BBC's Top Gear Review

November 19, 2011 | Article Posted By - Flashychappy, Auckland

If you fall into the category of an extreme automobile lover, whether that vehicle is a truck, caravan, race car, motorbike, family car or any other means of transport like a hot air balloon then the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Top Gear Television series is the show to watch.

 

Even before you contemplate what I am about to say, let me first ask.  Do you have a ridiculously quirky and offbeat sense of humor?  Can you handle ridiculously correct but sometimes skewed vehicular facts and figures?  Have you checked your lungs, rib cages, tear ducts, voice box and throat for mechanical soundness?

 

If you can answer yes to all of the above then it is time to meet its triple presenters named Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond along with a very competent test driver called “The Stig”.  There have been three Stigs since the show was re-launched in 2002.

 

A new series started in late June 2011 and the more than 350 million people in more than one hundred and seventy countries from all over the world get locked in and glued every week to their television screens to see what these seemingly serious and totally offbeat presenters are going to let their producers rope them into next.

 

As for file sharing, I am one of the more than 300,000 viewers who download the episodes and keep going back to YouTube to watch them over and over again, laughing until I cry and my ribs hurt just like if I’m watching the episodes for the first time.

 

There are little boys (or girls!) in all of us that identify with the roar of powerful engines, the gloss of new paint on a super car or any car, the nostalgia of an automobile that was the hit ride of our childhood and teenage years. 

 

On Top Gear these vehicles undergo rigorous testing, insightful analysis and painstaking punishment.  The goal is to critically examine and provide some conclusive evidence deduced by deliberately guided but twisted reasoning on the foresight or lack thereof of that particular vehicle’s manufacturing team at the time of production. 

 

This show provides an overall education on the joys and pitfalls of an evolving automobile industry.

 

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