Supercar Megabuild on Nat Geo.
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curlie467 said:
Le Mans Visitor said:
I saw the episode with the Dakar pile o crap where they insisted on smashing ten bails out of the CV joint to get it off the drive shaft. I am sure any basic mechanic will know there is a circlip within the joint making it just fall off. These muppets are utterly incompetant as is the idiot who thinks he knows about styling.
Am I missing something here?I've never had one just fall off, always had to give them a helping hand.
davegreg said:
Just another 'car' show in an endless line of so-called car shows that are full of d
heads, have the obligatory clock running, and you might see a total of about 2 minutes worth of interesting stuff per episode, if you're lucky! Another one to file under 'Shiite!'
I haven't watched this, but it struck a nerve. I would happily watch a show about a guy rebuilding a 2CV in his kitchen, or a guy in a third story flat who is rebuilding a motorbike. Why in a world of 24hr news and TOWIE isn't there room for proper petrolhead TV?heads, have the obligatory clock running, and you might see a total of about 2 minutes worth of interesting stuff per episode, if you're lucky! Another one to file under 'Shiite!'I'm a watchmaker and the things that interest me are almost entirely of no interest to the people who buy 80% of Swiss watches and want their status symbol fixed. But the 20% who do care will talk my ear off trying to understand what I do and what I value. Where is the petrolhead equivalent on TV? Did it die with early scrapheap challenge?
PowerslideSWE said:
davegreg said:
As dire as this show is, it's still nowhere near as bad as Graveyard Cars - which to me is still the benchmark of shiite car programmes! 
Haha, yes indeed, the boss there, Mark is it? He deserves to be punched in the face, hard.
I think that he's one of the funniest people ever to appear on TV. They've all got the driest most unstereotypically American senses of humour of any Americans ever.
rohrl said:
This guy?
I think that he's one of the funniest people ever to appear on TV. They've all got the driest most unstereotypically American senses of humour of any Americans ever.
I think he's watched too many episodes of The Office, with all his little looks to camera! But that's not the reason I hate it - it's the fact that you see them do absolutely anything and everything..........except work on cars! There's probably about 3 minutes worth of 'car' stuff per episode, the rest is just padded out with them bickering, going to the dentist and whatever else! I think that he's one of the funniest people ever to appear on TV. They've all got the driest most unstereotypically American senses of humour of any Americans ever.
Watching it now they went to Top Secret & showed that they'd only managed to get 831bhp out of their R35, never mind the fact that they had a selection of 1200bhp ones in the showroom!!! I now expect these two to "engineer" a 1000bhp GT-R when they could've just gone down the road to Litchfield.
Well they done something similar the guys at Severn Valley done a very good job.
Well they done something similar the guys at Severn Valley done a very good job.
Edited by ZX10R NIN on Wednesday 23 March 22:45
Then they proved their engineering prowess by setting out to beat a theoretical Veyron time by running their masterpiece on what looked like slick tyres at Santa Pod, where the track surface is basically a layer of rubber.
I was trying to work out which out of the 3 main protagonists was the biggest prick, but Khan's sidekick has now widened the field of contenders to 4.
I was trying to work out which out of the 3 main protagonists was the biggest prick, but Khan's sidekick has now widened the field of contenders to 4.
Greedydog said:
I don't even think it was the same car. I think the blue wrap nonsense was to cover the fact that the car used at the end was a completely different beast- not only did it have slicks on the back but there were clearly different wheels on the front.
It wasn't the same car. The blue one was a facelift (different front bumper and DRL's).The show could be good, but with all the "Mr Kahn" and "right hand man" storytelling, it's borderline pathetic.
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