Link has been around forever on the AVCon Forum, however....

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/st ... 29,00.html

The one in the middle's obviously our version of the Hamster, but which one's Captain Slow?

edible_hat wrote:The one in the middle's obviously our version of the Hamster, but which one's Captain Slow?

All of them.


No female presenter though.

asurin wrote:No female presenter though.

Well the closest the UK version came was Top Gear Dog.

I caved and bought the magazine. It's actually worth reading which is more than I can say for the other Australian motoring magazines.

Is it reprints of articles that appeared in the UK edition?

It's a mixture of imported and local ingredients.

They're the only decent thing left on TV, either way. Clarkson and Hammond, such a combo.

That Honda Civic certainly got a pasting last night. The BMW and Merc didn't fare too well either. Although the Alfa Romeo seemed to go over well. Even though it lost the race...to a guy walking through 2 miles of mud. That motor home race was a riot too.

BMW M5 Estate = I needed new underwear.... and some tissues.

Yeah, Clarkson's comment after testing that and the Merc was gold.

Hammond: So out of the Merc and the BMW, which one would you pick?
Clarkson: The Land Rover.

That Honda Civic is a disgrace. Who the hell makes a car that is inferior in speed, design, extras and handling?! The point of a new model is to improve on it! Not to go backwards...Chuck Norris, even The Stig thought it sucked. That supid car ended up in the bottom 10-15 for the time trial.

Last Exile wrote:That Honda Civic is a disgrace. Who the hell makes a car that is inferior in speed, design, extras and handling?! The point of a new model is to improve on it! Not to go backwards...Chuck Norris, even The Stig thought it sucked. That supid car ended up in the bottom 10-15 for the time trial.

A lot of cars are turning out like that today. One reason is strict safety equipment requirements, which adds weight and restricts the cars styling (MX5's pop-up lights are banned, for example)

An early 90's 300ZX TT is faster in a straight line than a top-of-the-line 350Z. The new 'GT-R', despite being 15 years its junior, and having an extra 1.0 liters to play with, is only moderately quicker on a track then an R32 GT-R

But with that being said, Shana-chan makes the same number of horsepowers and torques as a brand new Astra hatch.

Holden: 1
Nissan: -3

Last Exile wrote:That Honda Civic is a disgrace. Who the hell makes a car that is inferior in speed, design, extras and handling?!

*snip*

Bazza wrote:A lot of cars are turning out like that today. One reason is strict safety equipment requirements, which adds weight and restricts the cars styling

It is fortunate, really, that Honda designed the new Civic Type-R to the latest safety requirements, because the ultimate product of those enforced requirements is a car that is more likely to have an accident through sheer road-handling ineptitude.

Seriously, when that car turned, I thought Clarkson wouldn't be able to keep it on the road. And he was going at reasonable speeds at that point. And who was the wingnut that designed the seat?! A ratchet to move it back and forth and it resets to a crappy position, not to mention not giving enough room to sit in for half of the general population?! Honestly, the new Civic seems to be a perfect lesson of how NOT to build a car. And if new mandatory regulations for safety are making it worse than it was a few years ago, that kind of defeats the purpose. Or perhaps the engineers for this model were just scrubs.