RE: ST becomes the Focus of The Sweeney

[jazzyjeff]

Never mind the car...should they really be re-making this series?

The original was an undoubted classic...and a product of its time. Its success was not only due to the car chases but the rampant misogynism (ouch..heavy word for this time of the morning!), lots of guns , police brutality and generally un-PC behaviour.

The new version will surely have to include a (dominant, but feminine) female boss; careful reading of rights to crims; no smoking in the car (new regulations!); observance of speed limits and lengthy case referrals to the IPCC

It just won't be the same...

[Dave_ST220]

SSCooperS said:

Words cannot describe how much I despise the gopping grille on that car.

A fk ugly pile of ing wk stain st? Take the badge off & you'd stake your life on it being French. I've trodden in things that look better.

[Liquid Knight]

Great another remake.

Is there another writers strike or have we really run out of ideas?

Black Focus ST (probably with paedo' tints) should be able to keep up with all the Audi RS4's the drug dealers use.

[TheDoggingFather]

Chapppers said:

LuS1fer said:

Useless without RWD but that's hard to get without losing the blue collar touch, ruling out M5s and AMGs - so it would have to be a black VXR8 or maybe a Jag XFR.

This, this and a thousand times this.

Agreed, the perfect car, don't forget Regan has a driver!

I get the feeling this will be an aqbsolute crock of st!

[JulianHJ]

LuS1fer said:

Useless without RWD but that's hard to get without losing the blue collar touch, ruling out M5s and AMGs - so it would have to be a black VXR8 or maybe a Jag XFR.

This.

The Loon said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-7foZhjgM

What's that camera car?

Changedmyname said:

I would have thought another Audi RS4 no?

Are The Sweeney meant to be Flying Squad? If so, the real thing had a few B7 RS4 Avants IIRC, so a realistic option for the film.

georgetuk said:

Film sounds awful.

Plan B should stick to music, he is much, much better at that.

I thought he did a reasonable job in Harry Brown.

[Insight]

My first instinct was that it was ANOTHER small Aston Martin.

[vz-r_dave]

Oddball RS said:

What a crap idea, lets hope there are no car chases in the wet...... (Understeers straight into que at bus stop)

Sorry but i can only think of an XFR, quick, right size and BRITISH! a BMW?? for christ's sake.

What a crap thing to say, queue RWD oversteering into a tree and killing the occupants and the baddies getting away.

[jbi]

RichardD said:

Import a Ford Falcon from Aus and put in a Mustang engine ?

They already have the mustang engine in them

http://www.insideline.com/ford/falcon/2011/2011-fo...

450 horsepower as well

[SuperHangOn]

Liquid Knight said:

Great another remake.

Is there another writers strike or have we really run out of ideas?

Well it can't be as bad as the Minder remake!


Unfortunately proper RWD barges without pretentious badges died out with the Vauxhall Omega (getting on for 10 years ago now)... there isn't a new car which would be right. Jag XF is probably the closest.

[jbi]

SuperHangOn said:

Unfortunately proper RWD barges without pretentious badges died out with the Vauxhall Omega getting on for 10 years ago now...

Only in the UK and EU land

still plenty of them out there in the rest of the world...

Holden Commodore
Holden Caprice
Ford Falcon
Dodge Charger
Chrysler 300C
Infiniti G35
Hyundai Genesis

These are just the saloons... there's plenty more coupe's and sportscars and this doesn't include the "premium" brands either

[CraigVmax]

Is plan B going to "write the feem tune, sing the feem tune, star in the show"

[TheDoggingFather]

vz-r_dave said:

What a crap thing to say, queue RWD oversteering into a tree and killing the occupants and the baddies getting away.

Have you not seen the Sweeney?

[onyx39]

CraigVmax said:

Is plan B going to "write the feem tune, sing the feem tune, star in the show"

[Oddball RS]

vz-r_dave said:

Oddball RS said:

What a crap idea, lets hope there are no car chases in the wet...... (Understeers straight into que at bus stop)

Sorry but i can only think of an XFR, quick, right size and BRITISH! a BMW?? for christ's sake.

What a crap thing to say, queue RWD oversteering into a tree and killing the occupants and the baddies getting away.

Yep that sounds better than putting him in a koi carp Focus, i was also assuming his driver could drive, and he does'nt always have to drive with the TC off :-)

[VeeDub Geezer]

georgetuk said:

Plan B should stick to music, he is much, much better at that.

I didn't mind him in Harry Brown actually.

[Grovsie26]

Thats gotta be the worst looking Ford front end since the frog scorpio.

[Pistachio]

Jag S type V8
Audi A6 quattro possibly RS6 maybe
BMW 5 series
definitely not a Focus
IMO

[Hellbound]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857190/

I loathe watching Damian Lewis in anything.

Ray Winstone good.

Damian Lewis bad.

[Bugeyeandy]

A Focus

I wonder how much Ford are paying for this bit of advertising??

That would be like remaking the Italian Job and using a BMW MINI as the lead car

[Goa'uld]

It looks a little better in black hiding angles and with a number plate taking up the mahoosive gob;