Cars & Girls

Oh how I wish they would open a compet­ition for a new female presenter!!!!

It’s so frustrating because like you say there IS a world where women are just as passionate & enthu­si­astic as men about their motors and keeping the ‘female-​​ness’ to Fifth Gear is just as lame.

Having shown car’s for year’s I’ve seen more & more number’s of women who are becoming very serious about the art of ‘car’s’ in general!

Believe me Jezza…when you ask me about car’s, I don’t only know what colour it is — lol.

Whats wrong with making it a bit fairer…just please please please no ‘eye-​​candy’ that’s been ‘taught’ how to discuss cars/​engines/​mods/​performance etc

We live in hope

What about the German lady that punted the Transit van around the Nurburgring? No mean feat in a car, let alone a van, better at driving than Clarkson? Vicky Butler-​​Henderson is okay, why doesn’t she count?
I’m a woman and I love cars and I have rebuilt my own classic vehicles myself and I also ride a motorbike. It does annoy me about the lack of credible women presenters on Top Gear, but I would have a problem with, as you say, some bit of eye candy reading some well-​​rehearsed lines. But you can’t tell me there isn’t someone out there suitable — it is 2009, surely things must have moved on by now.

I find it inter­esting that Steph Savill has a real issue with the so called “brolly dollies” yet signs off with “FOXY Steph”. Of course women and men have their differ­ences and simil­ar­ities, on a motoring programme though naturally there will be a lot of discussion about horse power etc because it’s telling us about the cars, the build quality, etc. I can imagine that Sabine Schmitz would be a good presenter with them, however she’s in a German programme of a similar nature to Top Gear. James is the new equivalent to Quentin Wilson, the more down to earth, real world motoring presenter, yet the time they all had their mothers review the cars, James’ mother completely trounced the others in the show.

In the middle of a recession, it’s good to see that people are still having fun out there and broad­casting it to us; if we only ever had mundane car reviews etc, it would fail to incite most audience’s interest and would fail to have the ratings that the existing show does. Also we need a reminder that we can have aspir­a­tions regardless of financial impede­ments to give us the drive to keep going, to try to achieve something.

And surely on a motoring programme you’d expect them to give you all the inform­ation they can to advise consumers about the short-​​comings and benefits of particular cars in order to allow people to make informed decisions about the cars available, their compet­itors, etc.

Someone that doesn’t know cars very well can’t do that, they can’t give you the inform­ation that as a potential buyer you really need to know. The dealer’s word isn’t gospel, they’re sales people just like many others, trying to sell you something; the less informed you are, the worse off we’ll be.