They were great cars. After a year or two more options would evolve. Floorboard venting, smoke screen, a melodious engine knock that went in time with the rattling glass. You can't get those options on a beamer without waiting 50 years.
Jeremy Clarkson to be sacked by the BBC
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You obviously do.
It's more than that.
It's about the macho challenges, adventures and humour. You may not understand that because Loose Women is more your fare.
If that's the case, I just need to go down to Bolton town centre on a Saturday night.
Petros doesn't like Top Gear because its presenters are too white and male for his liking. He likes more feminine shows.
The kind of fun the wife and I have restoring her 67 Cougar and entering my 67 Fairlane in shows?
What do you drive?
We'll all know where you are should you disappear around four or five PM Eastern Canada time....;-)
A prime example, pulled directly from your backside. You don't know what you're talking about and yet the words just pour out of you anyway.
What for the fun to come to you young grasshopper.
Top Gear isn't really a car show. If it was just an ordinary car show then it wouldn't pull in so many viewers.
It was an ordinary car show, just about cars, back in the 70s, 80s and 90s when a group of boring presenters just told you all about the latest family hatchback.
But it was in the early 2000s when Clarkson, who became a presenter of the show in 1988, revamped the show with one of its producers, and brought in Hammond and May. Clarkson and his pal turned it from an ordinary car show watched by just a few people to an action-packed comedy adventure, which saw Clarkson, Hammond and May compete against each other in almost every episode in a series of whacky, fun challenges which included the trio having to build their own amphibious cars and try them out on a lake and build a reusable, Space Shuttle-like craft out of a Robin Reliant car.
They also went on various foreign adventure, like driving through the Middle East; driving to Botswana's Okavango Delta; driving through the Atacama Destert in Chile; racing each other from the south of France to London, with Clarkson travelling by car and Eurostar with Hammond and May on a light aircraft piloted by May; Clarkson and May in a car racing Hammond, on a dog-sled, to the North Pole, with Clarkson and May becoming the first people to reach it in a motor vehicle.
So Top Gear now isn't really a car show. The cars are just mainly secondary. In fact, only about ten minutes or so of each episode is actually a review of a new car, and that's usually at the beginning to get it out of the way. It's is now mainly a humorous, action-packed comedy adventure show using a wide array of vehicles, and that's what pulls in the viewers.
I'd like to see Hammond and May carry on presenting it. Just them two, with no new presenter with them.
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Is the BBC about to make a U-turn and bring Clarkon back to Top Gear just days after they sacked him?
Are they realising just how popular Clarkson is and that they may lose hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide if he goes from Top Gear?
The BBC may be preparing to allow Clarkson back onto Top Gear - the most-watched factual TV show in the world - with Hammond and May on the condition that he is given an executive minder to keep him in check.
This comes after Hammond and May refuse to film any more episodes of the show without Clarkson.
Jeremy Clarkson 'could be given minder' ahead of a potential Top Gear return
The speculation comes amid reports Richard Hammond and James May have refused to film without the presenter
Jenn Selby
Thursday 19 March 2015
The Independent
Jeremy Clarkson could be preparing to get back behind the wheel of Britain’s ever controversial car show, but only under the provision that he is given an executive minder to keep him in check.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, a manager is set to be brought in to sit above long-standing executive producer Andy Wilman.
Clarkson and Wilman have been friends since childhood, even attending the same private school in Derby together. However, BBC executives are apparently concerned about Wilman’s ability to keep Clarkson out of controversy.
The article quotes a senior BBC source as saying: “I think that people do see a way to resolve this, and that is by putting someone strong in to manage the show and manage Clarkson. He is a brilliant broadcaster, everyone can see that.”
The speculation comes amid reports that Richard Hammond and James May have refused to film another episode of Top Gear without Clarkson.
The two presenters are said to have turned down shooting more shows featuring mainly recorded segments with some of Hammond and May in the studio.
An unnamed BBC executive told The Mirror: “They didn’t want to do it without Jeremy so the talks didn’t get off the ground. There is a feeling it is all of them of none of them.”
Jeremy Clarkson 'could be given minder' ahead of a potential Top Gear return - People - News - The Independent
Are they realising just how popular Clarkson is and that they may lose hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide if he goes from Top Gear?
The BBC may be preparing to allow Clarkson back onto Top Gear - the most-watched factual TV show in the world - with Hammond and May on the condition that he is given an executive minder to keep him in check.
This comes after Hammond and May refuse to film any more episodes of the show without Clarkson.
Jeremy Clarkson 'could be given minder' ahead of a potential Top Gear return
The speculation comes amid reports Richard Hammond and James May have refused to film without the presenter
Jenn Selby
Thursday 19 March 2015
The Independent
Jeremy Clarkson could be preparing to get back behind the wheel of Britain’s ever controversial car show, but only under the provision that he is given an executive minder to keep him in check.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, a manager is set to be brought in to sit above long-standing executive producer Andy Wilman.
Clarkson and Wilman have been friends since childhood, even attending the same private school in Derby together. However, BBC executives are apparently concerned about Wilman’s ability to keep Clarkson out of controversy.
The article quotes a senior BBC source as saying: “I think that people do see a way to resolve this, and that is by putting someone strong in to manage the show and manage Clarkson. He is a brilliant broadcaster, everyone can see that.”
The speculation comes amid reports that Richard Hammond and James May have refused to film another episode of Top Gear without Clarkson.
The two presenters are said to have turned down shooting more shows featuring mainly recorded segments with some of Hammond and May in the studio.
An unnamed BBC executive told The Mirror: “They didn’t want to do it without Jeremy so the talks didn’t get off the ground. There is a feeling it is all of them of none of them.”
Jeremy Clarkson 'could be given minder' ahead of a potential Top Gear return - People - News - The Independent
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14 April 2015
Steerpike
The Spectator
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The BBC appeared to have put an end to their Jeremy Clarkson woes when they made the decision not to renew his contract following a ‘fracas’ between the Top Gear presenter and a show producer.
Despite this, the Clarkson saga continues to cast a shadow on the corporation. The presenter’s untimely departure has meant that the producers of the BBC mockumentary W1A have had to re-edit a series plotline.
Hugh Bonneville, who plays the BBC’s head of values in the series which airs next week, admits that they had to ‘tweak the voice-over’ to keep up with events. A plotline written before the incident saw Clarkson get the BBC in trouble by writing an embarrassing tweet and using the word ‘tosser’. Now, the voiceover has been changed, the presenter’s surname bleeped out and his face will appear pixelated.
It’s almost like he was never there.
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47509 • 2 days ago
It’s a pity we can’t airbrush out the whole BBC and replace it with an organisation that is capable of fulfilling its obligations, as a public service provider, to cater for its entire audience by screening certain programmes that are refreshingly edgy, non-PC and actually entertaining to a large swathe of the licence-fee paying public.
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post_x_it • 2 days ago
Pixellated and bleeped out, eh? Reminiscent of Stalin's airbrushing of photographs to remove former allies once they became nonpersons.
The BBC has form in this regard. For example, hundreds of hours of comedies starring Chris Langham seem to have been culled from its archives, never to be shown again.
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starfish to post_x_it • 2 days ago
Yes
I enjoyed the recent BBC documentary on the wonderfulness of state-owned British Rail where they spoke of the hugely influential 'This is the Age of the Train' campaign without once mentioning the key presenter
I wonder if he will be air-brushed from road safety campaign history?
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Colonel Mustard • a day ago
When Daily Politics have a Tory guest they grill him or her about Tory policies. Whenever they have a Labour guest they grill him or her about Tory policies too. Jo Coburn is the worst because her pro-Labour bias is so obvious.
The hot place will probably freeze over the day the BBC hold Labour properly to account.
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The Laughing Cavalier • a day ago
Leaving the BBC is like leaving the Chinese Communist Party, one becomes an "unperson".
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Tim • a day ago
We are going to let you go Clarkson, we will gag you from speaking out as we don't want more compensation claims but we will also make fun of you during the whole process through other programmes. For a PC organisation the behaviour stinks something rotten and I would imagine there is more to this than is being let on.
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explain this • 2 days ago
This is very odd, borderline sick actually, it must remind us of the Jimmy S approach. Is there much more to this story we need to be prepared for?
Jeremy Clarkson causes more problems for the BBC - Spectator Blogs
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