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

[Tamworthbay]

Much better (until Eddie turned up) and that GT is gorgeous but describing the GT40 as American is laughable, it was designed by Lola racing and the last time I looked Huntingdon isn't in the USA.

[Mr Lobster]

I'm enjoying it.  Old new Top Gear (ie last of the Clarkson era) was tedious and I didn't normally get to the end before being distracted by something (anything?) else. This series, I like.

[HMC]

For a good example of how awful the old one was, watch the modern Peugeot driver bit from 2015. It was feckin awful. I'd given up watching the old one by this point but say it on Dave the other week. Unbearable. If it was a 5 minute skit, fine but they dragged the fecker on for 20 odd minutes.

Painful.

^ This. The ultimate reminder of how things had gone off the boil toward the end. All the old ingredients but frankly awful.

[garethj]

The Grand Tour seems to do the same thing - some of the jokes are funny when told once, but when you drag it out four times as long it's barely an embarrassed cringe.

[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).