dunxy Im glad there is some people sticking up for this show here.At the same time i am saddened by all the bashing and comparison to TG UK by these "armchair" critics.Do you have any comprehension if the budget per EP for TG UK? Its either 1 or 2 MILLION UKP per ep! I doubt you will find ANY Australian show with such a budget, especially not on a channel like SBS! On the same note, the amount of footage that ends up on the cutting room floor for TG UK is as astronomical as the budget, its like 100 or 200:1 For those that do not understand that means for every one minute of footage aired there is over 100 minutes shot, this all costs money and is HUGELY relevant to the quality of the show.To put it simply SBS do not, and most likely never will have the time,money or resources to so what the BBC do for TG UK, so to compare the two is HUGELY unfair.I agree our Top Gear is not anything flash just yet, but i have seen a lot worse shows on Aussie TV. Im sure given some time for the cast,crew and writers to all get used to the job it will improve, and hopefully some advertising income will increase production values.I have no doubt the vast majority of the current budget is being spent just to secure the rights to use the name.Lots of room for improvement yes, but please don't bash it so much and give it a chance. And as hard as it is don's try to put it up against the mega budget UK incarnation, its just not fair.

Nick Ward When Top Gear Australia was announced, my immediate reaction was that it would be great to have something covering the side of motoring that Top Gear UK doesn't. When the first episode aired, it was all I could do to stop myself marching in protest against SBS.Rather than try to be unique and entertaining, TGA has instead tried to convince us that we're still watching the UK series. Presenters were chosen to be poor replicas of the originals rather than finding truly funny people. They even try to use all the same jokes and catchphrases. It's only a matter before they start ending with "on that bombshell..." The first episode, featuring a review of soft road cars, had real potential. Here was something incredibly Australian, but it was done so badly that I'm almost ashamed to admit it. Then they tried to copy the Stig intro... and failed. Still, I reserved judgment to give them another chance at it with the second episode.Again there's something very Australian: Ford vs Holden. An ongoing Australian battle. Yet they seemed more interested in drifting than driving. Yes, we know you can drift with them, but try to review something more than just their tarmac performance. The "Best Ute" feature was actually mildly entertaining; watched with the terrible presenters muted and it would have been a good feature.The problem with this show isn't that there's nothing to review, it's that they're trying too hard to copy a brilliant series with far superior presenters.

LoveBritishMen The first thing that sprung to mind within the first couple of minutes while watching this was that the program was trying way to hard to impress Top Gear fans. I mean sure, it is a daunting task to take on the duty and try to outdo the fabulous UK version but please! enough already.The problem is that nothing was fresh, inventive. There was no new material, no new sets and no new personalities that would've, obviously, added much needed variety to the Australian show. It seems the BBC have tried to fool the public into believing that the great Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond can be easily replaced by a bunch of dull gits and everything would be great. How wrong they were! Where was the Australian wit? The individuality? The humour?! *Yawn* B-O-R-I-N-G. The segments were pathetic and over dramatized and for the love of God, shut Steve Pizzati up! Put us out of our misery BBC and run this down with a Geewiz and bring back the UK Top Gear pronto!

Dick K Tonight on SBS saw the debut of the local version of the hit U.K motor show Top Gear.I'm a big fan of Top Gear. I love the antics of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May oh I should mention The Stig as well. I love the fun segments and especially and this is the key here I love the sense of humor of the show. You see the main reason the UK Top Gear is so popular is because of the personalties and the wit of the hosts.Top Gear Australia has none of that. The hosts of TGA (Charlie Cox, Warren Brown & Steve Pizzati) have no charisma and have the sense of humor of a office manager. Plus they trying too hard to be like Clarkson, Hammond and May with embarrassing results. SBS has put a lot of money into this show and left out the main ingredient on what made the UK version popular. I knew they would do this. I just knew that some suit at the network said 'Hey that car show is popular lets make our own version. It will be great cause it has Aussie cars and content and we will measure in Kilowatts' without sitting down to watch the original.The U.S have done the right thing and have the UK crew film exclusive content just for them (With a lot of fat jokes I'm guessing). What SBS has done have taken a show and lot of people liked and what they have done is made a piece of junk that no one really asked for in the first place. A disaster.I can imagine Jeremy Clarkson seeing this show and making fun of it in the latest season of the UK Top Gear (To air in Australia sometime in 2022) A huge thumbs down.