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Thread Author: Old Navy	Replies: 50

Tue 20 Oct 15 19:56   Making cars live BBC2 - Old Navy

Anyone watching it? Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 20 Oct 15 19:59   Making cars live BBC2 - Zero

yer, just seen that dirk head May refusing to get out of the robot assembly cage. Last edited by: Zero on Tue 20 Oct 15 at 19:59 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 20 Oct 15 22:54   Making cars live BBC2 - Alastairw

Forgot it was on - worth iPlayer ing? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 08:55   Making cars live BBC2 - CGNorwich

Only if you don't have some drying emulsion to watch. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 09:28   Making cars live BBC2 - Crankcase

Was kind of ok in places, but not the places where Kate was, to be honest. Her EV piece was pretty under researched and didn't get over the point she was trying to make at all. If you want to watch paint dry, though, that's the subject of tonight's programme apparently. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 09:38   Making cars live BBC2 - martin aston

Watched about half of it. Might merit a 3 minute segment on a magazine show but two shows taking up three hours at peak time? Of course you can switch off as I did but still leaves me feeling my licence fee has been used for a three hour MINI advert. Aren't there product placement rules any more? Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 09:43   Making cars live BBC2 - Zero

Got bored turned over. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 10:24   Making cars live BBC2 - VxFan

>> but not the places where Kate was Never could stand that woman, no matter what she presented / presents. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 09:32   Making cars live BBC2 - Alanovich

I want a Tesla now. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 09:59   Making cars live BBC2 - rtj70

Tesla are opening a new dealership near me soon. The building was previously a Jaguar dealer which moved.... so I'll have to pop in to see the Tesla's. Perhaps they'll let me try one with the Ludicrous mode :-) Tesla seem to name dealerships in the same sort of way Ryanair claim to fly to airports. For example, Tesla's has a dealership they refer to as Manchester-Knutsford... well isn't that Knutsford then. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 10:20   Making cars live BBC2 - madf

I watched it all - and dozed in parts Will not bother again. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 10:52   Making cars live BBC2 - Slidingpillar

For example, Tesla's has a dealership they refer to as Manchester-Knutsford... well isn't that Knutsford then. Taking the M56 and A5103 they are 19 miles apart. So rather like referring like a dealership in Watford to be a London dealer, as they are pretty well the same distance apart. Dunno about Knutsfordians, but such an attitude in parts of Watford would merit a good kicking. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 11:29   Making cars live BBC2 - WillDeBeest

Perhaps you could fly there from London Oxford airport. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 11:48   Making cars live BBC2 - Stuartli

>>Perhaps you could fly there from London Oxford airport. >> ...or London Luton airport.... Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 11:50   Making cars live BBC2 - Stuartli

Nothing new about the actual manufacturing sequences. Robots and Just In Time techniques have been in use in the UK (as well as much of the rest of the world) for 20 plus years; Nissan, Toyota and the other UK plants are testimony to the fact. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 15:59   Making cars live BBC2 - WillDeBeest

The outer 'London' airports are much of a muchness, if we take distance from Marble Arch according to Google's flying corvid. Gatwick: 39km Luton: 43km Stansted: 50km But Oxford Airport is 87km away - and 82km from Centenary Square, so perhaps it should be Birmingham Oxford Airport. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 15:12   Making cars live BBC2 - Crankcase

>> I want a Tesla now. >> 15k down, 800 a month do you? The one on the programme wasn't the top end spec one. Nor did we see it do things like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCAZWdqX_Y Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 15:49   Making cars live BBC2 - Clk Sec

>> >> I want a Tesla now. I might wait until they can read 'stop signs / stop lights'. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 16:38   Making cars live BBC2 - henry k

>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCAZWdqX_Y >> The auto follow on is worth watching. 16 min clip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CZe5DXeYzw Tesla Model S version 7 Autopilot Speeding Ticket Auto Steering Demo on Streets, Highway, Traffic Avery good demo especially as they have a big close up of the dash superimposed . Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 17:25   Making cars live BBC2 - Oldgit

.what a miserable lot you are. What do you want, another cooking programme. Admittedly it could have been done with less padding and repetition. Last edited by: Oldgit on Wed 21 Oct 15 at 17:27 Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 17:30   Making cars live BBC2 - madf

>> .what a miserable lot you are. What do you want, another cooking programme. Admittedly it >> could have been done with less padding and repetition. >> What ? Make it a 15 minute program? Good idea. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 17:36   Making cars live BBC2 - Oldgit

SQ 4 LB >> Good idea. >> No, two nights condensed down to one hour. Anyway it would be far, far less boring than Top Gear, if anyone remembes that! Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 21 Oct 15 at 20:19 Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 18:25   Making cars live BBC2 - mikeyb

The best bit was watching Ant (should I know who he is?) reverse up onto the transporter. He was quite quick i thought, and the guys looked a bit twitchy. Will probably watch part 2 so I can see the finished car, although it would have been far better if it wasn't live. Not really sure why they made it live, its not like sports coverage or the news, it would have looked the same on any day. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 18:29   Making cars live BBC2 - Alastairw

Ant Antstead, mechanic and presenter with Philip Glenister on Channel 4. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 21:07   Making cars live BBC2 - Shiny

Typical BBC infantile, limited-vobaulary, dumbed-down and then some rubbish :( Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 22:02   Making cars live BBC2 - Dog

Jist as well I didn't waste my eyesight on it then. Anybuddy wanna buy a Pana 42" plasma telly, going cheep, cheep. Reply to this message | Report message

Wed 21 Oct 15 23:46   Making cars live BBC2 - R.P.

Just watched it. Interesting bits, but overlong and as mentioned dumbed down...."Body in White" blah blah.. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 00:22   Making cars live BBC2 - Stuartli

>> Ant Antstead, mechanic and presenter with Philip Glenister on Channel 4.>> ...and a bit too quick to make some unnecessary and snide remarks about his colleagues also involved in presenting the programme. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 00:37   Making cars live BBC2 - No FM2R

I've never heard of the bloke or seen him on TV. Is he new or have I just not been paying attention? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 08:06   Making cars live BBC2 - Duncan

I haven't watched the programme, but I turned the telly on to watch the Simon Sharma thing and caught the last couple of minutes. As soon as I saw silly Kate Humble with those daft Spring Watch type cue cards in her hand I knew I had done the right thing in letting that one go. Last edited by: Duncan on Thu 22 Oct 15 at 08:09 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 14:10   Making cars live BBC2 - Stuartli

>>As soon as I saw silly Kate Humble with those daft Spring Watch type cue cards in her hand...>> Considering that both 90 minute programmes were largely live and had numerous sections, some short and some a bit longer and featuring three presenters in turn, it's hardly surprising that keeping pace with what was going on and coming up next was required. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 08:47   Making cars live BBC2 - R.P.

s he new or have I just not been paying attention? I first came across him in that programme mentioned. It said in that that he ran his or runs his own car restoration business. He seems a decently knowledgeable bloke in that. All three were pretty rubbish in Making Cars, but they were live and unscripted which I suppose it was a good test. At least it wasn't Terry Wogan. I liked the bit about Morgans.... Last edited by: R.P. on Thu 22 Oct 15 at 08:47 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 08:50   Making cars live BBC2 - R.P.

www.evanta.co.uk/team.html#all Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 08:53   Making cars live BBC2 - Duncan

>> www.evanta.co.uk/team.html#all >> Hmm. This smells of something! "Quote - "Give people a platform on which to perform, the space to be creative and the ability to suprise. Anything then is possible."" Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 14:16   Making cars live BBC2 - nice but dim

Ant Anstead - former copper and now TV presenter/business owner. Not done too bad, he's tolerable I guess. I watched the programme, its motoring related so 99% better than most of the rubbish on the box. I saw that Kate tested the "traction control" by doing an emergency stop?? I thought James got a bit giddy in parts which was unlike him. I though the BTTF Keith Lemon thing was brilliant on the other side after. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 14:19   Making cars live BBC2 - Alanovich

Perhaps the whole thing was an elaborate screen test for Ant Antsnest as a potential presenter of the new Top Gear - maybe there is going to be a live to camera element in Chris Evans's new format and they wanted to se how Antsnest would do. I liked him doing that proggy with Glenister. Proper car bloke, really. Even admitted to admiring the Triumph Stag in the end. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 15:53   Making cars live BBC2 - Fenlander

Sat down to watch with great anticipation... walked away after 15mins. Dreadful! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 17:52   Making cars live BBC2 - Skip

>> Sat down to watch with great anticipation... walked away after 15mins. Dreadful! >> That's 10 minutes longer than I lasted ! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 20:02   Making cars live BBC2 - Slidingpillar

There were a few bits of interest, but of a 90 minute programme, about 30 minutes only. I certainly would have switched off had I been watching live, but with a PVR, dead easy to cherry pick. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 20:17   Making cars live BBC2 - mikeyb

I watched to the end with the anticipation of seeing the "target" car complete and handed over.....only it didn't happen Didn't realise they sent out so many by train though Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 20:33   Making cars live BBC2 - Zero

>> I watched to the end with the anticipation of seeing the "target" car complete and >> handed over.....only it didn't happen >> >> Didn't realise they sent out so many by train though yer, trainloads of them. Here is one of the car transporters from cowley into southampton docks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fa5KkRKQlU Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 22:18   Making cars live BBC2 - R.P.

They would have been better doing it as a straight documentary. Reply to this message | Report message       2

Thu 22 Oct 15 22:23   Making cars live BBC2 - WillDeBeest

Real edge-of-the-seat stuff there, Z. If that's retirement, perhaps working till I'm 90 won't be so bad. If you're going to do any more of these - and I have a feeling you are - you might see if that final salary pension will stretch to a windshield for your microphone. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 22:37   Making cars live BBC2 - Zero

>> Real edge-of-the-seat stuff there, Z. If that's retirement, perhaps working till I'm 90 won't be >> so bad. If you're going to do any more of these - and I have >> a feeling you are - you might see if that final salary pension will stretch >> to a windshield for your microphone. I shall die happily knowing I bored you witless and damaged your hearing. Now P*** off and get back to insulting Daves Vauxhalls. Last edited by: Zero on Thu 22 Oct 15 at 22:38 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 22 Oct 15 22:54   Making cars live BBC2 - bathtub tom

I've watched some of it and thought it would have been more interesting if they'd followed a car from sheet metal to completion. Much of it was pre-recorded anyway, so it wouldn't have been a problem instead of jumping around from one station to another. They could've still inserted the sections from other manufacturers without losing the continuity. I would've particularly liked to know how they painted the roofs a different colour to the shell. I noticed several cars had black 'A' and 'B' pillars in contrast to the body shell colour. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 23 Oct 15 08:50   Making cars live BBC2 - R.P.

It was a mish mash as it was live. May was awful. Reply to this message | Report message

Fri 23 Oct 15 12:37   Making cars live BBC2 - mikeyb

>> I would've particularly liked to know how they painted the roofs a different colour to >> the shell. I noticed several cars had black 'A' and 'B' pillars in contrast to >> the body shell colour. >> Not 100% sure, but don't the A and B pillars have clip on plastic trims? Last edited by: mikeyb on Fri 23 Oct 15 at 12:37 Reply to this message | Report message       1

Fri 23 Oct 15 14:04   Making cars live BBC2 - CGNorwich

It was all done so much better by Fiat in a two minute advertisement back in 1979. youtu.be/-fXV6KzhBbM Reply to this message | Report message       1

Fri 23 Oct 15 15:19   Making cars live BBC2 - WillDeBeest

..or by Not the Nine O'Clock News a little later: youtu.be/BNPTlT8HXjk Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 24 Oct 15 10:06   Making cars live BBC2 - DP

>> yer, trainloads of them. Here is one of the car transporters from cowley into southampton >> docks. >> >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fa5KkRKQlU >> Blimey, by the time the front gets to Southampton the back has probably only just left Oxford. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 24 Oct 15 10:29   Making cars live BBC2 - zippy

Surely this classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-tuY0Z7nQ Reply to this message | Report message