He just wants to drive FAST without getting nicked and that vantage looked the dogs nadgers!!

I'd tune in for Top Gear if it featured the slow, tortured, self-inflicted demise of Clarkson.

Apparently he isn't allowed to drive at 100mph endangering the lives of other road users in this country. It's a disgrace, poor thing.

Can't he just f**k off then (please)?

I'd forgotten all about it.

Better get the mirror on the bedroom floor again.

He's okay as long as he just limits himself to cars. His political rantings are feeble and if you pick up and flick through one of his books you think you're reading the work of a someone who's been in a straight jacket locked in a rubber room for 40 years on severe medication. They've stolen a pencil and scrawled on the walls of their cell and somehow it's been published.

Having said that, he did T@ Piers Morgan.

Didn't know that. He's gone up in my estimation.

I've never gotten into the top gear thing. I'll decide for myself what car is or isn't "cool" and I certainly won't take advice upon what's "cool" from someone called Jeremy.

But more massive spiders!!

Having driven a BMW 3 Series for the last 9 years I'm apparantly a T0$$er anyway (which may or may not be true depending on who you ask - my wife right now would probably say true - hopefully she'll be in a better mood when she gets back from the cinema with the kids, but I suspect not).

Fair enough - I'm no sun worshipper by any means and I probably would miss the changeability of the British weather. Living in Melbourne would be my ideal scenario as conditions are more variable there. Still, there's a lot of air conditioning in Australia these days which makes their summers a lot more pleasant than ours.

On the food front I also cook 90% of my food but the raw ingredients are on the whole better in Australia - especially fish and fresh fruit. And then there's the locally produced wine... Wins out easily for me. Each to their own though

I struggle to see any car as "cool." They don't really go much beyond "functional" and "comfortable" for me. A higher top speed is no use to me either, since I've never reached anything like the top speed on the car I've got. I did hit 100 late one night on the M1 once, shortly before realising what a d1ck that made me and slowing down again. I have since grown up a bit (not a lot mind you, just a bit). I also prefer driving smaller cars as it provides more leeway for my abysmal parking skills.



Me and our Jeremy are probably never going to get on.

She hasn't gone to Cardigan Fields has she?

I don't see Top Gear as a car programme. It's 3 mates, having a mid life crisis, messing about on TV each week. Sure there's cars involved, but they're almost an irrelevant part of the show these days. If you want opinions and advise on regular cars then 5th Gear is much more the show for you.

As for Clarkson, I prefer it when he's not talking about cars. His rants at politicians usually come from the motoring angle as well, so I take them with a pinch of salt. He's much better when he's making serious documentaries. The one for Greatest Living Britain on Brunel was a fine example, as was the show about his father-in-law, who won the VC. The only time he's come remotely close to this on Top Gear was at the end of their American special, when he layed into Bush and his administration about what they found in New Orleans.