[01x03] October 13th, 2008

whitehornmatt · October 7th, 2008, 11:10 AM

The website description should be enough:

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Whose car is the best? Fastest? Coolest? Strongest? Well there's only one way to settle this - a Top Gear Australia challenge. The lads and their precious motoring masterpieces assemble at Oran Park for a race showdown. By the end of the day - a star will be born, and egos bruised.

Then the world's first Sports Activity Coupé, the revolutionary BMW X6 Coupé 4WD, is put through its paces. Is it a visionary triumph or an impressive blunder? Warren takes a drive to find out.

Steve Pizzati reviews the F1-inspired Mercedes CLK 63 AMG Black Series coupe and SBS's own delightfully hilarious hostess, Julia Zemiro (RocKwiz), is the "Celebrity in a Bog Standard Car".

It will be good to see full reviews from Warren and Pizzati, rather than Cox doing them all.

GerFix · October 7th, 2008, 11:42 AM

Hmmm ... I wonder if the X6 review will lead into "What Were They Thinking?"?

sanbar · October 7th, 2008, 11:56 AM

Zamero was doing her drive today (tue). CLK Black is reviewed on Eastlink in Melbourne's east, same place as Wallace's Maybach was shot, before it opened to traffic. Hope they really open the taps on it.
Other bits I've heard of, don't know what ep, include running the W427 on Holden's Lang Lang speed ring.
hoping they test that myth of the Holden engineer that fell asleep on the 200kmh bank while endurance testing a car. legend has it you can set cruise control and let the bank steer the car.

Dsemaj · October 8th, 2008, 12:43 AM

There's also meant to be the cheap car challenge from the looks of the "Next ep" video.

Wildy · October 8th, 2008, 4:56 AM

I wonder if they have to go to a wrecker, buy a shell and build their own car and then go somewhere for a series of challenges?

colddayin-hell · October 8th, 2008, 6:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Wildy

I wonder if they have to go to a wrecker, buy a shell and build their own car and then go somewhere for a series of challenges?

That'd be great to see...something a bit different to TGUK.
Promising concept too..

Hopefully the series gets better with each episode...has so far (imo).

aaronnn · October 8th, 2008, 7:12 AM

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Originally Posted by GerFix

Hmmm ... I wonder if the X6 review will lead into "What Were They Thinking?"?

definitely a terrible looking thing. i think its an utterly useless model in the bmw lineup

metallix · October 8th, 2008, 7:59 AM

Couple of pics here. Yes there will be a cheap car challenge.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/17307/to...-3-sneak-peek/

Mr Snow · October 8th, 2008, 10:26 AM

Hmmm, Julia Zemiro images/smilies/love.gif

can't wait... oh and the challenge looks good too images/smilies/mrgreen.gif

Tranquillizer · October 8th, 2008, 11:14 AM

will wait for the challenge. infact challenges are always fun and exciting. this 3rd episode will be even better.

SL65 · October 8th, 2008, 11:31 AM

I was at the filming for this episode yesterday. If anyone has any questions - feel free to shoot images/smilies/smile.gif

tone76 · October 8th, 2008, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sanbar

running the W427 on Holden's Lang Lang speed ring.
hoping they test that myth of the Holden engineer that fell asleep on the 200kmh bank while endurance testing a car. legend has it you can set cruise control and let the bank steer the car.

That's going to be in 1x04. Was at the taping tonight. images/smilies/smile.gif

(but that's a story for another thread ...)

fbc · October 8th, 2008, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by sanbar

hoping they test that myth of the Holden engineer that fell asleep on the 200kmh bank while endurance testing a car. legend has it you can set cruise control and let the bank steer the car.

The only 'myth' part of it would the speed - not sure what the hands-off speed would be in the top lane at Lang Lang, but 200km/h doesn't seem far off the truth. I can though tell you though that 160km/h on that bowl feels slow.

Hidden_Hunter · October 8th, 2008, 3:35 PM

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Originally Posted by SL65

I was at the filming for this episode yesterday. If anyone has any questions - feel free to shoot images/smilies/smile.gif

Will we be images/smilies/sad.gif

or

SL65 · October 8th, 2008, 10:47 PM

Below is my mark out of 10 for it:

Spoiler Text: (Click here to toggle display)

Ep1 - 6/10
Ep2 - 7/10
Ep3 - 6/10

I put it in spoiler tags because some people might not want to be influenced by anything other than an episode synopsis.

Viper007Bond · October 13th, 2008, 12:56 PM

http://forums.finalgear.com/tg-aus-s...-2008-a-31005/

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October 7th, 2008, 11:56 AM	#3
sanbar Joined: Aug 28th, 2008 Last Online: May 12th, 2009 Location: .au Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	Zamero was doing her drive today (tue). CLK Black is reviewed on Eastlink in Melbourne's east, same place as Wallace's Maybach was shot, before it opened to traffic. Hope they really open the taps on it. Other bits I've heard of, don't know what ep, include running the W427 on Holden's Lang Lang speed ring. hoping they test that myth of the Holden engineer that fell asleep on the 200kmh bank while endurance testing a car. legend has it you can set cruise control and let the bank steer the car.

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Wildy Joined: Sep 29th, 2008 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 20 Posts: 81 Car: Not My Car Rep Power: 5	I wonder if they have to go to a wrecker, buy a shell and build their own car and then go somewhere for a series of challenges?

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metallix Joined: Jul 17th, 2008 Last Online: August 11th, 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 55 Car: Holden VY Ute Rep Power: 6	Couple of pics here. Yes there will be a cheap car challenge. http://www.caradvice.com.au/17307/to...-3-sneak-peek/

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SL65 Ambitious but rubbish! Joined: Jul 12th, 2004 Last Online: November 10th, 2009 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 19 Posts: 9,299 Car: 1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5L Rep Power: 46	I was at the filming for this episode yesterday. If anyone has any questions - feel free to shoot

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