Due to an, erm, error in scheduling I’ve not seen episode 6 as yet, but I will update this post with my thoughts when I have. In the meantime, there’s a few more pics and an SBS press release below…
TOP GEAR AUSTRALIA
Episode Six, Monday 3 November at 7:30pm
In episode six, Top Gear Australia hosts Charlie Cox, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati go on an epic journey from the Simpson Desert in central Australia to the North Queensland coast to settle dinner party boasting rights. Charlie is impressed by the Mercedes SL 63 AMG and Australian jazz legend, James Morrison is the “Celebrity in a Bog Standard Carâ€.
“I have been to a tonne of dinner parties where people have said “My 4WD is good enough to go to Kakadu if I wanted toâ€. Now everybody knows that they probably never will so we thought we would help with bragging rights for the next party,†said Steve Pizzati.
Bound for Cairns, each host is teamed with a 4WD of their choice – Charlie picked the luxurious Lexus LX 570, Warren chose the hi-tech Range Rover Vogue TDV8 and Steve picked the sporty Audi Q7, and set off from Alice Springs to enjoy seven nights camping under the stars on their cross country expedition.
Resigned to the fact that this trip involves roughing it, with no five-star luxury accommodation in the foreseeable future, the boys get behind the wheel of their chosen vehicle and commence their 2,400 kilometre road trip.
Charlie, not a fan of being one with nature, said, “When I was a kid about 12 years old on the family camping holidays I used to lie back at night and look back the stars and think to myself “When I grow up I am going to get really rich so I never have to go camping againâ€.â€
Filled with hilarious challenges, pranks and spectacular terrain the three hosts take their 4WDs on the ultimate test drive.
Around the streets of Sydney, Charlie takes the sporty Mercedes SL 63 AMG for a cruise, “A car this stylish can even make a mug like me look good, well not that bad anyway.â€
Car enthusiast James Morrison talks to Top Gear Australia about meeting his wife in a celebrity car race, owning 96 cars and his goal to beat Julia Zemiro on the lap time leader board.
3 replies on “Top Gear Australia – Series 1, Episode 6”
Seeing as how I check this site about 3 times a day (hey, everyone needs to take a break) and there is a sad lack of comments, here’s one.
I haven’t caught episode 6 either yet (or TGUK, damn my worthless eyes). If there is anything they need to improve it is the information they deliver and how they deliver it. Come to think of it Steve and Warren have pretty good delivery, but what they are saying is usually pretty boring, faux-Aussie, or fact-free. Same with Charlie, except he can’t deliver it to save his life.
Pondering a possible replacement for Charlie, my brain leapt unbidden to Ashley Bradnam, breakfast radio co-host on Nova in Brisbane. I think he might have the right mix of broadcasting ability, ocker enthusiasm and unaffected buffoonery for the part.
Oh, and if Shannon Noll said ‘it was a lotta fun’ one more time I would have broken my TV. That interview was diabolical.
I still haven’t seen this ep, hopefully my damn paying job will settle down in the next few days, haha.
Ashley Bradnam could be okay, but I think we need to accept our three hosts and move on. They’ll get better with a few more episodes behind them.
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