Top Gear on 2010 Camaro

[BigAls87Z28]

http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/74d6a460-cfca-4475-8a50-9ae6016125d2.htm

Normal anti American car bashing, but funny.

[LTb1ow]

Do the Brits even make fast cars?

[BigAls87Z28]

Do the Brits even make cars?

Fixed...and no.
Most "British" car companies are owned by thier former enemys or former colonies.

[LTb1ow]

Lol Thanks for that edit. The one company, Jaguar comes to mind, but thats owned by Ford or something. And Land rover is owned by an Indian company. Tools.

[Blacdout96]

Jaguar and Landrover - owned by the Indian car company Tata
Mini - Owned by BMW
Mclaren - under Mercedes thumb
Rolls Royce - a Subsidiery of BMW
Lotus - has to use engines from other sources such as Toyota
Bentley - Owned by Volkswagen
Aston Martin - owned by that damn yankee car company, Ford

[jin1481]

aston martin is owned a by a texan and a saudi now i believe

[V]

i hate british people

[Jam]

true that

yeah they always bash on American cars, but once a new sedan comes out they'll be like "OMG check out this saloonnn it handles like a beast with its' AWD drivetrain. WOWWWW!"

[EchoMirage]

id like to kick the fat guy in the balls

[LS1Hawk]

Douche bags.

[BigAls87Z28]

Jaguar and Landrover - owned by the Indian car company Tata
Mini - Owned by BMW
Mclaren - under Mercedes thumb
Rolls Royce - a Subsidiery of BMW
Lotus - has to use engines from other sources such as Toyota
Bentley - Owned by Volkswagen
Aston Martin - owned by that damn yankee car company, Ford


Lotus actually uses GM's Ecotec in Europe and Toyota's 1.8 in America. The Lotus Exige and the old Vauxhaul VXR220 as well as Opel Speedster were the same car. The Speedster was replaced by the front engined, RWD, Saturn Sky aka now the Opel GT.

Opel Speedster.
http://www.automag.be/IMG/jpg/Opel_speedster_Turbo_2003_054_A71794.jpg
What would be funny is if Pontiac brought this over years ago as the 2nd generation Fiero. If GM worked globally then like they do now, its very easy to see that it could have been.
Lotus is owned by a small Mylasian automotive firm I belive. Lotus was owned by GM at some point.

Aston Martain is owend by its race team, Pro Drive and some other investors.

Land Rover and Jag are both owned by Tata motors.

Ford had a big sell off to gain some capitial.

[Tsar]

Um...Aston Martin, me and my girlfriend saw one for sale at the dealership somewhere in Central, we checked it out - it was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. She now wants one, and I would not mind driving around in one :nod:

Oh, and as far as other people saying Camaro is garbage, DEAL WITH IT, its called an opinion, and last time I checked everyone was entitled to one, and you don't even have to own a car manufacturer to express one, WOW! I know shocking...

[79CamaroDiva]

actually, i thought the video was pretty funny...

[SteveR]

How about TVR? Are they still British? Theres some nice fast Brit cars.

http://www.zercustoms.com/car-show/albums/userpics/10001/2000-TVR-Cerbera-Speed-12-2.jpg

[SteveR]

And what happened to Panoz? Are they still related to Mazda/Ford?

[Tsar]

How about TVR? Are they still British? Theres some nice fast Brit cars.

http://www.zercustoms.com/car-show/albums/userpics/10001/2000-TVR-Cerbera-Speed-12-2.jpg

TVR was bought by a 24 year old Russian :lol:

[79CamaroDiva]

... you bought TVR???

[Tsar]

... you bought TVR???
I'm 22 :lol: Unless TVR hasn't been bought yet, and we are talking about the future ;)

[Blacdout96]

Panoz is an American Company, owned by Don Panoz, also the founder of the ALMS series. They use Ford engines in their cars, but other then that they are their own company

[sweetbmxrider]

Um...Aston Martin, me and my girlfriend saw one for sale at the dealership somewhere in Central, we checked it out - it was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. She now wants one, and I would not mind driving around in one :nod:

Oh, and as far as other people saying Camaro is garbage, DEAL WITH IT, its called an opinion, and last time I checked everyone was entitled to one, and you don't even have to own a car manufacturer to express one, WOW! I know shocking...

i drove a v12 vanquish....FAHQING AMAZING!!! paddle shifters FTW!!! 12 cylinder > all (in terms of a great sound) really sweet car. also drove a db9, pretty sweet for a vertible, but no v12 vanquish....

[SteveR]

Panoz is an American Company, owned by Don Panoz, also the founder of the ALMS series. They use Ford engines in their cars, but other then that they are their own company

cool, wasnt sure. I knew they had some sort of relationship with Ford, and I thought they used the old Mazda RX-7 body molds for their cars too?

http://images.automotive.com/cob/factory_automotive/images/features/auto_shows/2005_LAAS/_Panoz_Esperante_Le%20Mans_rear.jpg

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/esperante-gtlm.jpg

[Tsar]

I never took Panoz's cars seriously mainly because in Russian Panoz means diarrhea. Now imagine yourself driving a car with a name like that...

[Tru2Chevy]

I never took Panoz's cars seriously mainly because in Russian Panoz means diarrhea. Now imagine yourself driving a car with a name like that...

Gotta love when things like that happen.....like when Chevy tried to sell the Nova in Mexico. Loosely translated (since my spanish is quite rusty) Nova means "it does not go"

- Justin

[SteveR]

I never took Panoz's cars seriously mainly because in Russian Panoz means diarrhea. Now imagine yourself driving a car with a name like that...

Gotta love when things like that happen.....like when Chevy tried to sell the Nova in Mexico. Loosely translated (since my spanish is quite rusty) Nova means "it does not go"

- Justin

:rofl:

[12secondv6]

i hate british people

Why do you hate me?
I was born there

:(

[Jersyboyy]

I hate british people who bash americans like their better than us. I also hate americans who bash everyone except americans like were so much better than everyone else.

[87GTA]

Why do you hate me?
I was born there

:(

i don't think they hate you just Jeremy Clarkson
and the whole gang of top gear!!

[79CamaroDiva]

i just think they talk funny

[SteveR]

haha I finally watched the video. Pretty funny.

[BonzoHansen]

Why do you hate me?
I was born there

:(

I spent almost a week in London last December and found most people to be very nice. Of course I was in pubs a lot...

[LTb1ow]

Brits love americans for some reason.

[79CamaroDiva]

Brits love americans for some reason.

we talk funny...

[qwikz28]

i love jeremy clarkson. yes he's making fun of us, but he's right. why are we standing up for GM? they gave us the crappy decarbons and panhard guided 10 bolts? thats hardly a sturdy or good handling platform. they have an excellent point. don't get me wrong, i love GM, but its an unreasoned loyalty really...

[transamkid]

theres a brit company called Nobel and they make some fast cars, but they use ford engines

[SteveR]

the Brits dont seem to make their own engines do they :lol:

[Blacdout96]

Yeah, one of the more famous Noble's is powered by a turbocharged......Taurus engine. Thats right, its the SHO version, which is the Yamaha unit, and produces 427hp, not bad for a little 3.0 litre lol.