Top Gear Australia - Date Announced

[TonyJZX]

Did Dave come up with the track layout? They do have the bus stop.

lol

this is probably quote of the day

way too many smart arse cunts here

[Dave]

Did Dave come up with the track layout? They do have the bus stop.

haha, nice.

That will be the highlight of your year, being from Canberra and all.

[Sicarius123]

[Zac]

James May got fired (infamously) from autocar for bagging them in some yearbook dealy many moons ago.

Sort of close.. It's on wikipedia.

[Sicarius123]

[12arx3]

I still think its getting better, but the presenters look unnatural and forced, especially Charlie Cox, some of his interviewing and other stuff is just painful to watch.
And I wish Steve would stop saying keeeelowatts, and start saying killerwatts.

[1uz-zte]

It's getting better. They can't drive too well though (for TG presenters).

[Defender]

Thats fucking gold .. top marks.

[TRAV-KE55]

When he is conducting an interveiw he keeps awkwardly looking up at the roof like he has the tele-promter thingy up there saying what to say.
I would have preffered to see sbs actually employ someone entertainging with a genuine interest instead of some half heard ofs!

[Zac]

Cox might not be well known in Aus but he is an ex-BTCC touring ca racer (ie can drive) and has been commentating on the BBC for many years, in media trade for many yrs. I've been listening to him commentate Moto GP for several years and I think he's pretty funny so give him a chance. He had to be the 'main' guy because he's the most experienced broadcaster, although perhaps not an actor like TG style demands a bit of.

[Puff_Datto]

aussie top gear fuckn is only 1/2 watchable.. thats my pissed thought for now

[Monk]

Yeah, that 'interview' with the singer wantabe dude was pretty painful to watch, what'isname keep trying to talk and the Cox just kept looking at the roof an throwing his hands in the air.

[GSRman]

I'm guessing they have told him that its TV not radio, so he needs to move around more.. probably feels stupider than it looks.

[BigMuz]

That autocar thing is friggen awesome. Hasn't hurt his career at all either which is good.

[S_E]

I still love reading the story with it, brilliant.

In an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2,[12] May confessed that he was fired in 1992 from Autocar magazine after putting together a hidden message in one issue. At the end of the year, the magazine's "Road Test Year Book" supplement was published. Each spread featured four car reviews and each review started with a large, red, drop capital letter. May's role was to put the entire supplement together, which "was extremely boring and took several months". He went on to say:

So I had this idea that if I re-edited the beginnings of all the little texts, I could make these red letters spell out a message through the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was to the effect that "You might think this is a really great thing, but if you were sitting here making it up you'd realise it's a real pain in the arse". It took me about two months to do it and on the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being "put to bed" and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something.

May's original message, punctuated appropriately, reads: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up. It's a real pain in the arse."