That's it, no more Top Gear for me

[DimPrawn]

None of these people I can warm to. Going to be very sterile.

Bit like hiring an all contractor team, masses of testosterone and great knowledge, but where are the idiots you can laugh at?

[VectraMan]

What about Suzi? I had grown to like her after a dubious start.

Suzi ruled herself out of both F1 and Top Gear; so I read. Steve Jones (who?) is rumoured to be the new F1 presenter.

[WTFH]

Well he used to be a racing driver, and has run an F1 team, F3000 team, amongst others. He's not a mechanic but compared to most people I reckon he probably knows a bit (I read his autobiography recently)

I assume this means he's not doing F1 for C4.

He's also the drummer in "Eddie and the Robbers" who are a pretty good band if you get to see them (they do a lot of charity gigs and played at Carfest South last year)

[DodgyAgent]

They need presenters that are odd, funny and self effacing. cars are just a prop.

[DimPrawn]

They need presenters that are odd, funny and self effacing. cars are just a prop.

^This.

Otherwise they may as well rebrand it as "Horizon - The science behind perfect cars"

[d000hg]

Matt's pretty cool but I can't see him agreeing to slum it in Uzbekistan.

EJ is the closest to JC in that line-up; outspoken and constantly putting his foot in it. A bit of a dinosaur in today's F1 world.

[unixman]

Some of these appointments look a little desperate. Matt is great but, being the big Hollywood star, is he really going to let Chris Evans be the boss? And who is going to do the writing? Clarkson is a writer by profession, and a good one. Now of this lot are (?).

As somebody said above, it looks like a zoo format. Good on radio, but on TV?

[LondonManc]

Sabine's fitter than Captain Slow and The Hamster. I'm in.

[DimPrawn]

Sabine's fitter than Captain Slow and The Hamster. I'm in.

You have some seriously low standards.....

[LondonManc]

You have some seriously low standards.....

I've been married over 15 years; what do you expect?