‘One for the Road’: Amazon’s ‘Grand Tour’ Drives Off into the Sunset

<![CDATA[Fans of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video know the arc of the series quite well at this point. The BBC’s Top Gear, originally a staid program discussing boot space and fuel economy amongst British cars, debuted in 1977, and ran until 2001. In the 1990s, Tory motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson, then sporting the most enormous Chia Head of permed hair that any man has ever worn, and spouting a million miles of car-related extremely un-PC hyperbole, emerged as the undisputed star of the program, until he left for solo projects in 1999. Top Gear, suffering declining ratings in his absence, was cancelled by the Beeb two years later.]]>