Well there's something...
Yesterday I was out for Lunch with a friend of mine, we'd gone into HMV on the way to get some thing to eat, and whilst we were waiting for our dinner to arrive, we were talking about what we bought. My friend pulled out a Top gear boxset...
Now let me explain to you what my friend is like, he is the kind of guy that knows that it has 4 wheels and an engine, you sit INSIDE it, therefore its probably a car, don't get me wrong, he is by no means unintelligent, he just really isn't interested in cars, I turn up to pick him up in my car, and yeah its a car I could turn up in a supercar, and yeah it would just be an uncomfortable car... He was just telling me about the cars that they have just booked for their wedding, some vintage cars (no point in asking what they are), but also a jag to take him to the church, I asked which one, his reply was, I don't know, I just sit in the thing!
This in mind, I said to him, what did you buy that for? you don't like cars... his reply? "Because I think they are funny"
So here we establish, that we are probably watch for much the same reasons, because the guys are clowns.
Us being petrol heads, were watching for the same reasons not because were itching for the most up to date and objective review of the latest cars, because we probably couldn't afford most of the cars that they have on the show anyway, to be fair the cars are pretty much happen to be there, we like them becasue they describe everything in the same way, and its the way that they describe things that amuse us...
And as for Clarkson, I think that he is perhaps less a journalist, and more of a celebrity that happens to write what's on his mind, He has a great way with words and I think that his opinons are very much the opinions of mostly all of us, lack of political correctness and all... but then I think that thats one of the main reasons that he appeals to most, political correctness is for most something thats forced, everyone likes a rebel.
Just because he writes about cars, does not mean to say that your going to take anything that he says about them seriously, your only reading for the car-related humour...