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

Anonymous

number seven get back our trio back

06/03/2016 - 19:52 |
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OMSR

can you guys just leave them alone. they are not retarted. what needs fixing they will fix. jeez.

06/03/2016 - 19:58 |
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Anonymous

Change the name. The Hammond-Clarkson-May trio is gone, TopGear is gone, there is no more TopGear.

06/03/2016 - 19:59 |
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Amir khan

I wonder how chris feels, imagine everyone hating on you. The guy is not made out to be in this show but i do kinda feel bad for sorry for him too..

06/03/2016 - 20:08 |
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you shouldn’t.

06/03/2016 - 20:34 |
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Anonymous

Solution: bring back Clarkson Hammond and May

06/03/2016 - 20:24 |
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Anonymous

Top gear will never be the same. Get rid of Chris.
Also there is way too many presenters. A good number of 3 will do. I’m a big top gear fan but Id rather watch old episodes of Top gear.

06/03/2016 - 20:39 |
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Anonymous

Well Leblanc wasn’t bad, it was just Evans was trying to do what Clarkson, Hammond, and May did all by himself. It just doesn’t work with 1 person trying to do what 3 people did. And the Stig is the only one who knows how the show should go and it’s not like this. They should of bit the bullet and kept Clarkson.

06/03/2016 - 21:27 |
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gheed

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Have*

06/04/2016 - 09:27 |
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Daksh Pat

what if alex became a host on the show

06/03/2016 - 21:45 |
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Anonymous

Replace Evans with the most worthwhile British comedian ever - Rowan Atkinson. And don’t you dare say he’s not a petrolhead.

06/03/2016 - 22:10 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Or guy Martin

06/04/2016 - 10:23 |
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Erich Mohrmann

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I would actually pay for that…

06/05/2016 - 04:15 |
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