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Old 29-05-2008, 05:57 PM   #31
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Anyone knows when Top Gear Australia airs?
apparently definately before christmas
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Old 29-05-2008, 07:12 PM   #32
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The article I read said after the Olympics, which is in August, so September.
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Old 29-05-2008, 07:14 PM   #33
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They'd have to do a build quality test where they fill up VE Commodore & FG Falcon cabins with water n see which one leaks the water faster.
Or they could use a Camira and a Capri and see which one rusts faster.
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Old 29-05-2008, 07:20 PM   #34
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The John Farnham character looks suss.... :
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Old 29-05-2008, 08:10 PM   #35
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Old 29-05-2008, 08:18 PM   #36
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All i can say is, at least it wont involve Glen Ridge!
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Old 29-05-2008, 08:33 PM   #37
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All i want is a funny, honoust and thrashing of cars sort of show. Hope they live up to it.
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Old 29-05-2008, 09:06 PM   #38
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if it gets a bit boring they can always bring in sam newman
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Old 29-05-2008, 10:15 PM   #39
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All i can say is, at least it wont involve Glen Ridge!
yes i'd agree with you on that one. glen ridge bores me sh%^less.

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Maybe Paul Morris to be the fat stig?
thats gold but i don't think their budget is big enough to cover the excessive amount of written off cars.
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Old 29-05-2008, 11:05 PM   #40
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Im just glad they don't have Graham Smith from carsguide.
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Old 29-05-2008, 11:55 PM   #41
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If they offend Harold Scruby just once and result in him calling for the shows cancellation, then I will say the show and my watching it was worth it.
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Old 30-05-2008, 12:31 AM   #42
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they shoulda got neil crompton
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Old 30-05-2008, 07:30 AM   #43
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they shoulda got neil crompton
they will for the watts linkage segment
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Old 30-05-2008, 12:14 PM   #44
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If they offend Harold Scruby just once and result in him calling for the shows cancellation, then I will say the show and my watching it was worth it.
I wanna see them run over a life size figure of Scruby
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Old 30-05-2008, 02:37 PM   #45
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Im just glad they don't have Graham Smith from carsguide.
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Old 30-05-2008, 05:10 PM   #46
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Joshua Dowling? FFS, it will be a Holden can do no wrong affair with him.

As for the others, I hope they pull it off but can't imagine the stars in the reasonably priced car segment being as good; instead of Gordon Ramsay they'll have that fat bloke from channel 10, and I'll bet our Prius driving PM will be on there too.
BTW, it will be filmed in NSW mostly and here they use video evidence to see if someone was speeding so the challenges will be rubbish. Hopefully though they do bag the crap out of the RTA, Vic Roads etc and those purporting to push road safety when they really just want revenue. Oh, and it better not be PC if they want it to have a hope of working.
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Old 30-05-2008, 09:03 PM   #47
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im so easy.. i can watch any decent car driving show but its gotta be REAL.. test drive on channel 9 is a total abortion.. its SO bias and everything reviewed has no negatives mentioned what soever.. its just a puppet to the companys offering the cars, top gear will dismiss the guts out of the latest greatest supercar if they dont like it and thats how ours needs to be.
Granted we dont have the exotic car culture that europe does but you can still make it work
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Old 31-05-2008, 01:47 AM   #48
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It will be watched by millions of top gear fans all over the world most of which already have "dis is crap, australia suxxors" typed into their comment field and just waiting to press enter.

im looking foreward to it, realistically not expecting it to have veyrons racing aircraft etc. but I hope their photography and music is at least up to the same level, that way the FPVs will finally get a break. And if its holden biased... Ill throw up.
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