I didn't realize till I was looking at what I had on the DVR the other night that Season 3 of Top Gear America had started. Being there was nothing on TV as usual and I had enough of being in front of the PC I watched it. 1st off, watching this show on the DVR is the only way, commercial breaks are way to long and when they come back they spend a minute or so recapping the last segment. Am I really that stupid that I forgot what they did 5 minutes ago and need a recap or are they filling space due to lack of decent materiel. We'll never really know... Anyway, the premise was taking a small car, think Fiat 500 and smaller and running around Louisiana. From the French Quarter to the Swamp. As a group they are getting better with chemistry aspect, now if only they did stuff I wanted to see. Oh well, we'll see how the season progresses.
+1, I wish their concept segments did more with cars I'm interested in, less with $500-1000 "challenge" vehicles: buy 3 old POS's and have them do something "entertaining". Rather: get a contemporary car or two and pit them against one another, lap times on a track, something. The chemistry with the hosts has gotten better, now it's just the content that could stand some tuning. Ah yes, the back-from-break "recap"...that carryover from days when folks viewed live broadcasts, and may have just channel-surfed over during commercial break from another show. Annoying when DVR-ing, for sure. While we're at it: local news programs. News, weather, sports. Used to be presented in segments. Now: all intermixed, with each talking head "teasing" throughout the 30-minute show what they'll actually tell us, when they get around to it, just "stay tuned". My fingers itch for throats everytime.
This show still looks like the elementary school version of the real thing. Last show had double decker car racing just like the real show has done. Maybe they need some writers.