Top Gear America will premier this November on History Channel.
Via AutoBlog:
The American version has all the elements that we love so much with the original Top Gear. The reviews are highly-stylized and the result is pure automotive pornography. But more importantly, these three are real car guys enjoying amazing machines. Besides the usual supercar fun, the show features ridiculous challenges which produce equally ridiculous results and lots of laughs. Having signed my life away, I can’t divulge what I saw them doing, but some aspects should be familiar to longtime fans while other elements are totally new. And of course, the Stig is there as well, showing celebrities how to handle the track in a Suzuki SX4.
People were quick to bash the idea of a Top Gear USA when the show was first announced, and while we understand the knee-jerk reaction (particularly after seeing the detritus shoveled out by Russian and Australia), this Americanized show shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. There’s room for two top-notch automotive entertainment shows, and while the British version will always be number one in my heart, I’ll completely embrace Top Gear USA on the History Channel with open arms when it airs at the end of November.
It will be nice to watch the show sans the American bashing pompous tool, Jeremy Clarkson.