Charlie Cox - GONE!

[Frost]

http://carsguide.news.com.au/site/news- ... st_leaves/

If blowing your own trumpet is the key to success on television then James Morrison will be a winner for Top Gear in 2009.

The jazz star and major car enthusiast is the new host of the Aussie version of the TG down under after a major off-season shake-up.

Officially, former host Charlie Cox is returning "reluctantly" to the UK for "business reasons".

Unofficially, the whole TG on-air team has taken a hammering from critics who say the show lacks the spark of the British original.

Cox was never going to match Jeremy Clarkson, who has become a worldwide superstar, but he still struggled to be sharp or insightful. And his driving ability, reflected in a couple of Bathurst 1000 starts in the late 1980s, was never exploited for TG.

"It seems best to leave the show," Cox says.

Morrison cuts in alongside the surviving on-air talent, Warren Brown and Steve Pizzati, with a huge reputation - and not just as a jazz musician.

He has a personal car collection closing on 100 vehicles, was the presenter for a previous Aussie TV program, has raced and rallied - including a couple of massive forest crashes - and ridden motorcycles.

"This is going to be fun," says Morrison.

[purped]

ah now i will watch it

[CaRtZ]

who gives a F**k.... sh!t thread!

[ClassicAU]

should have got him on in the first place I recon!

[Malakai]

I haven't even watched one episode yet and they have changed a presenter. Meh I don't care. Sounds like they need someone to be outrageous, I don't think James Morrison will be that guy.

[Frost]

Craig Lowndes
Marcus Ambrose
Rick Kelly

Craig to be the Jeremy Clarkson
Marcus to be James may buy shit old cars
Rick Kelly to constantly get picked on about his shit driving ability, bad taste, squeey voice and lack of height

[Dezza]

Craig Lowndes
Marcus Ambrose
Rick Kelly

Craig to be the Jeremy Clarkson
Marcus to be James may buy shit old cars
Rick Kelly to constantly get picked on about his shit driving ability, bad taste, squeey voice and lack of height

I don't think Prick Kelly will ever be picked on about lack of height, only the other qualities. He's actually quite tall. He'd be far taller than you.

[Commando]

I think you should be a TGA host Frost. Then the whole of Australia can bag you, not just Boosted

[Frost]

I think you should be a TGA host Frost. Then the whole of Australia can bag you, not just Boosted

That would be so cool? Wanna ring em up and recommend me then.

[serial_fool]

I think you missed your chance frost, the applications stoped over 12 months ago. And I think even your super duper IGA entrepreneurism won't secure yourself a hosting gig on topgear.

[Frost]

Oh well shit happens.