Top gear last night.

SteveCase · Post by **SteveCase** » Mon Dec 08, 08 6:42 am

Who saw it then? Loved that car chase through Basingstoke shopping mall.
Bet they'll have fun getting those black lines off of the floor in M&S!!!!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Dec 08, 08 7:37 am

Very entertaining - we wondered where that stunt was performed.

I was seriously impressed that the Fiesta made it up the beach - makes you wonder if they had it on a drag line...

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Dec 08, 08 9:32 am

Pete wrote:I was seriously impressed that the Fiesta made it up the beach - makes you wonder if they had it on a drag line...

I would think they did, the water line came over the windscreen, surly that would have hoovered up some water and popped.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Dec 08, 08 9:44 am

Despite everything else on the programme, I thought Clarkson's parting quip particularly distasteful especially considering the current climate.

The comment summed him up really, smug twat, paid too much money, arrogant, and full of his own self-importance.

I wish the worst of luck to people like him. My dislike of him has done nothing but grow exponentially over the past few years.

Give Hammond and May their own, proper motoring show, and stick Clarkson on the Dole because he isnt suited to anything else when it comes to entertainment.

bruvmopar · Post by **bruvmopar** » Mon Dec 08, 08 2:06 pm

Always a Good Excuse To Go Down The Pub, When Top Gear Is On.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Dec 08, 08 2:10 pm

The Fiesta road test at the end was the funniest thing I have seen on TV in a long while.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Dec 08, 08 2:50 pm

best episode of top gear so far in my opinion absolutly loved it my stomach still actually hurts from laughing lol

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Dec 08, 08 3:16 pm

Well, I reckon Top Gear is crap. Oh, I usually watch it, and sometimes it can be OK. It seems to have turned into some kind of Jeremy Clarkson comedy show, in which he can take perfectly good new cars and proceed to wreck them for what purpose i can never fully understand.

But I get extra bored when they crash caravans, have their 'racing' jollies across Europe in silly expensive super cars, drive a new Fiesta into the sea, and other such nonsense. Who is really interested?

Let's keep some of the comedy, but cut back on the amount of drawn out stupidity, and expensive super cars no-one has heard of nor could care less about, let alone want to buy.

When was the last time they did anything like a proper road test on any kind of car the viewing public is likely to buy?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Dec 08, 08 3:23 pm

Jim wrote:
When was the last time they did anything like a proper road test on any kind of car the viewing public is likely to buy?

Last night. That was the whole point of the Fiesta feature.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Dec 08, 08 3:29 pm

Is that what you call it?

I call it rubbish.

Last night they spent what seemed like an age on defunct Eastern bloc cars and way too long on an awful German Caterham that nobody is going to buy, and we will probably never hear of again.

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Mon Dec 08, 08 3:49 pm

Don't beat around the bush Jim.

Needless to say, I was busy pulling a car to pieces...

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Dec 08, 08 4:15 pm

Jim. I think you are making the mistake of assuming the show is about cars.
It isn't.
It is about three little boys messing about with cars.

Once you get that straight in your head you start to enjoy it.

I honestly couldn't stand the program just a few short years ago. Like youself i thought it was rubbish and couldn't see the point.

But once I realised I was looking at the show from the wrong angle I started to enjoy it. Now I can't get enough of it!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Mon Dec 08, 08 4:18 pm

I know what you mean Dave.

I do watch it it, - so it can't be all bad.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Mon Dec 08, 08 4:23 pm

its better than any of the soaps ( but sometimes just as unbealivable )
interview with that london-roads-blokey was quite amusing- he really got it

SteveCase · Post by **SteveCase** » Mon Dec 08, 08 4:58 pm

Same as Dave there, a few years ago, l wouldn't even turn it on, disliked Clarkson etc. Now l even sky-plus it if i'm not around.........How sad is that?!