Top Gear, a BBC phenomenon that won a Guinness record for hitting the astonishing global viewership of 350 million, was always a show about three men having fun. It all sounds rather ignominious till you remember that we live in a world where oafishness is now rewarded—especially by the Americans. The new show—titled, rather uncatchily, The Grand Tour—opens with extravagant spectacle. The cars are fine but Clarkson himself, who used to possess the cheek and verbal aplomb of a juvenile P.J. The montage at the head of The Grand Tour does promise explosions and machine-guns and carnage on a truly cinematic scale.

Source: Mint November 25, 2016 10:07 UTC