http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t--TtFJJTT8 ::)

5th gear link Guy?  :-/

I give up! Why do i keep posting the previous link?
   Early start, off to South Lakes tomorrow.

   Night all!!

I know exactly how Guy is feeling right now, smash the computer right in the screen. I hate machines sometimes  >:(

Iirc the first series of TG was presented by Noel Edmunds and Angela Rippon ? :-/

Albs wrote on 02. Feb 2011 at 22:54:

Iirc the first series of TG was presented by Noel Edmunds and Angela Rippon ? :-/

What about William Woolard? (Ithink that was his name) ::)

Albs wrote on 02. Feb 2011 at 22:54:

Iirc the first series of TG was presented by Noel Edmunds and Angela Rippon ? :-/

and IIRC it was part of Pebblemill at One  :-/

Pebble Mill at One.......showing your age now Andy

lol

:y

Albs wrote on 02. Feb 2011 at 22:54:

Iirc the first series of TG was presented by Noel Edmunds and Angela Rippon ? :-/

Angela Rippon yes not sure N E however,topgear used to be a 10 minute slot on nationwide news programme,
it then became a 30 minute show on bbc2 with william woollard,sue baker,chris goffey,tony mason and i think frank page.

true it is a shadow of it former self with J C at the helm

I sometimes wish that Top gear would revert somewhat to it's old format. I have gone off it lately, it now seem more about big boys playing with there toys and more about the presenters personal egos than a programme for car enthusiasts.

Tony H wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 18:24:

I sometimes wish that Top gear would revert somewhat to it's old format. I have gone off it lately, it now seem more about big boys playing with there toys and more about the presenters personal egos than a programme for car enthusiasts.

Yup, that's an understatement! It's just the Jeremy Clarkson show now.

I'm with you there!
Matthew

This is what i meant to post. Better bloody work this time!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzMTSfFPGs :y

this is just my opinion buuuuuuuut.......

if top gear was to do loads of reviews about normal cars it would be completely boring (like that video of the cavalier). at the end of the day we all (well most of us probably) do normal mundane jobs. when you watch top gear you escape for an hour in a world of silly boyishness which reminds you that life can be fun.

each to his own though of course  :) :) :) :)

Webby the Bear wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 19:43:

this is just my opinion buuuuuuuut....... if top gear was to do loads of reviews about normal cars it would be completely boring (like that video of the cavalier). at the end of the day we all (well most of us probably) do normal mundane jobs. when you watch top gear you escape for an hour in a world of silly boyishness which reminds you that life can be fun. each to his own though of course  :) :) :) :)

I like both sides of this coin, old
& new TG.
   Point was how it's changed! :y

yes mate. Everything changes ;)

however i really dont think a show that continued that format (from your video) would get many viewers now compared to the existing TG.

maybe a meet in the middle somewhere??   :y :y :y :y :y

Webby the Bear wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 19:54:

yes mate. Everything changes ;) however i really dont think a show that continued that format (from your video) would get many viewers now compared to the existing TG. maybe a meet in the middle somewhere??   :y :y :y :y :y

5th gear?!!!!! ::)

Webby the Bear wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 19:54:

yes mate. Everything changes ;) however i really dont think a show that continued that format (from your video) would get many viewers now compared to the existing TG. maybe a meet in the middle somewhere??   :y :y :y :y :y

Which, I imagine, is why the Beeb cancelled it years ago before it came back in it's current format (if memory serves)..

more than likely aaron.

yeah fifth gear gets a lot of viewers but compared to TG its a drop in the ocean  :y :y

oh and sorry what i meant was TG just including a few more normal car reviews as fifth gear is completely rubbish.... partly cos theyre trying to be as witty as TG but not having the presenters to do it! (the fat bloke with the beard is just unlikeable and annoying)

Amigo MX5 wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 19:10:

This is what i meant to post. Better bloody work this time!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzMTSfFPGs :y

:oWhat type of road test was that? she never got it sideways once! :y

VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!! :P :-*

Amigo MX5 wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 21:39:

VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!! :P :-*

close enough.(must of been a cold morning)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5472KlsQ7Zw

i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D

Webby the Bear wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 20:08:

oh and sorry what i meant was TG just including a few more normal car reviews as fifth gear is completely rubbish.... partly cos theyre trying to be as witty as TG but not having the presenters to do it! (the fat bloke with the beard is just unlikeable and annoying)

The fat bloke would be a lot more likeable if he wasn't trying to copy the likes of Clarkson quite so obviously. 

The most annoying one though is that Smith person.  How does someone with the charm and wit of a miserable librarian in Whitby get on the googlebox surprises me.   Someone set the bar incredibly low. He is Troy Queef, the oxygen thieving little runt.

It's a tragedy that Russell Bulgin died before he got a crack at entertaining and informing us on the box instead of useless halfwits like Smith.  Now he was someone who really knew his onions, and knew how to get you hooked too.

Banjax wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:56:

i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D

You mean Chris Goffey.

10 Brownie points to who can name his son.

Son is a drummer.

TG has gone a bit too far away from cars - needs to move back slightly.

We want reviews of exotics.

We want road trips

We don't want 3 men waffling for ages.

I would guess they spend 5 out of nigh-on an hour on their stage talking about Mexicans or whatever, about another 5 interviewing the guest, and probably another 5 doing links etc.  That leaves about 40 minutes of their various capers, which sounds a fair mix to me.

As for Fifth Gear, their format needs sorting out.  A bin would be the simplest answer.

Now, if you were really desperate and lived in the Central region you could also watch Pulling Power, which was (w)anchored by Mike Rutherford, the presenter who made hacking your right arm off with a blunt butter knife sound an appealing alternative to watching him.

bluey wrote on 04. Feb 2011 at 14:37:

Banjax wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 23:56: i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D You mean Chris Goffey. 10 Brownie points to who can name his son.

That'll be Supergrass band member Daniel Robert Goffey then (shortened to Danny )  8-) 10 Brownie points to me  ;D

Tony H wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 18:24:

I sometimes wish that Top gear would revert somewhat to it's old format. I have gone off it lately, it now seem more about big boys playing with there toys and more about the presenters personal egos than a programme for car enthusiasts.

I agree; I think that the laddish side of the programme can sometimes get a bit silly nowadays and Jeremy Clarkson can often be smug to the point of being annoying ::)

i absolutely love VBH. shes gorgeous and i'd love to lock her in my dungeon BUT THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

when i watch top gear i dont want a gorgeous bird (or an ugly one for that matter) presenting it cos even if shes the funniest person and knows the most about cars i can only ever concentrate on her breasts  :D :D :D