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

[gadgetgricey]

The Beeb obviously don't like Paddy flicking a single finger at the Audi. Was blurred out, but all the swearing was fine :).

 

[Dan_ZTT]

2 hours ago, hairnet said:

hyundai yes

it was a kia

[Dan_ZTT]

In 2008 I rented a base spec Dacia Logan saloon from some backstreet place in Marrakesh and drove it 6-up across a desert & back then halfway up a mountain, no a/c or radio, over about a week. Worst car I've ever driven in many ways although to its credit it didn't ever break down or fail to start, even that one time I found a live cat in the engine bay.

Anyway I can't remember the exact cost of that but I'm sure it was still more than 15 quid a day, absolutely mental those Cyprus prices. 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Dan_ZTT said:

it was a kia

i watched it for about 90 secs because mcguinness

 

[St.Jude]

12 hours ago, gadgetgricey said:

The Beeb obviously don't like Paddy flicking a single finger at the Audi. Was blurred out, but all the swearing was fine :).

All of the top brass at the Beeb drive Audi's don't you know.

[Jerzy Woking]

As I didn't take the rip off insurance with the hire companies at Alicante airport, I have a few times hired Fiat 500's for €50 for six days (in winter, admittedly).

[hairnet]

youre a hairdresser now??

 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

As I didn't take the rip off insurance with the hire companies at Alicante airport, I have a few times hired Fiat 500's for €50 for six days (in winter, admittedly).

Yup, we've had a seat Ibiza estate for six days for that sort of dough in Lanzarote. I think it was autoreisen.com?

Managed to avoid driving it down a ski slope and didn't owe any mullah on the way home....

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[barefoot]

First top gear I've started to watch in years. I managed about ten minutes before I switched it off. It's just yobs breaking cars.

'I don't want to stereotype but Quentin/Jeremy/Timothy & James possibly isn't quite the right cross section of presenters to present a laddish motoring show is it? Calling them Jezza & Tiff didn't fool me, and when they started breaking Austin Rover cars for laughs, that was the end'.

[Volksy]

I've not watched it yet, largely as I cannot abide by Paddy McGuinness......

 

He's just a loudmouth knobhead, 

[Rocket88]

7 minutes ago, Volksy said:

I've not watched it yet, largely as I cannot abide by Paddy McGuinness......

 

He's just a loudmouth knobhead, 

Agreed...the other two are just about bearable.........Flintoff is an amiable oaf, and Harris does know his stuff.

[AnthonyG]

Yeah, McGuiness is not my favourite. I quite like Flintoff, he comes across quite well and obviously knows why he’s there - the comic relief. 

Harris knows a lot about cars and has grown into the role (no pun intended). 

I like Flintoff’s choices in challenge cars - he should be on here really!

The Chrysler LeBaron convertible he chose in the last (I think) series was just pure top level shite, no question.

[HMC]

Best of British. New grand tourers; also a tribute to Stirling Moss.

[hairnet]

fuh king lol when mcguinness described as budget tv presenter from bolton

 

[Chris2cv]

I have to say that this is probably the best series that I've seen in years. That surprises even me, as I'm still not really convinced by Paddy, but I'm really enjoying it this time. I missed the first one but the others have been genuinely entertaining.  I also appreciated that nothing was destroyed this week, and a really good tribute to Sir Stirling Moss (which of course bought out my story of when I met him).

I still read the magazine, and was concerned when, rather than the usual 10 or so pages about the new series coming on, it barely made 2, that maybe even the magazine wasn't impressed. But, I've felt that it is finally coming in to it's own. Just in time for the last of the series next week! If the BBC can just manage to keep the same team and style for the next series it should be ok. But, we've been here before, and then they change everything.

[MJK 24]

I like the current three.  I liked Matt LeBlanc and Rory Reid, too.  And I liked Clarkson, Hammond and May.  Though they were beyond stale towards the end.

Perhaps I’m just easily pleased?!  It’s just an hour of harmless telly with a tenuous motoring link on a Sunday evening.  

[HMC]

I liked the moss segment. Some brilliant period footage of the Mille miglia. 1955 wasn’t all that long ago but seems a whole other planet!

[Bitzer]

Sorry to sound harsh, but all efforts to revive the former bestselling British exports from their graves fail spectacularly.

Top Gear is only one of the many. Yes, it was repetitive, yes, Clarkson plays a role of a total idiot, Hammond is a disgusting weasel, May is a pub bore.

But, man, it worked all around the globe, not only in Whitley Bay after midnight when the no-brand lager becomes scarce and the blokes switch to smuggled Ukrainian vodka.

 

[HMC]

Tonight at 8. Seen a clip of a Bedford CF1 with monster truck tires  (@eddyramrod)

Last of the present series. How was it for you?

[HMC]

[HMC]

Looks like they’ve channelled  David Bache in the dash design in that honda

[Peter C]

What a load of bollocks. Worst episode in the current series.

[Jamie]

Just now, Peter C said:

What a load of bollocks. Worst episode in the current series.

Agreed. 

[DVee8]

God this one is boring..

[Peter C]

How many more fucking times they’re gonna say Mr Nippy?

Cunts.

[Dave_Q]

Are we all watching the same thing? I thought this episode was quite good, and indeed this whole series has been the best for a while.

Shame they can only manage about 4 episodes a series nowadays.

[Peter C]

4 minutes ago, Dave_Q said:

Are we all watching the same thing? I thought this episode was quite good, and indeed this whole series has been the best for a while.

Shame they can only manage about 4 episodes a series nowadays.

The latest series was great but today’s episode was shit. Not funny, not entertaining, not informative.

That Honda’s dashboard would distract the fuck out of me. Who wants an aquarium on their dashboard? Anyway, Jaguar got there first by putting two fish tanks on the front of XJ40s.

[Dan_ZTT]

Bangers and mash in a cone though. Life changing. 

I liked it but I'm easily amused. Disappointed not to see one of the new cheap MGs in the electric car bit though. 

[Out Run]

4 hours ago, DVee8 said:

God this one is boring..

This and the last episode were trash, IMO.

[Out Run]

4 hours ago, Peter C said:

How many more fucking times they’re gonna say Mr Nippy?

Cunts.

Mistah Nippeh!