Supercar Megabuild on Nat Geo.

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SilverSpur

20,911 posts

246 months

Monday 4th April 2016
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This program just keeps giving more and more horse st..... The latest with a panamera... Ffs.


darronwall

1,730 posts

195 months

Monday 4th April 2016
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If mr khan was the only car dealer in the world I would buy some sturdy shoes! What a tosser,who buys this ste?

m444ttb

3,160 posts

228 months

Monday 4th April 2016
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It must be an act by Mr Khan, but that makes it all the more bizarre. I'm disappointed at myself for watching a second episode if I'm honest..

kmpowell

2,918 posts

227 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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It's like a car-crash this programme, I can't help but watch it.

Last night's was quite bizarre. The 'hide' was shown in it's prelim stage using a back-street fabricator, but there was no information on the fit, presumably because the Bentley has no roof rack mounting points and there is no way the owner would let Gary and his hacksaw loose on his £200k+ motor! Leading me to believe it was done elsewhere. The car was also on a false number plate.

The staged meetings with the owner (who runs the motorshow etc) and "Mr Kahn" was even more pathetic in this episode, as the chavvy moron was trying to mix it with the country set.

The biggest cringe was when "Mr Kahn" went to a car design school to tell a student how to design cars!

BIRMA

3,803 posts

193 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Would you buy a secondhand car from this man?

Ilovetwiglets

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695 posts

167 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Well I've watched every episode as well for some reason! The more I watch the more I can't believe Kahn and his moronic sidekick are genuine, nobody can be that much of a dick surely? Has anyone ever met him?

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Ilovetwiglets said:
Well I've watched every episode as well for some reason! The more I watch the more I can't believe Kahn and his moronic sidekick are genuine, nobody can be that much of a dick surely? Has anyone ever met him?
There is something strangely compelling about it - I think it's the fascination/curiosity of watching, in slack-jawed amazement, the various protagonists outdoing each other in awfulness.

Ilovetwiglets

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695 posts

167 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Fingers crossed for a second series so we have something to complain about.

MTech535

613 posts

110 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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I can't help watching it.

I have to watch from the start where Mr Khan tells us that he is the greatest car designer in the world, ever!

The programme is comedy gold.

Le Mans Visitor

1,119 posts

201 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Good to see Captian Blue Suit didn't let us down again!!

As for Mr Misery saying the 'Engineers' needed to 'smarten themselves up a bit' clearly no mirrors in the Khan offices then!!!.

I can't see the Hide lasting well when the Bentley stretches its legs on a run up the M1.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Thursday 7th April 2016
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Just watching the Bentley one now, the whole premise of this seems to be Mr Kahn will be very angry, no matter what they do, despite never giving his input, other than the body kit. This has got to be almost on a par with Bernie & Mawio for poorly scripted ste. Mr Kahn just ends up coming across as a monumental bellend.

D-Angle

4,467 posts

241 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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Watched the Panamera episode, that was enough for me. Dramatised reality ste.

The 'Chinese delegation' had me imagining everyone in the production office ringing every Chinese friend they had. "Jin, you have a suit don't you? Can you hold a glass of Schloer and pretend you want 10 of these stheaps?"

dvb70

118 posts

106 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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For some reason I find myself watching this just to see how stupid it can get. They topped themselves with the Bentley. I actually think the only thing they actually did was the suspension work and the body kit. Tricky to fake the suspension work as we saw it moving. I don't believe they actually fitted that LPG kit and the long range petrol tank I never saw actually screwed down. Fairly sure it was just placed in the boot and taken out the moment they stopped filming that bit. The hide I am sure was probably held on with bungee ropes or some temporary fixing and that would not damage the bodywork. The secure gun case that the owner was so happy with was hilarious.

I really do wonder who this program is aimed at as it seems to be for people who might like cars but don't know the slightest thing about them. I find it fairly compelling to watch it and see just how much bks they think they can pass off.



Edited by dvb70 on Friday 8th April 11:12

cardigankid

8,849 posts

211 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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You have to admit that it is advertising for Kahn, and any advertising is good advertising.

Like any television programme, any one at all, it is totally staged, and this was rather more obvious last night. Was there ever a long range fuel tank? I do not believe that anyone would go shooting without a serious hamper, nor do I think that anyone would use a hide on the top of their car. The clay model wasn't accurate, just a TV gimmick. Nevertheless it is entertaining. Kahn has a better TV persona than Donald Trump or Lord Sugar, and I'd rather watch this than Celebrity Bake Off or Hovels under the Hammer.

By the way, is this last night's Bentley for sale on the Kahn website?

http://www.kahnautomobiles.com/availableDetail.php...




Edited by cardigankid on Friday 8th April 18:31

kmpowell

2,918 posts

227 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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cardigankid said:
You have to admit that it is advertising for Kahn, and any advertising is good advertising.
Is it though... How many ''init bruv" types can afford the ste he's selling, none. How many ultra high networths watch it, probably none. So that leaves the enthusiast, us, who think he's a monuments bell-end.

His target audience don't watch niche channels like that so I think it's actually bad publicity for him.

cardigankid

8,849 posts

211 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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He's becoming a celeb so next he'll be in Hello magazine and I'm a celeb get me out of here. How many ultra high net worth people is he actually selling to, and how many reasonably wealthy people are actually knobs. More than you might think.

Le Mans Visitor

1,119 posts

201 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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cardigankid said:
By the way, is this last night's Bentley for sale on the Kahn website?

http://www.kahnautomobiles.com/availableDetail.php...
Looks like it. Nothing mentioned of the bolt on cr4p they fitted during the program though.



AAD44H

410 posts

158 months

Friday 8th April 2016
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I bet his wishes he just bought a Bentayga instead!

cardigankid

8,849 posts

211 months

Saturday 9th April 2016
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I'll bet that he actually did, and that last programme was a complete load of cobblers. It was however quite watchable cobblers.

Edited by cardigankid on Saturday 9th April 08:43

cardigankid

8,849 posts

211 months

Saturday 9th April 2016
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dvb70 said:
For some reason I find myself watching this just to see how stupid it can get. They topped themselves with the Bentley........
If only