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
People should watch the new show forgetting the old trio. They need to accept that the old top gear is gone. Now, we have a multitude of hosts to watch, laugh, and even shout (Sorry Chris Evans) to, including all the new hosts at top gear, and the old marvelous trio.
No!
The old crew is coming back with a new show this fall called “The Grand Tour”
If they’d drop Chris Evans, I’d be happy.
I WANT THE OLD CREW BACK!
CAN’T WAIT TILL CLARKSON, MAY, AND HAMMOND RETURN THIS FALL WITH THEIR NEW SHOW “THE GRAND TOUR”
I didnt think it was too terrible. I mean, its their first show, theyre obviously gunna have some kinks to work out. In my opinion, I think Chris Evans is a bit too eccentric and needs to tone it down a bit. But I didnt hate it…I think Matt did a pretty decent job.
i made it 5 minutes. Top gear is dead.
Exactly, sometimes I also think about that. Although, their love for cars will help to surpass future difficulties
I think that it seemed pretty good and I would actually rate it about a 7 or possibly 8 out of 10. However, it’ll never be as good as the old Top Gear and the trio won’t be able to be just replaced. At the same time improvements need to be made; Chris Evans needs to chill out and act more relaxed, he also needs to be himself more and not try to be Jeremy and I’m sure there’s other things to pick up on.
I thought it was just as good/as bad as the old one. Extra factor was much better and needs to be longer than 30 minutes.
Well, I think that it’s been fairly rated, to be honest. It had it’s good moments, but it was way too cheesy at parts, especially after the Viper hotlap. Also, Sabine’s first moment was way too fake to be enjoyable tbh. It had no “real fizz” to it, so to say.
But all in all, I’m conviced that the show will evolve into something better episode by episode… or so I hope at least.
ExtraGear on the other hand… It’s really worth watching.
Watched it. Was disappointed but didn’t even expect anything better. And Chris Evans is just hideous.