Top Gear - Whats the point??

Having driven on Mud Island for a few days now, and remembering other visits to the country, I am beggining to wonder why on earth a program like Top Gear is even on TV. Mostly because the speed limits are completely over the top here, and also make little sense. A good example, on the highway the limit is 70 mph (about 112km/h). But like in Jozi, if you are going at that speed you are liable to be run over by at least 20 cars doing a million miles and hour in the fast lane. Thats because there are very few speed checks, and fewer annoying signs telling you your current speed and to slow down.

The A roads are the same story, limit is 60 mph but everyone is going a lot faster. Here though, speed cameras loom at every bend, and you have to watch in amusement as the younster in his Honda Ballade with mags and huge rear wing (Boksburg style, or here you would say Chav'ed to the max) tears past you and then leaps on the brakes to avoid 3 points on his licence as he passes the camera. Then a big shift down, puffs of smoke from the exhaust and off he goes again at lunatic speed towards the next camera. So whats the point??? In the towns and villages, the limit is 30, with annoying little signs warning you that you are going to fast, and then advertising the offending speed to everyone like Mr Bean with a pen in his exam. Little grannys shake there heads, and young mothers with babes in arms tut tut as you sheepishly slow down by 2mph to be within the limits.

Sam has to babble on to me continuously so that I don't die of boredom/fall asleep driving down to the Tesco's or worse. So what is the point of Top Gear, I mean the slowest car that Clarkson has ever tested would get him locked up forever if he took it to maximum speed in second gear. Let alone a Lambo or Ferrari. And besides which, if I can't afford drive one, why should he?