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Anyone watching it? I've enjoyed the first two episodes quite a bit. They got rid of the shouty red head guy, they got rid of Sabine, who I love but is horrible on camera, and they got rid of Eddie Jordan.

 

What's left is Chris Harris (my favorite automotive journalist) , Joey from Friends and Rory Ried. They're still struggling a little bit for chemistry but it's way better and much more like the show of old. I don't think you'll ever get the chemistry of the trio that is now Grand Tour but Top Gear has made a turn in the right direction and now has the presenters it should have had last year.

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He was the biggest surprise last season...he's actually pretty good and knows his stuff

 

He was a guest on there years ago. Didn't he have the fastest celebrity time on the test track?

 

He's appeared as a guest on a number of various car shows over the years. Definitely a car guy

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He was the biggest surprise last season...he's actually pretty good and knows his stuff

 

He has like a 100+ motorcycle collection that he has been accruing since the days he was on friends. I think it's mostly sport bikes and dirt bikes, some vintage stuff. I think I remember him doing some amateur racing or track days with WERA. I know he got the first Aprillia RSV NERA back in 2003.

 

His car collection is filled with boring exotics - 911 GT2, Ferrari whatevers, I mean don't get me wrong they are nice cars but it just seems like the same stuff any Hollywood actor buys. It's more interesting that he is a rabid formula 1 fan, and prior to Top Gear he was doing driver interviews for I think NBC (there is a really awkward one on youtube where he interviews Kimi Raikkonen).

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I get where you're going with this and pretty much agree, but GT2 was a bad example as it's pretty hard core when it comes to 911's and known as "The Widow Maker" for a reason.

 

I was waiting for someone to call me out on this ;) I think he also owns a Fiat x1/9 but mostly it's 360 and 458 ferraris and AMG mercedes. He's really more a bike guy.

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Pretty good, I was presently surprised. Loved Chris Harris on the FXX K segment.

 

+100. I cracked up when he talked about taking an alien on a hot lap to show his "little green friend" how they're coming about with this whole car thing. :lol:

 

Still one of my favorite Chris Harris' segment is the one on his Citroen 2CV. "Crash performance is, uhh.....middling to POOR..." Yeah, no shit. :lolguy:

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He has like a 100+ motorcycle collection that he has been accruing since the days he was on friends. I think it's mostly sport bikes and dirt bikes, some vintage stuff. I think I remember him doing some amateur racing or track days with WERA. I know he got the first Aprillia RSV NERA back in 2003.

 

His car collection is filled with boring exotics - 911 GT2, Ferrari whatevers, I mean don't get me wrong they are nice cars but it just seems like the same stuff any Hollywood actor buys. It's more interesting that he is a rabid formula 1 fan, and prior to Top Gear he was doing driver interviews for I think NBC (there is a really awkward one on youtube where he interviews Kimi Raikkonen).

 

I saw an interview with him and he listed some of his "pre-fame" cars and projects, and it read like a list of wheels we'd all be working. The fact that he had "project" cars just in itself marks him as a gearhead.

 

If I came into a huge wad of cash i'd probably buy a pile of bikes and a bunch of oddball exotics.

 

I really want Jay Leno's Doble Steamer

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