Top Gear to end on surprise high
September 7, 2009 by Matt Brogan
According to Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, the most popular motoring program of all time will finish its run much like any regular episode when the series eventually winds up.
Mr Hammond said that he and his co-presenters, James May and Jeremy Clarkson, have each discussed how the show should finish and believe that ending the series at its zenith, rather than finishing in a “blaze of glory”, or worse still after years of not knowing when to call time, would be the only option suitable for its closure.
The only trouble they have now, each with so many irons in the fire, is deciding when it’s time to call it quits. Let’s hope it’s not too soon.
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I’m totally underwhelmed by the local version
100% with you on that
I think everyone is, maybe they should change the name and format of the local one, stop trying to be like the original.
Yeah that’s right the article is about Top Gear Australia coming to an end…. which is why they have a photo of Richard Hammond – instead of Warren Brown
When the Original UK Top Gear ends so to will the Australian and American versions
NOOOOOOOOOOOO, I would hate to see them go !
Without Fifth Gear on free Tv we’ll be left with local drivel!
Without you commenting on this site we would be left with lots less drivel.
So Allergic to BM, what she writes is drivel and what you write is perfectly constructive and worthwhile to read, is it? You need to read the Car Advice Code Of Conduct. You are currently breaking three out of four of the rules.
http://www.caradvice.com.au/18.....f-conduct/
Alex, you are breaking a rule there also, but is it OK for rich ponses to break rules ?
Oh yeah, facts are facts pal.
Dont you have any friends to play with, god your life must be empty to bother commenting all the time on this site.
Fifth Gear, are you even reading the same article as everyone else?
I think she means, because of the fact that Fifth Gear isn’t on free-to-air TV.
I think there is enough talent on Car Advice to put together a Top Gear style show. What do you think C.A? Should we pitch it to the networks? After TG UK comes to a halt their will be plenty of audience to capture. Maybe we could call it “The Salesman” Of course I will host it. Who’s with me?
I’m with you Salesman! Ah Crap I just dropped my spoon in my Cereal!
Hahahaha NO!
Behave
I hope the show stays around for quite a few years yet.
Salesman, i’ll be a co-presenter. Afterall, it’ll need SOME balance. IT can’t just be about Kias! ;)
or Hyundai…
Yes yes, i know i work for Kia. OK your in as co presenter. You can be the James May of the group :)
Actually, i’m more Hammond’s height ; )
Vance, “Bavarian Missile” is referring to the fact that if Fifth Gear does not replace Top Gear, then there’ll be nothing left worth watching. I for one, have always preferred Fifth Gear to Top Gear. More cars, more shootouts, less learning about what supercars suit Clarkson’s ego.
I agree with Colossal, I liked Top Gear, but Clarkson is a knob end and Tiff was a better car reviewer.
LOL@ Falcodore, Now a Car program excluding Kia would be a good thing!
I hate that tall, skinny guy in 5th Gear. He’s so boring and doesn’t deserve to drive all those good cars. Is he a son of an executive there?
I wish Top Gear wouldn’t end. Clarkson, Hammond and May are the best trio ever. They’re a group of three where no one gets left out. Each has his own great way of presenting, making the entire show hilarious. How are the ratings anyway? I guess this would be the only reason to end it. If people keep watching it and having fun, then what’s the point of pulling the plug?
They will be pulling the plug due to other commitments
I got to agree, if Clarkson wasnt involved in a motoring show, then he would be just another windging pom!!!!!!!
I have been watching top gear for 30 years, why should it end now just because the current presenters leave ? No reason at all.
To Scott T,whinging is spelt this way. I agree that JC comes across as a tool.
Please remember this for the rest of your life, POM generally refers to the first migrants to Aus, so in no way can JC be referred to as a POM as he has never emmigrated, also, this means that most Aussies are actually the POMs, do you understand ?
English people that emmigrate got here under their own steam, paid for by themselves, they didn’t rape anyone nor rob or beat anyone to get here like your great great great Grandfather.
Hope that clears things up for you.
First The Sopranos, then The Wire, followed by The Shield, now Top Gear. What will we be left with? Top Gear Australia, honestly.
This goes for everyone bagging TGA. If you dont like it, dont watch it, its that simple!
Leave it for the people who do enjoy watching an ENTERTAINING aussie car show, and go back to watching those other boring productions where they dont critisize a car for fear of upsetting certain manufacturers.
Problem is Falcodore they take TG UK off to play TG AU. I really tried to like the Aussie version, I really did. They just cant do it.
Anti Spam word – TATA. Just what i would like to say to TG AU……
No one should expect TGA to be as good as TGUK, its just unrealistic.
SBS are currently airing the latest TGUK episodes, and when its not that, its TGA or “classic” TGUK eps. As long as there is some form of Top Gear on monday nights, thats fine by me.
I think there is a very healthy dose of “cultural cringe” when it comes to TGA, which is a shame.
Strange how TGA doesn’t say a bad word about the local, sorry 100% American owned, car manufacturers.
BTW if you find inane drivel from a bunch of halfwits ENTERTAINING you need to get medical attention.
I think top gear is contrived and over rated. I don’t think we will be missing much without it
Well, you wont shane, but please dont speak for me.
With a name like Falcodore you are probably very easily impressed so you probably wouldn’t miss it
Well you dont impress me shane. And again, DONT speak for me!
So when do we turn off the never ending tap from Aussie tax payers mate?
Shane, with a name like that you are probably impressed with prison food, ha ha.
Also, just because a person gives themselves a name doesn’t actually have to imply something about the actual person.( Unless of course you are a insecure sad old lady that needs to tell the world that you drive a BMW )
Indeed do you think that Falcodore drives a car that is half a Commodore and half a Falcon ?
It would be difficult to get that registered for road use.
TOOL
Wake up Realist. Do you really think Australia is the only country in the world where governments subsidise things? Every developed nation in the world has governments that have subsidies for one thing or another.
Get over it mate, you really are sounding like a broken record.