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|  posted on September 30th, 2008 at 08:42 PM | 
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Its strange how 4wd clubs try to promote safe driving techniques & looking after your vehicle.So here are these three "MORONS" driving through
the surf(i dont know about you guys but i dont like driving around in rust buckets).
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|  posted on September 30th, 2008 at 10:31 PM | 
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Very scripted and copied from the origional (which incedently seems to have dissapeared from our screens!).  I enjoyed it but all 3 are carbon copies
of the Uk origional.  Warren the cartoonist was my personal fave having watched him in Peeking to Paris.  So the others were complete unknowns to me
but like fungus will take a bit to grow on me.  Next week looks to be ok with the Holden/Ford faceoff but I would hope it to be impartial and unbiased
in its assessment and show Ford to be the clear winner by a longshot otherwise I will have lost all respect for anything automotive and will have to
settle for my 50cc moped as all hope for humanity will surely be lost.  
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|  posted on September 30th, 2008 at 11:11 PM | 
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btw at least the stig looked like an aussie as i noticed a pack of winni blues tucked up under his sleeve whilst prancing about in his alpine stars
track day suit thrashing some rubber round some outback aerodrome..  
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on September 30th, 2008 at 11:18 PM | 
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btw at least the stig looked like an aussie as i noticed a pack of winni blues tucked up under his sleeve whilst prancing about in his alpine stars
track day suit thrashing some rubber round some outback aerodrome..  
 
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Aussie??? Bullshit!  He didn't even have the drivers window wound down with his arm hangin out the side!  
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|  posted on September 30th, 2008 at 11:27 PM | 
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I thought they were pretty average, I thought the dunking of the moke with the sharks was naf, and the 3 minute story on the maybach just really
strange, vince collosimo was a crack up though...but the first series in the uk were pretty average too...Warren Brown was definetly the best of a
pretty average outing...
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btw at least the stig looked like an aussie as i noticed a pack of winni blues tucked up under his sleeve whilst prancing about in his alpine stars
track day suit thrashing some rubber round some outback aerodrome..  
 
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Aussie??? Bullshit!  He didn't even have the drivers window wound down with his arm hangin out the side!  
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thats cause modern cars have air con standard n it makes the ciggie smoke penetrate all nooks n crannys of the car.. 
unlike our relics from the past which rely on 2/60 air con..  
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 07:38 AM | 
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... with the Holden/Ford faceoff but I would hope it to be impartial and unbiased in its assessment and show Ford to be the clear winner by a longshot
otherwise I will have lost all respect for anything automotive and will have to settle for my 50cc moped as all hope for humanity will surely be
lost.  
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Uh huh... rriiiiiiiight. Unbiased and impartial, but Ford HAS to win ???  
 
Although I'm Red all the way through (VW first of course) I'll freely admit that at the lower trim levels the current Falcon is a better package
than the Commodore. Go higher tho - SS-V compared to XR-8, HSV compared to FPV/FTE/WhateverFordHasTheseDays... well up there the Holden is ahead of
the Ford. 
 
Plus the current Falcon looks like a tarted-up Camry. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 01:16 PM | 
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It was ok, I enjoyed except for the silly part about the Moke and the sharks!!! What was that all about? And who cares 
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 01:36 PM | 
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Good format 
Crap delivery 
 
They should have turned it into an aussie show rather than an exact clone of teh pommie version. 
Turned off half way through. 
 
thought the Porsche segment was pretty laem, the yhad to show teh car in heaps of funny angles as whenever you saw a long shot is was going 80 kays on
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 02:12 PM | 
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I went to the filming of the second episode that will b on next week. I stood round from 2pm till 6.30 on the 40 degree day watching take after take
and it was all ford v's holden. I really hope it gets better than this especialy after all the hype. 
The question is will SBS run the english version as well. If they dont im sure it will b back by popular demand.
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 09:47 PM | 
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... with the Holden/Ford faceoff but I would hope it to be impartial and unbiased in its assessment and show Ford to be the clear winner by a longshot
otherwise I will have lost all respect for anything automotive and will have to settle for my 50cc moped as all hope for humanity will surely be
lost.  
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Uh huh... rriiiiiiiight. Unbiased and impartial, but Ford HAS to win ???  
 
Although I'm Red all the way through (VW first of course) I'll freely admit that at the lower trim levels the current Falcon is a better package
than the Commodore. Go higher tho - SS-V compared to XR-8, HSV compared to FPV/FTE/WhateverFordHasTheseDays... well up there the Holden is ahead of
the Ford. 
 
Plus the current Falcon looks like a tarted-up Camry. 
 
   
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I really like both holdens and fords up to the HZ holden and XC Falcon.  After that, they all turned to disposable plastic junk IMHO. 
These days, the only difference between Ford and Holden is the badge on the bonnet.  
Long live the straight 6!!  
And I really miss my XM.  Solid old jigger she was..  
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|  posted on October 1st, 2008 at 10:21 PM | 
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Id much rather the new models than the old piece of shit VN, VL etc etc (don't know the ford equivilants  ) My brother has a VN sitting unregistered in our garage atm. It is one of the most poorly built cars
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|  posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 PM | 
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Id much rather the new models than the old piece of shit VN, VL etc etc (don't know the ford equivilants  ) 
 
VL Holden -> XF Falcon (1985 - 88) 
VN Holden -> EA Falcon (SHITBOX!!) 
After that I lost track/interest - Adam 
 
 
 My brother has a VN sitting unregistered in our garage atm. It is one of the most poorly built cars IMO. It has lasted very well after ALOT of abuse
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The paint on the VN was so thin, wallpaper/ricepaper would have been more rust proof! 
 
I my book, anything built after 1975 IS a new heap of shit!!  
Car manufacturers converted to building shite when they converted their speedo's to KPH. 
 
The engineers who designed the HD holden knew that it handled like a bag of crap, BUT in doing so, "encouraged" the driver to be more careful
because of it.  Engineering??? F**K YEAH!!    Still looked good..for a Holden of course! 
I like a car based on how it looks cos I am a shallow individual.   The only thing I expect in life to be reliable is my wife  
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|  posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 PM | 
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 A few facts about top gear 
 
 
Top gear has been running in the uk since 1977 and was relaunched in 2002 in its current format. jeremy Clarkson presented it from 1988 until 2000 and
then again from 2002. 
 
SBS will continue to screen the original, the Aussie one is on whilst the UK one takes a break. 
 
As far as iam aware SBS have never shown series 1 from 2002.
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|  posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 PM | 
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You mob of whinging bastards, stop your bitching and just watch it for what it is.............a car show with humour. Your all free to watch some
class telly like Dr Phil or Mclods daughters so if you don't like it, don't watch it and leave it to the other 90% that enjoyed it and STOP YOUR
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|  posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 PM | 
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So your the 90%?
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on October 4th, 2008 at 02:51 AM | 
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You mob of whinging bastards, stop your bitching and just watch it for what it is.............a car show with humour. Your all free to watch some
class telly like Dr Phil or Mclods daughters so if you don't like it, don't watch it and leave it to the other 90% that enjoyed it and STOP YOUR
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|  posted on October 4th, 2008 at 07:59 AM | 
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You mob of whinging bastards, stop your bitching and just watch it for what it is.............a car show with humour. Your all free to watch some
class telly like Dr Phil or Mclods daughters so if you don't like it, don't watch it and leave it to the other 90% that enjoyed it and STOP YOUR
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You are the only one I have heard of that seems to have liked it.  And it is not a car show with humour, it is crap and I for one will not be watching
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|  posted on October 4th, 2008 at 08:12 AM | 
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For those who missed it:- 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkdWXL1ekwc&feature=user 
 
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|  posted on October 4th, 2008 at 08:39 AM | 
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I didn't mind it. If it was going to be heaps different to the UK version it wouldn't be called Top Gear. check out other shows from around the
world, price is right?, Big brother etc.  
 
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|  posted on October 5th, 2008 at 08:43 AM | 
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Well, it wasn't bad up until the Moke bit.  What chowderhead thought that one up?  I think that once the actors stop trying to be their British
counterparts it might be pretty good. 
 
I'm really fearful of when the American Top Gear starts here.  No British program has ever been improved by Americanization.
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|  posted on October 5th, 2008 at 02:46 PM | 
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I wasn't impressed with first show- set up looks good and format is OK but they should be themselves and not try to be versions of Jeremy , Richard
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|  posted on October 5th, 2008 at 05:26 PM | 
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They are trying to make it too much like the pommy one, which is a helluva lot better then ours
 
 
 
 
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|  posted on October 5th, 2008 at 05:35 PM | 
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Top Gear Looking up ? 
 Well it can only get better, I friend of mine told me that some big name Aussie Rock stars are going to be involved in the Ford Holden thing . 
I can't say who but....... 
"They" apparently will be using proper race cars as well not just the Taxi cabs. 
This will add some interest I hope, 
 I'm going to keep watching but this time I will try to stay awake. 
 
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|  posted on October 6th, 2008 at 10:25 AM | 
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CRAP CRAP I dont think it will be around for long with that lead twit doing it and trying to be funny! well thats what he calls funny no bump just
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|  posted on October 6th, 2008 at 07:29 PM | 
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Well better than last week but still a load of crap. "What were they thinking" sums it up pretty good. 
Holden vs Ford wasnt too bad though "Lets warm up the tyres"   
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I HATE those things.... 
 
Their test track has a corner called Clarkson... Co-incidence. Just sounds tacky. And the lead host would be ALOT better, if he was someone else. 
How come the Stig is wearing white?  
Its not the pommy Stig is it? 
If not he should be a different colour. 
 
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My wife was watching Top Gear with me and was wondering if Chopper Reid has got himself some prosthetic ears so he can present the show!!.   
 
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Haha thats a crazy resembelance. 
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