REALLY??? maybe i just never got into the american one, i watched an episode and couldn't bear it.
Top Gear could easily take the same route, well it wouldn't be ruined it would just be worse, we had an australian version come out about a year ago and it sucked balls they tried to copy everything too exactly as in they had a tall guy with lots of car history, a small guy who could drive decently and a random middle aged guy that couldn't tell a Lada from a lotus.