I realized that, besides the trio and the solo segments, Top Gear managed to create "personalities" for the Clarkson-May and May-Hammond duos.

While Clarkson-Hammond did not get enough screen time nor consistent items for me to define its personality (it's hard to find a commonality between the Lancia history, the £7k luxury car, the Sweeney chase, the 4C vs Quadski and the Rover James segments), the other two are, in my opinion, two distinct double personalities for different uses.

• Clarkson-May - the more nerdy, middle-class combo. They would touch upon automotive history (first car with the modern control scheme, 60s ultra-luxury cars, Eastern Bloc vehicles, the rise of Chinese cars), middle class topics (crossovers for caravanners, the Peugeot owner experience, "rugby") or artistically creative endeavours (Scirocco commercial, cycling PSA).

• May-Hammond - besides being the designated non-car people while Clarkson drove in a race, they did the zany, out-of-the-box stuff. That could be reinterpreting sports (car football and hockey), doing weird things with cars (24 hours in a Smart), or embarking on endeavours with big machinery (caravan conkers, car darts, making a spaceship out of a car).

In fact, they have seemingly carried that energy over to Grand Tour - the weird stuff like car battleship or refueling while driving went to May-Hammond, while it was the Clarkson-May duo that explained the importance of Cortinas to the British social class system.