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5th gear.

Postby EATMYPLASTICARSE » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:47 pm

Is it me or has 5th gear turned into a pile of poo?, last few years ive really enjoyed this show along with top gear but now...........its crap!!! :cry:
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Postby peterg » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:25 pm

Its trying too hard to be Top Gear..its never been very good, but now its embarasingly bad....still watch it cause its got cars on it!!!!
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Postby Alpineandy » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:11 pm

It's never been good, but now it's really poor.
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Postby clivebawden » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:33 pm

We've just been talking about fifth gear at work. It's embarrasingly awful. The two main presenters Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tim Whatshisname are dreadful. I try to watch it because its one of the few programmes about cars, but I have to keep changing channels when it gets too awful to watch!
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Postby peterg » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:17 pm

I think they will axe it in time.....Tim whatshisface also presents some Sunday lunchtime prog on BBC1 and he's wooden on that too. As for VBH.....she isnt nearly as good looking as she thinks she is but she is as annoying as most people I know think she is!!
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Postby jules » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:39 pm

5th gear used to make me laugh, do they still do that "we're in the office with the gang having a bit of a debate" bit? the faces of the folks behind them told a different story for sure ;-)
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Postby EATMYPLASTICARSE » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:30 am

clivebawden wrote:We've just been talking about fifth gear at work. It's embarrasingly awful. The two main presenters Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tim Whatshisname are dreadful. I try to watch it because its one of the few programmes about cars, but I have to keep changing channels when it gets too awful to watch!


You are all so right!!, that Tim bloke knows sod all about cars and was even to crap to drive the GT40 around a race track!!!!!.........what a pussie. should be nothing but Tiff and Jason and lots of fast cars 8)
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Postby eastlmark » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:34 am

jules wrote:5th gear used to make me laugh, do they still do that "we're in the office with the gang having a bit of a debate" bit? the faces of the folks behind them told a different story for sure ;-)


No, its all filmed in the Ace cafe these days!
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Postby eastlmark » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:38 am

EATMYPLASTICARSE wrote:
You are all so right!!, that Tim bloke knows sod all about cars


Never stopped William Woolard making a career out of presenting car programs. For 20 sodding years he always reffered to a "roll (over) bar" as a "anti roll bar"
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Postby Alpineandy » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:46 am

EATMYPLASTICARSE wrote:what a pussie. should be nothing but Tiff and Jason and lots of fast cars 8)


Although they're both good behind the wheel, they're both rather wooden (JP much better that tiffany dell) and Tiffany does have very 'catholic' tastes, whilst JP is better but still a 'new car so it must be better' attitude.

VBH is quite good behind a wheel but she clearly feels she's totty when she's really a plain girl with a masculine body.

I'm afraid I can't watch more than 2 mins of an episode now before changing channels to watch anything else (the last series had a 5 min 'endurance' factor).
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Postby rupert » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:04 am

I almost never see it but came across it the other night whilst station swapping... to see some hairy boke looking at the new Freelander.... which amazingly is bigger inside and out than the old one!!

Couldn't I go to the dealer to find this out? Sooooo dull....
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Postby peterg » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:11 pm

The hairy bloke is the best presenter!! At least he is mildly amusing and natural...and doesnt think he's gods gift!
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Postby clivebawden » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:14 pm

I think the 'hairy bloke' is Tom Ford and I agree with peterg he's one of the better presenters. However, there was an amusing moment in one of the previous series where he was offered a drive in a supercar (I can't remember what it was) at the Goodwood festival (I think) and he kept stalling it off the line. He had to give up in the end! Embarrassing!
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Re: 5th gear.

Postby BIG_MVS » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:02 pm

EATMYPLASTICARSE wrote:Is it me or has 5th gear turned into a pile of poo?, last few years ive really enjoyed this show along with top gear but now...........its crap!!! :cry:


I agree utter shite!

Bring back Quentin Wilson all is forgiven!
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Postby EATMYPLASTICARSE » Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:30 am

clivebawden wrote:I think the 'hairy bloke' is Tom Ford and I agree with peterg he's one of the better presenters. However, there was an amusing moment in one of the previous series where he was offered a drive in a supercar (I can't remember what it was) at the Goodwood festival (I think) and he kept stalling it off the line. He had to give up in the end! Embarrassing!


I may be wrong but i think it was that wounderful Maserati Bird Cage car, i saw it at Goodwood and it was a thing of beauty. And yes how embarrassing was that.........anouth to make you cry or wish that you could kick him out and show them how its really done!!, what a doughnut that man must be...... a hairy doughnut for sure.
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