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Unfortunately most of that was quite painful to watch. The SIARPC filming seemed all over the place - did they actually show anything like a full lap for either guy? The V8 to the rescue was just painful (though I thought the same thing with UK top gear did the same kinds of things). The...

The worst thing (being a local) is the constant ads, the attempts to win a 'v8' audience and some of the groan inducing comedy. You won't see it from afar, but changing channels was the worst possible outcome for this show. Nine has money, but they also have a cut-throat commercial TV...

It was better than last week. They seemed to do less, which actually meant it was better. Damn, the amount of ads is off putting, though :( The jet cars was a bit....pointless. Wow, they charcoaled a kebab. Gotta wonder why they didn't have ear protection - I bet that was loud.

Yep, usual response to poor ratings = shift until later and die a slow death.

For an Aussie audience, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who didn't know who the 'surfer chick' was. She was the first surfer to win 6 consecutive world titles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layne_Beachley I can see how she might be less well known overseas. It would be equivalent to doing...

where there funny stickers? At least if the UK go to the trouble of creating witty stickers, they make sure you can't miss them. I can't say I noticed...

At least Ewen brings experience as a car journalist. I'm a bit annoyed they dumped Warren as well, but the issues are more than just who the faces are.

I wonder where the people who voted "10" are? Please tell us why this was that good?

You'll only get standard definition rip - stupid Oz government mandated until analogue signal gets shut off, that the TV stations have to exactly broadcast their main channel in digital and analogue, so this was not broadcast in high definition.

I actually enjoyed this. Less "pretzel". Some fun 'mucking about'. The car review of the Volvo was good and quite funny. Shane hijacking the land cruiser review was good too. The presenters all seemed a bit more relaxed (which I also think about this season of top gear usa). I'm...

well, sorta new ;)

I gave it an 8. I'm just going to echo what many have already said in this thread. It seemed a little rushed and Adam is the weak link. What I have to look forward to (in about 24 hours time) is a new TGUK and a new TGUS to watch :)

thanks for reminding me - I was trying to erase that picture from my memory :(

Well, the first two seasons were on a partly government funded, non-commercial network, which really didn't have a great budget to spend on it. A bit like History compared to CBS or similar. This year the rights to top gear were bought by one of our commercial stations and while they have a...

The problem with this is that if you change the track, you have to dump all the times you have on the board already or re-run them (which I suspect is unlikely to happen). Perhaps they need to show less of the actual lap...

The local station who make it in Oz only showed 3 episodes of a (supposed) 6 or 8 show season because of poor ratings. It is a pale imitation of how good TG US is (let alone TG UK).

I thought the same thing - like Adam was on a clock to get his jokes in in the allotted time and who cares if he interrupts the big star. Interviewing is an art and Adam doesn't have it. Otherwise, this was a pretty solid episode. 8/10 for me

I dunno why - I just didn't like this as much as last weeks. Voted a 7.

sure, I understand why they ended up where they did, but it makes for a pretty weak ending when Adam can drive right there and the others get off their mode of transport some distance away and have to figure out how to get to the finish.

Actually, Oz went to the UK. Some parts of this will be shown in the current UK series, but it has been shown in Oz Took a while to get a copy of this. I actually enjoyed it - I though the UK christmas special seemed a bit forced and this looked quite good in comparison. The Morgan review...