Wasn't really a fan of the previous show and after 10 minutes of this, deja vu all over again!!!! Only watched a bit because SWMBO likes Evans on the radio, she soon got fed up it too. Click and off. The car revue Evans writes in the Event Mail on Sunday magazine is pretty poor too. Full of hyperbole and laboured story telling to finally reach a 'telling' point about the vehicle he is to drive that day! Pretty poor stuff and carried over to the TV now. I know it is not designed as a revue platform for Mondeo man, but as that represents the vast majority of the buying public, they could at least try to be inclusive.

Mind you, even the Telegraph Motoring section is not above revueing cars that few can afford. I suspect that if you can afford a Merc S class or a Roller then you wouldn't necessarily get your information from the newpaper. But week after week it is a car very few would consider buying. I wonder who they intend to appeal to? The best bit by far is the Q&A and the superb puns in the headings.

Cheers Concrete

Not a put-down at all. Marks our forum as completely different from Pistonheads, as we always knew it was. There's so much frantic over enthusiasm for performance cars in the mags and on the Internet that it's all gone a bit nuts. Only about three of the blokes who write about these cars can actually afford them. There are dozens of sit-down awards ceremonies at £200 a place setting, which the PRs are heartily sick of but daren't refuse in case their cars get a kicking. Twitter is chokka with posters posting about the latest hot car press trip they went on, which is what the manufacturers want, of course, but isn't exactly journalism. And now we've got Top Gear, Extra Gear and, if you subscribe to Amazon Prime, The Grand Tour. I subscribe to Amazon Prime and can't find anything I want to watch on it until TGT arrives because I can plunder TIVO any night of the week for stuff I do want to watch.

HJ

I think that's what we all like on here, HJ. Whilst I (and I'm sure plenty of others) on here are, or have been, petrolheads over the years, we look at the modern press releases on various cars and put our heads in our hands.

'Churnalism' at it's worst when the reporters just copy/paste what they've been given, typo's and all !

Thankfully rare on here, and you certainly aren't scared of standing up to poor customer service and shoddy quality. Without you, the DSG issues, ford's clutch release problems, BMW and VW timing chains, VW waterpumps, along with lots of other issues, would be a bit of a black art of knowledge, and the average punter far less informed.

One of the others is commonly known as the JLR fan club. When the Jag they had on a group test for a few days broke down (twice !) they still didn't put it bottom of the group test !

Oh, another great thing on here : interaction from yourself. Even to the extent of starting a thread wondering why none of us had started a thread on a subject !

Not a put-down at all.

HJ

An interesting example of how misunderstandings can arise - I interpreted "here", in your post, as where you are geographically, rather than here on this forum. I didn't watch the programme so I can't comment. I never managed to watch more than a few minutes of Top Gear - it was just too "laddish" for me.

The kind of car reviews, which interest me most, are those where the reviewer has spent his own money on the vehicle - owner reviews on here are a good example. I also enjoyed a feature in one of the serious newspapers where they supplied a new car for a "man in the street" to review, rather than a journalist.