We build bad cars? Ok, fine. What has come out of Britain recently? Jag? American. Aston Martin? Also American. Land Rover? Yep, American. TVR was bought by a Russian, and the only reason it's still British is because he decided to leave it that way. Those Brits did such a great job that most (if not all) of their big name automotive brands are now American, and books called Jaguars that run exist. The Jaguar IRS has been described as horrible by design, and there was a recall to the sport tuned Vanden Plas suspension years ago that told the servicemen to rip out the sport tuned crap and replace it with regular springs and shocks.
I don't give two ****s about what questions they ask, or how we stack up to the rest of the world. I'm sure they picked Vegas for a reason- most people there are morons, and it proves their point.
I'm sure it would be easy to create a battery of questions about America that most of us would answer correctly that morons around the globe would miss.
Basically, it's just American bashing, and that's fine. It isn't the first time that's happened, nor the last. Anybody who is a student of logic or statistics knows that making blanket statements about a large population based upon a non-randomized smaller sample size is total garbage. I thought Top Gear was above this type of thing, but I was in error.
Last edited by WildBillyT; 01-17-2007 at 05:41 PM.
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