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Tonight on Top Gear a sausage gets burned, a sheep falls over and the boys' track is all wet. Most importantly, a Top Gear UK vs. Australia drag race — a Corvette-engined Holden Ute vs. a "specially equipped" Ford Transit. More »
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If we lived down under, we would have tuned in to SBS on Monday at 7:30 to watch the Top Gear Australia shootout between the iconic Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon...but we don't. Watch the clip and judge for yourself, but we think that even though it may not be quite as polished as the UK original, this segment wasn't all that bad. So why did the ratings for this second episode drop off significantly from the series premiere's, even though they were actually expected to go up? More »
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In case you missed it, the first episode of Top Gear Australia aired this week, and while we're still not sure how much we like the down under counterpart to the British original, it's still good entertainment. One thing we weren't sure of until we watched was what exactly the test track would look like. This clip shows Aussie Stig pounding out the first power-lap on the estimated 1.28-mile circuit in the new 2009 Porsche 911 More »
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With the premiere of Top Gear Australia on September 29 less than a week away, this teaser gives another glimpse at the impending hoonage. Looks like we can expect a review of the world's first right-hand-drive Ford GT, and some sort of challenge involving sharks, meat and a Mini Moke. Wait a sec, is that a Mercedes AMG CLK Black Series we see too? [via CarAdvice.com.au] More »
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Top Gear Australia, the Down-Under counterpart to everybody's favorite British show, is getting ready to kick off. The series premiere is September 29th, but to give you a taste of what's coming there's a new preview video you can watch here. In addition to the three new Aussie hosts, the show will also feature a clone of The Stig. At least, we're assuming he's a clone. But then The Stig is probably fast enough to drive Down Under from the UK and back between shows. Now we'll just have to see how Top Gear USA stacks up. [SBS] More »
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After a long whittling process, BBC Worldwide has taken a list of thousands of hopefuls for Top Gear Australia down to the three lucky blokes who now own the title of "happiest hoons in Australia." The three presenters, Charlie Cox, Warren Brown, and Steve Pazzati along with an AUS version of Stiggie will be starring in the first episodes beginning later this year. The Beeb is of course hoping the eclectic trio will maintain the spirit of the original, while adding their own down under spin on things. We fully expect to see multi-way ute shootouts ending in something being catapulted from a land train. All while chomping down on a Vegemite sandwich. Full presser after the break. More »
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So we've already heard the land down under will be getting their very own Top Gear and now we've just seen they're holding open auditions for the next Clarkson, Hammond and May. But frankly we were kinda "meh" on the whole thing. Mostly because we're not Australians ourselves and don't live down under and we certainly aren't sure they've got the pedigree to do much more than discuss hooning and muscle cars and other such silliness. Wait a second. Maybe this does sound like a pretty good idea — we're totally snagging ourselves a couple of tickets down to the southern hemisphere. Heck, maybe Denton will even let us open an Aussie Jalopnik? (Hat tip to Topher_!) [sbs] More »
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