Clarkson: M coupe horrid, buy a Porsche Gheyman instead...

[lemming]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/09/05/jeremy-clarkson-slams-z4-m-coupe-suggests-porsche-gayman/

obviously he does this sort of thing for entertainment and it is amusing.

:)

:dunno:

[John V]

I like the rear 3/4 view of the M Coupe. It looks badass. But that's what he complains about? Weird. It's the front and the sides that they need to completely redo.

[rumatt]

So what I'd do is buy the soft-top Z4 M instead.


:?

[FC]

I like the rear 3/4 view of the M Coupe. It looks badass. But that's what he complains about? Weird. It's the front and the sides that they need to completely redo.


:+1

But I'd still rather own a 987S or a CaymanS.

[Sharp11]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/09/05/jeremy-clarkson-slams-z4-m-coupe-suggests-porsche-gayman/

obviously he does this sort of thing for entertainment and it is amusing.

:)

:dunno:

Actually, he suggests an MZ4 Roadster, not a Cayman.

Clarkson isn't exactly a graceful driver, but he is pretty funny.

Ed

[lemming]

Actually, he suggests an MZ4 Roadster, not a Cayman.

Clarkson isn't exactly a graceful driver, but he is pretty funny.

Ed

i agree.

it's very difficult to pull out the objective points because they're so mired in subjective briticisms.

:D

[Rob]

I was thinking about this the last time I saw him criticisize something that wasn't british (b/c they make oh so many great cars in the U.K.). He is entertaining, but it's always entertainment at somebody else's expense and usually in a degrading fashion. For the most part, if he isn't criticising in a funny manner, he doesn't really have a show. Saying coxster 183 times is such the winning content, for example.

I find the shows much less entertaining after realizing that.

[John V]

I just really enjoy their cinematography. Clarkson is a blowhard in general.

[Sharp11]

He is entertaining, but it's always entertainment at somebody else's expense and usually in a degrading fashion.

Well, I don't have a problem with that, that's partly what good comedy has always been about - with the Brits, it's the Monty Python/ Fawlty Towers ethos, here it was the Marx Brothers - even Abbot and Costello and Laurel and Hardy made fun of themselves.

The Brits are a peculiar bunch, though, I think a lot of their poking fun at us (and the rest of the world, especially the french and germans) comes from their own inferiority complex and reliance on class structure :)

Ed

[lupinsea]

Reading that article . . . makes me want to get a digger. :eeps:


I used to operate a forklift working at my dad's warehouse. The thing was actually a lot of fun to wheel around in. The fact you could pick up 5000+ lb. of material and move and manipulate it around very eaisly was very gratifying.


I like watching Top Gear for the entertainment value of it and the cinematography aspect even though I'd agree Clarkson can be a dick at (most of the?) times. The back-and-forth banter between he and the other co-hosts can be fun and well written if not particularly insightful.