I feel like I learned a lot about reality TV fabrication:
• Guy sells a Grey Market car so rare that only 12 are known to exist in the US for 5,000 less than his asking price - which apparently is far less that other examples of the car are selling for in Europe?
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Originally Posted by matthewb0051
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Don't tell me that there aren't some car people in the US that would love to get their hands on this thing and would pay a very high price.
• Non existent spares show up as if by magic
• Designer of the actual car shows up and sketches what he really wanted in a wing.
• Wing gets fabricated, the prototype is tested in a full size wind tunnel three states from where the show is produced and a professional moldmaker builds a fixture that will be capable of producing copies. I wonder if you can now buy one in Europe?
• Guy buys car back from Mike and Ant for a price still less than European examples are selling for in Europe.
(WD Did a similar thing recently with a Honda Civic CVCC. That car was restored to perfection, so perfect that US Honda wanted it for their museum. Don't tell me that Honda didn't make that all happen.)
This whole show felt like a scam from the start, but having said that, I like Ant - maybe he's a little too eager but he seems like a genuine car guy. I liked the third wing. When I first read about it here, I was thinking it was some cobbled together mess. It's not. It looks good, and we know it adds downforce, at least according to the guys in Utah!! (They didn't say anything about any extra drag that it produced, though!)
I've got the show set up to record, and I'll watch until I get bored.