SAVE TOP GEAR Petition link here

[Pixiefish]

SAVE TOP GEAR Petition link here

[charliecat]

signed

[jessicaandrebeccasmummy]

signed

[binker]

signed and passed on to my relations !

[RanToTheHills]

definitely not signed, sorry! I don't think it exactly helps responsible driving for some -young male drviers for instance. Know I sound like a spoil-sport but heard about the case of the young doc killed by a speeding (banned) young driver??

[charliecat]

I dont think stopping showing Top gear will make people drive sensibly.

[RanToTheHills]

might help for some though. Gullible young men watching as dangerous driving is glamourised.

[binker]

agree with charliecat

[jessicaandrebeccasmummy]

if people are really stupid enough to be "copying" top gear, then they shouldnt have a license to start with.

[lanismum]

signed. i doubt most of the tossers responsible for hit and runs/dangerous/drink driving are top gear fans.

[lanismum]

iv never heard of anyone firing cars from a catapult just because they watched top gear

[Saturn74]

All signed it here.

I don't believe that dangerous drivers will suddenly become safe drivers if they can no longer watch a television programme.

I am against censorship of this nature.

Adults should be held accountable for their own actions.

[SherlockLGJ]

Having watched Top Gear last week, I took my perfectly serviceable family car and ripped the insides out and turned into a mobile living room.

The hilarious one where Richard Hammond and James May were driving a car kitted out to look an Englsih country cottage, complete with wood burning stove. 0- 60 in five minutes IIRC.

Top Gear is not responsible for boy racers.

[Saturn74]

bump

[DumbledoresGirl]

The last episode of TG that was watched in my family had my dh and my 2 eldest sons wetting themselves with laughter. I can honestly say I have never heard my dh and sons laughing so strongly together at one thing (I was in another room busily Mumsnetting so I have no idea what they were laughing at!) and it did my heart good to hear them sharing such a warm moment. I think it would be ridiculous to cut TG. Maybe it does feed an interest in high performance cars, but I can assure you all that some men (dh) and boys (ds1 and ds2) are naturally interested in these things anyway and would still be motorheads with or without TG.

[dejags]

Signed.

Funny
Witty
Great characters

I can't imagine any mature adult would take part in "caravan conkers" - we all know that aren't racing drivers and that it's TV after all.

[Mhamai]

signed

[hooleymama]

I find this thread insensitive & distasteful
oh alright - just kidding

Surely Top Gear doesn't need saving- what have I missed? I know Jeremy C gets on my tits but the world needs easy targets.

LOL sherlockLGJ ..ever watched Pimp My Ride on VH1?

[tribpot]

Signed.

[codwiggle]

i dont giev a toss

[Weatherwax]

My dd watches brainiac and they blow up caravans every time. I don't expect her to grow up to do the same. I don't expect children who watch top gear to grow up to be ignorant unfeeling speeding drivers.

I agree with Humphrey "Adults should be held accountable for their own actions.". I do wish JC would stop his races against planes and trains though, or factor in to the route a saftey break or two.

[Pann]

Not signed.

TG DOES glamourise stupid driving, and alot of viewers will be the boy-racers who will wish to emulate their 'heroes' antics, except behind the wheel of their Astra in 30mph zone, rather than a race ring or airstrip..the juvenile ref. to how fast their toys go and how much torque is produced...has an effect..otherwise they wouldn't be producing the show.

Spending a part of my licence fee to create a programme showing Surrey Man in a Ferrari/Beemer/whatever isn't a good thing.

Nothing to do with the recent accident.

[dressedupnowheretogo]

signed

[SewingMadMummy]

signed

[peegeeweegeewoo]

definately signed, and oh has too...

top gear does NOT make eejits in fast cars try to kill themselves and others, the eejits can do that all by themselves...

i think it is a lads tv magazine type programme, with some hilarious articles - the car/boat thing and caravan episodes to name but a few.
my oh and 7 year old son love it, and i would be gutted if it was pulled off air...