Nine’s Top Gear Ashes Special will see Brit hosts take on Aussies
Top Gear Australia is to launch with a special which sees the new Australian hosts face off against the British originals, Nine has revealed.
The announcement:
Top Gear: The Ashes Special will be 90 minutes of fuel-injected motoring and mates mucking about.
In this special episode our three Aussie hosts – Shane Jacobson, Ewen Page and Steve Pizzati – travel to the UK to take on the mighty British Top Gear team of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. Will our Aussie boys come out on top or will they come home with their tails between their legs?
The boys will be up to their usual antics, and the Aussies will go head-to-head with the Poms in some tougher than usual challenges. For example, our team will race a classic Aussie ute against a British delivery van driven by the UK lads.
Our boys speed through the Isle of Man, which has no speed limits, in a range of specialised British super cars, including an Ariel Atom, a Radical and a very rare Ginetta. These cars are what speed demons dream about.
Then, in typical Top Gear fashion, the guys set out across the UK in the worst British cars ever made. One is the infamous 1960s electric car called The Peel. As the boys drive off they find themselves in a very tricky situation in a safari park. Steve Pizzati gets a little too up close and personal with a rhino when it charges his car. Who comes out of this the winner, the rhino or The Peel?
Armed with British motoring knowledge, our three Aussie hosts return to the middle of England to face off against the UK Top Gear hosts. Challenges include a drag race, sheep herding, a rally, and an upside-down car race.
The Brits and the Aussies have been rivals for well over a century since the Ashes cricket series began. Clarkson, May and Hammond up against Jacobson, Page and Pizzati cements the bitter rivalry between the two sport and car-loving nations. Will our boys bring the Top Gear urn back home and beat the pants off the motherland?
Top Gear Australia will launch full-throttle after the Commonwealth Games.
Top Gear Australia is a Freehand production for the Nine Network and BBC Worldwide.
Source: Nine press release
Good god Channel 9 – who does your research?
The Peel never came in electric form and is known as the Peel Trident or the Peel P50 strictly speaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_P50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Trident
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Top Gear have never let facts get in the way of a good story. Nearly every episode they make an error with their car facts. But still an entertaining show (the UK Version at least. I haven’t watched an Australia Top Gear for a looooong time. Chalk and cheese.)
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Mike Boyd – you need to get YOUR facts right, buddy. The Peel P50 IS electric.
Probably best to stay indoors with the lights off if you’re going to bag someone about getting their facts right when your source is the unimpeachable Wikipedia…
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Big Fish – The “…infamous 1960s electric car called The Peel.” was never electric. It was powered by a small 2 stroke petrol engine – which came from DKW – part of the Volkswagen Group. A couple of investors bought Peel Engineering recently and are making electric REPLICAS of the P50. Suggest you be a little more thorough next time you decide to comment on automotive topics.
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OMG!!! I’m totally jacked up 4 this, I don’t care who wins (even though I’m an Aussie born Chinese, I still like the poms, I’m in the middle, LOL!). It’ll be awesome to see who comes out on top of it all.
good luck to all of you!
Aussie Diggers, bring it home for Australia, Do your best, we are proud of you!
And to you boys in the UK, make your motherland proud, bring it home for Your Majesty the Queen. God Save her!
(*War cry from the Spartans from the 300 movie*)
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The ORIGINAL production Peel P50 (from 1963 – how many electric cars were around in 1963??) was NOT electric; it had a 50cc two-stroke moped engine. In fact the guys that are making the electric replicas got a startup investment from one of the fellas on the BBC show “Dragon’s Den.” Get YOUR facts right, “Big Fish.” I realize I am just regurgitating what Mike Boyd said, but you really do need to do your research first.
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