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Irish Top Gear

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  • #2
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    you know there is an Irish show coming out... http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/tv3-reaches-top-gear-with-new-car-show-it-hopes-will-accelerate-advertising-sales-1861931.html


  • #3
    CharlieCroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,450 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    steve06 wrote: »
    you know there is an Irish show coming out... http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/tv3-reaches-top-gear-with-new-car-show-it-hopes-will-accelerate-advertising-sales-1861931.html
    Ya, a showjumping expert presenting a car show. Seems like the natural choice to me!!!!!!


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It'll be interesting if Rachel Wyse can be as entertaining as the guys from TG.


  • #5
    smash
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    Magnus wrote: »
    It'll be interesting if Rachel Wyse can be as entertaining as the guys from TG.
    If she can't present properly... just turn off the sound and still watch!


  • #6
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Apparently there was one on RTE years ago that Prat Kenny produced. Anyone remember that or know anything more about it?


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  • #7
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    steve06 wrote: »
    you know there is an Irish show coming out... http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/tv3-reaches-top-gear-with-new-car-show-it-hopes-will-accelerate-advertising-sales-1861931.html

    I think they are wasting their time for the following reasons:

    A: They wont be able to get their hands on hyper/super cars
    B: They have a section about big machines?????
    C: They are Irish. No one in the UK will watch an Irish made show that rivals with Top Gear.

    Don't get me wrong, I wish them luck. But Ireland is not the country for such a show.

    People here don't have the love and passion for cars that they have in the UK. People with money here only buy BMW's, Merc's and Audi's. and even at that they buy the biggest "base model" they can afford.

    If these guys get passed 1 season I'll be very surprised


  • #8
    smash
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    R.O.R wrote: »
    Apparently there was one on RTE years ago that Prat Kenny produced. Anyone remember that or know anything more about it?
    I can't remember the name, but it was totally useless!


  • #9
    CharlieCroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,450 ✭✭✭CharlieCroker


    Was it "Drive"??? the one with thatracing driver bird, Sarah something and Karl something or other, Canadian guy


  • #10
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    steve06 wrote: »
    you know there is an Irish show coming out... http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/tv3-reaches-top-gear-with-new-car-show-it-hopes-will-accelerate-advertising-sales-1861931.html
    The Youtube clip is probably better produced ;)


  • #11
    mike65
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    Karl Tsigigosisus


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  • #12
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    Was it "Drive"??? the one with thatracing driver bird, Sarah something and Karl something or other, Canadian guy

    Think that was TG4 and fairly recent. Most of the interesting motors in that were based NI.


  • #13
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    Was it "Drive"??? the one with thatracing driver bird, Sarah something and Karl something or other, Canadian guy
    Bingo!


  • #14
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Drive was one of the worst (if not THE worst) motoring shows I have ever watched...

    Every week they reviewed base model cars

    Mondeo LX etc.

    The cars didn't even have alloy wheels!
    HUBCAPS!

    and they never once reviewed a high performance car.

    waste of time
    waste of money
    waste of space


  • #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It was an accurate reflection of the market in 1994 tbf


  • #16
    Wertz
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Karl Tsigigosisus

    Tsigdinos.

    Terrible programme...


  • #17
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I was closer than I thought. :)


  • #18
    mondeo
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    Drive! Ha I remember that rubbish, it was painfully bad with monotone presenters.. "Now this Fiesta Lx is a good car for driving to superquinn in"

    The best car they ever reviewed was an Mr2 with 120hp, sarah the racing driver whatever her name was kept referring to it as the best thing since sliced bread. Surprised she could fit in it, she must have been 6ft6 built like a man. Such an oddball collection of characters on that show.
    They had a magazine out for a few years later but have no idea if it still exists.

    Rubbish show


  • #19
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    was it not drive that reviewed a dodge viper??
    in a wine colour with white stripes, i remember it was filmed driving down the quays in dublin, i dont know where they got it from though:confused:


  • #20
    mike65
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    The only reviews I remember was when Karl Tsigdinos was wearing a purple Toyota town car that was basically a cube with wheels and a Lambo Tractor. Yes, they reviewed tractors.


  • #21
    RedorDead
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    Conor Twomey on this show wasnt bad in NewCar magazine - just wonder how he will transfer to screen.

    If they do get any "exotica" expect lots of adverts for Des Cullen or Richford etc etc


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  • #22
    Wertz
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    I recall them doing a Dodge Ram 1500...this was long before anyone had even heard of a tiger economy.
    The thing wouldn't even fit down the roads they were driving on.


  • #23
    VolvoMan
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    mondeo wrote: »
    They had a magazine out for a few years later but have no idea if it still exists.

    It does indeed: http://www.drivemagazine.ie/

    Don't know how it survives though as it's barely stocked in any shops at all.


  • #24
    hi_sir
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    CharlieCroker wrote: »
    Was it "Drive"??? the one with thatracing driver bird, Sarah something and Karl something or other, Canadian guy


    its was a very poor effort at a car programme,your wan was no stig and that canadian dude was pure rubbish had no clue about cars


    TG4 had a go at this a few years ago Eugeen ferry form donegal that rally's a 2.4 escort and Brid deery that presents on the limits sport used present the programme


  • #25
    rabbitinlights
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    I think with Firth Gear gone now (Last series was awful) there is space for a "real" car show, not just an entertaining program that has car's in it.

    I think the lads from EVO & Autocar magazines would do a great job. Their web-videos are pretty much the best car "prorgrams" out there.

    S.


  • #26
    BanyaIreland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭BanyaIreland


    They also produce this

    www.edrive.ie

    Ireland's first free monthly digital car magazine.

    To date Drive are the only title in Ireland to produce a TV show to reach a mass market. That's quite an achievement considering all the competition from UK owned car magazines available here in Eire.

    When it was aired on RTE the audience was one of the highest they had reaching very high numbers weekly.

    Top Gear is one of a kind, class entertainment a real wild ride.

    I can't see how anyone can compete with an audience of however many hundred million viewers that Top Gear has.The BBC have megabucks to produce shows and better still NO ADVERTS unlike Ireland.


  • #27
    L1011
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    Drive was extremely similar to what Top Gear was like at the time, people seem to forget that it also reviewed Mondeo LXs before the relaunch...


  • #28
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    While we're talkin' online magazine's how does www.imotors.ie match up?


  • #29
    VolvoMan
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Drive was extremely similar to what Top Gear was like at the time, people seem to forget that it also reviewed Mondeo LXs before the relaunch...

    I actually prefer seeing Mondeo LX's being reviewed rather than boring Ferrari's that will be an unrealistic ownership proposition for about ninety per-cent of the country.


  • #30
    L1011
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    VolvoMan wrote: »
    I actually prefer seeing Mondeo LX's being reviewed rather than boring Ferrari's that will be an unrealistic ownership proposition for about ninety per-cent of the country.

    So does my father. But he doesn't use boards and has never driven a Volvo so I'm going to assume he's not you :p


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  • #31
    kaizer_soze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭kaizer_soze


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    While we're talkin' online magazine's how does www.imotors.ie match up?

    iMotors doesn't even work. I tried it on 4 computers and the thing doesn't load properly. It takes ages to load up then it breaks down all the time. eDrive from the Drive (www.drivemagazine.ie) stable works and looks pretty good. They could do with more videos on it though.


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