Chris Evans to host Top Gear

I saw the trailer, and... meh.

It just seems to be Top Gear with 3 extra presenters. I don't know what's wrong, but I think I can see the reason why people are mad...

With Clarkson, Hammond, and May, there was a whole relationship going into it. It was (mostly) like 3 teenagers just having fun screwing around with cars. They had fun, so, by extension, you had fun. And they were familiar - but then again, how long did they last for? 12 years, just about? To put in a way that would be funny, they were a well oiled machine.

But anyways, now there's a new cast of people, and it seems to be more like 6 teenagers at a racetrack trying to become friends over the thing they love most - cars. There's nothing familiar about them - unless you remember Joey Tribbiani from Friends and his spin-off Joey - so of course the audience that's grown since 2002 would not like the change. To them, to people who, when watching Top Gear for the first time with the 2002 series, got antiquated with the Clarkson-Hammond-May pairing, this feels like stealing, stealing what they love just for the sake of a fight.

But then again, who knows? Maybe I'm just talking out of my butt here - I don't know.

They were at the end, but that chemistry and famililarity wasn't there in the first series (James May wasn't even there for the first series). No programme will come to air as fully formed and settled in as one that's been on air for a decade.... and the trailer for it even less so


Unlike the last incarnation which was essentially 3 teenagers becoming friends over their love of cars

Judging by the trailer, I think the BBC have spent a lot of money on an expensive flop. The first episode will do well in the ratings but subsequent ones will drop dramatically when people stop watching out of curiosity. It just looks like it's unsuccessfully trying to copy Clarkson, Hammond and May Top Gear only with politically correct jokes instead and less of a chemistry between the presenters.

You got that from seeing three of the seven presenters and hearing no jokes apart from "the red bits in my vomit are strawberries"?

Richard Hammond was there and there was already an obvious chemistry between Clarkson and Hammond. Also: Clarkson, Hammond and May had always been best friends in real life.

I definitely got that. Vomiting is a lazy, PC joke and the presenters featured in the trailer look to have no chemistry or likeability.

You mustn't be aware of the Little Britain vomiting sketches if you think vomiting is... PC...

Without further context it appears not to be a joke, but rather a thing that actually happened.

Projectile vomiting isn't but normal vomiting is.

do either of you know what PC means?

I guess anybody with travel sickness is a mediocre comic.

That's just nonsense.


Clarkson knew May from the original Top Gear, and wanted him for the new version but they were hardly 'best friends'. Hammond sent in an audition tape so was completely unknown to them
https://www.reddit.com/r/TopGear/comments/33pypa/andy_wilman_tells_the_full_story/