Here is an idea: any complaints you get from politicans, just ask them to contact the Stig,sometimes silence is the best answer

Truer words have never been spoken. Both my parents love Top Gear, and while I’ve never been able to convince my girlfriend to watch it, I very much doubt that having a Sabine Schmidt-type as a presenter will ever change that.

Plus, it won’t be just about having a woman. Then they’ll ask that said woman review cars that women like to drive, and I thought that niche was already filled by James May.

a Yoko ? Oh, no !!!Simply ignore the chauvinism and keep up the good work boys

IM A WOMAN and i go to a all girls school and my whole year watchs top gear

Please don’t change anything about the show! My 17 year old daughter and myself, a 47 year old female, love the show and don’t need to have some female trying to explain things to us. We totally get what the show is about and believe it or not we are girls in the United States. We would die without our Top Gear boys!!

I suppose, unless you are very in touch with your feminine side, have an unhealthy craving to know what aging, wrinkly old actresses and one-time stage singers think about their partners’ phalluses, or just happen to find yourself to be homosexual one morning, Women’s Hour and the odious Loose Women are aimed at solely women??

Amen.

Just because the presenters happen to be three men doesn’t mean that the whole show is some evil sexist plot.

Statisically, it’s the most likely option. I’ve noticed that most serious petrolheads tend to be male. So if you pick three of them…

Top Gear TV has a rule that the audience in the studio is split between 50% male and 50% female, what more does Harriet Harman need? She is just looking into the most microscopic problems (which aren’t really problems) in britain to try to cause an argument and gain publicity. Don’t mess with Top Gear! Anyway women (no offence) don’t fully understand a V8, only men can really say ‘OH MY GOD! THIS VXR8 BATHURST S IS INCREDIBLE!!!’ just like Hammond did in TG mag, only he used words like ‘Testosterone’, for example.

Oh, and most petrol heads like my self (hence the name) are men. Not many women like cars like we do.

don’t listen to them bossy politicians, they no nothin. like andy said, it’s ashow with 3 men showing their love of cars. she’s defo wrong, andys right is right andy lar!!!!!!!!!!

Isn’t TeeGee a female? That could satisfy the ‘have a female on the show’ part…

How gives a damn F*** about what they say?

Is there a law that says all institutions must reflect societal demographics? If so where is the immigrant presenter doing Hamster’s job for 1/2 price with an unintelligible accent?

Correction. The paragraph that reads “…in the same way that the excellent What Not To Wear veers more towards the female mind…” must be restated as “in the same way that the excellent What Not To Wear *arguably* veers more towards the female mind”, or it would not be politically correct for politicians. You cannot just state factual observations; you must pretend. Good luck.

LoL I agree with mr point they should get the stig to kick his butt

but pretty much all TV is aimed at women isn’t it

Wicked, isn’t it.

Well said, Mr Wilman. Harriet Harman is a prat and needs someone to shake some sense into her. Mind you, that said, she is a Labour politician, you could probably shake her until the cows come home and it wouldn’t make any difference.

Keep up the good work, all of you at TG, male and female, you are doing a marvellous job and never forget that you have and army of people out there more than ready to jump to the defence of the show should you need us to.

Fusker’s had the snip, no? So technically, he’s asexual. Sit him on James’s lap during the news and you’re sorted…

In all seriousness, though, well said, Andy. The new Equalities Bill is quite an important piece of legislation in terms of sorting out some discrimination in some workplaces, but to pick on the likes of Top Gear is quite ridiculous. Keep doing what you do boys – we love it.

Just say the Stig is a girl. But I do want to say that Top Gear and all the other motoring shows from all diffrent places have there own feel to them. Top Gear is very british and original, Top Gear Australia is more like an outback adventure, and the motoring show that Sabine is on has german logic, and Fif… the other british motoring show has more of a drivers take on cars testing out which one is the best all round.

Someone remind Harriet that making changes to the show isn’t her job and she doesn’t get the taxpayers money as salary to do so! :X For once HARRIET do the job you are supposed to do and let the people have their share of fun!

I hate the term ‘positive discrimination’ – there is no such thing – only discrimination. It appears that the government wants all programmes to appeal to all ethnic/religious/sexual groups – which is just complete rubbish as well as impossible. Andy is right – it is patronising to assume I need a female presenter to make a show relevant to me. I watch any programme if the subject matter appeals to me – and I don’t give a fig who is presenting it as long as they do a good job. I love TG for the lift that it gives me on a Sunday night ready to face Monday with a smile on my face. It is one of the very few progammes that we as a family sit down and watch together – a quality I know AW & JC want to encourage. Leave it alone.

One day idiots like Harriot Harmen will learn positive discrimination is just as bad, if not sometimes worse in building a negative attitude, than discrimination.

How exactly do you get the whole spectrum of races/gender/sexual/socia l preferences/viewpoints across in any one show? Would Eastenders become a multitude of 1 person family’s so everyone can be represented?

Would this also reflect into parliament and peerage’s? I’m afraid i havent seen any Iranian-Spanish-English mix race bisexual transgender MP’s…..

Good on yer Andy, I’m with you all the way on this one.

As we get more and more socialism we’ll have more of this type of stuff to look forward to. The stupid politicians will get to run everything.

What we need is a counter strike, a professor from Cambridge university to put the boot into Loose Women

What a load of balls i am female and adore Top Gear for many reasons,i love cars,i love all the fantastic presenters,i love the banter,the mad challenges and the sheer entertainment value that this show has.We do not want a female presenter it just wouldn’t work as well, and why are these stupid people picking on you because you have never made sexist comments or been patronising to women.If this is all politicians have to do…. shouldn’t they be looking at more important issues? Well said Andy keep up the good work i love you all.

Do these politicans not have anything better to do! Don’t worry Andy you are still putting together the best TV show on this planet.

Please, please, please make a specticle of this Harriet Harmann idot in the new series – do a typical top gear tounge in cheek piece.

Who ever wrote that column in said news paper needs to get a life. Its like health and safety its going to far. I cant work at the moment cos health and safety say its too dangerous to work in an office on crutches?? How dumb is that I thought I have hands and every other sense required. Until Yesterday I thought I would not come across anything more stupid.. that was till I read that article about sexism being instutialised in Top Gear. They clearly havent watched the program or ever listened to the views (and the surprise in that sentence is?) Any way putting a token blonde bimbo or similar in the show for the sake of appeasing the political idiots in London would destroy the show.
In its current format the show works well the audience ratings prove that. As time movs on it constantly reinvents and amends things, thats called natural progression and something I thing Andy has nailed down pretty well. If in the future something extra or someone extra is need then I trust and believe it will be done for benefit of the show. Not because some trumped up nobody who has their nose in a book of statics and not on the show itself, has told them so

Andy, keep doing what you are, you and the boys are still pulling the audiences in and we love you for it

so harriet harman says that topgear is sexist and a “boy’s club”?? If she wants to get a female presenter on topgear, fine…. By the law of equality, she’d also have to get male presenters on female shows… “Loose women – and one balding old git” on itv, “The Jeremy Kyle and Ann Widdecombe Show” on daytime telly… Hang on, that last one isn’t appealing… Most of the television programmes are aimed at women anyway, (Like all the soaps),even the adverts for diet cereal and anti-wrinkle cream!! Doesnt she have anything better to do than snipe at one of the last tv shows that a man can watch with pride and actually enjoy it?? My girlfriend loves it as well (Even if she doesnt have a clue about horsepower..).. Though I sometimes think she only watches it because The Hamster is in it..:)

seriously im a girl i love watching boys on a Sunday a girl would just ruin it!

WHO AGREES?

If we wanted to watch female presenters we would tune into loose women or Trinny and Susannah etc, but they just get boring after a while. I watch Top Gear for guys and the banter between them and then for all the fabulous cars they get to drive, and all the exotic locations they get to go to. Way more exciting than “womens programmes” discussing clothes and diets and each others problems!

And anyway, girls don’t like shows presented by girls. Girls like shows presented by pretty boys.

I’m a girl and I’ve never thought of TG as a programme for men. I don’t even think if it as a programme about cars really and I definitely don’t know anything about cars, it’s entertaining so I watch it. Full stop.

(and the fact I fancy Richard Hammond has a little bit to do with it, but if I hadn’t watched to begin with I’d never have realised I fancied him… there’s logic in that somewhere)

Beckstar, Fusker may well have had that unkind cut, but I fear any man putting him on his lap risks finding himself in the same neutered state. As far as I’m aware he hasn’t actually emasculated anyone (yet), but it’s not that unusual for one of the brave souls who dare to cross his territory on the way to the pub of an evening to appear at the door covered in more blood than a child at its first fox hunt, so it’s surely just a matter of time.

Then again, that would rather solve Mr Wilman’s problem, wouldn’t it? Though I understand from my young female acquaintances that Top Shop’s clothes are somewhat on the small side and may not accommodate a physique nurtured with pies and beer. I can see James draped in Laura Ashley florals (fortunately only as a figure of speech, it’s not like I stared through his window and saw anything untoward), however – or if budgets won’t stretch that far, Bon Marché apparently has a nice, sensible collection.

Well said Andy!!!
Carry on with the excellent work you and your team do!

Just one thing… not comfortable with James in a frock, leave him as he is – gorgeous with sensitive hair

Hey kadette and lisa-loo loves i have facebook!!!

So are they going to require more explosions, car chases, and fist fights in “chick flicks” I mean if it is going to be fair, every year there is a movie about a girl who A) discovers herself through dancing, B) discovers herself through finding love, C) moves to a big city to find love and discover herself through dancing…

This is utter bullshit. You make a very good point about that just because the presenters are all male, does not mean that women can’t and don’t enjoy it. This fact is rammed home hard by the sheer number of women in the audience every episode. They wouldn’t beg for TG tickets if they didn’t like it, after all.

Also, notice how this is always so one-sided? If TG is so sexist then I suppose Diamond and Shiela’s Wheels car insurance companies should be shut down by now for being so biased towards women to the point of being completely exclusive and women-only.

Also note the irony in government policy; that they’re so busy being ‘politically correct’ when in fact one of their own is actually being very stereotypical and judgmental. What’s next? TG is racist because none of the presenters are black?

On the subject of stereotypes, i’ll play Harriet Harman at her own game and say this: This is what happens when you give a woman political influence. *cough*Thatcher*cough*

hey, how can we find you? I know, Join lovin’ the hamster and you’ll find us there! My picture is a little squirrel!

Who claims The Stig is a man and not a flat chested woman?

I am writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I have to say this post does surprise me. I cannot agree more with it.

Maybe the fact the production team is a boys’ club is the reason the show is so good.

Bravo, Mr Wilman.

As I posted elsewhere, no amount of legislation will do anything to change the fact girls and boys grow up with different role models and different educational choices and this leads them towards different career choices. It’s all very well saying that more women should be doing ‘x,y,z’, but if there are no girls aspiring to grow up and do those jobs, it’s not going to happen. They don’t aspire to these things because they don’t see anyone ‘like them’ doing them, so it’s a bit of a self-fulfilling thing. I am very anti positive discrimination, and basically, I think it makes most sense for people of whatever gender to do what appeals to them and what they’re good at. That’s not sexism, that’s common sense. And it makes sense for the employer to employ the best people for the job. The TG office is filled with the best people to create a show that is fronted by the best people to form the presenting team. It’s no good drafting people in to fill quotas; what you need is quality. You guys (and girls) have that in spades.

im a girl and im only 17 but ive always liked cars and bikes since i was little my 2 uncles are macanics n even tho i hardly see them when i do i love watchin them workin on the cars n as my dad is partly disabled ther are some thing on the car that i have 2 help with.

i know a lot of girl who like top gear and like cars.
my female cousin who is only about 14/15 is a apprentice for my uncle as part off skool work.
so who says girls arnt interested in cars

Why do we allow these monumentally stupid people to govern us?

No matter what Top Gear always has ruled and always will.

Oh FFS! enough with the feminazi shite already!

You know what, I’m a straight woman, I love cars, I love driving fast, and I watch TG for those reasons. IF there was a woman who genuinely felt the same way about cars and knew shit, then I’d probably accept it, but just some token tart there for sake of affirmative action will not garner my respect.

Quite frankly, I’d much rather watch Richard Hammond every week, like I said, I’m a heterosexual woman, I have zero interest in a female presenter.

I tune in BECAUSE it’s a boys club and boys being boys and that’s just plain fun. But hey, I work in a mine and our motto is take a teaspoon of cement and harden the **** up!

TG, DON’T change…. unless you plan on giving me a job as presenter, then I’m all for having a chick on TG hehehe

Love from Australia.

Rock on!!! I totally agree in everything you said

Can i just say…
Yeah go to groups on facebook,type in “Lovin the hamster” and join the club,we’re on there along with lots of pics!

What about Loose women then ( sorry if it’s already mentioned couldn’t be arsed to read all the comments )That is the most sexist man hating show I’ve ever seen. Get that off the air if we’re playing the diversity card crap. or have an alternative on just after called ” SLUTTY MEN ” Why can’t we just enjoy something for what it is anymore, without seeking to make it completely universal and suitable for all. When will these politician understand that if everything, not just Top Gear, is suitable for all, and relates to everyone, no one would find any of it entertaining or interesting. Also, if Top Gear introduced a new 4th presenter, that happened to be female, and happened to be pleasing to the eye to men, what would happen then, You would get some wool wearing man hating feminist with hairy legs and doc martins who would be burnig cardboard cutouts of Clarkson ranting on that the new female presenter is a disgrace to woman kind and is only on the show to try and lure more male viewers through glorifying females in cars, trying to use sex to keep dirty filthy men interested. i’m not annoyed about this by the way.

Sorry don’t know what happened to my name in that last post!

lis: are you who I think you are !

Oh bloody hell!! Why does anyone bother to do anything anymore ever?!! I don’t want to see the show change from the brilliance that it is. Please don’t change it. I’m sure that like myself, women don’t care if it’s aparently ‘macho manly’ because we love it, even though it’s technically 3 men cocking around. I know! Bring Top Gear Dog back!!! She’s female lol

Keep up the good work.

i WAS GONNA SAY…

i have just joined !!!

see ya there!

Personally I’ve always found Top Gear to be a very inclusive programme. Just think back – they’ve looked at religion (the Fastest Faith section), gender (the superb Sabine Schmitz episodes), age (the boys’ mothers getting involved), disability (Blind Man and his staggering achievement)…the list goes on. If I remember properly, they were even brave enough to deal with the nastiest, dirtiest, inhuman dregs of society around (Fastest Political Party).

Far be it from me to mention anything about Harriet Harman’s tendency to break the speed limit…but perhaps this is all down to her being peeved that she wasn’t asked to take part in the above segment.

CLARKSON FOR PM!!!!!

Well said Andy. Can’t wait for the new series. xx

wow , that Harriet ….. only for what she said she is the sexist one !!

The Stig’s a presenter, and well, he/she/it could be a girl ?

I notice that from a paper tiger’s point of view TG is always excellent for profiling oneself.

maybe the stig could be a woman…

If you need any female workers in the office and behind the scenes, I’ll be more than happy to help out! A female studio runner needed at all and I’m the person for you!!

But really, if you get a female presenter, you’d probably end up losing more viewers than gain any, so stick with the winning formula! I love your loyalty Andy, good luck with the remainder of filming and the studio work. I can’t wait to see the results!

You tell em Andy!

Tg is presented by men for a reason. Duh!

I echo..well said Andy,you always talk such sense.I’m a woman and I love cars,I’ve loved TG since 2003 and never once have I thought it sexist.I watch because it’s the best most entertaining show on telly.I’m sick of being told what and who I should be watching.That other car show(*spit*) has a woman presenter and to me it just doesn’t work (apart from being totally boring) I find her quite patronising.she’s a woman so she’ll talk down to us woman who need to be educated about cars.I would hate to see the balance and chemistry between the boys being ruined because they feel they have to reign in their enthusiasm (and language) just because there’s a woman there.When are these beaurocrats going to realise that we can decide for ourselves what we like and what we like is TG just the way it is.If we want to watch a woman presenter there’s plenty of other boring programmes supposedly made for us girlies.I am not a girlie girl btw.Please Andy,keep up the fantastic work you and all the team do and please don’t give in to this lunacy.

Hi Andy,

Here’s a plan. Why don’t all the male team members dress up as women during an episode and chat about womeny things such as makeup, nail varnish, clothes, shoes and whatever else they all talk about. That will play them at their own game. Also James was voted as 10th sexiest female racing driver too.

I love how you hit then back at their own game Andy. Well done and roll one the new series.

On a serious point who reads the Daily Wail Rubbish anyway. I thought it was more suitable for lining a rabbit cage. Even my college tutor hates the paper. Anyway it’s not just half the audience as you say but I can name atleast 3 boards that are predominantly female. And the respect for you guys from females is tremendous. We think very highly of you guys. As far as I remember you have a makeup lady. And then there’s Sabine too. Then we had Stig’s other half when Stig was holidaying in Spain. I’m female and personally overall I don’t care as long as you guys are providing me entertainment and making me laugh. Also with the audience it’s come a long way from the die hard, more car bores that you used to have during the earlier series’.

A few people have mentioned that having a woman presenter would be a bit patronising. Didn’t Jeremy or the team want a woman when the new format was brought back and then someone thought it would be a bad idea? I have to wonder if a woman would be overly comfortable when it comes to roadtrips say when sharing sleeping areas such as a motorhome is involved.

with the presenters you have to have the right ones men or women for chemistry. It’s taken a few years for the show to be where it is today. You can’t replace any of the boys. They’ve been working together for over 5 years, have a very close working relationship and are mates. Getting someone new in male or female means sort of starting all over again with the working relationships.

As mentioned I’m female. I watch the show because it’s entertaining. I don’t pay much attention to the gender/genre but what’s happening in the content of it.

shit i need to grow a pair then if im to Continue watching the show :’(

so does this mean women watch (dont hate me for sayin this…) 5th gear, they’ve got vbh aint they?!? n yet they are noway near as popular (with lads or lasses lol)

My girlfriend loves TopGear, and I think she would find this all very confusing. Why does TopGear need any changes. People love it. It is what it is, and it is good at what it is.

And so what if the presenters are all Male anyway? I wouldn’t make ProjectRunway or America’s Next Top Model change its presenter makeup just because some whiny person whined. No!

I have to say, we’ve had a similar law here in the US for some time, and trust me, in the real world, these things don’t work…

well i am a lass and love top gear! it certainly ain’t sexest! so there lol

i love top gear…infact i live, breath and sleep top gear and i am a female….so all i can say is BRING IT ON!

i love the pure genius of the cocking about …this show is three blokes who haven’t actually grown up and thats what makes it great !

Why the bloody hell do televison produces pay attention to politicians. They are wrong! And of course Top gear is an all boys sort of show. Not all girls watch it, in the same way us boys don’t watch loose women!!

As a woman who calls herself a feminist, I don’t think I’ll ever entirely understand attitudes like that one. Surely the point of feminism is to allow women equality, rather than to force them to do exactly what men do. The implication that the things that men do are somehow automatically better than the things women do is patronizing in the extreme. And any women hired as the result of this kind of attempt to right the balance will have to live with the knowledge that she might not have been the right person for the job, but was hired just for her gender. That’s just as offensive as any place that hires only men as the result of a sexist attitude.

Please, Andy, continue hiring on merit, not on the basis of what people are keeping in their pants. To ignore gender when making these choices shows a true lack of sexism.

Anyway, if you add a female host you’ll just end up being accused of hiring her for her looks, to appeal to the male audience members. And really, going by the opinions expressed in Heat magazine, messing with the presenter situation would probably upset more women than it placated.

Now, tell us all about S13!

Here here, what about shows such as “loose women” or “trinny & susannah” you dont here complaints from politicians about those shows.

Has Harriet noticed that all the presenters on ‘Loose Women’ are….. WOMEN.

This is outrageous sexism and they must be stopped.

(Sarcasm over)

Just like Top Gear the presenters have been chosen on merit & not because of their age, race or gender.

Millions of viewers of all ages, races & gender can’t be wrong.

Case in point “The View” an american Television show ALL women with ALL women viewers except for the few half men.

i find it astounding how we are run/ostracized by people who represent allmost NONE of the general publics opinion!

and of course its a boys club production team… its a bloody lads programme!!

you dont see me asking my g.f. to watch gok wan, therefore i cant imagine the girls are actually that fussed about the boyishness of top gear at all…

you gotta suspect that we are once more, bieng puppeteered by one ‘important’ persons extreme opinion!

Daily mail article spun by anti-labour properganderists (if there is such a word and if not i’m claiming it)

Note to Labour and the rest of the rest of the overpaid underemployed palimentarians, stop nitpicking over ultimately unimportant over-politicaly correctness and fix the bloody economy so that we can all afford big V’6’s.

Well said, my good man!!

Some say he is the only female driver on the show!

All we know is he is called the Stig!

I don’t think Harriet Harman said anything about Top Gear. This is more aimed at the general working world where women still have less chance of promotion than men (for example, I work jointly for Local Government and the NHS. Most staff are women but men still make a proportionately greater number of managers).

The programmes she is asking to change are those that claim to reflect the normal population of the country and that’s reasonable. It’s only asking that if a programme says it’s about people like us, it shows people like us.

The Daily Mail is the one that’s linked all this to Top Gear plus the rather silly comment from a rather unrealistic academic who’s probably never watched the show.

The proposal from Harriet Harmen is a good thing and as a working woman I support it. I really don’t think Top Gear has anything to fear from this legislation because it’s not aimed at Top Gear, that’s just the rather silly press.

This may sound rather freaky but…. it may shut the politians up.

Get one of them to dress up as a girl (think of it like a wolf in a sheep clothing)and at least you dont have to hire a girl presenter on, thats if blokes won’t have anything to look at apart the poor girl’s chest if she’s rather chesty.

I think its about time for the politians to learn to butt out of certain things. We have enough problems of this country becoming a nanny state. Most of them have got this swine flu and they’re absolutely OINKING mad!
Dont fix things that arent broken.

Howling out loud! I’d come back but i can’t promised that I won’t puke on James May again 3:os

Politcians and Academics, joining together to destroy your viewing experience since 1954.

Good old fun police, is there anything yet that they haven’t yet tried to destroy?

Incidentally, if you’re looking for a token female to placate the political correctness brigade, I’m more than happy to help out! Even if all you want me to do is hand around the tea and biscuits

“macho” you wish.

If anything having a female presenter would appeal a lot more to the male viewers than it would to the female ones. Personally, I enjoy watch three men make complete arses of themselves in front of 1/4 billion viewers.

If you do need a female presenter. I am a journalist and have experience on radio…..:)

Maybe you can use “the Man Show” as an example of what can go wrong if youre forced to increase the women ratio on a male show.

plenty of my female friends have been converted and love the show! i wonder if these politicians just never seen a whole show or something… whats not to love?

I’ve stuffed the economy now I want to stuff this show

In all fairness the front row of the TG crowd we see on telly has loads of females.

this is madness, check this out – comments on the same thing all the way from Aus:
http://www.news.com.au/co mments/0,23600,25407422-1 0229,00.html

So, just girl shows are ok but male are not?, because one fat, single disfigured lady at the Parlament says so? don’t want to repeat what you all have been saying just that I agree and left wing dictatorship should be stopped in the name of the free world

Has anyone stopped to actually consider that she’s actually the sexist one here? Not only that, she’s also really selfish. This is basically finger-pointing. Has she stopped to at least do a survey or something to ask the average woman if they’re as incensed as she is at TG? If the survey was actually done FAIRLY, the results are sure to make her commit suicide in shame, if she had any shame. Because the simple matter is this, my sister and a LOT of my female acquaintances are all huge fans of TG, even more so than guys. Just bugger off stupid woman, and leave the people who actually know what they’re doing keep doing what they do.

sums it all up for me NsK, I agree with you and I hope that the shemale will take this to consider.

lol we might see some men posing as the puss.ycat dolls next

I am a woman and I watch the show purely for them ” boys will boys ” aspect and to be honest I actually learn a bit about cars along the way. The feminists have yet again got it wrong its not a boys only show. Boys watch it to gain knowledge and aspire to do what the presenters do. Women watch it just to confirm that boy really are qute stupid and it justifies why my husband is not allowed an expensive car. jokes aside the show works because the presenters are male and a little bit hopeless with an obvious big budget and who hasn’t secretly wished they could jump a volvo over caravans or taken a ford festiva and completed a beach landing with the navy – don’t change the format.

Why don’t you just declare that the Stig is infact female, and also gay, black, jewish, a vegan, an enviromentalist and a feminist. Problem solved.

Acrimony…you are a GENIUS!

TG DOG IS A GIRL!

I would also like to point out that I am a feminist and have no problem with all the presenters on TG being men.

PS. In my post above #85 “watch” should be “watching”

I love Top Gear (not the Aussie version though!), and find it ridiculous that Politicians think women can only enjoy a show that is politically correct and presented by a woman. DON’T CHANGE A THING

Who’s Harriet? I watch Top Gear UK in Australia and love it. I know nothing about cars and frankly, am not very interested but I just love the three fellas presenting. Very funny, very entertaining – just boys being boys. Don’t ever change it. It definitely does not need any female interference. By the way much much better than Top Gear Australia (hate it). Wasn’t Harriet Ozzie’s wife?

Please conform to this and hire Jodie Kidd , please , please , please

Perhaps Harriet and Dr. Livesey only want to see TG boys on skirt. So wear those kilts boys.

Point #1 – Give Harriet a copy of Eric Bana’s “Love The Beast”. Andy’s point that Top Gear is a journey into the male mind is reflected in this film, as it explains why we are obsessed with cars.
Point #2 – if she’s offended, then I’m offended by The View, Oprah, Trisha, What Not To Wear….

If it wasn’t for Top Gear UK, I would be servicing both our cars, and going alone to Car shows with all the other men and their FEMALE partners.

My WIFE (thats a female for the sexist woman (not my words, but my wifes)) now enjoys the car culture and catching up with both the blokes and partners at the club rallies.

I’m so glad (like you said Andy) that the UK has gotten over the Financial crisis and that our media in Australia is wrong, when they run stories about how much troupble you guys are in.

Good job Top Gear UK, and grow up Harriet!

I can’t imagine Top Gear with a woman presenting – the funniest moments of the show are watching 3 men just being men! It just wouldn’t be the same. I have learn’t so much from Top Gear re: cars, the way they present makes it interesting and hillarious at the same time – it grabs your attention, and certainly doesn’t come across sexist at all, hence why so many women watch the show. Help’s that Hammond is a bit of alright too .

if they want a woman’s version. they can just go ahead and make a top bra version. leave us guys to our own things and stop trying to fiddle barbie make-ups on our GI Joes.

Don’t they have all those fashion shows to watch. bug off!

i’m a girl and i love top gear exactly as it is? so what theres no female presenter i say to hell what the politicians think and leave jezza, hamster, and may to it!!!!!!! te way tg works best!!!!!!!!!

What an idiot.

I’m female, and I love Top Gear! bringing a woman onto the show would ruin it for me. Sure, I like watching the car segments, but the main reason I watch is to see Clarkson, Hammond and May!

I am a women and I’ll be happy to admit that I love the show! Regardless of the demographic that is suppose to be, I’d say it’s never wrong to defy what people think. Especially when you have three great presenters and they hold no bars for what they say.

Forget what others say, if there a few women who are offended by their comment, then change the channel! If you can’t stand the talk then don’t listen.

I personally don’t think the show is sexist! It’s just guys in cars! Who women like to watch! And even we fantasize being in those cars. We want to be the one yelling “Power!” at the top of our lungs. We want to know what the Break horsepower is on a car, even if we don’t know what it means. We want to impress the boys to let them know that we are not about fancy things and frilly things! We are tough!

However, we leave the hamster, jezza, and captain slow to deal with the car talk. IN the mean time, we’ll just watch them because they are entertaining.

Okay, i went to far! I wasn’t raving, i was just simply agreeing with the article and what the others have wrote.

Love these guys!

vic

Spearmint Rhino… hehe.

I guess Mrs. Harman and Dr. Livesey just have a pet peeve thing going on about TG. If only they could see this new tv show here in Belgium, called M!LF (Man Liberation Front). The blatant sexism would give them a heart attack. (look for the “Shii” clip on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean; very wrong yet funny)

stating the obvious… but isn’t there already a girl in the Top Gear presenter line-up.

Yes, I’m looking at you Mr Hammond

nas

Dear Savaged of Hammersmith

Shhh! Don’t say things like that about Fusker! The powers that be will have the Health and Safety (Vicious Little Fu*kers) Act 2009 through Parliament faster than you can say ‘meow’ and the poor little bugger will be forced to wear a muzzle in public. (Either that or James will have to keep him on a lead. I’m not sure what’s worse…)

what? top gear doesn´t need any change and it´s not sexist I mean as you said mr willman, the number of female viewers speaks for itself.
by the way I know this shouldn´t be in this post but if anyone in top gear is reading pleeease test drive the ferrari california in the new series

Can i just say as a woman in my mid 20s who does not live in the same house as her 40 something father anymore, the presance of middle aged men speaking their minds on sunday night is strangely comforting and familiar. lol

No really, actually love the programme but if you feel the need to make your show more diverse Carly, Phoenasia and I would be more than happy to help, Nasyi is black, Carly is a cute but intelligent blonde with fluffy hair, and i have MS, perfect. lol.

Though we are archaeologists really. It might be necessary to reveiw the beer budget.

Where do I send my resume? LOL! Just kidding of course.

I like the show as it is! With them three blokes!

But if you’d pop in a pretty lady who hands over the challenges instead of a bloke in a white smock now and then that would be nice perhaps for some people?

I can’t wait to see what will happen because of this. I’m sure the lads will take the piss out of it at some point, so I can’t wait to see that!

And I have to say, TG is one of my favorite shows and all them girly things aren’t really my cup of tea!!

Keep on going! You’re doing a great job!

Hear hear, Mr. Wilman.

People who are saying that logically these rules would require a man on Loose Women, etc, are making a very fundamental mistake – they are assuming that these rules stem from a misguided support for sexual equality. In fact, these rules stem from sexism. The assumption that they will be implemented equally is therefore wrong. Harman, and all those like her, explicitly reject the idea of sexual equality under the law (and sexual equality in general, though they lie about that). The entire point of these rules is that they’re meant to be used against men only. That is why Labour is rewriting “equality” laws to ensure they deny men equal protection under the law (as, for example, they did in order to allow them to reject men as MPs solely because of their sex).

Feminism is sexism. It usurps and abuses the idea of sexual equality as a cover, like a virus invading a cell and using it to make more viruses, or a parasite living off its host.

As for the millions of women who like Top Gear the way it is – Harman et alia dismiss them. Like all those who conduct politics by biology and who have embraced simple stereotyping as their view of the world, they very much dislike members of their favoured group who don’t conform.

the shows good as it is i wuldent hav it any other way

nice one providing comments for the daily mail!

Oh sod them, if they don’t like it, they can lump it, and anyway, if there were women presenters on Top gear, there would be no humour, and the road tests would be boring as hell…

i think tht new law is a load of bull s**t

CLARKSON, HAMMOND + MAY R TOP GEAR – u cnt change tht

if a women cums on top gear thn it aint guna b 3 middle aged men tlkin about cars and laughing n fallin about abit anymore it is ??

i agree with wat andy sed in paper – if top gear gts a women thn loose women sud gt a bloke

CLARKSON 2 STAY ON TOP GEAR WHOS WITH ME ?

Harriet Harman probably had an overdose of PMT on the day she wrote the article, give her a few days to calm down and she’ll be ok.

Other than that, for heavens sake, don’t change a thing Andy, Top Gear has a successful format.

You know many years ago the Two Ronnies did a sketch with Diana Dors when women ruled the world, maybe Harriet Harman saw this and it gave her ideas above her station.

All this political correctness has gone crazy, bring back common sense and none of this stupidity would exist.

Bring on the new series with James, Richard and Jeremy, if it isn’t broke, don’t meddle with it.

This is complete and utter madness! I’m a woman and I love Top Gear UK just the way it is. Clarkson, Hammond and May (come on, can’t we just nominate May as the token girl?) work brilliantly together and to add anyone else (male or female) would spoil it. I don’t find the show sexist or chauvanist, and I’m amazed that anyone could. Has this Doctor Louise character actually watched an episode? Obviously not, because she would have seen that there are lots of women in the audience. And that they’re enjoying themselves as much as the men. Dr Livesey, you do NOT speak for me or for any other woman out there who sees this for precisely what it is – pedantic, patronising tokenism. Keep it to yourself and LEAVE TOP GEAR ALONE!

If the show was done by women nothing would go wrong and everything would work like clockwork. Where’s the fun in that?

Well said Andy

I just had to check my calender to make sure it wasnt April the 1st.

I think i’m quite capable of deciding for myself what i do or do not deem sexist.
Harriet needs to jump off the “slag off Top Gear for media attention” bandwagon and get on with the job, she’s ridiculously overpaid to do!

I’m actually quite offended by HER sexist comments that imply because i’m a female i cant enjoy the show!

Personally i cant wait for the new series,can we have more juvenile male behaviour and just for the old bag Harriet, try and get Jeremy to ogle as many breasts as he can – i’m sure he wont protest, maybe he can throw in some jokes whilst he’s at it.

Heidi Klum is a woman, right?

go for Tania Dexters

go for Tania Dexters:

she is blond, good looking, smart and funny
she was miss Belgium a few years ago
she presents a car program in Belgium
she drives fast cars, fast motorcycles, does benjijumping and other dangerous and crazy thing

so she would be the ideal teammember for top gear
http://www.tanja-dexters. be/

I just read this load of crap on our local news site.
My Wife can’t wait to see an episode of Top Gear.
And a number of my female family members enjoy it as well.
Not sure what the politics is like in the UK but I reckon the politicians want to divert attention away from their own inabilities.

Top Gear rules

That is just senseless accusation from the MP and the professor. In my opinion, one of Top Gear’s main draws is the semi-pseudo-macho team and the ensuing hilarity.

Also, the other ladies have spoken in the other comments, and if they are all happy, why can’t you be, too?

Don’t ruin The Best TV Show In The World.

Hows about Jody Kidd? She’s hot and likes fast cars. It’s win-win.

I fondly remember an episode of classic Top Gear from 1986 or so where a female presenter dismissed the M635CSi as a bad car because she broke a nail on the door handle.

well put my friend, if they want more women on screen i’m sure the blokes wouldn’t mind a couple of ladies from spearmint rhino making an apperance

Hear Hear Mr Wilman. Why don’t you start one of thoses Downing street petitions – “the undersigned all want Harriet Harman, who is ginger incidently, to shut up”

Or make stig press-officer – he’d be good at dodging difficult questions, well all question in fact.

the goverment want to stop thinking about what the public are doing and start concentrating on how to get the econamie back to were it supposed to be. their are just as much woman veiwers as their are male so why are they trying to make an issure of it

Well loose women is just as bad surely?

You don’t hear us blokes complaining that there are no male presenters on there!

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, eh?

Has Harriet Harman conveniently forgotten that Vicki Butler-Henderson used to be on Top Gear?

So, technically, TG was PC before Harriet went off on one about inclusiveness!!

one word for Harriet Harman: SABINE

Keep the show as it is!

i agree keep it as it is

For the benefit of the PC brigade, should you not just tell them that the Stig is a woman?

Labour Party- not content with telling us all what we can eat, drink, smoke, recking the economy, they are now trying to ruin perfectly excellent telly. Sod off Labour, and Harman….roll on the elections, and the new, all male presented, series of TG.

The world will go to hell in a handbasket if these politicians don’t focus on what is really going on. There are so many shows for women why must topgear become a target this is ridiulous.

Why is it that female politicians and activists always bang out about sexism in male dominated areas of life? Do you hear males say how sexist the world is? You may laugh and say well it’s not but as mentioned in the article shouldn’t “What not to wear” get the same treatment and male politicians demand equal rights and have a male presenter so that half of the demographic is represented! That would be nonsensical so it’s not done. And actually I do think there is a big swing towards female sexism. For example there was a TV ad where 2 girls are in changing rooms in a clothes store and there’s a bloke in the changing room in between them. They endeavour to check him out by looking above and below the divider. What if that was the other way around and it was two blokes checking out a girl changing! It would never get past the censor or there would be an outcry that the men were perving on the woman and it was degrading to her. So why are there no comments if it’s not the other way around? Double standards definitely, take the Diet Coke ads with the office girls looking at some shirtless workman. If female politicians want equality then sort that stuff out first.

In Hollywood we would answer such challenges by spinning off a 2nd show called “Top Gear Lesbian”. It’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity.

Please refrain from including a female presenter on the show. I’ve been a loyal fan of Top Gear for numerous years. The format of this world-renowned show is perfect, why interfere with greatness? And I say all of this being female myself. The eclectic mix of James, Richard and Jeremy has been worked out to a fine science and works on every level. Should Top Gear decide to adhere to Harriet Harman’s completely ridiculous suggestion, I will boycott the show!

Probably Brown would be the next to comment on this.
So many laws and rubbish will make us a proper wretch.

If there are more births of males she’d tell the mother to take the foetus in and change the option to female and bring it out so as to get “equality” right.

Even if she thinks shes right (which she isnt). Its not natural .Its not real. Making a code of conduct for everything.

Well. Ignore the ramblers, and move on.

My wife loves Top Gear just the way it is. The last time I checked, she was female. Also, you don’t need a female presenter, you got all the qualities of a fine lady amongst the three incumbents: Jeremy is a big girl’s blouse and wears strange shoes, Richard pays far too much attention to his locks and wears jewellery and James is… well… James. And loves cleaning. Problem solved.

If you conform, you’ll have to make a lot more episodes each year to fill all the (blissful) scheduling gaps left by the outlaweing of televised football, rugby, cricket, snooker, darts… Sadly, though, I’m wondering whether every F1 team has the time and resources to replace/’reassign’ one of their drivers, and whether they can legally specify a maximum bust size to avoid the boob-hazard issues so politically correctly highlighted by Jenson Button.

On the other hand, Harriet, stop worrying your pretty little head over things you don’t understand and get back in the kitchen. I can smell burning.

I meant ‘outlawing’. Stupid keyboarsd.

For crying out loud this is bull sh!t. .
Best thing on tv, period.
AND GUESS What I am a woman

This is complete and utter madness!
I’m a woman and I love Top Gear UK.
Woman Harriet Harman get over yourself
Half or more of the audience is women.
Are there not more important things to busy yourself with.

Why is every polition an idiot?

Get some skinny arsed woman presenting on the show and you’ll lose half your audience

yes – another comment from another woman who thinks the programme is just fine as it is and will be right behind Jezza when the revolution comes

put james in a dress…kills several birds with one stone!! mind you it was jeremy who was enjoying the back door love in the truck driving episode….i’m not sure that was an accident!!

I can already see Andy preparing the next “TG Special” – Germaine Greer replacing Clarkson, Davina McCall replacing the Hamster and Anthea Turner as Captain Slow…

Didn’t they have a gorgeous looking blonde female presenter for one series? It didn’t really work though. She didn’t say much, never listened to the director’s instructions, didn’t even seem to like cars, and I think she once actually threw up on camera. Bit of a dog, all in all…..

My girlfriend could not care less about cars but she does not mind watching TG as she finds it funny as hell…what is Harman trying to get at? Complete rubbish

All toghther now…

WE BELIEVE IN THE GENIUS THAT IS WILMAN, WE BELIVE IN THE GENIUS THAT IS WILMAN, WE BELIVE IN THE GENIUS THAT IS WILMAN.

Please, no female presenters.

stig could be a short haired flat chested woman

As we say say in ireland. She can go and SHI*E.. lol

and anyway there is a female presenter on the show sometimes..

Wat about Sabine Schmitz.

Hang on, the economy is in crisis, there’s a possible pandemic of swine flu hitting the world and Labour are in dire straits in the polls…

Yet this takes more pressing matters?

Mrs Harman, take your coat, go out the door and never speak in public again.

Well said Mr Wilman! Now, the new series….

I would love to watch an episode in which you ridicule this silly sexism from Harman et alia.

You’ve mentioned the necessity of making one episode on the cheap due to budget restraints. How about one in which the men have a paid holiday and some women, deliberately picked to have no knowledge of or interest in the subject in order to ridicule the idea that all that counts is what sex a person is, who spend most of the episode discussing what Harman et alia will allow them and all other women to think (in order to ridicule that aspect of the sexism too).

You’d cause a furore that would make Jeremy ramming a tree or making controversial comments seem minor in comparison, but I think it’s a good idea. Ridicule is an effective weapon against ridiculous prejudice.

Oh, and JRW…my girlfriend is the same. She hates cars, but she loves the show. Isn’t Tv all about entertainment? And to be fair, if you don’t like the show your watching, that’s what a ‘remote control’ is for.

Take note, Mrs Harman, you may need to use it a lot soon…;)

Im a woman and i absolutely love top gear,i cant believe people of the same sex as me could say such a thing, top gear is aimed at everyone not just men, just shows political correctness has gone mad, keep up the good job Mr.Wilman and the boys

PS if you do need a new female presenter i wud be up for it

Hey, I’m a girl and I totally love the show as billions of other girls out there. I can’t really drive yet…shame, but still I enjoy the show. Those three man-childs are absolutely hilarious! I didn’t like British guys, but changed my mind after watching them. James is probably duller than the other two (sorry), still, absolutely adorable!
By the way, if Stig in white has been the same person, and he’s into Elton John and Morse code…

This “government” is soooo going out of power. These are useless bunch of do gooding, PC bashing f()ck wits.

Harman you do not have a clue!!

well they want more women, you need more men brains… put in the studio a fighting-in-oil pool with lesbians!
This will fulfil jezza dream of having the studio surrounded by angry feminists, and we will take new episodes with new, oily, ideas.
This is probably the best idea i ever had… in the last 5 minutes.
btw there’s some new series news? maybe something about a inbetween season special?

so… what this harriet woman is saying is that there can be gyms and clubs and all sorts that are exclusive to females, there’s shows like loose women or the stuff tinyy and susana do and how clean is your housa and all those programmes hosted only by women, and that’s fine, but the notion of a program hosted by all men is abhorent to her? I see.

Stig might be a girl

Yep, who ever said that Stig is male?

…ok you chaps refer to it as a “he” so you’ve said it.

Aww just hire Sabine and have a gender duel every time you track test a car, that might be great to watch.

PS my mum just said that you have her support, and she was 20 in ‘68 + she’s a leftwinger as well. (insert “practical things make equal rights and opportunities, not aesthetical shallow ones” anywhere)

…If that counts…

In my experience with Top Gear, woman enjoy the show because it is the the only show that explains all technical stuff about cars in a way they can understand. I think I know more woman who love it than I do guys.

So we’re now moving away from equal opportunites and equal pay towards a quota system, where every employer has to have a regulation number of staff based on gender, orientation and race. I suppose being qualified for a job is irrelevant.

Super! I’m so proud of being an English woman.

This sounds perfectly reasonable. Therefore, half of all military personnel should consist of women by 2015, half of the Challenger 2 fleet must be scrapped and replaced by a feminine tank (far as I know, such a thing doesn’t exist yet), half of all hammers must be made of silk and gold and shaped like elaborate sculptures. I could go on forever.

Totally agree Andy, it’s bull! There are clearly differences between men and women – no matter how hard they try we can’t be the same.

Spearmint Rhinos!! HAHA! Great wonder if they have to employ the correct proportion of genders…

Vicky Butler-Henderson, get her back on TopGear….either that or we have a ‘Man and his car’ protest outside her home….infact! why don’t you make her neighbourhood the new TopGear track!

Best case scenerio
Tell them to talk to stig and they give up
Worst case scenerio
James May is forced to crossdress.

Guys, keep it up and disregard this stalinist bullc##p – if even a tv show, and a hugely successful one at that, has to pander to the misconceived pop-culture prejudices of an ailing nanny-government, then there is real danger for freedom of speech afoot!

sounds to me the rug munchers are on the blob , therefore its the blokes fault,, apparently ,if they are so hung up on so called equality, maybe they should get rid of some of the women on ‘loose women’and get a couple of blokes in to replace them…birds on the blob..you cant talk sense with em’….more chance of training a horse to shuffle cards..chill out girls and watch QVC …c ya ..dave

@ DeeBee9

That was Vicki Butler-Henderson. She went on to do Fifth Gear with Tiff Needell and Wrecks to Riches with Dominic Littlewood.

She’s no dog mate; she’s a fox!!

Half are women because women fanxcy JAMES MAY AND RICHARD HAMMOND , most dont even like cars. I like cars but also fancy James May , I also write motoring books and can tell you as a woman I get alot of critazisam because im “doing a mans job” so they say lol.

just no winning

I am teenage girl, and I’m a petrolhead and proud. Having a woman on the show would actually make me want to switch off.
And as for the comment above, I actually like cars, not just for hamster or james.
Love the show, and I’m absolutely mad…about…cars!!!

why doesnt jeremy just go on the internet again and find some of his ‘interesting’ pictures up on one side of the screen for the whole of one of the episodes. surely that would count?

Well said Andy, don’t change a thing with TopGear!

As my boyfriend said – although if Andy or Jezza are asking I of course don’t have one – when we were in the cells reading the Star (Or rather he was just looking at the pictures of boobies, some stereotypes are true after all), “They’re just giving us anything that isn’t ‘we’re all going to die’ of Swine flu.”

Nothing is going to come of this legislation with regards to TG, it’s a non-story because the papers like to put Jezza in a ‘outrageous thing showing that Clarkson is wrong’ context, and it will die a death before the week is out… excuse the unfortunate choice of words given the current climate.

Don’t hire a woman presenter, Andy!

I’m a huge fan of Top Gear and I enjoy watching the show, seeing the challenges as well as the lads all getting along with each other like one big family of some sort.

As for Harriet Harman, shouldn’t she be focusing on helping the PM, her boss regain a lot of his lost popularity instead of sniping on about this?

Don’t change anything about the show, lads! Keep doing what you do best!!

leave top gear as it is the jeremy,richard and james are terrific and without one of them in it would spoil the show i love the banter between them, they are so funny. if it changes i for one will not watch it again.

i m a 14 year old girl (at a all girls school)and i love top gear(mainly richard hammond but thats not the point) anyway most of my friends also love top gear and maybe we might not really know what there talking about sometimes but thats cause we dont get taught in Physics how a car works, instead we get taught sewing and cooking. I think its important and that girls my age should be taught more about the car and things like that. Without top gear i wouldn’t know alot about cars and werid things like which is the fastest way to get to Oslo.
And its funnny as well and theres always richard hammond

Harman is trying to divert the public’s attention from issues that actually matter, because the government has screwed them all up. Leave Top Gear alone, the only people who complain about it are people who neither watch it nor understand it.
Does that make me sexist or something?

Also i think if they did put anyother presenter on top gear no one would watch it, captin slow, jezza and the hammond work so well together, any one else there would just distroy it.

Richard hammond 4 Primister!!!

(^_^)

“Dr. Louise Livesey is co-ordinator of Women’s Studies and Tutor in Sociology.

She writes on feminist theory, third wave feminism, feminist educational practice and queer theory.”

I am willing to bet she’s got more trouser suits than Hillary Clinton… & a larger c*ck too.

if jermery goes i will not watch topgear and i know that all your viewers will stop watching it and the proggramme will go down the drain so u hav to think about that before u swap jermery for a girl
if u just added her and keep jezza ,hamster and captin slow then i know that i and all your viewers will keep watching

People all over the world enjoy the show in its current format (I should know, as I’m an American, and I don’t live in England.). I vote “no” on ruining the show by injecting more a “feminine appeal”.

So every part of culture has to represent society, does it? Has Harriet Harman ever heard of a show called “Loose Women”? Now go to the press and whinge about how people that is excluding men, equality and all that.

hahaha, you Brits are hilarious…
Well, its because only a handful of women can crack awful jokes while pulling powerslides like you guys, in exception of Sabine Schmit (is my spelling right?). Wait… I know! instead of James going… yeah… Why not get Sabine to join you guys? I mean, should be a lot of fun…

#34 Savaged of H’smith

There’s always Dorothy Perkins. They do larger sizes as well as tall and maternity for physiques enhanced by beer and pies. And they’re a bit more for those with lower budgets too which wont stretch say as far as for example Laura Ashley or Monsoon.

Check your the sexes in your viewing figures, that’ll shut her up. Women prefer watching TG cause it’s three blokes taking the ‘Michael’ (Oooh get me, I’m being sexist, maybe I should change it to Michaela?) out of each other and having a laugh whilst being intelligent.

I’m sorry, but doesn’t Harriet Harman have better things to be doing? Thanks Andy, for ignoring this useless statement from her. If she really does have a problem with all the main characters being one gender, why isn’t she screaming at the Gossip Girl (etc) production crew?

Correct me if i’m wrong, but Top Gear was never geared towards the female viewer? Cars do generally interest males more than Females. It’s like saying something like midsummer murders isn’t male enough

Im a complete idiot.

I think it would be a HUGE mistake to mess up an already perfect cast and show. I am a woman and am in NO WAY offended by the fact that all the presenters are men. The majority of enjoyment in watching Top Gear is seeing these men act like little boys….they are hilarious! PLEASE, PLEASE don’t mess up a good show.

You’ve got to be kidding me. The politicians in the UK want you to add more women to the show?! The fact that the audience is 50 percent men and 50 percent women means that your show is not sexist, and all of you have your jobs based on merit. Any more political meddling would ruin what is great about your show.

Well said, Mr. Wilman, and I look forward to watching the new season of Top Gear

Well said Mr Wilman. We, the Top Gear Audience, need to mobilise to stop Harriet Harman saying stupid things like this again. Top Gear Political Party in the General Election? Then we can have amazing driving rules, and Jeremy Clarkson as Prime Minister!!!!

Keep the politicians out I say! Andy, Mr Wilman, I would write a strong letter to the leader of the party to get him to control his mouth flapping, idiotic, politically correct bollox talking morons, and get them to do their job, not piss people off who ‘do’ know what they are doing! If the poxy gov did as well as Top gear, the country would be running like a well tuned V8.

Rename Stig to Mrs Stig and the problem is solved

srkiller ?
how do you know the stig is a ‘Mr’ in the first place???

Not content with destroying the economy, the NHS, dentistry, the capital and the unemployed along with the employed who just happen to be british males, labour has now turned on light entertainment. Doctor who has never been female lets scrap that. the channel Dave is sexist too that’ll have to change. red dwarf – not many females in that – Dave(ina) will have to let that go to! Why can this harmen (harming?) not go away and have her issues on her own time and leave us in peace! and she should have her second home allowance stopped!

There’s always women in the audience as well! Christ, you’d think she’d have more things to worry about than a TV show.

I’m female, and I love the show. It’s great. I don’t feel there’s ANY sexism.

I’m a female, 11 year old. I love Top Gear but I wouldn’t see a woman presenting it; I wouldn’t think you’d FIND a woman mad enough to do all those crazy stunts like amphibious cars!

ANDY WILMAN WE LOVE YOU!! don’t change a thing! Can you seriously imagine a woman crossing Vienam with the boys? no didn’t think so!!

Just bring Vicki back <3

my last girl friend who was THE most hard to please woman in the world,even by her own admission, once described top gear as the best programme in the world. i agree.what you guys come out with at the end of the day is perfect the way it is.

Most girls i know couldn’t care in the slightest about cars and Top Gear is famous worldwide because 3 blokes love their cars.

Nothing wrong with the formula very good show, equality is a big issue, which just can not always be fulfilled, should it be sex equality, race or disabled motorists!

Do hurry up with the next series though!

What is the delay?

Ah please don’t even bother taking critisism from those kind of people, i don’t get why they have nothing better to do than complain, i have a pretty large number of female friends who watch top gear, and enjoy it as much as me, please don’t change anything! And why not treat whoever complained the top gear way? drop a Piano on her/them!

Danica Patrick to be outed for moonlighting as tha stig?

“Some say that her left nipple…”

I wonder how that would turn out.

whilst i agree in principle with this i would point out that having tried to get tickets to watch the show being filmed they will not allow tickets to men only , you have to take a female.

What a load of dribble. Nobody blaims those makeover shows to be sexist, do they now? It’s absurd.

I think Top Gear presenters now have material for their news section.

I think James, Richard and Jeremy would be glad to welcome someone like Tanja Dexters

http://www.superkrediet.b e/blog/2008/02/11/fotos-t anja-dexters-naakt-in-pla yboy/comment-page-1/

Don’t change a thing Andy – TG is fine as it is.

Can’t wait for the new series!

I’m female and love watching the show just the way it is. Adding a female to the team would open up a can of worms as there would always be scrutiny over what she was presenting and if she was perceived as doing only the girly things. Don’t go there!

Well said Andy……Don’t change anything!! Top Gear rules!!! Really fed up of these muppets who are running….sorry destroying our country! Shame we can’t over throw the Government and put you guys in charge!!!

CAN’T WAIT FOR THE NEXT SERIES…….BRING IT ON!!!

Funny how half your audience is female when your ticket agents insist that parties are made up of equally males and females!

jodi kidd wouldnt b a bad idea

I think women like the show because it isnt plastered in sexed up women with little rags on, like many car magazines and programmes like (so I hear) 5th Gear. So they get to acctually enjoy the cars. I dont think any woman watches it thinking that you are stating males like cars and only men, because the entertainment is appealing to both sexes.

If a female presenter where to come on, no-doubt shed be in skimpy clothing and rather flirtacious, then I think a lot of the female viewers would acctually switch off. Also the chemistry would change between the presenters, and it wouldnt work anymore. Both men and women like the show because they enjoy the chemistry, the entertainment and the subject.

There already is a balance. 2 male and 1 female presenters. well, there’s one male and two half halves.

There’s Clarkson, sure about as feminine as getting hit in the face with a blunt axe. I mean come on, Hammond, physically is so girlish that would a night with Hammond really be gay? May is there for his sensitivity. There’s a good chance that having a few beers with him, eventually topic of conversation would shift to curtains.

Incidentally, my wife loves the show too (we never miss it) although she wishes there wasn’t so much driving and talking about cars

“[..] because it is the the only show that explains all technical stuff about cars in a way they can understand. ”

Top Gear doesn’t explain technical stuff about cars. In fact, it makes a point of not doing so, hence the comments about “torques” and “carbon dioxides”. Which irritate me (I’d rather they used the terms correctly or not at all), but you can’t have everything.

Although they did once explain understeer and oversteer in a very funny way, complete with model cars.

Oh come on if anything sabine smitz is the perfect example of a great woman who got far in life on the show. She shows those guys are far from sexist. They treat her with the utmost respect because they know she could beat them fair and square in a race.

Poor old Harriet , wasn’t she one of Bliar’s Babes as I recall ?
All women short lists , pot kettle black me thinks.
Although she may indeed have a pair of hairy ones .

What we all have to understand is this Top Gear the tv show and the colums written by our boys , are a very rare thing , apart from the stuff about torque and V8’s , the have the ability to do something that in today’s PC mad world is taboo, speak the truth.Tell it like it is .

And that ladies and gentlemen is indeed rare , the government hate that Top Gear stands for lots of things they hate , and they would love to have the BBC dumb it down with some lentil munching hairy armpited lesbian telling us to walk everywhere in our fair trade sandals.

Bugger that I’d rather watch and read real men talking the truth and occasional bollocks any day and I am a woman last time I looked.

Yeah If you really want to express your honest opinion just google the good professor head of womens studies all her contact details seem to be on there

GOD I LOVE YOU ALL IN THESE FORUMS!

Keep it up, we will be needing it!

vic

Harriet is sooooo WRONG

Top Gear is okay as the way it is. Just leave it alone.

I can tell who’s sexist – Harriet. I agree with you Andy.

Can’t wait for TG series 13 soon

Sorry to say the whole “political correctness” crap is what has brought Britain to its knees. The death of common sense leaves me shaking my head in amazement……

Considering that 3/4 of the female viewers watch TG to swoon over Hamster and the other 1/4 to swoon over the Captain I think that you cater to female audiences just fine.
Slightly more seriously though, it is a fact that more men than women tend to enjoy engineering, cars, building things, blowing things up, smashing things with hammers etc. Men and women aren’t the same. And yes, as a woman, I find Harriet’s comments incredibly patronising.

OH CRAP! BIG SISTER IS WATCHING US. Do these stupid,arrogant,stuck up politicians realize how much of the ordinary peoples fun and only escapism that we’re really FREE(in our so called “free country”) to sit down and watch on a sunday night. Why don’t they keep their political bull in the house of commons and stop trying to turn this country into a mini Health and safety, feminist, political joke. Oh that’s right, they already have!!! FOR GOD’S SAKE IT’S A TV PROGRAMME. LEAVE IT ALONE. iF YOU DON’T LIKE IT THEN TURN OVER AND WATCH SOMETHING ELSE. After all it’s a free country!! By the way i’m female and love the show. So we’re not all feminist t”£$s with our heads up our butts!!! Keep going lads. Great show.

well said

Why are people like Harriet Harman helping to run the country??? Why? There clearly not smart enough to tackle real issues so they pick on TopGear. I think Harriet Harman and the other Thicko from Oxford University should come down to TopGear studio and see the show them selves and experience it all before they make such a stupid judgement… Then after the show we can all stone them. I’m sure The Stig wouldn’t mind some of that action.

Love the show and hate politics it just gets in the way of everything!

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we should talk about a real issue like how much of our TAX is going towards your second homes, and your naughty DVD collections. Wonder if I can use Tax payer’s money to buy myself a new kitchen. The UK is ruined by total idiots.

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This is bullsh1t… top gear is for males… why the f do you need more female? presenters ?!

don’t change anything ,i don’t remember anyone complaining about how some girlish show …where thay speak about nail polish and hairstyle or even cars ,has no mail presentator.anyway james may has long hair…that should be enough!

its an excuse to try and ruin something else labour are useless idiots who need flushing down the toilet of forgettable history. they cant leave us alone without making us more and more miserable just because so woman who is trying to divert attention from their failings like the expenses and the vote on the gurkhas not going their way so that they may think that the 60 million people of britain would have a memory span of a goldfish and forget aboutit, but if they do then they have finally hit the nail on the head now, these useless thought police and people who are being paid questionable amounts of salaries a year to try and change things for no reason because they think top gear is offending to gays women and other races…? find a better idea to divert attention, they are not trying to bring the community together they are tearing it apart bit by bit, no one has complained about top gear its a brilliant show and something to watch on tv other than brainwashing garble that the PC idiots make to turn everyone communist or vegetarians or anti british. so to all the PC and to the labour party.. F**k OFF AND LEAVE GOOD TV ALONE!!!!!!

If people want to watch a car show which contains women, theres some crap on t.v called ‘Fifth Gear’! It’s for the plain old, bloody boring people of the world!

those fools never have any fun in their miserable life, and now when they come to power, they stop us normal beings having fun, no sex, no guns, no shouting, no smoking, no fighting, no b*tch slap your hoe, nohitting your children, no roadrage, no speeding…………………….

these s**ts just go on and on, until eventually we all die.

im a girl and i watch it, that politician is an idiot, put it this way if it was 3 girl presenters top gear wouldnt even be on tv

errrrr…loose women? Why does this not get a huge amount of stick? where are the blokes? this is a show hosted only by women discussing women and female issues… i must have missed Dr ‘please get me some column inches i need a new car’ piece on loose women. In any case have you seen hammonds hair and fashoin sense – can we really say its all male? My wife uses less ‘products’

Come on boys its obvious what needs to be done – to end this and everything like it
to ensure Dr Louise is kept quiet – one of us is going to have to lay her down by the fire!! its what she needs a right proper seeing to. then the world will be safe again

Maybe it’s just that Hattie ‘had the painters in’ at the time and needed to go off on one at somebody. Alternatively, it could be just to take our minds off what a total clusterf**k the current Government has made of the country.

I really object to this type of attack, people do not tune in to watch an exercise in gender equality as it is npot nessessary. If there were to be an incluision of a female host it would be a patronising act to her (presenter) and the viewers. I do not need to see a woman doing anyhthing to enhance my enjoyment or understanding.

This type of attack is better targeted at childrens’ TV due to their lack of female heros who have more to their characters than a like of pink and complete conformance to gender stereotypes.

top gear would change if there was a girl on, i think hardly any one would watch it because top gear would simply wouldnt be the same with out JC, i dont mind having a girl on the show but the program would change so it wouldnt be the same

lets see shall we

Boll*cks!! Has Harriet Harman ever watched Top Gear?? She should ask her husband to stop using OUR money to buy porn and buy a Top Gear DVD instead!!! Stop trying to interfere with our slice of freedom on a Sunday night!! Top Gear rules…end of!!

Well said Mr Wilman. I love the show as it is and there is nothing (that) sexist about top gear. as ever the government are trying every soft target that there is too try and stop the UK public from thinking about the mess they got us into.

If there is a problem for the few raving man haters out there then why don’t they stop moaning and just change the channel?

Is the Cabinet split 50/50? Maybe they should look closer to home before ruining evrything else

I’m with you on that Maccknight!

Harriet Harman – A women, or so were led to believe She must have some male issues going on in her head to make such a bold statement and to be honest the most shitty statement I’ve heard to this day! I’m sorry but why do politicians like to deviate from their job description? Even though Labour is pretty useless at what they do anyways. The most silly thing I find about this is that Gordon Brown and his cronies e.g Harriet Harman will take a dig at anything these days just to try and be ‘politically correct’ when to be quite frank they are making themselves look like complete and utter nob heads in the process. And even more ridiculous is that they are taking a dig at a show that most of the people in this country would quite happily stand up for, I would go as far as protesting in Top Gear’s defense if I ever needed to. At the end of the day as much as some of the female population like cars as well, and believe me I love my women to be petrol heads like my self, at the end of the day cars are a mans thing, big boys toys if u wanna put it like that and Top Gear just chucks out what I like to call passion when it comes to the one thing I enjoy most in life, and that is cars! Lay off Top Gear otherwise u may have a hole country against u here, Top Gear seems to be a force to be reckoned with don’t it xD Harriet Harman, find a corner and sit in it with ur dunce hat strapped upside ur head.

I am sorry if this seems sexist and do not portray me as one either however have you noticed all the young attractive womeen are at the front being lost in Hamster’s eyes (mmmm chocolate Brown) trying to gain the love of their life WHO IS MARRIED I hasten to add in their chest slung tops bursting with what aspirations? Anyway if you are going to have a female presenter make it Ms Sabine Schmidt!!!!! a woman that not only can lap quicker than Hamilton but can also drink you blind drunk!!!! anyway hope if this rambling actually becomes true keep up the good work

!P.S I forgot she works for DMotor dammit!

Brilliantly said top gear is probably along with the office the biggest brand ever produced by the bbc lets all group together and make sure politicians don’t mess with what we all love.

What’s next? Doctor Who taken off air for being to futuristic?!?!

For some inexplicable reason this reminds me of that utterly stupid business between Chuck Berry, Barbara Castle and the ding-a-ling song thing!?
Probably because it too is utterly stupid, and just an attempt by the Hatchet Harbinger to deflect our attention from boring stuff like the economy, care of the elderly, Russian gas supplies, crumbling roads and such.

Politicians & Hatchet Harbinger need to keep there nose’s out , look what they done to our country we don’t want them doing that to Top Gear the only great car show on the TV & get some Gurkhas on the show to bug Gordon Brown.

Crap crap and more crap why don’t you leave our Top Gear alone and sort out the economy,the recession,swine flu and our water supply here in wales that has bacteria in it so we can’t drink it without boiling it!!! THANK YOU!!

Another case of the lunatics taking over the asylum…?

Well said Clarkson sounds just like another journo with an agenda, not many of those around.

Some say The Stig is Sabine Schmidt

Oh thats so stupid. They should leave Top gear alone. Seriously if there is a chick presenter… ever… I will have a hard time watching.
What chick presenters would to half the crap or act fun like those 3 do?
I’m a CHICK and think those politicians fail.
NO one better mess with that show. *angry face*

But I think the TG show is pretty diverse already.
1. Jeremy obviously loves Will Young and that makes him bi.
2. The Stig can be a girl (yeh and maybe next series you guys can make him wear a wig when driving on the track and be cynical about the politicians and academics)
3. They talked about she-wee last series wasnt that feminine enough?

hello

can not wait

I’m a girl who doesn’t mind cars, and loves this little show with it’s slightly daft blokes as it’s presenters. So leave them alone….. Go find something productive to do relating to your job like…. I don’t know, find some more money to fix the economy perhaps. Bloody Pollies.

This kind of thing really annoys me, its getting ridiculous. Everything can not be all things to everybody! Shows have a target audience for a reason. Gender equality? This country drove straight past that years ago. These days women seem to have more rights then men.

All this is just all utter Bullshit

tht Harriet Harman needs to sit down and actually watch some episode of top gear – thn she will no tht top gear is perfect the way it is

CN EVERY1 WHO DOESNT LIKE TOP GEAR – JST LEAVE IT ALONE

i hate politics – and now i hate them even more
its a stupid law – sayin top gear needs a women – no they dnt – loose women needs a bloke

how about we all march dwn 2 downing st n protest

Kind of just shows how detached form the real world politicians are.

well y politics are silly then topgear is a maile tv show but women are in the audience that makes it a female show 2

i used to be called the stig ok but im the same guy

very cool cars
cool drifting

lol
hammonds msn i have woop woop

i want some cake lol i thinkyou should just get someone lik topgear stunt man but topgear women lol i nthink it will work lol

Actually the reason that there are so many women who attend the filming of a top gear episode is because, if you are lucky enough to get tickets, the invitation states that at least half the party MUST be women.

That aside I do agree with you that we are governed, generally speaking, by idiots.

Some of the comments made me laugh out loud, especially May being a cross dresser. Im sure its enough to curdle his own beer.

All I know from my own experience (Im a girl), women can be a total bitches and I can think of is the worst case scenario, is a hormone-addled bitch fight on TG stage floor with claws, fists and hair flying with this female presenter.. Then Matthew from Applause store will struggle to break up the fight(s) I wouldnt want to be there when this happens!! (but I may be wrong..)

In the name of god, DONT include any female presenter onto TG, we’ve got enough pansies on TG ;o)

May I suggest that James should do the Natural Essences advert shampooing his hair and screaming out like a girl ‘YES YES!’

Harriet should be concentrating on Swine Flu, recession and all this gloom and doom. If she is watching TG, just hide the remote and its time for her to get her fat a**e off the sofa and change the channel, even the government have been banging on about obesity.

Anyway… Andy, you’re doing a fantastic job!

I know plenty of women, including myself, who love Top Gear! Why create rules that force people to make unnecessary changes – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

ace job guys – keep up the good work – and dont listen to these politicians with their wild views about absolutley everything

No offence to any fifth gear fans but they have a female presenter and tbh, fifth gear is crap.

I do agree that it’s patronising to women. I am a girl and I watch top gear. I personally don’t think I would enjoy the show any more if one of the presenters happened to be female. I like it the way it is. I don’t know anybody whose seen the show and complained about there being no female presenter. Keep the boys!!!

As for Harriet, I don’t see why she gives a crap anyway, I mean, I doubt anyone has complained about it, so why’s she butting in. It’s absolutely none of her business to change a good show.

Everybody who has actually sat down and watched the show has loved it, well done Andy.

how come its always those from the upper class to coplain?

complain that is

what is up with show – on the bbc site it sed it shud be on by spring but the start date is next june!!!!!!!!! =D

As a woman my point of view is that the show doesn’t need to change at all. I would be under the impression that a female presenter would benefit males rather than females!!

Also I’d like to add…..I think the government should be far more concerned with other pressing matters..like the fact that it is falling apart?!

i think top gear should blow more stuff up

(by the way boyz out there looking at this blog i am 21 ,free and single plz come back im hot and a size 6)

Hey, I’m a gal, and I love Top Gear!

And *ahem* didn’t Fifth Gear have a female presenter? That didn’t make them very much more enjoyable than Top Gear, imho.

I love the way our three presenters horse around, having loads of fun, while trying to present a show. It’s not about it being an all-guys or all-gal show. It’s about the chemistry between the presenters, and the style of the show.

Okay, okay, how about, we get the Hamster to wear the skirt then? I’m sure that’s something more to look forward to then Madam Slow ^_^|||

I go to a girls’ school
WE ALL WATCH TOP GEAR

screw Harman, she is an utter pillock, and patronising at that. Girls can like cars without being patronised, woman! Grow a spine!

Get her on the line to the Stig..contempt is what she deserves really

oh and just to add…

Fifth Gear has a woman presenter..and that show is ever so slightly CRAP

Top Gear is fine the way it is!

OMG!!!!! Please tell me this is not going to happen. As a girl myself I wish for equlity in the sexes but but messing with top gear is one big NO NO!!!! I appciate the fact that Harriet is trying to equlise everyone but I just can’t imaagine it with a woman presenter and even if there is one (which I can’t see happening) she will be this blonde, big breasted bimbo who puts woman to shame not to estatic joy. to see what it would be like with a woman how about you dress up the guys in dresses, heels and make up (JC has to wear a wig though!)and see how it is goes

Take a look at the Top Gear franchises around the world. Are any of them anywhere near as successful at the original? Is that because you couldn’t get a better trio of presenters than JC, Hamster and May? Don’t mess with what works. Top Gear is raking in heaps of money for the BBC. Bet the government wouldn’t like to find the extra money for the BBC if they loose their current TG income.

stuff labour , theres a reason there dropping in the ratings . Its idiots like this.

All of my girlfriends have loved Top Gear! Though most of them were a bit psychotic…

lol i agree but girls should have more passion in cars just as well as man

First of all I’m a girl too and I just can’t understand what is all the fuss about! But I would like to develope some of the thoughts posted here about “Stig could be a girl”. And this is just a thought. Before I go on, I’d like you to know that I appreciate the show as it is. Even so, if a female figure needs to be introduced, why don’t they “find a girlfriend” for Stig and let her drive few laps on their track?? Appearing only in some shows whenever context is suitable but not as a presenter. A white driving overall and a crash helmet but her hair should be down so people could distinguish that she is a girl…

Trinny on Top Gear? Hammond on What Not to Wear?

They might be on to something…

Harriett Whats her name REALLY needs to get a life!!! She must have never watched the show and looked in the audeince and seen the HUGE amount of women there!!!! I’m 13 and every girl i know LOVES you guys and the show and all the boys do to!!!! As for louise proffeser woman go watch Sex and the city or loose woman or something like that! Men are always being acused of being sexist but for all the ’sexist’
mens shows out there, there are at least the same amount of show out there just for woman!

Ha ha!! Beat that!!
Harriett and Lousie. . .
YOU HAVE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IDEA!!!

NO! Leave this show alone. It works.

Every time i watch Top Gear, i see at least quarter, if not more of the audience, is female.

Those two women should really worry about their jobs more than what’s on TV.

boys like cars like me but girls wont be that intrested in cars
like this is all the boys u can have

.tom chilton not any prope
.ben collins rly but all
.lewis hamilton d boys r f1
.f.massa racers
and girls

im not being sexist

The government again, pls can they also set up an agency that makes sure the no of men and women that are born and dying every yea are equal as this is the new strategy to combat the recession which i think is supposed to be their problem rit
and while u are that pls say away from top gear

A question here for the ladies. Do u appreciate and love cars as much as us guys do? Its something I’ve always wondered if Im quite honest because I’ve never actually met a girl who does. Let me know ur thoughts please x

Yes yes yes i appreciate the way cars are made,the way they look and feel and the way they handle etc etc,i really love cars and the faster the better in my eyes. I thought the MPH show was a great day out in itself,just to see the fanrtastic cars,and Top Gear live made it even better…

I think they should have a Female ‘Pink’ Stig on the first episode of the new series to do a Power Lap,
Clarkson would come up with something so funny..

“We’ve had (Fat) American Stig,
We’ve had (Black) African Stig,
Now we have (Gender Equality) Female Stig”.

(then she crashes car parking afterwards)

If there was a woman presenter on TG it wouldnt be that bad, im sure the show could survive. but please dont bring in some macho ‘man-wannabee’ like Vicki Butler-Henderson, a great role model and champion for equality she is….not. The flaunting, annoying, gravel voiced, promiscuous….rubbish. Dont ruin Top Gear, but we all know it cant stay the same forever.

I definately agree that stig is a woman anyway.

I’m 21 and a female, and I LOVE TOP GEAR! To me it doesn’t matter what gender the presenters are, infact I think TG wouldn’t be as hilarious if the show was forced to change the line up of presenters.

As a woman who avidly watches Top Gear every new season, and thoroughly enjoys every minute of it (not to mention the magazine!), I find it ridiculous to claim that the show is sexist. Any jokes made only serve to make me laugh, and I find it silly that someone would focus on this as an issue when there are things like the recession and swine flu to focus on.

I’m a girl and I’m utterly obsessed with TG. I vote no to adding a girl. You have your dynamic. Why fix what isn’t broken?

Wait, so what would they propose be done? Foist some random girl onto the show to improve their demographics? The show is successful, and it has chemistry- why mess with what works? As you said, if 1/2 of the shows audience is female, I don’t think women have a problem with it being a “guy show”. And even if only 3 women in all of the UK watched it, why should it matter? TV shows are supposed to appeal to different audiences, not be one size fits all mush pots. This is just another reason why I hate feminists.

if that ever happens ill be watching it cause i watch every episode

love from ur biggest “girl” fan

xx

Here Here

Don’t take the professors or politicians personally, you’re just the biggest soap box they could find for an outdated issue they know still gets them attention – more importantly, it confuses the issue at hand.. the economy.

The dying economy is exactly why you were chosen: A)Everybody loves Topgear B)Every idiot has an opinion on sexism. Its changing the subject 101.

It translates into: “Our careers are in the poo, lets talk about something we all have an opinion on.” Its as sad as it’s transparent.

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don’t listen to that communist idiot the show is fantastic and keep it just as it is

I like to watch topgear and its rather obvious that its a male show. And if people want to criticise about topgear some people also think english as female unfriendly language because of male and female. To those who think of it in a way just like that I have a message grow some balls and grab a beer and a supercar. Lots of girls women females however you’d like to call them watch the show and its the blunt male-english humor that makes it so much fun. Never change a winning team. So to the people who think they’re smart and want to criticise topgear. You really really really really need to get ahhum L41D.

(ps please do a review on the new ford shelby mustang GT500 pleeeaaase)

I’m a Canadian girl. This show is created and presented by British men? Oh dear, clearly it’s not for me. I’ll have to watch it in secret. (I like my Top Gear the way it is. Besides, most of the cars are girls – just look at those curves! The guys can have the presenters, I’ll assume the Aston’s for me.)

I think this is a load of garbage. Here in the states women have at least five TV channels dedicated to them, and “men” can’t have one show? My best friend, who happens to be a woman, watches the show religiously, matter of fact the first thing we do Tuesday morning is review what happened on the previous night’s show. However if you need a female presenter she’d love to do it.

Top Gear should be left as is. It’s a fantastic show, and no, a girl wouldn’t make change the demographics of viewers, I think it would actually adversely affect the show. Personally, I think it’s an insult to women, thinking we can only understand or relate to a show which is presented or produced by women… however, if you want to give me a job….

You could always tell the stig politicians burn Veyrons, that should sort them.

Oh and another thing. Commentaries on DVDs… more please. Lots more.

Keep the great work and I can’t wait until the new series.

A version of Top Gear with only women would probably work

Need a tag line for this..?

“Doing more Harman than good.”

You can have that for free… I can’t say much more, it’d be far less eloquent.

She Obviously didn’t see it when Jeremy’s, James’ and Richards mum’s were on the show, she obviously didn’t see it when Sabine played a role in topgear more than once, she obviously didn’t see it when christy the young girl played a part in topgear with the remote controlled “real” cars… I mean it just goes on…. I think there is enough female parts on TopGear, damn whingers!!

Your right, top gear isn’t a sexest show but it is aimed more towards the lads. It’s not a bad thing, girls have their own shows to watch, it’s not like I’m going to watch a fashion show just because there are more guys in it. Lads and lasses have their own shows, fact.

Ignore that Harriet lady, Mr. Wilman. What’s the worst that could happen? Many people have complained about your show before to the BBC, and it has never changed much or even canceled because of those complaints. If she gets her way, then that means you no longer live in a free country.

Better yet, take the show out the country in protest. At least here in the USA, all you have to worry about is TV ratings, not government interference

Insanity, isn’t it? Surely Miz Harman has more important things to be concerned about than the fact none of Top Gear’s presenters have an ounce of estrogen in their bodies, nor a pair of breasts on display.

And yes, women have been featured on the show before, as pointed out, not to mention the loads of gals who are seen in the audience every week! (Not to mention old Top Gear had female presenters back in the day.)

This from another bird from the States who loves her some TG.

hi

A very real problem is that the end result of forcing in women is often that it portrays women as they can’t make it on their own without an older guy sitting right next to them giving them support. That looks horrible on varius news broadcasts.

So if there’s going to be any forced change then please mind that. Or not. Take it to an extreme and bimbofy the show so they’re begging you to go back to the old style.

Oh, FFS! Speaking as a girly, I would rather stick pins in my eyes than have to watch some silly tart on Top Gear. I love the banter between the boys and that’s the reason I watch it. *Adopts ‘Points Of View’ mode* Why, oh why, oh why can’t they just mind their own bleedin’ business? The thought of a token ‘wimmin’ being foisted upon us fills me with horror.

I wouldnt mind an all-female episode…

Presented by say, Danica Patrick, Sabine and Jenniffer Saunders? Challenge: fastest school run

Just a thought – does Harman suggest that Loose Women has to have male presenters? Or What not to wear? STOP INTERFERING! Stop trying to control every aspect of our lives, and try doing something useful for once.

Hey, I’m a girl and TG’s my favourite programme thankyou very much. I wouldn’t watch it if it weren’t for the brilliant, funny and natural chemistry between the three guys, and everyone working does it because they love it not because they want to make it a male only TV show. Anyone who watches the show, reads the mag or this blog knows that and loves it for what it’s about: cars and the brilliant dedicated people who put it all together.

I see some of your politicians have started to get bored and come up with bright ideas… I know of a place where ideas like these are appreciated but i don’t think that the restraints on the jackets will quite meet their style… Top gear is THE BEST show for me and they want to apply some stupid dimwitted law to force women, transvestites and gay people into the show? Well why not start these laws in football or rugby also… Mixed teams anyone? That will be a laugh… Are these people really that bored? Come on, solve the financial crisis and then start worrying if there are enough lesbian female elephants in the gay rhinoceros section of the zoo…

Just give the Stig a pair of BOOBS

they put a token woman in number 10 and we are still paying for it now. great show don t change a thing you can t mess with class.

i watch the show every week and heard there was goin to be some changes, but i think your show is at sub zero and things shouldn’t be changed just for the sake of it.
P.S
this is a car show and shouldn’t be presented by a woman, yuh there is no humour in it. best wishes.

This woman ought to concentrate on cocking up the country with Brown rather than trying to spoil the best show on TV! If she doesn’t like it she should turn it off. Who care’s if she doesn’t like it, she’s the only person who doesn’t. I’m a woman and I love the show and I wouldn’t want it changed!

leave well enough alone! im a girl and i love well adore top gear just the way it is dont change it its the best programme ever!! those three guys are brilliant and well there needs be NO change ,polititions(am thats prob spelt wrong!)theyre just trying to be smart lookin for votes from women and shes just lost all coz loads of women all over love top gear and never want it changed!!! wat she said is a load of f@:~!><ӣ bO@:@J!! and thats that!!!

The world would be a much better place if all politicians were given a one way ticket to a deserted island…

But since they are here, and unfortunaltely looks like they’re staying, they should logically start by looking at themselves and making sure palament and the government reflects the country’s EXACT demographics age wise (toddler to granny, no group should be left out) sexually, ethnically, and morally…

Right now it appears to me to be a pretty closed club. Only morons with half a brain and too much time on their hands qualify!

yeah well i love top gear more than any of my guy mates
(and not just cause of richard hammond…)
they represent real men, and me and all the GIRLS think its fantastic
the trio are totally dynamic
david cameron should fully hit back at america’s next top model being exclutionary towards men

politicians suck
peace out
ps. just for the record, im not a cameron fan either.

Harriet sodding Harman needs to get a Rabbit and be done with it. Good god does she seriosly think that us woman would watch the show if there were woman on it. Has she ever even seen the show? does she not know that the reason why it is such a huge hit is because the three boys are completely wonderfully bonkers and………….. are in fact boys! it is thee only way us woman can actually get to see inside a blokes head! it is a factual programme and might even qualify for being a documentary about how a bloke actualy thinks as seriously, us ladies would have no clue otherwise. oh and its about cars too, which helps the boys string their sentences together…you know, something for them to talk about. good god HARMAN get your vibrator and go and stick it…..

yeh, give stig a stigette to befriend, that will show Harriet sodding Harman. yeh!

sorry. its me again. …when one registers to be in the audience…it clearly states a 50 50 mix men to woman. so what the bleeding heck is Harriet sodding Harman on about. there are in fact equal men to woman on the show. she just needs to look at the 50% woman in the audience.

Awwww Hariet silly silly child why do yout think this? Of course theyll be more men, girls are into makeup and well shit… if you want more women make the top gear warehouse pink or something?

some say the stig is a black immigrant lesbian…

what about top gear dog… female right

The UK “masterminds” want girls?? Ok, you simply employ some unwises girls in a bikini just for keep her mouth shut and do sexy(iest) poses on the cars in the studio. And every body gets happy.
Ok now seriously… one girl is enough, but two it’s just better. I’m sure Clarkson, Hammond and May agrees with me

Hey, isn’t Richard Hammond the ‘brainiac’ of the show? Surely, he can come up with something to balance the sex ratios on the show. Like a car’s compatibility with females ( like can you put on lipstick while the car is doing 50 on a speed bump, how cool can you set the AC before you chill in your bikini, stuff like that ). Oh oh wait, I have a better idea, get a female stig. You can keep the head buried in the hemlet, just make her wear a sunflower bikini. Hmmm, but wait, that messes with God’s plan and I very much doubt he’ll let it happen. The female stig would take off on the hammerhead and probably land in mars. See? there’s a reason why females aren’t on the show. I’m sure if you guys DO decide to put a couple, you’ll be setting off a few red flags, maybe even black ones, and alarms would be heard miles away from all the feminist related institutions. Then, we’d have no Top Gear. You guys should do some research. Maybe some ‘females’ have plans for some new fashion show you guys haven’t heard of yet? Well I think you should check it out. Maybe they have their eyes on your set. Or maybe the money. Or the airtime. Or wait, maybe they just want to use the stig as a chauffeur for the show. Please, don’t let them do that.

I’m a female and I understand many concepts, no matter who explains them to me. I don’t some girl in a pink sweater talking sweetly to connect to the material. As a matter of fact, half the reason I watch the show is to look at James, Hammond, and Clarkson. Does that make me a sexist?

who said the Stig was male… you could surely get around it by having pinning a pony tail on the back of the helmet!

If the uk gov want woman on top gear how about changing what not to wear to what not to wear the clarkson way… that should be a whole bunch of laughs

The country must be being run perfectly, if that’s all SHE’s got to worry about!!!!!!!!!

Topgear is fantastic just the way it is , with lovely men presenting it.

I hate women presenting carshows it just doesn’t work, just look at Fifth Gear!! Crap keep the men in and the women out, whats it got to do with politicians anyway!!

The majority of the comments here are from women so the show clearly appeals to women too.

Duh!!!

If they want to make a presenter on TG a girl, then why don’t they make at least one presenter on Loose Women a man? Exactly, no one cares, apart from die-hard feminists who think women should be on every billboard.

i agree with the mole

For the love of God, don’t change anything about the show. Especially the 3 Musketeers that present it! They are what makes this show the fantastic ride that it is. Do they honestly think it would be as good with a woman presenter? What FOR? I’m a 41 year-old woman and I can’t get enough of the show just as it is. It’s perfect. There is something about the chemistry of the 3 “boys” that make it so much fun and worth watching. If anything were changed, it would be back to the dust bin for Top Gear.

…but if you hire Sabine, your ratings will increase…

Might there be one little known fact about the stig? A good work-around for this nonsense is to say that the stig is a gay woman.

It’s not like it can be proven anyway.

these politicans need to sort this country out thats there job (ok stop laughing )these three men are a national tresure lets see jeremy do loose women keep up the good work lads cant wait for next series jeremy for prime minster

I am a women and I love Top Gear just the way it is, to add a token female presenter would be a disaster. Half the fun of the programme is watching 3 top class presenters get up to all sorts of “boys tricks”, the chemistry between them is priceless. Sorry Ms Harman you are soooooo wrong, try sorting out the really important things in the UK.

BTW if you want one of the presenters to wear a dress then let it be Jezza and stop picking on poor James!

girl are better at driving than boy and girld drive at 5 mph and boy drive faster thqan them

Oh Andy,

Please don’t listen to those stupid, bossy, nosy politicians, the show is fine the way it is!
And maybe there are more males than females working on the show but as you quite rightly pointed out male minds are needed to make the show work because it is a program about cars at the end of the day. We all love the Top Gear trio both male and female fans think they are great so I don’t think they should change because of what some stupid politician says.

Top Gear, simply the best car show…. In the world!

Manc Lass.

as a woman and a car lover and i like f 1 ms Harman should see the show befor she opens her mouth

I don’t know about you guys but they could always mention that the stig is a women driving or bring back top gear dog as being a female dog just so it makes fun of that stupid law. I can’t see a women on the show really because then all we would get from James would be like Hello so it might now be a good idea.

Can I just say that this website doesn’t have the review for the Noble M15, as a matter of fact it doesn’t even have any of the Noble range on.

i remember when you went to hay long citiy but it was funny

I thought James May was the woman!

I’m a girl, obviously I’m deeply offended I am excluded from Top Gear at all times…Oh wait.

I’m assuming your audience is quite large, and I know the ticket party has to be a 50/50 split, so that’s plenty of women.

Glory hunter. It is patronising; she should ask the women that watch it. I don’t feel misrepresented – I’m a petrolhead, since when did I need to be defined by my gender to like cars and watch a show about them? It’s a show for car nuts by car nuts, and unfortunately most petrolheads are men. Sad fact. But I can’t think of a better team.

(By the way, if you need any women working for you, I am SO up for a job. Even if it’s just stapling Stig’s lunch together.)

Oh, and another thing – isn’t it the same sort of sexism? I bet she kicks up a fuss when a man gets a job over a woman because he’s male, but she’s doing exactly the same thing – giving the job to a woman because she’s a woman, not because she’s talented, or funny, or actually knows what she’s talking about.

Oops, I’m starting to rant.

I love top gear, I know nothing about cars and cant even drive but I think the show is brilliantly written, produced and presented. Its great and it doesnt need to change!
Jo (35 year old single mum of 3)

THE COUNTRY IS IN ECONOMIC MELT DOWN AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF SWINE FLU AND THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO INTERFEAR WITH TOP GEAR WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS F@”?K OFF AND SORT YOUR OWN MESS OUT THEN PROVE YOUR EXISTANCE IS NESSASARY they are only doing what they do best buggering up what works

I personally wouldn’t mind a pair of dangling tits presenting the cool wall.. as in I would or wouldn’t be seen in “THAT!!” and no, no tomboys a la sabine schmidt or jodie kidd.. rather a real woman ..of taste… the “cool wall bunny” someone to match the stigg !!!!

ps’ msg. for welly : chillax brav !!!

girl in white bikini topped off with a white helmet.. the stig’s cousin:D just to satisfy the genderists..

and counter jezza’s opinionated facts about what is and what isn’t cool…

..after all his quickly progressing into beige age territory so how would he know ????

james has no sense for taste what so ever and Hammond.. well, sorry Hammster but he’s just chav…

..see teeth, hair, choice of preferance(cars).. so yes, it’s high time for a girl boys !

sorry Andy

Good call andy, typical of the government to poke there noses in all the time, Next they will be saying Richard Hammond needs to have his gentlemans area removed and James may must only have half a penis, Theres plenty of women on Top Gear (Star in a resonably priced car anyone) Jodie Kidd, Billie Piper, Helen Mirren e.t.c need i go on, The show still caters to women so whats the problem here, I remember the Top Gear news namely about the Nissan Micra C+C its a car aimed at women no offence intended to anyone, they still featured it on the show! anyway keep up the great work all at Top Gear cant wait for the new series

ps.women aren’t missing from 5th gear… and the disabled have a spot on classic gear so…

go on balckpool, tell me you’d mind a fine lass throwing cleavage into the palette,,,

A girl’s take and taste on cars would be quite refreshing. It would be nice to venture into the womans’ “mind” as well, dont you think?

Push comes to shove, I’d trade Hammond for Vicki.

your the man.

I’ve always contended that Top Gear works because it follows the formula of “The Three Stooges”. Clarkson is Moe, the bossy leader. May is Larry, the longhaired middle man. Hammond is the mischievous little boy of the group. It works because it actually mimics a family. Dad (Jeremy), Mom (May) and the kid (Hammond). It’s a formula that works. Can you imagine The Three Stooges with one of the members being a woman? I didn’t think so.

..references to the 3 stooges are a bit of a cliche..not very imaginative… but TG is or at least was.. this last season however, I got the feeling they were beginning to run around in circles.. and the ‘nam tour, being as hilarious as it was to watch jezza cock about on a scooter, was just the proof of andy and the boys runnoing out on ideas of what to do with a car and entering the star driven road trip style B film… not a bad laugh btw, but just not TG.. I mean what’s next tour de france ???

..and vicki and the other in many ways but especially humoristically challenged bores are better of staying where they are.. TG though could do with a good old fashioned pimping up.. explore james’ potential, give the man more space.. and cast a girl to make the jezzter blush and to keep him in check before it becomes the Jeremy Clarkson Show… he IS excellent mind you but we all have our limits….:P

FIGHT THE POWER!

Part of the reason this show is so good is because the presenters seem to be good friends and share this bond… it wouldn’t be the same with a woman on Top Gear. Beside I think Clarkson would probable hit on her

I am a girl (and one who hates sexism) but Top Gear is one thing that girls need nothing to do with, apart from watching, loving, and laughing, but yeah

You would have thought that polititions would have something better to talk about than how many women watch top gear.
they should be doing something usefull like sorting out the economy.

Basically…..

harriet harman!! the old crone. get your own house in order first, Kettle calling pot black, stones/Glasshouses all spring to mind. The boys do a great job, don’t forget that there was a female presenter on TG, lot better looking than the boys, And that sexy chuckle. We would all probaly be called sexist if thats all we put TG on for. As for Sabine! Huba! Huba! I’m sexist. NO if its not broken why fix it.

I am from California. We have had this sort of legislation before. IT DIDN’T WORK!!!!!! It was called affirmative action. we finally voted it out after productivity reached an all time low. Now as an employer I am able to hire people based on their merit, and not just their gender or skin tone. TG is the absolute best show on TV, even though I don’t get it on TV… I have to see it online. (BBC america chops it up so badly it is not worth my time) You should never mess with a perfect recipe. just look at how well “new Coke” was recieved… it was supposed to be more appealing to women… it was a total flop.

please dont change format its the only program the family watch together it works as it is looking forward to new series each presenter brings there own thing thats why it works

I am writing English using a translator!! But why not put the site also in English??? large number of people there follows by Italy! fantastic! An Italian translation of the site please!!! kylemocity@hotmail.it

just be like the stig is a woman…problem solved

I think Top Gear is fine as it is women enjoy it and men enjoy it.There aren’t women walking around with nothing on and most of the audience is female.If u get a female presenter it will lose it’s spark!!!It will become boring like 5th gear and also i doesn’t count what that idiot Harriet it isn’t what the government wants it’s about what the people want and no one is complaining so leave it as it is.Top Gear is the best car show in THE WORLD getting a female presenter will just be a hold back and Jeremy,Richard and James won’t be able to be as free as they are.James is the closest thing to a girl so I think that is more than enough!!!LEAVE TOP GEAR AS IT IS!!!!!

I agree with kadette i’m a girl and i don’t hav a problem with top gear women love it and the presenters are friends i don’t want to read like “Jeremy Clarkson Divorces Wife For New Top Gear Presenter”On the front of the paper so leave top gear as it is

i love cars just as much as my male mates sometimes i know more and it is just not British to put a female on a guy show whats next “no we aren’t being fair to the americans put a fat female american?”What is this world coming to???? please tell me what you think to this stupid unrealistic problem the government is having don’t they hav anything better to do than mess up peoples lives
????

what’s wrong with women ? walking ? and being naked ??
???

Wait a minute u telling me that there r no women on top gear…….i thought the stig was a woman to bad we will never know.

Im a girl and i go to a mixed school but every one watches it even d girls so dont change a thing bout TG !!! keep up the work ………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………

TG is the best. Dont know y they say its too blokey but nearly 50% of the audience members are female and whats wrong with females not watching TG?? Mostfemales nowadays wouldnt be really addicted to cars (like info). I live down under so i dont think many peps watch TG in my school as it is on SBS at 7:30 and not many peps watch SBS. Anyways, TG IS THE BEST

Does this mean that the Two Fat Ladies must have a male on their show now?

slap a pair of fake mammaries on the stig, and there u have the female “presenter”, if thats not enough put james may in a tight thin sweater, a pink scarf and break his left wrist

Why is everyone assuming that if Top Gear did hire a girl, she would have to be employed on the basis of her, erm.. appearance…rather than her skills as a presenter, car knowledge, or how she fitted into the team?

Harriet Harman: has she really not got anything else to do? I mean, it’s not like there are any problems with the economy or anything, are there?

Andy: if she gets her way and you do have to hire a girl, I’ll do it!

CT because that’s just the way ppl are.. men are for opening tins and things and the women ,well after having managed to succesfullu evolve around the V. they might as well accept that looks, however shallow it may seem are their main assets.. any bloke who says otherwise is lying

or…drops anchor in poo Bay…
\ps I have a hunch, Harriet drinks from the furry cup… it’s just a hunch…:D

ps and why is it only the lack of females she’s so hissed up about.. what about ethnic minorities, the phisically and mentally challenged, gays and lesbians, cricketers, golfers, bankers and school teachers ??? why aren’t they represented ?????????? eh ? eh ?? Eh ???

Can I just say, I’ve been even more fed up with the whole ‘everyone has to be equal’ notion for a while, but it seems to have gotten way more out of hand lately.

Telling cooprations you have to hire X number of each sex, X number of homosexuals, X number of Y race, etc. Sooner or later, they are going to make people hire X number of people with STDs just to proof that you aren’t being discriminatory against them.

Future office will look like this, 1 male golfer with herpies, 1 female golfer with clamedia, 1 male homosexual, 1 female homosexual, etc.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against equality by any means, but is it not more patronizing to catagorize them into groups that has to be hired?

>>And anyway, girls don’t like shows presented by girls. Girls like shows presented by pretty boys.

Then why are you watching TG?

p.s. I’d rather watch shows hosted by interesting *people*. And as much as I’d love to see more non-stereotypical female representation (as guests or SIARPC or whatnot – yay Sabine!!), I don’t really think that replacing one of the main presenters will work at this point.

Though, honestly, I was disappointed to hear that James’ partner in the rally was some topless model – though if she turns out to be more like Jodie Kidd in the petrolhead dept. then I’ll retract that. (Judging from the interviews I’ve read I’m not holding out much hope. :/)

The stigette http://www.myspace.com/st igette on occasions top keep peeps happy?

No it works Andy and (I guess co produced) by Jeremy who have turned the show around so perhaps it shouldn’t change?

I would like disabled motorists to be further integrated in mainstream t.v but if it ain’t going to happen, it just won’t. There was a blind driver which was interesting driving around the track.

The show works it is one the best motoring/entertainment show in the U.K, an exceptional achievement by all. An improvement on the shows of old.

Heya

when is top gear heading back to our screens?

really desparate to kno coz im realli addicted to Top Gear.

Can’t wait

If Top Gear had a woman joining it’d probably stop being about cars altogether. I’ve never been bothered about Top Gear being a male show and have always seen the car as being a masculine machine anyway. Despite being a woman I actually prefer Top Gear to some of the more female TV shows – at least the boys have an active interest and passion for something instead of sitting around on chat shows yakking on about who’s slept with who. It’s also a show that gives us women a factual and entertaining insight into the way some mens minds work.

I know what this is. Its a conspirasy by fifth gear. They have a girl and now they are trying to take out the guys from top gear. Just like they burned down their shed.

I need a job… And pleease dont cut James’ tonker off! Or hair – it’s cute! And no, I’m not weird, old or ugly. Or desperate.

ANDY NOW PLEASE TELL US HOW THE NEW SERIES IS COMING ON!!!!!!

What an enormous load of clap-trap politicians spout. I’m a woman, I watch Top Gear, my friends watch Top Gear and we love it. In fact, we consider that the presenters in combination appeal to all facets of womanhood – there’s Richard, who is adorable in a completely loves-his-family, nice hair, shiny sort of way; there’s James who is clearly thinking-women’s crumpet; there’s the Stig for those who like the strong, silent type and then there’s Jeremy – who is just Jeremy and that’s enough in itself really. What more could women want?!

Dear Harriet Harmon,
I’m a USofAer, so I don’t know you from Adam, but I do know this, YOU could not be more wrong even if you tried!
I’m just shaking my head and wondering who said what to make you mad this time baaaaby! Dang woman, you don’t need to be taking out your personal problems on the real world. And one more thing darling, please don’t go thinking for a moment that any one of us wants you deciding what is best for the best darned show that ever was, because quite frankly, I don’t think you have even the teensiest semblance of a clue!
Shoot girl, aren’t there more important things in the world of politics to concern your self with today then to go meddling with Top Gear perfection?
To all you loyal Top Gear fans out there, Keep on living in the free world!
To James, Hamster and Jeeza can we like clone you guys then elect you to all the major political office throughout the world? Could you imagine a planet where when a countries ruler slams his fist upon the table and hollers “I need more Power!” he’s talking about his newly acquired Ferrari and NOT his nuclear arsenal?
Whoa! I think I may have just crossed the line there….
Peace all!

Hamster makes a good gay, doesn’t he?

And a bit of shoe polish on May’s face makes him a black man…

sorted!

there are indeed quite a few women on each show.

Lancia, Dacia, Honda, Skoda, Toyota,…

Ok, may be not the hottest ones, but that will do.

It is true that Top Gear is aimed at men but despite that millions of women watch the show so what is the problem.

By the way, will she shut up if you privately told her that theStig is a woman?

GOOD LUCK

Dont change anything about the show!!!!!!! I love this show and in anyway i find it in a Macho style.

Greetings from Mexico!!!

any1 had any news about wen tg s/13 is starting???

yours sincerely

thomas henry edward occupier

B-)

B)

I am a woman in my mid thirties and I have a PhD in engineering (only I had to work for mine, Clarkson). It’s sometimes hard being a woman in a man’s world, but great fun too. And generally you get respect from the blokes as long as you’re not the type to be worried about grease under your nails or whether your skirt matches your lab coat. That’s not to say I don’t make an effort. Anyway, I gave up my career 5 years ago to have kids and since then I have been living in what is very much a female dominated world. And boy, I still cannot get used to the bitching, back-stabbing, gossiping and shallowness of many women. Not something I had much experience of in engineering. Sometimes I think it was so much nicer and simpler in my man’s world. So don’t change Top Gear. You are so much better the way you are.

t.h.e occupier:
TG officially starts 21st june 2009!
(loving that name)!

got the solutio:
RICHARD, A GAY! no no no buster, he is far from it!

how cud anyone say richard cud pass for a gay!!?? tut tut tut open ur eyes man!!
u evil evil person——-:( :@ IM SHOCKED!! TUT TUT TUT—-

go kadette go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he he lol!

The ability of politicians to pointlessly interfere with the lives and viewing pleasure
of the license paying masses, is insignificant compared to the powwwwwwwweeeeeeeeerrrrrr rrrr of the force that is Top Gear. I will now attempt to asphyxiate Mrs Harman from a distance with dark thoughts and low grade diesel.

Top Gear wouldn’t be the same if the current lineup was changed.

Can’t wait for the new series guys!!!!

well as long as Clarkson’s MC ppl will watch …the rest is just detail.. irrelevent.. he’s the MAN, the other two are only there to fill in the gaps and THAT is the truth !!!!!!!!!!!!:D

ps. and hammond is very much in touch with his feminine side… James on the other hand is simply scared… and would rather play with dough..or taste “wine” and share a camper with a very queer bald man hmmm…

well…top gear…..OBVIOUSLY the best show in the world at the moment….and seeing that the vast majority of viewers are men, lets combined mans best friends, cars and girls. i smell an episode coming out of this idea

I am glad to see that the Main land has caught up to a colony

We canucks went through this under a previous Government about 15 years ago. It only took 10 to get right ’round back where we started. I am all for equal rights. Where is the Man’s right in all of this?

This show is all about 3 men’s friendship in reviewing obscene vehicles. Changing this structure will kill off the best (arguably) show on the planet.

Boo British Politics.

Well… If you can´t find a solution for the big problems such as equal pay for work, violence…
Find someone else to blame. Like Top Gear.Of course, every bad thing that has happened to me in my life is their fault.(I hope you understood the ironi). My experience is that women can be sexists to, sometimes they can be even worse than men.But of course it´s top gears fault that my female workmates had to lie for my boss and put me into a very unpleasant situation.My anorexia were also top gears fault,the teacher who said that I was the ugliest girl in the world , shame on you top gear…My male friends however (just like me they like cars and top gear) have NEVER done such things to me.They are nice , very encouraging and they make me laugh. Something women obviously cant.So why should three middleaged men in a show with a lot of humor be worse than the women around me who caused my disease ,complicated my recovery and almost cost me my job? I don´t care if there are hardly any women working with top gear as long as Richard, Jeremy and James makes me laugh…

TG is a motoring programme as is channel Five’s motoring programme (which is presented by 2 girls, ill leave it upto the reader of this to make there own mind up about the other girl;)) and im pretty sure, infact im positive! TG gets a wider audience than Five’s programme.

As for this Harriet Harman person (sounds like her parents had a jump jet fixation or something!)is just being sexist. I know loads of females that watch TG so shes just making a song & dance over nothing.

Also its great to see the Labour deputy leader has time to moan about the worlds best TV show with the current resession

Rant over

HURRY UP WITH THE NEW SERIES GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so does that mean transgender and male representation on shows such as Loose Women !!!!

another IDIOT Labour MP flapping her gums again….

I’m female and I love Top Gear, as do my daughter, my sisters, my two neices, my friends. I wouldn’t want to see the dynamics of the trio broken up just to put in a female presenter. Let’s just keep our heroes and get rid of the politicians I know who I’d rather pay for). Jeremy for Prime Minister and get rid of the expenses. We know the macho image of Top Gear is just for entertainment and we, as women, are never offended by it. Boys will be boys and we love them for it.

Hi girl here!!I love TG & the thought of a woman joining made my heart sink & i wondered if i would tune in to the show as religiously as i do were one brought in!!! NO PLEASE DON’T DO IT!!! I love the male maddness & banter on the show it’s stuff that most of us can only dream of doing but i think guys do a fab job so please don’t change it!!!!

hiyaa we love you. Abbie loves jame may thanks bye

if you whant to see what jeremy clarkson looks like when he dances with the girls go on to youtube and serch funny kid jazzy o

sorry about that last coment hear is the link fore the vidio

http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=VGNDgQv57d0&feature =channel_page

you can still do what i seid just make sure you watch the vidio

We’ve had these kind of rules in Scandinavia for some time. It’s just rubbish.

“Women are smarter than men, men are all potential rapists blah blah blah.”

Where is the female Darwin, Einstein, Feynman, Planck, Gell-man, Newton, Dawkins, Hitchens, Hawking, Sagan ?

Feminists need to answer that before making stupid claims about intelligence, they have no idea what the word even means. Most pople on this planet would not even be alive if it was not for these briliant MEN.

The world of feminism would stop absolutely everything.

why don’t they ask the government to split their workers into perfect 50/50 as well? Or force directors of movies and tv dramas to cast 50/50 ratios too even if the script calls for 9 males and 1 female… Maybe because I’m Canadian but I dun c a problem here…

Scandinavian

While I disagree with Harriet Harman, I find your comments a bit too aggressive. Google “female scientist” and you’ll find hundreds of great women. I’ll start you off with Marie Curie.

The only way I would accept a female presenter is if it was me!!

TG is great, I’m a female petrolhead, and believe that heaven does indeed have a V8 and a gold horse on the front of it, or possibly a bull!

I agree with others, we watch is because it is a look into the wierd world of the male mind and we get to see great cars too.

Can I please have a go at being the first non-star in a reasonably priced car?!?!

Lily

Thank (insert expletive of your choice)we don’t live in America.

Funny story… I have been the one convincing my boyfriend to watch the show… not the other way around. These higher then mighty feminists need to take a hike!!!

I am a feminist, and I believe women should get every opportunity as men, however,…
requiring a woman to be on a show–especially one with only three people–is just as sexist as not allowing one on simply because she’s a girl! Quotas are inherently discriminatory.

I love the show just the way it is!!
Having said that, if they absolutely must bring in a girl, I vote for SABINE. Is she available?

These commies just keep crossing the line.
If they want a woman to mess up TG with pink G-wizzes and such rubbish, then whhy dont they put a man on some clothes show to force them into bikinis and g-strings. 75% of TV shows are geared towards women, and while I understand that TG is not just a man thing (thank God), it is pretty much the only relief we get.
Please, please, please, commies and ecos, stop trying to molest the only show worth paying a TV license for.

Changing one of the most popular shows in the world in a patronizing attempt to change the composition of, or mollify the the target audience is misguided at best, deleterious at worst.

Therefore, TG needs to take a stand if they are forced to have a female presenter and consider the following:
(1) Get the three girls from the “Porsche Product Line” from a few seasons ago. Put them quietly in the corner and cut to them before each commercial break or whenever Clarkson begins to stare;
(2) The first point will only last one show if at all. So, then get Sabine Schmitz to be the female presenter and treat her well.

If the UK continues down this path, I expect the men will soon be forced to sit when they urinate–as it would be unfair to the women who cannot. You guys need to stand up before you’re forced to sit down.

All this stuff about women needing a female perspective on everything is far more sexist than having more men than women in a danm office. Girls love Top Gear, fact. I’ve heard that actually more women watch Top Gear than men, dunno if its true, but it’s certainly enjoyed by everybody,fits the bill perfectly for something politicians want to deface then.

Clearly there are only two women in the world who can take on the role as female co-host on Top Gear.

1, Sabine Schmitz. But as I suspect she is possibly busy with Oberseite Zahnrad.
2, Audi Woman from Season 6.

I think you’re *all* missing the point. Andy, take note:

Statistically speaking, out of all shows with three main presenters, approximately one in eight of them will be expected to have them all be male, given a random sampling. (And likewise for all-female.)

So all you have to do is nominate seven other shows with three presenters who are *not* all male – and include one in that set which is all-female – and you can tell Harriet to stick it.

Politics in this country ruins everything. To be fair the Stig should just nut her one 8). Im sure if it was three women (which to be honest ladies you know deep down inside it would be utter crap ) then she wouldnt be saying it was sexist. England always sees it from one side but never the other.

And when you apply for TGTV you have to have 50:50 Male to female ratio of attendants. So stuff that up your …. umm actualy dont harry wots your face.

Why try and F#*k with some thing that’s not broken. It is what it is. It should be changed or copied. (PSTop gear Australia should find there own identity!)

I live in the US and my best friends wife won’t stop talking about top gear, she loves it. So does my sister. HA!! (and she is 13-14, so it even appeals to teens)

It is pretty clear that the show doesn’t need any change to women presenters.

Maybe they want to turn TG to 5th Gear, or maybe Vicki is friends to Harriet Harman and wants to go to TG. Who knows.

I think that is a load of b*******. I love cars, i am a girl. I ALWAYS watch Top Gear when it’s on and i don’t watch it (no offense) for any other reason than it is funny, it is about cars and it is, without doubt, the greatest show to put on telly EVER!

what exactly is the problem? 40% of top gear viewers are female.For example does she want sports teams to be for both genders?

loose women is a sexist show is the banshee complaining about that?

DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
Love you guys and the show as it is.
and i am a girl too
<3

Dear Miz Harriet Numbskull,
SHUT UP!
Get a life and try to do some good in this world.
Top Gear is the best program ever produced…period! Destroying it with your proposal would put you second only to G.W. Bush for “Worst Politician of the 21st Century” award. DUH!
Did I say “Get a life” yet? Well any way, while you’re at it Get a Clue as well!

I’m a girl 14 in fact and you so should not think about changing the show. it would never be the same i think every 1 wud agree that having a women on it would ruin it well every 1 except Harriet Harman! i am a huge top gear fan and am sure most girls wud dream to be a presenter on the show (i wud) but i just wouldnt do it as like i said b4 it would ruin the show n the show just wudnt be the same.

i dont think they are sexist…..they arnt smart enough….all men, i mean, not only those on top gear….lol….no really being a girl and all i still really enjoy the show and all the boys silly antics…i really dont think the show would be as funny with a bunch of intelegent beings as ourselfs, cuz we just wont screw up as much, anyway the show is a great sucsess so they must be doing something right.

This Is Just Stupid, Cause I’m A Girl Right. And I Don’t Think That Its Bad Having 3 Blokes, With No Girls.. And Anyway I Like It Cause Its Full Of Cars, Funny, Imformitive And Got Hammond In It Lol(L)Its Just Stupid Tbh, Everyone Has This Outdated View On Girls Liking Dolls And Pink And Stuff.. But Its Just Not True! – Honestly I Love Cars To Bits. And I’m Not A ‘Proper’ Girl, I’m One Of The Blokes Around Her… Sooooooo This Woman Should Actually Listen To Us Girls, Who Loves TG And Doesn’t Tbh, Give A Shit About This Show Not Being Hosted To Girls..

I Bid Thank You x

Ha, well i think the demorgraphic should be ok, the lads are bigger girls than me!
Ignore these sexist-acussing women. I think there offended that a pokey motoring show is outshining their personas. Putting it into perspective one of these women looking out for women ca manage to spend 40grand of taxpayers money on a toaster and the other a Dr of Sociology and Women’s Studies… yes… you heard me, womens studies!! Doesn’t that a sexist course? Ask who won the battle of 1066(seriously i’d like to know!).
These are no threat to the world renownd “Lads”fest.
Let them pootle off in the baby blue Ka’s and leave the evolution 7to real women!
Women like this won’t be happy until they have infaltrated the Chipendales. Maks you proud to be a lady!…. sex change anyone?

I Love Top Gear I Always Watch It And Record Every Episode.. It Is The Best TV Program In The World. Ohhh And By The Way Im A 16 Yr old Girl.. =]

this aload of rubbish, im a girl and i watch top gear, and i dont think there should be a girl presenter, i mean it will turn bad like fifth gear?! vicky butler ew

there are equal numbers of males and females in the audience because Top Gear requires an even M:F ratio to attend one of the tapings

i luv your tits

xxx

For all we know THE STIG is female. Technically that would even out hte balance a bit…

I completley agree with you “I”(#408)
in r english class one day our teacher (a girl) just shouted out, “Hu loves Top Gear” and everyone starting shoutin, “its da best!”
dont change it please!!! =)

It’s absolutley PERFECT thee way it is!!!

Im a 13 year old girl and i love topgear!
its awesome and ive been watching since i was 12!
i love cars
dont change it because FIFTH GEAR is S***
i completely understand topgear

The new series of top gear is great, im a big fan of the show and saw it live in the NEC, i liked the episode when you made the electric car.

The “Feminist Movement”, though established with good intentions, has, like so many other “movements” surpassed the laws of commonsense. It has shredded almost everything that had ever been reserved for “men only”. As a female, I would like to say a few well chosen words to any feminist who must interject any more nonsense into this world. Leave Top Gear as male territory and stay out of the way of the women who love to watch it (we’ll ban together and run the lot of you over with P-50s just for sport . I agree with a certain amount of equality, but, yet again, you’re going to far and taking away rights of men in the process.

hee i lv top gear an i am 13 it is brilliant i think u gyuys r funny as out heehee!!!!!!!!!!!=D

no way can u av 3 men ew

scrub that last 1 from me girls lv cars well i am the only 1 in my class but hay