The Grand Tour

[Northern_Monkey]

I'll be honest - I felt that latest episode was very much plodding along until that final piece came came on. Brilliant.

[djdest]

To anyone who moans about TGT, you could watch Dancing on ice, big brother, I’m a celeb, all the soaps, or any other prime time st instead.
TGT isn’t perfect, but I know which i prefer.

[Doofus]

djdest said:

To anyone who moans about TGT, you could watch Dancing on ice, big brother, I’m a celeb, all the soaps, or any other prime time st instead.
TGT isn’t perfect, but I know which i prefer.

It's not binary, you know. People can watch that st and still watch TGT if they want.

Then, they might moan about all of it. And your head might explode.

[Leon R]

The end of this weeks show was great, I love hearing about the old epics in the world of cars and Clarkson does it so well.

I would like to see him talk about Bugatti in the 1990's.

[anonymous-user]

I liked it so much better than last week, I think when JC isn't there it is better on the funnys.

Good stuff.

[anonymous-user]

djdest said:

To anyone who moans about TGT, you could watch Dancing on ice, big brother, I’m a celeb, all the soaps, or any other prime time st instead.
TGT isn’t perfect, but I know which i prefer.

You’re of course missing out all the great stuff on netflix and amazon tv. I don’t watch any prime time tv.

It’s not 1980 anymore.

[qube_TA]

Blayney said:

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??

I enjoyed it despite realising fairly early on it was staged.

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.

That's been the highlight of the series for me, the driving was excellent, seeing those cars hoon it around that carpark was great fun. Way more interesting than the celebrity bits where they can't drive and aren't really interested in cars anyway.

[anonymous-user]

Ructions said:

JonChalk said:

Without spoilers for those who haven't seen - the final piece in todays new episode is a thing of automotive beauty.

That was brilliant.

Really enjoyed that, wish they’d do more of that kind of thing.

[sinbaddio]

Blayney said:

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??

I enjoyed it despite realising fairly early on it was staged.

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.

If it were real it wouldn't be entertaining to watch. Anyway, the girl driving the Abarth is also the girl that does the fast laps I believe - Abbie Eaton.

[WinstonWolf]

Apart from the silly fuel bowser thing that was a cracking episode

[cerb4.5lee]

WinstonWolf said:

Apart from the silly fuel bowser thing that was a cracking episode

I always skip the celeb bit, but I even enjoyed the fuel silliness this episode, and really enjoyed the Lambo review and the ending piece big time.

[BOBTEE]

Now that was a good episode!

Wet wipes!

[ewolg]

A good episode finishing with a brilliant piece about the best era for rallying. I used to go and watch Group B but not seen anything live since it’s demise. Race Retro is my only indulgence now which brings back great memories.

[stumpage]

I'm sure the girl they spoke to in the audience about hand brake turns was the one that won The Apprentice.

[JonChalk]

El stovey said:

Ructions said:

JonChalk said:

Without spoilers for those who haven't seen - the final piece in todays new episode is a thing of automotive beauty.

That was brilliant.

Really enjoyed that, wish they’d do more of that kind of thing.

Just goes to show that they can do it when they try. For me the show needs 20% more of that quality and 20% less "Celebrity Face Off / pretend chat show".

[bingybongy]

stumpage said:

I'm sure the girl they spoke to in the audience about hand brake turns was the one that won The Apprentice.

I've definitely seen her somewhere before.

[anonymous-user]

bingybongy said:

I've definitely seen her somewhere before.

yes it is on xray.

[Its Just Adz]

Now that was a fantastic episode, the end section was just amazing.

[3sixty]

Great episode. A bit too young to remember that era of rallying, so hadn't heard the stories before. Fantastic piece though.

[Yipper]

JonChalk said:

Without spoilers for those who haven't seen - the final piece in todays new episode is a thing of automotive beauty.

If you're referring to the rally piece on GT, it's an almost identical cut-and-paste from a BBC4 documentary done ~5 years ago. And it's only about ~80% as good as the BBC one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fcncc