Underbelly statesman

[AlexR]

For those of you who caught tonights episode of underbelly, did anyone happen to notice the VR statesman at the start? Notice the mags on her? VT SS mags, VR Statesman. You know, they'll pay attention to every little detail from clothes to the button on the clothes, hell, they've even got the oldstyle smoke packets printed specially, but when it comes to cars thats when most shows fail "any old car'll do".

[Maxxiz]

Ever think it could be a modified car? Who says the car had to have VR Stato rims?

[ParkwayDrv]

well they clearly shouldn't be allowed to air underbelly anymore

[VL_5SPEED]

no. the question is did anyone notice the VL Calais HDT LE in the police chase in the first episode. VL out running the VN bt1 lol

[nemesis_adrasteia]

Ever think it could be a modified car? Who says the car had to have VR Stato rims?

i think the point was that the series is set before the car was made judging be the first episode where the police drove a VN this puts the date at around the late 80s to early 90s, now VRs started in 93(i think) and VTs were 99(i think) doesnt really make sense to have cars in there later then what the year it is set in.

[ParkwayDrv]

But the show is based from 1988-1999

[nemesis_adrasteia]

But the show is based from 1988-1999

oh, well i thought it was based earlier then that cant say ive been following that closely

[ParkwayDrv]

oh, well i thought it was based earlier then that cant say ive been following that closely

Ahahaha that makes me look like an underbelly nerd...

[nemesis_adrasteia]

Ahahaha that makes me look like an underbelly nerd...

everybodys got their obsessions... i actually thought the episode i saw were pretty good, om just not motivated enough to find out when its on and sit down and watch it

[sik_dose]

For those of you who caught tonights episode of underbelly, did anyone happen to notice the VR statesman at the start? Notice the mags on her? VT SS mags, VR Statesman. You know, they'll pay attention to every little detail from clothes to the button on the clothes, hell, they've even got the oldstyle smoke packets printed specially, but when it comes to cars thats when most shows fail "any old car'll do".

lol i noticed that to and pointed it out to my brother when i saw it, It is set in 1994 so maby the cops were so currupt they had things that dident even exist yet???

[AlexR]

yes yes yes, This thread, mildly pointless, Is just an observation I made. The point I was making is that in any show based on the past, cars are usually the least accurate in fitting with the timeline. For example - a BBC UK (No, its actually a decent pommy show for a change) TV show called Life on Mars is basically, about a copper who gets shot, Goes back to 1973, they have a Cortina GXL as a main car, although there are many innaccuracies, and various other cars shown are later models (Youtube - Topgear Phillip Glenister interview). Clarkson points out many of these flaws. Then, a followup show (Ashes to Ashes) Based in 1981, woman copper gets shot, goes back in time, you know the kind of show. They have a 1983 Audi Quattro in which is Right hand drive, the Quattro wasn't available in RHD in 1981, But like Glenister said "But who cares, Its a cool car". Although these 'flaws' don't really change my opinion of the show, they are just a little fun facts for shits and giggles.

[AlexR]

oh, and in the chase scene, I can't exactly recall but the VN seemed Standard V6 material?, and didn't the VL outrun the VN by getting around corners quicker, dodging obstacles and losing visual contact of the police cars?

[minux]

Learnt a valuable lesson in this thread. People actually watch these TV shows

[88GreenVN]

VR Statesman's have a bellie - ooow.

[tivoom]

the car is a black vr statesman with vt ss rims but two min after the said vr was shown it popped up 1994 bla bla bla vt ss rims were not made in 1994 so on this stuff up alone i will no longer watch underbelly for the cars not that i ever did anyway lol

[Shearer]

no. the question is did anyone notice the VL Calais HDT LE in the police chase in the first episode. VL out running the VN bt1 lol

Is that what it is? Judging by the headlights, I thought was a JE Camira


That VR Statesman with VT SS looked pretty good. Maybe John Hatton has good taste in cars

[Tree cutter]

I wonder if they will have any scenes with motorbikes in them where they have the sound of a four cylinder motorbike engine when filming a bike with a single cylinder engine or V twin. It really turns me off a movie when they do this.
They might of had some Fordhead organising their car scenes in underbelly, and they didn't know anything about Holdens. I think the producers of Underbelly should be accused of being unAustralian for not getting their information on Holdens right LOL.

[minux]

I wonder if they will have any scenes with motorbikes in them where they have the sound of a four cylinder motorbike engine when filming a bike with a single cylinder engine or V twin. It really turns me off a movie when they do this.
They might of had some Fordhead organising their car scenes in underbelly, and they didn't know anything about Holdens. I think the producers of Underbelly should be accused of being unAustralian for not getting their information on Holdens right LOL.

LMAO, much like Terminator 2, with the Xr80/100, had a 2 stroke dub and also had about 42 gears

[fuzzy2308]

didn't know that shit was still on TV

[Troy711]

LMAO, much like Terminator 2, with the Xr80/100, had a 2 stroke dub and also had about 42 gears

I've watched that movie a billion times and there is so many mistakes in it!

[Stressball]

LMAO, much like Terminator 2, with the Xr80/100, had a 2 stroke dub and also had about 42 gears

Yeah that was lolworthy.

On a semi-related note, I remember the pod race scene in star wars episode 1, I liked the way they matched the sounds to the perceived agility of the pods. Anakin had the whiney, high revving jap 4cylinder in his agile little gokartmobile, and the ugly thing had a massive single cylinder in the huge lumbering pod hehe.

[VNexecutive]

i think the drag race in 2fast 2 furious (the one where the ricers beat the two american muscle cars) takes the cake for gear changes.

[Stan003]

also according to underbelly, all the vn's came out standard with faded plates lol

[a.j]

i still think the rims looked awesome on the car

[Tree cutter]

And here i am thinking that they ran roadranger gearboxes so they wouldnt notice the turbo lag in those little jap cars LOL
With all the mods they did to their cars they might have had two speed diffs and high and low range in their gearboxes.