Haven't seen it, but it sounds like it has the problem many suspected it would; it's the same show, but without Clarkson Hammond and May's personalities. Really, that's what the show was. The cars and everything else were just a backdrop for those guys to basically take the piss. Top Gear hasn't really been about the cars for awhile. Would you take any of their reviews seriously? Highly doubtful. The guys can give very good advice on car buying if they have to even going back to non-exotics and supercars but they don't, they recognise the show is more comedy entertainment than it is anything else.
Top Gear Australia was pretty woeful for much the same reason. Didn't like any of the hosts but it tried to be Top Geak UK and it just felt so.......odd. Probably didn't help that most of the cars we get for testing aren't that exciting, another week, a new Falcon or Commodore variant.
Top Gear USA was interesting, it started out like the UK show and it was pretty shit to be quite honest and at some point they basically just said fuck it, we're just doing challenges and that really seemed to work for them. It didn't have the same quality editing as the UK version, but it brought out the personalities of each host to be more themselves and rather than trying to emulate UK Top Gear, they actually hit a pretty successful mark with their challenge antics.
