Top Gear Australia Preview (video)

[Fev]

The Stig.. someone said something about the stig being skaife.. but he cant be!

(im makin my own stig history up)

[Transfiguring R]

Originally Posted by Peuty

WTF are you on?

Fixed. ;)

[irlewy86]

Originally Posted by Fev

The Stig.. someone said something about the stig being skaife.. but he cant be!

(im makin my own stig history up)

Just for the Holden faithful


"Some say he is Mark Skaife and if it wasn't for Jack Perkins he would have won Bathurst with a busted clutch."

All we know is he's the Stig

[Fev]

Originally Posted by Transfiguring R

~wtf are you on??~

Fixed. ;)

my second columbian cola - "Not for wimps" lol

but back to topic.

anyone know when or if they have started picking studio audiences? anyone get in or had any feedback regarding this?

[ltd]

I know where it is all filmed, we have NOTAMS issued.

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by Fev

p.s.

i heard thatThe Stig is this guy..



They bribed him with a future full of beautifully crafted german sports cars.. Nazi technology had created a hanger full of supercars just for him of the likes the world had never seen, - billions spent on their creation..he was forced to do unspeakable things like test drive russian cars and design a "peoples car" with little more then a prototype microwave and a lawn mower.. he created the first VW Beetle with that lawnmower!

...But little did the nazi's know he would go on to betray them, leaking the enigma code (The American's covered for him, saying that they themselves had decoded it- pah!) and taking those cars and hiding them away.. sometimes letting the technology leak out to car companies the world over!! Luckily now he lives only for SPEED!

some say you can still hear Hitler screaming STIIIIIIGGG, infuriated by the betrayal near the autobarn where the cars were once tested...

Uh, Nurse? He's skipped his medication again...

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by ltd

I know where it is all filmed, we have NOTAMS issued.

So which aerodrome is it filmed at?

[burnz]

Originally Posted by Peuty

So which aerodrome is it filmed at?

i heard it was at wakefield.
and the stig is L.Tander (that i doubt on both count's)

[MISTA FIESTA]

Its Camden Airport as there has been a few Ford GT's (the supercar) spotted in and around camden. These are the only two RHD in Australia. Also a Pagani Zonda. Ive seen a few Falcons like driving around with custom plates (to signify the models).

Studio audience applications I would say have closed. There was a form to fill out few weeks ago.

[YOOT]

Originally Posted by Peuty

So which aerodrome is it filmed at?

This one I think Camden Airport

[Fev]

man i'd love to hear a pagani zonda scream past.. I applied for the audience thing but havnt gotten any emails regarding it etc

[burnz]

Originally Posted by MISTA FIESTA

Its Camden Airport as there has been a few Ford GT's (the supercar) spotted in and around camden. These are the only two RHD in Australia. Also a Pagani Zonda. Ive seen a few Falcons like driving around with custom plates (to signify the models).

Studio audience applications I would say have closed. There was a form to fill out few weeks ago.

i just received an email stating that a heap of supercars being raced at the old dunlop raceway, warwick farm. (opposite peter warren ford) i'll pass this into the delete folder.

[Redrum]

Some nice rides in preview, but most not being driven. Will need to be bloody good otherwise will die in shadow of fantastic english version.

[ltd]

Originally Posted by Peuty

So which aerodrome is it filmed at?

It's filmed at Camden, I recently ferried an aircraft for a friend and I can tell you, all the taxiways have skidmarks on them; it's friggen hilarious.

[au2sw]

dont know if anyone has picked it yet, but there is a quick flash of an FG ute on a dirt road being flogged.....cannt pick the badging, but my guess would be an XR6T due to the type of badging on the tailgate....hard to tell if the turbo is there due to the red ute. it also seems to be a mining vehicle or something as it has the amber flashing light on the top. they also appear to blow a proton jumbock ute up.....theres a guy running from the ute in first clip, then explosion in the next..a beach challanege with 4wds looks like there is a nissan navara doing circle work...and unfortunately it is a camery wagon with the ea, but by the looks of the finish, the ea wins!! also at the start of the clip...after the drifting merc, theres a pic of a ford GT badge (tis the GT in an oval, no colouring, like its all one colour like a chrome badge or something) they also show the GT40 a fair bit through the clip.

[Falcon_Crazy]

They may be doinga backpacker trip through Oz if they are using an EA wagon and Camry wagon...amazing what packpackers drive now - seen em a AU Fairmont wagon!

[Dazza XLT]

Originally Posted by Falcon_Crazy

They may be doinga backpacker trip through Oz if they are using an EA wagon and Camry wagon...amazing what packpackers drive now - seen em a AU Fairmont wagon!

Every year they seem to step up a model.
Last year it was E-Series wagons. I am now seeing more and more AU's getting about.
Next year it'll be the B Series.

If only they could drive.....

[Ives]

"If you thought the Brits had done it all with Top Gear - wait until you see Top Gear Australia, debuting on SBS Television on Monday 29 September at 7:30pm.

In the first episode of an eight-part series, hosts Charlie Cox, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati play hard with all-wheel drives on sand and snow.

There is a glimpse of the new LP560 Lamborghini Gallardo super sportscar, Charlie test drives the latest Porsche 911 and Warren tests the appetite of Great White Sharks off the coast of Port Lincoln – using himself as the bait.

One of Australia’s hottest actors, Vince Colosimo (starring in SBS’s Carla Cametti, PD), is Top Gear Australia’s first studio guest.

“Surf, snow, sand, sharks and supercars - episode one of Top Gear Australia has got the lot!” said Top Gear Australia’s SBS Executive Producer, Denise Eriksen.

“Charlie, Warren and Steve - well, Charlie and Steve - have driven like stars and Warren has done his best with sharks and sausages.”

“SBS is incredibly proud of this first episode in an amazing new series which takes Australia's passion for cars in exciting new directions.”"


EDIT :- I dont know who wrote that, but whoever it is... I hope he/she will get the cars' nomenclature right as the show goes on. It's Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 (not LP560 Lamborghini Gallardo). The latest 911... which one? GT2?

Super sportscar? what?

[Rodp]

I would have preferred to see the guys taking out some local content onto the track in the first episode. TG UK undoubtedly do it better so differentiate by taking out our local hero cars for a wrap around the track!

Australia's passion for cars is based largely around Australian cars!

[Peuty]

WTF? What has swimming with sharks got to do with cars?

[au2sw]

^^^^^^my sentiments exactly:

[JBomb3000]

Originally Posted by alecrain

I can't wait to watch it.

But they need to start with a bang (unlike the first episodes from the UK series where they sucked)

So true, looking back it's a wonder it took off at all because the first few series were pretty ordinary.

[GUTLES]

@ work we we're asked to lend our trade plate to one of our suppliers, there driving some tractors through toorak, 'toorak tractors', sounds a bit lame to me!

[outback_ute]

Would be interesting if they use Steigers or similar!

[TadKa]

Hrmmm, I was really excited about the first episode but that blurb sounds .
Still I'm looking forward to it.

[ST]

You'd think the main point stressed to the whole staff working on TG Aus is it should be localized! We all know you can't beat Clarkson, Hammond and May at their own game so they need to use a lot more of the material they haven't and never will. Aussie cars, Aussie challenges and once again AUSSIE CARS.

Still looking forward to it greatly, they just need to give us a reason as to WHY it's called Top Gear Australia.

[Aeron]

Last night I was lucky enough to be in the studio audience for the first ever episode of Top Gear Australia. Had a great time!!
They had a white Lambo LP560 in the studio. Warren started it up and gave it a boot on the limiter. Very nice car!! They also had a Porsche Carrera S and a story on the Maybach 57. The “Reasonably Priced Car” is a Proton (Satria Neo?) with the first guest to take the car for a spin being Vince Colosimo.
They have a segment called “What were they thinking?” where they talk about cars with strange name or strange styling etc… and im standing right behind the presenters next to the board for that bit.
They did a story on soft-roaders. It was quite funny.
So yeh, the show should be good. As long as they make it their own they should be ok. I think the presenters did a great job.

Oh, and what do sharks have to do with cars?? Well, they had a Mini Moke with a bolted in shark cage that was dunked into the ocean with one of the presenters in it. :

[irlewy86]

^^^^
I didn't want to read that, but I couldn't help myself.

[SeduceXR]

Found another trailer floating around youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zV8rVLE120

[Ives]

If anyone of u picked up a sydney morning herald today, on the Drive section there was an article about "the worst cars for sale in Australia"..... straight away I thought "the TG Aus should do something with those cars!"