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Top Gear - in the good old days

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wingman:
Do many people remember Top Gear as it used to be in the 1980s?

Chris Goffey and William Woolard doing lengthy, serious, earnest reviews of bland middle-of-the-road hatchbacks...  Coverage of motorsport such as the BTCC and the good old Lombard RAC Rally somewhere in Telford...  Tony Mason going out and patronising some female rally drivers...  No audience, no Stig, no test track, no sarcasm, no caravans, no supercar racing, no jokes, and maybe once a series - if you were lucky - they'd maybe get a sports car along as a special treat?

Funny how things change...

Oh, and they had a great Elton John track as the closing title music:  "Out Of The Blue".

strapping young lad:
if they kept that format i would imagine top gear would have been axed

people want to be entertained, since the advent of the internet enables you to read and view reviews online now.

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "strapping young lad" ---if they kept that format i would imagine top gear would have been axed
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They did, and it was...

Eeyore:
Yes, because lord forbid we might actually want some informed motoring comment!  :lol:

Cheers
 8)
Eeyore

carbore:
Do you remember that serious faced blond woman who fond it impossible to talk about a car without saying "safety features". They put her in a race once and she cried, now compare that to Penny rally driver  that used to be on C4 driven (more class than Vicky BH IMHO)

Also Chris Goffey who used to present it is the father of one of the members of the band Supergrass (and thats not a wikkipedia fact, its a propper one!)

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