Top Gear and Fith gear

Thanks for the heads up. I cannot say that I have ever heard of Peter Saywell previously - so a good scoop for 5th Gear. Lets just hope they don't have that tw*t Tom Ford presenting... VBH please mmmmhhhh

Top Gear drives me nuts! I know I should always remember that is supposed to be entertainment but the way they talk you would think everyone is sitting there with £35k+ to spend on their everyday car. Sales figures suggest that probably half that figure is most peoples budgets.
Needless to say I will be watching on Sunday and the endless repeats too on UK People etc etc...

 

I think you can only take Top Gear with a pinch of salt really, like when Clarkson destroyed that Maserati in the £10k supercar challenge, I would have guessed the average car buyer will spend around £17k

 

It's more like £8,500 once you consider second hand, fifth gear did a feature on it last year.

 

Vicki was refreshing and fun to watch about 2-3 years back. Her CS review is one of the best ever from Fifth Gear. But I find her real annoying now - she's got a grunting kinda laugh and makes those awful faces trying to look funny but falls way short of it. Basically she comes across like a 30 year old teenager - embarassing really.

Jason Plato is really good - decent humor and can drive very well. Tiff is fantastic to watch when he gets on the track.

Fifth Gear quality sucked big time in 2005 compared to Top Gear which had several amazing episodes:
--> F430 v Pagani v Ford GT
--> Winter Olympics special
--> Carrera S v M6 v Aston GT

Many, many more such episodes including the road trip ones where Clarkson has to drive somewhere and beat the time of Hammond and May who take alternative routes to get to the same destination. Fantastic stuff!!!

 

I can't remember them doing that, I was refering to the new market, but yes I agree in that factor, I have never bought or never wll buy a new car, I just can't justify its depreciation (nor can I afford a new one)

 

I think apart from the £10k supercar challenge, the F430 v Pagani v Ford GT had to be my favourite although a die hard ferrari fan that Pagani is awesome, I loved it in the car park in Paris

 

I can't wait for the new season of TG to start, i'm all fired up and ready to DL at a moments notice

 

Lots of new things in the 8th series of TG including:
the 3 presenters building a Caterham from scratch, while their other halves attempt the same

Hammond in a Cayenne Turbo S racing on the Cyprus rally course against some sky divers

Race between the Peugeot 207 and some dude doing that supercool parkour thing

Clarkson turning an old s-class into some sort of living room...:S

British Rocketry Association turning a Reliant Robin into a space shuttle

Jet-powered kayak against hammond in a 4x4

the 3 presenters have to make amphibious cars

they make a convertible people carrier..... the list goes on

link: http://www.topgear.com/content/timetoburn/sections/galleries/other/tg_preview/01/

 

So more of the usual entertaining mayhem then, the Caterham sounds interesting