Top Gear returns on Sunday 27th June at 8pm

LeJosh said:
The AMG button just sounds like it turns everything off, traction control, loosens suspension but Hammond did not make it very clear. :\
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No I think what it is, is a macro key basically, hence him emphasising 'how YOU want it'.

I think it just remembers all your favourite settings from the other options and allows you to engage them via one button rather than spending 5 minutes doing it all one by one every time.

No idea what the waffle about 'it puts it through a special.... thing' was though :/
 
Indeed. The sooner people accept this the more they will enjoy the show for what it is.

For facts and figures and decent tests on ordinary cars there are shows like Fifth Gear, which do not get 300m viewers worldwide. Top Gear does. Why? Because it appeals to everyone, even people who are far from petrol-heads. I've watched the old episodes of Top Gear, I've watched the even older episodes of Top Gear where there was no James May and instead there was Jason Dawe talking about prices of used cars and depreciation. I know which era of Top Gear I prefer and it's certainly not the one discussing the savings which can be made on the diesel focus.

It's one of the best shows on TV and I hope it doesn't change anytime soon. My only gripe with the show was the ridiculously blatant scripting which began to crop and became common place. The current episode shows how good the three can be and were without so much scripting.
 
This far into the last series, I gave up watching pretty much, this time around, I'm looking forward to Sunday nights again!

Progress. :)
 
[TW]Fox;16930961 said:
It's an ENTERTAINMENT show.

Come on guys how many series will it take to recognise this?
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An amazing amount of peopel still do not grasp that fact.

Tried explaining that to my dad a few days ago since he was complaining that it was just crap compared to fifth gear . . . .

Thats like comparing masterchef to the hairy bikers. Completely different shows.
 
The TG format is great. There is absolutely nothing I do not already know about car specifications that I'd get out of a television show. Anything I don't know I can either read about or find out for myself by borrowing a car from a dealer.

I don't want my Sunday night TV to inform me about exactly what features a car has. I want it to amuse me with 3 guys doing what we all wish we could do - spending all the time messing about in awesome cars.
 
[TW]Fox;16932780 said:
I don't want my Sunday night TV to inform me about exactly what features a car has. I want it to amuse me with 3 guys doing what we all wish we could do - spending all the time messing about in awesome cars.
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This.
 
[TW]Fox;16932780 said:
I don't want my Sunday night TV to inform me about exactly what features a car has. I want it to amuse me with 3 guys doing what we all wish we could do - spending all the time messing about in awesome cars.
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......whilst accidentally doing something stupid pretending that they didn't mean it.
 
Loved the show as usual. Great fun and some lovely cars.

The Maserati did sound fantastic. Slightly wondering if they made the controls out to be harder to understand than they really were!

I didn't believe Hammond when he said he'd rather have the Camaro than the S63 AMG, even if he is a red neck. The S63 was just an absolute beast and I can't believe they thought it looked ugly. That Camaro was my definition of ugly. The noise the S63 engine made just sounded sinister and demonic, in a good way.
 
Nor said:
......whilst accidentally doing something stupid pretending that they didn't mean it.
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This. Sometimes it does come across overly scripted (however I have enjoyed this season way more than the last 2 - seems to have been toned down). Star in car is still boring, as is little pointless bits likethe reliant robin.

It would be nice if they showed a few more affordable cars (why not review the DS3 - they said it was a great car, but no review?), 1 per episode isn't a killer? Rest of the format (news / humour etc) is good, just would prefer it to be a bit more natural - bet they have a right laugh? Why force this issue with painfully obvious script...
 
Goksly said:
It would be nice if they showed a few more affordable cars (why not review the DS3 - they said it was a great car, but no review?)
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You can read about boring everyday cars on the internet or in other car shows / magasines. Personally I love seeing unobtainable supercars being thrashed by middle-aged men having a laugh. If they reviewed a DS3 I'd probably be bored as I can see this anywhere.

The Reliant Robin gags have me laughing every time because you know they're going to topple it any second. The suspense builds up the humour!
 
Goksly said:
It would be nice if they showed a few more affordable cars (why not review the DS3 - they said it was a great car, but no review?),
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Disagree, I don't want to see a review of a DS3, or any other affordable car, if I would want one I would look elsewhere for a review and go for a test drive myself.

I want to see/hear cars I will never be able to afford or drive.
 
Was it last week (or a couple of weeks ago...) when they did the £5k sports saloon comparison where they had a score board for the various challenges. There was an M3, a Cossie Merc and and Sierra Cosworth. They did the thing where it got to the end and came down to price "And James is out of the running with 0 points going into the price comparison, it's a 2 horse race..." some time later, James: "I got my car for peanuts, epic victory"

Looks like they blew the dust off the script for the episode ages ago when they were crashing cars into walls (A rover, Volvo and something else...?) and Jeremy got his for a £1 and won at the last second. Do the 3 of them not remember using that gag/approach before?!?
 
Nor said:
......whilst accidentally doing something stupid pretending that they didn't mean it.
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if they left that part out i think it would be better for it.

For example, this week, the wedding car thing was absolutely hilarious. apart from jeremy "accidentally" forgetting his trousers and having to sticky tape them up black.

It just wasn't funny. The bride and groom being left abandoned at the end was predictable, but still funny and obviously part of the planned storyline. The trouser thing just wasnt.
 
MrLOL said:
if they left that part out i think it would be better for it.

For example, this week, the wedding car thing was absolutely hilarious. apart from jeremy "accidentally" forgetting his trousers and having to sticky tape them up black.

It just wasn't funny. The bride and groom being left abandoned at the end was predictable, but still funny and obviously part of the planned storyline. The trouser thing just wasnt.
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I found it the other way round.

James May getting lost was amusing, Clarkson shouting "Poooooowwwwah" in the Porsche got a giggle, but the rest of it was a bit meh. It was obvious that the lack of trousers was staged, but seeing him waddling around in black gaffa tape was better than the "we accidentally forgot about picking the bride and groom back up" bit.
 
Yet another fantastic episode!

On another note, I saw a Rapide parked up in East Barnet the other day - then saw a Quattroporte the next day on the same road, was a bit weird!
 
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