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Who's the best Top Gear presenter? (POLL)

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Who's the best Top Gear presenter?

  • Jeremy Clarkson

  • Richard Hammond

  • James May

  • Jason Dawe

  • The Stig

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makken said:
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He'll drive a Honda Civic Si (Type R) and say it's a blast to drive, which it is. He'll then get in a 500HP Corvette and say it's a pile of shit. The Corvette destroys everything in a straight line but it doesn't do very well in corners.

There was one or two episodes where they were in the US and hamster was driving an American muscle car that does nothing but straight lines. Hammond says he likes the muscle car. Clarkson thought it was dreadful.
 
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ShawnD1 said:
He'll drive a Honda Civic Si (Type R) and say it's a blast to drive, which it is. He'll then get in a 500HP Corvette and say it's a pile of shit. The Corvette destroys everything in a straight line but it doesn't do very well in corners.

There was one or two episodes where they were in the US and hamster was driving an American muscle car that does nothing but straight lines. Hammond says he likes the muscle car. Clarkson thought it was dreadful.
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As he said, his affair with the Corvette ZR1 was "a holiday romance".

I understand why. The seatbelt guide on the driver's seat broke, the body feels cheap/plasticy, and the window-into-the-engine-bay is just a gimmick.. not a view of the craftsmanship. I understand it's to save weight, but plastic isn't hard to assemble so it doesn't flex so much. Other car manufacturers do it all the time.
 
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ShawnD1 said:
He'll drive a Honda Civic Si (Type R) and say it's a blast to drive, which it is. He'll then get in a 500HP Corvette and say it's a pile of shit. The Corvette destroys everything in a straight line but it doesn't do very well in corners.

There was one or two episodes where they were in the US and hamster was driving an American muscle car that does nothing but straight lines. Hammond says he likes the muscle car. Clarkson thought it was dreadful.
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corvettes handle just fine

clarkson is an asshole when it comes to anything american in general, hes been coming around some

his story of his short trist with the ford gt is humorus
 
Zargon said:
corvettes handle just fine

clarkson is an asshole when it comes to anything american in general, hes been coming around some

his story of his short trist with the ford gt is humorus
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Clarkson is an asshole about every country in the world, that's his shtick.
 
uh, i don't think clarkson ever knocked the corvette's handling. i'm sure he's aware that the faster C6's are track beasts.

but he probably knocked the RIDE, which is completely not the same thing. even a base C6 rides like fucking trash and, as a daily driver, it'll rattle itself apart in 20k or so, tops, i'd say. concrete ride + still terrible interior (no, adding some fugly baseball stitching to random places does not make it better) = most annoying daily driver ever.

clarkson likes RWD racecars. just not ones sold exclusively to fifty-year-old businessmen.
 
Zargon said:
corvettes handle just fine

clarkson is an asshole when it comes to anything american in general, hes been coming around some

his story of his short trist with the ford gt is humorus
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In the episode where they each picked a car to tour the US with, he complained about low speed limits and then made a joke about them getting even lower at certain points. Brits had no idea that the sign he was showing was a suggested safe speed and not a legal speed limit, as he presented it. Speed limit signs MUST be B&W. A yellow or orange sign is a notification or suggestion (slow, caution, turn, etc).
 
zsdersw said:
As he said, his affair with the Corvette ZR1 was "a holiday romance".

I understand why. The seatbelt guide on the driver's seat broke, the body feels cheap/plasticy, and the window-into-the-engine-bay is just a gimmick.. not a view of the craftsmanship. I understand it's to save weight, but plastic isn't hard to assemble so it doesn't flex so much. Other car manufacturers do it all the time.
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He also said it was worse in practically every way compared to an Audi R8 V10, yet he would still probably buy the Vette anyway since it was a more entertaining car to drive.
 
brblx said:
uh, i don't think clarkson ever knocked the corvette's handling. i'm sure he's aware that the faster C6's are track beasts.

but he probably knocked the RIDE, which is completely not the same thing. even a base C6 rides like fucking trash and, as a daily driver, it'll rattle itself apart in 20k or so, tops, i'd say. concrete ride + still terrible interior (no, adding some fugly baseball stitching to random places does not make it better) = most annoying daily driver ever.

clarkson likes RWD racecars. just not ones sold exclusively to fifty-year-old businessmen.
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Thats why I like him. I love RWD. Flooring it in a car with front wheel drive makes me sad.
 
Clarkson makes the show but it wouldn't be the same without any of them. If I had to chose one of them to sit next to at a dinner party, it would be Clarkson.
 
brblx said:
uh, i don't think clarkson ever knocked the corvette's handling. i'm sure he's aware that the faster C6's are track beasts.

but he probably knocked the RIDE, which is completely not the same thing. even a base C6 rides like fucking trash and, as a daily driver, it'll rattle itself apart in 20k or so, tops, i'd say. concrete ride + still terrible interior (no, adding some fugly baseball stitching to random places does not make it better) = most annoying daily driver ever.

clarkson likes RWD racecars. just not ones sold exclusively to fifty-year-old businessmen.
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Hah, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Hell I see C5s regularly that look just fine inside, and they have more than 100k on them, usually the only thing you can notice is fading on some knobs and cracking leather seats if they haven't been well cared for (hot as shit in Texas during the summers).

The base C6 doesn't ride like trash at all, it doesn't rattle or creak, and it's not harsh. The Z06 is as stiff as you'd expect, given the performance specs it pulls out of the hat, but that's a completely reworked model. The GS even gets good reviews for comfort and daily-driver friendliness.

But that's okay, I've seen you troll GM and Vette constantly. You're not exactly an authority on the subject at hand here. We all have our biases though. I'm probably the last person to ask about Audis or VWs for example, I just don't like them very much. But hell, I'd rather have an M3 than a Vette, but I'm not going to just make up ridiculous FUD about the Vette just because my personal preferences lie elsewhere.
 
Pariah said:
He also said it was worse in practically every way compared to an Audi R8 V10, yet he would still probably buy the Vette anyway since it was a more entertaining car to drive.
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Hmm. The R8 V10 is about $50k more expensive, and is notably slower and a ton less powerful. It remains my favorite Audi though, and of course you see 1000 vettes for every R8.
 
My vote is for May. I've watched a ton of his stuff outside of Top Gear and as a presenter, he could do a show about paint drying and it would be awesome. His wine/drink shows were great, Man Lab is a pretty good and the toy shows he's done are just awesome. With all that said, if any of the three were to be replaced Top Gear would not be the same at all.
 
I like them all for different reasons, which is exactly why they were picked to work together as a team to create the dynamic that has become successful. I only picked Jeremy because he is funny and so un-politically correct. I actually like James May the best because of his quirkiness but he is the quintessential Brit when it comes to what I have come to know as the British sense of humor. I also think he may be the smartest of the bunch.
 
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