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There will be jokes about Hammonds height/accidents
There will be jokes about whatever car May picks
There will be jokes about how much of a throbbing Ender Clarkson is

There I've covered it and literally every single episode of the grand tour/top gear.

and? that's like saying every episode of X files follows a certain formula or outline. We know. that's what makes it the show we want to watch. as opposed to a different show we dont want to watch.
 
There will be jokes about Hammonds height/accidents
There will be jokes about whatever car May picks
There will be jokes about how much of a throbbing Ender Clarkson is

There I've covered it and literally every single episode of the grand tour/top gear.
I gave up on Top Gear years ago when they started crashing/burning caravans, and never watched their other show. Puerile was my most glowing review. Or did I!?
 
I'm in the minority, but I actually enjoy the new Top Gear (although I could do without Paddy McGuinness who really, really, REALLY seems to want to be Clarkson 2.0). It was woeful after the three Gammons left and the brought in Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc (u wot?!?) and had Eddie Irvine acting like a dottering granddad who doesn't know what a steering wheel is, but the new trio have refocused more on cars while still having some of the laddish stuff.

Clarkson is a misogynistic, homophobic, jingoistic (and many other -ics) eejit who's best consigned to the rubbish bin of history.
 
Top gear died for me when it stopped being about cars.
Woollard is peak top gear.

that happened around the same time all cars became basically awesome for anything you can do on the road and stopped being garbage (late 90's). You'd have to have the show be about whatever unregulated stuff is built in china, india or some poor third world country for the testing to be watchable.

When the reasonably priced car had to be de-tuned for safety ... you knew the days were numbered.


hence their later focus on just exotic and ultra fast cars. but you can only really show off the current year's car only the 1% can afford for so long before that starts losing viewers.
 
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I'll have that soon enough. Yesterday she was being an almighty pain in the hole and I told her to knock it off, and she's playing with fire being this naughty the week before Christmas with Santa watching. The response was her stamping her foot, hands on hips, looks me square in the eye and goes “I don’t care. I don’t even want anything. I just want a LIFE!”

She's SIX.

I am utterly bollixed in a few more years...
From the mouths of babes...and all that...
 
I'm in the minority, but I actually enjoy the new Top Gear (although I could do without Paddy McGuinness who really, really, REALLY seems to want to be Clarkson 2.0). It was woeful after the three Gammons left and the brought in Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc (u wot?!?) and had Eddie Irvine acting like a dottering granddad who doesn't know what a steering wheel is, but the new trio have refocused more on cars while still having some of the laddish stuff.

Clarkson is a misogynistic, homophobic, jingoistic (and many other -ics) eejit who's best consigned to the rubbish bin of history.
I learnt me a new wurd tuday: eejit

I look forward to using it in context during a casual conversation over the weekend...
 
that happened around the same time all cars became basically awesome for anything you can do on the road and stopped being garbage (late 90's). You'd have to have the show be about whatever unregulated stuff is built in china, india or some poor third world country for the testing to be watchable.

When the reasonably priced car had to be de-tuned for safety ... you knew the days were numbered.


hence their later focus on just exotic and ultra fast cars. but you can only really show off the current year's car only the 1% can afford for so long before that starts losing viewers.
All modern cars are characterless boxes and supercars are rubbish - I designed an underground parking garage for a client who collected lambo's. We put a turntable in it to make it easier to park as they've got rubbish steering but he just left them there and used his kid's fiat 500 as it was more fun and less hassle.
Another client had a mclaren and said he'd pushed it further than he'd driven it.

An episode of top gear about ordinary French cars would be excellent as they are all pretty much mental.
The best is obviously the matra rancho but they've had a century of madness to lok back on.
 
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