[Closed] Top gear

I keep accidentally teaching our 22 month old boy swearwords...

ooops...

They are minging.

This is a proper pretty car:

I used to have the Supercars Top Trumps and ogled them all.

One day Mastiles, one day....

[i]Hmmm. I think I may have to start a "Stupid argument of the week" thread after this![/i]

Didn't your last one get removed?

Don't worry, I'm letting it lie.. I just can't argue with someone who thinks I'd watch 14 series of Top Gear! 😆

Anyway, back to Top Gear - no matter how shit it is, it is still much less shit than most shit that gets broadcast.

And Matt, arguing with you is somewhat like this...

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I just can't argue with someone who thinks I'd watch 14 series of Top Gear!

So this wasn't the first time you had to turn the telly off when it was on? What do you do when really crap stuff like x-factor comes on? Hide behind the sofa? I just can't understand why you found it so abhorrent you had to post on an internet forum about it...

Is that [i]really[/i] what I posted?

m_f is right.

I like Top Gear for it's silliness and lets be honest you can walk into 90% of the local dealers and test drive your everyday boring car. I like watching a 100k+ car having its bollocks thrashed off.

288 GTO is an alright looking car I suppose, not Ferrari's prettiest though

Ferrari's best looking car eva!
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[b]IMO[/b]

I went into a clothes shop today. There was a big sign saying "CHILDREN SWEAR".

I blame Top Gear and Surf-Mat

zokes are you old enough to vote because you do come over as very immature

M-F - in the 80s we lived in Horsley, Surrey very near to a Ferrari dealer (at the age of 12 I was a total petrol head in the making). Dad had Porkers at the time and a 308 GT4 briefly (not a very "real" Ferrari) and a couple of his mates had 308 GTBs. Anyway prices went nuts - I saw 3 of the 6 (was 7 until someone wrote one off) Daytona Spiders all in Surrey - two were at that dealership. The first black one was £1/2 million, the second one (met blue) looked like it was £160,000 at first - it wasn't. It was £1.6m!!! Even Dinos went mental on price. Crazy times.

250 GTO is THE prettiest Ferrari of all time IMO.

308 GT4 briefly (not a very "real" Ferrari)

Ferrari snob 🙄

Bertone was a genius - as was Jano.

Oh, and last nights' TG was about as funny as a funeral service conducted by Bobby Ball.

[i]250 GTO is THE prettiest Ferrari of all time IMO. [/i]

250 GTO Berlinetta SWB is the prettiest of the 250 GTOs...

I always loved the Testerossa 🙂

Ferrari snob

MF - Testarossa? You mean the 80s one? YUCK! The only Testarossa worse looking at is the original:
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Which is actually right up there with the 250GTO for prettyness.

So why did your Dad not think it was "proper" Matt?
And what do you think?

Want one - in yellow 😀

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Yep the 80s one - loved the fins down the bodywork.

I'd rather have one of these, but as only six were ever made and one has been destroyed 🙂

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or these,

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Rusty - he just found it pretty hard work. His was black and it does actually look okay I reckon but it was unreliable and didn't handle all that well. Lovely engine though.

It replaced a 928 which was uber reliable so maybe that just grated a bit?

To me it was a Ferrari which was cool. Flipping uncomfortable in the back though - rear headrests appeared to be made of solid rock!

246 Dino is the prettiest Ferrari IMO.

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we had somewhat humbler ambitions round our way....

Call that humble. My parents had shitty old morris mariners, datsun sunny and other such travesties. I remember looking through the holes in the floor on journeys and dropping items through them.

Same here - Cortina estates, Austin Maxi (HL 1750 twin carbed version mind). Then when my 16 yr old brother nicked it and put it into a lamp-post, my dad splashed out and got a 1.6GL MkIII Capri in metallic maroon with a vinyl roof. Sweet as.

Oh Maxi they had 2 of them and a princess.

All new at the time - Lancia Beta turbo, BMW 323i (E20), mk1 GTi (7th in the UK), another mk1 GTi (last of the 1.8s fully tuned up from the factory),

Nearly new - 928 S4, 2 x 924 Turbos, three ur Quattros (the last one a Treser converted one), Ferrari 308 GT4, some massive V12 Jag thing, Ford P100 (Cortina shape) pickup with a 400bhp V8 stuck in, BBR Mitsi Shogun with almost 300bhp, etc, etc - at one point dad had seven vehicles!

It rubbed off on me of course and now I sadly have to spend a bit too much on cars...

Fun though!

jeez. you lot are all morons.
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prettiest car in the world ever. FACT. Not "imo". FACT.

You're all wrong. If you have another opinion which differs from mine, you're wrong.

😉

The Dino is pretty - shame it wasn't very quick and lacked a V8/12

My mum's/our family's cars when I was a kid: Daf 44, Ford Fiesta mk1 (can't remember if it was the 950 or 1.1), polo 1.3.

Her first car was one of the first minis in NI and she rolled it.

Best looking Ferrari...

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😉

Oh Maxi they had 2 of them and a princess.

My parents first ever brand new car was a H red peugeot 205 GT Diesel.

I had a 205 limited edition 'Lacoste'.

It was very gay.

your all wrong:

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Hehehe I remember those and yeah they were. Explains why you love your TT. 😉

Oh the Miura is a stunner indeed! De Tomaso Pantera was cool too.

I remember strolling past a very low rent looking private garage in the Docklands from which an amazing sound was being produced.

Had a peek inside and the garage contained:

A Lister Storm
A Lambo Miura
A Countach
A Bugatti EB110 (being tuned at the time - hence the sound)

I think the guy was trying to keep them quiet as he looked a bit sheepish when I asked about them.

My jaw nearly fell off!!

Hehehe I remember those and yeah they were. Explains why you love your TT.

anagallis_arvensis - Member

zokes are you old enough to vote because you do come over as very immature

Your ability to get wound up by someone on the internet however....