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+Sandouras God damn it, I was thinking I was the only one who's gonna complain about the yellow.. JEEZ, I'll just assume they use some filters or something when filming. Tiff's teeth are almost green.
Please do re-episodes(visits) of some of these cars... Like how have they really faired out there in the real world and what are the problems with them and so on...
It's different and stands out, like a turd on a clean floor :P The white balance for the "interview" part is quite bad, all of their teeth look so yellow, the same for their skin :P
The Purecrap 1.2 has now firmly earned its reputation for destroying its wet timing belt, blocking the oil pick up in the sump which in turn starves the engine of oil leading to a destroyed engine. The timing belt is currently on generation 4 at your local Peugeot / Citroën parts counter.
These little cars are nippy and fun to drive great for Town driving not much good on motor ways but you still can drive on a motor way it blow about a bit when lorry pass you but you still can keep at 60 MPH no bother. went From London to the north east. and found it very cheap to run five speed box L love the little cars but the horn you better off shouting at someone because people look at you as to say what a moped horn. well all little cars do have the down falls lol
I get the whole "let's save money, and share platforms" bullshit. But it takes all the uniqueness out of cars. Almost all cars share platforms today. It's shit.
I didn't realise any cars on the road these days still had such little power, my alfa is about the least fast car I feel safe, and in control with. And it's three times more powerful than that piece of shit. Couple that with the people who drive these things and it's no wonder there are so many crashes.
Tiff!....GASP!!!!....you teeth!....yuck!...stop smoking and go see a dentist like A.F.A.P!...camera man quit zooming in on him til that issue is addressed.
So, I can understand the British mispronouncing names like Nissan, Prius, and Impreza. It still annoys me, but I can understand it. Etymologically, they mispronounce Jaguar too, but since it's a British company, I'll give them a pass for that pronunciation. But what I really don't get is how they get Peugot and Citroen wrong when France is effectively a next-door neighbor. It's not pur-zho and it's not sich-ren. You can [sometimes] get Porsche right, but what's the excuse for the French names? This isn't a matter of accent, sometimes it's just legitimately wrong, where they're adding or removing sounds unnecessarily.
+Peter Schmidt I've heard French pronounce it the same as us not Poo-Joe, we pronounce it Sit-Ren not Sich. What's you're opinion on the American pronunciation of Renault, Volkswagen or coupe? And everyone outside of Germany says BMW wrong. So if words can only be pronounced in their original language then surely neighbour is the only way to spell that word since its English.
DeaKen002 I have a really hard time believing any native French speaker saying "pur-zho". Watch any video of British saying Citreoen and they slur the T sound where it sounds like a hard "ch". Renault doesn't exist in the US, so it wouldn't surprise me if some Americans would pronounce it like "wren-alt". But I think any who do know it's French would pronounce it as "wren-oh". The accent for some may be weird but the pronunciation is nonetheless correct. I've never heard anybody from any country mispronounce Volkswagen - pretty hard to screw that one up. BMW is sort of a gray area, since it's just 3 letters. You can't really mispronounce something that isn't actually a name. As for neighbo(u)r, I agree that it should be spelled as it was originally spelled (though, the American spelling _slightly_ makes more sense, phonetically). But how you spell something isn't relevant to how you speak it. Anyway, there are plenty of names that aren't pronounced exactly like their original because they have been intentionally anglicized and marketed that way. For example, the Japanese pronunciation of Prius is something like "pur-ee-oo-soo". That sounds really weird in English, so they just called it Prius. Etymologically, that implies the pronunciation is "pree-us", not "pry-us". Keep in mind - I don't fault the British for difference in accent. To my knowledge, they pronounce Elantra different than Americans, but neither pronounce the name incorrectly, it's just a difference in accent.
+1zanglang Yeah but i myself have an Up and although the C1 is quirky and cheap you do feel like you pay for that little bit more with the Up in terms of quality its just worth it
BradarGaming The quality, you and many others are talking too much about, is relative. If your VW is sturdy and built to last, many years, without fixing or replacing anything else than "consumables", is worth the extra money, and I would close my eyes to its (lack) of style. Otherwise, not. But on a second thought, if I would go for a car from this class, I would choose something Japanese. I mean, really made in Japan.
