New Top Gear presenter Chris Evans has called on fans of the show around the world to send in audition clips, with the website address set to be revealed on his BBC Radio 2 programme on Friday morning.
Speaking to listeners on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday morning, Evans said that the open presenter call was "not a stunt" and that applicants should have "appetite, hunger and need".
"If nobody's good, nobody is going to get the job," he said.
He continued: "We hope that that there's going to be an amazing response to this, not just in the UK but around the world."
Evans said applicants would need to show a "relationship with cars" and a successful presenter would need to know "at least as much as or more than me".
"There is no guarantee that we are definitely going to have a member of the public hosting the show - it will only happen if that person is suitable and any good," he said.
Looking forward to the new series, which will begin in the Spring, Evans said it was a "blank canvas ... but of course there are established features on the show that I don't want to see go as a fan of the programme, so they are not going anywhere".
He added: "How much we are going to have to nip and tuck and shave and build upon we are not quite sure yet, but we are going to have a look, we are going to figure it out.
"But one of the things, of course, we are looking for right now are co-hosts for the programme.
"There will definitely be a female presence on the show, and that could well be a co-presenter, it could be two. It could be no co-presenters and a film reporter or a driver. It's all a big open book."
