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NEWS FLASH: Adam Carolla to host the US version of TOP GEAR...
http://www.971freefm.com/pages/1247.php
Scroll down to: How Say You? - click and listen to the podcast I saw this on VWvortex and had to share it... Personally I think this is great news for the show. He looks like a genuine car guy. Has an RS replica and Grassroots Motorsports love him: http://www.grmotorsports.com/backissues/2004-7-november-issue/adam-carolla/ 
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Wow..interesting! The 200hp engine in his 510 (that he is sitting on), I built it and sold it to him when he was restoring that car a few years back.
So very cool. Yasin
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plus he wears old school Pumas!!!
 Seriously, he seems to be a genuine car guy and has a great sense of humor. I hope they don't Americanise the show too much.
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I thinks its a good fit, I wonder who they will team him up with?
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I had a friend back in the day with one of those, it was a hoot but he could not drive it worth a damn. His car would pull some pretty impressive lateral G's with those big wide Dunlops, but I would run over his ass in the corners in my Super Beetle. Jimmy Kimmel was good with him on that one show
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He had a sort of home renovation show a year or so ago. Has a buttload of great cars, and for the most part, they're tweaked pretty hard. Funny guy. Great choice to host.
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I hope he doesn't puss out .
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What does the guy do for money that he has all of these great cars? I remember the Man Show, and love line.... But nothing recent.
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He took over for Stern in morning drive on 97.1 in LA.
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Anyone who races a 510 is OK with me!
To be brutally honest I don't find him all that funny... but that is mostly because I didn't find the shows he was on all that funny. But maybe that is a good thing, a dry sarcastic wit would mimic the Brit version better anyway. I'll give the show a chance, what network is it going to be on?
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He has a morning radio show here in L.A.. Frankly he's a little too juvenile (read immature) for my taste and his nasal twangy voice is just too much to listen to.
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not excited. just can't get into the whole 'knuckledraggers doing coffee shops' crowd he caters to.
agree that there is not a funny bone in his body. BUT, i'll say if i had his money you'd find a very similar car in my driveway. Lot more soul than a nig'd up escalade or flavor of the day super-exotic.
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"Girls on Trampolines" He's a mensa genius.
I used to listen to him and Kimmel on KROQ years ago. He was always good for a laugh on Dr. Drew. Good to know he's a car guy too. But the standard that's set by Top Gear will be hard to meet.
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