Is this their new top gear
Been watching those YouTube vids for months where they're trying to figure out the name for their new show. Is this what they chose?
shareThe short answer? Yes.
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Technically: Yes
Most likely: The Lawyers did*
(*I'm assuming, given the generic name name of the show, "The Grand Tour," contrasted with 2 of the more amusing names the guys were kicking around, "House of Cars" and "Gear Knobs" were nixed for being too close to an Amazon house propriety, and a sexual euphemism, respectively.)
I don't think House of Cars was a name they were ever considering, it was something the fans came up with when there was still talk they could go to Netflix.
shareI read the trio favoured Gearknobs, but there were way too many legal issues with that name...
shareJeremy especially has mentioned the Grand Tour, and the role of the GT car in more recent times, on multiple iterations of Top Gear. It's not some random generic name, but I assume they picked it partly for the historical sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means, or those of more humble origin who could find a sponsor. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transport in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage. Though primarily associated with the British nobility and wealthy landed gentry, similar trips were made by wealthy young men of Protestant Northern European nations on Continental Europe, and from the second half of the 18th century, by some South and North Americans.
Partly because they like GT cars and doing that sort of work (driving fast, a long ways, to somewhere interesting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tourer
A grand tourer (Italian: gran turismo) (GT) is a performance and luxury automobile capable of high speed and spirited long-distance driving. The most common format is a two-door coupé with either a two-seat or a 2+2 arrangement.
The term derives from the Italian phrase gran turismo, a tribute to the tradition of the grand tour, used to represent automobiles regarded as grand tourers, able to make long-distance, high-speed journeys in both comfort and style.
And in no small measure because of the format, not having a home studio but the show itself being a Grand Tour of the world.
Seems very sensible to me. I suspect the first two minutes of the first episode will explain it essentially exactly as that. I can hear Clarkson doing it, as he does when he explains the background of his historical shows. Like he did when it was announced:
“Thing is,” said Clarkson, “We'll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country, from a giant tent. It's a sort of "grand tour", if you like. So we've decided to call it 'The Grand Tour'.”share
It seem like the Hamster actually have become hamster, man this guy have let himself go
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