VBH Mouthing Off Again
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I think you might be reading too much into it:
'With a film crew recording the events for Five’s Fifth Gear show, I slid into the hot seat, fired the 6 litre V12 into action, popped it into first gear, put some left-hand lock on and gave it a welly-load of throttle. As I gave a cheeky wink to the camera the only thing to fly off was the drive belt. Not quite the tyre-screeching, tail-sliding action we were expecting.
I do this manoeuvre every day in my £27,000 Honda S2000, but for some reason Aston's £177,000 Vanquish S threw a hissy fit. And so in flew the Aston Martin maintenance squad.
Yes, two professional spanner-men were dispatched to my rescue in a helicopter. Now that's what I call service. If I'd had a similar experience in an MGF I'd still be on a breakdown truck.
Aston's overall-clad chaps diagnosed a "random stone" had hit the belt, so they put it back on and departed skywards. And so, cameras rolling, I repeated my own take-off, only for the problem to repeat itself. Random stone my . . .
Back came the chopper, and this time we all deduced that the car simply wasn't designed to be driven like that — the engine was actually twisting in the bay and throwing the belt as I powered away on full lock. I’ve done it in Ferraris, Lambos, Porsches and, heaven forbid, even TVRs without there being a problem.
Those sort of mechanical problems are the exception rather than the rule nowadays. That said, my heart still belongs to the one creation that puts driver skill ahead of driver aids. The Diablo GT; for me still the best supercar.'
Taken from the TimesOnline website, full article here: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/arti
Tim
'With a film crew recording the events for Five’s Fifth Gear show, I slid into the hot seat, fired the 6 litre V12 into action, popped it into first gear, put some left-hand lock on and gave it a welly-load of throttle. As I gave a cheeky wink to the camera the only thing to fly off was the drive belt. Not quite the tyre-screeching, tail-sliding action we were expecting.
I do this manoeuvre every day in my £27,000 Honda S2000, but for some reason Aston's £177,000 Vanquish S threw a hissy fit. And so in flew the Aston Martin maintenance squad.
Yes, two professional spanner-men were dispatched to my rescue in a helicopter. Now that's what I call service. If I'd had a similar experience in an MGF I'd still be on a breakdown truck.
Aston's overall-clad chaps diagnosed a "random stone" had hit the belt, so they put it back on and departed skywards. And so, cameras rolling, I repeated my own take-off, only for the problem to repeat itself. Random stone my . . .
Back came the chopper, and this time we all deduced that the car simply wasn't designed to be driven like that — the engine was actually twisting in the bay and throwing the belt as I powered away on full lock. I’ve done it in Ferraris, Lambos, Porsches and, heaven forbid, even TVRs without there being a problem.
Those sort of mechanical problems are the exception rather than the rule nowadays. That said, my heart still belongs to the one creation that puts driver skill ahead of driver aids. The Diablo GT; for me still the best supercar.'
Taken from the TimesOnline website, full article here: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/arti
Tim
I remember seeeing this episode when it was broadcast and the whole thing was pretty derogatory against Aston Martin. I've always found VBH to be pretty pro TVR. I saw her test a T350 and she was effusive in her enthusiasm. I've also seen Tiff Needell wellying a Tamora pretty enthusiastically. Mind you this was all before 5th gear tried to copy Top Gear. It's Clarkson and his cronies that are always running TVR's down needlessly but they're a bunch of half wits anyway so I don't take a lot of notice.
profstoff said:
I've always found VBH to be pretty pro TVR. I saw her test a T350 and she was effusive in her enthusiasm.
Isn't that the one where she rallied it round some colliery slag heap in the wet and then did a piece to camera with her effusive nipples sticking through her jumper
There was a link to that video somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.
www.finalgear.com/downloads/fifthgear/4/3/
>> Edited by sparkythecat on Monday 20th February 20:52
Knocking TVR is easy, the Skoda jokes are still remebered, even if now only in a retro-spective, tongue-in-cheek way. Run-of-the-mill motor journalism is also easy: unfortunately for every one talented scribe that makes a difference there are hundreds jumping on the band wagon and re-gurgitating old material for the `entertainment` media....That said my TVR is THE most unreliable car I`ve ever owned, but I`m not about to bother to try to explain why it`s also the most wonderful car I`ve ever owned. Or why I`ve just used so many cliches...
Am I alone in finding `VBH` trying too hard to impress? Does the film crew sprinkle drawing pins on the seat before she gets in?
Am I alone in finding `VBH` trying too hard to impress? Does the film crew sprinkle drawing pins on the seat before she gets in?
profstoff said:Although Clarkson seemed to like the Sagaris.
I remember seeeing this episode when it was broadcast and the whole thing was pretty derogatory against Aston Martin. I've always found VBH to be pretty pro TVR. I saw her test a T350 and she was effusive in her enthusiasm. I've also seen Tiff Needell wellying a Tamora pretty enthusiastically. Mind you this was all before 5th gear tried to copy Top Gear. It's Clarkson and his cronies that are always running TVR's down needlessly but they're a bunch of half wits anyway so I don't take a lot of notice.
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