Just for guidance sake..

Top Gear and other Brit stuff that does comparisons between Yank and other makes.

I have noticed over the years that the likes of Clarkson and other testers compare the best or most powerful whatever to the least powerful Yank.

In this weeks programme we tested the new Aston Martin against the 3 cylinder Mustang and the diesel Corvette - and they did rather badly..........

Just for " fairness" both Yank companies also make 700hp V8 versions of these cars, but at the time of testing, none were available - thank God.

I have written to Clarkson about this - NO REPLY !!!!!!!!!



Come on Clarkson, get behind the wheel of the Lingenfelter twin turbo. 0-60mph in 1.9 seconds - oh sorry, I forgot, you are a crap driver, according to those in the know.

Next the C6 - its terrible !!

Yes it drives well, parks well, depreciates well, well well well.

But its BORING. Looks like all other sports cars of today.

See a C3 in your rear view mirror and you think that the Devil is chasing you.

The C6 should look like every bad *** in the universe is after you.
Like a Zonda ( not Honda ) on steroids.

Most of the major manufactureres have blown it recently, so now the new Jag and Mustang try to look like the 60's cars.

Don't try -
BLOODY DO IT !!!

Make the exact 1969 Mustang or 1963 Jag 3.8s body and drop in your new running gear - cos thats what people want.

Finally, aftermarket wheels on a C3.

Not that I have seen that many, but none so far have struck me as very good.

I think this trend for ever increasing wheel rim diameters - 17 plus inches, is not really suited to a C3 , and 5 spoke anything allows too much brakes and suspension to be on view.

Well, thats it,

Its my Birthday, I'm 50 today, so nobody is allowed to argue with me !!!!

Gonna spend the rest of the day humping somebody elses

wife,

 

Did the Dog eat your cerapax

PS: Happy 50th

 

Happy BD!!

Don't let the world get to you!
It's much nicer to ignore the crap and enjoy a growling C3!

 

Most men who have a mid life crisis just buy something expensive... some just have to

 

Happy B-day
Guess you won't be interested in a set of Ferrari style 5 spoke alloys I've got for sale? 3 excellent condition tyres, 1 new, complete with nuts, centre caps, came off my C3, as seen in the Ecklers glossy, don't want a lot for them, just want them out the way.......
Clarkson?

p.s. let us know what this wife is like - I'm wondering what to do on my 50th

 

I'd love to hit the bars with you someday.
Welcome to the 50's club!!! Happy B-Day
Eddie

 

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HEY HAPPY BIRTHDAY Its mine too.Have a great day.

 

Yes, the top gear guys are annoying.

 

Happy Birdthday!



I would have suggested not letting the world get to you, but it's postings like this that keep me smiling and from venting myself.

I see similar comparisons to the one you describe in Consumer Reports sometimes. I always smile when they beat up on C5's because they depreciate more quickly than Toyota Camrys.

 

Annoying? Last time I tried to watch it my TV sustained impact damage on the front (luckily it was a rented one & they didn't notice when we upgraded to a better one ).
Long may they continue to depreciate. Eventually they'll be down at a price where I can afford to buy one as a winter hack so I can keep the C3 "for best" (as it deserves)

Henson1954 hasn't posted back yet, this wife must be pretty good

Is this the official pissed off thread? If so, here goes........
What pisses me off is Officialdom. Those faceless people who pry & poke & investigate & make petty laws & ban things & have to get involved in every aspect of my life. And my mate's lives, and my relatives lives and even my pet's lives. And busybodies, those interfering billy-no-mates who've got sad little lives & compensate by screwing up other people's, they **** me off. And taxes, taxes really **** me off. I know we have to pay taxes to keep the infrastructure going (what's left of it), but they keep going up & up & up & all they're used for is to employ even more pinched faced little officials to pry into my life & think up new ways to tax me. People who think they have the right to mess with my Vette or bike, they more than **** me off. The Daily Mail pisses me off badly, but nowhere near as much as The Guardian pisses me off. And the EU pisses me off, it's full of FOREIGN Officials legislating my life, making it illegal for me to use imperial measurements, specifying the size of bananas, sucking up vast quantities of my taxes & producing vast qauntities of crap while giving it's members large pay packets & pensions to die for (huh?!). The high price of beer pisses me off (that'll be the tax on it). Banning smoking in pubs REALLY pisses me off (it's down to the pub Landlord as to whether he/she will allow smoking on the premises, you know, the free market, it's a free country, consumer choice & all those other buzzwords from the 80's. 80's popular music pissed me off. Any popular music after the 70's pisses me off! Going bald pisses me off. Cheap pattern parts **** me off. Tony Blair's "third way" pisses me off, coz from where I'm sitting it looks to perform the same as his 3rd leg (it screws us). Replacing traffic cops with speed cameras pisses me off (a speed camera will nick me for doing 5mph over the limit even if it's safe to do so, but an uninsured/drunk/joyrider can smash into me because no speed camera saw fit to pull him over to check his documents or give him a breath test). Manufactured boy/girl bands **** me off, the school run pisses me off, vocal minorities who want special treatment **** me off, the UK not having a meaningful space program pisses me off (that'd be a useful alternative to the fortune we spend on the EU), dental charges more than **** me off (feeling pissed off? Then brighten up your day - punch a dentists teeth out), my mate always getting the good looking girl while I ended up with her swamp donkey friend pissed me off (specially when he never bought me a drink for valiantly keeping said donkey away from him & her friend). Waiting 20 mins to get served, only for time to be called just as the barmaids stop gassing to each other & decide to serve me pisses me off. Jehovas Witnesses waking me up at the crack of Dawn on a Sunday **** me off. Never having seen the crack of Dawn pisses me off, oops

 

Thanks for giving me the best laugh I've had all week! I feel your pain! The US is going the same direction. If people could just mind their own business and stay out of others affairs this world would definitely be much more enjoyable! Don't see that happening any time soon though! Always someone who'se never owned a muscle car trying to put restrictions on them, never smoked making smoking laws, and never drank making laws that restrict drinkers! Luckily, our government doesn't do that! Well, gotta go now... time to watch the news to see how many muslims we've pissed off today!!

 

Funny! All too true tho.

 

Sally here - the other chaps wife - just going for another bonk !!!!

Catch you later if we survive

 

I love it...good rant even if I dont agree with all of it. You are older than me so it must count for something...now like other people have said, go out and have a root, have a beer, and buy a NEW corvette.

 

Clarkston is a US car hater but he did his utmost best to suck up to ford because he wanted a GT and there were only so many available in europe, that car was praised to the skyin his show and low and behold..he got one.

 

 

Just to put this all in perspective..... I need to know are you drinking cold beer or warm beer to celebrate your birthday?

 

Had too many bacardi and orange reef, lotsa dancing and bonking - going to bed now as its nearly 4 am

 

Now for the next 50.....