24% Of You Rate 'New' Top Gear's First Episode As 1/10

Top Gear got off to a shaky start at the weekend, and judging by two polls we ran, you guys didn't really take to the revamped version of the motoring show
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.

24% Of You Rate 'New' Top Gear's First Episode As 1/10

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.

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Comments

Dave

Watched it. Unfortunately there was no negative option on the survey

05/31/2016 - 16:46 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

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.

05/31/2016 - 17:04 |
40 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

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.

06/01/2016 - 00:05 |
7 | 0
Jakob

It’s a shame, the new Top Gear has such great people in the cast. Unfortunately they have Chris Evans too.

05/31/2016 - 17:09 |
29 | 1
RodriguezRacer456 (Aventador SV) (Lambo Squad)

Evans is just trying to copy the orignal trio. And that strategy is as effective as James May’s sense of direction

05/31/2016 - 17:23 |
3 | 0

Hahaha, GT should use this line in their opening show on Amazon, someone forward this to Jeremy right now

05/31/2016 - 21:31 |
0 | 0
LuiCardon

It’s meh

05/31/2016 - 17:26 |
0 | 0
LuiCardon

Maybe 5 1/2 out of 10

05/31/2016 - 17:26 |
1 | 0
Tiago Mano

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

05/31/2016 - 17:30 |
11 | 0

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!

05/31/2016 - 17:33 |
7 | 0
Nissan 420sx

Well some reactions from the youtube channel of top gear

05/31/2016 - 17:36 |
3 | 0
Callum Luke Norris

killed by the ginger

05/31/2016 - 17:40 |
14 | 0
Anonymous

Chris Evans is trying so hard to fulfill that leader spot that Jeremy had and it just isn’t working

05/31/2016 - 17:44 |
16 | 0
Edmard

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

The try hard is real. But if he does it a bit more casually I think it could work.

05/31/2016 - 18:09 |
3 | 0