simon k wrote:
tho I like how they beat up caravans
Ahhh... But May's now against that. He's changed his position. He now OWNS a caravan!
They ruin everything in the UK - they blew up a Maserati Merak, they ruined a Dino 308...
It was a shame they burnt the Marina - just like the 1100, they are great parts cars.
Same goes for Datsuns - most of them are good for nothing but pinching stuff from (engines, etc). Though I'd have a 240Z... Or Fairlady (1500?)...
Now all we need is for them to play with VW's...
I think BIAM's partially right, and partially wrong. They are playing with BMC products because they see it as a part of the culture. Also because it's shared culture with the UK. But they're not doing it because they don't understand that we appreciate it - they consider us to be, on some level, like the bearded members of UK Car Clubs that Clarkson chides. They consider us bad dinner party guests, people who are stuck in the past and wish to talk of nothing other than our cars.
And, while we enjoy our old cars, they're driving new GT-R's, LP560-4's, GT's, M3's... So there's something of a disconnect between them and us.
Look at the UK. Clarkson HATES the vast, vast majority of old cars. Sure - he owns one (the Grosse) - but it's only one. And he loves it because it's so overdone, and there's not a true modern equivalent he can afford. Hammond and (particularly) May (who owns/owned a Mini, bought on eBay after a night of drinking with Hammond - woke up in the morning not remembering he'd bid on it!) aren't anti-old-car, provided it's not just something run-of-the-mill. Hammond's got OL1V3R, and his 427 Mustang, and his Land Rovers, May's got his Bentley, etc.
Pizzati gives me the impression he's like Clarkson, particularly in his attitudes towards old cars, except with a racing driver brain (remember, they're tiny!).
He doesn't car about what the car is, how it's built, the badge, or anything other than what it drives like. If it's not perfect, it's rubbish. This is the man who, in his audition video, claimed "Murcielago means "Freedom Furniture"... because if you look under there, the whole thing looks like the metal tubing they make Freedom Furniture out of."
Warren Brown and James Morrison (Mr I-own-Ninety-Seven-Cars) aren't bad, but they're still on a car show which is about new cars. Industry lives because it gives the impression it's always making quantum leaps - each new model is always supposedly significantly better than the last, and you'd be crazy to own an old car.
If they burst that impression, there are fewer car sales, and they end up out of a job. Because light entertainment based on cars doesn't work when you don't have the background of cars. It'd be like the Footy Shows without AFL/NRL. Would anyone watch Sam Newman/Fatty Vautin if there was no football in the background..? But, given the sentiment in here, TGA folding may not make many people unhappy...
It's the boobs and testosterone that make this place fun-ner 
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