Take a sneak peek at Top Gear Australia
Going through Top Gear withdrawals? It's understandable. In lieu of mind-altering drugs, may we suggest watching a video of the new Australian crew doing their best Clarkson, May and Hammond impressions? All right, what do we see here? There's a bright yellow Lotus, a ridiculously long Hummer limo, supercars galore and plenty of smoking tires. Of course, the three hosts, Charlie Cox, Warren Brown, and Steve Pizzati, are present and accounted for as well, as is The Stig's Australian clone. Looks like fun, though there's something not quite right about those accents.
If this video was enough to whet your appetite, there's good news. The first episode will debut on Monday September 29 -- right around the corner. For those of us who don't get Australian television channels, the interwebs are sure to come to the rescue in no time flat. Let the countdown commence.
[Source: SBS via Jalopnik]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vkchu 10:57AM (9/13/2008)
looks good!
i hope they have running subtitles for the rest of us non-aussies :D
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nighttime 12:37PM (9/13/2008)
what?
MK 11:01AM (9/13/2008)
There's no need to reproduce a show that already exists. It makes sense for a dialog heavy show like The Office, but Top Gear is all about the cars.
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rav3 4:38PM (9/13/2008)
I'd say a lot of Top Gear consists of "dialog". That's often how they describe stuff, talk about the news and whatnot. Great stuff...
And in that dialog are a bunch of references that us dumb Americans don't understand, and a bunch of "Celebrities in a Reasonably Priced Car" we've never heard of. And they call the hood a "bonnet" and the trunk, a "boot".
So, they make other versions to suit those countries.
hidden_hunter 10:47AM (9/14/2008)
Different cars and different locations, could be a nice supplemental version to the original.
Stumpy 11:14AM (9/13/2008)
It is going to be hard to judge these new "Top Gears". They have so much pressure on them to do well. It even took the Original Top Gear series about two seasons to get into their groove. (Which just got better and better with each passing show).
Heck, Captian slow did not even come on until the 2nd year.
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Hike15 11:37AM (9/13/2008)
im still waiting on top gear america
i know nothing will ever be as good as the real top gear, but i still hope its good and keeps many of the top gear themes like the cool wall and news
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CRiccio 11:44AM (9/13/2008)
The only thing I have ever used Internet Explorer for is downloading Firefox, and watching this video. The player loaded, but the video just wouldn't play in FF.
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John R 12:37PM (9/13/2008)
Worked for me
Torawk 2:31AM (9/14/2008)
Disable your ad blocker and reload the page.. it didn't work initially for me but doing that did it.
MikeInNC 4:59PM (9/13/2008)
Hey rav3..speak for yourself. Some of the most educated people I've ever met were total idiots and some of the least educated, absolutely brilliant.
"Dumb" isn't exclusive to any country, or level of academic achievement and thinking that it is, is just ...well..dumb.
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tankd0g 7:45PM (9/13/2008)
We already have a name for poor copies of Top Gear, "Fifth Gear". Typically watchable but I wouldn't burn them to DVD to keep forever like I do with Top Gear.
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Khanh 8:30PM (9/13/2008)
I want to see original Stig vs. Australian Stig. maybe American Stig too; hopefully American Stig lives up to the name.
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Skybreak 8:48PM (9/13/2008)
"Original Stig"? "Australian Stig"?
No, there is just "The Stig" and he/she/it is perfectly capable of driving anywhere with time and space.
No of us really understands the nature of The Stig.
ehisforadam 3:09PM (9/14/2008)
Wrong....the original Stig wore all black. The current Stig is in all white. There was also Big Stig (when they did the drive from Miami to New Orleans), and the Stig's African cousin. There is president for other stigs, though two are never in the same place at the same time. If you had multiple Stigs together the universe would probably end.