Nine’s Top Gear Ashes Special will see Brit hosts take on Aussies
Top Gear Australia is to launch with a special which sees the new Australian hosts face off against the British originals, Nine has revealed.
The announcement:
Top Gear: The Ashes Special will be 90 minutes of fuel-injected motoring and mates mucking about.
Good god Channel 9 – who does your research?
The Peel never came in electric form and is known as the Peel Trident or the Peel P50 strictly speaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_P50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Trident
Top Gear have never let facts get in the way of a good story. Nearly every episode they make an error with their car facts. But still an entertaining show (the UK Version at least. I haven’t watched an Australia Top Gear for a looooong time. Chalk and cheese.)
Mike Boyd – you need to get YOUR facts right, buddy. The Peel P50 IS electric.
Probably best to stay indoors with the lights off if you’re going to bag someone about getting their facts right when your source is the unimpeachable Wikipedia…
Big Fish – The “…infamous 1960s electric car called The Peel.” was never electric. It was powered by a small 2 stroke petrol engine – which came from DKW – part of the Volkswagen Group. A couple of investors bought Peel Engineering recently and are making electric REPLICAS of the P50. Suggest you be a little more thorough next time you decide to comment on automotive topics.
OMG!!! I’m totally jacked up 4 this, I don’t care who wins (even though I’m an Aussie born Chinese, I still like the poms, I’m in the middle, LOL!). It’ll be awesome to see who comes out on top of it all.
good luck to all of you!
Aussie Diggers, bring it home for Australia, Do your best, we are proud of you!
And to you boys in the UK, make your motherland proud, bring it home for Your Majesty the Queen. God Save her!
(*War cry from the Spartans from the 300 movie*)
The ORIGINAL production Peel P50 (from 1963 – how many electric cars were around in 1963??) was NOT electric; it had a 50cc two-stroke moped engine. In fact the guys that are making the electric replicas got a startup investment from one of the fellas on the BBC show “Dragon’s Den.” Get YOUR facts right, “Big Fish.” I realize I am just regurgitating what Mike Boyd said, but you really do need to do your research first.