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if you knew it would offend from friends comments y go looking? and y keep watching new one?louZ4 said:
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been reading a while, I think a lot of it comes down to the british sense of humor and how seriously we take ourselves which I feel is different from the USA, we dont take things so seriously, as somebody mentioned TopGear did a whole program on the UK car maufacturers and slated them all the way through the program , did we care. no.
Rich Hall an american comedian highlights this quite well I feel [youtube]XYU4Uy5_70o[/youtube] from about 8 1/2 mins in.
Rich Hall an american comedian highlights this quite well I feel [youtube]XYU4Uy5_70o[/youtube] from about 8 1/2 mins in.
louZ4 said:
you mustve seen the recent one where he said to some girl, "your american??? But your not fat!" haha
I love clarkson's opinion. Honestly, he hates just about everything and everyone not just americans, or japanese, or motorcyclists, or M3 owners (now audi owners), people who can spin a wrench, women, politicians, environmentalists, people who've had their teeth whitened etc. etc. The way he puts it too, It's what makes it so funny and unique.
The other option is to watch a program like Car and Driver television in which some boring person tells you the new gear ratios on a Ford pickup (or something else uninteresting that puts you to sleep). Im more of a car guy than most people and I understand stuff like this but it's so awful to listen to, thats what ford.com/specifications is for, not a show you watch as entertainment.
nice to see not everyone stateside has had a sense of humour bypass when it comes to top gear!
louZ4 said:
That's where you're going wrong.
TG is quite obviously an entertainment programme, NOT a factual programme. The original TG from the 1990s (with Tiff Neddell and Quentin Wilson et al) was factual, but it was also boring as hell (more like the current Fifth Gear format actually). I think it's quite obvious from watching any single episode of TG from the past few years that it's entertainment - in fact, my wife has been a viewer now for the past few years despite having little interest in cars: it's purely for the entertainment (plus she's got no choice when I've got the remote
).
the only thing fifth gear has going for it is vicky Butler Henderson!
She's OK actually, if a bit annoying. 5th gear is woeful though, I can't really bare to watch it :thumbsdown:*AL* said:
VBH is the perfect woman- hot, loves cars and guessing by her husky voice i bet hes not shy!!
Hmm, I'm American and have been watching TG for years. I think JC is hilarious, and that includes his bashing of all things America. I just laughed at one of his old show intro's about an hour ago as my DVR picked up an episode where he tested an F150 Pickup. He stated something along the lines of "And I suddenly have the urge to have sex with my sister." 
I seriously almost fell off the sofa. I think it's funny, but I've never been offended by a joke and don't take this kind of thing seriously. To be honest, I almost agree with some of his statements. There's no hiding that we are an overweight country who loves oversized pickups and suv's for some odd reason. :? But reallly, I love the show and his humor. And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't JC on the waiting list for almost 2 years before he took delivery of his Ford GT? That doesn't sound anti-American. Though they did document it breaking down repeatedly on him.
I seriously almost fell off the sofa. I think it's funny, but I've never been offended by a joke and don't take this kind of thing seriously. To be honest, I almost agree with some of his statements. There's no hiding that we are an overweight country who loves oversized pickups and suv's for some odd reason. :? But reallly, I love the show and his humor. And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't JC on the waiting list for almost 2 years before he took delivery of his Ford GT? That doesn't sound anti-American. Though they did document it breaking down repeatedly on him. 
I've been watching Topgear for years and did begin to get fed up a while back as all they were doing was blowing things up, caravans mainly, don't get me wrong I do enjoy the odd thing being blown up from time to time but there wasn't enough real car stuff for my liking. Recently I'm enjoying the show more because almost every episode you've got the Stig driving something fast around the track, also some of their productions are just amazing to watch. With regards to the presenters it's a strange concoction, almost weird, James May AKA Captain slow, how he is presenting on TV and a car show at that amazes me as he doesn't really come across as a car enthusiast. Richard Hammond has grown on me a little and it's clear he does love cars, the enthusiasm shows. JC, he's a strange one but I have to admit he's entertaining, I love Porsches, have owned one in the past and it annoyed me how he was always knocking them. As somebody posted earlier he was always suggesting that BMW drivers were c%cks and now the award has gone to Audi drivers. At the end of the day it is entertaining and I love some of the challenges they do. I watched the Vietnam one last night and enjoyed it, some of it was pretty childish but the scenery was breath taking, in fact the very last scene where you had those little islands just looked amazing, I need to go there sometime. Oh and JC really hated being on the bike, it showed and made the whole thing more entertaining. Usually I sit there watching in envy as they drive amazing cars around the track. Last night I didn't envy them riding crappy motorbikes in the rain!!!
3 mates on a lads holiday- i envied them!
I love the show. Pure comical entertainment, mixed in with amazing cars, locations and excuses to ragg things around a track or on location.
The mix of 3 different presenters is well thought out and clearly they play their respective roles well.
The mix of 3 different presenters is well thought out and clearly they play their respective roles well.
you guys are right, I would say it's a strange mix but does seem to work as I do enjoy the show, especially the constant ribbing, the main reason I don't envy them on this occasion is that I am not at all interested in bikes, would love to do those roads in a nice car though 
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