Top Gear UK is not a car show ... it's a comedy show that uses motor vehicles for props and punchlines, and quite successfully. Example: Jeremy Clarkson on the 911 instrument panel--"If I had stuffed all the gauges and switches in my nose and mouth, and sneezed them out all over the dashboard, it could not have been any more disorganized than it actually is." He seems to hate 911s. Top Gear Magazine is one of the better car rags, more serious than funny, but way too expensive. I read it for free in Barnes & Noble over a $4 coffee and cookie combo.
Flop Gear USA tries to be a car show, sort of tries to be funny, but any one of the three guys on real Top Gear is three times funnier than Foust, Ferrara (I think that's his name--and you're not much of a comedian when somebody else has to announce you're a professional comedian because nobody can figure that out from just watching you), and Rutledge combined. It's just another float in the sorry parade of nonsensical crap that pushed any and all actual History off of the once-monumental History Channel.
Still and all, I remember the very first Flop Gear episode beginning with Tanner driving a Gen 4 convertible around, having what looked like a good time, and saying neat things like "Vipers are quintessentially American--all power, no finesse." I'm DVRing the rerun of tonight's ep and we'll see if they've improved any at all.
can wait to hear the rest 
Car looks awesome in that Stryker red. Dolph FTW !!!
