![]() ![]() It’s no longer a celebration of fuel-injected, cyclist-hating late middle-age machismo. But having swapped Jeremy Clarkson for Matt LeBlanc and now moved on to Flintoff and McGuinness (with Harris clinging on from the LeBlanc era) there is a case that Top Gear has found a new niche. Top Gear has been written off as out-of-touch and in need of a paint job for almost as long as The Stig has been popping up on BBC on Sunday nights. ![]() But who needs breathtaking drone footage of a switchback motorway halfway up the Alps when you can send your presenting trio of Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris pottering around the Lake District in “dad cars”? Covid restrictions have made the epic overseas jaunts that were the series’s lifeblood an impossibility. ![]() Tears, hugs and a banana-hued Ford Fiesta were among the highlights as Top Gear (BBC One) returned with an episode that confirmed petrolheads have feelings too. ![]()
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