I'm going to echo some of what Shelly said:
Cheap Car challenges - Don't really care all that much about the scoring as long as its taken semi-seriously and not used as an excuse for an almighty piss take and there has to be point to doing said challenge
Any car related challenge like the 24 hour race or Jeremy's trip to Scotland on a single tank of gas - I miss some of these challenges where the presenters take are car to see how well it performs under specific circumstances. Again there needs to be some point to the challenge.
Star in a Reasonably Priced Car - I don't mind seeing big names on the show, but I would prefer that they were actually interested in cars and not there simply to promote something
The Cool Wall - Bring this back please! I liked the intelligent arguments regarding how cool or uncool a car is and why...
Above all else, cut the overly scripted nonsense and fooling around. I don't mind the funny stuff, but I don't want to see it coming and it needs to be natural. The presenters have become caricatures of themselves, which is rather irritating to watch. I don't like watching them being stupid for the sake of laughs. Just because it has become mainstream doesn't mean it has to cater to idiots who wear their y-fronts backwards.
I never saw what they did or said in the Cool Wall as remotely serious, to me it was just Jeremy being Jeremy and Richard and the audience having fun while trying to have their input.
I too miss some challenges such as the economy race to Blackpool and the 800 mile trip in one tank, they had a point to them indeed.
As for the clowning in the news I like it as it has been in recent years, if it still makes me laugh, which it does, then that's fine by me. Again, if I want seriousness there are tons of articles and videos on the net available for anyone to grab. To me, wanting TG to be serious or do stuff with a real point to them now is like wanting modern cell phones to go back to physical keyboards as they were
years ago and for them not to have youtube or apps or something.
TG has evolved just as has modern technology, it's not necessarily worse, it's just different.
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