Henry Catchpole from Evo took a Jaguar F-Type V8 to Romania in search of the country’s best driving road. Well, actually, he’s looking for the world’s best driving road, but it will make more sense after you’ve watched the clip. You might think you know how this ends, but you probably don’t.
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I honestly don’t think there has every been a more annoying motoring journalist in the world than Henry Catchpole. You feel like hosing his throat out with water during the cut takes where he is talking, just to give his voice a little character. How do you nerds who desperately need haircuts and could not punch there way out of a paper bag become motoring journalist. This guy is more suited to being an environmental greenie journalist or something.
Totally irritating!!!
Great video. Beautiful car!
Dave, Reed, agreed: great video, beautiful car, annoying guy.
Watched this with some Romanian family members. I found myself VERY embarrassed by this video. They didn’t care for the car. Loved to see their scenery. Hated the guy.
He had no gratitude toward the country and people who hosted him for this video, allowed him to close roads, and maintain and made the roads he drove on. He seems to have come in with a belief that the people there are somehow inferior to people some other place. Did Jaguar say: oh, we don’t want Romanian customers anyway, or if we do, we want only the ones who would agree with Bozo here.
The worst insult was his treatment of the Dacia automobile. He was completely unaware of the pride people there place in their embattled auto-maker. He just didn’t seem curious about any of that. I doubt he read a word about the place at all or spoke with anyone from there for this shoot.
He showed a huge lack of culture personally and a lack of respect for other cultures (other than the British). Clearly, this image was acceptable to Jaguar. For a company with 3/4 of its sales outside the UK, this shows a lot of arrogance.
Mostly, he seemed to to find the reality in a poor country to be irksome. For a company with 1/5 of its sales coming from middle-income countries, this shows an inaccurate view of the world. Unless of course, they want to sell to UK-friendly oligarchs who are also irked by reality in poor countries, because they don’t own enough of it.
I’m looking to hit close to home here, because of the way this video made my family feel.
If Reed is right and a grittier journalist is needed, I would add that, since we are talking about Jaguar here, that it be someone with some experience working with foreign colleagues, curiosity for world (and I don’t mean British) history, interest in cultures and understanding of the challenges faced by low and middle income countries. An LSE grad with DfID experience or a real Jaguar owner from Russia. That would be cool.
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