The Grand Throttle House Tour

[GG.]

I haven't managed to watch one of these yet but seems like I should give it a go.

[JonMad]

I watched most of the first episode. First GT episode I've ever watched (not a Clarkson fan).

It felt a bit forced, but..... scripted stuff inevitably does. It wasn't offensively forced, so I'll stick with it.

I did get annoyed that Thomas was going on about how the Corvette didn't sound like an American V8, didn't sound like other Corvettes, it sounded like a European V8, but at no point mentioned the phrases flat-plane or cross-plane. Is that considered too techy for the target audience?

I thought he did mention that, which I remember because I thought it was nicely geeky.

[Rich B]

i randomly watched ep6 first, i quite liked it. i find myself rooting for Francis to be good because he’s an actual car nerd - the other two are known quantities for presenting car stuff, so i’ve just accepted they’ll do the job well..

[Zonda_]

i randomly watched ep6 first, i quite liked it. i find myself rooting for Francis to be good because he’s an actual car nerd - the other two are known quantities for presenting car stuff, so i’ve just accepted they’ll do the job well..

His choice of car in episode 2, I think, seemed like it was actually his choice as he drives an old Merc SL in real life.