latest one comes<\/a> after the producers admitted that they set up a traffic jam and used driving instructors posing as learners.<\/p>\nThe instructors pretended to be practising reverse parking in close proximity to each other, while James May was held up in his Ferrari California Spider (worth \u00a35.6m).<\/p>\n
Personally, I don\u2019t really care if Top Gear fakes its stuff or not. Real or pretend, it conveys the wrong image to people of limited intelligence in the first place.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m surprised \u2013 well, not that surprised \u2013 at driving instructors prepared to push the image of learners being a nuisance in order to appear on the show. I guess that we shouldn\u2019t forget that there are plenty of driving instructors out there whose only interest in life is cars, and the announcement of a new series of Top Gear is enough to cause them to wet themselves.<\/p>\n
Appearing on it would be like having sex for them (albeit, without any other organic\u00a0 life form being involved). I wonder if they got paid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Top Gear \u2013 the BBC programme about cars, hosted by chimpanzees, and avidly watched by pond life (my opinion, of course) \u2013 has had its fair share of rows about whether some of its stunts are real or not.<\/p>\n