Top Gear #137 - Enzo vs MC12 *poor quality*

[topgeartom]

Well, a lot of people have been asking for this particular review so here it is. I have a subscription to TG magazine so i get it through my door before it is available on the shelves, and have a very large collection. I have all the magazines from episode 72 of September 1999 through to the current date.
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And yes that is me stood next to them - the stack is waist high!
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HOWEVER i don't currently have a scanner, so i have taken phots of the review with the enzo and mc12, so quality is anything from brilliant - i am not sure how much scanners cost, and to be quite honest i have things to buy with my limited cash that are more important.

**I am perfectly willing to photo any review you want from the episodes i have - just name the car (or the episode if possible, which will help me loads)**

Anyway, here is the review: *56K BEWARE*
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Here i have put 2 of the same in that are different qualities - just so you can see the text a bit clearer
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[nejcdolinsek]

This is the scan/pics I've been waiting for!!!!!

Thank you! I've gotta take 10 mins to read them :D

[bmwmpower]

thanks, but nice car looks aston martin not like those 2 superfuture race titans,
BTW nice collection of TG mags, i had big collection of autocar and speed but they are in bad conditions, i love reading mags in bath :D

[No.1]

You beat me to it tom :)

A quick tip... don't use the flash... i don't think you did, but use plenty of natural light (ther's not much around atm, i know)

Also.. does your cam have a close-up button, that will allow it to focus better on the page... it's a little flower symbol, and will give better results, cos i'm struggling to read some of it. The photography looks great, the pictures are amazing, and that lucky-as-fuck Tom Ford is driving an Enzo :shock:

[topgeartom]

thanks for the tips - i never use the flash, but as you say there isnt much light around - and if i had put direct lights on, there would have been a big sillhoutte of me holding a cam :D - i dont have a close up function - it just auto focuses itself, but it is not brilliant - if i was further away, and just zoomed into the picture - would that help?

[No.1]

Hmm.. i'm no expert... my Canon does pretty much everything by itself too :oops:

LOL - just noticed you called the topic "Top Gear episode 137" :wink:

[topgeartom]

do you think episode is the wrong word to use? :?

*EDIT* problem solved :D

[PATo355]

Good review , perfect cars , i would have preferred that CLarkson reviewed em and the stig puts the mc12 to the track , then i would have been perfect !!

Thankx a lot !

[findleybeast]

thanks Tom. Appreciate the effort, despite the low quality :D

[No.1]

do you think episode is the wrong word to use? :?


maybe trying issue :idea:

lol... "episode" sounds more like a Jabba-post :P

[topgeartom]

ohh shit - yeah, i thought it sounded a little bit wierd!

[yg60m]

Thanks a lot mate; I think I will try to buy this issue. Usually, I find TG crappy but for this test I will make an exception :wink:

[topgeartom]

Good review , perfect cars , i would have preferred that CLarkson reviewed em and the stig puts the mc12 to the track , then i would have been perfect !!

Thankx a lot !

Agree!!! Too bad they didn't feature the MC12 in the same episode with the Enzo!!! BTW, topgeartom, I also keep all the mags, since 1998, I have something close to 200 mags in my room... :D

coooool!! I have issues 61, 68 and then 72 onwards right up until 137 - the most recent. my earliest (61) i think is october 1998

[noosee]

You will get better quality when I will receive this issue :D

[findleybeast]

After reading the article, I'm surprised. I was defenitely expecting the MC12 to be the more hard-edged car, considering it was developed solely for racing homologation. What you think?

[HoboPie]

I thought so too, but it is a Maserati and I don't think the MC12 being ultra super hard edged would really differentiate it from the Enzo. Makes me wonder what an Enzo with a big wing would do in the FIA GT?

[ikon2003]

Thanks for the pics. Very appreciated.

[mv]

I heard that the successor to the 550/575 was set to get the MC12 engine...I don't find it possible considering the estimated price of that engine.

[gangajas]

Tom Ford destroyed F. Mountain's Enzo :cry: :cry: :cry: :oops:

[topgeartom]

no he didnt. Tom was with the MC12 waiting for him to turn up, when he got a calll from Frank saying that he had been side-swiped by a bus - frank was being driven in it by a friend cos he had recently had his license taken away.

[gangajas]

no he didnt. Tom was with the MC12 waiting for him to turn up, when he got a calll from Frank saying that he had been side-swiped by a bus - frank was being driven in it by a friend cos he had recently had his license taken away.
OK, I have read in other forum that he had destroyed it. Then , they were wrong

[topgeartom]

yeah its ok - maybe i sounded a bit too harsh :D

[gangajas]

I 've read that they used Nick Mson's Enzo . Is that right?

[topgeartom]

yes - after the crash with Franks car - they were short of an Enzo for the cover shoot, so urgently had to find one - at 9:30 Franks car had been hit, and by 12:00 TG had a new Enzo for the shoot :D

[ikon2003]

yes - after the crash with Franks car - they were short of an Enzo for the cover shoot, so urgently had to find one - at 9:30 Franks car had been hit, and by 12:00 TG had a new Enzo for the shoot :D

wow, that's crazy. lucky lucky top gear. i didn't kno that originally franks was scheduled for the shoot, nor that his couldn't drive anymore.

[mclaren_Gt]

thanks a lot for the article, very nice

and very nice collection =), i dl now the imgs

thanks topgeartom

[budagboy2]

Some nice shots, but is there a scan that we can read :roll:

[XTwinTurboVR4X]

what a shame Maserati should build such a pug ugly adbomination.. every time I see it it looks worse, and now even the enzo looks beautiful when sat next to it :P

[No.1]

Some nice shots, but is there a scan that we can read :roll:

I'll put some better photos of the mag up later (no offence tom)

I still don't have a scanner though :roll:

[topgeartom]

none taken - i know they were shit :D

[TransAm]

Tom, that is quite a collection! I always wish I never threw mine out.

In the late eighties/early nineties I had a similar size collection of What Car? They were really handy when choosing my first few used cars and being able to refer back to the road tests - before the days of the internet of course!

You know what I am going to ask now - any Saab 9-3 (old shape, not the new SS) reviews, especially the revised '01 on model?
:wink:

Ta!

[topgeartom]

ill look it up - just one question - why?

and could you put up a picture of wich model you mean.

[TransAm]

Thanks Tom. The reason why?

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=330806#330806 :wink: pics in the thread...

[topgeartom]

ill have a look - i think the only one is of a 2000 diesel, but ill look it up when i get the chance

[topgeartom]

There are 2 articles:

:arrow: a Group test of a 9-3 Areo including 330i, C320 and S60 T5
and
:arrow: a mini review of a 9-3 TiD Diesel

which one would yo liek (or both?) :D

[TransAm]

The 9-3 aero, please tom! Should be same as mine (205hp)

Cheers!

[topgeartom]

Here you go sir (although i dont think they rate it too good :( )

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[TransAm]

Thanks Tom, much appreciated

Drove a V70 T5 recently and have owned a Z3 3.0i (both autos) and yes they are quicker, but we'll be sortin the performance :lol: