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    Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear

    NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure

    Tanner Foust To Replace Travis Pastrana In ROC After Recent Injury

    Top Gear USA Host Eric Stromer Rolls Camry Hybrid In Hollywood

    Top Gear Launches US Web Site

    UK Top Gear Comes Back To America, Tests Corvette ZR1, Challenger SRT8, CTS-V

    Top Gear USA Host Tanner Foust Booted From Ferrari F1 Car

    Top Gear USA Host Tanner Foust Touring Europe In Lamborghini ReventĂłn

    EXCLUSIVE: US Top Gear To Put Howie Mandel And Melanie B In Reasonably-Priced Kia Rio

    Top Gear US Filming In-Studio Audience Segment This Weekend, Want To Go?
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    Image of Elhigh 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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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] 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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    Image of Osnapsonjc Osnapsonjc
    02/06/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    NBC is only good for one thing ....Monday Night Football
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face 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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    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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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/06/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    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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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    02/06/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    " ."
    -- The Stig's American Cousin
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    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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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk 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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    Image of pres 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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    Image of layabout 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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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/06/09

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

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    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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    Image of amblito 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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    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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    Image of f86sabre 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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    Image of DoctorNine 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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    Image of HDC HDC
    02/06/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    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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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    02/06/09

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

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: US Viewers Don’t Get Top Gear
    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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    Image of amblito 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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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    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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    Image of mikedrawcar 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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    Image of Triborough 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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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    02/06/09

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


    Man, that's embarassing.

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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    02/06/09

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

    @Triborough: Yeah,we have 5 tv channels.
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