And James May is terrible at geography and navigation. So by their powers combined, THEY ARE CAPTAIN AMERICA.
The GT40 is not what I would call an out right American car. It used an American engine but they were original built in the UK (in Slough of all places). The engine is important but it’s only part of the package that made the car what it was.
It was just an example, The point is, he doesn’t really hate the things he pretends to hate. It is just for fun. I have even heard it said that, by showbiz celebrity standards, Mr Clarkson is one of the nicest and most affable celebs. Nobody has a bad word to say about him, except Piers Morgan, who doesn’t count because he’s a twat, and got punched in the face about it by Clarkson.
I agree it’s all a bit of an act. I was just being pedantic 
I’ve also heard that he’s a Global Warming denialist. Is that part of the act too, or does he genuinely believe that anthropogenic global warming isn’t happening/isn’t as bad as had been reported/will bring the dinosaurs back or something?
I remember a couple of years ago, there was a segment on Top Gear in which James May and Jeremy Clarkson took a Peugeot iOn and a Nissan Leaf on a long drive and made a big deal about how hard it was to find places to charge electric cars.
That seemed like a stupid exercise. Charging stations are rare (less so now than in 2011) and so of course people who own and drive electric cars don’t make long trips without thinking about this in advance. And I suspect that most electric car buyers only use them on their daily drive to and from work, so that the car can be recharged overnight at home.
“Not thinking about it in advance” is one of Top Gear’s charms. 
Eh? Big, fat, obnoxious, always has to be right, and his solution for all problems is the application of more power.
That seems rather American to me…
:eek: evidence of hypocrisy, double-standards and inconsistency in Top Gear! say it ain’t so! 
It does fit his persona of “Driving powerful cars at high speeds is awesome, and can’t possibly do any harm. Anyone who says otherwise is a contemptible killjoy.”
It’s certainly the character he plays on Top Gear. He also plays one in real life
I know how to solve both problems:
Nuclear automobile engines!
Bonus “did they really go there?!” points if they try it with a Nissan Skyline.
Now that I’ve gone back and seen a couple of other Top Gear episodes, I noticed something else:
Usually, Jeremy & company simply say that thus-and-such vehicle has “750 torques,” without giving the units. However, on one episode, Jeremy slipped up and actually gave real units for this figure. He said that the car he was driving produced something like 762 foot-pounds of torque.
But when I look on that Lexus UK site (in the link quoted above), I see they list the CT 200’s maximum torque as 142 Newton-meters. (This works out to 104.7 pound-feet.)
So … when Jeremy is saying “torques”, without units, does he mean foot-pounds, or Newton-meters? (I’m assuming most UK car ads list the car’s torque in Nm, based on my gigantic sample size of 1.)
Nobody really gives a fuck - Top Gear isn’t a car review show in any rigorous way.
Jeremy has stated repeatedly that he has no idea what torque is.
And every time James May tries to explain Jezza and Hammond nip off for a pint or ten 
It’s a pity James May can’t just say “It’s how hard the engine is twisting the drive shaft,” and leave it at that. Even Clarkson could understand that.
Right. It’s like the April Fool’s issue of Road & Track except for these guys it’s their default.
For example, Top Gear series 9 episode 3: http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-season-9-episode-3-usa-special_part-1_2382196.htm (the USA Special in which the boys drive through bubba country).