7 Ways You'd 'Fix' Top Gear

Critical reception of the revamped series of Top Gear hasn't been brilliant, so we asked you guys what you'd do to fix it. These are the best suggestions we saw!
7 Ways You'd 'Fix' Top Gear

Leave the crowd alone

Suggested by Its_Sufy
Suggested by Its_Sufy

One of the many cringeworthy aspects of Top Gear’s studio segments was seeing Chris Evans trying to gee up the crowd. It’s not necessary and as said by suggester Its_Sufy, “leave the crowd to do their thing.”

More Harris, more Reid

Suggested by pretty much everyone
Suggested by pretty much everyone

While we found Top Gear on the whole pretty disappointing, the Extra Gear spin-off was enjoyable. Why? Because it centres around two car guys who know their stuff talking about, well, cars. While a show intended to have as mass an appeal as Top Gear probably wouldn’t work with just the relaxed Extra Gear format with the budget turned up a bit (well, a lot), it’s clear Chris Harris and Rory Reid are criminally underused.

Neither were in the first episode, and when we spoke to Rory Reid last week, he mentioned he was only in four of the six episodes of the main show. And it’s probably fair to assume he’ll only present one segment in each of those four. As the two people who are the best and most engaging at presenting car content, they need to be in TG a hell of a lot more than that.

Tell Evans to calm down

Suggested by Alex P
Suggested by Alex P

The complaint we heard most last Sunday was that Chris Evans was shouting too much. His presenting style was needlessly over-the-top, and it started to grate. He’s perfectly capable of presenting in a calm manner, so if he just turns it down a notch and stops thinking he’s on TFI Friday, it’ll be a big improvement.

Get rid of Evans entirely

Suggested by lots and lots of people
Suggested by lots and lots of people

A lot of you just don’t seem to think Evans is right for the show and should be ditched entirely. We’re not sure who would replace him in that situation (some seem to think Matt LeBlanc could be the solo main host), but this is certainly a popular opinion!

Give challenges a proper back story

Suggested by Agustín J. Ruatta
Suggested by Agustín J. Ruatta

“That Reliant Robin [actually Realtos, if you want to be pedantic!] challenge was pointless. It had no reason to be done, that’s why it was boring,” says CTzen Agustín J. Ruatta, and we have to agree. It wasn’t ever properly explained why Evans and LeBlanc were driving around in these cars - one minute we were in the studio, the next we were watching this dull and unimaginative segment.

Team up for the challenges

Suggested by Jay Modi
Suggested by Jay Modi

There isn’t a whole lot of chemistry between the presenters right now, but that’s to be expected - watch back some of the really early episodes of 2002 onwards Top Gear when Clarkson, Hammond and May were first brought together, and you’ll find the three are all a bit wooden when interacting with each other.

However, an interesting way of spicing things up might be for the six presenters to split into two groups of three for some of the challenges. More screen time for those who deserve it, and an interesting dynamic we never saw pre-presenter change.

Rip it up and start again

Suggested by TurboToddler
Suggested by TurboToddler

This is the one we agree with most. So far the show has felt like a missed opportunity to completely reinvent something which was starting to feel tired under Clarkson, Hammond and May. Simply doing the same sort of things - right down to Evans seemingly imitating Clarkson’s intro voiceover style - with a new bunch of people is going to feel odd, and lead people to making unfavourable comparisons with the version of the show presented by those three.

In the week leading up to the first episode, Chris Evans said “If you’re changing the presenter line up completely, that’s pretty much change enough…It wasn’t broken, so why would we change it that much?” Sorry Chris, we disagree - there are plenty of reasons why it needs to be changed. It’s not too late though, so we can hold out hope…

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Comments

jayive35

Alex and Ethan should replace Matt and Chris Evans.

06/03/2016 - 16:58 |
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Anonymous

I have a much easier and cheaper solution: just pay Amazon half of what they spend now to produce this pathetic car show and play The Grand Tour on BBC at the TG time slot.

06/03/2016 - 17:07 |
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Anonymous

7.Fire all the people and bring back Clarkson May and Hammond

06/03/2016 - 17:25 |
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Shyam

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06/03/2016 - 17:54 |
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Anonymous

they won’t put a new spin on it like the boys did give them time it will still explode.

06/03/2016 - 18:04 |
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Anonymous

the best way to improve the show would be to torture and humiliate chris “ginger” evans for a whole season until he left crying like a girl

06/03/2016 - 18:10 |
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Legendary

Also, find Evans a shirt that fits so he doesnt have to keep pulling up his sleeves.

06/03/2016 - 18:30 |
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Anonymous

currently 20 mins into the episode, im enjoying it. the involvement with the crowd is something new, my only complaint is the terrible intro which was just trying to be clarkson way too much. Overall they just need to involve rory and chris more and just have team battles rather than having a big crew all trying to do their own thing within an hour slot. Im not sure why they have Evans and Leblanc doing the same role though.

They should have Evans and Leblanc arguing about cars then Sabine decides that a german car is a way better alternative and they have a battle. The old guy (dont know his name lets call him paul) maybe should do a thing like james may where he goes over classic racers etc and then rory and chris (good) should maybe work together to analyse cars and show the good and bad of them.

In summary. Evans and Leblanc have banter and battle with cars. Sabine should play on the fact she is german and have banter

06/03/2016 - 18:38 |
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RodriguezRacer456 (Aventador SV) (Lambo Squad)

7 . Fire everyone and reinstate Clarkson

06/03/2016 - 19:21 |
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SimpleG

Am I seriously the only one who finds Chris Evans a good host?

Come on guys, give him a chance, I have very, very high doubts you’d do better in the first series if you were a host

06/03/2016 - 19:40 |
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