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[Z1M]

Top Gear Live goes nürburgring! May 12th – May 16th, the best motoring stunt show of the world from the most successful car-tv-magazin of the world will come to the most beautiful racetrack of the world at the most stunning race-weekend of the world. Need more reasons?! I'm gonna be there, what about you guys?
More information at: www.nuerburgring.de/topgearlive

[Lazarus II]

A bit too far for me, but I hope to watch it on the tube ;)

[BullHead]

Top Gear is a load of old toss, presented by old tossers, who should know better.... IMO

[tweiss]

Top Gear is a load of old toss, presented by old tossers, who should know better.... IMO

Why so negative?

[christoff]

Top Gear is a load of old toss, presented by old tossers, who should know better.... IMO

Guess that makes me a tosser for watching it . . . . me and a couple of others that is.

[Terrentius]

Top Gear is a load of old toss, presented by old tossers, who should know better.... IMO

I agree. And yet it is entertaining.

[fastlegs]

Top Gear could become a good program if they would get rid of the three stooges and the British bias crap.

[pacwest]

Top Gear could become a good program if they would get rid of the three stooges and the British bias crap.

Then it would cease to be Top Gear and become "Supercars Exposed"

http://www.speedtv.c...ercars-exposed/

Top Gear is fine just the way it is.

[Stormsky68]

Top gear is brilliant, its always been brilliant and will always be brilliant

I've been a fan or Jeremy Clarkson since that infamous Vauxhall road test that Tiff had to then restest....wish I could find it on youtube. Was that the old top gear?

Edited by Stormsky68, 21 April 2010 - 09:22.

[Crazy Ninja]

Top gear is brilliant, its always been brilliant and will always be brilliant

I've been a fan or Jeremy Clarkson since that infamous Vauxhall road test that Tiff had to then restest....wish I could find it on youtube. Was that the old top gear?

Im intrigued, what happened with the vauxhall road test?

[tifosiMac]

Top Gear could become a good program if they would get rid of the three stooges and the British bias crap.

Top Gear tried to continue when Clarkson left and the program didn't work. Jeremy Clarkson might not be to everybodies taste, but it is his show.
Its also a British television show primarily for the British market, so being biased to a degree is not something that needs to be addressed IMO. Foreign countries get access to watch it but if people don't agree with the content then they have their remote control.

[Bloggsworth]

Top Gear is a load of old toss, presented by old tossers, who should know better.... IMO

So you wouldn't want the franchise for the highest rated non-fictional programme in the world then....

[Owen]

Just love Top Gear. Especially the recent jungle special where Hammond called Clarkson 'a great dozy, woolly haired pillock!' Not sure about going to see them 'live' though.
When is the new series coming on?

[CoolFiltered]

Im intrigued, what happened with the vauxhall road test?

"When I first drove the Vauxhall Vectra, I remember being staggered. Vauxhall had spent a billion dollars designing this new car and what seemed like the same again on a spectacular television commercial. It was billed as a new driving force for Middle England and hopes were high.

But it was rubbish. What Vauxhall had done was take the ingredients of a car - four wheels, some doors and a coat hook - and nailed them together in a coffee break. It's like cooking. You can give me the freshest vegetables and the tenderest meat but the end product will still be a brown sludge. I don't have the flair to make your taste buds sing.

And I was reminded again this week that Vauxhall is in the sludge business too. I hired a Vectra to find out if by any freak chance it had matured with age but we're not talking vintage port here. This car has grown old as gracefully as milk. It should now be called the Vauxhall cheese.

It does nothing well until you get to a corner...which it does badly. It really is as poised as a fat man tight-rope walking, constantly lurching from side to side as it tries to regain its balance. And all the time, there's the accompaniment of an almost Phil Collins-like blandness.

Really and truly, I cannot dis-recommend this car highly enough."


I'm not sure if the clip was removed from youtube at the request of the BBC, I'm pretty certain though that love it or hate it Top Gear is the most pirated tv show in the world.



Edit: I think the really infamous one was the earlier incarnation of the car, when it was known as a Cavalier.

Edited by CoolFiltered, 21 April 2010 - 12:59.

[sumpthy]

I agree. And yet it is entertaining.

It's not entertaining in spite of them being tossers, it's entertaining because they are tossers

[Crazy Ninja]

Hehe Clarkson doesnt hold back does he? I love the show myself, its a far cry from when i started watching it on bbc2 at 8.30 on Thursdays (i think it was anyway), but its great entertainment on a Sunday evening. I know they've been filming for the new series but im not sure when its due to air.

[Owen]

Hehe Clarkson doesnt hold back does he? I love the show myself, its a far cry from when i started watching it on bbc2 at 8.30 on Thursdays (i think it was anyway), but its great entertainment on a Sunday evening. I know they've been filming for the new series but im not sure when its due to air.

2 words: William Woolard.

[Crazy Ninja]

*Googles William Woolard*

[Owen]

*Googles William Woolard*

*suddenly feels quite old*

[Crazy Ninja]

*suddenly feels quite old*

*feels bad he made Owen think bout his age* sorry man! If it makes you feel any better im only 21 and have already resorted to writing everything down cos i cant remember a thing!

Edited by Crazy Ninja, 21 April 2010 - 15:44.

[Owen]

*feels bad he made Owen think bout his age* sorry man! If it makes you feel any better im only 21 and have already resorted to writing everything down cos i cant remember a thing!

No probs man . I remember Top Gear when it was a very, very different programme in the late 70's / early 80's. It was a very serious, po faced affair, and very much a consumer advice/public service type thing. It had articles about road safety, caravans and fuel economy. Some of the presenters even had beards (Chris Goffey).

Needless to say I much prefer the current incarnation!! and my son is a fan too.

[Rubens Hakkamacher]

and the British bias crap.

I agree, how un-American of them.

[fastlegs]

Then it would cease to be Top Gear and become "Supercars Exposed"

That's what I'd like to see.

My idea of top gear would be to have the likes of Martin Brundle, David Coulthard and other professional racers testing and demonstrating supercars and giving straight up non-bias reviews of them.

[bobqzzi]

That's what I'd like to see.

My idea of top gear would be to have the likes of Martin Brundle, David Coulthard and other professional racers testing and demonstrating supercars and giving straight up non-bias reviews of them.

Don't you think that would be incredibly boring?

Top Gear is hilarious and really does get to the essence of being a car nut.

[BullHead]

Top Gear is hilarious and really does get to the essence of being a car nut.

I think perhaps that's my problem. I'm not a car nut, I'm a motorsport nut.

I'll admit though there are the odd funny moments. It's just that reviewing road cars bores the hell out of me, and these has-beens trying so damn hard to act younger than they actually are is excruciating....