TV car shows and manufactured drama...

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This seemed like a good time for a rant. lol

Ok, is it me, or are the rest of you completely tired of how the made for TV car programs have to have all this interpersonal drama garbage? American Hot Rod is THE prime example of this crap. I've tried watching Hard Shine, but after 5 minutes of a few episodes, it's just the same cookie cutter drama. Last night on Hard Shine, they spent several minutes "covering" how the blonde chick didn't do all the welds moving in the same direction. They had to go out back and have it out and she ended up crying. What a bunch of filler garbage! Who cares! Yeah, that will get me to tune in again. I simply could not care less. I won't even get started on Unique Whips. Pinks? Uh, yeah. Could they please give the ET and mph?

When I watch car themed TV shows, I want to know about the car and the build. Rides was a great show, no BS. V8TV has a great program where they show you everything they do and how they do it. Stacy Davids had that awesome Trucks show. He had a great personality.

Maybe I'm way off base here, maybe there are guys that tune in just to watch the drama... but I really doubt that. I understand that the producers of the TV shows need interesting "characters" to draw in an audience, but why do they think that interesting characters automatically means the "stars" are asshats and that I want to watch never ending arguements?

Oh well, when I get tired of the gasoline powered soap operas, I can just switch it over and watch re-runs of Mega Machines on the Discovery Channel.