[Updated] New BBC Top Gear trailer released

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by blackthorn

I dont think he liked my little car. He smashed one up with a sledgehammer, to show what he thought of it. I love it though, cheap to run and gets me from A-B. Its a Perodua btw

You're in good company, he hates Metro's as well. At least mine is the GTi 16v rather than the old biddy version.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

You're in good company, he hates Metro's as well. At least mine is the GTi 16v rather than the old biddy version.

I used to have the MG Turbo version back in the day and when I went along to Top Gear Live a few years ago he was asking people in the crowd about which car they drive and one person mentioned the MG Turbo. Clarkson screwed his face up and said any kind of Metro was a “festering boil on the rotten sphincter of Satan”.

I might have missed or added a few words there but it’s fairly close to what he said and you got the impression he didn’t like Metros. Ever.

[alanbjames]

Originally Posted by richard s

Yep looks like a middle-aged, rich Yorkshire Tory voting man who acts like a teen who thinks he can do and get away with anything while driving expensive cars which we can only dream of owning.

is he still Rich following his divorce?

[Gavin78]

I prefer the old top gear where the show used to be about general cars...would be nice if they did 2 shows as there isn't anything on the market covering this...have to resort to parkers for car info

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

BBC say Clarkson is like.savile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ke-Savile.html

Not entirely sure about their analogy, I mean ok Clarkson was once in a Morris minor and savile was once in a minor called Morris but that's where the similarities end I think.

Oh and it's being reported on the radio that sources from sky and itv have said they aren't interested in signing Jeremy.

Well Clarkson should sue the person who made that comment I would if anybody compared me to a dirty peado, and give and money to the relevant charities.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

I prefer the old top gear where the show used to be about general cars...would be nice if they did 2 shows as there isn't anything on the market covering this...have to resort to parkers for car info

I too would like a more sensible car show dealing with the sorts of questions and issues ordinary people have when buying cars. Having said that there's a lot of info, reviews etc. on the web now so maybe TV just isn't the place for boring, practical stuff like that...

Originally Posted by Osem

I too would like a more sensible car show dealing with the sorts of questions and issues ordinary people have when buying cars. Having said that there's a lot of info, reviews etc. on the web now so maybe TV just isn't the place for boring, practical stuff like that...

5th gear ,the original top gear before it was renamed ,now shown on the History channel if you can put up with that annoying bint Vicky Butler Henderson

Top Gear's appeal is it's audacity, their stunts and their hosts. Doing their races across countries, provoking locals in Argentina or the American south, reviewing a Ford Fiesta by doing an assault on a breach with the army or blowing stuff up. When they reviewed Tesla they said it ran out of battery and got sued by Tesla, they have diagnostics which showed it still had over half a charge left, but the judge threw it up as it's not a factual program.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by martyh

5th gear ,the original top gear before it was renamed ,now shown on the History channel if you can put up with that annoying bint Vicky Butler Henderson

All teeth and squeals she is...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Osem

I too would like a more sensible car show dealing with the sorts of questions and issues ordinary people have when buying cars. Having said that there's a lot of info, reviews etc. on the web now so maybe TV just isn't the place for boring, practical stuff like that...

The problem is that the general public don't seem to want a serious programme about cars people can reasonably afford. They'd be reviewing Focuses, Astras, Civics and Yarises the whole time, which would bore most of the public. Clearly, it did. When Top Gear was a serious car programme, they got viewing figures so low that the programme was axed.

I like Top Gear, and I personally don't think of it as a car programme as such. For me, it's about watching three middle aged men making complete arses of themselves and taking the mickey out of each other.

Going back to Jeremy, I don't know what happened. I think what happened is that he got to the hotel, found no hot food and shouted at a producer. I say I think this is what happened as I find it odd that none of the papers have published a photo of the producer with any kind of injury. Even if the UK papers have not published a photo, Jeremy has been papped before, so I would have thought a foreign paper would have published them.

I also think there is a faction in the BBC trying to get him out. They can't easily remove him at the moment because he brings in a *lot* of money, but there have been things leaked that could only have come from within the BBC.

Don't get me wrong. I am not defending him. If he did hit the producer, he deserves whatever punishment the BBC rules, and the law require. There can be no excuse for violence in the workplace, and I speak as someone who was once hit round the head by their boss (thankfully one of our directors was standing behind her, called my boss to her office and offered two choices - resign or go through the company disciplinary procedure, then called me into her office and offered to help me if I wished to press charges, which I didn't).

If he did just shout at a producer, that, depending on what was said, may also require disciplinary action, but it may not.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Stuart

I speak as someone who was once hit round the head by their boss (thankfully one of our directors was standing behind her, called my boss to her office and offered two choices - resign or go through the company disciplinary procedure, then called me into her office and offered to help me if I wished to press charges, which I didn't).

You pansy. You should have smacked her in the gob .

[richard s]

Originally Posted by alanbjames

is he still Rich following his divorce?

Don't really care if he is.

[Jimmy-J]

Jeremy Clarkson's waiter tells the real story of what happened!

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Jimmy-J

Jeremy Clarkson's waiter tells the real story of what happened!

Clarkson needs to grow up.
crying because he can't have steak!

[joglynne]

Originally Posted by Jimmy-J

Jeremy Clarkson's waiter tells the real story of what happened!

That guys teeth had me spellbound. I bet what really happened wasn't half as entertaining.