Top gear tonight

Well. The City Rover bit made me cry with laughter, the DB9 was MAGNIFICENT
and the Exige was simple awesome on the track.

Nuff said really

--
Dan

"Dan405" <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote

Well. The City Rover bit made me cry with laughter, the DB9 was
MAGNIFICENT
and the Exige was simple awesome on the track.

Nuff said really

TG really is a great programme. How i've missed it. A race to the south of
france, sanitary towells and an apache gun ship. Its the sort of things you
dream up when you're half cut with a bunch of mates!

But the Exige, WOW! Thats the sort of car where a VTEC type engine belongs!
Would be interesting to see how the VX220 R thingy would do though...

In article <2g7hr6F5ebpaU1 (AT) uni-berlin (DOT) de>, Carl Gibbs
<cagmeister (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

TG really is a great programme. How i've missed it. A race to the south of
france, sanitary towells and an apache gun ship. Its the sort of things you
dream up when you're half cut with a bunch of mates!

But the Exige, WOW! Thats the sort of car where a VTEC type engine belongs!
Would be interesting to see how the VX220 R thingy would do though...

CityRover: Have you driven in the UK lately? Do you live in some
magical wonderland where every roadsurface is suitable for concorde
take-offs and speed bumps are just a horrible memory?

It may not be made out of bits of Lexus, rubbed between Mercedes Benz's
(the daughter) thighs, and lovingly glued together by French artisans,
but it is built to be driven in a country where road maintenance is
heaving the dead Elephant off the track, and cows have right of way. In
a small, cheap car, I want robust, not class. IMO, it is the real 21st
Century Panda.

ST. Erm, ST170? ST220? ST24? TG are a little late with the chance to
make that joke, sadly. My girlfriend has never heard the abbreviation
ST for Sanity pads, so I guess it's a recent, southern, contrived to
make the joke thing. Rather like the Ka Si.

Anyone else think of Airwolf when the Apache came on screen? Now /that/
would be a nice Sera replacement.

Richard (Aston Vanquish? One the one hand, yes, I would. On the other
hand, Bentley GT /and/ a Phaeton for running about in).

--
VW New Beetle Cabrio 1.6 - Black, Missy. Main car.
80% Supra. 10% Rover V8-S. 5% 'Golf out of the paper'. 5% Banger.
Toyota Sera EXY10 1.5 Auto G5 - Wine red, Sushi. For sale.
Too many cars - http://www.dmc12.demon.co.uk/allcars/

CityRover: Have you driven in the UK lately? Do you live in some
magical wonderland where every roadsurface is suitable for concorde
take-offs and speed bumps are just a horrible memory?

It may not be made out of bits of Lexus, rubbed between Mercedes Benz's
(the daughter) thighs, and lovingly glued together by French artisans,
but it is built to be driven in a country where road maintenance is
heaving the dead Elephant off the track, and cows have right of way. In
a small, cheap car, I want robust, not class. IMO, it is the real 21st
Century Panda.

It's certainly a decent car, just not for the class that Rover have
priced it in. It should have been set at a £5,000 starting point
maximum, not £6,500 without even power steering. There are variants
costing over £10,000 ffs, who in their right mind is going to pay that
considering the publicity it's had over it's origins...


--
Lordy

In news:090520042212249224%richard (AT) dmc12 (DOT) daemon.co.uk,
Richard Kilpatrick <richard (AT) dmc12 (DOT) daemon.co.uk> decided to enlighten our
sheltered souls with a rant as follows

Richard (Aston Vanquish? One the one hand, yes, I would. On the other
hand, Bentley GT /and/ a Phaeton for running about in).

I saw a Bentley GT yesterday when I was waiting for a customer in the limo..

Heard a gorgeous deep V8 type rumble, looked round and there it was, a
vision in a kinda sharky grey colour.. J 007 was the reg plate.. fucking
sumptuous it was.. his girlie was worth a triple scuttling an all...


--
Pete M

Ford Capri !!!
Mercedes 500 SEL,


Scouse Git extraordinaire.
Liverpool, Great Britain

Lordy <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote:

CityRover: Have you driven in the UK lately? Do you live in some
magical wonderland where every roadsurface is suitable for concorde
take-offs and speed bumps are just a horrible memory?

It may not be made out of bits of Lexus, rubbed between Mercedes Benz's
(the daughter) thighs, and lovingly glued together by French artisans,
but it is built to be driven in a country where road maintenance is
heaving the dead Elephant off the track, and cows have right of way. In
a small, cheap car, I want robust, not class. IMO, it is the real 21st
Century Panda.

It's certainly a decent car, just not for the class that Rover have
priced it in. It should have been set at a £5,000 starting point
maximum, not £6,500 without even power steering. There are variants
costing over £10,000 ffs, who in their right mind is going to pay that
considering the publicity it's had over it's origins...

*ding*

It's more of a competitor for the Perodua Nippa, rather than the new
Panda, Micra etc.

I've seen a couple out and about - they look very dated compared with
the competition.

For £6.5k, I'd take the Panda.

--
Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300
VW Golf GL Cabrio - Alfa 75 TS - Alfa 155 TS Lusso - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

"SteveH" <steve (AT) italiancar (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Lordy <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote:

CityRover: Have you driven in the UK lately? Do you live in some
magical wonderland where every roadsurface is suitable for concorde
take-offs and speed bumps are just a horrible memory?

It may not be made out of bits of Lexus, rubbed between Mercedes
Benz's
(the daughter) thighs, and lovingly glued together by French artisans,
but it is built to be driven in a country where road maintenance is
heaving the dead Elephant off the track, and cows have right of way.
In
a small, cheap car, I want robust, not class. IMO, it is the real 21st
Century Panda.

It's certainly a decent car, just not for the class that Rover have
priced it in. It should have been set at a £5,000 starting point
maximum, not £6,500 without even power steering. There are variants
costing over £10,000 ffs, who in their right mind is going to pay that
considering the publicity it's had over it's origins...

*ding*

It's more of a competitor for the Perodua Nippa, rather than the new
Panda, Micra etc.

I've seen a couple out and about - they look very dated compared with
the competition.

For £6.5k, I'd take the Panda.

The Panda is £6.5k?! Who would spend that kind of money on that?!

--
Dan

Dan405 <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote:

It's more of a competitor for the Perodua Nippa, rather than the new
Panda, Micra etc.

I've seen a couple out and about - they look very dated compared with
the competition.

For £6.5k, I'd take the Panda.


The Panda is £6.5k?! Who would spend that kind of money on that?!

I suggest you should take a look at the size / quality and equipment of
the new Panda before passing comment..... makes a new Fester look
undersized, shoddily build and underspecced.
--
Steve H 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
http://www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - MZ ETZ300
VW Golf GL Cabrio - Alfa 75 TS - Alfa 155 TS Lusso - COSOC KOTL
BoTAFOT #87 - BoTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #

Dan405 wrote:

Well. The City Rover bit made me cry with laughter, the DB9 was
MAGNIFICENT and the Exige was simple awesome on the track.

Nuff said really

doh!

Is it repeated?

I saw a Bentley GT yesterday when I was waiting for a customer in the
limo..

Heard a gorgeous deep V8 type rumble, looked round and there it was, a
vision in a kinda sharky grey colour.. J 007 was the reg plate.. fucking
sumptuous it was.. his girlie was worth a triple scuttling an all...


--
Pete M

Near where I work there's a double franchise dealership - Bentley & Skoda, I
kid you not. About a month ago around 8.00am there was a transporter
delivering six Bentley GTs. When I was in buying my paper in the filling
station I casually quipped to the bloke behind the counter " that new
Skoda's a bit tast y looking, isn't it " as I nodded in the general
direction of the transporter.
If looks could kill............:-)