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The Grand Tour is coming back for Season 4… And ditching the tent

A statement from Amazon released on the official Grand Tour social media feeds has revealed that the Grand Tour will be returning for Season 4! Good news: After season 3 #TheGrandTour will be returning for an even bigger adventure. Bad News: We have a tent to sell. pic.twitter.com/GIz60N4ngA — The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) December 13,

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Richard Hammond Injured In Grand Tour Crash

Just proof that the Grand Tour trio is still hard at work, there’s news that Richard Hammond just injured himself during filming for the second season of the Amazon Prime exclusive show. It was reported by the BBC that: Hammond had been in Mozambique shooting the Amazon Prime show when he had the accident. His

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The Daily Mail Slammed The Grand Tour As A Failure Compared To Old Top Gear. They’re Completely Wrong.

The Daily Mail (TDM) recently reported that The Grand Tour bombed when compared to Top Gear. TDM was specifically referring to the older version of Top Gear when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were the hosts. Here’s why they are completely wrong. On Febuary 8th, in the article linked above, TDM claimed that

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The Grand Tour Boys Clear Things Up About New Top Gear And Chris Evans’ Firing

The first season of The Grand Tour is now finally over, and if want to catch our coverage of the show you can head over here. Recently the Boys, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, just went on an interview answering various questions. The answers were, as expected, very hilarious. Ranging from their favorite cars,

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James May’s First Appearance On Top Gear Shows He Has Never Changed

We’ve all come to know and love Top Gear’s, now The Grand Tour’s, slowest presenter. From his strange taste in sweaters to his sensible driving style, James May rounds out the trio. James’ appreciation for cars like the Fiat Panda or Dacia Sandero keeps us grounded in an automotive reality. Although James catches a lot of

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The Grand Tour’s Dumb Fight At The O.K. Coral Review

The Grand Tour’s episode 10 titled “Dumb Fight at the O.K. Coral” is now available for your viewing pleasure on Amazon Prime. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May flew over to Nashville, Tennessee for this episode and came out alive! We gave it a watch and baked the following SPOILER filled cake for you. And

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Leaked Details About The Grand Tour Loch Ness Episode

It’s a bit early to get details on The Grand Tour’s episode airing on January 20th (two episodes away). However, we’ve come across some juicy details that we can’t help but share. According to The Press And Journal, they’ve got details about the show that has not been shared anywhere else. Even Amazon has not listed

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Behind The Scenes Of The Grand Tour On Board HMS Richmond

The Boys got to play Battleship for real at the end of episode 9, “Berks To The Future.” If you haven’t seen the episode you can catch up with our review and see our thoughts there. Basically, James May and Jeremy Clarkson got on board the HMS Richmond, a type 23 Frigate for the UK’s

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Watch Clarkson, Hammond, And May Play Forza Horizon 3. They’re Completely Awful

The Grand Tour trio are basically three old men that are very good at reviewing cars and acting like thirteen year old boys. But in contrast, they’re completely awful at driving video games. During a livestream on twitch.tv, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May piloted various cars like the Nissan GTR and the Mazda MX-5

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Here’s What We Think Of The “Berks To The Future” Episode

Episode 9 of The Grand Tour’s inaugural season is now available. This one comes to you from Stuttgart, Germany, so you can expect the Boys to tell German inside jokes and innuendos. But is the rest of the “Berks To The Future” episode any good? Read through our review, and experience the downforce as we’ve put

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VIDEO: This Is A Reminder To BBC Of How Good Top Gear Used To Be

Someone just put together some of the funniest clips of Top Gear. No, this is not the new Top Gear. This is Top Gear between 2002 and 2015, the creative offspring of Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman. Between those years the Top Gear trio consisting of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May managed to

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REVIEW: Don’t Watch The Grand Tour Special, You Will Die From Laughing

We gave a summary of the first part of “The Beach (Buggy) Boys”, The Grand Tour’s first ever 2-part special, in this post. Now that both parts are available on Amazon Prime, we figured we provide our honest review of the entire thing right now. But beware, there are SPOILERS, spoilers so massive GT3 cars would

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It’s Official, Say Goodbye To Another Piece Of Top Gear

Top Gear hasn’t been at its tip top shape lately. With Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May gone from the BBC’s employment roster, the aging show was forced to recruit new faces for season 23. With those changes included the revamp of the old Top Gear test track, which they’ve ravaged several sections to include

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Summary Of The First Grand Tour Special: The Beach (Buggy) Boys Part 1

You saw the teaser and the trailer, “The Beach (Buggy) Boys” is The Grand Tour’s very first two-part special, and we were promised a two hour adventure of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May trekking along the Namibian desert. Part one has recently aired and was it any good? Read on to find out

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The Boys Go On An Adventure. But First They Must Build It

We are just hours away from the first ever Grand Tour 2 part special. We won’t see the traditional Grand Tour tent being set up here. We won’t see any “Conversation Street” or “Celebrity Brain Crash” (Thank God…) Instead we will see the Boys go on an African adventure in Namibia, racing their beach buggies. We’ve

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Jeremy Clarkson Stirring Up More Controversy

Back on Christmas Eve while we were enjoying our eggnog, sharing stories with friends and family, and also enjoying the hell out of the “Happy Finnish Christmas” episode (which showcased the best film ever made by these guys), our favorite British archetype, Jeremy Clarkson, sent out a tweet wishing everyone a happy Christmas: “Happy Christmas

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Top Gear Creates A Trailer For Season 24, Reminding Everyone That They Still Have A Show

After a dismal Season 23, the new rebooted Top Gear has been busy filming for their second season. Under the leadership of a new Top Gear trio, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid are seen in the latest trailer performing silly car antics, reminding everyone that they still have a show. The BBC have

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VIDEO: The Grand Tour’s 2-Part Special Will Remind You Of The Very Best Of Old Top Gear

The Grand Tour is now halfway through its first season on Amazon Prime and it has been a hell of a ride. Expectations were high as there was much hype around the return of the trio and that Amazon was paying so much more for the show. It’s safe to say that episode after episode

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Richard Hammond’s Comments From The Latest Grand Tour Episode Are The Show’s Most Controversial Yet

If you saw The Grand Tour’s first Christmas special titled “Happy Finnish Christmas” then you probably saw one of the best film segments ever filmed in The Grand Tour (and also Top Gear if you asked us). However, there were a lot of awkward moments that we considered to be “filler” just to fill the

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REVIEW: Happy Finnish Christmas. The Grand Tour Just Gave Top Gear The Biggest Burn Yet

The sixth episode of The Grand Tour comes from snowy Finland, which is appropriate given that it’s The Grand Tour’s very first Christmas special. Does this Christmas special with Clarkson, Hammond, and May live up to our expectations? Read on to find out our SPOILER injected review: Let’s first start by saying that this may just be

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The Grand Tour’s ‘Moroccan Roll’ Timed Lap Is A Lie

In the “Moroccan Roll” episode of The Grand Tour we got to see Jeremy Clarkson and his Alfa Romeo 4C, Richard Hammond with his Mazda MX-5 Miata, and James May in his Zenos E10S, driving through a movie studio in Morocco. In it we got to see the Game of Thrones set and sets from

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VIDEO: Kia’s Upcoming Sports Sedan Reveals That We Have A Lot To Be Excited For

Kia making a sports sedan isn’t a completely breaking news story. We’ve mentioned before that Kia has been setting their sights on BMW and Audi with their very own sports sedan. The project code named, “CK”, will most likely share the same powertrain as the ones used in the new Genesis brand’s G80 and G90 sedans. Given that

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This Statement By Jeremy Clarkson Has Animal Rights Activists Upset

The latest Grand Tour episode “Moroccan Roll” had the boys testing a series of hardcore two-seater sports cars in the North African desert. The most prominent portion of the episode was Clarkson’s, Hammond’s, and May’s attempt to once and for all settle the curb-weight score via a rudimentary Weigh-Bridge, where the two-seater sports cars were weighed

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REVIEW: Moroccan Roll Episode Proves Not All Of The Grand Tour Is Scripted

With five episodes in its bag, The Grand Tour has drawn plenty of criticism about the show’s format; how it feels a bit too scripted and just a rehash of old Top Gear. We’d like to tell those critics to shut up for a second, and to not take yourself or the show too seriously. For us

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BREAKING: Amazon Prevents Major Controversy By Censoring The Grand Tour

It didn’t take long before Amazon Prime’s show, The Grand Tour, to get its fair share of controversies. Already, people are upset about the latest episode where Richard Hammond gets stuffed into the bumper of an Audi TT, reflecting how it can be another way for “Immigrants to get into Britain.” Now that Amazon Prime is

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See Jay Leno’s Jet Powered Car Disassemble Itself At 130 MPH

Jay Leno’s got a car show called Jay Leno’s Garage, and when you’re not busy watching Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May in The Grand Tour, you should really consider giving Jay a watch. He may just be America’s best attempt at being Jeremy Clarkson. In this latest episode Jay invites astrophysicist Neil deGrasse

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Four Guys Trying To Be Clarkson, Hammond, and May, Is Way Better Than New Top Gear

If you’ve never heard of The Try Guys, they are four dudes (Eugene Lee Yang, Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, and Zach Kornfeld) hired by Buzzfeed, to put on a web series where they are thrown into different scenarios to ‘try’ them out. This time they were inspired by The Grand Tour show, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard

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We’ve Created A Drinking Game For The Grand Tour. Prepare To Be Wasted.

Whether you love the Grand Tour or hate it, Shifting Lanes has created a way to make the show even better. Instead of just watching the show you can now play an interactive game that includes your passion for beer and other fine spirits and where I come from that’s called a win-win. So without

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Conan O’Brien Shocks His Passenger While Driving In A BMW i8

Conan O’Brien, late night show host of ‘Conan’ on TBS, just got his hands on a BMW i8, and he is seen in the video below taking it up to very high speeds on the Autobahn in Germany. He took the hybrid supercar beyond 140 miles per hour but it wasn’t the speed that had us in

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The Grand Tour’s Enviro-Mental Episode Was Literally A Load Of Crap

The fourth episode of The Grand Tour is out and the Boys tackle another challenge filled adventure. This time they attempted to make a completely ‘Green’ vehicle in an episode titled “Enviro-Mental.” Was it any good? Read on in our SPOILER filled review right below: Literally, this episode was a bit shitty. Figuratively, it was mostly good.

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James May Hints At Quitting The Grand Tour

A good thing can’t last forever, just take a look at Top Gear between the years of 2002-2015. Now it looks like we have an indication as to when one of The Grand Tour‘s Boys will call it quits, even though the series has just gone through a couple of episodes. James May just shared on

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Clarkson’s Giant Head Appears In Stone Form. Sends Twitter To A Frenzy

Here’s a strange one for you: Twitter has gone crazy over a giant stone bust of Jeremy Clarkson being shipped on a truck bed. We haven’t been able to verify whether this is actually Clarkson in statue form but it sure does look a whole hell of a lot like him. Just take a look

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The Boys Open Up About The American, The Show, And What You Can Expect In The Future

This one is a long 17 minute interview by Fox News of Richard Hammond and James May. In it they speak at length about the show so far, what they think of The American, and also some of the differences between having Amazon as a boss as opposed to the BBC. They also spoke for

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One Of The Boys Is Tired Of Promoting The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is out and in full force. They’ve got several episodes under their belt and have succeeded to smash a streaming record and gave plenty for the BBC to live in fear. However, this doesn’t mean they can stop promoting their show and themselves all over the internet. They do have a side

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Someone Has Taken The Eboladrome And Already Put It In A Video Game

If you haven’t watched The Grand Tour yet and are able to get it through Amazon Prime, what’s wrong with you? For those of you still waiting, get it in December and watch the whole series. It’s awesome so far. What’s also awesome is that the boys have a new test track. It’s called the

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The Grand Tour Episode 3 Is Damn Near Perfect

After a less than stellar second episode, The Grand Tour blasted their way back to their home in North Yorkshire, where the boys grew up near the fishing port of Whitby. How did the show go? Read our SPOILER ridden review of “Opera, Art and Donuts” right below: This is where we find out what The Grand

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Early Viewing Figures Confirm The BBC Has A Lot To Worry About With The Grand Tour

The BBC is gigantic, about 308 million viewers spread out globally in 2015 to be exact, according to this report by themselves. So it’s fairly disappointing to hear that their once impressive Top Gear show has been reduced to a dismal 4.4 million viewers under the watch of Chris Evans for its debut episode of Series

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Jeremy Clarkson Just Took A Dump On The Audi A4 With One Quick Remark

When you’re Jeremy Clarkson, the words you say have some real weight behind it. If you don’t believe that, just take a look at all of the controversies he has generated within the past decade. He has offended Germans by suggesting that their turn signals look like Hitler salutes, he has offended Mexicans by implying they’re

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Former Stig Ben Collins Just Trashed The Grand Tour’s “The American” With One Brutal Picture

The Grand Tour has some room for improvement. Episode two was a bit of a flop, but it’s a new show and it’s to be expected that there will be growing pains, no matter how long the boys have been together. That being said, many people are not really enjoying “The American,” The Grand Tour’s

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The Grand Tour’s Homecoming Will Prove This Show Will Succeed

So episode two was a bit of a flop. So what? People are forgetting that, even thought the boys have been together for years, this is a new show and there will be growing pains. Clarkson, Hammond, and May just released the trailer for their 3rd episode and it looks like it’s going to be

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The McLaren 570GT Taught Me Everything I Know About Supercars

The fact that I was even allowed to drive a McLaren is still blowing my mind 4 weeks later. I drove a freaking McLaren. A dream I’ve had since I was a 9 year old kid as I vacantly stared into the void-in-my-soul that is the McLaren F1 I will never own, came true. Though

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Jeremy Clarkson Hints That You Might Get Disappointed With The Grand Tour Again

The first episode of The Grand Tour exceeded everyone’s already very high expectations of the new show. Everyone except for someone at the BBC and Jenson Button, to be exact. With the first episode out of the way expectations for the second episode was also very high. However, when we saw the second episode we were

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Episode 2 Will Give BBC’s Top Gear A Fighting Chance

The trailer for the second episode of The Grand Tour promised an epic adventure of big guns, big Aston Martins, and drifting adventures in South Africa. The second episode has now been released on Amazon Prime videos and did it meet our expectations? Read the SPOILER ridden review below. Without a doubt the Top Gear

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Grand Tour’s New Trailer Proves The Second Episode Will Be Better Than The First

The first episode of the highly anticipated Grand Tour show has been out for almost a week and it has been shown to break Amazon’s premier streaming record. Despite the glowing reviews from almost everyone, there have been some slight jabs from the likes of the BBC and Formula 1 driver Jenson Button. If they weren’t

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Jenson Button’s Review Of The Grand Tour Will Piss Off Every Single Fan.

Wow, Jenson. This is cold. Jenson Button is one of our favotire F1 drivers. Well used to be. Not because of what he said, but he quite literally just retired form the sport after an excellent career. During that time he was featured on Top Gear a few times with Clarkson, Hammond, and May. Jeremy

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The Numbers Are In. The Grand Tour Broke Every Amazon Premiere Streaming Record.

We can’t say this is much of a surprise given how popular Clarkson, Hammond, and May truly are, but this is seriously impressive. When The Grand Tour premiered last Friday, everyone seemed to enjoy it, including us here at Shifting Lanes who gave it a rousing review. Personally, I would give it a 4.5/5 stars:

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DriveTribe’s Website Trailer Looks Just As Good As The Grand Tour. Launches November 28th.

DriveTribe, for those of you that have been living under a rock, is the new auto enthusiast focused online community from Clarkson, Hammond, and May that’s set to becoming one of the biggest auto websites…IN THE WORLD [said in Clarkson voice]. Sorry couldn’t help myself there. What DriveTribe aims to do is focus on the

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Owner Of Netflix Confirms The Grand Tour Actually Cost Way More Than We Thought

When The Grand Tour was announced to be coming to Amazon Instant Video, we knew the budget would increase when compared to the famously tight wallet of the BBC. There were initial reports of it being 10 times as much as the BBC budget, which was rumored to be about £10 million GBP per year.

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The BBC’s Review Of The Grand Tour Will Make Fans Angry

The first Grand Tour episode is in the bag and if you haven’t seen it you are really missing out on a great piece of automotive entertainment. If for some reason you aren’t able to watch the premium Amazon Prime show, you can head over to this link and catch a thorough summary of the

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Was The Grand Tour Worth The Wait? You Bet Your Ass It Was

SPOILER ALERT! The moment is here and the first episode does not disappoint! Below you will find a breakdown of the entire first episode of The Grand Tour. You’ve been waiting and you’ve been patient. You’ve earned the right to enjoy this episode thoroughly and you certainly WILL! The opening of the very first episode,

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