In design there's a fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous, one car manufacture struts along this line with ease.
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Top Gear
...will never die!
...will never die!
As I am writing this I am watching Top Gear "Challenges" volume 3 with the British Leyland challenge not because it sounds good when writing this article but because this is my favourite TV show. I watch the DVD's and every repeat on Dave and now it has gone, well in the format we are accustomed to. I am sure there are lots of opinions on the events that has led to the greatest TV show that the beeb has ever produced to be cancelled. However, I cannot help think that it was going to implode sooner or later and I do have a bit of sympathy with the bloke who got clouted (apparently?), JC's a big bloke, he could do a bit of damage even if he fell on someone. I just wished JC could of done it in a more discrete manner, you know a kidney punch or a Bruce Lee palm punch to the chest or anything that would not shut the show down, especially as the P1, LaFerrari and 918 were so close to doing battle on the test track, forget that track in Germany, the TG test track is the best.
Okay, let's be diplomatic because we know that events like these always seem like life has ended but normally they turn out to be for the greater good! There is no other solution than for Captain slow and the hamster to leave the beeb, join JC on a motoring show on another channel, the bebb keep the rights to the Top Gear name, hire three new but familiar presenters and the two shows face off every Sunday. The beeb Vs JC just got interesting and besides I have 12 TG series to watch that include epic challenges, superb specials, enough Clarkson, Hammond and May to keep me going for ever!
Wood in cars is wrong!
Thankfully all hyper car manufacturers avoid wood as a material to use in interiors and there is a reason. Hyper cars are the pinnacle of motor vehicles they bow to no one, they do not conform to an accepted form they exist and we love them.
Unfortunately there are some good and bad manufacturers who design motor vehicles to tailor for the motorist who has no style, normally of an older generation a generation that thinks that 3 ducks on their living room wall is a trend re-born or prefer the days when televisions were decked in wood.
This is the start of a campaign to ban wood in cars! Carbon fiber, aluminium and silicon carbide injected with plutonium are the acceptable materials to in a cars interior!
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