Top Gear TV Show

[JamesJ]

I just found out they are going to have an american version of this show.

Does anyone else watch the show?

Has anyone heard what the pilot was like, any good?

I dont think that it will last but it would be funny to see what they made it like.

[JayR]

The pilot hasn't aired yet but should soon and if enough people with Neilsen boxes watch it or talk about it, we just might get our own Top Gear instead of only watching UK reruns on Monday night. I'll still watch the UK reruns but it would be nice to have our own prime time Top Gear so tell your friends!

[deuce_454]

who is hosting it?? and will they have a "the stig" clone as well??

[JayR]

Originally Posted by deuce_454

who is hosting it?? and will they have a "the stig" clone as well??

Adam Carolla, Tanner Faust, and Eric Stromer will host and there is a stig and a star in a moderately priced car exactly like the UK format. They know how great the original is and have all due respect for it so they have no intention of messing with it.

[frankenstang]

Besides being a guy, WTF qualifies Adam Corolla to talk about cars? I sure hope it doesn't end up like the crap that comes out of the Speed TV production crew. At least Corolla might keep the stupid pre-scripted humor under control.

[Rhino]

I had my doubts at first, but he seems like he could be a decent car guy. I doubt he works on much of his own stuff, but he has a pretty big collection...

http://www.motortrend.com/features/c...ive/index.html

Carolla's 13-car collection is housed in a warehouse, which includes a heavy dose of his affinity for classic Italian sports cars. There are three he saw on eBay -- a 1973 Datsun 510, a 1965 Lamborghini 350 GT (of 120 built), and his latest purchase, a Bob Sharp 1972 Datsun 610 No. 33. The others are a 1972 Porsche; a blue 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 (of 247 built); a red 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2; a 1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4; a 1999 Jaguar XJR; a 1989 BMW M3; a 2001 BMW M3; a 2004 Ferrari Stradale, which he wants to sell; a 2004 Aston Martin DB9; a 1984 Nissan 300ZX, which was Paul Newman's old race car.

[byndbad914]

Originally Posted by JayR

Adam Carolla, Tanner Faust, and Eric Stromer will host

three perfectly good reasons to stick with the UK re-runs. It drives my fiancee crazy but I watch BBS every Monday night and rerun after rerun and can damn near quote 'em but always fun to watch. This new crew ???

Adam Corolla - I mean, really?! I saw him on Speed driving around in a Pontiac or something along with the host from Setup and what a waste of air time that was. Just cuz you have money and can buy cars doesn't really make you a car guy frankly, makes you someone with enough money to buy cars. Dude hosted Love Line for cryin' out loud.

Tanner Faust - oh goody, non-stop drifting and stupid comments along the lines of drifting. I watched that Supercar show... um... once. Enough for me. I agree Clarkson will drift 'em out for show but he can actually drive pretty fast when necessary, his dialogs are always good, etc and Tanner doesn't have that.

and then Eric Stromer - who the hell is that?? Googled and I read this:

"Meet Eric Stromer, recently announced member of our Top Gear USA host trio and lover of the Toyota Camry hybrid" along with him doing something with woodworking shows or so forth. At best it ties in with a fix-it character Adam Corolla used to do on KROQ in LA back in the 90s (Mr. Burcham or something like that) before Love Line.

that's all I need to see to give my review... LAME

[JamesJ]

Some more info...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(U.S._TV_series)