Yes, what is it about Top Gear that is so appealing (at least to me)?
I also find it very funny. And I know I shouldn't!! It is silly, puerile and hilarious. I'm a deeply committed environmentalist and I should find Top Gear to be completely 'beyond the pale'. But every Sunday night I settle down on the sofa, with a couple of tinnies, and sometimes I fall off the sofa through laughing so hard.

I suspect that it's partly because so many British environmentalists (like so many British leftists before them) are such insufferably pious prigs - added to the fact that I suspect that many of them don't actually know a lot about the environment but have clambered aboard the bandwagon so that they can broadcast their superiority to others. Top Gear just drives a 4 x 4 through the lot of them and scatters the pompous gits like ninepins.

In the end though I find it's irreverence quite bracing, it is genuinely funny and it appeals to my 'inner child' (I have heard that lots of children like it - and I can see why).