To be honest as a Brit, Top Gear USA from say season 3/4 onwards is pretty decent. It's challenges every episode. It's definitely much better than Chris Evans Top Gear. They've grown into their own good chemistry now.
+Craig MacGillicutty I find it typical that you go on about "an American focus group", capitalizing on being American, rather than NAMING the blokes IN THE GROUP that actually ruined it.
too predictable.... top gear us was total shit... i watched a few and some of the personalities where there.. but it seems the show was waaaay to scripted... it was just a fail from the start...
its production was 100 times better on season 1 compared to season 1 UK top gear and its a nice show to watch occasionally. I do agree however, its not top gear.
True, US Top Gear isn't a bad show but it isn't a good one either. Maybe it should be called Neutral. I can imagine the intro for the show would be, Tonight on Neutral nothing worth watching again.
I was very disappointed with the US version. In the US version, they basically just use BBC Top Gear storylines and challenges with a very poor selection of talentless presenters .... all seems fake, forced and unfortunately....not very entertaining. I suppose if I had never, ever viewed Top Gear UK on BBC ... the USA version might not seem so gawd awful shitty.
They've moved away from the BBC version stuff lately and it's gotten pretty good. I'd also argue that the UK version was awful at first, especially the first series, until the presenters started to get more confident and familiar with each other. I think the same will happen with the US version.
I wouldn't like to label those guys talentless, its just that they should have done their own thing rather than try to emulate what the three Top Gear UK guys did. Top Gear only works so well due to the three guys unique chemistry and personalities but it doesn't work when others try to fake it.
It wasn't the viewers that didn't get it...it was the people who made the show. Nothing about TG America reminded me of the original. The banter, the comedy, the charisma, the tongue in cheek self awareness....these are what make Top gear so fun to watch and all were missing from the American show. I wanna hang out with the UK hosts, I wanna run over the US hosts with my car.
arbitterm well i would say that it tried to hard to be TG UK. But they just didn't have any chemistry between the hosts. Everything about it felt forced.
Vicarious Fan if you only look at USA TG and not the UK series it's not totally bad but, it can't at all measure up to UK TG but remember that richard, jeremy, james have been doing this for 10+ years so there's loads chemistry but if you look at the series in the early 2000s its nowhere near as good as the newer TG (yes i know clarkson was fired and they have a new show)
Top Gear USA's underperformance has nothing to do with viewers 'not getting it' and everything with it's producers not getting it. What makes Top Gear UK so special is it has three eccentric blokes with unique and unusual but genuinely entertaining personalities who get to interact with each other around a subject they are genuinely passionate about, the silly stunts simply act as a springboard for them to bounce off each other. Top Gear USA mucked-up the format a bunch before finally settling on doing nothing but the stunts, dispensing with all of the other stuff that would help establish the USA presenters' personalities and their chemistry with each other, you're just not allowed to care about them one way or the other. The result is less 'An American Top Gear' so much as 'Jackass, now with more cars and slightly less vomit.'
True, I get top gear, the American version is an example of American producers not understanding what made the original great to begin with. I watched one or two episodes of TGA and hated it.
Copying the Top Gear name is just a death sentence in itself... Top Gear IS Jeremy, Richard and James... The first season of the new Top Gear with Jason Dawe wasn't anything special either... But now with the current UK trio, it's one of the best entertainment trio to ever be shown on TV! It's all about that chemistry...
The U.S. version is back with new episodes. Fittingly it's on The History Channel. It will be history soon as it's really bad. I prefer to watch the U.K. original on BBC America. STAY AWESOME! :)
The only part of the U.S. version that was decent was already done, and done better, with the UK version. The U.S. version threw three guys together and hoped it would fly - theres no chemistry, no fun. It's a sad copy of the beloved original.
MrChevypower my wife likes the american one better i dont they got rid of the things that make the show its more of a great american road trip than top gear
Jeremy doesn't like America or Americans, so of course his perspective is that the show failed because of the audience. But shows never fail because of the audience... they only fail because they suck, or because they're poorly scheduled or promoted. It's too bad, too, because he'd do well to recognize that why Top Gear is successful has nothing to do with the UK (or worldwide) audience, and everything to do with the absolutely marvelous chemistry between him and his co-presenters. As an American, I'd watch Top Gear UK over Top Gear America any day. It's a genuinely good show on its own with the hosts it has. It doesn't need an American version.
They dumbed it down for the US audience. When I watched the US version all I could think about was that the producers changed it to avoid a lot of conversations and put in explosions instead. It is pretty insulting actually and the ultimate failure of the show should demonstrate that the US audience is actually more sophisticated than they assumed. The massive popularity of the UK show with US audiences is proof of that much. All the changes they did to try to make it appeal to a fictional stereotype of an American just made the show worse in the eyes of the actual audience.
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't specifically dislike Americans or America. He slags off everybody, whether it's the Americans, Canadians, Australians, French, Italians, Germans, Dutch, etc... but most of all he slags off the British. I think that's why the original Top Gear is so successful, because they do not compromise out of political correctness. I think the problem with the American version was that they tried to copy the formula, but have presenters try not to offend anyone at the same time and that just doesn't work.
***** why I don't watch many shows on TV anymore. I'll go watch them for the entertainment value after they are finished. I enjoy the survivalist aspect of these shows the most. IE revolution, jericho, survivors.
Problem with Top Gear USA in my eyes is the commentators/presenters try too hard to be funny and force chemistry. The funny moments between May, Clarckson, and Hammond, and their chemistry is not forced, it is natural and they are good friends in real life as well. You can't force that to happen, it just is or it isn't. Content wise the US version is good, their reviews are accurate and the challenges are interesting, its just the way its presented comes off as forced. Also like EVERY American show its cut to seem more dramatic than it really is, which I find annoying.
As and American, top gear USA is absolute garbage and top gear U.K. is genuinely my favorite show. Top gear USA is a complete joke, the producers are not funny and you get the sense that none of it is real. Honestly though American television is garbage so my fellow Americans just watch and simply don't get it.
I will say sadly I see moments in their latest episodes some thing feel forced or just plain faked in the UK series, I love the UK series but I hope they don't keep.doing these little fake bits playing off their real. When they pee'd in Hammonds shower water it was clearly them squeezing water bottles and then they carried it through another bit that just felt fake. Don't get me wrong I understand it just wasn't for me but I wanna see them do their old school genuine shannagins.
It was a very long time ago since Top Gear was a genuine magazine show, it is now just an entertainment show. When I was a wee nipper, so I can't really remember when it was genuine. After a period of absence it returned in...I dunno, the very late nineties or early 2000's which is the current format, which has evolved more and more into a pure entertainment show. So it's very much faked (or at least heavily scripted is a better way of putting it), and the hosts admit it. But I will agree, I have seen a bit of the American version and they are as subtle as this simile is successful...
Lord Kitty Sure, wasn't suggesting otherwise, it's a series I always watch. Just saying that much more of it is scripted than appears. But that's just tv for you in general.
The US version has been a disaster since day one. On the one hand it is a direct scripted rip-off of the UK version, pretty much devoid of any originality and on the other hand they sneer at all things British. The three actors chosen to take off the British trio have no chemistry, they don't seem to have a relationship other than working for the same program. It is interesting that most of the comments are about TGUSA when this was filmed in Australia. Clarkson is such a public school southern tosser, it's difficult to credit that anyone could be so crass.
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I guess he was joking about the US Top Gear being canned because it hasn't...but I wouldn't be surprised if that will happen. I find the US Top Gear guys very unlikable.
I don't give a damn about cars. I've never set foot outside of the USA in my 35 years of life. But I LOVE Top Gear. Why? I don't know. It's just freaking awesome. The US version? I hate it, hate it, hate it so much. I want it to be cancelled so bad.
Actually this interview was done before what is now known as Top Gear USA on the history channel, there was another Top Gear US version on NBC which was canceled
619ck154 I actually did not know that there was an earlier US show. Thanks for the info! Do you know if it was better than the current US "version"? Well, I know it had to have been, even if it was produced, directed, and acted by a full crew of lobotomised sea cucumbers.
True, the only one I like is Tanner Foust and I also have respect for him cause he has some skills man..but the other 2 presenters are killing the show. If they would keep Tanner and replace the other 2 with people that are at least a little like able, then it would be a really good show...lol
Top Gear America (I think that's the correct name of the show) is awful. Rutledge Wood is the only real "car guy" on the show, but he comes off as a computer geek who might fall asleep at any time. The other two guys are only there to fill up space, and don't seem to know anything at all about cars, and have no interest in learning. The guy with the Bronx / Jersey accent, whatever his name is, could use a good ass-kicking to set him right, and the other guy seems like a wannabe suit-and-tie business clown who hasn't found the correct cubicle to sit in. The whole premise of the show seems to be to see how many cars they can destroy, and often the cars that they mangle are good condition older or classic cars that could be restored or hot-rodded. They don't actually test or review cars, they just abuse and destroy them while pretending to have a purpose for their actions. I hope that in the very near future, Top Gear America will be cancelled. The show is an insult to the original BBC production.
Okay, everyone. First off: I am as American as they come. I was born in the US, I was in Boy Scouts, I was in Explorer Scouts, and I own 6 guns, and more ammunition than socks and underwear. I absolutely LOVE my country. All that being said: the American Edition of Top Gear was absolute SHIT. I am SO GLAD they cancelled the show! Please don't EVER do another American Edition of Top Gear again! We Americans may be alot of things, but one thing we appreciate is Originality. That is something that the American Edition just didn't have. Keep it original, and keep it real. Rock on, Top Gear!
Using the Scouts as an example of 'American as the come', is a little off considering it was started in the UK by a British Army General. Everything else is very accurate!!
The US version sucks for one simple reason, the hosts suck. Clarkson, Hammond, May just have a chemistry about them and they are very witty and funny together.
Speaking as someone from the states I am absolutely tired of out abysmal remakes of British shows. House of Cards is pretty good but most of the others are junk and Top Gear is no exception. Why would I watch some Americans trying to do the real Top Gear when I can just watch the real Top Gear. Seriously. They should just air British shows in the USA and give them a larger market share rather than spitting out these crappy renditions of them. P.S. I'm fully aware that they do air some shows on BBC America but BBC America is a joke. They play the hell out of like 3 or 4 British shows and then for some inexplicable reason they show us our own shows. Why the hell to I want to watch Star Trek on BBC America? Seriously? No, no, no. It's not US viewers that don't get it as previous posts have pointed it. It's most definitely the industry and producers, which doesn't surprise me at all as it's the US "entertainment" industry who would rather spend millions hassling downloaders, ISPs, and holding back internet infrastructure than to simply stream their shows so people can watch them when and where the want. It's the same backwards idiocy that fights the internet tooth and nail that is putting out the Americanized, formulaic and simply bad versions of otherwise good shows.
We've been nicking British television for years, and with mixed results. "Three's Company", "All In the Family", those sort of worked out. The American attempt at "Life On Mars" was crap, and by the time they got around to trying to clone "Top Gear", they basically had cocaine apes sitting in a production office saying "Just do all the crashes and have them make remarks about them, you know, guy stuff".
Guys this was in 2009. This was about the US top gear that was to involve them as the main presenters. It was cancelled and replaced with the current Top Gear USA because they would have to spend multiple months in America away from their families.
Good interview. Top Gear USA has gotten better over the seasons though. All they do is challenges every episode now and about half of those challenges are actually interesting to watch once. The hosts are still bullocks. Proper Top Gear (BBC) hosts still have the best chemistry out of any hosts from any series ever.
I’m an American and I will say the US version sucks. It doesn’t matter who you get. You can’t compare with Jeremy, James, and Richard. It’s like remaking and good old western you will never succeed in it. The 3 have something no other 3 car guys could possibly have. The antics the laughter the crashing into each other the beautiful country sides the wonderful cars. It all rolls together that’s why these guys work. America has tried actors, race car drivers, people from other countries and a host of other gimmicks but, failed everyone. America tries to imitate these guys. You have a brain, a driver, and a kinda goof you can’t teach that. You either have it or you don’t. Thank you for Top Gear, and The Grand Tour.
Jeremy is referring to the NBC version of Top Gear USA. They made a pilot of that version which didn't test well and was never aired. NBC is run on ad revenue and they were afraid that car companies would stop advertising on NBC if they gave a car a bad review. Then they rebooted the the show with a new cast on a The History Channel, which is the show that is now on TV
Farnsworth (an American) invented electronic television in his Green St. San Francisco lab in 1926. Baird's primitive and inadequate mechanical system went nowhere, and quickly disappeared. Even the BBC tried to adopt the Farnsworth system until their studio burned to the ground - at which point they adopted the RCA (also American) television system.
The USA hosts just don't have the irreverence towards things and towards each other like these guys have. The US hosts do try but I think they are just too young and their humor is aimed at a younger crowd that probably isn't watching (hypercar gas guzzling Lambos are SO uncool to the wheatgrass chewing Prius driving generation) and they don't really get what makes the Brit show so much fun to watch. Its all too PC and too forced. I wish there was more spontaneous humor like on the Brit version.
As an American I completely agree, they made that show based on what they thought American men act like and did not take anything from the good (British) version.
Spare me. Clarkson has raised deniability to the title line of his CV. Every word is cored with hyperbole, laced with irony and fired with the kind of Top (Gear) spin that makes it drop into a black hole he keeps in his shirt pocket, right behind his smokes. His whole theme is to be able to say anything and own up to nothing -- and get paid more with each and every new contract. He's the mouthpiece of every Anglo-chauvinist who rants in his cups that the American Revolution was the greatest miscarriage of history since the fall of Rome. To any Royal abject who has the courage to salute the inevitable, have a Guinness on my tab.
America needs a Top Gear in the same way that Australia and East Asia need Top Gears. Driving culture is totally different in each of the locations, and they each have different cars that are dominant. America is one of the world's largest producers of cars and is home to three of the largest companies, yet the only thing Top Gear UK says about American cars is, "They can't turn, pause for audience chuckle, and now onto the BMW..." I agree with everyone that the current hosts just do not mesh. Part of the charm for Top Gear UK is that none of the guys have a real car background, they all went to art school. They're just three guys who really like cars. Top Gear US has Adam Ferrera who is a comedian, but then it has Rutledge and Tanner who both worked in the racing industry as an analyst and a freaking driver. Cut those two out, bring in Jay Leno and Adam Carolla, and try to make the challenges more America-centric rather than copying the British ones, and I'm sure that you'll have a show that's plenty good.
Jeremy Clarkson is a lot of things, but funny is not one of them. Hes trying to desperately to audition at the Laugh Factory and practically dying on stage here. This was tough to watch.
TorontoSammy Rosie has made more money in a year than Clarkson has made in a lifetime. 99% of the world has no idea who Clarkson even is. I agree Rosie is a talent-less idiot. But her popularity dwarfs Clarkson's. The size of the audience says so and the size of the checks say so. Still, neither have an ounce of talent. Talent and success are oftentimes inversely proportional.
Left, not right. Hammond was on the right. And for reference, because the above comment will be deleted, it was as follows: Klye Aman - Whos the guy on the far left? Supernuggetfly - Hammond. Richard hammond. :)
Viewers get it. Its about the humour at least as much as the cars. The US version had nothing but dulled, restrained, censored copy without any personality or fun whatsoever. That is why it fails. I'm just glad the viewers show their powers of discernment.
My wife and daughter do not like cars but they love the UK version because of the way the three of them interact. The challenges are great and when you try to copy that you only soil it!
You know, out of the three Top gear UK presenters, only one was known. Hammond and May were virtually unheard of. It was the same thing for the US version, only Faust was known and thats because hes a racing driver.
I tried to watch TGA a couple of times but it just doesn't have the same cache as TGUK. these 3 "idiots!" have the best time together and give me a huge chuckle every episode. LONG LIVE TOP GEAR UK!!!
After reading much of the comments I think most people don't know or remember that very briefly Clarkson hosted TOP GEAR in the U.S.A., maybe one season or less, not the current series, and I think I remember him speaking about his previous journey to the states hosting the show on TOP GEAR U.K. It may have even been just before the current TOP GEAR U.K. series.
they knew damn well what they were in for, as you can hear Jeremy reading the challenge off the card, "you must not get shot or arrested, as you drive through the proud state of Alabama, but points will be awarded if you can get one of the others shot or arrested" derp
If anyone ever bothered to look at the credits of Top Gear USA, you would see that it's still being made BY and FOR the BBC. It would not be naturally to assume that one is going to follow the original.
Everybody needs to let top gear usa grow and develop. It's kinda like seeing a new born child and just because he looks weird, you all of a sudden hate it. let top gear usa grow. let the guys develop chemistry.
Yes, it was so hard to "get" (among works by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche etc etc) that we didn't. Or, we didn't really "get" the reason why some TV producers insisted on showing that abomination.
The problem is the people haven't been working together long enough on USA Top Gear and the chemistry on set still feels forced. If USA Top Gear is able to stay on air long enough and get the right writers hopefully we can get something more on par with UK Top Gear.
actually if you read between the lines and try to understand the bigger picture or the not so obvious messages of their films it's actually quite informative.
I like the original top gear but I prefer top gear us. Season 3 and 4 are excellent. It's good that they got rid of all that big star little car crap, and the lame interviews. Just the 3 guys driving cool cars, and doing fun challenges. It's fun to watch and I hope it has many more seasons.
I get annoyed at people knocking Top Gear US. I prefer the UK version, but the US one has gotten very good. The first series of the new Top Gear UK was awful, and it took it awhile to get very good after James May was added. I think the US version is experiencing the same thing. I'm glad they got rid of the interviews and big star stuff too. They were trying to hard to emulate the UK version and needed to make the US version their own.
The thing about top gear america is that they barely talked about or reviewed cars. They did for a while at first then they totally forgot about it and just did stupid challenges that still were not as good as top gear uk's challenges. It seemed like maybe they had trouble getting the cars or something so they just had the whole show about junk beater cars and truck challenges..... lame
I don't think there are any Americans (me included) that like the US version. I always liked the UK version and never had a hard time understanding it. Great show.
Everyone I know watches the BBC Top Gear instead of the US version (which is pretty lame by comparison), but I can see why it doesn't catch on here in the States like it has throughout the rest of the world. Most Americans don't get satire. Unless you act like Stephen Colbert, and you're over-the-top with it, Americans will think you're being serious. And, in the case of Top Gear, a lot of Americans think it's "racist". They've had a very strong sense of political correctness instilled in them since childhood, and any kind of ethnic slur will make them feel uncomfortable. So whereas everyone else can laugh at themselves, Americans cringe and change the channel.
The US Top Gear was thought up by faceless TV execs who had no idea why the original worked so well. But the fact is that America could no more make a successful copy of Top Gear than the UK could make a successful moon landing
People living in snowy and cold weather get tough and to them it’s not really that cold, a good example is Hitler’s army in winter during the Russian invasion of WWII.
From Wikipedia: "On May 11, 2012, History renewed Top Gear for a third season." Actually, I don't mind. Although it's nowhere near as good, it's at least something to watch while waiting for real Top Gear to broadcast another series. Also it's a TV show about cars. Not too many of those around.
A. There are 7 continents, 2 of which are North America and South America. However, we were told that when I was 10-11. Now that I'm 16 we know there are some grey areas, such as the Middle East, and Central America.
Top Gear UK has been around since 1977, whereas the US version has been around only since 2010. Essentially, the US version, will forever live in the shadow of the UK version and will most likely never be able to gain that type of reputation. I expect the US version go be cancelled after a few years, as were the Russian and Australian versions. The newly created South Korean version will probably go through the same thing as well.
@AntonioRepiso I absolutely agree. In the UK we accept American programming without subtitling and without modification and we enjoy them. But the Yanks struggle with anything that is not made in their own back yard. Probably too many TV executives under estimating the American audience and over estimating their ability to judge what will be popular. Focus groups are responsible for bland programming.
Yeah he's dead wrong. Top Gear USA has never had proper presenters. These three are the only reason Top Gear UK made it big. They left and started a brand new show that's got more viewers than the one they left with new presenters.
Top Gear is a normal show. Cars, travel, etc. But, the presenters make the show and the connection between them is amazing. That is something the other shows just can't manage.
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I love how Clarkson just does not give a single shit about what he says
To be honest as a Brit, Top Gear USA from say season 3/4 onwards is pretty decent. It's challenges every episode. It's definitely much better than Chris Evans Top Gear. They've grown into their own good chemistry now.
Top Gear USA went its own route instead of trying to fill their daddy's shoes. Best decision they ever made.
+Craig MacGillicutty I find it typical that you go on about "an American focus group", capitalizing on being American, rather than NAMING the blokes IN THE GROUP that actually ruined it.
Yeah they did. They went down the route marked "Suck".
Because he has nothing to say 😃
Its not having three Knobs in front of the camera that made it work ,,,, It is all about having THESE THREE KNOBS .... They are Brilliant
Absolutely!
Clarkson logic: 'Accidents aren't intentional, so it's pointless to mitigate the risk of them occurring.' I love this man.
Americans watch the UK version, at least me and all my friends did. The USA Top Gear was dull
My friend told me about UK a couple years ago and I never went back
anything related to cars without them is basically dull :D
Yeah I was so exited for the USA top gear. 10 minutes into the first episode I turned it off and turned the channel to BBC America.
too predictable.... top gear us was total shit... i watched a few and some of the personalities where there.. but it seems the show was waaaay to scripted... it was just a fail from the start...
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I mean, the show wasn't horrible but you're correct in that there was no chemistry. It was produced and set up just fine actually.
the US Top Gear isn't a bad show it just doesn't deserve the title top gear, it needs another name, UK Top Gear is far superior
Agreed!! the US should have their own version not trying to follow UK style....there can only be ONE stig in the world!!
its production was 100 times better on season 1 compared to season 1 UK top gear and its a nice show to watch occasionally. I do agree however, its not top gear.
True, US Top Gear isn't a bad show but it isn't a good one either. Maybe it should be called Neutral. I can imagine the intro for the show would be, Tonight on Neutral nothing worth watching again.
the top gear show they're talking about was the one they were trying with Adam Corolla that was going to be on NBC, not the one on History Channel
Arie Salim
But there isn't, just in the original Top Gear, they often have Stig cousins ;)
I was very disappointed with the US version. In the US version, they basically just use BBC Top Gear storylines and challenges with a very poor selection of talentless presenters .... all seems fake, forced and unfortunately....not very entertaining.
I suppose if I had never, ever viewed Top Gear UK on BBC ... the USA version might not seem so gawd awful shitty.
They've moved away from the BBC version stuff lately and it's gotten pretty good. I'd also argue that the UK version was awful at first, especially the first series, until the presenters started to get more confident and familiar with each other. I think the same will happen with the US version.
I will give it another chance... but just one
I wouldn't like to label those guys talentless, its just that they should have done their own thing rather than try to emulate what the three Top Gear UK guys did. Top Gear only works so well due to the three guys unique chemistry and personalities but it doesn't work when others try to fake it.
So it felt American
Exactly like the inbetweeners
It wasn't the viewers that didn't get it...it was the people who made the show. Nothing about TG America reminded me of the original. The banter, the comedy, the charisma, the tongue in cheek self awareness....these are what make Top gear so fun to watch and all were missing from the American show. I wanna hang out with the UK hosts, I wanna run over the US hosts with my car.
arbitterm And the Racism!
arbitterm well i would say that it tried to hard to be TG UK. But they just didn't have any chemistry between the hosts.
Everything about it felt forced.
Vicarious Fan if you only look at USA TG and not the UK series it's not totally bad but, it can't at all measure up to UK TG but remember that richard, jeremy, james have been doing this for 10+ years so there's loads chemistry but if you look at the series in the early 2000s its nowhere near as good as the newer TG (yes i know clarkson was fired and they have a new show)
@@overburdenedwithindifferen6773 only problem: TG UK peaked from S4 to lets say S9
Top Gear USA's underperformance has nothing to do with viewers 'not getting it' and everything with it's producers not getting it.
What makes Top Gear UK so special is it has three eccentric blokes with unique and unusual but genuinely entertaining personalities who get to interact with each other around a subject they are genuinely passionate about, the silly stunts simply act as a springboard for them to bounce off each other.
Top Gear USA mucked-up the format a bunch before finally settling on doing nothing but the stunts, dispensing with all of the other stuff that would help establish the USA presenters' personalities and their chemistry with each other, you're just not allowed to care about them one way or the other.
The result is less 'An American Top Gear' so much as 'Jackass, now with more cars and slightly less vomit.'
That comment is made out of pure truth.
Only wish other people would see it in the same light
I agree.
True, I get top gear, the American version is an example of American producers not understanding what made the original great to begin with. I watched one or two episodes of TGA and hated it.
Aaron Johnson you do know the same British executives are behind both versions
If one of them did die and the other two had to confirm it. I genuinely believe they would say "anyway" but with massive tears in their eyes.
Hammond said that on the Jonathan Ross show
Copying the Top Gear name is just a death sentence in itself... Top Gear IS Jeremy, Richard and James... The first season of the new Top Gear with Jason Dawe wasn't anything special either... But now with the current UK trio, it's one of the best entertainment trio to ever be shown on TV! It's all about that chemistry...
... AAAAAAAAAAAAAND it's over.
Turtus Gaming yep :'(
Turtus Gaming Worst moments of my life seeing the news headlines. :(
Grand Tour is living proof people want to see the Trio, not the cars. :)
We have no carbon footprint because we drive everywhere :D LOL!!!!
+tortolini47
And missed by the audience!
The U.S. version is back with new episodes. Fittingly it's on The History Channel. It will be history soon as it's really bad. I prefer to watch the U.K. original on BBC America.
STAY AWESOME! :)
Stay dirty, have fun, be safe... Eric The Car Guy for TGUSA host.
Top Gear USA sucks, the United States of America doesn't suck but Top Gear USA is genuinely bad.
JustaKoreanGuy Quite so, quite so.
JustaKoreanGuy top gear USA and top gear AUS suck ass
I've never seen Top Gear Aus, it has to be a little better than the USA one right?
JustaKoreanGuy
nope, all they talk about are holdens and fords.
JustaKoreanGuy shame there won't be any Top Gear anymore. :(
I was astonished that someone down there got the Fulham and Hammersmith joke despite they are thousands of mile away from London :D
Top Gear USA has not even a shred of the personality exhibited by Clarkson, Hammond and May era Top Gear UK. . .
The only part of the U.S. version that was decent was already done, and done better, with the UK version. The U.S. version threw three guys together and hoped it would fly - theres no chemistry, no fun. It's a sad copy of the beloved original.
Kyle Taylor I am an American and I can say with no reservation that the USA version of Top Gear sucks.....it eats shit
Jeremy's comment about James in California looking for Australia has to be the funniest thing iv'e heard in weeks.
no, viewers 'just don't like it'
LOL... so true.. I have NEVER met anyone who watches top gear tell me they perfer the american version... I dunno but I think id probibly get violent.
Bakanur1 I don't prefer it, but I still watch it. They don't make enough episodes of UK TG that I don't have time to watch the US version.
MrChevypower my wife likes the american one better i dont they got rid of the things that make the show its more of a great american road trip than top gear
don't like it because the US ruin british shows. e.g. the office and inbetweeners
Jeremy doesn't like America or Americans, so of course his perspective is that the show failed because of the audience. But shows never fail because of the audience... they only fail because they suck, or because they're poorly scheduled or promoted. It's too bad, too, because he'd do well to recognize that why Top Gear is successful has nothing to do with the UK (or worldwide) audience, and everything to do with the absolutely marvelous chemistry between him and his co-presenters. As an American, I'd watch Top Gear UK over Top Gear America any day. It's a genuinely good show on its own with the hosts it has. It doesn't need an American version.
***** Jericho was one of my favorites. Sad they had to cut it so short.
They dumbed it down for the US audience. When I watched the US version all I could think about was that the producers changed it to avoid a lot of conversations and put in explosions instead. It is pretty insulting actually and the ultimate failure of the show should demonstrate that the US audience is actually more sophisticated than they assumed. The massive popularity of the UK show with US audiences is proof of that much. All the changes they did to try to make it appeal to a fictional stereotype of an American just made the show worse in the eyes of the actual audience.
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't specifically dislike Americans or America. He slags off everybody, whether it's the Americans, Canadians, Australians, French, Italians, Germans, Dutch, etc... but most of all he slags off the British. I think that's why the original Top Gear is so successful, because they do not compromise out of political correctness. I think the problem with the American version was that they tried to copy the formula, but have presenters try not to offend anyone at the same time and that just doesn't work.
***** why I don't watch many shows on TV anymore. I'll go watch them for the entertainment value after they are finished. I enjoy the survivalist aspect of these shows the most. IE revolution, jericho, survivors.
The chemistry between the US versions hosts was terrible - I didn't genuinely care bout them like I do bout Clarkson and company..no great loss then
Problem with Top Gear USA in my eyes is the commentators/presenters try too hard to be funny and force chemistry. The funny moments between May, Clarckson, and Hammond, and their chemistry is not forced, it is natural and they are good friends in real life as well. You can't force that to happen, it just is or it isn't. Content wise the US version is good, their reviews are accurate and the challenges are interesting, its just the way its presented comes off as forced. Also like EVERY American show its cut to seem more dramatic than it really is, which I find annoying.
As and American, top gear USA is absolute garbage and top gear U.K. is genuinely my favorite show. Top gear USA is a complete joke, the producers are not funny and you get the sense that none of it is real. Honestly though American television is garbage so my fellow Americans just watch and simply don't get it.
I will say sadly I see moments in their latest episodes some thing feel forced or just plain faked in the UK series, I love the UK series but I hope they don't keep.doing these little fake bits playing off their real. When they pee'd in Hammonds shower water it was clearly them squeezing water bottles and then they carried it through another bit that just felt fake. Don't get me wrong I understand it just wasn't for me but I wanna see them do their old school genuine shannagins.
It was a very long time ago since Top Gear was a genuine magazine show, it is now just an entertainment show. When I was a wee nipper, so I can't really remember when it was genuine. After a period of absence it returned in...I dunno, the very late nineties or early 2000's which is the current format, which has evolved more and more into a pure entertainment show. So it's very much faked (or at least heavily scripted is a better way of putting it), and the hosts admit it.
But I will agree, I have seen a bit of the American version and they are as subtle as this simile is successful...
russellrummage
Lets face it, its still an amazing entertainment show, while still keeping its motoring roots.
Lord Kitty Sure, wasn't suggesting otherwise, it's a series I always watch. Just saying that much more of it is scripted than appears. But that's just tv for you in general.
I'm from the U.S, and Top Gear U.K is by far my favorite show of all time. I can't even watch the U.S.A version.
host: "Is James back home with his ballerina?"
Jeremy: "James won't do a broad."
Wildly underrated comment (as old as a 2nd grader) I wonder if Jeremy intended that
Top Gear UK will probably get cancelled too now without the 3. I can't imagine a situation where it's as good as before.
+KiwiPowerNZ you haven't watched Topgear that long then ?
if you didnt mean topgear usa haha
The US version has been a disaster since day one. On the one hand it is a direct scripted rip-off of the UK version, pretty much devoid of any originality and on the other hand they sneer at all things British. The three actors chosen to take off the British trio have no chemistry, they don't seem to have a relationship other than working for the same program.
It is interesting that most of the comments are about TGUSA when this was filmed in Australia. Clarkson is such a public school southern tosser, it's difficult to credit that anyone could be so crass.
He's from Yorkshire.
You pretty much described the US version of the Inbetweeners.
Matt Allen pretty much describes any US version of any British show
18807BB fair enough, that is very successful, and as I haven't really watched either the UK or US version, i can't really comment
How Northern do you want him to be?
Hahahaha
The US Top Gear is a terrible show, I'll be the first to admit. To be fair, I'm an American and most of my favorite shows are on BBC :p
18807BB
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"we dont have a carbon footprint 'cause we drive everywhere" lmao
I guess he was joking about the US Top Gear being canned because it hasn't...but I wouldn't be surprised if that will happen. I find the US Top Gear guys very unlikable.
I don't give a damn about cars. I've never set foot outside of the USA in my 35 years of life. But I LOVE Top Gear. Why? I don't know. It's just freaking awesome.
The US version? I hate it, hate it, hate it so much. I want it to be cancelled so bad.
Actually this interview was done before what is now known as Top Gear USA on the history channel, there was another Top Gear US version on NBC which was canceled
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I actually did not know that there was an earlier US show. Thanks for the info! Do you know if it was better than the current US "version"? Well, I know it had to have been, even if it was produced, directed, and acted by a full crew of lobotomised sea cucumbers.
True, the only one I like is Tanner Foust and I also have respect for him cause he has some skills man..but the other 2 presenters are killing the show. If they would keep Tanner and replace the other 2 with people that are at least a little like able, then it would be a really good show...lol
I can't stand to watch the US top gear guys, I can't even get past the introduction because they are so unlikable
I love how that one bloke no clue who he was just sits through the entire interview without saying a word or being asked a single question
He is likely a producer who felt entitled to be there, but no one cared about. Even Hammond barely got a word in.
he's one of the hosts of top gear australia. and that presser was clearly edited. they all spoke and answered questions.
Top Gear America (I think that's the correct name of the show) is awful. Rutledge Wood is the only real "car guy" on the show, but he comes off as a computer geek who might fall asleep at any time. The other two guys are only there to fill up space, and don't seem to know anything at all about cars, and have no interest in learning. The guy with the Bronx / Jersey accent, whatever his name is, could use a good ass-kicking to set him right, and the other guy seems like a wannabe suit-and-tie business clown who hasn't found the correct cubicle to sit in.
The whole premise of the show seems to be to see how many cars they can destroy, and often the cars that they mangle are good condition older or classic cars that could be restored or hot-rodded. They don't actually test or review cars, they just abuse and destroy them while pretending to have a purpose for their actions.
I hope that in the very near future, Top Gear America will be cancelled. The show is an insult to the original BBC production.
Tanner faust is a pro race driver
Just google Tanner Foust before saying anything about him !! You're gonna see how wrong you are !!
JUST TOP GEAR UK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Top gear (not uk) just top gear..
You don't need to add the uk as it's the original and the best
I think one of the best things about Jeremy is that he puts almost no effort into PR. He just says what's on his mind.
Okay, everyone. First off: I am as American as they come. I was born in the US, I was in Boy Scouts, I was in Explorer Scouts, and I own 6 guns, and more ammunition than socks and underwear. I absolutely LOVE my country.
All that being said: the American Edition of Top Gear was absolute SHIT. I am SO GLAD they cancelled the show! Please don't EVER do another American Edition of Top Gear again! We Americans may be alot of things, but one thing we appreciate is Originality. That is something that the American Edition just didn't have. Keep it original, and keep it real.
Rock on, Top Gear!
Using the Scouts as an example of 'American as the come', is a little off considering it was started in the UK by a British Army General.
Everything else is very accurate!!
John Main Well if you're going to get that technical then calling oneself 'American' is a little off because America was founded by a Spaniard.
The US version sucks for one simple reason, the hosts suck. Clarkson, Hammond, May just have a chemistry about them and they are very witty and funny together.
Speaking as someone from the states I am absolutely tired of out abysmal remakes of British shows. House of Cards is pretty good but most of the others are junk and Top Gear is no exception. Why would I watch some Americans trying to do the real Top Gear when I can just watch the real Top Gear. Seriously. They should just air British shows in the USA and give them a larger market share rather than spitting out these crappy renditions of them. P.S. I'm fully aware that they do air some shows on BBC America but BBC America is a joke. They play the hell out of like 3 or 4 British shows and then for some inexplicable reason they show us our own shows. Why the hell to I want to watch Star Trek on BBC America? Seriously? No, no, no. It's not US viewers that don't get it as previous posts have pointed it. It's most definitely the industry and producers, which doesn't surprise me at all as it's the US "entertainment" industry who would rather spend millions hassling downloaders, ISPs, and holding back internet infrastructure than to simply stream their shows so people can watch them when and where the want. It's the same backwards idiocy that fights the internet tooth and nail that is putting out the Americanized, formulaic and simply bad versions of otherwise good shows.
The British are worse though did you see the uk remake of that's 70 show? Unforgivable
Top gear can't be duplicated because James Jeremy & Richard are Top Gear.
I love how Jeremy called Hammond a coward for quitting smoking! That's awesome
We've been nicking British television for years, and with mixed results. "Three's Company", "All In the Family", those sort of worked out. The American attempt at "Life On Mars" was crap, and by the time they got around to trying to clone "Top Gear", they basically had cocaine apes sitting in a production office saying "Just do all the crashes and have them make remarks about them, you know, guy stuff".
Don't know why people bother telling Jeremy what not to say, because he'll do the exact opposite!
Guys this was in 2009. This was about the US top gear that was to involve them as the main presenters. It was cancelled and replaced with the current Top Gear USA because they would have to spend multiple months in America away from their families.
Top Gear is essentially three old farts acting like teenagers
it's Last of the Summer Wine with torque
Adults will be kids.
I'm from America and I myself agree with you only thing I like better about our version is that they show affection for our cars as well.
Good interview. Top Gear USA has gotten better over the seasons though. All they do is challenges every episode now and about half of those challenges are actually interesting to watch once. The hosts are still bullocks. Proper Top Gear (BBC) hosts still have the best chemistry out of any hosts from any series ever.
I’m an American and I will say the US version sucks. It doesn’t matter who you get. You can’t compare with Jeremy, James, and Richard. It’s like remaking and good old western you will never succeed in it.
The 3 have something no other 3 car guys could possibly have. The antics the laughter the crashing into each other the beautiful country sides the wonderful cars. It all rolls together that’s why these guys work. America has tried actors, race car drivers, people from other countries and a host of other gimmicks but, failed everyone. America tries to imitate these guys. You have a brain, a driver, and a kinda goof you can’t teach that. You either have it or you don’t.
Thank you for Top Gear, and The Grand Tour.
Jeremy Clarkson should meet Ron Swanson.
The testosterone anomaly from that would rip space/time to shreds.
And Kenny Powers
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Jeremy is referring to the NBC version of Top Gear USA. They made a pilot of that version which didn't test well and was never aired. NBC is run on ad revenue and they were afraid that car companies would stop advertising on NBC if they gave a car a bad review. Then they rebooted the the show with a new cast on a The History Channel, which is the show that is now on TV
Obviously topgear UK is the real thing and is a lot better... The only one who saves tgusa is tanner foust
Farnsworth (an American) invented electronic television in his Green St. San Francisco lab in 1926. Baird's primitive and inadequate mechanical system went nowhere, and quickly disappeared. Even the BBC tried to adopt the Farnsworth system until their studio burned to the ground - at which point they adopted the RCA (also American) television system.
Just give us the UK version, it's the one we want. We "get" that one just fine.
His name is Steve Pizzati. He's the only TG Australia presenter to have been present in all four series of that show.
They talk about it after 6:30
I live in the U.S. and can't get enough of the U.K. version. Only recently got BBC America in HD ;)
The USA hosts just don't have the irreverence towards things and towards each other like these guys have. The US hosts do try but I think they are just too young and their humor is aimed at a younger crowd that probably isn't watching (hypercar gas guzzling Lambos are SO uncool to the wheatgrass chewing Prius driving generation) and they don't really get what makes the Brit show so much fun to watch. Its all too PC and too forced. I wish there was more spontaneous humor like on the Brit version.
They put him in a Aston Martin DBRS9. It set the fastest time on their record wall, but since it isn't a production car, they took it off
Jeremy makes so many jokes sometimes i cant tell if hes joking or not :/
Welcome to a British sense of humour my friend
As an American I completely agree, they made that show based on what they thought American men act like and did not take anything from the good (British) version.
Spare me. Clarkson has raised deniability to the title line of his CV. Every word is cored with hyperbole, laced with irony and fired with the kind of Top (Gear) spin that makes it drop into a black hole he keeps in his shirt pocket, right behind his smokes. His whole theme is to be able to say anything and own up to nothing -- and get paid more with each and every new contract. He's the mouthpiece of every Anglo-chauvinist who rants in his cups that the American Revolution was the greatest miscarriage of history since the fall of Rome. To any Royal abject who has the courage to salute the inevitable, have a Guinness on my tab.
America needs a Top Gear in the same way that Australia and East Asia need Top Gears. Driving culture is totally different in each of the locations, and they each have different cars that are dominant. America is one of the world's largest producers of cars and is home to three of the largest companies, yet the only thing Top Gear UK says about American cars is, "They can't turn, pause for audience chuckle, and now onto the BMW..." I agree with everyone that the current hosts just do not mesh. Part of the charm for Top Gear UK is that none of the guys have a real car background, they all went to art school. They're just three guys who really like cars. Top Gear US has Adam Ferrera who is a comedian, but then it has Rutledge and Tanner who both worked in the racing industry as an analyst and a freaking driver. Cut those two out, bring in Jay Leno and Adam Carolla, and try to make the challenges more America-centric rather than copying the British ones, and I'm sure that you'll have a show that's plenty good.
we need more people like them who are politically incorrect, the world would be a better place
These guys are brilliant, too bad James wasn't there
The U.S top gear is pathetic Dump it already
Did the Top Gear USA hosts ever go on to the internet and FOUND THIS?
Jeremy Clarkson is a lot of things, but funny is not one of them. Hes trying to desperately to audition at the Laugh Factory and practically dying on stage here. This was tough to watch.
*too desperately
You are trying to hard to get likes
I actually find he has a good sense of sadistic humor
Rosie O'Donnell is popular, but that doesn't mean she has any talent either.
TorontoSammy Rosie has made more money in a year than Clarkson has made in a lifetime. 99% of the world has no idea who Clarkson even is. I agree Rosie is a talent-less idiot. But her popularity dwarfs Clarkson's. The size of the audience says so and the size of the checks say so. Still, neither have an ounce of talent. Talent and success are oftentimes inversely proportional.
The U.S version did use old challenges, and the specials werent as good, but those 3 presenters had great chemistry between eachother.
Left, not right. Hammond was on the right. And for reference, because the above comment will be deleted, it was as follows:
Klye Aman - Whos the guy on the far left?
Supernuggetfly - Hammond. Richard hammond.
:)
Viewers get it. Its about the humour at least as much as the cars. The US version had nothing but dulled, restrained, censored copy without any personality or fun whatsoever. That is why it fails. I'm just glad the viewers show their powers of discernment.
My wife and daughter do not like cars but they love the UK version because of the way the three of them interact. The challenges are great and when you try to copy that you only soil it!
Top gear USA could have been awesome with the right hosts and producers. That's all that it needed.
***** "Roadkill" FTW!
You know, out of the three Top gear UK presenters, only one was known. Hammond and May were virtually unheard of. It was the same thing for the US version, only Faust was known and thats because hes a racing driver.
This was uploaded in Feb 2009. Top Gear USA didn't even premiere until November 2010. Btw, I'm a BIG fan of Top Gear USA!
I tried to watch TGA a couple of times but it just doesn't have the same cache as TGUK. these 3 "idiots!" have the best time together and give me a huge chuckle every episode. LONG LIVE TOP GEAR UK!!!
After reading much of the comments I think most people don't know or remember that very briefly Clarkson hosted TOP GEAR in the U.S.A., maybe one season or less, not the current series, and I think I remember him speaking about his previous journey to the states hosting the show on TOP GEAR U.K. It may have even been just before the current TOP GEAR U.K. series.
they knew damn well what they were in for, as you can hear Jeremy reading the challenge off the card, "you must not get shot or arrested, as you drive through the proud state of Alabama, but points will be awarded if you can get one of the others shot or arrested"
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at 04:00 did you guys realize that Clarkson and Hammond had the same pose while being interviewed?? hahaha that is funny
If anyone ever bothered to look at the credits of Top Gear USA, you would see that it's still being made BY and FOR the BBC. It would not be naturally to assume that one is going to follow the original.
Everybody needs to let top gear usa grow and develop. It's kinda like seeing a new born child and just because he looks weird, you all of a sudden hate it. let top gear usa grow. let the guys develop chemistry.
Yes, it was so hard to "get" (among works by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche etc etc) that we didn't. Or, we didn't really "get" the reason why some TV producers insisted on showing that abomination.
We don't have a carbon footprint, we drive everywhere - great answer - how dare you, LOL
The problem is the people haven't been working together long enough on USA Top Gear and the chemistry on set still feels forced. If USA Top Gear is able to stay on air long enough and get the right writers hopefully we can get something more on par with UK Top Gear.
actually if you read between the lines and try to understand the bigger picture or the not so obvious messages of their films it's actually quite informative.
Pretty certain it is the UK Top Gear that was canceled, this is from 2009, Top Gear USA started in 2010 and is still going...
I like the original top gear but I prefer top gear us. Season 3 and 4 are excellent. It's good that they got rid of all that big star little car crap, and the lame interviews. Just the 3 guys driving cool cars, and doing fun challenges. It's fun to watch and I hope it has many more seasons.
I get annoyed at people knocking Top Gear US. I prefer the UK version, but the US one has gotten very good. The first series of the new Top Gear UK was awful, and it took it awhile to get very good after James May was added. I think the US version is experiencing the same thing.
I'm glad they got rid of the interviews and big star stuff too. They were trying to hard to emulate the UK version and needed to make the US version their own.
The thing about top gear america is that they barely talked about or reviewed cars. They did for a while at first then they totally forgot about it and just did stupid challenges that still were not as good as top gear uk's challenges. It seemed like maybe they had trouble getting the cars or something so they just had the whole show about junk beater cars and truck challenges..... lame
I don't think there are any Americans (me included) that like the US version. I always liked the UK version and never had a hard time understanding it. Great show.
Top Gear USA is still on.
Everyone I know watches the BBC Top Gear instead of the US version (which is pretty lame by comparison), but I can see why it doesn't catch on here in the States like it has throughout the rest of the world. Most Americans don't get satire. Unless you act like Stephen Colbert, and you're over-the-top with it, Americans will think you're being serious. And, in the case of Top Gear, a lot of Americans think it's "racist". They've had a very strong sense of political correctness instilled in them since childhood, and any kind of ethnic slur will make them feel uncomfortable. So whereas everyone else can laugh at themselves, Americans cringe and change the channel.
The US Top Gear was thought up by faceless TV execs who had no idea why the original worked so well. But the fact is that America could no more make a successful copy of Top Gear than the UK could make a successful moon landing
Top Gear US got uncanned after this interview was conducted anyway, and is still running fairly strong on its 4th season.
People living in snowy and cold weather get tough and to them it’s not really that cold, a good example is Hitler’s army in winter during the Russian invasion of WWII.
From Wikipedia: "On May 11, 2012, History renewed Top Gear for a third season."
Actually, I don't mind. Although it's nowhere near as good, it's at least something to watch while waiting for real Top Gear to broadcast another series. Also it's a TV show about cars. Not too many of those around.
Like we don't know that already
The UK version is light years ahead of the US version
A. There are 7 continents, 2 of which are North America and South America.
However, we were told that when I was 10-11. Now that I'm 16 we know there are some grey areas, such as the Middle East, and Central America.
and im talking about the USA version, I fucking love the UK TopGear all 19 seasons
"Actually we have no carbon footprint because we drive everywhere!" :D
Top Gear UK has been around since 1977, whereas the US version has been around only since 2010. Essentially, the US version, will forever live in the shadow of the UK version and will most likely never be able to gain that type of reputation. I expect the US version go be cancelled after a few years, as were the Russian and Australian versions. The newly created South Korean version will probably go through the same thing as well.
4:00 Jezza and Hammond doing physical mirroring like an old married couple. They're definitely spending too much time together.
@AntonioRepiso I absolutely agree. In the UK we accept American programming without subtitling and without modification and we enjoy them. But the Yanks struggle with anything that is not made in their own back yard. Probably too many TV executives under estimating the American audience and over estimating their ability to judge what will be popular. Focus groups are responsible for bland programming.
It isn't that we don't get it .Its that we don't like femmy guys without british accents
Yeah he's dead wrong. Top Gear USA has never had proper presenters. These three are the only reason Top Gear UK made it big. They left and started a brand new show that's got more viewers than the one they left with new presenters.
Top Gear is a normal show. Cars, travel, etc. But, the presenters make the show and the connection between them is amazing. That is something the other shows just can't manage.
Its not even topgear USA. Its at Australia
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