The $5,000 bounty for Top Gear US

by Ed Bolian on January 28, 2010

Over the past couple years the famous British automotive television program, Top Gear, has spun off two sister shows in Australia and Russia. The hope of many faithful American viewers has always been to have a US Version of the show. Last summer a pilot was recorded with three hosts – Adam Carolla, Tanner Foust, and Eric Strommer.

Unfortunately, NBC decided that the pilot was unwatchable and refused to continue funding the show. Who knows if anything will ever become of it but for now the show is certainly dead.

Many fans of the UK version of the show have been excited to see the pilot regardless of how terrible it might have been. Unfortunately it has not been released. A popular automotive blog web site, Jalopnik, has recently offered a $5,000 reward to anyone who provides them with a copy of the pilot. Hopefully if they post it, they will post it and we can be the judge rather than NBC’s whose judgment of late has been questionable.

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