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Here’s how badly the internet thought new ‘Top Gear’ sucked

Published May 31st, 2016 4:40PM EDT
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Anyone with two functioning eyes and one half-decent brain cell watching the broadcast of new Top Gear on Sunday knows that the show was bad. But how do you put that kind of terrible into words?

Luckily, the internet has experience crapping on other people’s endeavours, so I’ll let the collected crowd-wisdom do the talking.

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And those are the people who have to be slightly polite.


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In the meantime, viewing figures came out which didn’t paint a particularly rosy picture of the new season. 4.4 million viewers were watching on the BBC on average, with a peak of 4.7 million. That’s down from 5.8 million for Clarkson & Co’s last outing, and well below any series in recent memory.

Chris Evans seemed a little wounded by the hate being thrown his way, so took to Twitter to defend it in the worst way possible: with dodgy statistics:

This would be impressive, if the rival show on BBC One wasn’t Antiques Roadshow.

Whichever way you want to cut it — professional pundits, viewing figures, or the internet — the new series of Top Gear looks to be a flop. The only saving grace was Extra Gear, the behind-the-scenes show with different hosts, and a much better reception.

But if you were looking for a high-budget mix of octane and comedy, well…The Grand Tour, backed by Amazon’s limitless coffers, is probably going to be your best bet.

Chris Mills
Chris Mills News Editor

Chris Mills has been a news editor and writer for over 15 years, starting at Future Publishing, Gawker Media, and then BGR. He studied at McGill University in Quebec, Canada.