Chris wrote:

I also remember him saying it was mostly full of Phillips he knows!

He did indeed. Something like "I know it's only rebadged Phillips, but I like it...". I cringed.

Chris wrote:

This was my favourite show, but has now become nothing other than an insulting Pantomime. Insulting to the people it tries to get you to laugh at, and our intelligence because they actualy think we really didn't realise the caravan etc would catch fire

Brits just do not like the arrogance, the pre-written and staged silliness and so on. I read an interview recently where Hammond was saying that he expected Top Gear to be cancelled soon (a lot of people are calling for it), but the BBC couldn't just cancel as it's one of their most successful exported shows. It's bigger outside the UK than it's home country, by a long way.

And yep, Beobuddy, all those so-called off-the-cuff comments are written, staged and carefully constructed. Same with the "stunts". I think Brits are so naturally pessimistic, that we sussed that a long time ago :)

If they want something new, and funny i would ditch Hammond and employ Sabine the German female driver. Not only is she a fearless and fantastic driver, she also has a good personality that would humiliate and embarrass Clarkson. Genuinly funny.

Sorry have to go my caravan has fallen over the cliff, and burst into flames on a Robin Reliant.

Beobuddy wrote:

Does someone know which episode it was when they visited France and drove over the Millau bridge? I remember that had a very nice scenery and sound also.

Here it is : Supercars do France

Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWA33mGUXM

Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TC4G3F4FY 

Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFbG-4VWqpA

Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXczwwtwY0M

I especially like the Parisian part, where they cannot get out of the parking... It's sometimes difficult to "escape" this kind of parkings with a simple Peugeot, so with a Zonda... 😎

The one thing Top Gear has is a female audience. My wife is not interested in cars at all, yet she can watch an episode of Top Gear.

The other car show, Fifth Gear(?), is pretty ordinary and wooden in comparison...

Chris wrote:

 

Sorry have to go my caravan has fallen over the cliff, and burst into flames on a Robin Reliant.

😁

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Evan wrote:

bayerische wrote:

Razlaw wrote:

mediabobny wrote:

'Loved the episode that was supposed to be a 3-way comparison of a R-R Ghost, Mercedes S65 AMG, and Bentley Mulsanne.  Bentley at the last moment refused to lend them a car so they substituted a Yugo and reviewed it as if it were the Bentley.  Good stuff..

I agree. Great episode. 

Also liked the one where they were driving here in the USA and Clarkson had a cow on his roof.

 

Which episode is that?

 

The trip through the deep south!

I've seen the deep south, but the one with RR, MB and the Yugo?

It simply isn't true to say'most brits' don't watch Top Gear anymore. It's regularly BBC2s highest rating show by a country mile bringing in 5.4 million viewers and would get into the top ten of all television in the UK if you exclude soap operas. I think car enthusiasts may well have become tired with it but families and the general public enjoy it immensely - it is an entertainment show with a motoring theme not a car review show as it was in the days on Noel Edmonds et al.

Totally agree with simon8201 - it is a great show and it's hugely entertaining - the three presenter work well together and they are having fun. There is so much rubbish on TV now that we have all the satellite and digital channells that Top Gear is miles ahead.

Everyone to their own I guess - I mean how many more times can the other channells show Last of the Summer Wine, Come Dine with Me, To the Manor Born, Porridge, George and Mildred - all, imo absolute rubbish and donkeys years old. I cancelled my sky subsciption as there just wasn;t anything on there worth watching - and if you do watch something the adverts go on for ever and are getting more and more dumbed down.

Rant over.

simon8201 wrote:

It simply isn't true to say'most brits' don't watch Top Gear anymore. 

I never said that (people don't watch it). Not at all. I still *watch* it. Many others do too. However, it's still very very staged. It's almost a bit cringeworthy.

For example, take the recent show where they travelled to Monaco. Apparently Hammond and May didn't know the F1 was on (even though they drive sports cars, present a TV show and, the next day, they take part in a drive through the F1 track. Then, they just happen to end up at an F1 party and chat casually to Tim O'Glock, where Clarkson has to correct them that, actually, he's called Timo Glock. This was all pre-written, staged and we're supposed to believe they don't know leading F1 drivers? Really?

The ratings are dropping and opioning changing (link, link and link) and the general consensus is that the current style won't continue long-term "It's fair to say this incarnation of Top Gear is nearer the end than the beginning, and our job is to land this plane with its dignity still intact,".

Whereas, in the US