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i watched it last night, i quite liked it.. apart from when he ruined the lada in a pointless tg style
what did you gents make of it?

The Fiat 500 bit was good . I never knew about the Butlins style mass holiday places, was it behind the former iron curtain ?

The Lada was a 1999 model, I can't feel anything towards it.
I thought the program was quite good. Afterwards I went on YouTube looking at v8 Trabants thinking "that looks like fun"

what annoys me is the waste of a tidy car, when you are as skint as me you would be very happy to own such a car or even a marina... so mr may & friends if you read this & feel like destroying something, think of those less fortunate than you.. id like a sierra sapphire cosworth please

When something worth saving is destroyed (either accidentally or deliberately) on TV that irritates me. I'm not bothered about the Lada but Clarkson blowing the original engine on a Lancia Stratos (accidentally) or an Allegro getting rolled over on Life on Mars or when they shot up an Audi coupe (made to look like a Quattro).
They can destroy as many caravans as they want.

rich. wrote:i watched it last night, i quite liked it.. apart from when he ruined the lada in a pointless tg style
what did you gents make of it?

Yeah, they are an old fashioned design, probably unreliable but I refuse to hate them.I quite like the vehicles that are a bit different from your normal beemers, mgbs,etc.Thats why I don't watch those three clowns from TG.All they seem to be doing is testing flippin sports cars .Pity they don't destroy them, o no, that really would be a crime....... . Look how she went over the bad potholes/craters.I am sure Ed Hughes would have taken her


The runs on the paint was a bit funny though. ..........................Oh I am ranting now. Not a bad programme apart from all that.

Don't get me started on the MKII Zephyr sent over a cliff in The Royal. What bunch of t***s! The number of jeeps and Kubelwagens destroyed in war films....wah! In 633 Squadron they wrote off a Mosquito, if not two!

Gentlemen, before you get all wound up about these cars getting wrecked, I can tell you that most the ones that get destroyed by TV companies are usually unsaveable wrecks full of filler.

For example, a few years ago the MGOC did an article about a Midget that was to be wrecked in the course of shooting an episode of Emmerdale. The main car was a tidy red job but the one they wrecked was a clone - massive rust holes filled with newspaper and P38 then given a cheap, quick paint blowover so that at a distance and at TV resolutions it looked OK. The one that was "driven" (pushed) into a swimming pool had the engine, gearbox and propshaft removed etc. - which could actually be seen on film. Why wreck a £3000 car when you can wreck a visually similar £300 one?

I've only seen the start of the James MY programme so far but would be very surprised if the Lada was not in a similar state.

He showed shocking paint and panel gaps as part of the program and it was (possibly) in Russia. The way it folded up looked like the engine was AWOL.
It is a pretty good program, definitely worth watching through to the end.

I found it entertaining in parts, if a little facile- pointing out that the lada kept going over the potholes while the Range Rover suffered a flat, well given the ridiculously low profile rubber bands on the Range Rover's drug-dealer rims it's not surprising, and doesn't neccesarily mean the Lada is superior over potholes, although that was the implication.

Best part was the Beetle, great to see that really early prototype being driven amongst the traffic at a reasonable pace on the autonbahn rather than slowly pootling round a museum car park surrounded by cones.