BBC's Top Gear 2016 refresh

Wow, everyone is so negative. I didn't think the interview was cringe worthy at all really. I also don't want to see a show about normal people and normal cars, I want to see supercars and other things I'm unlikely to ever afford. If I want reviews on boring things there is plenty of youtube channels, websites and magazines for that.

As long as the people on the show know a thing or two about what they are talking about and have a bit of passion for it, then they get the benefit of the doubt... at least to begin with.

I think people forget the early days of the 'new' top gear and how rough around the edges it was, especially when James May joined, which was quite a bit into it IIRC.

At least let them release an episode before you condemn it to the Television graveyard.

I think people are forgetting why clarkson was sacked... the other left of their own choice. I'm actually looking forward to the new presenters. I just hope they continue to do the crazy challenges; where they heavily modify their cars etc.

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Originally Posted by Zak33

Hey Tiff and Plato can drive.

Vikki has now learned to drive

Fifth gear's better than Top Gear

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I agree, but I still think Fifth Gear fits your "show about cars for normal people" bill.

It's a much better car show than (the new) Top Gear was while Top Gear was a much better entertainment show than Fifth Gear.

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Originally Posted by mycarsavw

I agree, but I still think Fifth Gear fits your "show about cars for normal people" bill.

It's a much better car show than (the new) Top Gear was while Top Gear was a much better entertainment show than Fifth Gear.

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Indeed, 5th gear was about cars with presenters. Top gear was about presenters with cars as props.

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Wow, everyone is so negative. I didn't think the interview was cringe worthy at all really. I also don't want to see a show about normal people and normal cars, I want to see supercars and other things I'm unlikely to ever afford.

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Really? I always found the supercar tests the most boring bits. The normal cars were much more interesting. Not just blowing them up and pushing them off cliffs either (poor CX). Remember the fiesta review where they took it just about everywhere - including on one of the Navy's landing craft.

It would be nice if they got someone more down to earth as a third presenter though. I wonder if Victoria Coren has any interest in cars.

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Originally Posted by EndlessWaves

I wonder if Victoria Coren has any interest in cars.

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:laugh: Please god no! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

At least let them release an episode before you condemn it to the Television graveyard.

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Television graveyard is a tad over dramatic..... Mabee you should send in a tape and audition, you've already shown more passion that Matt LeBlanc ever will ... ;)

Just a joke.....

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Wow, everyone is so negative. ....

At least let them release an episode before you condemn it to the Television graveyard.

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I don't know about everyone else, but for me, the BBC condemned it to my personal TV graveyard the moment they appointed CE. There's just something about him that has the same effect on me as the noise you get scraping fingernails down a blackboard. He makes my teeth itch.

I'd quite happily give the new program from the old team a try, regardless of why it was cancelled on the BBC, but not if I have to take out a subscription service I otherwise neither want nor need.

I've watched TG since the current format started, and indeed quite a bit before that, BUT .... it's never been a "must have" for me. It's been a pleasant way to spend an hour, but there's plenty of other shows I enjoy as much, and a fair few I enjoy more.

So while I'd prefer Clarkson hadn't lost it and bopped wotsisname, and no, I certainly don't condone that (or any other form of bullying, let alone violence at work), and without that I'd no doubt have carried on watching the old TG, given that it did happen and that's not an option, neither of the alternatives on offer appeal to me, for different reasons.

And life's too short and complicated for me to worry about TG more than that.

Will it end up in a TV graveyard? Don't know, and don't really care. The version I enjoyed is already dead and buried. If people watch either new show and enjoy it, great. If not? Oh well. But either way doesn't affect me because neither interest me enough to watch, if it means putting up with CE or subscribing to do to it.

I guess my stance is summed up as ... Que sera, sera.