5th Gear or Top Gear ?

Big Ears

Which do u prefer 5th Gear or Top Gear ?

My favourite is Top Gear , its longer , has the wall of cool , their own track and The Stig . Its also funnier

ChipZilla

Funnier? That's debatable. I don't like Clarkson's sycophants laughing at his every sentence. I get the feeling there are stormtroopers in the background ready to make an example of anyone who doesn't laugh at every crappy joke. Fifth Gear for me I'm afraid.

Big Ears

I dont like all the laughing , infact sometimes u swear they have a laugh track . But then agin there are very Funny moments as well as all those crap ones that seem to get as much laughes .

Stephen

The blatent bias against german/french cars that they (especially clarkson) have pisses me off. As does yer man on 5th Gear.

sutty

Topgear for me, while they do some good reviews, they also dont talk about the cars like there is a rod up there ar$e's. They take the piss out of each other as much as some of the cars they drive.

ToxicPaddy

They both have their good and bad parts.. I think out of them both Id have to go
with Top Gear as it seems to have the slight edge over 5th Gear..

I personally preferred the older format of Top Gear without the audience and there
seemed to be a lot more in the older one, cars and bikes, new and old..

The new one seems to be more of an ego trip for Clarkson.. especially the time
he had his own SL500 on it.. (could have been an AMG.. not 100% sure!!)

He was sitting in this boasting about all its features and about how nice it was to
drive etc etc etc.. had to switch channels half way through as it was just pissing me
off too much.. :rolleyes:

Tox

sutty

Originally posted by ToxicPaddy

The new one seems to be more of an ego trip for Clarkson.. especially the time
he had his own SL500 on it.. (could have been an AMG.. not 100% sure!!)

He was sitting in this boasting about all its features and about how nice it was to
drive etc etc etc.. had to switch channels half way through as it was just pissing me
off too much.. :rolleyes:

Tox

Then you missed the fact that the other lads took the keys after that while Clarkson was not in the office and gave them to the stig.... he came off the track in it. The look on Clarksons face as he saw the recording of the stig drving it was priceless

oneweb

Originally posted by sutty
Then you missed the fact that the other lads took the keys after that while Clarkson was not in the office and gave them to the stig.... he came off the track in it. The look on Clarksons face as he saw the recording of the stig drving it was priceless

That was classic Top Gear!

RicardoSmith

5th Gear is miles better. Top Gear is just a Clarkson ego trip. He has no personality hes completely bias and boorish about everything. The little guys a good presenter though.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by sutty
Then you missed the fact that the other lads took the keys after that while Clarkson was not in the office and gave them to the stig.... he came off the track in it. The look on Clarksons face as he saw the recording of the stig drving it was priceless

I remember on The original Top Gear Tiff had Clarkson in a Puma and threw it all over the track. Clarkson nearly wet himself.

mike65

Carfile rules! :ninja:

I only watch Top Gear on a regular basis (keep forgetting 5th Gear exists tbh), sure Clarskon can be a bit too "full of chat" but when its good...my main critism is too much flashy metal. Last Sundays prog was best when they had the old bangers driving from Brum to Manchester and back then putting them through some tests. I'd like to see more old metal in fact.

Mike.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by mike65
Carfile rules! :ninja:

I only watch Top Gear on a regular basis (keep forgetting 5th Gear exists tbh), sure Clarskon can be a bit too "full of chat" but when its good...my main critism is too much flashy metal. Last Sundays prog was best when they had the old bangers driving from Brum to Manchester and back then putting them through some tests. I'd like to see more old metal in fact.

Mike.

There was more of that on the original Top Gear show. I miss the wider range of articles myself. Need some old stuff, new stuff, bikes, classic etc.

Clarkson picked a Volvo barge. Nuff said.

Big Ears

Originally posted by sutty
Then you missed the fact that the other lads took the keys after that while Clarkson was not in the office and gave them to the stig.... he came off the track in it. The look on Clarksons face as he saw the recording of the stig drving it was priceless

ya and then later clarkson found out he had a 'Gay ' taste in cars

Big Ears

Originally posted by RicardoSmith
There was more of that on the original Top Gear show. I miss the wider range of articles myself. Need some old stuff, new stuff, bikes, classic etc.

Clarkson picked a Volvo barge. Nuff said.

Ah but they only had a 100 pounds , and that volvo was indestructable

weemcd

its hard to judge, topgear has much more entertainment in it, 5th gear is purley cars. I hate clarkson and how he talks about coolness, which is total bull****, considering that jeans sales flumped due to the "Jeremy Clarkson effect" i sh1t you not i remember hearing about it on tv. my ideal show would have the guy from 5th gear who is quite old, but very entheusiastic, the little guy from top gear and the gril from 5th gear but with the resources of top gear. I really cant stand clarksons germany hating crap.

oneweb

Originally posted by RicardoSmith
5th Gear is miles better. Top Gear is just a Clarkson ego trip. He has no personality hes completely bias and boorish about everything. The little guys a good presenter though.

Originally posted by weemcd
<snip> the little guy from top gear

The "little guy" is Richard Hammond, a brilliant presenter if I may say so He presents Brainiac and he did some other presenting afaik.

Big Ears

Hammond is a lot better a judging coolness aswell , does Clarkson try and put the worst / gayest cars at sub -zero

halkar

5th gear. Top Gear is gone too much of boy racers show with all of Clarkson's spoiled reviews. Most cars in top gear are always GTI or all singing dancing more horses in the front the better where as the speeding limit is 70mph at max :rolleyes:
Who cares if my £250.000 car can't do 0-60 quick enough? Hell, if I have that much to pay for car I go 10mph so everyone can see it Of course not on the motorway though

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Big Ears
Ah but they only had a 100 pounds , and that volvo was indestructable

It was the only one that need attention under the bonnet to get it to the studio, and it had more faults than all the rest of the cars put together. The only reason it won was because he got it for £1. Bottom Gear would be more like it.

Big Ears

It only needed attention because he drove too fast .
Most of those problems were lights(inside the vehicle ) anyway .

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Big Ears
It only needed attention because he drove too fast .
Most of those problems were lights(inside the vehicle ) anyway .

Exciting stuff....yawn.

kikel

5th Gear for me as i thinks Jeremy Clarkson is an AS****, who is more interested in himself rather that reviewing cars. He left top gear to become a chatshow host, with that clarkson crap from a few years ago. Now he's back in Top Gear, making an absolute S***E of it. GET RID OF JEREMY CLARKSON

byte

Top Gear marginally wins it for me.

ToxicPaddy

Originally posted by sutty
Then you missed the fact that the other lads took the keys after that while Clarkson was not in the office and gave them to the stig.... he came off the track in it. The look on Clarksons face as he saw the recording of the stig drving it was priceless

aaahhhhh crap!!! :rolleyes:

Feckin typical isnt it.. :mad:

barnicles

TG

peasant

please do not dig up old posts just to add the grand total of two letters