Motor Week, US car review show Now with added V6 XM road test

[Felly Magic]

Whilst bored, and on youtube I stumbled across a load of clips from what looks to be an American version of old Top Gear, but their road tests seemed to go more in depth, same host for years, just gets fatter and balder, and they have road tested some proper chod over the years. Let's start out with some pure Autoshite

 

[Felly Magic]

Next up, one of the Americanised Renners. I actually enjoy their style of review, proper in depth testing on how the car stops, goes, and handles, but does sem very low budget

 

[406V6]

Back in the day I used to record Motorweek and watch later. I probably saw those two reviews above when they were broadcast. It was an interesting and enjoyable car-oriented show with a good balance between items for people who knew a lot or just a little about cars. Very much like the original Top Gear from the 90s without all the Clarkson bollocks.

[Lacquer Peel]

Someone posted a load of them on YouTube a few years ago but MW took them down, including a road test of the unofficial US market Citroën XM, I'd love to see that again.

[r.welfare]

They have their own official YouTube channel, search for the Motorweek Retro Review playlist. It's excellent.

 

I can sympathise with John Davis getting fatter and balder as he ages, so am I.

[Felly Magic]

Episode 1 in full, complete with cheesy theme

 

[Felly Magic]

Thanks to Mr Wobbler of this parish posting a link on faceache, here we have the US spec V6 XM for all you LHM fetishists

 

[dugong]

Thanks to Mr Wobbler of this parish posting a link on faceache, here we have the US spec V6 XM for all you LHM fetishists

 

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AUTOSHITE APPROVED VEHICLE.

[Lacquer Peel]

BITTER.

[Felly Magic]

I had a feeling that review would go down nicely. Next up MOAR FRENCH....

 

[dugong]

BITTER.

I quite like bitter.

[Felly Magic]

More Frenchness with a bit of Ze Germanz

 

[Urko]

That XM was pushing 60K (dollars) with options no wonder they didn't sell many there.

[Lacquer Peel]

That XM was pushing 60K (dollars) with options no wonder they didn't sell many there.

 

They were imported by a tiny company who converted Euro XMs to meet US standards in various ways, like changing the head and tail-lights, fitting automatic seatbelts and a catalytic converted, and crash testing some, you can see why they were expensive.