The end of an era. The Grand Tour never quite captured the magic of the old Top Gear series when it was hosted by these three. That was some of the best television of all time.
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Even the best jokes run old over time. In their haydays these guys were absolutely hilarious and indeed some of the best television. But the last couple years they started more and more to became caricatures of themselves. Oh well, it was great fun while it lasted. Thanks for further fuelling my petrolheadness guys.
I feel like cars aren’t nearly as cool as they were when they started doing car journalism.
I love the grand tour, but especially in the last few specials you can tell they're getting pretty old to be doing the kind of traveling and shenanigans that is expected of them. With clarksons farm, our man in x and the few youtube channels they have I'm ready for them to move on and embrace new avenues of creativity.
As fun as they are to watch, I would fully support them retiring if they wanted. I imagine retirement for them just means doing whatever little side projects they think will be fun.
Oddly I liked their normal track and news segments talking about all different types of cars and then handing them over to Abby/Stig to test. It seemed everyone else wanted them in an exotic locale doing stupid things.
Yeah I never really cared for the celebrity segments on top gear (some were good but many didn't matter to me), but the actual news segments were always interesting, and seeing how the cars performed and putting their times up on a wall for comparison was cool.
The specials were always fun but lately it has felt like they've been lackluster. The boat one was the last one that really stood out to me.
Truly end of an era, the three knuckleheads provided tons of laughs in the lives of my wife and I. Hope they enjoy retirement or whatever they do next.
Worth mentioning that both Clarkskon’s Farm and My man in Japan/Italy are hilarious.
True, but I can't say I'm sad to see them go. With all respect to the Trio, it was clear that their passion for the program ended after the tent went away. IIRC, in a recent video on DriveTribe James May said he didn't even own a car anymore. Wishing them all the best for their future endeavors!
I got a lot enjoyment watching those knuckleheads have a swan song after Top Gear, the Mongolian Special in particular was a high watermark. Still sad to see the era finally end
I remember crying along with Clarkson when they said they weren’t doing the tent anymore.
Did Clarkson assault another person for not getting him food fast enough?
Nah, Jeremy and James have both expressed they are feeling a to old for the shenanigans.
I still don’t understand why they spent so much time scripting everything when the improvised stuff was so much better. I’d love it if they just came back with some low budget special where they try to drive some £50 car from Glasgow to Basingstoke.
Hate to break it to you, all those Top Gear episodes were scripted.
“In the next scene, the rocket car explodes and drags Hammond on his head for hundreds of yards.”
“Hang on a minute!”
Well it speaks to the flaws in TGT that it "feels" more scripted.
Thwy made a episode about it. Because they have no idea where to go, and it would be boring as hell.
Maybe they can find non shitheads to host the next one.
Wonder how many hours I have spent watching these three and their antics :)
Jeremy Clarkson is a racist, abusive piece of shit. It infuriates me how much Reddit and Lemmy circle jerk about that vile old bastard. Wouldn't be surprised if he's another Savile. He's a disgusting human and I refuse to watch anything with him in it
It doesn't help that you're just saying this here without any proof or reason in most people's views, making me want to just ignore this comment because I've enjoyed things he's involved in and it doesn't seem true at face value. You need to provide proof because that is what actually helps.
Its because if you look at the "evidence", its him mumbling a children's nursery rhyme (eeny-meeny-miny-moe..) to pick between two cars, and witch-hunters decided to decipher the mumbling as blatant and direct clear racism. Its ducking dumb.
I've seen everything the dude has been in for more than twenty years and the worst thing he does is makes fun of French people, an English tradition. He makes fun of English people the same amount.
I invite the author of the comment above asserting blatant racism to share anything that verifies their claims. The best they'll be able to muster is an opinion piece entitled, "clarkson bad".
Clarkson did throw that tantrun punching producer Oisin Tymon after food wasn't provided for him.
I mean, I've gone without food without hitting people. Would have a lot more sympathy for hypoglycemia..
But he's not diabetic, although he did start taking that Ozempic appetite suppressor.
Clarkson did throw that tantrun punching producer Oisin Tymon after food wasn't provided for him.
After decades of getting shafted by BBC producers for poor pay and scheduling, a man (Clarkson) had a smack at his boss for making him drive in 40° F weather in convertible for two hours, who promised him there would be warm food and catering at the closing destination (the bare minimum that should be provided for such a shoot), who then cancelled the catering service at the last minute because of costs.
I will literally never understand how people can hear about the incident with the producer and side with the BBC.
Wow, during deployments in over 48cI wish I had got warm food instead of an MRE.
Shit, that totally justifies punching everyone in the entire chain of command after I already agreed to go and do the mission. I should have thought of that. Agree to do the work and then just punch people left and right when it sucks!
I agree, and if that had been the topic I'd have a few things to say about that. But briefly, those types of episodes were designed to stress, torment, and anger the hosts in exchange for content (reactions).
It worked. In that situation Clarkson admitted wrongdoing, the production staff admitting pushing them too far, Clarkson was terminated, and no fuss was made beyond the described actions by parties involved.
Anything beyond that was just noise and online warriors who wanted it to be larger than it was.
Oh no! Anyway.....
As another fan of top gear and the grand tour I'm sad to see them go. In any show where we grow to love the hosts as much as the material/subjects it's hard to replace them, and it will just never be quite the same. I do however believe there is a great solution to ease the pain.
Fasten your seatbelts folks and get ready to help the trio select the new hosts. A competition type show where the potential new grand tour hosts have to complete challenges . Things like driving miss daisy, contestants are given a buy and build budget for a 4 door vehicle that must make it through an off-road course. Here's the kicker, "miss daisy" will be one of the trio in the back seat with a tray of tea and cookies. The object is to reach the end of the course while spilling the least of the tea on our backseat host. Easy shenanigans setup, good fun, just one example.
Now let's make this even better, viewers get to vote on the contestants they would like to see on the next hosts. These aren't pass/ fail elimination challenges, they all stay beginning to end. We get to have a chance to see who these people are and in the end decide in a top 3 vote who will be the next top gear hosts.
Ideally in this new version of grand tour the original trio becomes the dictators of subjects and missions for the new. It gets them out of the action while still keeping them in play. A passing of the baton.