Top Gear Gets New Presenters And We Bet You've Never Heard Of Them

We now know who will be replacing Matt LeBlanc next year.

After Clarkson’s infamous punch-up with a producer, Top Gear returned in 2016 with an all-new presenter line-up fronted by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc. Evans quit the show after just one series, and LeBlanc took over as main host alongside Rory Reid and Chris Harris. Since then, the show has proven to be a viable alternative to Clarkson, Hammond and May’s rival show, The Grand Tour, thanks to the trio’s on-screen chemistry.

But just as Top Gear was finally starting to get back on track, LeBlanc announced in May that he will be leaving the show after the next series. We’ve been wondering ever since who will replace the former Friends star. Top Gear has now announced its new presenter line-up for 2019, in what will be the third time the hosts have changed since series 23 in 2016.

After LeBlanc hosts his last series in early 2019, Chris Harris will be joined by comedian Paddy McGuinness and former English cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff when series 27 airs later the same year. In the UK, McGuinness is best known for hosting the dating game show Take Me Out, while Flintoff is a team captain on the sports-themed panel show A League Of Their Own hosted by James Corden.

“Getting the Top Gear gig is a real honor,” said McGuiness. “To be hosting a show I’ve watched and loved from being a small boy is beyond exciting. Top Gear fans worldwide are a passionate bunch and I consider myself one of them. Now let’s start up this Great British machine and see what it can do.”

“It’s not often you have the chance to do both of your dream jobs, but I’m now lucky enough to say I will have,” said Flintoff. “I’ve always been passionate about cars and I’m so excited to be joining the Top Gear team.”

Chris Harris added: “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.”

Rory Reid, who has hosted the show alongside LeBlanc and Harris since 2017, will also return, but will no longer be one of the main hosts. Instead, he will “remain part of the Top Gear family” along with Sabine Schmitz and will continue to front Extra Gear.

Harris and Reid worked well together in the last series, so it’s disappointing to see him dropped from the main presenter line-up. The new presenters seem like unusual choices to front Top Gear, but we’ll reserve judgment until the new series airs next year. It will be interesting to see what direction the show takes since they aren’t well known outside the UK and the only motoring show McGuiness has previously hosted was a little-known show in the UK called Stars in Their Cars in 2016.

Filming for series 27 will begin early next year.

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We Bet You've Never Seen These Cars In These Insane Colors

And the best part is, they are all currently for sale.

Here at CarBuzz, we love exotic paint colors. We have even debated what the best colors are to order an expensive car in. However, some people don't just want an exciting color, they also want something that they will never see driving past them on the road. The best way to have such a unique car is to do a paint-to-sample, which is offered by higher-priced manufacturers like Porsche and BMW. However, a special order car can often take over three months to arrive and some people just can't wait. Here are five unique color cars for sale right now.

Lamborghinis are often painted in wacky colors like yellow, orange or green, but we think that we found a color that's far more unique. This Lamborghini color is called Viola (violet), and we found a Huracan painted with this amazing 30th Anniversary color. Even the brake calipers are painted in a matching purple. We love the combo with the white leather interior, and the car is currently being sold by Naples Motorsports in Florida for $310,000. We even found a matching 1997 Diablo nearby for $185,000. These two matching purple Lamborghinis would be perfect for anyone who loves this color and Italian exotic supercars.

Enthusiast Auto Group has become quite famous on the internet for selling some amazing BMWs that must be seen to be believed. For example, this dealership sold a 13 year-old E39 M5 with less than 10,000 miles on it. So of course it comes as no surprise that Enthusiast Auto currently has a BMW Individual M4 painted in Signal Green. This color was initially a Ferrari color, and former Top Gear host Chris Evans used to own a 599 in Signal Green. We love the color because it looks so different from a standard M4. The car is just under $70,000, which is not bad considering that it is filled with carbon fiber options.

Porsche is probably one of the best automakers when it comes to custom paint colors. Sometimes, Porsche won't let customers order a limited edition car with paint-to-sample because it wants to keep the number of exclusive cars down. However, normal production models like the 911 GTS can usually be ordered in almost any color as long as the owner is willing to wait around three months. However, if anyone has the itch to own a one-of-a-kind 911, we found this Mint Green example for sale for $127,000 at Champion Porsche. This is a 911.1 Carrera GTS, so no turbocharging and it even has a manual transmission for the purists. It may not be a GT3, but it is just a step below it.

A little while ago, Mercedes-Benz decided to give us a taste of what German humor looks like in the form of a limited edition series of uniquely painted G-Wagons. The G-Class normally comes in boring colors like white or silver, so seeing it in yellow, orange, and green was definitely quite a shock. The colors all had hilarious names like Tomato Red, Sunset Beam, Galactic Beam, and Alien Beam. We found one of these cars painted in Alien Beam Green and we can't think of a better car to draw attention for someone who loves living in the spotlight. Only 463 of these SUVs were made, so it is unlikely that many of them will ever cross paths. At $162,000, the attention won't come cheap.

We already showed how different the BMW M4 could look in a unique green, but sometimes uniqueness is all about subtlety. Many people would look at this BMW M3 and think that it's no different than one of the cars they've seen at the BMW dealer in Yas Marina Blue, a cool, but still factory color. This M3 is not Yas Marina Blue, but rather Laguna Seca Blue, which is a color from the E46 M3 generation. The car even has a BMW individual interior with white leather and dash inserts in Laguna Seca Blue. The car also has a manual transmission, which should make it a collector's piece in the future. This may be the perfect M3, and it is being privately sold right now for $79,000.

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