User Reviews

This instalment sees the boys heading to Chongqing; a Chinese megacity. Here there set about trying to show that Chinese drivers could save a lot of money by heading to Europe, buying second hand luxury cars then shipping them to China. To this end Clarkson turns up in an old BMW 750iL, May drives a Mercedes S600, with broken air-con, and Hammond turns up in a twenty year old Cadillac STS. After driving around town and giving us information about the rapid development of the city we get the usual trials and 'improvements'. The trials include driving round a course while being attacked by flamethrower equipped drones and racing up a very windy road. Back in the UK we have a 'Conversation Street' discussion about Chinese cars and a test drive of Chinese electric supercar, the NIO EP9.

Overall I rather enjoyed this episode although a couple of times the silliness went a bit too far. Starting with the good stuff; I really enjoyed the general driving around Chongqing and the interesting facts about China's rapid development. This includes lots of great shots of new roads passing through stunning scenery. The 'Conversation Street' section was interesting and the NIO test was impressive. While silly I did enjoy the flamethrower drones. On the down side the 'car improvement' section went on a bit long and was pure silliness that told us nothing about cars or the country they were in. The final hill climb section was fun until the obviously staged crash involving a three-wheeler one of the trio were driving after their car broke down. Overall a solid episodes that was informative and amusing with only a few weak points; I suspect fans will enjoy it.

Where are those challenges with old cars like drag race or show how fast it can go from 0-60. Creativeness with old car test challenges is greatly missing imo.

Hmm i think I didn't miss anything 😅 any episode starting from TG until now and this is the first time. You guys need to make another episode on Chinese build cars only.

Fairly good travelogue film, enjoyed seeing the part of China selected and the new modern roadways. Some of the gags were a little mouldy but all in all pretty good. The EP9 test was interesting as was Hammond's good natured take on his previous crashes.

So bad I stopped watching after the EP9 item. Awful drivel but in China. Conversation street is a yawn fest. The whole episode was so familiar it could have been a rerun of an old Top Gear. Chucking money at a tired format doesn't make it better, it just wastes the money.

The first season was good, second season was ok, now this third season is boring. This episode was the worst i have seen so far, Clackson said it best at the end of it, a hour we will never get back. I think he even knew it sucked, I really hope it picks up, or there will be no 4th season for me.