Bah Humbug - Clarkson

[DaBeeeenster]

Not sure if anyone caught Clarkson on Top Gear last night, referring to an electric car as useful for invalids? Anyway, I couldn't let that one go...

Mail to the beeb:

Did I hear Jeremy Clarkson correctly? Did he describe an electric car as an "invalid's car"?

Please reply to ben@somewhere.com

Thank you

Reply:

Dear Mr Rometsch

Thank you for your e-mail regarding the 7 May edition of 'Top Gear'.

Concerning your point about a fault on the comments page on the 'Top Gear' website, I have forwarded a copy of your e-mail to the relevant website owner for their attention.

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For many people Jeremy represents the man you love to hate, or at least very least strongly disagree with. He uses irony and deliberate overstatement in order to challenge his audience at the same time as entertaining them, and one of his most notable trademarks is a declared aversion to the current trend for political correctness.

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Thoughts? How is this anything whatsoever to do with PC?

[TheAnimus]

i found it quite funny myself!

Fact is there seams to be so little research into 'fun' electric cars.

[herulach]

I belive he said invalid carriage, i.e comparing the car to an electric wheelchair, as opposed to claiming it was only for invalids.

[TeePee]

But electric cars are for invalids....

[kempez]

Yeah think he was comparing it to an electric "Granny Chair". Looked pretty familiar

[Moby-Dick]

But electric cars are for invalids....

This is Question Time , not General Discussion. If you aren't going to say something constructive towards the thread , please dont bother posting.

[TeePee]

This is Question Time , not General Discussion. If you aren't going to say something constructive towards the thread , please dont bother posting.

But it's an answer to the question...

[ExceededGoku]

I find him funny tbh, I like his extremist declarations and it adds to the humour. I don't think anything he says regarding a type of people should be taken seriously, Top Gear would suck if he had to be politically correct: "That electric car is for people of whom are disabled"- Not funny compared to what he said last night.

[DaBeeeenster]

But it's an answer to the question...

Why on earth are electric cars "for invalids"? Are you totally ignorant of global warming and peak oil or are you just trolling?

[DaBeeeenster]

I find him funny tbh, I like his extremist declarations and it adds to the humour. I don't think anything he says regarding a type of people should be taken seriously, Top Gear would suck if he had to be politically correct: "That electric car is for people of whom are disabled"- Not funny compared to what he said last night.

WHY are electric cares for people who are disabled? What is this, some sort of macho "only real men drive petrol engines" ?

[herulach]

WHY are electric cares for people who are disabled? What is this, some sort of macho "only real men drive petrol engines" ?

WHY are you selectively ignoring various points? He didnt say electric cars are for disabled people, he compared the specific electric car shown to an electric wheelchair, that is not the same thing. I dont imagine youd take the same exception to saying the new pink micra cc is for women would you? (admittedly it isnt wuite the same, but still)

[Lee H]

WHY are electric cars for people who are disabled? What is this, some sort of macho "only real men drive petrol engines" ?

Maybe he's comparing electric mobility carts to what he thinks electric cars are going to be like as these are really the only "electric" vehicles on the roads at the present time. Looking at some previous attempts to release an electric vehicle (sinclair c5 anyone ?) you can see why.

Totally wrong either way, but I'm sure Clarkson like to get peoples goats up a bit as it get's him more publicity

[TheAnimus]

WHY are electric cares for people who are disabled? What is this, some sort of macho "only real men drive petrol engines" ?

Show me the fun electric car i can have thats a little sporty?

Show me the electric car that can do a 0-60 in a respectable (and therefore fun) time?

Why do i have blue die in my water cooling system?
Because its cool.

Why do i have no desire to buy an electric car given whats on the market?
because all my limbs work. I don't need something to help me round tesco.

[Moby-Dick]

Show me the fun electric car i can have thats a little sporty?

Show me the electric car that can do a 0-60 in a respectable (and therefore fun) time?

Why do i have blue die in my water cooling system?
Because its cool.

Why do i have no desire to buy an electric car given whats on the market?
because all my limbs work. I don't need something to help me round tesco.

http://www.wrightspeed.com/

is 0-60 in 3 seconds sporty enough

[5lab]

it wasnt about 'electric cars' it was about that particular one which was about 4 foot wide and looked, frankly, like a grannymobile

[TheAnimus]

http://www.wrightspeed.com/

is 0-60 in 3 seconds sporty enough

Yeh and look at it, compare it to the ariel atom, in cost, performance, and how far one can get on one "tank", 100 miles? pfft.

Maybe if it was a feul cell prototype it might be intresting. but as it is, i'll have the atom for what £18k?