Similarly, he offended Americans by removing the map of the USA and renaming the resultant space the 'South Canada Sea'.

You should hear what he has to say about american cars.

Now that really will offend americans!

:wink:

You should hear what he has to say about american cars.

Now that really will offend americans!

:wink:

What does he have to say about canadian cars? :?: Oh, you don't have any. You just make american cars up there,eh. :lol:

Too right!

Top Gear makes a point of reviewing (and slating) seriously rubbish US cars like the Dodge Caliber but pretty much avoids nice stuff like the Corvette Z06.

Makes us feel all warm and cosy by avoiding the real truth - that we're bizarrely performance-obssessed and our cars are impractical, unbelievably expensive and frankly quite dull for the most part.

Lotus seems to make some nice cars. TVR was british, yes??? russian owned, before they went under??

And top gear did, in fact, no avoid the C06 Vette. They gave it a good review, really!

American cars are for shit and the US car companies are going to reap what they planted.
Of course, Chimpy McFlopsweat is going to meet with the US auto makers after the election to address the situation....It's probably going do entail high tariffs or outright embargoes of foreign car companies...rather than actually building a good product that people want.
It is our way.

i LOVE that show. IMHO the only car show worht watching.

anyway, wasnt clarkson seriously hurt not that long ago? does this mean that hes alive and kicking again?

I like Top Gear, I have a hard time undestanding what they say sometimes though, they sound like they have a potato stuck in their throats.

Lotus have a couple of good ones out, the Elise and the Exige. They're go-karts really; amazing handling and a ton of fun but to be absolutely honest they're not that fast.

TVR was british, yes. A friend of mine owned a TVR Griffith 500 - scary powerful cars with no ABS or traction control.


Oh right, sorry. Must have missed the review. Wouldn't mind a blast in one, I haven't had a go yet but they look great!

American cars are for shit and the US car companies are going to reap what they planted.
Of course, Chimpy McFlopsweat is going to meet with the US auto makers after the election to address the situation....It's probably going do entail high tariffs or outright embargoes of foreign car companies...rather than actually building a good product that people want.
It is our way.

I'm not so sure.

I've found discussions about cars here very interesting. Europeans as a general rule just look for different things in their cars to americans.

We live in affluent societies. We have a habit of doing what we like more than is good for us. It's only when the doc says we have to slim down and live lean for our own health that we listen.

I think you’re correct in that US cars reflect our dominant culture. To wit: American cars are bloated, overpriced, hazardous to your health, tarted up gas huffers with bolted on accessories that fall apart as soon as they have a few miles on them….Just like the prostitute that stands across the street from where I work.

it didn't seem to be that way before, though (not that i'm old enough to really know "before")

but look at old chev vans. A friend of my dads had one with one MILLION miles on it.
it was a work van. Driven lots daily, and it was fine.

diesel jetta's will get 400000km on them, but what else can you drive like that these days?

Thankfully the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way with Americans and giant cars now. At a dealership, they'll give you 0% interest and all kinds of gimmicks to get you to buy a bigass SUV, but there is a three month wait list for a Prius - and if you try to haggle you get laughed at.

The car I really don't understand and think is the most stupid vehicle ever made is the Mini. That thing gets the same gas mileage as a Subaru Outback, and it touts fuel efficiency? My Prius gets nearly double the gas mileage the Mini does, is bigger, and is much safer. The Mini and the Hummer are just opposite takes on the same "image is everything" approach to car design.

the stereotype that american are all driving gas-guzzling SUVs is s---, BTW, and all you've got to do to figure that out is look at the cars driving down the road around you every day.

No, you f--- DON'T know before...cars today are several orders of magnitude better than anything produced up until the just about the late 1980s. trrust me.




phhhhht, any f---ing car you WANT, american or otherwise. is everyone retarded? in the 1960s, if a car had 50,000 miles on it, that was HIGH mileage, and it was expected to need major repairs soon.

now, pretty much anycar you buy will go 150,000 - 200,000 miles with only ordinary maintnenance.

I'm tellin' ya, we are in an automotve golden age, for real.

the stereotype that american are all driving gas-guzzling SUVs is s---, BTW, and all you've got to do to figure that out is look at the cars driving down the road around you every day.

the last outback i owned got 32 mpg highway and 28 in town. pretty similar to a mini. you could also nearly put a mini inside of it, and i could drive up 4WD roads in the subaru. you got me on the safety part though.

if they want to market the mini as a quirky image oriented sports car that corners on rails, fine. to market it as a fuel efficient vehicle based on the size is nonsense however, and that is my problem with it.

the last outback i owned got 32 mpg highway and 28 in town. pretty similar to a mini. you could also nearly put a mini inside of it, and i could drive up 4WD roads in the subaru. you got me on the safety part though.

if they want to market the mini as a quirky image oriented sports car that corners on rails, fine. to market it as a fuel efficient vehicle based on the size is nonsense however, and that is my problem with it.