The Grand Tour (TV Series) Blasts from the Past (2018) User Reviews

Really excited for whats next!

[nhulskers · 10/10 · 28 January 2018]

Enjoying this season allot, all im waiting for is the special i read its mozambique, I enjoy the banter between the 3 just like the old days,

Fun Episode

[polsixe · 28 January 2018]

Nice review of the new Ford GT. The stars in cars were OK, Copeland a little too earnest. The car trip was a enjoyable romp with the old-new Jag and Aston. Harkens back to a Christmas Special Hammond and Clarkson did going toward Pau. The race on the old banked track was top notch (gear?) stuff.

Genuinely the best horror movie i've seen this decade

[rallierf1 · 7/10 · 5 February 2018]

Aside from the Ford GT review which was a bit rubbish and rushed to be honest, the rest of the series focused on two old racers vs a new Type R. On the racetrack of Barcelona I could genuinely feel the tension and fear of Jeremy! Yes I would do it on the Type R no problem, just needs some determination to go flat out but on that old Aston Martin, I would do it Hammond style and not do it ( and I used to race at rallies next to cliffs). At that speed the Aston was jumping and bottoming around making it less about skill and more sheer luck as it could go horribly wrong very easily. For Jeremy to do it he could be feeling a bit suicidal I guess because that needed a few key ingredients: True grit, luck, and willingness to submit to your fate aka as insanity. I genuinely felt my heart pounding and kept my breath while he was doing the lap even though I knew he survived it since he is presenting the show.

Crunching gears and bottomed out £ 1.5 million cars.

[johnsim · 2/10 · 29 January 2018]

Firstly, the only way to watch Grand Tour is to skip Conversation Street and the celebrity part, which I do.

Finally, the Ford GT gets a UK review. It's an impressive car.

But this program was firmly centred on the Jaguar D-Type and Aston Martin DB4 GT continuations. £ 1 million and £ 1.5 million respectively.

These are truly stunning cars. No, they're not as refined as the modern Honda that May drove, but neither are they trying to be. You can't love cars and not love these two! Or even the Honda.

So why the low score?

They took the cars to a banked circuit in Spain, after Clarkson had repeatedly crashed the gearbox in the Aston on the drive there. Then on this banked circuit it's bouncing and grounding as it goes around.

This is an automotive horror movie as a £ 1.5 million car is repeatedly bashed and bruised by Clarkson around a derelict remnant of a former circuit; one they only ever used once and probably for that reason! Hammond sensibly decided he had enough of big car accidents and withdrew from the "competition", but Clarkson repeatedly slammed the bottom of the Aston on the bumpy banked circuit.

I'd have more respect of him if he just said he wasn't going to trash something of such beauty and left it at that.