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madbung Grand Master

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Although production values have improved i'm still waiting for something interesting to happen or maybe even a decent review..

It's pretty Charlie cox atm.

commodores again next week....lmao

mad082 Grand Master

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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.

the whole idea of the test track is to make a track that pushes the cars to its limits. so a long straight to test the higher speeds, some corners with sudden changes in direction, to test the chassis and brakes, etc. not just a track that is nice and flowing where all cars might do well. that is why the UKTG track was designed by lotus.

Although production values have improved i'm still waiting for something interesting to happen or maybe even a decent review..

It's pretty Charlie cox atm.

commodores again next week....lmao

you can joke about more commodores but i think the 427 is going to be a serious bit of gear. i don't like holdens but even i am will to admit that the new 427 is going to have some serious go.

Beelzebub89 Grand Master

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lol the porsche thing is classic. They had one of their engineers go out and try to get a decent time. While nissan use an actual racing driver and they wonder why they can't get near the time?

I still can't wait for these 8 episodes to be over so I can go back to watching the Uk top gear. Clarkson, May and Hammond make top gear what it is.

kermit Community Regular

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for me it still sucks arse . its gotten to the point that it doesnt matter what they do on the show the hosts themselves taint it by being soo annoying . last month the cars were at least interesting . these guys claim to be able to drive but so far ive seen nothing to indicate that at all .

and blaming roundabouts on the english ? wtf ? australia needs more roundabouts to get rid of all the traffic lights . keeps traffic moving for gods sake . he admitted that aussies dont know how to use them but blamed the english for australia for having them ?

everything they say has no credibility at all , sooner the show dissappears forever the happier i will be

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lol the porsche thing is classic. They had one of their engineers go out and try to get a decent time. While nissan use an actual racing driver and they wonder why they can't get near the time?

I still can't wait for these 8 episodes to be over so I can go back to watching the Uk top gear. Clarkson, May and Hammond make top gear what it is.

who happens to be an expert on the ring.

eitherway they should both do their laps at the same time (obviously with a gap between cars so there is no slipstreaming) so that each manufacturer can look at the other car.

or even have nissan buy a gt2 from a dealership and have porsche buy a gtr from a dealership so that each company can know for sure that the car is 100% stock and then have them take them to the track and just have nissans driver hop in the gtr and porsche's driver hop in the gt2 and away they go.

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ive seen motokhana courses in a carpark that are in better nick than their test track. and the old drift corner at oran park would even be enough to keep a mercedes black on its toes.

if i had $150000 i definatly would not even consider a holden.. i will give them the fact that the cars are much much better in that sort of price range from holden than a normal SS.. but still.. there are much nicer cars out there.

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