for storing possessions with no obvious home, or which are too small to live safely in a drawer: half-used books of stamps, some very small screwdrivers for mending sunglasses, odd batteries, faded chits to remind me that a package has been awaiting collection at the sorting office since 2006, a few pegs, a dongle for transferring computer data, sticky labels, that sort of thing. It is precariously piled with useful items, with the merciful result that the hideous hand-painted pattern on the ceramic is no longer visible, and is known as the Plate of Many Things. This is where one will find whatever is needed to avert the crisis of the moment.
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Some aspects of the credit crunch may be baffling, but one thing’s for sure… it’s a good time to snap up a quality used car
Assuming it hasn’t been taken away by the bailiffs, your television will have been dispensing a lot of depressing news about something called the credit crunch. Mine certainly has been, or was, when the electric was still on.
Honestly. Here I am with my nose pressed to the relentless grindstone of the Protestant work ethic, living within my means and putting a little aside for a second-hand Honda when I’m old, and now look. My life’s been ruined by irresponsible people with charge cards and remortgaging forms. Now I’ll retire with a celebratory pork pie if I’m lucky, and warm myself by a sputtering candle in the dread realisation that I should have just bought the Maserati and stuffed the consequences.
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What?: Tv program
Status: Filming
On TV: BBC2 in the autumn
Information:
A science programme.
Pictures: not yet
Official: not yet
Information: imdb.com
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