The New Top Gear.......Not Options

[oldschool]

So all this talk about what you don't like about the US top gear.
What would you do to the show to make it better, or better yet would would you like to see,and what extra stuff you add???

[scotty b]

Call it OVERDRIVE

Hot car chick ? Courtney Hansen

you need some known names or it would never take off. there plenty of " car guy " shows on Spike and they all suck. they are not representative of the real car builds. If you want a succesful car show it needs to appeal to car guys, wanna be car guys, have humor, not be TOO offensive and be informative. Spikes shows suck and have a very small target audience, motortrend is a boring sales pitch, Speeds show get lamer and lamer due to the marketing to the " wanna be " car guys. The build shows focus on too many builds at once.

IMHO An hour long, comedic, informative show that tracks one build at a time whether it be a resto, a custom, a hto rod, a race car etc. appeas to a much larger audience. Aregular segmant done with Click and Clack would not be expensive and would bring humor and information in. Yeah Seinfeld and Leno would be out of the question for hosts due to budgte, but Corolla ( maybe ),Titus and the others I mentioned are very doable depending on how much support you could get for a startup.

An unmasked pro driver to run the course, keeps it from being a Top Gear copy, and still provides track times for exotic cars, which IMO is a big part of Top Gears draw. Add normal cars in the mix for lap times and you connect with the audience by showing the performance of the cars they own and can afford. their could be a segment on mods for performance, not body kits and fart cans, but the difference in times that a suspension upgrade can make. Test b.s. products like the " Tornado " and inform the pub lic where to spend, and where NOt to spend their hard earned money. You need to connect with the audience and a shop full of $200,000.00 metal working tools doesn't do that. Hell I can't connect with most of those shows and their equipment. I do get equipment envy though............ They show in one segment how to body drop a truck, and in the next they tell you how to change your air filter (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) If you can't change an air filtwer you shouldnt even consider trying a body drop (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

I've thought about this for years because I despise all the "car shows " that have been pushed on us. They are an embarrasment and a mockery IMO
Go back and watch " Build or Bust " to see what a decent show was. Noscripts, no actors, just real people with a goal. If it wasn't met, they were called out on their failure. No P.C. everyones a winner crap that our society has embraced. Just REALITY. Unintentioned rant over

Krusty Jr out.