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Did Car and Driver Television get canceled?

Old 02-19-06, 10:20 AM
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Default Did Car and Driver Television get canceled?

I haven't seen this show for monthes, I always get up early on Saturday's to watch it on Spike, but I don't see it anymore.

So first we lose the cool British Top Gear and now Car and Driver

http://www.caranddriver.com/search.a...1&article_id=0

http://www.powerblocktv.com/

Courtney Hansen upgrade
Cutting Car and Driver downgrade

I liked Import Tuner on PowerBlock and Modified but I can see why no one else liked those shows.

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Old 02-19-06, 11:06 AM
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Good question!

I was asking myself the same question.
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Old 02-19-06, 02:27 PM
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I echo toy's sentiments. Used to watch C&D shows on SpikeTV every Sunday but now I don't see it in its regular schedule
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Old 02-19-06, 02:36 PM
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Thats SpikeTV for you. They are slowly turning all their programming into Nascar.
They must think thats all anyone wants to watch. Ever since the original Speedvision changed names, its been all downhill. Ridiculous.
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Old 02-20-06, 06:05 PM
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Thats sucks Who wants to see merry-go-round NASCAR all day Bring back Car and Driver television.
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Old 02-20-06, 06:42 PM
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ehhh...whatever....they can get rid of it. I never really liked the show. Some of the episodes were word for word out of the magazines. Magazine in motion. Plus tons of reruns. I do like the other shows though. And TopGear is coming back so we still have that and the other shows on SpeedTV and Motorweek on PBS.
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Old 02-20-06, 08:13 PM
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car and driver was pretty lame most of the time. half their shows wasted 10 minutes on ford windstars or on camry's or maximas.
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Old 02-20-06, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by magneto112
ehhh...whatever....they can get rid of it. I never really liked the show. Some of the episodes were word for word out of the magazines. Magazine in motion. Plus tons of reruns. I do like the other shows though. And TopGear is coming back so we still have that and the other shows on SpeedTV and Motorweek on PBS.
SpeedTV is slowly turning all Nascar and Motorweek never met a vehicle they didn't like.
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Originally Posted by BobsGX
SpeedTV is slowly turning all Nascar and Motorweek never met a vehicle they didn't like.
Can't upset the advertisers
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Old 02-21-06, 03:09 PM
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It may not have been the best show in the world but look at what's left. We have Unique Whips on Wed nite. Road Test comes on whenever they have a car to test, I guess. Is there anything else? I don't even see Car Crazy any more.
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Old 02-21-06, 06:50 PM
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Say what you will about their former content, but now that C&D is gone, there is almost nothing left!

I’ve watched that show since I was a kid and recently rediscovered some classic episodes on Google Video. Now it looks like that’s the only way I’ll be seeing any episodes from them, from now on.
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Old 02-21-06, 07:27 PM
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I never really liked CDTV, but it was a good show to watch for information. They had a very GM/Ford bias and sometimes (to me) wasnt very fair to any of the other brands. But, I still watched it to gather opinions! Sad to no longer see it!
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