Good stuff Michael. Given that I crapped all over the current state of Top Gear after the Patagonia episode, so far this season has felt a lot more like 'real' Top Gear. Which is a good thing for all of us.

I will probably still be tuning in, but especially after the way that BBC Worldwide knifed finalgear.com (which was one of the reasons that many of us discovered and became attached to Top Gear), I won't be buying any new Stig mugs or Top Gear DVD's. And if you watched An Evening with Top Gear on YouTube this past…

Actually, they don't seem to have done a full season of Top Gear since the London Olympics. And this years Patagonia was a complete waste of time, perhaps their worst show ever. I've been a really big fan for a long time, but hours of three middle aged guys driving across third world shit holes like Argentina only to…