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Talk about a waste of bandwidth....
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+1 Thanks! It will be interesting to see this show get better...(I hope)
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I liked the Alaska episode.
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Talk about a waste of bandwidth....
Totally agree... it was a waste of my time. Glad I Tivo'ed the real Top Gear from UK...
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+1

And they have already done a clip show of selected segments from the season. Maybe they think we will like them better the second time around.

On the other hand, TG UK is back in February on TV!
I do not know if this is the season with the east coast USA episode? They will have the Iraq special, I know. Still have not seen east coast.

The Ariel Atom V8 test reminded me how many orders of magnitude the UK version is superior. That 10 minutes was better than all of TG USA.
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Totally agree... it was a waste of my time. Glad I Tivo'ed the real Top Gear from UK...
... which is useful and informative, right?
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I think the problem with the show is the hosts. They all come off as limp wristed pussys.
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nah.. not too bad, I actually like the show. Those guys just have to stop copying, they'll find themselves and will be really good.
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Although last weeks UK Top Gear was great, and the first couple of USA episodes were really awkward, I would say that the last few episodes of TG USA were at least as good as some of the more recent seasons of mediocre UK Top Gear.
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What exactly is TOP GEAR US goal? Let's see how wacky the next adventure can get? Throw in some poorly written, poorly acted dialog. Drag it out for an entire episode and not just a portion and guess what, you got a show. Do this 10 times and you got a years worth of it. Can I tell you how much I hate it. Ok, to each his own, just don't watch it, right? Well, I started off the year really looking forward to it so I have it on series record on the DVR and never canceled it. I check the recorded programs during the week and there it is, TOP GEAR, all recorded. I fast forward through it, stopping when I think something interesting will happen. Between the hopeless miscast guy with the beard, (do his parents have some kind of influences), the comedian that is killing his career outside this show, and the drifting guy, nothing does. I haven't watched since they bought beat up trucks and drove around Alaska. I really don't get the show. It's making Motorweek look good.

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