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    Posted: 27-October-2010 at 08:07

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/top-gear-on-60-mi nutes/?nl=automobiles&emc=wheelsema2

Regular readers of this blog are likely to be among the 350 million people in 170 countries who watch “Top Gear” every week — numbers provided by “60 Minutes,” which produced a segment on the British car show on Sunday night.

How very interesting.

 

Mr. Clarkson, who has drawn the ire of countless special interest groups for his outlandish statements, also amended a dig he had made at BMW owners on one of the episodes: “All BMWs are driven by people who are psychologically unfit to drive anything more powerful than an electric razor,” Mr. Kroft recited.

“Yeah,” Mr. Clarkson responded. “That certainly was the case. I’d change that to Audis now.”

 

So who had a BMW and now has an Audi



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Isn't that why The Top Gear Team refer to Audi drivers a Cks.  They used to refer to BMW drivers as Cks, but as all the Cks now drive Audis, BMWs are now cool and it is o.k. to drive one.

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