Alright, Dave?

As much as I enjoy the re-runs of Top Gear and Fifth Gear on Virgin cable channel Dave, they're starting to wear a bit thin now.

At first it was pure brilliance being able to watch all the old repeats, but now they just show each episode over and over and over again, a bit like Only Fools and Horses.

Re-runs of Fifth Gear started off great too, but some of the episodes are just so old. We're talking the first showing of the Vauxhall Vectra Mk 2 and the VW Toureg - I mean come-on.

Still, it's better than nothing, and if it suddenly disappeared off my Virgin box I would go mad.

However, and I mean what I say now, I would happily pay more for my license fee if it meant round-the-year episodes of Top Gear.

The winter months just aren't the same. Sunday night television offers nothing close to the quality motoring television of the now-famous trio.

Of course, the BBC seems to produce fewer episodes nowadays, and from what I've read the budget for next year will be cut down. It seems like the license fee is becoming poorer value each year.

Either way, bring on the new season... before I resort to watching Jason Dawe in Auto Trader's Used car show.