The motoring programme makers appear to have nurtured an audience of petrol heads that are more interested in blowing things up or dropping from helicopters than they are in learning some facts. Now, that's what they expect to see. Very sad!
Its still worth seeing on iplayer though Marcus for the interesting bits.
The biggest irony is that at the National I was totally against them having free range of the site and the cars to make the programme, guessing it was going to be another Top Gear type shame, and out of all the camera hungry crawlers there trying to get into the programme via offering there cars etc who's is the only recognizable face to appear in the whole sequence? Yours truly! 
An interesting observation. In such awe of the camera were some that the allowed May to talk rubbish to camera right in front of them without correcting him. ''Eer, 'scuse me that is incorrect, you are confusing the three wheeled Isetts with the Messerschmitt, which is normally a three wheeler not a four wheeler'', for instance.
So you now have a program on a topic you know well. Yet there is a consensus saying the other programed are better researched..... Some might be but I fear that given a proof you are making a terrible assumption. Television, in its rush to entertain and gain an audience has forgotten its Reithien moral to educate. I could offer a list but I will refrain. Yet often TV is at is best and most whimsical when it does entertain with education. Like The Great Egg Race, Adam Hart-Whatsit and so on. Even great comedy educates, smut becomes boring pretty quickly, so other topics are needed. However somewhere this horrible notion that being bright, or inventing things, is socially repugnant, where as ignorance is good. I can only put this down to a smoke screen laid down upon an appalling education system which is failing many potentially useful people rather spectacularly. Top Gear is at the fore front of this laddish rubbish setting itself up as arbiter of a range of engineering and design principles it does not even attempt to understand. One minute the BMW Quarkbottom is the best car - in the world. Next Jaguar make the Codpiece Coupe and the poor Beemer is ridiculed as total rubbish. If I did not know better I would suspect bunging.
