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half way through the 3rd episode and its the thumbs up from me, sooo much better then the previous two!

they must have read our forums and fixed the kinks as long as it improves from here on in , it may just progress

into a must watch weekly show,well lets hope so

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Was I high or did that camry do a 1/4 mile in 13.sumthin seconds???

yeah, was gonna write in to them and abuse them lol

They showed the Carmy doing a 13sec, Falcon 13sec and HT doing a 17sec . They didnt say what distance they measured. Later on he said the Camry beat the other cars down the quarter, implying that it was the segment they showed in the first half of the show.

Was probably more like a 1/8 mile

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That julia chick needs to learn how to be quiet, what a damn attention seeker!

VERY funny that after the young guy had been "driving" the AMG he mentioned that he found the ESP button. Sorry, but that, and the TC are the first things that need to be turned off.

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yeah, was gonna write in to them and abuse them lol

They showed the Carmy doing a 13sec, Falcon 13sec and HT doing a 17sec . They didnt say what distance they measured. Later on he said the Camry beat the other cars down the quarter, implying that it was the segment they showed in the first half of the show.

Was probably more like a 1/8 mile

I could have sworn later on he mentioned that it was the standard 1/4 mile test. But if a POS camry from a scrap heap with some orange paint is pullin 13s then i really would like to see that.

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Sorry to get all Grandpa on everyone,

Is it just me or is everyone else okay with what the old blonde guy did to drive into the door of the camry during their little paddock bash? All jokes aside my 15y.o little bro was watching the show with me and have to say that's not the kind of behavior I'd like him to see behind the wheel of any car in ANY situation, didn't help the fact later on they high 5'd each other for doing so

That just spelled reckless and d#ckhead in my books, and I'm probably the last person who could claim they are an angel on the road.

Especially with all the effort the government has put in to spend my tax dollars on Draconian driving laws and all the hype of P-plater restrictions.

I surely can't be the only one who feels this way?

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Sorry to get all Grandpa on everyone,

Is it just me or is everyone else okay with what the old blonde guy did to drive into the door of the camry during their little paddock bash? All jokes aside my 15y.o little bro was watching the show with me and have to say that's not the kind of behavior I'd like him to see behind the wheel of any car in ANY situation, didn't help the fact later on they high 5'd each other for doing so

Yeh i agree to an extent but its a show, and its made for ratings, im quite sure they don't give a shit about the little people that get the consequences of their acts passed onto. But then again these shows do specify that you shouldnt attempt to try any of the driving acts/stunts they perform.

That being said, im a p plater aswell and wether the shows on or not, what i do behind the wheel is influenced by myself and MYSELF only. As for other people that do get influenced by this stuff they just simply shouldn't be watching it, or at least (like yourself) should have a figurehead that corrects the younger people watching, hence we have the rating PG lol. :bunny: But your definately right, they probs woulda got slandered with parents and rating whores emailing and calling the station regarding the show's content.

Ahh i feel like a grandpa too now! I only just turned 20! GGGaAAah shouldn't we both be doin burnouts and 'hooning' about promoting wrecklesness? haha.

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Ahh i feel like a grandpa too now! I only just turned 20! GGGaAAah shouldn't we both be doin burnouts and 'hooning' about promoting wrecklesness? haha.

Yeah I know, I'm 21 and even I felt strange typing what I did.

Just thought what they did was in bad taste given the current climate with hoons and the media and all this 'public' outcry for action. Then you have some old guy on the television treating the segment like a destruction derby, only to have his colleagues high 5 and 'good on ya mate' to him, saying they would do the same

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They were going "paddock bashing" though isn't that the general idea of it. Get out into a paddock n destroy the cars? Its not like they were doing it on public roads. To be fair to them Clarkson has done a tonne of things much much worse than that. If anyone who watched that show suddenly thinks its acceptable to go and start running into eachother on the road then they shouldn't be allowed near a car. Anybody with half a brain can see that its not a responsible or acceptable way to drive but thats TV.

TV does not affect your actions YOU do.

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you also have to remember that in every challenge that the UK topgear guys do they open doors into each others cars, or run into each others cars when they park (or pull up at an intersection). only real difference with the aussie one is that it was at a higher speed.

i personally can't stand charlie. he just shits me to tears. so as long as they have him as the main host i won't be sad if i happen to be doing something else while it is on.

also the fact that they are doing a challenge EVERY week is pissing me off. UKTG does 1 every few weeks so it is something to look foward to. but doing it every week just spoils it. do more car tests.

as for the 1/4 mile thing, you also have to remember that they were timing it with a stopwatch, and standing at the start line, so probably didn't stop the stopwatch at the exactly right point, and also they ran out of road pretty soon afterwards so i'd say that the health and safety guys made them shorten the track up so i could garantee that it wasn't 400m. also the fact that a ea falcon running on 4 or 5 cylinders wouldn't do a 1/4 in 13 seconds either.

i must say that the footage from the track is getting better though. they are making the cars look faster.

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i think its great, we can actually relate to the news stories and the bad jokes.

i must say im thoroughly enjoying the series, and its only going to get better.

im looking forward to that 427 comode next week, we'll see what it can do... :)

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i still cant stand it.. australia just doesnt get enough good cars.. and we dont have good enough roads.. and honestly, what is with the test track?? surely someone will let them on a proper race track like oran park or something..

and another thing... did anybody actually see what the mercedes looked like?? all i saw were artsy camera angles and contrast changes... my eyes were hurting trying to focus and catch a glimpse of whether it was a 2 door or 4 door..

was good to see them rubbish the stupid bmw "thing" though.

that was about all i saw, heck, it makes idol almost worth watching.. atleast i know the judges on it and they have their own characters.

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