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You know I just happen to start watching Top Gear during this last year. It comes on Monday nights on BBC channel from my cable provider and I have found it to be the flat out best car based show in the world. Sure the hosts are from England and have a tendancy to slight American people and products but thats OK they are allowed to have their own loyalties. The dynamic of the show really pulls you in, much like this magazine their show is all about passion and fun. You just have to imagine them sitting there thinking ok what is the most absurd thing I could do with these vehicles? Well we could test how solid each car is by filling them with water and then see how far we can drive it before the water leaks out... brilliant!!! or how about finding out which public transport bus is the best to use by drive them hard around an autocourse. (Betcha you our liberal pal Kitman wouldn't have thought of that one) or take a 1000 pounds and buy a Alfa Romeo then drive it a few hundred miles to a Alfa Romeo concourse event.. that is quality entertainment my friends

I can't imagine how BBC could have passed up Ezra as a host for the show in America. You read any editorial article he has ever written and it is obvious he is a perfect match for the show. Maybe next time Ezra and if not you can always wait for the next remake of Dukes of Hazzard. By then you should be old enough to be Crazy Cooter.  

my kids have hipped me to top gear. they are 21 and 19, total turbo nuts. i would say that a lot of their view on cars comes from jeremy clarkson.

that was a great article by ezra as well. i just read it and decided to subscribe ( also a huge jean jennings fan all the way back to her car and driver days.)  
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Top Gear is no longer on Cablevision. 90% of SPEED is NASCAR garbage. Pimp My Ride, OverHaulin',Wrecked and other low I.Q. brain numbing shows. Discovery HD has Wheeler Dealer and Auto Trader,Chasing Classic Cars but Beatle Crisis is a snore. Motor Week is the Dick and Jane See Spot Run car show of TV. Barry Maguire's dopey smile is annoying. Dyer's article was interesting and I wondered what had happen to the show because I heard about Jay Leno turning it down and Tanner Faust supposedly taking over awhile ago. Driving SuperCars or whatever Faust's show is called isn't very good either with him spouting and number of technical mistakes on the show every week. From All In The Family to Date My Mom the U.S. has copied a number of U.K. shows with some success, but Top Gear won't be one of them.
The new STIG will be Paul Tracy or some other head case rather then just handing Ken Block and Travis Pastrana a boat load of cash to do the show.  

I could not agree with Ezra more. I'm tired of flipping through the channels and seeing dozens of shows about miniscule niche hobbies while the world of automotive enthusiasts are reduced to watching MotorWeek. I have nothing against Motorweek, mind you, particularly as I worked there for a summer as an intern, but one TV show a week devoted to a machine that a huge portion of the American public uses every day is just not enough.

I realize Ezra Dyer is likely far too busy to read these threads, but if you are, shoot me an email, Mr. Dyer, I'd love to send you a pilot episode of a web series about cars that was my senior project at college, for some constructive criticism, if nothing else.