Why this show sucks, 7 September 2005
Author: bregund from San Francisco
How can anyone watch this program, the hosts are smarmy, pretentious windbags with all the charisma of used car salesmen.
When they're not showing cars screeching down a racetrack, they're desperately mining the live audience for laughs. I couldn't care less about their personal likes and dislikes for the cars they "review", their opinion means nothing to me, but that's exactly and frustratingly why this show sucks so much.
They should just show the cars themselves, under the hood (or bonnet), the chassis, the undercarriage, slow panning shots of the interior, the instrumentation, the trunk (or boot), the tires, etc. Instead, they take each car on a race track and say what they like or dislike about it. BFD, I don't care about their opinions, just show the god damned car. The consumer is never going to drive the car like that, endlessly screeching around a racetrack, but that's all this show is ever about.
What are the body panels made of, how does the stereo sound, what is the quality of the leather upholstery, how bad is the road noise, what are the expected maintenance items, where is the car built, how big are the brake rotors; absolutely NONE of these questions are addressed and you learn nothing about the car. When I watched the sour old dude who looks like he sucked a lemon drive the Maserati, I know even less about Maseratis because of his "review", if that's possible.
And I wish they would keep that god damned camera still, it's always tilting at crazy angles, upside down, sideways, flicking by too fast; they should let the camera float slowly over the car so that people can appreciate it, instead of jerking by so fast accompanied by that idiotic gay disco music.
It's a mystery to me why anyone likes this crappy poisonous show and its useless hosts. Jeremy Clarkson should be bagging my groceries.
