The Grand Tour
Discussion
Janluke said:
I hope the Jag episode is seen as the low point of this series & that things can only get better from now on - I found it utterly pathetic & plain dull. After all, this is supposedly a car programme showcasing the latest & greatest, none of which were present last week.Trailer looks interesting, lets hope they're not just showing the good bits.....
Biker 1 said:
I hope the Jag episode is seen as the low point of this series & that things can only get better from now on - I found it utterly pathetic & plain dull. After all, this is supposedly a car programme showcasing the latest & greatest, none of which were present last week.
Trailer looks interesting, lets hope they're not just showing the good bits.....
Literally goes to show you cannot please all of the people all of the time. Trailer looks interesting, lets hope they're not just showing the good bits.....
Biker 1 said:
I hope the Jag episode is seen as the low point of this series & that things can only get better from now on - I found it utterly pathetic & plain dull. After all, this is supposedly a car programme showcasing the latest & greatest, none of which were present last week.
Trailer looks interesting, lets hope they're not just showing the good bits.....
It's no such thing, the presenters openly describe it as not really a car programme at all (thankfully). I didn't think the Jag bit was a patch on their previous cheap car challenges but I'd far rather they did more stuff like that than endless reviews of 'the latest and greatest', i.e. supercars in which I have no interest.Trailer looks interesting, lets hope they're not just showing the good bits.....
I thought the trailer looked interesting, in-flight refueling of cars is an amusing idea though I guarantee there'll be a slightly contrived fire incident.
I like *both* the hypercar stuff and the pieces like the three men in jags. The trailer looks great. I love Lancias (it's a tragedy that FCA have let the brand die) and the Lamborghini has had fantastic reviews.
The only bit I don't have time for is F-ace off. At least with brain crash we didn't get to have to listen to the boring up their arse celebs.
Simon
The only bit I don't have time for is F-ace off. At least with brain crash we didn't get to have to listen to the boring up their arse celebs.
Simon
simonrockman said:
I like *both* the hypercar stuff and the pieces like the three men in jags. The trailer looks great. I love Lancias (it's a tragedy that FCA have let the brand die) and the Lamborghini has had fantastic reviews.
The only bit I don't have time for is F-ace off. At least with brain crash we didn't get to have to listen to the boring up their arse celebs.
Simon
Fast Fwd. I do.The only bit I don't have time for is F-ace off. At least with brain crash we didn't get to have to listen to the boring up their arse celebs.
Simon
Giving the second series a chance. Just watched the lunch time race series. Thoroughly enjoyed that. The rest has been okay. I enjoyed the Switzerland bit because I want to go to Lucerne the rest of it was a poor imitation of a couple of old TG episode with some badly acted poorly scripted jokes. I enjoyed the Ford GT because I love the car and NYC. Rest was meh.
It's not a "car show" and it's not reality. I know Jeremy says "... and in our car show tonight..." but there are some emotionally dispossessed opinions on here that think it's meant to be some sort of empirical research-based car review programme. It's not and hasn't been for many, many years. I enjoyed the Jaaaaag silliness (the mk10 toolkit was great banter and very funny) and the mild peril on the downhil runs and the Clarkson/May missed objective at the end where they walked off the piste anyway was amusing and well delivered including the obvious "crash". Expected and delivered... I'm glad they're still making this stuff.
Edited by checkmate91 on Thursday 18th January 19:54
Did anyone else pick up on the license plates on the cars? The California 7xxxxxx plate only started in 2011 and those cars were all older than that. I wonder if they just stuck a random plate on them? I couldn't make out any letter/number combination that meant anything...
420: 4QPJ052 - that one is much older on the old Jag, but not THAT old. The 7 digit plates only started in 1980.
XJ8: 7WYZ680
XK8: 7RBJ569
XJ: 7WYZ607
XJS: FOV-805 (Colorado plate, don't know how that system works)
420: 4QPJ052 - that one is much older on the old Jag, but not THAT old. The 7 digit plates only started in 1980.
XJ8: 7WYZ680
XK8: 7RBJ569
XJ: 7WYZ607
XJS: FOV-805 (Colorado plate, don't know how that system works)
DanielSan said:
AJB88 said:
I did until I realised it was staged, the blue LCR belongs to SEAT UK press fleet.
How many people think this was real and they just plucked a load of people from work on their dinner hour?? 1. There were too many decent cars
2. There were too many competent drivers
3. "Binned it"
4. The finale had plenty of overtaking
5. Did you see that M3 drift?
Didn't stop me enjoying it and thinking what our work lunch time racing would be like.
t.Gary29 said:
Can't believe there are still people watching this and are shocked when they found out something is 'staged'....it's a TV programme FFS!
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A friend of mine genuinely thought that Michael Schumacher was the Stig, from the old TG episode where they suggested it was..
I didn't correct him.
MOBB said:
Gary29 said:
Can't believe there are still people watching this and are shocked when they found out something is 'staged'....it's a TV programme FFS!
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A friend of mine genuinely thought that Michael Schumacher was the Stig, from the old TG episode where they suggested it was..
I didn't correct him.
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