The Grand Tour

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Hammond tweeted 'We've got a name. And it was bleeding obvious cos it's what we're doing: coming from a different place every week'.

To me - grumpy old curmudgeon - that translates to 'perpetual glorified holiday arsing about in cars'. Nice work if you can get it I suppose - but I won't be watching.

He follows up saying they've got a big 'tent'. So read old TG studio rehashed and put up in a different field/country each week.

They're even hashtagging #GT (vs #TG)

Schoolboy guffaws all round!

[MarshPhantom]

anonymous said:

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Are you spaffing your pants in anticipation of the Evans version?

[MiggyA]

This travelling-about format could be just the kick up the rear the show needs, and though the name is bland it does fit the concept. The studio bits were getting very tedious, and despite still liking it I wasn't really convinced new ideas would be forthcoming. Now I'm sort of excited to watch it.

[TheLuke]

anonymous said:

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So your input was fairly useful in this thread.

Fitting for your name.

[NJK44]

anonymous said:

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So why are you here? Bye bye.


I'm not bothered about the name as long as the content is good!

[NJK44]

TheLuke said:

Fitting for your name.

[98elise]

anonymous said:

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Thats a coincidence. I won't be watching "Two weddings an a funeral" tonight as I'm not a fan of Hugh Grant, and I don't have the DVD.

[talksthetorque]

98elise said:

Thats a coincidence. I won't be watching "Two weddings an a funeral" tonight as I'm not a fan of Hugh Grant, and I don't have the DVD.

That's an off topic and pointless post though.

Personally I'm not going to form a judgement of what the show is going to be like from the name.
After all, Who'd eat Spotted Dick if they judged it by the name and not the content and production methods.

[98elise]

talksthetorque said:

98elise said:

Thats a coincidence. I won't be watching "Two weddings an a funeral" tonight as I'm not a fan of Hugh Grant, and I don't have the DVD.

That's an off topic and pointless post though.

Personally I'm not going to form a judgement of what the show is going to be like from the name.
After all, Who'd eat Spotted Dick if they judged it by the name and not the content and production methods.

Top Gear threads do seem to attract a lot of people that don't watch it though.

No doubt I will be the same when new TG airs

[gordyshreds]

I'd of thought "Top Geary Mc Gear Face" would have been the new name

[unsprung]

Unyielding in its pomposity, that name. And thus appropriate for Clarkson.

[Morningside]

Still seems to be a name made up by red braces TV exec types during an afternoon power mindstorm session.

[AnotherClarkey]

Morningside said:

Still seems to be a name made up by red braces TV exec types during an afternoon power mindstorm session.

Or alternatively something that popped up between 'Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank' and 'Monkey Tennis'.

[petop]

For those that said "Top Gear is getting stale, i will stop watching soon" so it seems they (C,H and M) have turned it around with something original by going around different locations and a surprising name and people are still slating it.
Some how i dont think the "tent" will be some 2nd hand wedding marquee cast off and part of the millions budget will provide something better. After all the O2 Arena is just a big posh tent!
I think the GT thinking was exactly what they wanted without knocking on the door of any litigation lawyers and it wouldnt surprise me they present it standing in the middle of the "tent" with GT in massive font on the floor!
I will watch both but look forward more to Clarkson and his companions!

[durbster]

I think that's as good a name as any. TG often became as much a travel show as a car one so giving that aspect a nod makes a lot of sense, and gives them a fairly clear point of distinction from the Beeb show.

Now that's done we can just forget about it until it airs I suppose.

[poing]

Stig said:

Hammond tweeted 'We've got a name. And it was bleeding obvious cos it's what we're doing: coming from a different place every week'.

To me - grumpy old curmudgeon - that translates to 'perpetual glorified holiday arsing about in cars'. Nice work if you can get it I suppose - but I won't be watching.

He follows up saying they've got a big 'tent'. So read old TG studio rehashed and put up in a different field/country each week.

They're even hashtagging #GT (vs #TG)

Schoolboy guffaws all round!

Are you just upset because they didn't take you with them and left you with Evans?

[otolith]

petop said:

For those that said "Top Gear is getting stale, i will stop watching soon" so it seems they (C,H and M) have turned it around with something original by going around different locations and a surprising name and people are still slating it.

They say that, but I've always suspected that they mean;

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[cologne2792]

The show doesn't have a studio so the title is apt + you have TGT or Top Gear Two or Two Gin & Tonics or just The GT - all are connected, relevant and recognisable.

[DonkeyApple]

0000 said:

Quite like the idea that they're going to do each show in a different country. For all the grief they've had for not coming up with new ideas over the last however many years, that seems to be at least one new idea ahead of their replacements.

Fly in. Set up. Lob a few insults at the locals. Film the dash to the border in that week's cars. Seems OK.

[DonkeyApple]

NJK44 said:

anonymous said:

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So why are you here? Bye bye.


I'm not bothered about the name as long as the content is good!

Let's face reality, it doesn't even need to be good. It can be quite ste and it will still be preferable viewing to most of the monumental tat and repeats that are broadcast.

TV is generally so abysmal that people even watch 5th Gear and that iritating squealing, bush pig, miniature Schwarzenegger lookalike that some of the PH 'specialist sex people' like to spaff over.

Same goes for the new TopGear. It would be nice if it transpires to be excellent TV but frankly it just needs to be tolerable and it'll be up the top of a very short list of watchable shows. I generally find Evans a bit worn off but such is the dismal state of television that I am looking forward to the show.