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Eurocrash Episode

posted 10 months ago by BanditOne (90)
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An enjoyable episode. You like the blokes or you don't. I love them.

Eurocrash doesn't have much of a storyline or a big mission. It's a Road Trip. And I'm more than fine with that. Some nice, less-known landscapes on the way, some races, some challenges.

And three really interesting cars: a powerful Chevrolet SSR, a Mitsuoka Le-Seyde (has the looks, but only litte power with about 130hp from a Nissan engine) and a Crosley CC Convertible. A car I've never heard of before. And of course the "Titties'n'Beer" Hot Rod.

I liked the choice of cars. But it was a bit unfortunate - like in "Seamen" - that May had to be apart from Jezza and the Hamster so often due to the slowness of the vehicle. Was happy to see him back when he took the wheel of the Hot Rod.

A really enjoyable episode.

It was just funny that Hammond mentioned that the Mitsuoka Le-Seyde is a car based on a car Hitler liked. And then went on to drive a racecar with the number "88".....88. And then Hitler again in the wax museum. They started the Road Trip in Poland...well, quite dark humour. But that's to be expected from them.

[–] TandyMan (10379) 10 months ago

I didn't care for this one overly much. It was the first time I felt the boys and their shtick was getting a little long in the tooth. I couldn't tell if May had actually made a blunder this terrible with his car selection or if he was only available for a partial shoot for whatever reasons. Bit more of a vacation than a car show this time around. The good bits outweighed the bad. Some of the comedy bits were pretty solid. The Great Escape place was very interesting. The flying car was a helluva thing to see. And you could tell they were all living out a boyhood fantasy when driving their cars into the plane.

[–] BanditOne (90) 10 months ago

Yeah, now that you mentioned it, it is possible that May wasn't available at all time. Too bad really, the older I get the more I relate to May than the others.

Good points about the Great Escape, that was indeed an interesting place with great facts. And driving into the moving plane was sure cool - better and more believable than the runway scene in the Fast & Furious 6 (which they even mentioned).

[–] TandyMan (10379) 10 months ago

May's great. It's also possible he hurt himself worse than we know in that crash. Might not be up for all the extreme stuff anymore. Just seems crazy not to have somebody like him at that museum when he's the one with all the obscure facts about everything. I was impressed by how impractical that hot rod was. Clearly built just for show. And the wax museum was wild. Such a bizarre collection of god awful figures and some really good ones. That Paul Walker one looked like he was really sitting there.

[–] moviechatterer (13391) 2 months ago

" more believable than the runway scene in the Fast & Furious 6 "

I dunno , May's little toy cay getting up that ramp was F&F levels of believability!