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Top Gear series 27: Release date, specials, presenters and everything you need to know

The 27th series of Top Gear has got its key in the ignition and is ready and raring to go.

Chris Harris said: "It's a little bit different – I think it's more relaxed, and more approachable. The bandwidth of the show is greater.

"I think beforehand we had to try and insert some humour or levity into the more serious aspects of the show to retain the non-specialist audience. "Now, these guys are so great – when we're together there's so much fun and joy in those big adventures. I think that gives us the chance for the straight bits of the show to be almost straighter.

"So the petrol-heads will be happier, because there won't be a sort of deliberate funny in a power test of a super car. "You don't need it, because they're being so funny elsewhere in the show. So I think the petrol-heads will be happier and the general audience will be happier as well. It's just funnier."

He added: "I'm really pleased with it. Everyone I've worked with on the show before, it's been great fun and I'm proud of all that work, but this is a different Top Gear. I think it's broader." Replacing Reid and LeBlanc are England cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, the one-time Phoenix Nights star-turned-frontman of ITV dating show Take Me Out.

McGuinness did host a show called Stars In Their Cars, which probably gave him the edge when it came to winning the gig. Flintoff…well, he famously bought a Lamborghini that he couldn’t fit into. "I don’t half feel like a knobhead," he told The Sun.

McGuinness also echoed Harris's comments about some new and exciting change-ups in store for fans. "There's little changes like when we go on the foreign trips we interact with the locals a lot more now, which has never been done before," he told Digital Spy.

"I like the fact that it's just a little bit broader for everybody. I want to get as many people watching it as we can, as well as the petrol-heads."

It's official: Top Gear will return on Sundays on BBC2 at 8pm.

I have been watching it i surgest you all do its got me in stitches and as always have a chilled day from the viking