The BBC’s Top Gear is one of most pirated television shows in the world. I watch segments of it on YouTube very often, most recently their arduous trip to the North Pole racing a Toyota Hilux (Tacoma) against sled dogs. It has been long rumored that NBC was attempting a U.S. version which fans lambasted as that special Top Gear mystique would never translate to the American mass media. The S.F. Chronicle’s Tim Goodman wraps his own negative reaction to a possible remake around a review of the BBC version. The BBC version gets the man leaping out of the chair clapping. An American remake, that doesn’t even exist yet, is called “a tragedy” (I guess that would be the empty chair).