I never used to like him, but he isn't a childish alcoholic any more. much more mature, and he knows and loves cars, which is good. I think they should have changed it up a bit really though, it is exactly the same as before, just with new hosts. I did read that the producers felt the series was getting stale before Clarkson et al left and were going to shake it up a bit. but they evidently decided to keep the format to bed the new hosts in. would have been better to change it at least a little bit now. a few things were inherently 'Clarkson' esque that felt a little weird being said by Evans, like still doing the Stig introduction 'some say...' stuff.