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New Series on @ 8pm tonight. I'll watch it after Star Wars has finished 🙂
Recording it, ffwd through the shit bitz 🤠🧟♂️
Top Gear still exists? How quaint.
Top Gear still exists? How quaint.
There are other things you can watch, you know. You could even do something like read a book. Although some may find the concept of reading words on a page a quaint concept in itself.
How can I bypass the BBC website forcing me to watch the Welsh Snooker until 10 pm?
Edit;
Fixed it!
Probably late to the game but Ken Block has a 10th Gymkhana...slightly entertaining.
Still cringeworthy ..and there is another 20 mins to go ..
Has Chris Harris left yet?
Still in the building ..
Recording it, ffwd through the shit bitz 🤠🧟♂️
Put some fresh batteries in the remote. You'll need them
There are other things you can watch, you know. You could even do something like read a book. Although some may find the concept of reading words on a page a quaint concept in itself.
Quite possibly was watching something else or reading seeing as they clearly weren’t watching it...
I'm not sure that was preferable to sitting through call the midwife with Mrs hoppy.
Sunday night ironing my shirts TV.
Want the Porsche.
Sabine being bleeped out.
Crap guest.
That'll do.
Put some fresh batteries in the remote. You’ll need them
Not really. Press fast forward button and wait until it gets to end and then press stop, two presses in total.
Enjoyed that 🙂
but Ken Block has a
stunning Stumpy.
Much better than Fridays offering from the Amazon bunch
Aye, glows in the dark and looks very nice with the lights off!
I’d rather’ve ad da Porker, but the Panda 4x4 stole da Sho’
Innit.
Answer a question for me. What is the benefit to Ferrari and Porsche of lending Top Gear cars to abuse like that? I can see that Suzuki and Fiat might consider a smashed up 15k city car a reasonable use of an advertising budget, but no-one is going to have a purchasing decision on a supercar swayed by that stupidity.
Not the best episode for me, but I'm still watching, unlike the final few Clarkson series.
I thought it was ok, better than the Amazon thing on balance. I only really watch both of them out of habit tbh.
So your Porsche or Ferrari being shown to a global ordinance for free isn’t worth it?
Just because the Porsche and Ferrari are not in your price bracket doesn’t mean they are not in plenty of peoples.
And if you can’t afford either now you might be able to in the future
Dunno, not like they need the advertising is it.
S’pose it’s more about the stock test cars the Journo’s have left over before they get crushed, I don’t think they sell them off (could be wrong)
And yeah, I’ve never understood why a manufacturer would hand TG a Panda 4x4 knowing it’ll be destroyed either..
Maybe that’s a career right there, become a journo and crash cars for a living.
5 minutes for me when they kept calling those two cars 'estates' and then I was oot. Liked the Norway scenery though, I've bike toured there before and started to feel the itch again...
Ah no, the Panda and Ignis, I can understand. Puts them in viewers minds and they are the sort of cars people buy. You are spot on with the first point though bikebouy.
I still don't think Top Gear would make any difference to someone with the spends for either the Porsche or Ferrari.
Shooting-brakes dear boy.
sitting through call the midwife with Mrs hoppy.
I assume there was a difficult birth and some social commentary, like every episode of that show, ever.
I half watched Top Gear, not sure I'll bother again.
Watched #amazonshitcarshow on Saturday. I say watched, I fell asleep.
I thought it was dull. Enjoyed Norway though, Will be investigating next year on Hols.
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Shooting-brakes dear boy
Just as wonky as people calling their bikes..... STEEDs......
I'm done with Top Gear (BBC) anyway. Chris Harris is OK but he has plenty of stuff on Youtube to watch, without suffering Matt The Blank.
Grand Tour I do like but it's just the same old shit rehashed with newer cars.
Did anyone notice that they put rally tyres on the Fiat and Suzuki. That got them further up the hill than the 4x4
That Ferrari was a hatchback. Still enjoyed it though and Sabine in the Panda was ace.
Chris Harris is shit. Why all the fanboys I'll never know. Absolutely forced and false. Awful presenter.
Just has a quick skim through on Iplayer. The Panda/Ignis bit was filmed on the Moulin Moor road and the track to Fealar Lodge, part of the Glen Tilt Loop.
Going out on a limb here but I rather enjoy TG; the on screen rapport between Chris Harris and Matt Le Blanc is good and amusing, if not a tad predictably laddish.
It’s an entertainment programme, so there’s little need to take it so seriously, although I guess with the proliferation of self appointed driving gods on here, holes can be easily found. Both of those guys can at least drive a car.
If you’re after true factual stuff, then there are plenty of channels on YouTube.
It’s the over dramatised nature ‘documentaries’ that I find unwatchable, with the obviously edited material and personification of wildlife, the earlier prog on the Rockies just before Ski Sunday being a classic example, there is never so much bird song out there, why did/do they edit that in?
Last series for Matt isn’t it? Chris Harris going it alone from the next one, with no mention of Rory Reid.
I, for one, like Chris and dislike Matt and Rory. Haven’t watched last nights yet, but thought the last series was better than Grand Tour, although this series of GT seems markedly better.
Chris Harris is shit. Why all the fanboys I’ll never know.
Because he's the 1st presenter since Tiff Needell that can actually drive!
Only watched the 2nd half and probably wouldn't have watched that much if it wasn't for CH. Seemed ok to me, nothing groundbreaking but easy Sunday night watch.
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Last series for Matt isn’t it? Chris Harris going it alone from the next one, with no mention of Rory Reid.
I thought there was talk of Paddy McGuiness & Freddie Flintoff taking over the reins from Matt LeBlanc...
Yup....
Oh dear.....
But FWIW, I thought yesterday's episode was quite enjoyable.
I know it's 'just entertainment', but I find the destroying of brand new cars a bit wince inducing - apart from that, it was pretty good.
The Ferrari and Porsche were on because TG still gets sold around the world and lots of people watch it, and it's recorded in hi-def so it makes the cars look good. Marketing will always say yes to that kind of exposure
I had it on in the background while doing other stuff, it's ok but I find myself having less of an emotional response to the cars (despite the fact that we are about to change ours !) and the bit where they smash up a hill without any care for the environment was pretty abhorrent, I do wish they'd stop those.
I started watching it last night but could only cope for half an hour before switching channels. It was soooo cringeworthy, with all the false banter and bonhomie, it just put me off the whole thing.
Quite why they still feel the need to try and recreate the Clarkson era, when it just doesn't work is beyond me. Great cars and scenery, ruined by the script!
Well I've put it on this am. 10 minutes in and I see they have decided to make Harris full on May.
I'll carry on to see them play with the Porsche and Ferrari estate cars but I'm going to struggle, Harris is just awful.
Both of those guys can at least drive a car.
Harris can drive - Leblanc's as ordinary as you or me would be with a bit of practice.
And yeah, I’ve never understood why a manufacturer would hand TG a Panda 4×4 knowing it’ll be destroyed either.
Really? The cars probably cost the manufacture £5k to make. They hand a few over to TG and they get shown performing very well to a global audience. That represents extremely good value for money.
We buy the Panda 4x4 for our staff at work who barrel them around the countryside. Brilliant little cars. Cheap, reliable, fun and and relatively bombproof.
Well that was awful. TGT was crap on Friday but not new TG crap.
Well that was awful. TGT was crap on Friday but not new TG crap.
At least TGT had a point to some of it.
It also doesn't have Harris in it which is a big bonus.
I am enjoying TGT - they do pretty much what you expect them to do and the jokes are all the same, but at least they have chemistry. I can't bring myself to watch the new TG after giving up halfway through the last series (or was it the last but one, I don't know, I can't give a damn about it).
I like Harris but then I liked Gary Anderson in F1. I prefer solid expertise to bantz any day.
I really thought Harris had an unassailable lead over Joey when all of a sudden, there was that jump just before the bridge and a bit of his tree fell out of the open boot. And next thing, Joey comes up as he's trying to sort it out. Bloody hell. Made for a close finish though.
I really like Chris Harris, just not on Top Gear. He's overly scripted and plays a part in Matt's relationship.
Just watch some of 'Chris Harris Drives' on Youtube. He's like a James May that can driver very well.
Scrap it and replace it with Project Binky.
He's not even a real baby kangaroo.
Come on, Drac...
"Has Chris Harris left yet?"
"... but I’m going to struggle, Harris is just awful."
"It also doesn’t have Harris in it which is a big bonus."
... get off the Chris Harris fence, will you? 🙂
What are you trying to say? 🙂😜
I really thought Harris had an unassailable lead over Joey when all of a sudden, there was that jump just before the bridge and a bit of his tree fell out of the open boot. And next thing, Joey comes up as he’s trying to sort it out. Bloody hell. Made for a close finish though.
I know it was incredible given Harris can drive.
They could have Biggins, Boris Johnson and Piers Morgan presenting it and it would still be better than TGT.
Nothing wrong with James May that some stern political re education couldn't fix, Hammond at least has balls but Clarkson is a vile human being, a seasoned liar, adulterer, coward and shitbag of the first water.
"talk of Paddy McGuiness & Freddie Flintoff taking over the reins"
Oh God, the thought of that just gives me a headache.
I couldn’t quite see the point of having the Ignis with the Panda 4x4; I know the Ignis is being pitched as a compact (micro) SUV, especially with the 4x4 Allroad version, but it’s not really comparable to the Panda, surely the new Jimny would be the obvious competitor.
Especially as it’s much less likely to have its front bumper ripped off!
There’s some neat body kits for the Jimny which turn it into a baby G-Wagen.
Still, I was impressed with how well it (sort of) managed to handle terrain it was never intended to drive over.
The Panda didn’t surprise me at all.
Jimny G-Wagen...
There’s a Defender version, too...
Although, I think I prefer this Black Bison version..
Watched it on iplayer...I was entertained.
Nothing wrong with James May that some stern political re education couldn’t fix, Hammond at least has balls but Clarkson is a vile human being, a seasoned liar, adulterer, coward and shitbag of the first water.
He's very amusing though and considerably more interesting than you!
The presenters are as infantile as that tall bloke on Car SOS who keeps slapping people on the back and calling them "mate". I once bollocked a bloke in a bank call-centre for calling me "mate"; not many people get to call me that.
he presenters are as infantile as that tall bloke on Car SOS who keeps slapping people on the back and calling them “mate”. I once bollocked a bloke in a bank call-centre for calling me “mate”; not many people get to call me that.
You realise you sound like a total bellend?
not many people get to call me that.
Can't think why.
H8terz gonna h8.
He’s very amusing though and considerably more interesting than you!
He's about as funny as a rectal prolapse and as interesting as any other right wing, reactionary bore.
I did laugh when he got sacked though.
And I don't get paid to be interesting. 🙂
What? No reaction?!
Thought it was entertaining Sunday night viewing for doing the ironing to.
What has Rory done to get himself practically written out of it though?
What has Rory done to get himself practically written out of it though?
He's extremely irritating, Its getting to the point that I have to go out of the room when he speaks.
Lasts nights show was mostly tedious apart from the review of the new m5.
What? No reaction?!
I've just awoke from the coma it put me into.
Star in a reasonably fast car was actually entertaining for once 😮 M5 was tedious yawns ville. Tuk Tuk was to be as expected.
I'll give it a B+
Star in a reasonably fast car was actually entertaining for once
It was the best bit. Which is very strange.
M5 review you say?
Can't stand Clarkson but still find TGT better than TG.
Fridays TGT was, I thought, pretty good. The Scotland in classic Italian cars was good (partly as I had a mate who had a red GTV6). The review of the BMW and Alpina was, well, a review. Even the talking in the tent was ok (I didn't fast forward).
TG this week wasn't.
TGT was interesting this week; TG less so. Some great banter on TG, but the scripted bits don't seem to hold up to scrutiny (Harris and Joey a bit wooden unless they're off script).
Big problem for TG is that Amazon have more money and Richard Porter - TGT can keep doing exactly what they've done for years and it'll keep paying out for them. TG can't do this, even though it's "their" ideas simply because everyone knows it's all been done before by another team.
By having Freddie and Paddy on board it'll descend into Northern bloke self-parody laddishness and disappear up its own arse. It needs to change direction (let's face it - it's done it before) and leave nobbing around to TGT and sliding cars on tracks to Plato and Stiff Needell.
I'll still watch 'em tho as long as they get rid of Rory and Sabine 😉
Was TG a repeat? I've definitely seen that one before.
It was dull, that’s why there’s hardly any reaction.
The Tuk-Tuk scenes were copies of other original top gear adventures, it’s all a bit staid.
I’ve taken to watching Drivetribe, ferchistsake 🤷♂️
The Tuk Tuk stuff was so boring and unfunny I had to stop watching it.
It was dull, that’s why there’s hardly any reaction.
The Tuk-Tuk scenes were copies of other original top gear adventures, it’s all a bit staid.
This, I made Tea during the tut tut piece. The only credible piece was the M5 / C63 review which still got corny, and would be better if Chris Harris stuck to his internet persona.
I also watch TGT, which was much better. Top Gear now likes like a cheap imitation of itself, with TGT at least looking like Top Gear with extra budget.
Well that was a better episode.
‘Bellend’ is a criminally underused insult on the BBC. Particularly in the news, but small victories.
Really enjoyed tonight - that GT2 is immense
Yeah that looks fun.