TG chats to OneRepublic star - Top Gear
“My first car was the biggest piece of sh** in America in the 1990s,” Ryan Tedder tells TG. Ryan Tedder, if you’ve been living in a cave for, hmm, most of the noughties, is the lead singer of the lightly successful American pop group OneRepublic... Turns out while he’s not larking around making music, he’s actually really into his cars. Just not his very first one, that is. “ Consumer Reports released an article in 2000, called the ‘top ten worst cars of the last decade’,” he tells us, wide-eyed. “Number one - go research it - was the Eagle Premier. Based on a Renault 25, it used either Renault or AMC engines and an Audi-sourced gearbox. Tedder’s not a fan of this, his first ever car. “Mine was a 1991 model, white on white. Easily the worst car I’ve ever driven. This has piqued Top Gear’s interest, because we want to know more about the car history of one of the most successful musicians in the world. It’s a toss up. My wife’s got a G-Wagen - the G55 - one of the best cars we’ve ever owned. I own an Icon FJ44, you guys know what it is, right. Very few people know what it is. I went off-roading in it recently. Came across a pack of wild llamas and wild mountain goats up in the rockies. Source: www.topgear.com
