Matt LeBlanc and the Ariel Nomad: it’s the new Top Gear trailer!

What happens when you introduce a star from Hollywood to a car from Somerset? An utterly bonkers car, at that?

The latest trailer for the brand new series of Top Gear gives us a good glimpse. That’s because Matt LeBlanc has met the mighty Ariel Nomad, a bundle of powerful off-road madness from the people who brought you the Atom.

"What a fun car to drive,” Matt told TG.com. “So visceral and exciting and engaging. I really enjoyed it."

The results, as you can see, are more than a little dusty. Once Matt’s figured out how to actually get inside the thing, anyway.

We’ve not confined him to the leafy lanes around Ariel’s southern county homeland, though. He and the Nomad have headed off for a boisterous adventure through Morocco, and as you can see in the video above, they aren’t alone.

Naturally, we’ll bring you more between now and the start of the new series in May. Hopefully Matt will have dusted himself off by then...