Fifth gear on channel 5 now

Burnsy2023 said:
Is it just me that thinks that fuel economy test is flawed. They should have run the car dry before doing the reference lap. That way you get rid of all the fuel from the fuel filter etc. That's probably where the last 2 miles went.

Burnsy
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He said that driving in the rain decreases fuel consumption, where as i can find no logic that would support this. Therefore im quite sure that the car drove less miles based on the fact that it was raining.
I cannot see how the road being wet would "reduce friction" in terms of causing less rolling resistance, infact i think quite the opposite, water on a road acts as an adheisive therefore requiring more energy to rotate the driving wheels - using more fuel.
 
It's amazing how fifth gear changes their "office", at least one presenter and "format" every single season and gets weaker and worse every single season.

All you hear is loud slaps of the useless lot padding each other's back in headline features like "Snooker champ says: Jesus, you are such a good driver Vix". And then it just goes on with crouch thrusting for 55 minutes - it's a long queue of "wows", "unbelievables", "oh my gods" comments to each other interrupted only by brain fart "duh" premium number competition. It would actually be a better program if they just did "reviews" - like the one with Cougar. No more drunk eye Tiffs winking and mumbling gobleedee gooks to himself, no more driving in circles without any point watching styrofoam screetching on blackboard laugh of VBH rather than the actual car, no more "we are so busy doing nothing for 6 months we couldn't rebook and we have to film in the heavy rain" poinless premium car runs. The most interesting item in the whole show - the scrap car - took about 4 minutes total. Out of 45.

The truth is - we already have premium car, blokey TV show - and it's more humorous, more attractively done and actually presented by people who have something to say about cars they drive rather than chatter about themselves. Trying to watch channel 5's tasteless, bad pastiche of it for 14th series in a row only makes matters worse. Doesn't work. I think I'm going to remove this channel from my freeview lineup all together. 14 seasons is enough second chances. It's not going to get any better. And there is nothing else worth a look on it anyway.

(removes the channel then slams the remote on the table) ;)
 
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v0n said:
It's amazing how fifth gear changes their "office", at least one presenter and "format" every single season and gets weaker and worse every single season.

All you hear is loud slaps of the useless lot padding each other's back in headline features like "Snooker champ says: Jesus, you are such a good driver Vix". And then it just goes on with crouch thrusting for 55 minutes - it's a long queue of "wows", "unbelievables", "oh my gods" comments to each other interrupted only by brain fart "duh" premium number competition. It would actually be a better program if they just did "reviews" - like the one with Cougar. No more drunk eye Tiffs winking and mumbling gobleedee gooks to himself, no more driving in circles without any point watching styrofoam screetching on blackboard laugh of VBH rather than the actual car, no more "we are so busy doing nothing for 6 months we couldn't rebook and we have to film in the heavy rain" poinless premium car runs. The most interesting item in the whole show - the scrap car - took about 4 minutes total. Out of 45.

The truth is - we already have premium car, blokey TV show - and it's more humorous, more attractively done and actually presented by people who have something to say about cars they drive rather than chatter about themselves. Trying to watch channel 5's tasteless, bad pastiche of it for 14th series in a row only makes matters worse. Doesn't work. I think I'm going to remove this channel from my freeview lineup all together. 14 seasons is enough second chances. It's not going to get any better. And there is nothing else worth a look on it anyway.

(removes the channel then slams the remote on the table) ;)
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I agree. Fifth Gear is on par with Vroom Vroom.
 
I watched Fifth Gear yesterday in the hope that they'd dumped the annoying guy with the stupid hair, they hadn't. :(

I was mifefd at his review of the Kuga, whilst driving it on the road he basically said it was ok-ish, something like "if it was a car, it wouldn't be that bad", he then said "if it doesn't work off road you might aswell get a Focus estate and save some pennies."
The raft then proceeds to fail majorly "offroad" and then gets stuck in a bit it shouldn't have attempted.
The review ends with him saying how amazing the Kuga is and that you should definately buy it? :confused:

I like the Mitsubishi Evo, in their 2 "tests" they basically had the Impreza win both, then without real reason declare the Evo the winner.
EDIT: I did like Plato's overtaking move on Tiff, was pretty close...

That damn MPG test aswell, why did they remap the car? As said they should have originally ran the car dry then just attempted it with the tyres and weight loss. THEN tried their "fuel save remap"...

The auction house? Surely there's fees to pay for the sale? What about the insurance you'd surely have to get for that day? Seemed like a completely **** feature where the important parts were missed out.

The music in this show is awful, I question many of their tips and it just feels like one awkward situation after another.
I usually hear that it's more of a serious car show than Top Gear with real world reviews. Maybe you could look at it like this, but the reviews have always seemed dire and the presenters are beyond awful.

Edit: Oops, mild nonsenical rant. :D
 
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Fifth Gear could have the most desirable(sp?) cars in the world on the programme, due to shoddy presenters and grim camera work/music, it'd still be boring.

Your sister's done you a favour, just youtube for the specific clip and be thankful you didn't have to endure the show.




Emlyn did not watch the last episode of Fifth Gear and may be wrong
 
Right, Im a die hard Top Gear person as are most of you probably, however Fifth Gear offers somethign different.

The Plato Tiff races are epic, and Vicki Butler Henderson is a decent enough presenter. They are more real world than Top Gear for me, but not as entertaining.

Having both is brilliant.

Edit, I have to concede Tom Ford is a total ****ing ******
 
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TurboMonkey said:
Right, Im a die hard Top Gear person as are most of you probably, however Fifth Gear offers somethign different.

The Plato Tiff races are epic, and Vicki Butler Henderson is a decent enough presenter. They are more real world than Top Gear for me, but not as entertaining.

Having both is brilliant.
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I dunno, the Top Gear team just seem decent and they're never testing generic rubbish so it's usually a good watch.

Fifth Gear, they seem to try too hard and it just makes it uncomfortable, especially they guy that used to have the stupid hair... (What is his name?)
Features are often really boring, occasionally informative though. The thing with the Megane headlights, interesting-ish, did not need a lengthy feature on it though...

I do remember them doing a good feature where they crashed tested cars with the usual rubbish that a large percentage of motorists carry in the back, they also threw in a kitchen sink for... Some reason... It was good to know that they plenty are asking for a speeding A-Z in the back of the head, should they have an accident.
 
Better than Top Gear these days, mind. At least it's not mind-numbingly boring and so heavily treated that you can't see anything half the time.
 
Well... I watched it last night on Five Life or whatever they name it these days.
As usual, VBH's commentary was extremely dire. I'm all for the presenters conveying their excitement, not when it involves continous pant wetting noises though...
The Citroen "ice-cream" review was awful, I appreciate they were trying to get the idea of space over but it was done the wrong way.

I'd far rather have seen the X6 compared to the X5 the whole way through the review. It's still disgusting to look at and from what they showed us it looks really impractical to live with... Is it really that useful that it's supposedly great at handling on road? What is the real point in this vehicle?
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I'd far rather have seen the X6 compared to the X5 the whole way through the review. It's still disgusting to look at and from what they showed us it looks really impractical to live with... Is it really that useful that it's supposedly great at handling on road? What is the real point in this vehicle?
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Don't care how good it supposedly is, it won't be as good as a normal model, for example a 5 series, even the saloon would probably be more practical than that stupid X6 thing, it's a total waste of space.
 
My thoughts exactly, just as pointless/ugly as the X3?

I'm sure I've ranted about the X6 before, but now that I'm starting to see a few on the road, the rant must start again.
 
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