Top Gear’s Bentley-Rallying, Rickshaw-Crashing Series 26 Trailer Is Here
Top Gear’s series 26 trailer has landed, showing us some of the weird and wonderful stuff we have to look forward to later this year.
Chris Harris teams up for one more run with Matt LeBlanc, who leaves after this series to spend more time with his family, and Rory Reid, the CT favourite who for series 27 has been controversially shifted sideways in favour of a new pairing of ex-cricketer Andrew Flintoff and comedian Paddy McGuinness.
The one-minute trailer opens with some off-roading in the new Bentley Continental GT, echoing a piece filmed on a rally stage with James May back in the long ago. The same Bentley is at Ascari, in a classic Le Mans-style running-start race against a 2001 Bentley Speed 8 endurance racer.
That same Continental is drifting through some snow before Chris Harris is seen failing to control a Porsche 911 GT2 RS in horribly wet conditions, and there’s plenty of nonsense going on with auto-rickshaws. Games of polo, body contact on horrifically dangerous mountain roads and some watery action with pontoons all star in the series 26 preview.
There are some old luxury motors, a very new Rolls-Royce Phantom and a twin-test between the Fiat Panda Cross and the Suzuki Ignis. In a river, on the way up a mountain. Sounds good to us, with a broadcast date yet to be decided for later this year.
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Shame it’ll be ruined by Matt Leblanc trying to make jokes, Chris Harris having to dumb everything down, and Rory Reid being Rory Reid.
Yet James May was the only genuinely interesting one on old TG 😂
look, ive said this before, and ill say it again
and again
and again
and again
New Top Gear, may not be as funny or have as good chemistry between the co stars as the old trio, but have you watched the first few TG seasons of the Trio, it too had awkward chemistry and was a bit stale in a way.
These guys need time to grow into a full bond, (which sadly wont happen as Matts gone and Rory is back to Extra gear.)
And on their own, theyre all really good at their jobs.
Chris is well, Chris Harris, no words.
Matt makes it kinda fun to watch him do something silly, and his truly does have good skills. He’s a little wooden, but at least he’s not fake, like the Old trio (my opinion)
Rory may seem like the weak link but to me, he has that interested type of guy charm, like a budding car guy, and that showed heavily on the Japanese culture tour, and if you read his articles on TG mag, he has some VERY good opinions.
say what you want.
but I’m hyped
yet sad, this may be the last good season
The thing about the former British motoring journalist (now the TGT Trio) was that all three of them shared similar home town and past growing up and yet they have vastly different experiences working in various fields before regrouping on Top Gear. It was nice to see them get along well sharing stories of their home town. Above that, their offensive mockery and edgy jokes were the center of controversy for which the show gained so many audience over the years. Also those three presenters were enough to take the circus globally and make it a successful show.
By contrast, the new presenters aren’t related to one another well enough, nor do they share a similar past. To make it worse, they aren’t even settling along well with one another either well enough. Ever since the show revamped, they’re constantly moving the presenters around making it hard for them to get to know each other well. And I think that’s the reason for their failure. Not that it doesn’t matter they’re not related to one another but the fact they aren’t getting to know each other well enough to let themselves go edgy over one another is what’s hurting the show in the first place. The bosses at Top Gear really need to sort their management and the show theme well else their ratings ain’t going up any time.
‘Good opinions’
Kowalski, analysis.
Looks great, S25 was a lot better than TGT for actual car stuff but was still exciting and funny - not sure about S27 - Flintoff and Mcguinness are fairly unfunny and know ** all about cars, I’d like to see Eddie Jordan back!
I think Freddie and Paddy are quite funny… And they can do a bit of research about cars too… You probably knew nothing about cars until you did research.. 😂
The problem with the BBC is that they are trying to appeal to the casual viewer. That is why Flintoff and McGuiness have been touchen to host the show. Us car guys want people with a deep love and passion for cars to host the show but you’ll never see this happen again. The names attached to the show will sell it the masses not to few.
Genuinely looks good.. I’ve been watching the best of TG on BBC recently and i really don’t see the problem..
Matt and Chris have great chemistry, Rory is rather entertaining too.. Sabine throws in a bit of professionalism (as a racer and ex-TG Germany presenter) and Eddie Jordan just being himself.
Cannot wait. I hope it’s as good as it looks…
P.S. if you’re still butthurt about Clarkson, just go watch the Grand tour..
Don’t understand why people still cry about this. Tool Gear is a great TV show and has been since Evans left. It’s on par (in terms of content) to The Grand Tour. Instead of coming up with ways to hate on the show just appreciate the fact that we have 2 amazing car shows coming this spring. You don’t have to he exclusively a Grand Tour fan or Top Gear fan to acknowledge that both shows are very good and both shows are designed for the enjoyment of car enthusiasts like us. Sorry for the rant but I’ve seen too many comments on sites like Youtube and it’s annoying.
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After TG ended, i lost interest quite quickly, i even watch the Grand Tour for entertainment now. If i want to actually learn about new cars in-depth, i’ll watch the YouTubers (ONLY Shmee150, Mr JWW, STG, and Doug Demuro cuz i actually learn new stuff about cars from them, everyone else clickbaits way too much and is just borderline annoying)
yea the S2 of “new” op gear starts to feel just right with good humor and less fairness than S1 well im just looking format to S3 :))