Top Gear Russia

[Copycat]

Article from autocar.co.uk


‘Top Gearski’ for Russia

[Viper007Bond]

Got back my erased entries, I think there is no need to play confidentiality games now, it's all clear know. Waiting for official approvement on TG.com.

Thanks.

[xtreme.hackerz]

It's official:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/top-gear-russia

[ahpadt]

Talking about milking the cow.......

This is plain wrong.

[NooDle]

What better excuse to not watch it.

Well I dunno yet. At the one hand I'm quite scared that it will ruin the good vibes I feel now whenever I watch a TG episode. Even Aussie TG (even though I have only seen 2 episodes yet) seems to have got the essence of TG, which is more about male cameraderie and cocking about than about cars.

I sincelery hope the Ruski version shadows this. I shall be watching a couple of episodes before I make my final judgement though

[Viper007Bond]

This pretty much sums up my thoughts:

[Tue 08:01:13] <%Hidden_Hunter> lol, people thought tg au was bad
[Tue 08:01:16] <%Hidden_Hunter> tg rus
[Tue 08:01:18] <%Hidden_Hunter> lawlz

Even if it's "good", I think cultural differences will get in the way of us being able to stand watching it. But who knows...

We'll do our best to put out a rip.

[johan tb]

not the cultural differences but the Russian language. If there will be downloads of this series than please with subtitles.

[svb]

Wow.

This should be... interesting.

What is next, Top Gear China? Buick vs. Chery?

[freefall]

Hmm.. time for a new forum section?

[Cobol74]

The big barrier will be the language I think, I am hoping it will have a certain charm, will depend upon the presenters. If subtitles are avaialble, or one or more of our Russian speakers on the forum could do them that would be really cool.

[GT VIRUS]

I think they are jumping on the bandwagon. I expect you all to be rick-rolled in a day or too

[Shawn]

^ Top Gear are too cool for Rickrolling though.

You guys still have a hard time buying it, hah. I didn't even bother trying out TGA so I will give this a miss too, but come on, stranger things have happened (e.g. Bush/Cheney 2004).

[awdrifter]

We'll definitely need subs if they really make it. No matter how bad, I would at least watch the first season.

[XYZviper]

"The Dacia Sandero lapt the ring in 5 min!" - Mr. Medjedev says it lapt it in 1.03 min.! - "The Dacia Sandero lapt the ring in 1.03 min.!"

But should be interesting. And I think more interesting and entertaining then the Australian rip off. And I don't thing subtitles will help understand Russian humour. Good thing I understand them! If the presenters will be right and they will not try to copy TG UK everyone should laugh their asses off

[Shawn]

Who will be the first guest? My guess is Xenia Onnatop.

She is a real figure, correct?

[mclarensmps]

Wow, they were serious about this thing? It's a mighty strange venue, I have to say.

[Mopar_Korean]

I think they might be making a Top Gear Korea next. Didn't they (TG UK Hosts) say they have "just been sold in Korea" a few seasons back?

[alibidriver]

Russian episodes starts in February

[svb]

I think they might be making a Top Gear Korea next. Didn't they (TG UK Hosts) say they have "just been sold in Korea" a few seasons back?

I'm pretty sure all this means is that TGUK is now syndicated in Korea.

[fbc]

Whoa, this is for real?? Did not see that coming. And, er, can't say I'm optimistic about it...