Is it just me or have they tried to trim down the amount of time it takes to promote the competition for winning the prizes? Tiff seems to be talking a bit faster and they seem to spend less time on it in general. I think that's a good thing but it's still just too long. All that stuff they have to say, by law, about the call costs and when the competition closes and shit... It just eats up too much time. Back when they just basically gave away a car it was much quicker to get through it all but now they give away the lap with Tiff and the... other things, I dunno, I don't even pay attention. Point is, it all eats up too much time.
I like the segments with Tiff vs Jason. I like the way they get along and seem to be friends yet still remain competitive. It's way better than the phony/possibly actually real bitterness that seems to be shared between the presenters of
Top Gear. Man, that gets on my nerves, the way they argue like fucking children and pretend to hate each other and the way each of them is given a car to test throughout a three-way test and they have to pretend to hate the cars that the other two are testing. Anyway, enough about Top Gear. I like the way Tiff and Jason do the segment but enough already with the Mercedes-Benz C-Class with the 6.3 badge and the BMW M3 and enough already with drifting. I know it looks good on camera but it's
stupid. Nothing is learned from it and it's basically just another waste of time, especially sinse most cars don't even lend themselves to drifting, like any FWD car or that well-balanced BMW for example. Drifting is just so 2009.
I liked all the rest of it just fine. I really like Viki, I dunno what you guys problem is with her. Leave
Brittney Viki alone!!
Also, I am from Northern Ireland so I liked that segment just partly for the fact that they filmed there.
The Bentley sucks tho. It's chintzy and vulgar and too old now to even be noted as relevant. It's always just been a big, expensive, shiny toy for wankers and now now that it's old and we've seen it a bunch of times... ah, who cares?
The Bit with the Skoda was good, I'm liking Johnny more and more these days. i wonder if the issue with the tyre could have been avoided if they switched out the stock Dunlops for something
good?
I don't mind Ben Collins. I really very strongly dislike Top Gear and the people affiliated with it who had a hand in turning it into the pile of shit it is now so I don't care that Collins stabbed them all in the back, frankly. I would have preferred the chest but the back is fine. But anyway, that segment wasn't very good. 8 point something seconds is not a particularly fast pass. There are much, much faster dragsters out there. And in addition to that, he doesn't seem to be a very good presenter, at least not yet. He sounds a bit.. I dunno, dry? Boring? something like that. At least he seems natural tho! Jeez, I hope after they read our comments they don't direct him to the point where he sounds like he's coked up mental patient with the over excitement.
EDIT: He seems fine in the bits they've filmed live on the spot or whatever but it's the voice-over that seems dry and like he's reading it off a page... which of course, he is but... it's not supposed to seem that way.
Anyway, I enjoyed it overall and I'll give it... I dunno... a 7?