Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond made Top Gear one of the biggest shows on television for over a decade before all three said goodbye to the series. Amazon then stepped in and gave the trio a new show, The Grand Tour, which has been running for a few years now.

While plenty of petrolheads would love to see the hosts faff around in cars forever, all good things must come to end. And James May thinks that end might be sooner than you think.

"How do I feel about ageing? Bad," he told The Sun. "I’m in the second half of my fifties now and in all honesty, I’m slightly falling apart.

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"I’m developing nervous disorders and aches and I don’t think I’ll do this much longer because I don’t want to fall apart in public.

"It would just be a bit undignified and I don’t think people want to see it. There’s almost certainly more of it behind us than in front of us. How long do you want to see old blokes?"

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He continued: "Jeremy’s possibly even more decrepit than me. When it takes us 15 minutes to get out of a Ferrari, do you really want to see that? It’s sad. You’re supposed to leave the audience wanting more.

"We never thought we’d be doing it this long — and we never really thought about how it would end."

The Grand Tour is available on Amazon Prime.

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