Top Gear USA (updated with trailer)
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Top Gear USA (updated with trailer)
Interesting news on the Top Gear USA front — Adam Carolla has said that the BBC is working with the History Channel to bring the show to the channel. He revealed this on the latest episode of his CarCast podcast. The Top Gear discussion begins about 12:30 in, but it’s worth listening to the whole podcast if for nothing more than hearing a classic Lamborghini Miura start up.
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As much as I would love to see an American version of Top Gear it will never match the original. Im sure the American version will involve more guns, explosions, and half naked women.
The only way I can see this working is if car companies are not allowed to sponsor the show... because as we've seen in some of the Top Gear episodes, they can be rather brutal when it comes to specific cars.
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The guys that make the British Top Gear was in charge of the American Top Gear (at least for the pilot), and the people that were at the taping were very pleased with how funny it was
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Top Gear isn't about funny. The humor is purely incidental. The show is supposed to be about cars.
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First official TOP GEAR USA trailer !!!!
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/07/v...-u-s-top-gear/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBcQ...ayer_embedded#!
You all know that the long-awaited U.S. version of Top Gear is headed to The History Channel, and now it's time to get your first taste of the show. The first trailer for the show is online, and if it's any indication, Tanner Foust, Rutledge Wood and Adam Ferrara are going to win over viewers, and the program will not stray from the BBC original's successful formula of cool tests and zany challenges.
In fact, one of the new show's challenges is the trailer's centerpiece. In involves the hosts determining the best $1,000 car by putting a trio of them through a punishing "moonshine run" dirt course. The ride selected for the teaser is Ferrara's, the airborne 1976 Cadillac Deville Calais seen above (it could be a '75, but we're pretty certain that's the '76 grille pattern). How does a malaise-era Caddy handle a landing after catching that much air? About as well as you'd imagine - this isn't the make-believe world of '70s cop shows, after all. It's hilarious.
Bottom line: The hosts exude great chemistry and the motoring action is pretty much everything you'd want and expect from a program calling itself Top Gear. Still under wraps, however, is the Stig. The suspense is killing us. This looks like a completely fun show.
seems like its in the works and going to be aired sooner than later
. These guys will never be the real trio from TOP GEAR, but it will do for the guys who want more car shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBcQ...ayer_embedded#!
You all know that the long-awaited U.S. version of Top Gear is headed to The History Channel, and now it's time to get your first taste of the show. The first trailer for the show is online, and if it's any indication, Tanner Foust, Rutledge Wood and Adam Ferrara are going to win over viewers, and the program will not stray from the BBC original's successful formula of cool tests and zany challenges.
In fact, one of the new show's challenges is the trailer's centerpiece. In involves the hosts determining the best $1,000 car by putting a trio of them through a punishing "moonshine run" dirt course. The ride selected for the teaser is Ferrara's, the airborne 1976 Cadillac Deville Calais seen above (it could be a '75, but we're pretty certain that's the '76 grille pattern). How does a malaise-era Caddy handle a landing after catching that much air? About as well as you'd imagine - this isn't the make-believe world of '70s cop shows, after all. It's hilarious.
Bottom line: The hosts exude great chemistry and the motoring action is pretty much everything you'd want and expect from a program calling itself Top Gear. Still under wraps, however, is the Stig. The suspense is killing us. This looks like a completely fun show.
seems like its in the works and going to be aired sooner than later
. These guys will never be the real trio from TOP GEAR, but it will do for the guys who want more car shows.
Couldn't agree more. I have never opined for an american version of Top Gear, most likely, because I knew it would never work. There is something special about the UK version of Top Gear and I believe that alot of that "special feeling" stems from the relationship that the three hosts have with eachother. They might as well bill this as an american version of Fifth Gear because that's what it feels like. Richard, Captain Slow, and Jezza have a certain mix, a comradery, that is such a critical element of the Top Gear experience that this show is probably doomed from the start. At least if Adam Carolla had been on the show we would have had some laughs, however, without him, I give this one season before it is axed.