Started in 1977, reinvented in 2002, then back to the drawing board in 2016, Top Gear is the motoring show that set the stage and upped the ante for any motoring show. Despite the hiccup represented by Chris Evans’ departure after the 23rd series, Top Gear came back fresher and more powerful than ever before for the 24th. And now, the 25th series appears to be more of the same, with added ridiculousness and lots of entertainment.
“Ken Block is hot on the heels of Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid,” reads the description of the first trailer for Series 25, and as you can tell from the 30-second appetizer, rallying maestro Block plays the role of traffic officer with the help of a Can-Am Maverick side-by-side.
The presenters, meanwhile, are gifted with the Jaguar F-Type SVR (Rory), McLaren 570GT (Chris), and Shelby GT350R (Matt). Not a coincidence at all, the cars they’ve chosen for this segment of the show mirror their nationalities. The exception comes in the form of Block and the Can-Am, with one originating from the United States and the other from Canada.
According to TopGear.com, filming of Top Gear Series 25 started towards the end of June 2017. The announcement was joined by a photo of Matt and Chris in Norway, where they went for a drive in the Ferrari GTC4Lusso and Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo. Filming locations confirmed for S25 also include the U.S., Italy, France, and the UK. It’s in the latter country that the presenters were spotted in fairly used British luxury cars.
The twenty-fifth series of Top Gear is the first since the switchover from S22 to S23 that sees the presenting team unchanged. About when the first episode will air on the small screen, “spring 2018” is all we have about timing for the… uhm, time being.
Until the big day comes, don’t forget that The Grand Tour is on air for the second of three confirmed seasons.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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