In article >,
David Haggas > wrote:
> Like everything on the BBC it has to be dumbed down so that it appears
> to a wider audience. An informed educational consumer programme like
> "Top Gear" used to be is simply not cool enough.

There would be no justification in spending the sort of budget Top Gear
gets now on the older style of programme because it simply didn't get the
viewers.

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