way to go Top Gear USA!

[CAP1]

Adam Carolla and a few others shot a Top Gear pilot around 5 years ago.  The reviews said it was better than Top Gear Australia.  From what I seen of it, it was truly entertaining, and it didn't try at all to emulate the original.  The networks decided not to pick it up, and no more episodes were shot.

Now they give us this piece of crap...at least it won't make it to a 2nd season

i've never thought adam corola was that funny to be honest........

[warhed]

i've never thought adam corola was that funny to be honest........

Not on TV he isn't.  On Loveline, he was genius.  Here's a little taste...
"Has a trailer home ever burned down because a menorah tipped over?"

He isn't a comedian, callers on Loveline were always asking if he would do standup or tv, he always said he wasn't good at reciting jokes he wrote months ago, and believed his humor was better off the cuff.

Which is why he has stuck to radio all these years.  

However, he is a complete gear head, he doesn't just own a ton of nice cars, he does his own work.  Listen to his other podcast, the one dedicated to Cars.  He was the perfect American host.

[shppr01]

If you ask me (which you didn't but I'm going to give it anyways !!) They are trying to act too much like Topgear UK.
You can't beat the original !! WTG UK
 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Get Eddy Griffin to test the cars  Now that may be entertaining.

[rpm]

They are trying to act too much like Topgear UK.

In case you missed it earlier, the show is produced by Top Gear UK. There's a reason it looks like the original. The set is a perfect duplicate. They are trying to use the same formula with different hosts. If you've never seen the original, it doesn't look too bad. If you have seen the original, then you're going to pick it apart comparing the two. It will never be as good as Top Gear UK.

The chemistry between the guys certainly isn't there yet, but I'll give them a season to mesh. Rutledge Wood has cred when it comes to fast cars even if he doesn't look like it. He played the clown on SPEED broadcasts for several years. Adam Ferrara is hilarious doing stand-up. Tanner Foust I really don't know much about, but he has a racing background and seems comfortable in front of the camera.

What's missing is a smug wordsmith like Clarkson. Carolla would have been great. They need someone like Anthony Bourdain to fill that role. I don't see any of these guys pulling that off.

[shppr01]

In case you missed it earlier, the show is produced by Top Gear UK. There's a reason it looks like the original. The set is a perfect duplicate. They are trying to use the same formula with different hosts. If you've never seen the original, it doesn't look too bad. If you have seen the original, then you're going to pick it apart comparing the two. It will never be as good as Top Gear UK.

The chemistry between the guys certainly isn't there yet, but I'll give them a season to mesh. Rutledge Wood has cred when it comes to fast cars even if he doesn't look like it. He played the clown on SPEED broadcasts for several years. Adam Ferrara is hilarious doing stand-up. Tanner Foust I really don't know much about, but he has a racing background and seems comfortable in front of the camera.

What's missing is a smug wordsmith like Clarkson. Carolla would have been great. They need someone like Anthony Bourdain to fill that role. I don't see any of these guys pulling that off.

I have seen the original, and I did miss the post where they are being produced by the UK Bunch!
Thank you for mending my rough and rotten ways and for pointing out that i'm stupid.
On a more jolly note , I think that you may be right about another person , but Adam Corolla is not the one . Yes he is funny , but not a car man . 

[kotrenin]

In case you missed it earlier, the show is produced by Top Gear UK. There's a reason it looks like the original. The set is a perfect duplicate. They are trying to use the same formula with different hosts. If you've never seen the original, it doesn't look too bad. If you have seen the original, then you're going to pick it apart comparing the two. It will never be as good as Top Gear UK.

The chemistry between the guys certainly isn't there yet, but I'll give them a season to mesh. Rutledge Wood has cred when it comes to fast cars even if he doesn't look like it. He played the clown on SPEED broadcasts for several years. Adam Ferrara is hilarious doing stand-up. Tanner Foust I really don't know much about, but he has a racing background and seems comfortable in front of the camera.

What's missing is a smug wordsmith like Clarkson. Carolla would have been great. They need someone like Anthony Bourdain to fill that role. I don't see any of these guys pulling that off.

Anthony Bourdain you say... hmm. That would be interesting and I agree with the word smithing ider.  But I'm still concerned with the free reign any word smithy would have. The BBC is a well funded version of our PBS, better and bigger. The majority of our broadcast-network and cable/satellite-network programing is funded through advertisement. Advertisers tend to try to stick with the demographics that would buy their products. So if you have a car show you get car related ads, cooking show... cooking product ads, so on and so forth. If Chevy is trying to sell you a new Corvette in an ad and then Top Gear makes the Chevy look terrible... boink!! money gone.  We would need a Consumer Reports or PBS version that is funded with donations by private individuals or they need to find different advertisers that still need to reach the same target audience but are not selling car related products.   

[warhed]

In case you missed it earlier, the show is produced by Top Gear UK. There's a reason it looks like the original. The set is a perfect duplicate. They are trying to use the same formula with different hosts. If you've never seen the original, it doesn't look too bad. If you have seen the original, then you're going to pick it apart comparing the two. It will never be as good as Top Gear UK.

The chemistry between the guys certainly isn't there yet, but I'll give them a season to mesh. Rutledge Wood has cred when it comes to fast cars even if he doesn't look like it. He played the clown on SPEED broadcasts for several years. Adam Ferrara is hilarious doing stand-up. Tanner Foust I really don't know much about, but he has a racing background and seems comfortable in front of the camera.

What's missing is a smug wordsmith like Clarkson. Carolla would have been great. They need someone like Anthony Bourdain to fill that role. I don't see any of these guys pulling that off.

I can't remember who the other two original hosts were, but Ferrara may of been in it with Carolla.  After the original network turned down the pilot, Carolla had the whole morning show kicking up, and working on his movie The Hammer. 
I can't think of a better lead host for Top Gear US. 

[rpm]

Anthony Bourdain you say... hmm. That would be interesting and I agree with the word smithing ider.  But I'm still concerned with the free reign any word smithy would have. The BBC is a well funded version of our PBS, better and bigger. The majority of our broadcast-network and cable/satellite-network programing is funded through advertisement. Advertisers tend to try to stick with the demographics that would buy their products. So if you have a car show you get car related ads, cooking show... cooking product ads, so on and so forth. If Chevy is trying to sell you a new Corvette in an ad and then Top Gear makes the Chevy look terrible... boink!! money gone.  We would need a Consumer Reports or PBS version that is funded with donations by private individuals or they need to find different advertisers that still need to reach the same target audience but are not selling car related products.   

I said the same thing on another board. The biting criticism the UK version does will not bid well with US advertisers, but it's a critical part of the show. It looks like they will tread lightly for a few episodes and see if the show is a success.

[Motherland]

In case you missed it earlier, the show is produced by Top Gear UK.

Wikipedia lists the production of Top Gear America as a cooperation between BBC Worldwide and an American company called Reveille Productions (who also apparently produced the US version of the Office and a few other British imports).

I'd imagine that the BBC doesn't have all that much clout in the production of Top Gear America.

[kotrenin]

Watched the second episode.  Meh.  I think I like Tanner Foust the best of the 3. He seems more genuine, and the fact that he is a much better driver doesn't hurt.  I think he is the only one from the first American attempt at Top Gear. 

I have to keep reminding myself that the current format of Top Gear BBC wasn't completely polished. The original presenters were Jason Dawe, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson.  James May replaced Dawe in the next series.  And they have received a lot of criticism over the years for becoming too predictable and having forced humor. 



 

[Russian]

Top Gear UK has 15 seasons since 2002. That's a lot of 'lessons learned' there. I think one would be plain stupid not to use that experience...unfortunately, that's exactly what those idiots did.  I re-watched first episode of reason 1 of UK Top Gear and quality and entertainment shined brightly. US Top Gear felt like it was made by someone that didn't wanted to make it; hosts didn't wanted to be there, camera man didn't wanted to be there and nor audience after first 5 minutes of the show. Failure. Not epic failure, but failure never the less.