I've watched a few episodes of the new Top Gear and thought it was ok. Just ok. What's missing is the chemistry of the old three but I won't go back to them as they've not been forgiven for losing their ethical compass. But where is the thinking man's/woman's car show? A motoring equivalent of Hitch Hikers Guide which takes us on a journey, let's us loose, gets us lost, takes us to places physical and cerebral? We're at the end of whatever we've had for over a century of motoring. Can't a writer and a camera take us out of the dumb consumerism of Top Gear and others and place us on a road, in a car, with nowhere to go except everywhere our imagination takes us? There are journalists and writers who could do it; Simon Taylor, Martin Buckley? Suggestions welcome. Jenks could do it but he's long gone. We need a program that is not about cars and egos but about driving, motoring, travelling - exchanging here for there on a road that follows the earths's and the mind's contours. Aviation has had Antione de St. Exupery and still has Richard Bach. Where's the motoring St Ex? Or Bach?
