Bangers. Mad for cars. Channel 4 now.

[quicksilver]

4 hours ago, wesacosa said:

I did wonder who their target audience was. Clearly not car people, and I would have thought most people who know who that rapper is will have no interest in 90s hot hatches.  All very odd

Looks to me like a cheap way to meet diversity quotas and try to get more black people interested in classic cars, and ended up neither entertaining nor informative. That Espace looked shit, like someone had used the paint bucket in basic image editing software to fill the silver bits with blue. The Viva is nice but Dollywobbler did a much better review of that very car.

[trigger]

Isn't it just a massive advert for eBay Motors?

[Barry Cade]

That 850R tho.. 😍

I was concerned for the headlining when they stuffed all the crap in the boot, then noticed there was no trim on the inside of the tailgate.. these are impossible to find in good nick so think the owner removed it so it wouldn't get trashed for a stupid TV programme.

Won't watch again...

Bitchin rides, that's my go to TV show. Can't be bothered with the nonsense, but the workmanship is amazing. The one where the weird guy made a metal retractable hardtop for a pickup from scratch was genius.

 

[hairnet]

so just seen the thumbnail on channel 4 website

thats put me off

but bangers and they mention lotus carlton?

so not bangers then

so they sacked the researchers and went for curry instead

*swerve

ps i always wanted richard off deals on wheels (whatever happened to the other guy) to do other car stuff after that

[MiniMinorMk3]

I watched it to the bitter end. What a waste of 45 minutes (I skip the ads). I was cringing at how they treated the cars, but it's typical of TV people not to care that it is someone else's pride and joy.

What an utterly shite program!

 

[Wibble]

Sounds like I was right to give this a miss then.

[Timewaster]

I thought about watching it but thought better of it after reading the description.

As most have said, except for Bangers and cash (terrible misleading name)  TV shows about cars are usually awful.

Wheeler dealers and Car SOS are just about watchable if you fast forward all Tim's "blag" bull shit and the obvious false tension.

Edd era and some of the later UK Wheeler Dealers aren't a bad watch.

YouTube is where it's at now.

There are some great video producers in amongst all the numpties.

I'm willing to bet that almost every other genre of specialist tv show is utter crap too if you have any knowledge of the subject. 

I bet medics watching casualty are muttering WTF? 

[garbaldy]

21 hours ago, sierraman said:

They were a strange pair those. You’d have figured they’d have found it it was fucked before they started spending on it. 

What you meen like the suzuki jeep that had thousands spent on it that then failed it's mot big style,  

 

Two episodes and that tit has managed to crash two cars now,

[gm]

i see it’s back on again tonight - featuring an mx5 and an nsx, two of my favourite cars - but can i bring myself to watch ? better get a bottle of red open quick sharp  

[Wibble]

27 minutes ago, gm said:

i see it’s back on again tonight - featuring an mx5 and an nsx, two of my favourite cars - but can i bring myself to watch ? better get a bottle of red open quick sharp  

NSX? Shit, gonna have to take a look. I’ll grab the beers😬

[Matty]

On 18/10/2023 at 07:10, Matty said:

Fuck sake. I'm going to have to watch it now. Its like a dare.

Well I dared myself (or @Bradders59 did depending on how you look at it). I'm sat down and strapped in. Here goes....

[Wilko220]

Well that crash didn’t take long…

[Wibble]

 Nope, sorry, seen enough already, back to the tube!

[Matty]

4 minutes ago, Wibble said:

 Nope, sorry, seen enough already, back to the tube!

Aye, I'm out. That's terrible. What a fucking bell end.

[DavieW]

Jesus Christ, it's grim. 

[gm]

is that an enormous cock graffiti’d on the side of the car park ? 

ominous portent ! 

[wesacosa]

to save me the pain of watching it, who crashed the NSX and how badly?

[Wilko220]

31 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

 

to save me the pain of watching it, who crashed the NSX and how badly?

 

Some rapper called Tinie Tempah. Went into some tyres - expect it’ll live.

Ebay certainly got their money’s worth with the non-subtle product placement every five minutes.

 

[gm]

i’d imagine if the NSX owner had seen the way he handled* the mx5, they might have been less keen to hand over the keys. silly sod had already crossed the line when he stacked it  

[Wilko220]

While overall it’s pretty rubbish (and extremely lightweight from a knowing anything about motoring perspective), in fairness to the programme the guy seemed genuinely sorry/embarrassed to have crashed the car, and they made a point of saying it would be repaired. So it’s pretty far from being in the  “sadistic cunt takes a hammer to an Allegro” territory of certain other shows.

[garbaldy]

Ive watched the lot and It's okay chaps even though it doesn't get any better he doesn't crash anything else 

[quicksilver]

On 24/10/2023 at 23:16, Wilko220 said:

Some rapper called Tinie Tempah. Went into some tyres - expect it’ll live.

Ebay certainly got their money’s worth with the non-subtle product placement every five minutes.

 

Missed product placement opportunity there. "Don't worry, you can buy everything you need to fix an NSX on eBay".

The whole MX5 drift sequence seemed like an excuse to point a camera at that girl's enormous knockers.

[dave j]

5 hours ago, quicksilver said:

The whole MX5 drift sequence seemed like an excuse to point a camera at that girl's enormous knockers.

Now I'm going to have to watch it! 

[hairnet]

28 minutes ago, dave j said:

Now I'm going to have to watch it! 

pervert

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 24/10/2023 at 23:16, Wilko220 said:

Some rapper called Tinie Tempah.

Oh, you mean Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu? (Tinie to his chums)
He did some  Home Improvement type TV show in the past couple of years (t'missus watches these things) and was very personable - good job - a lot of the home owners were a bit nobby.
He rocks up everywhere in a spanking new G-Wagen - didn't see him stack that one - guess it was his own property.

[wesacosa]

if anyone can't wait until next week there are 2 more episodes on 4OD

[High Jetter]

11 hours ago, quicksilver said:

The whole MX5 drift sequence seemed like an excuse to point a camera at that girl's enormous knockers.

They were covered up though

[High Jetter]

Was the Sussex car park at High n Over? @Rust Collector

[Robin]

That silver MK1 espace they had was mine... Obviously.

The maroon one belongs to a friend called Michael. 

The producer was very keen to have the espace and for it to "do well" in the series but ultimately Tinie had more of a say in the end result and that meant it didn't get chosen at the end. It won the ebay vote by a country mile though so it had the last laugh. 

They were very cautious with my car and I was happy to let them loose on it on the promise it was returned as close to original as possible.  They painted the top and bottom halves and wrapped the middle bit. All of the tint and wrap came off at the end of the shoot, and I sold the car to a collector in Swindon the very next morning where it will quietly gather dust and occasionally go for a run to school with the kids or to the pub once in a while amongst 160 other cars and alongside another espace of mine he owns. 

Program was tolerable. 

[Pieman]

56 minutes ago, Robin said:

That silver MK1 espace they had was mine... Obviously.

The maroon one belongs to a friend called Michael. 

The producer was very keen to have the espace and for it to "do well" in the series but ultimately Tinie had more of a say in the end result and that meant it didn't get chosen at the end. It won the ebay vote by a country mile though so it had the last laugh. 

They were very cautious with my car and I was happy to let them loose on it on the promise it was returned as close to original as possible.  They painted the top and bottom halves and wrapped the middle bit. All of the tint and wrap came off at the end of the shoot, and I sold the car to a collector in Swindon the very next morning where it will quietly gather dust and occasionally go for a run to school with the kids or to the pub once in a while amongst 160 other cars and alongside another espace of mine he owns. 

Program was tolerable. 

That wouldn't be Oddball Motors, would it?  I haven't watched the programme but I seem to remember hearing they had some involvement.