The Grand Tour - Series 2

[Audidothat]

So the boys are back and up to their usual tricks. I enjoyed it and chuckled away to myself.

Although I must say the ‘let’s get a celeb in and time them around a track’ section was a bit..... lazy..... and given the change in track surface was just like Top Gear.

Do they even need/have to have guests?

They should have a qtr mile drag race each week between one of them and the guest, in identical cars. 1 run each week, see who wins.

[IT]

Grand tour 1 was ok. Seemed a case of them having big budgets and trying too hard showing off to spend it as fast as possible.

The Top Gear at the time wasn't putting up that much competition and I'm happy my Prime subscription was worth it last year.

This time round I'm just not sold on it. Top Gear has matured again and I need to hear some great reviews to convince me to cough up again for prime given that the big publicity surrounding their BBC exit and novelty has definitely worn off.... ?

[tintin]

Haven't watched a single episode (of either series), and haven't lost any sleep over that: they're three over the hill dinosaurs who became caricatures of themselves at least five years ago.

[briang9]

Originally Posted by tintin

three over the hill dinosaurs who became caricatures of themselves at least five years ago.

sounds like the sort of label that could be applied to many of us on here

Oh and I really enjoyed the first episode of the new GT series...that Rimac was very impressive in a straight line..not so clever in corners though..but suspect that was down to Hammond's ability rather than the car..though having 4 heavy motors on each wheel with torque vectoring must make it behave a little differently to conventional supercars. I would rather have the Aventador and a tunnel any day

And at just over 21p a day, membership is not expensive for many of the other benefits it brings, TGT is merely icing on an already nice cake

[Johnmed]

Originally Posted by tintin

Haven't watched a single episode (of either series), and haven't lost any sleep over that: they're three over the hill dinosaurs who became caricatures of themselves at least five years ago.

How well put.

I watched most of both, fast forwarding through the tripe, a bit surprised at times that I was bothering, and at other times enjoying bits.

[Audidothat]

Originally Posted by tintin

Haven't watched a single episode (of either series), and haven't lost any sleep over that: they're three over the hill dinosaurs who became caricatures of themselves at least five years ago.

The issue is most of us watch them all, anything car related. We love cars.

5th Gear, Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Wheeler Dealers, Gas Monkey Garage, Jay Leno’s Garage....... the list goes on.
Then we watch them again on Dave. Then we go onto YouTube. Then we post on the various car forums we are members of.

It is an itch, they help scratch it.
They stick to the tried and tested methods.

Although just made a mental note you have a Tesla so arguably you are more progressive, a risk taker and easily bored with the norm, more than most. Compliment by the way! LOL

[tintin]

Originally Posted by briang9

Oh and I really enjoyed the first episode of the new GT series...that Rimac was very impressive in a straight line..not so clever in corners though..but suspect that was down to Hammond's ability rather than the car..

Would that be the one that caught fire because Hammond couldn't drive/control it properly? - https://electrek.co/2017/06/10/richa...tric-supercar/

Now there's a man who's reach is so far beyond his grasp it's embarrassing (as well as dangerous)

Originally Posted by Audidothat

The issue is most of us watch them all, anything car related. We love cars.

5th Gear, Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Wheeler Dealers, Gas Monkey Garage, Jay Leno’s Garage....... the list goes on.
Then we watch them again on Dave. Then we go onto YouTube. Then we post on the various car forums we are members of.

It is an itch, they help scratch it.
They stick to the tried and tested methods.

Although just made a mental note you have a Tesla so arguably you are more progressive, a risk taker and easily bored with the norm, more than most. Compliment by the way! LOL

And my personal ranking of those would put 5th Gear way ahead of TG/GT - hey! - they're the same initials, only backwards .And how I miss Vicki B-H: give me her squeal and chuckle ahead of a V12 rumble any day (added to which she's clearly a better driver than Hammond).

Not sure about your personality profiling of me (tongue in cheek or not ...), though others may comment

[Ameiseuk]

Originally Posted by tintin

And how I miss Vicki B-H: give me her squeal and chuckle ahead of a V12 rumble any day (added to which she's clearly a better driver than Hammond). :

+1

[Turbo Tony]

I quite enjoyed it, although I preferred it when they were killing celebs, rather than wasting screen time with them.

Even in Top Gear, I always wanted to skip through the interviews, they rarely add any value to the program.

[moltuae]

I'm really enjoying the new series. Very entertaining

The latest episode was good; probably the best so far. Loved the Bugatti Chiron!


Did anyone else think that Kia Stinger GT looked a LOT like an Audi A7 (especially from the rear)?


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Audi A7