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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

Top Gear, Grand Tour, Clarkson and Me

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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

By: Andy Wilman
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights. It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and buddy movie antics proving irresistible to a vast global audience. With these three at the helm, Top Gear earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular factual TV show on the planet.

Then, a short while later, it was all gone.

How did a thoroughly sensible little consumer advice programme on cars turn into a global phenomenon in the first place, though? How did it all go wrong? And how did they rise from the ashes as The Grand Tour, and go on to scale even greater heights?

One man has all the answers.

There from the beginning, Top Gear and The Grand Tour co-creator, and Jeremy’s oldest friend, Andy Wilman, opens the bonnet on over twenty years of motoring mayhem. In Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, the mysterious man in the shadows tells the inside story of your favourite TV shows for the first time.

Irreverent, joyful and as laugh-out-loud funny as the shows themselves, it’s the best book about Top Gear and The Grand Tour . . . in the world.

© Andy Wilman 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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Brilliant recounting of some of the biggest TG/GT moments from Wilman himself. Top Gear has been an integral part of my life since some relatives in Malaysia showed me the man with the van episode, and I've been watching religiously ever since.

The end of an era

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Great telling of the whole story with insight you won’t get elsewhere. Well played Mr. Wilman.

Essential

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Absolutely loved this, great to see behind the curtain and how TG and GT all panned out.
Was a great story.

Great behind the scenes book

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Absolutely brilliant. Loved hearing the stories of one of the greatest periods of television ever. The specials the stories of how the show grew and the background to it all. Bedder 6/6.

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Andy you are brilliant, the common thread is the sold and long lasting friendships. Thankyou for sharing.

Well done Thankyou

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