More recently the trend towards SUV's, leasing higher end cars (BMW, Audi, Merc) or value seekers (Kia, Hyundai...) have all drawn people away from the Mondeo
The Grand Tour
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Iirc The Grand tour was only initially commissioned for 3 years? It’s watchable still but topics have been pretty repetitive, the trio made the show watchable.
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Exactly this. Tried the tent content for a few episodes each series, but now just skip it all apart from the occasional brief chat bit.
I watch for the remotes.
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Conversation street was brilliant.
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Yeah, Conversation Street was frequently the best part of the show.
Thread bump because I was waaay behind on watching TGT and only caught up last night 
I think its pretty harsh the slating some have given to Clarkson. You may think he was over the top but I don't think you could really call his emotion fake. Also takes some balls to leave that in the show as they could have decided to snip that out in the edit.
Several episodes in this series I've felt that the producers have made some bold moves leaving stuff it that takes the shine off the production but allows you to see their character a bit more and the show is massively better for it.
I think it quite clearly showed that either A) He loves the audience interaction and feels it a huge loss. B) TGT is literally just a few specials from being canned for good. Is it possible that these have already been shot so as far as the trio are concerned it is actually all over?
Anyway, I hope that last episode is a taster of how things are continuing as it was awesome. The specials are always good because they focus on one thing for the whole episode whether it be a country, a particular type of car, a challenge. The 15 minute sectioned magazine feature style doesn't really cut it now nobody cares about current cars beyond "how much per month and how big is the infotainment screen?"
I think its pretty harsh the slating some have given to Clarkson. You may think he was over the top but I don't think you could really call his emotion fake. Also takes some balls to leave that in the show as they could have decided to snip that out in the edit.
Several episodes in this series I've felt that the producers have made some bold moves leaving stuff it that takes the shine off the production but allows you to see their character a bit more and the show is massively better for it.
I think it quite clearly showed that either A) He loves the audience interaction and feels it a huge loss. B) TGT is literally just a few specials from being canned for good. Is it possible that these have already been shot so as far as the trio are concerned it is actually all over?
Anyway, I hope that last episode is a taster of how things are continuing as it was awesome. The specials are always good because they focus on one thing for the whole episode whether it be a country, a particular type of car, a challenge. The 15 minute sectioned magazine feature style doesn't really cut it now nobody cares about current cars beyond "how much per month and how big is the infotainment screen?"
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Only just watched the last episode and hadn't read about Amazon already renewing for season 4 so the ending was a bit of a shock and felt like a dick move at first but after reading online it seems Clarkson was emotional about Top Gear at the same time.
Shame they are losing the tent bit though, adds a nice break to the episode with some funny chat on conversation street. Never cared about the celebrity guest or the track times but the banter between them was a nice element.
Overall though this season has been the best TGT yet and the Ford doc was great, made me miss my ST220
Shame they are losing the tent bit though, adds a nice break to the episode with some funny chat on conversation street. Never cared about the celebrity guest or the track times but the banter between them was a nice element.
Overall though this season has been the best TGT yet and the Ford doc was great, made me miss my ST220
The inevitable reunion somewhere down the line I would have thought.
Clarkson probably needs to retire eventually. He can't be far off now
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Sinking to new depths. The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen. An epic feature-length special, only on Prime Video Friday 13th December.
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Sinking to new depths. The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen. An epic feature-length special, only on Prime Video Friday 13th December.
Not going to lie, I had a smile on my face all through watching the trailer. Not even any cars, but looks like good fun.
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This looks very similar to the Vietnam special where they used bikes and was one of the best specials they did in the BBC era.
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Can’t wait to watch this
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