Chod on C4???? Place your bets.

[Des]

Da internetz said;

Actor Philip Glenister is to front Love Production's new seven-part series Cars for Channel 4, where the Ashes to Ashes star explores his personal passion for British motors.

 

 

 

And here's the man, Woolarding it up on a nice old Audi.

 

Maybe worth a look, could turn out to be a balanced showing of proper cars.

 

 

Glenister will unearth the story of six cars that have played an important part in the UK’s social history, six iconic and abandoned motors he feels tells the story of post war Britain

 

Now that's very promising, can't wait to see which once common but now forgotton examples are chosen.

 

 

Cars such as the Ford Escort Mexico, MGTC, Mini Cooper MK1, Triumph Stag and the DeLorean.

 

Oh fuck it.

[Pete-M]

The Escort will be fun. I'll ignore the others.

[Split_Pin]

The words 'iconic' and 'abandoned' do not make sense when placed in the same sentence. Iconic =The Cars Described. Abandoned, could be the cars you used to see everywhere and are now extinct. I'd like to see him commend the roomy interior of a Chrysler Alpine or note the excellent handling and of a Fiat 128.

[morris_ital_lover]

I can understand the Mini, Mexico and MG TC but why on earth would you waste an hour on the Delorean and Stag? Regardless, I'm sure I'll end up watching the whole series.

[srad34]

When is it on chaps?

[vulgalour]

Would have been better to lift some 'abandoned iconic' cars from the scenery of Ashes to Ashes and review those instead, turn it into an unsung heroes sort of thing.  Be a damned sight stronger than the offering outlined.

 

But hey, the braying masses of knuckle dragging [manufacturer]mongs out there need something to bleat over when waving metaphorical penises at each other while down another half pint of Stella at the local Wetherspoons.

 

Bitter, moi?

[Jim Bergerac]

If the Mini is considered abandoned I can't wait to see Glenister doing a music documentary covering that forgotten and abandoned band The Beatles.

[srad34]

Well, I love old cars and the Glenister is one of my fave actors, what's not to like?

[eddyramrod]

Six cars that tell the story of post-war Britain?  I nominate:

Land Rover

Mini

XJ6

Cortina

BMW 3 series

X5

Seems to sum it up really... any other candidates?

[Station]

Same when they have programs on 'the top ten of', ie Heavy Metal - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC/DC, etc.  Best guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Gilmore, etc

They were great 50 years ago but I can name 50 guitarists who have since developed new styles of techniques in guitar playing and now shit all over them.

It's written by people who don't care about the subject.

[dugong]

It's written by people who don't care about the subject.

Not saying this is right \ fair (it isn't), but........

 

It's written by people whose job it is to sell programmes to the stations \ Dave. In overall terms Autoshite's interest base is specialised in the extreme. The programmes shitests want would never, ever get commissioned by a well-known channel. There's a chance Discovery \ TLC would take a show produced by a shiter, but there would still be a desire from their end for it to have a degree of mainstream appeal. I cannot think how I might know this.

 

I don't know why people on AS moan about mainstream car shows. The motoring interests of a production company \ theaverage shiter are too divergent. YouTube is far better suited to a shiter's needs.

[eddyramrod]

That's downbeat, Jon.  Have you had a rejection already for the idea we thrashed out yesterday?

[vulgalour]

We just like to complain because we're all miserable folk of questionable parentage.  I'm only happy when I'm complaining about something and pointing out how shit everything is.  That's why I refuse to have a nice car.

[dugong]

We just like to complain because we're all miserable folk of questionable parentage.  I'm only happy when I'm complaining about something and pointing out how shit everything is.  That's why I refuse to have a nice car.

Oh. I thought it's because you wanted to be the next rabbi Tim Hunkin - I mean, you love your work, it's obvious.

[vulgalour]

We should set something on fire, that'd show em.

[Split_Pin]

How brilliant would that be though, a show about unloved chod? I bet some of Autoshites epic tat collections would make a grand programme. Narrated by John Nettles.

[Micrashed]

How brilliant would that be though, a show about unloved chod? I bet some of Autoshites epic tat collections would make a grand programme. Narrated by John Nettles.

I predict one of two things happening there....

 

Only half a dozen blokes will watch the programe and C-4's advertisers will riot, several members of the producation team will be sacked and never work again, their lives turning into empty shells as their marriages fail and then end up sleeping under a railway arch in Birmingham. John Nettles career will never recover and he will be forced to do snuff movies to pay the weekly food bill from Lidl.

 

OR

 

The price of Austin Maestro's, Allegros and Itals will skyrocket forcing us to sell our cars to the highest bidder and find something new and unloved to procastinate about.

[Grundig]

How brilliant would that be though, a show about unloved chod? I bet some of Autoshites epic tat collections would make a grand programme. Narrated by John Nettles.

 

...Nah, that chap with the big fuckoff mustache to present - He was on scrapheap challenge a lot, so I know he likes fixing stuff up & that

 

,

 

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Francis "Dick" Strawbridge, MBE   

[Squire_Dawson]

One must remember that with any programme like this, it has to appeal in no small degree to the average moron in the street. Hence, the Mini is cool and an icon. The Allegro is a pile of shit despite being essentially a larger Mini. Hopefully Joe Pubic will forever believe thus, so keeping prices down for the enlightened few.

 

Old Fords were utter shite and as we know old Mk.1 Escort shells are indeed largely forgotten, unwanted heaps. DeLorean. Need I say any more?

 

And if he had anything about him, he wouldn't be bawling to that bird to 'fire up the Quattro!' VAG shite wank, but if he was a true-blooded Britisher the call would go out to 'fire up the Austin!'.

 

Though I grant that the Quattro was and still is quite a car. Still unpatriotic, though, whichever way you look at it.

[sutty2006]

Personally I just dont see the point in waffling on about the cars in that line up. Nearly every car there has been covered by all the famous TV programs like top gear, wheeler dealers, used car road show etc etc etc. I know, lets watch another program about a mini, or a delorean, because the last one didnt quite cover it enough. Lets see a program that covers cars that dont get covered .... at all..... That would be nice.

 

[Pillock]

Soon, the Daily Express will run a feature on crap old British cars. It'll name the Allegro, the Maestro and the Ital. It will illustrate this last example with a picture of a Marina. We will be OUTRAGED.

[Cavcraft]

Soz to pre-judge but that's one hell of a boring line up of cars to do. Of course (as others pointed out) it's the 'big names' (types of car) that will sell the programme, but I really CBA watching any of them (especially Escort and Mini) get restored, thanks. 

[brickwall]

There should be Buick derived V8s in this show.

[rml2345]

I'm afraid Jon and the others are correct when it comes to tellybox entertainment. They make these things not to appeal to actual car enthusiasts who know the Stag/Mini/Delorean story inside out and can expel more in a five minute passing anecdote about the aforementioned than a whole weeks worth of telly, but to the average viewer who'll go "Oh, I remember having a Mini once, I'll watch that" or whatever. YouTube is much better for our purposes, or those tiny production companies that do transport DVDs on fairy specialised subjects that not even Discovery would touch with a ten foot pole. 

[warren t claim]

Where the fuck have Channel 4 managed to track down an abandoned Mk1 Mexico?

[Cavcraft]

It'll probably be a 1.1 with a ripped off logbook like most of the others out there now. You can also pretty much guarantee that the kind of people on the programme will be crashing bores.

[Shep Shepherd]

The DeLorean DMC-12 is the only car on that list that I have any real interest in, but there have been enough half-decent programmes about it (not to mention media coverage back in the day) already.

 

Personally, I'd like to see a series focusing on cars like the Volvo 240/260, the Saab 99/900, the Vauxhall Cavalier, the Ford Sierra, the Rover 800, the Nissan Bluebird and the Maestro and Montego, but it would most likely only be watched by twenty people.

[Squire_Dawson]

Produced and researched by people with a Media Studies degree from Bolton *University. Probably.

[mercrocker]

All new cars are shite.   All of telly is perpetrated by cunts.   Drive Shite.  Listen to recorded vinyl.   Be happy.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Same when they have programs on 'the top ten of', ie Heavy Metal - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, AC/DC, etc. Best guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Gilmore, etc

They were great 50 years ago but I can name 50 guitarists who have since developed new styles of techniques in guitar playing and now shit all over them.

It's written by people who don't care about the subject.

I'm sure there are some incredible guitarists. But they're 40 years too late - the FUCKING HELL! factor happened a long time ago. No axeman will ever achieve the charisma of Hendrix who, along with Noel and Mitch, made music that was always more than just clever guitar playing. It's not what you do but the way that you do it.

 

Interesting choice of cars, but I'd rather see Dominic Sandbrook do it.