advertisingvasup.blogg.se - Top gear season 10 ep 7 pt 2

The power test consisted of timed laps on the handling circuit, with the mark to beat set by the Stig in a Datsun 120Y. Instructed to travel 40 miles from their starting point, the presenters mistakenly arrive at each of the three previous British Leyland factories, only to find each of them with a different lease of life, before ending up at the MIRA test track, described by James as an "automotive torture chamber." The journey served as a reliability test, but no presenter earned money because none of them had managed to complete the journey without having reliability problems. The presenters began the challenge at Warwick Services on the M40, where the trio revealed their choices: Segments British Leyland Challenge Main article: British Leyland Challenge Introduction & Choices

And powerslide the new Aston Martin DBS.

In a well-balanced show, James gets egg on his face.

Regardless, they insisted that in spite of reliability and build quality issues, that some of the designs they made were quite desirable.

Next year sees the 40th anniversary of the formation of British Leyland, and the trio thought it would be a brilliant idea to celebrate this automotive milestone, but unfortunately the producers told them that there was nothing to celebrate, because BL was a miserable disaster and everything they ever made was "rubbish".