i liked the show it didnt give the message go and get one it said think first !
i dont want the skyline turning into a very popular car i like the mistery of it. to some!
if you tell eveyone how cheap it is. everyone will have one !
Your comments:I am curious to know where you got your facts from regarding the Skylines.?
Exploding discs...um...when..?...276Bhp....um..okay....turbos lasting 60k....yeah....right....£500/pair for discs...where from....?....R32 to long in the tooth..sorry...have you driven a HNR32 GTS-4...?...log books missing, mileage duped....more fool the owner for buying an import w/o history....ECU Chip changes to be avoided....you what..?...most owners..play things..track days...huh...?...Japans only super car...um...(cough) supra....Nissan Fairlady....all share the same engine..um RB20E, RB25DETT, RB20DET..need I say more....car prices...i can get used R32's from 2995, and used R33's from 3000....car drives itself....crap! ' I have lost a skyline in the dry and the neither the Atessa nor the HICAS could help....launch dates wrong.
Instead of showing an R34 GT-R V-Spec (with a badly curbed wheel) going slow, why not put Tiff in it and show people what they can really do! And why concentrate on the R34 when you say the R33 is the best buy.
Oh, and the skyline actually started production in 1957 as a Nissan Skyline ALSI-1. Long before the 'First Skyline being the R32' as reported by yourselves
Things like these, i would have thought, would have been checked before putting the program on air, to avaid having many skyline fans/drivers/owners laughing and rolling about on the floor!
Folks,
To be honest, we all bought these because we wanted them, and ith deal on wheels at 11.30 on whatever channel it was claiming the Sierra Cossie was worth 15k for one in good nick then i shall stick with mine GTS as it is not only quicker but no where near as "butt ugly" and doesnt have the picnic table bolted to the back for those "unexpected" breakdowns
Well if nothing else prices should go down as a result of that an i might splash out on a r33 GTR for the winter as the GTS is a bit of a handful on the leafy roads of Oxfordshire and Berkshire
It will keep us all in the minority we relish and our toys will still be a novelty on the roads here in the UK
DCD you missed nothing, well less than that. a completely wasted oportunity to spread the word
I though it was a pretty bad report from a very missinformed presenter....R32 exploding brakes, R33s having the same turbos as the R34, car for the Playstation generation statement again, "by fitting a chip you are comprimising the life of the turbos", only very old racing GTR history....all in all very dissapointing. Very surprised to see that even the "best" tv motoring journalists are so badly informed on the Skyline GTR!!
cipher....too right about the history bit!! If they were going to air a well informed and researched program they would have mentioned that the first Skyline GTR(KPGC10) was made in 1969!!
And who the hell was that presenter?? ...was he a special GTR expert?
Clarkson...Stood there going through the Janet and John questions to which the fat bloke replied with similarly stupid replies!
But surely Mr C knows all about the marque? I was under the impression that he was the clubs honourable secretary from the pictures I saw on the old BBS main page (Joss's). And that he knew and raved at what the car was capable of?
Fuggles & I watched it last night....we agree with all the points above and IT WAS CRAP and I don't like the fat bloke either!
To me the message was very negative. Sure it was great to see the Skylines on TV and them racing, but show it in its TRUE light and not how they described it. They should of taken it round a track, put it through its paces instead of slating a WONDERFUL CAR!
Ok, guys and gals. Calm down, we are wasting loads of energy on this.
Constructively, why don't we take the points that they mentioned and answer them to the best of our knowledge for future skyline recruits that have listened and believed what they said on this program.
To start the ball rolling.......
GTR R32 being "long in the tooth". I have only driven this model so I cannot compare, but Mark @ Abbey has driven a lot of skylines and now owns an R32 GTR VSPEC. Ths must say something about the car
Turbos...... My Engine, gearbox and turbos needed rebuilding/replacing at 40,000 miles. I think that the car had a hard time in Japan though Comments from some of the high miler R33 GTR's on this subject would be good as my car is a bad example to give.
I thought they could have mentioned the GTS seeing we arent that rear nowdays.. a bit cheaper but eh we can beat GTR's it seems after that report.. 155 top speed!!! yeah right
I had to laugh at it though there was one thing he said which is correct, sync on 5th is a known problem on the GTS though Ive never heard about it on 3rd - apart from that what a pile of silly stuff but was it me or did you get more stares this morning?
My R33 GTR has now done 58000 miles and been running 1 Bar for at least the last 25000 miles.
I have had no problems at all with turbo's or anything else.
I have also yet to find the 'Yaw control' mentioned that will apparently 'turn your granny into Micheal Schumacher'
I too am very dissapointed with the shallow, misinformed report that was given last night.
Do you think if enough of us write in to Top Gear they would put things right in a later program ?
B*ll*cks, it was all B*ll*cks, they did not explore the variants of the Skylines, ie GT's, GT-T's GT-S's GT-R's and explain the differences and the modles, and as for the comments about chipped cars well I nearly threw the TV through the window !!! The orrible little FAT man should come fro a ride !!! If he could get in, sit down, belt up and SHUT UP !!!! :smokin:
that the BBC got their facts so wrong, hopefully they put off a few bemmer and porka drivers from converting to the japside
coz they are scared of the brakes exploding, which often happen coz brakes are filled with such volitile substances , or that it mite ave be chipped but a camel dealer in Dubai and have 2000hp playstaion powered lump :smokin:
All hail TG as a top programme, or then again, don't as it was poo
Well, what can I say, I've read everyone's unhappiness towards the head-honcho JC and his mate Fat-Head, and you're all very unkind about them, fair, brutally truthful, unkind and bloody funny
As far as I can see Top Gear isn't being repeated as yet but give UK Gold about 30 seconds and they'll repeat it.
I've been in a mate's quite modified skyline and it scares little old ladies, especially when the clutch slips, but what do I know it might be made like that.
I don't own one yet and with all of the bad and naughty things that can happen to them, exploding brakes, getting poo'd on by geese, having hamsters shooting from the exhaust I'm not gonna buy one, well not until they do a really quick one over 2000bhp
I've only got a Renault and I hear the Skyline's are trouble but I don't like seeing others in trouble so if you want to swap your dangerous exploding Skyline for my Laguna just let me know
Have u all read the ballax on the Top Gear web site????
This bloke Jason is bnowt but a terd and he really needs dragging behind my car by a rope, so I can show him that my brakes dont explode..... ONLY JOKING!!!!!
Hay Ho there we go,
Had my rant
So off I go!!!
Jeremy C is a cool bloke though... and does know his cars even IF he likes ferraris!!!
So, what you're saying is that if nick my mate's GTS 25t logo and swap it for my Laguna logo he'll not notice the difference between his greater than 250bhp Silver beast and my less than 150bhp dark red putty-tat? :-D
any fooking laguna driver thinks he owns a ferrari given their shenanigans on the motorways regardless of badge.
the amount of times I have had lagunas sit behind me, you can see the whites of the guys eyes he is so close, there is no where to go as the traffic is so heavy, he flashes you, shakes his fist....
You have to laugh and then make them silly with a dose of RB26 and before he has blinked, finished his ciggie, sandwich and chatting to his sales manager about the latest photocopier range (at the same time)...you are 200 yards up the road....
Is there like a laguna bbs and a section that says "how to drive like a **** on the m4?" would love to add value to it.
I would imagine the BTCC version is no slouch on track...like anyother BTCC version that is.
I don't always sit behind you posh b'stard's in Skyline's at 120 flooging mine to bits just so you can change upto 4th and hair away, sometimes I sit on the inside lane doing 60 so I can light a ***.
If that makes me a bit of a tit, then so be it, but it seems JC as more of a tit for not standing up for what's right.
Does this mean that JC should be given the honorary leadership of the Reliant Robin fan club?
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