After many years it's become a bit tedious imo. Then again I don't watch much tv anymore. When they play it straight, there was a really nice bit on a particular car company that I can' recall now, it can be very good.

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I practice not watching it by not downloading it and telling myself that cars in general kind of suck - and shouldn't be fetishised. That's what phones are for.

Lancia! That's what the piece was about.

http://youtu.be/Q_oB-Mys2aA

Because the BBC doesn't allow me, a British citizen, to pay for a TV license/subscribe to their programming from overseas. How many people from all over the world would be happy to pay to use the iPlayer? And suddenly all of their budget issues would vanish. Retarded.

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Eventually some company's going to get it - that national borders don't matter for this kind of thing.>> ^Gallowflak:

Because the BBC doesn't allow me, a British citizen, to pay for a TV license/subscribe to their programming from overseas. How many people from all over the world would be happy to pay to use the iPlayer? And suddenly all of their budget issues would vanish. Retarded.

I think Steve Coogan nicely summed up why you should not.

Stewart Lee helped.

He's not a real hamster.

The problem is that Top Gear has become an entertainment programme foremost. It's no longer a show about cars. It's a show about Jeremy, Richard and James acting like kids in the name of comedy. All the big segments with them trying out three different cars together, or racing across Europe... it's all totally staged and I'm bored with that now. It's getting so silly. It's like they are trolling the viewers to see how far they can take those segments before the viewers realise it's nonsense.

I say this as a Brit. It's sad to see the show go so far up its own arse.

Totally agree with Hybrid, its fucking awkward watching it nowadays, and so sad how pretentious they've become.

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The problem is that Top Gear has become an entertainment programme foremost. It's no longer a show about cars. It's a show about Jeremy, Richard and James acting like kids in the name of comedy. All the big segments with them trying out three different cars together, or racing across Europe... it's all totally staged and I'm bored with that now. It's getting so silly. It's like they are trolling the viewers to see how far they can take those segments before the viewers realise it's nonsense.
I say this as a Brit. It's sad to see the show go so far up its own arse.


I dunno, I'm not sure Top Gear (as it is now) was ever really about cars. The old Top Gear with Tiff Needell and the other boring guy who like a real estate agent was a proper motoring show, and frankly, it suffered the fate it deserved.

New Top Gear is an entertainment show that happens to focus on cars. The cars themselves are only marginally more important than science is on the Big Bang Theory.

And of course it's nonsense, but it's entertaining nonsense. You can't take anything they say seriously.

Except for one thing which they are totally right about.

Toyota Hiluxs are awesome.

Ok, I own a hilux surf and I love it. Toyota, give me free stuff!

I just watch clips like on VS. I am not even into cars either.

I don't care about cars, that sorta takes care of that.

I'm sure that some of you don't watch this awesome show. But how do you not watch it?

I waste my time here.

So you like it eh....


Good for you, you shouted it out on the mountain top. You can literally pat yourself on the back now.