Best Car Programme

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Mon 29 May 2006 15:29
Best Car Programme - type's'
I have just been reading the Top gear thread and agree with the comments that it seems to be more of the same - way out (but funny) acts on cars (Anne Hathaways car - the Toyboata etc) and a stream of super cars driven at pace round the track.
5th gear is trying to copy and making a complete hash of it - racing a GTI and Octavia backwards - how ridiculous ?

What do you think is the best car programme on the TV now or previously.

My vote goes to Automondial on Men & Motors and the 1st series of C4 driven where they compered 3 cars on the ROAD - (you know Top Gear that place we all actually drive our cars) and then scored them. The cars were all pretty normal as well.
Even that got daft though when the started sumo wrestling the micra.
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Mon 29 May 2006 19:29
Best Car Programme - wotspur
They all deal with Fantasy driving, cars that us mere mortals can't ever dream of driving. All great fun but totally pointless, all it gives is the presenters a free car for a period of time and if they are complimentary enough TO KEEP!!

If they invited 10 people to test drive 3 similar vehilces, each week, and took on a different major manufacturer every week, with REAL drivers problems and questions, that would be worth watching.

Who cares if Clarkson can drive an Aston from London to Tokyo quicker than the others can walk from London to Scotland. The best thing they did was Fire cars on a catapalut to try and demolish a caravan, Now that was worth watching!

To answer your question none really cover what I'd like to see
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Mon 29 May 2006 20:25
Best Car Programme - ziggy
Did nobody notice that 5th gear is the old top gear..?
Maybe because many cars now have 6 gears..?

I think top gear realised what sells, and the days of William Wollard (sp..?) with his knee on the bonnet explaining bhp are well gone. 'Lifestyle' sells better than technical details, so the rest of us anoraks will have to make do with 'tinternet..
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Mon 29 May 2006 21:29
Best Car Programme - mare
Did nobody notice that 5th gear is the old top gear..?


I think a few people did: as i understand it, BBC pulled the plug on Top Gear, channel five offered the then presenters (Tiff, Quentin and VBH) a deal and off they went. It even has / had the same producer (Jon Plowman?).

Then depending on the story, either Clarkson and Wilman pitched the idea or BBC realised what they'd done, but either way a totally different programme with the same name got onto BBC2.
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