The Grand Tour

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Great episode, genuinely funny. As long as you know that it’s going to be stupid and scripted to a certain degree, it’s great. They’re not trying to be something they’re not. They know they’re being stupid.
I wonder if the Mitsubishi lake incident was staged though…
 
mjt said:
Great episode, genuinely funny. As long as you know that it’s going to be stupid and scripted to a certain degree, it’s great. They’re not trying to be something they’re not. They know they’re being stupid.
I wonder if the Mitsubishi lake incident was staged though…
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Possibly came up as an idea once they knew they'd written off the Evo?
 
mjt said:
Great episode, genuinely funny. As long as you know that it’s going to be stupid and scripted to a certain degree, it’s great. They’re not trying to be something they’re not. They know they’re being stupid.
I wonder if the Mitsubishi lake incident was staged though…
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The pace, or lack of exiting the vehicle suggests it was having watched ice road truckers.
 
Was OK. Felt like a lot of filler and some nonsense that was uneeded.

That crash looked bad! I'd been more interested in seeing the evo start again after being in the lake!
 
He may well have but scared but isn’t the obvious give away that May continued to sit on it despite going through the ice, Hammond just so happened to watch a video with the solution recently, had the exact tools on him and a load of logs?
 
Forgot this was out and watched it last night. Much better than the Scottish episode and the French cars one. Close to their best but the May car crash was very strange. They just decided to let all three drive down a narrow tunnel with the sequential lighting and no helmets or other safety gear?
 
MarcLister said:
Forgot this was out and watched it last night. Much better than the Scottish episode and the French cars one. Close to their best but the May car crash was very strange. They just decided to let all three drive down a narrow tunnel with the sequential lighting and no helmets or other safety gear?
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Indeed. I thought it was a mental idea and unnecessary dangerous. Each of those cars would have different breaking distances and Jeremy basically braked as soon as the lights came on and he saw the dead end wall. And he only just stopped in time. Anybody slightly slower reaction times or worse brakes was always going to hit that wall head on.
 
Greebo said:
Indeed. I thought it was a mental idea and unnecessary dangerous. Each of those cars would have different breaking distances and Jeremy basically braked as soon as the lights came on and he saw the dead end wall. And he only just stopped in time. Anybody slightly slower reaction times or worse brakes was always going to hit that wall head on.
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Wasn't the last section of tunnel using a red light? Presumably to indicate its the end of the tunnel but the red light section seemed to be too short and came on too late to give anyone arriving a fair chance of realising they were near the end. That and the fact it was just a concrete end wall with no barriers or anything to help slow a car down made it seem weird. When you consider what Hammond normally does you'd think the production team would have made sure there was enough safety equipment to prevent anything like this happening. I'm sure James did his best but when I saw the accident I thought he should have swerved the other way so that the other side of the car hit the wall and took the impact rather than the driver side. He might still have hit his head on the pillar but maybe wouldn't have broken a rib?
 
People have been saying “the magic has gone” for well over ten years but yet they still watch it. There must be some of the magic left otherwise you wouldn’t even bother.

I enjoyed it. Yes, I know parts are scripted but I don’t care.

Those big spanners were great. I want one.
 
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