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Post by RedMoon11 on Oct 27, 2018 21:45:52 GMT
Golden ticket! Lucky Lincoln fans watch the Grand Tour
Connor Creaghan October 26 at 11:36 AM
Jeremy Clarkson and James May. Photos: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Meet the lucky Lincoln fans with tickets to watch the Grand Tour being filmed inside Lincoln Cathedral.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have all been filming in the city today for the final episode of the third season of the Amazon show.
Hundreds queued up outside in the cold hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous trio, but there were no guarantees of being let inside.
Some towards of the back of the queue were placed on “standby”, as it wasn’t clear if there would be enough room.
The Lincolnite went to meet some motoring fans while they were heading inside Lincoln Cathedral.
Many were excited about seeing the final episode being filmed and the prospect of singing a hymn called “Dear Ford & Farther of mankind.”
However, after getting inside some complained that it wasn’t “fun singing the same hymn over and over again.”
Although phones were not allowed inside, we managed to get a sneak peek of what’s been happening.
The county is set to feature heavily in the new series, with the Grand Tour filming yesterday on the circuit at Cadwell Park, near Louth.
Filming continues Saturday from 10am at Lincolnshire Showground, where classic Ford cars will gather for a final farewell ride from the showground to the cathedral between midday and 3pm.
Grand Tour filming this week in Lincoln
Crowds gather for Grand Tour filming at Lincoln Cathedral
Classic Ford gathering for Grand Tour filming in Lincoln
Hundreds of classic Ford cars gathered at the Lincolnshire Showground on Saturday for the last part of filming for the final episode of series three of Amazon’s Grand Tour.
The cars then went on a procession through to Lincoln Cathedral where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May filmed on Friday a hymn to the classic sedan.
Check out our gallery from Saturday captured by Sean Strange:
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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 15, 2018 10:37:30 GMT
Our tour de fourth
By Jeremy Clarkson, Sun Columnist
15th December 2018
THE good news is that Amazon has re-signed Hammond, May and me to carry on making The Grand Tour.
And the even better news is that we will no longer host it from a studio, while wearing jackets that we still think fit.  After 17 years, Hammond, May and I are quitting studio-based programmes
It was 17 years ago that Hammond and I first hosted a studio-based show. May came along a year later. Back then, the audiences that attended were tiny and so bored after an hour or so that we actually had to pay them out of our own pockets to stick around. Pretty soon, all that had changed. Thanks largely to the first of Hammond’s many crashes, Top Gear was the most watched factual show in the world, and there was an 18-year waiting list for tickets. Then came the, ahem, sudden move to Amazon and three more years of packed houses. But now it’s over. After season three finishes in April, we will only be doing road trip specials. I can’t wait. Especially for the time when I get to wear wellies and an old hat and we get chased through Yorkshire in a bath tub by a woman called Nora Batty. Before then though, North Korea beckons . . .
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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 17, 2018 15:23:18 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 3, 2019 17:17:07 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 3, 2019 17:24:02 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 20, 2019 20:59:37 GMT
*Spoilers*
The Grand Tour Series 3 episode guide: what to look forward to
New episodes feature a road trip across Mongolia, a shootout between a Mustang, a Demon and an Exorcist… and a weird bit with some donkeys
Richard Porter
The trio in Mongolia ELLIS O’BRIEN
The Sunday Times, 13 January 2019
Published in Driving 17 January 2019
On January 18 the television programme known in Yorkshire as The Pretty Good Tour returns for its third and definitely not final series.
This is, however, the last one to feature the studio tent and all of the shenanigans contained therein, so if you’re a fan of those bits where the presenters sit around a table chatting or squabbling next to a large, patently homemade scoreboard then you’ll want to savour this series. And what a bumper one it is too, featuring an extended, two-part Colombia special that was meant to appear last year. Filming was delayed because Hammond proved unable to keep a car the right way up and Clarkson had a lot of crisp, dry, French pneumonia in his body. As if that weren’t enough for fans of those extra-long road trips, three other programmes have morphed into mini-movies too, and the others are so crammed with content they might well burst your streaming pipes. Here are some of the things you can expect from the new crop of 14 programmes. Motown muscleEpisode 1 Detroit was once the centre of the US car industry and therefore the centre of gravity for the motoring world, but the city is now a shadow of its former self. As high priests in the church of petrol, Clarkson, Hammond and May make a pilgrimage to this most holy of places to see what is going on. They discover that the car factories are largely derelict, the centre has been hijacked by hipsters and the most thriving industry is urban organic farming. Clearly this won’t do, so the three presenters set about making Detroit into the place it should be; a petrolhead playground featuring streets where you can drag race, old theatres you can rattle with the sound of your revving V8, and abandoned factories you can race around to your heart’s content. To undertake this important mission, Clarkson gets hold of a Ford Mustang tuned by a company called RTR (short for Ready to Rock) while May has a Hennessey Exorcist Camaro and Hammond picks a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, making this a true battle of good versus evil, with Jon Bon Jovi in the middle. Snap!Episodes 2 and 3 You may have noticed when you pause your Amazon television viewing device that it enters a screensaver mode showing delightful photos of dramatic and interesting landscapes from around the world. Recently, the Grand Tour’s overlords decided to introduce some new photos depicting interesting animals, which was a good idea, and of getting the Grand Tour presenters to take those photos, which maybe wasn’t. Naturally, when they were first asked, our trio said “no”, because they couldn’t be bothered to spend nine months sitting in small canvas hides next to midge-infested swamps, but changed their minds when they realised they could cheat. First of all, they could do it all from cars, and if they found the most biodiverse place on earth, they could mop up the entire project in just a few days. So Clarkson, Hammond and May buy a Jeep Wrangler, a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up and a Fiat Panda 4×4 respectively and then head for a country so groaning with wildlife it’s amazing there’s any room for trees and buildings and lampposts – Colombia. What happens next is an adventure of such size and scale that it’s been split into two parts for your viewing pleasure, as the trio embark on a journey of incredible beauty, majesty, peril and wonder. And also a thing involving donkeys that’s a bit weird. What the truck? Episode 4 The pick-up truck is the backbone of the developing world and it’s a vital market that the Japanese have dominated for years. However, some European car makers have decided to get in on the action with pick-ups of their own. They are no doubt hoping to capture the rural vet, and painter and decorator market but if these new machines can’t survive the rough and tumble of developing world conditions, from toppled dictators to all-out civil war, they simply aren’t tough enough to face their established rivals. To find out if they’ve got what it takes, Clarkson, Hammond and May gather a VW Amarok, a Ford Ranger and a Mercedes X-class and discover which copes best in a brutal simulation of harsh, lawless life in a subsistence existence. Which may also be handy if this whole Brexit situation takes a turn for the worse. China in their hands Episode 6 If you’re a Chinese business magnate and you want to create a good impression, you can simply go and buy a Mercedes S-class or a Jaguar XJ and the job is done. But what if you’re a Chinese business person on a budget? Then you’ve got a problem, because your version of capitalism is all rather new and your car market didn’t really open up until recently, the result of which is that in China there is no ready supply of 20-year-old luxury cars at bargain prices. But hang on a minute; Chinese people come in droves to places such as Britain’s Bicester shopping village to snap up clothes and watches and so on. Why couldn’t they also pick up a used luxury limo and ship it home? Armed with this brilliant business idea, Clarkson, Hammond and May travel to Chongqing, the biggest city you’ve probably never heard of, to demonstrate the wonders of an old Mercedes S 600, an ageing BMW 750iL and a Cadillac STS. And also to get attacked by fire drones. Och aye the views Episode 7 As three of the world’s leading motoring journalists, Clarkson, Hammond and May wouldn’t be doing their jobs if they weren’t keeping a beady eye on car trends and here’s something they spotted straight away: classic cars are quite expensive these days. Sought-after stuff such as Jaguar E-types, Aston Martin DB5s and even old Minis are worth a lot more than they were 10 or 20 years ago. But there are some rare, desirable cars that have yet to climb the giddy upward curve of appreciation. Cars such as the Alfa Romeo GTV6, the Lancia Gamma coupé and the Fiat X1/9. So the presenters buy examples of those and then, to see who has chosen most, and indeed least, wisely, they head to the top of Scotland where, after a bit of a slow start, they end up on some spectacular roads. Warning: this film contains scenery that some viewers may find stunning. And cars they may not.  At the rallycross track, testing ‘young people’s cars’ELLIS O’BRIEN
Holiday road
Episode 8
For many people in Britain and across the world, the idea of hiring an RV and touring the southwestern US sounds like an excellent holiday. For Clarkson, Hammond and May, however, it sounded like a living hell where you must spend your days piloting a sluggish lorry and your nights being forced to sleep on a child-sized bed with your head inches from a tank containing someone else’s most recent defecations.
Unfortunately for them, the Grand Tour producer and one-man sartorial smartness vacuum Andy “Mister” Wilman said they were being unreasonably grumpy and sent them to Nevada to find out more.
Having quickly had their worst suspicions confirmed, the presenters decide to abandon their shared RV and buy one each, which they can modify to suit their preferences and prejudices. Because what could go wrong with that? Apart from many things.
Hot hot hot
Episode 10
Jeremy, Richard and James love hot hatchbacks because they’re affordable, practical and zoom about like deranged wasps. That’s why they were so excited to test the newest versions from Volkswagen, Ford and Toyota.
Sadly, however, it was pointed out that these were young people’s cars and the opinions of three middle-aged men in bad jeans were irrelevant. So, after a bit of fun on the Grand Tour rallycross track, the three are told to stop mucking about and get out there to see which of them can make their car seem the most appealing to millennials using slogans, stickers and the power of social media.
A Grand Tour
Episode 11
Do you know how many letters The Grand Tour receives asking for advice on the best car to buy if you habitually drive 600 miles from the shores of the salt-water Black Sea in Georgia to the edge of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan to satiate your desire for fresh-water fish? That’s right, it’s zero.
But that doesn’t stop our presenters from gathering the new Aston Martin DBS, the new Bentley Continental GT and the even newer BMW 8 Series for a true grand tour across the Caucasus to answer the question that’s on the lips of no one.
The flat pack
Episode 13
In a full-length special, which is Grand Tour speak for one of those episodes where they don’t come back to the tent for that bit where they make bottom jokes and look at a picture of a new McLaren, Jeremy, Richard and James are dropped into the wilderness of Mongolia and told to await a delivery.
The air is rent asunder by the thwock of heavy-duty rotor blades as a military helicopter heaves into view and drops some boxes. Unfortunately for the presenters these do not contain something immediately useful, such as a Toyota Hilux or another, smaller helicopter, but are instead packed with basic rations and all the flat-packed parts they need to assemble a small off-road machine in which to escape to civilisation before they starve to death or strangle each other.
What follows is an incredible quest for survival against the backdrop of an extraordinary landscape rarely seen on our screens. Will the presenters make it out alive? Well, you can probably guess the answer. It probably would have made the papers if they’d perished horribly.
But it was touch and go at some points. Just putting the damn thing together was enough to make James want to bludgeon Jeremy with an exhaust manifold and it went downhill from there.
Funeral for a Ford
Episode 14
Rumours persist that the Ford Mondeo is on borrowed time and when it dies there will be no direct replacement, as is happening in America, where the medium-sized Ford saloon is already on death row.
Few tears are being shed about this and The Grand Tour thinks that’s wrong because, for British people at least, the Ford family saloon is as much a part of our national DNA as the royal family or the BBC. Everyone knows someone who had a Mondeo or a Sierra or the daddy of them all, a Cortina. Most likely, it was your actual daddy.
Certainly, Jeremy’s father had a Cortina. As did James’s. Richard’s dad . . . he didn’t, for reasons that will become clear as the presenters set off on a warm and nostalgic journey through the life of the medium-sized Ford saloon, celebrating the subtle yet profound effect it has had on life in Britain as we know it.
Solo projects
It’s not all three-presenter road trips and challenges in this series because Clarkson, Hammond and May have been off making some films on their own.
Throughout the series watch out for Jeremy powersliding a Lamborghini Urus across a frozen lake and attempting to prove that the Citroën C3 Aircross is better than an elephant.
Stand by for Richard bravely stepping into another ultra-high performance electric supercar despite what happened last time.
Get set for James testing, and rather enjoying, the Alpine A110 at the Grand Tour track.
And seasoned international travellers may enjoy a Clarkson/Hammond joint project to speed up air travel using motorised hand luggage.
Plus, for those who enjoy The Grand Tour’s occasional forays into serious history films, there’s good news as James guides us through the cars of the Apollo astronauts and, in a separate feature, gives a potted history of the Porsche 917, while Richard pays tribute to arguably the greatest racing driver of all time, Jim Clark.
Richard Porter is script editor of The Grand Tour
Series 3 of The Grand Tour begins on Amazon Prime at midnight tonight, with new episodes released every Friday.
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 2, 2019 21:41:01 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Feb 17, 2019 1:07:04 GMT
The Grand Tour special: Jeremy Clarkson and co on returning for a new series of globetrotting high jinks
“Buckle up, world, we’re ready to rumble again”
Steppe brothers: fraternity was in short supply in Mongolia, where Clarkson, May and Hammond had to build a small off-road machine to get them back to civilisation
ELLIS O’BRIEN
The Sunday Times, 13/17 January 2019
By Jeremy Clarkson
To make the new Amazon Prime series of The Grand Tour we went to China, Sweden, Arizona, France, Doncaster, Finland, Detroit, Mongolia, Spain, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Georgia, Doha and Scotland.
China was the worst. It was a nightmare. The location was Chongqing, which, with more than 30m people — if you count everyone in the metropolitan area, — is the biggest city in the world. And don’t feel embarrassed: I hadn’t heard of it either.
It’s known as the furnace of China because in the summer the average daytime temperature is well above 40C and the sky is a constant, dripping-wet shade of grey. It’s like being in a hot bath and, hilariously, the air-con in James May’s crummy old Mercedes S-class was broken. This made him very cantankerous.
Take the high road: the three plot the route for their Scottish drive ELLIS O’BRIEN
Richard Hammond was also cantankerous because he thinks it’s weird to eat fish. So he was completely flummoxed by the local dish, which is a cow’s tendon cooked at the table in a bucket of chilli-infused napalm. And lived for eight days on nothing but rice.
I was also cantankerous because in Mandarin there’s only one word and it’s no. After six months you finally get a permit to film on one side of the road but when you arrive it’s obvious that you should actually film on the other. It makes no difference to anyone. Nobody would care. But when you ask for permission the answer is no. God knows how they have a problem with overpopulation.
And there’s no point shouting because the Chinese regard us in the same way that we regard slightly fat insects. Three days in and I was tearing my hair out.
I’d love to say that despite the issues we came back with a gem of a film. A masterpiece. But the truth is it’s a turd. We’ve polished it, of course, till it gleams and sparkles with handsome panache, and it is fun watching May literally melting. But it’s still a turd.
Detroit is the opposite. It’s bloody great. All of us tear around that post-apocalyptic backdrop in three muscle cars. And muscle cars, as I say in the film, are like power-rock ballads. If someone asks if you like Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’, you’ll huff and puff and say, “No, of course not.” But if you are driving alone on your own and it comes on the radio, you will turn it up and sing along. Yes, you will. Don’t argue.
So it goes with the cars we were driving: a 700bhp-plus Ford Mustang RTR, a 840bhp Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and the 1,000bhp Hennessey Exorcist Camaro. Stupid cars. Stupid noises. And stupid names. I mean, RTR stands for “Ready to Rock”, and how infantile is that?
Very, and I don’t care. I loved all those cars and I loved racing them in the derelict factories. It’s one of the best films we’ve done in years. And one of the most enjoyable to make. Detroit is coming back. You can find a restaurant that serves dumplings in a goose broth right next door to a blood-spattered crime scene. And you can buy a four-bedroom house for £1,800. I know, because we did.
And that was one of the lighter moments. In Colombia a spectacled bear ate my headlamp; in Arizona I was trapped on the roof of a moving and driverless recreational vehicle; in France I chased down a De Tomaso Pantera GTS — and all that’s before we get to the track stuff and the McLaren Senna and the Alpina, and the Jaguar XE SV Project 8 and the new Lancia Stratos.
It’s been one hell of a year, and there hasn’t even been time so far to mention how we filled Lincoln Cathedral with anoraks or how I drove a Lamborghini Urethra up a ski slope. Not even Sir Attenborough does more in a series. And not even Tom Cruise travels further on his impossible missions. But the best bit, for me, was our trip to Scotland.
The idea was simple. In these days of escalating classic-car values, even a Ford Escort Mexico will cost you more than £60,000. So we decided to see if there are any old, interesting and pretty cars out there that can still be bought for sensible money. Pretty soon we had a Fiat X1/9, a Lancia Gamma and an Alfa Romeo GTV6. And all we needed then was somewhere to test them out.
We settled on Scotland because one of our producers is from north of the border. Which meant we could show the rain and the heroin and the midges and he’d be livid with us.
To begin with, everything went perfectly. It was terrible. The weather was miserable, my Alfa broke down, the houses looked as if they’d been deep fried in batter, there were speed cameras everywhere and every view had a rusting oil rig in it. “This is not at all how it looks on the shortbread tins,” dead-panned Hammond.
Off-road included on water in Mongolia ELLIS O’BRIEN
But then our plan went wrong, because we somehow ended up on the A835 from Inverness to Ullapool and, let’s not beat about the bush, it was spectacular. We’ve travelled the world in search of the best road and we’ve come across many contenders. There’s the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania, the road from Davos in Switzerland to Cortina in Italy and the Hai Van Pass in Vietnam.
There were snow-capped mountains. There was sky the colour of an Icelandic girl’s eyes. There were slate-grey lakes and linking it all together was a twisting and turning ribbon of grey with absolutely nothing on it.
Almost every great bit of road these days is ruined by cyclists huffing and puffing in one direction and coming at you like gristle missiles in the other. But not the A835. There were none.
There weren’t even any police patrol cars because they’re all on the so-called “North Coast 500”. Described by Condé Nast Traveler magazine as possibly the best road trip in the world, it’s become a magnet for Subaru and Mitsubishi Evo enthusiasts. And Plod, who likes to pull the cars over to look at their engines and fine the drivers.
There’s none of that nonsense on the route we found and as a result the drive I had in that Alfa was up there alongside a trip on gravel roads through the Northern Territory in Australia in a BMW M6 Gran Coupé and another through the Atacama desert in Chile in an on-its-last-legs Range Rover. I shall never forget it.
If this were the last series of The Grand Tour, I’d go to the vegetable garden with my pipe and slippers a happy man after a drive like that. But contrary to what you may have heard, it isn’t the last series. You’ve got us for a few more years yet — starting on January 18.
The Grand Tour Game
Fans of The Grand Tour will be able to take part in adventures alongside their favourite trio of presenters. At least that’s the claim made for The Grand Tour Game, which is being launched on Tuesday to run alongside the new series of the car show. It costs £11.99 to download and is available for the PS4 and Xbox One.
The game includes the voices of Jeremy Clarkson and his co-presenters, Richard Hammond and James May. “If you’ve always wanted to come on the road with us, this is as close as you’ll ever get,” said Clarkson. “Unless you kidnap James and steal his face.”
Amazon Game Studios describes it as “an episodic racing game” with a new episode released each week during series three of TGT, mixing clips from the show with animations of the cars and locations. Players will be able to race against three friends in a split-screen mode and to use special gadgets to win boosts and other advantages.
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Post by RedMoon11 on Apr 4, 2019 4:55:21 GMT
The Mongolia special is The Grand Tour at its best – which is why next year will be all about the road tripsThe Grand Tour's executive producer Andy Wilman introduces the final special of season three: "Without a shadow of a doubt the best has been saved till last"
By Andy Wilman
Of all the types of shows we make, The Grand Tour specials are far and away, hands down, no arguments, the hardest.
Not just the hardest to shoot, but more importantly the hardest in which to keep delivering the goods and satisfying expectations.
That’s why we normally just shoot one per series. But for series three, because we clearly struggle with basic maths, we’ve somehow ended up shooting four.
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