So it’s a trainwreck despite not actually having put out a show yet

So you mean his You Tube channel then?

Certainly is! A high school friend of mine committed suicide today. I’d not seen him in 20 years but still a shock.

Those type of meetings were very typical when I worked in central London

Yeh, I’d guess it’s 8-10 yrs old now.

It’s worth checking out, just to see how crazed this guy is. It’s done very well, no piss taking or in a Discovery/TLC channel style. It’s an exploration of the guys mental state and an attempt to try and understand why.

He doesn’t restrict himself to the exhaust. There is a UK TV documentary this guy and he ends up going on a road trip to meet anything fetishist. He ends up ‘fucking’ this other guys car, which doesn’t go down well. The other dude finds suspicious stains on his car after a motel stopover.

He should count himself lucky he didn’t fall foul of the guy who claims to have had sex with 700 or so cars!

Yes, typo when not wearing glasses...................Clarkson doesn’t come from money or a posh background but was privately educated as his mother created the Paddington Bear toy. May went to a state run comprehensive. Hammond was educated privately though.

Deplaning is not a word! Disembark is the correct term.

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.

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