Ayman
Active Member
So I've been watching several TG videos on Youtube lately, couldn't help but notice the growing number of Jezza haters.
I am a huge fan of his, and one Youtube comment I did like about him
He is often criticized for :
1) Liking every single British car, because it's British.
2) Telling lies about American cars to make them look worse in the viewer's mind.
3) Trying to link anything that's good to England.
Now, quite apart from the fact that all of these points are highly questionnable, arguable... And even refutable, I find that the issue lies much deeper than a few shallow observations.
First, I'd like to discuss Jeremy's patriotism. I'm not sure since when one's entitled to reproach another for their patriotism, but since people allow themselves to, more and more often, I'd like to clear it up. Objectivity, as a journalistic principle, has never been a guideline of TopGear's... And I can totally accept that. In TG's case, respecting it would've made for rather boring material. I completely understand how Jeremy, or in fact his colleagues might review a British car with a predisposition (Although it's more like a blind determination) to like it and say that it's great. Who wouldn't ?
It's hardly a bad thing. All one has to do is realize that what's being broadcasted isn't necessarily fully true, doesn't make it any less enjoyable if one does so, instead of switching off because they're sick of it.
One top rated comment stated
watering can. It's all utterly laughable.
I could go on forever. But I'd also like to bring up Jezza's relationship with the US.
I've stumbled upon people saying he's thrashed every single American car he's tested. That simply isn't true... When he drove the Corvette ZR1 ...He absolutely loved it as a driving machine, and liked the fact that it's a cheap thrill. But still pointed out that the build quality is aweful ... Which it factually is. He HAD? to point that out, for the European market. It didn't make him any less fond of it though ! The same stands for the CTS when he first took it out on the track.
If anything, I'd say that whenever he tests an American car he really looks forward to liking it. Sadly, they all apparently disappoint. So often that every time he sees a picture of a new one, he labels it as being aweful, simply because it's American.
I truely can't blame him for that. The Americans' standards differ from his, in an endless number of ways.
He's shown on many occasions that he perfectly GETS the American way of making cars. The cheapness of the performance is a caracteristic trait of Muscle cars, and there is a certain throwability about US cars, perhaps due to the very nature of the automotive market in America...
He's a man with opinions... His fortune (by which I mean "luck") has put him in a position where his opinions are automatically broadcasted to other people... Whether or not they like them SURELY shouldn't matter to him, I guess.
This is long enough. Opinions?
I am a huge fan of his, and one Youtube comment I did like about him
However,Understand that Jeremy Clarkson exaggerates to stir controversy. He? is exceptionally skilled at communicating his point, especially when he doesn't actually mean it. Makes for very entertaining television.
He is often criticized for :
1) Liking every single British car, because it's British.
2) Telling lies about American cars to make them look worse in the viewer's mind.
3) Trying to link anything that's good to England.
Now, quite apart from the fact that all of these points are highly questionnable, arguable... And even refutable, I find that the issue lies much deeper than a few shallow observations.
First, I'd like to discuss Jeremy's patriotism. I'm not sure since when one's entitled to reproach another for their patriotism, but since people allow themselves to, more and more often, I'd like to clear it up. Objectivity, as a journalistic principle, has never been a guideline of TopGear's... And I can totally accept that. In TG's case, respecting it would've made for rather boring material. I completely understand how Jeremy, or in fact his colleagues might review a British car with a predisposition (Although it's more like a blind determination) to like it and say that it's great. Who wouldn't ?
It's hardly a bad thing. All one has to do is realize that what's being broadcasted isn't necessarily fully true, doesn't make it any less enjoyable if one does so, instead of switching off because they're sick of it.
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... This was on the GT and GTX1 Fords review. As Jeremy saidha ha clarkson always? tries to make anything he likes british.
The fact is though, criticizing him without providing proof of his lie-telling is as pointless as watering the desert with aI was speaking only yesterday to a guy from Ford and he assured me that this is an all-American effort, although he was forced to concede that the wheels are German, and the brakes are Italian, and the gearbox is British and the body's British and the steering rack is from an Aston Martin Vanquish, and the chassis was set up by a couple of guys from Lotus
watering can. It's all utterly laughable.
I could go on forever. But I'd also like to bring up Jezza's relationship with the US.
I've stumbled upon people saying he's thrashed every single American car he's tested. That simply isn't true... When he drove the Corvette ZR1 ...He absolutely loved it as a driving machine, and liked the fact that it's a cheap thrill. But still pointed out that the build quality is aweful ... Which it factually is. He HAD? to point that out, for the European market. It didn't make him any less fond of it though ! The same stands for the CTS when he first took it out on the track.
If anything, I'd say that whenever he tests an American car he really looks forward to liking it. Sadly, they all apparently disappoint. So often that every time he sees a picture of a new one, he labels it as being aweful, simply because it's American.
I truely can't blame him for that. The Americans' standards differ from his, in an endless number of ways.
He's shown on many occasions that he perfectly GETS the American way of making cars. The cheapness of the performance is a caracteristic trait of Muscle cars, and there is a certain throwability about US cars, perhaps due to the very nature of the automotive market in America...
He's a man with opinions... His fortune (by which I mean "luck") has put him in a position where his opinions are automatically broadcasted to other people... Whether or not they like them SURELY shouldn't matter to him, I guess.
This is long enough. Opinions?