I think you can tell just how much fun we're going to have making 'Top Gear' with Paddy and Freddie. They're both brilliant, natural entertainers - and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level.

I'm from a more rigourous journalistic background. If I say a car is good or bad, the viewers can trust the fact that I have spent all my working life reviewing cars.

I had a full 11/10, out of body of moment when I drove the Ferrari FXX K. That woke me up proper sideways.

People have short memories.

Top Gear' is all about the cars. We've got humour in it but the unique premise of the show is it all starts with the car.

If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the systems and everything else to communicate with each other. But in an electric car, it's much simpler.

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

The car is absolutely central to our approach. Everything we do begins with the automobile, whether it's old, new, bizarre, weird, strange, or cool. We're not going out to make a comedy show, and that's great, certainly from my point of view because obviously I'm totally obsessed with cars and I don't really like people.

People often look at the past through the rose-tinted glass, but if you go back to 'Top Gear' 2000/2002 the chemistry wasn't there, it took time to grow.

Top Gear,' for entirely understandable reasons, started to focus on its international status because it was selling so well in international territories.