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12-07-2008, 09:59 PM | #1 |
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From news.com.au: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-10229,00.html
FILMING of the Australian series of Top Gear has turned into a demolition derby with a repair bill close to $200,000. Eager driving and wild stunts have left a trail of destruction behind the Top Gear team that goes beyond the expected bill for bald tyres from slides and burnouts. Luxury cars have needed total resprays because of flying stones, and lesser brands have reported damage from silly stunts created for the SBS TV show, which is unofficially confirmed for a second series in 2009. Some of the most expensive repair bills involved a Lamborghini, which is believed to have sustained about $25,000 damage during filming, while a group of Holden Astras needed $30,000 to restore them after they were used in a game of "lawn bowls". "We have no appetite for automotive Jackass," the spokesman for one of the damaged brands said. "When they revisit series two, they will encounter a lot of shut doors," said another. "All we will say is that it turned out to be a very expensive test drive," said Holden spokeswoman Kate Lonsdale of the Astra bowls stunt. The show's producers failed to return the Herald Sun's phone calls. I will say that they must have been mad to not expect damage. but it's interesting to see the rumoured amounts.
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12-08-2008, 08:08 AM | #7 |
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^^ agreed. Just blatantly smashing up new cars is not warranted or funny.
The only examples I can think of where TopGear UK damaged new cars was the soccer game and the ice hockey game and in those instances the BBC had bought the cars. In every other case they smash up second-hand cars that they have clearly bought. (and the odd caravan...) If I was Holden I would have been royally pissed at getting the Astras back in that state.
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$200k isn't that much in the production of a tv show surely?
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$200,000 for some scatches that will just buff out! Ha!
But seriously, i wouldn't lend them a 1980 Brock Lada, yet alone a real car.
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My understanding after reading a few other articles on the topic is that the cars were just returned damaged and the car companies had to pay for the repairs. That would understandably piss them off.
No different than the 'customer' that took a new M3 from our testing centre here at BMW and returned it 8 hours later with €11k in damage including 4 bald tires and broken suspension.
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Apparently he took it to Spa and thrashed it. Dunno what he did to it to break the suspension but I guess it's not that hard to do if you treat it really badly.
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Um ... just watched Clarkson blow a tyre in a cloud of Bentley Brooklands smoke (series 11, ep 3). Damage to loaned cars goes with the territory on Top Gear, whether it be the UK original or the Australian version.
BTW, Warren Brown has responded to all this criticism in an interesting article in yesterday's Daily Telegraph: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001030,00.html
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