NEW New new new New top gear ON HOLD, RIP?

[saucedoctor]

Enjoyed this one as well. Incidentally, I watched it on iPlayer, which at the end of TG offered me a programme called "The Friday Documentary - The Mini is 30", seemingly presented by Spike Milligan.

[Junkman]

American presenter, "ayloominoom cawer", filmed in America, who is the fastest Top Gear presenter filmed in America,

 

FUCK OFF!

[garbaldy]

American presenter, "ayloominoom cawer", filmed in America, who is the fastest Top Gear presenter filmed in America,

 

FUCK OFF!

Yeh but petrol is cheeper in America.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The last two have been alright tbh. Wish they'd lose RR though.

[DVee8]

i have just started to watch it now on playback.I quite like MLB(the guy from the fat department).lol

[Junkman]

I quite liked how that Californian fruitcake organising the desert race put Chris in his place.

I also liked that the only Guinness drinking F1 team owner of evah dislikes Matt Le Plank as much as I do.

[forddeliveryboy]

Still staggered at the brazen two-facedness of the BBC who are quick to sack JC for moral purposes, then re-screen his old programmes over and over on their commercial, profit-making network. And plagiarise the format devised by him and his production team lock, stock and barrel for the newnewnew(new)TG.

 

It seems many have not yet realised that just because those in positions of power in modern Britain fall over themselves trying to appear 'of the people' rather than wearing tweed and shooting to kill at weekends, they're any less removed from the common decency of the man in the street. It's likely the modern CEO has far fewer scruples than what preceded him or her.

 

I see all those programmes the licence payer payed for are now trying to be sold back to the public, for £££s in a form of barely-concealed theft, yet the words Thatcher and enterprise are supposedly dirty ones in those politically-correct corridors of our state broadcaster.

[Junkman]

Wow.

If you deal sweeping blows, you do it well and proper.

[forddeliveryboy]

Thank you, I specialise in generalisation.

 

For that gracious analysis I've popped your thanks cherry.

[anonymous user]

Don't be tweedist, I was taught that you should always shoot to kill, rather than to maim. I accept that those who like to administer a good telling off via the kneecaps may disagree.

[anonymous user]

Enjoyed this one as well. Incidentally, I watched it on iPlayer, which at the end of TG offered me a programme called "The Friday Documentary - The Mini is 30", seemingly presented by Spike Milligan.

Spike was a great fan of the mini and promoted it many times.

[dollywobbler]

Just watched the latest one. Gorgeous filming, pretty much ruined by Eddie Jordan. He is to amusement what Germaine Greer is to the world of strippers.

[alcyonecorporation]

INEVITABLE ANGRY COMMENTS ABOUT TOP GEAR ON INTERNET

[dollywobbler]

INEVITABLE ANGRY COMMENTS ABOUT TOP GEAR ON INTERNET

 

Sorry to disappoint, but the mere fact that I actually decided to watch every episode of this series suggests it's only Eddie Jordan that makes me angry.

[alcyonecorporation]

Sorry to disappoint, but the mere fact that I actually decided to watch every episode of this series suggests it's only Eddie Jordan that makes me angry.

GENERAL ANGRY INTERNET COMMENTS ABOUT TOP GEAR FROM PEOPLE OTHER THAN DOLLYWOBBLER (ABORTIONS FOR SOME, MINIATURE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR OTHERS).

[Arthur Foxhake]

It's not going away. Either watch it and enjoy it, or don't.

 

I still see no need in "wasting an hour of your time" then logging onto a computer, opening a forum and making a post to say you didn't enjoy what you just watched.

 

Dollywobbler comments aside. He is right. Eddie Jordan is a cock.

[alcyonecorporation]

I watch TGT and TG (WTF LOL BSC SSC) so I know what's going on. No point in kicking a dog if you can't even see the bastard.

 

Plus, kicking dogs is snide. Kick a dog and I'll kick you.

 

Don't kick dogs.

[flat4alfa]

What if the dog kicks first though?

 

It could be the ideal chance to experience a tit-for-tat physical strike experience with a dog.  

And write about it afterwards if it went well.

[Felly Magic]

I accidentally saw Rory Reid in a youtube clip of nutjob Colin Furze's soapbox racer doobry, and bloody hell, if he was anymore wooden, he'd be a garden shed

[HMC]

Again with very little publicity, NNNTG is on tonight- easy to miss as I think it wasn't scheduled last week.

 

Rory and Chris on a Cuban road trip. How big is Cuba? Will they buy shonky roadside repaired 50s yanks ( my preferred trip is when they have to buy used cars for the journey) or will it be about the latest supercars (my least favourite sort of road trip, yawn)

[HMC]

£5k Maserati biturbo and £5k Chevrolet Camaro have been bought

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Well - I thought it was excellent tonight. Proper car stuff and a few good laughs along the way, and no cars smashed up apart from a couple of Ovlov S40 scrappers. 

 

 

Yeah. S'alright.

[For Fiats Sake]

£5k Maserati biturbo and £5k Chevrolet Camaro have been bought

Both cars have already featured in Clarkson era TG, as had the guest, I was almost expecting the same anecdote about his tank.

Wasn't really watching it but it was on.  Says a lot really when browsing auto trader is more interesting.  The thing is I don't really care what they think of anything, or what they do either.  At least the old trinity could make me laugh (and continue to do on Dave).

[RoadworkUK]

"How do they manage to get so little power out of such a big engine?"

 

Copyright J Clarkson circa 2004

[Ghosty]

Both cars have already featured in Clarkson era TG,

 

Old Top Gear dropped a skip on a Biturbo.

[overrun]

I thought it was shit. Sick of every man and his dog going to Cuba and not showing us anything new.

At least when Clarkson went in the 90s he was shown how to make a brake fluid substitute from brown sugar and shampoo, and drove Castro's Chevy.

 

Seen the guest before, seen the challenge cars before. The whole thing was very very meh (and I only watch it for light entertainment).

[Junkman]

There are people, paid real money to do a motoring programme, who don't know a '55 Olds 88?

It's getting a bit dire.

 

I want that Sennebogen.

[Tamworthbay]

There are people, paid real money to do a motoring programme, who don't know a '55 Olds 88?

It's getting a bit dire.

 

I want that Sennebogen.

Most people, motoring or not, have very little interest in yank motors. I can name most cars from defunct communist states half way across the world but can list the number of yank cars I can recognise on one side of a4. Some people love them but a some see them as a bit naff and pointless.

 

It is getting better, but the celebrity bit still really grates even when it's someone like Ross Noble.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Most people, motoring or not, have very little interest in yank motors. I can name most cars from defunct communist states half way across the world but can list the number of yank cars I can recognise on one side of a4. Some people love them but a some see them as a bit naff and pointless.

 

It is getting better, but the celebrity bit still really grates even when it's someone like Ross Noble.

 

Particularly when it's Ross Noble.  Is he a comedian?  Is he funny?!

[rantingYoof]

I'm trying to remember a time when I sat down to watch (or even put on in the background) a TV show which had repeatedly annoyed/irritated/bored me. Maybe I'm more reluctant to give benefit of the doubt to TV shows - I watched just one of those new Tracy Ulman sketch shows and determined that I would never ever watch one again even though the sketches do change from show to show.

 

It looks like it's slowly growing on a few people which is why they give repeat business but to others it clearly remains a repetitive/uninteresting/unoriginal affair. Going by the thousands of people who descend on the Top Gear Faceache's comments page to whinge about how the presenters are simply not JC and co or how a comment that was made on last night's show was once also made in an approximate form by JC himself umpteen years ago, the unhappy crowd have the real power to just not watch it and cause the viewing figures to plummet to new depths, but are not seemingly doing so.

 

Therefore, I'd like to thank these folk for continuing to watch it and, by doing so, nicely bolstering the viewing figures so that the producers are appropriately reassured to continue making more of the same. I've happened to enjoyed every episode so far, albiet the latter episodes more than the first couple, and I am keen for them to continue on the same path.

 

There are certainly some good points made by critics - the star-in-a-car bit is slightly better than it was before but could still be ditched quite easily and not missed. Rory needs to finetune his presenting style a bit for me personally to stop being irritated and I can understand why others want him gone altogether.

 

But otherwise, I felt that last night's episode was one of the best for a good few years. While this isn't saying that much, admittedly, it's made me feel positive about the directions it may go in the future.