And this is because, as well as transplanting the presenting team (plus executive producer Andy Wilman) across from Top Gear, it has also carried across the baggage that made latter-day Top Gear fall flat.
It's an uncontroversial point to say that the majority of economists who've gone on the record to talk about negative gearing fall somewhere in the second camp.
My memo proposed we gear up in the fall, fall 2010, and get moving by Election Day 2010, because things looked bad, whichever way we turned.
The euro rose after a report showed orders for durable goods, excluding transportation gear, fell in March, indicating growth may continue to slide.
Some gear fell from that vehicle as it sped away, including 100 bullets, four battery cells and a piece of cloth with an American flag stamped on it, the report said.
But in a path that is almost unheard of for companies that flirt with the billion-dollar mark, L.A. Gear fell apart almost as quickly as it had grown.
The damaged plane entered Chinese airspace only after the accident and was, say American spokesmen, entitled to make an emergency landing after issuing a Mayday alert.American officials are appalled at the thought of so much state-of-the-art spy gear falling into Chinese hands.
Earlier this month, Cisco Systems, one of the world's largest markets of networking equipment, warned investors that orders for its computer networking gear fell abruptly in October, and that it expects sales to fall in the current quarter.
But what really excites him as an investor has to do with how, when the recession hit a few years ago, sales of office computers, printers and other forgettable gear fell off a cliff.
