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[buzzy bee]

Hi

I have just caught the end of Fith Gear, normally find it really tedious, and most of it still is, with very little information on actual cars. But I like thet Chris Barrie, chap, Mr Britas as I know him, as he seems to have a real pasion for oldies, he was driving a D Type, quite good to watch!

Cheers

Dave

[Scotty]

Can't stand it Buzzy, I haven't managed once to watch it for more than 60 seconds.

Although granted there will be folks out there who do, although I have yet to meet one.

[Rick]

I think it sunk to new depths when VBH was presenting it from the Ace Cafe with some muppet who admitted knowing diddly about cars, maybe last series or the one before??....Plato is quite interesting, but otherwise Fifth Gear never gets a look in on our telly! plus reception for C5 sucks here anyway so barely watchable at the best of times

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[Scotty]

The one that finally put me off the stupid programme, which demonstrated how little the presenters or their researchers know was when they added "after-market" performance accessories to see if they worked.

The donkeys fitted a big wing onto the back of a front wheel drive car and then were surprised when they discovered that it didn't seem to work - DUH!

The other show that should be taken out 'round the back and strangled until its dead is Pimp My Ride UK - without doubt I have never been so embarrassed at the unmitigated failure of a UK TV company in managing to make the most ridiculous copy of an American TV show in my life. The presenter is beyond words, except - You ain't cool dude - you're white, you're skinny and you can't do the "attitude" home boy!"

Where's Captain Slow when you need him!

[Uncle Joe]

I've just seen this programme for the first time. I watched it after reading this topic a while ago. Never again will it contaminate my TV screen. The presenters are bone stupid....an that includes the Judy....

[62rebel]

i would like to apologise for your being exposed to such crap as "pimp my ride". we have tried to contain such drivel to our own airwaves but alas we have failed. not particularly amazing considering that our most successful TV shows are stolen nearly word for word from BBC programming..... we get "Americanised" versions of your stuff and our writers get awards..... plagiarism? only if we take it from OUR writers. stealing it from YOUR writers seems perfectly okay.
of the several automobile-related programmes on air, most are nothing more than commercials for whatever the sponsor sells, and the rest are purely dramatised situation comedies disguised as reality shows. i make fun of Top Gear but i enjoy the show despite their enthusiasm for destroying BL products. a robin reliant built into a space shuttle.....

[Scotty]

[Uncle Joe]

At least the US has the show Overhaulin', which is a lot more fun to watch than Changing Rooms....

I'm just waiting for Foose to get hold of a 300. He did a really nice job on a Chevy similar to yours, Scotty....

I wonder if the girl on Fifth Gear thinks that sunroofs are for extending legroom...?

[pigtin]

I found the mere name of the show 'Pimp my Ride' totally repellent; didn't even know it concerned cars until I accidentally switched to it. Up until then I thought it was about ladies of negotiable virtue and their minders.
What I saw of it was even more repellent than the title.

You will gather I didn't like it.

Don.
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[Giggles]

I think I might have said before that the UK "Pimp my ride" is filmed in Colchester, just a few miles from ours.

A couple of years ago hubby went with a local hot rod club to have a peep at the garage that they use, he took the Humber and the guys there were amazed at the cars. In fact the guys from the garage let hubby & his chums have a nose round the workshops, while they dribbled over our cars!

They said that PMR is very scripted, well there is a suprise and not the type of thing they'd normally do.

But I think I'd rather Chip Foose get his hands on any of our cars than Tim Westwood & his posse.

Don't watch Top Gear or Fifth Gear nowadays.
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[Uncle Joe]

I have only seen the odd PMR, but personally, I find their style distasteful. So in this case I agree with others.

If someone such a Foose, Brizio, or d'Agostino wanted to do an Overhaulin' on any of my cars, they would be more than welcome...

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Well, I have just flicked the channels and fith gear was on, watched a tiny bit, and it had a novel idea, a car where you don't move the seat for high adjustment, you move the controls, the pedals slide back and forth about 12 - 20 inches!

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

buzzy, dont you mean move the pedals back and forth instead of the seat? If you do, then its not new at all...I remember several cars in the '60's with that feature, the best known probably the Marcos.

[buzzy bee]

[grahame]

Why does Fifth Gear try to be Top Gear? Lounging around on funky sofas/car seats inbetween power-sliding Aston Martins has been done to death - surely there's more interesting stuff to do with cars on telly? At least TG has some interesting challenges... The real shame is that there are no classic cars unless they're being derided for being unreliable...
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