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Elhigh
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
There can be only one.

Clarkson vs. just about anybody with hand-eye coordination, with sabres. Hell yeah, I'd sign up for cable to watch that.

Aside from that, the UK's own Top Gear is good enough for pretty much anybody.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
There's a reason why I watch the BBC top gear on BBC USA
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Osnapsonjc
02/06/09

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NBC is only good for one thing ....Monday Night Football
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
02/06/09

@Osnapsonjc: They try really hard to make it suck, though. Madden is useless, Costas annoys me and somehow Keith Olbermann is an even bigger douchebag when he's talking about sports instead of spewing bile at Republicans.

I watch Conan and Chuck, NBC is useless to me otherwise.
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
America-bashing is the only thing I disagree with Clarkson about. Even then, I'm usually only disagreeing on principle, not because I actually think he's wrong.

It's like these guys don't even have to try to be funny/horribly offensive. Plus, given the fact that they could never get away with insulting Obama on U.S. Top Gear, thank God we don't "get" our own version.
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
02/06/09

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I like their attitude. It's a shame their work is crap. And for all that Americans have built their entire culture around autos, most folks could care less about anything to do with a car that isn't theirs. So long Top Gear, hello screeching inbred singer reality show!
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A Pimp Named DaveR
02/06/09

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" ."
-- The Stig's American Cousin
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Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
I do know that NBC drove the BBC peeps bananas when they were casting. BBC wanted real car guys....but NBC kept turning them down cause they didn't have "The Look" Can you imagine what a crockfest Top Gear in England would have been if they picked presenters based on looks? (Cept Hamster would have gotten his job, I guess)
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
02/06/09

@Bento has a new picture of the Dacia Sandero: Absolutely. Ideally, the Peacock would have drafted people like Dan Neil, Ezra Dyer or our own Scoobiefahrer-at-large, Loverman. Guys with buckets of enthusiasm for cars and a knack for writing profound-yet-witty material on the subject.

The rest would have come naturally!
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pres
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
I'd be offended by Jezza's comments if he actually spewed something intelligent once and again. I always consider the source and move along.
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layabout
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
Wes your comment about Hammond being a midget may cause offence,don't hurt his feelings. You know the term is "little people"
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
02/06/09

@layabout now with V8 power: And here I thought it was 'Vertically Challenged'.
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guruscotty
02/06/09

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I miss some of the references, when they mention someone who's obviously famous in England. Otherwise I watch the show regularly.
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amblito
02/06/09

@guruscotty: I don't know who some of the people who have featured in the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment are.

I only watch Top Gear, James May's Big Ideas and the programme where James May drinks beer and tells you about it:

They visit places local to me like Castleford and Dewsbury. We have some amazing ales round here you see.
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layabout
02/06/09

@amblito: I'm hoping to visit some of the places featured during the summer (if we get one)
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f86sabre
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
The "don't get it" comment is puzzling. Clarkson has stated in his own Time articles that Top Gear is one of the most pirated shows on the internet. Who does he think it is doing the downloading? Guys in boats off of Somalia? No, it is folks here in the States. We want the real deal. We don't want watered down. I don't even like the BBC America versions that have the news or other parts cut out.
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DoctorNine
02/06/09

@f86sabre: I must say I admire his antics, but don't take this too seriously. It's an obvious ploy to get us to import his show, by saying we don't understand it. Oldest marketing trick in the book. "No, Mr. Smith, hands off that, you wouldn't want it. Only thuggish lorrie drivers swilling warm beer and stinking of petrol have any use for THAT. You are not, well, the sort of CLIENTELE they seek..."
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HDC
02/06/09

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BBC really needs to rethink their approach to spreading TopGear to American viewers. Don't think of it as just a car show but as cultural outreach device. TopGear has opened my eyes to many previously unknown bits of Brit society and life in general. Thinks like:

-Bovril

-Avoid lorry drivers should I ever take up hooking in the UK.

-Short people are adorable if not slightly unpleasant from time to time.

-Red heads are to be avoided and scorned.

-Moonraker is a Boxing day tradition.

-What Boxing day is.

-The depth and breadth of US manufacturer's suck cannot be fully appreciated until you see what they pawn off on the Europeans.

-What a Chelsea tractor is

-The proper pronunciation of coupe(rhymes with toupee)

-Strange men in matching jumpsuits an helmets are oddly untrusting of atmospheric moisture deposits.

Ambassadors doing God's work really.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
02/06/09

@HDC: My nom for COTD. Good stuff.
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cgarison
02/06/09

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I this is more that Jezza don't have a clue what is means to be an American.

For that matter, I don't think Jezza understands the culture in the UK outside of area around southern England.

From here on out we can call him the "Saxon Jerk."
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amblito
02/06/09

@cgarison: I think he understands the culture up north as he was born in Doncaster, though he did go to public school.

He makes references to shit hole towns in Yorkshire, especially in his Times column.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
02/06/09

@amblito: It's good to note here that when you say public school, you're talking about an independent/prestigious institution.

In the US, public school is more literal--government-funded, nothing to brag about.
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mikedrawcar
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
Honestly, I've been thinking about starting a grass-roots (perhaps, gas-roots?, eh?) campaign about this. Granted, I get Top Gear UK OnDemand, but who wouldn't want to see the following:

-Soccer w/ Kia Rios/Peapods/G3s

-Carlos Bernard try to beat Kiefer Sutherland's time in an Aveo. (insert other popular acting duo to suit personal taste)

-A Ford Edge race a mountain climber down a cliff (create any other awesome race combination)

-A LeMons spot, and other spots on crazy racing series' in the US

-Carolla convert a beat up Silverado into a boat

-Entering their take on wrecked, barely running rice rockets in any form of rice rocket beauty fest

etc.

It could be big, like the El Camino campaign but think of the rewards.
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Triborough
02/06/09

In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
Bloody hell!

I understand Top Gear and what they are going on about. Some of us on this side of the pond actually understand English, know that England ≠ UK, read the Harry Potter books in the original English instead of the translated into American version, eats proper Nestlé made Kit Kat bars, and know that in the UK there are not just two or four TV channels.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
02/06/09

@Triborough: They made separate versions of Harry Potter for the US.

Man, that's embarassing.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
02/06/09

@Ash78: I'm interrogatively challenged today. That was a question, with surprise.
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layabout
02/06/09

@Triborough: Yeah,we have 5 tv channels.
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