Top Gear 2016 Official TV show thread *contains spoilers*

[suffolk009]

It looks like it's over for TG USA.

The Internet is quoting Ruttlidge Wood saying they're not shooting any more, and the channel has dropped them, and nobody else has picked them up.

[Sad Ken]

Enjoyed it, it's getting better and Matt leBlanc is looking like a natural. Nowhere near as bad as the gloom and doom merchants would have you believe. A bit of tweaking here and there and it'll be fine.

[speech]

suffolk009 said:

It looks like it's over for TG USA.

The Internet is quoting Ruttlidge Wood saying they're not shooting any more, and the channel has dropped them, and nobody else has picked them up.

Yep, confirmed by the Beeb

[LDM]

Munter said:

Munter said:

r11co on Monday 20th June said:

I'm out.

I'm shocked to my very core at your review. It's come as such a surprise. How could this possibly have happened to such a level headed and unbiased person.

Mind the door on the way out.

r11co Today said:

Didn't make it to the end again before switching off.

Ok who left the door unlocked? Mr "Chris Evans shagged my hamster and I'll hate him forever, even if he gave me a kidney to save my life" has come back in.... What do you mean there's a window in the ladies loos.

More repetitive than top gear on Dave, we get it, you don't like, in which case stick to you word and don't watch it or we will start thinking nothing you say is worth listening too or indeed correct!

[Hitch]

Mafffew said:

Skipped everything apart from the Harris and Reid sections on iPlayer, not the best piece from either. Still better than anything Evans has done so far, but that isn't saying a lot.

How do you know it is 'better than anything Evans has done so far' if you're not watching the whole show?

[DonkeyApple]

suffolk009 said:

^^ But there's only another one.

And then the old one restarts on Amazon.

[dvb70]

I quite enjoyed the last episode. The main problems are still Evans related. I did not like the Rolls part 2 section with the silly vote and Zenos review was just odd. In the filmed section of the Zenos he goes on about it doing something different from other super light cars but never really says just what that is though it's implied its much more comfortable. Then in the studio section he says how it's really uncomfortable like all other super lights. It's almost like they he had forgotten what he said in the track section. The bits about not wanting to live next door to someone who owned such a car as well is pretty much straight up Clarkson as I am sure they used to say something similar about Caterham owners.

I really hate the best car ever section as well. It's honestly coming across as rich people showing off. It just seems a bit crass. Mind you being its in the celeb bit that is fairly crap anyway.

Edited by dvb70 on Tuesday 28th June 16:56

[FiF]

First of the Chris Harris Top Gear videos.


http://www.topgear.com/videos/chris-harris-drives/...

[thetapeworm]

http://imgur.com/gallery/Q03rUXd

A face for radio.

[jbudgie]

thetapeworm said:

http://imgur.com/gallery/Q03rUXd

A face for radio.

[moleamol]

AndrewEH1 said:

Turquoise said:

Harris should stop trying to be funny.

Last week he was boring and dull. How should be present himself next week?

Via YouTube.

[moleamol]

r11co said:

Didn't make it to the end again before switching off. LeBlanc is the cream rising to the top as the only one who appears believable when he delivers his pieces - you can tell he is on the verge of tongue-in-cheek.

Harris was cringeworthy with the 'not an M2' thing - he does not deliver a script convincingly. His whole piece looked and sounded like it was straight from Fifth Gear.

Evans is just Evans. His 'sleb' slot I had already written off, and this coming-through-the-doors thing should be kept for Ant-n-Dec.

Rory is now starting to grate (as some predicted he would).

Don't know if I can bear another one.

Do you watch it wearing a gimp suit?

[toppstuff]

FiF said:

First of the Chris Harris Top Gear videos.


http://www.topgear.com/videos/chris-harris-drives/...

Bloody good video it is too. I enjoyed that a lot.

[Davie_GLA]

I normally read this from afar but thought Rory presented well and a decent story too. I reckon if this all goes titsup then he will emerge with the best chance of a long term career.

[Antony Moxey]

Mafffew said:

Skipped everything apart from the Harris and Reid sections on iPlayer, not the best piece from either. Still better than anything Evans has done so far, but that isn't saying a lot.

How do you know if you've skipped everything except Harris and Reid?

[suffolk009]

toppstuff said:

FiF said:

First of the Chris Harris Top Gear videos.


http://www.topgear.com/videos/chris-harris-drives/...

Bloody good video it is too. I enjoyed that a lot.

Very much like his previous YouTube content. Which is no bad thing.

But sadly it isn't ever going to set BBC2 on a Sunday evening alight.

[MG CHRIS]

72twink said:

MG CHRIS said:

CE piece with that zenos was dull and the car looks awful not sure what market there is for the car.

The small team is flat out, they can't build them fast enough!

That's great really happy for them more small manufactures growing the better still don't like it or see the point but if it sells then more choice is always better.

[sparkypups]

Just watching the old India special on Dave tonight.

Despite this being one of, if not the, worse of their specials it is way WAY more enjoyable than any of the new top gear that I have seen so far.

[ClockworkCupcake]

MG CHRIS said:

That's great really happy for them more small manufactures growing the better still don't like it or see the point but if it sells then more choice is always better.

You don't see the point of a reasonably priced track day car with deformable body panels that are cheap and easy to replace, and a large proportion of off-the-shelf Ford components making it cheap to run? Fair enough.

[unrepentant]

Evans is still awful. I fast forward through SIARPC because I can't bear him. What's with the stupid boots? He's just awful. LeBlanc is a bit of a revelation, I find myself enjoying him.

It was great to see Norman Dewis honoured as he's one of my heroes. The piece on the SVR was disjointed though. He started off by saying it was RWD and then later said it was "unlike normal V8 F-Types" because it's AWD. Here in the US all V8 F-Types are AWD, is that not the case in the UK?