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PATo355 · 05-30-2004, 04:25 AM

Hahaha , this was just hilarious , just read and you will know how much he hates americans

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...126326,00.html

levensnevel · 05-30-2004, 05:24 AM

Well Clarkie's columns are always great fun to read but to be taken with a pinch of salt (a handfull actually)
Inspite of all his ranting about the North Americans he takes great pride in the fact that he's been preselected to buy a Ford GT (american built and with basically the same engine as comes with the Ford F-150) And the car he is slagging off is from a Japanese automaker. So ...
I understand that in the TG airing on the 11th of July the dutch super car 'to be' the Spyker will receive the Stig treatment and although Clarkie congratulated the manufacturers for a job well done they are biting their nails untill they know what Clarkie's comments actually are while airing the TG show.
Never knew that the rich and famous who can actually afford a car with such a pricetag really give a toss about Clarkie's opinion.

PATo355 · 05-30-2004, 02:36 PM

I think his opinion is mostly to laugh ... its always a very very personal opinion , BTW they will have the Spyker ? really ?

levensnevel · 05-30-2004, 02:43 PM

PATo355,

Anyway that's what the editor of one of the leading dutch automotive magazines wrote in his editorial of the most recent issue.
Suppose TG might decide to air the Spyker coverage on some other date but the 11th of July is at least the provisional one.

graywolf624 · 05-30-2004, 02:45 PM

I often wonder what you people do when you have to carry something big. Especially something big and dirty. I know you guys for the most part dont participate in the gentlemans sport of hunting, but what about lawn mulch, tools, hell the oil from my car change even? I could not imagine having to put that in my trunk or something.

PATo355 · 05-30-2004, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by levensnevel

PATo355,

Anyway that's what the editor of one of the leading dutch automotive magazines wrote in his editorial of the most recent issue.
Suppose TG might decide to air the Spyker coverage on some other date but the 11th of July is at least the provisional one.

But i thought that car would be never produced , is plain ugly , looks like a boat .... well that is my personal opinion , cant wait to see what Clarkson has to say about it

levensnevel · 05-30-2004, 03:21 PM

PAT,

the car is in production for 2 or 3 years now and is rather popular on the other side of the ocean, so it seems anyway. But than again they are great fans of Liberace overthere aswell
Modern days Spyker never recorded any profits yet and in order to raise sufficient capital to a.o. expand their production line they floated their shares on the dutch stock market last week.
If memory serves me correctly Tiff Needell drove a preproduction model in one of the old TG episodes and his verdict then was that Spyker had still had a lot of development work to do.
And I happen to agree with you this car is plain ugly and totally over the top if you ask me.

666fast · 05-30-2004, 07:51 PM

I think his opinion is mostly to laugh

I think so too, but comments like these are sheer ignorance:

When you have a pick-up, you are not an IT engineer from Intel.corp. You are a frontiersman who likes his beer cold, his deer raw and his music country-style. You can go to the woods at weekends with your other pick-up-driving friends and dream up plans to rid Washington of its coloureds. You have the military-style wheels. You have the military-style haircut. You have the guns. You even have the uncomfortable shirts.

. We were sipping tea while the Americans were shooting Indians. We’ve had 2,000 years to get used to civilisation, not 20 minutes.

PATo355 · 05-30-2004, 08:18 PM

. We were sipping tea while the Americans were shooting Indians. We’ve had 2,000 years to get used to civilisation, not 20 minutes.

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hahaha this made me laugh a lot.... take it easy tho

666fast · 05-31-2004, 01:37 AM

Originally Posted by PATo355

. We were sipping tea while the Americans were shooting Indians. We’ve had 2,000 years to get used to civilisation, not 20 minutes.

hahaha this made me laugh a lot.... take it easy tho[/quote]

I am, I really don't care what Clarkson thinks of America and it's citizens. What he doesn't realize, is those Americans shooting Indians were his fellow countrymen and maybe even his own ancestors.

sads · 05-31-2004, 02:26 AM

classic hes as good in printed media as he is on t.v

MB300E87 · 05-31-2004, 06:23 PM

hes a funny guy and i think he should just stick to giving his opinions on cars.

the part that got me is where hes saying he feels more at home in a train station in zurich... i can understand him not feeling he fits in, in America, thats obvious, but from the few british people i've known, and from traveling, british people feel about as home in the rest of europe as they do in america.. meaning not at all.

i dunno, hes a weird but funny guy.

nejcdolinsek · 06-01-2004, 02:19 AM

That read was hilarious

Thanx PATo355