Top Stuff is coming to America! Indeed, actually, we’ve proactively been… to film another web-based just show TG2: Vehicles and Stripes, starting off on YouTube and TopGear.com from Sunday 19 Nov. The reason is basic: two English chaps – Jack Rix (TG magazine’s regarded proofreader) and Jethro Bovingdon (famous vehicle writer and moderator of Top Stuff America) – driving American vehicles… in America.

Get ready for highs (see above) and lows, EVs and grimy extraordinary V8s, races and difficulties, driving abilities and driving spills with some amicable ish rocker in the middle between. Get your star radiant courageous jeans on, in light of the fact that this is what’s in store across the five 30-minute episodes we have coming up…

BUCKEROO

The Bronco DR is much more than just a Bronco with shoulder pads and stripes; it’s a legitimate off-the-shelf desert racer, which explains the name. For a mere $295,000, you can purchase an off-road racecar with a Coyote 5.0-liter V8 engine that is ready for competition and can tackle almost any type of terrain on Earth. Alternatively, you might politely request Ford to lend you one, place Jethro in the middle of the Californian desert, light the touch paper, and back away from the vehicle while he explains what makes it so unique.

RUFF RIDER

Chris Ashton is an interesting guy. He is the design director and cofounder of Turtle Rock Studios, a video game company. He creates exquisite handcrafted vehicles that combine the American ideal with distinctly Mad Max elements, but he does so mostly for his own relaxation, devoting endless hours to this incredibly analogue and basic instrument—the English wheel.

It was obvious that we had to go watch this artist in action and also get a chance to drive the incredible green 1970 Mustang Fastback that he had hand-built using only time, curiosity, and a YouTube video playlist. Jethro, of course, took it to a racetrack and worked the tires hard.

STICK SHIFT

Jethro says, “Where did all the manuals go?” and drags his pathetic, shriveled left leg behind him. Because manuals have virtually vanished from UK shores due to the advent of EVs and the proliferation of autos. But America is rolling in them, quite literally. Strange.

Therefore, we decided to definitively prove that manual outperforms auto by obtaining two of the most interesting manuals available in the US that we are unable to buy back in Britain. We needed a stopwatch, some traffic cones, skids, and Jack in a Ford Maverick tiny pickup truck in order to accomplish this. Many beautiful skids.

Everyone HERTZ
TG2 Vehicles and Stripes review USA 2023
The new Bronco Shelby GT500-H has over 900bhp and can be leased from a marsh standard Hertz stall… so we traveled to New York and did so happily. In any case, regardless of this vehicle being an immediate relative of the 1966 GT350-H – the primary Shelby/Hertz collab and the first lease a-racer – Hertz was resolute that no track driving or street dashing was permitted.

Which made us consider running our own race: could a 937 horsepower Mustang finish the 26.2-mile New York Marathon route faster than the elite male course record of 2h:05 minutes and 06 seconds, set by Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai in 2011?

Get ready FOR Departure

The Horse Raptor is an imposing monster – more extensive than most structures, fitted with 37-inch rough terrain tires and Fox suspension, and controlled by a 412bhp twin-super V6 – and it’s thusly ideal for doing senseless things in the sand and soil.

The F-150 Raptor R, with its 700bhp 5.2-liter supercharged V8, much more so. So we stuck Jack in the previous, Jethro in the last option, and advised them to go destroying in the boundless rough terrain jungle gym that is Johnson Valley, California. Things get somewhat hairier when Jack requests that Jethro “show him the method of the leap”. Those of an anxious demeanor, turn away at this point.

Vocalist NOT WORTH SIXPENCE

Envision subsidizes weren’t an issue and you needed to assemble a definitive rough terrain 911 – who might you call first? Indeed, assuming you maintain that it should look perfect and be prepared for anything up to and including the Dakar Rally, you need it planned by Artist and designed by Tuthill Porsche. That is the very thing that the ACS is, a rethought 964 911 we previously saw back in 2021, where minds have been permitted to roam free and free.

Similar as us when we got approval from the more than liberal proprietor. The test here? To appreciate it as its makers planned, while watching out for the way that it’s worth more than the whole group’s homes set up.

England NEEDS YOU!
Everyday life is difficult – One Heading will not change, we can’t find a Caramac bar for adoration nor cash and the US gets a heap of cool vehicles we don’t. To demonstrate the issue is genuine and requires extreme and quick correction, Jethro and Jack assembled a Toyota GR Corolla (that shares quite a bit of its running stuff and underpinnings with the superb GR Yaris) and a Subaru BRZ (that imparts practically the entirety of its underpinnings to the brilliant Toyota GR86) and took them to a circuit in Arizona. The mission? To develop a watertight contention for why the two vehicles ought to be brought to the UK right away.

ROCK AND A HARD Spot
In the event that you’ve been perusing TG mag as of late you’ll know the thought behind this. Take a stock Jeep Wrangler Rubicon module cross breed to a little town in Utah called Moab, make sense of why it’s splendid, enjoy some light going mud romping and head home with our no cases reward flawless. But we ended up scaling a path called Cliffhanger, quite possibly of the most unforgiving track in the existence where the drops are so lengthy “you could peruse a book on the way down”. Warning: on the off chance that you could do without the sound of fingernails on a board, the commotion of Jeep meeting rock isn’t vastly improved.

Alert Weighty Burden
The new GMC Hummer EV isn’t unpretentious. The $110k Version 1 model we acquired for an epic excursion from Palm Springs to Bagdad had three engines – two at the back, one at the front – creating 1,000bhp and 1,200lb ft of force. It could do 0-62mph in 3.0secs, which is essentially pretty much as fast as a Ferrari 296 GTB. What’s more, that is not the terrifying piece. It has a guaranteed scope of 329 miles, which is very great, however simply because it has a gigantic 205kWh battery – that is equivalent to six Honda ‘e’s, and it gauges… hang tight for it… around 4,100kg, identical to nine Caterham 170Rs.

Only HUCKING AROUND
Not all driving educators are made something very similar. Travis Pastrana, for instance – not greatly worried about equal stopping or right utilization of markers, however having every one of the four tires completely lit consistently is non-debatable. He disregards the ordinary double control Vauxhall Corsa, as well, for something somewhat more functional… also, flexibility. Click here to figure out what happened when Jethro met Travis and took a 1983 Subaru GL cart with 862bhp, otherwise known as The Family Shill, for a twist…