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And what a dreadful series it has been. Probably the worst by some margin, and that is saying something given the last few years. However I will be watching again tonight. Why? Because it has a feature on the Ferrari F40, probably my favourite car ever.
I've commented on some of the (mostly negative) threads that have appeared on here during the current series and people have said "don't watch it if you don't like it" or "that's what your remote is for" etc, and doubtless they will say it again but I am a petrol head, and despite how terrible the set ups are, and how cringe-worthy the "acting" and interplay has become I love to see fast cars tearing round a track. I could happily watch an hour of Ferrari's driving round a track without any sort of narrative or structure really, actually that might be preferable.
I would imagine that many people who, like me dislike it but still watch it are compelled by fond memories of the show and a real passion for seeing exotic cars, stylishly shot, being driven fast.
So I thought I would kick this one off, get my retaliation in first as it were. Here's hoping the F40 feature is worth the watch.
but I am a petrol head
But Top Gear isn't a car show. It's a comedy show for the middle-aged. Couldn't you stand on a bridge and watch the traffic or something?
*yawn @ these threads*
don't like it, don't watch it, stop bleating about it. 😉
Yes - I think yo have it right. I used to be a regular watcher of Top Gear but it has become rather worn now - they seem to have run out of inspiration and have simply been going over old ground this season.
I'll admit I'm more amused by the "three blokes mucking about" nature of the programme than I am the cars themselves, it's just that it used to seem natural and now it's formulaic.
Rachel
I could happily watch an hour of Ferrari's driving round a track
yeh but a zonda is quicker 😉
Slagging it off before it has even started!
My TV has an off button for stuff I don't like.
South American special currently on Dave. And I'm watching it cos it's very good.
Slagging it off before it has even started!My TV has an off button for stuff I don't like.
My TV has an on button that wont get used tonight.
And what a dreadful series it has been
seriuosly? i've never watched top gear until this series and i love it. has me in utter stitches. would have tuned in years ago had i known it was so funny.
last week's, where clarksons justification for the star in a car was that she was bisexual and liked guns and muscle cars was brilliant. and when he ragged that bmw near off the track chasing stig and just looked at the on-board camera and smiled was class.
so if you reckon this series is not as good, and i can't argue as i have no idea whether it is or no, i'm off to ebay to see if i can buy some past series dvds.
and another thing... sod stating jedi as your religion in the census, put down disciple of clarkson.
sod stating jedi as your religion in the census, put down disciple of clarkson
that takes sadness to new levels
i agree with jim jam, as a petrol head from an early age i turn on the tv and wait for a car program to start.
then i turn off and do something less boring instead. it's utter sh*te and the donkeys get paid a huge chunk of our money for it. excellent lets just role over and accept that the rich t*ssers are going to get richer and everyone else is going to get screwed over.
they're missing the point with electric cars too, electric cars are NOT the way forward the way forward hasn't been thought up yet but chucking money at batteries which need replacing in a few years and the old ones go where, land fill? waste of time.
blank sheet of paper needed.
Good news everyone! Last in the series means no more Top Gear threads on Sunday nights.
Hallelujah!
Arrrrrrrrggggh.... top gear is NOT a car show. It's a middle aged blokey comedy show. Clarkson, Hammond and May are caricitures and I doubt if they are anything like themselves. They should be treated as such. If you don't like it don't watch it......
i'm off to ebay to see if i can buy some past series dvd
gavtheoldskater, I'd go to Dave channel first
LittleTones - MemberArrrrrrrrggggh.... top gear is NOT a car show. It's a middle aged blokey comedy show
5thElefantBut Top Gear isn't a car show. It's a comedy show for the middle-aged.
It hasn't always been that way, and I'm not referring to the original show that spawned this format. When the new format was launched there were many more car focused features and much less "acting". Wacthing the older series' on dave it's like watching a different show. They actually tested cars, all be it in hyperbolic ways occasionally, but the emphasis was on the vehicles.
Even the style and content of the car tests themselves was slightly more objective, and not sensationalist knee jerk nonsense like saying a car is completely rubbish because if it's sat nav or some other twaddle.
Harry_the_Spider
My TV has an off button for stuff I don't like.
rOcKeTdOg - Member
*yawn @ these threads*
don't like it, don't watch it, stop bleating about it
I watch it for the cars. Strongly dislike the rest of it. And I'm hardly going to stop bleating about it as per your suggestions - this is an internet forum after all.
that takes sadness to new levels
and putting down jedi is'nt?
at least clarkson stands for healthy blokey red blooded hetro stuff exactly like bisexual women, fast cars and guns..
...whereas jedis just walk around in daft girly robes feeling each others force!
Jimjam I don't agree but I accept your comments..........
Blimey, I hope you're trolling there, gav, otherwise comparing a fictional ancient religion to a middle-age-spreading TV presenter is... disturbing.
Isn't 5th Gear for car anoraks? Or has that been pulled because nobody watched it?
last week's, where clarksons justification for the star in a car was that she was bisexual and liked guns and muscle cars was brilliant
Good God man - you can't post anything like that on here, you'll leave in flames.
I agree, but 99% of the other turds on here wont.
Oh, I'm neanderthal though, so you might want to disregard my opinion.
5thElefant - Member
Isn't 5th Gear for car anoraks? Or has that been pulled because nobody watched it?
No it's turned into a budget copycat of top gear without the originality, but with the ad breaks
the other turds on here wont
they'll be the jedi believing ones then! : )
There was a tractor just now on Countryfile. "POWWWER"
Is the door on that 959 not closed properly?
959 - WANT.
Last in series? The info screen on my telebox says 6/7, does that not mean there is another program left?
F40 far superior flashy my boy
Don't care. Always loved a 959, F40 looks like a go cart.
There might be a special, or a best bits off..... the first christmas special wasn't incuded in the series either.
Well, that bit was good.
FFS any excuse to revisit Senna 🙄
Geography lesson for Clarkson.
Britian's most westerly point is Ardnamurchan point, not Land's End
And what, al, is wrong with that? The man was a genius, humanitarian and hero to many.
cynic-al - Member
FFS any excuse to revisit Senna
****ing cock
overtaking on chevroned cetner lines? Tut tut!
Am i right in thinking Ardnamurchan is the most westerly point in mainland britain, rather than Land's End?
Nowt wrong with that. But his blatant speeding has plenty wrong with it.
Pook that is roughly correct.
You are right. That's why I said it up there ^
nowt wrong with overtaking on chevroned center lines? They are there for a purpose! DANGER DANGER Will Robinson!
Corrachadh Mòr is the most westerly point on the british mainland.
Highway Code - 109. Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.
• If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
• If the area is marked with diagonal stripes and bordered by solid white lines, you should not enter it except in an emergency.
• If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency.
Was it not from Englan's most Westerly point?
That sun looked like it had risen to me....
Fair enough, by around 30 metres. Ardnamurchan Point is generally recognised as the most Westerly point on the GB mainland though, albeit inaccurately by that short distance.
A good 22 miles West of Land's End
dave_aber - Member
Geography lesson for Clarkson.Britian's most westerly point is Ardnamurchan point, not Land's End
Did he mention Britain?
CFH - Well, he DID leave from England's most Westerly point, but as he did it he claimed it was Britain's most Westerly point.
Did he mention Britain?
Yes, he did.
I got three points for overtaking on chevrons.
Yes, he did.
Fair enough 🙂 I couldn't remember, hence the question.
Man, I hate Prescott but, he is making Clarkson look a cock (and the audience) - I now have a certain feeling of ambivolance towards him. ;o)
Prescott is a ****
Prescott is a ****
+1
Probably because he's getting paid for it.
yeah I do feel a bit sorry for him
Bits of him are quite far West too.
I wouldn't quite say that Prescott is making Clarkson look like a cock. He is after all skilled in spin, so I personally wouldn't trust much of what he says anyway. Clarkson is being his usual arrogant self. Methinks that makes two such protagonists.
Ok losers...how many times has this set of has-heens revisited the past FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER other that for self publicity. I mean, F40? FFS
Cashing on on Senna again? Hmmm is there anything of the barrel left?
OMG someone In the audience (oddly enough not one of the hotties in the front row) has something to say!!!!!!
🙄
About the only good part of this episode is the Moon Buggy bit. The 959/F40 feature was just to let Hammond rag them up and down for no real reason. The Cool Wall was the same old shite as usual, most of this series has been dull and predictable.
Hope the new series in Summer is better.
Cashing on on Senna again?
What you on about - it was a heads up for a documentary
Exactly.
Only 4 months to wait until the next series. Excellent
Surprisingly, if he'd done that 'race' right, from Corrachadh Mòr to Lowestoft Ness it would be 554 miles - less than 100 miles more than the route he took. He'd have had to average over 72mph though.....
Oh well that last of this series of "Last of the summer wine", oops sorry top Gear
I hear they're changing the base product next series. Same format, different mode of transport. They'll still have The Stig but dressed in full-face helmet and body armour. They'll be ragging carbon fibre finery around a XC course, putting a star on a reasonable priced hardtail, extracting the urine from singlespeed riders and following Hanibal through the Alps on full-sussers. Wonder what the viewing figures will be like... 😕 😆
Oh well that last of this series of "Last of the summer wine", oops sorry top Gear
Shame, I'll miss seeing Cleggy driving an old tin bath down the hill gurning at the camera and saying something homophobic, misogynist or racist.
Can't wait for the Summer series!
They were just rude about the Yaris Verso! Unless anything unplanned happens I am not waiting to die. It does, however, carry bikes very well and is brilliant for nipping to the shops with the baby and pram in the back. Grrrr, BBC madness. They have gone too far this time. Can I have my licence fee back please?
After watching Stewart Lee my opinion of Top Gear is more amusing now 😀
And yes I did download it illegaly.
They were just rude about the Yaris Verso
Not sure how they pick the cars to comment on; maybe the point is that those that have one aren't shy about saying their car isn't the most important thing in their life. BTW, I've just ordered a Roomster....
mcmoonter - Member
I got three points for overtaking on chevrons.
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But were there solid or broken lines surrounding them? Can't say I noticed the lines on the TG piece though (although the thought crossed my mind about whether it was legal or not).
I actually liked the bit about the 959 and the F40
I'm always up for a bit of nostalgia especially where cars are concerned. Sure it was just an excuse for Hammond to rag some cars around, but it just made me wish I had his job
I know the top gear boys are homophobic, misogynist, racist buffoons but its still quite amusing, and that does not mean I subscribe to their point of view
Stewart Lee is not funny, but +1 wtf, it did make watching top gear a bit funnier
Get a grip people -TG is exactly what it is supposed to be - an alternative to watching dancing on ice or any other cack on a Sunday night! Good series? No, not particularly - entertaining for an hour? -yes I think so. And who gives a flinkin' blip about where he started from, the XJ was good and they would have rigged the film if he'd arrived an hour later anyway! Accept it for the light entertainment that it is or don't watch!
Love cars, hate reactionary old men.
You turn into what you hate.
They were just rude about the Yaris Verso!
I didn't understand that bit, how come its only just made it to the Cool Wall when Toyota stopped making it 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe they've made a mistake and thought it was the Verso S that was launched a few weeks ago 🙄
I hate Prescott but, he is making Clarkson look a cock (and the audience)
I must have watched a different show to you. Prescott came across like a total nob. It makes me wonder who votes for utter scumbags like that. Oh, hang on...
ScottChegg +1
Prescott [s]was [/s] is an arse
WTF > I got wind of Stewart Lee's 'If You Prefer A Milder Comedian...' from a previous thread on Top Gear. The finest piece of stand up I have ever seen.
I love it how people are complaining about them driving old cars..... it is a car show....
I liked last nights episode.
Prescott was a bit hard done by on the lap, never seen that much standing water on the track before.
Quite like James May (and cars) but the other two are just beyond irritating. Ultimate middle aged middle of the road 'blokey' tossers.