As if Foxy didn't have enough to worry about--now American television is going to stuff the best thing on TV... [&o]

http://www.topgear.com/

http://www.bbcamerica.com/index.jsp

 

Ugh. [&o]

 

I'm surprised with the strike we haven't been piping in more foreign TV ... I hear we're probably not gonna be getting any new TV until Winter time

 

I don't know about Top Gear, but I want to see more Ice Road Truckers. I head that the city of Yellowknife will not let them film there this season so I have no idea if there will be a season two.

 

All in favor of boycotting this American imposter of top gear???

 

What makes Top Gear great are the Hosts and seeing what isn't available here. A U.S. version would be like watching Benny Hill starring Ray Romano or George Lopez. Certain things are lost in the translation.

For some reason I like watching the Top Gear guys driving Ford Focus's around a racetrack, but if you showed me a U.S. legal Focus, it would bore the crap out of me, especially since I have a few vehicles in my garage that could run away and hide from that little ****box.

I don't think it will need an organized boycott, I give it 4 episodes and then it'll get cancelled.

 

I have noticed that we do steal some great shows from the BBC, and they don't make the mark by comparison. Can you imagine an American Version of "Monty Python" for example? Could never compete with the original...[&:]

 

We also stole The Office

 

Speaking of top gear:

What do they say when there testing the car "Not to 60" or "north to 60" ?

 

^^ "Naught to 60" means "Zero to 60". They just say it differently (like how we say Z.) They say pronounce it "Zed", to us it's "Zee".

And yeah, it's going to be called "Gear". It's going to be an Americanized knock-off of TopGear. Kind of how NBC made "The Office" version off of the BBC version. If they pull it off like they did with The Office, then we have a chance. But an American motoring programs have always been sub par. I highly doubt this show is going to portray cars as mystique and cinematically as the original TopGear will. They have passion for cars, we as a society, don't.

I'm hoping it's as close to TopGear as possible, but it'll never be as good. (unless they have Clarkson, Hammond and May hosting it.........which would be miracle.)