Top Gear review of the AM V12 Vantage

E90SLAM · 08-04-2009, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by rldzhao

Clarkson didn't actually drive the car. It was done in front of a blue screen. If you look closely the speedometer is at zero. The rest of the footage is from some type of AM promotional video!

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Originally Posted by .:bHd:.

yuppp i didnt actually look at the speedo but you could tell from the camera motion.. Theres no way you can get a smooth pan like that when the car is driving

Its either the dash board is broken, or Clarkson really has a steady foot, or computer generated dash board. When the factory dashboard (assuming the LHD and RHD are using the same dash board and clusters), the needles are pointing towards the center, but in the video, its more like about 60 km/h and about 3k rpm.....

attached are the interior when the car is at stationary and the screen shot taken from Top Gear....

jibaholic101 · 08-04-2009, 12:42 AM

what was with the depressing ending, are the rumors true that clarkson is leaving?

E90SLAM · 08-04-2009, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jibaholic101

what was with the depressing ending, are the rumors true that clarkson is leaving?

somehow i feel they're kinda running out of ideas for challenges in this series....

DrunkOnJ20 · 08-04-2009, 05:39 AM

Depressing 'review'...

TK-421 · 08-04-2009, 10:09 AM

I don't like the shifter. Or the steering wheel.

E90SLAM · 08-04-2009, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by news 4 u

I don't like the shifter. Or the steering wheel.

the shifter looks like an arm from Robocop!

FStop7 · 08-04-2009, 09:29 PM

Clarkson is so strange. He acted like he loved the V12 Vantage on the TV show but he ragged on it in his written review.

TK-421 · 08-04-2009, 09:36 PM

The speedo on the Vantage is weird. 0 mph/kph is at around 5 or 6 o'clock, like in the video below, so I guess Clarkson may have in fact been driving the car (unless it was on a dyno or something with a greenscreen behind it).

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FStop7 · 08-04-2009, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by rldzhao

Clarkson didn't actually drive the car. It was done in front of a blue screen. If you look closely the speedometer is at zero. The rest of the footage is from some type of AM promotional video!

The speedo and tach aren't at zero, they start at the bottom and move upward. Speedo rotates clockwise tach rotates counter. In the video the speedo is at about 60 and the tach is at about 3k

As far as the panning goes my friend says it's possible with a liquid tripod head and some kind of consistent motion control, but I have a hard time believing that.

TK-421 · 08-04-2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FStop7

The speedo and tach aren't at zero, they start at the bottom and move upward. Speedo rotates clockwise tach rotates counter. In the video the speedo is at about 60 and the tach is at about 3k

I beat you

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpo...6&postcount=32

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Originally Posted by FStop7

As far as the panning goes my friend says it's possible with a liquid tripod head and some kind of consistent motion control, but I have a hard time believing that.

I think this episode was sort of the swan song of Top Gear, so they may have decided to pulled out all the stops. Still, I doubt that the camera had active suspension or something, so my belief is that some of the video in the review was filmed by Aston Martin themselves.

koreez88 · 08-04-2009, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by E90SLAM

somehow i feel they're kinda running out of ideas for challenges in this series....

Felt that same way too

E90SLAM · 08-04-2009, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by news 4 u

The speedo on the Vantage is weird. 0 mph/kph is at around 5 or 6 o'clock, like in the video below, so I guess Clarkson may have in fact been driving the car (unless it was on a dyno or something with a greenscreen behind it).

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Originally Posted by FStop7

The speedo and tach aren't at zero, they start at the bottom and move upward. Speedo rotates clockwise tach rotates counter. In the video the speedo is at about 60 and the tach is at about 3k

As far as the panning goes my friend says it's possible with a liquid tripod head and some kind of consistent motion control, but I have a hard time believing that.

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Originally Posted by news 4 u

I beat you

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpo...6&postcount=32

I think this episode was sort of the swan song of Top Gear, so they may have decided to pulled out all the stops. Still, I doubt that the camera had active suspension or something, so my belief is that some of the video in the review was filmed by Aston Martin themselves.

I beat all of you....but no one cares about the pics i posted...

and i dun have video lik you....

anywayz....from the way Clarkson ends the show....just seems like this is the last episode of Top Gear they'll ever show....

(just guessing...)

.:bHd:. · 08-04-2009, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by FStop7

As far as the panning goes my friend says it's possible with a liquid tripod head and some kind of consistent motion control, but I have a hard time believing that.

liquid tripod? lol never heard of it.. Only way they could have done it is iht a steady cam but that would be close to impossible in that tight space in such a stiff car

Year's_End · 08-05-2009, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by news 4 u

The speedo on the Vantage is weird. 0 mph/kph is at around 5 or 6 o'clock, like in the video below, so I guess Clarkson may have in fact been driving the car (unless it was on a dyno or something with a greenscreen behind it).

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OT: That is not fast.

335ifanatic · 08-05-2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by rldzhao

Clarkson didn't actually drive the car. It was done in front of a blue screen. If you look closely the speedometer is at zero. The rest of the footage is from some type of AM promotional video!

Yup, I noticed that as well plus the scenery behind Clarkson is a giveaway that it was a blue screen or computer generated.

E90SLAM · 08-05-2009, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by 335ifanatic

Yup, I noticed that as well plus the scenery behind Clarkson is a giveaway that it was a blue screen or computer generated.

then the speedometer must be computer generated as well....

EmPower · 08-05-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by E90SLAM

I beat all of you....but no one cares about the pics i posted...

and i dun have video lik you....

anywayz....from the way Clarkson ends the show....just seems like this is the last episode of Top Gear they'll ever show....

(just guessing...)

It was definately very surreal. Makes you wonder. I did enjoy it though and the swan song sure would bring tears to any true petrolheads eyes.

Forget the dramatization. What if this is the "gulp" end?

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