Porsches on TV tonight

[rfoulds]

FOX has a new show premiering tonight called Fastlane. In the promos, the main character wrecks what looks like a Gulf-colored, 917 clone.
Also, on the website it has a custom 996 shown as a feature of the show.

take a look!

http://www.fox.com/fastlane/candystore.html

[cstreit]

I thought that was a GT-40 replicar?

[Wayne 962]

Sorry, not a 917. Cool GT-40 Replica though...

Actually, it looks like one of the new Ford GT40s that they are coming out with next year...

-Wayne

[pwd72s]

Miami Vice is baaack...only this time, set in la-la land. Will I watch? Sure.

[efhughes3]

Maybe I'm getting old, but I watched the first 5 minutes of this show, and I couldn't take it anymore. There creative method of putting together this show is too cool for me.

[StanChung]

This show is a total homage to Miami Vice, complete
with hot cars, ultra slow motion, and even Phil Collins'
"In the Air Tonight" which was heavily used by Michael
Mann for Miami Vice.

The first episode was not high art, but very entertaining
if you like mindless images of sex, cars, guns, and wet streets.

Great colours, too. Lots of greens and pinks.

The show had me laughing. There's something very tongue and cheek and retro 80s about the show.

[Cornpanzer]

I was thinking exactly the same thing......just a re-hash of Miami Vice. Never seen that much "butt" on network TV either.....of course it is FOX. In the immortle words of Homer Simpson, "It may be a lousy channel but the Simpsons are on TV"

[Wayne 962]

Hey, I miss Miami Vice (don't have cable).

I'll take a hour out and watch it tonite, if I can get the rabbit ears to work...

-Wayne

[pwd72s]

Wayne? Hope you didn't waste the entire hour. I didn't. This show is probably going to be a smash hit, That's because I'd rate it DOA...

[Wayne 962]

Right-o. Big WOT (waste of time)...

-Wayne

[atlporsche]

I made it a point to watch...and as the review said, I left my brain at home...(I bring that out for CSI)

I'm also one of the younger guys here.

Even my wife liked it.

I like the fact that they used more classic muscle than I expected.

I particularly liked the gratuitous GTO shot....I think Pontiac is marketing the old car ('64s) heavily to get "GTO" back in everyone's vocabulary, so they can hit us with the new one next year.

sjd