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Well, Mr. Clarkson decides he's had enough of the Corvette's poor handling, and has a few choice words for Chevrolet's "Sports Car". After all is said and done, however, it's just the Corvette, 40 miles of desert, Clarkson and a helicopter with two gatling guns.
Well, he sort of says it in the last few seconds, yeah, there's my justification.
The Corvette is a colossal piece of crap and a near perfect example of why I wouldn't buy an American car. I'm an American and I know well how stupid most of us are. I don't take a drag-strip to work... I need to take turns and avoid all the stupid Americans I share the road with.
Luckily engineering in America isn't done democratically, so I think your logic is faulty.
The US has the best higher education in the world, and the best engineers in the world. But frankly, the most talented mechanical and electrical engineers are probably more interested in building space equipment, nuclear submarines, fighter jets, supercomputers, or even helicopter gunships.
Compare this to 1980 Japan, where their brightest mechanical engineers would build either robots (smallish industry) or cars, because there wasn't much of an aerospace, defense, semiconductor, or space industry.
These days I think Europeans (EADS) and Japanese have more space, semiconductor, and defense industries attracting talent, while car engineering is becoming sexy with the interest in hybrid, fuel cell, and intelligent cars, so maybe things will even out more.
I did know an MIT Mech E who went to Ford out of school, but he left relatively quickly. I know a Gatech Mech E who's happily working at Lockheed Martin.
edit: oh... well then.
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All driving a Corvette proves is Clarkson isn't used to pressing an accelerator pedal and have anything more than a pleasing sound happen. He's obviously a automatic traction-control driver.
Yes. Naturally. Jeremy Clarkson can't drive.
Or maybe it's the fact he's driven just about every car commercially available, and understands what it takes to drive them ?
But no, someone insulted a product from your country, quick throw out an insult! That'll get you respect.
I got me a Supra anyway.
How fast does the chopper go?
yaya i know it was staged but would he really have been able to overtake the car, especially given the lead it had while he was on the ground yapping?
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All driving a Corvette proves is Clarkson isn't used to pressing an accelerator pedal and have anything more than a pleasing sound happen. He's obviously a automatic traction-control driver.
Yes. Naturally. Jeremy Clarkson can't drive.
Or maybe it's the fact he's driven just about every car commercially available, and understands what it takes to drive them ?
But no, someone insulted a product from your country, quick throw out an insult! That'll get you respect.
" Quick! Throw out an insult! That'll get you respect! "
If you think a quick insult doesn't get you respect, then how do you explain your respect for the man himself? Or haven't you seen his reviews? The man hates North America, and Americans in particular. There isn't a single thing about the continent he has ever shown any respect for beyond the scenery. I have no respect for him, and will refuse to say otherwise. As a Canadian, I appreciate his wit, but the personality traits he has away from the camera sicken me. He's a racist lout.
I stand by my comment. You hop behind the wheel of something he loves, like one of the Lambos, and stab the accelerator to the floor, on wetted down concrete, OF COURSE YOU'LL MAKE MORE DONUTS THAN KRISPEE KREME!!
ps. Don't say I'm an American just because I disagree with you. Typical xenophobic neanderthal, just like your hero.
If a human was driving it, the helicopter wouldnt have stood a chance. Those corvettes were extremely fast. Top speed in the 170 mph range. That little helo wouldnt be able to keep up with that.
Actually, it could. But just barely.
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Jeremy Clarkson is an ass, there is no doubt. He'd probably admit it. And his view of America is unfair and stereotyped. But he did spend a lot of his own money to buy a Ford GT. And he credits the Ford Mustang as being the most important car ever.