I doubt they let cars out into the wild. Cause if one of them had a mechanical failure resulting in a bad crash that would result in some pretty bad PR, possibly law suits.
No idea, I would be interested to know though. It took me by massive surprise that the cars from Pimp My Ride actually made it back out onto the roads and were used (even if they had some features removed). So anything is possible I guess.
@Shotgun Chuck @HadACoolName Yeah, I was thinking about how easy it was to get parts for my obscure early '90s Volkswagen, but I forgot that most of those parts were made by Bosch.
European cars tend to have more parts when theyre old either the manufacturer itself produces the parts or fan clubs do that espacially with old vws and bmws you basically can rebuild your car with those parts from ground up. You still can get parts from 10 year old skodas too really easily too
From what I remember reading in an AkReddit thread about PimpMyRide, most of the cars ended up breaking or being taken apart. The cars they started with were almost always beaters, and they didn't do anything to actually improve how the cars ran.
They may have their bad fanbase but you have to admit they are nice cars. I think the new supra would use a Lexus v6 as they are already in production. Guess the engine.
The new Supra is using a selection of 4 and 6 cylinder BMW engines tragically... Also, Toyota 4A-FE, The crappier version of the much more powerful (by a massive 5HP) 7A-FE.
Noice, what was it out of? I have an Automotive course every friday, there is a ford festiva, mazda version of the KM ford laser and a VT commodore. Its fun but there is way too much bookwork.
Going onto what happened to the cars used in those episodes and the specials, I did see pics of Clarkson's Beta being abandoned presumably at the border, I guess after they finished filming, Hammond brought Oliver home, though I dunno what happened to May's Mercedes, though considering what they've said about Mercedes being popular in that region, along with how it fared really well with no problems, it probably got put back together, sold to someone, and is still chugging along. Oh yeah, then there were the estates, or station wagons in the other Africa special, the Volvo was pretty much done for with the collapsed rear suspension, Impreza looked like it wouldn't really last much longer even after Hammond ghetto rigged the front suspension to survive the last bit, the BMW seemed to be working fairly well apart from other problems, though I assumed they called in support trucks and such to get them out of there afterward. Then there was the Patagonia special where everyone basically had to nope out of there at the end, there was scenes of the camera SUVs having to escape from the angry locals, and supposedly the cars had been abandoned, and according to some sources, they're still down there locked up in some police compound, dunno if BBC even bothered tried retrieving them after all that chaos, so they're probably still down there now.
One of these is a Chevy, another's a Ford and the Other is a studebaker... (I think, google images could have duped me) Its not like different brands of car have never looked similar before.
However, I can tell all three of those apart immediately, whereas with 90% of all newer vehicles, I might not be able to tell them apart unless I look at the emblems. And yes, the car in the center is a 42 Stude Commander, you weren't lied to. I saw a tiny little newer sedan earlier that I immediately assumed was Japanese in origin, then I saw a Chevy bowtie.
