I Want That Car ITV4

[Fatchance]

The best part of an hour wasted last night watching IWTC, though I did learn that classic cars have less safety features than modern ones. The young lad in particular had a lucky escape with somebody else having bought the Chavastra, but other than that, very disappointing, without a single shot of Rebecca's botty.

[overrun]

I watch all of them, and they're all unrealistic and shite. I watch for the lolz and occasionaly I pick up some knoweldge.

 

Make it fast, make it loud. Wooow!

[anonymous user]

Nah, no American shows, please. They started the whole thing with exposing bare arms.

 

 

 

I believe that the right to bear arms is the second amendment to their constitution

[brickwall]

They're all shit, but I watch them and then moan about how shit  they are. I'm like that.

[retrogeezer]

hey, if I lived in the states with their cheap fuel I would want something fast and loud too..

[Pillock]

Theres very few unwatchable car shows. Sometimes Wheeler Dealers is a bit cringeworthy but on the whole it's OK. The first few series were a bit too Mike-and-his-cheeky-charm-but-knows-fuck-all-about-cars, then Edd got a bit more confident behind the camera and did some longer pieces which are actually useful.

 

Fast and Loud is excellent - Richard Rawlings isn't "scraping by" by any means but the premise of the show being him trying his luck works really well. Betting someone half price wheels if they can't drive them across the states in a certain time? Points Of View would be all over that. The cars they make are excellent and not always shiny shiny, big bucks - he's honest enough to say sometimes they'll just wash a car and punt it on.

 

Strippers is OK, again the presenters are a little too punchable but they feature a nice range of stuff. 

 

All three of those are completely scripted I'd suspect apart from a few happy accidents, but there's not so many glaring errors to make them terrible. Fast and Loud especially - they feature very few "details" about their cars and it's all about the burnouts.

[cort16]

I like fast n loud it's entertaining. Totally setup but still highly watchable.

[Faker]

Desert car kings is another one. Scripted and staged, but restore reasonable old beaters and sell them at auction for reasonable bucks.

[cort16]

I was just watching this overhauling on youtube and who turns up 6 minutes in? None other than HOLD OWT UR 'AND Mike Brewer. That was unexpected.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NvRn1h3ITU

[Faker]

Beetle crisis and campervan crisis were two good series also.

[overrun]

Beetle crisis and campervan crisis were two good series also.

 

Good shout. I thought DYP C was called that cos it had been chemically dipped, initially. Lol.

John's resto-Cal Beetle was brilliant. That bazzed up 1302 just made me laugh.

[Bucketeer]

Everything has to appeal to the lowest common denominator nowadays.

 

I did quite enjoy the 'A Car/A Racing Car/A 4x4/An MG/A Bike/A Chopper/An Alien Spacecraft is Born' series.

At least it was (quite) informative.

 

I think the vet/presenter always kept his sleeves rolled down too.

[overrun]

Everything has to appeal to the lowest common denominator nowadays.

 

I did quite enjoy the 'A Car/A Racing Car/A 4x4/An MG/A Bike/A Chopper/An Alien Spacecraft is Born' series.

At least it was (quite) informative.

 

I think the vet/presenter always kept his sleeves rolled down too.

 

Mark Evans is a champ. He's a great presenter.

 

Massive Machines series presented by goal post head is also good.

[overrun]

Yeah - sorry - why's that suddenly offensive?

 

This confuses me. Unless it means something I am unaware of.

I've seen him with his sleeves rolled up, plenty of times.

[Bucketeer]

Yeah - sorry - why's that suddenly offensive?

 

Doesn't really offend me but seems to have been a recurring theme in various threads throughout the past day or two.

 

Blame Junkman.

[For Fiats Sake]

Think I'll stick to watching old top gear road tests on ewetoob.

Chris Goffey doesn't show naked arms or chin.

Penny mallardy woz pritty phit on used car roadshow in a slightly middle class middle school teacher way.

That Jason bloke couldn't say half properly, always said haff.  Sometimes was quite good for 2.30pm on a sunday afternoon on ITV6.

I give it 8 and a haff out of eleventyeighten.

 

ALL MODRN KA SHWS ARE SHIT

[Faker]

Fuk all this shite! Bring back scrapheap challenge! Epic shows

[TimothyClaypole]

I managed 1 minute, 7 seconds.. guy was talking to the camera but the shot was from another camera... zany... I'm out. 

[Junkman]

What those stupid yanks did to that poor Lotus Europa that had no chance to defend itself is a crime around here, I hope?

Thanks God, apparently only one was lost.

[cort16]

I liked the Europa. I'd maybe pass on the wheels but everything else I liked including the fact all the uprated parts came from an Elise. When they said "we have an elise engine" for a second I thought it was going to pan over to a shot of a k-series.

[Junkman]

I think the vet/presenter always kept his sleeves rolled down too.

 

Yeah - sorry - why's that suddenly offensive?

Because I find it offensive. I find it unsavoury, unaesthetic and downright revolting, if it is celebrated in the way the presenter of this 'I Want That Car' show did it. Especially the bit where he literally reached across the potential buyer's face while he was seated in the car almost made me vomit, apart from it being one of the rudest and most uneducated, discourteous and uncivil things I have ever seen in a sales presentation. Had I been the potential buyer, I would have walked away from the show that moment, and at this point I switched off and stopped watching the show any further.

The thought alone that this presenter then probably proceeded to sit in the cars like that, would prevent me from buying them, or at the very least scrub the seat he sat on thoroughly with Cif, then disinfect it.

 

There is nothing wrong with rolling up the sleeves while doing something with the oily bits of a car, but a civilised mode of dress should be re-assumed once this is finished.

 

I should be able to expect a TV presenter to be appropriately attired for his job, but must accept that this is has stopped a while ago anyway and now am downright shocked, that such a disgusting deterioration of etiquette seems to be commonly accepted. Well, I still hope not.

[overrun]

 

I agree on it being rude to reach over in front of someones face.

 

As for the 'correctly attired' pig swill,, fuck outta here! It's 2013, not 1913.

[John F]

[Partridge]

I'm suprised nobody has made a smutty comment about the blonde bint yet.

[Jim Bell]

I'm suprised nobody has made a smutty comment about the blonde bint yet.

I'd roll my sleeves up for a crack on that low mileage sort.

Fwwwwar!

Bristols, etc.

 

Will that do Mr P?

[Partridge]

Yes. Mr P approves.

[scruff]

I haven't watched it but I met that Rebecca Jackson on a press do for Goodyear 4x4 tyres in Portugal, nice enough girl, one young staffer from a London based car rag was making a prize mong of himself trying to impress her which was really funny to watch especially when she revealed she had a boyfriend.

[Partridge]

It wasn't me, I promise.

[Jim Bell]

Come on Sonja. Let's be appauling.

[Partridge]

Do you like owls? I know a craaaaaacking owl sanctuary. How about it?