Chris Evans on Top Gear road and track tests.

Chris Evans on Top Gear road and track tests.

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ocallen

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466 posts

192 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Just another view on this subject. Chris Evans may own or have owned wonderful cars but in his motoring pages in The Mail on Sunday Event magazine he really scoops the bottom of the barrel with the cars he tests and writes about, today it's the Honda Civic Type R, not a bad car but any of us can go into a local Honda dealership and try one if so inclined.

JC would rarely get out of bed for anything less than a £100k car and then he would burn the rubber at Dunsfold. That is what we wanted to see, not how good the latest Viva is to commute to Broadcasting House.

TheAngryDog

12,406 posts

209 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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You're about to break PH. Open the flood gates!!

Ilovejapcrap

3,281 posts

112 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Mc regularly wrote about average cars in the Sunday paper what are you on about ?

daemon

35,813 posts

197 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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ocallen said:
Just another view on this subject. Chris Evans may own or have owned wonderful cars but in his motoring pages in The Mail on Sunday Event magazine he really scoops the bottom of the barrel with the cars he tests and writes about, today it's the Honda Civic Type R, not a bad car but any of us can go into a local Honda dealership and try one if so inclined.

JC would rarely get out of bed for anything less than a £100k car and then he would burn the rubber at Dunsfold. That is what we wanted to see, not how good the latest Viva is to commute to Broadcasting House.
Speak for yourself.

Old men doing donuts in hypercars never really did it for me.

I think clarkson will be missed like Chris Moyles is missed at Radio 1 - it all seemed like a good idea at the time, but when you look back it'll be like - No.

brickwall

5,250 posts

210 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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I don't think it's what was tested, it was how it was written up.

JC was in a different league.

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Ilovejapcrap said:
Mc regularly wrote about average cars in the Sunday paper what are you on about ?
Totally. Think the OP has been selectively reading Clarkson's reviews?

gregf40

1,114 posts

116 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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JC tested plenty of 'cheaper' cars.

AXlawrence

532 posts

124 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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One of Jeremy's best (well, most entertaining) road tests was the Fiesta. Doesn't matter what car is being tested, a good presenter can make them all interesting.

Derek Smith

45,647 posts

248 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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A Type R bottom of the barrel?

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Derek Smith said:
A Type R bottom of the barrel?
Never heard of that, is it a limited edition?

ORD

18,120 posts

127 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Clarkson reviews cars? I've never found anything that he has written to come close to a car review. A piece of light entertainment that uses a car as a starting point, but no more than that.

KTF

9,804 posts

150 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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PH member admits to reading the MoS.

MGJohn

10,203 posts

183 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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daemon said:
Speak for yourself.

Old men doing donuts in hypercars never really did it for me.
Precisely. Clever it aint ....

Yes, merely demonstrating their total lack of any mechanical sympathy. Plus, exceedingly boring to this car enthusiast.

When was the last time you saw the spannerphobe Clarkson open a bonnet and talk about the engine? Doubt he knows where the bonnet release is!

All that smoking tyres torture will never do it for me. Worsened with further negativity content interspersed with incessant quotes from the crib-sheet about "torques" and power outputs. Topped only by the childishly silly over long time wasting segments like the Peugeot madness a few shows back.

... anyone suggesting looking for the off switch will be shot! It is still possible to enjoy parts of any progtramme and be critical of other parts at the same time.

KTF

9,804 posts

150 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Have you seen the classic top gear episodes on YouTube with Woolard and co? Drying paint is more interesting.

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

179 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Old Top Gear was like that and I didn't watch it. Knowing whether the Cavalier or Mondeo has a larger boot opening was never interesting.

Seeing adventures with cars (staged or not) mixes it with comedy and travel programming for me. I enjoy that.

DervVW

2,223 posts

139 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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ORD said:
Clarkson reviews cars? I've never found anything that he has written to come close to a car review. A piece of light entertainment that uses a car as a starting point, but no more than that.
exactly - nail on head

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Why doesn't the OP wait till the Chris Evans Top gear is on telly and then decide ?

I was tired of the 3 buffoons and rarely watched.

I'll give the new version a watch and decide whether I want to continue watching.

Challo

10,120 posts

155 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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You do realise that Clarkson also wrote reviews in a newspaper and that some of those cars could be owned by us commoners??? He didn't just drive HyperCars.

MGJohn

10,203 posts

183 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Iva Cosworth said:
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"The three buffoons"
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Sounds like a good title for a car show .... thumbup

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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MGJohn said:
Iva Cosworth said:
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"The three buffoons"
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Sounds like a good title for a car show .... thumbup
I might let them use it........for a suitable fee.