American Top Gear?Follow

Please tell me this is some sort of sick Joke..... half the punch lines in the show are about how crap American cars are...

It's real, but no less of a joke.

I would have to disagree with the American cars are crap part these days. Most if not all American produced cars are right on par with the imports. Safety and reliability even price they are just as good. In most cases the American cars are recieving better reviews all around than their forign counterparts.

For the most part American cars still do not have a split differential, until this in not the case please do not imply that American cars are competitive. it's like you want bad handling cars.

Having only watched part of one episode of the British version, I can't make a fair comparison, but I will say that I've watched all of the American episodes so far and it's enjoyable enough.

You're kidding, right? What does "for the most part" mean? Yes. Most cars in the US don't have independent suspension or split differentials and whatnot. But that's because the average US car consumer doesn't care about those things, not because there aren't plenty of US made cars that do. Compare apples to apples.

Use your words.

I was trying to discourage the annoying practice of posting nothing but a link to a youtube video. Seriously hate that!

Well, crap then. Or Hurray!? Not sure now...

No. Don't care. We're talking about completely different markets. The bulk of US car consumers are buying a car to pile themselves and their stuff in and drive to and from work and occasionally go on a vacation or visit relatives. They drive on large flat almost ridiculously straight roads which the US has spent quite a bit of money building. They have no need nor care for a car that can corner smartly on a narrow mountain road because 99% of them will never drive on one, and would never drive fast on one if they did.

Comparing a car built for the "average" driver in the US to one built for an enthusiast in the UK (for example) is an incredibly pointless thing to do. The markets are different, the break points for different types of cars are different, and let's face it, the road requirements are radically different as well.

A bonus that they are overwhelmingly not willing to pay extra for. That's why the most popular cars (non truck/suv) in the US are Civics and Corollas, and not Corvettes and Cadillacs. In the US you find sport suspensions on pretty much two types of cars: Sports coupes and top line sedans. Neither of those fit into the typical US buyers demographic. They are either not large enough for utility, or are too expensive for most people.