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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

By: Andy Wilman
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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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Really, really enjoyed this book. Written very well with some great and funny anecdotes from behind the scenes of both Top Gear and The Grand Tour. I especially liked the aeroplane analogy that runs through the whole book, the very last aeroplane analogy had me welling up..

Thank you Mr Wilman....Thank you

Best top Gear book.......In the world

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Just like the shows we need more. The stories the behind the scenes it’s all apart of us all who loves proper top gear and grand tour

Outstanding

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Thank you for letting us behind the scenes and hearing your stories. Not just about the three musketeers but everyone else involved over all those years that I grew up watching Top Gear and then The Grand Tour.
You deserve a medal for being the boss man of the best shows ever

Thank you Mr Wilman

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Title says it all. But brilliant honest insights into the greatest tv trio of all time.

Everything I hoped it would be! 10/10

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This book has everything. I was on the Tube listening at one point and I just burst out laughing. It’s not a book that simply tells you what you already know – it fills in all the blanks you didn’t even realise were there. This really is a must-read, and it’s easily my book of the year. You won’t be disappointed. I just hope there's another book out f additional stories.

Andy’s voice makes it incredibly easy to listen to as well.

Best book of 2025

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