Top Gear USA hosts announced

Top Gear has just officially announced who will be hosting the U.S. version of the popular car show born in the UK and now officially scheduled to appear on NBC sometime this fall, and the winners are... (drum roll, please): Adam Carolla, Tanner Foust and Eric Stromer. Everyone knows Adam Carolla, of course, having watched him hit the big time hosting The Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel. He now hosts his own nationally-syndicated radio show called "The Adam Carolla Show". Tanner Foust brings some actual professional driving cred to the show with a resume that includes stunt driving in "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" and "The Dukes of Hazard". He's also a winning rally driver, has medaled in the 2007 X-Games and hosted "Supercars Exposed" on the SPEED Channel. Eric Stomer was the last to be cast and when you see him, you'll probably say "I know that guy." He's hosted an HGTV show called "Over Your Head", was a former soap-opera actor and spent a lot of time in construction (and on construction-related TV shows). Guess we'll pick him to win the amphibious vehicle challenges. We surmise that producers may have picked Stromer because he's a hunk of man meat, but also because he can bring in a big female audience from his time spent on HGTV.

The press release after the jump also reveals what each host drives, and as you would imagine, Carolla (who will now be referred to as Jezza Jr.) sports a garage full of Lamborghinis, Maseratis, two Ferraris and an Audi S4. Foust makes do with a simple, tricked out BMW M3. Stromer... a Camry Hybrid. Something tells us Stromer better come equipped with a thick skin. So what do you think? Does Top Gear USA now appear better suited for success or does the show have Bucket of Fail written all over it?

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/16/top-gear-usa-hosts-announced/

BLASPHEMERS.

hahahahaha I'm totally Stromer. hahahaha fuck

they're all douchebags though

I hate Adam Carolla.

AND THERE CAN BE NO OTHER STIG, DAMMIT.

I don't even like cars anymore.

Goddammit, Wally, I'M supposed to be the woman here. How can I keep this my claim to fame when your vagina is bigger than mine??

xtine wrote:

Goddammit, Wally, I'M supposed to be the woman here. How can I keep this my claim to fame when your vagina is bigger than mine??

I like cars. I've just had to self efface that love in recognition of the fact that I won't be buying much of anything for a long while. haha Still, maybe a used Miata at some point wouldn't be impossible. Especially if I bring it up from the states.

TheWoerus wrote:

xtine wrote:

Goddammit, Wally, I'M supposed to be the woman here. How can I keep this my claim to fame when your vagina is bigger than mine??

I like cars. I've just had to self efface that love in recognition of the fact that I won't be buying much of anything for a long while. haha Still, maybe a used Miata at some point wouldn't be impossible. Especially if I bring it up from the states.

Dude, I drive a VW that can't stay problem-free for more than two weeks. And it's not like AFers are exactly driving Ferraris.

But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate a good car.

xtine wrote:

TheWoerus wrote:

xtine wrote:

Goddammit, Wally, I'M supposed to be the woman here. How can I keep this my claim to fame when your vagina is bigger than mine??

I like cars. I've just had to self efface that love in recognition of the fact that I won't be buying much of anything for a long while. haha Still, maybe a used Miata at some point wouldn't be impossible. Especially if I bring it up from the states.

Dude, I drive a VW that can't stay problem-free for more than two weeks. And it's not like AFers are exactly driving Ferraris.

But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate a good car.

I know. I guess I should say I'm not as obsessed as I used to be. I still love me some Porsches....

Oh, and Greg has a fleet of Miatas. He'd probably cut you a great deal.

xtine wrote:

TheWoerus wrote:

xtine wrote:

Goddammit, Wally, I'M supposed to be the woman here. How can I keep this my claim to fame when your vagina is bigger than mine??

I like cars. I've just had to self efface that love in recognition of the fact that I won't be buying much of anything for a long while. haha Still, maybe a used Miata at some point wouldn't be impossible. Especially if I bring it up from the states.

Dude, I drive a VW that can't stay problem-free for more than two weeks. And it's not like AFers are exactly driving Ferraris.

But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate a good car.

my brother drove a ferarri powered car . . .

and from the moment i've left the parental house, i'm gonna look around for an early 90s maseratti quattroporte. . .

and remove the badges.

and make fun of gtis

I like Adam Carolla. I think he'll do fine.
I have a good feeling about Foust.
Stromer? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh....

Regardless, the show is still not going to be as good as the original. But it might be worth watching after the cast gels together a bit. If they're given a chance to, anyway.

tanner has a show on the speed channel that i watch sometimes. it's called supercar or super cars or whatever the fuck. he's alright. not offensive.

i don't have a lot of hope for this show, however. i'll just stick with the bbc.

I don't understand why they can't all just be big car guys and people with actual racing experience. I understand having one dude who doesn't have racing experience but not two. How can I trust what they say if they're no more expert than a random guy on the street? They should have skipped Adam and tried to get Jay Leno or something.

Omni wrote:I don't understand why they can't all just be big car guys and people with actual racing experience. I understand having one dude who doesn't have racing experience but not two. How can I trust what they say if they're no more expert than a random guy on the street? They should have skipped Adam and tried to get Jay Leno or something.

Jay Leno, Peter Egan, and the guy who races. Right there.

Of course that almost certainly wouldn't have had the snarky appeal that the UK version has. You'd have Leno's trademark "so bad they're funny puns", Egan's cerebral, so dry it's British, self effacing humor, and then the other dude.

Jay Leno was actually approached for it, but he turned it down. He didn't think the show would do the British one justice. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/31/leno-fears-top-gear-usa-may-suck/

I haven't seen or heard anything by this Adam Carolla guy. But judging by the sorts of shows he was on, and the way he looks, I definitely think he's a douche bag.

TheWoerus wrote:I haven't seen or heard anything by this Adam Carolla guy. But judging by the sorts of shows he was on, and the way he looks, I definitely think he's a douche bag.

but his name sounds like a toyota.

TheWoerus wrote:I haven't seen or heard anything by this Adam Carolla guy. But judging by the sorts of shows he was on, and the way he looks, I definitely think he's a douche bag.

You have to find a YouTube video of him or something. His voice makes me want to take razorblades to my ear drums.

well, that sucks. I like Adam Carolla, but the other two are way to over the pop-culture its cool to be borderline homo, types of fags. Fuck it.

yeah, i think carolla is pretty funny.

show is still going to suck, though. just like carolla's radio show.

JaysonAych wrote:Jay Leno was actually approached for it, but he turned it down. He didn't think the show would do the British one justice. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/31/leno-fears-top-gear-usa-may-suck/

He's probably right

Fuck Leno, he was quoted comparing the 1970 Challenger interior quality and handling to the 2009, as a selling point for the new one.

Like that's fair at all.

it will suck. the only reason the BBC version is so good is because Clarkson, Hammond and May are such strongly opinionated personalities who gel so well together, and because they can get away with saying pretty much whatever they like.

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:it will suck. the only reason the BBC version is so good is because Clarkson, Hammond and May are such strongly opinionated personalities who gel so well together, and because they can get away with saying pretty much whatever they like.

Of course it's going to suck. Not only because it really will suck, but also because everyone is saying it's going to suck. It's hit with the double blow of a self fulfilling prophecy and a fundamentally flawed foundation to the show.

Omni wrote:I don't understand why they can't all just be big car guys and people with actual racing experience. I understand having one dude who doesn't have racing experience but not two. How can I trust what they say if they're no more expert than a random guy on the street? They should have skipped Adam and tried to get Jay Leno or something.

adam is a big car guy, dude.

i could see it, maybe. egan would have been a good addition. leno is a FUCKING CUNT. i hope something falls on him, and i CERTAINLY wouldn't want to watch him stroke off on a car show.

Leno has his own show anyway.

I can't stand listening to him talk. Someone needs to take a shredder to his vocal chords.

xtine wrote:Leno has his own show anyway.

I can't stand listening to him talk. Someone needs to take a shredder to his vocal chords.

Not for long, Conan is replacing him in 2009 I think.

smilies are down for me. anyone else?

big_jesus wrote:smilies are down for me. anyone else?

Good for me. They go down occasionally, but after a refresh or two they pop back up.

leno is a piece of shit. he's not funny, and he's not smart. he just knows a lot. unlike clarkson who is funny AND smart and knows a lot. carolla is also smart and funny, but i'm not sure how much he knows. i know he knows about 510s though...

TheWoerus wrote:

xtine wrote:Leno has his own show anyway.

I can't stand listening to him talk. Someone needs to take a shredder to his vocal chords.

Not for long, Conan is replacing him in 2009 I think.

No, no. This is a show: http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/index.shtml

big_jesus wrote:leno is a piece of shit. he's not funny, and he's not smart. he just knows a lot. unlike clarkson who is funny AND smart and knows a lot. carolla is also smart and funny, but i'm not sure how much he knows. i know he knows about 510s though...

Fuck Clarkson. Give me Peter Egan any day over that loudmouth.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=26&article_id=6857

Precisely.

big_jesus wrote:

Omni wrote:I don't understand why they can't all just be big car guys and people with actual racing experience. I understand having one dude who doesn't have racing experience but not two. How can I trust what they say if they're no more expert than a random guy on the street? They should have skipped Adam and tried to get Jay Leno or something.

adam is a big car guy, dude.

He's also pretty annoying. Even if he does know his cars it's going to be hard for me to not think of him as the jackass on loveline meant only to break up the serious moments of the show with retarded comments. I'll give the show a chance but I just can't see it living up to the standard with this lineup.

none of this really matters anyway as the new season of top gear starts up again this sunday :)

man thank god, because i don't want any part of the american one. i'll let the rest of the viewing public throw themselves on that grenade.