History YMMV / TheGrandTour

* TheScrappy: "The American", at least to some people. Obviously a replacement for The Stig (who is still stuck with ''Top Gear'') with none of the charm and a paltry amount of the skill. His segments basically revolve around him driving the car of the moment around the track, all the while complaining about how awful it is and how every car that isn't a super big powerhouse of a machine is a communist. A lot of ''Top Gear'' fans just wish they could have found someone better. Even Mike Skinner was not thrilled with the American; he left the show after complaining about how the character was not developed as promised.
** Acknowledged in Series 2 Episode 2, where Hammond notes that one of the reasons for the American's replacement is "because you all hated him".

* UnexpectedCharacter: The "Celebrity Face-Off" segment of "Oh Canada" aimed to find the world's fastest golfing enthusiast. Naturally, this meant pitting Rory [=McIlroy=], a world champion golfer, against... '''''Paris Hilton'''''. Turns out it's hard to not be a golfing enthusiast when your family owns ''fifty'' golf courses (and also in keeping with show, several unusual & expensive supercars).

** During a race from Manhattan Jeremy is caught in traffic due to an auto accident. When the crashed car is revealed it is a horrifically twisted and totaled sedan with its entire roof gone.

** During the race in "Oh Canada", as Clarkson tries to back out of a dead end, we see the boat he's towing with his F150 beginning to go over the edge of a cliff. [[note]]Obviously, it doesn't go all the way over, but eventually, Clarkson destroys the boat entirely and just puts pieces of in the cab to make it to the finish.[[/note]]

** During the race in "Oh Canada", as Clarkson tries to back out of a dead end, we see the boat he's towing with his F150 beginning to go over the cliff. [[note]]Eventually, Clarkson destroys the boat entirely and just puts pieces of in the cab to make it to the finish.[[/note]]

** Even more horrific, it's admitted that the car, even after that, due to thermal runoff, was still burning, and could potentially be ''still'' burning now.

** Hammond's Rimac crash. Unlike Hammond's dragster crash in 2016 when filming Series 9 of ''Top Gear'', which the presenters agreed not to joke about and have only mentioned sparingly since, Clarkson and May mock Hammond regarding the Rimac crash at every available opportunity. Even ''Rimac themselves'' got in on the act: in "Bah Humbug-atti", the Series 2 Christmas episode, Hammond is presented with the watch he had been wearing at the time of the crash, fire-damaged and scratched, but still working, in a display case. Rimac retrieved it from the wreckage and engraved the case with the words "Built by the Swiss, perfected by the British".

** In August 2017, Clarkson was taken to hospital with pneumonia. Given that he was in Majorca [[note]]The capital of the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain, an popular resort and holiday destination[[/note]] at the time, Hammond and May refuse to believe this and insist that he was just badly hungover after a drinking binge, and mock him about it at every chance they get. May, (much like the gag with Hammond's watch), during "Bah-humbug-atti" gives Clarkson a 'gift' of a t-shirt of the X-rays of his infected lungs. [[note]]Which, actually, showed a quite serious infection. Clarkson ultimately spent nearly two weeks in hospital, and took nearly two months to fully recover.[[/note]]

** During a race from Manhattan Jeremy is caught in traffic due to an auto accident. When the crashed car is revealed it is an honestly pretty horrifically twisted and totaled sedan with it's entire roof gone.

** Although the cameras cut out after he went through the rail, Richard's cry of "I've crashed!" and the subsequent bone-crunching noises as his car flips down the hill afterward are gut-churning all on their own.

* NightmareFuel: Clarkson's ecologically-sustainable car, made entirely from dead animal parts. Framed in bones and filled in with skins, it is beyond disturbing the first time you see it, and only gets worse as it starts ''rotting''. It causes a sound guy to lose his lunch off screen and Clarkson to eventually do the same.

* TheScrappy: "The American", at least to some people. Obviously a replacement for The Stig (who is still stuck with ''Top Gear'') with none of the charm and a paltry amount of the skill. His segments basically revolve around him driving the car of the moment around the track, all the while complaining about how awful it is and how every car that isn't a super big powerhouse of a machine is a communist. A lot of ''Top Gear'' fans just wish they could have found someone better.

** There are those who believe that formula the three presenters had settled into while on ''Top Gear'' had been growing stale for years and that it's only become all the more awesome with this show due to Amazon providing them with significant freedom to do as they please while, on the other hand, there are those that praise that the BBC was constantly reigning in the trio's more outrageous antics.

** While shooting in Mozambique, Richard wound up in a motorcycle accident when he fell from his bike. Despite suffering minor injuries, they were minor enough that Hammond was able to joke about it, saying "...well put it this way, I don't think I can get a book out of it." Even Jeremy brushed it off, saying in an interview "We don't do hospitals." Richard's terrifying car crash in Switzerland happened a couple months later, and he wound up needing surgery for a broken knee. He's extremely lucky he wasn't hospitalized for anything worse.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Episode 4 features a scene where May builds a car out of bricks, only for the roof to collapse on him the moment he tries to pull away. Hilarious... until you learn that ''the very day the episode came out'', a church roof collapsed in Nigeria, killing 60 people. Ouch.
** While shooting in Mozambique, Richard wound up in a motorcycle accident when he fell from his bike. Despite suffering minor injuries, they were minor enough that Hammond was able to joke about it, saying "...well put it this way, I don't think I can get a book out of it." Even Jeremy brushed it off, saying in an interview "We don't do hospitals." Richard's terrifying car crash in Switzerland happened a couple months later, and he wound up needing surgery for a broken knee. He's extremely lucky he wasn't hospitalized for anything worse...

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: After much speculating that he was being restricted from saying it [[ExecutiveMeddling because of legal issues with the BBC]], James finally dropped his signature exclamation "Cock!" in the last episode of the first season.

* NightmareFuel / NauseaFuel: Clarkson's ecologically-sustainable car, made entirely from dead animal parts. Framed in bones and filled in with skins, it is beyond disturbing the first time you see it, and only gets worse as it starts ''rotting''. It causes a sound guy to lose his lunch off screen and Clarkson to eventually do the same.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: After much speculating that he was being restricted from saying it [[ExecutiveMeddling because legal issues with the BBC]], James finally dropped his signature exclamation "Cock!" in the last episode of the first season.

* NightmareFuel: Clarkson's ecologically-sustainable car, made entirely from dead animal parts. Framed in bones and filled in with skins, it is beyond disturbing the first time you see it, and only gets worse as it starts ''rotting''. It causes a sound guy to lose his lunch off screen and Clarkson to eventually do the same.

** There are those who believe that formula the three presenters had settled into while on ''Top Gear'' had been growing stale for years and that it's only become all the more apparent with this show due to Amazon providing them with significant freedom to do as they please while, on the other hand, there are those that praise that the BBC was constantly reigning in the trio's more outrageous antics.

** There are those who believe that formula the three presenters had settled into while on ''Top Gear'' had been growing stale for years and that it's only become all the more apparent with this show due to Amazon providing them with significant freedom to do as they please while the BBC, on the other hand, was constantly reigning in the trio's more outrageous antics.