Top Gear - Have the BBC gone mad...?

Top Gear was always aimed at the lowest common denominator as so much TV is.....still, OH suggests I have no right to complain as I don't pay for a license these days!!!!

I expect it will be as usual very rarely showing real cars just the ones they think they look good in,

The best experience I had was towing along the A44 from Broadway to home, with nothing in front all the way to the duel carriageway on the approach to Oxford Airport when the big sports car that had been behind for miles passed us with JC at the wheel

So you're the one to blame for the antipathy of the programme to caravanners.

Another shed load of licence payers money thrown at so called experts/celebs.IMO it was rubbish before and i cant see anything changeing.I certainly wont be watching.

peter.

HERE is a rather amusing resumé

I have just read THIS today.   I really do think the BBC have lost the plot.  Do they not realise that Top Gear's popularity was more about the banter and relationship between James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson than just motoring???    I think Jeremy Clarkson was more than a bit of a prat to do many of the things he did.  But, on the other hand so much of what the trio did was very amusing indeed.

It looks like Top Gear is reverting to the old boring Quentin Wilson days.....?

If you're right then thank goodness for that. When Top gear was about motoring and it was useful and informative and a damn good programme instead of the awful, dumbed down, men behaving badly, toe-curling, disrepectful rubbish of the Clarkson/Hammond era. I am glad it is done. Only James May had an ounce of common sense.

I have to agree with GrayDJames - I used to like it in the days when they compared 'normal' cars, reliability, and so on......... .  Then they only ever featured SuperCars except in the Driving a Normal Car challenge where you could tell by the mocking tones that none of them would ever be seen driving something 'normal'.

In the first instance some of the trips and journeys they did were interesting but then they just got plain silly and although my OH loved it, I went elsewhere and got on with something else whilst it was on.

Let's give the new format a chance before we condemn it - it will be different, but it may be better than ever!

The BBC dumped F1 coverage because of expense, then recuited this mob to present Top Gear. The Top Gear brand so to speak was about three presenters, not cars. I predict the Beeb will loose more money when global sales tumble. Amazon, on the other hand, is on to a real winner, as long as clarkson doesnt belt another producer. BUT, I wonder how many are like me: I'm not bothering with F1, its been spoilt (btw you can watch it free on RTL), I'm not watching BBC Top grear, because it isnt Top Gear any more, and I'm not watching Clarkson, May or Hammond on Amazon, because I'm not going to make greedy rich men even richer. I shall be using the time instead to do more with the Caravan, Oh, and drink wine.

Before Quentin there was William Woollard. Now that really was boring, about as exciting as reading 'Which' magazine, cars as white goods.

One bright ray of hope in the new show is Sabine Schultz. She was excellent on the occasions that she appeared on the old Top Gear, a Teutonic (and faster) version of Vicky Butler Henderson.

Top gear hasn't been a motoring programme for a long long time. It was simply an entertainment programme that featured 3 likeable fellas driving a variety of very nice, often exotic cars for entertainment, theirs and the viewers. With viewing figures of over 8m at times, it clearly wasn't 'rubbish' and achieved what it was designed to do - simply entertain, week after week.