Here's MZ when you need him! 
As long as it doesn't affect UK Top Gear, then fine.
And Bassman, trust me, Top Gear is nothing like your usual brand of car review show, mainly because it's just as much about doing crazy shiite, and the 3 presenters themselves as entertainers with a repertoire, as the cars in the show.
It's a lot of fun, but indeed, like Neil was saying, they pretty much hate American cars, because they never get the proper amount of power out of a MASSIVE engine (if a European tuned the engine you could basically always get double the power - trust), they always have all these warnings all over them, "live rear axles" are like running with your shoe laces tied up", everytime you do something a little bonger goes "bong!" and they, most of the time, couldn't navigate a corner to save their overly-huge hides.
I duno how they'd manage to do US Top Gear and UK Top Gear. How can you get two series of UKTG and probably one American "season" of TG done within the same year? Surely they'd be filming TG constantly?! Hmmm ... it must be doable, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
Of course, whether it actually works or not I duno, the presenters are quite acerbic and sarcastic and there's often a dolloping of irony ... which, you have to admit, isn't an American strong point as a nation.
It could quite possibly not work over there and they just do one season, who knows ... but if they can't even show the UK episodes without slicing them up so much you can barely recognise them, how are they going to cope with Clarkson, Hammond and May?! 
The American special (9x03) was great though, it was superb, a really good adventure, and Neil, the show's been 'scripted' for years. You can't just freeform, otherwise you won't fit into the hour long slot, and you'll quite possibly say something "too hot for TV" and you won't be focussed enough. It won't be learning lines, but having a sort-of-structure to follow and they riff from there. It's literally impossible to create such a show without a guiding 'script', a bullet-point running order if you will. It's certainly not the first time it's happened, and it won't be the last ... just part and parcel of such a show.
*sigh*
All tuckered out now...
May 10th??? Is that when the summer special is on??? *looks around excitedly* IS IT IS IT IS IT IS IT IS IT?!?!?!?!?!!
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