t350 on t.v

[hobo]

i'm sure that everybody already is aware, but if not 5th gear will be featuring the 350C tonight.

i think the lovely vicki will be driving which is reason alone to watch.

[mike s]

Whats a t350 tranny van doing on 5th Gear

[christof]

Can somebody please tape it for me...

Christof

[bluetusk]

I enjoyed both minutes.! Pah.!

[FourWheelDrift]

So what did we learn:-

It doesn't have ABS.

It doesn't have traction control.

It can do donuts in mud.

It has a hardtop

It's a hatchback (oh well at least that might tempt some shoppers then )

So what? Utter waste of airtime.

[BCA]

FourWheelDrift said:

So what did we learn:- It doesn't have ABS. It doesn't have traction control. It can do donuts in mud. It has a hardtop It's a hatchback (oh well at least that might tempt some shoppers then ) So what? Utter waste of airtime.

We also learnt its a "girls" TVR

[GI Jnr]

Disappointing...

Compare that with the piece they did on the Stradale last week.

Tuan

[DanH]

Looked lovely in that colour though, although the producers are definitely trying to sex up VBH this series. Focussing on her arse whilst she makes comments about great views etc...

[bsj911uk]

Not forgeting that it had 19" rims and a highly tuned 350bhp engine. Sorry Ch5, pathetic! at least Top Gear gave it a blast on the track. What did the owners say when she returned the car covered in coal dust?

[toppstuff]

I'm a bit of a VBH fan but I have to say that the "test" of the 350 was disappointing. Especially compared to the Gallardo and Rari test in previous weeks.

I was wondering, were they restricted in anyway that might have forced them to shoot in a location near to Blackpool?

Did the TVR factory perhaps say " you can only have the car for 2 hours and don't go far".

Its the only reason I can think of for a short and narrowly focused test. It was as if they did'nt have time to try out different locations and give an extended view of the car. So they went for a big visual impact on a crappy day by throwing it around a nearby slag heap...

Shame..

[pesty]

I think they were just trying to be "arty" using a dramatic back drop.

I liked the bit where she said about the sound it makes ....just as the music came on so you coulnt hear the car

[davidd]

What an utter waste of time. For a car with so much potential to spend 2 mins spinning the back round on a slag heap was a crime.

Wasteful people.

D.

[hughesie2]

FourWheelDrift said:

So what did we learn:- It doesn't have ABS. It doesn't have traction control. It can do donuts in mud. It has a hardtop It's a hatchback (oh well at least that might tempt some shoppers then ) So what? Utter waste of airtime.

"It may be a girls car, but its not for wimps"

[granville]

davidd said:

What an utter waste of time. For a car with so much potential to spend 2 mins spinning the back round on a slag heap was a crime. Wasteful people. D.

I dunno, David - surely as a nipper, you lusted aimlessly for hours on end after a Hillman Imp or asmathic Toledo?

Or perhaps you fancied developing a penchant for small painted soldiers in a dutifully modelled play room fort by craving longingly for multi tracked transport equipment, Jawa style?

No? I thought as much because if, like most car obsessed oinks, including yours truly, you were far more impressed with the displacement of Snr Ferrucio's V12 masterpieces, then the prospect of seeing what contemporary super car metal could have done in reality would have been cause for a genuinely unfortunate moment of involuntary bodily fluid release.

So bingo for allowing the lamentable Tom Ford to indulge a minority (vaguely motoring based) interest in a precious half hour gap where something genuinely fabulous (The Trev) could have been deliciously dissected over at least 15 minutes.

Utter codswallop.

Guess we'd better leave such worthwhile, substantive reviews to PH-TV, eh?

(I really would like to know who VBH is related to within media-luvvie circles - ship's rivets are all very well but for Chrissakes - if you want soft porn just wait till after 11 PM, CH5 usually obliges such carnal requirements far more effectively. Apparently.)

[GregE240]

This is it in a nutshell, DeR.

Whilst on the phone this morning releasing my anger to a fellow sympathiser it became clear that 5th Gear has indeed lost the plot. Not that it ever had one.

How the hell can tv producers think that 25 minutes (22 after the ads which were far more interesting than this bile) can consist of a two minute test of a TVR, far too long on shopping trollies and some military hardware that you couldn't buy anyway?

And as for that buffoon Tom Ford - he should be towed out to sea and left for the gulls to finish off - what a tedious man. Surely it wouldn't have been asking too much for some army major to point a Tomahawk at him? The heat seeking model would have been dandy - full of hot air, a direct hit would have been a given.

Anyway, I'm off to my local Kia dealer to trade on my barge for one of those Kia Rimmers, or whatever they're called.

Good old Channel Filth. Even the film afterwards (the unmissable "Storm") was a crock of shit.

[spartacus]

I, like most blokes, have a big soft spot for young VBH and her nipps, however I must agree it was a very poor two minute snippet - surley it would have been more fitting getting the t350 sideways on an airfield in the hand of Mr Nidell. If you knew nothing about motors and saw that snippet you would thing the t350 was some shinny little pose mobile, not one of the most highly developed and value for money TVRs to date!

[beano500]

"Fifth Gear" ???


More like "Filth Gear"





At half time I was already to write a tirade about this lamentable excuse for a programme. Having lived without the benefits (are there any?) of the televisual experience for the last five years and having just moved into a new home complete with appropriate apparatus I assume I have just got a nostalgic view for how TV Motoring programmes should be.

Thursdays 8:30 on the good old BBC.............


Signed

Old Fart


"Is this what we pay licence fee for?!" mumble, mumble, dribble, dribble......

[gazzab]

She looked like she was a little bit cold. Did anyone else notice the view?

[whitey]

So does the T350 with the performance pack have 19" spider alloys ?????

[gazzab]

She was too busy smuggling peanuts to remember that the wheel size is actually 18.