Soldato
None of their cars do anything for me at all, 4C included. It looks horrible.
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None of their cars do anything for me at all, 4C included. It looks horrible.
You can buy a basic model without that, don't fall for the TV guff. Even then what weight is cruise control and rain sensing wipers going to add? 50g?
This. I've seen a few in the flesh and they really do have quite a presence, they look like they should go for £100k+.
Caporegime
Whilst it's hardly rocket science to obtain this show without having a prime account, I've been watching it with my partner - she has prime.
They look nice, thats about it. Everything else is pretty...meh. Most of them end up being bargain basement priced cars after a few years because they don't tend to last very long.
Caporegime
I'm increasingly starting to think the grand tour isn't shaping up to be as good a car show as the last Top Gear series - I didn't expect to be thinking that after watching that series mind you - but, I agree with Houseys comment, very Meh.
Soldato
Agreed - I reckon the best of Chris Evan's Top Gear was better than the best of The Grand Tour so far.
TGT just feels like every "challenge" or feature lacks a purpose or direction. Like they're under the impression that people just like three men dicking around in cars, when really people enjoy there being some form of purpose or story. A good example of getting it right was the Romanian special ("Bentley", Mercedes S Class and Rolls Royce). It was clearly scripted, but because there was some background purpose, it felt less like a few clearly staged events at specific locations and more like an actual journey with stupid stuff happening on the way.
I have Prime anyway, so shall continue because I used to really enjoy TG - the last of Clarkson/May/Hammond's series was really good too, so I assume they've not forgotten how to make it work...
I think its pretty obvious that given the huge variance of episodes the first season they are simply sticking feelers out to see what ticks the boxes for people.
Yeah, IIRC "the American" didn't even test a car this week.
Man of Honour
Maybe they looked at the feedback on the test driver and edited that section out, sticking in some other filler bits. Will have to see if he makes any future appearances.
I doubt they made any changes this season, but they did say before it aired they were trying out a bunch of different stuff, it'll be next season that we will see changes.
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Personally I am not very impressed by this show, it just isn't very good IMO.
I just miss old top gear, the £100 car and the £10k super car challenges, amphibious cars, the epic road trips and car vs trian, plane etc races, Reliant space shuttle, the Polar special and so on.
I just miss old top gear, the £100 car and the £10k super car challenges, amphibious cars, the epic road trips and car vs trian, plane etc races, Reliant space shuttle, the Polar special and so on.
Exactly. They have them for 3 series so they'll inevitably make changes between them based on feedback. For what its worth people I know who aren't really in to cars love it.
The test track is a bit pony. Not sure what they can do about that as they've already started populating the power laps board. Personally I'm not fussed if they ditch that idea all together.
The celebrity thing is difficult because there is no pull for them anymore. While they were doing the promo run for their latest book/film/TV program the Beeb could just drive them to the Top Gear track for a spin in the reasonably priced car in before taking them to be on the Johnathan Ross show or whatever. I'd like for them to be brave enough to just drop it without this stupid placeholder/transition brain crash thing that stopped being funny on week two (and that is being generous).
It is a little lacking though. I mean, what difference did it make that they were in 3 different cars this week? For the purposes of the feature they could have been in anything as the car wasn't the defining factor. I wonder if they are either avoiding or not able to do the scored challenges as it sits too closely to the old format? At least that put the focus on the cars rather than some contraption that the team knocked up for a slightly drawn out sketch.
Caporegime
Watched the first couple of episodes, have not watched since. Poor.
The problem with celebrity interviews is that old new Topgear started in 2002, long before the idea of reruns on Dave or the concept of iPlayer had been considered. The plan was to do an interview with a celeb who had a film/book coming out and then that interview would be lost to time. That doesn't work so well with an online show where years from now there will be multiple series ready to watch on demand.
which happened like once or twice a series, they are what made top gear, however it looks like we will get that, the sand dune buggy tye things in the adverts look like a adventure show.
I do think there was more genuine laughter in TG though. There's perhaps 2-3 time an episode now that you an see them genuinely laughing and ad hoc taking the pee. It used to be a lot more than that.
It's good, don't get me wrong, but I'd prefer more spontaneous peeing about.