Have they gone back to Germany after Hammond rode the test track with that (imho) crazy German lady driving that van. He had to get to change his pants.
50% of your title was incorrect: Top Gear returned.
75% of your entire post was incorrect: this occurred in 2007, while GWB was still President and the Tea Party didn’t even exist.
So considering it took you 15 seconds to throw your inaccurate rant together, I’d hope you could spare an extra 5 seconds with Google to fact check it.
I think they’ve been back to the Nürburgring a couple of times, as well as the VW test track. Certainly Sabine Schmitz has been on the show since the crazy van lap.
Sabine Schmitz, who went on to appear a third when the faced off against Top Gear Germany.
I don’t recall Hammond having to change his pants, but he was tossed off the van after her first attempt since he was dead weight.
Oh, I know the tea party only exist because of President Obama. But thats another subject. I dont care about the show. Its the behavior displayed that Im pointing out.
So you’re saying James May really DIDN’T discover the source of the Nile? :eek:
OTOH, I can believe the whole production team was pooping on Richard Hammond’s Subaru engine…
Hopefully people realize that a LOT of what happens on Top Gear is staged. Much of it is faked and written to be entertaining and not necessarily accurate. About the only exceptions are some of the car reviews and the Stig lap times.
In fact if you watch the episode where they are attempting to set speeds on the salt flats, James May even makes mention that they didn’t fake anything that time.
The BBC versions is one of my favorite shows. The USA version? Not so much.
Richard Hammond went to Mexico to road-test a Mexican car this series after pissing off the entire country last year by making jokes based on the lazy Mexican stereotype. They don’t really seem to care much about going places whose residents they’ve offended.
Possibly because they understand that just about everyone out there understands that it’s just a silly TV show.
And actually, the show (at least the original, often offensive UK version) is quite popular worldwide. I remember before the trip to India last year or the year before, they played a voicemail message supposedly from the prime minister saying, “Do not under any circumstances go to India” because they would offend people and damage trade relations there. I suspect he didn’t actually say this and further suspect that the car nuts in India were glad to see Top Gear visiting them.
Let’s assume you’re serious here.
I think Top Gear is one of the best shows on TV and I find it immensely entertaining. That said, Jeremy, James and Richard make a living by antagonizing people. What did you think was going to happen when they drove cars through the South while pissing on the people that lived there? They certainly knew what was going to happen, that was the whole point. They provoked a response and then made fun of the (expected) response they got.
This is like a troll being trolled by professional trolls. It’s almost meta.
Hanging around such a flat-chested woman can’t help. I thought the blonde was a guy at first!
When it comes to offensive conduct, just think of them as stand-up comics who poke fun at everyone and everything.
Then loosen up a bit and laugh and enjoy the show.
They don’t often fake the things about the cars, but all the situations are heavily staged. In that episode Clarkson starts to drive the RV they are staying in whilst May is in the bathroom and Hammond is still in bed. The have cameras in both places to record the screams of abuse towards Clarkson.
Still it is entertaining staging.
Ay-bed gets it!
The camera positions are what really give the staging away. The camera crew ride around in Range Rovers most of the time, but are somehow available to get miles ahead of the hosts to set up roadside shots even when they’re charging around in Lamborghinis.
It wasn’t a voicemail message. The episode opens outside 10 Downing Street with Clarkson reading a letter from Cameron, who then comes outside with his security detail and tells them to stay away from India while getting into a government Jag. I’m sure Cameron didn’t care whether they went.
OK. But it was some truth to it.
And it was written in reasonably-comprehensible English. That’s gotta count for something.
In all fairness, he’s not exactly holding back when speaking out on Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and his own countrymen, either.
Nononono, he was right. James is no moron!
It’s a car show that talks about the part of cars that are really interesting. Who cares about the minutiae lots of car fans get into? It’s like, you’re not really a car fan if you don’t know everything about the specs of a car. I’m a big car geek, and I never really realized it until I started watching Top Gear. They talk about hot cars, fast cars, they give fun and interesting challenges, and the three guys rip each other to shreds. Plus they don’t review JUST American cars, and they’re painfully honest about the failings of American cars (or the highlights - they loved the Toyota HiLux, I think it was). I see American cars every day and American muscle cars bore the piss out of me. I want to see European cars, which is a lot of what they do.