Clive Matthew-Wilson

[marty]

There's an article featuring this guy about road safety ads in todays Star Times.
What amuses me about him is that he has self-promoted himself to be an authority on vehicle and road safety on the basis of one book, The Dog and Lemon Guide, which is only a rehash of overseas tests etc.
Now, guess what sort of vehicle he drives.
No, nothing with a 5 star NCAP rating.
It's a Morris Oxford that he's retro-fitted airbags to.
In most countries he'd be laughed into obscurity. But our media treats his every utterance as the word from on high.
The other funny thing was, I took the piss out of Andy Knackstedt in another post, I had him saying that overseas research doesn't apply to NZ.
Well, bugger me if he didn't actually say it in this article.
You can't even satirise these guys now.

birds of a feather lou. he just gets better publicity

[tuscan]

The Dog and Lemon guide is pretty shitty in general.

All the comments about the cars seem to be based on thoughtless stereotypes.

[scumdog]

Almost reminds me of some one that has regular postings on here.

Yeah, where do you keep the Morris stashed??

[scumdog]

Mongoose.
Is that because you hate snakes?

OOOH! your'e walking into a field of Claymores here Lou,

[scumdog]

They used to be the ones.
Now they have candy stripe cars.

And you don't have one of them??

[Mongoose]

Yeah, where do you keep the Morris stashed??

If I said where you would want to add it to your obviously large array of vehicles