[Closed] No new Top Gear thread?

Me too. Proper laugh out loud here.

Caught a little while I had my tea but seemed pretty good I’ll watch it tomorrow as I’m at work.

Really enjoyed it, perfect Sunday TV.

That was rather fun.

Not keen on that ferrari looks a bit Honda. Not that I’m in the market. What’s the funny man done to his hair?

Who hosts it now?

Who hosts it now?

One person who can drive and knows about cars and two witless buffoons who should go back to advertising online bingo and payday loans.

I was honestly laughing out loud. When they opened the tins in the cars and Chris looked like he was heaving up 😆

Great fun. Just finished watching it now and I was crying laughing at the Swedish Surstromming bit at the end! 😂

Harris genuinely looked ill. Did I miss something or did they say the Beemer got 1.02.13 on the car park hill climb? Hence beating the Tesla’s 1.05? But then they said it won.

That SF90 lap didn’t look real. Visibly rapid car.. 0-100 in 4.5 seconds.. wild.

Anyway, cracking episode and looking forward to next week already.

Am quite surprised. I think it's unwatchable now.

I quite like the Chris chap but the other two should go back to what they know. It's embarrassing.

Odd one out here as thought it was lacking any new content or 'real' humour. Nights in cars done before, clambering over new cars and creditable crashing, hmmmm. Racing round carparks.... new idea for chavs . Ferrari looked like a lambo at the front and rear was different from anything made in Maranello before. I like all three characters and know this is a difficult time to film , such as the outside studio/ field , but I hope it gets better............

Paddy's head like a glitter ball.

Ferrari bin crashed into a sharks arse.

It's not for me, always interested in tests of interesting cars but the driving round Bolton stuff - forget it. Gave it 15 minutes before hitting fast forward to the SF90 test - that was fine, the rest was pigswill.

I thought it was pretty good, several laughs here.

Did I miss something or did they say the Beemer got 1.02.13 on the car park hill climb? Hence beating the Tesla’s 1.05? But then they said it won.

Wasn't the Tesla 1 minute 0.5 seconds? (1:00.5 not 1:05). And Chris showboating all the way up wasting time...I bet they couldn't bring themselves to let the BMW win through driver skill when its clearly the slower car so just wasted time going sideways.

Gave it 15 minutes before hitting fast forward to the SF90 test – that was fine

You are not the target audience...I thought that bit was boring. Supercar. Racetrack. OK if you want to dream about owning a Ferrari I suppose!

Best bit of lockdown TV so far.

Although the whole 24hr car test thing and gags has been done before.

Plus the fact the Volvo was an old car immediately made me think they were planning on something happening to it

Decent entertainment but quite a few bits were cringey rather than funny

OK if you want to dream about owning a Ferrari I suppose!

Genuine question I don't know the answer to - are there many 'interesting' normal money car releases any more? Cars a normal person could aspire to buy that do things differently. I'm thinking of when the mk1 Audi TT came out, or the Toyota GT86 or the mk1 MX5. I guess the new car-for-the-almost-masses worth discussing now are going to be leccy.

Didn't even notice it was coming back until I saw it in the Sky planner at 7.55.

Quite good with some genuine laugh out loud moments, although Freddie still looks like a bully to me.

Got a few naughty words in and I'm sure Paddy mentioned 'just like the nineties' when coke and piss were mentioned 😉

It’s become the show containing cars that you go to if you don’t mind not really learning much about the cars, with a car review thrown in.

Embarrassing, a nice guy selling out his dignity and two proper ***** doing a second rate job. Had to switch over unfortunately, Project Binky it is not.

Plus the fact the Volvo was an old car

Private plate rather than an old car?

Well, that's brought the Haterz out anyway!

The car that got sprayed with Surstromming when the can opened is probably a write-off. 🙂

It’s become the show containing cars that you go to if you don’t mind not really learning much about the cars, with a car review thrown in.

It has been like that for years and it seems to entertain a lot of people based just on this thread which is fine, Strictly come dancing entertains lots of people too as does Get me out of here. I just choose not to watch them.

For actual cars stuff YouTube has been a much better source than shows like Top Gear for at least 10 years and it is getting better all the time as production quality has increased over those years.

I enjoyed it for the most part.

I think the current line up has jelled well, although I miss Matt LeBlanc, but not Rory.

Personally the Company Car thing didn't really set my world on fire, and it made up the bulk of the episode. I was surprisingly moved by seeing Paddy in his old Street.

Best TG in years...and that was even allowing for the fact that it was pretty content thin in this first episode. Looking forward to the rest of the series, although given the timing of filming it will be interesting to see how they deal with it.

Also seriously considering a Tesla for the first time ever!

Also seriously considering a Tesla for the first time ever!

Is it just me that doesn't like the styling of the Tesla? It looks like a jelly mould. I like the interior of it though, but that isn't enough to sway me to get one.

supercar segment was a bit dull. It's pretty much copy and paste now.
24hrs in a car thing wasn't really that funny. pretty low brow.

pretty low brow.

I'm obviously more their target market then 🤷‍♂️

I've got a can of Surströmming in the fridge, it's starting to bulge a bit, best before end of Feb 21 apparently.

Video of you opening it in a confined space would liven up a dull autumn day.

I thought last series was pretty good. I thought last night was piss poor. Looking forward to the one where they bin the Diablo.

I’m obviously more their target market then

Yep, as are millions of others. I can watch some low brow stuff but for me Top Gear is low brow while also not particularly funny or worth watching but then you would probably think that of the low brow stuff I watch (i.e. I spent a few hours watching The Boys just this weekend)

If the car aspect was removed and the show was the same three people doing the same sort of shit I wouldn't watch that either as I don't really like any of them and don't find them amusing at all.

I made it as far as a joke about needing the loo when in a car for 24h and switched over. Don't think I found poo jokes funny when I was a pre-teen, don't now either.

I like it but if i didn’t I would just turn over. Pretty simple. It’s a formula I successfully apply to loads of telly.

I don't expect to enjoy everything or like everyone on tele. That is why we have multiple channels

Is it just me that doesn’t like the styling of the Tesla? It looks like a jelly mould. I like the interior of it though, but that isn’t enough to sway me to get one.

They seem to photograph / video very badly, even Teslas own material makes them look like a entry level Astra from about 5 years ago.

That's not to say they're wild in real life, but the design looks so much better in person.

I recently saw my very first Tesla and it reminded me of an early ford sierra, the panel gaps were bloody awful looking

Top Gear - it was OK. The company car bit went on too long, and the only other bit was the Ferrari. I think it needs a few 'articles' per episode, especially when the company car bit wasn't exactly enthralling. I liked the car park race - I take it they spent a while looking for a nice wide modern car park, because most car parks I go to would be way too tight to drive a car around them like that. I was waiting for someone to whack a pillar. I assume they do a few practice goes as well, because car parks are disorienting at the best of times, let alone when trying to hoof it all the way up as fast as possible.

My pick of the company cars would have been the Volvo I think.
What Tesla are doing is pretty amazing and there is very little argument for not being able to accept a car that can do such a long way on batteries...but....they have some way to go in terms of build quality from what I have seen, the massive touch screen just looks awful from an ergonomics point of view & the styling on all models is bland/grim. If the model 3 had a Kia badge on it, I reckon the poor styling would be made a bigger thing of. It is probably very aero, but it just looks awful.

Is it just me that doesn’t like the styling of the Tesla?

Not just you but they do look a bit better in the flesh and look the worst in white IMO (at least in terms of accentuating the jelly mould styling). In the blue or grey it looks less quirky (but unfortunately they're £1k options)

I've been a bit of a part time watcher for a number of years - more of a watch it on iplayer when bored/procrastinating from going to bed kind of viewer.

But on the basis of that either I've moved on or it has moved on and I think I might be done.

I think it was Harris who mentioned somewhere that they were severely limited on what they could film in the timescales they had so each show is a bit lighter on different segments this series. Guessing they had to do longer edits of the company car stuff hence the same jokes reappearing a bit.

Considering the times we live in I'd say that was a good attempt at a near-normal show. Will be interesting to see how the open air format evolves.

Not just you but they do look a bit better in the flesh and look the worst in white

Yeah I have seen plenty in the flesh (I live in Harrogate where every other car is a Tesla or a Range Rover) 🙂

I recently saw my very first Tesla and it reminded me of an early ford sierra, the panel gaps were bloody awful looking

Yeah I thought that was a myth until I looked up close at one a few months ago, it was like a 1980s Rover.

The thing I dont like about the Model 3 is the windows seem too big for the car, gives it an airy cabin though I suppose. I'd have the Volvo though, lovely thing.

Last night was alright, Bit meh for me TBH. The 24hr thing didnt work for me and the Ferrari is just another complicated hypercar to me, looked ****in' quick though!

Like the drive in format too, It'll pick up I'm sure

I've been a reasonable fan of TG over the years, but I have to say that Tesla/BMW/Volvo piece was probably the worst clip they've even done. Possibly to the level of Clarkson et al driving round for 20 monutes 'pretending' to be Peugeot drivers. Could guess the 'but it doesn't feel like a Ferrari' punchline after about 20 seconds. Fastforwarded most of it in case there was anything else but it was poor to be honest.

If its so affect by covid then it makes you wonder why they've not waited. Whatever was filmed for that episode was clearly pre-covid so either go with a shorter format, or pack in a few more features. Noticeable how much filler the celebrity guests part actually fills, suppose nobody is flogging their new film/book/album at moment.

Shame, thought they were just getting into their stride in the past series. Feels like (to coin a terrible pun) they need park it for now until they can either get back to normal or get a bit more creative.