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Silver Fox

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Quite a long one this time - plenty of detail.

Some of the footage makes it look like someone's leaned the badges with a brillo pad, and there's a bizarre mention of a towbar. Pleasant enough, apart from that.

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Silver Fox said:


Quite a long one this time - plenty of detail.

Some of the footage makes it look like someone's leaned the badges with a brillo pad, and there's a bizarre mention of a towbar. Pleasant enough, apart from that.

Edit: Looks like direct link playback is disabled but you can go here: LINK
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Started to watch the other day, but found the reviewers style quite dated, kind of William Woollard meets Alan Partridge. Got bored half way through and aborted.
 
86GR said:
Started to watch the other day, but found the reviewers style quite dated, kind of William Woollard meets Alan Partridge. Got bored half way through and aborted.
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Ha fair point, he is quite old skool.

I'll confess to having it on in the background whilst getting on with other things - it's not the punchiest review that's for sure.

I think I mostly persevered because out of all the reviews I've seen, his was the one most likely to address the pressing issue of where to hang one's jacket.

Spoiler: He doesn't.
 
leosayer said:
The colouring is a bit weird. Makes it look like it was filmed in the 70s.
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That's the first thing I noticed, made the EB look really washed out. As said above definitely a Woollard/Goffey/Partridge love child. It was just missing the foot resting in the tyre with elbow on the knee, I think I heard him say it has an auto dimming rear mirror, tut tut.
 
v8s said:
That's the first thing I noticed, made the EB look really washed out. As said above definitely a Woollard/Goffey/Partridge love child. It was just missing the foot resting in the tyre with elbow on the knee, I think I heard him say it has an auto dimming rear mirror, tut tut.
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Back in the 80s that was an auto dimming mirror, it automatically dims when you flick the lever.
I will save the rest of that video for when I feel nostalgic for the Top Gear of my childhood.
 
I thought it gave you more info on the car than I have ever seen on other reviews.
 
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