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Didn't love it. I'm sure it'll get better though...

I thought it was terrible ,

They way they pretty much exacted the British one was lame.

The presenters were annoying and dry and the bit where he talked up the stig like Jeremy Clarkson does was pathetic.

I wont be watching it again

Whats the bet they will do something on holdens vs fords and there will be no real result just a bunch of **** about how good they are when they actually arent...

1/5 stars

On a lighter note, i had a rather relaxing sail today and am now badly sunburnt

I don't think it was terrible. Of course a rip off is normally not as good as the original. The bloke who went in the shark cage is as good onscreen as James May. It was a bit annoying they talked about a surf in the morning and a ski in the arvo but they didn't do either. However perhaps that is the mindset of those little 4wds. You talk about doing it but never do. People who do it drive vans.

Its going to be a hard ask as Australians usually are not like Americans with their 'not invented here' feelings about British TV.

Yeah they are throwing a ton of money at it so it will be interesting to see if there is a second season.

one word.... crap

......two words.... bloody crap

..........three words..... farking bloody rubbish crap... oh hang on thats' four

talk about a total photocopy....... only, you know when you try and do an enlargement on the photocopier and the machine says it won't do it cause you don't have the right sized paper,
but you do it any way,
only to realise the toner is running out, and when you get the copy it just looks too big and and grainy and rubbish....
....well

and those presenters..... the boss type one.... just yelled for the entire show, being loud is neither clever, funny nor witty, just annoying.
and that little one.... kinda reminded me of that weird looking thing that hangs with jabba the hut and repeats everything he says interspersed with that high pitched 'finger nails down the chalk board' laugh... or one of those weird looking things from the dark crystal.


and whats with the 'stig'.... why even have the stig..? is the stig not part of the pommy show...? are they that devoid of immagination that they could'nt come up with an original caricature, even if it was to be terribly cringe-worthy and jingoisticly australian....?

it is what it is, a total rip off of the original for the unthinking couch dwelling populace, right down to the msg fed, saccharine bovines milling unblinkingly around the machines none of us could really justifiably afford in three working lifetimes.

nebbian said...

Slotting a 911 through some Tassie bends... awesome!

Putting some softroaders through their paces at Perisher... tops!

I prefer the Aussie version because I've been to those places and can relate to them much better than some county in England I've never heard of before.

Good on 'em

The idea is a good one. Execution, poor.

If the show were to be so similar, why not do a complete season out here with the original presenters. They, and their ideas, after all make the show. There is so much potential for exploitation of the aussie car industry and culture here, being so different to the uk; muscle cars, bathurst, desert rallys, road trains, even the old bangers seen out in the bush (and around adelaide!). Endless possibilities. As they are common place here it would probably take a foreigner to come up with a way of encorporating these things into a show and making them funny because you just dont get that stuff in Europe.

Hey,

Its called Top Gear Australia. So clearly they are going to base the show on the original. Otherwise it would not be Top Gear Australia. It would be "insert show name" Australia.

I earlier said it was a rip off, but I was wrong. Its not a rip off because they are usuing the name Top Gear. So they have every right to take whatever they like from the UK Top Gear.

Of course its not as good as the original. However go and watch some older Top Gears and they are not as good as the modern version. Clarkson and Co have over 15 years doing Top Gear and associated work. Its not fair to bag the first Australian one so much. The Aussie Top Gear has work to do and they are probably the first to admit it. Perhaps there will be changes in hosts etc.

It looks like they have interesting stories coming up. Here is hoping they have some decent challenges planned. Something like driving across the Nullabor or a beach on Fraser Island in a car that costs less than $500.

ikw777 said...


But it's a franchise now isn't it? Macdonalds is the same the world over, just the staff are different...

Thats what I am thinking. Perhaps there are strict guidelines the Australian Top Gear must follow, otherwise they cannot use the name Top Gear. You couldn't have the Parrammatta Crapdonalds selling their own style hamburgers made out of real meat.

It was poop

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Maybe our expectations were too high, Im gonna watch it again just coz I am an old rev head and anything laying rubber is all good in my books.... I know I sound like a hypocrite and nothing can compare to Clarkson and the boyz but cars is cars and like a true Burnouts blowers and babes kinda guy Im in there again..... They were crap!!!

Cheers and blow gears baby

FLYING ANT said...

oooh and the Stig is Glen Seton!

Glenn Seton? Are you sure? Stiggsy???

My neighbour has a sticker on his car, saying that he is the Stig!

Whoa they even have a stig?

That is lame.

5th gear is better than Top Gear anyway

It's on tonight and Im gonna watchit! No matter what I said I want to like it.

Expectations create disappointment, so its with an open mind this week that I will watch and enjoy the sound of V8's and buring rubber[}:)][}:)][}:)][}:)]

Cheers GT

Running the Cumonthedoor and the Falcoons with slush boxs

We are the Nanny country

I've missed the shows on the telly but, the magazine was a pure piece of toilet paper.

I got the impression it was written and edited by a couple of spotty teenagers that still haven't had their first root (except each other, but that doesn't count), they really came across as a bunch of tossers. There was more waffle than substance and occasionally they remembered to mention the car that was the subject of the article. Pfffffft.

I am stunned with utter disbelief after last night.

I had previously commented about them using slush box's on the FPV and HSV but last night took the cake.

How sad and pathetic does it make us when the most powerful cumonthedoor ever made, with more power than a V8 supercar has to have water laid down to do a burnout.

The willies are that limp, they're hung like a cashew.