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Just in case anybody is browsing NOW, Topgear on Dave is the one with the RS4 vs the rock climbers, classic!!

reckon it was fixed .....like all Top Gear programmes

....great filming though

Who cares though if it's fixed - People try to read too much into top gear which for better or worse is now a entertainment show that happens to be about car (and other cool) stuff.

The climbers were undoubtably amazing though - fix or now fix to climb at that rate for 2 hours is incredible.
At least Clarkson was very complimentary -The comments about "I suspect I might be sitting 3 feet from the best v8 ever" and "the m3 will need to come with a free moon to be as good" always make me chuckle.

Never tired of watching the RS4 in action

Watched it this morning on repeat. Was a very good show.

A 6 hour climb done in 2 hours, what you reckon?

sonny wrote:Watched it this morning on repeat. Was a very good show.

A 6 hour climb done in 2 hours, what you reckon?

Maybe, but you wouldn't get me anywhere near there.

I think the climbers probably had to slow down to let the RS4 catch up....LOL

I don't understand why no official timed lap was ever recorded for the RS4? If anything smells like a fix it's that

andre3000 wrote:I don't understand why no official timed lap was ever recorded for the RS4? If anything smells like a fix it's that

Pity there was never a timed lap on telly.

andre3000 wrote:I don't understand why no official timed lap was ever recorded for the RS4? If anything smells like a fix it's that

I thought one was done by the Stig but never filmed/broadcast.
Wasn't it on the official list somewhere? IIRC.

Yes it was. There was a link on here somewhere.

The time on their track is 1:25.6 for the saloon which is 0.3 of a second behind the M3 Coupe and a couple of seconds (IIRC) quicker than the C63 saloon. So for all the pontificating about the RS4 being worst of the three a 'professional' racing driver could only get an M3 to go 0.3 second quicker than the RS4.

My understanding is that the RS4 time was 'derived' from Clarkson saying it was a second (or something) faster than a Porsche and that's why it's not on the official list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/powerlaps.shtml