Absolutely agree, getting very boring lately, even my son who is car mad was off like a shot as soon as they finished the contrived road race.

 

I also noticed the rang rover in nearly every shot. Are they getting lazy, dont normally see them on the "races"

Wasnt a bad show, filled an hour

 

Pity a car maintenance couldnt be incorporated in the programmes. As far as i know , nothing like that is on now

 

brilliant

 

Watch Wheeler Dealers then.

Seriously, who the hell would tune in to watch some bloke in a bolier suite change the brake fluid in their Ford Focus?

It is light hearted entertainment, nothing more, nothing less.
To be honest, I have been watching Top gear since i can remember. Remember when it used to be the old format and played on a Thursday night?

It is like a religion in my house, as is Formula One.

 

Amen to that brother.

 

Perhaps the camera Range Rover kept catching him up cause he could only get 140 miles range?

I enjoyed it, made a change that he lost!
Oh and I didn't know about the GT86 / BRZ sales split, nor that Subaru won't be selling the Impreza in the UK.
In fact, with those two snippets of info you can pretty much see that Subaru is near on doomed.

 

You may still be able to catch repeats of Pimp my Ride on Dave.

 

One could almost put up with the schoolboy behaviour if it was even interesting!

Les

 

I am sort of on the fence with it.... I find it entertaining enough when it's on, but I don't make a point of making sure to watch it these days. I do think they have run out of ideas and they do seem to be a little more juvenile than in the past.

Anyway it's not the worst thing on TV and I don't feel passionately enough about it one way or the other to make a post in an internet forum about it....... oh damn

 

Spice it up with a helicopter crash ala Korean Top Gear:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...er-crash-video

 

So, the engine in the GT86/BRZ then, is it a Toyota or Subaru design, does anyone know


Subaru will be fine, they're still selling the Forrester, Legacy, and Outback over here

Those are the Subarus country folk actually buy, contrary to what the Brummie Dwarf was insisting last night

 

In 2006 85% of the cars Subaru sold in the UK were Impreza WRXs or STIs.

Nowadays they sell a quarter of the number of vehicles here that Porsche do. They will be a very long way from fine as far as the UK goes!

P.S. GT86 - Subaru block, Toyota designed heads so a collaborative effort!

 

So how many Subaru were being sold before impreza came here,more or less than today

 

i had alook at a brz engine bay at the autosprt show, i was suprised at ho3w different the engine is when compared to an impreza.

i imagined it would just be a n/a impreza engine but its vastly different

 

The Range Rover always keeps up, even when he was in the Veyron as they have to obey the law, and even lardy gas guzzling 4X4's can do 70mph (or slightly more in some countries). They could race a Caparo T1 and use a Perodua Nippa as a camera car with no difference apart from not fitting the gear in.

 

BRZ on steroids!!

 

TG may have been bad, but the new 5th gear tonight was absolute cacka. VBH was really gettin on my t1ts nevermind the ridiculous and pointless "stunt" with the jets which has been done so many times before

 

Thinking back, they had a comedy dig at Imprezas then Amy McD dumped on GTRs from a great height.

Excellent episode ;-)

 

How do they get 300 hp out of that. ??

 

The real problem with Top Gear is that we all are paying for it!!!!! What a waste of money!!!!!!

Fifth Gear is crap too - but, it doesn't cost me a penny, so I can live with that!

 

There'll be some smart **** along in a minute saying how much the BBC makes out of the programme. Shame they can't fund a real motoring programme with that profit that doesn't pander to the Eastenders crew or some foreigner looking for a distracrtion from their airplane dinner. What's the betting that a very good portion of the money raised goes through a production company owned by Clarkson. I wonder what % tax is paid too! Money for old rope when the script is the same every week.

 

Good start this week ........ seems the first 10 minutes are always going to be the best - or, maybe, this week will be better?

We shall see ....

 

Still good after 23 minutes .... what's gone wrong?

 

41 minutes and still decent ........... weird?

 

Lewis putting Vettel in his place was worth the watch

 

NOW it starts to get sh1te!!

Same Old Same Old ..... Yawn.......

 

Too much on the kia...

 

itv2 for some proper car action!! yo!

 

Brains back on