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and James MAy rocks. every single thing he has done outside of Top Gear has been brilliant imo.

fuck all the scripted banter in top gear. more cars, more locales please. let them do the talking
 
and James MAy rocks. every single thing he has done outside of Top Gear has been brilliant imo.

fuck all the scripted banter in top gear. more cars, more locales please. let them do the talking

If they did that , Jeremy and James would shine , Hammond would fail.
 
If they did that , Jeremy and James would shine , Hammond would fail.

Yeah I'd agree. May isn't Mr Dynamic, but there's a sense he really is that plodding and traditional. It seems authentic.

Hammond... I dunno, seems more like an act. The one time it seemed like we were nearer the real guy was when he was doing the cycling part of the cross London race. Him endlessly swearing at buses etc... Well, it seemed like the real guy, not the cheekie chappie persona that's a bit sickly at times.

Back on the main topic, I saw the one with the dinosaur CGI the other week and thought it was really lame. Shame, I've loved Top Gear over the years, and did think "oh dear... they've finally 'jumped the shark'" :(
 
Yeah I'd agree. May isn't Mr Dynamic, but there's a sense he really is that plodding and traditional. It seems authentic.

Hammond... I dunno, seems more like an act. The one time it seemed like we were nearer the real guy was when he was doing the cycling part of the cross London race. Him endlessly swearing at buses etc... Well, it seemed like the real guy, not the cheekie chappie persona that's a bit sickly at times.

Back on the main topic, I saw the one with the dinosaur CGI the other week and thought it was really lame. Shame, I've loved Top Gear over the years, and did think "oh dear... they've finally 'jumped the shark'" :(

Not really enough though is it? Although I'd feel weird to watch Top Gear without the trio.
 
I've heard from several sources that Clarkson and May are both nice blokes off camera, but Hammond is an 'arrogant little shit.'

On a semi-related note, one thing that's amused me recently is Clarkson being hauled over the coals for describing Gordon Brown as a cunt during filming the other week. Why now? I was at the filming three weeks previously and he called Brown a cunt at least once then, plus a few other people. Half of what's said in the studio is completely unbroadcastable. And anyway, a journo and TV presented with a foul mouth doesn't like the government very much - along with most of the rest of the country. So what? :confused:
 
I've heard from several sources that Clarkson and May are both nice blokes off camera, but Hammond is an 'arrogant little shit.'

On a semi-related note, one thing that's amused me recently is Clarkson being hauled over the coals for describing Gordon Brown as a cunt during filming the other week. Why now? I was at the filming three weeks previously and he called Brown a cunt at least once then, plus a few other people. Half of what's said in the studio is completely unbroadcastable. And anyway, a journo and TV presented with a foul mouth doesn't like the government very much - along with most of the rest of the country. So what? :confused:

I've heard that too. I'd actually want to go have a pint with James/Jeremy , reckon it'd be a right laugh.
 
I've heard from several sources that Clarkson and May are both nice blokes off camera, but Hammond is an 'arrogant little shit.'

He does come across as that on the show as well. All those bumps/crashes into Mays cars, its all a bit mummy look at me, look at me & didnt he pretty much threaten to kill that woman he was on the dog sled with during the race to the North Pole.
 
He does come across as that on the show as well. All those bumps/crashes into Mays cars, its all a bit mummy look at me, look at me & didnt he pretty much threaten to kill that woman he was on the dog sled with during the race to the North Pole.

I feel genuinely sorry when they vandalise May's car ( and yes I know it's for comic effect , but really , every single time? )
 
Hammond is easily the weakest link. He's an annoying little twonk when he's looking all doe eyed at the camera after he's said something that's supposed to be funny. And he's even more annoying when he's doing that staged phoney hes..i...tant..talk..ing.....thing..he.........does, while looking winsomely up through his fringe.

Hammond, you're a bloody forty year old man, not some bit of teenage totty in Hollyoaks. Wise up.
 
I've noticed that with Hammond to.

He can get really moody at times. Usually when they are out filming challenges you see that side of him, even more over the last few years.
 
I'd rather have Tiff or VBH instead of Hammond.

And who was the guy that was ex Top Gear (Quentin??)

The documentary he did about the life and death of Rover was excellent.

In fact, they should just put the old team back together, with May doing bits and pieces.
 
I'd rather have Tiff or VBH instead of Hammond.

And who was the guy that was ex Top Gear (Quentin??)

The documentary he did about the life and death of Rover was excellent.

In fact, they should just put the old team back together, with May doing bits and pieces.

I doubt May would stick around if he was pushed into the side lines
 
I'd rather have Tiff or VBH instead of Hammond.

And who was the guy that was ex Top Gear (Quentin??)

The documentary he did about the life and death of Rover was excellent.

In fact, they should just put the old team back together, with May doing bits and pieces.

Talking of which, I remember when May was introduced to Top Gear, but I don't remember anything before it without him. It wasn't just Hammond and Clarkson was it??
 
Was sure Top Gear used to be Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Wilson & VBH (:mad:) they also had some Northern bloke who liked bikes.
Then they brought it back with Clarkson, May & Hammond in this new format. Might be wrong though.
 
Was sure Top Gear used to be Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Wilson & VBH (:mad:) they also had some Northern bloke who liked bikes.
Then they brought it back with Clarkson, May & Hammond in this new format. Might be wrong though.

May didn't really do much for the first few weeks he was there , came into his own soon after though.
 
Was sure Top Gear used to be Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Wilson & VBH (:mad:) they also had some Northern bloke who liked bikes.
Then they brought it back with Clarkson, May & Hammond in this new format. Might be wrong though.

That's what I remember.

Why the :mad: at VBH? Is that frustration? ;)
 
Was sure Top Gear used to be Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Wilson & VBH (:mad:) they also had some Northern bloke who liked bikes.
Then they brought it back with Clarkson, May & Hammond in this new format. Might be wrong though.

May joined during the second series of the new-format TG. In the first one there was a bloke called Jason Dawe.

The northern biker bloke was Steve Berry. He, Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Willson and VBH all did it in the 90s. However, I have fond memories of even older TG presenters - the ever-bouncy ex-rally co-driver Tony Mason, beardy Chris Goffey and dear old William Woollard. :D I watched a bit of 'old Top Gear' I found on streetfire recently: it looks incredibly old-fashioned and pedestrian now, even a sort of motoring version of Watchdog in places...
 
May joined during the second series of the new-format TG. In the first one there was a bloke called Jason Dawe.

The northern biker bloke was Steve Berry. He, Clarkson, Tiff, Quentin Willson and VBH all did it in the 90s. However, I have fond memories of even older TG presenters - the ever-bouncy ex-rally co-driver Tony Mason, beardy Chris Goffey and dear old William Woollard. :D I watched a bit of 'old Top Gear' I found on streetfire recently: it looks incredibly old-fashioned and pedestrian now, even a sort of motoring version of Watchdog in places...

If one person on here knew the correct answer, i was pretty sure it would be you :D.
I remember Mason & Goffey (father of Supergrass drummer) from years back.
 
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