Top Gear USA... aka "DEEEEEEP HURRRRTING"

[jeriendhal]

Hmm. Same theme tune, some of the same stupid car tricks (repeat of teh same gags from the Worst Cars in British History show, plus "Supercar vs. Military Hardware"), and helluva lot more flannel.

I haven't even watched the first five minutes and I hate it.

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[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

What Top Gear USA has no learned is that Top Gear UK is not about cars. It is about three awesome guys who just so happen to like cars and talk about cars some of the time. The Top Gear USA hosts are... bland, bland, and bland number 3 with no real charisma or chemistry between the three of them. Where-as Jeremy, Richard, and Captain Slow (I am bad at names) are hilarious together, no matter what they are talking about.

[lacousteau.livejournal.com]

Not as pretty as Hammond, as cocky as Jeremy or as erudite as James May, the US hosts seem to think that we want to see some jerk burning rubber on a runway for 15 minutes. I can go to the Dunkin Donuts parking lot on Friday night to see that sh*t. They also forgot one supremely important fact...American cars suck. Top Gear specialized in showing us Million Pound Racing Art, something we could never hope to own. There's a Dodge Viper that's been sitting at the dealership on the corner for 5-6 years now; apparently no one wants it. Get the hint, dudes.

Alyssa thinks that stealing the Stig for this atrocity was a gyp. I'm inclined to agree. We'll stick to watching the UK version on BBC America.

It's not quite as bad as our version of Life On Mars (Wow, did THAT Blow Chunks), but it is pretty awful.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, there's precedent for stealing the Stig, they did the same thing in the Russian version, but the way they slavishly follow the format without offering any of the cameraderie is pretty dissapointing.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

The history channel link says "You look like a foreigner. We don't like foreigners unless they're mummified".

But I'm watching it now anyway. :-P

Yeah, it's not the UK three. Yeah it's 3 guys that wouldn't know each other from a bar of soap.

But within a few series it'll come good. If everyone hates it too early it'll get canned and you'll be left without it at all.

I guess the big difference between TGAU and TGUSA is there is NOTHING better on TV in Australia.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

I thought it was ok, actually.

But WTF is it with two of the hosts not having first names? Seriosly, who'd name their kid Rutlidge or Tanner??

[pete-wisdom.livejournal.com]

http://www.anglotopia.net/brit-tv/top-gear-usa-episode-2-review-the-trainwreck-continues/

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Agreed with most of it up to...

Some of them are just plain mean spirited – the type of humor that the hosts on Top Gear UK wouldn’t put up with.

Presumably he goes to the bathroom just before Jeremy and Richard sabotage James' ride each week...