Top Gear

Top Gear is a high octane mix of performance cars, adrenalin, comedy and celebrities. It's the BBC motoring magazine that test drives and brutally appraises the world's most popular cars with startling honesty, along with celebrity laps, irreverent wraps and breathtaking stunts and driving.

Genre: Documentary

Upcoming showings:

Monday, December 8

Top Gear ‘Essex v Wales’

SBS

Top Gear - Australia Nope, sorry. A pretty piss poor rip off and imitation of the BBC series. Charlie is a pathetic Clarkeson imitation. Pizzati tries to hard to be the 'Hamster' and Brown is certainly no James May. Can't wait for the 8 Australian episodes to be over and then we can go back to the original and the best. SBS? What were they thinking? :-) Top Gear - UK. Thank God It's back. The original and the best.

pooley (1 post)
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 at 10:32PM

This Australian version is great. HALARIOWS! set this totally for series recording.

wintergiles (1 post)
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 at 8:50PM

At the risk of being a heretic, and after raving about Top Gear for many years, I'm starting to find it is getting stale. Same old Stig with silly intro, same basic formula. How many TV faces or supposed famous people can try to race a crappy car around the same track? And Hamster's suddenly got "bling"!

mayday (13 posts)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 at 11:03AM

The guys crack me up everytime

milessw (1 post)
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 at 6:55PM

I wonder what the Australian version of the show will be like?

matthew8582 (1 post)
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 at 4:37PM

... darn the Olympics!!

mayday (13 posts)
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 at 4:28PM

I have been watching Top Gear since late 1997 when I first saw it on Foxtel, in fact its the only reason I signed up for Foxtel back then ;-)

Richard Frost (1 post)
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 at 10:46PM

i still cant view sbs :(

3ontheway (2 posts)
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 at 11:16PM

I agree with the pexner!

Andrewax (2 posts)
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 at 2:47PM

Just love it. The best...

tedlandy (2 posts)
Mon, 9 Jun 2008 at 1:55PM

my reception wont get sbs :(

3ontheway (2 posts)
Wed, 14 May 2008 at 6:42PM

Granny's doing donuts was pretty good... but still my favourite was building the rocket!!!

mattk (9 posts)
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 at 9:09AM

After months of hearing people banging on about Top Gear... I finally sat down and watched an episode (last week's). Hillarious!!! what have I been doing all this time.

mattk (9 posts)
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 at 11:37AM

Keeping any show like this fresh is a challenge. If I hear anymore silly intros for "The Stig" I'll scream. It will be interesting to see if the producers can take it any further and make it better. Otherwise I reckon it will start to drop down the IWT "Most Popular" list. Oz version - gulp!!

mayday (13 posts)
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 at 5:25PM

Agreed. Clarkson is an offensive arrogant plonker though.. And surely this format is running a little thin? Gawd only knows what the Australian version will be like :)

dylanpenhale (3 posts)
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 at 5:49PM

And half the viewers are female. Must be hamster!!

mayday (13 posts)
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 at 2:11PM

I agree. Great show. I guess it's the #1 recorded show right now for a reason!

marc (36 posts)
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 at 2:41PM

even with 2 year old repeats, its the best show on...

pexner (1 post)
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 at 8:53PM