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But that's just me.
Old old top gear was actually the best - pre-2002. Never aired in Australia, but plenty of episodes on youtube. 5th Gear takes on the same formula, with a few of the pre 2002 hosts. On youtube and Foxtel. It is more consumer focused but that was the aim of Top Gear when it debuted in 1977 - to inform consumers.
In the end Clarkson Top Gear became simply too predictable and boring.
1. Road test a hypercar on a racetrack that noone will ever see let alone afford
2. Have a 'challenge' where things are overly dramatised, or where a series of cars are put through a series of 'tests' that was well outside their design brief.
3. Get a celebrity (a B-Grade UK celebrity mostly) to do a lap in an insipid shitbox.
Some of the races/challenges are interesting but their actual road tests are rubbish and are of limited use to consumers, and its jsut a sea of arty camera work using filters.....
But that's just me.
Yeah, but isn't that the point of it?