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Roadshow – First ‘Top Gear’ trailer: New faces, same old tyre-squealing shenanigans

The new series of “Top Gear” is racing our way fast. Here’s the first trailer for the revamped BBC series, featuring new presenters Matt LeBlanc on three wheels and Chris Evans on all fours.

Globally popular British motoring show “Top Gear” will have a new cast of presenters when it returns next month, but the tyre-squealing trailer suggests it’s business as usual in terms of high-octane action and outlandish stunts. To the raucous strains of “I Just Want To Celebrate” by Rare Earth, the trailer sees a range of gorgeous cars burning rubber, including an Aston Martin Vulcan, an Ariel Nomad dirt buggy and, er, a Dodge Viper with a machine gun on its head.

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