[TR] Top Gear

[Wayne Lee]

I think that is basically the point, It's the Characters,(or lack thereof)
that made me change the channel after about 35 seconds. Piggybacking off of 
A BBC show like Antique Roadshow may have worked. Another Top Gear Show
isn't enjoyable for me to watch, although I didn't change to Football. The
BBC version is over the top with their foolishness and stunt drivers doing
Clarkson's drifting for effect, but it's entertaining regardless. I don't
need to watch 3 Ham's or the Stig to find out what Car's will come out on
top in X-Cross, Road Circuit etc. when all the data available speaks for
itself without putting oneself through that load of rubbish.

Cheers,
Wayne
Douglas,MA

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[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Dave1massey at cs.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:33 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Top Gear

In a message dated 11/29/2010 9:39:50 PM Central Standard Time, 
pdonnel1 at san.rr.com writes: 
> I think I lost it with dialog like "Driving a Viper is pretty tricky" and
> "listen to this V-10 hum". No talk of CC's, zero to 1000 in 2.4 seconds, 
> no
> comedy, no sexy stuff, nothing exciting. The audience looked bored. Buzz
> Aldren was the only bright spot, too bad the Jeremy clone screwed that up.
> 


But that was the key to the original series (UK) success.  They dropped the 
traditional car review aspect of it in favour of the off-the-wall antics of 
Jeremy, Richard and James.

Besides, had you stayed tuned instead of returning to the football game 
(talk about a waste of time) you would have seen the three do standing miles
in 
three different Maserati's.  Three different cars, three opinions why each 
was the best.  Typical scripted banter albeit, but there's you zero to 175 
talk you were missing.

And the Stig took all three of them around the track.  None was a fast 
around the track as the Viper (which cost about 1/3 as much)

Dave
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