The long-awaited trailer for the third-attempt at the American version of is finally here. As you’ll remember, NBC shot a pilot of Top Gear, but never aired it and quickly canceled the show after the failure of Knight Rider. Earlier this year they’d announced they’d try again and moved it to History, substituting comedian Adam Ferrara for Adam Carolla, and Rutledge Wood for Eric Strommer. They kept Tanner Foust.
We’ve already told you what to expect from this newest version of Top Gear, including that the show will continue most of the conventions established in the U.K. version such as Star In A Reasonably Priced Car, Power Tests, and challenges.
The challenge is fully on display in this trailer with Adam Ferrara in a $1,000 Cadillac attempting to travel through a Dukes Of Hazzard-esque Moonshine course, confirming the spy shots we’d seen. And then there’s Foust in a Viper, which we know was pitted against a Cobra attack helicopter.
Encouragingly, after watching the trailer it seems they’re trying to achieve a balance between a festival of super cars and crazy stunts with total beaters. You know, the American English may be jarring — and we’re not sure we can get over that — but this might actually be good.
Discuss.
I’m looking forward to it.
Keep in mind, if this show carried any other name, we would all be excited about it, but calling it TG sets the bar so high it can’t be matched.
American English does sound a bit out place though :lol
I think another part of the appeal of “Proper English”(:lol) TG is half the cars we will never see here. Will give this a chance, but have meh feelings from the video.
I think is looks good. Can’t wait for it to air. It can’t live up to the original TG, so comparing it to that is a waste of time. I’m looking at it as a totally new show, and it looks good from what little i’ve seen,
At the very least it seems that their chemistry is genuine instead of staged. Through the years, the original cast established themselves as characters and were forced to live up to the characters standards… Clarkson always failing at anything mechanically, captain slow being well slow and Hammond being silly.
I’ll also give these guys a chance. Hopefully they will test British cars with an American view and discuss why we should have them here or why they simply wouldn’t work.