It’s the last one…

and went druck so I made several typos

Hi there,

I was shocked that today’s episode was the last episode of the season…

Now the show ended. Jeremy didn’t say much while driving the Aston Martin Vantage… what he said stuck with me. “I think what i’m driving here is ending” Did he mean Aston Martin making fast cars or Top Gear the show?

Why was this season so short?

as i previously wrote i love tg outrageously,am a fan,don’t often,IF EVER!!!! diss on what i like,logic,for a last show that was utter crap,deception deception
obviously the love isn’t shared

Here we are the last show and its going to beeeeeeeee
drum roll
CRAAAAAP!!!!!

Jairo Martinez thats what im wondering too.

I really hope this isn’t the end of top gear.

Wow….I’m a Hu Hu Huge TG Fan but this final episode was soooo dull a void of ideas. The boy’s (well Jeremy anyway) like an explosion, this episode was more like a lead balloon – VW commercial???? and what last was the Aston Martin piece all about???/

true jairo,it stuck to me too,i think he meant that am wont continue making such cars if limitations etc continue to push potential clients away,not the last tg,mind u if the rest is like that episode,well,sad days are to come!!!

wow guys,whats happened????

I thought the same thing as above. Has the show endded

I suppose it is inevitable that with every new TG series it becomes more difficult to come up with fresh, new and original ideas and angles on cars. I mean: how many different challenges and races can you dream up? Compared to previous series, I found series 13 only mediocre –if not to say rather poor. Also I think the money / credit crunch is beginning to show a little bit more nowadays. The sky no longer seems to be the limit. There’s less new supercars being developed the last couple of years, so you tend to see the same “old ones” (such as Veyrons, Zonda’s, Murcielagos, DB9′s) more and more and no matter how spectacular and exotic they are, the novelty is starting to wear off a little bit. Perhaps TG should start to focus more on historical race and supercars such as the Porsche 917, the Jaguar XJR9, the Porsches 935, 956 and 962C and the 1999 Toyota GT One, to mention a few. I truly hope that the BBC does not axe it’s best watched and top selling show and that there will be a TG series 14 soon. Until then I wil continue watching all previous series on my PC. I salute messrs. Clarkson, Hammond and May. May they live forever. Forza Top Gear. An avid Dutch petrolhead and Top Gear fan.

As a fan of TG i thought this show was really disappointing. It started well but i lost interest halfway through the VW ad, what was the point in it.

I am going to miss it too.

As for no challenges, what about last week and the time rally? Even my wife was laughing at that! It was brilliant comic timing throughout.

Personally I thought the Vantage review was a really powerful ending and it mad me sad too.

I agree with JCs comment about army compensation and I hadn’t even thought of shooting a speed camera until now

This last ep was really poor…..
Old horseface causes chaos when he cant say anything clever. Bit like a little kid really…

Respect to the guys who put the Aston Martin clip together, you tweek the emotions.

Anyone know who the artist was that did the music for the end scene?

Looks like a lot of people here were a bit put off by the Aston film. I thought it was brilliant, in fact one of the best films I’ve seen on TG! It actually reminds me of the episode with the “worlds best driving road” (10×01), and the bit where at the end they shoot just the road in front of the car, no car noise, just beautiful music. I thought that was pure magic, and so was this.

Like someone hinted at above, you can only do the same thing so many times. They could easily have done a film with Clarkson going on about the power, how they managed to fit the V12 under the bonnet using CAD-computering, how Aston (and Britain) makes the most beautiful cars in the world and so on, ended the series in a load of tyre smoke or some “bombshell”, guitars ringing out the jessica-jingle, and we’d be all looking forward to November or December.

But what they did was to end the series in an intelligent, eerie, sinister and sad but beautiful way. It was actually very moving, and it was refreshing and different. The images were more powerful than any words could convey, and that’s why Clarkson was silent.

It makes me think of what an incredible production team Top Gear has, and why no other motor show can touch it. (Please, BBC, don’t cut funding, this is world class.)

Just watch the first episode from 2002 and compare it with this. How they’ve grown..

An idea for the next series, perhaps.
A little while ago, it was reported that 60163 “Tornado”, the steam locomotive in the first episode from Series 13, had been invited by the German railway operator (Deutschesbundesbahn, I think?) to go over there and run ‘as fast as it liked’. I think, as it has many modifications over the 1940s original, and only steamed for the first time this year, that a race between it (with Jeremy on board), Stig in the Jaguar XF (either V8 model), Richard on a modern Triumph bike and James in a suitably fast plane (of course, the British don’t make them any more!). Then you can go bananas with the war jokes…

I didnt expect that at all. I thought it was so different to the usual endings it was actually good.

But anyway, love the show and will always support it no matter what it does.

btw richard…i think its time you got a haircut! you will end up looking like James! as much as i love him.

OH, has anyone been to the WORLD OF TOP GEAR down in Beaulieu? I have, i wouldn’t recomend going just for top gear though as it is very expensive. go to see everything there.

lastly, i agree with what ‘biggest TG fan EVER!’ said quite a way up the page apart from the ‘new stig’

NO WAY SHOULD THERE BE A NEW STIG. THE STIG WE HAVE NOW IS AMAZING.

I also agree with what someone else said about there not being enough material and new stuff…. i think that is why they ‘ revealed’ the stig. it just filled in a gap.

Well said ‘Ole M. Hoel’

Ditto above.

I thought the Aston Martin film was outstanding. Very moving and thought provoking. Jeremy’s point about the V12 being an ending is a very sad thought – with EU legislation and emmissions controls etc, these sort of cars won’t exist in the future. Something needs to be done to ensure these sort of cars don’t become extinct.

How about Jezza or Hammond coming out to Australia to test the FPV F6 or GT.
Even on the next round of Top Gear Live shows, slot in a day or 3 off and test something better than the Holdens.

Y’know what? I wouldn’t bet against epsiode 8 magically appearing next week.

its true the internet and tv rot your brain judging by the comments here.
The bit of film was saying ‘end of an era for those types of cars’
This could be interpreted as due to credit crunch , falling house prices , over regulation , speed cameras etc etc.
but as per usual people head off on a moronic tangent…

do not make it the end for top gear its the best show and the funny from its good

I waited the whole series for the Audi R8 V10 … and it never came. Never… ever … ever have I been so disappointed with TG. The R8 with a V8 quite possibly can be the most user friendly supercar out there, with just one parameter where it could have done better – power. Now that it had a more powerful brother, you left it out. Such an incredibly stupid decision that I don’t think there is even harsh enough way to criticize such lunacy.

I bet there was some utter pillock who said: “I know, in the last episode lets not show the Audi R8 V10 and Corvette ZR1… Let’s show a Vauxhall that looks embarrassing and sounds like it’s dying AND accompany it with a Maloo that nobody has ever heard of and nobody with good eyesight will ever buy.”

To top that, you had to put Richard Hammond to test these cars on his own – he is funny when he is with Jeremy – on his own … he is not. It was a complete waste of everyone’s time to showcase those cars. I mean who would buy that ridiculous blue, hill billy pickup? I would not have it in my drive way, even it was free. Seriously I would not accept that as it would be too embarrassing to get rid of it.

To top the sad little story of Maloo they set it up in (I guess in a 1/2 mile) drag race against Audi S4 to demonstrate what would happen if you would find yourself next to S4 in traffic lights. In reality the Audi has much more traction of the line and you would loose … yes you would loose and the S4 driver would laugh at you and your co-driver … the sheep.

Sure later on the Maloo gains and goes past the Audi which is expected since it has more power, but then it should have as it has a 6.2 liter engine compared to 3.0 in the Audi… I guess it is not only the Americans who can get incredibly little power out of big V8s – the aussies have this talent as well.

The car ad bit seemed a bit stretched and none of the ads really were that insightful or funny as I expected (TG is an insightful and funny show).

I enjoyed only the last bit with the Aston – it was perfect – No words are needed to describe that car – just look at it.

I dont mind the R8 V10 or the V12 vantage. It’s not much to get me hyped unless audi makes a more powerful and lighter V8 R8 (like how Lamborghini made the LP560-4 better than the old gallardo) and Aston Martin replace the V8 vantage or create a second generation.

Can’t wait for the next season. I hope they test the new Jaguar XJ and the Gallardo LP560-4 spyder.

It’s going to be a long time and many cars will come out.