Eric Stromer was the guest on the latest Adam Carolla podcast. The first 22 minutes of the podcast is Adam telling a great story about their adventure to Death Valley in what sounds like a cheap car challenge for the pilot of now-canceled Top Gear America. It’s worth listening to (those 22 minutes at least) and really makes me wish someone would release that pilot.

I’ve mirrored the podcast on our server for download (so you all don’t devastate their servers), or you can listen to it here:

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Just a quick note to say that for a variety of reasons, including Top Gear America not being picked up, the US portal on TopGear.com now redirects to a great new Top Gear website located at BBCAmerica.com. Worth checking out if for no reason other than to see when the next episode of Top Gear airs on BBC America.

This is an update on my previous post.

It turns out that it wasn’t really the show that is getting canceled, it’s the whole radio station in Los Angeles that’s getting canceled. The station, which is currently an FM talk station, is being reformatted as a Top 40’s music station. Cheaper I guess.

Here’s some segments from his show explaining the cancellation.

Adam announces why he is leaving:

Explanation of why the show didn’t work in Los Angeles:

This is kinda-sorta off-topic, but Adam Carolla’s morning radio show has been canceled. As you may know, Adam hosted the pilot of Top Gear America (which may or may not be canceled). I don’t know the full details on his radio show cancellation, but I guess the economy as well as ratings contributed to the demise of the show. Word is Adam will start up a daily podcast soon though.

Yes this news is from last week, but I haven’t been reading my e-mail too well lately so it slipped between the cracks. Whoops.

During a press conference for Top Gear Live in Australia, Jeremy was asked about the American version of Top Gear and if he thought it was going to be shown in Australia at all. He replied that the show had been “canned” and that us Americans “just don’t get it”. Now he may have just been referring to NBC passing on the show, but it may also be really dead. I’m not sure as Clarkson isn’t usually the most reliable when it comes to these kinds of things.

Anyway, you can see for yourself at 6:30 in:

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Back on Tuesday, a caller called into Adam Carolla’s morning radio show and asked about the news that Top Gear wouldn’t be coming to NBC. Adam and his sidekicks discussed possible reasons for the change and things like that. Worth a listen.

You can also download the MP3 if you’d like. Thanks to TopGearSVT for cutting the relevant bit out of the podcast.

So it looks like Top Gear US won’t be coming to NBC. The US version of TopGear.com reports that the BBC has decided to take the show to cable.

We have a scoop on the much-anticipated U.S. version of “Top Gear”: BBC has decided to take the show to cable, where presenters’ funny mouths, from which often spill foul words, will be more at home. There are no hard feelings and NBC will be sharing custody of “Top Gear” dog. A number of cable networks were delighted with the news…

Personally I think this is great news because I had been worried that if the show didn’t get incredible ratings within it’s first few weeks, NBC would just cancel it. The pressure for high ratings is probably much less on cable networks and that will allow time for the show to grow into it’s own.

We’ll keep you updated.

This isn’t news really, more it’s a lack of news. A caller on Adam Carolla’s show asked him if he had any news about Top Gear and sadly no, still no word whatsoever from NBC about the show. If you want to listen just for the hell of it, here’s the podcast — the call starts at 12:30 about in:

You can also download it if you’d like as the above player seems to be a bit buggy when it comes to MP3s.

However with Knight Rider being canceled some room is opening up in NBC’s schedule. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they replaced it with Top Gear.

Thanks to jpp44345 for the tip!

Motor Trend has an interview with the American Top Gear host Eric Stromer. If you’re having doubts about him, it probably won’t address all of them but it does give you some insight into the guy and is worth a read.

Thanks to topgearfan1 for the tip.

Motor Trend has a decently interesting interview with Adam Carolla. In it, he talks a lot about the cars that he owns, what he dislikes about American cars, and some other stuff. Nothing ground breaking, but still worth a read.

Thanks to topgearfan1 for the tip.