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2001 Audi S8 D2 [Typ 4D]

2001 Audi S8 D2 [Typ 4D] in Top Gear, Non-fiction TV, 2002-2015 IMDB Ep. 17.04

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: DE

2001 Audi S8 D2 [Typ 4D]

[*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

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TheHeartbreakKid15 EN

◊ 2011-07-19 00:27

 The vehicle details for Y668 MRX are:

Date of Liability 01 05 2012
Date of First Registration 14 05 2001
Year of Manufacture 2001
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4172CC
CO2 Emissions 338g/Km
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour SILVER
Vehicle Type Approval M1

m.pfaffeneder DE

◊ 2011-07-19 11:50

 Actually not a bad idea of the three, well in this case two. It´s only a bit slow, noisy and quite uncomfortable.

Mudflap SX

◊ 2011-07-19 12:09

 :D How about using buses?

dudley UK

◊ 2011-07-19 12:37
Mudflap wrote :D How about using buses?


Already tried: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1376879

walter IT

◊ 2011-07-19 14:51

 Poor S8! How do they use such one of the best luxury sedan ever built for this stupid thing? :o
... I haven't seen the episode yet, did they destroy or ruin it?

Sandie SX

◊ 2011-07-19 15:00

 The Audi will be fine. It probably won't be too difficult to put the wheels back on.

It was a decent enough idea that might have had some value if they hadn't obviously botched the application for cheap laughs. Even by their standards it was obviously rigged (see the bit where Clarkson drove his train so fast down the wrong side of the tracks) and probably filmed on a disused stretch of railway.

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Nightrider RU

◊ 2011-07-19 15:07

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/GAZ-13_Chaika_draisine.jpg

antp BE

◊ 2011-07-19 15:29

 Or these well known cases:
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-- Last edit: 2011-07-19 15:30:33

chris40 UK

◊ 2011-07-19 15:39
Sandie wrote It was a decent enough idea that might have had some value if they hadn't obviously botched the application for cheap laughs. Even by their standards it was obviously rigged (see the bit where Clarkson drove his train so fast down the wrong side of the tracks) and probably filmed on a disused stretch of railway.

It was filmed on the preserved Great Central Railway, between Leicester and Loughborough. It's the only heritage railway (in the UK, anyway) with double track.

Ingo DE

◊ 2011-07-19 22:29
Mudflap wrote :D How about using buses?

No kidding, for the Volkswagen T1 there were conversion kits available, bck in the 50ies and 60ies ;)
http://www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de/klv/klv20/5026--0509-153.jpg

In German there is even an own term for them, "Schienenbus": http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenbus See the links to the plenty of versions, also in other countries.

-- Last edit: 2011-07-19 22:35:46

m.pfaffeneder DE

◊ 2011-07-20 12:02

 @ingo: The old LR Defender was also available with special kits: Link to "www.auto-news.de"

Ingo DE

◊ 2011-07-20 12:32

 Only LR, no Defender back then ;)

m.pfaffeneder DE

◊ 2011-07-20 12:35

 Yes, indeed, sorry.

G-MANN UK

◊ 2011-07-24 18:50
Sandie wrote It was a decent enough idea that might have had some value if they hadn't obviously botched the application for cheap laughs.


Using a car to pull a train instead of a locomotive? Uh, no :p

holden nut AU

◊ 2018-08-07 02:46

 James May (over speaker): Ladies & Gentlemen, if you would like to brace yourselves, your incompetent steward will be coming through shortly, and pour tepid coffee in your crotch.
Richard Hammond (over speaker): FOR GOD'S SAKE JAMES! STOP MAKING THE F****** ANNOUNCEMENTS! YOU DRIVE!, I STEWARD!.
Richard Hammond (over speaker): LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!
James May (over speaker): Penis! Penis! Penis! Penis! Penis! It's my Tannoy.

-- Last edit: 2018-08-10 01:14:11

holden nut AU

◊ 2020-04-21 06:28
walter wrote Poor S8! How do they use such one of the best luxury sedan ever built for this stupid thing? :o
... I haven't seen the episode yet, did they destroy or ruin it?
Yes 2 carraiges got destroyed, Buffet Carraige by fire and Scum Class Carraige smashed by a train on the opposite track.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2020-04-21 09:22

 However good it may have been as a new vehicle, the cost of running a 4 litre German luxobarge in this country means that by the time it is a few years and a hundred or two thousand miles old it is virtually a piece of worthless junk. My Mercédès, now two years old, would have cost me over £3 per mile had I changed it on the quote offered to me against a new plug in hybrid, and as it has only a 2.2 litre engine it would have been of greater interest in the used market, diesel or not.

Needless to say, I am not changing it yet!

-- Last edit: 2020-04-21 09:26:05

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