The boys are on the road again,with more of the same old jokes, same old stunts and same old attitudesAnd they’re off again, or another series of Not Top Gear,AKA The Grand Tour (Amazon Prime). May has had a haircut, Clarkson had pneumonia, and Hammond was in a car crash. They’re all a itsy-bitsy older,a bit jowlier. And they’re not doing the tent thing in different countries any more, they’ve got a permanent studio base in the Cotswolds, or not far from Clarkson’s house. So not such a grand tour after all then.
There will be travel: 14 countries over the season,starting with Switzerland, where they’re driving around corners fast and bickering. Jeremy plays the ghost of driving past, or in a petrol-guzzling Lamborghini; James represents the present with a hybrid Honda; Hammond (he doesn’t derive a first name) is the future,with a very quick all-electric car called a Rimac, which Jeremy calls the “lady shaver”. I judge he’s fairly pleased with this joke because he does it five times.
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Source: guardian.co.uk