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
This isn’t just the haters anymore, people who actually defended it and tried to give it a chance, got turned off by it. And that says something..
I gave it a really good shot! Watched it with my wife. Wife got bored straight away (not a good sign). Watched it later. Enjoyed the Nomad and Matt in his Jeep with the power lifter. Not a lot else.
The show isn’t bad, all the producers need is to put a really really strong chill pill in Evans’ coffee before the next stage shooting.
That one point was for Matt
The general public are stupid…
I’m pretty sure that more than a half of those 33% people who said they are not going to watch it, will be watching it…
Never understood why the Car Throttle team didn’t get the gig to take over Top Gear.
I’m not saying it’s the worst car show, only it’s a bit worse than the previous. Jeremy, RIchard and James seemed natural, even if it was scripted but these new guys just make it look scripted. It’s like they had to read the script like it was written in another language and they just spell the letters.
I really liked Matt’s review, but chris is doing to much! Jumping around like a child ruined the whole thing!
Chirs Harris is not the answer