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according to the may/june 08 issue of Traction magazine, "The BBC's immensely popular Top Gear is coming to the states. NBC has commissioned a pilot for "Gear", our version of the show. Casting for the three hosts has already begun, and the plan is to maintain the same formula of cars, and celebs intermixed with some hmorous situations. According to NBC, it will be filmed on location in Los Angeles."

i'm looking forward to seeing this...

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Thanks for the info.

I hope it's a decent show. We don't have much quality stuff here at all. IMHO, the Motortrend show is horrible. Absolutely no soul. I can't remember an excited episode ever. In fact, I think they managed to slow a Gallardo down to the point it ran a 5.5 second 0-60.

We need a legit car show desperately. Oh, I should mention Test Drive is good but has run only a few shows.

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I dont think it will top the British version which has been there since 1977, the jokes and the show is setup in a way were even non automotive enthusiasts could enjoy the show.

Here are some quotes,

"This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying "Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases."

Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster - 'It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom'

"I'm sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you've got even half a scrotum it's not going to happen."

"We start tonight with the highlight of my childhood. It's the Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963, and as you would imagine it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was little, was like kind of Jordan and Cameron Diaz. In a bath together. With a Lightning jet fighter. And lots of jelly."

About the Porsche Cayman S: "There are many things I'd rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean."

..."the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany"

"America: 250 million w****rs living in a country with no word for w****r"

On the Alfa Romeo Brera... "I only have to imagine this in black, with tan leather and I'm nursing a semi!"

Clarkson on the Vauxhall Vectra VXR: "there is a word to describe this car: it begins with "s" and ends with "t" and its not "soot".
Hammond: "So its fairly terrible then?"
Clarkson:"Oh no...losing your leg is fairly terrible: this is another league of badness!"

"some say, that he used to throw microwave ovens at homeless people - and that he long before anyone else realised that Jade Goody is a racist pig faced waste of blood and organs............all we know, is that he's called the Stig!"

"the Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite"

"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you."

'The air conditioning in Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw'

"Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what... BEING STABBED?"

"The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler"

(Fed up during the caravanning trip): "You aren't allowed to have a party, you aren't allowed to have music, you aren't allowed to play ball games, you aren't allowed to have a camp fire, you have to park within two feet of a post, you have to keep quiet, you have to be in bed by eleven. This is not a holiday, it's a concentration camp!"

(Mercedes CLs55): "Braking in this car is so brutal, it would be less painful to actually hit the tree you were trying to miss."

"I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?"

Clarksons highway code on cyclists: 'trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong'

"I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating N**i."

"Britain's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access"

"Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show......so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!"

On the Lotus Elise: "This car is more fun than the entire French Air Force crashing into a firework factory."

"Now as you can see I lost the battle to have two engines on the back because of three very important reasons. One: weight. This is 600 Lbs and that's the same as having a whole American sitting on the tailgate..."

In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

"the DB9 has rear seats but no mammal yet created, not even when God was on the LSD trip that gave us the pink flamingo, could fit into them."

Assessing Hammond's crash:
Clarkson: "you can see from the tape that the tyre is starting to come apart. Now why didn't you spot that?!"
Hammond: "I had a lot on: I was doing 288 mph."
Clarkson: "What do you mean you had a lot on? I can be in the office on the phone, doing the paperwork, kids are shouting at me, wife etc, but if a lion walks in, I'm going to notice it!"

"Sure it's quiet, for a diesel. But that's like being well-behaved...for a murderer."

"I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animals duty to be on my plate at supper time"

"There are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching... on their face"

"Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face."

"Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed. I do, and it helps."

"you can't have this car with a diesel, its like saying, I wont go to stringfellows tonight, I'll get my mum to give me a lapdance, she's a woman!"

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sports car... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

Jeremy said this of the Porsche Cayenne! "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis

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hahaha most of those comments i can remember from certain shows and situations and most of them said by clarkson too.

To be honest, i think nothing can come close to the original. It's like 5th gear, they show some good cars but its absolutely boring... (insert clarkson joke here)

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I'm not holding my breath. Most of the appeal of the original BBC version comes from the three presenters' irreverence, wit, and how they play off of each other. This will be very hard to copy, especially in the US, where being politically incorrect in public will get you sued.

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Exactly, the first thing comes to mind is how Jeremy jokes about James being gay and all, contemporary and classy etc.

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Hahahaha.... I"m still laughing! That was great, alroumi. Thanks for the great laughs, I needed that this morning.

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The British know how to use English

My guess is that if NBC is going to do it, they will go with Jay Leno (who I like a lot and I admire his appreciate of cars, but I can't really see anyone reproducing the wit and fun of Clarkson).

So, do you think Clarkson has a team of writers?

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Not as far as i know, most of the hangar scenes are worked out between the guy's and the rest is done on the fly.

I guess that's what makes it so funny because it's not planned ahead.

Here is a more exhaustive quote list -
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Top_Gear

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I agree with Ikarus and Alroumi, you can't say what you what to say w/o the fear of offending someone. American shows are boring b/c they only say good things about each manufacturer, when is the last time motorweek said anything bad about anyone. They even had good things to say about Geo (if anyone remember that brand). Every car show seems very serious with a monotone host.

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great laugh there mo, thanks m8,
j.clarkson rules!
he is a natural born world shaker, impossible to be ever copied...


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Lets say Pagani lends JC and the Topgear team a Zonda F, JC talks the truth adds his perspective in regards to driving feel, the sense you get enjoying such the thing and also about the interior. He then tries going fast in it and taking corners were then he can see if he is able to co operate and drive in a relaxed position if the car is good or complain how notchy the gear is and how the seats are like being stabbed in the back.

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