The Grand Tour

[Pesty]

Enjoyable episode.

[Ari]

Phenomenal!

And something for everyone. Genuinely funny comedy, a supercar, the refuelling skit was amusing and great for the kids (or people dumb enough to think that the car park racing was real) and then that rally story from Clarkson reminded us just what an incredible journalist he really is. And all beautifully shot and edited.

If the haters gonna hate that, it’s time for them to give it up and stick to Strictly Come Xfactor.

Brilliant brilliant television.

[TTmonkey]

10 out of 10 episode.

If you didn't like it, please just f**k off.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Best episode yet, I thought.

The Performante was good - sounded awesome. Although that reconstituted carbon fibre looked awful, though, so I won't be buying one.
Conversation Street - actually quite entertaining.
Refuelling sketch - amusing, and I laughed out loud several times (sorry).
Guests - skipped this.
Rallying - I have always loved the Lancia 037 so it was a given that I would like this and I did. What a stunningly gorgeous car. Great cinematography, and I enjoyed the "reconstructions" (even though I take them with a huge dose of salt).

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 19th January 22:07

[swisstoni]

The Lancia mini-doc was at least BBC standard.
When he finally gets tired of this TGT business I’d be happy if he’d just do properly interesting and brilliantly written and presented work like this.

[Andy_stook_2k]

Brilliant episode, wish Jezza would make more documentaries.

[cerb4.5lee]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Best episode yet, I thought.

[oilbethere]

Andy_stook_2k said:

Brilliant episode, wish Jezza would make more documentaries.

He is very engaging to watch. His WW2 documentaries are outstanding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXusKM5uX0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqvIk2KoPCc

Edited by oilbethere on Friday 19th January 22:39

[Leon R]

For those asking about Clarkson documentaries he made one on the Victoria Cross and one about Operation Chariot durin WW2 and both are excellent if you are interested in that sort of stuff.

[anonymous-user]

Very good episode.

Excellent.

[hyphen]

Leon R said:

For those asking about Clarkson documentaries he made one on the Victoria Cross and one about Operation Chariot durin WW2 and both are excellent if you are interested in that sort of stuff.

Also remember an engineering one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel that got a lot of press coverage at the time.

[Pistom]

What a stupid episode.

I loved it.

[Bullett]

Very good.

[Wobbegong]

Loved it, even the celeb bit was pretty fun.

[RBH58]

swisstoni said:

The Lancia mini-doc was at least BBC standard.
When he finally gets tired of this TGT business I’d be happy if he’d just do properly interesting and brilliantly written and presented work like this.

This was terrific and I’d love to see these guys do more segments like this. James May’s Ferrari v Ford piece was great too. When they decide (occasionally) to present things not from the perspective of a 10 year old child, they do it very well, Of course we love the 10 year old child stuff, but maybe not the entire show

[DanielSan]

The documentary bits they do could almost be a separate series in themselves. There’s certainly enough stories in the Motorsport world alone to do a 4-5 episode spin off series for the car geeks.

Sadly it’s shows like that that no one watches.

[SydneyBridge]

Leon R said:

For those asking about Clarkson documentaries he made one on the Victoria Cross and one about Operation Chariot durin WW2 and both are excellent if you are interested in that sort of stuff.

Didn't his Grandad get a VC ?

[Pistom]

Did anyone spot what watch Hammond was wearing?

[suffolk009]

hyphen said:

Leon R said:

For those asking about Clarkson documentaries he made one on the Victoria Cross and one about Operation Chariot durin WW2 and both are excellent if you are interested in that sort of stuff.

Also remember an engineering one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel that got a lot of press coverage at the time.

That was his contribution to the Greatest Briton series. He came second to Mo Mowlem's film on Churchill. I remember Mowlem was talking about Churchill and WW2 on top of the white cliffs of Dover when right on cue a spitfire appeared behind her going vertical. Nobody and nothing's going to beat that shot.

[Phil Dicky]

Its Just Adz said:

3sixty said:

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

Me the same, although I’ve watched lots of things about group b, I didn’t know that story.
Lovely piece.

Where these group B cars? always understood the SWB Quattro, T16, Delta S$, RS 200 etc were the Group B cars ie only 200 were made?
Happy to be corrected and great episode .