Favorite episode of Top Gear

Maybe, but not really. Because you said this.

Now it's about jokes, less about stats, more about making competitions that are faked so that every challenge ends up nail biting close.
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IE you are saying that they don't do tests anymore. And that it's about jokes, less about stats and faked competitions.

At the end of the day. Stats aren't what a 1 hour show about cars should be about. Stats are boring and can be looked up in a matter of seconds on the internet. Cars are supposed to be fun to drive. And they show that by showing tons of tire smoke power sliding, how they feel when they drive the car, and by how fast it goes when given to their tamed racing driver.

Lets be honest, I bet they alone have drawn more people into loving cars than almost any other car loving movement. How have they done this? By making it funny.
 
kamuifanboy
IE you are saying that they don't do tests anymore. And that it's about jokes, less about stats and faked competitions.
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I said it used to be about cars, stats and tests. You specifically pointed out that I said they are no longer doing TESTS, which I did not. Yet you didn't point out that they still have cars on the show (even though I said the show used to be about cars). Why didn't you call me on that? Because you knew what I was talking about. I was exaggerating to make a point. You elected to intentionally spin the comment I made.

At the end of the day. Stats aren't what a 1 hour show about cars should be about. Stats are boring and can be looked up in a matter of seconds on the internet. Cars are supposed to be fun to drive. And they show that by showing tons of tire smoke power sliding, how they feel when they drive the car, and by how fast it goes when given to their tamed racing driver.
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At the BEGINNING of the day when Top Gear UK didn't have plummeting viewership, it DID have more stats, more real life tests and less super hero antics. I guess you haven't seen the show when it was good.

Lets be honest, I bet they alone have drawn more people into loving cars than almost any other car loving movement. How have they done this? By making it funny.
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There you go again, insinuating something that isn't true. When did I ever say the show didn't draw in people to loving cars. I said the show is sucking now, and that is also proven by their continued drop in viewership, because..it's NOT funny anymore and it's NOT as informative as is once was. Even the owner of the show admitted that:

Top Gear boss admits turning presenters into 'cartoon characters' as ratings plummet

Top Gear has gone too far with its outrageous stunts and its presenters have become 'cartoon characters', according to the BBC producer behind the show.

Andy Wilman, who is credited with transforming the programme from a magazine for car geeks to family entertainment with a global audience of 350million, was speaking after a backlash from fans on the internet.
Now in its 14th series, Top Gear, fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, is one of BBC2’s top rated shows although audience figures for the current run are down to around 5.5million an episode from a peak of eight million in 2007.

Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May
Wilman said: ‘There is a grumble and a rumble in the air from some of our regulars that we have lost the plot, we've disappeared up our a***, we're scripting everything and we're predictable.

‘The main complaint seems to be that there is too much cocking about for the car lovers and that we are trying too hard on camera….
‘I do believe we have got the three presenters playing their cartoon characters a bit too much - Jezza the walking nuclear bomb, Richard the daft Norman Wisdom and James the bumbling professor.
‘I like those characters but I too would like to see more of them as they were - I miss those three mates who mooch along.’

Gimmicks: The show's famous Stig
Writing on the Top Gear website, he added that both Clarkson and May wanted a return to a more traditional format where the show makes ‘good films enthusing about cars’.

In recent years, the stunts have become more and more outrageous on Top Gear, such as Clarkson driving a Ford Fiesta off a military landing craft and into the sea, against a backdrop of machine guns and naval helicopters.
Others included the team playing conkers with caravans suspended from cranes, and building their own boats out of car parts and attempting to sail the Channel.

The show came under fire recently for faking scenes in which May appeared to by flying an airship and strayed into Norwich airport, forcing police to be called.

It later emerged the stunt had been planned for months, despite it seeming as if it was an accident. Fans of the programme have been infuriated by these gimmicks with hundreds blogging and commenting on motoring message boards.

One blogger said: ‘The show has become very poor. The VW advert segment was so cringe inducingly boring I had to mute the TV. It is not just this series that was bad. Top Gear has been going down this slippery slope for a good few years.

Another commented: ‘It has been a long time since Top Gear was anything but total rubbish. It is not a programme about cars in which most people have any real interest. It is an entertainment show to promote the 'personalities' of the three hosts.

'Let's get back to reality. We want to know about the cars we all drive or may hope to drive in the real world. Not this delinquent world of speeding and contempt for the environment.’

Wilman rejected any suggestion that the series was scripted and that all the challenges, stunts and tasks were pre-arranged.

He also hinted that the show in its current form was drawing to a close, explaining: ‘It is fair to say this incarnation of Top Gear is nearer the end than the beginning, and out job is to land this plane with its dignity still in tact.
‘That does mean trying new things to the last, even if they screw up, because it means you never stopped trying.’
A corporation spokeswoman was quick to dismiss any suggestion the show was to be axed.
She said 'Viewers can rest assured that Top Gear will be around for a long time yet. The BBC is extremely proud of what it achieves, attracting more than seven million viewers per week, and there is an ongoing commitment to keep it at the heart of the BBC2 schedule.'
Top Gear actually began in 1977 as a local show tackle motoring and road safety issues.
A year later, it transferred to national TV, with Angela Rippon as host in an attempt to broaden the programme's appeal to women.
It became so successful that it ran for another 23 years with almost no changes to its format with presenters such as Noel Edmonds, Quentin Willson and female racing driver Vicki Butler-Henderson.
Clarkson joined in 1988 bringing in a more macho and outspoken edge, which sent viewing figures soaring.
He left a decade later and that version of the show was axed in 2001.
The BBC revived it the following year in a new format with Clarkson, Hammond and Jason Dawe, as well as anonymous racing driver The Stig and Wilman as producer.
May replaced Dawe a year later and the show is now a global brand watched by an audience of 350 million across 90 different countries.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...characters-ratings-plummet.html#ixzz1c5TF3jHK
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Then again, you are probably to young to enjoy the entire history of Top Gear like us older folks are.
 
Soldier 95B
Then again, you are probably to young to enjoy the entire history of Top Gear like us older folks are.
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That's too much reading for me to be honest. I guess I should listen to the older folk. Although I have seen every episode of Top Gear out to this date. I always forget that 18 is still considered young.
 
Soldier 95B
I have watched the show since it's inception. Originally it was about cars, stats, and tests. Now it's about jokes, less about stats, more about making competitions that are faked so that every challenge ends up nail biting close. Top Gear UK has got stale.

If you don't get that show has got much worse over the years in REAL content, you just don't get it. Sucks.
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A simple, "you're absolutely right" would've sufficed.
 
barryl85
My favourite episode was the one where they build their own motorhome and Jezza built the Japanese themed one and it was tall as anything lol !
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Thank you Berry, that was a very funny episode. Guys its a show about cars, we love cars, so lets all just enjoy it. Doesnt matter if its UK or America Top Gear, its cars nuts, being car nuts. Least its better than 5th Gear. I do wish Top Gear would go back to doing more challenges, like buying a car for 100 pounds!
 
Soldier 95B
I hate lying though. 👎
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Sarcasm ftw!!

I tried to watch TopGear America after this discussion, but it's not how I like TG.. "The driver", "The expert", "The wreckler".. That is so wrong in so many ways. I don't want to know what they are, I want to see 3 people, being themselves, doing what they like to do and that's making fun of others and riding cool cars, and by coincidence entertaining me. I watched the GT2 RS review, and it was pretty boring, he's not entertaining me, he's telling me things..
 

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