| Archive for The Motor Forum talking cars since 2006 |
| Blarno |
5th Gear axed.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a...Fifth-Gear-driven-television.htmlHa ha ha. Oh well, no more hairy twat Tim Shaw. |
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| "him" |
A shame nonetheless though...
There were some good moments on Fifth Gear, admittedly you had to sit through more shit than was necessary waiting for them! 
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| SpecB |
I always used to record Fifth Gear and fast forward through the shit. I could generally get the hour program down to about 20 minutes. | ||||||
| Martin |
That's exactly what I did, 20 mins was a good episode! |
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| woof woof |
Crazy Frog - "she is not likely to be off the circuit for long. Her husband Phil Churchward is series director of Top Gear."
For God Sake!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! and that goes for the rest of them, apart from Tiff, I always liked him. |
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| BeN |
Was an interesting program, but never really appealed to me. | ||||||
| JohnC |
I'm very sad for the loss of any car related programme. Didn't care much for VBH but winter nights will be a bit more boring without 5th gear to watch. | ||||||
| TimR |
Just like Top Gear. |
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| simonp |
Seconded. |
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| tali |
+1 |
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| Guitar Zero |
So - do more people watch the gadget show then ?
If it's all to do with advertising dowwars - why not lose half the presenters and faux nobbing around and just do a half hour show that's shown at off peak times. They could keep Jason Potato and get Quentin Wilson back to do pieces on £10k luxury cars. |
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| Gooner |
TBH I rarely caught Fifth gear as I usually either forgot it was on or the wife was watching some soap or other. Top Gear works better because it appeals to the masses. Fifth Gear is better suited to those who read car magazines rather than those with a general passing interest in cars. They've been trying to get back at TG for a while now with some 'comedy' features but all it seems to have done is devalue the show. And keeping going with Tom Ford was more than enough for me to know it's not worth bothering about. | ||||||
| Grampa |
If I had to choose between watching Top Gear and Fifth Gear, Fifth Gear would win 99% of the time, getting rid of Tom Ford would have been an improvement though, but then getting rid of Clarkson and Hammond would be an improvement to Top Gear - James May is so much more watchable when he hasn't got those two belittling him with stupid scripted 'banter'. | ||||||
| DradusContact |
'Tis a real shame. I wonder could the Discovery channel buy the rights to it, would probably only cost about 50p. | ||||||
| Twelfth Monkey |
Filth Gear was shit, presented by the unfailingly irritating. | ||||||
| DradusContact |
At least it had a go of being a proper car program, even if it did fall a bit short. |
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
Apart from Tim Shaw, I didn't find the presenters especially annoying. No more so than the so-obviously-scripted banter on TG. | ||||||
| Twelfth Monkey |
A bit short? | ||||||
| Blarno |
Trying to be a 'proper car programme' was the main problem. To a fair chunk of the population, cars are just transport and therefore boring.
An hour or half an hour of just cars wouldn't work. Hence why TG works, as it's 3 blokes cocking around with a big budget and some fast cars. It's an entertainment show and entertainment gets viewers, without viewers, no TV company worth their salt will continue to comission a show that gets crap viewing figures. Seems like simple business sense to me. Fifth Gear failed by trying to ape TG, without the budget or the presenters. |
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| Mike Amos |
I cannot see how some can find the bearded one so bad. Given the oppertunity to break away from an obviously putrid format, he would make a good presenter.
Frankly the beeb could not run a car oriented program in a showroom full of the damn things. Some of the crap that directors writers etc come up with make me wonder if they did no come across some scripts written, and rejected by four yealr old's. How to take a decent program and screw it into the ground. |
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| TimR |
I don't watch Top Gear any more and only rarely see 5th Gear repeats on the Dave channel.
There was another programme on Sky (the freeview channel though) that had some unusual ways of testing cars, e.g. drive slowly over broken Belgian pave while getting a female passenger to do her makeup (suspension test), and also turning the stereo up and seeing how far away you could hear the sound (stereo test). Can't remember what the programme was called though but it did have that rather nice lady who co-hosts (or at least used to) Scrapheap Challenge on it. |
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| Blarno |
Vroom Vroom. | ||||||
| TimR |
Cheers.
I'd watch it just for the burd 
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| DradusContact |
Jeeze, that Vroom Vroom was terrible! Worst car show ive ever seen. That stereo test, what was the point? | ||||||
| TimR |
It's probably as good a way as any to test the stereo on a TV show.
That's how I feel about most articles on Top Gear (which I no longer watch). |
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| woof woof |
I don't mind Tim Shaw.
What's the name of that dark haired slim guy they used to have on now and again? He always looked 35 trying to be 21 to me, he tried very hard to be cool, youthful and relevant. He irritated the hell out of me. |
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| Turbonutter |
I always did that for Top Gear and 5th Gear. Could also watch the best bits again. I used to enjoy the Tiff/Plato shootouts |
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| Boxer6 |
Lisa Rogers? The old version of Scrapheap is a million miles ahead of the new one - "Dick the handlebar moustache" isn't a patch on Robert Llewellyn, and Ms Rogers isn't in it......bummer! |
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| TimR |
That's the one. Imagine you knowing that. (I don't watch Scrapheap Challenge either).
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| DradusContact |
They just seemed to test things nobody was bothered about. If the stereo on a car bothered you that much you could spend £100 on some new speakers and it would fail to be an issue. It would certainly never stop me buying a car. Another 'test' was when they got the grandson of someone famous (i think it was Jackie Swewart?) and drove the car around a multistory, handbraking it all the way down. Fine if your filming a scene for the italian job, but they did this for every car they tested, i think there was a fiat estate, exactly what the car was designed for 
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| Blarno |
^^ Bruno Senna. | ||||||
| Blarno |
Jonny Somethingorother, he of the ridiculous pointy sideburn/beard combo. |
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| TimR |
It is pointless but then TG drove a Porsche Panamera from The Isles of Scilly to John 'O Groats to race a letter. At least thrashing a car up a multi-storey (who has never wanted to do that ) is only a couple of minutes of silliness rather than 7/800 miles of it.
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| Blarno |
Me and a mate were ejected from Cheshire Oaks for thrashing a 205 GTi around the multistory... | ||||||
| TimR |
There are some fantastic youtube vids of American M5 owners driving around empty multi-storeys.
The best I've managed up here was up to about 5000 rpm in 1st. I really need a louder exhaust for it 
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| DradusContact |
I thought the letter race was actually the highlight of the series, was suprised at the outcome too. | ||||||
| Blarno |
*sad fact alert*
I always wind my windows down when entering a multistory, just to hear the sound resonating off the walls. (Only in Blue Frog, the Vectra is as quiet as a church mouse) |
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| SpecB |
I drove through the Tyne Tunnel the other day with the windows down in second gear!
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| Boxer6 |
It's on (I think) More4 on Sunday mornings..... usually 4 or 5 , one after the other. Magic stuff! |
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| TimR |
I always put the window down in multi-storeys too. Last time I went through the Tyne Tunnel was in my Shogun and I think we had the window down to let some of the fumes out 
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| simonp |
I once set off a load of car alarms in a low ceiling-ed multistorey in my Xsara, which had a loud zorst on it! | ||||||
| Blarno |
My Mi16 and 309 GTi could set off alarms, too. Single box systems rock! | ||||||
| Matt |
Heh, the E36 and its programmed rev on start-up set off an Astra behind me once.
Imagine the fun you could have setting off alarms in a paranoid, snooty suburb... |