Re: Top Gear - poor herbie

On 24/01/2011 18:09, Shaun wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:01:34 -0800 (PST), Halmyre
<flashgordonreceding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 23, 10:26=A0pm, Sofa - Spud<comfyso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dropping a beetle in the desert - pity it missed hammond! I don't think
there was an engine in it , sure it would have gone straight down
backwards as all the weights in the back. Plus when he tried the 0 -60
test had he a 1600 GT with it's close ratio gearbox he'd have gone much
quicker. Mrs Spud was chucking slipper at the screen when that part was o=
n.

Someones mentioned John Bishop this week already here , he's everywhere
at the moment isn't he?

Who'd have thought 20 yrs ago Clarkson would recommend a Skoda!

I think he actually stopped short of recommending it; at least, he
wasn't going to trade his AMG Merc against it!

The 911 feature was a wasted opportunity - Hammond should have tested
the (rather gay) modern cabriolet against the original 911 - but
perhaps that would have been embarrassing for Porsche?

The modern Beetle is a Golf with a Third Reich body kit

It's not at all, Hitler, being an arrogant sod had Ferdinand Porsche in and said build a car for the people - even though Porsche was already working on it. The Czech car manufactures were already working on cars with rounded aerodynamic bodies that looked beetle like.

They took the money of people in the form of saving stamps but war broke out so they built Kubelwagons instead . After the war the VW beetle design was offered to Morris but he declined saying people would never but it. The UK occupation forces eager to get the population back to work had the locals rebuild the factory and start building the cars for the occupation forces.

A real success story.
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