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Amigo MX5 Omega King Offline Now doing hair & beauty treatments!!!!! Posts: 13743 Immingham N.E Lincs. Gender: Drives: TOPLESS!!!!!	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #15 - 03. Feb 2011 at 19:57 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?? 5th gear?!!!!!
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
Reply #16 - 03. Feb 2011 at 20:00

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

yes mate. Everything changes Wink

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?? Thumbs Up!

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

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Webby the Bear Omega Knight Offline If all is not lost, where is it? Posts: 1809 Northampton Gender: Drives: Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6 CD Auto	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #17 - 03. Feb 2011 at 20:06 more than likely aaron. yeah fifth gear gets a lot of viewers but compared to TG its a drop in the ocean
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Webby the Bear Omega Knight Offline If all is not lost, where is it? Posts: 1809 Northampton Gender: Drives: Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6 CD Auto	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #18 - 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)
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redelitev6 Senior Member Offline Posts: 736 Drives: 98 elite	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #19 - 03. Feb 2011 at 20:18 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 What type of road test was that? she never got it sideways once!
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Amigo MX5 Omega King Offline Now doing hair & beauty treatments!!!!! Posts: 13743 Immingham N.E Lincs. Gender: Drives: TOPLESS!!!!!	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #20 - 03. Feb 2011 at 21:39 VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!!
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tidla Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2392 solihull Gender: Drives: omega 2001 3.0 elite	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #21 - 03. Feb 2011 at 23:39 Amigo MX5 wrote on 03. Feb 2011 at 21:39: VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!! close enough.(must of been a cold morning)
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Banjax Omega Lord Offline We're just a virus with shoes Posts: 5591 Perth Gender: Drives: '04 Subaru Legacy Sport, '03 406 diesel	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #22 - 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
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
Reply #23 - 04. Feb 2011 at 14:35

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.

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bluey Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 414 West Mids Gender: Drives: Omega 2.5 CDX	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #24 - 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 You mean Chris Goffey. 10 Brownie points to who can name his son.
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Martin Imber Over Active Poster Offline LPG Omega V6 - Keyfobs Rebuilt Posts: 20110 Worcester Gender: Drives: 2001 Omega 2.6CD LPG & 3.0 cams	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #25 - 04. Feb 2011 at 15:21 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.
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Reply #26 - 04. Feb 2011 at 19:33

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.

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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
Reply #27 - 04. Feb 2011 at 19:50

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 Grin

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 ) Cool

10 Brownie points to me Grin

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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
Reply #28 - 04. Feb 2011 at 21:33

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 Roll Eyes

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Webby the Bear Omega Knight Offline If all is not lost, where is it? Posts: 1809 Northampton Gender: Drives: Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6 CD Auto	Re: How Top Gear's changed. Reply #29 - 05. Feb 2011 at 11:23 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
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