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Originally Posted by concorso  - If youve bothered to watch any Top Gear, you'll see that they bash all countries and brands. They've had episodes dedicated to saying how horrible British Leyland was and how shitty Mercedes has become. If you think theyre hard on the US, you should hear what they say about the French, Germans, Australians, etc |
...and you ought to read some of his non-automotive columns as well.
Clarkson is an entertainer. He's often fast and loose with fact. But he usually comes around to a halfway sensible point.
The brilliance of TopGear as a show is that it is
not - like so many supposed US car shows - just guys pottering around in test cars reciting comparative statistics, or worse still reading copy about their advertisers' products that sounds an awful lot like it'd been written by the vendor. There's nothing less meaningful about how, say, a Yaris relates to a Mini - or a Gallardo relates to an F430 - than knowing that one's 0.4sec quicker 0-60.
The show also has had an interesting relationship with the nannies that run the British nanny state, some of which was seen in the fallout from Hammond's 280mph dragster crash in 2007.