Fifth Gear - new series starts next Thursday

[Challo]

Truckosaurus said:

Whilst the first page of the TvF&R forum is full of Clarkson/TopGear related threads, the Fifth Gear thread languishes on Page 4.

Whilst I'm a fan of Tiff, VBH and Jonny Smith they just don't have the budget or scripts to be anything other than 'meh'.

Driving a Bentley and 911 around town discussing how good the heaters are, and then a lap of the track (has anyone ever seen a convertible (modern) Bentley on a track day?) when the 'real world' test would be to road trip them from London to Warsaw.

Team test of yet another strange variant of the Fiat 500 (MINI as just as bad, trying to get every niche covered by something sort of resembling the core vehicle) - to be any use as a consumer review they need to finish their conclusions by saying what the best in class is, we didn't learn if the 500X is better than a Mini Paceman or a Juke or a more traditional hatchback.

The old Polish car segment was the most interesting, but even amongst petrolheads classic cars are a big turn off unless it's an old supercar.

Tiff in a rallycar was a bit nothing-y as well, although it showed the different approach to driving needs from his usual track style.

I record Fifth Gear but spend most of the time fast forwarding through all of it. Im bored of the whole car shoot out, and only really watch the team test, secondhand car purchases, and maybe something Jonny does.

Its pretty boring other than that, and no wonder its falling into cable channel obscurity

[otolith]

Sat through another episode last night because there was nothing else on, but it really is dull.

[LittleEnus]

Yep its gone off the boil. The car shoot outs are awful

[otolith]

Not sure it ever got past tepid, tbh.

[Lordbenny]

Tonight 8pm History Channel!

[court]

Enjoyed tonights Fifth Gear. Best episode of the series.

Harris and Tiff had good chemistry I thought.

I for one welcome our automonous cars as long as on a weekend I get into something analogue.

[DanielSan]

Do History repeat it over the weekend at all? Forgot to sky+ it tonight and it's the one I've wanted to see most over the whole bloody series.

[otolith]

Will be available on demand.

[DanielSan]

Winner. That's a job for tomorrow then.

[TheAngryDog]

There's about 8 more showings. If you go into the main menu you can search for it without going into the planner.

[Smollet]

I have to say I thought Harris was very good. I've only ever seen him before in YouTube videos where he comes across as being very informed but rather nerdy. I was surprised that he interacted so well with Neddell and could easily be a good replacement for Plato should he not return

[pincher]

Called him Tiffany too

He also did the gag about 'a net' behind Tiff's seat in the 458 being a girl's name

(Yes, I know that Tiffany isn't his real name - but it's still amusing )

Edited by pincher on Friday 3rd April 10:28

[Lordbenny]

I'd watch that over Top Gear any day. Tiff and Chris is a driving God match made in heaven.

[davey68]

Chris was superb, he came across really well and worked well with Tiff. Hope Chris gets a permanent TV gig!

[jonnM]

Really enjoyed that, nice start to the new series. And that red Monaro belongs to a PH'er

[highway]

Best episode of season if not best episode of 5th Gear ever. Chris Harris and Tiff came across like old mates. Maybe they are. Both those cars got pushed hard. Really enjoyed that.

[Cupramax]

jonnM said:

Really enjoyed that, nice start to the new series. And that red Monaro belongs to a PH'er

Eh, that was the last but one episode, last of the series next week.

[DanielSan]

Smollet said:

I have to say I thought Harris was very good. I've only ever seen him before in YouTube videos where he comes across as being very informed but rather nerdy. I was surprised that he interacted so well with Neddell and could easily be a good replacement for Plato should he not return

They had the same kind of chemistry as him and Plato. worked really well together and we're genuinely entertaining. Would be good to have them together for the whole series next time.

[Spanglepants]

That slo- mo shot of the Ferrari drifting out the corner with the Porsche behind was great.

[Jazoli]

I have to say that the format is pretty dull these days, I watched episode one, fast forwarded through episodes 2 and 3 and deleted the others from the planner without watching them, a shame really.