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Many of the segments on the show are completely irrelevant to the US market. The only european cars that interest me in the slightest are the sports cars, I could not care less about the other "jewels" they pump up. Jaguar is good example, they pretend they are great and not junk. Sorry, lost me there. Bentley? Isn't British anymore, but they still pump it up. I have no interest at all in watching a show about Bentleys. I might as well be watching a show about making quilts.

What the heck is up with testing the performance of every car on a wet track? Wow, the 4 wheel drive sports cars do better than the two wheel drive cars like the GT-3. Go figure.
Maybe it's always wet and raining in their world, but not in mine.
A diesel powered Audi sedan that they spend almost an entire show trying to get 40 mpg out of? Who cares? Someone obviously does but I don't. That car is on my list of cars that I will never drive or own no matter what.
I'm not saying they don't do the show well, but the best show on TV? Not in my opinion. It is just so much fluff and doesn't cover what is interesting to me most of the time.

I watch the show when it comes on but catch myself flipping channels to see if something "good" is on every time they start talking about a "who cares" car.
I guess I'm spoiled and arrogant and expect every car show to be geared to the Southern California market.
Old 10-06-2005, 06:57 AM
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