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The Grand Tour: Season 3 - 18th January 2019

peppermints

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Oct 25, 2017
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Seems like I always check out on the military stuff. Last week's started off strong but I lost interest quickly. Hopefully this week is better.
 
m23

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So far I've watched up to the special in Columbia, this season has an amazing start.
 
lucebuce

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The fourth episode used a track for the GLA faction from the OST of Command and Conquer: Generals.
 
jett

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Jim Clark short is one of the best things they've ever done, truly.
 
Skade

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Oct 28, 2017
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Yeah. The Jim Clark segment of episode 5 redeemed episode 4.

Wish it was longer.
 

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I'm going to miss those segments like the Jim Clark one and the Lancia one that happened seasons ago.

I legit couldn't care less about road car segments like the Alpine, Urus or any other, even the Mclaren Senna. But those history segments are almost always fantastic.
 
terrible

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Jim Clark segment really was fantastic. How cool would it be if they made a serious mini series on the history of cars and racing? I'd watch the hell out of that.
 
kanuuna

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Oct 26, 2017
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This Jim Clark bit from the latest episode and the Lancia vs Audi rivalry narrated by Clarkson from one of the earlier seasons are the best thing to have come out of this show.
 
dubc

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Oct 27, 2017
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I don't have much to add that hasn't been said already, but +1 on loving the Jim Clark piece. I need to re-watch the Senna piece they did back when, I think, it was still Top Gear.
 
torontoml

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I can't get this episode to work on my TVs prime video app. I get an insufficient bandwidth error and only for this specific episode, everything else including the previous episodes all work.
 
Brandson

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Oct 26, 2017
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I love it when they do historical bits. The 2wd Lancia rally championship bit from last season was also fantastic. Watch that if you haven't seen it.
 
Linus815

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Oct 29, 2017
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The Jim Clark segment was absolutely fantastic. I haven't really heard of him before so learning about his achievevments was fascinating. I also liked the car review segments, it's nice for the show to sometimes pretend to be a proper car show.
 
Laserbeam

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Oct 27, 2017
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I like this one quite a bit.

That electirc car segment was bonkers and the China stuff was lovely.

"You just look like you've got a submachine gun in a violin case" made me laugh very hard.
 
Linus815

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Daffy Duck said:
The Jim Clark segment was fantastic, I love it when they do those. I know the name but no idea of his achievements. Legendary.



Wait, they did a bit on Senna? I must have missed this, I don't remember it at all.
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They did the Senna segment in Top Gear. Season 15 episode 5 I think.

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Interestingly, Clarkson said before the season in an interview that the China episode would be shit, and that they had a miserable time with it (issues with production, extremely spicy food, extreme heat). So I had my expectations quite low. But I ended up really enjoying it. It was a great episode in my opinion. The only "eh" part was the passenger segment, but it was quite short anyway.
 
Carl2291

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The best part about the China episode is Chong Ching (sp?) and how fascinating that place seems to be, it looks futuristic, as well as how competent the Chinese seem to be with road building.
 

ThreePi

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Carl2291 said:
The best part about the China episode is Chong Ching (sp?) and how fascinating that place seems to be, it looks futuristic, as well as how competent the Chinese seem to be with road building.
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There is something fascinating about China being a country that expanded and advanced maybe too quickly. You have the obvious issues like the awful privacy issues, surveillance, and other human rights abuses. But when you look at some the engineer achievements you have to wonder "at what cost?" You see videos and stories of whole cities getting constructed in a relatively short amount of time, but no one moves in and they fall into disrepair. Are these things being built with the same quality of materials as they would in the west? After they're built, are they able to maintain them? Looking at that luxury car, yeah you could dump a whole lot of money to make this fancy car, but it doesn't actually seem all that good. Loved the episode, this season I feel has been the best of the three so far.
 
Nappuccino

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Oct 25, 2017
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Thought this week's felt like a classic episode.

And I couldn't get over how awesome that city was.
 
Jarrod38

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Oct 25, 2017
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Caught up on the two new episodes and both were great. I did find the China episode time be better.
 
Fitts

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Oct 25, 2017
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That car with the anime girl assistant is the most Era car I've ever seen.
 
Big-E

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I was going to get my Chinese driver license and it was going to be a written test. I don't know how they didn't have to take one.
 
Laserbeam

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Oct 27, 2017
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Loved the Scotland stuff in this new episode. What a gorgeous drive that bit at the end would have been. Goddamn, man.

I LOVE that Alfa GTV6
 
Linus815

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Oct 29, 2017
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Unexpected special. Didn't know there was going to be another one after the colombia one. And almost 90 minutes long too!

I loved the
American
cameos.
 
iFirez

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm not sure I've laughed as much as seeing Richard stuck trying to get through the window... brilliant stuff.
 
enzo_gt

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Oct 25, 2017
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For the old, non-UK gearheads:



He's absolutely right, and no wonder they (or at least the producer) low key supported FinalGear back in the day.
 
Frozenprince

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enzo_gt said:
For the old, non-UK gearheads:



He's absolutely right, and no wonder they (or at least the producer) low key supported FinalGear back in the day.
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Shit I used to watch the old episodes on FinalGear back in the day. Alex was a very nice guy.

Awful news, condolences to his family. 34 is far too young.
 
Strax

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Oct 28, 2017
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Me and my girlfriend watched and agreed it was the worst special they've ever done. I laughed maybe 3 times.
 
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