Nah it was about 5 years ago it became a joke.
It was a great program and had about 3 series that were fantastic and then they realised that it was being watched not only by grease monkeys but also by alot of teenagers and women and millions of people that had no real interest in cars other than as a form of transport.
So they looked for the ingrediant that made it this way and found that the "humour" and the challenges and blowing up caravans and such like was what people obviously wanted. Instead of keeping the balance they had they turned it into some light entertainment show which I personally find insulting to my intelligence to watch these days.
A race across Europe, one in a Veyron and two in a plane?
Fantastic idea.
Make us believe that they didn't realise they would have to take such indirect routes in the plane and stopping about 5 times before the whole race ends in a foot race down the BBC studio corridors?
Call me miserable or whatever but thats just daft. If they did this sort of thing once in the series it would be funny but every challenege ends like this and it ruins it fo me.
