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Top gear rules, its great watching the Stig as he screams around a track to set a quick time, Clarkson as he bags out everyone who doesnt own a merc or a ford gt ;) Hammond as gets the stunts that no one else takes i.e getting electrified in car or becoming a icicle in norway and who can forget Capt slow as he always finds slowest car on earth. Lets save Top Gear :)

i honestly think that i may be one of top gears youngest female viewers.....i started to watch when i was nine and i am now thirteen...if top ear was axed something on a sunday night wouldnt seem right any longer.....it makes my week and we are lucky that HAmmond is good and well after the crash......i dare say if it is axed that the bbc would be the WORST programme broadcasters in the history of the world........ill be so sad if it goes.......id hate it if it happened....it wouldnt be right ....Top Gear is funny yet informative....entertaning whilst being good fro car geeks 8D......so sad if it goes.....

in answer to comment 6001 what wrong with being an eco warrior if you are one your either 65 or an idiot ., the subject of amazon rain forest go and bother china and japan they are the worst poluters in the world by far ok pumpkin!!
top gear do not axe top gear do you at the bbc want people to get a tv licence or not you got to put good stuff on if you want people to watch it.
you dont have to put reality rubish on the trio are grate, jezza is the man hammond is great and so is may., they do ground breaking record breaking stuff like takeing a car to the north pole to axe top gear your not only axing a show but you axing years of motoring memobilia, whoever said axe it wants sacing so sack him put the good stuff back on the tele and get your ratings back ok stop putiing im a celebrity rubbish and britains got not talent and stuff like that on and put what we the public want to watch you fools!!! the rival fifth gear is rubbish and we all fall asleep i have evry episode of top gear on dvd a shame if theres no more a crying shame!!!

Don't drop top gear, but please get the presenters to stop acting like idiots all the time and secondly, go and review some cars for a change.

Destroying an already highly damaged rainforest for entertainment purposes is in my opinion, inexcusable. It isn't the first time either - they have also been accused of scarring the African plains in Botswana and destroying a large part of the ecosystem on some mountain in Scotland. I at first thought it was staged, but clearly not.

And what's wrong with being an "eco warrior"? At least some of us give a care about the things that matter, and not materialistic ideals that a TV programme represents.

The show is funny (though I find Clarkson obnoxious), but seriously? It's not a car show anymore. It's not remotely informative and I think even the entertainment value is sliding ... the episodes all seem to be the same, some "race" to somewhere. They need a new (preferably more creative) writer and Clarkson needs replacing! I don't understand how people can be entertained by the same thing over and over again.

As a CaravansTV show producer in the UK, I just wish I had the kind of budget to do what these guy's do, good content make good telly, together with the best editing skills, makes this programme superb to watch - and that's why they have such a massive following . . . . . . OH Yeh, and the cars are good too !

I think Top Gear is one of the best programmes on the BBC, and it gets better all the time. I thought this particular episide was also great, and thier world wide decleration for hating Caravans continues Brilliently, a reputation they need to keep up ! . . . . . .Even Though I own a Caravan myself.

I have seen many websites now, all basically saying the same things, all complaining about the same stuff in regard to Top Gear and thier on screen adventures being fake - Does it matter if the whole thing is staged ?

I't s all about getting ratings, and the best way for the BBC to do this is by entertainement, and that's why they do what they do, to entertain us, it works - and they know it . . . .Top Gear used to be boring - No longer

Keep it up Guy's !

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accidents do happen!

Anyone who likes Top Gear shouls get a f*ckin life!!! It's food for the stupid, retarded mob.

it is the best car show yet

I'll slit my wrists if they axe top gear.
besides that i'd just like to know what the hell is up with the fifth gear ad, ripping off hammond and clarkson by portraying them as old men in wheel chairs and referring to them as "old men who should know better". Tiff is just as old as clarkson. seing that fifth gear ad gave me a different perspective of fifth gear and i more than likely will never be watching it again. hammond is well now and congrats to him on his speedy recovery!
peace

What happened to the guy preceeding mr.May,Did he resign?

Just wanted to say that we so enjoy the Programme and the hosts are ridiculously entertaining! We can sit down as a family and spend some relaxing time being informed and having a chuckle too. It is so refreshing for us to have such quality english shows on TV in Australia, being chronically bombarded with American broadcast these days. As far as the unfortunate event with the gorgeous Richard Hammond, it was an accident which is part of the risk factor with motor sport. Thankfully he is making great progress, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE continue to support this wonderful show! Kindest Regards, Caterina Hester, Sydney Australia.

Top Gear is a factful learning programme for people who are inetrested in cars, it has no affect on how people drive and what they make theyre car look like. I drive a renault Clio with stripes and tinted windows. is that a chavmobile?? did top gear make me do it , the answer is simply NO. I am a car fanatic, i love cars, i like to watch top gear to learn about new cars and see how they perform OFF THE ROAD, plus watch Hammond occasionaly Blow up caravans. The only kind of people that dont like top gear are ECO-warriors that should all be shot as they drive around in eco friendly cars and have a grudge against people who actually enjoy driving.

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On the 23rd September 2007, on BBC Prime between 19h00 and 20h00 London time, and again on 26th September 2007, on BBC Prime, between 19h34 to 20h34, South African time (GMT +2), BBC Prime broadcasted the program TOP GEAR XTRA. This program featured an item called "Make your own fuel". A bowl of used vegetable oils was mixed with a chemical, something resembled "white spirits, or white vinegar or turpentine" not sure at all what it was. This mixture was then "rested" to "cure" for what I think was to be 4-hours, after which it would be put into a diesel vehicles` fuel tank, in the clip on TV it was a blue Volvo, to be used as fuel to drive the vehicle.
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I don't think that top gear should be axed or toned down because its the only entertaining car programm on t.v. its the only car programm that competes with motorcycle programms.

fab show good presentation team ,love the bitchin. a show not to be missed .so hammond cant drive,lets see him take his test again .one to follow on the show perhaps maybe stig could give lessons. its abetter show than the mundane team on 5

I live in Africa and we love top gear - I even watch it. Please do not take away the only thing we can enjoy !

Ok so lets all be insulted and offended by others that don't immediately pre-cure to all our well thought out and manufactured point of views. Lets blame TV for accidents on the road and say it part of the problem. No. Idiots are the problem, and that it human nature.

We are animals. Pure and simple and true.

I am an animal. Fast cars and power excite me.

Jet propelled menaces excite me. I have a fast car (although not jet propelled).

Kudos to Hammond, he did nothing more dangerous than having a shower and washing himself with some unusually slippery soap.

Hurrah for Top Gear!
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Why in heaven's name would the BBC axe one of the most popular shows out there? If they axe the show it would be no better than cutting their own throats. Whatever they do the popularity and the idea of the show will not die with Richard Hammond James May Jeremy Clarkson. They will merely move onto greener pastures and continue the legacy that is TOP GEAR. The name might change but the idea behind this awesome show will never die as long as those three men find new cars to talk about. It is a matter of not knowing what you have until it's gone if the BBC decide to axe the show. Clarkson has been at this car video game for years it won't stop because a show gets axed. Upper management at the BBC have to learn to have fewer brain farts and realize what they have with Top Gear.

the first comment is utter rubbish are you mad people love topgear bbc should not axe it who pays there wages if TG does get axed i will not watch bbc 1,2,3,4 again

In actual fact the critics complain only because there's an accident, however top gear does a lot of issues on road safety, car safety and legislation when it comes to driving so for people to say the show is wrong is out of order. Becuase someone is outspoken or does not match the status-quo. If they don't keep the show i am seriously questoning the paying of my T.V licence as it's the only thing worth paying for instead ofthe constant influx on the BBC of news ZZZZZZZ (boring) and politics which is even worst politicians are well full out of it. If the show gets scrapped the BBC will be losing out both lucratively and emotionally i am disgusted they have pushed this as faras they have give the BBC a kick up the backside (naughty people).

top gear is a piece of pure fun which allows people to escape from the montony of life. i feel it benefits viewers academically as it informs them all about horsepower and speed!

if the BBC get rid of it i will refuse to pay my licence fee. i will go to prison but i will take this risk in the aid of TG and TG dog which will be butchered if top gear is axed.

save our top gear. it rules man.....yeah!

Instead of being old men playing "Jackass by remote control".

Could we please have an episode where Jeremy Clarkson gets mucked with a sledgehammer and run over by a Perodua Kelisa or even better have him testdrive his own favorite cars outside Bashra, Iraq.

I know that he have been ripping the BBC expenses account during a Bentley Testdrive in Dubai... So he like it warm. Woohaa.

I hate the show, doing efforts and being carefull myself to not to dammage nature too much, and he's just destroying new cars... Great how he destroys nature and supports a throw-away-society.
Not to speak of the fact that he's been insulting maleisian people, and that he promotes non-ecological driving.

For these people who want top gear to be axed........... You people must be the same stupid morons with nothing better to do then complain about tv commercials. Grow up, get a life or go and walk in front of a very fast train

a great program for all car enthusiast cant get enough. the bbc could lose this program to another company if they are not careful.
regards
ivan catchpole.

y shud top gear be postponed?! Im am only 13 an i tink that richard hammond is samller than me! butthats not his fault is it? just like its not his fault he crashed. from wot i heard the tire exploded noe that is sod all to do with ricahrd hammond or the cars handlin (lol) an i tink u r sick blamin rick for the accident! bloody a$$holes all of ya! (part from the presenters an the ppl that tink it shud stay on lol)

Is top gear coming back for a new series or not. Clarkson has apparently (I haven't seen the article) siad in his Sun colomn that there is no chance Top Gear will be coming back for a new series. However teh BBC seem to suggest it will

Does anybody know? Has anybody seen Clarkson's article? I would be devasted if the programme didn't come back as it is the best on TV.

what can I say just to shock and as my Husband has commented we do not miss Top Gear EVER we really enjoy it and were very worried when the Hamster had his accident but It was in a roadstar not a average car so we will never drive one.

It is fantastic to see the three back together again and hope that richard H just keeps on getting better.

as a few of the other comments been made there is a chanel changer or a button to switch off the tv if you do not like it or just do not agree i sugest you switch it over or off do not destroy the enjoyment of thousanda of other people .

I say Long Live Top Gear. it is to good to axe.

top gear has always been such a good informative programme and very nice to see a programme that is not frightened to say what it thinks of cars and what the general public will get when buying certain cars, it is also good light entertainment and very nice to see prsenters that gel so well. It would be a great loss if it is axed.

enjoyed very much by myself and my wife Lisa who is also interested in cars.

top gear has turned into a comedy rather than a car show hiarious !!!!!!!

I don't think that Top Gear should be axed. My personal opinion is that it is utter drivel (Clarkson in particular is pretty obnoxious), but we all have the choice to watch something else. If you don't like it then vote with your remote control.

It does strike me as ironic, however, that the glorification of cars that takes place on Top Gear bears no resemblance to the reality that most of us have to deal with: traffic jams, pollution, parking problems etc.

At the expense of being called "sad", a "loser", or whatever by the 'petrol heads', I do feel that cars have been a victim of their own success. In the past they were perfect for giving us mobility and freedom, but we are increasingly becoming slaves to them. We rely on them for even the shortest of journeys, journeys that could easily be made on foot, bike, bus, train etc.

When you add in the undoubted environmental cost of our car-obsessed ways (energy expended on manufacturing them, noise and exhaust pollution) not to mention the 3000 people per year killed in or by them, then I think we need to take stock of where we're headed.

why woul u wana axe top gear

What is wrong with these people??

If you don't like Top Gear, then flick over and watch Heart Beat (Something more sedate).
If you don't like the format, watch one of the Sky motoring programs, that suits your taste.
I find the show highly entertaining, and personally enjoy the humour at the expense of those who are "anti car".
I also drive a 4x4, as i live rurally and require to cross country, and deal with various floods, and i too have to suffer the extorinate TAX, and the wighning fools who want to poor paint stripper over it, every time i enter a town.

Thank god for top gear, sticking up for the motorist!

What people probably don't know is that he took more than 4 or 5 runs. It was more like 15 or 20, maybe even more - but this was not well disclosed. You run a car that fast that many times without changing the tyres - it's gona go AWOL eventually.

I suppose it's OK for adults to behave like kids. If they keep regressing as they have done in the latest series, I guess we'll we see them in nappies soon. However, this show would best be aired before tea-time for three-year-olds.

TOP GEAR! Well seriously what is all the fuss about? Hamster knew the dangers when he decided he wanted to go for it after after several attempts!! His choice, thankfulfully he came up of it relatively ok. The 3 man team are back together again, giving us information about all types of cars, mainly! They make a damn good job of it too!! Week after week they make most of us laugh! What I think the Top Gear producers should is stop coming with brain dead schemes like the one a few weeks ago. I coin a phrase "This is a hick town!!" Now can the person who thought up something as STUPID as that task, answer this question. WHY? They have guns in hick towns, and they could have got shot! They were real lucky it was only stones they got hit with. Which I might add as nothing to do with what Top Gear is all about! I don't know how the three of them felt, including the film crew. Keep to what top gear is known for, and that's not visiting the the US, and taking the P*** out of mindless people who don't have a brain. Now had they been hurt we'd all be saying, what a shame. Jeremy, James an Richard, you should set that person a task on the show for us all to watch! Please!! Do you think he or she would like you payback!? Glad to see you back RICHARD!

Top Gear is the best thing TV has ever come up with, Only Fools and horses comes second. Tv is about entertainment and factual information, Top Gear produces both - well :).

The responsible way the serious items are handled is great and the remainder is about 3 completely different boys playing with really cool expensive toys that arn't theirs! The stunts always seem to have controlled environments so where's the problem?

The problem is that some people don't like others having fun anymore.

As long as we have a main mode of family transportation around can we keep Top Gear? I hope so...

Top Gear is a very anti-American show and should be banned from American air ways.

Let's ban cookery programmes to prevent all the lard-arses asphyxiating themselves with pies and lining their arteries with butter.

Then let's ban gardening programmes. Only tw*ts watch them.

Health and safety is taking over teh world. Soon we won't be able to go anywhere because we'll all be wrapped in cotton wool. Jezza said it in one of his books and its true. You can't do anything remotely dangerous anymore. It sucks

And please oh please... did absolutely none of you notice that --> Nothing happened to the tree when the Toyota pick up truck crashed on it!<--??? It still stood there proud and gorgeous, showing how strong both it and the car are.

If Clarkson was the mindless road-rager many say he is he could tie the truck to a towing machine companies use for crash tests, tow it right on to the poor tree at 100 mph. Both of them would be blown to a buzzillion pieces :P

Yes I know that would be wrong and I'd be completely appalled if someone did that :P:P:P

So we should ban action and adventure movies, motorsport and stand up comedy right? WRONG! I find the mindless and profusely enraged critics of Top Gear complete and utter ->hypocrites<-... People who utterly fail to see and address the root of the problem of road rage and irresponsible driving. They fail to see the immense stupidity of blaming a television programme for the lack of common sense into some people. I especially despise, on that matter, women columnists/self-righteous activists/feminists (who have forgotten completely the true ideals of feminism) who all they babble about in their writings is how these are connected into men and how dangerous young men are (generalisations are wrong, period). They themselves are blind to this logic by their bad temper and fascistic conciousness of everything being outside their taste is wrong and the people who support them are evil and inconsiderate.

Sir/Mam it is within your rights not to like Top Gear, a programme full of entertainment, but it is far away from your rights to try to impose your not liking to me, a person who enjoys watching motorsports, drifting cars, screaming V12s and gurgling V8s, for these are my personal tastes which I share among many viewers of Top Gear. And guess what, I'm a sane enough person to know that speeding in public roads and driving irresponsibly is a crime.

So why don't you go check on the education system? Have you even considered that putting a bit of trackday sporty driving lessons for those interested in the requirements for getting a driver's license would reduce the yearly traffic accidents to a flat bottom? Why? Because all those who crave speed out of primal instinct would know how to perform it and know first hand the dangers it encompasses, how to control it and know first hand that it should only be done in tracks and controlled environments. This kind of people would know it first hand, therefore apply it, instead of hearing you, the raging boring joykiller, saying it without anything to back it up.

What I would agree is that BBC should include in its schedule another motoring programme, this one toned down and more informational. Made interesting I'd watch both, one to learn and the other to entertain myself, laugh, smile and stand in awe.

About the environment? It is NOT Top Gear's responsibility to show concerns to the environment. It is that other programme's that unfortunately does not exist, or isn't well known enough to be available to the general public. But let me set an example. Most of the self-righteous activists around posting against Top Gear pretty much adore the Toyota Prius. A friendly to the environment car. What they wouldn't care less to find out is that it has more CO2 emissions and a worse highway and mixed-cycle consumption than almost ANY Diesel sedan from the VW/Audi, Daimler Chrysler, BMW, Toyota, Honda and Ford groups... Where did I learn that? Top Gear, by Jeremy Clarkson himself, who first pointed it out and then I went on and checked it. This example therefore pretty much, in my opinion, shows the hypocricy involved in the activists against top gear

Logic... something both mindless irresponsible road ragers AND politically correct self-righteous activists don't have.

P.S: I apologize for the long post, you are entitled not to read it if you are bored :P

i think he got what he deserved doing things like that when he is a family man he wants to grow up a bit i think as for top gear it wants to grow up as well revving the guts out of the thing,squeeling tyres etc i suppose it makes them feel big & all thatwith them showing off it aught to be shut down after that rediculous stunt health & safety should use their powersthey would if it wasnt television