Top Gear back on tonight - New series

Clarksons problem is he enjoys commenting for "shock value". So people remember him.

My one memory of him was on his tour of Italy (Bugatti,Lamborghini & Ferrari). He reffered to himself as the "Worlds biggest Ferrari Fan". Then he stated "Ferrari haven't always got it right, the old Testarossa was a dog and the Mondial looked like its dinner". Any true fan would love them all for what they are.

 

Ha ha, he's not stupid is he

There looks like a pretty nice line up on that dvd.

 

was great to see the Stelvio and the amazing scenery it features, i missed it all when i was there through a combination of going too fast and busy looking for you in my rear view mirror

 

I love that show--I just watched the last episode from the (last season?) the season that starts with hamster's rocket car crash/recovery

it's a shame that we don't get it over here in Canada the same time as you folks in the UK do..


P.S. I am the STIG

 

I can't really agree with that last statement. A fan is entitled to express an honest opinion and if he thinks they got something wrong he was right to say so (although he might have phrased it a bit more kindly!). To love something that's bad just because it's a Ferrari smacks of sycophancy.

 

All I know is that he fell out with the FOC big time over something he did or said - and Ferrari UK didn't seem to keen either. But that was last year.

 

He was kicked off a FOC track day for driving like a nipple if I remember correctly

 

Al, can't agree with you there.Wether you like the cars or not, MG Rover was a major part of British motoring history and it's loss should be mourned.Also not forgetting the thousands that lost their jobs when it closed.

 

F430 scuderia ?

 

I appreciate where you are coming from Steve, but personally I would not like to have seen it kept alive (again) by Govt handouts. Let's be honest - the build quality of the cars was awful & they weren't selling.
I saw so many rose tinted reports around the time that Rover was a quality marque etc, etc that someone like Clarkson coming out & being honest about it could have backfired badly on him, but I think we all knew that it had become an untenable company.
We've all seen many businesses go under over the years, should they all have been kept alive because they were an integral part of what made Britain great? If the great unwashed had wanted to buy Rovers then they would still be making 'em.
Cheers, Al.

 

Al, I wasn't really refering to the politics behind the demise more to the fact that you were happy about it.Like I said thousands lost their livelyhoods, not something to be happy about.

And IMO the goverment should have stepped in to keep it alive, just like Rolls Royce should never have been allowed to go out of British hands, just like Concorde should have been kept flying.And Clarkeson wasn't being honest, he was just being controversial.

Even from the days of British Leyland, they had some good models, they also had some bad ones but what maufacturer didn't.The biggest mistake was letting British Aerospace sell it off to BMW in 1994, who the proceeded to rape it for everything it could.Don't forget at that time it included Land Rover, BMW didn't have a 4x4, after a time BM sold Land Rover and the surprise surprise it brought out the X5.BM still own the rights to some famous names in British Motoring history including Triumph.

 

I would love to see someone reserect the TR brand (but the models before the TR7 and 8. The GT6 and earlier Spitfires were great fun cars. What was the Wolsey VP that had the big V6 or V8 in the 70s? Forgetting the Maxi and the Princess of course! I loved the Cambridge, if I remember right we used a Cambridge motor in a stock car back in the 80s. I only raced it once at Wimbledon and got stuffed out pretty early, but it was a quick car!
I never liked the MGB, or Midget, but I guess that was because I like Triumph. I think it all went down hill when they strated using Honda bits.