Who would you have as hosts?

With Top Gear America moving to cable hopefully, there is a possiblity that the hosts may change from those originally anounced. Who would you like to see host Top Gear America?

Currently the announced hosts are:

Adam Carolla

Tanner Foust

Eric Stromer

Leave your thoughts in the comments.

I think Jay Leno would be a good lead host in the style of Jeremy Clarkson.

NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure

NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure

Taken from Jalopnik.com

Due to the failure of Knight Rider and expected production costs, NBC has decided to pass on Top Gear USA. The BBC's shopping the US rendition of the hit show to interested cable outlets.

Although the Top Gear website's claiming they took a pass on the Peacock, our sources at both NBC and the BBC tell us the brightly-colored feathered network passed on an opportunity to tie up the show after the failure of the new Knight Rider series and expected high production costs associated with the show.

So, rather than tie up the franchise with a deal or an extension, they've cut Top Gear USA free to search for a new home. Top Gear's website claims interested parties are available on cable and to expect a deal shortly. We remain hopeful they'll be able to find a backer with enough money on hand to really do the show right.

What a shame. Hopefully we'll still be able to see the show early in the new year.

Top Gear Season 12 Episode 2 - American Muscle

Top Gear Season 12 Episode 2 (S12E2 , S12E02) American Muscle Full Video. Description below the full video.


Top Gear American Muscle Car Holiday Trip Episode

Jeremy reviews the Abarth Fiat 500 with a 1.4L Turbo.

Part one of American Holiday Trip to Salt Lake Flats in Utah and they enter the SpeedWeek Drag Races, they arrive in SanFransico and pick up three american muscle cars: Jeremy drives a Corvette ZR-1, James drives a Cadillac STS V Series, and Richard drives a Dodge Challenger SRT8 (which he had to purchase since Dodge decided they werent going to provide a vehicle for the film).


Star in a reasonably priced car is Will Young.

Part two of the American Muscle Car Holiday Trip
The three presenters go from Reno,NV. to the salt flats in Utah along the I-50(Longest road in the middle of nowhere, where Vanishing Point was filmed)
And then they enter there vehicles in a standing mile run on the salt flats to see who can hit there target times based for each vehicle

Be A Top Gear USA Intern

Top Gear US is getting their website up and running at topgear.com/us and are looking for interns in the NY area to help out. Here are the descriptions and how to apply:

Do you: 
-Live in or around New York City? 
-Attend a college or university that will give you course credit for an internship? 
-Have opposable thumbs? 
-Love cars more than you heart your little Sister? 
-Install a fiber optic backbone to more quickly torrent new "Top Gear" episodes? 
-Fantasize about slaving over TopGear.com minutiae for free while drinking bad coffee? 
If you answer yes to most of these questions, you might be the right guy/girl for us. You'd start in January.

Musts: 
-Feel confident whipping through the creation and processing of documents and spreadsheets. 
-Be able to distinguish a Caterham from a Catera. 
-Love fluorescent-lit cube farms. 
-Really, really want to be here.

Big Pluses: 
-Web publishing experience 
-Photoshop, Flash, and video-editing skills 
-Be able to distinguish a Lancia Fulvia from a Lancia Flavia.

Deal breakers: 
-You'd rather watch that other show with Gear in the title 
-You'd rather traipse around a mall than a junkyard 
-You don't have an opinion about the worst car ever made

Drop us a note at topgear@bbc.com with "Internship" in the subject line, attach a resume, and let us know where you are, what you're doing and why we'll love you.

Top Gear USA will be airing

The latest news on Top Gear USA can always be found here.

On last week's The Adam Carolla show a caller asked Adam if there was any recent news. Adam, the lead host, said that he still hasn't heard anything from NBC about an air date. No news from NBC makes it look unlikely that January will be the start of the series.

Today Jeff Zucker said that NBC will be looking at cutting the hours that they program in prime time by possibly only programming 2 hours a night instead of 3. Not a good time to be joining the schedule with them trying to cut back on their budget. With Leno probably taking every 10pm slot during the week, there won't be many openings for Top Gear USA to fit in.

Come on NBC, air the show. It's popular in the UK and Australia and will be in the USA

Who is Eric Stromer?

Eric Stromer, one of the new hosts of Top Gear USA, appears to not have much of an automotive background.

He is a sponser for GM (GM sponsors his home repair tips), drives/drove a Toyota Camry Hybrid, is a regular guest on Adam Carolla's radio show (another one of the hosts who will be profiled shortly).

He was a regular of some Home Repair shows on TLC. Oh yeah, he's a singer/songwriter.

That's pretty much all that can be found about the host of an upcoming AUTOMOTIVE show.

What are your thoughts? Is he 'over his head'?