That’s because she is irreplaceable. To survive the show needs to be different to it’s last iteration, just as it need to change from the 30 minute review show it used to be.

1 kills the other chills, common sense to remove the gun pages

Why does TG have to have 3 presenters? It had more and less in the past and the most important thing the new show needs to do is not copy the previous incarnation.

I’m fine with any nationality of presenter as long as the new version of TG doesn’t try to replicate the most recent incarnation. Le Blanc is a left field approach and potentially bodes well for a different type of show. If you want the old format, watch the new CHM show on Amazon.

Calling each other by surname isn’t the sole reserve of public schools

Noel Edmonds, Angela Rippon, Tom Coyne, Kate Humble, Brendan Coogan and even Hammond were not motoring journalists (although Hammond did a bit about cars on his radio show). The vast majority of the presenters were simply that, presenters.

For most of Top Gear’s life it has been a motoring show presented, mainly, by motor journalists the entertainment bit came later.

I am not unhappy about this. Left field decision for sure but the show needs to be different but familiar, the worst thing they could do would be to completely copy the last format.

I’ve actually seen one in the wild

A quick read of Tavarish’s article, here, would have reduced your level of astonishment

Kia built rebranded Fords that were rebranded Mazdas

Fair point

Why does the F22 try to shoot the ground crew?

Once in a generation someone has to take a stand and speak out against the horror that is the peanut (disclaimer: not actually a nut). I’m proud to be that person for this generation.

If you smell of peanuts I concede

Play on words..........things like that...........just the usual strange in-family jokes

I did too until I tried pistachios

Yes, Thigh food (in family joke............my Dad convinced my younger self that off was spelt Ophph)

That’s what peanuts do to me..........I have actually vomited from the smell before

Each to their own.............I do find it bizarre that I don’t mind peanuts in Thigh food but cannot stand them otherwise.