Comments on: Top Gear Australia ‘Pinky’ anti-ad

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:22:19 +0000

“…but if this ad is anything to go by – the humour at least should be spot on for the local take on the UK icon.”

Pity the ad is for the magazine – not the TV show.

While the Aussie TV version will no doubt initially prove a success it will not be able to compete with its British counterpart.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:56:56 +0000

very funny ad what song is playin?

By: Bobulon

Bobulon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:43:46 +0000

ACP are doing a weird thing by publishing the TG magazine as you can see from Richo’s comment. Motor is also an ACP magazine. They are competing with themselves.

By: ZANDIT

ZANDIT — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:52:48 +0000

great ad!!Andy, LOL!! maybe he should get that growth looked at!!!

By: Richo

Richo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:44:14 +0000

just had a quick flick through the mag which i bought a few hours ago. So far? It’s good enough that i’ll buy next months issue too, but its not quite good enoug that i will stop buying motor

By: No Name

No Name — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:55:56 +0000

Ace – I can’t stop laughing.
I never buy the UK Mag its too gung ho performance orientated.

By: Foggy

Foggy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:22:24 +0000

For the record…. I’ll never sell my PVR, the wife would divorce me if I did! ;-)

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:47:37 +0000

That’s a great ad! British Top Gear will still be better because of Jeremy Clarkson though.
(haha Crouchy) No foggy, I’m not interested in buying your PVR either…

By: crouchy

crouchy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:43:32 +0000

Hey foggy, was that a comment or an ad for your pvr?

By: ross

ross — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:34:51 +0000

@ Andy

haha yess prosthetic pinkys sound bloody awesome

By: Richo

Richo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:29:40 +0000

heh i didn’t think there was anything particularly wrong with the original ad, it got the message out that no one is impressed with someone who can do a burnout on a suburban road, which is fair enough really. I’m a massive fan of fast cars and going fast generally, but burnouts? just not all that impressive really.. you can do them in a hyundai excel! Infact one of the best I ever did when i was younger was in my mitsubishi express work van!

By: RockafellaQEistein

RockafellaQEistein — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:39:12 +0000

Great piss Take,
Regarding the original – when you can not come up with a cohesive argument for something revert to name calling – no credibility
Everyone knows that doing 15kmh over on an empty freeway isn’t going to hurt anyone and on the flip side doing the speed limit when it is pouring with rain isn’t safe –
Talk to your Local MP people

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:52:02 +0000

LOL!! the mag should come with free prosthetics of that giant little pinky! How funny would that be!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:29:59 +0000

LOL very good.

By: lolcake?

lolcake? — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:46:56 +0000

Saw this last night and nearly fell out of my seat!!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:09 +0000

This is serious competition for Motor

maybe they will have to start removing the useless bits and giving us more content we want.

By: UrbanGTB

UrbanGTB — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:13:47 +0000

Hahaha, that is a great advertisement! I agree Richo, if the humor on the new series of Australian Top Gear is like that it will be a cracker!

By: Richo

Richo — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:36:48 +0000

hey i didn’t know they where doing an australian version of the magazine, i thought just the TV show! I’ll probably have to go down the newso and have a squiz

By: Foggy

Foggy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:01:41 +0000

I saw this ad running during the “Test Drive” program on Channel Nein today. Needlesstosay, the wife was wondering what all the laughter was about, so I replayed the ad for her using the chaseplay on my PVR…. and she didn’t get it!

There’s proof of how effective the RTA’s “pinky” campaign really is. :-D

By: ross

ross — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:04:58 +0000

ohh god thats hilarious

i like the rta muck up ad on youtube as well

they didnt plan that ad well
waste of money if u ask me they couldm have done something more effective like put all p platers through some skilled drivers course