Here's An Early Preview Of The New Look Top Gear
Last night’s Top Gear marked the end of a short but mostly very good era. The line-up of Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid is no more, with LeBlanc leaving the programme and Reid sadly relegated to Extra Gear presenting duties only.
The trio brought us three of the most car-focused TG series we’ve seen in years, but mere moments after this ‘version’ of the show ended, we were given a sneak preview of what’s to come.
And what’s to come is a presenting team surely no one could have predicted. Chris Harris has been retained, and he’ll be joined by former professional cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff and comedian/presenter Paddy McGuinness.
The clip features Flintoff rolling a Jaguar XJ hearse (which sounds like it’s straight-piped) with McGuinness and Harris aboard. So yes, there will be plenty of japery, but there’ll presumably still be plenty of room for Harris to slide things about while going into as much geeky detail as he can get away with on mainstream television.
We’re not entirely sure when the series will start - the premieres for series 25 and series 26 were nearly a year apart, so we could be waiting a while.
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
I’m sorry but the Grand Tour is better
I really liked matt leblank, and rorry read was okay to. But everything should be allright when the carrot of the first season after the gang (richard hammond, james may, Jeremy clarkson) left wont return.
To be perfectly honest, after seeing this little snippet, it could be quite funny… Not to the same levels of MLB or JH&M, but still funny
Just pay the amazon prime fee, why is this top gear still getting views with a cricket player and a comedian?
IMHO haris,ried,leblanc almost was in Jeremy, Richard James territory of humor and “friendship” they can be Top gear renesance but idk lets wait for next season ¨.)