~Top Gear Season 18~(Trailer, Discussion, and info)

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

This weeks episode features the C63 AMG Black Series and we see their BMW M5 review in the last episode 6 and then the season finale 7.

 

[DblPen]

I've just finished catching up with missed Top Gear episodes after being away from home for several weeks. I'd only seen the (fantastic) episode 1 with the Italian trip in the three supercars. Just as I expected, they made the first one very good to lure people in but now they've reverted back to the usual, crass, childish nonsense they always do. 45 minutes into episode 4 we've had 15 mins of the quite interesting Ferrari FF and Bentley Continental GT (would have preferred a test on normal roads) and not much else. Michael Fassbender. No problem with him but this is a car show not a film programme. Why the need to turn it into a chat show for 15 mins? And now I'm sat here, deeply embarassed by the mobility scooter section. I'm not even bothering to watch it to the end and I'm going to to turn it off.
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Anybody who thinks watching three middle aged men arseing about around a town centre on mobility scooters is funny, needs to have a serious, hard look at themselves.

It frankly embarassing and the BBC should just end Top Gear with this series. They've clearly run out of ideas.

You watch it with wrong expectations and from the wrong perspective.
Its like somebody would watch american wrestling for martial arts knowledge

 

[Betty Swollocks]

You watch it with wrong expectations and from the wrong perspective.
Its like somebody would watch american wrestling for martial arts knowledge

That analogy doesn't work.

It would be comparable if American Wrestling USED to contain good martial arts but has since focused mainly on fake, childish fights, but very occassionally DOES have a genuine fight between proper fighters.

I'm sorry, but when I sit down to watch a programme called 'Top Gear', a programme billed as a motoring show, is it too much to expect to actually see some cars?

Did you actually watch the last episode?

 

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

That analogy doesn't work.

It would be comparable if American Wrestling USED to contain good martial arts but has since focused mainly on fake, childish fights, but very occassionally DOES have a genuine fight between proper fighters.

I'm sorry, but when I sit down to watch a programme called 'Top Gear', a programme billed as a motoring show, is it too much to expect to actually see some cars?

Did you actually watch the last episode?

I have all 18 seasons and I've watched every single last one.

 

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

That analogy doesn't work.

It would be comparable if American Wrestling USED to contain good martial arts but has since focused mainly on fake, childish fights, but very occassionally DOES have a genuine fight between proper fighters.

I'm sorry, but when I sit down to watch a programme called 'Top Gear', a programme billed as a motoring show, is it too much to expect to actually see some cars?

Did you actually watch the last episode?

I have all 18 seasons and I've watched every single last one.

 

[DblPen]

That analogy doesn't work.

It would be comparable if American Wrestling USED to contain good martial arts but has since focused mainly on fake, childish fights, but very occassionally DOES have a genuine fight between proper fighters.

I'm sorry, but when I sit down to watch a programme called 'Top Gear', a programme billed as a motoring show, is it too much to expect to actually see some cars?

Did you actually watch the last episode?

Yep, i did, and since you said this, i only now realised that last episode had only ferrari and bentley, i think, in a kind of ridiculous test, while other stuff was irrelevant to any car enthusiast. So i came to a conclusion that i am really, accustomed to that, i probably expected that. And that havent changed just now, you know i cant even remember the last time they did something not entertainment and shock-value based... Well maybe that episode about Senna some time ago. I guess their main viewers is no more mostly made of petrolheads. They make stuff that wider audiences would watch, not only car enthusiasts.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

you know i cant even remember the last time they did something not entertainment and shock-value based... Well maybe that episode about Senna some time ago. I guess their main viewers is no more mostly made of petrolheads. They make stuff that wider audiences would watch, not only car enthusiasts.

Well, the first episode of this series which was pretty much taken up entirely by the three supercars in Italy.

The whole programme is a joke. It wouldn't be so bad if when they do move away from cars, it was actually funny, but it rarely is. It's usually extremely childish and pathetic, and even borders on xenophobia and racism. (India special).

 

[DblPen]

Well, the first episode of this series which was pretty much taken up entirely by the three supercars in Italy.

The whole programme is a joke. It wouldn't be so bad if when they do move away from cars, it was actually funny, but it rarely is. It's usually extremely childish and pathetic, and even borders on xenophobia and racism. (India special).

That episode reminded me so much of some kind of special series, that i forgot that it was just a regular episode
You are probably a lot older then me (i guess most of members here are), cause i still find them funny most of the time

 

[Deleted member 25]

It has been ages since i watched a whole episode, anyone daring to share a link containin the last three seasons ?

 

[DblPen]

It has been ages since i watched a whole episode, anyone daring to share a link containin the last three seasons ?

not last three seasons, but i post a link of every new top gear episode on this thread:
http://www.germancarforum.com/sound...eos-incl-season-17-india-special-episode.html

 

[Human]

I've been thinking (as if I ever stop) since Season 6, Sabine Schmitz former professional motor racing driver for BMW, now known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality. Who from the start of 2011, no longer drives the BMW Ring Taxi, may just be the STIG!?

Just a thought

 

[Betty Swollocks]

I've been thinking (as if I ever stop) since Season 6, Sabine Schmitz former professional motor racing driver for BMW, now known for driving the BMW "Ring taxi" around the Nürburgring race track as well as being a television personality. Who from the start of 2011, no longer drives the BMW Ring Taxi, may just be the STIG!?

Just a thought

The "Stig" is more than one driver, hence the need for a disguise since the current format of Top Gear began, so to enable them to get around the unavailability of ONE particular driver.

 

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

Thisseasons has been an awesome one.

 

[Human]

The "Stig" is more than one driver, hence the need for a disguise since the current format of Top Gear began, so to enable them to get around the unavailability of ONE particular driver.

I am 100% with you on that one Betty, but just as with Ben Collins she just might be one of the drivers and the "official" Stig. Well that was just a thought that passed my mind or rather a wild speculated guess as to 'who's the Stig?'

 

[DeDe]

"Both have double-clutch gearboxes"

Wrong Clarkson, again. The Maserati is a one-clutch sequential, while the Merc is a multi-clutch automatic (with a wet-start clutch).

He's talking too much BS nowadays.

 

[Betty Swollocks]

"Both have double-clutch gearboxes"

Wrong Clarkson, again. The Maserati is a one-clutch sequential, while the Merc is a multi-clutch automatic (with a wet-start clutch).

He's talking too much BS nowadays.

Oh, he's talked BS for a long, long time. I cannot abide the man.

 

[Zafiro]

Tomorrow - M5 F10 and The Stig drive the car.

 

[klier]

Thanks!

Where to watch without BBC 2? I'm on vacation in France and I don't think they will put any kind of BBC on their national tv

 

[Betty Swollocks]

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Is there really any need for this? Joke, or not a joke, it's a deliberate attempt to provoke and is completely out of context. You've crow-barred it into this thread and it sticks out like a sore thumb. KA has already been chastised for trolling today and I see no differences here; i.e. an attempt to cause an argument.

Am I personally offended by it? No, of course not.

What I am offended by is your continual attempts at abusing your favourable position with the mods because you know they won't touch you at all.

 

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

Is there really any need for this? Joke, or not a joke, it's a deliberate attempt to provoke and is completely out of context. You've crow-barred it into this thread and it sticks out like a sore thumb. KA has already been chastised for trolling today and I see no differences here; i.e. an attempt to cause an argument.

If anyone that wasn't a BMW fanboi said anything like that, I'm sure a mod would of been all over it. No clue why I feel there's a double standard but I also think there's a conflict of interest with some of the mods, as well. With that said,

Did anyone watch today's episode?