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Nickster Officially Full-On Dubber

302 posts · joined Jul 2008 ·

#936018
I love Top Gear but Richard Hammond is an idiot! Just watched him destroy a beetle to prove his precious Porsche is better. It costs 200 times more of course it's better!
I just wish he/Top Gear would give the bug a bit more respect for what it is and how connected it is to his beloved Porsche..

That is all 🙂
1962 Deluxe Beetle
1970 Low Light Microbus

waveman1500 Also rides a Honda

1,346 posts · joined Dec 2009 ·

#936021
I can understand why they hate the Beetle. I think it's because they're old enough to remember them being sold as new cars in the late 1970s. In 1978, as a new car, the Beetle must have seemed loud, slow and very old-fashioned compared to something like a Mk2 Escort.

Beetles make sense now as a classic car for enthusiasts, but in the 1970s they were just outdated. I wasn't born at the time, but I would think of it in a similar way to the Niki 650 (although obviously not as bad). When you look at a Niki 650 being sold in Australia in the early 1990s, it was an absolutely terrible car. But, as a Fiat 126 in 1972, it would have been much more acceptable.
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surreyp Casual Dubber

45 posts · joined Jan 2011 ·

#936026
I wasn't born at the time, but I would think of it in a similar way to the Niki 650 (although obviously not as bad). When you look at a Niki 650 being sold in Australia in the early 1990s, it was an absolutely terrible car.
😂

The aircooled Skodas (S100) now theres a terrible car worthy of terminal velocity by freefall, it pretty much buried the brand until now they are trying to ressurrect thier name.
I remember my Aunty had one my Dad was forever trying to keep it running. I dont remember even riding in it, only it being always in the garage. I'm not sure it ever ran at all.

DubbyFan Wolfsburg Wizard

518 posts · joined Nov 2010 ·

#936049
Nickster wrote:I love Top Gear but Richard Hammond is an idiot! Just watched him destroy a beetle to prove his precious Porsche is better. It costs 200 times more of course it's better!
I just wish he/Top Gear would give the bug a bit more respect for what it is and how connected it is to his beloved Porsche..

That is all 🙂
I agree, if they are true motoring people how can they go past the amount of Beetles that sold, no other
make with the same shape goes even close!

Have seen this clip also, I like the line up from Beetle to the latest model Porsche, I wonder who would
win if they dropped a 911 alongside a Beetle, 911 more streamlined?

h fractals - an ever changing lifestyle

7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 ·

#936056
I didn't know that this show was still on telly?
🙄
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Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#936072
That show lost it and became to scripted along time ago.

I guess one thing is the Bug they dropped was just one of those late South Efrican Mutant Beetles with the early swing axle/link pin wide 5 floor pan.
Given a quick red paintjob over the top of everything so it looked like the same bug 😂

h fractals - an ever changing lifestyle

7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 ·

#936073
phew.. it's ok everyone it's only a fat chick 😂
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HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#936079
Joel wrote:That show lost it and became to scripted along time ago.

" the early swing axle/link pin wide 5 floor pan."

What a wicked waste!😬
I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#936098
Nickster wrote:I love Top Gear but Richard Hammond is an idiot! Just watched him destroy a beetle to prove his precious Porsche is better. It costs 200 times more of course it's better!
I just wish he/Top Gear would give the bug a bit more respect for what it is and how connected it is to his beloved Porsche..

That is all 🙂
sometimes they say idiotic things....
especially Jeremy Clarkson

its just scripted...

although James May doesn't seem to be as bad...

the other two really can be just stupid at times...

the driving by famous people in a moderately priced car is the only Good part most of the time...

The show is still on Foxtel... probably old shows..

I see James and Richard have their own shows now...

LEE
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Carl and Emily Officially Full-On Dubber

349 posts · joined Apr 2012 ·

#936235
If you are upset about the top gear guys destroying 1 beetle.

DON'T go and see the new James Bond flick.

It looks as though they destroyed a train load of new beetles.

Literally.

😢😢

h fractals - an ever changing lifestyle

7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 ·

#936273
^ yep but they are making those so you can go and get anothery..
different if it was a train load of Trabants 🥲
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Z = Z2 + C1/r = 1/0 = infinity

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Lucky Phil Wolfsburg Wizard

480 posts · joined Aug 2010 ·

#936279
Nickster wrote:I love Top Gear but Richard Hammond is an idiot! Just watched him destroy a beetle to prove his precious Porsche is better. It costs 200 times more of course it's better!
I just wish he/Top Gear would give the bug a bit more respect for what it is and how connected it is to his beloved Porsche..

That is all 🙂
They are all three of them idiots.
They have made a fortune being idiots.
That makes them professional idiots.

wolfgang54 Officially Full-On Dubber

238 posts · joined May 2010 ·

#936310
go to Oprah
1954 Beetle
2003 Beetle 2.0
2004 Turbo Beetle 1.8
2007 Touareg tdi (retired)
2009 Pajero Tdi Shorty (retired)
2011 FJ Crusier
1973 P76

Wish list:

Porsche 550
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t_tuffnut Wolfsburg Wizard

425 posts · joined Jun 2009 ·

#936527
I like the show and the presenters, but the premise of that segment was a stretch at best.

Not to defend them, but how many bugs have we seen cut up and sent to scrap? And how many have been at our own hands? I've personally sliced up one - the body was riddled with rust and dodgy repairs - but a few thousand in welding may have kept it alive. Would anyone do that for a 73 super? Or the South African one they dropped on top gear?

As long as they don't drop mine, or develop a taste for it like they did with pianos on Marinas, I'm good.
1966 Bug

1973 L Bug

MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth

3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·

#936529
HAHAHAHAHAHA.....that was funny as...wonder when they will drop a splitty !!
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