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22nd January 2008, 10:24 #1
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Jeremy Clarksons view of rallying, and the new Impreza
This may not belong in here, but it did make me chuckle...
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol...cle3209571.ece
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22nd January 2008, 10:40 #2
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Clarkson is a funny guy who unfortunately was left out of any love as a child.
Another Flying Finn
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22nd January 2008, 10:45 #3
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Originally Posted by turves
I kind of share his feelings on the new Impreza though.
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22nd January 2008, 10:52 #4
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About what you can expect from a guy who test the differences of rallycars on a racetrack.
Aja kovaa Pena.
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22nd January 2008, 11:18 #5
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Originally Posted by Tomi
As for the Impreza, I know what he means, years ago the only time you saw one was in a Rally car park, now they're everywere, mainly driven by chavs who think they're cool. As for Rallyfans, well a lot of people think that, when I tell people I spent the weekend in a forest at a Rally, they think I'm mad, stupid or strange.....
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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22nd January 2008, 11:22 #6
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I think it was quite funny actually. Besides, he is a mediapersonality, and he wouldn´t be one if he wasn´t mean sometimes or had a tendency of over simplifying different aspects of cars and motorsport.
We shouldn´t take it all that to serious. Besides, the rallyinterested community in sweden tends to slide around in old Volvos...so did Petter before Subaru got hold of him 8inc Ford...)Winner Best Signature Championship 2007! Winner of BSC 2008! Winner of BSC 2009!
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22nd January 2008, 12:17 #7
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As Richard Burns was well known to the Clarkson family I think a lot of what JC wrote was tongue in cheek. But the new Impreza is a minger and it always rains in Wales when I go so tend to agree with him!
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22nd January 2008, 12:22 #8
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Originally Posted by sal
I agree about standing in a cold wet Welsh forest, and the going home to find out who has won; as there is no way of knowing the result while stuck in the middle of a forest.
Is there a better sound than that of Porsche engined Flat-6 ???
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22nd January 2008, 15:59 #9
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Yeah, I read this on Sunday in the paper. Hilarious and, of course, like everything Clarkson writes/says, deliberately provocative. Made me laugh and slightly humiliated at the same time...
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22nd January 2008, 16:13 #10
Oh Jeremy...
As for his points on rallying I took it as a backhanded compliment. His only explanation for people who choose to drive in sport that is arguably the most dangerous in the world and get considerably less money than say an F1 driver has to be stupidity in his eyes.
Just as his view on Americans he likes to think were all from Alabama and talk with a drawl and/or have a gun rack in our pickup truck because we all drive pickups.
Hes a good writer/funny guy that sounds like an angry child half the time =)
after that YouTube channel with tons of old rallying videos was 'stopped', now its time for one rallycross YouTube channel to have the same end. https://youtube.com/@rallygreat2660?feature=shared...
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