If you missed it last time it's on now on discovery turbo sky channel 523. Enjoy

 

thats sad if impreza one.. in fact everyone one them is a bita of a joke..

 

Don't have sky only got freeview doh.

 

Agree but missed this last tine it was on and heard they stuck go faster stripes on so worth watching it for that lol might get sum tips of Edd to lol

 

they didnt do a bad job with the mods
brembo brakes, exhaust, panel filter and remap which is what most do on here.
then they put stupid stripes on it although whoever brought it could remove them quite easily.
the stripes didnt look any worse than wrc stickers lol

 

I quite like Ed me ol' China !

 

Those stripes are ghastly

 

i like mr china too?
he works for nothing and dont do a bad job
i,d love to know where his garage is lol?

the stripes did killed the car though,but was,nt that down to the brewster?

 

they bought the wrong car to begin with,why oh why would mr brewer think that he could make a profit on a silver bugeye wrx

would they have not been better off finding a p1 or prodrive model sti bug,minting it up and turning a profit ???????

now the lotus elan and the fiat 500 episodes were superb



marcus

 

I like the Impreza episode, but I'm biased because mine's the example at the start of the programme

 

Just watched it, luv the internet lol Dam those strips should drop the price by 1000k

 

the stripes were removed before they sold the car, he told us this at the series macrae gathering

 

But the guy said he liked them? lol

 

Well I certainly know where I wouldn't take my car for a remap.

240bhp

 

TBH when you think of remaps for a scoob power engineering doesn't even figure does it Should have been 270bhp at least I love the fact that they think 240bhp is fast

 

Yea but if you up the bhp to much, its only putting more stress on the car. i'd be more happy with 260 bhp though

 

maybe the money spent on the stripes would have been better spent on a decat pipe.

 

Good point, if they had put full system, included exhaust manifold and decat, it would of easy got 260 with remap

 

You don't need a full decat on a newage for that power or more.
My WRX has the prodrive sports cat, STI up pipe and decat centre, with 3" back from there - made 281bhp with JGM.

As for the 240 - what mods did they actually do? If you just change the backbox and panel filter you won't see muzch More than 250. IMHO.

 

thats what i meant. How much would a decat centre pipe have been in comparison to those stripey things. That cat back did sound pretty cool though.

 

Ah, I see, it was a cat-back - I'd forgotten.
Mine made 248bhp with a green panel filter and cat-back 3" exhaust when it was first mapped. Looking back on it, I just wish I'd waited and bought the lot, but you live and learn!

They'd could also of course have changed the up pipe for a second hand STI one, would only have been about £30, so a little cheaper than a decat or sports cat down pipe!
Ultimately though, Mike Brewer knows very little about a lot of cars, like most of the top gear presenters; the show's cheesy and good for a laugh, but I have to agree that those viper stripes were bloody awful!

I did chuckle when I listened to him chatting so much crap about the car at the start!

 

Hes just like a car dealer talks the talk but knows next to nothing. At least top gear have a good research team lol

 

Haha this is true, but Hammond always makes me laugh - the guy clearly hasn't a clue about cars and just recites what he's given on a sheet.

It's something that annoys me a bit about car shows nowadays.
In the good old days, you had Tiff and Vicki who actually had racing experience and were capable drivers, then you had Quentin Wilson who bought and sold used cars (which is something I think really is missing from today's shows), and then Jezza for a laugh.
Today you have 3 lads behaving like teenagers in cars none of us can afford.
There was always an element of the latter sure, and yes it's arguably amusing to watch, but I think it's left a spot open for a factual car buying and reviewing programme as opposed to just messing around in cars. James May clearly understands the engineering side, the other two, well - they're just there to take the mick out of him I reckon!

Fifth gear at least had Jason Plato, Tiff and Vicki but sadly they were let down by numpties with no presenter skills who shouldn't ever have been let onto TV let alone a car programme - namely Jonny Smith and Tim Shaw.
Tom Ford was the exception to this as I found his reviews pretty good and his presenter style amusing, but sadly he left after 2009.

I hear the former stig, Ben Collins, has now also joined Fifth Gear as a presenter, although I haven't seen a recent one starring him yet. Will look forward to it, although I wish they'd get rid of that idiot Jonny Smith. The guy is about as rightly qualified to be a presenter as most MP's are to debate real life decisions

 

Agree with what your saying although i really did not like Tom ford, he just did my head in, prefered the other 2, but to be honest Tim Shaw and tom ford wern't the best at persenting. I think a good mix would be, jermy, viky, Quentin Wilson and Richard hammond, just because i like him now as a presenter. They should call it .............

 

Probably because he WAS a car dealer prior to becoming a presenter