Cars are boring. Consumer shows about cars are boring. That's people really only get excited about dangerous cars.

i.e. ones made of fibre glass, that cost more than a house, can travel at ridiculously lethal speeds and essentially can turn the driver in to mush if they make a momentary lapse in judgement (something the kind of person who spends 1.5m on a car is likely to be prone to).

Things like getting celebrities to drive 'common' cars also appeals, especially if your encouraging them to drive them at dangerous speeds, because we want to a) see them having to be like us with our sh*t boring cars b) see them have some kind of accident.

Its no accident that Top Gear interest spiked when Hammond tried to stop a drag car with his head. When they were riding around in 'gay pickups' in Alabama, what we really wanted was to see them lynched.

Essentially, we as a society, want, to watch someone like Noel Edmonds, do something like ride a 900 cc Motorcycle into a brick wall at 120mph. That's essentially guaranteed, top ratings viewing right there. 90% of the UK will tune in to watch that and the repeats - and it'll be the most played thing on iPlayer for years.

Obviously we have to 'live' with the compromise, that is that Noel Edmonds might end up hitting a brick wall on a 900cc motorcycle, whilst racing some other c**t in a Ferrari, who hopefully will also crash and if not burn, have to explain the loss of a 1.5m car to the accounts department.

People actually hate cars, and they hate celebrities, which is why putting cars and celebrities into possibly dangerous scenarios, appeals. We're happy if they're humiliated, endangered or doing something stupid, but really we want to see them hurt or killed.

Why do people hate cars. They're expensive, financial holes. And everyone loses money on the f**king things, and never can actually buy what they want (the fibre glass death machine).

The BBC should reboot Top Gear with Chris Evans, by making him drive a F1 car, through a mine field, blindfolded, whilst the car is on fire.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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I disagree, someone has to try out racing a pursuit roller coaster, on a 900cc motorcycle, whilst blindfolded in episode two.

Obviously, this takes place on a roller coaster track.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Well, I really enjoyed it

Sadly, before it finished I had to leave it as there was some paint that had been newly brushed and I just couldn't trust it to dry on its own.

Yup, the pretend puke was toe curling.

Edited by Mapletree (31 May 2016 11.01pm)

Hahaha

Your best post EVER.

I think Clarkson and Co are responsible for the recent attempts by illegal immigrants to cross the channel in a flimsy craft.

They probably watched the old Top Gear episode when the 3 of them converted cars/vans into sailing craft and Clarkson actually got from Dover to Calais in a watertight converted SUV with an outboard motor. Capt Slow relied on wind power to get his converted Triumph Herald into a sailing dinghy whilst the Hamster had converted a VW van into a canal barge but both failed to progress very far due to choppy conditions.

This episode has obviously been studied on Youtube and copied.