User Reviews

Firstly, the best way to watch Grand Tour is to skip Conversation Street and the celebrity bit. It's half the program, but not the better half.

Lamborghini was fun, but Hammond is doing the typical British reviewer who can't just appreciate a car and has to have some type of snarly gripe. Yes, it may have been what it should have been when it was launched, but it's still £ 50, 000 more!

Skipped the refuelling segment when I seen them blowing up cars...

Clarkson's piece on the world rallying battle between Lancia and Audi was him re-finding his documentary skills. If you've never watched his WWII programs do! His car history programs for how the UK lost it's industry should be shown in schools and colleges!

In this segment he documents the history of how Audi got the rules changed to allow four wheel drive, and the lengths that Lancia went to ensure two wheel drive had a last Hurray! Interviewing some of the key persons behind their success.

Clarkson is smarter than the fool he plays, and here he's giving you a glimpse.

So, half the program skipped because, well, it's totally missable. 8/10 for the remaining parts. Half that if you put those bits back in! Half hour of quality programming squeezed in to an hour.

This episode summed up the best and worst about The Grand Tour and the later years of Top Gear for me. Capable of brilliance but also capable of being terrible. The episode would have been 10/10 but the need to throw in explosions for childish "laughs" marks it down.

The Lamborghini review was a good review of a very good car. Despite the fact that Hammond is easily the weakest of the 3 presenters, the review was enjoyable and probably 1 of their better supercar reviews.

Joshua and Goldberg were probably the best 2 guests they have had on. They played off well against each other and it was a genuinely funny and interesting segment.

Conversation Street was it's usual terrible attempt at stand up comedy. Why can't they just do car news instead of "I wonder what a dogging Benteyga would look like?" (Insert canned laughter while the audience stand expressionless in front of them). As always it's the weakest part of the show.

The fuel filling idea was clearly just filler to pad out the episode (if you pardon the pun). The final idea was actually ok but the 1st 2 with the token explosions did nothing but make me roll my eyes. They can do much better than this but they seem to think making things explode is funny.

Then you get the best thing The Grand Tour has done so far and possibly the best thing the 3 of them have done since the Senna tribute. Clarkson shows what he can do when not playing the character he plays in The Grand Tour and throws himself into a storytelling role. As with the Senna tribute and his War Stories series he is genuinely brilliant and passionate when doing a documentary-style role. It's such a shame he has to play up to the daft persona they want him to have normally. I wish they had done an hour long feature on the Audi-Lancia story, or Clarkson had done it as a side project.

With the exception of Conversation Street and the fuel filling, this is what The Grand Tour could have been. This is what I was expecting from a Clarkson/May/Amazon team up (not Hammond, they should have cut him adrift years ago).

Buffets don't always have something for everyone. This one had Hammond giving a good review of the Huracan, Hammond and May doing a deadpan Heath Robinson but and Clarkson giving a history lesson on the 1983 Workd Rally Chanpionship. I enjoyed the episode but can understand if not everyone would.