The Grand Tour.....

[bugeye_bob]

[RhynoCZ]

Watched it last night, it was a yet another TG/GT episode without the TG branding nor music. I still do not understand the hype behind the GT.

6/10 not bad, not excellent.
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[bugeye_bob]

[RhynoCZ]

[brains_t]

[Jayy]

What's not to like about giving them 3 £160million and saying, make a car show?

Always enjoyed TG and now it's basically back but bigger and better, happy days!

[Sun Wukong]

Cheers for the link Cansa, downloading now

I wonder what the Beeb can do about intellectual property?

Either way, will be good to see them do the same thing, but with occasional offended kittens.
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[Ribenapigeon]

I enjoyed all the digs at the BBC. Other than that it was just the same old stuff.

[DrSnoosnoo]

Without reading other posts I'll say:

Enjoyed it.

Can tell they're allowing the more "racy" comments, for example, saying Gypsies don't drive insured vehicles and the use of the swears(!!)

Not sure I like "The American" though. He should be silent and just smash a car around the eboladrome.
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[chris-red]

It was enjoyable certainly better than TG had been last series.
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[M.C]

[Suntan Sid]

[Sun Wukong]

Aye, just finished watching it.

Without the beeb on side, they couldn't have shot the intro as they did, or risked such blatant pisstaking.

Well put together, and clearly a big budget. Appealing to wider audience and a bit slapstick now, but the production is so high end now.
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[angryjonny]

It was good. Looking forward to the next 35.

This episode was, apart from the intro and some buffooning, very car oriented... clearly because they'd got the P1, 918 and LaFerrari together at last, quite a coup that they never managed on Top Gear. I get the impression that at least some of the future episodes will be less hyper-car comparison and more building or breaking weird machines, playing with toys etc. No "news" section as it's all filmed well in advance. No Star in a Reasonably Priced Car because the BBC own that. Obvs no Stig. BBC could probably drag them through the courts for any "unknown" racing driver concept.

Anyway, it had the chemistry (maybe alchemy) that their Top Gear had and LeBlanc's was woefully missing. I wonder how long it'll be before the Beeb give up on Top Gear. They didn't change it enough, was the problem. I can understand why they didn't want to throw away a winning formula, but the formula went with these three and Wilman.

Apologies for Tef post. TL;DR = "GT was everything LeBlanc's TG wasn't"

[Suntan Sid]

[Polarbear]

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Just watched it. Started off quite good then tailed off for me.

6/10, will watch again, but a bit over hyped for me.
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[M.C]

[Ribenapigeon]

The beeb should have a car show. It needs to go back to basics though, maybe a more straight forward review show with maybe some interesting techie and history stuff. Just make sure not to call it Top Gear

[Polarbear]

[Ribenapigeon]

[M.C]

Fifth gear was decent before they started trying to copy Top Gear. The presenters (Tiff/Vicky/Plato*) take themselves far too seriously though.

* presenters the last time I watched it

[Rogerborg]

[Ribenapigeon]

Fair cop for a straight revue show but the beeb needs to put TG in the rearview mirror and move on. Maybe do a show that's a broader transport themed idea, sort of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. There's always interest in anything that gets us from A to B. Get a few competent presenters like Mike Brewer and Henry Cole for nuts and bolts stuff then sling in a wild card like Dr Lucy Worsley for the softer social stuff. Cole could be off having a look at some nutty rally, Brewer taking a trip round a supercar factory then over to Dr L for a bit of design history of ocean liners or something. Make it a low key evening timeslot and just get on with it.

[Polarbear]