Senoufou wrote: He's a rude and arrogant you-know-what in my opinion.

Part of the success of the old Top Gear involved walking the fine line between acting and actually being arrogant, ignorant, conceited and stupid. Men got the 'blokiness' and women got the talentless ambition. In the show he was balanced by the other two. On his own, perhaps, that balance is lost.