Best News Ever?

[Roger Godpleton]

Please let this happen...

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[Dan Kelly]

Sorry,

Can't agree.  The new version of Top Gear knows exactly what it is, Toys for Boys. and has a great formula.

This weeks was one of the funniest things on TV for a long long time.

[longmanshort]

Am I the only person in the world who has no interest in cars, but finds Top Gear actually quite entertaining. This week's show, which involved them turning three vehicles into 'amphibious' cars, was downright hilarious.

[Wils]

Am I the only person in the world who has no interest in cars, but finds Top Gear actually quite entertaining.

Nope. I like watching it and I can't even fucking *drive*. ;)

[scutfink]

Didn't they road test a lawmaster once, years ago? Or was that just some bizzare eighties fever dream I had?

[Dark Jimbo]

Am I the only person in the world who has no interest in cars, but finds Top Gear actually quite entertaining?

No, I love it, and yet not only can I not drive, I actually have a passionate hatred of cars, drivers, and people who love cars so much that they enjoy watching things like Top Gear.

[Dudley]

The amphibious car episode may have been the funniest thing I've seen on the telly this year.  

The programme won an Emmy, y'know.  But because Clarkson makes more money out of it than the BBC, they don't shout about it in the same way they do The Office.

[Tanky]

Maybe the Stig needs to turn down his stereo?
Top Gear is without a doubt the best thing on on a Sunday night and not only do I not drive (never needed to, bit of a waste of cash and energy imho) but I've also long held the belief that 50% of motorists have absolutely no business on the road in the first place. Still. Top Gear rules!

[Gothmog]

Am I the only person in the world who has no interest in cars, but finds Top Gear actually quite entertaining.

Nope. I like watching it and I can't even fucking *drive*. ;)

Same here, coincidentally I made a similar comment to a friend a couple of days ago.

I literally had tears of laughter rolling down my face the other week when their DIY convertable people carrier got mangled in the car-wash and started a fire!

[longmanshort]

The amphibious car episode may have been the funniest thing I've seen on the telly this year.

Aside from the obvious hilarity of Clarkson capsizing his own boat, my favourite moment was when Richard Hammond's own craft was sinking and he asked for help. In return, Hammond offered a million pounds or the use of a bucket to bail out Clarkson's water-logged vehicle. I nearly wet myself when, as the bucket leaked profusely, an indignant Clarkson shouted: "You owe me a million pounds!"

[Adrian Bamforth]

It's entertaining and gets across the real passion people have for their cars...but, c'mon, you really can't responsibly have a programme about cars in which the presenter regularly expresses his distain of environmental issues and encourages us to do the same. The other presenters daren't question this approach since they are all under his heal. Yet he gets away with it by playing the 'loveable Roger Mellie' type. If he wants to express his views surely he should be made to do it face-to-face with those who can expose him as the twat he is rather than give him free reign with only his slavish devotees around him. And surely cars are already glamourous enough to people without tinting the film make it look more like an expensive car ad.

What a twat.

ADE

[Buddy]

I love it!!

The other week they set a car wash on  fire when they put through their 'customised' convertable people carrier.

A understand the owner of said car was didn't see the funny side.

I, on the other hand, near wet meself.

More please.

[House of Usher]

I never watch it. I've glimpsed it on occasion, and it turns my stomach.

[Bico]

Top Gear reminds me of that guy who was arrested for shagging his car (or the exhaust pipe, at any rate).  Fetishising an impractical and wasteful method of transportation that warps the minds of perfectly normal and likeable people by transforming them into twats the moment they get behind the wheel.  Bus drivers hate people in cars, truckers hate bikers, bikers and car drivers hate everyone else on the road, everyone hates tractors and caravans, and so on and so on...  What bollocks.
The idea as a motorist that you have some inalienable right to the road that the rest of society beyond your windscreen does not is a dangerous one, and while I can't speak about what a liberal, sensible and loveable person Jeremy Clarkson is in real life, I can only commend his remarkable committment to method acting, as his development of his public persona as a denim-clad, loud-mouthed, misogynistic arsehole who needs a serious reality check and a slap is one of the greater achievements of the thespian tradecraft I've seen.

[Dudley]

Oh for goodness' sake, Clarkson is a buffoon, but his viewpoint is there for all to see, and in its very extremism does more for the tree-hugging planet-loving lentil-munching fraternity (i.e. my demographic) than a million words from George Monbiot.