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Absolutely shocking - a travesty

I can remember when magazine road testers where grown men, usually with some engineering credentials who actually understood how the cars they tested worked! Now we have some youth with his shirt hanging out and a degree in media studies.

A wonderful piece of Engineering damned with faint praise by television journalists who have never done anything more challenging than bullshitting into a microphone!

Excellent commentry, impressive engineers, nut case comments.

High Voltage AC Electrification by overhead catenary is the international standard. Sure it can fail, but 99.99% of the time it works just fine. If you threw a bike frame onto a non-electrified line it would bring trains to a halt! Amazing the things that go through some peoples minds. Never ceas...

A reasonably priced family saloon (sedan for those less cultured) that looks like an expensive premium sports car - what exactly is the problem with that? I do wonder how the miserable disenfranchised of this world did their whingeing before the internet was invented!

Who in their right mind would argue that a 1959 designed car would have better crash performance than a modern car - especially a Malibu, which is a rebodied European Insignia, so properly designed - Oh, of course its mainly Americans responding to this. Generally not the brightest of bears.

@Trev1ize - anyone with half a brain would realise that sales of the current car have fallen through the floor, its very labour intensive to build and not profitable. Sitting back and keeping the current Defender in production would be a good way to kill JLR. This new car may not appeal to people...

The car was designed in Britain, built in Britain and uses a British made Engine. Its British through and through! - Tata own and finance Jaguar and thats it. Anyway why would it matter if it was made in India?

I suppose if I lived next to the route I would oppose it, but I dont so I support it whole heartedly. Every other civilised Country (apart from backward looking nations like the US) have invested in HSR and it has been a massive success. Dont waste any more time consulting, just get on with it!

Before we get too misty and bitter lets not forget that currently, in 2011 we have Electrification projects agreed for the Lancashire Triangle, Great Western Mainline, Glasgow/Edinburgh and North Transpennine. Initial contracts for the Lancs scheme have all been awarded to British companies. On t...

In the UK the Cruze is a bargain bucket product - cheap and nasty, It wouldnt be mentioned in the same breath as a Honda Civic or Toyota Corrolla let alone a VW Golf or Ford Focus.

Carlisle Power Box is missing!

Very realistic, just like the real West Coast mainline. Fully electrified, but most of the trains are diesel hauled!

Oh woe is me! Everything new is rubbish and everything old is wonderful...yeh right

This part of the film was effectively a continualtion of Casino Royale and was far and away the best part of Quantum of Solace. The rest of the movie was probably the weakest JB ever.

Its only assembled in China. Its a Ford designed gearbox, engineered in the US. The country thats forgotten how to make cars itself so thats why its crap. The Chinese are assembling a flawed design.

I generally find the opinions of a man with a beard are not worth much!

He only forgets to release the brake because he is an idiot

Yes a very astute car guy. The man who killed the Cortina in the UK and decided Ford of Europe should stop focusing on Britain and concentrate on Germany instead. Today FoMoCo build no cars in the UK and have seen their market share more than halved. At the same times the cars are still considere...

The British motoring press never seem to have a good word to say about Mercs generally. Flick through any British magazine though and its obvious why. Every other page is an Audi or BMW advert. They dont derive as much advertising revenue from Mercedes so dont feel obliged to say nice things abou...

Dont worry steakIT99, thick, uneducated, foul mouthed idiots are not Audis target market for the Q3

How Norman Lamon can imagine anyone is interested in his views on the economy is beyond me!

50 firms a day going bankrupt - the last time the British people where stupid enought to vote in a Conservative Government

I've met quite a few Dutch people and they have all been charming. Also very intelligent and able to seak virtually any language they chose, unlike lazy bone idle Anglo Saxons (British/American) who often struggle to speak English never mind any other language.

I think most sane, rational, intelligent people would consider this a good idea.

Pity MGR didnt put as much effort into product develpment as it put into cheesy internal communication films

@jaffacake1578 Well I'm sorry, but I really dont see how a car based on a 98 Volvo S80 platform and thrown together in Detroit can possibly compare with any BMW/Audi/Merc. Now if it was a Ford of Europe product .....

What was that thing he stuck in the door at 6.56?

Looks fine to me

I thought this video had a wider remit than smoking. I tend to agree these days that the UK is a miserable God foresaken place, but far and away the best thing this country has donein recent years is ban smoking - filthy, disgusting, horrible habit. If you smokers want to piss off then go - tomor...

Fantastic stuff! The knowledge (and general intelligence) of people who participate on these forums is always inversely proportional to what they actually know. Even some of the commentators here fail to see the irony in this! (probably because they are yanks)

Not for the first time Clarkson has got it completely wrong. He suggests BMC took over Rover/Triumph etc to create BL. Its the exact opposite. In 1968 BMC was on the verge of bankruptcy. The original British Leyland on the other hand who built Rovers, Triumphs, trucks and buses was in rather rude...

You cant compare rescuing the banks with bailing out MG Rover. The collapse of MGR may have been extremely unpleasent for workers and the West Midlands, but it had little effect on the overall economy of the UK. If the banks had failed in 2008 we would still be living in tents and qeueing at the ...

Hes a nutter

I guess everything thats said here is right, the Marina was competitive when launched in 1971. Problem was it was still being sold in virtually identical form - but badged Ital in 1984 when all those myths where correct. It was absolutely rubbish. If it had been replaced in the mid 70s by a prope...

By 1992 the Sierra was so old it was starting to smell. Totally outclassed by all rivals hence Ford throwing equipment at it to keep fleet buyers happy. The 93 Mondeo couldnt arrive soon enough.

The good old days before 24 hour rolling news. Factual, honest and straight to the point without all the false sentiment, opinion and over analysis we have to suffer today.

What is it about countries that speak English - specifically the UK and USA? They are the most short sighted, unambitious countries in the world. Just about every other country in the developed world has invested in High Speed rail and in every case it has been a resounding success, yet the Anglo...

Consul/Granadas had wishbone front suspension shared with Mk 3/4/5 Cortinas, not McPherson struts

This is a Vauxhall Insignia (or Opel if you drive on he wrong side of the road) In the UK this is a low rent hire car sold at massive discounts to fleets, usually with a Diesel Engine. There is nothing whatsoever premium or sporting about it. Having seen some of the tat the rest of the US car ind...

Yes it is terrible, the new Mini is well built, reliable, sells profitably in huge numbers and keeps thousands in well paid high technology manufacturing jobs. Not the British way of doing things at all!

Now theres a rare site an electrically hauled freight train in Britain. Most of the UK's rail electrification equipment is just for show and rarely supplies current to trains, it just sits there bathed in diesel fumes. The Government have just committed £705m to create another disconnected, parti...