This Sunday's Top Gear Blurb!
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Suffolk944
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The Twingo was the hot version and the S2 of course had seen better days (thought the rear looked rather saggy) and no doubt was driven for a certain amount of comedic effect. The shots of it cruising along various autoroutes and squirting up a few alpine roads did show what a handsome car they are on the move and Jezza does genuinely seem to like them was certainly not a mickey take as some of them are.
Northern924
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I was really surprised, I guessed totally wrong as to who would have each car, but Jezza seemed very happy in his '44, I though exactly the same when he pulled away to start his lap, that back end was very sunken and sloppy, but along with the Datsun it was back in the studio at the end, so who knows it might even turn up for sale in the future, after all Clarkson did fix the back light, 2 switches and sort out the rumble from the unbalanced back wheel!!
There did seem to be a lot of scrapes and rust before they even set off, always amazes me how someone could let an S2 get like that.
As for that Marina, it was a rust bucket as well if you look at the close ups when May started driving it!
There did seem to be a lot of scrapes and rust before they even set off, always amazes me how someone could let an S2 get like that.
As for that Marina, it was a rust bucket as well if you look at the close ups when May started driving it!
xenon
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Yes it was a shame that the S2 was a bit tired but I suppose if they really got it for £1500 then perhaps it woudl be. It was also thrown into corners for comic effect; had it not been I'm quite sure it would have beaten the hatchback thingy though.
Ultimately it may have devalued the car - Joe Public now believes you can pick up a reasonable S2 for £1500.
Ultimately it may have devalued the car - Joe Public now believes you can pick up a reasonable S2 for £1500.
mr brightside
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Jezza's S2 looked like a weeble, there was more body roll on it than on my volvo 240.
pauljmcnulty
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Have to agree with most of above.
While TG is still a happy hour of Sunday evening entertainment it is becoming rather samey. As most of us, I have been looking forward to this weeks episode since we saw the preview trailer but have to admit to being rather disappointed. The information on the cars was cursory and then it was back to running into things again.
I had the added jepardy of having the inlaws around so, had the 944 failed, this would have provided fuel for acidic comments for months to come. Fortunately it didn't let me down although the suspension was soggier than a realy soggy thing and didn't look very cool as a result.
The XF was superb though.
As for Clarkson's driving , while not Tifeny Dell, he is quite an accomplished wheel man - granted he gets a lot of practice. The racing and drifting scenes show he can throw a car around and hang on to it. Not to crash the 944 with that amount of sag, having achieved that amount of body roll, is nothing to be sniffed at.
While TG is still a happy hour of Sunday evening entertainment it is becoming rather samey. As most of us, I have been looking forward to this weeks episode since we saw the preview trailer but have to admit to being rather disappointed. The information on the cars was cursory and then it was back to running into things again.
I had the added jepardy of having the inlaws around so, had the 944 failed, this would have provided fuel for acidic comments for months to come. Fortunately it didn't let me down although the suspension was soggier than a realy soggy thing and didn't look very cool as a result.
The XF was superb though.
As for Clarkson's driving , while not Tifeny Dell, he is quite an accomplished wheel man - granted he gets a lot of practice. The racing and drifting scenes show he can throw a car around and hang on to it. Not to crash the 944 with that amount of sag, having achieved that amount of body roll, is nothing to be sniffed at.
mik_ok
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Whilst I'd agree he's now infinately better than a few years ago (he's obviously had some professional tuition) I think your comments are generous.
TG is pitched very much an entertainment show ~ the "races" are tres contrived with 83 million (approx) edits, and they have professional drivers for the neat drifting sequences you often see (as verified by Richard Porter ~ one of the TG scriptwriters).
Northern924
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Exactly what I was thinking Dougie, that Marina was just as rough as anything else they had out there, Clarkson has no doubt had tuition from Ben Collins or some other consultant on the show.
There's very little real world car info on the show these days, but go on you tube and look at some of the old shows from when Tiff & Squintin' where there, had they stuck with that format TG would have died years ago, have to say though, for the next series they really need to rethink it again, its getting very predictable now.
There's very little real world car info on the show these days, but go on you tube and look at some of the old shows from when Tiff & Squintin' where there, had they stuck with that format TG would have died years ago, have to say though, for the next series they really need to rethink it again, its getting very predictable now.
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