On 2006-09-21, Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
> Well, I have to say I thought the caravan sketch was hilarious. And it did,
> in amongst the slapstick, have an almost-complete list of "things the novice
> can screw up", all the way from selecting a too-feeble tow car down to
> setting fire to the van.
The problem I have with such things is not just one I have with top
gear, and it's the freeform mixing of truth with fiction. Some of us
can spot the fakery quite easily but most people who spoke about the
caravan sketch to me didn't spot it was fake. Their lap times on the
test track are also taken as gospel by some, a chap I know was
involved in recording the test times for the "Radical" track car they
did some time ago. The recorded time was posted on the board in front
of the studio audience before the car had done the track as the
weather had been too bad for it to get a run so they just guessed a
time and filmed it when they could.
Then of course there's the horrendous simplification, the overdone
enthusiasm about yet another shopping trolley with a fat engine
"handling like nothing else" etc etc etc
I think I'm getting old ;-)
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