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Seanieke · 28-03-2010 11:33am #1

Good god someone stop Irish stations ripping off tv shows!! Anyone seen this? It was on TV3 just there so I said I'd give it a go, I feel like my day is now ruined!! Yer man is ripping off May & Clarkson no end! The obv. they've not got the budget for TopGear stye tests so they shoud stop trying to replicate!

(I know should be in TV, but I figured more Petrol Heads would see it here)

Tea_Bag · 28-03-2010 11:46am

example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhrJEJB0Lt0

what a load of shité

make sure to check out 1:47+ in that vid. OMFG.

pajero12 · 28-03-2010 12:10pm

No it aint great now.was just watching it.....yer man driving the R8 was overtaken by a transitffs:eek:

Ur one is nice though:D

Mc Love · 28-03-2010 12:10pm

FFS 03:44 in, sounds just awful as if he was doing a Borat impression

oh oh oh oh thats a ferrari

Rowley Birkin QC · 28-03-2010 12:47pm

It's embarrassingly bad.

They obviously haven't realised that there is a gap in the market for a "normal" car show that simply does reviews of new models. Leave Top Gear do the more entertainment based stuff that it does so well.

Max_Damage · 28-03-2010 12:51pm

Do you remember 'Drive' that was on RTÉ years back? That was equally shíte.

Rowley Birkin QC · 28-03-2010 12:55pm

Max_Damage wrote: »

Do you remember 'Drive' that was on RTÉ years back? That was equally shíte.

Not at all, Drive was nowhere near as bad as I recall. This thing is in a league of it's own due to it's blatant aping of TG.

-Chris- · 28-03-2010 12:59pm

That's shocking.

MagicMarker · 28-03-2010 1:33pm

I give them an A for effort tbh.

Mc Love · 28-03-2010 2:23pm

Fifth gear is better than Top Gear in the way it actually focuses on real car stuff as opposed to the entertainment factor of TG

Apart from this, although they did apply the science too it (bloody awesome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZoVAZGgsw

colm_mcm · 28-03-2010 2:31pm

yawn, it's a bit sexist too

Mc Love · 28-03-2010 2:35pm

Same car, different show, hotter presenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoMzZ-eYNTo

VolvoMan · 28-03-2010 3:54pm

That was absolutely painful to watch.

Why is it that whenever the Irish try to do a car programme or anything automotive related, they get it so blatantly wrong? I mean, I can't put into words how bad that was.

21inchguns · 28-03-2010 4:51pm

"it has the same 4.8l v8 that the 430 has"! Did the name f430 not give him a clue what size engine is in it...

Gitb1 · 28-03-2010 5:05pm

21inchguns wrote: »

"it has the same 4.8l v8 that the 430 has"! Did the name f430 not give him a clue what size engine is in it...

Would it not be an f480 then?

Voodoomelon · 28-03-2010 5:19pm

Tea_Bag wrote: »

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhrJEJB0Lt0

what a load of shité

make sure to check out 1:47+ in that vid. OMFG.

See the comments: "holy $hit this man taught me fifth class primary school".

Classic!

MagicMarker · 28-03-2010 5:28pm

What. the. fúck.

I just caught a few minutes on this on City Channel. 3 of them were test driving 3 different cars around Mondello, the woman had the fastest time and the guy was up last, when he crossed the line the woman didn't actually say what time he got, she only held up the stopwatch to the camera, but you can't actually make out what it says!! ffs, do they watch this footage when they edit it together?

jimmycrackcorm · 28-03-2010 5:38pm

I find Clarkson so monotonous at this stage. He follows the same style for each review that I've gotten jaded with TG. It's refreshing to have a different approach on another show instead.

choo choo man · 28-03-2010 6:04pm

I know what you need, you need Vikki Butler Henderson presenting the Irish Automotive programme, I would watch her all day long. OOPS SAID TOO MUCH,GOTTA GO.:P

Masada · 28-03-2010 6:34pm

I watched that a couple of weeks ago, they are an embarrasment to us, hope it doesnt air anywhere else.

ahal · 28-03-2010 6:49pm

I couldn't hack more than two minutes of that chickenshyte. The problem with yerman is he sounds like someone has kidnapped his family and won't release them unless he says all these puns in the shortest possible time. Either that or he's constipated.

With Clarkson the humour is incidental and it fits his character. I'm sure Top Gear is scripted to the nines, but it doesn't come across that way because there is some of the character in the character. This TV3 thing is absolutely cringeworthy.

I remember back in the 90's when I knew most of the motoring journos in Ireland: many bemoaned nepotism and people debasing the market just to get to drive swanky cars on a regular basis. Clearly nothing much has changed.

Re: Drive, it was over - styled but not a bad programme at all. The host, Karl Tsigdinos, is a true petrol head ( he also presented 'River of soul' on Today FM, think he's moved to 4FM ). The Director - Paddy McClintock - competed in the 1968 London - Sydney Marathon in a Pug. 404, and did again in 1993. FFS at least they were car guys.

My tuppence worth anyways.

Regards,

Tony.

mickdw · 28-03-2010 6:51pm

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I find Clarkson so monotonous at this stage. He follows the same style for each review that I've gotten jaded with TG. It's refreshing to have a different approach on another show instead.

Sick of clarksons reviews too where he starts off saying its possibly the worst car ever but then it turns out to be the best car IN THE WORLD

Mc Love · 28-03-2010 6:54pm

the whole stig thing is getting a bit old.

Some say he's..............ah STFU

VolvoMan · 28-03-2010 7:24pm

You should see this, it's even worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8KEBMXvV8

ahal · 28-03-2010 7:40pm

VolvoMan wrote: »

You should see this, it's even worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8KEBMXvV8

OMG!

ROTFLCOPTER!

I could only do 1 minute 50 seconds, after which I began to feel physically ill. They really must think that the entire population is retarded. Note how she says "Ten thaisand" oh vomit!

Alanstrainor · 28-03-2010 10:25pm

VolvoMan wrote: »

You should see this, it's even worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8KEBMXvV8

That's shockingly bad. Jaysus.

SV · 28-03-2010 10:39pm

fúcking morons..first thing when they see a car "ohh 2004"
"ohhh 2007"

and 92 thousand kilometres is a lot now? eejits.

seriously..hope they see this thread and come on here and realise how clueless they are..

MagicMarker · 28-03-2010 10:44pm

VolvoMan wrote: »

You should see this, it's even worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8KEBMXvV8

ahal wrote: »

OMG!

ROTFLCOPTER!

I could only do 1 minute 50 seconds, after which I began to feel physically ill. They really must think that the entire population is retarded. Note how she says "Ten thaisand" oh vomit!

Alanstrainor wrote: »

That's shocking mad. Jaysus.

What am I missing?

Rowley Birkin QC · 28-03-2010 11:03pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

What am I missing?

How incredibly bad it is perhaps?

"Oooh this one's shiny" doesn't really cut the mustard now does it?

quarryman · 28-03-2010 11:14pm

i don't think she even knows what cars she's looking at, only that its "shiney" and has a "nice dashboard".

rocky · 28-03-2010 11:20pm

And the pick of the crop for a guy presenting a motors show is ... an Auris :eek:

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