I'm seriously obsessed with Top Gear on the Discovery Channel. It is originally a BBC show, but apparently Discovery has picked it up. Some notable episodes:
Which is faster: An Aston Martin DB9 or the French TGV High Speed Train to get from the UK to Monte Carlo? Yep, you guessed it, the DB9 won.
In another episode, they had to purchase a Porsche for 1500 quid (that's like how Americans call the dollar a "buck"). So they buy these cars, one purchases a cheap Porsche made for the masses, the other a midrange Porsche with a horrible body, and the last a V8 top of the line Porsche that barely runs. Their next task is to get the car from London to the coast; the caveat is that you lose 5 points every time you open the bonnet (that's "hood" to us Americans). The V8 guy finally gives up and tows his car to the coast so he doesn't have to open the bonnet anymore (clever solution, if you ask me). Finally they have to put an ad in the personals using the car to get responses. Now this is where the intelligence of the V8 guy shines--he puts an add in the "men seeking men" personals talking about his V8, and not surprisingly, gets the most responses.
Tonight there's an episode on about whether the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti can beat a jet plane to Verbier in the Swiss Alps. Good stuff.
Times for watching Top Gear can be found at discovery.com