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Well, if you didn't know, Top Gear returns this Sunday (7th) at 8pm on BBC2.  :)

Sneak preview: http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/2288/

i hope its better than the last series. more car reviews and less pratting about doing crappy challenges

i hope its better than the last series. more car reviews and less pratting about doing crappy challenges

agreed

I can tell you now, I'd stop watching Top Gear if it was devoted to reviewing affordable family cars...

In fact, I'd probably stop watching if it was devoted to reviewing, full stop.

i personaly would like to see it as it was in the old days, a good mix fo affordable and dream cars... take the affordables out somewhere in britain like they use to make the point... and then rev the bollox of a zonda or bugatti around the track. good old top gear... but now a days... thanks to the quest for rateings its all crappy challenged that have nothing to do with motor journalism

I must say, i prefer them doing the challenges to just reviews... i mean, they still get a decent amount of reviews done now don't they?  ;)

I must say, i prefer them doing the challenges to just reviews... i mean, they still get a decent amount of reviews done now don't they?  ;)

no not at all, it was minimal reviews last season which i found annoying. top gear is ment to be about motor journalism. racing to the north pole has nothing to do with reviewing cars, nor does trying to get shot while driving though souther states of America. clarkson said he didnt like the last season because he didnt get ot review that many cars. after all he is a journalist and not a clown.

after all he is a journalist and not a clown.

Wellllllllllllllllllllll.....

.mic

i hope its better than the last series. more car reviews and less pratting about doing crappy challenges

agreed

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pratting around is what its all about! Watching a bunch of guys telling you how amazing a bunch of cars that you cannot possibly afford (atm!!) = boring and depressing lol

no not at all, it was minimal reviews last season which i found annoying. top gear is ment to be about motor journalism.

Who says? It's up to the BBC/Top Gear producers what the show is about...

I had the misfortune of watching 'Pulling Power' on ITV a few months back. Just a bunch of middle aged men reviewing Range Rovers and Citreons. Fine if that's what you want to watch, but such a program doesn't deserve a prime time spot on Sunday nights. The audience is simply too specialised.

i hope its better than the last series. more car reviews and less pratting about doing crappy challenges

agreed

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pratting around is what its all about! Watching a bunch of guys telling you how amazing a bunch of cars that you cannot possibly afford (atm!!) = boring and depressing lol

Wrong wrong wrong.
Clarkson himself has said that he's sick of the series being just a bunch of guys pratting around, and that it should go back to how it was a few years back with a good balance. I wont lie, I like these trips and challenges. But more importantly I love cars, and Top gear has always been a motor review program. Unfortunatly, the last season was always going to end up as it did after hammonds accident for two reasons. New viewers, they had to keep attracted to the show for ratings, and because a lot of their car reviews and other bits were missed out on after the accident. The three of them bring a style of reviews to the show that make me say, yes this is a good show, not like fifth gear which is a bunch of boring twits copying everything already done by top gear. Hopefully Clarkson got his way and managed to ge it balanced a little more, otherwise it's not going to be a show that lasts much longer.

Hopefully Clarkson got his way and managed to ge it balanced a little more, otherwise it's not going to be a show that lasts much longer.

Yes, a little more balance might be OK, to suit both types of viewer.

But also, wouldn't you agree the some of the challenges serve as suitable reviews in themselves? Take, for example, the one with all their mothers! They set them challenges, entertaining to the casual viewer for a number of reasons, then scored the cars on how well they did, and drew a conclusion.
Or how about showing the offroad ability of a 4x4 by pitting it up against a tank? Again, it demonstrates the car's abilities in such a way that is both informative and entertaining.

To me, that style works very well, mixed in with the 'serious' reviews and more outlandish challenges.

These are not what they mean.
What they are on about are things like the convertable people carrier. The hosting of a radio show, the road works, the caravan holiday and so on. Thats what he got fed up with. In the end the first two were funny, then it just got predictable, but completely irrelevant.

Am loving it already!!!

Not a bad episode. I think several of us have pointed outt he fifth gear copying in the past, me included. But it was nice to see them point it out.