There is what should be a "new" review of XFire scheduled for Speed TV.

Fifth Gear
An exciting and informative motoring magazine series from the team who appeared in the BBC's hugely popular Top Gear. Topics include the best of new car reviews, second-hand bargains and industry news with a different feature piece in every episode.


Schedule Subject To Change
Monday : November 29, 2004
Time Program Description Rating
9:00 pm Fifth Gear Crossfire TV-PG
1:00 am Fifth Gear Crossfire TV-PG
Saturday : December 11, 2004
7:00 am Fifth Gear Crossfire TV-PG
Friday : December 24, 2004
9:00 am Fifth Gear Crossfire TV-PG

 

yeah saw that one Tiff did the review and it wasn't that good

 

glennnn,
Are these the same show at different times? Thanks for the advanced notice. I might even miss Everybody Loves Raymond to watch it if you think it's worth it.
lordpercy, do they ever say anything about the Roadster in it?

 

nope was a review of a left hooker coupe, Tiff said it was soft and of limited european appeal

 

Looks like they will be the same show. Rebroadcast at different times.

On Thanksgiving day Speed TV had about 24 hours of "American Muscle Cars." Hope you saw some of those programs. Lots of good history about the cars.

 

You can miss a Raymond episode because, chances are, it will be on four or five more times before the year is over.

 

Yes, You are probably right, Lee!

Just wanted to bring this back to the top because it is supposed to be on in about an hour here. Speed TV....the description on the tele is just "Crossfire"

 

Nah i'd rather watch Raymond ,Already now about XFs.

 

MI, on second thought, watch Raymond. I understand the Speed TV program with the review by the critic who hates anything US and has done a terrible and biased review.

 

Ok Rays on must go now .

 

Well that was short and not so sweet. I did like the color of the test car, even with the "feminine" suspension.

 

Well, I watched the review (and I learned on this forum from you Brits what bonnet and boot was, thank-you) And watched the rest of Raymond. The latter was much more interesting. I'm glad my mother-in-law doesn't have an "incubator". Haha!

 

What a disappointment. A four-minute review?
We could have gotten more from just driving by a dealership.
I hope "Raymond" was more informative.

 

You know the reveiw is skewed when the reveiwer gets more excited about the handling of a late 50s "Morris 1000". Here is a picture if your not old enough to remember these. Yup a real head turner. Is that suspesion double wishbone I forget?

 

Oh yeah definately anti American Car reviewer. Wonder if he at least had fun flogging it around the turns... Did watch a bit more of the show and learned what we call zero to sixty is naught to sixty on the "other side" of the big pond... but they did not specify if that was km/h I'm assuming so.

 

If I remember correctly from other posts, I believe they use miles in the U.K.
In Canada, where we use Kilometers, the normal measure would be 0-100 which is the equivalent.

 

I think it's a little Hate left over for GERMAN cars not American.

 

Well MI, you didn't miss much of Raymond anyway. I'm kind of glad the "review" was so short. That way he couldn't bash the Xfire too much (or make too much of a fool of himself). Anyone who tuned in at 9:05 and missed it didn't really miss much.