They posted a clip on Final Gear.com. I agree with the comment that the show needs time, Top Gear was pretty much crap in their first season, but have had 100 episodes refine the concept. The three hosts seem fair, well, maybe not Tanner. I respect his driving skills, but I can't stand him on camera. (He is on a bunch of other shows) Plastic, rehearsed, fake, boring. Just do lurid powerslides and shut up. Regardless, I am glad the show is on because all I care about are the cars, the driving, and the cars.
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Sept. 17, 2010 1:29 p.m. pinchvalve SuperDork
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Sept. 17, 2010 1:38 p.m. bravenrace Dork
I haven't seen Top Gear yet, but I watch and love Battle of the Supercars with Tanner and Paul Tracy!
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Sept. 17, 2010 3:04 p.m. Buzz Killington HalfDork
only see the trailer and the other clip (the lambo race).
agreed that it will need time to find its groove; people forget that the current UK Top Gear also needed time. i'm looking forward to it; even as is it will likely be the best car show on TV here.
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Sept. 17, 2010 3:14 p.m. Carrera4 Reader
I don't mind Faust. He seems pretty genuine to me - he just has our dream job. He always seems like a kid in a candy store with a crisp $100 bill - genuinely excited and enthusiastic about the cars he's been given to drive the wheels off of.
I'm very excited for TGUSA, just wish they kept with Adam Corolla and Christopher Titus. I think the three of them would have had great chemistry.
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Sept. 17, 2010 3:58 p.m. novaderrik Reader
Ruttledge is the deal breaker for me...
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Sept. 17, 2010 4:05 p.m. b13ser New Reader
I saw the short clip that was floating around there a few months back. While I wasnt impressed with what I saw, I do think that it has potential. But its going to be hard to keep up with the original.
I am somewhat biased being just 2 days ago I was at VIR with those blokes from the show from that other country that Im not allowed to speak about yet.
I met and spoke with Tanner a few weeks back at the NJMP Rallyx. He has slightly more personality face to face but would make a great stig.
I just dont think these presenters are going to cut it.
Mike Rowe from the Discovery Channel would be great. Tim Suddard would be fantastic DerekD from Fastlane Daily might work And Jay Leno would have stole the show.
But thats not what we have. At least they are trying to make an effort
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Sept. 17, 2010 5:39 p.m. JoeyM Dork
Meh.....not thrilled, not repulsed. Still better than much of the rubbish on Speed.
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Sept. 17, 2010 7:34 p.m. DrBoost Dork
b13ser wrote:
Mike Rowe from the Discovery Channel would be great.
No, he'd just try to hock an F-150 during every drive.
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Sept. 17, 2010 7:47 p.m. novaderrik Reader
maybe they'll change up the lineup after the first season- Top Gear had that big guy that talked about how to buy cars cheap in the first season and really did nothing else. he was replaced by James May in season 2...
maybe Ruttledge could be "that guy" for TG USA..
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Sept. 17, 2010 11:00 p.m. Vigo HalfDork
I hate Tanner Faust on camera as well. Everything the OP mentioned.
people forget that the current UK Top Gear also needed time. i'm looking forward to it; even as is it will likely be the best car show on TV here.
I think what people forget is how important Top Gear UK is to BBC. It has a MUCH broader appeal and following than ANY american car show, including many many many people who are NOT 'car people', and the things that give it that broad appeal are what the American shows cant/wont do. In America car shows are treated as niche and they spend all their time pandering to what they see as that niche. I dont think any American car show can really equal top gear uk because in America we're always making car shows that on the one hand are targeting people that are into cars more exclusively, and on the other hand giving these people less real info while focusing on the glamorous aspects of cars and giving no attention to the practical and realistic. Most american car shows ive ever seen seem to be the same.. overly masculine-ized hosts acting fake and contrived and basically saying every car is great while only covering flashy, expensive things and leaving the attainable or utilitarian vehicles to the magazines.
Honestly.. i dont have much hope for ANY american car shows to be any good at all if they keep getting hosted by bodybuilder/wrestler types and only talking about which $200,000 machine is slightly more awesome than the other. If you arent a 'car guy' to begin with, these shows really turn you off.
Anyone remember the episode where Clarkson, Hammond and May agree that the only 3 cars that they can all agree to like are the Renault Avantime, the Subaru Legacy, and the Ford Mondeo? That would never happen in an American car show because there's no muscles sticking out and not enough horsepower and racetracks and exclusivity and all that.
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Sept. 18, 2010 1:53 a.m. griffin729 Reader
Ok, this just doesn't happen very often, but I can totally agree with everything everyone has said so far. Whoda thunk it.
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Sept. 18, 2010 4:25 a.m. FlightService New Reader
Vigo wrote:
I think what people forget is how important Top Gear UK is to BBC. It has a MUCH broader appeal and following than ANY american car show, including many many many people who are NOT 'car people', and the things that give it that broad appeal are what the American shows cant/wont do.
Agreed, my wife even finds TGUK amusing and she hates my car shows.
Faust is very dull. Battle of the Supercars and Supercars Exposed are two very over-rated and boring shows for such a good concept.
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Sept. 18, 2010 3:05 p.m. Varkwso Reader
My wife loves TGUK and rarely, if ever, watches any other car type show..
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Sept. 18, 2010 3:35 p.m. aussiesmg SuperDork
OK so when is it due to be aired?
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Sept. 18, 2010 5:42 p.m. JoeyM Dork
novaderrik wrote:
maybe they'll change up the lineup after the first season- Top Gear had that big guy that talked about how to buy cars cheap in the first season and really did nothing else. he was replaced by James May in season 2...
maybe Ruttledge could be "that guy" for TG USA..
Jason was not bad. I love James May....definitely the funniest of the bunch, IMHO, but I didn't think Jason Plato was bad. I thought the show was pretty good.
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Sept. 18, 2010 7:09 p.m. novaderrik Reader
JoeyM wrote:
novaderrik wrote:
maybe they'll change up the lineup after the first season- Top Gear had that big guy that talked about how to buy cars cheap in the first season and really did nothing else. he was replaced by James May in season 2...
maybe Ruttledge could be "that guy" for TG USA..
Jason was not bad. I love James May....definitely the funniest of the bunch, IMHO, but I didn't think Jason Plato was bad. I thought the show was pretty good.
he wasn't "bad", he just didn't fit in with Hamster or Jezza and provide the nice counterweight that May does.
Ruttledge is just bad...
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Sept. 19, 2010 1:03 a.m. BobOfTheFuture HalfDork
Honestly, for me, removing Titus and Corolla was a huge mistake. But those are car guys, not tv-types. They'd have a better chance getting onto the TGUK then the US.
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Sept. 19, 2010 8:12 a.m. pinchvalve SuperDork
When they do a story on the 2011 Challenge, it will be awesome. GRM and TG together!
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Sept. 19, 2010 11:20 a.m. stuart in mn SuperDork
I just saw an ad on TV for the coming season of Top Gear on BBC America - they said they will be running the full uncut episodes this year, not the edited versions they aired in past seasons.
Of course, these the are episodes most of you already watched online.
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Sept. 19, 2010 11:28 a.m. 96DXCivic SuperDork
There is a Top Gear marathon on BBC America next weekend. I know I will be doing all next weekend when I am not building a chassis.
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Sept. 19, 2010 1:18 p.m. JoeyM Dork
stuart in mn wrote:
I just saw an ad on TV for the coming season of Top Gear on BBC America - they said they will be running the full uncut episodes this year, not the edited versions they aired in past seasons.
Hmmmm.....I wonder how they're going to deal with commercials, then. Much of the funny stuff that was omitted in the past was done so to make room for the advertisers' messages.
If episodes of the "new" season on BBC America fill a one hour time slot and have commercials, SOMETHING had to be left out.
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Sept. 19, 2010 11:07 p.m. novaderrik Reader
they might just show them in full unedited form the first time, then chop them down for later showings. or maybe they got a sponsor to cover the full hour broadcasts, with only a small logo taking up a mere third of the screen during the whole show..
