Top Gear Series 15 Official Thread.....Starts 27th June.....
Discussion
Yes, its back, get ready for the almost inevitable 'oooh its all gone crap' posts from disgruntled ph'ers and 'ooooh i know that car' claims.
heres what they have to say...
That’s it. Right there. You probably thought you already knew it, what with all the rampant speculation flying around the internet. But you didn’t. Not Officially, anyhow. But you do now. You can tell it’s official. It has a full stop and everything.
We’ll have plenty more information on what to expect from Series 15 over the next few weeks. Just as a teaser, though, how do you like the sound of modified motor homes, the real story behind the Reliant Robin, the death of the Chevrolet Lacetti, a race between the VW Touareg and a pair of extreme snowmobilers… and the Stig doing some bad things in a Bentley Continental Supersports?
Richard Hammond – wee lad, white teeth – is most looking forward to the something a little less extreme, however.
“The emotional tribute to the British sports car is silly but fun and, I think, has some genuinely touching moments as we were the best in the world at making sports cars,” says Richard. Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of overly horsepowered, wildly expensive metal hitting the track, too.
“We’re going to hit every single supercar as well,” Richard tells us. “In truth nobody’s buying them right now, but it doesn’t make any difference because it’s mostly a feature for the 10-year-old in all of us that just wants to look at the new Ferrari 458 or R8 Spyder…”
So that’s Series 15 of TopGear, kicking off at 8pm on BBC Two on Sunday June 27. Join us.
heres what they have to say...
That’s it. Right there. You probably thought you already knew it, what with all the rampant speculation flying around the internet. But you didn’t. Not Officially, anyhow. But you do now. You can tell it’s official. It has a full stop and everything.
We’ll have plenty more information on what to expect from Series 15 over the next few weeks. Just as a teaser, though, how do you like the sound of modified motor homes, the real story behind the Reliant Robin, the death of the Chevrolet Lacetti, a race between the VW Touareg and a pair of extreme snowmobilers… and the Stig doing some bad things in a Bentley Continental Supersports?
Richard Hammond – wee lad, white teeth – is most looking forward to the something a little less extreme, however.
“The emotional tribute to the British sports car is silly but fun and, I think, has some genuinely touching moments as we were the best in the world at making sports cars,” says Richard. Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of overly horsepowered, wildly expensive metal hitting the track, too.
“We’re going to hit every single supercar as well,” Richard tells us. “In truth nobody’s buying them right now, but it doesn’t make any difference because it’s mostly a feature for the 10-year-old in all of us that just wants to look at the new Ferrari 458 or R8 Spyder…”
So that’s Series 15 of TopGear, kicking off at 8pm on BBC Two on Sunday June 27. Join us.
Doesnt sound too good to be honest. More of the same- the idea about being for 10 year olds is right. But if they looked back to earlier series it was about blokes who knoew about cars, talking and driving cars. Now its about blokes who pretend not tpo know about cars clown around so 10 year olds will buy the Stig merchandise and...oh...hang on a moment...
williamp said:
Doesnt sound too good to be honest. More of the same- the idea about being for 10 year olds is right. But if they looked back to earlier series it was about blokes who knoew about cars, talking and driving cars. Now its about blokes who pretend not tpo know about cars clown around so 10 year olds will buy the Stig merchandise and...oh...hang on a moment...
It ain't like what it used to be!It were a proper motering progam in the olden days! Eeh I remember 't bloke what used to carry 't red flag!
There werent not non of this speedin lark in them days!
Shaw Tarse said:
Rollcage said:
Excellent.
Top Gear and a GP on the same day!
Shame they only make six at a time now - didnt it used to be more? Just goes to show, its not as good as it was you know!
I think they used to be 1/2 hour progs?Top Gear and a GP on the same day!
Shame they only make six at a time now - didnt it used to be more? Just goes to show, its not as good as it was you know!
Check out PH events for that day, there is also an SS meet!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Top_Gear_epis...
williamp said:
Doesnt sound too good to be honest. More of the same- the idea about being for 10 year olds is right. But if they looked back to earlier series it was about blokes who knoew about cars, talking and driving cars. Now its about blokes who pretend not tpo know about cars clown around so 10 year olds will buy the Stig merchandise and...oh...hang on a moment...
Marvellous! It's not on for two more weeks and already people are moaning about how it's not as good as it used to be...
williamp said:
Doesnt sound too good to be honest. More of the same- the idea about being for 10 year olds is right. But if they looked back to earlier series it was about blokes who knoew about cars, talking and driving cars. Now its about blokes who pretend not tpo know about cars clown around so 10 year olds will buy the Stig merchandise and...oh...hang on a moment...
Aah, the old Top Gear... 
Top Gear first hit our screens back 1978, presented by professional nob Noel Edmonds and glamorous Angela Rippon who was drafted in at short notice after Margaret Thatcher pulled out due to prior commitments. The programme quickly established its own inimitable style based around tedious features about safety and describing every new car as 'quite good' even if the car in question was the Austin Ambassador. Unable to take the pace, Edmonds and Rippon soon fell by the wayside and were replaced by a series of charismatic and irreverent presenters including notorious party animal Chris Goffey. Goffey was originally hired to fulfil a contemporary BBC rule which stipulated that all magazine programmes must feature at least one man with a beard. However, he soon made Top Gear his own and his damning indictments of new cars, including the now legendary criticism of the Fiat Tipo's bonnet release catch positioning, earned him a fearsome reputation for honesty
Goffey's zany style was perfectly balanced by the more urbane approach of another new presenter; William Woollard. With his alarmingly swooping hairstyle and raffish taste in anoraks, Woollard enthralled audiences with his unique ability to walk towards the camera whilst talking and waving his hands about a bit. Sometimes he would even rest one foot on a car bumper giving him the appearance of a particularly learned C&A model. Little wonder that producers credited Woollard for attracting a new female audience to the Top Gear fold.
Despite the on-screen magic of the Goffey/Woollard 'dream team', by the end of the 1980s Top Gear was becoming stale and the ratings dropped dramatically. Fortunately salvation was just around the corner in the shape of a man who changed Top Gear and motoring journalism forever; Tony Mason. Although medically a midget with a head worn almost smooth from wearing too many flat caps, Mason gripped audiences as never before. Top Gear ratings rocketed as even people with little interest in cars tuned in to see what the genial dwarf would get up to next. Mason's ability to deliver every line like an insanely grinning idiot, even if he was reporting on a fatal rallying accident, re-defined Top Gear and entranced the nation. Anyone who watched the programme during the 1990s will remember at least one legendary Mason moment, probably that bloody outtake of the perma-smiling loon getting hit by a snowball which always crops up on Auntie's Bloomers.
Woollard: swooping
Top Gear first hit our screens back 1978, presented by professional nob Noel Edmonds and glamorous Angela Rippon who was drafted in at short notice after Margaret Thatcher pulled out due to prior commitments. The programme quickly established its own inimitable style based around tedious features about safety and describing every new car as 'quite good' even if the car in question was the Austin Ambassador. Unable to take the pace, Edmonds and Rippon soon fell by the wayside and were replaced by a series of charismatic and irreverent presenters including notorious party animal Chris Goffey. Goffey was originally hired to fulfil a contemporary BBC rule which stipulated that all magazine programmes must feature at least one man with a beard. However, he soon made Top Gear his own and his damning indictments of new cars, including the now legendary criticism of the Fiat Tipo's bonnet release catch positioning, earned him a fearsome reputation for honesty.
Sadly the good times couldn't last and in 1999 Mason announced his departure from Top Gear by getting sacked. The resignations of other supporting presenters, including Quinton Willson and someone called Jeremy Clarkson, followed soon after. Today the future of the programme hangs in the balance, despite assurances from people with trendy glasses in Television Centre that everything is going to be just fine. In the meantime the BBC has declined to renew the contracts of today's knowledgeable and popular presenters, choosing instead to hang onto Jason Barlow. The future looks for Britain's erstwhile favourite motoring programme looks grim and that's very sad - even though the current series is rubbish.
(I was looking for that classic chris goffey clip of him testing a Fiat 128, but came across the above on Sniff petrol instead.
)This is what we want more of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsn1yUxVXY
Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
heebeegeetee said:
This is what we want more of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsn1yUxVXY
Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
Did I just watch 5+ minutes of film on the Rover 216!!!!! Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
Oily Nails said:
heebeegeetee said:
This is what we want more of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsn1yUxVXY
Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
Did I just watch 5+ minutes of film on the Rover 216!!!!! Mind you, Mr Goffey was remiss in that piece for failing to mention that Rover's new engines would be made at their new factory at Bournville...
You did.I, however, dipped my foot even further into obscure Roverness and watched Clarkson's review of the 827 Coupe
A little more knowledge, and a lil less of pretending not to know how to do stuff. Less of the horrible set-ups like blimp over airfield police involved etc, and just more three men in a boat charm.
Six episodes does not seem enough for the sort of show I want and far too many for the sort of show I dread...
Six episodes does not seem enough for the sort of show I want and far too many for the sort of show I dread...
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