Lots of news got out today on Top Gear America.

The first bit is that pretaping will be going on tomorrow with Howie Mandel of Deal or No Deal (sounds like NBC wants their other shows promoted) and Mel B of the Spice Girls (ugh) being the Stars in a Reasonably Priced Car. This was revealed in an e-mail to ticket holders for Saturday’s taping of the pilot episode. It isn’t known if they’ll be on the same or separate episodes.

Jalopnik and their sources have found out that the reasonably priced car will be a Kia Rio.

Over on VWvortex, a guy who works on the show posted some candid pictures from them taping in Death Valley. Based on the pictures and what Adam has said on his radio show, it looks like they had a cheap car challenge with one of their tests being driving to Las Vegas (or a track nearby) from LA.