It’s official. The much loved former Top Gear trio will be back on the air, reuniting to host a new motoring show.

Jeremy Clarkson told the Sunday Times that he, Richard Hammond and James May would announce new-look program within weeks.

May will also front a new BBC2 motoring show Building Cars Live, which will consist of two 90-minute episodes broadcasted live from BMW’s Mini factory in Oxford.

It will track in real time the transformation from raw materials to finished vehicle.

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Both motoring programmes are set to air before BBC’s Top Gear returns, some time after March 2016.

“I can’t wait to build a car. Live,” May told the Sunday Times.

Clarkson has been out of work after he was sacked by the BBC for assaulting a Top Gear producer in March.

May and Hammond threatened to leave the show if Clarkson was sacked, and did just that.

The BBC announced in June that UK broadcaster Chris Evans would replace the sacked Top Gear host, advertising for two new side-kicks to join him.

Clarkson claimed that the BBC asked him to return to the show just days before Evans was signed, the Sunday Times reported.

“I had a meeting with a BBC executive last week and they asked if I’d come back to Top Gear. But it was never an option, even with one million people signing the Bring Back Clarkson petition – by which I was extremely humbled,” Clarkson said.

“Too much has gone on. After I’d been compared to Jimmy Savile by someone from the BBC and it was splashed all over a Sunday newspaper, how could I go back?”

The BBC denied the claims that Clarkson was offered a contract.