It’s going to take a lot of self restraint to not watch the first half and save it all for one go but it’ll be worth it.
Ditto the Australian version - worthy, but lame. The second series was actually a bit better, because they included a professional comedian.
I always say Top Gear is NOT a car program - it’s a comedy program built around cars. And like the best comedies it has excellent writing, a good formula and a cast perfectly suited to then format.
OK, maybe it’s getting a bit tired, but it has the advantage that there is always a new subject (car and car-related topic) to build a show around.
He doesn’t bash American cars; he bashes American people. Or, not really bashes, but insults - cf his comment about rugby being like American football, but played by men. Once he told a young woman in the audience “You can’t be American, you’re not nearly fat enough.” Stuff like that. He and the other guys are actually pretty fair when it comes to American cars, praising what Detroit does well and damning what it doesn’t.
Not that that really bother me, mind you. I get that his persona is the curmudgeonly old God-and-Empire Englishman, who looks back to the glory days when men were men and Britain - excuse me, I mean England - ruled the lesser races. The only anti-American thing Top Gear ever did that really pissed me off was during their tour of the American South, when they used creative ediiting to turn the scene of a couple of Alabamans hollering at them about the “Man love is OK” and “NASCAR sucks” slogans painted on their cars, into a full-fledged assault by stone-throwing rednecks bent on lynching them furren bastids. Just didn’t happen that way, but hey, we make fun of Alabama, too. And I don’t think that was as offensive to us Southerners as flying to Germany in Spitfires or sending a prison bus to pick up the hosts of the Australian Top Gear when they came to England was.
May and Clarkson seemed really shaken and scared when Hammond had his big crash.
That wasn’t an Italian car, it was a Peel P50, built on the Isle of Man. Arguably the funniest Top Gear ever.
I always wondered what the Robin Reliant Space Shuttle program cost. That rocket launch is one of the most impressive videos I’ve seen in years. Unfortunately the Youtube version resolution sucks.
If I ever win the mega lottery I am gonna pay those guys to do that over till they get it to work.
You mean someone other than the Italians build crap like that?
What was the real story and how do I find out about it, because the stuff they showed was pretty damning. And having lived in Alabama for awhile, I really can’t say it was all that surprising.
Odd that they build a small car like that on an island with no speed limit.