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Loved last night's episode. That S63 is awesome. When they did the drag race and it overtook the Yugo it was
However i was annoyed that Clarkson did the whole "the Focus is faster than an M5" thing again.
But it is before the limiter gets removed or is 155mph limit a thing of the past in unmodified bmw?
S65! Totally different beast.
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The limit is realtively easy to remove.
It is an annoying statement he does re use quite often. It's like saying a CityRover is quicker than the Space Shuttle, when the Space Suttle is on the platform being moved to the launch site.
He also used this in an older reviw where he said a Daihatsu driving 70mph is faster than a Zonda at 60mph (it wasn't a Zonda but I can't remember what car it was, it was a 235k Exotic)
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^ Ascari A10.
I remember as I LOVE that car
I remember as I LOVE that car
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Totally different situation, Clarkson was being very sarcastic in that review because the producers told him no more super / hypercars.
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Indeed Clarkson isn't wrong in what he's said.
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Loved the episode.
And those planes
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And those planes
...This is an excellent idea!
S63??
There's 4 cylinders worth of difference GaygleAlthough the S63 is louder and louder is good!
Schoolboy error!
No, the 155mph limiter still exists.
No, but what it boils down to is lying by omission. If he wanted to make an accurate statement, he would have mentioned that the M5 had a limiter (or he could have just not mentioned anything about an M5?), but he decided to make a impact statement that, whilst it wasn't wrong, it equally wasn't correct.
Still, good ep, really enjoyed it (Y)
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You must be in a state of permanent annoyance when watching Clarkson then, as he does this all the time.
Not really, because a lot of his "impact statements" are subjective, however, saying a Focus RS is faster than a BMW M5 is just.... wrong.
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Tend to agree. The Albania thing was just dreary - the Yugo gag was funny for a few minutes but after that you just wished they were actually testing the Bentley. The rest of the "test" was dreary and the chase at the end was just dull. They're getting very lazy these days and seem to have a single "main event" each time which occupies over half the programme. If this is dreary then that's half the programme out the window straight away.
Hammond (although jokingly) made a very valid point about the hatch test - one car that doesn't exist versus two that you can't buy is rather pointless.
Jonathan ******* Ross was the final straw.
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