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Old 29 July 2007, 09:33 PM
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What ever happened to the ex-presenter of top gear? Is he doign any shows at the moment? He used to be good with his reviews and test drives.
Old 29 July 2007, 09:34 PM
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He presents/test drives on 5th Gear (channel 5).
Old 29 July 2007, 09:43 PM
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Seems to do less and less though now. Both Tiff and Plato seemed to be reduced to one 3-4 minute article each week during the last series. The stumpy munter seems to be the anchor, and the majority of articles go to either (fat) Tom Ford or that boring, geeky, googley-eyed student-type whose name I can't even be bothered to register.

Bring Tiff and Plato back in to it more, dump the munter and the student and keep fatty for laughs IMHO. Still, it's signififcantly better since that tw@t Jim Lovetoy was botted off.
Old 29 July 2007, 10:11 PM
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I thought top gear had repalced 5th gear....I'll see if I can find any of this years episodes to download. Thanks.
Old 29 July 2007, 10:15 PM
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FinalGear.com :: Your #1 Top Gear and Fifth Gear Fansite
Old 30 July 2007, 09:01 AM
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Needell Rocks!

He should get his own show
Old 30 July 2007, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by corradoboy
Bring Tiff and Plato back in to it more, dump the munter and the student and keep fatty for laughs IMHO. Still, it's signififcantly better since that tw@t Jim Lovetoy was botted off.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Old 30 July 2007, 09:38 AM
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Just have Plato and Needell hooning about in cars for an hour.

That`ll do nicely for me


The rest of `em are shi£e. VBH ..? c`mon.. she`s so pap. So is the fat curly haired git.
Old 30 July 2007, 11:59 AM
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Met tiff Needell a couple of years ago when we had him as a guest for some Ford RS shows, a genuine nice guy, also met clarkson when he did that bit on topgear on the nurburgring with the jag, very up his own ****, bit of a c@ck, very good on tv though and top gear is one of the best programmes on tele if you ask me. We waited for him to come past just after the barriers at the ring, him in the jag, stig in a caged mondeo ST220 and some film crew in another mondeo, we all cut him up on the first corner, didnt show that on the tele though.
Old 30 July 2007, 01:13 PM
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I don't think Tiff or Jason struggle too much Jason Plato especially is a very astute chap with a lot of business interests. He is also a lovely guy - nothing like the hard charging racer you see in the BTCC - played golf with him a couple of weeks ago (he is annoyingly good at that too!). He is also official brand ambassador for VW / Audi which keeps him regularly employed too.
Old 30 July 2007, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris L
He is also official brand ambassador for VW / Audi which keeps him regularly employed too.
Shame he wasn't employed by Audi when I went on the R8 event day down at Oulton Park earlier this month.
Old 30 July 2007, 01:40 PM
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Well they do have more than one!
Old 30 July 2007, 01:45 PM
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Tiff is a good presenter and he can certainly handle a car when it is doing anything but go in a straight line!

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