AFTER LAST WEEK’S episode delivered a mild upswing in viewers for season two of the love-it-or-hate-it Top Gear Australia, hopes were high that this week’s episode (the second last for season two) would build upon episode six’s ratings rebound.

Alas, no, it was not to be. While episode six managed to get 550,000 pairs of eyeballs [...]

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SIX DOWN, two to go. We’re now three-quarters of the way through season two of Top Gear Australia, and finally the show seems to have arrested its ratings slide.

Monday’s episode drew in 550,000 viewers and ranked 31 nationally - a moderate improvement over last week’s 545,000 viewers and number 32 ranking.

It’s not an enormous resurgence [...]

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WE HAD SUCH high hopes for Top Gear Australia when season two began last month, now it appears it’s rapidly heading down the same path as season one.

National viewership for last night’s episode was a measly 545,000, with the program ranking at number 32 nationally.

TGA’s season two ratings have been in steady decline since the [...]

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LAST TIME we took a look at the ratings for the latest series of Top Gear Australia, the prognosis wasn’t good. Now it’s even worse.

The first and second episodes of season two pulled in 689,000 and 628,000 viewers respectively, however hopes were high that quality would improve and viewership would bounce back. It largely hasn’t, [...]

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So, Top Gear Aus is back with a little more polish and a new host. It seems the general consensus is that quality is slightly improved over last season, but what do the ratings say?

Well, the numbers are in and episode one of season two came in at number 25 nationally with 689,000 viewers. Episode [...]

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Mercedes-Benz has always enjoyed a reputation for building some of the world’s safest cars. The performance of the latest C-Class in the US-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ‘occupant protection test’ certainly backs up that rep.

The IIHS awarded top marks to Benz’s smallest sedan in frontal, side and rear impacts, and judged it to be [...]

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It was always going to be a tough gig, that’s a fact. We all know that sequels are generally rubbish, (with the obvious exception of Die Hard of course…), books are usually better than the movie and re-makes rarely live up to the original. Making a colonial version of the world’s most popular motoring show, [...]

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Renault has announced that its all-new Koleos will soon be available from Australian showrooms, bringing along its own unique Gallic flavour to the SUV segment.

The Koleos is Renault’s first 4×4 crossover vehicle and was developed jointly between Renault, Nissan and Samsung Motors, making the mid-size SUV French in name only. Still, if you were never [...]

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The myth that SUV’s were somehow safer than the average well engineered sedan was debunked years ago and its been continually proven through crash testing that SUV’s are not always the best place to be in the event of an accident…until now. The latest crop of compact SUV’s are rewriting the rule book, with many [...]

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With Ford Australia getting close to the release of the Mondeo in this country the results from the latest round of Euro NCAP safety testing will be music to Ford executive ears with their new Mondeo earning a 5-star rating for adult occupant protection.

The test result for Mondeo was one of the top 10 [...]

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American Denny Mooney is set to leave GM Holden in August of this year. Mooney is moving back to the US to take up the role of vice president of global vehicle systems and integration. He will be based in Detroit, Michigan.

Mooney has been at the helm of Holden long enough to preside over the [...]

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2008 CORVETTE: ICONIC SPORTS CAR RECEIVES LARGER, MORE POWERFUL LS3 6.2L V-8 AND HOST OF DRIVING, INTERIOR REFINEMENTS
Get comfortable. There’s so much new and exciting with the 2008 Corvette that you’ll want to grab a hot drink, sidle up to your computer screen and absorb all the details.
The changes involve everything from an all-new, larger [...]

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