James May's Cars of the People

[kev b]

I was going to ask if anyone else had seen the VDP grilled car, I seem to remember an article featuring various Japanese market only cars with dubious derivative styling in the vein of Austin/Morris/VDPlas.

[GTIR]

I had a Renault 4. I loved the coloumn gear change, you could rev the nuts out of it in first and third and the inertia of the car when you eased off the throttle would make for faster gear changes!

[Riley Blue]

Dr Jekyll said:

Was there a glimpse of a Vanden Plas 1300 during the race?

I thought that too.

[marshalla]

Riley Blue said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Was there a glimpse of a Vanden Plas 1300 during the race?

I thought that too.

Copel Bonito ? http://www.allcarindex.com/auto-car-model/Japan-Co...

[Mr_Yogi]

Caught part 2 on iplayer this afternoon, much better than most of the posts on here would have you believe. Even the shooting bit was tolerable, I did skip to the end of the race though. Overall I found it interesting.

[TinyCappo]

JonRB said:

I thought the Kei cars got good coverage although there was a huge gap between the 1970's and the 2000's that maybe a bonkers nutcase late 80's / early 90's Kei could have covered. I seem to remember they produced some mad turbocharged ones (and possibly a super-turbo) that were very much not in the spirit of the rules. But if you know your Kei cars, you'll know that the little clip of Clarkson was of one such Kei. I think it was a Daihatsu or maybe a Mitsubishi.

factory bar the wheels in the 1st pic.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I have missed Episode one, and just watched episode two.

I was about to get all annoyed and indignant about the destruction to the 2CV and Renault 4....but to be fair, after they'd blown them away, a close-up camera shot clearly revealed some horrendous and terminal chassis rust...so I think we can all now calm down a bit, and recognise that they destroyed a pair of scrappers anyway...

The rest of the programme was....not bad. Not up to the scratch of James's 'toys' series...but better than endlessly juvenile Top Gear at least.

For us, with our dearth of 'PH' shows...it's not too bad I think.

[petrolsniffer]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

I have missed Episode one, and just watched episode two.

I was about to get all annoyed and indignant about the destruction to the 2CV and Renault 4....but to be fair, after they'd blown them away, a close-up camera shot clearly revealed some horrendous and terminal chassis rust...so I think we can all now calm down a bit, and recognise that they destroyed a pair of scrappers anyway...

The rest of the programme was....not bad. Not up to the scratch of James's 'toys' series...but better than endlessly juvenile Top Gear at least.

For us, with our dearth of 'PH' shows...it's not too bad I think.

Agreed it's a tv show do we really think they'd go out and buy the first example they'd find? no.... I'd be surprised if the ones they blew even ran!

Quite abit cooler than just using a bag of fertilizer like they usually do.

I look foward to the 3rd installment I spied a 205 gti in the teaser footage

[marshall100]

TinyCappo said:

factory bar the wheels in the 1st pic.

Goes in my lottery winners garage. Very cool.

[skinny]

ch108 said:

The James May shirt thing. Do they not do that for continuity purposes? I remember in the days of Clive James travel shows. He said he had about 20 identical blue shirts in his luggage so it made editing the shows easier and they could film bits out of sequence.

In James Mays case though I would be surprised if they found more than one shirt that looked like that.

ahh that would explain why he can't just wear one that fits him properly around his clarkson-esque gut - he'd need another 20.

[SAB888]

petrolsniffer said:

I look foward to the 3rd installment I spied a 205 gti in the teaser footage

Yes, and a 1.9GTI like I had for 10 years. Mine was black and I loved that car. There should be a bit about the Lamborghini Countach as well, although it probably won't get a good review.

[JonRB]

SAB888 said:

There should be a bit about the Lamborghini Countach as well, although it probably won't get a good review.

When Clarkson reviewed it as a young Top Gear presenter he observed that "Bo Derek could be sunbathing topless on the rear deck and I wouldn't know" and also "if this was a dessert it would be a sundae with a sparkler in it. If it was music it would be Rock & Roll" (I'm dredging that from memory, so forgive me if it isn't totally accurate. I think I got the gist though).

Anyway, my money is on them including a snippet of that when they mention the Countach. They'll also mention it being impossible to reverse and how you had to sit on the sill with the door open to reverse it.

(This is total guesswork btw. I have no inside knowledge)

[SAB888]

JonRB said:

When Clarkson reviewed it as a young Top Gear presenter he observed that "Bo Derek could be sunbathing topless on the rear deck and I wouldn't know"

Daryl Hannah in one review.

[JonRB]

SAB888 said:

Daryl Hannah in one review.

I'm sure it's had variations. Or maybe I misremembered the original (I have a feeling I have it on a VHS somewhere recorded off the telly. But I don't even know if I have a VCR any more let alone that I can find the tape). But it was something like that anyway.

[5potTurbo]

I watched this last evening as I'd recorded it, and Kenny echoes my thoughts... no need to shoot those cars to pieces. It's not TG.

kenny.R400 said:

Yep. firing AK 47s at old cars, feckin' top telly, for moronic tts.

Surprised at May doing this played out ex TG stunt once more.

[JonRB]

Well, here we go...

[JonRB]

Well, that sums up the Mini for me.

[Laurel Green]

James with a pressed shirt.

[mickk]

Love the Capri.

[JonRB]

Oh dear. Contrived car chase between Capri and Mustang. This could be bad.