for the love of cars

dj jarvis

i know some will say " motor thread that way" but hear me out

i just watched the episode of said show on 4od , it's the one about a mini cooper , a mini cooper that they bought in donabate , off a man with a unmistakable Dublin accent , and all the cars on screen had D regplates ,

Yet they announced that the car was in Northern Ireland , in a small town just outside Belfast , called donabate
you see the Dublin port tunnel , Irish republic road signs , yet not once was it mentioned that they got the ferry to Dublin , drove to donabate , collected the car from a Dub , then drove it back to Dublin port ,
WHY would they make such a point of saying it was bought near Belfast , why not mention they bought it here , in the republic ??

has me irked and confused - i thought we were all supposed to be buddy's now?

orangesoda

can you please repeat that again slowly?

myshirt

I have a radio in my car.

dj jarvis

orangesoda wrote: »

can you please repeat that again slowly?

go to 40d , find the program , watch the first 5 mins , bingo

dmc17

orangesoda wrote: »

can you please repeat that again slowly?

People were in Dublin. Said it was Belfast. Why?

tomwaterford

dj jarvis wrote: »

i know some will say " motor thread that way" but hear me out

i just watched the episode of said show on 4od , it's the one about a mini cooper , a mini cooper that they bought in donabate , off a man with a unmistakable Dublin accent , and all the cars on screen had D regplates ,

Yet they announced that the car was in Northern Ireland , in a small town just outside Belfast , called donabate
you see the Dublin port tunnel , Irish republic road signs , yet not once was it mentioned that they got the ferry to Dublin , drove to donabate , collected the car from a Dub , then drove it back to Dublin port ,
WHY would they make such a point of saying it was bought near Belfast , why not mention they bought it here , in the republic ??

has me irked and confused - i thought we were all supposed to be buddy's now?

why???

Ten of Swords

Would you say that the show is more concerned with cars or geo-politics?

Joe shall hear of this... it's a disgrace

Dia1988

What is the show about? Like Wrecks to Riches?

Colser

Bad enough I have to listen to my OH going on about it without listening to you too OP...:rolleyes::)

dj jarvis

Dia1988 wrote: »

What is the show about? Like Wrecks to Riches?

yea , but "British" cars , not ones bought off paddy , im thinking they could not get a decent one in blighty and it stuck in their craw they had come over here , so decided to hide the fact by spoofing - only reason i can think of for hiding the fact they got it here - why else ?

orangesoda

they are 2 pointless cities anyway, best forget about it

dj jarvis

Colser wrote: »

Bad enough I have to listen to my OH going on about it without listening to you too OP...:rolleyes::)

at least it was not just me , PPHHEEWWW

RayM

That's it. I'm joining the Real IRA.

wazky

RayM wrote: »

That's it. I'm joining the Real IRA.

"FREE THE COOPER ONE"

fergiesfolly

I'm thinking it was a fairly poor bit of research done by some underpaid, poorly motivated, geographically challenged intern, which was then read out by affable but clueless presenter(Philip Glenister) who didn't have the benefit of having the video on screen in front of him as he was doing the overdub.

Tune in next week, when I reveal why RTE keep a clone of Gaybo in the basement at Montrose.

Yamanoto

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/for-the-love-of-cars/4od

Definitely Dublin OP.

Would it be anything to do with CH4's public service remit? Perhaps there's something particular to the way the show was funded, stipulating the producers spend only within the UK?

Could just be a geographical brain fart that wasn't spotted in the edit though.

Tail Docker

I thought 40D was a boob measurement tbh..

dj jarvis

Yamanoto wrote: »

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/for-the-love-of-cars/4od

Definitely Dublin OP.

Would it be anything to do with CH4's public service remit? Perhaps there's something particular to the way the show was funded, stipulating the producers spend only within the UK?

Could just be a geographical brain fart that wasn't spotted in the edit though.

na , dont buy it , donabate is 20k max from dublin , belfast you could add 100 , its hardly Belfast , they were in Dublin , but chose not to mention it

why would you do that ?

byte

Glad it wasn't just me who noticed it, and it was annoying.

The producers probably didn't want to say they had to buy their British icon car in Dublin. I was suprised there was still air in the tyres.

Karl Stein

THIS MEANS WAR. :mad:

Cienciano

orangesoda wrote: »

they are 2 pointless cities anyway, best forget about it

Donabate isn't a city.

orangesoda

Cienciano wrote: »

Donabate isn't a city.

good for donabate