Top Gear Presenters

[Hurricane52]

My 10 and 11 year old boys loved it. Let’s face it, on TV the cars seem out of date as we’ve all read and seen them on the internet a good six months previously. The chemistry was better than anyone expected. The format is boring, but not for kids who have not seen years of it. I guess it’s more a soap or sit-com with the odd car in it.

 

[D Walker]

Watched it last night. I'm with Andy K. As entertainment it was okay.i laughed at bits, I think the studio bit was a bit off. Guess I have an advantage in that I can understand what they are saying.
Let's see how the rest turn out.

 

[jonny]

My 10 and 11 year old boys loved it

Well exactly, dumbed down so that it's Chuckle Brothers with Cars.

 

[Thatch]

....Loving Vikki in the Stradale......

Yes please.

 

[zagatoes30]

OK, like Matt I watched it last night post Le Mans and as some have said as entertainment it was OK and I thought there was more chemistry between them than there was when Matt, Rory & Chris first joined. Studio bit needs more work and the out of studio bits were more of what we have seen before. Unlike some of you I had no issue with the language much better to hear dry Northern tones than those posh Southern accents of the other crew.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

Let’s face it, on TV the cars seem out of date as we’ve all read and seen them on the internet a good six months previously.

You've hit the nail on the head. There was competition between car shows to be first to review new cars. Then along came t'internet.
So Top Gear went entertainment over informative. And it worked spectacularly well. They were able to do so many 'firsts' that kept the show fresh and ratings and sales to foreign broadcasters high. Towards the end, the presenters often looked bored and were obviously looking for an 'out'. They said as much on air.
Like I said previously. IMO Grand Tour is just Top Gear with time zones. Obviously Amazon gave them a long leash and I think that they ought to have really gone for it and used the opportunity to start with a blank page. Maybe they did. But they've ended up flogging a dead horse for dollars. Fair enough. Their choice. Maybe it gets harder to reinvent yourself as you get older.
They've produced thousands of hours of some of the best entertainment ever made and nobody ever got hurt.
Apart from one Irish snowflake. And the government of Argentina. The latter always deserving to be put back in it's place, now and then. I call that an epic achievement by anyone's standards,

 

[conaero]

Better, Flintoff still a tit though.

 

[CatmanV2]

Better, Flintoff still a tit though.

Agreed on both counts

C

 

[Gazcw]

Better, Flintoff still a tit though.

Freddy is the weak link. Painful

 

[alfatwo]

What ever way you look at it, its still total bollox!

Dave

 

[Wanderer]

Still, Spirits very strong tonight....

 

[zagatoes30]

Still had me smiling

 

[Andyk]

It was funny and they work well together. Best series for a long, long time. Great to see Chris gets the car review piece and the others stay out of it. The tesla piece was good. This is good entertainment. I laughed a lot last night.

 

[Contigo]

Woeful, literally aimed at young children..... only bit worth watching was the Harris section on the Model 3.

 

[jonny]

Woeful, literally aimed at young children..... only bit worth watching was the Harris section on the Model 3

Yep.

 

[dickygrace]

I’m one of those in the minority then. Great family viewing, 3 cracking presenters having a laugh. Always loved Paddy and Fred. Harris is good too and best left to review the cars.

 

[Spartacus]

Absolute sh1t those two . Paddy just screams and shout and Flintoff does n't say anything intesting . Its called lack of personality ( which is unfortunate if you are a presenter ) That Saben bird does the same thing . Just screams and shout 'Wooo' because she can't think of anything funny to say .

The line up shout be :




Philip Glenister
Jason Plato
Chris Harris

 

[midlifecrisis]

As entertainment, and that's what many on here forget, it's a good show. Even with Clarkson and acolytes (sycophants) it's a bunch of middle aged men d!cking around in cars. At least women, God forbid, are not presenting it!
I'm also shocked at the anti-northern rhetoric on here. For you southerners, Flintoff and McGuinness are from Lancashire, the Chuckle brothers are tight arzed Tykes from Yorkshire.

 

[lifes2short]

I'm on the fence, it's just the same old thing again, quite like Harris but not convinced with paddy and Flintoff, trying too hard to mimic the Clarkson gang too much, should of tried something different, tesla review was best bit for me

 

[GeoffCapes]

It was entertaining and funny.

If you want Top Gear to be informative then you have to go back to pre Clarkson et al, as all it was was road tests on the new Montego etc.
Times have changed.