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Old 26 May 2003, 00:05 (Ref:610012)   #14
Lee Janotta
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Lee Janotta should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally posted by Tristan
See?? I AM NOT ALONE!!
Top Gear is for fruits who like paintcan-sized exhaust tips. Clearly they didn't know how to properly launch the American cars.

And Tristan, you've clearly never driven anything but the land yachts you mentioned earlier.

You, me, and a late-model musclecar. You won't be able to walk for an hour afterwards.

One point you're clearly missing. Our roads look like this:


Not this:


I'm not trying to ridicule the road system in the UK (I'll leave that to the locals), but if you haven't driven between cities here (outside of New England and New York, which are too heavily built up), you simply can't fathom the vast stretches here with nothing resembling civilization. People on a 4 to 12-hour (or more) drive here want a cushioned ride and good passing power. They don't care about handling because there are no curves!!!

Aussies and Canadians have the same roads, and not surprisingly, choose the same sorts of cars.

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