I'm 24, and have always been a petrol head. I used to really enjoy top gear (back in the glory days of thursdays at half 8 ) when it was actually informative. clarkson used to review a new car, quentin wilson would give some shrewd used market tips, and then tiff needell would do the motorsport; fine by me. The thing is, they used to cover all the bases, not just supercars, and they'd actually give you a proper opinion on things.
Fast forward to now, the format of ANY given top gear is as follows:
1. 100k+ supercar: queue clarksons fat baldy torso screaming round a runway to some loud music.
2. often a stupid, unfair comparison, like racing a rover against a viper or something similar (i still blame clarkson quite a lot for tarnishing rovers reputation even further), and all falling about laughing in the studio at the results.
3. star in the reasonably priced car for the *00th time. followed by the cool wall, a subject none of the presenters are qualified to talk about.
3. some stupid contest involving racing across europe, or destroying perfectly good or rare cars (the numerous old maserati's clarkson has destroyed on the show, just because he can particularly annoys me). this has got even worse recently with the obviously staged stuff too. also, no matter what the outcome, clarkson has some stupid reason why he's actually won, like he's sold his vital organs and spent the money on doing up his car. oh and lets not forget things like racing against a harrier, or an apache helicopter gunship. sorry, but if you're over 13 i can't really see the entertainment value in this.
They badly need to change the format from the "i'm jeremy clarkson, i'm god" lads mag show that they're running at the moment.. it was funny for a few weeks, but after 4 years or so it's getting REALLY old. I mean, I like fast cars, but can you not show some normal stuff, just once in a while????
*Don't worry if by some freak of nature you've never seen top gear, you can catch the repeats six times a day, every day on the inspiringly titled "Dave".*
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