La Dolce Veloce

If you don’t already watch the TV show Top Gear, you really owe it to yourself to check out an episode (you can find links to bit-torrent files of it here). It’s a fantastic British car show, with some hosts that have that wonderfully British sense of humor and make the show FUN to watch, rather than the boring dribble you’ll find on almost any American car show. But anyway, Jeremy Clarkson is one of the show’s hosts (probably the most popular of the three), and in his usual writing style, has reviewed the Ford Mustang in an article printed in the Sunday Times. He does a great job of pointing out some of the inadequacies in Ford’s design, providing a nice counterpoint to the generally glowing reviews I’ve seen from the American press. One quote typical of the tone of the article:

“But by European standards this car is rubbish. Its engine has wasteful, unused capacity that turns fuel into nothing, it couldn’t get from one end of a country lane to the other without running out of brakes and it handles like a newborn donkey.”

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