«Breaking News» Clarkson, May, and Hammond were back on The Grand Tour, by Jim Shelley

The Grand Tour started its third and final season with an episode that was not just desperately tedious and jaded but offensive too.

Not really a combination we were looking for, or one that was acceptable any more from men as intelligent and, well, old as Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond.

The way the three Brits treated the city they were guests of – Detroit - was so crass and lacking in generosity you actually felt embarrassed for them.

Shocking: The Grand Tour started its third and final season with an episode that was not just desperately tedious and jaded but offensive too

They never spoke to a single resident in the hour-long episode and although it was called 'Motown Funk', they couldn't be bothered to visit or include anything to do with the legendary record label that gave the world so many great songs it became a genre.

It was 45 minutes before any Motown artists even got a mention, and then Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson were just names on a long list of local musicians.

More disgracefully, although they paid lip service to the fact that Detroit was now 'a shadow of its former self' and 'houses and businesses once stood in plots like these', the economic disaster and poverty were virtually celebrated by Clarkson, May, and Hammond: seized upon as an opportunity to speed around its vast empty streets and abandoned factories in three hideous 'muscle cars.'

Legends: Not really a combination we were looking for, or one that was acceptable any more from men as intelligent and, well, old as Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond

Horrible: More disgracefully, although they paid lip service to the fact that Detroit was now 'a shadow of its former self' and 'houses and businesses once stood in plots like these'

He's back! Of course James May has returned for the new series

'People travel all the way to Florida to have a look a man in a mouse suit and watch an implausible train have an unrealistic crash!' scoffed Richard Hammond, blazing down a deserted main road, before adding moronically: 'Why not come here in your car and do this?'

'A cheap holiday in other people's misery', as the Sex Pistols put it or using it as 'a pulsating playground for petrol-heads' as Clarkson did.

Even the fact that Detroit had been a city devoted to cars (losing 43 of its 45 factories) didn't evoke any genuine sympathy.

The famous theatre built on the site of Henry Ford's first workshop may be derelict but it is still beautifully derelict.

Wrong: Using it as a venue to skid round doing 'doughnuts' at 120 decibels (louder than when Deep Purple played there) was hardly going to help

Using it as a venue to skid round doing 'doughnuts' at 120 decibels (louder than when Deep Purple played there) was hardly going to help. More importantly it wasn't entertaining either.

Looking for somewhere to eat, they moaned about all the restaurants having shut down ('even the take-outs'). Then, finding all the hotels were boarded up too, Richard Hammond trilled: 'so we decided to buy a house.'

Giving us a tour of the (huge) dilapidated wreck he jokingly pointed out a space that was 'perfect for a games room' and cheered 'it even has an independent granny flat with its own kitchen.'

All for $2,200!

Such was Detroit's housing market – given the scarcity of jobs and level of violent crime.

Cruel: Even the fact that Detroit had been a city devoted to cars (losing 43 of its 45 factories) didn't evoke any genuine sympathy

Either it didn't occur to Hammond that the house used to some family's home, and that someone's grandma used to live in that granny flat, or it didn't bother him.

Either way it was insulting and, again, not remotely amusing.

Predictably, Clarkson had to have the last word or take things further.

When he drove his Mustang over the plants in the front garden - that someone had presumably been lovingly tending – even James May saw it for what it was.

'Don't be a moron!' he whined.

But it was too late.

Brutal: Either it didn't occur to Hammond that the house used to some family's home, and that someone's grandma used to live in that granny flat, or it didn't bother him

Nasty: Either way it was insulting and, again, not remotely amusing

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Not really a combination we were looking for, or one that was acceptable any more from men as intelligent and, well, old as Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard...

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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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