Best motor related TV show

AugustusMinimus

No contest for me. Wheeler Dealers is by far the most enjoyable watch. Both entertaining and informative. Edd China while quite nervous in the first few series has really grown into the role.

The only downside to the show is obviously Mike Brewer and the painful haggling at the end of each show where Mike basically caves in at the first sign of cash.

colm_mcm

Old out your and, fella

Kristopherus

Renault TV:D

Friel

Wheeler Dealers and Custom My Ride for me. And no, CMR isn't Pimp my Ride.

colm_mcm

Renault tv isn't the wort sometimes.


Although, there is a program on it called 'the key' where they have to do challenges and stuff, they were being ferried about in espaces and not one of them had a seatbelt on, this from Renault, the new Volvo really when it comes to safety.

Some of the historic stuff like the racing gordinis and the 4l is interesting too.


Custom my ride is much enter than pmr alright, there was a spin off called street customs Erin where Ryan sets up in Germany, only ever saw one episode of it though.

bubbuz

Not sure about the best but the WORST has to be the american version of top gear.

tinofapples

Ed China = Legend

Of course all their sales are really at a loss cause if China's time was factored into the costs Mike would be looking for a new job !!

colm_mcm

Ed china is a legend alright, wheeler dealers is some of the less impressive stuff he's done.

Atlantic Dawn

Wheeler Dealers when they have a decent car to do up. I also liked The Garage, really wish they brought it back for another series, was some interesting repair techniques .

Guy:Incognito

I'd like to see another show like the garage. Set in a decent garage in the UK somewhere focussing on the mechanics (as in the mechanics of cars rather than the lads fixing them ) . A few mechanics (the lads this time) with a bit of personality to talk to camera explaining things but not focus on them. Using Ed China would be good. But him going about the daily life workign on a variety of different cars rather than projects.

Not a dodgy garage like the one on that chop shop program.

voojeq

yep wheeler dealers are the best motoring show ever, top gear is just behind on my list

i remember one episode of pure failure where the lads were to build a motorhome from an old vw builders van, they ended up buying it themselves because noone else wanted it

it looked ****e imo but fair play to Ed for work carried out on that thing

Foxhole Norman

On TV? I'd say none at the moment. Top Gear has its moments but most of it has now just become an entertainment show.

Overall my favourite would be Bodhan's The Next Gear. Good reviews and they actually do cars people would buy.

colm_mcm

voojeq wrote: »

yep wheeler dealers are the best motoring show ever, top gear is just behind on my list

i remember one episode of pure failure where the lads were to build a motorhome from an old vw builders van, they ended up buying it themselves because noone else wanted it

it looked ****e imo but fair play to Ed for work carried out on that thing

Yah they spunked all their money on those rubbish modular kitchen boxes, just so they could plug them, then went bare plywood on the walls.

voojeq

found it btw =]

http://www.streetfire.net/video/wheeler-dealers-vw-t2-van_2014788.htm

Quazzie

I can't believe no one mentioned overhauling.

Nissan doctor

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I'd like to see another show like the garage..

Get on to TV3, they are copying every other show these days:rolleyes:

johnos1984

The best motor related TV Show............TopGear

It's not a motoring show but it is motoring related light entertainment.

Yes it's had it's ups and downs as a show but it revolutionized TV motoring shows with use of cinematography, super cars every other week, exotic locations that we can dream about, fun, humour, joking around.

It's the first to actually put sports cars through their paces on a test track and show us what their limitations and performance figures are. It's even moved car shows away from being a male only hour on tv.

Yep it can be scripted, contrived and lacks technical detail but it is good at showing that motoring should be fun which it often isn't these days.

Now.......deride me for appreciating TopGear

colm_mcm

Quazzie wrote: »

I can't believe no one mentioned overhauling.

I can't watch that show,my basically just go on about what a god chip foose is and it annoys me, it's (like a lt of American shows) very repetitive too.

Stainless_Steel

Hate top gear.

Wheeler dealers gets my vote. Ed is a legend. Mike Brewer is a tosser though. Fat little annoying knob. Would love to kick him in the gonads.

Foxhole Norman

Quazzie wrote: »

I can't believe no one mentioned overhauling.

I can't believe I forgot Overhaulin' :eek:

colm_mcm

Stainless_Steel wrote: »

Hate top gear.

Wheeler dealers gets my vote. Ed is a legend. Mike Brewer is a tosser though. Fat little annoying knob. Would love to kick him in the gonads.

Was watching it the other night, he had a pug 205 1.9 GTi, he said something along the lines of "if I was a car, I reckon I'd be a 205 GTi, I'm low, wide, and I go like a train"

Try getting that mental picture out of your head...

Chuck_Norris

There used to be one on Turbo, but the name escapes me. An American show where they restored knackered muscle cars, and sold them at auction. Kinda like Wheeler Dealers, but the selling at the end was much less contrived.

colm_mcm

Chop, cut, rebuild was class. They used to take about 6 episodes to complete a car.

I remember they restored a bricklin sv1, class build


I also love "A [insert item here] is born" you kinda warm to your man after a few episodes.

mondymike

ok show on turbo. guys have a breaker yard in /////, Usa.
buy old yokes, restore and sell at auction. seems realistic enuf, not as scripted as others.

does ed china have his own shows?

Stainless_Steel

colm_mcm wrote: »

Was watching it the other night, he had a pug 205 1.9 GTi, he said something along the lines of "if I was a car, I reckon I'd be a 205 GTi, I'm low, wide, and I go like a train"

Try getting that mental picture out of your head...

Ah Christ....

Chuck_Norris

+1 on the ....... is born Colm. Loved that Cobra kit car he built. Except for the colour. Somehow always managed to miss the final episode, where he took it out for a spin though.

And I never liked E-Types, but they did some restoration job on their one.

Arthur Daley

1) Wheeler Dealers
2) Repeats of Top Gear from 2003-2005
3) The 6 or so epsiodes of 'classic car club' that turn up on Discovery Turbo
4) 5th Gear
5) Current Top gear

J Bourke

The Garage by far, just for the hilarity!

Just f*cking bosh it!

Notch000

love PINKS on extreme channel
also there a great modifing & DIY show from Oz on you tube called MIGHTY CAR MODS, very entertaining

TestTransmission

Mightycarmods on youtube is pretty good.

Find myself watching "chasing classic cars" a bit.

old_aussie

Wheeler Dealers = easy watching.

Ed China make the show interesting.

Overhauling is good also.

fryup

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

No contest for me. Wheeler Dealers is by far the most enjoyable watch. Both entertaining and informative. Edd China while quite nervous in the first few series has really grown into the role.

The only downside to the show is obviously Mike Brewer and the painful haggling at the end of each show where Mike basically caves in at the first sign of cash.

i often wonder is the haggling scripted? they probably say to the punters beforehand ..you offer me £ and i'll meet you in the middle, it just looks false

one think that irks me about the show is that Ed makes it look oh so easy e.g. one spray of WD and that nut comes off handy but in reality we all know its a different story:mad:

anyway i doubt he does all the work himself, off camera i reckon there's some other mug who does the grafting

Quazzie

Edd China's day job is making weird vehicles like beds or toilets that drive. He looks like a looper.

Big Nasty

Wrecks To Riches USA

voojeq

fryup wrote: »

i often wonder is the haggling scripted? they probably say to the punters beforehand ..you offer me £ and i'll meet you in the middle, it just looks false

one think that irks me about the show is that Ed makes it look oh so easy e.g. one spray of WD and that nut comes off handy but in reality we all know its a different story:mad:

anyway i doubt he does all the work himself, off camera i reckon there's some other mug who does the grafting

Paul

MidlandsM

Chasing Classic Cars is a good watch.

alastair

mondymike wrote: »

ok show on turbo. guys have a breaker yard in /////, Usa.
buy old yokes, restore and sell at auction. seems realistic enuf, not as scripted as others.

Desert Car Kings - still essentially scripted, but less grating than most.

I'd make a case for Chasing Classic Cars too. Formulaic, but some lovely cars, and Wayne Carini doesn't really do scripts well, so they generally just let him ramble on. I like the oul lad he has working in the garage - there's a man who knows how to avoid wooden acting.

Wheeler Dealers is redeemed by the Ed China doing some work bits, but everything else is such nonsense (the 'profit', the 'haggling', the glossing over the additional work required on the cars). What's with motoring programmes that they feel the need to treat their viewers like such idiots?

Sleepy

Would love to see Ed China in his own show. It's amazing that this many seasons later Mike Brewer is still being paid to detract from a good show.

Owen

Anything with Marc Evans - for someone who's a qualified vet, he's an incredible all round mechanic and DIYer. He's built planes, helicopters, restored a Jag, built a kit car, his offroad project, the trike, restored the Harley and helped others with their builds.

Overhaulin's a definite favourite. There's a lot of banter, but the show could probably have been better if they dialed it back on the cheesy presenters (Chris and girl with the enormous head like one of those Easter Island figures).

Chop Cut Rebuild's another one I like, there's no bull****, no egos, they just talk about what they're doing and get on with it.

Wheeler Dealers is great, and as always, we've had the inevitable 'oh but the labour' comments here. They don't take labour for 2 reasons, they're getting a wage from the show, and it's supposed to replicate the guy who turns a car around every few months on his driveway to make a profit. I've learned a fair bit from watching the show, but jesus some of the bodywork has been appauling. If anything, Ed's go at the Capri with Aerosols is a shining example of why even someone who has an idea of how to do bodywork can get it very very wrong, and your average guy wandering into Halfords for an aerosol to fix his bodywork will never get a good result.

Top Gear? Love it. Hammond is just pointless these days, irritable, and seems to love himself, but Clarkson and May make good TV. It's not about cars anymore, but who cares, it's entertainment for people who never grew up.

5th gear I'm growing into. Vicky I could do without, she's about as sexy as moudly cheese, and her smoker's cough squeal ... Tiff's a great Pilot, as is Jason, but their arrogance and mutual unending praise sometimes is a bit much.

Chasing Classic Cars is good to kill a half hour too. Not much there on the restoration side, or the entertainment side, but Wayne seems like a genuinely nice guy and picks up some interesting cars.

American Hotrod outlived it's usefulness. I liked some of the Characters like Roy, Boyd's mental ex wife turned Accountant, Boyd was great too, but Bluebear was a moron, and if I'd to work more than 5 minutes with Dwayne, I'd have to be pulled out of him.

Pimp my ride/Custom my ride/Berlin Street Customs is an odd one. There's times I really like it, I like Ryan for what he built from absolutely nothing, and most of his crew. Sean's a serious fabricator, and Chivo/Raffa are talented painters, Ish's well able to knock out an interior too. Only problem is they've mad some chavtastic stuff, if anything it's hilarious to see how the very wealthy can sometimes absolutely have no taste at all. And that episode with Tera Patrick where they kept calling her an Actress, and you just know everyone in the shop had been watching Redtube about 30 seconds after she left the shop.

Kit Car Crisis was just a moan fest from start to finish. Beetle Crisis was good entertainment and showed how two lads with little experience can turn a rotting shell around. Campervan Crisis was more of the same, an average skilled guy stepping up and turning out one of the finest splitties on the veedub scene.

Car shows are the only reason I don't ditch Sky and go Freesat. Even if I've seen them all before, it's still fun to sit down and kill an hour or two with them.

alastair

Owen wrote: »

Anything with Marc Evans - for someone who's a qualified vet, he's an incredible all round mechanic and DIYer. He's built planes, helicopters, restored a Jag, built a kit car, his offroad project, the trike, restored the Harley and helped others with their builds.

I think Marc Evans' presenting style is like Marmite. I really can't stand the clowning about, and it gets in the way of the undoubted merits of the programmes. It's nice to see someone struggle with real problems and climb a leaning curve all the same.

Owen

I dunno ... Marc's clowning around is miniscule compared to some of the usual motoring shows. And any clowning around that does happen is usually a 3-5 second skit. I think it adds to the show, but maybe that's just me.

MidlandsM

I enjoyed Beetle Crisis also........any thoughts on it?

Limbo123

5th gear- much more relevant for the average Joe public than top gear could ever be nowadays

Wheeler dealers

Deals on wheels

Top gear is ok but beginning to tire of it

RobAMerc

I actually like Top Gear US. I think it's more of the same rubbish as normal TG but without the huge ego's, no word "British" injected into every sentence bollix and there are some genuinely interesting cars on it ( I have 0 time for yank tanks so I am surprised ).

dharn

'ITS MY GARAGE,, AND IMMMM THE BOSSS .....!!!!:mad:

Chriscl1

Owen wrote: »

5th gear I'm growing into. Vicky I could do without, she's about as sexy as moudly cheese, and her smoker's cough squeal ... Tiff's a great Pilot, as is Jason, but their arrogance and mutual unending praise sometimes is a bit much.

What you talkin bout willis!
She can drive better than most blokes, hates traction control, what's not to love?

fryup

you gotta love an essex girl

corktina

Chriscl1 wrote: »

What you talkin bout willis!
She can drive better than most blokes, hates traction control, what's not to love?

she is on my list, and it's laminated.

btw...Edd China.... the legend that nearly everyone spells wrong.

Quazzie

corktina wrote: »

she is on my list, and it's laminated.

btw...Edd China.... the legend that nearly everyone spells wrong.

Quazzie wrote: »

Edd China's day job is making weird vehicles like beds or toilets that drive. He looks like a looper.

promethius

wheeler dealers everytime for me. edd is a legend and you'd learn a lot from him just watching. some of the restorations are bang on as well. mike i used to think was a knob but i realised his place in the show and now realise it wouldn't be as good without him in it, the cheeky chappy as a foil to the posh Edd. anyone giving out about labout costs just doesn't get the show. yeah there's some painfully obvious stuff glossed over but it's forgiveable.

top gear, oh dear, i used to look forward to a sunday evening for it but now record it and mostly watch it at some stage but it's gone to the dogs. the weekends episode had some genuine banter between clarkson and may but it's got so forced otherwise.

dr.fuzzenstein

corktina wrote: »

she is on my list, and it's laminated.

btw...Edd China.... the legend that nearly everyone spells wrong.

George Costanza has demonstrated how that can badly backfire!

Car shows for me:
Wheeler Dealers, Fith Gear, Chasing Classic Cars, A (insert name) is born/reborn, Chop Shop and (at least used to be) Pimp My Ride (I know, I know, but it's fun)
Non car-related entertainment shows:
Top Gear;)