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Top Gear America Returns This Spring With Three New Hosts

source: https://www.motor1.com/news/385859/top-gear-america-returns-motortrend/

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Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry, and Jethro Bovingdon are your on-camera entertainment.

Top Gear is a worldwide phenomenon. The original show is legendary, delivering motoring fun in its current form to the masses since 2002. The show’s popularity has spawned country-specific spinoffs such as Top Gear France, Top Gear Russia, and Top Gear Korea, to name a few. The U.S. has had not one, but two iterations of the popular show, and we’re about to get a third. MotorTrend Group and BBC Studios are partnering to revive the show with three new hosts that will air exclusively on the MotorTrend App, the company’s streaming service.  

While the show's car content matters, TGA will only be as good as the chemistry between the three hosts – Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry, and Jethro Bovingdon. Oh, and The Stig. Shepard is best known as Kristen Bell’s husband, though he has a stack of acting credits – CHiPs, Hit and Run, Netflix’s The Ranch, and more. Corddry, who has four Emmys and a Peabody, found fame on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart while starring in shows such as Arrested Development, Community, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.  

Bovingdon is the automotive journalist of the bunch with more than 20 years of experience with wheels, pens, and cameras. He’s written for CAR, EVO, and others, and has played host for Car and Driver. His experience goes beyond writing about cars – he races, too, winning his class three times in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring race.  

This is BBC’s third attempt to make a U.S. version of Top Gear a success. The first show starred Adam Ferrara, Tanner Foust, and Rutledge Wood. While the show had a rough start, it aired for six seasons and 72 episodes before getting the ax. When the show ended in 2016, the three hosts and their on-air antics had found their stride, but it wasn’t enough to save the show. Top Gear America followed in 2017 with Antron Brown, William Fichtner, and Tom Ford. The show lasted for one season and eight episodes.  

The new Top Gear America will start streaming through the MotorTrend App next spring. The new show will join the app’s endless Top Gear content that includes more than 170 episodes of Top Gear UK, all the available Top Gear UK specials, three seasons of Top Gear: Extra Gear, and Richard Hammond's Crash Course and James May’s Cars of the People. The MotorTrend App requires a $4.99 a month subscription.  

Source: MotorTrend Group

 

 

On a side note, will we see a Singapore Topgear too? I will like to see this trio.

Lester Wong, founder of garage R,

Lynn Tan, Contributor of Torque Magazine

Gurmit Singh, Comedian, actor, host

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3 minutes ago, Carbon82 said:

Can replace Gurmit with @Jamesc too. I believe may viewers will be very interested to find out which car is the "best" for their MIL or FIL :XD:

For MIL the car with the worse brakes. 

:D

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For FIL car with the loudest horns. 

First thing he do with new car is throw away factory horn and put in Siebel Magnums. 

:D

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48 minutes ago, Buadongdong said:

or the least airbags or with the worse crash test scores right??

It can have multiple episodes for the in-laws series. hahaha. @Jamesc 🤣

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6 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

It can have multiple episodes for the in-laws series. hahaha. @Jamesc 🤣

Hehe well when people buy car they always think of their loved ones right? 

:D

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1 hour ago, Jamesc said:

For MIL the car with the worse brakes. 

:D

The list couldn't be that short...

1 hour ago, Buadongdong said:

or the least airbags or with the worse crash test scores right??

His list is so long until he don't know where to begin with, so just anyhow hantum 1 for each post.

37 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

It can have multiple episodes for the in-laws series. hahaha. @Jamesc 🤣

Koba, tapping on your idea, may I suggest to get a few MCFer to appears in the SGCM Vlog? I think the episode when Jamesc appears, it should break the viewership record! (since he maybe silenced by his MIL the very next second.[crazy])

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23 minutes ago, Carbon82 said:

The list couldn't be that short...

His list is so long until he don't know where to begin with, so just anyhow hantum 1 for each post.

Koba, tapping on your idea, may I suggest to get a few MCFer to appears in the SGCM Vlog? I think the episode when Jamesc appears, it should break the viewership record! (since he maybe silenced by his MIL the very next second.[crazy])

Maybe I can be around for only one episode. 

My MIL said the beet way to get rid of a body is to open a pau shop and sell amy yip paus for only $2.50 and give a lot of meat. 

She says sure got long queue one. 

:D

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3 minutes ago, Jamesc said:

Maybe I can be around for only one episode. 

My MIL said the beet way to get rid of a body is to open a pau shop and sell amy yip paus for only $2.50 and give a lot of meat. 

She says sure got long queue one. 

:D

Err you also 165Kg? Else tell your MIL don't need to waste money to open a shop just for that few Kg of meat to be disposed, sell outside MRT station will do.:D

Oh BTW, can you let me know which MRT station is nearest to her place? I will avoid eating all type of pau there after you are featured on SGCM Vlog...:XD::XD:

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1 hour ago, Jamesc said:

Hehe well when people buy car they always think of their loved ones right? 

:D

if you car salesman, i am sure you will be top sales every month! 

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36 minutes ago, Carbon82 said:

The list couldn't be that short...

His list is so long until he don't know where to begin with, so just anyhow hantum 1 for each post.

Koba, tapping on your idea, may I suggest to get a few MCFer to appears in the SGCM Vlog? I think the episode when Jamesc appears, it should break the viewership record! (since he maybe silenced by his MIL the very next second.[crazy])

I can feedback to my video team. 🙂 I minion only. hahah. 

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2 hours ago, Jamesc said:

For MIL the car with the worse brakes. 

:D

Very offended. 

That you would forget Jeremy Clarkson's sound advice. 

More power! 

That's always good. 

And a throttle with a tendency to stick won't hurt. Get some thick floormats. 

And make sure they're Takata airbags.

😁

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7 minutes ago, Turboflat4 said:

Very offended. 

That you would forget Jeremy Clarkson's sound advice. 

More power! 

That's always good. 

And a throttle with a tendency to stick won't hurt. Get some thick floormats. 

And make sure they're Takata airbags.

😁

Not to forget the baddest slickest tyres with the rainy season coming. 

:D

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1 minute ago, Jamesc said:

Not to forget the baddest slickest tyres with the rainy season coming. 

:D

Yes, you got it! 😁

And remember...ABS, traction control etc. just make for poorer drivers. 

Turn them off! 

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