Show three: studio day

It all sounds good and I just hope Episode 3 and the following Episodes are much better than Episode 2…..otherwise Top Gear is really in trouble!

To all the people having a go at ‘car bores’:

Top Gear simply wouldn’t exist today if it wasn’t for people who were actually interesed in cars. Just because Top Gear has now evolved into a show aimed at people with the intellectual depth of a pube, it should be remembered that the show was always a car programme before an entertainment programme.

Can’t wait!!!!!!

So sad… got to wait to sunday

from what teehee said in comment 34…

wouldnt it be fantastic if there was such a thing as the lamborghini megasaurus-rux?!?!?!
definitely should be what they call the replacement for the murcielago

Sounds great, but will there be a series montage that was supposed to be in episode 1? And I hope that the car manufacturer chosen would be something way out of the box…

I think the show will be great, and I think TG is still a car’s show. I didn’t care for cars before I’d seen TG but by bringing it to us in a hilarious way, it made me very intrested. Every TVshow evolves, so just sit back and relax the show.

the last ‘the show’ wasn’t suppose to be there, anyway, TG is still the best!

Why is there a Skoda in the picture with May, Clarkson and Hammond?

If the best car manufacturer ever is a Skoda then you will need all of your journalistic brilliance to justify it. Maybe the picture is just an ironic and intentional piece of misdirection.

To be honest, I’m liking the sound of this new episode, although I do fear that more emphasis will be put on the crap Lambo vs. Caravan blimp stunt than on any actual old fashioned road testing. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, he is my formula for making a great series of Top Gear

a) Cheap/used car challenges
b) Road testing real world cars relative to certain demographics
c) Races using supercars
d) Cool wall
e) The news (car related)
f) Star in a Reasonably Priced Car (actual celebrities)
g) Power laps
h) Relevant articles and segments that address the concerns of the general public

Aw bless James May and his stripy jumpers

I think it’s got to be Ford.But it could be Citroen.

i think the greatest car manufacturer should be jaguar theres:
the XK + XKR (supercharged) old and new (both great)
E-type
D-type
C-type
S-type
X-type
XF + XFR
XJ + XJR
XJ220
overall great cars
any1 agree ?

I think Top Gear has a little bit of everything for everyone… that’s why it works.
Im not really a ‘car’ kind of girl, but Top Gear is making me alittle more interested, even if it is by looking at the vintage cars they bring up sometimes, like James Triumph Herald.
I think it has entertainment value and ‘factual’ values. It’s a show husband and wife can sit down and watch together and both enjoy it.
It’s not to everyone’s taste, but nothing is.

Anyway. Nice jumper James.
I miss Toy Stories… I wish there wasn’t a break half way through the series, it was really inspirational.

Steve_TG: Lotus.

I said in the Car News that I thought maybe VW, Ford, Honda and such were probably the most consistent but for something more subjective I say Lotus.

The only blips I can think of in the whole history of Lotus are the Excel and Eclat. Everything else has been brilliant if you are driver who wants a proper driver’s car. My second car ever was a white 1993 Lotus Elan and when I got rid of it, I was inconsolable for about 5 weeks.

I sold it off to a much older gentleman who was going through a mid-life crisis and had just fresh come out of a tattoo parlour sporting something colourful and bleeding that only a middle-aged man would appreciate. When I handed that man the keys to MY Lotus it was as if I was a giving a vet the permission to put my childhood dog to sleep using a chainsaw.

Lotus cars are all about having something that you feel so in touch with that it becomes a part of your body and soul. A machine that becomes like a family member or a best friend. A machine you apply human characteristics to; you give it a name. You then subsequently start referring to her as… well, ‘her’ rather than ‘it’. ‘She’ takes on a personality of her own until you eventually begin to start having an affair with ‘her’.

Wives will never understand it and will end up leaving you because constantly being a passenger in one is tantamount to sexual abuse, children will never be able to fit into the boots no matter how hard you try and insurance salesmen will start phoning you more often when you say that you own one.

Every Lotus ever made is impractical and the build quality is questionable at best and deadly inconvenient at worst – especially the old ones – but these two factors are incidental, of course. You don’t think about these things when you’re a man.

The most comfortable option, the most practical option and the easiest option is usually the farthest thing from our minds when our judgement is clouded by the thick, thick fog of the more senseless XY chromosome.

A Lotus is not about comfort, it’s not about luxury; Lotus cars are all about feeling the invisible force that only men can feel when they get in a machine and use it as a means of achieving their genetic purpose on earth, which is to get a tool and use it to do something.

The purpose of a Lotus as a tool is for it to be used in mystical places referred to by the three-eyed, reptilian locals of the villages up and down Britain as “Bee… Roads”, and there is no way of getting around these “Bee… Roads” faster than by using a Lotus.

Stuff the Italians for the soul and the passion; you can find it by the shed-load in Norfolk, literally since a shed is where most of the Elans I love with an almost militant passion were built.

There’s been no other company in the world that has been as consistent in designing and making as many great driver’s cars as Lotus has, and it’s the only car I’ve ever had that has ever made me believe that there is such a thing as a soul in a machine.

@The_Monk The Skoda is probably a marker car, what they use in rehearsals before the show cars arrive. The director bloke explained it in one of the videos.

top gear features supercars because top gear is not necessairly about consumer advice. top gear is about making you feel like an 8-year old boy again, not about deciding if you want to get a ford focus diesel or vw golf tdi. it is perfect the way it is and the more supercars that we can dream for at least for an hour long the better

what are you guys doing with a superb?

I agree with post 47, this is going to come down to what they are defining as GREAT. Great looking, Great Performing, Great Value, Great Entertainment, or all of the above. And you are right TG Fan, the Skoda is probably the marker car for the Replica Rally Car they are supposed to be featuring or something like that – what ever it was it was probably off being buffed, polished, or taken for a blast around the track by Mr Stig!

I just have feeling that Chris will crush wet track record…

If I see The Monk’s “formula” for Top Gear again, I think I’ll jump off Trent Bridge before I end up doing some serious harm to somebody. For Pete’s sake, mate, give it a rest! I’m sure my blood pressure reading must be going right off the scale by now.

As for the Cool Wall – that, for me, is a signal to pop out to the kitchen and make myself a cup of tea.

i watched episode 2 of the new series when you where talking about the greatest cars of all time i think vauxhall corsa 55 plate lol

on the episode that was on sunday 21st november you wered disccusin the greatest car make of all time i think it is ford they have made legendary cars such as:
.ford escort cosworth
.sierra saphire cosworth
. sierra rs500
.rs200
.mustang
.gt
.gt40
.focus rs
.escort rs turbo
.mondeo st

these are all time greats and fast cars

I cant wait I hope the car company I voted for won although I hope Clarkson didnt take to the track in the rally replica out of anger.

in a recent interview with msncars clarkson said that he prefers auto to manual!? just wanted to let you know

What’s Chris Evans promoting this week anyway?

DAMN: It’s because Clarkson is… *coughs*… “older” now. That said, I drive a Nissan 300ZX with an auto-box. Takes away the whole driver involvement but I personally think automatic cars are the future, which is a shame. Some cars like Mercedes work well with them whereas others really, really don’t, like Citroen’s smaller cars.

More and more people are turning to them, more and more young people are learning to drive in them – as Boris Johnson said, Top Gear will be irrelevant in years to come because there won’t be any gears to choose from except drive, neutral and reverse, as evident from the Tesla.

SMT gearboxes are generally quite expensive to maintain so they won’t be of any use, and they’re crap anyway – especially if people like Citroen make them.

I think as cars become more and more expensive and less and less people start buying them, car companies will be looking for a way to cut costs and unfortunately the clutch will be one of the first places to start. Remarkably complex piece of equipment that is made much easier the less parts there are, and in a Tesla it couldn’t get much easier for people to use.