Monday, July 17, 2006

For the second time on Australian TV

WARNING: SOME SUBJECTIVE OPINION AHEAD...

Well tonight saw the welcome return of the BBCs Top Gear. Yes the 2005 season is at long last being shown here on Australian screens - eventually I get my much needed dose of British motoring magazine TV. Tonight saw a the flash new Mercedes four door sports something or other (cool), a particularly ugly little Toyota ‘city car’, and a particularly ugly little Honda sport 4X4 type vehicle, designed apparently, for American males aged 22 without jobs but who can buy toy ‘SUV’ vehicles and demand a specific cubby hole in which to stow their iPod’s when driving. The interior was interesting, the upholstery was made from outdoor waterproof material and the floor was covered in rubber that you could hose down. I can only assume this was so due the possibility of people loosing their lunch when anywhere near it due to it’s abhorrent ugliness levels (whoops, a little bit of scathing subjectivity escaped there, it won’t happen again I promise). Jeremy Clarkson also pitted The Range Rover Sport against a Challenger II tank. Excellent stuff and what we have come to expect from the unbeatable, but often irrelevant, Top Gear. I will be glued to this for the next few weeks!

Anyway I have to go now and wath the last of the shuttle Discovery’s landing live on NASA TV.

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