Xcellerate

Seanieke

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rowley Birkin QC

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-

That's shocking.

MagicMarker

I give them an A for effort tbh.

Mc Love

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

yawn, it's a bit sexist too

Mc Love

Same car, different show, hotter presenter

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

VolvoMan

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ahal

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

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

the whole stig thing is getting a bit old.

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

VolvoMan

You should see this, it's even worse:

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

ahal

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

VolvoMan wrote: »

You should see this, it's even worse:

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

That's shockingly bad. Jaysus.

SV

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

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

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

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

rocky

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

Max_Damage

At least she's good looking!

Voodoomelon

Only reason I watched those videos.

Mr Benevolent

The worst was when paintballed a car in another episode. Cringeworthy. It's was an econobox they were trying to hype up to be a another WRC competitor. Pathetic.

Beta Ray Bill

It is a crap show with crap presenters

I have no time for it what so ever, regardless of what car they are testing:

Whats even more stupid is the fact that A lot of the sprt cars that they test are not available for purchase here.

Ireland is not a car friendly country. So this show is a waste of time and money

The Recliner

I give them credit for trying at least

_Kaiser_

That's shockingly poor alright, but typically Irish - "ooh this is a 04.. shiney.. nice dashboard!" :rolleyes:

Never been to an auction myself, but seemed a bit convenient that they both got their cars?

nogoodnamesleft

Saw this the last day......OMFG. Your man driving the R8 was a complete muppet. He was doing 100kph in a 120zone.......in an R8 that kinda says it all.

The edit cut they aired at the end of the show showed the blonde female presenter stalling the car I think it was a VW Tiguan (2wd). Need I say more! Presenters should be selected because they have an interest and also because they have good perception and understanding of driving dynamics and that they can apply it in practice to form a conscise accurate car review. The two presenting the show quiet simply didnt!

They said very little regards the cars themselves engineering involved (even when reviewing the R8 stinks of sloppy research).Even the tiguan was a 2wd version!

Wont be watching it in future!

Seanieke

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.

WHAT?!?!?

Matt Simis

The Recliner wrote: »

I give them credit for trying at least

MagicMarker wrote: »

I give them an A for effort tbh.

Why?
Any idiot can try something, give credit for being good.

Theta

Meh! What do you expect? They are prob being paid buttons and the budget for the show is peanuts.

You pay peanuts you get monkeys.

ToxicPaddy

To be honest, I didnt even know this car show existed until now as I've given up watching Irish TV as its useless and the more of it I watched the more I resented being forced to pay a TV license to have it used for that cr*p!!

But watching the few clips posted on here have made me cringe.. absolutely shocking, brutal, total sh*te..

At least get presenter(s) who knows what they are talking about, have an interest in cars and can bloody drive!!!!.

Leonard Hofstadter

rocky wrote: »

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

OMFG, an Auris is good now:eek::eek:?

I need to sit down and take a few deep breaths after that statement.

Irish "car journalists" know absolutely nothing about cars, or if they do they never express it. We have Irish Car getting all excited by a Skoda Octavia which is now 5 years old at this stage because they now do a CR diesel with a DSG box and a "massive" 105 PS:eek:, we have Kevin Myres in the Irish Indo saying it's all a conspiracy(about the accelerator pedals etc in Toyotas) and Drive getting all worked up about the Honda Insight because wait for it... it is the cheapest hybrid on sale:eek::rolleyes:!

Only in Ireland would you have a "motors" section of a newspaper give the old model Avensis 5 out of 5 even though the new model was only a few weeks away, and equally Irish is declaring the current Avensis a better car than the Insignia:rolleyes::eek:. Step forward the Irish Times and take a bow:rolleyes:!

VolvoMan

quarryman wrote: »

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

What made me cringe the most was when she said "this one is nice and high up off the ground.":rolleyes:

Stevie Dakota

The Irish Journos would go mad for the new Talbot Solara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=097bV5hkEjM

btkm8unsl0w5r4

It a case that the show is so small, low budget that they are frightened to give an car a bad review for fear the manufacturers wont give them any cars to test. The guy I would say knows his stuff but is not been given the chance because the producers are making him do a Clarkson impersonation....the paintball in a grey quarry was bizarre.
Review car, call a spade a spade and dont tell is a obviously crap car is great cause it gets 100 mpg. Those who care for such things don watch TV cause it wastes electricity.

fryup

Mc Love wrote: »

Same car, different show, hotter presenter

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

yes vikki butler henderson is a good lookin chick, but she can be a pain in the arse:rolleyes: with her essex gal attitude >those irritating screams & giggles

Max Power1

fryup wrote: »

yes vikki butler henderson is a good lookin chick, but she can be a pain in the arse:rolleyes: with her essex gal attitude >those irritating screams & giggles

Eh? thats the best part imo

fryup

fryup wrote: »

yes vikki butler henderson is a good lookin chick, but she can be a pain in the arse:rolleyes: with her essex gal attitude >those irritating screams & giggles

Max Power1 wrote: »

Eh? thats the best part imo

nah, wrecks my head:(