Jeremy Clarkson's review of the Oba-Mobile.

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I think I remember that one. The truck in question was the top-line model F-150, the kind very few North American buyers ever actually purchase.

Clarkson spent most of his time talking about how the truck was completely unsuited to British life; how it was too big, too expensive, too roomy and too thirsty; and how it handled poorly besides.

You can change that belief to a dead-certainty. Clarkson is prolifically vocal in his disdain for all things American. I wonder if he counts pro-American Canadians in his hate-list?

You're doomed, Teg...

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Mongo only pawn, in game of life...

I gotta say I have driven some Ford products that made me feel kind of that way too at times.

--scott

LOL!

Say, are you folks still British subjects?

Another time, they were driving some American vehicles from Miami to N'Awlins.That program was filmed about two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina.Clarkson seemed supprised that N'Awlins haden't been completely rebuilt yet.

That stunt they pulled at that gas station in the little town of Arab,Florida,,, (Arab is a suburb town of Pensacola, I have been there before) I wish they had gotten what they Really deserved! cuhulin

There was a guy by the name of Gonzales in one of the Army outfits I was in.He always went around saying, Hey Mongo! He was from Venezuela.Another guy by the last name of Pack, he used to say, Burp chirp burp squirta burta squirt burt.He was from Parkersburg, West By God Virginia. cuhulin

I been to Parkersburg when I was working for GE.

Not true. He really liked the Ford GT.

In one of those sites on the web I once read early this year or late last year, all three of those guys, Clarkson, Hammond, and May were bashing/disdaining America.

They could have stopped off at Pascagoula

(I still call it Ingalls Shipbuilding and I always will) where at least two Battle Ships were manufactured for Briatin's World War One Navy.They could have visited the National World War Two Museum (formerly, the site where Higgings Boats were manufactured) in New Orleans.Perhaps then they would have some appreciation of America.

On the web, Why do the Top Gear Presenters disdain America?

It is BBC. cuhulin

yeah, sometimes I wonder if sticking with a straight axle might not have been better than the Twin-I-Beam...

nate

Back in the 1970s, I owned a 1967 Ford pickup truck that I bought second hand.That truck's front end would hop and crab around the left hand and right hand corners sort of like an old worn out Army Tank.Twin I Beam front suspension was NOT one of Ford's brighter Ideas, in my opinion.

Heh, that truck also had two cracked pistons (it was a V8) but I didn't know that when I had that truck.After I traded that truck in for another second hand vehicle, a few days later I got a phone call from a guy who worked at the Ford dealership.He said, Did you know that truck has two cracked pistons!? He sounded kind of ticked off too.

I mostly drove 2 1/2 Ton Army Trucks most of the time when I was in Vietnam, one of our trucks was an Army 1963 Ford pickup truck.Six cylinder, manual shift transmission.That pickup truck drove like a Sportscar.One time, the column shift shift lever was stuck, it wouldn't move at all.I put a few drops of oil on it and it worked just fine after that. cuhulin

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He's a strange one alright. I've been watching Top Gear for a while - just recently got BBC Canada - and you should have seen him interviewing David Soul (Starsky & Hutch). "How come americans can't build a decent sports car?" In the same show David blew the transmission of both their cars by the way he shifts. Would have got the best time ever by any accounts. I still sort of wonder if he did, but they didn't like the idea of the only US guest getting the best time. Presumably his shifting method it works fine in other (US) cars. Not having a sport clutch in such a car strikes me as a bit strange. In another episode the three of them head to the US and drive a Ford GT, Challenger, and a CTS. No mention of a 'vette or a Viper. I've doubts if he's even *heard* of the Viper. It *is* hard to tell how much of him is his playing to the British audience and hoew much is just his stupidity, but it really *does* seem to be about 50/50 at least. My bet is the second number being *much* higher.

I go with that second number too. Those Top Gear people are always worth a few laughs.

Of course you know British cars are famous for leaking the fluids and the electrics are crap and rats just love to eat the upholstery in those British cars.

cuhulin

On the web, How many Top Gear Stigs are there?

A few months ago, I looked them up on the web.At least one of them is an American guy. cuhulin

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No idea. I've only seen one killed off so far - the aircraft carrier.

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Well, they wouldn't have produced the PT Cruiser at least. That's something.

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Along with the population of Louisiana...

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Column shift on a manual??