
Together they turned Top Gear into a new genre of television. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more incredible, it managed to top itself in skilled execution of seemingly impossible ideas, stunning visual quality and politically incorrect humour.īehind the scenes it was obviously an enormous operation with a budget to match, but all the money in the world couldnt buy the chemistry between its former hosts which grew stronger with every series. Top Gear right up until the end of S.22 literally set a new global standard in television production brilliance. It's impossible to view it however, without looking through the lens of what has gone before. Without the legacy of Clarkson, Hammond and May this might just be a fairly watchable albeit try-hard television series.
