Ever feel like ‘they’ just don’t get it?
One of the most F1-friendly car shows, Top Gear, has come to America.
The Top Gear America trailer just showed up, and if ever there was a more watched program to hit American television with a ready-made, well-tuned audience, this would be it.
So what makes this trailer such an epic flop? Reading comments from Youtube and on Top Gear’s UK website, the audience has already voted with their reviews of this trailer, and it’s got everything to do with presentation.
This episode already ‘feels’ like a stock car race with too many yellow flags – like a bad infomercial just before a 4:30 AM live F1 race broadcast – like one of the commercial breaks during the MotoGP broadcast at Laguna Seca this Summer . . .
I have a solution… instead of making a ‘new’ Top Gear for America, we can just keep the old one and start bringing all the cars they test to the USA. It’s not the easiest fix, but it’s the one I keep dreaming about.
I have a solution… instead of making a ‘new’ Top Gear for America, we can just keep the old one and start bringing all the cars they test to the USA. It’s not the easiest fix, but it’s the one I keep dreaming about.
Damn Mark, you must be having my dream then! 🙂
But seriously, i have no idea what necessitates doing a US version of Top Gear, given that a lot of what makes it appealing (outrageous stunts, un-PC presenters, and supercars, supercars, and more supercars) would probably be banned in the US. Who wants a watered down Top Gear with smog-certified, speed limit adhering, unsophisticated GM, Ford or Chrysler products?
I’d rather watch Motorweek on PBS!
Damn Mark, you must be having my dream then! 🙂
But seriously, i have no idea what necessitates doing a US version of Top Gear, given that a lot of what makes it appealing (outrageous stunts, un-PC presenters, and supercars, supercars, and more supercars) would probably be banned in the US. Who wants a watered down Top Gear with smog-certified, speed limit adhering, unsophisticated GM, Ford or Chrysler products?
I’d rather watch Motorweek on PBS!