Top Gear Live lambasted for using fake Ferraris
Proving once again that Top Gear, in all its forms, is a show meant solely for entertainment are new accusations that the Ferraris driven by stuntmen at last week's Top Gear Live event in Sydney didn't exactly hail from Maranello. In fact, it seems that the cars really originated from Sagamihara, Japan. How's that? The twin red cars that looked to all the world like Ferrari 360s were actually rebodied Toyota MR2s, which, of course, cost significantly less than the real thing.Showgoers reported that the soul-stirring sounds they expected from high-strung small-bore V8s were notably absent, replaced by deafening music instead. At least one fan was interested enough to snoop backstage, where he noticed that these specimens lacked the rear air intakes and the transparent engine cover of the real thing. Further inspection revealed mid-mounted engines with half the expected number of cylinders.
We'll leave to you to decide if this is really a big deal or not, but ask yourself this: Would the Top Gear Live organizers have gone to the trouble of using Ferrari lookalikes if they thought attendees didn't care whether they saw less exotic machinery?
[Source: Drive.com.au]
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Jim R 9:12AM (2/14/2009)
I don't see as how it really matters all that much. A lot of the stuff they do on the show is staged, that doesn't make it any less entertaining.
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Beastage 10:35AM (2/14/2009)
Unless they displayed them as Ferrari 360s or didn't inform the crowd those were replicas
They can do whatever they want, but they can't lie about it.
Franz 11:08AM (2/14/2009)
*Gasp*... they use fake cars? In entertainment? Oh, the horror!
halogenrepublic 3:36PM (2/14/2009)
Top Gear did extensively talked about a Ferrari 360 made from a Toyota MR2. Maybe they found the fugitive who pieced together the fake ferrari and bought it from him.
Blackstar 4:53AM (2/16/2009)
You know... now that I think about it, I don't think that was the REAL Little Mermaid in those Disney on Ice TV ads either. I swear, she had legs!
Temmink 9:23AM (2/14/2009)
I think it is fair to assume that if it is a travelling show it would be VERY expensive to have the real thing and maintain them, I didn't take the opportunity to see the show while it was here but I don't think I would have minded as long as they put on an entertaining sceptical.
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Temmink 9:24AM (2/14/2009)
wow, my spell checker failed hard there, I mean spectical not sceptical...
Mobius_1 9:41AM (2/14/2009)
You mean spectacle...
:)
JB 9:37AM (2/14/2009)
Next you're gonna tell me that most boobies on TV aren't real?? I'm trying to face reality.
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Mazda FTW! 9:39AM (2/14/2009)
Well said lol
MajorGeek 9:36AM (2/14/2009)
Reality TV would suck as well if it was not scripted. There is enough entertainment in almost any Top Gear show. Last one where they put big rigs through their paces was a perfect example of the fun stuff they do. No one was going out to buy one of those rigs after the show, but watching them dress them up, then try to do silly things like power slide the rigs was hilarious.
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Mobius_1 9:42AM (2/14/2009)
Top Gear USA would have used Fieros.
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j_diesel 11:29PM (2/14/2009)
i'm sure by now the number of clean, operational fieros are outnumbered by hideous, hilarious fiero-based kit cars. sad indeed.
Frank B Gabry 9:55AM (2/14/2009)
AS AN OWNER OF '89 SUPERCHARGED MR-2 & '77GTB-S & MANY many friends that own 430'S I can understand why? they 'top Gear' would use Toyota, the same reason I on one, Ican at any time,any wk-end, get in turn the key & go. Unlike the Ferrari's that have a check list longer than any Jumbo-jet, funny how the screw on the passnger vent away's backs out & falls on the carpet, you begin to wonder what else is backing out & falling out while driving! Pretty unnerving, wonder why stunt men took to'fack Ferrari's' notice 'fack verse fake'-Yes I love my Ferrari, yes there are many things fake on it, love the Toyota too, I can drive it to the track & race it, then drive it home if need be, but choose to drive my bio-fueled Ford w/trailer & tools instead. So in real world, a Ferrari has to have a support team to run. The Toyota can be driven by a any fool and of course the Ford truck can tow any of them home!
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knapps 10:43AM (2/14/2009)
Yeah, um, I read this and your other previous coments. I doubt you own anything larger than a Big Wheel.
BTW, here's a pile of periods that you can borrow the next time you post, since apparently your keyboard lacks that button.
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Mobius_1 10:46AM (2/14/2009)
Terrible grasp of the English language kind of means you will never make enough money to buy a Ferrari (that's actually worth buying) and having the "pain" of living with one.
"The Toyota can be driven by a any fool" and fools drive Toyotas.
Sam 10:53AM (2/14/2009)
"Terrible grasp of the English language kind of means you will never make enough money to buy a Ferrari (that's actually worth buying) and having the "pain" of living with one."
Agree, because all those oil rich Saudi's with Ferraris just to get them to the toilet all have a perfect grasp of English...
Kitko 11:36AM (2/14/2009)
Sam,
they do... most of really rich Arab kids study, or used to study, in Britain on private schools, one guy I know studied in New York, others are in Switzerland and learn not just perfect English but other languages too.
They may have an accent, but believe me, they beat most native English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic on grammar and vocabulary.
BTW, MR2s are more reliable and re-usable than the Ferraris, so ... good choice, Top Gear.
Mobius_1 11:46AM (2/14/2009)
The OP's name kinda shows he is an English speaker, and one who cannot command his own language efficiently will lack other skills as well and thus struggle in life and career. Those who are fortunate by birth and come into a large inheritance or win lotteries or hit it big on the silver screen or MTV are of course exceptions although most of them are still hard-working and good at what they do. (Paris Hilton excepted, and what is it that she does anyways?)
And many of them probably speak really damn good English anyways.
Kiiks 6:18AM (2/15/2009)
knapps, after a long day's work your "pile of periods" made me crack up for the best laugh I've had all day. If you're ever in Davis, you'll drink for free.