Jeremy Clarkson on the M5

oliB · June 12th, 2005, 05:46 PM

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...649122,00.html

mgkdk · June 12th, 2005, 06:01 PM

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And then, since I didn’t know where I was, I had to set the sat nav, which meant hitting a knob, twiddling it, moving it to the side and then twiddling it again.

That was funny.

Ultra_Kool_Dude · June 12th, 2005, 06:15 PM

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Why do I have to live in some German geek’s wet dream?

I like that.

Nice ending.

Renesis · June 12th, 2005, 08:34 PM

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And by the time she’d shut up Bob had been replaced with a miserable sounding girl called Dildo.

nice voluntary typo there! Dido becomes Dildo!

Lilleput · June 12th, 2005, 08:57 PM

That man is so angry! and i ****ing love it

Raven18940 · June 12th, 2005, 10:54 PM

That was wonderful. images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

mathie · June 12th, 2005, 11:52 PM

But I really don't understand who wants to buy a 500hp car and then drive it at 400hp

Cruzz563 · June 12th, 2005, 11:57 PM

When you're around town and don't want too spin the tires everytime you leave a light images/smilies/smile.gif

JoeBlo1 · June 13th, 2005, 02:13 AM

Another cool and unique article written by Jeremy. 90% of the time he's bashing the car with it's ridiculous gadgets and then admits it's actually an insane machine in the end.

Buba · June 13th, 2005, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mathie

But I really don't understand who wants to buy a 500hp car and then drive it at 400hp

That was the whole point of the article...
You have to enable the extra horses. 2 settings of power don't make sense to old people like clarkson.
He should be used to it, after all, he is into the Ipod thing really bad... (Check his column in the TG mag, if you don't know what I'm talking about...)

Buba

bone · June 13th, 2005, 12:30 PM

i'd be prefering even less power actually
250 hp or so for just driving around, and on the push of a button...it doubels images/smilies/dancing_mouse.gif

when your driving on the highway you don't need 500hp, would save fuel if you kept it at low power. same thing in the city, plus it will make big difference on the lifecycle of your rear tires

mathie · June 14th, 2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bone

i'd be prefering even less power actually
250 hp or so for just driving around, and on the push of a button...it doubels images/smilies/dancing_mouse.gif

when your driving on the highway you don't need 500hp, would save fuel if you kept it at low power. same thing in the city, plus it will make big difference on the lifecycle of your rear tires

Don't think buyers of that car care about fuel consumption and rear tires.

Raven18940 · June 14th, 2005, 12:36 PM

But if the point of that button is to make it easier to handle, then why not lower it to a reasonable level, like 300. I guess that's what TCS and ESP and all those other gizmos are for. images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

watto · June 14th, 2005, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mathie

Don't think buyers of that car care about fuel consumption and rear tires.

Exactly, they've got the money images/smilies/wink.gif

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JoeBlo1 Joined: Feb 18th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Toronto Age: 22 Posts: 495 Rep Power: 20	Another cool and unique article written by Jeremy. 90% of the time he's bashing the car with it's ridiculous gadgets and then admits it's actually an insane machine in the end. __________________ "If you have a target in your life, a real target, doesn´t matter if you are very poor or rich people, if you work hard and believe in God, you can get the success, success in the life." Ayrton Senna

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