Top Gear

[Purple Monkey]

My Mini Cooper S' supercharger used to whine beautifully on the autobahn ... f**king loved that sound.

The sound of the exhaust popping when you dropped the throttle gave me tingles an' all!

Ah, the memories! :angry:

Remember when Jay Leno was on a couple of series ago, he made the point that the petrol car will become the same as we consider horses. We used to rely on them as the main mode of transportation years ago, until the age of the motor car when they became purely used in leisure pursuits. Our petrol motors will become the same.

Edited August 3, 2009 by Purple Monkey

[Alcatraz]

It'd be no fun without the insane sound and rumble of a thousand controlled explosions propelling you along a road at ridiculous speed. That's half the fun gone - half the fun of the steam train was that you could see it hissing and blowing smoke. I prefer creations that seem somehow human. The more clinical and "safe" technology gets the more I actually start to worry a little bit about where we're heading.

[Purple Monkey]

Plus sound can reduce danger to pedestrians especially when sight is impaired due to obstacles in the surrounding environment

Edited August 4, 2009 by Purple Monkey

[Paul ™]

Series 14 starts on Sunday, and now on BBC HD too

[dakyras]

It'd be no fun without the insane sound and rumble of a thousand controlled explosions propelling you along a road at ridiculous speed. That's half the fun gone - half the fun of the steam train was that you could see it hissing and blowing smoke. I prefer creations that seem somehow human. The more clinical and "safe" technology gets the more I actually start to worry a little bit about where we're heading.

[sifi]

Oh very good. Dr Who, then Top Gear. That's my Sunday evening sorted

[eFestivals]

I wonder if worm or oaf will post in here welcoming its return?

[sifi]

I wonder if worm or oaf will post in here welcoming its return?

[Steve P]

I wonder if worm or oaf will post in here welcoming its return?

[dakyras]

I'll chime in on that for them. Makes me sick that i'm forced to pay the wages of that smug c#nt Clarkson. Can't f#cking stand the show. It's return is about as welcome as a coldsore

[Steve P]

Forced? You don't have to watch TV.

[sifi]

I enjoy the show, but he's clearly not a demi-god. He's mildly amusing at times.

[ampersand]

It'll rapidly turn into "Whatever has the BBC ever done for us" type situation before too long - "Apart from the Formula One, th News, Question Time, Top Gear etc etc - what has the BBC ever done for us?"

[5co77ie]

A friend of mine was at filming and refuses to reveal anything about it.

[sifi]

i'd remove formula one from your list. and add a good sporting event, like wimbledon

[ampersand]

That's subjective. I hate f**king tennis me. Partly because I used to live in Wimbledon, and it was like a scrum just to get on the tube at Southfields to get into work for two weeks of the year.

Until I realised I could sub-let my flat illegally for huge amounts of money to idiot tennis fans, which would pay for me to have a top class holiday for those two weeks a year. Brilliant.

In other news, we can add Horizon to the list of "What has the BBC done lately for Worm". I've not seen it yet but it was a documenatry about linguistics with that bloke he's always going on about, Noah Cholmsky or whatever it is.

[sifi]

subjective. good word. so how can you have a go at worm?

[dakyras]

I suppose not, but my life would be sodding dull without it. I just object to how lauded Clarkson is, especially his "humerous racism". Still millions love the programme and think Jerremy is some sort of demi god so mmaybe i'm wrong

[The Nal]

Interesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrind...dec/22/top-gear

[Kowalski]

Interesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrind...dec/22/top-gear

[Atlanteanlost]

I think they should just make the occasional "special".

It's the average Englishman abroad travelogues which I enjoy. FFS I can't even drive and therefore the actual car review stuff is somewhat wasted on me and rather dull.

[Wooderson]

The last two series have been brutal.

My two cents is they should stick to making specials like the North Pole or the Vietnam shows which were exceptional.

The whole "and now... the news" / "who'd like to see X's lap?" / "some say..." / "and on that bombshell" format is tired and boring.

I'm only ever really enthralled in the show when theres a race on now.

[dakyras]

I think they should just make the occasional "special".

It's the average Englishman abroad travelogues which I enjoy. FFS I can't even drive and therefore the actual car review stuff is somewhat wasted on me and rather dull.

[The Nal]

Anyone think Diaz and Cruises times last night were total positive publicity bullshit?

The Senna tribute was cool though. Loved the way he crashed into Prost, didnt give a f**k.

[sifi]

I think on the whole it's been a good series this one, althouh I agree with you The Nal about the Diaz / Cruise interview. They never used to allow the show for plugging. I guess it's because Ross isn't on anymore, and because of the global reach of the show - what is it. something like 350 million people watch it each week? That's utterly amazing.

I enjoyed the Senna tribute. I was at the European GP at Donnington they talked about, when he went from fifth to first on that first lap. I was sitting at McLeans, just where he overtook Hill.

Did think it was odd that they talked at length about the 1990 Senna Prost off, but no mention of the 1989 one when Prost took Senna off mind. The second one was a direct result of the first incident, in my mind.