Agreed, Chris Harris and Rory Reid segments were great. I hope to see them more often on the main show.
Chris Evans needs to loosen up on the star interviews. The format of letting guests read lines from a screen, asking the audience which car picture is cooler, all that just feels forced. Why not have just one guest? Is someone at BBC forcing them to cram more celebrities on the show to achieve viewer ratings? I hope they’re just doing it temporarily to populate the scoreboard.
Technically using the N word if you are not African-American is classified as unacceptable. If you bothered to screenshot 4chan, you could probably do the courtesy of doing a quick MS Paint job of covering it up.
I find this rather ironic: saying the forum is keeping you from insanity and then pulling a stunt like this.
@strop Covering it up is pointless, it just doesn’t belong on this forum. We’re all about cars here, and racist/misogynist comments or photos need not apply.
That said, if I see something like this again, I myself am going to have to take a break from the forum. I would hate to say or do something I might regret.
Oh yeah, good point. I got so caught up in the issue of the word itself that I completely forgot to consider the racist nature of the comment as a whole.
And that’s what the real problem with “Political Correctness” is.
while he may did, he also did a lot of things that did not sit well with the wider audience. so i really don’t feel sorry for him too. especially because of the reason he quit, and assuming you also read jalopnik, you know what i mean
[quote]Top Gear presenter Chris Harris has landed his own international show on
the BBC just days after his co-presenter Chris Evans quit the BBC2
motoring series.
Harris, a motoring journalist and presenter who was one of Evans’ first
hires when he took over Top Gear from Jeremy Clarkson, will front a new
show called Chris Harris on Cars, based on his popular YouTube series.
The seven-episode series debuts in the US on 11 July
[/quote]
Personally, Chris Evans and Chris Harris were terribly cringy for me: Evans made those (aforementioned) ridiculous comments and harris was just overly excited ALL THE TIME. Matt Le Blanc had a certain swagger to him and Sabine is pretty funny.
My only real complaint about Sabine is that she seemed overly stiff in and out of the studio, and her script wasn’t exactly the best.
No. Thank you. Alex from carthrottle is cancer (Both as a person and as a presenter and a car guy (And I’m using the term lightly)), thanks but no, it would be awesome only if he presented a show for kids, wearing a clown costume.
That’s your opinion though. Just like some amount of people see clarkson as a douchebag because of news about him off camera. That’s subjective. For me he’s pretty entertaining, never made me actually laugh, but not bad
Imo, alex replaces hammond, jason from engineering explained replaces james may and keep chris harris as the clarkson would be a relatively fun bunch. And realistic since they already know each other
@squidhead@koolkei That’s actually quite interesting, because it depends on what we want from top gear. TG from season 1-4ish was informative (to some extend) and then became pure entertainment (the last seasons were completely man-childish) so in that regard, Alex from carthrottle could fill the role (although I’ll admit that an hour of him could get tiresome and annoying).
Jason it’s cool, but he is not that entertainment… his jokes makes me cringe sometimes xD
Alex from CT --> Hammond role (man-child, always energic)
Alex from Carfection --> May ('cause he seems to be the more refined of the bunch)
Chris harris --> clarkson role
But hey, that’s my opinion, I don’t want this to get scalated
The guy is more focused on his biceps than his presentation skills. He half-asses his builds and tells how great it is. He treats his cars like crap (Nobody spills coffee in an e36 m3 Vader interior on purpose, nobody uses cheapest possible worst quality spare parts on an M3), he ABANDONS his project car instead of towing the thing to the nearest workshop in Germany (and with the CT community finding a spare bay is a simple matter), and after all this he does not OWN his screw ups and accepts kids money pledges to him to fix the car (A man can fix his mistakes himself, a good car guy does not make such mistakes in the first place). He is also so much “in your face” with Phil Collins that I started to think he likes the guy only cause Jezza likes Genesis. Oh and every interview he does he just shoves his damn ghetto build mx5 into people’s faces. He makes me cringe hard. He is the reason I’ve ripped CT sticker off my car.
Pretty much he has to milk every opportunity he has to make content (even if that means to self-destruct his builds for future episodes), as a bunch of other youtubers. And I’m sure he just created his youtube persona, a person with that character can’t really survive in real world (the same goes for some presenters, that are not the same irl as their characters in shows). Although (and I give this to you) I read somewhere that there is a reason why he is not mainstream famous and why he was kicked out from an automotive journal or something.
That’s all I’ll said about that subject. Don’t want to be in an argue where not matter what I said I’m wrong.
