[quote author=bani link=topic=65716.msg1126637#msg1126637 date=1167532922]
clarkson doesn't hate americans, he just panders to his self-loathing euro audience that does. he's an entertainer -- he tells them what they want to hear so he can make more money.
top gear isnt exactly prescient either. jeremy reviewed the old ford focus, then whinged about how the new focus would be built on top of the "new mazda3" chassis and declared "buy one now before ford goes and ruins it". of course what happened was top gear liked the euro focus II even more than the old one, and declared the focus st the hottest hatch ever. they never admitted they were dead wrong.
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Self loathing euro????!!!!!! I'm proud to be English, British and (very nearly) proud of being European. So what exactly do you have against Europe? Is it all those funny languages people speak? The 100's of years more history we have? Those awful European car manufacturers like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Aston Martin, Landrover, Lotus, AC, TVR.... The reason Clarkson isn't too fond of American cars is that they are nearly all crap! When he drove a good one he would say so. Like the Ford GT... until it kept braking.