I think one of the things that killed Jeremy's car was the valves burned out. Had a Chevy Cavalier that had the exact same symptoms and sounds when it died on the highway. However that thing had so many issues, who really knows...
Going to miss the trio when they're gone, doesn't matter if the show is script, or if some episodes aren't the best, just enjoying the Three while they're still around.
Does anyone remember some time ago when one Jeremy Clarkson crushed a Maserati Bi-Turbo on a show on the BBC for being, “an affront to one of the best badges in the business?”
What I loved about top gear was how natural it felt. The jokes were funny and the things they did were unexpected and when an accident happens it legitimately feel like an accident. Yes some parts of top gear was scripted but the grand tour was just too much. There are funny moments , but there many moments where the jokes and accidents seems like it's been planned and scripted for months. This is still ten times better than the new top gear but not as good as when the trio was in the old top gear. Relax on the script, let this remarkable trio do their magic.
I see people using the tired argument that "Top Gear was also scripted". While Top Gear had scripted elements, it didn't feel as forced as The Grand Tour. The difference between the two is that while watching Top Gear it still feels natural for the most part, where as while watching The Grand Tour, everything feels like it has been carefully planned out by a team of writers for weeks and weeks before the trio say and do it. It doesn't suit their style and I hope they drop it and return to their roots in season 2.
Mario Funnily enough I just finished watching this particular epiosde before you commented and I have some points to address in regards to its faults and what they're doing wrong. I feel like with Top Gear, they captured the feel of the locations they travelled too and the true opinions of the boys and their cars by focusing on the smaller things like conversations and true unscripted reactions etc. Where as in The Grand Tour, they skip all that, as well as the traveling long distance stuff and just show the action packed parts, which in reality is the stuff that would appeal to 6 year olds only. It ends up creating a disconnected feel, as if each episode has no real point or purpose, its just collecting the bits they think were most entertaining and shoving them together and if that ruins the flow of the "story" so to speak or the premise, they don't really care. And its a shame because you get a real sense that they are truly loving the locations they're going to, and relishing the road trips and all, but we don't get to see it. It skips over all of that where as Top Gear never did. I don't know I'm making sense but what I'm really trying to say is there is no sincerity or passion in it anymore, it just feels overly scripted, because it is, and thus lifeless and boring.
Mario It's also like they've given up. You can literally see stunt doubles as the cars drive past quickly in the final scene of this recent epiosde. They're not even trying to make it feel natual. They're embracing the over-scripted style as if we're all giving such wonderful feedback on it or something. It's utter rubbish and it really makes me miss seeing the trio in natural scenarios where they can play off eachothers banter and have actual arguments and conversations. Amazon have got it all wrong. It's not action packed hollywood cinematography and direction we like, its those 3 being themselves and reviewing cars. That's it. Don't bloody over-complicate it. It's that simple. Amazon have been lucky enough to have the trio sign on with them, and so as James May would say, "don't cock it up".
Mario Yeah it's definitely watchable, but just not massively enjoyable. The fact that Top Gear was so good also plays a part in The Grand Tours disappointment.
Do keep in mind the BBC are forcing them into submission, causing the heavy scripting for the first season, I've explained it many times on other videos but basically they NEED to avoid saying MANY MANY things. For example, James still cannot say "Cock" and they still cant say the African scenery is beautiful... I would say to give it a chance to go back to what we're used to in season 2.
Xaines That's no excuse for scripting everything, it just isn't. Essentially you're saying because they aren't allowed to say a few words and do a few things, that they can't be natural anymore at all, and that they must script everything. And I'm going to give the show another chance with season 2 because I love the trio and their time on Top Gear too much to just disregard them after one season. But so far, it's been more disappointing than enjoyable, and they can do SO much better.
Faaark i laugh every time at them. So glad they are coming back for a 4th and 5th TGT series, albeit they are all road trips, which is what they do best!
Jeremy said he hated the Biturbo, he said it years ago on top gear, when he showed us what he thought of it by dropping a dumpster onto it from a crane
00:50 - 'Toyota Pious'? Yes, indeed. That's not a mistake; it's a droll pun on the word 'Prius' for a reason that RUclips's censorship algorithms forbid me from explaining further. 🙄
Jeremy's biturbo's startup sound made the whole episode XD he should've given it to me instead of abandoning it on the docks, just so I could hear that baby start ( hopefully ) every day!
I really hoped James would drive to the british embassy in Paris (which would be quicker from Le Havre than Portsmouth by ferry) or by ship to the canal islands and so would technically be on english soil before the others without racing them :D Or something "clever" like that because he was so smug.
It's pissing down in the north of France, and Jezza says "I arrived bright and early." All right early. That's "Bright" for the coast of the North Sea.
This was sort of like a old school top gear challenge video those were what made the old show great yes it's scripted but so was the most top gear challenges in a way
They should have got the hell off the British hating BBC PC channels years ago. Well done guys hope your ratings go through the stratosphere and you make millions.
Remember Chrysler's TC by Maserati, the Maserati that didn't use a K-Car LeBaron body but might as well have? Well the Biturbo didn't use a standard K-Car Aries/Reliant sedan body but might as well have.
the starter noise sounds like it came from the soundtrack of the original "road warrior" movie when max and the gyrocopter pilot had to recover that mack fuel lorry...
i love how Hammond slowly backs off haha
Get out! Save yourself!!
It's Ewan from failrace!
Not to mention, freezing in the name of style...
You would too when you hear that noise
i know, the last time he heard a noise like that he ended up in nappies for 6 months.
I dunno why but Jeremy's car starting up is probably the funniest thing I've ever heard. :-D
and one of the fakest. Obviously a sound effect.
@@agt155 his second hand biturbo S starts like that
and sometimes it doesn't start
YEEEEEEEEEES.
It sounds like Jeremy‘s laugh
*“You wanna hear this baby fire up”*
"Get out! Save yourself!"
That starter did sound a bit like someone had taken a gyroscope and wound it up with a piece of nylon, though.
(screeching)
Yeeeeeessssss
Honestly what the hell was that noise; slipping belts ?!
that hammond face when jerremy start the engine XD
legitimate terror
"It's only done 24000 miles"
I reckon that means it probably has had it's head gasket replaced about 8 times, it is after all a Maserati Biturbo
The odometer has done 24000 miles.
It did every mile on a new engine and turbo's
Hahahahah so funny porco il tuo dio, stop with this nonsense memes about maserati.
“You wanna hear this baby fire up”
Baby Squealing Noises
Hammond slowly walks backwards
Re 8 Flashbacks
Thank you, I'm blind so can't see the video, and need someone to type out what happens.
Hearing that engine start up absolutely killed me, funniest sound I've heard all week
It's right up there with World's Most Pathetic Elevator Chime
The three have real chemistry anyway I hope next series they are allowed to show it more and don't have to learn so many lines.
Agreed. The funniest moments this season were the unscripted improv moments where their colors truly shined...
Head like a fucking orange
There show has always been extremely scripted
Let's see mattfox14's little program when that comes out then... sick of him.
@mattfox14 you never see an old man 'avin a twix.
That wasn't the Biturbo's door groaning, it was Clarkson's back
It was both
I think one of the things that killed Jeremy's car was the valves burned out. Had a Chevy Cavalier that had the exact same symptoms and sounds when it died on the highway. However that thing had so many issues, who really knows...
"Get out! Save yourself!" Lol!!
1:43 "get out save yourself!!"
Says the man who perfected the Swiss hill climb. 🤣🤣
Didn't jeremy hate the Bi-Turbo so much he dropped a skip on it?
hiddenbutdeadly yeah I was thinking that. Wasn't it when he tested the MC-12
Joe Watson He hated them both didn't he.
his exact words "it was an affront to one of the best badges...in the busness."
Yes but fortunately the skip wasn't damaged
"An affront to one of the best badges in the business."
Going to miss the trio when they're gone, doesn't matter if the show is script, or if some episodes aren't the best, just enjoying the Three while they're still around.
I think the Maserati Biturbo looks awesome.
Jeremy was right about the 430 being another Bi-Turbo. I looked up "Maserati 430" and the first thing that popped up was "Bi-Turbo."
You wanna hear this baby fire up?
*intense asthmatic wheezing sounds*
"Toyota Pious"
XD
I kept laughing mostly the whole episode after hearing Jeremy fired up his Maserati.
Does anyone remember some time ago when one Jeremy Clarkson crushed a Maserati Bi-Turbo on a show on the BBC for being, “an affront to one of the best badges in the business?”
What I loved about top gear was how natural it felt. The jokes were funny and the things they did were unexpected and when an accident happens it legitimately feel like an accident. Yes some parts of top gear was scripted but the grand tour was just too much. There are funny moments , but there many moments where the jokes and accidents seems like it's been planned and scripted for months. This is still ten times better than the new top gear but not as good as when the trio was in the old top gear. Relax on the script, let this remarkable trio do their magic.
That Biturbo's ignition is like a ghost desperately trying to pry itself out of the engine
I see people using the tired argument that "Top Gear was also scripted". While Top Gear had scripted elements, it didn't feel as forced as The Grand Tour. The difference between the two is that while watching Top Gear it still feels natural for the most part, where as while watching The Grand Tour, everything feels like it has been carefully planned out by a team of writers for weeks and weeks before the trio say and do it. It doesn't suit their style and I hope they drop it and return to their roots in season 2.
Mario Funnily enough I just finished watching this particular epiosde before you commented and I have some points to address in regards to its faults and what they're doing wrong. I feel like with Top Gear, they captured the feel of the locations they travelled too and the true opinions of the boys and their cars by focusing on the smaller things like conversations and true unscripted reactions etc. Where as in The Grand Tour, they skip all that, as well as the traveling long distance stuff and just show the action packed parts, which in reality is the stuff that would appeal to 6 year olds only. It ends up creating a disconnected feel, as if each episode has no real point or purpose, its just collecting the bits they think were most entertaining and shoving them together and if that ruins the flow of the "story" so to speak or the premise, they don't really care. And its a shame because you get a real sense that they are truly loving the locations they're going to, and relishing the road trips and all, but we don't get to see it. It skips over all of that where as Top Gear never did. I don't know I'm making sense but what I'm really trying to say is there is no sincerity or passion in it anymore, it just feels overly scripted, because it is, and thus lifeless and boring.
Mario It's also like they've given up. You can literally see stunt doubles as the cars drive past quickly in the final scene of this recent epiosde. They're not even trying to make it feel natual. They're embracing the over-scripted style as if we're all giving such wonderful feedback on it or something. It's utter rubbish and it really makes me miss seeing the trio in natural scenarios where they can play off eachothers banter and have actual arguments and conversations.
Amazon have got it all wrong. It's not action packed hollywood cinematography and direction we like, its those 3 being themselves and reviewing cars. That's it. Don't bloody over-complicate it. It's that simple. Amazon have been lucky enough to have the trio sign on with them, and so as James May would say, "don't cock it up".
Mario Yeah it's definitely watchable, but just not massively enjoyable. The fact that Top Gear was so good also plays a part in The Grand Tours disappointment.
Do keep in mind the BBC are forcing them into submission, causing the heavy scripting for the first season, I've explained it many times on other videos but basically they NEED to avoid saying MANY MANY things. For example, James still cannot say "Cock" and they still cant say the African scenery is beautiful...
I would say to give it a chance to go back to what we're used to in season 2.
Xaines That's no excuse for scripting everything, it just isn't. Essentially you're saying because they aren't allowed to say a few words and do a few things, that they can't be natural anymore at all, and that they must script everything.
And I'm going to give the show another chance with season 2 because I love the trio and their time on Top Gear too much to just disregard them after one season. But so far, it's been more disappointing than enjoyable, and they can do SO much better.
Faaark i laugh every time at them.
So glad they are coming back for a 4th and 5th TGT series, albeit they are all road trips, which is what they do best!
Absolutely beautiful motors the Maserati Biturbo, both but I prefer JCs. Reminds me of my Lancia HP VOX.
1:40 always got me haha oh wow Richards face
I was enjoying the race to England till I realsied that it was scripted
Robho as scripted as when they were racing in Albania and may drove off the cliff, stop bitching. it's nothing new
But it's so obviously scripted it almost physically hurts. You can almost hear the paper rustling.
***** so stop watching if it's physically hurting you . No one is forcing you to
All of Top Gear was scripted. Nobody complained...
McYami cause it was British. It was OK then
That Maserati Biturbo looks like a Lancia Delta Integrale, doesn't it?
"Less than you'd pay for a 6 year old Toyota Pious" xD Jeremy is a national treasure!
“Get out, save yourself!”😂
Jeremy said he hated the Biturbo, he said it years ago on top gear, when he showed us what he thought of it by dropping a dumpster onto it from a crane
OMG I was thinking that same thing, I'm like didn't he destroy that same type of car 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sound of the doors was literally epic
like a haunted house lol
hammond's reaction is epic :D
This was brilliant, like the old top gear!
00:50 - 'Toyota Pious'? Yes, indeed. That's not a mistake; it's a droll pun on the word 'Prius' for a reason that RUclips's censorship algorithms forbid me from explaining further. 🙄
1:41 the sound of diarrhoea 😂
But seriously, as the Shamal, they are aggressively gorgeous.
Love the wheels on Jeremy's car.
As a kid, I lusted after, and taped a picture of a Maserati 430 advert on my wall. I've only ever seen one in real life. Thanks so much for this.
😂 this is as real life as a poster you’ve not actually seen it
Jeremy's biturbo's startup sound made the whole episode XD he should've given it to me instead of abandoning it on the docks, just so I could hear that baby start ( hopefully ) every day!
dat door creak tho.
Okay im about to say it , Clarkson and his Maserati’s brake failure since Top Gear is just awesome.
I really hoped James would drive to the british embassy in Paris (which would be quicker from Le Havre than Portsmouth by ferry) or by ship to the canal islands and so would technically be on english soil before the others without racing them :D Or something "clever" like that because he was so smug.
The red one is a very good looking car from that angle
the wheels on the red car are Beautiful!
It's pissing down in the north of France, and Jezza says "I arrived bright and early." All right early. That's "Bright" for the coast of the North Sea.
How about Bentley Arnage, Brooklands, Azure...and Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph. Love their peculiar point of view...
It's called being nationalist hypocrites. Any other country does it: shame on them! England does it: NO BIG DEAL!!
This was sort of like a old school top gear challenge video those were what made the old show great yes it's scripted but so was the most top gear challenges in a way
Erano due auto bellissime,specie la 430!
RIP starter motor
Love the show. Love James "Disability knob" lol. best episode ever
That noise
They should have got the hell off the British hating BBC PC channels years ago. Well done guys hope your ratings go through the stratosphere and you make millions.
Remember Chrysler's TC by Maserati, the Maserati that didn't use a K-Car LeBaron body but might as well have? Well the Biturbo didn't use a standard K-Car Aries/Reliant sedan body but might as well have.
Yeah, this "cheap car challenge" wasn't what we expected.... smh
They REALLY need to relax the scripting.
Kronos
It had to be different to prevent BBC from suing.
I thought this was insta so i double tapped the like button
My mate got one new, but he is a Portugese Viscount (or would have been if they didn't all get sacked)
Another great episode!
the starter noise sounds like it came from the soundtrack of the original "road warrior" movie when max and the gyrocopter pilot had to recover that mack fuel lorry...
That startup sounded a bit like the startup of a Supermarine Spitfire's Merlin V12.
Hammond: "I dispute that." Well, it sure wouldn't be as interesting if they always agreed :P
Somehow I got this feeling that, a 'second hand' Maserati is still gonna cost more then my house.
imlove those channels that i never saw ON ANOTHER SHOW
It feels just like old top gear
Was it the door groaning or Clarkson's bones as he starts to get out of his version? :>)
I thought it was a cheap car challenge. But it was a race, and that too a very short one, they crossed a river.... that's it.
Bi turbo is so beautiful
Toyota Pius !! subtle but funny !
What episode is this? I wanna see it in full episode 😂
Old car+Excellent condition=Better then a brand new car
yes
Yeah, I could rewatch this episode.
Interesting profile picture
@@olssong7941 haha. CL C216 here ;)
1:40 goodness is he starting car or trying to DJ 🤔
That starter motor sounded like Sooty and Sweep having a barney.
Shamal is not the same car, it has two more cylinders...
Hamond bought this car in France
That start up...sounds like a zipper lol.
1:41 i died
:D
One of the best engine noises ever.
If only maserati took that engine and put it in a better looking car.
Superb 👌
What episode is this is from which season of The Grand Tour?
That thing makes the same noise my old vacuum clearer did before it died...
But wait. This is a Top Gear film originally. Does this mean old Top Gear is getting re-released as Grand Tour?
There might be something seriously wrong if on firing up, your car sounds like HypnoDisc
Best top gear was 2005-2012 era the challenges you can't compare to any others or grand tour
Maserati Biturbo: *identifies as Kazoo*
my cat didnt like that starting sound hahaha
So the car had the same gear lever as James's Mercedes in the Germany tour! Wonder why not as mocked now for it!
I thought it was gonna explode and then what a cool noise =P
starter sounds like an electric winch losing its war
Those rims on Jeremy's car... I'll give a lot for a set.
ardvark84 oz racing don't make them anymore but compomotive still do.
i used to be able to catch Biturbo's on bends in my Ford Escort convertible back in the 90's
reminds me of that bmw convertible on top gear
episode
clip taken from Series 1 episode 11
'the 430, Karif etc, they are all the same because they had not got any money so they just changed the name badge on the back' 😂
So good.
That starter motor was in such excruciating pain... Poor thing.
0:51 song?
What season & episode?
Such a pity the FIAT parts Bin was so extensively raided, done properly, they could have been such wonderful cars.
Hard to tell if that creaking was the car or Jeremy
I just watched a video where Jeremy dropped a skip on a Bi-Turbo... and now, he likes it?
Did you hear that he say he likes it? No you didn't... no where in that video does he say he likes it