THE DEFINITIVE Top gear Skoda Yeti thread!

[Freshacre]

This whole top gear frenzy, the endorsement by his J-C-ness, the fluttering petulance of some, the increase in height of others - it will all be forgotten about in a few days... ... ...

It might even be that, as Warhol put it, the Yeti has had it's fifteen minutes of fame. And they were during the program!

[Terfyn]

No- Wheelbase was a cure for insomnia. TG is a national institution and a huge earner for the BBC and I enjoy it hugely. But because I have car anorak tendencies I also read the serious stuff like Autocar for the important facts (which are rather dull for a mass audience). If JC drives a Yeti whilst eating an ice cream in a burning building on private land for a TV stunt Ithink that is JC's concern. I will confess to eating ice creams myself - in season. Is it illegal ? Cripes.

Ok so you like TG but it has very little to do with everyday motoring or with providing useful information on everyday cars. That is why it suits anoraks and is less useful for serious drivers.

As for eating ice cream - try it while driving past a cop car and test the theory.

[Trekker]

Trekker (is that anything to do with captain Kirk).

I think you are seriously bonkers or are taking the pi55. This programme is not about the 10 silly points you have highlighted, people watch TG because it is a thoroughly different and entertaining programme and not a boring litany of a particular cars vital specifications. Might I suggest that you take out a subscription to the "Engineering Approach to Modern Car Construction" I am sure you will find it sufficiently moribund.

My forum name has nothing to do with captain Kirk, more with enjoyment from treks and adventures.

I was not making fun, I was quite serious with my post. Therefore you must believe me to be bonkers!

The list of detailed features/tests I outlined can not be regarded as 'silly' unless the person watching the program has no real interest in a cars capabilities and features.

Top Gear is what is, but is not was what it was. Now it's a show with a-star-in-a-reasonably-priced-car, cool-walls and nonsense from the nonsensical. The masses believe it to be a better format than that from the 1980s, I for the minority strongly disagree. But we're all entitled to our opinions and of course, we respect eachothers points of view - I would hope!

I don't really mind Top Gear being what it is, I just wish there was a serious car test programme for the minority like me who really would like to know key features from a car without having to look up manuals, or find the time and place to find the correct environment to test the various features eg, the cabin noise of a car at 75 MPH can be too loud on the worst of the road surfaces, so the car tester should include this test with record decibels and his/her subjective noise feelings in the report to save the viewer having to find the right dealer within the right area of the appropriate bad piece of dual carriageway! And there are so many other tests like those I listed which need to be done by a car programme to save serious car buyers from so much work. This is the whole point!

I wonder about doing it myself and posting the 20 minute video car test reports on YouTube...

[EdmundBlackadder]

The masses believe it to be a better format than that from the 1980s, I for the minority strongly disagree. But we're all entitled to our opinions and of course, we respect each others points of view - I would hope!

I suspect most people on here are relatively serious car people, why be on it otherwise, but I have certainly accepted that the days of TG doing serious car reviews are long gone. Whether it is a better format or not I don't know, personally I would say no, but ratings dictate and the BBC will not change it whilst it is still making them lots of overseas money and bringing in the viewers. I think there is space for a serious show and a silly one but at the moment there is only a silly one out there. Whilst that is the case you have to ride the wave and accept what comes out. I'd like football teams to have their shirts numbered 1-11 so we can go back to having famous number 9's but I accept those days are gone, can you ever see a book titled famous number 27's? This review was the nearest you will get to a pat on the back for the Yeti and Skoda should be pretty damned happy about it.

[Bassa]

Couple of behind the scenes videos here (apologies if it has already been posted)

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2011/01/23/video-behind-the-scenes-at-the-first-of-the-new-series/

[Shifty]

I haven't used this forum on a regular basis for about 2 years. It's changed let me tell you. Things do change, like Top Gear, they evolve. One has to embrace these changes or move on and get on with our lives not waste time complaining about it.

The Yeti that so many of you drive has been brought to the WORLD'S attention. That HAS to be a good thing right? Good for the forum, good for Skoda, good for 2nd hand prices. Not so good for waiting lists maybe, but you can't have it all good.

I will never understand the mentality of anybody who doesn't like a show yet still watches it only to complain about it. Or Daily Mail readers.

[MartynVRS]

I will never understand the mentality of anybody who doesn't like a show yet still watches it only to complain about it. Or Daily Mail readers.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Edited 25 January, 2011 by MartynVRS

[900000]

I will never understand the mentality of anybody who doesn't like a show yet still watches it only to complain about it. Or Daily Mail readers.

+1

[eccleshill]

I will never understand the mentality of anybody who doesn't like a show yet still watches it only to complain about it. Or Daily Mail readers.

But are you sure they watch it? Or are are they making their judgement based on what they "know"(!!) was in the program?

Daily Mail never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[EdmundBlackadder]

Ahhhh but that is so British. Remember Mary Whitehouse?

[Terfyn]

I will never understand the mentality of anybody who doesn't like a show yet still watches it only to complain about it. Or Daily Mail readers.

I watched the show ONLY because the Yeti was on it - I normally have better things to do. Whats the Daily Mail?

Did you know that the Sad Trio are planning to rob a bank in Albania - Why? To test getaway cars. They even borrow a gun (unloaded) from a local policeman. I cannot contain my indifference.

I read that well known spelling mistake the Groniad

Edited 25 January, 2011 by Terfyn

[K1W1]

Jeepers it was interesting to read through the anti Clarkson and anti TG generally vitriol earlier in the thread.

Over here in Australia TG rates very well and there is nothing like the sort of negativity towards the presenters that you guys seem to have. Here we see the show for what it is - three larrikins having a great time destroying other peoples cars and having fun doing it whilst getting paid a huge sum of money. What right minded guy who likes cars wouldn't give a testicle to be paid the money they are to have the fun driving and damaging the exotic cars they do? Be honest. If you want serious info on cars you don't watch TG, everybody in Australia knows that. If you want some fun and a change from repeats of Two and a Half Men or dreary Pommie murder mysteries you do watch TG.

I just watched the Skoda Yeti episode on the web (not shown here for another week or so) and it will do more to sell Skodas in Australia than all of Skoda Australia's marketing efforts in the last three years (since they launched) have to date.

[mellyboy]

This whole top gear frenzy, the endorsement by his J-C-ness, the fluttering petulance of some, the increase in height of others - it will all be forgotten about in a few days... ... ...

It might even be that, as Warhol put it, the Yeti has had it's fifteen minutes of fame. And they were during the program!

Don't forget T/G Is shown on Dave what seems like constantly, also i presume other countries watch T/G, also i player ,would imagine end up on you tube ,so me thinks the Yeti has a few more minutes of glory left yet.

[flippence]

Question,

How many would have watched TG if it had not been for the Daily Mail. Being a Daily Mail reader I am not sure what is meant by comments above.

Seems I will have to back order a Yeti due to greed of some Dealers. £2k less for new than 1 Year old of same spec. Supply and demand you may say rules but in 6 months who know,s not prepared to be stuffed for short term I have.

[Dodgy]

The Daily Mail has a reputation for reactionary news headlines, anything to stir middle England. You know, immigrants are taking our jobs, that kind of thing.

[prodata]

Question,

How many would have watched TG if it had not been for the Daily Mail.

More or less everyone who watched it I imagine - it was quite widely trailed across the media beforehand and was shown in its usual time slot.

And my commiserations for being a Mail reader.

[Dodgy]

http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/

[fluffmeister]

See, you where all getting your knickers in a twist over nothing ....... Clarkson likes the Yeti, ok he would not buy one, but he likes it.

Top Gear is the only thing on TV worth watching imho, and I love the anti-establishment un-pc ramblings of Clarkson, he is a character and the world is a better place with him in it.. If half of you that are complaining ran the BBC I would be paying my license fee for repeats of Murder she wrote and the live edition of what slippers magazine, along with hard hitting documentaries like "Sanitary towels, do they really improve your roller skating".

I like my weekly dose of motoring anarchy, if you don't, hit the off button.

[fluffmeister]

My forum name has nothing to do with captain Kirk, more with enjoyment from treks and adventures.

I was not making fun, I was quite serious with my post. Therefore you must believe me to be bonkers!

The list of detailed features/tests I outlined can not be regarded as 'silly' unless the person watching the program has no real interest in a cars capabilities and features.

Top Gear is what is, but is not was what it was. Now it's a show with a-star-in-a-reasonably-priced-car, cool-walls and nonsense from the nonsensical. The masses believe it to be a better format than that from the 1980s, I for the minority strongly disagree. But we're all entitled to our opinions and of course, we respect eachothers points of view - I would hope!

I wonder about doing it myself and posting the 20 minute video car test reports on YouTube...

Firstly, Live long and Prosper

You make a valid point, but if I want that kind of information, then the internet is king, honest john, parkers guide, forums like Briskoda, magazine web sites will all give you the information you seek in bucket loads, and on demand, if you need to know the kerbweight of a Matra-Simca Rancho at 2.30am when you should be asleep or watching porn, then the internet will provide that for you.

What Top Gear does is entertain, and it entertains like no other program on TV imho..

[lok]

Here is the video (22:00 - 39:00 minute is Yeti )

http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-uk-season-16-episode-1_2192556.htm

Edited 25 January, 2011 by lok

[robmawer]

Clarkson likes the Yeti, ok he would not buy one, but he likes it.

IIRC he didn't say he wouldn't buy one, just that he wouldn't be trading in his Merc for one...which you can kind of understand.

[fluffmeister]

IIRC he didn't say he wouldn't buy one, just that he wouldn't be trading in his Merc for one...which you can kind of understand.

True ... true, poor observation on my part

[grayson]

Ok so you like TG but it has very little to do with everyday motoring or with providing useful information on everyday cars. That is why it suits anoraks and is less useful for serious drivers.

As for eating ice cream - try it while driving past a cop car and test the theory.

I am not remotely intersted in watching TV about useful information on everyday cars.It would bore me to tears. I read the serious stuff about trick supensions because I am in the tiny minority which is interested - but I watch TG to see supercars being thrashed and daft tatooing stunts . It;'s not about usefulness but about entertainment. And I shall curtail my Magnum habit next Summer..

[eccleshill]

See, you where all getting your knickers in a twist over nothing ....... Clarkson likes the Yeti, ok he would not buy one, but he likes it.

Top Gear is the only thing on TV worth watching imho, and I love the anti-establishment un-pc ramblings of Clarkson, he is a character and the world is a better place with him in it.. If half of you that are complaining ran the BBC I would be paying my license fee for repeats of Murder she wrote and the live edition of what slippers magazine, along with hard hitting documentaries like "Sanitary towels, do they really improve your roller skating".

I like my weekly dose of motoring anarchy, if you don't, hit the off button.

Hit the nail right on the head Fluffmeister!!

BTW you missed one off your sig - silly hidden push button parking brake - you haz it

Edited 26 January, 2011 by eccleshill

[Agerbundsen]

Here is the video (22:00 - 39:00 minute is Yeti )

http://www.streetfire.net/video/top-gear-uk-season-16-episode-1_2192556.htm

Now that I have seen the show - from the link above, as BBC do not let these things out on the internet outside the UK, I can only say this:

What a daft bugger he is, but whichever way he chooses to express it, he does seem to like the SM.