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

[For Fiats Sake]

Brilliant!  Enjoyed that immensely, not seen that spinning bbc globe for years!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Old Top Gear for the Rover 75 lickers

 

 

 

 

[Essex V6]

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.

Love the Fuego and did raise an eyebrwo about the 3 litre!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Old Top Gear for the Rover 75 lickers

 

 

 

 

 

The 75 is universally regarded as a lovely bit of design, but even Geoff Lawson knew the S Type was an utter pig - the interview says it all. I went to the Earls Court show when both were launched. One 75 was metallic dark brown with leather and when I told the Rover bod 'this is a twenty grand Bentley' his face lit up. The S Type was (is) bloody awful. The outside is grim, the inside is like a Mitsubishi with that awful Japanese (but designed for the US) dash and awful materials. That was the best Ford could do?

 

The 75 genuinely deserved to succeed but the Jag didn't.

[vonmon]

My dad made the tooling for the R75 steering wheel, headlights, wing mirrors, air vents, the dash and various other bits.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The 75 is universally regarded as a lovely bit of design ...

 

 

Not by me!  I just can't see what people here see in 75s.  Still, Ã  chacun son goût Fray Bentos .

[warren t claim]

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

Sadly Mike Smith wasn't flying the helicopter.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Not by me!  I just can't see what people here see in 75s.  Still, Ã  chacun son goût Fray Bentos .

 

 

Heathen.