370 on Top Gear

Super Tanooki · 11-30-2010, 07:43 PM

I have a total love-hate relationship with Top Gear. I've seen mostly all of the UK episodes, and I'm watching the US one. I feel compelled to. The production values are the highest of any car show, its the most professionally filmed and has some genuinely gold moments.

I'm clearly a fan. But I f***ing hate it at the same time.

It infuriates me how they invent these batshit crazy 'tests' and pretend (poorly) that they're actually genuinely done. Not only are they mostly pointless, but even worse, they're all lies. I was SO intrigued by the Evo's traction control with the separate 'tarmac, gravel, snow' modes. And they test it by... "racing" down a hill against some f***ing skiers. I mean, seriously?

Plus Top Gear tests are ALWAYS neck-and-neck, and there's ALWAYS some flashy, blatantly set up artsy shot, like the skiers managing to jump over the path the Evo took at the EXACT moment it passes underneath them. Sure, BBC. Sure.

That blind man. He's not blind. You can see him looking around the cabin when he gets into the Z. And I refuse to believe that a blind man could ever have done that drift parking move so precisely with a month's practice, let along a few hours - apparently having just learned to drive stick shift, too. Pull the other one, BBC.

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11-30-2010, 07:43 PM	#34 (permalink)
Super Tanooki Base Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 217 Drives: 370Z MT Base/Spt Red Rep Power: 16	I have a total love-hate relationship with Top Gear. I've seen mostly all of the UK episodes, and I'm watching the US one. I feel compelled to. The production values are the highest of any car show, its the most professionally filmed and has some genuinely gold moments. I'm clearly a fan. But I f*ing hate it at the same time. It infuriates me how they invent these batshit crazy 'tests' and pretend (poorly) that they're actually genuinely done. Not only are they mostly pointless, but even worse, they're all lies. I was SO intrigued by the Evo's traction control with the separate 'tarmac, gravel, snow' modes. And they test it by... "racing" down a hill against some f*ing skiers. I mean, seriously? Plus Top Gear tests are ALWAYS neck-and-neck, and there's ALWAYS some flashy, blatantly set up artsy shot, like the skiers managing to jump over the path the Evo took at the EXACT moment it passes underneath them. Sure, BBC. Sure. That blind man. He's not blind. You can see him looking around the cabin when he gets into the Z. And I refuse to believe that a blind man could ever have done that drift parking move so precisely with a month's practice, let along a few hours - apparently having just learned to drive stick shift, too. Pull the other one, BBC.