I missed the first 10 minutes of Top Gear, so missed what Clarkson had to say http://www.saabscene.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif .

Anyone care to fill me in? Thanks.

Clarkson didn't drive it - Richard Hammond did, and they turned it into some stupid 'lets drive enviromentally friendly' article - the car he was driving was irelavent. When he did mention the car itslef, he seemed to be sugesting that its not as individual as previous Saabs.

Look on the Top Gear website, it tells you just about everything that was said on tv - and thats not a lot.

Top Gear is now just an entertainment show - not a program to actually tell you anything useful about any car you possibly want to buy. Unless that is you're stinking rich then you will be treated to article after article concerning very expensive and fast cars, nice once in a while, but a bit boring week after week. http://www.saabscene.com/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Rant over.
Vince

Thanks Vince.

Should have guessed really. However Clarkson did put Saab in the Cool side of his Cool/Uncool chart (unless it's a diesel)

Didn't miss anything then.

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I was going to say I missed Top Gear. Although I did not see it, it sounds like I did not miss it afterall

Vince is spot on. It is pure entertainment....a bunch of adolescents taking the niss out of environmental issues, the government, crepe cars etc. Good clean juvenile fun but nothing to do with a motoring programme.

And probably not doing the motorist any good as it lowers the debate to schoolboy levels and the valid points get washed away in the laddish banter. BTW is Hammond really only 13 http://www.saabscene.com/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif ?

Any offers who Stig is? He and the guy from Lotus were clearly the only people with any real clue how to drive .

Bill

[quote] BTW is Hammond really
only 13 ?QUOTE]

No, he's actually only 11 - he's in the same class at school as my son.

How he gets away with driving on the public road defeats me. In fact, how he passes for 11 defeats me too because the trash he comes out with on TV is about as sensible as a 5 year old.

As for the Saab review - what a waste of time. They should have run the 93 round the track instead of the Lotus.

Just more indifference to Saab

Top Gear has just become a chat show for JC.

why hammond ?
had to find someone that did not outshine jeremy !!
as you say its the jc show...

Let's face it- it's been a long time since Top Gear did anything approaching a balanced, fair and unbiased review.

Once you accept that that's the case, and you're not watching a serious motoring review programme, you can sit back and have a bit of a laff at it- OK some things are completely stupid- like the video camera on the bus lane, but there' also fun bits- like JC getting really hacked off 'cos the Lotus driver could drive and he coudln't. Oh, and of course, last week's classic where they nicked his SL and got Stig to put it round the track. Haven't had such a good chuckle in ages...

Any offers who Stig is?[/b]The first time I saw him I just assumed it was Damon Hill - Lordy knows why - I thought it was just a one-off, not an ongoing thingy. I know they're mates - he has also guested for Clarkson in the Sunday Rupe's Driving supplement. Don't think they could afford him every week, but making him anonymous like that would be one way to make sure a real driver doesn't upstage Mulletloaf (my new name for Clarkson - like Meatloaf with a mullet).

As to the Saab feature - well at least he had nothing nasty to say, and was quite complimentary (Mulletloaf even had to accept it has 5-stars in NCAP, having said in the Sunday Rupe that the Laguna was safer ). And they basically agreed it's another car, whereas Saabs used to be quirky - well haven't we all been saying that for the last five months anyway?

Have to say I was amused that Mulletloaf said, whilst drooling over the Elise, "It does ONE pause HUNDRED pause AND THIRTY FOUR pause MILES AN HOUR pause for our gasps of amazement".

Funny how he didn't mention that the mundane old Saab does 138....

I saw it too, and also thought it was cr4p as the car was irrelevant within the context of the environmentally friendly tosh. I'm also less than keen on the new format hence my poll in the Car Park:

Car Park Poll on 5th Gear / Top Gear (http://www.saabscene.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000312)

I agree with Bubbles - it's entertainment - not a serious motoring show.

The pistonheads website reckon that Stig is a Frenchman called Nicholas Minassian, whoever he is.

They did say on Top Gear a few weeks ago that it was a French Driver.

Originally posted by sgould:
The pistonheads website reckon that Stig is a Frenchman called Nicholas Minassian, whoever he is.[/b]I think he used to race F3000

Simon.