Last Topgear as we know it.... TONIGHT (28 June) BBC 2 8pm

_Kaiser_

"I hate working on Top Gear" - prophetic anyway!

BorneTobyWilde

No music to end, just silent credits.

Big Nasty

THE END

BorneTobyWilde

The sales of ''grippy penis wheels'' are set to rocket next week.

terrydel

tossy wrote: »

What a load of utter sh!te,talking about flogging a dead donkey ?

Buy sh!t boxes
Go on road trip
break down
modify them
go on road trip
drive into and/or fall into water

Won't miss it one bit, i will give the new version a watch though and hope it gets better

It is formulaic **** of the highest order, hosted by 3 absolute tits whose humour is sub schoolyard standard, one of whom is a xenophobic bigot.
It is well produced, no problem saying that, and the Christmas specials that I've seen have been watchable, despite the main idiot presenting it.
I cannot fathom how anyone finds Jeremy Clarkson in any way funny. Hes a modern day Alf Garnett, an embarrassing uncle.
Its the Loaded magazine of TV, presented by cringeworthy middle aged men, I for owe am made up its been put to sleep!

TheBody

Sad way to end.

BorneTobyWilde

Off to Clarksons twitter for his reaction...

davycc

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Poor Hammond! As someone who doesn't like heights myself I'd probably have had a heart attack already!

i hate heights myself but id love to walk the wing of a ww1 biplane:D

davycc

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Off to Clarksons twitter for his reaction...

let me know what he says please im not in zee twitterz

TireeTerror

Oh man I loved that. Absolutely TV gold!

BorneTobyWilde

davycc wrote: »

let me know what he says please im not in zee twitterz

Just Twitted !

''Many many thanks for all your support and encouragement over the years. So sad and sorry it's ended like this !!!! ''

ianobrien

davycc wrote: »

i hate heights myself but id love to walk the wing of a ww1 biplane:D

I'm open to correction but I think the biplane was a Pitts Special. If its a Pitts Special, its not a WW1 plane but one of the original crop-sprayer planes.

As for the rest of the show, it was the typical formulaic stuff. I got the impression that the segments were lengthened from the usual show segments.

Edit - its a STearman biplane, a WW2 trainer built by Boeing.

BorneTobyWilde

https://twitter.com/jeremyclarkson

Don't need to login to see his reaction .

dublinman1990

I think this is their destiny after Top Gear. Goodbye BBC, Hello ITV.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarksons-new-itv-show-5961274

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/28/top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-rival-show-chris-evans_n_7680954.html

pred racer

tossy wrote: »

What a load of utter sh!te,talking about flogging a dead donkey ?

Buy sh!t boxes
Go on road trip
break down
modify them
go on road trip
drive into and/or fall into water

Won't miss it one bit, i will give the new version a watch though and hope it gets better

+1000

TireeTerror

Why are people who dont like Top Gear coming in here with their negative posts trying to kick something when its down? Its truly pathetic.

BorneTobyWilde

I won't miss it, but I would of continued to watch it as would of millions of others.

Brian Scan

TireeTerror wrote: »

Why are people who dont like Top Gear coming in here with their negative posts trying to kick something when its down? Its truly pathetic.

Free speech, which apparently is something greatly valued by fans of Jeremy Clarkson.

davycc

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Just Twitted !

''Many many thanks for all your support and encouragement over the years. So sad and sorry it's ended like this !!!! ''

a sad but dignified end:(

TireeTerror

Brian Scan wrote: »

Free speech, which apparently is something greatly valued by fans of Jeremy Clarkson.

You have free speech, just dont understand why you feel the need to make it 100% of your posts.

Brian Scan

TireeTerror wrote: »

You have free speech, just dont understand why you feel the need to make it 100% of your posts.

You like Jeremy Clarkson, I don't object to your saying so. I find him irritating and unfunny. Would you deny me the right to say so?

TireeTerror

Brian Scan wrote: »

You like Jeremy Clarkson, I don't object to your saying so. I find him irritating and unfunny. Would you deny me the right to say so?

I find 100% of your posts irritating and extremely unfunny. If there was a block feature, your posts would be on it.

Brian Scan

TireeTerror wrote: »

I find 100% of your posts irritating and extremely unfunny. If there was a block feature, your posts would be on it.

They may well be, and you are perfectly entitled to say so.

mfceiling

Can I just ask a quick question to all the top gear/ Clarkson haters.

What do you want from the "new" top gear? Please don't answer with the "at least the 3 middle aged bores are gone" etc.

I enjoyed the rapport between the lads. I just can't see that being replicated by Evans and Co. I'd expect the ratings to plummet when it comes back again.

TireeTerror

Brian Scan wrote: »

They may well be, and you are perfectly entitled to say so.

Oisin we are not interested.

Realt Dearg Sec

TireeTerror wrote: »

I find 100% of your posts irritating and extremely unfunny. If there was a block feature, your posts would be on it.

There is one.

bucketybuck

mfceiling wrote: »

What do you want from the "new" top gear?

Anything. Anything at all, surprise me, give something a try.

I don't hate the outgoing presenters, but the format was as stale as dried ****e at this stage and I'm gad it has ended, because even if the new format doesn't work at least they tried something.

I didn't even bother watching tonight, had no interest at all and I used to be a massive fan. It just got tired and boring.

irishchris

Brian Scan wrote: »

You like Jeremy Clarkson, I don't object to your saying so. I find him irritating and unfunny. Would you deny me the right to say so?

Strange that you have only 10 posts in less than 6 months and they are ALL regarding your dislike of Jeremy clarkson (and I mean ALL!)
http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=756874&sort=newest

Timberrrrrrrr

TireeTerror wrote: »

I find 100% of your posts irritating and extremely unfunny. If there was a block feature, your posts would be on it.

Erm

There is one.

Brian Scan

irishchris wrote: »

Strange that you have only 10 posts in less than 6 months and they are ALL regarding your dislike of Jeremy clarkson (and I mean ALL!)

I'm not sure why you find it strange.
Would you find it strange if they were all about how much I liked him?

Arthur Daley

mfceiling wrote: »

Can I just ask a quick question to all the top gear/ Clarkson haters.

What do you want from the "new" top gear? Please don't answer with the "at least the 3 middle aged bores are gone" etc.

I enjoyed the rapport between the lads. I just can't see that being replicated by Evans and Co. I'd expect the ratings to plummet when it comes back again.

The cars and the HD production and the sounds of wailing engines on a sunday evening. This programme should be about the cars, all of them from £1,000 ropey classics to multi million pound hyper cars.
It's not meant to be about the presenters. If the presenters are dominant the show is failing it's solid core audience of petrol head enthusiasts.

Mike Litoris

Sad. Hammond looked utterly gutted.

homer90

Pretty disappointing tbh, but it did leave me with a want for a jeep cherokee now..... :pac:

testicle

terrydel wrote: »

It is formulaic **** of the highest order, hosted by 3 absolute tits whose humour is sub schoolyard standard, one of whom is a xenophobic bigot.
It is well produced, no problem saying that, and the Christmas specials that I've seen have been watchable, despite the main idiot presenting it.
I cannot fathom how anyone finds Jeremy Clarkson in any way funny. Hes a modern day Alf Garnett, an embarrassing uncle.
Its the Loaded magazine of TV, presented by cringeworthy middle aged men, I for owe am made up its been put to sleep!

Fück off back to the Antiques Roadshow so...

Chris_Heilong

I really enjoyed the first half, the 2nd half was a bit too long.

Eugene Norman

Brian Scan wrote: »

You like Jeremy Clarkson, I don't object to your saying so. I find him irritating and unfunny. Would you deny me the right to say so?

In general goading in a thread about a TV show you don't like is trolling. i don't like coronation street and I don't post on the threads about it because I don't watch it. And you don't have free speech on the Internet.

Anyway as a card carrying leftist who disliked their boorish humour, didn't give a sh1t about the car review show, forwarded winded the reasonably priced car piss and the bad interviews I will miss this for the specials.

Until it appears in Netflix.

James Delaney

Didn't c d show - may look at it on replay - if its der - No time 4 Clarkson, never had. He thought he was untouchable assaulting a valued member of BBC's Top Gear Production Team- He Played a high "Steaks" game which didn't go to plan.

foggy_lad

Top gear needs to get back to basics now instead of being such utter tripe. Remember when there used to be real wrestling on ITV on Saturday afternoons then it became popular and consumed itself, top gear has done the same! It used to be a real show but became some jokefest operated by clowns.get a few real mechanics and car enthusiasts to do a real show and see how it goes!

James Delaney

Totally agree & at least 50% of show should b devoted to reviewing affordable cars instead of Clarksons toys that not many people can afford - thats not 2say expensive cars should be omitted.
And as for the 3 lads going on their Famous 3 or Secret 3 journeys - that stage production crap is not what I regard entertainment.

testicle

foggy_lad wrote: »

Top gear needs to get back to basics now instead of being such utter tripe. Remember when there used to be real wrestling on ITV on Saturday afternoons then it became popular and consumed itself, top gear has done the same! It used to be a real show but became some jokefest operated by clowns.get a few real mechanics and car enthusiasts to do a real show and see how it goes!

Such a show won't get the ratings. What you're describing is 5th Gear...

Duke O Smiley

The bit at the end, where they said goodbye, that got me in the feels

Nody

James Delaney wrote: »

Didn't c d show - may look at it on replay - if its der - No time 4 Clarkson, never had. He thought he was untouchable assaulting a valued member of BBC's Top Gear Production Team- He Played a high "Steaks" game which didn't go to plan.

He is so valued that he'll be fired within a year as Top Gear shuts down due to poor viewing numbers while the the three stars will be leading a new show to ever greater number of views. What people appear to have forgotten is what made Top Gear was not the cars but the presenters. A pure TV show about cars does not work; there are a ton out there and they are all way to niche which is showing in their viewing numbers.

bucketybuck

Nody wrote: »

He is so valued that he'll be fired within a year as Top Gear shuts down due to poor viewing numbers while the the three stars will be leading a new show to ever greater number of views. What people appear to have forgotten is what made Top Gear was not the cars but the presenters. A pure TV show about cars does not work; there are a ton out there and they are all way to niche which is showing in their viewing numbers.

Actually, what made Top Gear was the production. The classic Top Gear was a triumph of the production team with some great ideas, fantastic camera work and some very intelligent decisions. The presenters certainly played a big part, but they were not the reason for its success.

In my opinion you will see this wherever they go next, people will be watching the 3 lads on their new show and after a few month will start to realise that it isn't the same, that something is missing and will once again start to drift away from watching. There is no way the new show will have an "ever greater number of views". The lads "banter" is not enough.

Sleepy

It was a weak show tbh. I saw a comment somewhere from Andy Wilman that the films used for last nights show "were never meant to carry the burden of being the last" and it showed, they were both middle of the road "filler" episodes. Would have been nice to see them go out on a higher note with one of the great specials where they really achieved something (e.g. getting a jeep to the North Pole, finding the source of the Nile etc.) rather than two very formulaic pieces.

Don't get me wrong I've loved Top Gear but could definitely do without so much of the stupid modifications they make to the cars, the lugging around crap furniture etc. Honestly I think the three guys are at their best when they're off-script and just enjoying themselves playing silly pranks on each other (e.g. spraying Hammond's bike pink in Vietnam, grating the cheese into James's Alfa before a concourse competition etc.)

I did find myself uttering a line I never thought I'd hear myself say: "I want that Peugeot".

EazyD

Brian Scan wrote: »

You like Jeremy Clarkson, I don't object to your saying so. I find him irritating and unfunny. Would you deny me the right to say so?

It's just a bit weird that you would take that much time if your life to announce your hatred for the show and it's presenters. Most normal people ignore things they dislike.

Brian Scan

EazyD wrote: »

It's just a bit weird that you would take that much time if your life to announce your hatred for the show and it's presenters. Most normal people ignore things they dislike.

How much time do you think it took?

I never used the words "hate" or "hatred".

Didn't mean to offend anyone.

Apologies

ohnonotgmail

bucketybuck wrote: »

Actually, what made Top Gear was the production. The classic Top Gear was a triumph of the production team with some great ideas, fantastic camera work and some very intelligent decisions. The presenters certainly played a big part, but they were not the reason for its success.

In my opinion you will see this wherever they go next, people will be watching the 3 lads on their new show and after a few month will start to realise that it isn't the same, that something is missing and will once again start to drift away from watching. There is no way the new show will have an "ever greater number of views". The lads "banter" is not enough.

Andy wilman will be producing their new show as well. The production on the new show will be just as good.

MillField

It was a decent final episode based on the fact that they had very little footage to work with. The end really got me..

Pov06

colmulhall wrote: »

It was a decent final episode based on the fact that they had very little footage to work with. The end really got me..

I thought it was a decent episode too and I was actually delighted to see them doing more "buy a certain type of car for this budget" parts.

I'm not really worried though - looking forward to seeing their new show (Clarkson, Hammond and May).

BillJ

When is this repeated? missed it last night