jakeroot
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I made a couple gifs of my favourite faces on tonight's show...
The P1 is a fantastic car, I'll still have a Veyron.
Top Gear... all the "Hail Britain!", "silly Americans" and "brilliant British engineering" stuff.... Please, just stop.
You don't live in the greatest country in the world, your countrymen didn't reinvent the wheel, and you don't live in the only country with intelligent people making clever, new designs (and America isn't entirely populated with stupid, fat, ignorant yokels.)
I LOVE Top Gear. Always have, always will. I also love, and respect, great Britain. But the British cheese has been laid on real thick this week...
This episode really pissed me off.
"[The P1] is a game changer; a genuinely new chapter in the history of motoring."
Really, Clarkson? It's literally a Prius. But this time it's British so he likes it.
"Murica" ey?
Given that I have to listen to all the American crap about built in America. Murica!??? all the time a bit of British Engineering worship is fine. Granted I'm not convinced about reliability of some English Marques but given the amount of crap I've heard from Americans on stuff...
Lets not forget America Nationalism worship is in Movies/TV Shows/Music constantly and quite frankly its old. There's always some flag waving around in American shows or some Soldier worship or some built in America means its good stuff, so lets name a few programs that do this. American Chopper did it alot... constantly. It's always some sort of homage to some American this that and the other, then there's Overhaulin' which has gotten worse on this they seem to pick out preachers/soldiers/celebs and sometimes the odd guy who deserves it and theres always a "Made in Murica?" Murica? is best. Fact is you're watching a British TV program about a British Car made by a British Company Mclaren which is a British Formula 1 team with huge amounts of success and given that the last time they made something that mental was the Mclaren F1 its kind of a big deal. F1 motorsport is seen as the pinnacle of engineering design and the P1 is a culmination of the engineering know how which has been distilled to produce something absolutely mind blowing, you have to forgive me for asking what do you expect? A little "Britain is great" is nothing compared to its negatives and its not like they don't moan about whats wrong every week.
Just because the only other countries that could produce something as Brilliant are Germany, Italy and Japan. (Thinking GTR / LFA) only because the GTR achieves a lot for its price/weight. I mean you might point out the ACR Viper but thats not quite a road vehicle of the same standard.
They showed 'Muricas' supercar on the show's news section - The Corvette something or other which frankly I think looks absurd. I know for a Fact that GM has one of the biggest wind tunnels in the world and has lots of material on how to do suspension etc etc but it's pure Murica? ostentatious brutish and brash. What works in Europe is not the same as what works in America and it has to look gordy gopping and chromed up to the hilt with built in Murica? to appeal to most rednecks.
Top Gear is about the only program I've seen thats done a bit of British Engineering Worship. I will mention one other fact.. not all the Engineers are British so banging on about nationalities of cars is truly pointless and a tad nationalistic (which I also think is pointless). It's an Amazing car and for it to come out of Britain which has lost a lot of its car manufacturers and be one of the fastest things around is quite an achievement.
So why are you complaining? Top Gear USA is pretty damn good IMO, though Tanner seems to be sponsored by Ford and all Adam waffles on about is how good American stuff is they do exactly the same thing as the British presenters. They're all going to be biased all the time.