The Grand Tour

[Calza]

V8 Animal said:

Is it me or are the sound levels all over the place?
I turn it up for outside broadcasts and down for the tent stuff.

No I'm getting this too. The sound production values seem st for this show.

[Matthen]

Borroxs said:

God that Bently was fast!

Wouldn't have one even if I was rich, but it was fast.

Surprised how slow in comparison the Jag was.

The jag is massively good value of money in comparison, but when I see them on the road, they don't look as good as when I see them in photos. I can't remember any other car doing this for me. It's usually the other way around.

I couldn't believe how much slower the Range Rover was - only 140 mph from a 5L V8, and an age behind the Bentley in the drag race. That thing must weigh an incredible amount.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Calza said:

V8 Animal said:

Is it me or are the sound levels all over the place?
I turn it up for outside broadcasts and down for the tent stuff.

No I'm getting this too. The sound production values seem st for this show.

It's a 5.1/DTS soundtrack which is superb with the right setup.

[Martin_Hx]

Matthen said:

Borroxs said:

God that Bently was fast!

Wouldn't have one even if I was rich, but it was fast.

Surprised how slow in comparison the Jag was.

The jag is massively good value of money in comparison, but when I see them on the road, they don't look as good as when I see them in photos. I can't remember any other car doing this for me. It's usually the other way around.

I couldn't believe how much slower the Range Rover was - only 140 mph from a 5L V8, and an age behind the Bentley in the drag race. That thing must weigh an incredible amount.

Gearing

[Durzel]

Buffalo said:

Agreed. What I thought the show was going to entail because of rent per location and what it did = 2 very different things. What's the point of going to a location to show segments from elsewhere?

Yeah, at this point the tent just seems arbitrary. It might as well be a regular building for all of the relevance it has.

It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense really, unless I'm missing something obvious. TG had a fixed location studio, and their segments were all over the place. TGT has a ostensibly mobile studio and their segments are.. all over the place. Beyond mentioning a backdrop and a few in-jokes for the locals I'm not sure what the tent brings to the table?

[Ste1987]

Durzel said:

Buffalo said:

Agreed. What I thought the show was going to entail because of rent per location and what it did = 2 very different things. What's the point of going to a location to show segments from elsewhere?

Yeah, at this point the tent just seems arbitrary. It might as well be a regular building for all of the relevance it has.

It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense really, unless I'm missing something obvious. TG had a fixed location studio, and their segments were all over the place. TGT has a ostensibly mobile studio and their segments are.. all over the place. Beyond mentioning a backdrop and a few in-jokes for the locals I'm not sure what the tent brings to the table?

The opportunity for overseas fans of CHM to see them goof about in the flesh?

[bodhi]

Ste1987 said:

Durzel said:

Buffalo said:

Agreed. What I thought the show was going to entail because of rent per location and what it did = 2 very different things. What's the point of going to a location to show segments from elsewhere?

Yeah, at this point the tent just seems arbitrary. It might as well be a regular building for all of the relevance it has.

It doesn't really make a whole lot of sense really, unless I'm missing something obvious. TG had a fixed location studio, and their segments were all over the place. TGT has a ostensibly mobile studio and their segments are.. all over the place. Beyond mentioning a backdrop and a few in-jokes for the locals I'm not sure what the tent brings to the table?

The opportunity for overseas fans of CHM to see them goof about in the flesh?

Just appears to me to be an attempt to mix old Top Gear and Top Gear Live - I'm guessing Amazon schedules haven't given them enough time to keep up the Live show.

The tent doesn't bother me too much - it would be nice if they did more films in the same location as the tent, but as it is it's something a big different, and you do get a bit of a local flavour as it is. Most of the people visiting the tent seem to have enjoyed themselves.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Durzel said:

Yeah, at this point the tent just seems arbitrary. It might as well be a regular building for all of the relevance it has.

BBC lawyers notwithstanding, of course.

[Zingari]

Having watched most of these, fortunatley using fast-forward for most I've come to the conlusion, despite perservering to give them a chance, this is complete shoite

[DoctorX]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Durzel said:

Yeah, at this point the tent just seems arbitrary. It might as well be a regular building for all of the relevance it has.

BBC lawyers notwithstanding, of course.

Not allowed to host in a static location it says here:

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/gt-special/jeremy-c...

[johnxjsc1985]

last episode of the series tonight looking forward to seeing it.

[silent ninja]

johnxjsc1985 said:

last episode of the series tonight looking forward to seeing it.

Let's hope it's the last one ever of this drivel

[johnxjsc1985]

silent ninja said:

Let's hope it's the last one ever of this drivel

here we go again. it like fkin groundhog day with these people

[suffolk009]

silent ninja said:

Let's hope it's the last one ever of this drivel

Here we go again. It's like groundhog day....

[RicksAlfas]

I've an idea. Why don't they have the tent at a racetrack in a different country each week. Doesn't have to be a fulll blown F1 track, but somewhere half decent. They use that track for testing the feature car/s that week with a local race driver. Gets rid of the Eboladrome and The American. They can feature some nationally built cars each week - the owners clubs would love this - and it justifies hauling the tent around the place. The rest of the programme can be as it is.

[jbudgie]

silent ninja said:

johnxjsc1985 said:

last episode of the series tonight looking forward to seeing it.

Let's hope it's the last one ever of this drivel

But you will carry on watching won't you ?

[wolfracesonic]

I haven't got Prime so haven't been watching but I just saw the Holy Trinity episode at my neighbours with the AM Vulcan: Is the track they timed the Vulcan on the one they use all the time? It looked little more than the exit road for a retail park.

[Register1]

RicksAlfas said:

I've an idea. Why don't they have the tent at a racetrack in a different country each week. Doesn't have to be a fulll blown F1 track, but somewhere half decent. They use that track for testing the feature car/s that week with a local race driver. Gets rid of the Eboladrome and The American. They can feature some nationally built cars each week - the owners clubs would love this - and it justifies hauling the tent around the place. The rest of the programme can be as it is.

[Register1]

RicksAlfas said:

I've an idea. Why don't they have the tent at a racetrack in a different country each week. Doesn't have to be a fulll blown F1 track, but somewhere half decent. They use that track for testing the feature car/s that week with a local race driver. Gets rid of the Eboladrome and The American. They can feature some nationally built cars each week - the owners clubs would love this - and it justifies hauling the tent around the place. The rest of the programme can be as it is.

Good idea.

Like one week at Oulton, then at Snetterton, then some French, German, Italian tracks.

Keep them reasonable close, so we can pop over from Blighty

[Mike335i]

It is a mixed bag but I like it. Beats the hell of off whatever reality nonsense is in the actual telly. Some of our kids actually really good.