Top Gear Special 17 x 7

[220bhp]

When you get three C U next Thursdays getting to much money to piss about,when one would do,this is what you get,a kids comedy,which is fine if thats what you want.
Me,I am a petrolhead and I want to watch petrol being used to exess, along with alot of rubber,as long as it is not all mine

[pixsaudisex2]

Still beats Eastenders,

[AndyP]

Still beats Eastenders,

A punch in the nuts beats Eastenders!

Top Gear was very poor this year though, I watched it all but wondered why at the end

[220bhp]

Eastenders,whats that,never watched it.

[s2driveruk]

i saw the Indian special and turned off after 15mins...it was embarassing to watch and so contrived it was actually painful. I think its lost the point let alone the plot!

[urS6Tom]

i saw the Indian special and turned off after 15mins...it was embarassing to watch and so contrived it was actually painful. I think its lost the point let alone the plot!

Same here - not at all funny and really boring. I think it's time to reinvent the show once more.

[djh]

Same here - not at all funny and really boring. I think it's time to reinvent the show once more.

Some of the earlier episodes was better when they actually used cars that would interest people (cossie, bmw's, etc) and did proper challenges with a score board etc rather than pick up 3x cars and go for a drive somewhere. Is this what the tv licences are spent on? a holiday for 3 people?

[anthonys2]

utter garbage,his comment's on the strikers were totally valid.

And if top gear started telling you how many bag of shopping you can get in the back of a mondeo/astra etc people would turn off in their droves,top gear is currently watched by 350+ million people worldwide they must be doing something right

100% theres nowt wrong with top gear if you are a fan you watch it and if you dont like JC then dont watch him simple????

[macspring]

I think the term you are looking for (for Clarkson) is just plain Arrogant. I used to enjoy TG, but lately that loud-mouthed, opiniated single-woman's-child is Really irritating! He should have been sacked for his comments recently about the striking civil-servants (and I'm not wanting to start a debate about the Strike- but he is in the public eye, and should have kept his gob shut). Bring back the days when Top Gear was actually about Cars; occasionally about something Italian, Red, and Exotic- but also what the program's roots are, ie everyday repmobiles that we actually drive to and from work in. Wind your neck in, JC.

Tony, you need to see the whole clip, his comments were taken completely out of context for maximum impact to fill airtime / sell newspapers. Don't let the media turn you into a sheep / puppet.

The India trip episode was a struggle, they need some new ideas. Programme has been going on so long now, it's inevitable that things will become tried / jaded / predictable, but some of it in that episode was too facile no matter who you are.

Without JC the programme would be compromised, but with him it can be irritating on occasions.

The older ones on Dave and other channels are good to watch if one missed them first time around. Especially ones featuring brand new models cars, which are now old and cheap, and we all now know what they really are like, either good or useless.

Hopefully, they'll come up with a few more entertaining programs in the future.

[UrS4boy]

Just started to watch this and I am having trouble. Clarkson is such a meanspirited ***hole I can hardly stand it. So far I am just as far as James's revenge on Clarkson and Hammond and I had to quit. I'll try again but I am not hopeful.

Tried again. Had to fastforward through the cringe-inducing party in Delhi. After that it wasn't so bad, the trip to the Himalayas. I was confused by the disappearing and reappearing six mufflers but whatever. Exhaust-rocket cricket wasn't too bad.

I did hope that they were going to drive the three cars over a cliff at the end. With Clarkson sit in his, of course.

[prj]

Just turned it off half way as well.

The only interesting thing I found out was that my AppleTV remote works on my Macbook Pro.
That's how boring it was.

[Tonybolony]

The program in general was becoming just a little like a Suppository, ie- Irritates the Sh*t out of you; until little over a year ago when 'One of Them' had a certain red Italian machine on test. The car was returned back to Slough, filthy inside and out, Fag Packets under the seats, and ash all over the place, as seen by my Youngest, who was on a training course there, at the time. You just wouldnt, would you? If it had been loaned to me, free, for a weekend, full of 99octane, and the deal was to clean the carpets with my toothbrush, well ??????

[MidnightBlueS2]

I switched off just after they all met up and continued with the same boring "you are a knob", "It will break", "that's rubbish" predictable so called banter. I am sure I didn't miss much.

I was Top Gear's biggest fan, but it is not funny or entertaining anymore.

Ditto !

It's been going downhill since the Bolivian and African specials... and the hill's getting steeper

I've got a copy of every TG episode from 2004 onwards. Some episodes I've watched more than 50x they're that good. I could even forgive JC for referring to us Americans as "colonials"

Watched last season, enjoyed what wasn't crap, then, after hesitation, deleted all of'em.

TG used to be a show where the ratings weren't at the top of the list of priorities, sure it's now the most watched car show on the planet aimed at entertaining as many people as possible not just petrolheads like before...

Sometimes I don't like being part of the herd

[Benjinkan]

Agree with most of the comments above regarding the India special, I enjoy Top Gear immensley but this was well below par.

As for JC, his biggest problem is that people take him seriously. He's repeatedly stated in fairly candid interviews that his media persona is just that, a persona. He is a caricature that deliberately says things to prompt a response - not to everyones taste, but who is? I am Welsh, and proud of it, and even though he's said some fairly offensive things about us, it isn't meant to be perosonally offensive, so I don't take it as such and still enjoy watching him.

I believe it was Matt Groening who said that you can't be classed as sexist/racist/religionist if you offend every one equally. I pretty much view JC with the same principles.

Don't like him, don't watch. But don't expect the BBC to replace him any time soon.

[ian4455]

Agree, its more of 3 guys messing around with terrible banter than about the cars! Mind you still better than my other half watching "The 67 Stone Baby Sitter" last night followed by "The perfect Mother" or something along those lines she ate other womens placenta's ! WTF !!!

Off topic but time to sort my garage out and start a project.