Anyone else notice Top Gear's Mustang lies?

[DropTopPony]

that guy blows, i can't stand him.

 

[BennyBlown2v]

I still dont believe the horse beat the car LOL. I think it was rigged, and on top of that the guy just CONSTANTLY bashes American cars.../QUOTE]

Clarkson actually owns a Ford GT.

 

[Stang|ess]

It's not just the curb weight. The Lotus was designed for road courses: the tires, the suspension setup, the motor weight, motor output, etc.

The Exige on the other hand may even take the GT in the 1/4.

a small, peaky engine isnt exactly the best for a road course .

and he's not that great of a driver. better than the other 2 yes, but that's not saying much.

 

[san~man]

a small, peaky engine isnt exactly the best for a road course .

and he's not that great of a driver. better than the other 2 yes, but that's not saying much.

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

Exige 240R

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[bgrd351]

ok...2 BIG problems with this one

1. it's a V6 conv., not the 300 hp 4.6 he says it is (many caught this)
2. the horse the guy is riding is NOT a mustang!! mustang were a breed that came from the indian and spanish horses being mixed and were not a solid color (movie Hidalgo has many great examples in it)

that guy is usually funny when he reviews cars but this time was just stupid

 

[Stang|ess]

Elise:Exige :: _____:Terminator

 

[speedfreak98r]

Elise:Exige :: _Bows down to teh____:Terminator

 

[CobraRed_96_GT]

You did not notice it, you picked up this concept from another forum. Be honest...

yes....notice how i said i thought i notcied something fishy....like now that i've found out i feel stupid. I never claimed to be the 1st to ever notice

 

[superstang01]

notice the trim, the wheels, the fog lights, and the grill mouth along w/ the ride height

and the sound clearly is nto a v8 at all!!!!! stupid mistake

 

[CobraRed_96_GT]

i like how he choose a vert too, did he slash the tires and slide bannanas into the tail pipe just in case it was fast too??

 

[GDawg]

What we need is an email address to him or his producers, to point out our complaints...

 

[myponyrocks]

ok...2 BIG problems with this one

1. it's a V6 conv., not the 300 hp 4.6 he says it is (many caught this)
2. the horse the guy is riding is NOT a mustang!! mustang were a breed that came from the indian and spanish horses being mixed and were not a solid color (movie Hidalgo has many great examples in it)

that guy is usually funny when he reviews cars but this time was just stupid

Actually a "Mustang" is any wild horse (thanks to "bred" horses mixing with "mustangs" in the wild)

"mustang [Sp. mesteño=a stray], small feral horse of the W United States. Mustangs are descended from escaped Native American horses, which in turn were descended from horses of North African blood, brought to the New World by the Spanish c.1500. Mustangs have evolved their own distinguishing traits: they are small, swift, hardy, and intelligent—well suited to plains conditions. As ranching expanded in North America, cowboys began rounding up mustangs for use as cow ponies. Hence, in the terminology of ranchers, mustang often refers to a cow pony of feral stock, and the term bronco is used for an untamed mustang. A cayuse (after the Cayuse of the NE United States) is a domestic Native American horse. Although the mustang, which has spent many generations in the wild, is somewhat different from the cayuse, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Cow ponies of mustang descent have been crossed with other breeds of horse, so that all horses of the W United States probably have mustang blood. The mustang, a variety of Equus caballus, is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla, family Equidae."
http://www.answers.com/topic/mustang

BUT yes the vid is demeening in that it mis-represents a GT.

 

[94GTStang]

That's some horse **** right there....


hahahaha


pardon the pun