Ummm...because it would have won on the track?I didn't like it, because it was like a rigged wrestling match. The match-ups. The rules. Everything was slanted towards the Europeans. You knew that at the end of the show, he was going to say America sucks. Then, he says the Ford GT's good, which struck me as throwing a bone to America in a condescending fashion. Why didn't it get a chance to win on the track?
When Jeremy is enjoying cars, he is always very entertaining to watch. You see the passion and happiness in his eyes. Just about everything he says is funny, and there's usually lots of tire smoke. When he's slagging cars, or indeed whole countries, it's hit or miss. He can be very tiresome, depending on stereotypes instead of wit or wordplay. That's what I thought happened in this DVD.
Should I even bother to point out how wrong the Dodge Ram pickup vs the Ariel Atom race was, considering pickups are to fill the bed with tools and haul a U-Haul trailer/boat, something the Atom could never do?
I don't like pick-up trucks (as some of you have already noticed) but I agree that the race against an Atom was stupid, pointless and didn't prove anything.
No. Remember it was an SRT-10. A truck that has low profile tyres, lowered suspension, and a body kit with a spoiler. This is not a working truck, it is a 'performance truck'. Jezza was just comparing 2 vehicles which seem to him to opitomise the ideas of performance in the US and the UK.
Should I even bother to point out how wrong the Dodge Ram pickup vs the Ariel Atom race was, considering pickups are to fill the bed with tools and haul a U-Haul trailer/boat, something the Atom could never do?
No. Remember it was an SRT-10. A truck that has low profile tyres, lowered suspension, and a body kit with a spoiler. This is not a working truck, it is a 'performance truck'. Jezza was just comparing 2 vehicles which seem to him to opitomise the ideas of performance in the US and the UK.
Oh and don't just pick on Jezza for this, Sport Truck Magazine are just as guilty: http://www.sporttruck.com/featuredvehicles/0702st_2006_dodge_ram_srt10_vs_viper/index.html
It was an ordinary 5.7 HEMI in the video and it has nothing sporty about it. Comparing the Ram SRT-10 vs the Viper SRT-10 has some point - they have the same engine.
Who told you that?but what i do know is that 90% of the americans (college students) dont know south africa as a country
I like the VIDEO it was really good!!! and dont forguet the US excursion they made on seasson 10...... i was wondering if that was stage?
it really get on my nervs that people refers as americans to people of the US, Im an American but I dont Live in the US, I wasnt born in the US and I dont like the US.......
Meio don't get me wrong. I'm one of the people in this forum who don't like pick-up trucks, but even I can realize this is a stupid test. It's the same as pitching a Range Rover Sport against the Atom - the result will be pretty much the same. There is no point in comparing completely different types of vehicles.
I think Clarkson made a humorous comparison between an actual sports car
and a car that many americans perceive to be a "sport truck".