Jeremy Clarkson speaks out against female hosts for Top Gear

[bitkahuna]

thanks for response Emerald!

Originally Posted by Emerald

also, Ive been advised to "keep my mouth shut" about TopGear and its affiliates.

is that because you might get a chance to be on a U.S. version? that would be great!

[mmarshall]

Originally Posted by I8ABMR

What do you think – is Clarkson right or wrong? Could Top Gear benefit from a female voice, or is it better off as a boys' club?

I don't watch tv auto shows (or read auto mags) to concern myself with gender or age. If they get people who know how to review a car objectively (and don't talk a lot of bull******), I personally don't care if they are young, old, black, white, male, female, or transvestite.

I can't help but think of Lisa Kelly, a young (28 year old), blonde (and good-looking) woman who drives big diesel rigs up and down the slippery ice roads in Northern Alaska delivering loads to oil companies on the North Slope. THAT is a dangerous driving job, if there ever was one......and she holds her own with the male truckers.

[Och]

Originally Posted by mmarshall

I don't watch tv auto shows (or read auto mags) to concern myself with gender or age. If they get people who know how to review a car objectively (and don't talk a lot of bull******), I personally don't care if they are young, old, black, white, male, female, or transvestite.

I think you're missing the point of current format Top Gear. It is not a car review show, its an entertainment car show.

[mmarshall]

Originally Posted by Och

I think you're missing the point of current format Top Gear. It is not a car review show, its an entertainment car show.

OK.....maybe you have a point. I don't watch the show much, but I do read Clarkson's Top Gear reviews.

[Och]

Originally Posted by mmarshall

OK.....maybe you have a point. I don't watch the show much, but I do read Clarkson's Top Gear reviews.

You should. The show is hilarious and very un-PC. Clarkson goes to great lengths to make fun of idiot politicians, enviroinmentalists, feminists, ugly people, Morris Marina owners, and he even called the British PM a c word and an one-eyed scottish idiot. He later appologized for the one-eyes and scottish references, as he said they might be offensive to disabled peope and scottish people, but still insisted that the PM is an idiot.

It takes balls to do that

[bitkahuna]

dave barry comments on why men have trouble with shopping lists written by their wives...

http://jewishworldreview.com/dave/barry.php3

[DustinV]

Look! He said something that caught the attention of the media - again.

Honestly, Clarkson bores me. Now more than ever he is striking me as an "attention *****".

[Och]

Theres a huge thread going on the Top Gear forums with TG demotivators. I thought I'd post a few.

[Jetfire]

For regular car review shows, females would be fine. But with the macho, tire smoking, crudeness of top gear, I don't think a woman would fit in well. Jezza, hamster and capt. slow have that chemistry that makes the show great. They insult and harass each other but they all seem like the best of friends...stunted as man-childs.

[mmarshall]

Originally Posted by Jetfire

For regular car review shows, females would be fine. But with the macho, tire smoking, crudeness of top gear, I don't think a woman would fit in well.

Danica Patrick, an young Indy racing driver in her early 20's, could probably drive circles around Clarkson in any machine he would want to name. She would make him look like Granny.

(She recently finished second at Indianapolis....IMO, quite an accomplishment).

Denise McCluggage, another noted female racing driver, could also probably outdrive Clarkson, even up in years as she is now. She still does a regular automotive column called "Drive, She Said".

[bitkahuna]

Originally Posted by mmarshall

Denise McCluggage, another noted female racing driver, could also probably outdrive Clarkson, even up in years as she is now. She still does a regular automotive column called "Drive, She Said".

rofl, i don't think so, she's 82.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565947/

[mmarshall]

Originally Posted by bitkahuna

rofl, i don't think so, she's 82.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565947/

So old people can't drive? Tell that to Carrol Shelby....he's older than that.
And Denise was a racing driver, just like him.

http://www.saac-mcr.com/cs/legend.htm

[Jetfire]

Originally Posted by mmarshall

Danica Patrick, an young Indy racing driver in her early 20's, could probably drive circles around Clarkson in any machine he would want to name. She would make him look like Granny.

(She recently finished second at Indianapolis....IMO, quite an accomplishment).

Denise McCluggage, another noted female racing driver, could also probably outdrive Clarkson, even up in years as she is now. She still does a regular automotive column called "Drive, She Said".

If you watched Top gear more, it's like watching the Man Show but with cars. The show isn't about hitting the apex perfectly or the perfect downshift. it's about destroying caravans and dropping pianos on morris marinas.

Kinda like watching WWF/WWE. You don't watch it for sport of wrestling, you watch it as entertainment. You don't watch top gear for car reviews, you watch it for the stupid humour.

I would take what clarkson says with a grain of salt, the guy just talks smack about everything.

[bitkahuna]

Originally Posted by Jetfire

If you watched Top gear more, it's like watching the Man Show but with cars. The show isn't about hitting the apex perfectly or the perfect downshift. it's about destroying caravans and dropping pianos on morris marinas.

Kinda like watching WWF/WWE. You don't watch it for sport of wrestling, you watch it as entertainment. You don't watch top gear for car reviews, you watch it for the stupid humour.

I would take what clarkson says with a grain of salt, the guy just talks smack about everything.

great post. top gear is the monty python of car shows.

[1SICKLEX]

Originally Posted by bitkahuna

great post. top gear is the monty python of car shows.

It is entertainment, it works, they have novel competitions and the 3 different personalities work.