https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10516831/top-gear-hosts-paddy-freddie-and-chris-reveal-show-is-going-green-and-will-ditch-gas-guzzlers-and-overseas-filming/ CHANGE OF GEAR Top Gear hosts Paddy, Freddie and Chris reveal show is going green and will ditch gas guzzlers and overseas filming 10 Dec 2019 Andy Halls
[images https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NINTCHDBPICT000546405515.jpg Top Gear goes green as Paddy McGuinness, left, Chris Harris, centre, and Freddie Flintoff opt ditch the gas-guzzlers for electric cars and slash overseas filmingCredit: PA:Press Association https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NINTCHDBPICT000546444385.jpg The BBC1 series’ presenters say they’re reflecting modern society with its new-found climate change awareness https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NINTCHDBPICT000140778070.jpg Top Gear 2014, when James May, left, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson, right, upset locals with a number plate they believed referred to the Falklands WarCredit: PA:Press Association ] ONCE a gas-guzzling show, with burning rubber and squealing tyres, Top Gear is going greener. The BBC1 series’ presenters, Paddy McGuinness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris, say they’re reflecting modern society with its new-found climate change awareness As part of the change, the team is featuring more electric cars and has reduced the amount of overseas filming by more than a third. In an exclusive chat ahead of their Christmas special, Chris said: “We just reflect what’s going on out there. “So in five years’ time, if 70 per cent of the cars sold in the UK are electric then 70 per cent of the cars we test on the show will be electric. “Compared to three years ago, we film 34 per cent more in the UK. So we made a big change there and we will continue to do that.” Paddy, who also hosts ITV’s Take Me Out, joked: “Next series, it’s all bicycles.” But Chris also slammed the likes of Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion for “brainwashing” children, and insists there is still an appetite for motoring programmes that question the climate change claims. He said: “It definitely is a generation thing. Children have been taught — some might say brainwashed — that the motor vehicle is an evil thing. "Yeah, it’s been too dirty for too long but ultimately it’s done an awful lot of good for us and I think Top Gear has a right to stand there and celebrate that. [image] Paddy, snapped during a pit stop on his journey through the Himalayas, joked: 'Next series it’s all bicycles'Credit: PA:Press Association “And it is cleaning up its act very, very quickly. Top Gear should scrutinise whether electric cars really are the future because I don’t think there’s enough lithium on the planet to create all the batteries that we’re going to need for this new revolution.” Dad-of-three Paddy believes it’s simpler than that. He said: “I feel, especially with electric cars, a lot of families out there can’t afford the new electric cars — everything’s about budgets. “If you’ve got a family car, whether petrol or diesel, and it does the job and it’s going to last another ten years, you’re not swapping it out for an electric car just yet.” ... THEIR trek across Nepal makes for some hairy moments as the trio drive close to precipitous drops in the Himalayas. Chris sends what he fears will be his last text, telling his family: “I love you”. [image] The trio embarked on some risky adventures with them often driving incredibly close to precipitous drops in the Himalayas But it’s not enough to put the team off continuing on their mission.Freddie, who suffered a horror 124mph crash in September, said: “You get put in these situations but you have trust in the people who put you in. “Everyone wants the same – we want to make a good show but they want us all safe.” Paddy added: “There is risk but there’s also a lot of people around you. You’ll have a convoy of about 20 cars with medics and mechanics. “You are in a perilous position, but you sort of think, ‘People there, they have got me back’.” ... Mountains of fun in Nepal THE lads were granted a Christmas special after doing so well in their first series together, which began in June. Around 2.8million tuned in to the opener, and that figure increased as the shows continued. [image] After amassing huge popularity from their first series together, Paddy, Freddie, and Chris were granted a Christmas special, filming in NepalCredit: PA:Press Association It’s the first festive special since the infamous Argentina episode in 2014 when previous presenter Jeremy Clarkson upset locals with a number plate they believed referred to the Falklands War. For this Christmas special, Paddy, Freddie and Chris embark on a classic Top Gear road trip in Nepal. In modest Peugeot, Renault and Nepalese cars, they start off in Kathmandu, crossing the mountains of the Himalayas, rivers and mudslides for five days to the Forbidden Kingdom of Lo Manthang. 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