First Australian Top Gear episode to air Sept 29
Mark your calendars, gearheads. The Special Broadcasting Service in Australia has confirmed that the first episode of Aussie Top Gear will air on Monday, September 29. The show will apparently have a regular slot at 7:30 in the SBS Monday night line-up, featuring all manner of Holdens, Ford Falcons and Elfin roadsters crisscrossing their way across the Outback. All the while co-hosts Charlie Cox, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati – along with their own Fosters-swilling version of The Stig – will be endeavoring to prevent the dingo from eating their babies lest the entire endeavor boomerang on them all. (Okay, enough making fun of the Aussies.) We'll be keeping an eye on FinalGear.com for their count-down before heading on over to Top Gear's YouTube channel to see the first of the eight-episode inaugural season in less than a month's time.
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kernelpanik 10:34PM (9/01/2008)
It'll be great to see an Australian spin on Top Gear and what cars they end up reviewing. But I just wanted to say that Aussies don't drink Fosters. Please. It's a horrible beer in a land filled with wonderful beers.
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Simon 6:25PM (9/01/2008)
Don't worry, it'll be just as terrible as any American version. And I'm an Australian. I just don't think you can even hope to hold a candle to the UK crew, and the way some of us hold TG in our minds, anything except the original will be treated with disdain. Plus the last 2 excuses for a car show Australia have made have been ludicrously obvious advertising vehicles hosted by ex-game show hosts. pfffft.
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hrez 6:39PM (9/01/2008)
C'mon, more car shows = more win for us. So what if its not up to the standard of the UK show? Its not like the existence of this show will in any way effect what we see from the BBC. We still get more car-based entertainment, which should be a win in anybodies book.
lachlan 11:19PM (9/01/2008)
Im Australian, and i most likely will not be watching this show. Firstly, im a pretty big motoring fan, and i can quite honestly say ive never heard of any of the presenters. And thats what really throw me off. Jeremy, James and Richard have british whit, thats why i watch the show. Also i think the actual production of the show and how it is produced is what makes top gear great, all those great camera angles and slow mo's. I think it will die off. Thats my opinion anyways
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crazy 10:32PM (9/02/2008)
Fosters? Except for tourists no one in Australia drinks Fosters.
I think it will be good. Warren Brown earned the respects with his Peking to Paris rally a year or so back in a 1900's era car.
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hidden_hunter 12:08AM (9/02/2008)
As an aussie my prediction will be (based off the other garbage motoring shows this nation has produced) Eurosnobs that think that everything from europe is best not matter what or 3 bogans sitting around talking about the finer points of why they think a VL calais turbo is the best car ever.
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Matt 4:21AM (9/03/2008)
Yes no one in Australia drinks Fosters. The only Fosters in my local pub is one tinnie in the bottom corner of a fridge that is there as a joke.
BTW: I am the Australian Stig
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Ashley 6:45AM (9/29/2008)
And the verdict is in. The show is a shocker. SBS should remove it as it is an embarrasment. Where did the over the top Aussie accents come from. Mercedes lent them a Maybach because they have not been able to sell it for months (so they thought what the hell lets give it to Aussie Top Gear) and my Grandmother drove faster then Aussie Stig. Take it off the Air.
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