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12 July 2009, 09:00 PM
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Thats one way to kill an evo lol
12 July 2009, 09:08 PM
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I caught it half way through and thought agggh not an evo again they should have used a scoob for the chase, then it got blasted by 50cal so im glad it was the evo
12 July 2009, 09:08 PM
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Would have that evo any day....
12 July 2009, 09:10 PM
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Does seem a shame to kill a nice car like that!
£8000 for a 500 bhp evo, what a bargin
12 July 2009, 09:24 PM
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Thats one way to kill an evo lol
Top Gear Destroys Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII with the help of the British Army
Car was a drug dealers had a police destuction order on it so they donated it in the name of entertainment.
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12 July 2009, 09:33 PM
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poor evo poor poor evo what a waste
12 July 2009, 09:36 PM
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such a waste! & at £8k? what a bargain!!!
12 July 2009, 09:37 PM
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A quick check on DVLA and ASKMID shows it as untaxed and uninsured, so I would hazard a guess that it was a write off and destined for the crusher anyway.
12 July 2009, 09:38 PM
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I bet MLR are battering the BBC for parts right now!!
12 July 2009, 09:39 PM
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poor evo
my dream car too
12 July 2009, 09:40 PM
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I thought it was a waste of an evo, i bet there is a thread on mlr about it
Great episode though, best for a while imo.
12 July 2009, 09:50 PM
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I thought it was a waste of an evo, i bet there is a thread on mlr about it
Great episode though, best for a while imo.
Defo agree with ya mate. I could have made good use of it. BBC got too much money to burn even with the credit crunch on. Lol.
12 July 2009, 10:27 PM
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I couldn't believe it when the tank ripped the roof off, a waste of a quality car but there's plenty more fish in the sea.
12 July 2009, 10:29 PM
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I haven't watched it yet, but apparently they sad in the show that the car was seized in relation to drug crime and was due to be crushed anyway.
12 July 2009, 10:29 PM
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just finished watching it. thats so wrong!
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12 July 2009, 10:47 PM
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I am sure that will get some laughs in the Top Gear office
12 July 2009, 10:51 PM
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Way to die
I thought it was a fantastic piece of journalism - drug dealer car that was already going to die, died in style, whilst at the same time supporting the army and aiding army recruitment.
12 July 2009, 10:54 PM
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Am i the only one who noticed the signpost to twatt in the orkneys then?
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It would have been ok if it was a scoob!
12 July 2009, 11:40 PM
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I smelt the EVO's demise when Clarky was intentionally bouncing it off the rev limiter with a boyish grin and hooning it down a very rough dirt track on what looked like stock suspension.
I was thinking it was going to bottom out, split the sump and kill the engine. So it was nice to be proven wrong by it having its roof torn off by a Trojan
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watched it with my mate who has a proton,i mean evo...
in a house with 2 scooby owners you can imagine the chelp he got
ha ha
13 July 2009, 01:03 AM
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what a ***, didnt look like 500 bhp tho but its top gear, another great show
13 July 2009, 07:13 AM
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Doesn't Hammond look a tit with long hair! Is he slowly turning in to James May?
13 July 2009, 07:18 AM
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Doesn't Hammond look a tit with long hair! Is he slowly turning in to James May?
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13 July 2009, 07:33 AM
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Han Solo....
13 July 2009, 04:33 PM
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Han Solo....
And no one has commented about the bird in yellow behind him
13 July 2009, 04:34 PM
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Brilliant!
Got to say that I thought it was a damn shame to see that happen to an Evo. I love my Scoob, but I have a soft spot for any Japanese performance car, so it was a shame to see it blown away. Should have got that fugly Porsche out there and done some "remodelling" on that...
Still, having said that, if the car was heading to the crusher, better it went out in a blaze of glory! (& .50 Cal.!) Good bit of advertisment for the Army as well.
I wonder if the Drug Dealer was allowed to watch his car get blown away?
13 July 2009, 05:39 PM
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i just read all the posts on that mitzy forum!! pmsl at that flash bloke, he got the right hump!