Rawlings is a business man with a marketing background. A marketing guy into cars. Doubt he is actually much of a mechanic based on the shows I've watched and reading his background. At any rate, this sounds like a pure marketing play trying to keep the light on his GasMonkey business. I recently became a member here since I finally purchased my dream car last month, a 1982 308 GTSi. Personally I don't care what all the haters out there have to say. I love this care and I've waited a long, long time (i'm north of 60 now) and its a !*#$ing Ferrari! I bought it for me and anyone who doesn't like it or thinks it's irrelevant in the Ferrari world, well that's their problem not mine, haha. If you love your car, who gives a **** what others and Rawlings thinks. Just my .25 cents Canadian. Cheers,
There's a big difference between taking a car on its last mechanical leg and driving it to failure, such that a good overhaul and major service after its on-camera moment will make it roadworthy again, and purposely wrecking a car beyond redemption. A demolition derby is not an apples to apples comparison with the Top Gear guys hooning around in some run down cars.
Had so many friends recommend that show for so long. Glad I didn't waste my time as clearly as bunch of wankers.
This may have worked 4-5 years ago when you could pick up a clapped out 308 for less than $20K. Good luck finding one for less than double that now. Unless they are only going to use two or three cars it's gonna get expensive pretty quickly. But whatever, they'll do what they want and either you'll like it or ya won't. Anyone remember the Pastamobile 308?
I’m not sure this is so bad. More parts for the top quality cars that remain and become more rare as a result. Really lame concept but I guess I don’t really care what people do with their own property anyway.
You're agreeing with me again! Continuing to drive a car that quite clearly has a serious engine issue to the extent that you destroy the block rendering the car essentially worthless, is not exactly leaving it so that a good overhaul could fix it. But if you enjoyed the programme, I guess Clarkson was justified. The BBC were certainly laughing all the way to the bank.
Interestingly, earlier in the same podcast Rawlings seemed to say that he started his garage with the sole intent of transforming it into a TV show. That struck me a weird. Whatever. I still think it's gross and douchey but no one's forcing me to hang out with the guy so I'll survive.
