Tiff Needel and the Zonda R, lucky bastard!!!!

[Streetrod]

Tiff Needell drives the Zonda R

You have to take your hat off to Tiff, after all these years he can still get really excited about a car. Oh how I would love to be driving that car

[ewenm]

Yes, definitely pure luck that he got to drive that car. Nothing to do with years of hard work building a reputation as a decent racing driver and motoring journalist.

[lankybob]

I have ever seen anyone so excited about anything in my life!
Brilliant sounding car!

[RJDM3]

Spectacular!

[Soovy]

Great stuff.

He gets his "race face" on towards the end. You never lose it.

[freecar]

How can Tiff be such a great presenter yet fifth gear be such a st show? "let's party!"

[CO2000]

It was a nice piece however I thought he sounded like a cross between an excited Alan Partridge & an even more excited John McCririck !

Edited by CO2000 on Monday 25th October 13:31

[N88]

[marcosgt]

freecar said:

How can Tiff be such a great presenter yet fifth gear be such a st show? "let's party!"

I rather like Fifth Gear in its current form - Got a bit bored with that fat bloke in a shed, but Tiff and Plato are always entertaining to watch booting stuff around a track or twisty mountain road and VBH's heart is in the right place (although she lost shedloads of brownie points with me when, on Radio 4, she recently announced she had bought a Range Rover for her forthcoming Baby - For God's sake - HOW BIG a baby is she expecting and when will she absolutely NEED to go off road in W.London with the Baby On Board? I really expected more of her....).

They even attempt the odd review or two which is a novelty for TV motoring programmes these days...

Added to which at 25 minutes (tops) with the ads taken out, you rarely get bored with an item as it's moved on quickly.

You really got the impression of how great the Zonda R was from Tiff's piece - Better than the "It's like having your face torn off whilst having Kiera Knightly sits on it" crap you know you'd get from Clarkson...

M.

Edited by marcosgt on Monday 25th October 13:18

[Harry Monk]

I don't normally rate Tiff but I think he did a great job on that piece.

[andyp74199]

tiff comes across as a top bloke, but plato is more on the money when it comes to comedy

fifth gear has some good moments but due to the adds/comps etc sky plus is the only way to watch it imo

...and why did they send that lad out to drive the RS5, ok it was a normal mans perspective but i want serious analysis and insightful review OR to see audis finest get ragged and tested to the limit - this was neither !

[peterattheboro]

That was brilliant.

Just give Tiff and Plato their own hour long show I reckon

[ImDesigner]

For me, it's just a shame Fifth gear went back to the half an hour format.

[B.J.W]

andyp74199 said:

tiff comes across as a top bloke, but plato is more on the money when it comes to comedy

fifth gear has some good moments but due to the adds/comps etc sky plus is the only way to watch it imo

...and why did they send that lad out to drive the RS5, ok it was a normal mans perspective but i want serious analysis and insightful review OR to see audis finest get ragged and tested to the limit - this was neither !

The segment on the RS5 made me cringe. Compare with Clarkson's road test of the RS4 5 years ago.

[Streetrod]

Its that real honest to goddness excitment that draws me in. I just wish I was in his shoes. I suspect he would have kept going until he ran out of fuel or the tires burst if given half a chance.

Also I love the fact he had to stop talking when he got his race face on.. classic stuff.. once a racer always a racer

[soad]

Enjoyed that, loved that clip.
Savagely fasssssssst car