Top Gear - £10k Supercars - Where are they now ?

[dtmpower]

This morning on Dave was the Top Gear from 2006, the bargain supercar challenge.

I tried to see where all 3 cars are now. Neither are picked up on the car tax online vehicle enquiry.

Here are the registrations: A 11 RFT , JOK 229N and SRW 48N

What did Top Gear do to the cars after the filming ?

[Flanders.]

Also along the same lines, when they had to Parallel Park, James hits that Nissan behind quite hard, who's car was it and did they pay for it to be fixed?

[EDLT]

I think Hammond kept and restored his Ferrari.

Here it is, in that awful gameshow Dave hasn't bought yet (thank fk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8En7Qooyx0

[MX7]

Flanders. said:

Also along the same lines, when they had to Parallel Park, James hits that Nissan behind quite hard, who's car was it and did they pay for it to be fixed?

I'd guess that belonged to TG.

[slipstream 1985]

are they not old enough not to need tax?

[Swarley]

slipstream 1985 said:

are they not old enough not to need tax?

They still need to be taxed but its free. Bizarre I know but you can even be fined if you don't have your free tax?

[tossbag]

Swarley said:

slipstream 1985 said:

are they not old enough not to need tax?

They still need to be taxed but its free. Bizarre I know but you can even be fined if you don't have your free tax?

Yes you can.

[MiniMan64]

MX7 said:

Flanders. said:

Also along the same lines, when they had to Parallel Park, James hits that Nissan behind quite hard, who's car was it and did they pay for it to be fixed?

I'd guess that belonged to TG.

Yeah production car or something.

[Papa Hotel]

slipstream 1985 said:

are they not old enough not to need tax?

I thought even the old cars still needed a disc, even if it is free. I might be wrong, it's happened once before.

[Gad-Westy]

EDLT said:

I think Hammond kept and restored his Ferrari.

Here it is, in that awful gameshow Dave hasn't bought yet (thank fk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8En7Qooyx0

what's the story here? Surely he must have given them permission to do this?

[Fastra]

Flanders. said:

Also along the same lines, when they had to Parallel Park, James hits that Nissan behind quite hard, who's car was it and did they pay for it to be fixed?

Surely you didn't think the Nissan was 'just parked there'? No, surley you didn't!

[XJR500bhp]

That was my nissan, B*****S

[Mroad]

As has been said Hammond kept his 308 and had it restored.

JC's Merak is being broken for spares by Eurospares:
http://www.eurospares.co.uk/breaking2.asp?page=19

No idea about Mays Urraco.

[Welshbeef]

Mroad said:

As has been said Hammond kept his 308 and had it restored.

JC's Merak is being broken for spares by Eurospares:
http://www.eurospares.co.uk/breaking2.asp?page=19

No idea about Mays Urraco.

given clarksons Merak has just has a c£7k engine restoration which was clearly a Bodge job pants pulled off and laughed at.

Always liked the 308s how much to restore one of those bad boys? What is the annual servicing costs main dealer

[Doniger]

Gad-Westy said:

EDLT said:

I think Hammond kept and restored his Ferrari.

Here it is, in that awful gameshow Dave hasn't bought yet (thank fk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8En7Qooyx0

what's the story here? Surely he must have given them permission to do this?

You'd hope so....otherwise even in his financial position I think I would have had a pretty major sense of humour failure in his shoes..!

[LondonItalian]

Welshbeef said:

Mroad said:

As has been said Hammond kept his 308 and had it restored.

JC's Merak is being broken for spares by Eurospares:
http://www.eurospares.co.uk/breaking2.asp?page=19

No idea about Mays Urraco.

given clarksons Merak has just has a c£7k engine restoration which was clearly a Bodge job pants pulled off and laughed at.

Always liked the 308s how much to restore one of those bad boys? What is the annual servicing costs main dealer

You should budget about a grand a year in servicing at a specialist & normal running replacements if you use it as a weekend car. Triple that if you intend to use it daily, but if you do I`d recomend you get it rustproofed.

I`ve heard rumours that theres a 308GTB that used daily, has done around 250,000 miles & has been serviced by its owner. He`s obviously a pretty good mechanic...

[S3_Graham]

LondonItalian said:

Welshbeef said:

Mroad said:

As has been said Hammond kept his 308 and had it restored.

JC's Merak is being broken for spares by Eurospares:
http://www.eurospares.co.uk/breaking2.asp?page=19

No idea about Mays Urraco.

given clarksons Merak has just has a c£7k engine restoration which was clearly a Bodge job pants pulled off and laughed at.

Always liked the 308s how much to restore one of those bad boys? What is the annual servicing costs main dealer

You should budget about a grand a year in servicing at a specialist & normal running replacements if you use it as a weekend car. Triple that if you intend to use it daily, but if you do I`d recomend you get it rustproofed.

I`ve heard rumours that theres a 308GTB that used daily, has done around 250,000 miles & has been serviced by its owner. He`s obviously a pretty good mechanic...

.

Has anyone else realised that they are advertising it as a Merak 'SS' When even clarkson said on a TV show with about 7million people watching, that he found a recipt for an SS badge

[sumlin]

What puzzled me about that was "A11 RFT" - a 1983 (?) plate on a 308 GT4? I thought it was illegal to transfer a reg number to a car that was older than the reg indicated?

[yellowbentines]

The dvla have Clarkson's car listed as being manufactured in 1975, the 'ss' was apparently not launched until 1976.

[Arese]

sumlin said:

What puzzled me about that was "A11 RFT" - a 1983 (?) plate on a 308 GT4? I thought it was illegal to transfer a reg number to a car that was older than the reg indicated?

Doesn't the 'A' plate cover 1983/1984?