1. I suspect they overlooked the obvious fact that hot wheels are not motorized.
2. Doesn't at all take away from the fact that the drivers' balls are huge.
3. It's not wee-man dressed as an oopma-loompa on a tricycle.
Fifth Gear is actually the original, sort of. Basically Top Gear existed and was cancelled due to low ratings, and so the original creators decided to keep it going as Fifth Gear (because BBC owned the rights to the Top Gear name). Then because of Fifth Gear's popularity, BBC decided to cash in on it and restart Top Gear on their own.