Has anyone actually watched a top gear all the way through this season without getting bored at some point? I've currently been waiting 10-12
min for something to do with cars to come on.
Dan.
I always record it to watch later, that way you can skip any shite. There's usually something worth seeing, and the crap goes by fast at x30!
I sky plus it so I can fast forward the boring news and 'star' in the car boring bits...
Not bothered to watch any of this season.
Sky plus.and fast forward
I watch any other side, and just have done
The cricket, at least we won
TG is a children programme
I go and do something else while the star in a reasonably priced car bit is on.
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Originally posted by scutter
Has anyone actually watched a top gear all the way through this season without getting bored at some point? I've currently been waiting 10-12 min for something to do with cars to come on.
Dan.
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Originally posted by Doctor Derek Doctors
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Originally posted by scutter
Has anyone actually watched a top gear all the way through this season without getting bored at some point? I've currently been waiting 10-12 min for something to do with cars to come on.
Dan.
The whole first 15 mins was a review of the Golf vs the 135i, seems like somebody wasn't actually watching it and just wanted to slag it off.
Actually thought it was quite good, comparison between golf and bmw, bit on supercars and some light harted bits, watched it with all the family,
about only programme all 4 of us will watch togeter.
Its not been a detailed car show for years now an entertainment programme, you either watch it for what it is or just turn tv over
Maybe that's it, I just don't find it entertaining anymore
plenty more channels to watch if you dont like it!
i enjoyed tonights episode. especially the 918
If they just dialled the stupidity level back a bit it would be much improved.
Lots of the features could easily be really good with a couple of minor tweaks, like the hot hatch feature a couple of weeks ago.
Stu
To Doctor Derek Doctors, I've just reread my first post. My apologies, I was bored after 10-12 min after the VW Vs BMW feature not from the start
of the show as it first read.
Regards Dan.
[Edited on 2/3/14 by scutter]
I don't normally watch it so no real great expectations and found it ok tonight, how did JC loose the BMW on the straight, I think he would
struggle in some of our cars. He wouldn't actually fit in mine.
I used to be a big fan of a motoring show called Top Gear but now the name is used by some rubbish programme very similar to some of the c**p
children's shows of the 70's and 80's.
A total waste of time.
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Originally posted by unijacko67
I don't normally watch it so no real great expectations and found it ok tonight, how did JC loose the BMW on the straight, I think he would struggle in some of our cars. He wouldn't actually fit in mine.
I watch it all cos it's cheaper than looking on locostbuilders waiting for stuff to buy which I don't need lol
[Edited on 2/3/14 by jossey]
Episode 2 was fantastic!
Much too short but great feature on the Mclaren P1. Before it was a section on the new Alpha Romeo that was stunningly shot and I loved the Bond spin
they put on it. In the middle an interesting section about British Army vehicles that could have been a program on it's own!
Haven't seen any others yet this series!
James
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Originally posted by bi22le
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Originally posted by unijacko67
I don't normally watch it so no real great expectations and found it ok tonight, how did JC loose the BMW on the straight, I think he would struggle in some of our cars. He wouldn't actually fit in mine.
staged. I watch a lot of top gear and am quite fond of it. It entertains me. They stage, script and perform everything. No doubt that was to.
5th is back on now. First episode was reviewing the new 911 and pitching it against a noble and skyline. Guest reviewer was bruno senna. Thats a car program!!
It didn't look staged to me, but I've only just started watching it. I liked the special with the 3 4x4's on the raft's for the river crossings so looking forward to next weeks special.
Ahhh....the weekly 'Top Gear' is crap thread. If all the people who think it was crap didn't watch do we still need these threads each week?
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Originally posted by jeffw
Ahhh....the weekly 'Top Gear' is crap thread. If all the people who think it was crap didn't watch do we still need these threads each week?
Top Gear is just what it is. It isnt a detailed motoring program and has very little of relevance about the cars that most people buy and drive but is
a funny program with some decent cars on it. I enjoyed being in the studio last summer and would go again.
A Golf v 1 series BMW comparison needed to be made but I'm just not certain the current GTI vs 135 was the one to go for given the difference in
performance. It may have been better to pitch the GTI against a mid spec 1 series.
Aaaaah! The TV critics are out!! All you guys have to retain in the mind, is the fact that JC, RH and JM all get paid bucketloads of cash, just for
behaving like a bunch of teenaged p*****ks (as my Dearly Beloved never fails to point out. She definitely doesn't like 'em).
And they probably get a share of the programme overseas sales. We should be so apparently stupid.
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Originally posted by bi22le
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Originally posted by unijacko67
I don't normally watch it so no real great expectations and found it ok tonight, how did JC loose the BMW on the straight, I think he would struggle in some of our cars. He wouldn't actually fit in mine.
staged. I watch a lot of top gear and am quite fond of it. It entertains me. They stage, script and perform everything. No doubt that was to.
5th is back on now. First episode was reviewing the new 911 and pitching it against a noble and skyline. Guest reviewer was bruno senna. Thats a car program!!
I'm not so sure it was staged, aquaplaning at high speed in a RWD car can do exactly what happened on TG. FWD cars tend to go straight on, whereas RWD cars want to swap ends.
In my experience, torque has very little to do with aquaplaning. Nor has power really. It's speed, tyres and wet stuff. The fact that there was no exterior footage sort of hints that it wasn't staged, much like JCs reactions inside the car. It was obvious, he was a passenger who was rather concerned where he was going to end up. If it was staged, then there would have been loads of shots, in slomo, of the car gracefully spining through deep puddles, over the grass and through a stack of errant cardboard boxes...
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this is not the first RWD damp track review
I'd say the lack of external footage suggests it's real but I'm also in the camp that doesn't care if it's staged or not as
most of it is (And better for it, things look much more boring in real life).
I actually thought the 135i Vs Golf thing was very interesting and turned into actual consumer advice and the thing about cycling was also good.
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Originally posted by bi22le
5th is back on now. First episode was reviewing the new 911 and pitching it against a noble and skyline. Guest reviewer was bruno senna. Thats a car program!!
The one thing I have noticed with Top Gear is that in every review done on their track and every Star In a Reasonably Priced Car segment this current
season it has been totally teaming down with rain every time.
I am a car enthusiast and I will watch just about anything with cars in it, Top Gear has got worse over the last few years but every season is only 7
episodes long so it feels like it's over in no time.
I'm on Freesat so no 5th Gear for me either unless I can find it on some internet TV catch up service.