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The Top Gear MEGATHREAD!!!!

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I love the yank bashing. The American road trip episode was the best :D

But I don't think many Americans share the same thoughts as me
 
Lord Blackadder said:
Still, I'd like to see them review American cars, but if they try to "Americanise" Top Gear they will ruin it. I saw the "Americanised" episodes on the Discovery Channel and they were lame in retrospect: they cut out almost all the banter, because they probably thought Americans wouldn't understand UK slang. Then they eliminated the "star in a reasonably priced car" section because they were mostly UK personalities...and of course they would probably excise Jeremy's anti-American jokes.
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Sounds like they'll be proper american shows though, not just cut UK ones like those on Discovery.
 
iGav said:
Sounds like they'll be proper american shows though, not just cut UK ones like those on Discovery.
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That's the problem - so far all "proper" American car shows I've seen are crap...still, if anyone can do it right it's those three, so I'd give it a chance.

Who knows, maybe it will become popular. Hamster can go on Oprah, and Clarkson can join the Republican party and discover he's really not so different from them after all. :D
 
Lord Blackadder said:
That's the problem - so far all "proper" American car shows I've seen are crap...still, if anyone can do it right it's those three, so I'd give it a chance.
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It'll be just the same though, except with americans in a 'Star In A Reasonably Priced Car' and reviewing the latest Detroit metal, rather than a Dagenham Dustbin. You won't know the difference. ;)
 
Do our stars even know how to drive? When you're some rich Hollywood star, you get chauffeured around in your limo everywhere.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
If they keept to that format I think it may be alright.
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If the last series is anything to go by, I think the format is the least of their worries to be honest. It's the lack of content that's the bigger concern.

Reminds me of a comment I read by Autocar's Editor-at-large, Steve Sutcliffe a couple of weeks ago;

Sutcliffe said:
Know what you mean about Top Gear, but it's not really aimed at us. My daughter loves it and so do most of her pals. Their mums like it too.
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Sums it up perfectly for me, Top Gear's nothing more than aimless fluff now.
 
iGav said:
It'll be just the same though, except with americans in a 'Star In A Reasonably Priced Car' and reviewing the latest Detroit metal, rather than a Dagenham Dustbin. You won't know the difference. ;)
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America has(d) some fantastic drivers:
Billy Joel
Eddie Griffin
Paris Hilton
James Dean
Britney Spears
 
I'm having withdrawals from a lack of Top Gear. As entertaining as old episodes are, I NEED new ones! Any ads for when the next season will begin? Thankfully, watching WRC coverage fills in the time between Top Gear seasons. The last rally until August starts in a few days from Greece.
 
I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms...tonight I was playing Jessica on Guitar Hero 2 and when I got through the part that makes up the Top Gear theme song, I said in my best British accent "Tonight on Top Gear, we drive the new Bugatti in Italy, we drive the new Bugatti in Switzerland and France, and we drive the new Bugatti in London!" :D Dammit, I need more Top Gear!
 
LOL!!

Man, I miss it too. Even if last series was more of a "The Top Gear Trio Adventures" than a motoring magazine, it still is by far the most entertaining show on earth.
It seems the BBC have had some influence on what Jeremy and friends do on Top Gear, though. You don't see them thrashing a very expensive car on the open road anymore, just on the TG racing track. No more very cool races accross Europe, but more the fun-seeking and mocking of a caravan trip orso... The Green Party can't complain about that. They could complain about belting an M5 over some twisty country roads.... or the Stig racing an M6, AM V8 and Porsche on the Isle of Mac (sorry, Isle of Man :D ).
But we all know when they get back, it will be so much fun!

Right now I have to watch the old episodes again and again somehow caught of the 'net... ;)
 
25th July.

In Top Gear’s most ambitious and arduous challenge to date Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attempt to race from Northern Canada to the North Pole, 450 miles away. The terrain in between is some of the toughest on earth - a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees Celcius (minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit). Jeremy and James will be driving a specially adapted pick up truck whilst Richard will be travelling on something a little less high tech - a sled pulled by a team of ten Canadian Inuit Dogs.
 
Chrismcfall said:
In Top Gear’s most ambitious and arduous challenge to date Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attempt to race from Northern Canada to the North Pole, 450 miles away. The terrain in between is some of the toughest on earth - a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees Celcius (minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit). Jeremy and James will be driving a specially adapted pick up truck whilst Richard will be travelling on something a little less high tech - a sled pulled by a team of ten Canadian Inuit Dogs.[/B]
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Queenie: And me, did you miss me, Edmund?
Blackadder: Madam, life without you was like...a broken pencil.
Queenie: Explain...? Edmund: Pointless.

Pointless... indeed. Do you think we're actually going to see some cars this series?
 
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