BBC Top Gear Thread 2021/2022
Discussion
Complaints about Top Gear being inappropriate and outdated were raised way back in 2005. Must admit It feels out of synch with today's environmental and safety culture. Perhaps time has arrived to finally axe the troubled series? 
Guardian said:
Transport 2000 claimed Top Gear promoted irresponsible driver behaviour and an obsession with big cars. It said the motoring series, one of BBC2's most successful shows with up to 5 million viewers a week, should be replaced by a programme promoting "sensible driving in sensible vehicles".
"It glamorises speed and fails to make the connection with danger on the roads," it said in a statement. "Through the use of Jeremy Clarkson as presenter, with his distinctive image, it is in danger of encouraging a 'yobbish' attitude on the road."
"Everyone is talking about how to reduce car use, cut climate change emissions and make the roads safer, but, to quote in perhaps its own language, Top Gear effectively sticks up its fingers to this," said Steve Hounsham, a spokesman for Transport 2000.
"It is irresponsible, outdated television designed to give comfort to boy racers, petrolheads and those from the 'get out my way' school of driving. We want to see Top Gear taken off the screen."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/12/broa...
"It glamorises speed and fails to make the connection with danger on the roads," it said in a statement. "Through the use of Jeremy Clarkson as presenter, with his distinctive image, it is in danger of encouraging a 'yobbish' attitude on the road."
"Everyone is talking about how to reduce car use, cut climate change emissions and make the roads safer, but, to quote in perhaps its own language, Top Gear effectively sticks up its fingers to this," said Steve Hounsham, a spokesman for Transport 2000.
"It is irresponsible, outdated television designed to give comfort to boy racers, petrolheads and those from the 'get out my way' school of driving. We want to see Top Gear taken off the screen."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/12/broa...
skwdenyer said:
LuS1fer said:
raceboy said:
Coming soon.....E-Gear I have just made that up
If you've seen Fifth Gear recharged, you'd wish you had....I have just made that upbigothunter said:
Complaints about Top Gear being inappropriate and outdated were raised way back in 2005. Must admit It feels out of synch with today's environmental and safety culture. Perhaps time has arrived to finally axe the troubled series?
Weren't T2000 a lobby group for the rail industry masquerading as an environmental group?Guardian said:
Transport 2000 claimed Top Gear promoted irresponsible driver behaviour and an obsession with big cars. It said the motoring series, one of BBC2's most successful shows with up to 5 million viewers a week, should be replaced by a programme promoting "sensible driving in sensible vehicles".
"It glamorises speed and fails to make the connection with danger on the roads," it said in a statement. "Through the use of Jeremy Clarkson as presenter, with his distinctive image, it is in danger of encouraging a 'yobbish' attitude on the road."
"Everyone is talking about how to reduce car use, cut climate change emissions and make the roads safer, but, to quote in perhaps its own language, Top Gear effectively sticks up its fingers to this," said Steve Hounsham, a spokesman for Transport 2000.
"It is irresponsible, outdated television designed to give comfort to boy racers, petrolheads and those from the 'get out my way' school of driving. We want to see Top Gear taken off the screen."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/12/broa...
"It glamorises speed and fails to make the connection with danger on the roads," it said in a statement. "Through the use of Jeremy Clarkson as presenter, with his distinctive image, it is in danger of encouraging a 'yobbish' attitude on the road."
"Everyone is talking about how to reduce car use, cut climate change emissions and make the roads safer, but, to quote in perhaps its own language, Top Gear effectively sticks up its fingers to this," said Steve Hounsham, a spokesman for Transport 2000.
"It is irresponsible, outdated television designed to give comfort to boy racers, petrolheads and those from the 'get out my way' school of driving. We want to see Top Gear taken off the screen."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/12/broa...
EmBe said:
Weren't T2000 a lobby group for the rail industry masquerading as an environmental group?
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Better_...Mammasaid said:
Looks like another brilliant group 
bigothunter said:
Complaints about Top Gear being inappropriate and outdated were raised way back in 2005. Must admit It feels out of synch with today's environmental and safety culture. Perhaps time has arrived to finally axe the troubled series?
Perhaps better to start challenging the modern safety culture, and also start having honest conversations about the environment?skwdenyer said:
bigothunter said:
Complaints about Top Gear being inappropriate and outdated were raised way back in 2005. Must admit It feels out of synch with today's environmental and safety culture. Perhaps time has arrived to finally axe the troubled series?
Perhaps better to start challenging the modern safety culture, and also start having honest conversations about the environment?lornemalvo said:
skwdenyer said:
bigothunter said:
Complaints about Top Gear being inappropriate and outdated were raised way back in 2005. Must admit It feels out of synch with today's environmental and safety culture. Perhaps time has arrived to finally axe the troubled series?
Perhaps better to start challenging the modern safety culture, and also start having honest conversations about the environment?/s I can well imagine if the BBC do keep floggin it, it will be ready for Woke Gear make over....no longer limiting the format to three juvenille white males.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
OctiMoron said:
/s I can well imagine if the BBC do keep floggin it, it will be ready for Woke Gear make over....no longer limiting the format to three juvenille white males.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
What is it that makes you think ‘juvenile white males’ are inherently suitable while women, minority ethnic, queer an gender non-binary people are inherently unsuitable? Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
Seems more than a little unkind to wish failure upon people because of their gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation doesn’t it?
Dingu said:
RDMcG said:
Red 5 said:
I think the bigger issue, is that TG has become an embarrassment to the BBC, who I think have been desperately looking for an excuse to cancel it for years now.
I agree completely.. in these very woke days there are those who think that driving for fun is not on, burning petrol,. taking risks when there are endless new regulations that are at odds with the whole carefree world I grew up in.In the case of BBC they will replace it with something like Urban Cyclist or City Gardening or the like.
At least the second part of their username fits their reply though 
OctiMoron said:
/s I can well imagine if the BBC do keep floggin it, it will be ready for Woke Gear make over....no longer limiting the format to three juvenille white males.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
HustleRussell said:
OctiMoron said:
/s I can well imagine if the BBC do keep floggin it, it will be ready for Woke Gear make over....no longer limiting the format to three juvenille white males.
Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
What is it that makes you think ‘juvenile white males’ are inherently suitable while women, minority ethnic, queer an gender non-binary people are inherently unsuitable? Obviously it will need to be anchored by an ethnic female presenter with a chip on her shoulder, a non straight male to bring some levity and another him/her/other from the gender roulette wheel with atleast one having some degree of disability to ensure the BBC have covered their targeted core demographics.....and lets not forget the programmes tame non binary gender fluid racing driver 'THEY' Stig.
Should that day come.....I honestly hope the entire thing finally brings down the BBC management and the licence fee disappears into oblivion along with them.
Seems more than a little unkind to wish failure upon people because of their gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation doesn’t it?
biggbn said:
thegreenhell said:
They need to send it back to BBC2 and stop trying to make it a mainstream entertainment show fronted by people who know f
k all about cars.
You think the presenters know fk all about cars.k about cars? That's interesting. The other two plainly know bugger-all about cars.
Flintoff is a good hire because he's brave, funny, an absolute lad and a bit of a hero for many of us.
McGuinness is a terrible hire. Deeply annoying man and complete bluffer. "Wahay!" f
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