Saving Top Gear

Sep 24, 2006 at 12:45 PM
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I walk the talk. Here is my email to the BBC after my Top Gear post on my blog today.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I write in support of Top Gear. This show does not glamorize speed as the anti-car lobbyists claim, but is an informative, entertaining show about cars.
   If the lobbyists are right, then speed kills—which would suggest that German autobahnen would be death traps. That is not the case.
   Even in Britain, motorways have fewer accidents given their volume than on roads with greater speed restrictions.
   I will continue to support the show and the magazine, as I have done since 1988, when it was first shown, as a special, in New Zealand. I hope the BBC will support its own, and take in the viewpoints of to the majority—not a vocal minority that is misguided, and which will use botched statistics and claims to justify its actions.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Yan

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I rarely get steamed up enough about anything to follow through with action, but I e-mailed the Beeb too. I'll be furious if they use this accident as a reason to cancel the show. Furious, I tell you!

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Thanks, Bridget! I think Richard, Jeremy and James need all the help they can get. At least Prime is still showing the programme: BBC World stopped showing its re-runs—wimps! (Loved your blog, BTW. Good to see another Welly blog on Vox.)

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