On the television show Hi-Rev Tuners on the Speed Channel, they had a short two minute segment on this customized C-Coupe at an import ricer car show. It had a giant wing bench, was lowered to the point where you could not see the tires in the upper area of the fender because the fender completely covered them! It also had these nasty chrome rims that looked like a shield used in the movie Gladiator. Not to mention the exhorbitant amount of stickers.

What a disgrace!

Unfortunately, I do not think they will be showing this episode again, I looked ahead in the scheduling guide (I have DirecTV) and did see any listings for this same show.

 

Disgrace, indeed... [and for showing that ] The speed channel is a disgrace by itself, too....

 

I love the Speed channel, without it, I wouldn't be able to watch Formula One.

The only thing I wish they would show is the DTM series.

 

Last year they started showing the DTM as a Friday evening program in the fall. Hopefully they'll do the same this year.

Regards, BT

 

i like the speed channel, watch it all the time. hopefully we will start to see some more "tastefully" modded c230's on the tuner's show

 

the speed channel is great -- i love watching autoweek, the rally series, formula one, etc. that hi-rev tuners belongs on MTV, though.

 

Agreed, The Formula One and Rally stuff is great, but lately it seems like its becoming the NASCAR Channel.

 

Only reason I have my poor microwave service (TV) because of Speed Channel. Regular cable does not offer that.

 

i like nascar too

keep in mind that speed channel is a US-based channel. at least they show a LITTLE foreign racing action... in fact, they are relatively great when it comes to the ratio of foreign sports versus american ones. have fun trying to find world cup, let alone premeirship football, on any american networks that aren't $20 a month.

 

I love the SpeedChannel, I have to as I work as a engineer for Fox sports and we downlink the SpeedChannel and work with them building the facility.

 

I dont like the Speed Channel. When it was Speedvision they had a much more balanced line up, and the F1 broadcasters were better. Now its the Nascar channel with a few hours a week of intelligent programming. booo...

 

Speed has more NASCAR coverage due to the purchase of Speedvision by FOX (FOX owns NASCAR broadcasting rights which Speedvision never had). The funny thing was before Speedvision could report NASCAR race results - but not broadcast any pictures of the cars. It's a tradeoff, as Speed I think the company is more economically viable, therefore it will remain around to broadcast the Euro racing which I like. What I could care less about is programs like MotorTrend and all of the tuner shows.

More racing, less crap!

Cheers, BT

 

They dropped the best show, the Europe racing series. Remember Porsche Cup, ETTC 2002, Austrialian road racing. When is the last time you saw a CLK race?

 

I remember most of these shows being on in the Fall last year, once all of the US racing series had finished for the season. I'm hoping they'll return again this fall.

Cheers, BT