Showing posts with label james may. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james may. Show all posts
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Report: Mexico's Mastretta hoping to turn Top Gear notoriety into sales
Mexican Sports car Mastretta manufacturer makes the best of a bad situation. The company tries to insulting comments about the excitement that the presenters of Top Gear on the car manufacturers and made to capitalize on Mexico in general. After Drive.com since the incident, the company's website traffic soared into the air, and more importantly, orders for the Mastretta MXT have also jumped. According to Carlos Mastretta, the company General Manager, the manufacturer now has orders from countries in Europe, Brazil and Chile. Mastretta has recently begun to receive inquiries from the U.S., as well.
The jump in the attention is only because of the dust on the Top Gear comments. After the MXT Drive.com was a relatively unknown - even in his homeland. While Mastretta is a well known manufacturer of public transport, few knew that the company's ambassador to Great Britain for the new sports car before the hearing on the confrontation between the BBC and Mexico.
The Mastretta MXT is powered by a supercharged 2.0-liter Ford Duratec four-cylinder engine with 250 hp, and the company says that the vehicle should be good for 0-60 mph strokes in the high four-second range thanks its lightweight design.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Top Gear blokes get death threats after jabs at Wales?
If you thought you'd make it through the week without hearing how the smart hosts of Top Gear ruffled feathers someone, think again. After WhatsOnTv, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond have received death threats started after derogatory comments about Wales in a recent program. The BBC's hosts allegedly noticed that should fast cars test-driven on Welsh roads because no one wants to live there.
The latest piece bashing was apparently the last straw. The trio has turned the Welsh give a hard time in the past, with May calling their language "confusing and dangerous," among other offenses.
The death threats are just the latest in a series of cultural breakdown that happened to the show. Last year Top Gear angered Muslims by tightening the traditional head covering for women, and Christians angered by the appearance of a baby Stig in the traditional role of the newborn Jesus. Last invoked the wrath of the display of the Mexican ambassador to Great Britain by unleashing a rash of stereotypes about his countrymen.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Video: James May on the Ariel Atom V8
The latest Ariel Atom Sport 500 hp from the supercharged 3.0-liter V8, but it weighs only 1,200 pounds. That adds up to about 900 hp per tonne, a ratio that is nothing to shame by a lotus, a Bugatti Veyron. Sounds riveting, and Top Gear James May had the honor of the exercise of the super fast machine in a very thorough manner.
Beyond the jump is 12 minutes from TG goodness with the Ariel Atom 500th Not only can its way to the atom, he then track day superstar against a Lexus LFA and a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera in a race from zero to 100 and back to zero. The super-atom then thundered round the TG test track in a one-on-one battle against the BMW S1000 RR, and of course, was handed over to the Stig for the proper performance lap. Hit the jump to look at the wedding of Top Gear Ariel Atom and the 500th
Thursday, January 20, 2011
James May explains why he already hates the hosts of Top Gear USA
James May hates Tanner Foust, Rutledge Wood and Adam Ferrara. Before you get Top Gear USA-haters upset on that last sentence, let us explain further. James May hates the U.S. Top Gear presenters ... because he believes they are destined for greatness.
Exactly why he feels this way? Because of their name. May he believes "with a single-syllable last name, a popular holiday evokes heavy", while Foust's name already says things he can do with a car and the others only dream about - and he can really do.
Rutledge Wood has now believe a name that May, he should the next great American writer may be out, and Adam Ferrara, a letter away from being a child of Enzo.
Whatever thinks his discussion of America's Top Gear and its host is a great read. We do not say, his insight will give up Tanner, Adam Rutledge and a bit of a break for the first few years ... but you should ask your hate, for a moment.
Exactly why he feels this way? Because of their name. May he believes "with a single-syllable last name, a popular holiday evokes heavy", while Foust's name already says things he can do with a car and the others only dream about - and he can really do.
Rutledge Wood has now believe a name that May, he should the next great American writer may be out, and Adam Ferrara, a letter away from being a child of Enzo.
Whatever thinks his discussion of America's Top Gear and its host is a great read. We do not say, his insight will give up Tanner, Adam Rutledge and a bit of a break for the first few years ... but you should ask your hate, for a moment.
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