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The Grand Tour Season 1: Facebook Fans Sound Off

The first season of The Grand Tour is now in our rear-view mirrors (bad pun, I know), and all across the media, different publications have weighed in on how they thought the inaugural season fared. That’s all fine and good, but I’m going to let you readers in on a little secret: none of that matters. What matters is what the fans thought of the show, those who actually paid Amazon for the ability to watch the show. What matters is what you all thought.

The reactions ranged from those who thought the show was the greatest thing ever to those who couldn’t believe the crap they were watching. Most of you, however, fell somewhere in the middle; you enjoyed the first season, but found more than enough faults for the show to hopefully improve on when Season 2 rolls around. So let’s see how you, our great readers, felt about the first season.

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Let’s start with those of you who loved it:

Steve Oxborrow – “I loved it. End of.”

Nevik Hunter – “Simply one word ‘Awesome’ look forward to next season.”

Eric Young – “I loved grand tour thought it was awesome.”

Justin Atchley – “As long as it’s those 3 guys, I’m good.”

Robert Roati – “Compare Top Gear Series 1 with Grand Tour Season 1, and anyone who claims TG is better is a damn liar.”

Ian Libby – “Grand Tour rates better in my books. Nothing like the nostalgia of the old edition. This feels much more well adapted and free form though.”

Josh Frantz – “It ranks pretty high. I really enjoyed the show, thanks so much everyone who was involved and all the hard work and effort.”

Simon Bernard Pain – “The first season was fabulous, had me laughing, personally I think it’s definitely better than the new Top Gear and just marginally better than the original top gear, I loved it, great job amazon. Look forward to next season.”

Now for those of you who disliked the first season. You guys certainly did not mince words!

Skip Williams – “Definitely not. Sucks compared to TG.”

Nicky Kendall – “Old top gear miles better.”

Mark Harlan – “About near the bottom, I’m afraid.”

Jay Welford – “It’s way too forced for me. They are trying to be too funny, and celebrity brain crash needs to go.”

Brian Gregus – “I keep falling asleep while watching so I’d say some tweaking still needs to occur.

Bill Lifsey – “Get over it already. You’ll never outgrow the old show if you keep acting like whiney, childish brats. Move on, be better.”

Craig Dickson – “Honestly, the few bits with cars were great, the rest of it was bobbins. More cars less shitty unfunny ego pieces. Really disappointed.”

Darren McCoy – “Not worth watching. From the terribly scripted segments, to the lack of car reviews, to that moronic test driver, the entire show is a steaming hot pile. Top Gear was great. The Grand Tour is worthless.”

And finally, those who played more towards the middle:

Sven Lundgren – “Realistically, rebuilding year for the team. It was not as good as TG with the trio… at its height. Just not there yet. But it was still head and shoulders above what Ginger-boy and Friends-has-been ever did. Keep at it. Amazon done good. It’ll take you, probably, 2 – 3 seasons to start topping what you and the old team did. But that’s ok. Even rebuilding you are better than 99 percent of whats on TV these days! Drive on!”

Mick Cragg – “It will be hard to get anywhere near the best of TG. but I think it will get there. I’ve really enjoyed the 1st series but in my opinion the celebrity bit is weak and needs to go along with the American. But all in all a great show.”

Daniel Defoe – “The first few episodes were pretty weak… the boys clearly hadn’t found their new stride yet. From the buggies on though was right in there with the best of Top Gear.”

James King – “A bit less theatre next time. Lose the dying celebs, replace The American and more POWERRRRR.”

Paulius Donauskas – “Loved it!! But maybe more time on reviewing more cars (daily drivers) than doing donuts in sand.. LOVE the MOVING Tent.”

David Hutchins – “Got off to a rocky start, but dialed it in.”

Gregory Jones – “Not as good, but on the right track. Wish we could get our tame racing driver back.”

Costas Papaconstadinou – “Some parts worked great and others where okay. So let’s see what happens season two.”

Honestly, I tend to agree with those m,ore towards the middle. I enjoyed the first season of The Grand Tour, probably more than anything else on TV, but it was very clear that the show was in its first season and was still raw. Despite the fact that the boys were already familiar with each other, there were still a bunch of new concepts that were tried out, and season 1 was a good indicator of what stuck and what didn’t. I’m very much looking forward to the next season!

Tony Hsieh

Cars, the Buffalo Bills, video games, comics, sandwiches, jelly beans, and the shooting star press; these are the things that Tony loves (in addition to his family, of course). When he's not spending his time writing tech reviews for theslanted.com, Tony puts his lifetime love of muscle cars to use on his 2015 Mustang GT. Tony's top three favorite cars are the 1973 Mustang Mach 1, Ferrari 458, and Aston Martin DBS.

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4 Comments

  1. Bought Amazon prime originally for the grand tour. Waited nearly a year for it. I have likes and dislikes.

    Liked:

    Studio
    Humour
    Camera work
    Cars
    Most of the tasks / journeys.

    Disliked:

    The American ( he’s a fkn nob)

    Celebrity brain crash (no words can describe how stupid this is, just get a celeb in a car and create a board, surely racing isn’t owned by the beeb)

    The fake bits.. (don’t need two guesses for what I mean here, shocking)

    The length of the season, 80 a year and its already over? No wonder people are pirating.

    Final thought.

    Get the American gone he’s a nob.
    Get a celeb or pro race driver leaderboard up.
    Allow celebs on.
    Do less overly fake crap.
    Have more digs at the beeb, they deserve it.

  2. It’s lad style TV. I watched it weekly, religiously. Some parts joyful others not so. I do know that I would miss it if it wasn’t on, more love than hate for me. I do believe the BBC need to move on and stop paying lawyers to “mind the intellectual rights” so called. You can’t blame the trio for all the misdemeanours of the Grand Tour, the “Corperation” are being childish to the extreme. Clarkson being held back from saying “how hard can it be”, “and on that bombshell” etc etc. Is pathetic.
    Can’t stand the American, and some content is over contrived. But, overall I will miss them when they eventually can’t be bothered. Then it’ll be back to mainstream politically correct pants.

  3. For me, it was a mixed bag. I thought there was about as much good material as there would have been in a typical TG series. But TG tended to have less episodes in a run. So we are not losing out in comparison to TG but its a missed opportunity…

  4. you should do more specials like tg specials you did can watch them again and again vietnam,India ,bridge over the river coq ,the Andes Grand tour is brilliant because the banter is still there !! love to see the Alabama scenario again with the nascar sucks and clinton is a pedophile lol

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