Porsche's GT2 RS: Who Needs Top Gear Anyway?

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

While Top Gear USA thrashes about trying to grab American fans of the British Hit, Porsche has proven how easy the formula really is to replicate. Take one insanely fast car, one authoritative-sounding middle-aged man, lots of unnecessarily smoky drifts and edit it all together with lots of fast-cuts, focus pans and other familiar camera tricks. And just like that you’ll have the essence of a Top Gear test, not to mention the kind of video that is catnip to fans of fast cars. Plus, because Porsche doesn’t try to replicate all of Top Gear’s chemistry and banter, it actually works. Because, as we’re rapidly learning, that part of Top Gear can be copied… but apparently not replicated.

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  • Reclusive_in_nature Reclusive_in_nature on Dec 06, 2010

    I really don't give a rats ass about cast chemistry and humor on a tv show about AUTOMOBILES. In fact, not having to listen to snark and British vernacular is one of the main reasons I prefer the Americanized Top Gear. Some of the U.S. Top Gear haters remind me of an old Army buddy (buddy when I could stand him anyway) of mine that used to incorporate European, mostly British, phrases into his speech to try to appear intelligent/sophisticated. Contrary to what he believed, everyone else thought he was a douchebag. I'll give the B&B that don't like U.S. Top Gear the benefit of the doubt. However, I'm willing to bet that there's at least a couple of posters afflicted with the ol' nothing-American-can-be-as-good-as-European douchebaggery.

  • 1600 MKII 1600 MKII on Dec 07, 2010

    What I love is the continual stream of clearly toxic wastewater...

  • Tsofting Tsofting on Dec 07, 2010

    Yeah, that was great, watching a barely understandable Scotsman drifting (or is that "drefting"?) around a road course burning up thousands of dollars worth of rubber. Any inner-city clown could do that with an old Supra!

  • PeriSoft PeriSoft on Dec 07, 2010

    I can't figure out what's worse - the fact that they thought using the phrase "Driven to Extremes" is cool, or the fact that they couldn't even use correct grammar when they wrote it.

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