Dear BBC
No, simply no.
I'd like to pay to watch Top Gear (and my money wouldn't always be well spent anyway), but I want quality and value.
I could buy some DVD from Amazon, and I could have two recent seasons (19 and 20) for 1,4-1,7 euro per show (or more, if the Nile special is not included...). But they would already be 1/5 years old. Or more, for earlier seasons. And this is assuming Amazon wouldn't tell me the DVDs can't be shipped from the UK, which is not improbable (I'm not going to pay 20 euro for the France version if I risk having them... in French... and I'm surely not going to pay anything for the italian idiotically crap version)
I would like to pay 1,5 euro per show, to be able to download them (not watch them in streaming, but download them) in HD the day right after it aired in the UK. (hey, it's what I'm used to now, can I pay for that?) Why not, after all? I'm not going to pay anything for the italian ultra-cut and dubbed version, no matter the price. No way, BBC, I'm not going to let you or your italian commercial partners swindle me with that crap).
Besides, what I'm asking would almost be costless to you...