24% Of You Rate 'New' Top Gear's First Episode As 1/10
When we posted our Top Gear live discussion on Sunday evening, we were taken aback by the scale of the response. So far the thread has clocked over 550 comments, and if you have a look through, there’s a bit of a theme: most of you guys don’t seem at all keen on the revamped show.
Wanting to quantify exactly how CTzens found the first episode of Top Gear with Chris Evans as host, we ran a couple of polls, both of which produced startling results. In the first we asked you to rate the episode out of 10, and an astonishing 24 per cent of you picked ‘1’. In fact, 75 per cent of the 11,000+ people polled gave the episode a score between 1 and 5.
In the second poll we wanted to know how many of you are planning on tuning in next week. Just 18 per cent of just under 5000 polled said ‘hell yes’, with 33 per cent selecting ‘nope’ and 49 per cent ‘currently undecided’.
The silver lining is we’re yet to see Chris Harris and Rory Reid - who both excelled during the online-only ‘Extra Gear’ segment - in the main show. If anyone can improve the show in the eyes of CTzens, it’s them.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Watched it. Unfortunately there was no negative option on the survey
Chris Evans trying to be Jeremy Clarkson by using his lines (and failing miserably) and jumping around like a ret*rd completely ruined this show.
It was like Justin Bieber is trying to be Freddy Mercury.
Precisely my thoughts. I thought the challenges were quite interesting (even though the Viper vs. Corvette thing was so heavily scripted that it made me cringe incredibly hard while watching it), albeit a bit poorly executed. The one that ruined it for me was Chris Evans. He’s just trying TOO hard to be a replacement of the old crew instead of a fresh start like Matt seemed to be.
I’m willing to give it a season or two before I decide for myself whether it’s absolutely crap, or whether it can grow into it’s own kind of awesome. After all, the first few seasons of the Top Gear we know and love were also far less interesting and exciting than the ones that came after.
It’s a shame, the new Top Gear has such great people in the cast. Unfortunately they have Chris Evans too.
Evans is just trying to copy the orignal trio. And that strategy is as effective as James May’s sense of direction
Hahaha, GT should use this line in their opening show on Amazon, someone forward this to Jeremy right now
It’s meh
Maybe 5 1/2 out of 10
i tried to be impartial, and i thought i was, but Chris Evans it’s what is ruining any hopes of that becaming a good show
Agreed. Didn’t see much of Sabine or that old guy, but I’m seriously impressed by Matt LeBlanc. Fire Chris Evans and they’ve got themselves a good show!
Well some reactions from the youtube channel of top gear
killed by the ginger
Chris Evans is trying so hard to fulfill that leader spot that Jeremy had and it just isn’t working
The try hard is real. But if he does it a bit more casually I think it could work.