Aw, come on, Redrum, cheer up! I finally watched the segment; they were delighted with Vette's handling and how fun generally it is (and that's what this car is all about, right?), and they noted that it is rather affordable, contrary to all those other cars that raced it. OK, they perhaps overdid that "leaf spring" thing (I would have mentioned that transversal composite leaf spring is quite a clever solution), but they needed something to joke about. As for "The Colonies", if you lost two and a half continets worth of them, you too would make self-effacing jokes about it.