While Adam may have questionable car expertise, he is funny, fun, & entertaining, but I wish it didn't feel like he was destined to lose or crash and destroy his ride in every episode. It loses the mystery of what shows should have. Though technically it doesn't happen quite every time, it's enough that it's almost miraculous when it doesn't. Rut certainly sounds a bit like a car tech who's other job is working for a NASCAR raceway, but it's also too dull that he usually either comes in second or wins the most after the pro racer, Tanner. Tanner is like a kid in a candy store in every episode and it shows. The dynamic between the hosts almost reflects high school friends who have known each other for years.
The drawbacks are mainly lack of consistency or variety. The show wavered one way or another but failed to stick to either. If it had, it'd have been much better. There's no sense to the so called competitions or races because they all either tend to take turns cheating or they have lousy unfair unbalanced competitive starting picks. One thing I saw on the Brit version at least once was, they changed drivers which balanced their races in a sense. I can think of a few ways how the show could and should have improved: first one of my biggest & best suggestions would be specializations. 1. When I first watched, I thought each host did have specialized types of races or vehicles they had advantages in, so if something like existed and was emphasized, it would have made the competition more exciting and less predictable. ; 2. Make them all skilled enough they won't pointlessly wreck every other episode, it might have been fun the first few times but it gets old and repetitive fast. ; 3. Pranks might be ok but cheating in every episode by at least one cast member makes the whole point of competition pointless.; 4. Pick one, consistency or random style. The series bounced around too much from having guest racers in tiny cars to stig test driving models to not having either but having random events or structures in some episodes. For a technical type show about cars, I'd expect some set pattern. While I might not expect even a consistent show to always be the same , it would at provide s consistent structure and viewer expectations. 5. Humor and jabs are ok but don't need to be based so heavily on ways that are NOT depending on competition or focusing on cars.
The drawbacks are mainly lack of consistency or variety. The show wavered one way or another but failed to stick to either. If it had, it'd have been much better. There's no sense to the so called competitions or races because they all either tend to take turns cheating or they have lousy unfair unbalanced competitive starting picks. One thing I saw on the Brit version at least once was, they changed drivers which balanced their races in a sense. I can think of a few ways how the show could and should have improved: first one of my biggest & best suggestions would be specializations. 1. When I first watched, I thought each host did have specialized types of races or vehicles they had advantages in, so if something like existed and was emphasized, it would have made the competition more exciting and less predictable. ; 2. Make them all skilled enough they won't pointlessly wreck every other episode, it might have been fun the first few times but it gets old and repetitive fast. ; 3. Pranks might be ok but cheating in every episode by at least one cast member makes the whole point of competition pointless.; 4. Pick one, consistency or random style. The series bounced around too much from having guest racers in tiny cars to stig test driving models to not having either but having random events or structures in some episodes. For a technical type show about cars, I'd expect some set pattern. While I might not expect even a consistent show to always be the same , it would at provide s consistent structure and viewer expectations. 5. Humor and jabs are ok but don't need to be based so heavily on ways that are NOT depending on competition or focusing on cars.