To answer @fooddude and his original question, who knows? TGUS doesn't do very many faux-car reviews, at least not last season, they seem to be sticking to the challenges and at this point the car is not new news (it is going on 3 years old now).

I agree. TGUS has gotten much better, and I think given time it will find its own style. Having watched all the previous seasons now, TGUK sucked at first too, and got better as it aged, in my opinion.

I do think TGUS focuses a little too much and Tanner and him being a professional driver.

Troof. I watched the new episode last night, and I enjoyed it. I like the new format of them each picking a car for each episode and doing challenges in them. No more boring C list awkward interviews, no more boring crappy knock off star in a reasonably priced car, and no more news segments. Just entertaining car shenanigans. The Rutledge wheel stand last night was epic.

Of course they're copying the formula, they'd be stupid not to and if they weren't going to why bother calling it Top Gear?

Have you watched the first 2-3 seasons of new TGUK? They're particularly miserable, it takes time to find that on camera chemistry and 2/3 of them aren't actors. UK had the benefit of ~5 years of being a 'pokey little motoring show on BBC2' while TGUS had high expectations going in, especially after seasons 10-15 of TGUK.

Glad to hear it's picked up since I stopped watching.

you don't have to have a James May, Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson, and a Stig to be called "Top Gear". You need those to be called "Top Gear UK".

I am fully aware of the first seasons of Top Gear UK. Any enthusiast with netflix should be ashamed of themselves if they are ignorant to them.

Top Gear US, needs those type of seasons to get comfortable with eachother and develop their OWN kind of relationships and personality. Not mimic.

I just don't like the challenges honestly...they are so non-driving/race related and is too similar to 80s/90s game shows on nickelodeon lol. At least TGUK actually drive and race in their challenges(from point a to b) ..TGUS does too, but they add too much really dumb/unrelated physical things to their challenges, making it like nickelodeon and very hard/annoying to watch.

Everyone here complaining about TGUS, try watching an episode of TGSK (South Korea; with or without subtitles). It's terrible. I think I got cancer from it.