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When we see Bentley cars on test in this area (which is often) they're always on TU trade plates or Cheshire DK plates ad the such like.
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And the best one of course is :-
www.whatcar.co.uk/car-review/bentley-continental-g.../
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I agree with HJ about redoing photos. Just in the process of ordering my next car (Maxda6) and find a few interesting things on the Mazda website:
- Top level website... tinyurl.com/3y2nva has the fuel filler on drivers sides but in reality in on the passenger side in the UK
- From there select Interior view and go full screen. All seems okay you'd think except pedals look the wrong way round (accelator on left and foot rest on right) and window switch with L-R obviously in mirror image :-)
So if the main website for Mazda wrong what hope for magazines?
Also spotted major mistake on literature in Ford dealers for company cars taxation bands. Not taken 3% BIK charge for diesels into account nor the new bands for 2008/2009. Even spoke to Mondeo release manager and nothing changed in a month.
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Sometimes car in adverts are give symetrical plates so that the reg still reads correctly when mirrored ie HMY 818
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''T U is for Test Unit''
Thanks henry K
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I retouch cars all day long.
As well as stripping in Polish plates onto foreign registered cars, I often have to convert RHD to LHD. If I can't make it realistic enough, I tint the windows. Sometimes I'll drop a car against a well-known Polish landmark, when it was actually tested in Ibiza. I'll make two cars race each other that were shot on different days, I'll move mountains if they distract from the text, delete lamp posts, pylons, passers-by, snow and grey skies. I'll make a stationary car look like it's cornering at 90mph, turn a two-door Citroen into a four-door and I've even been asked by an editor in chief to change a black kid in a child seat into a white kid. When I've finished with them a technician spends another couple of hours fiddling with the colour balancing and profiles, so very little in the magazine looks anything like what it did when it comes to me.
And this is just a weekly mag, glossies really go to town on retouching.
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>>very little in the magazine looks anything like what it did when it comes to me
Every picture telling a different story methinks.
Thanks for the insight to photo editing, and in the present day all done with electrons rather than airbrushes.
Phil I
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Big Bad Dave wrote:
"As well as stripping in Polish plates onto foreign registered cars, I often have to convert RHD to LHD. If I can't make it realistic enough, I tint the windows. Sometimes I'll drop a car against a well-known Polish landmark, when it was actually tested in Ibiza. I'll make two cars race each other that were shot on different days, I'll move mountains if they distract from the text, delete lamp posts, pylons, passers-by, snow and grey skies. I'll make a stationary car look like it's cornering at 90mph, turn a two-door Citroen into a four-door and I've even been asked by an editor in chief to change a black kid in a child seat into a white kid. When I've finished with them a technician spends another couple of hours fiddling with the colour balancing and profiles, so very little in the magazine looks anything like what it did when it comes to me."
As a regular reader of that mag, I can hereby confirm all those tricks actually work. Apart maybe from that black Mondeo estate from the last issue, on the cover. Ford main dealer's plates begin with "WU" instead of "CIN", so...
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