The Grand Tour on Amazon: Gift Guide for Clarkson, Hammond and May Fans
Probably all of us love (old) Top Gear and The Grand Tour for their hosts: Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. We watch old TG episodes and their new show over and over again. But how about looking beyond your own nose for a while? There’s loads of stuff that goes beyond the mere episodes of their shows. However, navigating through the sea of merchandise and other things related to our favorite hosts can be tricky. Hence, we are going to offer you some help. This article contains a guide to (almost) everything TG and TGT related things you can buy on Amazon.com. Have fun poking around!
The Grand Tour Merchandise
Of course, all of you know already that you can watch The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video. A DVD-Version isn’t available. But you can buy some merchandise on Amazon, mostly T-Shirts:
- TGT Logo T-Shirt and Hoodie
- Presenters Silhouette T-Shirt
- TGT Official Tour Shirt
- TGT Baseball Cap
- TGT Beanie Hat
Host related stuff
As some of you may already know, Clarkson, Hammond and May have done things beside Top Gear and The Grand Tour. This list collects all things you should not miss out on.
Books written by Jeremy Clarkson
- The World According to Clarkson – Volume 1 of Clarksons collumn collection written for the Sunday Times
- And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Volume 2
- For Crying Out Loud: The World According to Clarkson Volume 3
- How Hard Can It Be: The World According to Clarkson Volume 4
- Is It Really Too Much To Ask? The World According to Clarkson Volume 5
- As I Was Saying… The World According to Clarkson Volume 6
- Round the Bend. Motorworld, Don’t Stop Me Now and Born to be Riled – More Sunday Times collumns by Jeremy Clarkson
- I Know You Got Soul – Clarkson on his believe that cars have a soul
- The Top Gear Years – A collection of magazine articles from various sources
- Clarkson on Cars – Collected articles from Clarkson since the mid 1980s
- Driven to Distraction – Jeremy Clarkson on the coolest cars in the world
Books written by Richard Hammond
- On the Edge – Hammond talking about the serious accident on Top Gear that almost killed him
- A Short History of the Motorcycle
- Car Science – A physics book on cars
- Or Is That Just Me? – A colletion of autobiographic accounts
- As You Do – More of Hammonds chronicles
- On the Road: Growing Up in Eight Journeys – An autobiography on Hammonds childhood
- Richard Hammond’s Car Confidential: The Odd, the Bad and the Curious – A collection of car etiquette advice
Books written by James May
- May on Motors: On the Road with James May – May on the influence cars had on his life
- James May’s Man Lab: The Book of Usefulness – Advice and tips on several manly topics
- Car Fever: The car bore’s essential companion
- Magnificent Machines – May on rideable machines
- Notes from the Hard Shoulder – Collection of collumns for the Daily Telegraph
- James May’s Toy Stories – An overview of May BBC show with step by step instructions
Other video on demand content by Clarkson, Hammond and May
Since the guys also did other shows on TV besides Top Gear and The Grand Tour, here’s a collection of everything you can watch via Amazon Video and DVD.
- James May’s Cars of the People Season 1 via Amazon Prime Video, season 2 buyable for 7,99$ (HD)
- James May at the Edge of Space via Amazon Prime Video
- James May’s 20th Century Season 1 included with Acorn TV or 1,99$ (SD) per episode
- James May’s Man Lab Season 1 availabe on DVD, Season 2 on demand for 7,99$ (HD), Season 3 on DVD
- James May’s Toy Stories, Toy Stories – The Motorcycle Diary and Toy Story – Action Man on DVD
- Oz & James Drink to Britain on DVD
- Richard Hammond’s Crash Course Season 1 and 2 via Amazon Prime Video
- Richard Hammond’s How to Build a Planet via Amazon Prime Video
- The Jeremy Clarkson Collection buyable on demand for 19,99$ (SD)
- Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip with Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson
Top Gear Stuff: Episodes, DVDs, Books and Merchandise
At the moment, Top Gear season 1 to 17 are available for on demand streaming via Amazon Prime Video. All other seasons can be bought for around $12.00 to $28.00, depending on the season and the streaming quality. But aside from this you can buy loads of other Top Gear related stuff on Amazon.
Top Gear and Top Gear US on DVD
You can find Top Gear UK season 10 to 22 on DVD on Amazon. The price range goes from around $11.50 to $24.00. Top Gear US season 1-5 is only available on DVD. Also, you can buy several extra DVDs, including a box with the complete specials from old Top Gear on 13 DVDs.
Top Gear Books
The following books on Top Gear are available on Amazon.com:
- Top Gear: The Cool 500 by Matt Master – A book about the coolest cars in history
- Top Gear Quiz Book by Matt Master
- And On That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear by Richard Porter – A look behind the scenes of Top Gear, written by a script editor of the show
- Top Gear Epic Failures: 50 Great Motoring Cock-Ups by Richard Porter – A book about the worst failures in car design ever made
- Top Gear: Ambitious but Rubbish by Richard Porter – A look behind the scenes of the furious self made “cars” from Top Gear
- The Top Gear Guide to Britain by Richard Porter – Sort of a travel guide to Top Gear country
- Top Gear: How to Parachute into a moving car by Richard Porter – A book offering tips to your common everyday problems
- Top Gear Driver’s Handbook by Richard Porter – Need advice on how to drive? This book might be what you need
- The Top Gear Story: The 100% Unofficial Story of the Most Famous Car Show … In the World by Martin Roach – Another look behind the scenes
- Top Gear Portfolio: The World’s Greatest Cars by Top Gear Magazine – A picture book with car porn
- Top Gear Dream Cars by Sam Philip – Best cars ever made combined in one book
- Top Gear Supercars – An overview of the fastest cars in the world
- Top Gear Where’s Stig – Top Gear’s edition of Where’s Waldo (in three different versions)
- Top Gear Drives of a Livetime by Dan Read – A book about the world’s best driving roads
- Top Gear’s Midlife Crisis Cars by Matt Master- A guide on what car to get if you’re suffering from midlife crisis
- Top Gear Daft Cars by Matt Master – A book about very “special” cars
- Top Gear The Alternative Highway Code – Embrace the Top Gear way with this guide
- Top Gear Cool Wall Poster Book – Want your own “cool wall”? Then you need this book
- Flat Out Flat Broke: The Original Stig by Perry McCarthy – An autobiography by the first Stig
- The Man in the White Suit by Ben Collins – An autobiography again
- The Stig: The Untold Story by Simon du Beaumarche – An in-depth report on the role of the Stig in TG
Top Gear Merchandise and other stuff
You want to build your own Top Gear heaven-cave thingy? Then you probably need the following things:
- Ambitious but Rubbish T-Shirt
- Stig Lightning T-Shirt
- Top Gear USA Poster
- Top Gear “Some Say” Stig Poster
This is it so far. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments below. We will keep updating this list regularly, so keep coming back for more.