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Six pages of blabbing about a TV show? WTF, gentlemen?  has just about the biggest viewing figures of any BBC2 program and so it has a lot of influence, even girls and non car nerds like it which is saying a lot for a car show these days, the presenters are very opinionated and fairly vocal so it has a respectable impact. |
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Dunno about you all over in the UK but it's raining here and blinking cold so gabbering in front of the 'puter beats putting me woolies on and tidying the garage. So much for "Spain - every day's a sunny one"  |
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Sounds lame and severly wasteful.  Don't watch it much anyway, the arguement is that its more 'family friendly' the TG format, well the GF hates it much more than a regular geeky car show. cringey mongs with made up stories. boring, pity as the production and stuff is fantastic. From Clarksons interview on Radio 2 the other day it sounds like, when his Clarkson Show and the other stuff he did outside of cars didn't take off as well as hoped, they resurrected Top Gear and he did Cars again. We really need a good positive image for car enthusiasts aswell. |
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Here in Finland they're showing the burning Marina quite regularly as an advert for buying a more expensive television channel package which includes some channel on which I can see Top Gear... (needless to say it doesn't quite affect me in that way)
They must think it was really a great highlight.
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Don't watch it much anyway, That's the secret to success! I watched the last five minutes of the show and felt no angst at all (though having heard about it, I'm a bit miffed now, or perhaps just disappointed). |
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Sounds lame and severly wasteful. Don't watch it much anyway, the arguement is that its more 'family friendly' the TG format, well the GF hates it much more than a regular geeky car show. cringey mongs with made up stories. boring, pity as the production and stuff is fantastic. From Clarksons interview on Radio 2 the other day it sounds like, when his Clarkson Show and the other stuff he did outside of cars didn't take off as well as hoped, they resurrected Top Gear and he did Cars again. We really need a good positive image for car enthusiasts aswell. I watch it because it's on on a Sunday when I'm usually bored. It did seem pointless to wreck that Marina - I wonder if there's any furious Leyland Olympian \ Dennis Dart forums out there parping on.... Marina looked a good 'un, there must have been plenty of snotters to wreck. They do nothing for me other than as a curio as to what things were like, pickled in beige aspic. Bottom line is - and this is one reason why I couldn't bring myself to sell the Piazza - is that I didn't like the thought of what fate awaited it. To the Marina bloke I would say that if such thoughts bothered him, he should have hung on to it and kept it as he saw fit. I could understand the Marina forums outbursts if it had been stolen and (dare I say the word) bangered. This however is a very rare event. The car was acquired legally and that therefore gives the new owner the right to do whatever they want with it. You can't win in a situation like this - had it been left to rot in the hands of a new owner and been cannibalised for a Minor, it would have been 'a shame' and 'inexcusable'. I am not for one second saying that the end use of that car was appropriate. If I was in that situation with the Amazon I wouldn't sell to anyone at the BBC. With an auction site like ebay you never do know what the buyer has in mind for their new purchase. I seem to remember torsten having a similar quandry on autoshite a little while ago. I think that the Marina (of all the BL cars) is probably the one that best expresses the state that the company was in at the time, and is therefore a poster child for curse word taking, destruction, and coveting by enthusiasts. The British mentality is one of looking out for the underdog, and when said underdog is reappropriated and smashed to pieces, problems inevitably occur. I'm uncertain if 'heritage' is the right way to describe the preservation of a Marina though. Everyone to their own. |
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I'm on the fence on this one.Whilst I agree with the whole "they bought it so they can do as they see fit" school of thought,I don't understand why they had to trash a good one?!Plenty of sheds out there they could've trashed!!If they'd spent obviously years and a lot of wonga getrtin a car to show standard,then someone bought it purely to destroy,I dare say they'd be a bit annoyed!But who am I to judge..
I do find the show very funny tho,I thought the Fiesta bit was one of the best bits they've done,me and my lot were absolutely creasing at the shopping centre bit!
I just let em get on with it,its entertainment and its very very funny,annoying sometimes when they trash stuff like the Polinez pick up (my mates couldn't understand why I got so annoyed about that) but you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
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it probably costs them more in wages to pay someone to find a curse word one and then pay someone to get it running than it does to buy a good one in the first place.
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If it was a show car, why was it sold for £750?
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If it was a show car, why was it sold for £750? cos thats Marina money, not well loved really. |
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Gotta say that Caterham was awesome!!!
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