'The Grand Tour' stars "police" themselves.

James May

James May

James May insists he, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond don't have more creative freedom now they are fronting the show for Amazon, having left 'Top Gear' and the BBC last year, as they still have rules to follow.

However, James insists they never go out to deliberately offend anyone and are always careful not to cross a line.

He said: "It's not really more creative freedom [at Amazon], to be honest.

"The BBC gave us almost complete freedom; they rarely interfered unless we really stepped over the line. They didn't tell us what to do.

"There were a few basic house rules, but there are few rules at Amazon as well. You can't go completely mad and we wouldn't want to.

"We wouldn't want to do anything like incite riots or offend minority citizens or make distasteful jokes.

"We won't do anything nasty. We don't swear and cuss a lot, because we police ourselves. We're still doing what we've always done.

"Behind the scenes is a bit more complicated, because we actually have to run the whole business right down to buying paper for the printer and paper clips.

"But obviously the three of us aren't doing that. We'd be really bad at it. [Laughs.]"

After Jeremy was sacked from 'Top Gear' for punching a producer, James and Richard resigned in solidarity and the trio were approached by "massive, massive" organisations to bring their popular motoring show to their network.

But asked who else was interested, James told Vulture: "We had a sort of gentleman's agreement that whoever we decided to choose, we wouldn't reveal what the others were. But they were massive, massive organisations! Brilliant!"

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