The Top Gear Megathread! Mark II

Top Gear US: Seth Rogan, Adam Carolla and Jay Leno. I'll watch TG US then, as it stands a chance of being entertaining!

Current trio over here are about as entertaining as filing your taxes...

Have to say 18x06 was really well done.

3 Idiots in a Track Cars.

combatcolin said:

3 Idiots in a Track Cars.

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I quit like that Morgan. It's not really a track car… but it looked great fun on the track, so does that make it a track car?

What I don't understand though, is why they feel the need occasionally to become, almost like clueless caricatures of themselves, rather than just being natural, it's bizarre & rather cringe inducing.

That Morgan looks like an absolute blast, I'd love one of those, even if it were to double as a handy aluminum coffin on the streets out here. At least you can go out with a smile.

If only I were rich...

iGav said:

I quit like that Morgan. It's not really a track car… but it looked great fun on the track, so does that make it a track car?

What I don't understand though, is why they feel the need occasionally to become, almost like clueless caricatures of themselves, rather than just being natural, it's bizarre & rather cringe inducing.

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I think sometimes they try too hard to be funny.

And they end with a very good episode! Overall, I'd say this series was better than the previous one. I loved the review on the M5 and May's film on the Ferrari 250GT was just salivating.

3 more years...

Top Gear: Jeremy Clarkson and co-hosts sign three-year pay deal

Top Gear is back......

We have a new track leader

The Clarkson P45 is interesting....

Can't wait for the Viper road test....

As usual Clarkson makes fun of the new 'Vette.

R94N said:

I think sometimes they try too hard to be funny.

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Exactly right. That's why I often prefer the video reviews from Evo's owner Harry Metcalfe. He loves cars and it shows.

Plus he gets to drive all of the extremely rare and desirable cars that Top Gear will never get to even touch, and always before everyone else. And he knows when to keep quiet and let the car do the talking.

I loved the review he did on the Zonda 760 RS, another one that Top Gear probably won't cover.

I thought last Sunday's episode was a bit rubbish, to be honest. Most of it was quite good, but the Z10 thing or whatever it was was just not funny to me.

Just watched the first of the new series, absolutely amazing, the end had me in stitches

Ugh. I thought the season premiere was awful.

The only segment I really enjoyed was May rallying the Bentley. And boy, has he packed on a few pounds since last season.

Richard's segment with the Pagani was okay. Not excellent, but not bad. Jeremy does these supercar segments better, but I understand why Richard did this one. Hammond tends to overemote and ham it up too much.

Jeremy's segment was almost unwatchable for me. Jeremy tried to carry the entire stupid segment with his charm but he couldn't pull it off because he was saddled with such an absurd (not in a good way) premise. These exercises in absurdity work best with all three of the boys are there to play off of each other. I thought it would be a shorter segment, but it dragged on and on and by the time they reached the dragons (or whatever, I don't watch much TV), I came to the awful realization that this segment was going to go on for the rest of the episode.

Tonights ep was great as well. To see the Lexus reps faces when Clarkson made those requests.....

avro707 said:

Exactly right. That's why I often prefer the video reviews from Evo's owner Harry Metcalfe. He loves cars and it shows.

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Chris 'Monkey' Harris for me... genuine, unbridled passion... top notch wheelsmith too... all-in-all a highly watchable chap.

quagmire said:

Tonights ep was great as well. To see the Lexus reps faces when Clarkson made those requests.....

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I loved this episode.

I'm a big fan of the episodes when the boys do ridiculous things in ridiculous cars. Chased down at Willow Springs by former USAF jet jockeys in high performance pursuit planes? It doesn't get much better than that.

Mays had the most most convincing argument. If I'm going cruise a couple thousand miles in a truly great car, regardless of the venue, I'd choose the Aston.

On a track day, yeah, I'd love some wheel time behind an LFA or a Viper, but for a GT car, no one does it better than the Brits.

Screw the French.

Amusing as always, although the editing was quite lazy - how many times they show a close up of the Mustang badge or the "GT500" thing written on the glovebox?

American cars have never been my thing but I'd have to agree with Jeremy that the Mustang is just cool.

I feel Top Gear has been on downside for years now, but Ep 1 of Series 20 was a rare return to form.

First time ever that I rooted for James/Hammond in a race against Clarkson in a car. As an America's Cup fan, I had to root for Oracle USA.

And it made it easier that Clarkson was in a Toyota.

quagmire said:

First time ever that I rooted for James/Hammond in a race against Clarkson in a car. As an America's Cup fan, I had to root for Oracle USA.

And it made it easier that Clarkson was in a Toyota.

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Likewise.

It was hard to root against May considering just how miserable a time he was having.

I liked the hot hatchbacks bit and the celebrities goofing about the new reasonably priced car was well written and not too forced.

Season 20 episode 2 was definitely on par with episode one. The cinematography in that Ferrari test at the end...! epic!

Today's episode was pretty good. Definitely the best one of this series so far. Even the guest was great. Loved the street racing part.

What a wasted infrastructure down there. I knew their economy went into the toilet - but I had no idea how much was just abandoned like that.

Also - I bet they wished someone had swept that runway before opening up those cars... Seeing how shredded that Ferrari got, in such little time.