In previous seasons this was me:
A Top Gear superfan writes Sniff Petrol, but I have decided to relax a bit and just go with the flow of the show. Sure, the P45 was stupid, but, while watching the next show by myself, I literally laughed out loud when Clarkson drove backwards over the musical road. I don't usually do that when alone. The bananas in the exhaust was also funny, but removing the fuses seemed most
unBritish and
unsporting.
I don't remember much from the first episode, but that says most of what needs to be said. I guess it did remind me to check out Homeland at some point.
The second episode had the aforementioned funny moments, but it wasn't quite there. I tend to prefer their longer trips; more than two features an episode crowds the episode and detracts from each individual feature. That said, the US trip's individual featurettes within the larger trip lacked cohesion: there was no stringing together of Arizona, Willow Springs, L.A. River, Mexican Border etc... they did a lot of teleporting. The Fleetwood interview wasn't my thing; Clarkson needs to stop dicking around and interview a hologram of either Bonzo or Moon so he can stop pursuing that vein.
The third episode didn't quite have the same sidesplitting moments of the second, but it stuck to the most enduring of Top Gear formulae: review of a car pertinent to our interests as gearheads, race in a car that the presenters pretend not to like but actually do, and a pretty "burd" in the RPC who says "ooh, noo!"
Also:
http://www.sniffpetrol.com/issue002.html