Francis Bourgeois, James Engelsman and Thomas Holland: New hosts of The Grand Tour on the making of the show

Proving there's always mileage in a car show, it's time for a new era of the Grand Tour.  There'll be three new hosts behind the wheel, Francis Bourgeois, James Engelsman, and Thomas Holland taking over from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May.  Holland and Engelsman have hosted the YouTube channel Throttle House together for over a decade, while Bourgeois is a well-known social media trainspotter and mechanical engineer.  The trio has big shoes to fill, and Holland told Mike Hosking they've been careful while making the show, as they know how much it means to so many people.  "The whole team focused on, I guess, making the show that we would want to watch were we not on it," he explained.  "I made sure that was in my mind the whole time, going like, is this good enough for me if I was watching it?"  The inter-host dynamic was a huge draw of the original show, and fortunately there seems to be no lack of chemistry between the new hosts.  Bourgeois told Hosking their first conversation would be familiar to most car enthusiasts —a discussion of who's driving what— but the building blocks of friendship grew quickly.  "We're having laughs, we're going through into these chemistry tests, we're having drinks together in the bar afterwards."  "It feels like our friendship was actually kind of ready to go and it was rocketing away by the time we were filming the first episode."  They're hopeful the new iteration of the show will receive the same support as the last, Engelsman saying they have a lot of ideas for the future.  "We went through so many for what would be in this series that were either not possible because of seasonality or timing, that now we can tackle if there is a season 2 and more," he told Hosking  "I think there's more hope than there's ever been for a successful reinvention of the show, while honouring the formula and then the musical note that it hits with the audience."  LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.