Tonight, the highly anticipated new automotive TV show on Speed debuted. “The Car Show” which features Adam Carolla, Dan Neil, Matt Farrah, and John Salley has generated lots of buzz in the last few weeks as the final touches have been put on this episode and shooting for future episodes has continued.
Backstage leaks of the set and other potential elements of the show have had the internet hopping with opinions and guesses as to what exactly the show would be and how the foursome of hosts would mesh together.
After largescale disappointment from the debut season of Top Gear USA, will The Car Show provide a cooler, looser, and more entertaing mix of automotive fun and hooliganism?
You tell us!
Did you watch the show? What did you think?
I was watching one of those pimp my yard programs.
Entertaining . The Rolls road test was pretty funny !
I think it’s awesome that you can fund this excellent website with money from Don Neil
You have one guy who is anti leather, knows little about cars and driving/racing and too tall to get into most. You have another guy who is a Big Government, anti gas guzzlers and seems anti American auto brands. You have another guy who the most he has ever done has been to host a “car” review website. And then you have Adam who cracks so many jokes you get more jokes then car stuff and seemed oblivious to the cars themselves. How the hell does this represent the car guys, gear heads, racers, racing fans and others who watch the Speed Channel? Sad to say it but Top Gear USA is better.
They needed Tim Allen, Goldberg and Leno or Michael Musto (guy who has the pro touring 68 Charger and 69 Daytona).
… and the Car Show is not US Top Gear, so I am evaluating this relative to my gearhead viewing options. It is top of the heap, but that is akin to being crowned “King Sh*t of Pooh Island” if you get me.
I will keep watching because I want to “vote” for more programming like this. 69Chevelle454 more or less nailed it.
That being said, I laughed really hard when Carolla said “I just beefed back here” because I haven’t heard that phrase since 7th grade.
Someone — please! — give Mike Copeland his own TV show! Throw a Freiburger, Magnante or Dulcich segment in there, and I wouldn’t leave my couch.
I forgot it and watched the premier of “I married a Mobster” on ID with Mrs. Speedy instead.
Somehow, I suspect listening to Lorraine Bracco narrate the story of a very chesty bimbo’s tortured marriage to a “wiseguy” was more fun than enduring Adam Corolla’s nasel joke-telling.
Of course if “Top Gear USA” is really better (Rutledge Wood obviously notwithstanding), then watching a test pattern might have been better that Speed’s hot mess . . .
My vote for a new cast is Freiburger, Brian Lohnes, Bangshift Chad, and either Alain de Cadenet or David Hobbes (you need at least one adult on the show)
And if Brock Yates is too decrepit or greedy to supply a minute or two of curmudgeonly Andy Rooney/Crazy Grandpa commentary for each episode, I’d like a screen test . . . .
I forgot that the show would need “Magneto” (if they could pry him away from memorizing VIN codes and photographing Yankee rust-buckets at the JY)
On the other hand, isn’t there a rule that you can’t have more than two New Englanders on a national TV show at the same time (Unless it’s on PBS)?
I only pretended to watch “I Married a Mobster” while I was reading the new issue of “Car Craft” (don’t tell Mrs. Speedy).
The set is a hand me down from NASCAR and too small for four co-hosts, the show is ok, but if I miss it next week, no biggie. Carolla is funny sometimes, mostly a smart ass.
Yawn.
Speed used to be so much better!
When Dan Neil said he was for big government and all that it was total sarcasm, most probably missed that. I’ve read Dan’s stuff and seen hime on another show. Great TV personality.
Adam makes me laugh.The other two, ehh?
another sad attempt at copying the original Top Gear (UK). Is there NO original programming anymore in the US? Now having said that, I do think the show IS better than Top Gear US (which is embarrassingly bad), Adam IS funny when he’s not reading the lame, scripted jokes off the teleprompter, the jock has no place on that show whatsoever, and as usual, the NASCAR Channel (aka Speed Channel) couldn’t even go a whole hour without getting Jimmie Johnson on the air. The Hollywood exploding car being shot at was just an insult to my intelligence.
I’ll keep watching and see if it gets better (as Adam promised… his joke about being canceled by next year may be the truth), but so far I’m not very impressed with the start.
Adam is awesome, and a total car guy, and I enjoyed the show. Its the first episode so give it a chance. Positives: Adam’s humor, its “car-centric”, it will evolve into a great show given the breathing room and Adam’s direction. Opportunities for improvement: that audience must have been scooped from the nearest rehab retreat. What a bunch of zombies. The show doesn’t need an audience. Have a sit-down panel, no desk, you know, Merv Griffin style! 😉 Finally, the panel is a bit “talent” heavy. Adam and Dan Neil could carry it, with maybe an occasional guest? Best of all it’s NOT Top Gear USA. That show is staggeringly unwatchable. Good luck to them, I’m subscribed. BTW, and just my $.02, but a show with Freiburger, Lohnes, Magnante, Chad, et al, would be mind blowingly awesome! Chance of Speed jumping on that? About zero.
“Positives: Adam’s humor, its ‘car-centric.'”
Yeah, that bit about him eating spark plugs in the mind-numbing promos really had me whizzing in my nomex . . . .
“The show doesn’t need an audience. . . . Merv Griffin style!”
Um, Dude . . . Merv Griffin had a studio audiance.
One of the great things about “Top Gear (UK)” is the strategic placement of smokin’ hot chicks in the crowd (who knew that there are Limeys (other than Kate Middleton and Elizabeth Hurley) that don’t look like Susan Boyle)
Maybe they could just borrow the canned laugh track of an old ’60s sit-com.
“another sad attempt at copying the original Top Gear (UK).”
Nope, it sounds more like another sad attempt to copy “Fifth Gear” (which is another sad attempt to rip off “Top Gear”)
if I can watch on hulu, it is good.
It was better. I agree having Jimmy Johnson on there was lame. Adam’s Podcast “Car Cast” is awesome, because well, he can be himself and curse etc. If you have not downloaded the free Car Cast on ITunes your missing out. The show was OK if they lose the wall street journal dick and the NBA guy who seemed like he was looking for work and took the gig.
Um, Dude, … Really, Merv had an audience? Thanks for clarifying. Perhaps my punctuation sucks but I was making two separate points. Point 1; The show doesn’t need an audience. Point 2: Have a sit down panel, etc., etc.
Its all subjective, so like it or don’t like it. I’m just grateful that there are even car shows that attempt to provide info and entertainment. Some hit the target more than others. I can choose to watch or not, but I won’t get angry about it or dissect someone’s POV if I don’t agree with it, but that’s just me. I wish the show every success. Oh, and have a nice day, and I mean it, dammit! 😉
Now I KNOW pretending to watch “I Married a Mobster” was better if “Jimmy” Johnson was on the show! . . . .
Perhaps it went something like this:
Carolla: Hey Jimbo, why is it that the most boring “man” in America can win five straight NASCAR championships? [chomps into another Bosch Platnum spark plug]
Johnson: [sips a sponsor’s drink] Well I’d like to thank Lowe’s and their thousands of associates for making it all possible. And my ex-convict boss Rick Hendrick and Chevrolet for giving me trick “IMPALAS” that not even a genius like Brian France can figure out awsome they are.
Corolla: [rubs fan belt on over his head] Why is it that you’ve got all the championships, but your teammate “Junior” is still NASCAR’s most popular driver? Does that make you even a little bit jealous?
Johnson: Nah! How can you be jealous of an old, washed-up, half-orphaned Southern hillbilly when you’re as AWESOME as I am in the LOWES Chevrolet that’s as slick as the Quaker State in the oil tank! And I’d like to thank my half-car owner Jeff Gordon for getting old and slumping so I can win more.
Corolla: [snuggling up to a steel-belted radial] But Jimmie, didn’t you kind of stink it up at Daytona.
Johnson: [puts on sponsor’s designer sunglasses) Well, I’ve got to thank Goodyear for bringing a great tire to Daytona and helping me get a top twenty finish on a night when those Roush cars were obviously cheating.
Corolla: [wipes brow with a California Car Duster] What’s the weirdest thing that 48 fans have asked you to sign?
Jimmy Johnson: Well I’ve got to thank Sharpie for all those autograph pens. There have been female body parts offered up over the years and I certainly decline on those. . . .
it was pretty ‘meh’. Ditch the job and doofus who knew nothing about cars.
We need to do our own show. We could call it “Going Nowhere, Fast!” lol
BANGSHT OF TELEVISION
Only they don’t say EPIC all the time, which is a good thing people.
Good writers are hard to find, posers are easy to locate.