Top Gear America

Mm-hmm

... spinoffs, um, for like Top Gear America and, and some of them were okay, but none of it had that magic that the original three guys did, understandably so.

And the new season of The Grand Tour came out obviously with new hosts.

I gotta give the guys props.

They were skunk works.

We were making Top Gear America.

They were skunk works, basically, at TV.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Okay.

Great way to put it.

We were kind of making Top Gear America with a lot of Hollywood oversight, with a lot of, like, BBC M- Studios America were looking at it, uh, very closely and, you know.

And so it was very hard to, like, get, get out to shoot with the kind of level of creative that I think you need to go and make good Top Gear, which is we're gonna put these guys in these cars in this situation.

... for some aerial...

A- I legitimately remember watching, I think it was also Top Gear America, when they were trying to make that stick, where they had to race a Dodge Viper against a, a military helicopter.

I think it was an Apache.

Oh, yeah.

Everybody else was sketchy and everybody else was a forced team.

And I guess to a point, Top Gear America was too, but they gelled and they gelled quickly and they were friends and they didn't hate each other on camera.

You're talking about the original U.S. Top Gear, our favorite one.

Routledge Wood.

Yeah

... for a bit, but then I came out here to do Top Gear America.

So, so you, uh-

So we needed a car

Yeah, 'cause you have this weird thing in the UK that new cars, I think, are more expensive than here, but used cars are way, way cheaper.

Wow.

'Cause when I was here doing Top Gear America, I wanted to buy, like, an E60 M5 manual, 'cause we didn't get that in Europe.

And in Europe at the time, they were, like, 12 grand, and then over here, they were, like, 40 or something, so.