Top Gear Canada

Top Gear Canada is a Canadian motoring reality television series, based on the British BBC series Top Gear. The series first aired on on April 20, 2016.

Presenters
The presentation team is comprised of  host, monster truck driver Don Frankish, and motoring journalist Estuardo Jiménez.

The presenters are joined by, who was played in the first two seasons (2016 and 2017) by Québécois drag racer Louis-Alphonse Bellegarde. The current portrayer is unknown.

Production
The studio segments are recorded at Mels Cite Du Cinema 3 in the Technoparc in. A near-exact copy of the UK set at was built inside Studio K. The power laps and "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segments are filmed at  using parts of the runways and taxiways as a test track.

The series uses the same theme music as the UK series, a version of The Allman Brothers Band's "Jessica".

Segments
Top Gear Canada features segments that mirror those seen on the BBC series, including build challenges and test drives.

Power Lap
"The white elephant that is " is used for power laps.

Star in a Reasonably Priced Car
The Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car segment is mirrored with the same name. The car used in the first season was a second-hand VCMC Grasshopper built in 1998, season 2 onwards uses a 2015.

What Were They Thinking?
A segment lifted from the first season of the Australian version of the format, the presenters discuss "stupid" ideas in motoring history and put pictures of them on a board.