T 350 in sunday times
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38 posts

310 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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2 page centre spread in driving section of todays
sunday times " its an ancient Briton and it's not
wearing trousers". clarkson "By some considerable margin this is best TVR I've ever driven" gets 4 out 5 stars ..

ScoobyManchester

1,163 posts

290 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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beano500

20,854 posts

303 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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Yeah - let's just paraphrase it as: "I'm not quite too gay to drive one of these but I've got nothing to say".




tuffer

8,998 posts

295 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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nubbin

6,809 posts

306 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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Clarkson has become a parody of himself. Considering he is writing in a car section, he spends most of his time creating allusions to God-knows-what, and precious little time telling anyone about the car. A load of crap, derivative, small-minded and obviously written between two other, far more important (or self-important) projects. He may have a Lightning in his garden, but he needs a rocket up his arse to replace his opinion which is already up there....

HarryW

15,998 posts

297 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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I read this and laughed to myself, JC seems to have a thing about Aga's in the article though .
Doesn't Mrs Fish have an Aga and a T350

Harry

HarryW

15,998 posts

297 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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nubbin said:
Clarkson has become a parody of himself. Considering he is writing in a car section, he spends most of his time creating allusions to God-knows-what, and precious little time telling anyone about the car. A load of crap, derivative, small-minded and obviously written between two other, far more important (or self-important) projects. He may have a Lightning in his garden, but he needs a rocket up his arse to replace his opinion which is already up there....

Have you ever read a complete and I mean complete review by the foodie writer and mate of JC, AA Gill, exactly the same bloody annoying style. I think that AA was there first, so JC has become his clone .
Perhaps its an in-joke at the office, to see who can get away with the least detail on the actual subject, with a pint or pie going to the winner .

Harry

beano500

20,854 posts

303 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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nubbin said:
Clarkson has become a parody of himself. Considering he is writing in a car section, he spends most of his time creating allusions to God-knows-what, and precious little time telling anyone about the car. A load of crap, derivative, small-minded and obviously written between two other, far more important (or self-important) projects. He may have a Lightning in his garden, but he needs a rocket up his arse to replace his opinion which is already up there....


He clearly learnt this from his friend A A Gill...

...and not to forget he's mates with Deity Wheeler, so he's not going to be really impartial either.

It's all a bit sad really when a sensible eview would do TVR so much good.

Pies

13,116 posts

284 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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Well i've read it,but what did he say apart from the price/performance is better than anything else

Apache

39,731 posts

312 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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So what, the guy is funny, he used cars to get ahead, I don't have a problem with that. Nigel Mansell, now there's a petrolhead, trouble is, every time he opens his mouth I slip into a coma

simpo two

92,570 posts

293 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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Clarkson says what lesser mortals only dare think of being too trammeled by PC to speak out. Who would you rather have for PM - JC or Fatty 2 Jags?

HarryW

15,998 posts

297 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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[rant/chunter mode on]
I do not have a great problem with JC's style of writing, its just that 7/8's of todays T350 'report' was about Boudica and a generic TVR bending you over the Aga to rodger you.
JC has a 'normal' column in the paper where he has the license to waffle on about such things. Personally I'd like a little more substance to the reviews in the motoring supplement. By all means draw comparasoms, but to spend most of the article wittering 'off track' is not why I read that particular supplement.
[rant/chunter mode off]
Interestingly it was the Victorians whom bought Boudica back into the spot light of modern history. Drawing comparasoms with the good Queen of the day. The spelling of Bodicea is one that the Roman historians of the day gave her, this stuck through to very recently when .................................. sorry O/T a bit there

Harry

Graham.J

5,420 posts

287 months

Sunday 5th October 2003
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nubbin said:
He may have a Lightning in his garden


He doesn't anymore, I think that was just done for the program.

Just read the article and skipped the first bit and started reading from the paragraph when he STARTED to talk about the car , come on Clarkson get a grip, go back to the proper Clarkson, the Clarkson we know and love.

Whilst there were some witty Clarkson-esque comments it was a bit long winded for my liking.

Swilly

9,699 posts

302 months

Monday 6th October 2003
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You all seem tohave missed the final judgement of the T350 as being a bit "Alan Titmarsh".

Ooeerr.

jigs

1,840 posts

278 months

Monday 6th October 2003
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-- and the Griffith was not named after a mythological beast - it was named after Jack Griffith - who suggested putting a V8 in the original.