Obviously car breakdown cover is not just a service offered to the UK consumer but worldwide in different forms and ways. Be Free 2 Go is an Australian Roadside Assistance company that has an amazing offer for 17 to 18 year old teenagers. For this age group they offer free breakdown cover, yes no charge. It is of course a great idea, because these young people are the customers of the future and have parents who also need roadside assistance now. In the usual Ozzie way, this comercial shows the funny side of some parents watching their teenage sons go out in the car. Of course the car breaksdown and the sons arrive back home to see their parents ins a situtaion they would rather not have seen. The morale of th story is, they should have got their sone some free berakdown cover with Be Free 2 Go and they would be still away in theor car. It is very funny and not at all like the roadside assistance adverts you would see on British television.
October 11, 2009
Fifth Gear Evo Versus Focus RS
If you want to find out which is the better car, the Mitsubishi Evo X or the Ford Focus Rs, then hire a recing track in Anglessey and fight it out with the Fifth Gear team. what you end up with is a series of test, that are supposed to identify which car has the best handling and speed around the track. It was a good test, but only would have worked if there were clear differences between the cars. The results are so close that you end up buying the one you fancy, rather than because there was a clear winner.
Anyway it is an enjoyable piece with 2 good racing drivers come presenters having the time of their lives and trying ot out-drive each other. in fact you could say, it was less about the cars and more about who was the best driver.
Killing A Toyota Pick Up Truck
One of the most memorable stunts the Top Gear team tried to do was to take a Toyota Pick Up Truck and try to destroy it to the point where it was finished and just would not drive. What followed was extaordinary, from setting it on fire, dropping a caravan on to it and totally submerging it under the sea, but no matter what the Top Gear team did this Toyota Pick Up Truck just refused to die. The test were beyond anything normal use would throw at it and beyond, proving how well these T’oyota’s are put together and why they last for so long and a re firm favourites around the world.
The Toyota now stands proud on the Top Gear wall, all beaten and down but stll alive if they were t choose to start it up again, although the body has been beaten up past recognition. here is the video with part 1 of the story.