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Top Gear is a British television show about motor vehicles, primarily cars, and is the world's most widely watched factual television programme. It began in 1977 as a conventional motoring magazine show. Over time, and especially since a relaunch in 2002, it has developed a quirky, humorous and sometimes controversial style. The show is currently presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and has featured at least three different test drivers known as The Stig. The programme is estimated to have around 350 million views per week in 170 different countries.

 

First run episodes are broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two, and since Series 14, also on BBC HD. The series is also carried on cable television systems in the United States via BBC America, in Latin America via BBC Entertainment and in Europe via BBC Knowledge. As of August 2013, twenty series have been broadcast.

 

The show has received acclaim for its visual style and presentation, and criticism for its content and often politically incorrect commentary made by its presenters. Columnist A. A. Gill, close friend of Clarkson, and fellow Sunday Times columnist, described the show as "a triumph of the craft of programme making, of the minute, obsessive, musical masonry of editing, the French polishing of colourwashing and grading".

 

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The show just finished up its latest season last sunday and I'm curious to know if there are any fans here.

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It's started to pick up again in the last few series. I had found it to be quite poor for a few years and overly staged, but they've picked up in terms of interesting guests and better challenges and stuff. The specials are always the best episodes, the latest two part Africa one was really good.

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I friggin love that show. I like the fact that the three of them genuinely seem to be mates, makes it more likeable. Favourite special has to be the recent African one, almost like they achieved something significant (even tho was probly nothing), was just epic. Wanna see this show go for as long as possible.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please be upstanding for your new Top Gear host… Mr Matt LeBlanc!

 

Yes, the fastest-ever Star in a Reasonably Priced Car – he famously set an as-yet unbeaten lap time of 1m 42.1s in the Kia cee’d – will join Chris Evans when the new series premieres in May.

 

“As a car nut and a massive fan of Top Gear, I’m honoured and excited to be a part of this iconic show’s new chapter,” said Matt. “What a thrill!”

 

Chris Evans said of his new TG presenter: “Matt’s a lifelong fellow petrolhead and I’m thrilled he’s joining Top Gear. Acting out our craziest car notions on screen is a dream job and I know we’ll both be debating some epic road trip ideas.

 

“We can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to on screen later this year,” he added.

 

Matt of course, is no stranger to TG screens. After setting that scorching lap time, he reappeared in the following series to test the new Kia cee’d against its predecessor, drove The Stig around in a McLaren MP4-12C, and recently presented the standalone spin-off Top Gear: The Races.

 

We’ll have more news on additional Top Gear cast members shortly…

 

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/top-gear-tv/matt-leblanc-joins-top-gear

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People of the world, may we present the brand new Top Gear TV team!

 

We are very proud to announce that racing driver Sabine Schmitz, YouTube star Chris Harris, F1 pundit Eddie Jordan and motoring journalist Rory Reid will join Chris Evans, Matt LeBlanc and of course, The Stig, when the show returns in May.

 

Eddie Jordan youll remember, once ran his own Formula One team with drivers like Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill on the roster. He said: I have such enormous respect for all my fellow presenters and I politely ask that they go easy on these old bones.

 

Sabine will be no stranger to regular viewers of TG telly of course, having famously set a scorching lap time around the Nürburgring in a Transit van. I grew up next to the Nürburgring and have been racing for most of my life, she said, so the chance to combine both driving and filming was too good an opportunity to pass up.

 

YouTube star Chris Harris said: Top Gear is the thing that helped shape my life with cars, my perception of cars and my obsession with cars, and Im raring to give it a go.

 

Im also quite gobby and happy to get into trouble. And if it all goes wrong, well, I can say I was once on Top Gear, and just head back to being that annoying small bloke off YouTube, he added.

 

And remember our little shout out for public auditions? Step forward Rory Reid. When I submitted my 30-second audition tape, I knew the odds were very firmly against me.

 

To be the only person to make it through the open audition process makes me immensely proud. Ive been a Top Gear fan for decades, but more than that, I live and breathe cars in a way that is perfectly compatible with the show, he added.

Women - Check

Black guy - Check

Old Man - Check

Random American Actor - Check

Annoying Youtuber - Check

Ginger Twat - Check

Stig - Check

 

Welcome to Politically Correct Top Gear.

 

Well done BBC you managed to screw it up. Just cancel it now and save yourself the embarrassment.

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Wonder if the other three will get their own Stig-ripoff, called The Jig.

Some say he once punched a presenter after not getting a hot dinner and when questioned by a company named after a Big Black Co... Gentlemen's sausage he was offered a new contract. He's not The Stig. It's the Stig's Amazon cousin.

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Good thing they got an unknown to be in it but aside from that, they're trying way to hard. It's all very well having something for everyone but it's not gonna work when the presenters can't work off each other the same as Clarkson, May and Hammond did. I'll give it a chance but it won't be the same.

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That good huh?

 

I think this will be the last series, they've reportedly had so many issues already, including allegedly Evans shouting at the audience before filming not to "have your hands in your pockets, arms folded" and to "laugh at the jokes".

 

I loved TG before, but without the lads, it's dead. I was really hoping they'd focus on the cars and maybe not try too hard to replicate the previous show. Whilst they were starting to lose their lustre in the last couple of series, they're still damn entertaining.

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Thank god! Now maybe they can let the show die. Leave with the memories of Clarkson, May and Hammond, don't let the show suffer anymore

 

Exactly. Or at least try and move it completely away from the CMH format, and maybe make it a serious car show like the original was.

 

I watched a bit of it, Leblanc sounded half asleep, and Evans was, well... Evans.

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