Aussie Top Gear

[funkychicken]

I didn't think it was that bad..

[Big Shed]

Very pale imitation with almost nil Oz content.

About the only original item was Warren Brown's cartoon of his Moke concept.

Look at the bright side, it can't get much worse!

[fxst]

Bring back the BBC version.....these clowns are a lost cause
How to ruin a good show.....give SBS a go at making it.
Pete

[Blocklayer]

Monkey see
Monkey do

[corbs]

I was a bit upset at tonights episode but will give them a couple of weeks to find their feet and hopefully things settle down a bit. It would be a hard concept to improve though.

[DuncanH]

Well at least we've been given another Australian show on free to air television that isn't anything to do with Dancing With The Stars or Australian Idol or the like. Hopefully it will become less 'wooden' as the series progresses.

[Harry72]

Here here Duncan.

Next week should get pretty good ratings with the Holden Vs Ford showdown

[Cliff Rogers]

That blond wanker has to be from Sydney for sure.

[Big Shed]

His name is Charlie Cox (never heard of him) lives half the time in London whre he presents motor sport on the BBC.

There is an article in this weeks' Green Pages (The Age)

Note that they say "the show's producers have insisted that the local show would not be a clone of the original".

They should re-define clone

[fubar]

hard to see how it could be worse clarkson and his mob are going to have a field day bashing this very poor clone
warren brown was terrific in peking to paris as he didnt have to follow a script and this was so stilted and lame
oh well can only hope things will improve
beats the hell out of reality shows

[wheelinround]

Not impressed ..........shame the local muscle cars are straight in next week but then again it is Bathurst weekend the week after, besides what else is built local besides the Bolwell is worth mentioning.

The cars were ok shame about the presenters, give it time they'll learn to act as it goes.
The heap of crap Celebrity Challenge car, no mention of how long that track they drive is, crappy tight little airport for god sake Eastern Creek Go Cart track would have been better.

The road run in Tassie I've seen push bike go faster.

Snow drive I've done a better slide than that in a 40 foot tri-axle coach

Loved Charlie Cox's drive on the sand hills flying leap over the top

[AlexS]

besides what else is built local besides the Bolwell is worth mentioning.

The Lightburn Zeta?

[dzcook]

thought it was pretty bad just hope that it gets better in the next weeks and that it looses the stiffness and the wooden acting trying to hard to be copies of the pommey one i think

[damian]

The early episodes of the current format TG were a lot lamer than the later ones.

SBS does have a track record of taking a good concept and ruining it, but I think we should cut them some slack and give them a chance to find a rhythm. Afterall the alternative is channel 9's "the car show" which is about as sickening as "the boat show".

Some of you might remember SBS did an open casting call for this show. Disapointing then that no new talent got a look in. Some friends were at Camden when they did the hot laps. The producers tried to cover up the identity of "the stig" but it was pretty obvious who it was (an aussie BTW obviously not the UK one and you can tell by the way he drives it's a different person).

[Bob38S]

Oz version of Top Gear - great idea

Presenters - - were trying toooooooo hard. Obviously scripted but the line delivery was too wooden/lame.

What a shame that the producers have tried so hard to find 3 presenters who are expected to be / identified as the Oz version of Clarkson, Hammond and May. The really scarey thing is that out of the hordes who applied for the job [or so we are lead to believe] - these 3 are the best...... - Oh Dear.................

Have to agree with the above that it does have one saving grace - it is heaps better than the "Dancing with the [fallen / pseudo] Stars types of show, or, any of the reality [crap] shows, mystical, super[sub]natural shows.

"Coupla things to look forward to for next week"

1 - it must improve - let's face it - the first program wasn't bad - it had to improve to be bad.

2 - the Ford will prove to be dominant