smoke
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- Mar 18, 2010
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- Nissan Micra. What of it?
What I really love about Top Gear is the cheap car challenges, and what got me hooked in the first place (it was the Cheap Porche Challenge, FWIW) is the man/machine bond, when the guys genuinely love their old bangers even though they're rubbish, and *want* them to succeed.
In this one, I don't feel we really got that. Jeremy's 'I love this car' speech seemed to come out of nowhere, because up until that point we hadn't really seen a lot of their developing relationship with their cars the way we have in other long trips.
I think there's a relate-to-ability that comes into it as well. Struggling to achieve the near-impossible with inadequate tools because you've got a budget of nought is something a lot of people can relate to. I'll never drive an old Merc over the Botswana salt plains, but I've nursed a dying 25 year old Pulsar home over dirt roads dodging roos, so I can sympathise. Getting a sweet motor that cost more than the one I'm driving around and ruining it for the LOLs? Not so much.
In this one, I don't feel we really got that. Jeremy's 'I love this car' speech seemed to come out of nowhere, because up until that point we hadn't really seen a lot of their developing relationship with their cars the way we have in other long trips.
I think there's a relate-to-ability that comes into it as well. Struggling to achieve the near-impossible with inadequate tools because you've got a budget of nought is something a lot of people can relate to. I'll never drive an old Merc over the Botswana salt plains, but I've nursed a dying 25 year old Pulsar home over dirt roads dodging roos, so I can sympathise. Getting a sweet motor that cost more than the one I'm driving around and ruining it for the LOLs? Not so much.