Well all petrol head Alfisti, having just sat down and seen Topgear Australia, do you think they have got it right, that is the essential nature of Topgear but with the Aussie flavour ?

For my money, I reckon Warren is a natural, ditto I suspect Charlie but Steve, hmn I am not so sure.  Still early days, and hopefully they won't dwell on the boganism of Aussie car nuts, but get stuck in properly looking at a range of cars and challenges.

Was good to have an Australian Stig, though wonder if he has the same choice in music as the UK Stig. 

In overall terms I think it should be good value.  Dave

I thought it was reasonable, certainly Warren is the most polished in TV presenting (and so he should be, he has the most experience in broadcasting).  I thought they were all pretty good in their individual pieces, but the stuff together was a bit contrived, but give them time, I am sure they will gel and it wont be so forced.

Amen to that Dave

The  AROCA NSW had the good fortune of having Warren Brown as a guest speaker last year. Alas it was all a bit last minute and there was no publicity, so we didn't get a great turnout of members.

However Brown was easily the best guest speaker I can recall at our club night. He mainly spoke about the Peking to Paris reinactment that he had participated in and he had everyone in stitches. A real natural.

I thought Charlie was sound, but no so sure about Steve - too hyperactive for my liking. He needs to slow it down a bit.

OK, second week down.  Opinions anyone

It's still not great, but better than any other Aussie motoring show.  I still think Wozza is good, but he needs to loose the cartoon thing, he may be quite talented at it but thats for print media.

The cutting of sound is woeful, when the GT40 was going around their goat track the sound was waaaaay off (acceleration and up changing as the car was going through a chicane....i think not).  Speaking of the goat track.....c'mon we have more land per capita than almost anywhere on earth and the best they could come up with was a glorified footpath barely wide enough to fit a Daewoo.

And for the second week in a row - start the car in the studio and straight up to the rev limiter.....ever heard of a thing called oil pressure?

Have we lost the UK version now?  Bring it back!!!!!

Unfortunately - thumbs down......bring back the UK.......not sure what an Aust show can bring to the table other than Holden Vs Ford - do we really need a TV version of Motor Magazine......

Yes I am with Gary on this.  Sure I cringe a little at the Australian ockerisms, and as an Italian car enthusiast, Chooks (fowlcans) and crapadores do little for me but at least it is now out of the way.  I enjoyed the GT Ford test. To my mind nearly as good as Topgear UK would have done. 

Ditto I cracked up over the ute in a mine test.  Given I have worked with the mining industry for years I could relate to it and the idea of a Proton ute compared to the rest really had me fallling out of the chair, ditto the Smart eco hurse and burying coffins vertically.  Excellent.  I like the idea of Wazza's cartoons since it is an original concept and not related to UK Topgear and he does it well.

I just wish that Charlie (aka Clarkson wannabe and Steve the scruffy one) would stop waving their arms around and shouting so much. 

Still I will be in front of the box 7.30 next Monday.  Oh and by the way, I read somewhere on line that SBS will continue to air UK Topgear, when Aussie Topgear season is over. 

Agree.  We have been spoilt by the UK version for many years but if you remove that and the sometimes over the top jingoism and lingo, it isnt too bad a show.  I even laughed a few times.  At least they are trying to break the mould where they are permitted.Then again, i watch Kenny and have a giggle too.  It's better than no Oz TV motor show

is it filmed in Vic or NSW as they seem to have cars with both regos and scenes from both states?

Alex Davison?