The Grand Tour

2nd episode is very good.

Really enjoyed that

Patww79 wrote: »

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One of the American cousins made a hames of encoding the 5.1 surround audio tracks, loosing the one with the dialogue audio.
Other American cousins made a better job of it

James May on the RedBull 001: "It has 1 horse power per kilogram and no other car gets close to that"

Ehem................. The Koenigsegg One:1 ?

It's becoming a pain to watch.

Between audio issues etc.

Takes a while to get things working on a 3mb line

The burn n smoke was good.

Would never have been shown on TG, health &safety dept would have had a coronary.

ThisRegard wrote: »

There's 2 out there, one with the voice track missing, the other had the voice track but it's out by a millisecond or two.

There's a third version that has the audio fixed.

I think amazon could have paid off the people who did the unreal quality upload for the first week.

All they have to do is hit a few weeks in a row where it's a pain in the arse to pirate it and then people will justify the few euro a month for prime to watch it hassle free. Clever and I have no issue with that if it is the case.

I enjoyed the episode. I thought the army bit could have been cut a lot tighter which is a strange thing to be saying about the impeccably edited TG/TGT it almost felt like amazon have a maximum cost per minute set and they had spent X amount on this trip and had to make it last XX minutes.

What would have been better than the army thing IMO would have been the three of them attempting to build their own cars like the man with the 1:32 scale car. Especially if they then had to take said cars diffing at the slab.

Since they were doing the iterations of the army stuff over and over, surely they could have taken a different car each time? S8L, 760, LS 600, etc that VIPs generally would be ferried around in.. then had some of them be able to get away and not others and sort of turn it into a yano.. car review..

I thought it was good, I must have been in a good mood watching it because lots of people seem to have disliked it


One thing that is bothering me is the flanderization of James May. He used to be slow in the methodical sense not slow in the retarded sense of the word.

It used to be the small one the fat one and the slow one but now it's the american public favourite, the small quiet one, and the slow buffoon. They won't be able to keep up this new dynamic when on a long adventure type episode.. and if they do it could be incredibly painful

Jakey Rolling wrote: »

Wondered if the duff version was put out there by Amazon themselves to discourage/frustrate illicit downloaders. Who else would have access to the separate audio streams?

Anyone that saved it.

in fact if they saved a surround sound version, they would have 6 audio tracks.


The poor audio quality, is as a result of ppl rushing to make it available .

I was deeply disappointed when Charlize Theron didn't make it to the studio, other than that I enjoyed the episode. The non car bits are to be expected given the length of the show imo.

Hopefully the American won't make it to season 2

I really don't have the pulse of the nation

TBH I preferred the 2nd ep - I found it more traditional top gear (with a bit more oomph)

I started watching the out-of-sync version before I stopped after 5 mins as it was damn irritating. I waited before I found a better source.

I reckon that I would've had a completely different attitude towards the episode if I sat through the original version.

Missed a beat on the second one in my opinion, very little of it had to do with cars. I only reflected on it having finished it and a huge amount of air time was story or cut away, not actually a car. It was literally the Aston for about 5 mins and the S8. The James May segment really didn't make sense, seemed to be a favour to JBurg to let them film there, it had no narrative or real purpose (Bar a small jibe at May) The army bit was good but like has been said, could have been cut a lot tighter and the joke got old fairly quick.