Jeremy Clarkson vs # 39; Brutus # 39; BMW bomber (TOP GEAR)
Since time immemorial, the job of providing a hungry world with cars to stir the soul has fallen in Italy and Great Britain but now we both are spent forces.
Fiat is in serious financial trouble and because Fiat owns Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Alfa Romeo, this means that all of the Italian auto industry is in serious financial trouble.
There's speculation buizzzziness as General pages Motors ball the whole group and take control This means that the next Punto will be a Corsa, the next Stilo will be an Astra and best of all, the next Alfa 156 will be a Vectra I do can hardly wait.
The story is no less terrible here basically Rover is down to a factory where some of the most ingenious engineers, using nothing but a socket set they got for Christmas and 40p they found on the back of a sofa, managed to turn an aging and not nice selection of cars in some of the most interesting exhibitions on the market.
But do not take s Although the MG ZS might be, there is no out of the fact that it's based on the Honda Civic penultimate Finally, it must be replaced and where's the money will come.
Now I know that many young readers of Top Gear will argue that Japan, with its range of four-wheel drive cars Evo is today's Guardian heart and soul of the automotive industry, but I fear that this makes no sense.
Where is his E-Type, the 2900B, the Daytona, his Stag Where is her flair design I look hard at a Subaru and I do not see a square inch that could be called pretty, or imaginative On an Evo VII things are even worse, you can not see the body at all thanks to its low-city Islamabad accessories discount store.
And have you seen the fit and finish on these cars once when I metalwork at school, I was a library, but I did not use enough in the mold sand then when it came out it was more like an artichoke and even if she had rougher edges one broken Sex Pistols, it was still of the highest quality at the start hinge on a Subaru.
I know this wonderful Sá car to drive, but it's the computers that make it so and computers, unlike good machine, do not melt your heart iMac may seem wonderful, but compare it with the Brunel Bridge on Tamar and you'll see what I mean.
The Avantime is shiversomely terrible, with doors that poke eye and a motor that drives.
So what about Uncle Sam back I do not think the Mustang's good, but I think it's only in production because Ford's forgotten to stop and like everything else, not even the Swedes make more melancholic cars.
I like what Renault did, but I like to much if the cars were as good as the packaging would lead us to believe Avantime shiversomely is terrible, with doors that poke eye and a motor that drives so when you're sitting in traffic with your foot rests lightly on the brake, it'll be a surge of engine speed and whahey you go.
The Vel Satis is worse, and I never quite had the call of the Clio It was the car that made me leave Top Gear all these years because I could not think of anything to say Be assured this matter with the new Top Gear program we facilitate planning, a car like that just won t get on.
In fact, the French make two good cars Renault Laguna which is extraordinarily beautiful and very safe, and the Citroën Berlingo which, by a considerable margin, is the best of the family car money can buy for 8000, nothing even close.
But good though they may be, or it Fiat 500 can not make you feel uncomfortable with the delicious agony Ni causes your heart to beat a little faster, then where petrolheads others, are we going to emotion rough these days.
I just had a few days with the Audi RS6 is everything you would expect very well effective Tasteful There were one or two surprises, as you might expect of a car Audi still hasn your right line, and the direction is always as accurate as a wet dog blanket and then there is the power of its twin-turbo, V8 4 2-liter 444bhp All of it.
I was expecting some serious get up and go, but it is really brutal, brutally, wonder fully, explosively, aggressive, fast noisily Substantially faster than M5 And probably not far from a Ferrari 360.
I was also slightly surprised that the 155mph speed limiter seemed broken Needle spent as it was 175 mph on steroids In fact, the only reason he stopped climbing is so heroically because I went off the track.
For me, however, the biggest shock of this car is that I did not respect as I respect a book I liked and that means it must have a heart and a soul.
So I thought a little more for the last 30 years, German cars were always the same and effective clinical surgeries such as dental But look at all the cars you want today Mini Range Rover BMW 5 Series Porsche Turbo Mercedes-Benz SL you still get the precision engineering, you still get the style now but there again humanity.
So there you are, it is the Germans who've pick up the stick dropped by Italy and Britain, it is Germany that art makes the cars we really want to buy.
I have sweet n go I have not even laugh last month when Germany was flooded.
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