I won't say I thought this was a bad episode, but I think that when the SIARPC segment is more interesting than the rest of the program, there is a problem. In fact, it is the only thing preventing me from saying that the episode is on par with the India Special needs episode.
The news part was good, was current and a decent combination between joking around and serious bordering on heartwarming regarding Michael Schumacher's accident.
My main complaint with the used car challenge is not that it was silly/staged with obviously planned stupidity. It is with the fact that they actually didn't prove what they said they were going to prove. To prove something they needed to have a modern car(s) to compare theirs against, as far as I saw, they didn't. It was just the guys buying 3 used cars that were on their last legs (no budget mentioned either), then destroying them. This was truly sloppy work and the whole team should be ashamed.
There were moments in the show that made me laugh, it wasn't all bad, but there is room for some badly needed improvements. The guys don't need to act like jackasses to be funny.