What is your favourite motoring program?

prospect

There's a good few knocking about now, which do you like or dislike?

Top Gear - Although many will say this is entertainment and not pure motoring, I still love watching it

VROOM VROOM - crud

5th Gear - I can get to like this program at all. Also Tiff is an irritating prat, and that slimy wilson guy is so, ,,, slimy...

The Garage - This had potential, but that Jock guy (i think its his name) needs a real good thump in the nose. I do like when they go into the computer graphics bit and show how the problems occur etc.

Wrecks to Riches - I quite like this show. Dominic is a bit annoying but mostly this is interesting stuff. Although they waste alot of time re-capping on what has happened and showing the breakdown of their costs.

Autotrader - Not bad, but I did prefer the old show these guys did, where the did up a slightly rubbish car and sold it on. (btw, they never factored in labour, and always got excited when they made about STG£200 for 2 days work?)

A I]insert vehicle type here[/I is born - This is probably one of my favourites. The presenteer is a bit irritating, but it is a good show. I like it when they show an entire series back to back some evenings on one of those discovery channels.

mikedragon32

Love Top Gear.

Driven, which used to be on Channel Four was great, shame it was axed.

Mike Brewer has a couple of shows on the likes of Discover Home and Leisure, Wheeler Dealers and Deals on Wheels. Both good. Wheeler Dealers is where he buys a second hand car as a fixer-upper and then a mechanic, Ed China, does repairs and glams it up a bit before Mike sells it for (hopefully) a profit. Deals on Wheels is a great guide to buying second-hand.

dmaprelude

Gotta be Top Gear

MrPudding

I love top gear but I really like 5th gear. Not so sure about the new format.

MrP

fletch

I like 5th gear the most....it actually reviews cars unlike Top Gear...in saying that Top Gear provides good enteretainment value. Not sure about the new presenter on Fifth Gear....he seems to know little or nothing about cars.

Moanin

Not my favourite but used car roadshow is watchable

bazz26

Likes:
Top Gear (BBC) - Good entertainment value and not always car related
Wheeler Dealer (Discovery Channel) - Interesting alternative to the usual test driving new cars
Auto Trader (Discovery Channel) - More up to date version of Deals on Wheels/Wheeler Dealer
Auto Mundial (Men & Motors) - Latest news
Used Car Roadshow (Men & Motors) - Some good info on used cars.
Driven (Channel 4) - Good motoring content.

Dislikes:
5th Gear (Discovery Channel) - Failed original Top Gear clone imo, only worth watching for Vicki Butler Henderson
Deals on Wheels (Discovery Channel) - Late 1990s show good at the time but repeats are old hat now.
Vroom Vroom (SKY ONE) - very poor content (Top Gear ripoff), only worth watching for Lisa Rogers
Drive (RTE) - Very poor Irish car program
Pulling Power (Men & Motors) - another poor motoring program like Vroom Vroom.

Bazzy

Has to be the garage for me, to be fair they always have the illustration of what there doing and the mechanic tells u as well

The geordie lad 4x4 "Specialist" hasn't a clue what he's at in my opinion


Top gear is good for laughs needs Hammond back tho big style

And i like wheeler dealers as well

Your one of 5th gear annoys me needs to invest in a packet of halls soothers!

Wossack

Pimp my ride! *hides*

mike65

TG for entertaiment and A XXX Is Re-Born for technical knowledge - that Mark Evans knows his stuff.

Mike.

Max_Damage

Top Gear and The Garage are what I watch the most often.

All the rest are rubbish, espcially Vroom Vroom, talk about the most pointless 'road tests' they do on vehicles. Also, I'm pissed of with all the classic cars they destroy for that stupid international race league thing. :mad:

E@gle.

love top gear

hate vroom vroom especially their car radio test where they turn the radio up full and see how far they can hear it from

fletch

I love vroom vroom.....although I hate the way they send that stupid girl out to race the different types of cars....she nearly always crashes or fails dismally.
I love "Tanya Shaw in her 4 by 4"....I laugh every time I see that!

pburns

Top Gear is head-and-shoulders above the rest. Great presenters and BBC production values.

5th Gear is brutal. They're so hammy, even Vicky BH who was good on Top Gear

Some rally crap ones on Men & Motors -

Auto Mundial - a news magazine for the auto industry, some road tests. The voice-over/presenter is brutal. Always banging on about how wood has no place in a car(!?)

Gone in 60 seconds - So called expert guy in long, water-proof mac. Hunts the auctions for the CRAPPEST cars imaginable. He always buys Citroens, Renaults, Vauxhalls etc. and waxs lyrical about the most awful turds. Funniest moment is when he bought a knackered old R5 for an 18 yr old who went nuts when he saw what his money had been spent on...

Used Car Roadshow - a bit sad, but not so bad... At least the s/h cars are of reasonable quality. Interesting classics profiled also.

mloc123

5th gear is the best car show.

Top Gear is the best entertainment show based around cars closely followed by Vroom vroom imo.

I like some of the ones like American hotrod too, good information and detail in them.

mloc123

Max_Damage wrote:

Top Gear and The Garage are what I watch the most often.

All the rest are rubbish, espcially Vroom Vroom, talk about the most pointless 'road tests' they do on vehicles. Also, I'm pissed of with all the classic cars they destroy for that stupid international race league thing. :mad:

eh what about all the pointless **** they do on Top Gear and all the cars they destroy?

MercMad

I suppose I am bored with the way in which Top Gear deals less with the facts each episode !

It is by far the most entertaining though, I mean 10 or 15 years ago most non car folk would not recall it, now a lot of folk watch it for pure entertainment, its a winning formula !

Vroom Vroom is painful, embarrasing even !

I've only seen clips of 5th Gear but I really like Tiff and I respect Quentins views especially on the Classic stuff !

I also like Mike Brewer and the stuff he does but most of the rest of those programmes are drivel, just like the Irish one, really grating !

I do like American Hotrod though, all that Boyd Coddington stuff is fascinating as is American Chopper.

Occasionally the Barret Jackson auction is one and that really is worth watching. Those guys go crazy over their homegrown produce !!

franksm

"A car is born" - i love anything with DIY in it

"wheeler dealers" - for the same reason, great DIY content although yer man Mike aggravates me (Shut up, just shut up for one moment, PLEASE. Stop talking NOW. The cheeky-cockney-chappy thing is so '80s)

"the garage" - watched the first series of this, thoughtit was rubbish till I saw them do something I didn't understand, and then learned from. But the upcoming series - if the previews are anything to go by, it's gone all "drama queen" in the same vain as American Chopper. Expect a lot of recycled jokes and acting up to the camera.

"sold in 60 seconds" - I watch this if there's nothing else on, I reckon yer man that presents it is going to go postal one of these days. He's just too calm.

And of course I am now addicted to the UK traffic cop programmes; although the American ones are just one step further towards banality than I can handle.

mloc123

franksm wrote:

And of course I am now addicted to the UK traffic cop programmes; although the American ones are just one step further towards banality than I can handle.

Love the "sky cops" one and "road wars" on sky.