The latest incarnation on BBC Two retains Evans’s replacement, motoring journalist Chris Harris, and partners him with – wait for it – Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, the former England cricket captain and the erstwhile host of history’s most execrable game show,. It seems that the producers of Top Gear had developed a casting strategy based on that parlour game where you pull the names of celebrities out of a hat, and everyone keeps saying: “Sorry, I have no idea who this person is.”.
4 stars!!! The guardian you are a joke. I've just watched the episode now with subtitles, they should just cancel the show. Its getting worse and worse now. No one can be the original trio
It wasn’t a bad show, but ultimately it was a lesser copy of a once great show
Crap
When did this turn into a plastic surgery mishap reality show, and which of these Stretch Armstrongs was Clarkson?
'...and imagine Clarkson and co doing an episode on electric cars?' Imagine The Guardian not checking if this was true or not They literally did a show about building one
Hilarious review with a massive bias against Clarkson. Proper Top Gear did loads on electric cars - they built one, did a distance challenge with a pair, JC drove the BMW to Whitby and picked it over the petrol version.
Here's a suggestion.... stop calling it BBC_TopGear .... that show died and was buried when JeremyClarkson left.... itll never reach the same heights if bbc keep calling the show top gear
Imagine Clarkson et al doing electric cars? They built one. Hammond crashed one. They did a distance challenge with 2.
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This is not Top Gear... This is No Gear at all!!! This is Top Gear!!!
What! Paddy is in opposition and Freddie has to bowl him out, beats driving.
The old top gear is like that hackneyed dingy neighbourhood coffee shop where the sip is bitter, the furniture are odd, but u got your good laugh & banter. It maybe dodgy but it was what made the borough. The new TG is just a Starbuck. It sells coffee, but just that.
Absolutely agree! It’s a breath of fresh air!
Appalling worst than Chris Evans disaster
Let the Sh see the ite!
This review is more or less what I said. Just longer.
Less pretence, felt less scripted more compatibility between the presenters but less about cars and more about entertainment... Not quite there yet. Which one is the mathematics/ engineering man Which one knows the histoty behind what they are actually talking about!? 6.5/10
The magic that was is sundered. Not sure I've warmed to Ground Tour much, or Top Gear, but will have to give the new season a try when/if it appears on this side of the pond
Much better.
The bad tempered crotchety old men is kind of what made the old trio so entertaining. And now that the fastest cars are electric, they cover that too.
Not for me, I can’t stand Paddy McGuiness, he’s Peter Kay’s Andrew Ridgeley as far as I’m concerned, lucky to have been pinned to the coattails of greatness.
They look like prison escapees.
i had no clue that it was still going, but it looks like they of ended when the original boys left
Boring
The Guardian reviews 'Contractual Obligation Gear'
Well of course you'd think that.
Top what? 😂 that show died few years ago