To Jc. If you are thinking about going, do what you like. It's not the nations choice, its your choice. I love Top Gear. Much better than the 5th Gear freaks. I hope something does happen to them. My fave episode was when you all bought British leyland cars. Hamsters handbrake wouldnt work, your doors kept falling off and Captain Slows suspension was rubbish. My fave car on Top Gear was the Ferrari Enzo coz its brilliant!!! Well if you go you go. cya sometime in the future. Top Gears biggest ever fan. Aaron Roberts 12

Aaron Roberts, London, Twickenham, England

Don't go JC top gear is the best tv show ever! and I'm a massive fan!!! It will be a shame if you leave. I am a complete petrol head, Iove cars and with you gone it will be dull and boring, your hilarious. I learnt alot about cars al because of you on top gear. And they'll be one thing I'll miss most;all the jokes!
Please Don't Go!!!

Ollie, Bradford, UK

JC you can't leave the best motoring magazine show ever.It will never be the same without your wonderfully colourful discriptions, and no matter what Mr Edison of NJ thinks,which having an american sized brain ain't much, there could not be a better person for the job.
I have seen the yank version of what they call a motoring magazine show and its dull,boring, lifeless dribble with presenters whohave the persona's of sleeping wombats.
Please do not go anywhere, make more show's and give us more of what us Brit's love.

morgan haynes, richmond, missouri, usa

hi Clarkson, May and Hamster. Im only 12 and a small girl at that but me and my dad watch top gear and we love it. It will be a big shame if you leave JC because the show wont be as good as it is now if you leave. There wont be any more short and tall jokes between you and hamster. I love it when you lot are all together joking and giving cars to stig and watching him to do silly stuff with the worst cars. Your show has given me a better understanding about cars. My favourite car is, well all of them lol. I hope these shows will continue even if you do go because i love them and i like learning about all the cars and so does my dad. My favourite show is When May put that car on the building that was about to be demolished and the car survived and was brought in the actual studio. That was astonishing. Cant wait to see your next show :) .

Katherine Guest, bridgnorth, Shropshire

Thanks JC.....it's about time that you move on.
All these years "observing" this so called "motoring show" felt like watching Monty Python in Russian with German subtitles. Over time important topics about motoring got lost in translation, or call it bad scripting. This show has become a tabloid and while it's columnists increased their salaries, they've simultaneously decreased their focus and horizon, unfortunately.
JC however, had a bigger handicap, he knows nothing about cars, can't even build a simple kit-car and neither can he actually drive. The only person that most likely could give us a great feedback is the Stig. But he got silenced, for what ever reason.
Honestly, I'm glad this nonsense is (hopefully) over and we don't have to listen to a strangely biased Anti-Car presenter anymore. Why Anti-Car presenter? Simple: Anyone who has to call his wife to ask how to fold down the rear seats in the Family car should not be allowed to "evaluate" or discuss cars in public ;-)

Thomas, Edison, NJ/US

Clarkson, May & Hamster, mack top gear it wont be the same

chris pring, kent,

Top Gear is the best show I´ve ever seen! Without his great humour and the scripts made for the show, Top Gear is nothing.

Even though I can´t watch the show in my country because I lack of BBC2 channel, I still watch the videos at the website and youtube.

Still, don´t let go that horsepower man.

Pablo Avila, Guatemala, Guatemala

It's what Top Gear is all about Clarkson, May & Hamster, the banter, a few cars, crazy messing about stuff, and above all top entertainment!!!

It would be shame to see him go.

Matt, Manchester,

If Clarkson is going, will they get an adult to replace him?

pete thompson, rapagnano, ITALY

And this is still news?

andrew Whitehead, kentish town, lONDON

Most people I know only watch it for the well fit Richard Hammond anyway. JC has a face for radio or print journalism.

allan, carlisle, cumbria

Sign Here Before You Enter The Car Please Jeremy, asked the BBC runner.

Sign, sign what, for what? JC replied.

Crash helmet.
Flak Jacket
Death waver
Insurance waver
Health & Saftey Instruction Manual
Vehicle Braking manual
Vehicle Steering manual

Oh Christ its dark. Im going home.

Can you really blame him.

J. Hand, Bangor, Northern Ireland

No No No No No! This can't happen to the best show and the best presenter on TV! Unless JC stands for parliament and gets rid of the ecomentalists forever...

Brian, Horley, Surrey

'Clarkson ‘may leave Top Gear’'

GOOD!

m elliott, bath, somerset

We need the continuing anti-warmist voices of JC (and his fellow musketeers) to bring balance to the eco-mentalist influences. If JC walks out, it shows that his ego is bigger than his friendship -- and all that bedside support stuff during Hamster's recovery was just show business fiction.

If the presenters and producers have run out of ideas for the show, just invite viewers to send suggestions. Even if you just get a million wacky ones, I'm sure they will spark a few workable ones. I'll kick off with one: "The Top Gear Gumball Rally" with other celebrities invited to join in.

David White, Auckland, New Zealand

Top Gear is the only thing I've watched on BBC for the last three years. If it goes, no more licence fee from me.

Desmond Persaud, Wimbledon, London, UK

It's all gone wrong since he gave up smoking. He's still a great/funny writer though.

Wadey, Rossendale, uk

It's the one car show where the dialogue is not pulled straight from the manufacturer's brochure. I don't care about how many cubic litres of cargo space a car has, i'm not planning on filling the boot with water! I want to see very fast, very expensive cars going sideways presented with the laddish attitude of Jeremy, Richard, and James that has made Top Gear one of the most entertaining shows on television today. It's one the few shows on TV that is genuinely fun to watch. The departure of Clarkson would surely rob the show of its spirit and reduce it to a dreary, atypical magazine show. Jeremy, don't let the health and safety folks win! We need a little fun in our regulated, PC world!

Scott Millson, Toronto, Canada

It would ba a shame to see TG go. I've been watching it for years. I would be less upset to see the back of Clarkson however. Recent series' have paid as much attention to his ego as they have the subject matter!

Stuart, Exeter,

There's no point in Top Gear without Clarkson! If he leaves the show has to finish, he's the main (pardon the pun) driving force in the show and one of the reasons I tune in. His humour and wit make it a programme that people who don't even like cars that much will watch.

Linda, Gloucester, UK

Top Gear is one of the best shows on TV at the moment. Among all the idiotic sitcoms and depressing dramas, it is a refreshing change. My two small boys (4 & 7) would be devastated if it was axed - it has them laughing like drains and keeps the whole family amused. And I don't like JC much...

Sue Bartucca, Radstock, Somerset

This show has went to pot from an interesting technical programme for those who actually wish to know about cars to this shambles. See ya Clarkson!!

Fed Bruce, Winchester, Hampshire

If you want to learn about small hatchbacks and nice MPV's then watch a different programme or buy a magazine on the subject! Let's face it, the cars most of us drive are boring so why would we want to see them on TV? TG is not a 'Which Car' should I buy guide, it's for us guys and gals that like to fantasize about the cars we can't have, and actually see them being driven as they should be. Then there's the humour of the presenters. Who cares if some of it is scripted, it's fun, just enjoy it for what it is. Yes Jeremy does say some none PC stuff, and I do sometimes disagree with him, and could even be oiffended at some of it. But, more importantly, I find it refreshing that someone is actually saying this stuff, and the viewer isn't being treated like some over-sensitive imbecile, who has to be protected from any form of offense.

Nev, manchester, England

Jeremy, don't let them do it. You and the Top Gear team are the best thing on Melbourne TV. Not that the competition is anything to shout about, but please don't go. Ignore your critics. Top Gear is to motoring what Iron Chef is to cooking -- there is simply nothing like it around. Hang in there.

Robert de Gille, Melbourne, Australia/Victoria

"A ferrari, zonda or even a bentley will always be more exciting to watch than your average family saloon"

But John @ London we see that on nearly every episode you & many others have dreamed about the cars you'll never be able to afford..its time to wake up - live in the real world, help us decide which people carrier to buy next - dare I mention some of us have to even consider buying second hand !!

Dave, Stoke on Trent,

Top Gear is one of the few programmes on TV these days that treats its audience like it can actually think for itself. They don't treat you as if you're a sheep just waiting to rush off and copy what they do. They treat you like you can judge for yourself what you are watching. And I love them for it.

People saying they should scrap the programme just because they don't like it are silly. I don't go about demanding a programme should be scrapped or even changed just because I don't like it. People like different things. So, please, get off your high-horses. TG is perfect Sunday night viewing. Long may it continue!

Kat, Merthyr,

Jeremy has done well for the programme but it does need a new direction, what about the family and small cars that most of us in the UK drive.
Jonathan Palmer would be a good choice

David, Three Bridges, West Sussex

It would be a shame if the TV benchmark for uncool switched to Richard Madeley just because Jeremy Clarkson wasn't wanted anymore. Anyone got a suggestion?

Perce, London, UK

A real shame if TG AND JC go even to the 'other side'. At least they cock a snop at the ever-pompous columnists, instead of kow-towing to the green brigade etc etc.

Top Gear shows what can be done with expert engineering and it is for this that 90% of ALL motorists should be thankful. If they had not gone out and tested these cars, then without doubt, the motor industry would be in deep doodoo!

Keep on Beeb, The viewing public needs Top Gear!!

stev, Arundel,

No Jezza, no TOP GEAR. Hope the show keeps running, even 'Captain Slow' can be entertaining, as for the little guy!!!!

Old CJ, Paignton, UK

Much has been said about Top Gear, both for and against, and obviously its main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, the man in question. There is no doubt the man has certain qualities in terms of presentation style and a dry wit. But how much of this is down to spontaniety or is it scripted ? Sometimes I wonder.

Certainly TG has turned from an informative program about motoring to one where only the supercars are considered cars. Anything taking more than 4 secs in 0-60 is a non event. Add the fact that program seems to have run out of ideas, that they have to include gibberish about home made rockets or limousines. If this was JC's idea then I am afraid he should go and let the program revert to its old style where the focus is on cars and not homemade hobbies. Nobody should be bigger than the program. I hardly missed JC when he was away from TG for a few years.

Abid Khan, Milton Keynes,

Clarkson should go. The show is rubbish now when compared to what it once was. It seems the current format is based on those infantile laddish magazines one finds in a barbershop. I would like to see a return to objective appraisal and information on the subject of cars that the general populace can afford with some content on those vehicles that are special because we aspire to own them, they are are ground breaking or worthy in some other way. As it stands the rationale for a car being considerered as good or excellent simply boils down to who shouts "because I like it", without any qualification, the loudest. Pathetic. As he exits Clarkson should also take his two sycophant sidekicks with him and replace all three with a team that actually provides viewing pleasure and value for license fee.

Matthew, Bucks, UK

Good riddance to it... the outcome of the 'stunts' is painfully predictable and are, along with the 'banter', so obviously (and badly) scripted and acted that it's been like repeatedly watching the same episode of Terry and June for years. The three presenters have just become dismal parodies of themselves.

Numpty, Dublin, Ireland

Good riddance to JC and Top Gear. Fast driving and gas guzzlers are junk stock. I watched an episode a couple of weeks ago and it saddens me to see so many people taken in by such utter rubbish - not to mention the other two's roles as Clarkson's stooges.

Gary Loch, Llanreithan, Pembrokeshire

theres only so many sentences one can take with 'OK?" appended to them . Bye Bye Jezza...you've been with us long enough for any good you've done..

joseph healion, cambs, uk

What an apalling piece of journalism... there I was thinking that the job of a newspaper was to use its resources and contacts to bring us real hard news. More fool me. Here's the situation, Jeremy Clarkson sometime "journalist" and sometime car chat show host has said he won't work with the cars anymore.. so far so good... its a piece of news... the piece then goes on to say however that his TV employers have contradicted this and said he definately would be doing another series... Oh dear what once was news is now aparrently not news. Now I know I'm not a journalist but I would have rung said Clakson to check the facts of the story.. that would have resulted in either there being no story or who knows perhaps an even bigger story like BBC lies etc etc. I suppose we'll just to wait in front of television screens to see if Clarkson and cars are seen again.

anthony harrisson, london,

I can't see how this has anything to do with shoes.

BTW has anyone seen my scissors?

Tom Steerbacon, New Town, New, UK

It's the only program I make sure I watch on the BBC, will be sad to see clarkson go.

david orr, london , England

About time too. For what was once unmissable viewing it has become little more that 3 public schoolboys pratting around. Where were the road tests? For that matter, where were the cars? Unless you were in an earnings bracket that Clarkson (let me rehash another book for you) is in, the programme has become out of touch and redundant. Bring back Quentin Wilson & VBH, at least they have a degree of credibility left.

Martin Clift, Glasgow,

I don't drive but I think Top Gear's fun. The world needs more fun. Maybe they plan to jump to ITV? Incidentally, why do several of the people posting comments feel it necessary to list their academic qualifications? "MD", BSc, MBA, PhD" etc- it is really not relevant and doesn't make their comments more worthy than those of others...

VW, Brussels, Belgium

Clarkson Going? The programme may finally be worth watching again. He should take the bloke with the Coco The Clown haircut with him.

Jim, Northampton,

The show will be far better without him, looking forward to the autum.

Greg Hale, Sandwich, UK

Oh please, oh please, oh please . . . don't let it be so. I suppose it's true thaat all good things must come to an end, but not just yet. This is the best television show in the History of Man, and Clarkson is integral to that innate mix of entertainment and information that the show provides.

Clarkson, you know your business and what you have to do better than we do, but please don't powerslide off into the sunset just yet . . .

Todd Black, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

clarkson makes top gear what it is...long live top gear, all you opposition dont know what your chatting about

nahid rahman, farnham, surrey

I happened to see most of the last 2 shows and was amazed out how 'out of hand' and 'stupid' the format has become. This is a great show, but has recently become crazed and more like a 'You've Been Framed' show.

I thought Top Gear was supposed to be about motorcars, motorcycles, consumer related news with a hint of the more exotic, not about appeazing the boredom syndrome that has obviously set in amongst its presenters and production crew.

J.P Brooker, London, London

To the delusional person who recommends bring VBH back to the show: She is the worst car critic ever to grace british TV, bar none. She is so amazingly annoying, that topgear ratings would die overnight if she was brought back.
Just try watching Fifth gear. Any sign that a car she is driving, starts to traverse only slightly sideways, and that annoying screech that only she can do, comes bursting out. Arg.

Ben, Cardiff,

Clarkson is Top Gear; the rest are just ecentric decoration. If you want a sensible CAR show, watch Fith Gear.

Brett, Wandsworth, London

Clarkson has made this the best comedy programme on the T.V.

Bernard Parke, Guildford,

Yippeeee no more JC think he looked a complete twit with the bit or level crossings going on about the orange jackets not the danger, two days later was it someone was killed on a crossing. Not his fault but the issue was serious and he made it into typical JC poor humour at others expense.

Paul, hoddesdon, Herts

A very tired format? Shouldn't that be "a very tyred format"?

...

I'll get me coat.

Starling, Lancaster,

what a relief to hear news that Jeremy Clarkson or J.C.or Jerry Can( oops! as he is obsessed with German cars) is leaving Top Gear. The show will be a lot better without him.He should have left it fiteen years ago. Bring back Quentin Wilson.

harjinder virdee, coventry,

Praise be !!

Clarkson is leaving Top Gear......perhaps the show will get back to roots of dealing with cars and motoring issues......and not another 'vehicle' for the gospel according to Clarkson.

Only problem is........will he now be given a prime-time chat show or even a reality show based around him - Clarkson should be confined to the Big Brother house and have any microphones unwired so we can hear him - and I for one would willingly pay a premium rate number to keep him in for as long as possible.

The future is bright - the future is Clarkson free !!

Jim, London,

The BBC need Top Gear so they can claim that they are not "anti-car", it is just about the only programme the BBC broadcast that isn't. This gives Jeremy a certain amount of leverage. They probably want the programme to be more 'green', he's told them where to go. They'll back down - they need him - otherwise everyone will see BBC bias for what it is.

Chris, Birmingham, UK

Get VBH (Vicki Butler-Henderson) back on board. What a piece of hottness. Ratings would rocket again!!!

Lach, Melbourne, Australia

It does sound rather like Mr Clarkson is using this tactic to negotiate a large increase in salary. He knows he's onto a good thing with Top Gear, and I am not concerned for the show.

Mark, Hong Kong,

Clarkson and Hammond have increased to a painful hyperactive level that is spoiling the show. I often crinch for May's thoughts during what seems like a pair of spoilt kids arguing.
Time for JC to go as he doesn't add much now - refresh with someone new, male or female.

P Stewart, Notts,

don't want him leave,perhaps giving him a german speaking assistent to interprete the car manuals,and
Be shure in tiMe he Will learn how to drive a real car!!!

ewald widiner, shanghai, china

I haven't owned a car for seventeen years, never had any real understanding of how cars work, and am an older woman. My daughter and son in law put me on to Top Gear. It is the funniest tv programme I've ever seen, and Jeremy is its core. There are times when I just cry with laughter. Please keep this show on the road.... as it is!

Jan, Geelong, Australia

My money is on JC having signed for ITV. Well done Michael Grade!!

Don, London, England

Saying Top Gear sets a bad example to drivers is like saying Red Dwarf sets a bad example to astronauts. It's not meant to be taken seriously (though the safety feature about not driving in front of trains made a good point memorably).
By the way, I don't drive and have never been remotely interested in cars - but who cares?

Daughter of 'Housewife and Civic Driver', Southampton, England

'Top Gear, a tired format?'

What are you talking about? That's why the last episode of the series had 8m viewers, BBC2s highest audience for 10 years.

Clarkson, please don't give in to the liberal, PC, environmentalist brigade. Top Gear is the best show on TV.

andimc, Swinton, South Yorkshire

plzzzzzzzzzzzzz dont make him leave or den it will be real boring and would be soo difrent u can't replace him or the other two cause no1 will be good enough 2 replace them.
WE LOVE U CLARKSON!!

sara, London,

Mr Clarkson, please stay. You are our champion against all the joyless, miserable, ecomentalists and health and safety jobsworths that plague our lives.

Don’t listen to the people who say they wouldn’t be sad to see you leave. They probably all have beards and no friends . . . and that includes the women !

Chris Long, Thirsk, North Yorkshire

To have no Top Gear in unacceptable, to have Top Gear without Clarkson is lunacy. I agree that the great JC is sexist, opinionated, totally un-PC but I have a mind of my own and can laugh along with the rest of the nation at his and his collegues antics. The American show and the limos this season were hilarious and even had my 73 year old mother laughing.
I hope JC and RH &JM don't give in but I hope they don't give up!

Maggie, Glasgow,

TopGear is one of the highlights of my week while it was on. It is something I look forward to between and during every series, and if it is going I will look upon this with great sadness.

By the way, anyone saying that we should use more environmental cars for 'global warming' reasons should have watched 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' on Channel 4 a few days ago. It certainly proved to me that global warming is a massive lie.

NB, Leeds,

Clarkson, Hammond and May are the highlight of my week and everybody else's week. If Top Gear doesn't come back then what will we have to look forward to on a Sunday night? -- Inter-village pottery making and basket weaving perhaps?

Edward, Dublin, Ireland

I'm saddened and worried about the future of the best motoring show on earth. At least I'll have his column to read. I couldn't expect Top Gear to last 1,000 years, even if it has taken over the world.

BJ, Dallas, TX, USA

If JC leaves he's just surrendering to the envoirenmentalists.

Well, not really, but they'll feel like they've accomplished something great, and I really don't want that to happen

Josiah Wooldridg, West Midlands, England

"more features on realistic cars that are within the reach of the common man or woman possibly.....the world is evolving green is the way ahead & gas guzzling speed machine monsters belong in the past..."

jenkinson, top gear would not be top gear without the savagely fast and expensive cars they test drive! A ferrari, zonda or even a bentley will always be more exciting to watch than your average family saloon

John, london,

Brilliant though it is, Clarkson may well have realised that the show is rapidly running out of ideas. Sure, the latest stunts might have been excellent entertainment, but what next? Where do you go after sending a Robin Reliant into Space?
What it needs is plenty of genuinely new ideas - such as "star in a reasonably-priced car". However, even if these are thought of, they might be seen as a weakening of the extremes the show has recently reached.
Tough one this. Maybe it simply has come to the end of its natural life and Clarkson wants to make sure he's the man to announce it. Bright bloke..

P Williams, London,

Oh no.
The BBC contradicted this

He was the best driver demonstrating all the cars of the world and telling us what the goods and the bands were in any cars, subtly of course. I will cancel the TV channel. No TV no Drive. Come back. Andrew Gilligan gone, now you too brute.
He even showed the weak points women had in driving. I used to get a god ride with my 72-inch plasma TV and now BBC takes this off. What do I get in turn? A DELL laptop that has burning chips??? No, I protest fro Tanzania.

Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD, Dar-Es-Salaam , Tanzania

How can some of the people say Top Gear would be better off without Clarkson ? Him, Hammy and Mayes make a terrific trio of presenters. They work so well together. You can tell they enjoy making the show as much as we enjoy watching it. Sure they do stupid things like the limo tests but my family were all laughing so loud as the "celebs" were getting wound up! Even my wife enjoys Top Gear, we all sit and watch it together and on Monday's discuss it at work - I don't know anybody that doesn't enjoy the show.
I agree we need to see some more cars on the show but that's my only negative (?) feedback.

Mark, Nottingham,

It's for the best especially if the BBC use the format to promote safer driving instead of having three egotists showing off their bad behaviour and the consequent effect that has on the impressionable young driver. Although, I suppose anyone demonstrating good driving skills would be seen as boring and the all important ratings would drop.

Ken, Bedford, UK

Please, this cannot happen. It just can't.

Holly, Bolton,

Oh please Jezza, you can't leave. Top Gear won't be the same without you! Its won't be as funny anymore, and no-one will be able to wind up the Hamster as much as you do anymore. Top Gear is the best program ever in my 12 years of existing; i want to be a presenter of the show one day, with you guys! I also want to drive around corners very fast yelling PPOOOWWWEERRRR!!! And blow up caravans.

PS: If you leave Top Gear, witch i REALLY hope you don't, will you come host the MPH motor show in SA again? I wanted to go but my parents said no, so can you come again?

Katie, Hartenbos, South-Africa

Jeremy is the funniest man on the planet, and hot with it. I will be distraught if he leaves top gear, and will probably stop watching it. So...I suggest the BBC offer him a couple of new cars as an incentive to stay or their viewer figures will fall drastically!!

Victoria, Twyford, Berkshire

If Jeremy goes, i think i couldn't watch it anymore. It would no longer be the same.

Eric, Toronto, Canada

I even watch it when I am away and out of this country. THIS is one show on the BBC for which I think I pay my license fee. If he is not there on the show, well I dont see TOP GEAR will have any realistic future.

P Mulay, Wadebridge , CornwaLL

If Top Gear goes, what will replace it? More Football oridiots skating. Keep Top Gear, I relax with it befor another week of work,

Mike, Southampton, Hants

I would like to second all the negative comments and put in my vote to see some more eco friendly cars. There is no real reason not to encourage people (especially young people) to think about the environment and show a little bit of caring for the legacy that they will be leaving their children

Even if Top Gear likes to have fun with expensive cars it would be great if they could encourage the manufacturers to do the right thing. Imagine Clarkson in an Eco-Warrior outfit... the mind boggles

Darren, London,

Could it be that the real reason JC (not Jesus Christ) is putting out sounders, has more to do with the fact that his giant ego cannot bear the reality of his baldness becoming more obvious on TV these days, plus the very unsettling (for him) huge popularity of his smallest co-presenter?

The ego has come down to earth with a bomp, and is now attempting to measure his own popularity without being man enough to admit it.

The programme's format, is perhaps a little too suttle for large swathes of US audiences and he could be biting off the hand that feeds him by thinking it would work better across the pond.

Then again, I could be wrong.

Ken. H, Harrow,

I think it's a mistake to judge the programme on the short series that has just finished. It's obvious that it wasn't properly complete and cobbled together due to Hammond's crash giving them limited time to create a full series. I think the "out and about" pieces that made up most of this series would have been complimented by more track based work at TG HQ had a stop not been put on things.

It's one of the few things that I still enjoy watching on the BBC, and if they want to kill off a show that enjoys 8m viewers then that would appear very foolish to me if they do.
They've got Ross, Wogan and Moyles on massive deals, so it would only seem appropriate that the TG team are rewarded similarly.

Al McDonald, Edinburgh, UK

very silly programme
perhaps a programme for adults would be good instead

charlie, reading,

THE LAST EPISODE OF THE LAST SERIES WAS THE HIGHEST VIEWING FIGURES BBC2 HAVE HAD IN 10 YEARS. FACT.

How can people say, 'top gear has lost its way', 'the last series wasn't very good' etc. Do these people know waht they are talking about? Just read the FACT above!

Please JC don't leave.

Andrew Mc, Mexborough, South Yorkshire

Jeremy Clarkson saved my life; a pack of badgers were attacking me (in a 'V' formation), and Jerry pulled them off. The man can do no wrong.

Jez for Prime Minister; there, I've said it.

Sam Cavender, Newtown,, New, UK

Please don't leave Mr Clarkson, it wouldn't be the same without you!

Sarah Williamson, Belfast, Northern Ireland

... and louis just gave an excellent example of that, Adrian!

*leaves a BOPGAS*

(For the uninitiated, that's a Bag of Punctuation, Grammar and Spelling).

Starling, Lancaster, UK

Little Britain and Top Gear, two of the most popular TV shows in Britain. You folks really need to get out more.

eclan, Milan, Italy

aaarrrggghhhhhh i live in Australia and it's the only show I watch! Hell, I even record it while I'm watching it!
End Top Gear?? Bloody hell, that would be like denying penicillen to the sick, or telling the pope he can't wash feet anymore. Nor happy, Jan!!

But, if it stayed I would be the happiest guy in the world. Oh please keep TG going. You're scaring me.

Dave Jones, Adelaide, Australia

Good riddance to him! Now we only need to get rid of Jonathan Ross,...!

Peter, London, Europe

Top Gear is a lot of fun for all ages.It would be a shame for it to go.

But if it does go.Why now? and after the crash? It should have more cars and less mucking about in it.

One day some will get killed filming Top Gear but it someone almost did.

If jc does not do it any more Richard hammond and james may also have a say.But they have not said a word.
Why don't they what they have to say out in the open.

Gemma, Luton,

Arrived UK early am 1 August 05 stay with friend in Odiham, early evening whole family adjorns to lounge room to watch Top Gear.........whats Top Gear I ask? OH it's this great show about cars but its so funny. What my food scientist friend Angela is into cars? I sat there for an hour still jet lagged but loved it. On return home I was delighted to see it was picked up by one of our networks. Told everyone i know "you have to see this show its mad, its about cars but even your wife would enjoy it".............wife loves it so does everyone I know. Shame if it stopped becuase of JC........i love all the guys in the show they work so well as a team, but if u pull JC out it kinda takes something away from it all. Come on Jeremy surely there are still more thrills after the Veyron good as it was!

Phil T, Melbourne, Australia

Is this not just a fuss over nothing?

The new series is due in the Autumn, not the summer. JC was quite correct when he stated that the new series will not be happening in Summer because, quite simply, it won't. It seems to me that it is typical JC winding up the media and the public in his own special way.

TG is by far the best programme on the television at the moment, it cannot end yet.

Mark Stringfellow, Manchester, UK

If they axe Top Gear then the PC brigade will have won.

No more seeing 4-blokes-and-a-tea-urn sending a mock space shuttle into orbit on their afternoon off, or a cross-country test drive of an off-roader being chased by a Challenger 2, or or .... the list goes on.

And every single one of them has the nation in tears of laughter.

Make Jezza Minister for Transport. That'll solve the congestion problem.

Bry Barnes, Somerset, UK

Perhaps Mr. Clarkson's in a strop because Hamster was the only guy that could save the programme's ratings. Must have bruised his ego somewhat.

I hope he doesn't get the urge to strap himself to a rocket.

SK, London, UK

Jeremy Clarkson's frustration with the BBC's "it must be totally safe and absolutely PC" culture has been increasingly obvious for a couple of years. Top Gear is a hugely popular programme, not just in the UK but world-wide, as was eveident from the colossal international reaction to Richard Hammond's crash, and it didn't get that way by being cautious and PC. It's iconoclastic, disrespectful, and very, very funny, and you don't have to be a petrol-headed male to think so.

Housewife and Civic driver, 54, Southampton, UK

Top Gear is one of the few good programmes on telly. Even my girlfriend loves watching it!

It might be contract negotiations, might be getting annoyed with the producers' ideas for what is supposed to be a MOTORING show, not a copy of 'Hello!'...

Let's get Jeremy, Richard and James back in the studio and reviewing cars! Thrash them round the track AND let's see them being used on the roads - useful for we mere mortals.

No more talk about tractors please!

AND lots more silly challenges involving old, cheap bangers having to complete silly challenges by driving somewhere!

Neil, Swadlincote, Derbyshire

Yes Jezza its time for a change....maybe we could get back to basics, more features on realistic cars that are within the reach of the common man or woman possibly.....the world is evolving green is the way ahead & gas guzzling speed machine monsters belong in the past...goodbye Mr Clarkson

D Jenkinson, stoke on trent,

The Beeb may well have plans for TopGear to return, but perhaps JC now realises that the format has reached the end of the road. I enjoy most of the bizarre challenges (Robin Reliant Spaceshuttle - brilliant) but the Florida Stunt was strupid, ill considered, down right dangerous and very very insulting to the Americans. We may not love them, but we need not be rude about them in that way when we are guests in their country. So whose idea was it? JC's or the producers? Maybe that is where the parting of the ways has its roots. If the Beeb want to replace JC, maybe they should get someon who knows about cars, engineering and technology - someone like James May but a tad more entertaining. And how about giving the green agenda a fairer platform in future? I look forward to part II of growing your own petrol (bio-diesel I presume).

The show can and must adapt. Alas JC is destined to be a funny old dinosaur - for a little while longer at least.

Andrew, Maidenhead,

About time too. What was once a serious motoring programme has degenerated into 3 overgrown school boys clowning around. The cars that are "tested" are so far out of most peoples financial reach that this "feature" now makes little or no difference to Joe Public. Please, if there is to be another series, lets get back to basics.

Martin Clift, Glasgow,

Something wicked this way goes....

If Clarkson goes then so will TG. Can you ever imagine anyone else being able to present it with the same degree of humour, dryness and downright sarcasm that we love Clarkson for. Can you imagine Hammond and May continuing with out him? Those three must stay together. It will be the saddest celebrity break up since Jennifer and Brad. Calrkson - Don't Go!!

Rebecca, Worcester, UK

I think 5th gear on channel 5 is nearly as good but without the same machismo eluded by Clarkson and co but Tiff and VBH (both ex top gear) are just as good reviewers. So anyone who hasn't seen it give it a go.

Robert, Eastbourne, East Sussex

I think he's just in a huff after discovering that Scandinavian pirates post all the episodes on YouTube without so much as his by-your-leave. "If this isn't making me richer," I can hear him pout, "why should I do it?"

Eton Eritas, Barking, MD

I am not a "car person", i do not drive, i walk to work, in fact i rarely travel anywhere by car. But i love Top Gear, i hope it will remain on our screens and remain as entertaining- there may be scope for more car-focussed shows on TV, but i will definately avoid them. I believe the magic of Top Gear is highlighted by the its vast audience, some of whom, like me, probably couldn't care less about cars...

Katie, Cambridge,

Top Gear is the best thing on TV and Clarkson one of the most watchable presenters on the planet. My only complaint is that the series just gone was so short! I know thousands would agree...

Pete Gladwell, OXFORD, UK

Top Gear is a very popular show on American TV so I wonder if an American broadcast company is planning to make their own version and has approached Clarkson with an offer too good to refuse.

Maureen, Ware, Herts., UK

My 13 yr old son, 18yr old daughter, wife and myself watch TG and enjoy the content with its vague connection to the technicality of cars and an emphasis on entertaining. That is something no other programme has the ability to achieve. If you want to know about cars from an anorak point of view watch one of the other banal car programmes.
I hope this helps JC in his contract negociations!!

C.R., Carmarthen, UK

Without doubt the team at Top Gear provides quality entertainment in an age when TV presents so much diabolical 'reality' programmes and soaps that have long since past their sell by date.

JC has not only provided a series that is pure comedy, mainly the banter between the three hosts. Celebrities that lose their ego once they are subjected to providing their best lap times in a 'reasonably priced car' but in addition the chance to see super cars that are raced at top speeds around a track.

Mike McLean, London,

What! Clarkson leave Top Gear? No way, what's the BBC playing at, just double the mans salary for God's sake!
TG is the only worthwhile thing on the telly, not polluted with all that Political correctness nonsense. Jeremy, James and the Hamster are the three motoring Musketeers .

Jeremy you'll just have to sort this out.

Simon Caddell, Torquay, England

Call his bluff. He will come crawling back AGAIN!

Francis Wheeldon, Llantwit Major, Wales

Is he leaving because it would be impossible for the show to be dumbed-down further ?

roy wilson, chipping norton, oxfordshire

Dont leave top gear cos me and ma frends love the show and ur autobiographys are wiked u r irreplacable with hamster and captin slow

louis baker, didcot, uk

As a bit of lateral thinking such as ascribed to Clarkson: could I just comment that most of the people who watch the programme (or certainly most of those who contributed to this) don't seem able to spell, punctuate, or articulate their thoughts well at all. Is this indicative of petrolheads in general? I think the programme can be hilarious, but do worry when I see my licence money thrown away on such completely daft items as "sending a Reliant Robin into space" Nothing's funny that costs that much of my hard-earned dosh. (On second thoughts, Clarkson did refuse to have anything to do with that item, so fair do's.) So I don't care if he goes or stays, I think I'm saying. Oh dear, I don't seem very articulate myself. Got to laff avent yew!

Adrian Jewell, Sheffield, S Yorkshire

And on that bombshell......

I'd rather not see JC leave - he's great. But no-one is indispensible.

How about Jodie Kidd along with Hammond and May?

Felicja, Manchester, UK

Please Mr Clarkson, stop this show right now, or alter the format, Its more like a general entertainment show for the American public now, rather than the informed motor programme it used to be.

Dave Decco, widnes, uk

I think the fact that to date 88 people have voiced their opinion of the programme shows that this is a very popular series. Indeed my 19 year old daughter and myself think it's one of the best things on television at the moment but as someone has already commented, the sketches are getting a bit abstract what with road laying and harvesting, (what this has to do with cars I don't know). Perhaps Mr Clarkson has the perception to see that the format is not as it should be and if he does go it will be very difficult for someone to follow in his shoes. Bring back more cars been thrashed round the track and please Mr Clarkson, stay.

Mike, Farnborough,

Great news - perhaps it will return to being a show about cars and not a JC ego trip

Mike, Liskeard,

TG is the only thing on TV I do my utmost to see or tape for later - the guaranteed feel good factor of a good old belly ache laugh at everyone's expense - GIVE US MORE - and Jeremy, if you must leave, don't ever stop observing and writing - you are the best!

Fiona Stansfield, Dunston, Lincs

The BBC are doing this to most of the programs that they show. Someone up the ivory tower thinks that all the shows they put out have to be a funny, they don't.
Every show you can think of that starts off well goes to pieces when they suddenly, and with no good reason, try to turn them all into huge jokes!
Sometimes its just nice to watch a good factual show, with good content without attempting to turning into Faulty Towers.

patrick Ross, Cambridge, Cambs

If Clarkson has has indeed decided to leave, it speaks well of his judgement. The programme is a little tired and in danger of trying too hard to outrage. Clearly he saw the signs with the put-a-Robin-Reliant-into-space stunt. Very clever man, that Clarkson!

Sonny Ram, Crawley, West Sussex

Please don't leave Clarkson!

Top Gear just wouldn't be the same! I just love the controversial comments that you make e.g. the "Speed Kills" Richard Hammond joke. I also love watching the green anti-car folk getting so annoyed at such a brilliant TV program that you have done so much for.

Matt, Southampton, UK

Don't stop Clarkson! This is the only show worth watching and the main reason why is due to him. I haven't met a single person who doesn't love the show. Even my lefty tree-hugging flatmates who were originally forced to watch it now won't miss an episode. Come on JC, when are we going for that pint?

Adam Brown, London,

Why didn't JC remind Kristen Scott Thomas that he'd named his donkey after her, when she drove the reasonably priced car?

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

Isn't this really just JC renegotiating his contract and making a load of hot-air about "leaving the show" - sounds more like he's taken a leaf out of John Terry's book to me!

Ashley, Sevenoaks, Kent

DON'T GO! top gear's nuthin without you! don't go!!!!!!!!!

Hari, Chennai, India

This, ladies and gents, is what is known as a "contract negotiation". Looking forward to the next series.

Mark Cobley, London, UK

I'd be gutted if JC left - TG makes my Sunday night and I can't think of a better combination of presenters. I watch it together with my non-driving flatmate and she loves it too! It's refreshing to see something non-PC on our screens. A bit of controversy (not to mention the hilarious features - we were in tears of laughter over the US roadtrip) is good for us!

Jo, Nottingham,

You cant stop the show, I'm still on the waiting list for tickets!

Pietre, Portsmouth, England

It's a winning formula - 3 perfectly balanced presenters pretty much doing their own thing. Take any one of them out of the equation and it loses it's appeal. Yes, the pure car content isn't as high as it used to be, but they've melded their characters, knowledge, and love of motoring into a pseudo-motoring magazine show that entertains on so many levels and gives a great deal to more than just "petrol heads". If I look back at the laughs I've had watching TV over the last 12 months, most of them have been at Top Gear.
Captain Slow, Hamster & Clarkson: More of the same please! The world will be a duller place without you.

Carl Starbuck, Castleford, West Yorkshire

Jeremy is my hero! Def. the finniest man on TV, don't go! Top gear would almost certainly flump if he did leave. The end of an era.

Rajay Naik, Coventry,

For me and many of my friends Top Gear is badly mis-rated. It is not a motoring programme at all but the best comedy show on TV - period. All we need is a sight of Jeremy berating his car with a tree branch and we will have reached Nirvana.

The suavity of May, the Cheeky Chappie of Hammond and the sheer down-to-earthness of Clarkson mixes into such a creamy blend I'd like to buy a pint of it every time I visit the pub.

Tony Brown, Le Mans, France

Clarkson is great, but he has Hammond and May to keep him in check. If you remove any of the three, the show dies. Remember the chubby bloke before May? He was just there, without really any purpose. These three form a great chemistry.

Anyway, I think Jeremy Clarkson is protesting for either more pay or more freedom, or perhaps even so that he is the lead and continues to be.

Truth be told, this season was pretty awful. While I like the adventure type stuff, there was just too little car stuff this time. In the Porsche 997 Turbo episode, for example, I would have expected a race between it and the 430, but we didn't see that.

Little things like that are now disappearing, and I'm not sure why.

Henry, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Don't be ridiculous Jeremy. Millions of people got hooked to Top Gear because you all say a lot of funny things that refresh the soul. I continue to chuckle quietly when some funny lines of Jeremy flash to my mind, like the description of "a car boot the size of Essex"! Simply so funny, even if meaniless. Don't walk away Jeremy. Good lad.

Dr. Salmon Omokanye, Worksop, Notts

Its the highest rating show on BBC 2 in ten years - I think that fact speaks volumes about how great the show is.

It's the only thing I can watch on TV that hasn't been worked over by some consultant and made audience friendly.

It'd be a total shame to see it killed off.

K Murphy, Sydney, Australia

The last series was terrible anyway; combined harvesters, laying a road and an entire programme devoted to driving across America? Where were the cars? And the races across Europe? It wouldn't be too big of a shame if it didn't come back if it continues to degenerate as it did this series.

If, however it does come back, albeit without Clarkson, then I guess the whole thing would need a revamp. The current format with just Hammond and May or those two plus A.N Other probably wouldn't work too well.

Dan, Sheffield, UK

There is NO top gear without jezza.

joey, london, england

Jeremy come on man stay! It'll be the death of the greatest tv show produced in the past 10 years.

Sam, dallas, tx

Great program though it has lost it's way somewhat by introducing stupid topics like making stretched limos and similar idiotic topics - Recently it seems that we get well over half the program filled with stupidity and less that half just about filled with decent topics - JC good front bloke but we need change - make Hammond the anchor man!!! Get back to basics and divide the program into presenting a Cheap, Mid Range and Top Range model with other realistic addins like Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, F1 and Rallying topics!!

Mike, Moulton, Lincolnshire

I share elements of most of the preceding viewpoints however it is worth noting that there have been various pretenders to the thrown currently occupied by Top Gear (Fifth Gear, Driven, Vroom, Vroom..) and nothing has come close to matching the chemistry that Clarkson & Co. conjure up on a Sunday evening. Do we really want to go back to sensible reviews by wierdy beardies folding seat backs and loading suitcases into boring family hacks? NO! The Top Gear formula provides pure escapism on a mundane bath night and allows the three overgrown school boys to live out both their own and our petrolhead fantasies. Sure, some of the explosions, wanton vandalism is pueriel and ridiculous but show me another show suitable for the whole family that comes close.... Clarkson is an obstinate self-opinionated style disaster - but he is VERY VERY funny! I for one will mourn his departure.

John Drogan, Upper Ramsbottom, Lancashire

As a female, top gear in its present form is great viewing, very entertaining and a lot more interesting.....
Please keep it as it is
Thanks

Anne Francis, Chelmsford, UK

i think top gear should stay as it is the truth and nothing but
the turth the presenters clarkson hammond and may all tell it as it is and i and many fellow motorists enjoy the program and think more time would be a benift IE 2 TO 3 HOURS A WEEK and a more indeph reports on cars and related products
The famous 3 and the bbc must be aloud to continue the show which is one of the best shows on british tv and has world following keep up the good work

duncan todd, littlehampton, uk

Clarkson is a popular man with popular views.

Wouldn't it be nice if, he ,a laterally thining man were to shake up either the tories lib dems or labour.

Whichever i'd probably vote for him.

James, Maidstone, UK

The sketches where the 3 do something silly reached an all time low with their antics with the stretched limos ferrrying 2 celebs and Chris Moyles to a big do. So no Clarkson would make a vast improvement to the show.

John Clarke, Bourne, UK

Clarkson can't leave! Im only 15 and im totally hooked on it. I watch all of the repeats and i even watch it on Uk TV Gold. On monday mornings , all that my friends and i can talk about is the previous nights' worth of Top Gear. It is a classic show. There are four things that make the show special. they are :

* Reviews on the cars. detailed and informative.
* Interaction between the Three presenters. Hammond Clarkson and May make such a good team. If one of them left , the balance would be destroyed forever.
* the funny stunts they pull. Eg. America roadtrip and there many races,
* The amazing camera work. the cameramen deserve a tonne of credit or all the beautiful shots they get.


Sunday Nights wont be the same without Top Gear!

Alex, Beverley, East Yorkshire

Clarkson is the essence of the current show. He has not been doctored by the thought police, which is why it is BBC2's number one show and such good medicine. I suspect that the 'right on' BBC think that he's too much for them - it 'll be their loss the commercial channels' gain. Keep up the good work Clarkson, if 'they' ever lock you up, I'll visit you in jail.

David Williams, Southampton,

I watch Top Gear in spite of JC, not because of him. In fact, I think he's an appalling man who legitimises and epitomises a particularly nasty streak in the (male) British character. Keep the hilarious stunts (come on, who DOESN'T want to watch a Robin shoot into space? and the ski jump mini - brilliant!) and cool cars, lose the obnoxious, predictable, and ultimately poisonous posturing about speed cameras, safety belts, global warming, etc.

MLH, Durham,

The BBC should ask Damon Hill & Neil Hodgson to present it with Richard and James! The daft stunts are sometimes entertaining and always seem an expensive way of making a program. Spend the money on good scriptwriters instead! There are lot's of other types of vehicles to have on the program to have fun with and make an entertaing hour slot out of.

MR. E. Ryder, Harrogate, UK

i think that clarkson is threatening to leave due the the health nand saftey brigade trying to rein them in some of the latest stuff was a bit tame compare to preivious items

though that said it still highly entertaining viewing

please jezza stay ( as i think may and hammond would leave as well)

in a world of reality tv top gear is a breath of fresh air jeremy just think do you really want to be responable for the new bbc2 tv programe car pop fame idol accademy on ice !!

matthew, coventry, england

JC you cant leave ... What about us lot that only slug it through the long weeks just to se TG at the very end .. and even if the seasons at its end .. we will watch it over and over on sky ..! .. JC please reconsider ... you cant leave it wont be the same !!

Jack Ch, Chichester, England

Top Gear is my favourite programme and Jeremy Clarkson is a legend! I hope it comes back for another series with the same presenters. Its the funniest programme ever and it wouldnt be the same without the fabulous Jeremy, Hamster and Captain Slow! The show will be greatly missed by millions of viewers if it was to go off the air.

Krystina, Cumbria,

Jeremy Clarkson is Top Gear, without him it will run for a season and audience figures will drop James and Hamster are funny in there own right but its when they bounce off Clarkson comments the magic appears

Susan, bristol,

Top Gear has gone downhill fast over the last year - instead of showing us cars we now have stupid stunts and Clarkson's ego is OTT - he's not what we like to see - we like the cars - get rid of him.

Rob Hancock, Warwick, UK

I'll be devistated if Jezza leaves! They are real idols of mine, and Top Gear just wouldn't be the same if any of them leave! Please reconsider, J, you're my absolute hero.

Ruby, Margate, Kent

arguably the best show on bbc, he has to stay.

i hope he is just playing mind games over a new contract.

johnathan, birmingham, west midlands

JC is the perfect antidote to all those PC, liberal, muesli eating doom mongers that we here all too much of.
He is also the prefect foil for May and Hammond, and the three of them gell together as a very entertaining unit.
JC is the heart of the thing, and lets face it, he is very funny as well.

Ken Taylor, Monmouth, England

Be a shame if JC were to leave but the whole format needs a review. It has become pretty puerile recently and as much as I hate them, caravan jokes have been done to death.

Jeremy Billingham, Robertsbridge, East Sussex

We very much enjoy Top Gear as it is now, with the bright trio.
I would miss JC very much, and think that the program wouldn´t be as funny and intelligent as it is, if he leaves. I hope this is only politics.

Daniel Schere, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I have to wonder if maybe it has to do with Dunsfold Park. Maybe the contract's up for shooting on that site?

Victor Wong, Ottawa, Canada

Personally I think the programme's gone a bit daft, albeit enjoyable so. Perhaps Jeremy feels it's gone as far as it can and he's in danger of removing it's motoring programme status. Combine harvesters anyone???

Mark Blair, Haverfordwest, Wales

Nice comments

Chris, London, UK

Clarkson goes? Brilliant, the show used to be about cars not any more, its about highly paid presenters with huge ego's, and producers with too high budgets who try to find ways to use them on projects more suitable for teenage enthusiasts then interested motorists.

Mike Laughton, Harrogate, UK

I would be gutted if he left the are like the 3 musketeers. It would be such a shame

Chas, leicester, leicestershire

II think the whole is greater than the some of the parts. It's the 'formula' that works. A ludite (Clarkson), a progressive (Hammond) and a techie-bof (May). As long as the role-models are kept, the personnel can change. Just please, don't drop the series. It's brilliant fun.

Marcus Gilbert, Crowthorne, Berkshire

I totally disagree with some previous comments. If Jeremy left, it would not be Top Gear anymore. The chemistry of the three presenters makes it what it is. That chemistry would disapeer should he leave. Keep all presenters, and definitely keep the current format BBC!

James, Aberystwyth,

I have been a fan of Jeremy since he first appeared on the screens back in the 80's. I have read all of his books and regularly read the column on the Times web site. I can say with honesty that over the years I have noticed him go slowly off the boil and become very jaded about the motor industry in general. I think the problem is that he has become so big that he fails to even comprehend what most of us consider to be normal motoring. The never-ending gripes that almost all cars are rubbish is becoming tiresome. I say let him retire to his seaside croft and let his bitterness and frustration slowly implode him. I really like Jeremy, but replace him with JIMMY CARR, I say! He's funnier and appears to at least have his feet still on the ground.

Sadly, Jeremy still on TG is like having an out-of-touch, aging DJ on radio.. it just shouldn't be allowed to happen. Oh, wait, there is Jo Wiley.. I suppose there are exceptions. Arf!

Mike P, Kent, UK

I think the show has lost its way.Its funny at times, but very predictable. Clarkson is long past his sell by date. The whole show needs freshening up.

L Waters, Oxford, UK

Top Gear provokes, and therfore opens debate. While Clarkson may not be the golden boy to all viewers, he is good at what he does. There is tension in the show - and how many motoring shows around the world can claim that?

I live in Togo and see many American motor shows via satellite - all fuzzy and soft around the edges - and it isn't the signal. No one could ever say that of Top Gear!

Come on BBC, stay a little stronger.

Ian Sayer, Lome, Togo

Top Gear in its new format is a lot more entertaining than a programme of a review of ordinary cars could ever be.

Kevin Dickens, Nottingham, U.K.

Clarkson is a switch off anyway.

David Thwaites, Wimborne,,

Hi
My son has just text me to say that there might not be a Top Gear anymore? He is gutted, he is 16 coming up 17 and is hook on Top Gear but mainly Mr Clarkson.
If it is Jeremy that is thinking of not coming back well so be it but if it is the BBC who are considering not doing it anymore well back off. This has to be one of the best show's about and it gets better each year.
Jeremy, you have a lot of support out there so think very hard.
Regards
PS you probably got my son where his is today as an apprentice with Citroen

Martin Abraham, Haddenham, UK

Top Gear wont be the same without all three of them! I hope Clarkson, Hammond and May will all be back for a new series, or Top Gear + Sunday nights will not be the same!

TopGearFan, MK, UK

No one has mentioned that not only does JC write and present TG but he owns half of it along with the producer - an old school chum of his. A change would be good but of the format not the people. Bikes, classics, motability, custom cars and cars that people buy in quantities like Toyotas, Fords etc - what is happening with MG, TVR etc would all make interesting articles instead of of making limos out of Pandas and the like, and shooting cars with tanks which is all very childish. Keep the edge and the attitude, just change the subject matter. I will do it if he doesn't want to! Happily and cheaper - MUCH cheaper!

Migel Murgatroyd, Amersham, England

Let's get realistic about this for a moment.

Without doubt, JC adds his own unique buzz to the show and it is difficult to separate JC and Top Gear. Although I could be deemed a fan of JC, there are other entertainers that could take over. Preferably NOT a previous car show presenter, VBH, Quentin and the like just didn't cut the mustard. It would certainly HAVE to be someone with a dynamic, amusing personality.

TG does seem to have lost the plot along the way. The comic skits are amusing, but as others have said, the show should include more general motoring news. Although items on the latest Ferrari, Aston Martin, etc are interesting, not as a constant diet though please.

Peter, London, UK

I hope Top Gear remains on our screens with the same presenters for a while longer yet. It's the one show in the TV schedules that All members of our household want to watch together, mum, dad, nineteen yr old lad and thirteen yr old lass, grandma and grandpa (dog likes it too). I am sure this is true in lots of households up and down the UK. It's not just cars, it's entertainment and hi-jinks!

Debbie, Swansea, UK

As a programme (like most other long-running shows) Top Gear has always evolved and re-invented itself. From it's earliest incarnation in the 1960's (?) there was a constant changing of the guard, partly to keep the show fresh and partly to maintain it's relevency.
That we never had it on our screens in the late '80's and the '90's was simply down to the lack of imagination and the corporate mentality at the BBC, allied to their accountants treating the purse-strings as if the BBC's money belonged to them personally. (Typical!)
So - if JC decides to go, then let him go. The format has been set, very successfully, and at least there will be no need to sit through an hour of programming on Sunday evening waiting for another "Jeremyism!" BUT DO NOT DROP TOP GEAR! BEST PROGRAMME OF THE WEEK!Fresh blood will simply stop the programme from stagnating and keep it fresh, just like it always did.

Graham Adams, Burton-on-Trent,

This once was a programme I would strangle my grandmother and bury her under the patio in order not to miss it.

Not anymore!

In the past year they have been caravanning, driven through America in old wrecks, built a road and sent a reliant robin into space. Once upon a time these ideas may have had a bearing on reality (apart from the reliant robin) but now they are just highly contrived set piece stunts that go nowhere because they are not funny enough nor informative enough, nor really about cars. They are just demonstrations of how to blow a big budget with three talented front men who always look uncomfortable.. as if they have piles.

Let them move on and perhaps have a rethink..maybe get back some of the old magic and maybe hire Sabine Schmitz to replace the Stig.

Gerard Eastick, Edinburgh,

The whole programme has descended into the ridiculous and wil not be missed by any thinking people.

Bob Debell, Wetherby, West Yorlkshire

Is Clarkson having a post-Hammond's accident hissy fit? He seems like the sort of chap for the job.

Tom, Romford, Essex

What? JC gets paid for this? Replace him with a computer, his views are entirely predictable anyway. Not too cool a trait for somebody who claims to know everything about coolness.

Felix Keller, Zürich, Switzerland

Clarkson is the funniest man in the world! He must never stay!!

lucy, Suffolk,

Clarkson has been good for the programme but it has got more and more silly in recent times. no one is indespensible and maybe its time he left.
On a good note if he did go then with Hamster and james May both keen motorcyclist maybe we would see the odd piece about bikes

Nigel, Lee on the Solent, Hants

Top Gear is great, but it's not just about Clarkson and his ego and never has been. There's much more to it than that. He's behaving like an overpaid footballer with his tactics - so if he's bored and wants to leave the team, now's the time to let him, before he affects everything else around him!

Ali, East Grinstead, UK

If the producers don't listen to the three presenters and Top Gear is lost from our screens, it would be a crying shame. It's the best TV programme of the week by far. Come on lads sort it out!

Andy B, Bolton, Lancs

He left before, got no other TV work and soon came back cap in hand. The Hamster and May are far more entertaining anyway, let him go, use his excessive fee to stage even better stunts!

Chris, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

As much as we like Hammond and May we know, from Richard's other programmes, that without Clarkson and his writing skills, and as somebody to bounce off, the remaining cast would be less than interesting to watch. Agree, JC is probably after an even biggers slice of the pie, but so what?! Top Gear could more aptly be renamed the Jeremy Clarkson Motoring Show. It's what it is and it's why we love it.

Mark Howell, Cuckfield, England

After the recent antics and farcical stunts if it does come back a more appropriate title would be Wacky Races. Now would be a good time for JC to go while he still has some credibility left.

S Mathieson, Aberdeen, UK

Good news if we do get rid of the big-headed Clarkson. Top Gear itself should return to its original format which included reviews of cars which ordinary people could actually afford.

Terry, Berkshire, UK

Clarkson is, without question, Top Gear. Hammond and May are excellent in their role as 'backing singers' but don't have the talent, skills or charisma to carry the programme. Anyway... Clarkson left TG in it's old format years ago and, in the words of various blurbs in his books, "made a hash of it". Stick with it 'Jezza'!

Ewan Corben, Edinburgh,

Replace Jeremy Clarksonwith Angela Ripon,
replace The Hamster wtih Noel Edmonds
Replace James May with his Mother and lets start Top Gear all over again... It's been such a pleasant journey watching Top Gear develop and seeing how technology has improved, it's a road i would love to go down again.

Flossie , Halifax, west yorks

The Top Gear team just wouldn't be the same without big JC and his wisecracks. The three of them work so well together - don't go Jeremy - say it isn't so! ;)

Lee Simpson, Dunfermline, Scotland

Hi,

Top Gear can survive without Clarkson.
I would employ that German girl who beat him in a Transit Van, to take his place. It's about time TG had a female presenter. Hammond is more popular than Clarkson and James May can continue to play the role of Captain Slow.

David Williamson, Northallerton, UK

Even if he does leave, there's more than enough talent with Hammond and May for the show to continue it's excellent standard of entertainment.
If Clarkson does go, I'd be sad to see him leave, but no-one is indispensable.
The show must and hopefully will go on.

dave, moray, uk

what are all the petrol heads going to watch then?

mrcar, london,

didnt like the program any way

bill, Alabhama, Detriot

I am a biased petrolhead so think that the programme is far more important than the character of any of its presenters. In fact a refreshing change might be the ubiquitous Good Thing.

Andrew Waldron, Ferndown, Dorset, UK

Jeremy Clarkson is Top Gear without him there is no show.

rob, wirral,

Please don't leave Clarkson, i inspire to have the witt, humour and general camaraderie you create on sunday night! your a true ledgend.
To the BBC, what is going on?!?! why are you putting the future of a truely fantastic programme in jeopardy. from my perspective, a 17 year old, bbc presenters are disconsolate and now your adding Clarkson to the list. Your commissioning remakes of other channels hogwash, graham norton uncut for a prime example. If things keep going as they are the country can rejoice in seeing South Park back on our screens, Do not point the bbc in this direction, drop the drivel and spend time fixing the problems on your world class programmes, primerly Top Gear.

Timothy Comlay, Gosport, Hampshire, uk

I wonder who is currently in talks over their contract renewals? I wonder who is just playing hard to get, maybe?

CJ, Walton on Thames, Surrey

That would be the end of the programme really, as he not only presents it but writes it as well. Hammond and May are excellent, but I don't think it would work without Jezza giving his two pennorth!

Dave Harrington-Wright, Chester, Cheshire

Clarkson is well passed his best, often just a parody of himself. The dog has had his day, let him go quietly.

Aden Brill, Hereford,

dont go your funny

bob, yorkshire, england

Please pack Jeremy Clarkson off to the retirement home for middle-aged journalists and return Top Gear to an broader, more authoritative motoring program. The spectacle of a middle-aged 'bloke' presenting lad's mag format articles lost its appeal after one season. So bring in someone young who knows what they are taking about and consign the 'Jeremy Show' to the BBC archives.

Simon, Wells,

wat r they triying at topgear is one of the best programs going and it keeps people of all ages entertained

timi, manchester, england

Deja Vu anyone?

DVL, Vidin, Bulgaria

If Jeremy leaves Top Gear the BBC should scrap the programme.

Sunny, London, UK