# Leno or Seinfeld could host NBC's Top Gear **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 1, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779 "2008-02-01T11:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/1 "2008-02-01T11:19:30Z")
![http://i25.tinypic.com/fy07pd.jpg](http://i25.tinypic.com/fy07pd.jpg) > **[Rumormill: Leno or Seinfeld could host NBC Top Gear](https://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/31/rumormill-leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbc-i-top-gear-i/)** > > If you found the news that NBC had struck a deal for an American version of Top Gear promising, the latest speculation on candidates for hosting the show :gay3: ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/2 "2008-02-01T11:22:18Z")
RePOTs ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/3 "2008-02-01T11:24:53Z")
uhm where, search topgear nothing comes up… ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/4 "2008-02-01T11:27:24Z")
> [@66impalass](#): > > uhm where, search topgear nothing comes up… You suck at the internet [http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44699&highlight=top+gear](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44699&highlight=top+gear) I searched for “top gear” and got your post, and then that one. :wtf: ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/5 "2008-02-01T11:27:38Z")
[http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/search.php?searchid=2244644](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/search.php?searchid=2244644) second result…under yours of course edit: damn beaten to it! ill get you!!! ---
**Author:** ![MaximaSE98](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maximase98/32/7600_2.png) [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/6 "2008-02-01T11:27:43Z")
please not Seinfeld…It should be Leno and Tim Allen ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/7 "2008-02-01T11:33:50Z")
I see notzing… :dunno: ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/8 "2008-02-01T11:34:52Z")
Top Gear…2 words ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/9 "2008-02-01T11:35:16Z")
> [@66impalass](#): > > I see notzing… :dunno: Gotta search for “top _SPACE_ gear”. vbulletin search ain’t google ya know. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/10 "2008-02-01T12:09:10Z")
> [@MaximaSE98](#): > > please not Seinfeld…It should be Leno and Tim Allen The three of them would be hysterical. I think having a trio is half of what makes Top Gear what it is. If you watch the earlier seasons with just Clarkson, or just Clarkson/hammond or just clarkson/hammond/3rd guy who had no personality and was on very few shows. They are no where as near as good as the newer stuff with James May. Tim Allen/Leno are closer to Clarkson and Hammond with Seinfeld being closer to May IMO. ---
**Author:** ![ubengineering](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ubengineering/32/5171_2.png) [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/11 "2008-02-01T12:14:38Z")
id rather have seinfeld idc if its a repost sON ---
**Author:** ![MaximaSE98](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maximase98/32/7600_2.png) [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/12 "2008-02-01T12:15:49Z")
TRUE TRUE…I VOTE ALL 3 ---
**Author:** ![jay\_g](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jay_g/32/111288_2.png) [@jay\_g](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jay_g)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/13 "2008-02-01T12:23:25Z")
Before I wasn’t so sure about Seinfeld but after some thought I bet he’d be alright. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/14 "2008-02-01T12:26:49Z")
Seinfeld for the Porsche cars.(Which should be every week:D) ---
**Author:** ![Treads4Heads](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/treads4heads/32/7416_2.png) [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/15 "2008-02-01T12:30:10Z")
I didnt even know Seinfeld was into cars… leno all the way ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/16 "2008-02-01T12:31:37Z")
Seinfeld has one of the best Porsche collections in the world. I want to see it.:tantrum: ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/17 "2008-02-01T12:46:06Z")
> [@Treads4Heads](#): > > I didnt even know Seinfeld was into cars… leno all the way > [@wiki](#): > > Seinfeld is an avid automobile enthusiast and collector and is rumored to own one of the largest Porsche collections in the entire world. He rented out an entire hangar at the [Santa Monica Airport](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Airport), in [Santa Monica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica), [California](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California), for an extended period of time during the [1990s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s), for storage of some of the vehicles in the collection. After his return to New York City he was involved in an extended dispute with several neighbors over the proposed building of a $1.4 million multi-story garage to contain the cars. > A current tally puts Seinfeld at 46 [Porsches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche). Reporter Paul Bannister reports that his collection includes [Porsche 911s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911) from various years, 10 [Porsche Boxsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Boxster) each painted a different color and the famous, some would say infamous,1955 [Porsche 550 Spyder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_550_Spyder), the same model and [pearl-grey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_%28color%29) color that actor [James Dean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean) was driving when he crashed and died in September 1955 near [Cholame](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholame), [California](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California). The centerpiece is a $700,000 [Porsche 959](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959), one of only 268 ever built. To his initial despair, he was not allowed to drive it as US emission and crash tests were never performed because Porsche refused to donate four Porsche 959s for destruction tests, rendering the car “not [street-legal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street-legal_vehicle)”. He imported the car “[for exhibition purposes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_import_vehicles)”, which stipulates the car may never be driven on American roads.[[22]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld#_note-21) The car was made US street legal in 1999 under the “Show or Display” federal law.[[23]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld#_note-22)[[24]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld#_note-23) In several episodes of _Seinfeld_, Seinfeld drives a [Saab 900 (NG)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_900_%28NG%29) [convertible](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible), but a Porsche-themed painting, depicting a [Porsche 904](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_904) GTS race car competing in the 1964 [Targa Florio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targa_Florio) race in [Italy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy), is visible on a wall in his apartment, as well as a Porsche racing poster featuring a 550 Spyder depicting the 1958 Targa Florio. In another episode, he is seen hiding behind a red Porsche 911RS parked on the street. In addition, an issue of _[Excellence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellence_%28magazine%29)_, a Porsche-centered publication, is featured prominently on an outdoor magazine rack in one episode and on at least one occasion he is seen reading an issue of Road and Track magazine from circa 1990 with a cover article on the [Porsche 964](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_964). He also wrote an article for the February 2004 issue of _[Automobile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_Magazine)_, reviewing the [Porsche Carrera GT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Carrera_GT). For the story he was awarded Road Pest - Silver at the 2004 International Automotive Media Awards. stupid post min limit ---
**Author:** ![SoloIIscoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@SoloIIscoob](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SoloIIscoob)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/18 "2008-02-01T12:49:51Z")
correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure Seinfeld has the largest collection of air-cooled porsches in the entire known world. AND he doesnt own ONE water-cooled. lol that is dedication:ohnoes: ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/19 "2008-02-01T12:51:26Z")
I love how they mention the 959 (which they priced about 400k high) and CGT, but fail to mention he has the earliest VIN’d 911 in existance, the last air cooled 911 in existance, and a '71 911R. All of which are FAR more important, rare, and valuable. Seinfeld’s collection is no where NEAR the largest, and he does own watercooled. So, you’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Jeller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@Jeller](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeller)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779/20 "2008-02-01T19:28:20Z")
I dont think you can recreate the show, what they need to do is make it more of our own. It iwll be hard to find a guy like clarkson, whom bashes anything, no matter what it is. Jeller [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/leno-or-seinfeld-could-host-nbcs-top-gear/42779.md?page=2)