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Top Gear USA extends second season

Top Gear USA extends second season

Thanks to its high ratings and great popularity, Top Gear, has been signed on for additional programing by The History Channel. While the show may not have done well initially, the network still decided to give it another try and ended up with a season average of 1.9 million viewers, which is an increase of [...]

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Video: Top Gear USA season 2 trailer released

Video: Top Gear USA season 2 trailer released

Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood are ready to take over the History Channel with a second season of Top Gear for the U.S. market. What do they have in store? Well, we’re not really sure and the new trailer that the History Channel just released doesn’t show much except the three hosts driving [...]

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Top Gear USA returning to History Channel on July 24

Top Gear USA returning to History Channel on July 24

We thoroughly enjoyed the return of Top Gear UK this past weekend. Season 17 kicked of with a bang as Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson test drove the new Marauder tank and the BMW 1-Series M Coupe. Wondering when Top Gear US will be back on air? According to the show’s Facebook page: [...]

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Top Gear USA gets approved for season 2, nearly 60 million tuned in for season 1

Top Gear USA gets approved for season 2, nearly 60 million tuned in for season 1

Whether or not you watch or like the U.S. version of the Top Gear, the show has been given the green light for season 2 by the History Channel. The channel said that overall, nearly 60 million tuned in to watch season 1 of Top Gear USA. The series will continue to be hosted by [...]

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Top Gear UK’s James May hates Top Gear US hosts… for their fantastic names?

Top Gear UK’s James May hates Top Gear US hosts… for their fantastic names?

We’ve been waiting eagerly for some feedback from Top Gear UK hosts on the American version of Top Gear and its hosts. First out of the gate with his judgement is James May, aka Captain Slow. “The trio of presenters lined up for the American version of Top Gear have a head start on me, [...]

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egmCarTech’s Top 10 Automotive Industry Moments of 2010

egmCarTech’s Top 10 Automotive Industry Moments of 2010

Happy New Year’s Eve to all our readers. While you’ve been seeing many top 10 lists all over the Internet as we say farewell to 2010 one of the lists you’re most likely to come across on automotive sites are the Top 10 Cars of 2010…well, not here (we’ll do one too, don’t worry). We [...]

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Video: Top Gear USA hosts visit Jay Leno on The Tonight Show

Video: Top Gear USA hosts visit Jay Leno on The Tonight Show

The Top Gear USA team (including Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust and Adam Ferrara) dropped by The Tonight Show last night to have a chat with Jay Leno. On the next episode of Top Gear USA, the three hosts will choose their favorite old GM cars and put them through a series of challenges to decide which [...]

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Adam Carolla, Dan Neil, Matt Farah working on own version of Top Gear for Speed Channel

Adam Carolla, Dan Neil, Matt Farah working on own version of Top Gear for Speed Channel

Not feeling the new Top Gear America? Well, the folks over at Speed Channel and Adam Carolla may have an answer for you. According to a report by Variety, Adam Carolla, a comedian and well-known car enthusiast, will team up with Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal auto writer Dan Neil, ex-NBA star John Salley and [...]

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Top Gear America episode 3 attracts more viewers (watch it here)

Top Gear America episode 3 attracts more viewers (watch it here)

According to the web site TV by the Numbers, the third episode of Top Gear America attracted a slightly larger audience than the second episode. 1.275 million viewers tuned in to watch episode 2, while a total of 1.304 million tuned into watch episode 3. Of course, there are a lot of things working against [...]

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Review: Top Gear America is much better than we expected

Review: Top Gear America is much better than we expected

I’m sure many of you reading this review are car enthusiasts like myself and have become accustomed to watching Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond tear up the Top Gear track in Surrey. So more or less, many of us were skeptical on how the American adaptation of Top Gear UK would pan out. [...]

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