Instead, long drawn out whining about the British Motor Industry. The only people that care, are the ones that actually lost their job at one point. I'm not joking, the last 5 minutes or so, I was zoning out.
My thoughts exactly. They did the "why don't we have a motor-industry anymore?"-whine a few times already and it got old and repetitive rather quickly this time. One visit to an old factory would've been enough ... one or two bits about them "cheating" on the tests would've been enough. That would've kept the piece shorter and would've allowed to review the SLS (perhaps as a double-feature with the 458?).
I love the cheap-car-challenges and IMO the ones of the past have been some of the best TG ever (cheap Porsches, Italian supercars, coup?s that aren't Porsches, etc.). This one was the weakest so far. They didn't stick to their own rules of the challenge and simply turned it into an overly nostalgic piece, complete with some (undeserved) chest-thumping for three not very exciting cars - I'd take JM's golden Jag, RH's yellow "Ferrari" or his Dolomite Sprint over any one of yesterday's cars in a heartbeat.
I wish they'd have skipped the entire cheap-car-challenge (what's the point of it if they don't do it "properly"?) and instead used the SLS or 458 in an epic race.
All in all the episode wasn't bad though. Not as good as last week's show, but a decent closure for the series.
Here's an idea for 16x01: Detroit, the city that once was. Ooooohhh, exciting.
JC already did that (sort of) way back when he first drove the Ford GT.
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