One of the best shows on television right now is Top Gear. You can watch it on Cox channel 345 Monday evenings at 8:00PM. If you have a different service provider or aren't in SD it is wherever you will find BBC America.
Things that make Top Gear great:
1. The Stig. A mysterious unknown figure who test drives all the cars. Presumably played by various professional race drivers. Always introduced with a funny turn of phrase. When the identity of the first Stig was found they had to kill him off the show by him accidentally crashing a car off the end of an aircraft carrier!!
2. The presenters, Clarkson, Hammond and May all have very distinct personalities and they are allowed to show them and basically verbally abuse each other. In the indirect, dry British way. The POV shots in the cars when they provide commentary provide priceless insights.
3. If a cars sucks they say so. But with the most beautiful cinematography of ANY show on ANY network. Truth and beauty combined.
4. Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Celebrities and personalities from the UK are invited to take a lap of their test track in the same car. And lap times are kept and a leader board established. Humbling to watch some of them drive sooo horribly. And who knew Simon Cowell and Gordon Ramsey would be so fast? Watch and you will!
5. The challenges. Who is faster through downtown London at rush hour? Captain slow in a compact car or a pro marathon runner? What car for 1,000 pounds can be driven the furthest across Africa? Can you drive a Bugati Veyron across France faster than a Cesna 172 could fly across it? And so on and so on. Pure craziness and great fun.
So check it out!!! They have their own website, www.TopGear.com , they have a Wikipedia entry, search it on Youtube(none of the vids can be embedded or i would!). Go to the Lotus forum at www.lotustalk.com and find the mmmmmmmassive Top Gear thread in the forum. You will be indoctrinated. And hooked.
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