NEW New new new New top gear ON HOLD, RIP?

[Junkman]

Most people, motoring or not, have very little interest in yank motors.

 

Speak for yourself (which you subsequently did).

The Olds 88 is a bit of an automotive landmark and I expect people doing a car show to know cars.

[Tamworthbay]

Speak for yourself (which you subsequently did).

The Olds 88 is a bit of an automotive landmark and I expect people doing a car show to know cars.

I have spent a lifetime looking at cars and learning about cars, but very few yank cars hold any interest at all. Like all things, if you are interested then you tend to think everyone will be the same, reality is that they aren't. You like them, that's great, but not everyone shares that interest, in the same way as I could get irritated that some people don't understand the leap forward that the 'Forth bridge' Franny Barnett was at the time. I wouldn't expect Steve Berry to know one if it was inserted in his Anus sideways.

[Junkman]

Please remind me - what exactly was the reason for them to travel to Cuba?

[r.welfare]

They all really like cigars?

[alcyonecorporation]

Speak for yourself (which you subsequently did).

The Olds 88 is a bit of an automotive landmark and I expect people doing a car show to know cars.

 

First rock n' roll song about a car, gibber gibber gale force eight

[Tamworthbay]

Please remind me - what exactly was the reason for them to travel to Cuba?

No idea whatsoever, but compared to a lot of the Clarkson era crap it made perfect sense.

[HMC]

MLB drives an 8 wheeled vehicle from Russia. Rory turns "the world ugliest car" Into a yacht. Ssangyong Rhodius anyone? Other stuff happens. Question is, with this being the last in series, how well was it received? Will the axe be wielded on any or all of the current line up? I recon it takes time for a format like this to bed in and find its feet; but will the Beeb have the patience to persevere? Place your bets.....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well this series has been a bit hit and miss for me. Some good car stuff but Rory is beginning to annoy me with all the same cliches and Joey is acting as in interviews he's pretty quite, Chris Harris seems to be being himself.

 

One thing I am sick of is the cock sucking on the 911.every five seconds there's a new one or some variation of this that or the other, who cares???

[KruJoe]

"William Woolard" - GET IN!

[Fat_Pirate]

I'm trying to determine who hates that wanker JK most; a dead heat between Harris and LeBlanc, so far. Rory is close behind though.

[HMC]

@ krujoe PAHHHH noticed that myself

[Lankytim]

I enjoy it much more than the old TG.

[richardmorris]

Not sure of the need for naked fat people.

 

Seems to be a universal truth of naturists- those most keen to shed clothes are the last ones that should do so.

[richardmorris]

Is that true about Bernie and the Great train Robery? Not heard it before.

[Tamworthbay]

It's been going around for years, at least since the 90s. It is either completely true or made up by BE to enhance his self made borderline mafia image to scare people.

[HMC]

Rhodius! It had to be.

[richardmorris]

Hopefully it will sink.

[HMC]

Orinoco flow! A first on a car program

[richardmorris]

The wooden one in this series appears to be Eddie Jordan.

[RoadworkUK]

That boat didn't seem to have a lot of Rodius in it. And if the donor Sunseeker was anything other than an insurance write-off, must have cost a fortune.

 

Jordan's BOAT International review here: (He's rather better written than with a lens trained on him)

[For Fiats Sake]

Is Rory the one who can look out the drivers and passenger side windows at the same time?

 

I'm looking forward to the return of The Grand Tour, old habits die hard.

[SiC]

That boat didn't seem to have a lot of Rodius in it. And if the donor Sunseeker was anything other than an insurance write-off, must have cost a fortune.

 

Jordan's BOAT International review here: (He's rather better written than with a lens trained on him)

A quick Google suggests £25k odd for the boat. Production costs per episode must dwarf that. Adaptation labour couldn't be that cheap either.

[saucedoctor]

I enjoyed that one. I do so wish they'd sack off Eddie Jordan, though.

[RoadworkUK]

A quick Google suggests £25k odd for the boat. Production costs per episode must dwarf that. Adaptation labour couldn't be that cheap either.

 

So £30K + for a single use prop. Value!

[Captain Furious]

Yeah wtf was the point of that F1 interview, it contributed nothing and just felt awkward and out of place. Terrible

 

Rest of it wasn't too bad though I guess.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Most people, motoring or not, have very little interest in yank motors. I can name most cars from defunct communist states half way across the world but can list the number of yank cars I can recognise on one side of a4. Some people love them but a some see them as a bit naff and pointless.

 

It is getting better, but the celebrity bit still really grates even when it's someone like Ross Noble.

 

 

Sort of. I know a 1959 Cadillac from a 1960, a 62/3/4 Lincoln and know what a Corvair/Pinto/Mustang etc is, but show me most Yank cars 1950-1960 and I haven't a clue. Most 1950's Pontiacs, Buicks etc really do all look the same to me.

 

Overall? Started iffy, ended very good I thought.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I enjoyed that one. I do so wish they'd sack off Eddie Jordan, though.

 

 

And The Kraut.

 

I don't dislike EJ like many seem to (he seems like an alright guy) but he brings nothing to TG. Neither Does SS*. Yes, she can drive but so can CH.

 

 

 

 

*See what I did there?

[overrun]

I enjoyed that one, F1 shite aside.

Jay Kay is a good guest, and it was nice to hear about the Diablo windscreen. When I was at school and Cosmic Girl was new, there was rumour going around that it had no screen.

 

The Ssangyacht was tremendous, too. Given we have seen amphibious cars a couple of times before, I thought this was very original and not too bodged.

It looked genuinely terrifying when flat out.

[HillmanImp]

So £30K + for a single use prop. Value!

 

But surely when you sell the footage of that prop for £8m it becomes good value. They didn't have to film it in Monaco either, or pay Eddie Jordan to do the review and so on but that's what they need to do to make it sell.

 

If they even make half of the £40 million net profit they made from it with the last 3 idiots on it, they are still doing okay aren't they.

 

If they used a pedal car on a rowing boat and filmed it in a municipal swimming pool in Stafford, it might not be as popular with the viewers.

[RoadworkUK]

You're absolutely right and I retract my petty observation.

 

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