Clarkson vs Evans - it's no contest!
In the popularity face-off between Jeremy Clarkson and Chris Evans, allegiances are clear.
|||London - In the “car wars” face-off between Jeremy Clarkson and Chris Evans, the allegiances of younger petrolheads are clear, says Adnan Ebrahim, the founder of the booming online rival Car Throttle.
Ebrahim points out that only 58,000 people on Car Throttle watched recent video of Evans being sick at the track side, while 1,500 viewed the story that the Radio 2 presenter was Clarkson's replacement. “The younger audiences seem to only want to hear about the new Top Gear when it's going wrong,” says Ebrahim, whose YouTube channel has amassed 829,000 subscribers and 125 million views.
A Car Throttle poll found that 79 per cent of 4,500 respondents said they “weren't interested” in a Top Gear without Clarkson and his cohorts James May and Richard Hammond.
Ebrahim warned that an Amazon Prime subscription payment to watch the trio's new project, would be “an inconvenience for younger audiences”.
The Independent