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The guys at Top Gear really know how to show a small hatchback a good time... by
using it to play soccer. Five a side "football" with Toyota Aygos pits red versus blue for the ultimate
sporting experience. Don't try this at home, though -- we hope the Top Gear body shop repair specialists were up for a
little reconstructive surgery after this experience.
[Source: TopGear via Putfile]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt 7:29PM (3/24/2006)
Pure gold. First time I laughed all day. The Europeans sure love motoring, to finance a mainstream, big budget show about it. I wish we (in the States) loved it that much.
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Lack 7:49PM (3/24/2006)
In the winter olimpic special edition show they used Suzuki Swifts to play hokey + some other wacky/fun winter motorsports.
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jOHN! 8:03PM (3/24/2006)
Those cars seem really nimble and zippy. They turned pretty sharply.
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hater 8:20PM (3/24/2006)
Damn, this is OLD OLD OLD
WTF
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Talis 8:33PM (3/24/2006)
THAT IS SO COOL! I wanna do that in my Mazda Protege5!
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obiz 8:46PM (3/24/2006)
Heres another video of cars playing ice hockey.
http://www.transporttrends.com/mvnforum/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=1234
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Eric 8:58PM (3/24/2006)
THAT IS AMAZING!
I hope they disabled the airbags.
Why buy a Lambo when you can buy twenty Aygo's and play some soccer with your buds?
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Heydn 9:02PM (3/24/2006)
I'm really not loking forward to the American version of Top Gear.
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Alex Zhao 10:29PM (3/24/2006)
so old...
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Jeff Crew 12:08AM (3/25/2006)
That is solid.
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Jeff Crew 12:13AM (3/25/2006)
...oh, and the American-ization of Top Gear... I have very LOW expectations. Authentic products always dominate a shameless knock off. Genuine articles always hold up over time. Did anyone really like the recent knock off of "The Dukes of Hazard". Simpson is hot...there is always at least one thing to like, but the rest is a mess. I expect nothing less of the upcoming knock off.
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jeffrey 1:19AM (3/25/2006)
Seems like this activity would be much less expensive with a fleet of Saturns, with their plastic body panels. Of course, it'd probably be less fun, too.
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Mike 3:31AM (3/25/2006)
#11 - I can guarantee you that Top Gear didn't pay a penny to have those Aygo's for a game of soccer. They have such a huge influence over car-buying Europe that just a good review of the Aygo is enough for Toyota to give them a load of them to smash up. Do you really think that the Government funded BBC would fork out that kind of money just to knock a few dents in some small Japanese cars?
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Proud Japanese 9:30AM (3/25/2006)
#12 : You show your ignorance just by claiming that BBC is funded by the Government. That is of course utter bullshit. The BBC is funded by the british public.
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DKB_SATX 11:38AM (3/25/2006)
The BBC is funded by the British public via a mandatory tax on radio and television receivers, at a minimum. I can't say definitively that they receive no funds from other government sources, but a mandatory tax certainly sounds like government funding to me.
Re: the americanized version of Top Gear... I wonder if the increase in mouth-breathing moron viewers who wouldn't watch the original because "They talk funny" and "drive them weird little cars" will offset the number of viewers of the original show who won't watch the new one if it's not any good. I can't imagine them being able to find a hilariously twisted blowhard like Clarkson to hold the US show together.
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SHOTT3R 11:51AM (3/25/2006)
I don't know that America has a current shortage of blowhards to be honest with you...
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Steve B. 12:14AM (3/26/2006)
"1. Pure gold. First time I laughed all day. The Europeans sure love motoring, to finance a mainstream, big budget show about it. I wish we (in the States) loved it that much."
We have PBS, which finances Motorweek. That would be the equivalent of BBC's TopGear. We could have excellent, high quality, commercial free public television, but whiners in Missouri would start ranting about the taxes and "socialism." Thus, we get "Yet Another Survivor Clone" on our commerical ether.
Enjoy!
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Steve 8:18AM (3/26/2006)
No body shops were necessary after the 'match'. Instead Toyota, in a moment of genius, used the battered Aygo's as promotional material by putting them in shopping centres alongside the usual shiny new examples. You could even buy the battered car, still in its football kit paint job, for about the same money as a base spec model. I assume that before doing this the important bits (chassis, wheels etc) were given a once-over to make sure no-one bought a deathtrap but other than that they genuinely looked to be 'sold as seen'. Toyota did the same thing with the pick-up truck that Top Gear tried, and failed, to destroy by mounting it on a tall display stand and moving it around the larger Toyota dealers.
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charlesk 7:27PM (3/26/2006)
DBX_SATX
Yes, the BBC is funded by a tax, but it is a tax that is collected by the BBC directly, not the government.
Either way, at least it isn't funded by advertisers. You only need to look at car shows on advertiser funded television (with the exception of 5th Gear, another great UK car show but which runs on commercial TV) to see the kind of no-critical rubbish you end up with.
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