Top Gear MOTOR SHOW 1980. Nole Edmunds, Metro, convicted pedo Fuego XR3

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Brilliant!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Eddie Honda]

Its more than brilliant, it's a knockout!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

'Motor Car'.

 

Pretentious ponce.

[vonmon]

We went to this. I remember us sitting in traffic on the collector road for bloody ages. Dad wanted to see the Metro as he was thinking of buying Mom one (which he did, one car later after the Maestro). There's some photos of us here with the Michelin Man, I'll have to dig 'em out some time.

[v8 scania]

I laughed at the subtitles especially when it came up and said the metro was making money for bill who's he when he's at home

[r.welfare]

Proto Woollard delivery by Stuart Hall I felt. Although "Mertcedes" is a new pronounciation on me.

 

Thought Michael Edwardes would be more convincing on the PR puff for the Metro.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thought Michael Edwardes would be more convincing on the PR puff for the Metro.

 

 

 

He's only 5 ft 2 tall apparently. But not to be messed with.

 

Bet he's got some right stories......but he's 86 now so perhaps not much time left to tell all.

[timolloyd]

The interview with Edwardes is amazing, in hindsight.

 

These days, can you imagine a boss at JLR or Nissan Sunderland saying, or being allowed to say, that a factory was entirely unprofitable and that the Evoque/Juke is only there to help to reduce losses?

 

Also, Norman Wisdom blatantly groping the female presenter while telling her 'the old ones are the best'.

[Dirk Diggler]

The paint on the bonnet of that 'new' Fuego...

[Timewaster]

The google subtitles are hilarious.

According to them the coat the land (Colt Lancer) develops 510 horsepower and the quintet should appeal to Regina managers.

 

 

Actually they start to piss me off after a while. It is like a deaf drunk did them with an iPhone on auto correct.

[saucedoctor]

Stuart Hall didn't like the Honda Quintet. That alone marks him out as a wrong 'un.

[vonmon]

Stuart Hall. What a strange beast he is. He spoke pictures on Sports Report, enlivened many a journey home from the match, made us all chortle on It's a Knockout, yet all the while he was a nonce, the cupid stunt.

 

Our kid put Mom's Metro in a ditch, got his mates to drag it out and drove it home, put it on the drive and denied all knowledge when quizzed about the damage the next morning.

[beko1987]

Another amazing video containing many cars I've never seen! Moar of this, we should have an old tg videos thread!

[TRW]

Another amazing video containing many cars I've never seen! Moar of this, we should have an old tg videos thread!

 

 

Have you seen Sue Baker reviewing the Ford Orion?

 

Its nail biting stuff.

[trigger]

Am i the only one disappointed that the Metro being flown in by a helicopter that was containing Noel Edmunds didn't *accidently drop?

[Asimo]

Yup, Noel E******s' continued existence is er, irritating.

I went to this motor show, with a friend in his Rover 2000TC. Only thing I remember is how snotty the bloke on the SaaB stand was and the sectioned Citroen GS display engine.

[AlabamaShrimp]

99% exhibits now turned in to something else! Never heard or seen that silver plastic thing I've already forgotten the name of.

[r.welfare]

Stuart Hall's preoccupied with bank managers, currently employed or retired. I'm assuming the piece of road he's driving on is the M42 - look at the lack of traffic! Means no one gives a shit when he waggles the steering wheels, as he appears wont to do.

 

Also, the mythical 3-litre Fuego at the top of the engine range he refers to - I doubt they could have shoehorned the PRV in.

 

Anyway, marvellous find and I've spent the last couple of hours enjoying the same Youtubers uploads of Thames News from the 1980s. From the voiceover at the end it appears this was transmitted the day before the show opened to the public; how many days did the show open beforehand purely for the press I wonder? Fast turnaround.

[robinmasters]

Brilliant. 

 

I'm watching it on the telly. What a time to be alive. 

 

Who fitted out the MAN coach? Fridge and coffee making facilities next to the shitbox? 

 

Well done to Jan Leeming and Liza Goddard for putting feminism back about 20 years. 

[Timewaster]

99% exhibits now turned in to something else! Never heard or seen that silver plastic thing I've already forgotten the name of.

I Googled it while I watched. It did exist and there was some sort of owners register. I have also since forgotten it.

[Vince70]

That old carb XR3 must of been a one off as bits of engine ended up going through the block on mine after a spirited drive I think the best I managed was about just over a ton.

 

What a bullshitting lying pedo Hall is, you wouldn't get 130 out of an early XR3 unless it was dropped out of a plane from about 20000 feet.

 

Great Video and I'm still waiting for my Digital Dash Edmonds

[mercrocker]

Earls Court shows always had a Press Day prior to the public opening.   Managed to blag in to one of the late '70s ones thanks to a mate's father.   It was full of piss-heads, I couldn't see how anybody managed to write anything meaningful after actually being there.    All trying to cop off with models or the bird in the tea hall.

 

Wonderful bit of footage this is - Eric Morecambe should have been on Top Gear!   

 

I know I am an old git but this era still makes perfect sense to me - BL flogging the New Saviour, gleaming FIATs that you knew where the bollocks to drive but would rust quicker than a tramp's zipper, proper sensible SAABs and bearded blokes road-testing cars in knitwear.   

[r.welfare]

What a bullshitting lying pedo Hall is, you wouldn't get 130 out of an early XR3 unless it was dropped out of a plane from about 20000 feet.

I think he said 113. I thought the Ford specs were 116 and 8.6 seconds 0-60, which was pretty much what the Mk2 RS2000 would do; I seem to recall magazines didn't get that close to either on test.

 

It did look good in red, mind.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I think the thing that most surprised me in the whole video is that I found Eric Morecambe funny!

 

The BBC must have countless hours of old telly in their archives why isn't it all available to watch?

[Timewaster]

The BBC must have countless hours of old telly in their archives why isn't it all available to watch?

Misogyny and peados?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The Orange Metro (Vemillion?) GJW402W was on the road until 1997! 17 years wasn't a bad innings for one of those. If they'd fitted plastic arch liners and not fitted that plastic cage gearbox main bearing, they would all have lasted a lot longer. 

 

1980/81 is when cars started getting good.

 

 

I don't mind Noel Edmonds btw.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

That doesn't look good^^. When I clicked 'like' , I meant I was agreeing that that's probably the reason .

Not that I like misogyny and paedos !

[AlabamaShrimp]

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[Fat_Pirate]

I went to this, on a coach trip with my mum.  Must have been a weekend as it was packed - I managed to see the roof of a Metro, nothing more.  I went and had a play in the Allegros and Maxis instead, that area being a complete ghost town.  Somebody had stolen the gearkbobs.

[vonmon]

I've a vague recollection of their being some Land Rover outdoors track thingy going on, not as we bothered with it. I'd love to see it back, but it does cost about nine hundred quid to park at the NEC these days, money grabbing gets.