Top Gear Blasted For Using Fake Ferrari’s At Live Show
February 15, 2009
Top Gear using fake Ferrari’s at their live show? It’s up to you to decide how serious that is but it just works as further proof that Top Gear, in all its forms, is a show meant solely for entertainment. Showgoers at last week’s Top Gear Live event in Sydney reported that the soul-stirring sounds they expected from the high-strung V8’s were notably absent and replaced by deafening music instead. In fact, it seems that the cars really originated from Sagamihara, Japan.
The twin red cars that looked like Ferrari 360s were actually rebodied Toyota MR2s, which is pretty darn serious if you ask me. A TG 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 expect number of cylinders.
So, how serious is this?
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Source: Drive.com.au
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it proves that top gear is solely for entertainment purpose…
just for fun and also banging other nations cars…
5th gear is the best. their drivers are true racers not like clarkson…
tiff needell rocks………………….
top gear sucks
I like botht he TG & 5thG…
5th gear is more informative.
Top Gear is not a show about cars, its a show about what you can do with cars. And its dumbed down for a wider audience who is not interested in cars.
But I cannot stand watching ‘booble-head’ Tiff, if only he stops shifting and squinting around when ever he is talking. Thats the only qualm I have with 5th Gear.
You know i can smell a new story coming up from TopGear. This pseudo ferrari would make a good story for Top Gear mags. I think its hard to make a TV show based on the subject without raising lawsuits from Ferrari themselves.
This show is coming to hk this weekend, some of my friends are going for the show…..
perhaps i should also go to take a look on the mr-2 360…..but the most expensive ticket HK$988 were sold out….
wanker!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaWYKeQycWc
well… you really dont want to bang expensive cars… what’s the big prob? go plato and the stig~!!
I’m waiting on what Top Gear is going to say about this…
I have taken two pictures of the ferrari’s as they came out of the dark showroom they were driving in. I was at the live event in Auckland a few days ago. Where could I send them to so that everyone can take a closer inspection?
regards,
Miel