Inb4 a swarm of Audi nominations. I’ll just throw the 4.2 timing chain clusterfuck out there.

Engine: a Honda engine.

I remember when Velocity was a good network that wasn’t just the gear head version of modern MTV with crappy reality shows. Oh yeah, it was called Speed Network back then.

To be fair, a bit of natural, actual grab ass is always good, but the scripted shit isn’t.

Yeah, some of Mike’s stuff wasn’t bad. He did explain what to watch out for on test drives and on checking out a potential buy, and he would talk about how best to find recon and no longer in production parts, but his overly jokey haggling parts were clearly scripted and grated after a while. Especially when he was…

No Edd, no workshop segments, no deal. So long Wheeler Dealers.

I’m from England so I’ve been watching it since it started on the BBC. I didn’t really care for the last two series as they started spending too much money. The whole point was buy low, spend a little and improve. Sell at small, if slightly pointless profit (man hours are not calculated as a cost).

I find it interesting that Aaron Kaufman left Gas Monkey Garage for similar reasons in December, and now Edd is leaving too. Maybe we’ll see some push back on the whole drama / artificial deadline model, and get some good shows out of it.

I’m gonna miss 6' 7" Edd trying to climb into a Mini Moke or Fiat 500.

That just means you’ve got a delightfully long backlog of enjoyable automotive television at your disposal.

What. The. Fuck...

This just in: Wheeler Dealers is now dead because of this decision before new replacement jumped in.

This has been, bar none, the best car show on broadcast TV. From the sounds of it, there is going to be such a format change that it may lose all of its original honest appeal. The other “car” shows on TV are just scripted reality show non-sense. And that’s not just compared to Wheeler Dealers.

That’s no doubt true. It’s also true that a lot of dealership salesmen are two-faced jackasses themselves.

I worked at a Verizon corporate store for a few years after college and my manager there (who realllllly wasn’t a people person) frequently said that he’d gladly give up a month’s pay every year to be able to say whatever he wanted to customers for a day.

People who do that aren’t logical, they’re just assholes.

thats a lie. Every problem can be solved by force.

Unfortunately a lot of that front end tupperware is for Ped safety laws in the US/Canada. Fuck em all if you get in front of my rigs. All of the tupperware came off and on went higher clearance solid steel!

Maybe MH370 went to hang out with Amelia.

Did you get PTSD? The NY Times might be interested in doing a story on it...