Top Gear 2016 Official TV show thread *contains spoilers*

[r11co]

Guess who Evans had on his show as a guest this morning...?!

Delete as appropriate:

• Gordon Ramsay
• Sharleen Spiteri
• Seasick Steve

[ThunderSpook]

All of the above?

[Welshbeef]

r11co said:

Guess who Evans had on his show as a guest this morning...?!

Delete as appropriate:

• Gordon Ramsay
• Sharleen Spiteri
• Seasick Steve

Clarkson

[Shakermaker]

I note that the mods/community experience managers haven't removed my "spoiler" post above.

I got an email a few weeks ago threatening "legal action" if I didn't remove it.

Which was entirely without basis, of course. But the rejuvenation of this thread gives me an opportunity to tell you about it.

[swisstoni]

AreOut said:

Shakermaker said:

Heads up for a "challenge" they are filming for next season, based on a request through another forum I frequent

They want to know if anyone has a car with 500,000 miles, ie, has driven to the moon and back, and so they are keen to buy three cars with that many miles, and then the challenge is to see which one of them gets the furthest across Europe.

any properly maintained petrol Honda with manual gearbox will outlive them

They'll probably all end up in Vladivostok. Which is a good thing.

[Morningside]

swisstoni said:

AreOut said:

Shakermaker said:

Heads up for a "challenge" they are filming for next season, based on a request through another forum I frequent

They want to know if anyone has a car with 500,000 miles, ie, has driven to the moon and back, and so they are keen to buy three cars with that many miles, and then the challenge is to see which one of them gets the furthest across Europe.

any properly maintained petrol Honda with manual gearbox will outlive them

They'll probably all end up in Vladivostok. Which is a good thing.

That's running in mileage on a Volvo.

[johnxjsc1985]

Morningside said:

That's running in mileage on a Volvo.

barely worth an oil change.
https://www.volvoclub.org.uk/miles.php

Edited by johnxjsc1985 on Thursday 17th November 10:33

[r11co]

Does anyone else think it isn't coincidence that Evans once again didn't turn up for his radio show today? Best to lie low, methinks!

[Welshbeef]

r11co said:

Does anyone else think it isn't coincidence that Evans once again didn't turn up for his radio show today? Best to lie low, methinks!

Um he never is on R2 on the Friday children in need day.

[George111]

Soooo . . . taking bets of the format for TG next year ? If they keep the same as this year having deleted Evans, it's not going to be very interesting and now we know what The Grand Tour is like . . . . would the BBC risk producing a second series of the same low quality show when they know it's going to be panned by the critics and viewers alike ?

I think new format or at least a lot of new content is on the way.

[768]

I think it's dead in the water. I can't see the BBC coming back from this; there was an article the other day somewhere which said they think their mistake has been moving too far away from the format. So they're going to stop SIARPC being rallycross and try and revert to what it was.

If they just do that, they're even more fking clueless than most of us thought. It needs changing massively to play to the strengths of the presenters they have now, not a format that was tired when it worked for presenters they no longer have.

[DoctorX]

The Grand Tour ripped off the Top Gear format which is fair enough as they came up with it. If Top Gear comes back largely unchanged then they'll look like they're ripping off the Grand Tour. Badly, no doubt.

[sandman77]

r11co said:

Does anyone else think it isn't coincidence that Evans once again didn't turn up for his radio show today? Best to lie low, methinks!

You are completely obsessed with Chris Evans. Did he run off with your mum or something?

He quit top gear some time ago so just let it go now.

[Biker 1]

768 said:

I think it's dead in the water. I can't see the BBC coming back from this; there was an article the other day somewhere which said they think their mistake has been moving too far away from the format. So they're going to stop SIARPC being rallycross and try and revert to what it was.

If they just do that, they're even more fking clueless than most of us thought. It needs changing massively to play to the strengths of the presenters they have now, not a format that was tired when it worked for presenters they no longer have.

I guess the Great British Bake Off is heading the same way, although I don't recall seeing a rally section in the tent....

[Otispunkmeyer]

swisstoni said:

AreOut said:

Shakermaker said:

Heads up for a "challenge" they are filming for next season, based on a request through another forum I frequent

They want to know if anyone has a car with 500,000 miles, ie, has driven to the moon and back, and so they are keen to buy three cars with that many miles, and then the challenge is to see which one of them gets the furthest across Europe.

any properly maintained petrol Honda with manual gearbox will outlive them

They'll probably all end up in Vladivostok. Which is a good thing.

Thats not much of a challenge really.... if the cars managed 500,000 miles whats another few 1000 across europe. Recipe for the uneventful me thinks.

[boxst]

I still wonder if Chris Evans was constrained in that it had to be like Top Gear. What it needed and what it really needs now is a complete revamp. Grand Tour is now Top Gear, so they should do something radically different. That means not Matt Le Blanc, but someone new, fresh who wants to do something to make their mark.

[r11co]

sandman77 said:

You are completely obsessed with Chris Evans. Did he run off with your mum or something?

Biting satire! How very original too.

Evans was a dick before he ventured into TG and some of us pronounced it loudly yet were told to 'wait and see'. The Grand Tour launch was just the postscript to one big massive fking we told you so.

THere's been much comment about the 'dead celebs' skit in the middle of the first episode of GT with a lot of people criticising it. Woosh parrot for those people, because that was a two-fingered response by GT to the TGITop Gear 'sleb pals lovefest that had taken over one third of the BBC show under Evans' patronage.

Evans is ste at anything but being an aimless rentagob, always has been and always will be. His talents fit a narrow band that he has hopefully now learned he should stick rigidly too.

As for BBC Top Gear IMO it is now dead in the water.

[LuS1fer]

Seems that Evans was commissioned to write a book called Top Fear, a year on, about bringing Top Gear back to life.
It's been shelved.

[Leggy]

LuS1fer said:

Seems that Evans was commissioned to write a book called Top Fear, a year on, about bringing Top Gear back to life.
It's been shelved.

Best place to put a book.

[Laurel Green]

Leggy said:

LuS1fer said:

Seems that Evans was commissioned to write a book called Top Fear, a year on, about bringing Top Gear back to life.
It's been shelved.

Best place to put a book.