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BigAls87Z28 06-16-2008 09:10 PM

Top Gear USA Hosts Announced!
 
Top Gear has just officially announced who will be hosting the U.S. version of the popular car show born in the UK and now officially scheduled to appear on NBC sometime this fall, and the winners are... (drum roll, please): Adam Carolla, Tanner Foust and Eric Stromer.

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/16/t...sts-announced/

sweetbmxrider 06-16-2008 09:11 PM

adam corolla? sweet to be on NBC. wow this looked more promising than it was. plus i enjoy the british accents and dry humor...ill stick with the original

and eric stromer is not a car guy, he builds houses.

12secondv6 06-16-2008 09:14 PM

original is the best

BigAls87Z28 06-16-2008 09:17 PM

Stromer drives a Camry hybrid...wtf does he know about cars?

Squirrel 06-16-2008 11:44 PM

BBCA FTW :)

unstable bob gable 06-16-2008 11:49 PM

I like the British version best. Too bad Benny Hill is dead, they coulda had him chasing hotties around in the cars, and going for drives w/ that 'lil bald headed dude while schmaking him on the head!

qwikz28 06-17-2008 12:09 AM

no clarkson = no top gear

firehawk1120 06-17-2008 06:19 AM

ok am i missing something who the hell cares about another t.v. show???

BigAls87Z28 06-17-2008 07:38 AM

Top Gear is IMO, the best car tv show on the planet. Apparently other people think as well. Yeah, they bash the everloving crap out of American cars, but its done by the British, so its gunna be funny. The way the do thier car reviews blows the doors off the crap you see with Autoweek, Motor Trend, or the old Car and Driver shows. Its much more vivid, much more intense then just watching a car go through some 0-60mph tests.

qwikz28 06-17-2008 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28 (Post 456541)
Top Gear is IMO, the best car tv show on the planet. Apparently other people think as well. Yeah, they bash the everloving crap out of American cars, but its done by the British, so its gunna be funny. The way the do thier car reviews blows the doors off the crap you see with Autoweek, Motor Trend, or the old Car and Driver shows. Its much more vivid, much more intense then just watching a car go through some 0-60mph tests.

and its aimed more at humoring the audience than educating them.

BigAls87Z28 06-17-2008 09:58 AM

True in a way. Its more of a show about 3 british guys talking about thier opinons of the car. Most of the time they are funny. The rip on things such as Corvette's transverse leaf spring suspension, the donging noise when you open the door to the CTS-V, and overall styling is boring or rubbish. I watched it last night, they were driving the Aston DBS. He didnt like it...

qwikz28 06-17-2008 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28 (Post 456578)
True in a way. Its more of a show about 3 british guys talking about thier opinons of the car. Most of the time they are funny. The rip on things such as Corvette's transverse leaf spring suspension, the donging noise when you open the door to the CTS-V, and overall styling is boring or rubbish. I watched it last night, they were driving the Aston DBS. He didnt like it...

he doesn't like anything. they are not really an educational show because all teh cars they test are very high end or absolutely ridiculous. he hates american cars because american cars are better suited to the american people (big engines and lots of cupholders) and he generally hates america. i don't take it personally and honestly i agree with 98% of his arguments.

BigAls87Z28 06-17-2008 10:16 AM

Yeah, he tends to rip on American cars hard. He has a whole dvd series about coming to the US.
He likes the C6 and really liked the Z06. He loved the Ford GT, but that was a disaster with the control arms. I think there was several problems with them, and he got fed up with it.

WildBillyT 06-17-2008 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by qwikz28 (Post 456581)
he doesn't like anything. they are not really an educational show because all teh cars they test are very high end or absolutely ridiculous. he hates american cars because american cars are better suited to the american people (big engines and lots of cupholders) and he generally hates america. i don't take it personally and honestly i agree with 98% of his arguments.

Remind me again which British cars are actually made by British companies employing British people?

qwikz28 06-17-2008 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by WildBillyT (Post 456594)
Remind me again which British cars are actually made by British companies employing British people?

the thing is, he doesn't really like british cars too much either. thats why i was careful to say he hates americans and not that he is british loyal. he certainly is european loyal though. :)

Squirrel 06-17-2008 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28 (Post 456583)
Yeah, he tends to rip on American cars hard. He has a whole dvd series about coming to the US.
He likes the C6 and really liked the Z06. He loved the Ford GT, but that was a disaster with the control arms. I think there was several problems with them, and he got fed up with it.

he actually still owns a GT... but the, i guess you could say 'competitions', are some of the best segments on tv...and the stig rocks

BigAls87Z28 06-17-2008 09:05 PM

I thought there was a big article in Top Gear how he got rid of it?

Clarkson does like some British cars like the new XK convertable. He likes a lot of European cars, and enjoys driving the hell out of them.

BrandonDrecksage 06-18-2008 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider (Post 456432)
adam corolla? sweet to be on NBC. wow this looked more promising than it was. plus i enjoy the british accents and dry humor...ill stick with the original

and eric stromer is not a car guy, he builds houses.

james may isn't a car guy either, thats why they call him captain slow.

87GTA 06-19-2008 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by BrandonDrecksage (Post 456936)
james may isn't a car guy either, thats why they call him captain slow.

LOL thats why they had him drive the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 at 253MPH so he can lose that title...LOL


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