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[PLA]

It was good to hear one or two people sticking up for TVR when that long streak of p**s JC asked peoples' opinion on what they thought was the best looking sports car on the market. Why is he so anti the British sports car market? and why does he have to be so insulting to people on the show? Once is amusing, but its nearly every program. I don't know why I bother to watch it other than it makes my children laugh!

[mrmaggit]

The chap standing up for TVR should have said "The one that snaps knicker elastic".

And your next response, Mr Clarkson is?

[trefor]

Don't take it so personally.

Why didn't they include the Ferrari 250GTO (or whatever it's called - the nice looking one).

[RichB]

trefor said:

Don't take it so personally.

Agreed it's just a show, but it would have been nice to hear the guy respond with something like "the one that creates it's own weather" ! Rich...

[Apache]

Damn right, if yer gonna open yer gob do it right and be prepared for a reposte based on your haircut or jumper. He defers to a good return insult so he's not all bad

[dick dastardly]

I thought he was taking the piss out of the guy who said TVR because he didn't give a model name, just shouted out the marque

'What's the best looking car ever?'
'TVR' - Which one my lad? Tuscan? Cerbera? It's like something a child would say.

[kdd]

maybe I'm missing something, but when comparing 160+ mph cars that get to 60 in < 5 seconds, why are TVRs not included?

[S1NRR]

Didnt Clackson own a Grif 500 in metalic light green / lime green....didnt he take it to monte carlo it was in top gear about 5 years ago????!!!

[agent006]

Strange that he enthuses so much about everything TVR produce when he's doing his videos, but then slags them off on TG.

His script writers need a good slapping.

[simpo two]

kdd said:

maybe I'm missing something, but when comparing 160+ mph cars that get to 60 in < 5 seconds, why are TVRs not included?

The task was to think of the 'best-looking car of all time' - so the answer is a personal thing. I don't think TVR quite falls into this category, though the Griff is probably the closest.

[kdd]

simpo two said:

kdd said: maybe I'm missing something, but when comparing 160+ mph cars that get to 60 in < 5 seconds, why are TVRs not included? The task was to think of the 'best-looking car of all time' - so the answer is a personal thing. I don't think TVR quite falls into this category, though the Griff is probably the closest.

Sorry, I was thinking of a later bit of the show where they compared the lambourgini, porsche and aston. all sub 5 second cars. surely a tuscan s would have kept up?

[tvrbob]

simpo two said:

The task was to think of the 'best-looking car of all time' - so the answer is a personal thing. I don't think TVR quite falls into this category, though the Griff is probably the closest.

Agreed, though I'd put Tuscan ahead of Griff. I see TVR's as 'bloody good looking' but not 'best looking of all time'.

[PetrolTed]

JC's ridiculing of the audience is getting a bit tiresome now. How many blokes with beards can he pick on before the joke wears out.

I applaud the fact that they're trying a new format but the same jokes each week are getting tiresome:

1) Richard Hammond can't reach something
2) Bloke with beard comments on something
3) "Interweb thingy"

It would be a shame if they let themselves down with this repetition.

[Trundle]

I didn't think it was particularly entertaining this week.

Is it going off the boil?

Familairity and all that.

[v8tvr]

My personal opinion for what its worth is that next to maybe the Zonda and alike the TVR tuscan is probably the most head turning cars,so therefore makes it one of the best looking cars IMHO

[simpo two]

Trundle said:

Is it going off the boil? Familairity and all that.

Better that, and a bit of wicked humour, than numpties talking about diesel hatchbacks!

[granville]

S1NRR said:

Didnt Clackson own a Grif 500 in metalic light green / lime green....didnt he take it to monte carlo it was in top gear about 5 years ago????!!!

Nope, it was TVR's demo car and honourable members may recall him (JC, that is) claiming that even after 60,000 miles "it felt - and still does feel - as tight as Vanessa May's G-string!"

I know this because I too drove this venerable Beastie some years ago when my Cerb was undergoing puberty at le factoire.

It was a J plater with 120-odd thousand miles up and as raucous as the Golden Mile itself at chuck oot time.

And that's the thing, you see, about the TVR 'loaner;' it magicially confers upon all who experience it, a lifetime's curse of gibbering bollock talk...

[marino]

PetrolTed said:

JC's ridiculing of the audience is getting a bit tiresome now. How many blokes with beards can he pick on before the joke wears out. I applaud the fact that they're trying a new format but the same jokes each week are getting tiresome: 1) Richard Hammond can't reach something 2) Bloke with beard comments on something 3) "Interweb thingy" It would be a shame if they let themselves down with this repetition.

4) Richard Hammond's simpering submissiveness to JC
5) Mock spontenaity
6) Using test track times as a standard despite different drivers, conditions, temperatures.

It's nice to see an hour long car programme, just wish they would grow up a bit.

[kdd]

mungo said:

You have to forget 0-60 times - These days thats just marketing - 0-100 and in gear times MUCH more important!

agreed. just using what top gear were using. wasn't JC rabbiting on about the porsche and aston getting to 60 in 4.7 seconds or something?
It's probably 40-60/50-70 that's most useful... for example: the less time you spend on the other side of the road when overtaking mr 45mph on an A road, the better.

[kdd]

v8tvr said:

My personal opinion for what its worth is that next to maybe the Zonda and alike the TVR tuscan is probably the most head turning cars,so therefore makes it one of the best looking cars IMHO

Have to agree there. If I had the money ....a Tuscan it would be.