Australian Topgear

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well the new series of Australian topgear starts tonight 7.30pm on channel 9, lets hope it better then the 1st series, has some new presenters so lets hope they are not to tryhardish like last series. cheers samo

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the last lot were wankers..

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the last lot were wankers..

well said

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the last lot were wankers..

And the poms arn't?

At least the poms where original where as the last Australian lot tried to mimic their personas. I think one of them survived for series 2? I know a couple of places they went such as Willow Springs. I believe they tried to tack some old bombs through the Widow Maker at Willow Springs and may have been dragging either a caravan or yaht up behind them. I'm looking foward to it so long as the Tools stay at home. I do wish they had something other than "The Stig". How about "The Brockie" or something.

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To be honest I've not seen any of the australian topgear, almost watch british topgear religiously (being surrounded by a mojority of scots and poms - not much choice) but i do think its excellent entertainment!!!

Judging by your thoughts on season 1 of the aussie 'takeoff' though, i might give season 2 a miss also - at least until someone starts saying that its worth the time...

Matt

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The show looks great so far...

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i think the 1st episode was pretty good, wasnt over the top, just some good old aussie cars (plus a corolla) going to an aussie place, this 1 gets my vote. cheers samo

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Us QLDers r only half way through.

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Looked alright. Not a clone of the Poms and had some travel. Not a Lisa fan but oh well.

We did the Widow Maker at Willow Springs in July and the did describe it well. The track is a walking track that is also used sparingly as a station track. The point the fella got to when he was rolling back down the hill was about as far as they would have been able to gte and is only about the third hill into it. Just after that point you head along a ridge and then a very steep down track into the creek bed.

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twas rather good old chap.
the presenters were much better than that last lot.

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Missed the 1st half but overall it was ok for a spin off from the original...Will be watching next week...

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Pity they spoilt it by having Warney trying to drive the V8 Morgan. It was obviously an auto and he was getting his rocks off by sliding around on a wet track. Whoopy do!

Warney, stick to sending dirty SMS messages and leave the driving to somebody more worthy.

As for the road to Lake Eyre, mostly it looked like it had been recently graded so it wasn't really surprising that 3 two-wheel drive vehicles got through. You want to go out to places like The Sandy Blight Road and see how far the locals have managed to get their Commodores and Falcons over the dunes of the Gibson Desert.

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At this stage I'm still 50/50. I never saw the 1st Aus TG but I felt while this was good, they're still trying to be a little bit too much like the Poms. One of the guys seem to come across pretty genuine, I think the others need to relax a bit and start being themselves. Also think rather than trying to show off high powered sports cars, they need to stay on the track of showcasing some good old vehicles as they have been. I'll keep watching for a few more episodes at least.

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Well, it does sound like i should give it a chance so I'll sit down and catch an episode when i get home next week... !!!
Might I ask what and when it is on?

Cheers Matt

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much better than the first series , without charlie cox the nobody ex racer looking down his nose at everyone else . kenny comes off well . so far so good