It’s Official: Clarkson, Hammond And May’s New Show Will Be Called 'The Grand Tour'

After several months and thousands of pounds spent on research, Clarkson and co's Top Gear follow-up at last has a name

11 May 2016

It’s Official: Clarkson, Hammond And May’s New Show Will Be Called 'The Grand Tour'

Cue the drumroll, the much-anticipated new Amazon Prime show from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May at last has a name: The Grand Tour. The trio each commented about the new name on Twitter, with Hammond and May linking to the show’s new Facebook page.

The news comes just over two weeks after Clarkson claimed thousands had been spent on lawyer fees trying to find a name for the show, and while Gear Knobs was a very real possibility at one point, it was thrown out due to potential issues caused by having a name even remotely similar to Top Gear; the BBC still holds the rights to that name, of course.

So, the Grand Tour (GT for short) will come from a tent, which we will put up in a different location every week. Your town?;— jeremyclarkson

The BBC also holds the rights to The Stig, the Cool Wall and the term ‘Star in the Reasonably Priced Car’, which is perhaps why the old studio format has been ditched. Instead, the show will broadcast from a tent which will be set up in a different location every week - hence the ‘Tour’ bit of the name.

So, what do you think of the name, and the new travelling setup of the show?

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Its almost 20 likes per second on the Facebook page!

I just love the cool wall and hate to see it go

I feel like Grand Gears would have been better just because it’s gg (to the bbc)

GT is the opposite of TG (Top Gear), awesome

Stands for Top Gear Two

No one asked the swagon

What about “a star in a reasonably priced tent”? That could work.

Hopefully by the time it gets piloted i will have some sort of way to pay to watch it

I like this Grand ‘so called’ Tour

Grand… Let’s go on tour and bringing tents along. Maybe broadcast from camper Van, that would be a lot more exciting, and instead of famous drivers in reasonably priced car, try Who wants to become GT driver(read Stig) from working class people in area they are broadcasting from!