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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Ok, Im guessing some of you have seen it. I didnt think it was that bad, I'll watch it again. They arent complete naturals on the camera and the star segment was trimmed badly, but I think it has a lot of potential. 3 Lambo's was probably the best segment. The test rack is a bit strange, but atleast it isnt the narrow, slow joke that the Australian one is.
The guy with the puffy hair; Tanner I think, can certainly drive. What do we think?
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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those who didn't see it
http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgearusa/1/1/
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Long live the Falcon GT
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Victoria
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For those who don't use torrents??
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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Is it on free to air?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Montrose, Victoria
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I wouldn't bother, I know it was the first episode and everything but it was seriously boring! I thought the first season of TG Aus was bad till I saw this. There wasn't one slightly funny thing in the whole episode..
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Turbo Dinosaur FTMFW
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: SA
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its on youtube in 3 parts.
I liked it. The guys need a bit of time to relax and get into it. Te presenter, Tanner, is a professional driver. Drifting, I think. I reckon give it a few episodes and it'll be great. I've never really watched the Aus one, but i'm guessing they only really have a small field of cars/stories to work with.. Slightly different in the US ![]() Plus I don't think they'd ever be able to film something like a gunship chasing a muscle car across a town here in Aus, like the yanks did in their 1st episode ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmBdG10yv20 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBSE1nRdRmo part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQG-XWVq4C4 part 3 EDIT: damn, they've been removed by the BBC.. |
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Long live the Falcon GT
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I better not record the episodes of UK or OZ.... someone might kick my door in and smash my recorder????
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW
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I didn't like it. At the start they showed the challenges they did, most of them have been done fairly recently by Top Gear UK.
I think i'll stick to the original. I also didn't like the chase in the Viper. Switch the location to a military training ground and the Cobra for a Chally 2 and you have an exact repeat of something that happened in Season 6, Episode 1 of top gear UK. As for Tanner Faust, I belive he won their Formula D drifting championship a few years ago. |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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correct not bad they should have gone with Jay Leno, Tim Allen and Jerry Seinfield...
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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i didnt like it, it wasnt that great
but...... neither were the BBC top gear early seasons give them time and it will improve... im going to say the aussie version is currently better than the US version, but it shouldn't take them long to get comfortable. |
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It will give us a chance to see more muscle cars. Jeremy and Co. always call the Amercian muscle cars rubbish. I'm sure they'll have to feature some classic American muscle at some stage. It already looks like the US version can afford to throw more money at the production.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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tanner is currently driving a rockstar ford feista in x games he is also a stunt car driver as well as drifting and ice racing
he knows how to drive
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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On the one hand, any motoring show should be celebrated. Not that long ago we had "The Car Show" starring Glenn Ridge and that dip sheet Steven Jacobs. Remember that tripe?
One the other hand, US Top Gear makes me miss Aussie Top Gear, which made me miss UK Top Gear. Put it this way - I can't wait for Uzbekistan Top Gear so I can enjoy US Top Gear.
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didnt realise there was a russian version. from what i managed to watch on youtube the first episde is about 100 times funnier than the aussie version. so far thats the closest one i have seen to the uk version. helps if you can understand russian, dont suppose many on here would though ![]() |
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if the promo is anything to go by, there should be plenty of muscle to look forward to... ![]() http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vezOfu7ayso
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I think Dominic Monaghan from Lost is on this week (big star, little car or whatever they are calling it), also looking forward to the F150 Raptor being put through its paces. Not sure what episode that will be though.
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