I was looking around the site yesterday and saw the Top Gear clips on Jeremy Clarkson and the Ford GT he bought. This explained everything.
In March 2005 I was at the Ford World Headquarters on business, all the key Directors were there, after we concluded our business I took the opportunity to broach the subject of purchasing a New GT or 3 for use in UK.
Unbeknown to me, and to my complete annoyance, my son told me later that they were already having fun with Mr Clarkson. So instead of getting their complete cooperation to provide me with up to 3 new cars for a great movie idea, 'Reliving Le Mans 1966' for which I was prepared to invest the list price for new cars and make the movie with old and new footage, instead of the help I thought I might get, quite the opposite, I was politely told they had no intention of supplying any more UK cars. If I wanted a GT, a local dealer had a USA car for which he was asking the princely sum of $350,000, twice list price. That ended that great idea.
I must say that whilst I liked Jeremy Clarkson and rather enjoyed his way of bringing nice cars to the screen, I do not appreciate the stupidity of him and his TV crew spoiling a nice piece of machinery for laughs, I will find it hard to forgive him for his foolishness for the sake of cheap and ridiculous TV footage, he spoiled my le Mans plans, and after all, I had a new Lotus with exactly the same problem, you just get through it. After all of this, I am now satisfied that the Ford GT was obviously not a car suited to a British TV Car Show Presenter -Thats English for Jackass.
Jeremy, you owe me one, I have bought about everything you have every recorded, the Ford GT is a fabulous machine, I have a Ferrari 575 and the Ford is half the price and twice the fun. I suggest that these guys who drive different cars every week can't really be expected to be a good judge of anything, its a bit like wine boffins, if you have drunk one you have drunk them all. You have to make out otherwise if your living depends upon it.
Look at how many cars Clarkson has bought in his movies and then drove out of the dealership to stop outside and then wreck the new car with a sledge hammer as the salemen who just sold it looks on in complete bisbelief. JC is obviously a comic not a car boffin, so thank God he has sold his GT, he now has a wonderful Audi-made Baby Lambo, its just an Audi Jeremy.
If I have wronged Mr Clarkson in any way, good, and if any of you know him, please tell him I know why he bought an Audi, they make first class immobilisers that are made so well they are fool proof.
Seriously, I am going to ensure I see the USA this summer, got the first trip planned for May, 3,000 miles in 6 days, whooopeee, thinking of asking Jeremy, perhaps not, its well known in the UK, he can't drive, its the ex-racer 'The Stig' that does all of the driving. Just having a laugh Jerr.
The GT is at the dealers for a pre-season drive shaft bolt change and new oil, its now 1,700 miles vintage. I am really concerned about the oil item I just read, I pray they know more than the guys dealer who seems to have put the wrong type of oil in.
Have a Nice Day
In March 2005 I was at the Ford World Headquarters on business, all the key Directors were there, after we concluded our business I took the opportunity to broach the subject of purchasing a New GT or 3 for use in UK.
Unbeknown to me, and to my complete annoyance, my son told me later that they were already having fun with Mr Clarkson. So instead of getting their complete cooperation to provide me with up to 3 new cars for a great movie idea, 'Reliving Le Mans 1966' for which I was prepared to invest the list price for new cars and make the movie with old and new footage, instead of the help I thought I might get, quite the opposite, I was politely told they had no intention of supplying any more UK cars. If I wanted a GT, a local dealer had a USA car for which he was asking the princely sum of $350,000, twice list price. That ended that great idea.
I must say that whilst I liked Jeremy Clarkson and rather enjoyed his way of bringing nice cars to the screen, I do not appreciate the stupidity of him and his TV crew spoiling a nice piece of machinery for laughs, I will find it hard to forgive him for his foolishness for the sake of cheap and ridiculous TV footage, he spoiled my le Mans plans, and after all, I had a new Lotus with exactly the same problem, you just get through it. After all of this, I am now satisfied that the Ford GT was obviously not a car suited to a British TV Car Show Presenter -Thats English for Jackass.
Jeremy, you owe me one, I have bought about everything you have every recorded, the Ford GT is a fabulous machine, I have a Ferrari 575 and the Ford is half the price and twice the fun. I suggest that these guys who drive different cars every week can't really be expected to be a good judge of anything, its a bit like wine boffins, if you have drunk one you have drunk them all. You have to make out otherwise if your living depends upon it.
Look at how many cars Clarkson has bought in his movies and then drove out of the dealership to stop outside and then wreck the new car with a sledge hammer as the salemen who just sold it looks on in complete bisbelief. JC is obviously a comic not a car boffin, so thank God he has sold his GT, he now has a wonderful Audi-made Baby Lambo, its just an Audi Jeremy.
If I have wronged Mr Clarkson in any way, good, and if any of you know him, please tell him I know why he bought an Audi, they make first class immobilisers that are made so well they are fool proof.
Seriously, I am going to ensure I see the USA this summer, got the first trip planned for May, 3,000 miles in 6 days, whooopeee, thinking of asking Jeremy, perhaps not, its well known in the UK, he can't drive, its the ex-racer 'The Stig' that does all of the driving. Just having a laugh Jerr.
The GT is at the dealers for a pre-season drive shaft bolt change and new oil, its now 1,700 miles vintage. I am really concerned about the oil item I just read, I pray they know more than the guys dealer who seems to have put the wrong type of oil in.
Have a Nice Day
