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Jeremy Clarkson’s new facial fuzz has got everyone talking in the new trailer for the upcoming episode of The Grand Tour.

In this week’s episode of the car show favourite, Jeremy Clarkson embarks on an elaborate and extremely thorough test of the Citroen C3 Aircross.

Always one to be proven right in any situation, Jez takes it upon himself to prove to everyone that it’s ‘better than an elephant’ – i.e. spacious and versatile.

Apparently for this, a moustache is required. Naturally.

Turning it into a French police car, soon he’s tearing across villages everywhere, driving down flights of stairs into roadworkers (fingers crossed they’re OK) and knocking over tables as he drives down quaint French roads like a maniac.

Forgive us if we’re struggling to believe him quite yet – but in the trailer alone he’s seen getting a small pony into the car’s back, so maybe we’re wrong.

We would be right miffed if we lost half a baguette like he did though.

Still though, driving with the wind in his hair must be light relief after last week, when Jeremy had the unwelcome realisation that sharing an RV for a week with his pals meant sharing the same chemical loo.

Things got even worse when the car stopped working with the engine overheating – causing a near miss accident with more fire than is probably suitable near a motor vehicle.

Meanwhile, James May has his eyes on the skies as he takes a look back at cars owned by the astronaut of the 1969 Apollo moon mission.

This includes Neil Armstrong’s actual Corvette, which is actually pretty sweet.

And Richard hits the Eboladrome to give the Aston Martin V8 Vantage a test drive around the track.

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Carnage A Trois

Carnage A Trois is the fourth episode of Season 4 of The Grand Tour . It aired on Amazon Prime on December 17th, 2021.

• 2 Production
• 3 Announcement
• 5 References

Synopsis [ ]

Everyone's favourite trio are back and they're here to answer a very important question: What's going on with French cars? Join Clarkson, Hammond and May as they investigate the wonderfully weird world of French cars on their latest Grand Tour adventure.

Production [ ]

From sightings during filming, it is believed most of the episode is based in the county of Powys in Wales. Most notably, Richard Hammond was seen crashing into two cars while parking in Crickhowell. This was seen in the Official Trailer.

Announcement [ ]

The first indication of a new episode announcement, was on November 23rd, 2021. A tweet on Twitter [1] , and a post on Facebook [2] showed a picture of a helicopter with a car attached to it (seen below). It featured various hidden messages, including one saying "New trailer 25th Nov".

As expected, on November 25th, 2021, the official trailer was released [3] , revealing the episode name too!

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References [ ]

• ↑ https://twitter.com/thegrandtour/status/1463069811550736385
• ↑ https://www.facebook.com/thegrandtour/photos/a.453404731524740/1745071069024760
• ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjzGlXD6bsQ
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• 3 Hammond's Rimac Crash

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• "Back in the Summer, I suddenly became... un busy."
• The trio taking cover when the American audience riots. Clarkson : Okay...let's all agree...that the RAF is the best air force. (after many jump cuts, fights, and booing) Clarkson : Let's agree that the Royal Air Force is pretty good.
• The first issue ever tackled on Conversation Street? The ever-slow James being taunted for his speeding ticket. It was all of 37 mph.
• While gearing up, Hammond shows up in snow camouflage. Clarkson remarks to him that it has never ever snowed in Jordan, to which Hammond responded that he didn't know where Jordan was. Hence a pause, before Clarkson remarks "You're going to be quite visible".
• The abseiling down from the Blackhawk helicopter. The first time Clarkson tries going down it, his trousers fall down, before being blown up by a grenade after he makes it onto the roof: Hammond: Ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Norris!
• If you notice in the background, James tries to see through the scope of his gun, but then realized his sight covers were still on.
• Clarkson attempting to figure out Hammond's hand signals.
• Clarkson being stuck in the window, and the insurgents getting " personal " with him. This leads to Clarkson requesting for James to shoot him in order to start over, only for James to miss while firing full auto on his assault rifle. Thus, Hammond has to get a very conveniently placed shovel to whack him over the head.
• Clarkson and Hammond hurriedly attempting to eat their high-end snacks while James gets repeatedly shot by the sniper.
• While about to assault the plane where the VIP is, Richard and James use a catering truck in order to enter the aircraft. While approaching the back of the aircraft and managing to stealthily put the truck in position, James lowers the jacks in order to raise the rear body, only for loud alarms to blare out as the jacks are lowered and Hammond is raised up. Jeremy, sitting in the car behind them, then states " I think the terrorists are going to notice this assault ", and by the time Richard is raised up to the window, there's a terrorist with his rifle pointed straight at him. Que a gunshot, and they have to start again, this time with Jeremy attempting to do donuts in order to distract the terrorists, only to find that the car is unable to do so due to the car still having some form of traction control, even when turned off!
• James starts ranting about the monarchy when Jeremy announces the VIP is the Queen of England. At the end, James then starts lecturing the Queen on his political views as Jeremy is shot twice in the plums and eventually blown up.
• On one run, James "accidentally" shoots the Queen in the head while she gets into the car. To restart the mission, he promptly shoots Hammond. The following run Jeremy confiscates James' rifle before they get into the car.
• Hammond's 'painting' of his Hellcat. His improvements remove it from Italy entirely and add fire, large exhausts, and a sexy American woman in Daisy Dukes.
• Clarkson and May's priceless faces of disgust when they hear Hammond doing doughnuts outside while they are at an opera. Clarkson: He hasn't gone home, has he?
• Clarkson and May try to sneak out the following morning to escape from Hammond.....only for him to come back from a run, excited. May then proceeds to smack his steering wheel angrily.
• When Clarkson and May were admiring the art over at the Uffizi Gallery, they weren't pleased to hear the sound of Hammond and his Dodge Hellcat doing doughnuts... at the other end of the city .
• Jeremy and Richard read the sales brochure for May's Rolls Royce. While reading the overly dramatic section on the convertible top, they both start making a jerking-off gesture, then claim it was made for "safety conscious people" who are "always putting on their seatbelts".
• James carefully taking apart Clarkson's house with an excavator. Of particular note is James retrieving the toilet like an oversized crane game.
• Meanwhile, Richard simply rams it down. Made funnier by the fact that Hammond knows how to properly destroy a house with a trackhoe thanks to Richard Hammond's Crash Course . He's choosing to ram it because of his hatred for Clarkson.
• They discover a bat is in the attic, and a local bylaw prevents demolition until the bat leaves of his own volition. Hammond makes James stand in the barn and make "sultry and erotic bat noises" to get the bat to leave. Somehow, this apparently works.
• After James' mud car falls apart, James goes through all sorts of alternative material. At first, he tries mud bricks. Needless to say, it collapses well before James can even start again. And when it comes to trying to cross a river, the mortar dissolves. Then, James builds the car out of wetted hay, which doesn't last for very long and forces James to tie the hay back together with a ball of string, which sends Richard and Jeremy into hysterics as James tries to figure it out.
• After breaking his front bumper after crashing while parking, Jeremy gets some meat and ribs to fix up his bone car, only for some dog to come over and have a nibble at the meat. Then, when Clarkson leaves the car outside their hotel for the night..., he returns the next morning to discover that the dog has been at it, leaving quite a mess.
• The usage of meat for Jeremy's car, has an obvious effect in that the flies come for it. The resulting smell becomes so bad that Jeremy is forced to use tampons and put them up his nostrils, and even made the sound recordist, who was going to fix Jeremy's microphone, sick .
• James' hay is so immense that there are a number of blind spots, thus he wasn't able to see the flag waving to start the race and starts with a slow pace. And even gets lost . He ends up being so slow around the track that it takes quite a while for him to do one lap.
• Jeremy losing his tampons and having to pit in order to put on some new ones.
• When Jeremy's engine overheats, he peels off the skin covering the engine, only to find that it was infested with maggots. And in Jeremy's own words, he decides to "go off and be sick".
• Using Richard Hammond as a parking sensor by "installing" him behind the rear bumper of an Audi Quattro and drilling in a set of eye holes. Before this, Jeremy challenges the audience to guess where Richard was hidden (to demonstrate how much space exists behind the bumper); one person suggest the ashtray. "He's small, but he's not that small!"
• May and Hammond play Battleship with cars. Hammond insists on using an air cannon to launch the "missiles" (i.e. G-Wizes) in the game, much to May's skepticism. To demonstrate his brilliance, Hammond shoots a G-Wiz at a target and instead hits a Health and Safety van nearby, causing a massive explosion.
• While driving around the Game of Thrones set, Clarkson tries to keep his concentration... Clarkson: Don't think of Khaleesi... Don't think of Khaleesi...
• Clarkson crashes May and Hammond's car test in an absurdly bright blue jacket that would have even given May pause. Clarkson: (aside as they make fun of his car) If you ever buy a new item of clothing, don't show it to these two. "What are you wearing that jacket for? It makes you look like a German game show host..." May : Why are you wearing that jacket? Clarkson: Because I was at a party in India last night and I hurried over here. Hammond: Why did you go to the party dressed as a German game show host?
• They show off some of the items they found at a "Dutch all night motorist store". Items include a safety device so you don't bite your tongue in an accident (a ball gag), and a blow-up person to ride in high occupancy vehicle lanes (a blow up person for... other uses).
• To promote the show , the three have come up with Grand Tour condoms emblazoned with a catchphrase on each. Clarkson has "How hard can it be?", Hammond has "That's not gone well", and May has "I was the first to arrive".
• Speaking of gifts, the trio get into quite some antics when they try out the Ninebot One and the "rocket skates". Jeremy dismisses James' claim that the rocket skates will "power you straight to Casualty " by saying he could have a go on them. Needless to say, he doesn't do quite well in them, going so far as to fall straight into the audience while trying to keep his balance (twice)! Hammond tries to "save" Jeremy with his Ninebot, only to start spinning around a circle. And while this is happening, James then introduces the Double Telerobot (a two-wheeled videoconferencing robot), in which Bob Geldof is on the other end. But of course, the Telerobot ends up crashing into, let's say, quite a lot of things....
• And the result................they end up on the beach, back where they started.
• In the first part, Jeremy locks up just before he could descend down a massive drop off. He starts swearing as Richard laughs for almost a full minute. James joins Jeremy in swearing when he catches up.
• As revenge for insisting on going off-road, Clarkson and Hammond replace May's gear lever with a, um, "dickshift." Later, May and Clarkson throw the new part into each other's buggies while driving; May wins when he triumphantly smacks Clarkson in the face on one toss. James: [upon discovering his... new gear lever] CLARK-SOOOOON!!
• May decides to get even for the dickshift during the night and messes with Jeremy's "spoiler". He accidentally sets his own car on fire due to sparks flying off from the saw he uses igniting the gas from the buggy's leaky petrol tank.
• He starts by putting the body of an MG-B on the Discovery's chassis. It doesn't even come close to fitting properly, with the wheel arches so far over the wheels that another set of wheels could be fit into the gap, and looking like the car equivalent of someone wearing a hat several sizes too small. The dials on the dashboard haven't been connected to anything, meaning he has no idea of the car's speed, engine temperature, or fuel level. The steering wheel is only just about connected to the chassis, but can turn almost 30 degrees either way with no effect on the car's direction. The sloppily connected brakes leave him with a ludicrously long stopping distance after a drag race with a Dacia Duster (although he does win the race). And when Jeremy takes his creation off road, the body keeps getting shaken halfway off, and finally ends up nearly on its side next to the chassis.
• So, "for no particular reason", he abandons the idea and replaces the MG-B body with the body of a Mercedes SL. However, this time he's not alone for his road test... Jeremy: [voiceover] It's a car I have justifiably called the Excellent . The internal organs from a Land Rover Discovery, mated to the beautiful skin of a glamorous Mercedes SL, to create a vision of pure... what's the word?... Richard, James: Rubbish . Jeremy: It's not rubbish! Richard: [taking in the slapdash paint job] Did you paint it with a brush or a bucket!? James: It's got those headlights that- that swivel when you go round a bend, look... [tugs on a very loose front indicator light] so that they point at the road. Jeremy: Okay, let me ask you this: which would you rather have, [gestures to...] the Excellent, or [gestures to a Porsche Macan parked next to the Excellent] that Porsche? Richard, James: That Porsche.
• Richard's horrified reaction as Jeremy starts driving it. "Oh no, it moves!!"
• Jeremy tries to win over his co-presenters by taking them for a drive (for all the jokes about Hammond's height, he still has trouble fitting in the back seat), and it seems he succeeds - at least, that's what he says... Jeremy: [voiceover] We'd only gone a few miles before Richard and James completely changed their minds, and realised that the Excellent was the best car they'd ever been in! [cut to the Excellent] Richard: No, we haven't! Stop saying things in voiceover that aren't true! Jeremy: Is it not? I thought you'd changed your minds! Richard: No!... maybe a bit, it's worse than I thought. James: Can I put the heater on? [slides the controls for the heater, which are very obviously non-functional, and pokes at the vents] Jeremy: That's not connected. James: [sarcastically] Is it not ? Jeremy: No. Richard: What's that dial down there to the left of the steering... Jeremy: Speedometer. James: Well, why've you got that one, not that one? [points to the speedometer in the Mercedes dashboard] Jeremy: That doesn't work. Richard: Has it got a fuel gauge? Jeremy: Not as such . Richard: Has it got a temperature gauge? Jeremy: Not really. James: There's a lot of wires hanging out of the dash that aren't connected to things . Richard: You haven't given it an interior! [James opens the glove box, revealing it to be full of electrical components; he laughs sardonically] Richard: I can see the road... Jeremy: I can as well. Richard: No, there's a hole in the floor... Jeremy: [voiceover] While Hammond and May had one or two minor issues, they both agreed that if I were to put my car into production, it would make me a fortune. [cut to the Excellent] James: No, we didn't agree to that either!
• Jeremy's target market for the Excellent is Premiership footballers, so he takes the car to the Chelsea training ground. While Richard and James embarrass themselves with a display of complete ineptitude and ignorance of all things football, Jeremy shows some of the Chelsea players the car. As Chelsea have gained notoriety since the late 1990s for having a first team consisting largely of players from outside the UK, their comments are subtitled (even for the English players) - except the translations are clearly bogus, as they are all claimed to be complimenting the car.
• But Jeremy won't be deterred, and submits the car for a vehicle auction at Ascot run by Coys of Kensington. Richard and James struggle to contain their laughter when the auctioneer starts the bidding at £425, rather lower than the £120,000 Jeremy believed the car was worth. When bidding stalls at £800, Jeremy starts bidding on the car himself (inevitably, his bidding card has a "gentleman's sausage" drawn on it), and the bidding finally tops out at... £4,000.
• Back in the tent, Jeremy reveals that the car cost £14,000 to make, leading Richard and James to chide him for costing the production company £10,000. Then Jeremy reveals that he set the reserve price for the car at £100,000, so it didn't actually sell at all, and he's cost them the full £14,000. Jeremy: But, we've ended up with the Excellent! James: No, we're stuck with the Excellent! Richard: It's difficult to tell working with you. Is it ambition, or are you a lunatic?
• The border collie that refuses to pull the cart to charge Richard's phone is cute, but made funnier when you know she's Hammond's own dog, Blea. It's almost like she's had enough of his silly nonsense already.
• One feature shown in Richard's first attempt is a system that 'purifies' urine into clean drinking water. He drinks the result as a demonstration and there is a noticeable pause and discomfort in his face before he awkwardly moves on.
• While showing off the exterior of the vehicle, Richard's red sweater gets caught on the ram and unravels.
• Jeremy gives a bit of realism when they test the armor using air rifles. Jeremy: What you're suggesting is, these aliens, they're are going to travel trillions of miles, using a propulsion system that we can't even conceive, and then they're going to try and take over the world...using .177 air rifles? Richard: Well, if they do, I shall be ready for them!
• Finally, their discussion of music gets interrupted by one of the studio monitors flashing a message: "IT'S A CAR SHOW YOU IDIOTS", which the trio properly take as evidence that " Mr. Wilman " is annoyed with them for drifting off topic.
• Hammond and May go to Scotland for a Jaguar vs. BMW shootout, but Clarkson goes to Wales, taking the film crews with him. Cue an angry phone call from Hammond and May whilst as Clarkson tools around in an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio.
• The whole coral reef-from-cars segment in Barbados turns into a comedy of errors; First they capsize the boat Clarkson brings to haul them, then they set the car skeletons down, but then don't anchor them and the next morning they wash up on the beach. They then destroy a barge, wreck the beach of a vacation resort, and ultimately, out of the four cars they try to set down, manage only to set down one. Jeremy tried welding the cars in place. The water above him turned red and a large number of dead fish surface.
• Followed by Hammond noting the Double Standard that if you're English and do anything, you're still English.
• Topped off by James May: "The English really are appalling, aren't they?"
• It's even funnier considering the context of the original VW advert, considering that it was about a down-on-his-luck man who had a reliable car. In the context of Jeremy's version , his bad luck now extends to even his "reliable" car.
• The Couch Gag for Conversation Street this time involved Richard hitting Jeremy over the head with a bottle. Apparently it was real and they had expected it to be fake. ( Beat after the intro ends with some laughter from the audience) Clarkson : That really hurt. Hammond (grinning) : It did! (Hammond and the audience laugh) Clarkson : Just to be absolutely clear with you, that really, really hurt. Hammond : Yeah. It was supposed to be a pretend bottle. (audience laugh)
• James May fractured his arm before the episode, so he spent the whole Maserati segment having extreme difficulty driving. He asks the other two to install a knob on the steering wheel (like a forklift has) to make things easier. They put a knob on the steering wheel alright. When he protests, they replace it with a cactus, and finally with a squeaky toy.
• Jeremy and Richard also stick a note reading "déshabillé" on James' car. James later points out to them that it does not mean disabled. May: Déshabillé means undressed, you moron!
• The track of the journey takes them through towns in Germany and Austria with hilarious names. They start in Wank, Germany, then go through Kissing and Petting before ending up in Fucking, Austria. They are supposed to go on to Wedding (which is in Berlin), but they just can't commit to it .
• Around the 50:30 mark, James calls back to an episode of Top Gear by reminding us all that the only German he can speak "is the bit about Hans and the waterfall."
• On that same challenge pitting Jeremy Clarkson's Volkswagen Golf Mk7 GTI against James May's BMW i3, the reward at the end of the trip is watching a mini-concert with Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson. But because of the long recharge time required for May's i3 at each refueling stop, he misses the concert completely... prompting him to utter his signature catchphrase for the first time since leaving Top Gear . May : Oh, cock.
• Richard absolutely zooms ahead in the race in his Rimac. Both he and Jeremy are absolutely gobsmacked at the sight of it; Hammond tries to count the speed, but the numbered speedometer is much too fast for him and when he wins the race, by quite a margin, his reaction is "JE-SUS WEPT!", while Jeremy is so gobsmacked that he can only declare "that Rimac just fucked off" and that he's never seen anything with number plates move that fast. And that's from a man who has seen two koenigseggs move.
• The sheer level of Mood Whiplash when Richard's Rimac crash is shown. The crash is shown though audio only, then cutting to handheld camera footage of the aftermath. When the studio fades back in, May starts reading off the lap times as if nothing happened while Hammond looks incredulous.
• At the sight of Hammond on crutches, James laments that he's "become a carer". Jeremy's reply is a snickering Blunt "Yes" .
• James notes that he thought Hammond was in hospital. Jeremy corrects him by saying "you hoped he was". James, for his part, does not deny it.
• Jeremy calls J.F.K Airport and, thanks to a lovely lady on the other end, gets Richard and James demoted from "Business Class" to "Economy Class". Once the lady on the phone doing the change for him has gone, he gives a Muttley snicker and declares "Ooh, I'm on form this morning!"
• Jeremy goes really fast in a Ford GT. His reaction is a horrified "BLOODY NORA!"
• Jeremy has James May registered in his phone as "Vagina" and says he's had to change it because the normal one is worse. A phone calls later reveals that Jeremy also has Richard listed as "Bell End".
• The office gives Jeremy a "James May Talking Book on How To Fix Things" audiobook - his reaction is merely some annoyed eye wiggles. Eventually, it Gilligan Cuts back to him listening to it - and Jeremy exclaims "How did he stay awake to read that out? He's reassembling an alarm clock and he's made an audio book out of it. Ohh, god!"
• Richard gets a pat down by a TSA man and his reactions are very awkward.
• A running gag of this episode occurs again - Jeremy re-rings the very lovely lady on the phone and reveals "in confidence" that James and Richard are recovering alcoholics. The lady says she'll note it down, meaning they'll get no alcohol on the flight either. Moments later he rings James and, subtly, reveals that they will "definitely need a drink" after the flight. Once James has gone, he laughs "Economy and no drinks!" while thumping the steering wheel and clapping his hands in glee.
• The three of them get into an argument over whether a shirt is a "top" or not. Jeremy says the following sentence: "Hammond, I'm sorry, I've never said this before in my entire life and I promise I'll never say this again, but I'm with James May on this one: A man cannot wear a top ." It leads to a running gag over Richard's crash and Jeremy's "pneumonia".
• Jeremy tests the Mercedes AMG GTR and wonders if his face has come off due to the sheer power of its brakes.
• Jeremy overtakes someone and warns them "don't get in the way of someone who's just given up a 43-year smoking habit" to explain his reckless driving.
• Richard has to be wheeled down the length of an aeroplane on a tiny chair . And then back to the front too on landing.
• James starts snapping angrily at people who pull the bus cord to stop it and get on and off.
• James runs on camera , all while pushing Richard in a wheelchair no less. By the end he lies down on a bench to "die of exhaustion" and in true British fashion, tells the other two to talk among themselves and leave him to it.
• The gift-giving segment in Conversation Street leads to a long string of Clarkson and May taking the piss out of Hammond for his Rimac crash. The most outlandish gift is a crushed and mangled toy car set upside down on an alarm clock; when the alarm goes off, the car sets itself on fire .
• During Celebrity Face Off, Jeremy's open contempt for the Vauxhall Vectra: "It was four wheels and a fucking seat."
• The joke of this episode is how the vast majority of it has no script, therefore no production crew to correct flubs.
• According to Amazon's X-ray Vision feature , the awards apparently use a bunch of cards and envelopes that the production team had lying around that were meant to be used for something else that never came to fruition. Note who W. Chump & Sons Ltd, the production team in question, are. note  The presenters and Andy Wilman...
• Absolutely none of the category Nigel awards are won by any of the nominees.
• The Nigel for appalling continuity is given for a very obvious Smash Cut version of Richard Hammond's just completed 720S review. When Richard is presented with the award, another smash cut is used to switch the tiny bottle of water Jeremy is holding... with a office cooler bottle with an appropriately scaled label... that could also be seen by Richard's feet just a few seconds prior.
• Because of the "unscripted" nature of the episode, the "challenge" of the episode that involved building a fire engine out of a car was only done by James May; the other two decided to do something else because they felt his idea was stupid. Even when going completely solo, James manages to be incompetent beyond belief with his firefighting service. Because the producers couldn't arrange a pre-made building fire scenario, James is forced to go around town asking others if they need a fire put out. Eventually, James gets fed up, arranges a bin fire himself, and puts it out. Then he puts out a random man's grill, and attempts to create and start a controlled bushfire to put out, so as to demonstrate his engine to Jeremy and Hammond. However, the two catch on to James' antics very quickly and start their own bushfire in a more realistic location for James to put out, except that due to James' fire engine going at a leisurely pace (complete with an ice cream van tingle as the siren, with James humming along), the fire ends up growing too large too quickly for James to handle, leading to him exhausting his pitifully low resources in minutes and requiring the actual fire brigade to put it out, in the form of a Canadair CL-415 aerial firefighter, that dumps it's load on not only the fire, but James' fire engine, which is completely demolished by the dispersion. Clarkson: ( while James tries to fight the fire in the distance ) I think what we've established here is that he's only capable of putting out fires that he's started himself. Hammond: Yeah, that are nearby and contained.
• "You only won because you fed the finishing line's cat". It Makes Sense in Context .
• X-ray Vision gives the address of W. Chump & Sons so viewers may send their complaints about how scripted this unscripted episode was.
• The driving in the Farmkhana segment is impressive, but becomes much more amusing when May and Hammond show the in-between bits of how Clarkson actually pulled it off with careful editing, a stunt rally driver, and a very unhappy director named Phil. Particularly amusing are the in-car bits showing Clarkson's driving face and an interior shot of him flailing his feet around on the pedals like a toddler to make it seem like he's doing something impressive with the car when he's actually completely still.
• When Hammond drives up in his Mark X, Clarkson and May agree that it's a "proper Jag", followed by: Clarkson: Whatever you do, okay, do not tell him that. May: No, no. (As Hammond pulls up and steps out) May: Hammond, you idiot.
• Hammond's car starts smoking and they play it off as the car taking a smoke break.
• Jeremy's car's roof is too low for him to wear a helmet so he's forced to race with the sunroof open.
• After sending Clarkson's car around for a lap on the off-road course, Hammond flashes the stopwatch at the camera, showing the actual 1:27 time before telling Clarkson he made it in 1:54. Clarkson just accepts it and triumphantly declares it a lap record for the XJR while Hammond gives an amused grin and shrug that Clarkson actually bought it.
• Richard decides to be much more aggressive during his off-road lap in his 1967 420G than either Jeremy or James, resulting in his rear window getting smashed, his boot lid getting wrenched off, and his engine throwing a piston rod with a very loud "ping" when he tries to start it. However, he claims the car is fixable, and in the next scene, sure enough, his Jaguar is in perfect working order - and has somehow acquired a sun roof and a badge reading " XJ6 ".
• In a nod to their perception that Jag owners can get away with all manner of petty crimes simply because they own a "Jaaaaaaaag", they park as far away from reception as they can at their hotel, and the next morning, Jeremy exits his room wearing his hotel dressing gown (which he continues to wear over his clothes for the rest of the day) and carrying a coffee maker, James exits with a suitcase full of toiletries (that falls open after a few yards), and Richard is carrying an armload of towels.
• Jeremy's voiceover claims that the trio decided to stop and admire the rock formations after a few miles on the roads of Colorado. The sound of an engine failing to turn over undermines his claim, as does the camera panning over to reveal that the noise is coming from Richard's XJ6 ; the icing on the cake is Jeremy's frantic gestures to the camera to pan back to the rock formations.
• Richard finally gets his car going again - until it overheats in a spectacular geyser of fluid. A passing motorist telling the old joke about the British liking their beer warm because Lucas (the company responsible for the malfunctioning electronics in most British cars in the mid 20th century) make fridges does not help Richard's mood.
• By the time the trio do a 0-100-0 test on the runway at Telluride Airport, James' XK8 is in "limp home" mode, and has barely reached 95mph when James reaches the end of the runway and the car plunges over the edge and down the side of a mountain, with the odd dispassionate "Ow" from James on the way down. However, cut to later, and Richard is amazed that James and his car have emerged from the accident unscathed. James is marvelling at the fact that it now has a smoother ride, which may have something to do with the four extra cylinders it has gained, along with a badge reading "XJS" and a red paint job.
• The petty crimes continue apace after they arrive in Telluride to ski in their Jags. Richard empties the basket of suntan lotion bottles into his bag at reception, while Jeremy's idea of a "sample" from a bottle of wine to determine if it's been corked is almost half the bottle. And the next morning, James "shops" for ski gear by swapping the gear he is buying with the gear he is wearing and then leaving without paying, while Jeremy, in an idea he credits to fellow Jag driver Peter Sellers , poses as a hotel valet, takes a guest's coat and hat and bag, and then leaves.
• With the cars lacking the power to get up the slopes on their own, James comes up with the idea to shackle them together and have them go up as a convoy, with three times the power they would have individually. It works about as well as you'd expect (at first), with constant bickering over whose fault it is that James at the front or Jeremy at the back is about to go off the edge of the slope, and Jeremy (who has taped hand warmers to his steering wheel) unwisely comparing them to The Human Centipede .
• But they do eventually reach the summit, and after an initially terrifying journey back down, Jeremy and Richard get into a race to the bottom, only to crash into each other and find themselves unable to start again now that they've lost momentum. They try to pass this off as a decision to park where they've ended up, but as they deliver a piece to camera, James arrives with his brakes having failed and crashes off the end of the slope into a pond.
• Jeremy declares Aston Martin's Chief Technical Officer Max Szwaj to have the second coolest name in the car industry (after Lamborghini test driver Max Venturi). What makes the scene hilarious is his pronunciation of Szwaj's name; instead of pronouncing it properly ("Svay"), he pronounces the "Sz" as if he were imitating a dentist's drill, and "waj" as if it were an English rather than a Polish name.
• The guests this week are Kiefer Sutherland and Luke Evans . Kiefer lists his five middle names, and remarks that " his father probably owed people money. 'I can't pay you back, let me name my son after you.'"
• While looking for his car in an extremely foggy parking lot in the Pyrenees, Clarkson accidentally stumbles upon a car with a couple engaging in Auto Erotica . He quickly scuttles away, embarrassed and laughing as the couple make a hasty retreat. He then refers to the parking lot as Dogger Bank.
• It culminates with Clarkson unveiling a concept silhouette of the car which he claims Hammond will appreciate: It's flipped upside-down.
• The actual test of the Clarkson-mobile. It gets into the water, floats a bit while he ignites the jet engine, enables thrust slowly as the boat starts moving, and then as he reaches full power... it still only goes the speed it was originally going.
• Clarkson even asks later why it didn't work as a concept, to which James launches into a lecture on exactly why, ranging from aerodynamics to a basic understanding of simple physics.
• The second attempt at an amphibious vehicle has May and Hammond convert a small two seat car into a boat complete with rotating wheels so that it can hydroplane easily. Then tell Clarkson that while neither of them have motorboat racing licenses, he does, so he is the only one that can test drive their creation. The look on his face is priceless! Made even better afterwards when Clarkson notes that everything from the hydrodynamic issues to the complicated controls seemed designed to get him killed... after which Hammond and May confirm that they had designed the thing to be a Clarkson-custom-death-trap. Clarkson: So we're deliberately trying to get each other killed now? Hammond: Yes, and we could't even do that right.
• In the first test they run into a problem when the crew loses the key to the keyless BMW they used to set the lap time their SUVs are testing against. They end up "ignoring Health & Safety" and leave it on the track.
• The dogs also start mating in front of them all and the three complain that this can't go on TV.
• Finally, the electronic tailgates on their SUVs means that they can't close the boot since they detect the dogs.
• Hammond gets stuck turning around a barrel and winds up sending his car into limp home mode.
• May actually does well, but the massive cloud of dust results in him being unable to find the fence's exit and spoils his run.
• Finally, Jeremy attempts to be clever and use his handbrake to steer better, but since it's electronic, it brings him to a halt completely and sends him into limp home mode as well.
• The Conversation Street Bumper is Clarkson and Hammond working over May with sledgehammers, who merely reacts with light "Ow"s and "Ooh"s.
• Jeremy shows off the sketchpad function of the touchscreen by drawing a penis with it. He uses it again while demonstrating the car's autopilot function to write "James May is a moron".
• When about to discuss its flaws, seven lawyers are put in the car with him so he won't say something that could be grounds for a lawsuit. He eventually gets so annoyed, he exits the car and uses the summon function to park them between two cars so they can't get out and stop his complaint about the price tag.
• When Jeremy points out that if you were to crash an electrical car with lithium iron batteries, it can catch fire and because the fire brigade only have water on board, you are also getting electrocuted. A lawyer then points out that they are not suggesting the cars have any inherent defects, but Jeremy points out that something similar happened with Samsung. The lawyers response?
• What makes it funnier is that Jeremy is specifically mentioning the Samsung Note 7, the one where it randomly combusted and had to be recalled .
• Jeremy claims his SUV was stole n and that he had to replace it with a pickup truck. Hammond is able to tell right away it was because Jeremy's SUV couldn't tow anything, which is proven right when Jeremy admits that it was indeed the case due to the car's exhaust routing. When called out for it, he claims it was virtually the same as his SUV since both vehicles had the same type of engine, four-wheel drive, and the same color .
• Jeremy winds up at a dead end and nearly sends his boat off a cliff while trying to reverse, and is forced to detach and manually do a three-point turn with it.
• May calling Hammond a "spanner" when he had to backtrack to find another route.
• When Jeremy and Hammond arrive at the lake and see the finish line at the other side, Jeremy opts to drive around the rocky and wooded edge. While his pickup can handle it well, his trailer can't, and sends his boat over the edge and forcing him to get it back on with no help from the film crew , before giving up completely and finding another route. He then winds up at another dead end, and while trying to turn the trailer around, he accidentally sends it skidding down the side of a cliff.
• Hammond reaches the finish line after Jeremy, and instantly begins complaining when he sees that Jeremy's boat is basically reduced to splinters and planks that were thrown into the back.
• When May had arrived at the lake, he realizes he could take the boat over the lake instead of bothering to drive it since the winner would be first person to arrive , not the first car . However, his plan goes completely awry when his boat begins to capsize halfway across, and it ultimately sinks completely in front of Jeremy and Hammond as they watch and laugh at him screaming due to the cold water.
• Even the Amazon X-Ray feature is getting some jokes in, as seen especially with Hammond's choice of vehicle: Amazon X-Ray: Richard's 2016 TVS Star HLX has a 100cc, one cylinder engine making 7 horsepower. It has a top speed but we don't know what it is. Likewise, it can probably go from 0-60, but it depends how many weeks you can spare.
• Watching James get soaked by his giant "May-quarium" every time he has to hard brake his car. It looks like he's in some kind of weird dunk tank.
• Hammond goes for drying rack on the back of his bike to which he hooks a variety of fish. When he loses nearly all of them on the first day, he nicks some from Jeremy's truckbed and claims he caught them, including a freshwater octopus .
• Any time Hammond's bike stalls and he falls off. Which is a lot. To the point where Jeremy, of all people, actually finds it boring after a while.
• After May submerges the engine of his Mercedes in a water crossing gone wrong, Clarkson and Hammond decide to help that night with some modifications. They remove the entire front of the car, engine and all, and rig up a way to tow it behind Clarkson's pick-up truck. They do leave the front seats of the car so May can still "drive" his vehicle. He is extremely unhappy with them.
• Jeremy complains that the urban farm allotments in Detroit will destroy its motoring heritage and must be stopped. May rebuts that in the entirety of the city only three acres have been allotted, and that by the end of the film Jeremy's driven over two of them.
• The crew can't find a hotel to sleep in within the Detroit city limits. So they buy a house for $2,200. Pennies when it comes to the budget of the show!
• Afterwards, May complains about how ludicrous this was and points out the special fuel required isn't available for the average driver. When Hammond notes that May had been using that same fuel the entire special , May sheepishly admits he'd hoped nobody noticed.
• While trying to get out of a ditch, Richard reverses into Jeremy's Jeep much like the Sports Lorry Incident in the Top Gear Burma Spedial, leading to this exchange: Jeremy: HAMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOND!!! You fucking moron! Richard: I didn't know you were there! Jeremy: HAMMOND! What the fucking hell are you doing?! Richard: I was stuck, I didn't know you were behind me. Jeremy: Use your mirrors!
• In an effort to capture photos of Condors, Jeremy fits the back of his car with a scissor lift, which then proceeds to go up quite a bit higher than they were all expecting.
• While waiting for the condors on the mountain, with "silence" being key, the quiet is interrupted by at first, Richard Hammond trying to manoeuvre his "box" (mounted on the back of his Chevrolet Monster Truck) into position to get a good look at a ridge where it is suspected the condors are, by using a hand crank, then Hammond trying to make coffee. With predictable results. Then, followed up by James' attempt at luring the condors in. With a bird caller! Jeremy: What is that?! James: It's a bird caller! Jeremy: It's a duck!
• When showing off their trucks, Hammond points out his Ford Ranger is European. Jeremy: Well yes, apart from the fact it was designed in Australia and is built in South Africa. Hammond: What about the engine? James: That's made in Turkey. Hammond: That's European. James: Well a bit of it is. Jeremy: Let's not get bogged down with where Turkey is.
• One challenge is to pull down statues of each other as a test of how useful their trucks would be in a revolution, with whoever uses the lowest revs being the winner. May has a statue of Clarkson, Hammond has a statue of May (which he continues dragging after it's toppled) and Clarkson has a much smaller statue of Hammond. Hammond: Oh now come on! May: Well, you shouldn't have built a life-sized one. You are a man of modest statue. Hammond: Yeah, funny. It reflects my ego compared to yours. May: Well, it's you know, proportionate to the size of the tyranny. Clarkson: I don't think I'm going to need low range. Hammond: You haven't got it! Clarkson: Well I know exactly, I don't need it.
• May pokes fun at Hammond's Turkish five cylinder engine. May: Special deal. For you my friend, today only, I throw in one extra cylinder.
• One of the challenges is delivering fuel to a helicopter. Clarkson: There's a power vacuum now, foreign armies are pouring in, and it's our job to get this fuel to the nation's helicopter. Hammond: And then the villagers can be strafed. [Clarkson and May break down laughing.]
• James has the scores. James: Jeremy Clarkson: You fired 2,600 rounds. And the number of targets you hit was: One.
• And that one target he had still allowed him to win the challenge.
• Clarkson’s pickup gets some sort of bush lodged in the front fender, which never gets removed or even remarked upon throughout the entire episode.
• Jeremy and Richard decide the best truck of the three is the Ford. So they ask James his opinion, and James... wouldn't own a pickup.
• To test how the Lamborghini Urus does against a Porsche 911 on ice, Jeremy had a track plowed out of a frozen lake. Of course, Jeremy being Jeremy , it's shaped like a penis. Abbie : I've raced against a few dicks in my time, but never on one.
• Jeremy describes the Hongqi L5 as "just magnificent... and evil. (Laughs like a combination of Muttley and a villain) Gloriously, brilliantly evil. "
• The Brick Joke about the aircon breaking down in May's car, in the middle of one of China's hottest cities.
• After visiting a museum dedicated to Chairman Mao, the boys stop to eat at a conveniently-located McDonald's , which they say is "paying their respect to Communism".
• The show pulls a Bait-and-Switch with the They Killed Kenny Again trope by having Richard's Fulu roll all the way down a steep hill. Jeremy and James, as with every other instance of one of the presenters "dying" on this and Top Gear (UK) , begin to talk about his "demise"... only for Richard to come over the radio, much to Clarkson's dismay.
• James talks about how good his Lancia Gamma Coupe is ...and then one of the windscreen wipers breaks.
• Then it gets worse. (Hammond backs up, then suddenly hears a snapping sound) Hammond: What was that? (realization dawns) Oh, you are joking. No, no, no, he's not that sick . (Not long later, Hammond and a recently-joined May discover that the roof of Hammond's car is on the ground, snapped in two) May: Why have you driven over your own roof? Hammond: Clarkson. He's sick.
• The best part? Clarkson never admitted to it, nor was even present for the discovery so he might never have done it . James May on the other hand was present for the reveal...
• After bringing Clarkson's out-of-control vehicle to a stop, Clarkson and May get into an argument... while Hammond tries to climb back into May's RV through the window instead of out of the open door on Clarkson's RV. And gets stuck, much to the amusement of the other two. Hammond: This is a ridiculous day!
• Before going into his RV, Jeremy insists to May and Hammond to take off their shoes because, his RV's a boat, to which Hammond retorts with "I can afford two million pounds on a boat but not a new bit of carpet if it gets a bit of dust or some sand",with May adding that "it's a bit Surrey". Clarkson's response? "Off."
• Clarkson explaining where the waste from his RV goes. Hammond: Where does that go? Clarkson: Underneath the RV. Hammond: Like a tank or something? Clarkson: No, underneath the RV. Hammond: So you're going to drive off in your bathroom leaving a mound of turds? Clarkson: Yes.
• Then accessing the roof of his RV, which has been converted to a "flying bridge", from which he can drive the RV from, Jeremy finds that it does come with some disadvantages, namely that being exposed to the outdoor sun has left the seat far too hot to sit on or the steering wheel to grip (Clarkson having to use oven mittens as a result).
• While stopping for the night, Hammond converts his flood lights up to make contact with aliens, and after using a noisy generator to power up the lights and the music keyboard (which is synced up to the lights), Hammond attempts to make use of the lights in an attempt to contact aliens, only for him to frequently play a few notes before stopping with frequent "uh, sorry, wait a minute". This annoys the hell out of James, who is in the midst of attempting to sleep.
• Clarkson then proceeds to throw his baguette out the window of the Citroën and sets off to chase the Pantera. The sound of the siren on the other hand... is a stereotypical French-sounding four note ditty. (Clarkson throws his baguette out the window of the car) Clarkson: Right. (turns on siren, drives off) Clarkson: LET'S DO THIS!
• In Georgia, the birthplace of wine, they find a spa where James May bathes in it. In Azerbaijan, the birthplace of oil, there is an equivalent spa where Jeremy Clarkson bathes in crude oil.
• The first part of the "Motorised Luggage" segment is literally just Jeremy ranting about the inconveniences at airports with Richard clearly looking like he wants to be anywhere but there. It even gets to the point that Hammond mimes getting a knife out and stabbing Jeremy with it multiple times, while Clarkson blissfully continues on with his ranting.
• Things only get more hilarious when they unveil their motorised luggage (Clarkson with an wheeled suitcase and Hammond with a skateboard like laptop), with Jeremy crashing into a sign, knocking a man into a sunglasses display, crashing into a stack of Toblerones, knocking over a table with drinks, and finally falling out one of the airport gates. Clarkson: OH, THERE'S NO PLANE!! ( shoots out of the disconnected jet bridge and falls down )
• After James tells them how he dreamt of wine, Jeremy declares that he thought of a new name for the car: Rehab.
• The title of the episode .
• The entire episode revolves around the trio going on a "boating trip" from Cambodia to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. James and Richard hate boating. May: I signed up for a car show. Clarkson: Yes. May: Not cookery, not restoring frescoes and not boats. Hammond: I don't like boats. You can't trust a boat. May: That's exactly the right word. Hammond: You can't trust any vehicle that isn't necessarily where it was when you last parked it. Problem No. 1. They can sink. Cars can't do that. note  Outside of a convenient sinkhole, that is...
• Jeremy points out "one small problem" with the meeting point Mr. Wilman picked for them. [Camera pans around showing the river they are at has completely dried up and is filled with dozens of beached boats] Hammond: As I've said, I'm no expert on boats and boating. But... th-there's no water.
• Richard's Scarab is powered by 2 V8s for a total of 850 horsepower. Jeremy's PBR is also powered by 2 V8s for a total of 700 horsepower. James's antique? A 4-cylinder diesel with a grand total of... 99 horsepower . Clarkson: What we've got is a Corvette, definitely (......) A Mercedes G-Wagon, which it is, and a Rover 90.
• Predictably, none of them manage to dock without bashing into the pontoon several times.
• Jeremy attempts a christening ceremony for his boat (since it's newly built). He ends up with an unbroken bottle of wine in his boat, which he seems very happy about.
• James and Richard run into a world of issues right out of the gate. Due to how shallow the lake was, their props repeatedly snag onto fishing nets and their engines clog up with mud as they ground out on the lake bed. Jeremy, whose PBR is powered by water-jets instead of propellers, doesn't run into the same problems, leaving him to rescue both of them. Not before crashing into them a few times, naturally. Hammond: I [BLEEP] HATE BOATS! (......) [Jeremy arrives with James in tow, and turns on the siren on his PBR] Hammond: International Crap Rescue is coming.
• While James is busy tying his boat to Jeremy's, Jeremy decides to film some "scenery", namely James and his plumber's crack.
• This exchange: Clarkson (to himself): I wonder how many low-grade pornographical movies have been made on Hammond's boat. "Hey, you wanna come out rootin' and tootin'?" Clarkson: Hammond, how much semen have you found on that boat? Hammond: Please , I've tried to block the thought from my mind. Every su-is...Honestly, going below is like climbing into a teenager's sock.
• Later, they are shown to their rooms, which are right next to a very loud generator. Clarkson: It's impossible to think how this could be worse . [Loud music starts playing in the bar nearby] Hammond: And there it is.
• Sure enough, morning arrives to reveal that none of them (not even the camera crew) had a wink of sleep. [The GT trio sits at a table, with sleep-deprived thousand-yard stares as Hammond eats out of a ration bag] [Rooster calls] Clarkson: That. That...4:26. Hammond: Yeah. Yup. Clarkson: 4:26. At midnight...2 A.M., music stops. And the dog-barking competition starts. May: Yeah. Clarkson: Till 4:26, cockerel starts. May: Yeah. Clarkson: Till 5, fishing boats go out. (......) Hammond: Why do we do this? Clarkson: This is a boating holiday. Hammond : Yeah. Brilliant. May : Life afloat. The glamour.
• The three take one of their boats to shop for supplies in Pursat to make their trip more bearable. Unfortunately, the boat they chose was Jeremy's PBR, which was the largest and notoriously difficult to control at slow speeds. Clarkson: Well, do you have anything you want to buy from this shop? Cos we're arriving at it. [CRASH!]
• James and Richard look for some sleeping pills, and Richard requests the shopkeeper for some that could knock out an elephant, by mimicking an elephant. May: Well, it could kill him. Hammond: That's what I mean. May: Oh, right, okay.
• After leaving Pursat, Richard refuses to fire up his props after yesterday's fiasco. So, he asks a local fisherman to tow him along with his fishing boat. It ends up taking three of their boats just to match James's leisurely pace. Hammond: BO-O-O-ORED!
• Jeremy feels pleased with himself for picking a PBR and not having to deal with the problems faced by his colleagues, and reaches the end of the lake first. But, he encounters a dense field of water weeds. His solution? "Call on [his] old friends: Speed and Power." He makes it a few yards before his water-jets get clogged up with weeds .
• When they finally enter deeper water in the Tonlé Sap river, they get the chance to open their throttles, and you can't help but be amused at how enthusiastic Richard and Jeremy are being as they speed down the river... and then it cuts to James, living up to his nickname as usual.
• Jeremy challenges Richard to a drag race to show off the superiority of jet boats. Richard wins by a fair margin. Jeremy then calls the drag race "ridiculous" in his voiceover . Clarkson: Ghastly little Brummie in his HMS Pornography!
• James loses one of his cushions trying to catch up with the others, and ends up entertaining some locals while he unsuccessfully tries to retrieve it.
• Jeremy buys a Jaguar belt and lets the shopkeeper keep the change . He then rants about foreigners haggling over cheap goods in local markets and insists they should just pay the price since it affects the shopkeepers more than it affects them. Cue Richard haggling over a $75 watch.
• Richard approaches an electronics stall to buy "something for getting rid of flies" (presumably an electric flyswatter of some sort). The shopkeeper hands him a taser disguised as a torchlight. Hammond is so excited about it that his voice turns into wheezing.
• Jeremy gets some deodorant from a shopkeeper and proceeds to spray the entire can into his armpit .
• Apparently, the Prime Minister of Cambodia is pretty finicky about how people address him. [The trio are admiring a government building from a rooftop bar.] Hammond: Is that where the Prime Minister hangs out? Clarkson: No, no, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Hammond: He's not there? Clarkson: No, don't call him Prime Minister. Hammond: Well, what is he, then? Clarkson: Well, weirdly, I was reading the Financial Times, and I've saved it. Hang on. Mr. Hun Sen, a ruler of 31 years, who insists on being referred to as quote "Lord Prime Minister and Supreme Military Commander". So, if you are referring to him, you must say, "Lord Prime Minister and Supreme Military Commander". His wife, Bun Rany, she is officially known as quote "Most glorious and upright person of genius".
• Richard eventually noticed... when they dock at Chau Doc, after they've passed through Cambodian customs, Vietnamese immigration, Vietnamese customs, and drove a good distance down the Mekong river . Jeremy points out that changing a boat's name brings bad luck .
• James installs a drinks fridge in his boat. As they leave Phnom Penh, Jeremy and Richard accelerate away, causing his boat to rock in their wakes. The fridge opens and empties most of its contents into the inside of his boat .
• ...and Chau Doc. Hammond: Jeremy? You've now got my boat and I'm not on it! Clarkson: What? Hammond: I'm not on it and it's no longer tied on! Clarkson: It's not tied on on that end? Hammond: No, it's come off! Clarkson: Why didn't you tie it on? Hammond: I thought I had! Clarkson: Oh, for God's sake. Your boat's got free, Hammond.
• James eventually gives up trying to keep up with the other two and decides to try fishing. After setting up his fishing rod, it gets pulled overboard almost immediately.
• When James catches up, at last, Jeremy had already dumped the leftover Pho soup in the wok into the river.
• He then hires a local to ride along and clear his jets every time they get clogged up. Out of curiosity, he asks their translator why people were laughing at the name of his boat (Jeremy had christened it Du Ma at the beginning of the trip, which he assumed meant "Boat Machine" in Vietnamese). Giggling, the translator reveals that "Du Ma" has a similar pronunciation to "[BLEEP] your mother" in Vietnamese. Jeremy's reaction is priceless.
• Back at Phnom Penh, Jeremy installed a toilet seat to the back of his PBR (just like the one installed on the Toyota Hilux pickup in the Top Gear Polar Special). Hilarity ensues as Jeremy uses it for the first time. Hammond: If he falls in and follows his own turd into the lavatory bowl...and emerges with it stuck to his head... May: Someone would say: "There's a particularly massive turd in the river this morning." [Jeremy is visibly struggling to get back onboard in the background]
• On their way back to the Mekong, they stop at a floating market to buy some breakfast. Richard and James buy plenty of fruits and vegetables. Jeremy crashes into every vessel there, and decides to just leave empty-handed.
• When they finally get back on the Mekong river, Jeremy realises that staying on it would lead them to the South China Sea, which meant that they spent the whole night looking for a river that they now have to turn off of . Hammond: Oh, this looks brilliant! Yeah, we're on another bloody canal! Oh, for God's sake. Clarkson: Hammond, if I still had .50 cals on the front of this, I promise I would open up on you right now. Hammond: Yes, well, you haven't, and there's a reason for that. Because you'd probably lose them the same way you lost the massive river . You'd lose your massive machine gun. It cannot be this way .
• Jeremy gets his sat-nav dish knocked off going under a low bridge. Richard remarks sarcastically that they "lost the thing that got [them] lost".
• The GT trio decides to do a bit of Self-Deprecation . Clarkson: Guys, I've got my iPad, I can watch a movie. There's a show on Prime Video here, it's called The Grand Tour . Hammond: I don't like it. May: It's rubbish. Hammond: There's this one bloke on it I can't stand. (......) Hammond: What are the locals thinking right now about us? "They're making a movie and they've [BLEEP] it up completely."
• When James and Richard fall behind (the latter because of a myriad of engine troubles), Jeremy speeds ahead and does a little history segment on the PBR, which is rudely interrupted when he gets caught in his own wake during a turn and beaches himself on the opposite bank . Clarkson: Right, what I've done is - there's no other word - I've crashed. [James arrives and spots Jeremy up on the bank] May: How have you done that? Clarkson : Ok, what happened was I came round this corner here, there was some school children swimming...and a shark was homing in for an attack. So, I ran the shark down...and then got stuck in my own wake. And it's just...Well, I've crashed now...But the school children are all fine.
• Jeremy's Signing Off Catchphrase after all three crossed the South China Sea and survived. "And on that terrible disappointment... for Top Gear ... it's time to say goodbye."
• James May's open top Caterham itself proves to be surprisingly good at handling the rough muddy terrain when modified with off-road tires and suspension. Unfortunately, during the journey, James himself gets absolutely caked in mud a lot . When they reach the first hotel, he opts to simply faceplant into the swimming pool. Jeremy: Great. Now the pool's got a muddy dog in it!
• Jeremy stealing James' shoes, prompting a "CLARKSON!!!!!!!!"
• Richard Hammond trying out a bag to cook some rations whilst in the car, which works by putting the rations in, before pouring in some water to heat it up. Initially, he thinks it doesn't work, only to find that the bag starts heating up and getting quite hot for him to handle.
• Because the COVID-19 Pandemic hit during filming, the cast and crew had to sleep in caravans instead of hotels. The presenters decide to spruce their up: Jeremy's low-top model is fairly standard, but then there's James' cow print caravan and Hammond's tinfoil-wrapped one.
• Jeremy and Richard filling James' caravan with water using a fire engine. They thought that James wouldn't have noticed until he tried to drive off, but after James finishes his business, he heads back to the caravan. The moment James opens the door, he immediately gets knocked on his back by the burst of water like a cartoon character.
• During the trio's attempts to get back to the highway, they find themselves lost on a gravel road in the woods. Jeremy's caravan then instantly breaks off from his car and careens into a ditch; James deems it an Epic Fail so absurd that it'd seem outlandish in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
• While Jeremy's caravan fell in a ditch and Hammond's capsizes, James' ends up falling apart while the group try to seek out an abandoned castle to lodge in, giving Jeremy the dubious distinction of being the one to tell him that "your udder's fallen off." James immediately asks him to never say that again. Once they reach the castle, James' caravan is reduced to a skeleton.
• Jeremy installs a nitrous oxide injector, but because he forgot to modify the engine timing, it does nothing; according to James, it might actually risk damaging the engine instead. Furthermore, his improved tires end up being so big that they catch on the car body when driving up inclines.
• James decides to make his car a low rider with side exhaust, but ends up making it so low that it constantly scrapes against the road.
• Hammond installs a supercharger onto his car, only for it to be so big that he can hardly see around it.
• On a ferry, Jeremy remarks to James that the only thing that Hammond doesn't do, as an American car enthusiast, is play golf. To this, Hammond says "yeah" in a very suspicious way, which leads to Jeremy asking Hammond if there is something he'd like to share. To which Hammond makes a quick reply of "My name's Richard Hammond and I've taken up golf recently and I've been having lessons!" This results in a stunned silence from the other two. And looks on their faces are just hilarious.
• At one point, Jeremy and Hammond decide to replace the fallen-off tire flap on James' car... with a gaudy photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle .
• While building the bridge to reach Wilman's retreat, they realize they have to rent a motorboat to drag the pieces together. The already notoriously crash-prone Hammond, who's never piloted a boat with an on-board motor, repeatedly futzes around with the engine, breaks a fishing rod off the top, and capsizes the boat just five seconds after tying a bridge piece to it; uncannily mirroring what happened to his tinfoil caravan. James is utterly exasperated and Jeremy is left laughing so hard that he lies down flat on his face. Unsurprisingly, the locals refuse to give the presenters another boat. Jeremy: ( as the boat capsizes and sinks ) Hammond's gone upside-down again!
• Eventually the team finally make it to the retreat... and find that it's actually a Chinese Effective Knockoff .
• It took 5 tries before James was able to turn the engine over. Richard: I'll tell you what, a stall at the lights would be a bugger, wouldn't it?
• James and Jeremy then realize that they have put Richard behind the wheel of the now-functional Hélica. Cue everyone running in panic away from the helicar as Richard drives off.
• James and Jeremy proceed to explain more reasons why French cars are weird, all the while the Hélica buzzes away offscreen, until it inevitably crashes. Richard rejoins the two presenters a few moments later. Jeremy: Where's the Hélica? Richard: It's evidence.
• Jeremy’s reaction to the crash is this and Memetic Mutation as a Call-Back to James’ dismay at the announcement of the Dacia Sandero’s delay. Jeremy: (He hears the crash) Hammond’s just crashed, didn't he? Crew: Yeah. Clarkson: (He turns back around to continue explaining) Anyway...
• The presenters decide to test the urban legend that a Citroën 2CV has shock absorbers that can survive a drop from a couple hundred meters up...so they do so, deploying one by helicopter. When the car inevitably crashes after being dropped , Jeremy claims he mistranslated the car's handbook by mistaking the French word for "earth" for the French word for "helicopter" . Then again, given how much Jeremy stated his vitriol for the 2CV, he probably mistranslated it on purpose .
• The team decides to have a proper French race, which kicks off with a rush down the first straight...until the race is paused for lunch. After that, and a brief nap, the race resumes, and they curve around the first bend...until the race is paused again when the race officiators go on strike and begin to riot. The race resumes when the rioters kill the racing director .
• Ça Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand plays during the race, complete with quick caption reading "And before you jump on Twitter, yes we know he's Belgian".
• In the beginning, as Hammond and May argue that Clarkson's Audi RS4 doesn't meet the challenge requirements, Clarkson tries to defend his choice: Clarkson : I am older, and with age has come— Hammond : —weight. [ Clarkson doubles over laughing ]
• While talking with James in the ambulance, Richard compliments him on not dying.
• The entire thing starts when Jeremy freezes Richard's keys during the night. The kicker is that he peed in it as well, and claimed that he was trying to melt the ice.
• Richard then gets his revenge later, after the trio unintentionally camp in a museum exhibit. He freezes his ENTIRE CAR. Jeremy pays him back for that later by ruining his pizza with an entire pitcher of salt and his Coca-Cola.
• The crowner though, has to go to the final incident. The trio have built sheds on skiis that they towed using their rally cars. Then they unintentionally camp on a ski slope during a storm. The next morning, Jeremy unhitches Hammond's shed and then pushes it down the slope. With him still inside. We're treated to Richard screaming in utter terror in his bed, while his house on skis rockets down and then crashes into a snow bank at the bottom.
• After Richard gives his Subaru a Martini Racing livery, Jeremy finds an opportunity to "modify" it slightly (by using a black felt-tip pin to "erase" the last i in Martini), after the Subaru obtains some damage during a challenge and Richard goes off to find some tools... Jeremy: ( singing ) Anytime, any place, anywhere, there's a wonderful drink you can share... It's Martin!
• When the three of them park at a car accessories shop, in order to get some supplies, they exit their vehicles, only to find out that the ground is very slippery. And thus hilarity ensures as the three of them struggle to stay upright, and even the film crew struggle, with the director falling down at one stage!
• Richard's attempts to get to the top of the ski slope.
• James using a bus shelter as a shed.
• Jeremy going down the ski slope with his shed.....and accidentally turning on his flaming exhaust, causing his shed to catch fire. By the time the fire crews put it out, it's damaged beyond repair.
• Their various failed attempts at finding 'The Wilderness', including sleeping the night in a hut at what turns out to an open air museum, complete with school parties and reindeer petting.
• Before the trio even get going there's a blink and you miss it laugh. At the start the three are pointing out where they're going for the special. They start out by pointing out on a map all the places they cannot go to for various reasons. (in a war, politically hostile, terrorist activity, etc.) If you pay attention, every time it cuts to the map a distinctly feminine, well manicured hand is pointing to the spot on the map, and every time it's a different presenter, the hand changes.
• After Richard crashes his Formula Easter car, he radios back, saying he has hurt his leg but is okay and needs someone to pick him up. The person coming to pick him up, is James. In a 1947 Crosley CC Convertible that is so slow (it also stalled and cut out before he even left the pit!) that by the time he reaches Hammond, Richard's just lying back in the car, catching the sun . When he arrives back, Jeremy remarks he's not dead, to which Hammond replies "No. In fact, I've got better".
• First off, it should be noted that it was bought off a car auction website for £11,000 (it was originally much lower at £100 but it ballooned to £11,000). And May was drunk on wine during the auction.
• It’s so slow that he can only do 38 MPH flat out (to be fair, the car was from the 40s so it lost around half of its horsepower), it’s so flimsy that it’s vulnerable to shuddering from slipstreams from overtaking cars (and lorries if you’re unlucky), and it’s so unreliable that it stalls and cuts out randomly without warning (and that’s not including the fact that his battery dies at one point). And his wipers are broken too. Due to constantly missing out on the trio's planned stops, it gets to the point that James is forced to take the backup car for the first time in the trio's history .
• Because he's not used to the car's width, James wins the prize for the fastest crash in The Grand Tour history as he misjudges the position of the exit barrier from the port and clatters into it, breaking his window.
• To try and "put a spring back into [James'] step", Jeremy and Richard organise a drag race which they reckon that the Crosley can win, consisting of a Tatra tipper truck weighting at around 18 and a half tons, a JCB tractor weighing at around 12 and a half tons, a Velorex 3-wheeler with only 12 horsepower and a man on a bicycle. But the Crosley still comes last! Yep, you heard that right. Even the cyclist was faster than it.
• Just to add further insult to injury, shortly after Jeremy and Hammond catch up to May and pass him, Hammond's car ends up overheating and he has to stop at the side of the road, allowing May to overtake Hammond in the Crosley. He gets to the plane first (after Jeremy) and it looks like May might be the second person to get onboard... only for Hammond to come barreling up behind May after his first failed attempt to drive up the ramp, and easily do it himself, ensuring that May's dead last.
• And then a text from Mr Wilman renders all of their efforts for naught since they ended up boarding the wrong plane.
• Oh, and remember the back-up car? James originally had drove it, with a trailer on the back, towing the Crosley, only to find that the hot-rod towing the Crosley was "absolutely lethal", leading to James having to had to attach the trailer to the crew van instead. Even with that out of the way, it was just as bad as the Crosley, if not worse. It had decals of "Titties 'n' Beer" on its doors (making it quite embarrassing to drive in), its throttle pedal was buried within the door (forcing James to drive without a right shoe only for the razor-sharp pedal to dig within his foot), it was prone to violently pulling to the right whilst under braking, the interior was noisy and baking hot and not to mention, it wasn't even a proper hot-rod , since it had a straight-6 Jag engine which would break down regularly, instead of a V8.
• Then, they come across a wax figure of Nigel Mansell … which they then steal from the museum and place in Jeremy's car for most of the special (where, predictably, it starts to melt). Also, Richard and Jeremy's "Birmingham accent" for Nigel.
• And in Krakow, when Jeremy and Richard do it again, this time putting the Crosley in a shop, James organizes a bit of revenge of his own (all while humming "dee dee dee dee dee......"). To Jeremy's Mitsuoka Le-Seyde, he drills in a pair of candelabras on the front wheel hubs. But to Richard's Chevrolet SSR? He wires a new sound to the brakes and indicators. For brakes? Railroad crossing. For the right indicator, Richard's car horn (a la the Top Gear India Special when James's car had his horn wired into his brakes). For the left indicator, comes a wail of "Yeah Yeah Yeah". For the accelerator? bagpipes . And last, but not least, when the convertible roof on the SSR comes up or down? It's basically someone saying “I'm impotent” in Hungarian (though the last one was in retaliation for the drag race). note  Clarkson and Hammond incorrectly assume it's in Slovakian
• The duo explore the camp further, only to find that it's significantly more luxurious than what you'd expect from a Nazi Prison camp. Hammond's question to the tour guide upon finding out that the camp had a large theatre with a three piece orchestra is the icing on the cake.
• Jeremy freaking out over a hornet who had snuck into his car.
• Among the modifications to Jeremy's Jaguar F-Type, is a modification to the badge, with a lot of As added, making it a "Jaaaag".
• Firstly, the sat-nav on the DB9 , believing it to be still in the UK, or more specifically, "in the East Midlands on a Spring Day".
• Later, a beeping noise emits from Hammond's car, just as he has lost the ability to change gears, and this prompts his windows to automatically open, much to his confusion. As the beeping continues, Hammond reckons it might have been because the retractable roof was not secured properly, so he pulls over and starts trying everything to push the roof down into place, including climbing onto the car and stamping his feet down while screaming "STOP BEEPING! IT'S ALRIGHT!!", much to Jeremy's amusement.
• Richard and Jeremy fill James' car with sand, insisting that a sandstorm blew over it.
• The boys' amusement over seeing several heavily-rusted beaters driving around Mauritania.
• When Mr. Wilman does find out that the trio have abandoned his task, he sends a backup car to them. However, it is a car they don't like (the Volkswagen New Beetle) and, considering that Clarkson's and Hammond's cars have both broke down around this point, they don't want to drive it. They get rid of it by staging an elaborate "accident" where the car ends up at the top of a cliff, in gear and with a brick on the accelerator, and the clutch disengaged by a broom handle wedged against the seat. But somehow , said broom handle is attached by rope to the collar of a dog that is about to be distracted by James May opening a tin of dog food.
• Clarkson says to Hammond that May is planning on deleting their phone numbers after they are finished with the episode. At the end of the episode, May is seen doing exactly that.
• When a pickup truck accidentally drives into their shot, Clarkson, thinking it's a crew truck, proceeds to use sign language to call them knobheads. It's only when May points out it's not one of the production vehicles that Clarkson realizes he's just insulted some random locals.
• In order to avoid driving through a coal-mining area, the trio convert their cars into running on a nearby railway line. While Jeremy and James manage to successfully make their cars move, Richard has converted his car on running his rear wheels on a dyno-like system, that unfortunately, makes him go into reverse when he accelerates, causing him to crash into the buffers.
• The videos on the YouTube channel where the team audition various replacement drivers for The American. Including a car thief who "will drive it like he stole it". Which he promptly does. These videos inevitably had one comment going "Does that mean he's not coming on then?"
• Pay attention to the intros that Richard Hammond does for Conversation Street. Series 1 he just introduces it as "*some descriptor* into Conversation Street". Series 2 he introduces it as "*Insert descriptor* of chat, on Conversation Street". Series 3 he gets silly with "*inserts descriptor* of chat, *insert descriptor* of debate, on Conversation Street". As well, particularly with Series 3, every episode the descriptors were becoming more silly than the last, to the point that Jeremy was laughing throughout them. Clarkson : I think, after 36 of those, we were running out of ideas.
• Another running gag is, whenever they need to do something dangerous with the risk of them being either injured or killed, they use a team of junior officers. While some were able to come out unscathed, others weren't so lucky...
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James and Richard push Jeremy's "Bentley" when it doesn't start during a drag race

The Albanian Road Trip (or 'Mafia Road Test') was a road trip conducted by Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , and James May and was televised on the 3rd episode of the 16th season of Top Gear . The trip was conducted for the purposes of finding the best car for a "leading light in the Albanian Mafia", James chose a new Rolls-Royce Ghost, Richard a new Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG and Jeremy a new Bentley Mulsanne - only Bentley backed out of the test at the last minute, leading Jeremy to choose a 1990 Zastava Yugo 101 Skala 55 as a replacement on the basis that it had the same drivetrain and a similar weight distribution (if not as much power or responsiveness.)

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High Speed Albanian Police Chase - Top Gear Series 16 Episode 3 - BBC Two

In the studio, Jeremy reads a letter from an Albanian fan, who is in the Mafia and thinking of buying Rolls-Royce's new car, the Ghost, but wonders how it compares to a Bentley or Mercedes. Although adamant, the presenters tried telling the producers they will not go to Albania on their insistence, but do so, nonetheless.

Right away, as the trip began after the presenters, the S65 AMG and the Ghost had come from a ferry from Corfu, Greece to an Albanian harbor, not only Jeremy but also Richard and James referred to the Yugo as if it were the scheduled Mulsanne. Before they set off, Jeremy tells Richard and James not to say 'car' or 'peach', since they're similar to the Albanian words 'kar' and 'piç'. The trip initally wound through small villages, over rough roads where they use rocks instead of white lines - which caused problems for the "Bentley" as Jeremy got a cat's eye under the front bumper - and hills until they reached a river crossing. To negotiate it, they used an old ferry which Jeremy referred to as HMS Driftwood because it didn't look sturdy enough to support the heavy Ghost and S65. They then continued driving until, on a steep hill, the Yugo died. Jeremy attempted a reverse bump start, but failed and damaged the car further and breaking off the door mirror as he screamed that the mirror had come off. After the car was fixed by a mechanic, they kept driving and eventually wound up at an abandoned submarine base. Jeremy proceeded to climb onto one of the submarines and almost fell off as he mentioned that if he were drafted into the British armed forces, he would want to be part of a submarine crew because he enjoys sneaky warfare.

They kept driving, and once night fell, they came up with a challenge. They reasoned that a leading light in the Albanian Mafia would need a car that could properly conceal a dead body - which, for the test, was a plump passerby that they had "murdered" (Richard quipped that the man had taken a lot of murdering because of his size.) James went first, but was unable to lift the man, much less get him into the boot of the Rolls-Royce, as he was too overweight and heavy. Eventually the "dead" man climbed into the boot; however, the boot lid wouldn't shut. Richard was next, but the 'dead' man didn't fit again because the S65 has a fridge in its boot. Jeremy was last, and although the man did fit in the boot of the Yugo, there was still a problem - you could clearly see him through its large back window.

The next day, the presenters decided to have a drag race on an abandoned airfield. As they lined up however, the "Bentley" wouldn't start. Richard and James pushed Jeremy's car, and once it started, Jeremy took off without them. They did however, catch up with him and blow past him. Richard won the race thanks to the faster Mercedes, with Jeremy's Yugo barely able to hit 70 by the time it crossed the line. They then decided to take a small detour through a field of old fighter planes from the Cold War - mainly MiGs - which annoyed Richard but piqued the interests of Jeremy and especially James. Jeremy's "Bentley" died again, but the trio was able to make it to their hotel.

Jeremy and James felt they hadn't yet found the best car for a leading light in the Albanian Mafia, so they came up with one final test that astounded Richard: the three of them would rob a bank and use the Rolls-Royce, the Mercedes and the "Bentley" as the getaway cars. As Jeremy said, "The ones that get away from the police and onto the ferry and back to Corfu are good cars. If you're caught by the police and you spend the next 40 years in jail..." Richard understood and finished, "Then you brought the wrong car and you know what to blame."

The next morning, the presenters carried out the heist wearing tights over their heads as masks, wielding pistols and carrying bags of cash in the opposite hands. Jeremy escaped the bank first, and doing his best to look normal so as to not attract police, chose Richard's Mercedes since it had proved the quickest (and had a small problem as Richard is only 5'7"). Richard then exited the bank and cursed at Clarkson for stealing his Mercedes - but then stole James' Rolls-Royce (and did 'seatbelt safety'). James was the last to exit the bank, cursed at them both and with no other option, took the much slower "Bentley" as the bank alarms went off. Clarkson had to ask someone for directions to Saranda (as he said, the first time in human history that someone escaping from a bank job had to ask for directions) - and soon, the police were onto them and gave chase in Chevrolet Aveos and on motorcycles. As James exclaimed, "Oh, crikey, it's the Albanian rozzers!"

Richard and Jeremy wove in and out of traffic, with Jeremy nearly running someone over and almost crashing into a car backing out of a driveway. All three, and especially James, had hairy moments on damp switchback roads outside of town that the police negotiated well, but Richard and Jeremy were able to succesfully lose the cops as the road straightened out, and gave the Rolls and the Mercedes the chance they needed to outrun the police Aveos and got back to the ferry. However, James was in big trouble - after having had to make a "very stressy" getaway in the less powerful and less agile "Bentley", the cops chasing Richard and Jeremy had stopped and formed a roadblock to stop him. Upon sight of the roadblock, James declared, "You'll never take me alive, copper!" and subsequently yelled to Jeremy and Richard, "I'll see you (Jeremy and Richard) in Spain, lads!" and then swerved around the road block, flipped the car and plummeted off of the side of the cliff, apparently being thrown from the car and being 'killed' as a result. Jeremy and Richard bid farewell to their 'dead' friend as they left on the ferry, but did so in Top Gear style - when Jeremy said, "So James May is dead...", Richard said, "Anyway...".

Back in the studio, Jeremy and Richard agreed that the Mercedes was the best choice - and Richard quipped that that overruled the "late" James, who would have chosen the Rolls-Royce.

• "Kar" and "piç" are the vulgar Albanian words. "Kar" does translate to "gentleman's sausage" in English. However, "piç" translates to "bastard", not "lady garden".

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The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond On His French-Themed Car Crashes: “I Ended Up On My Side”

The Grand Tour: Carnage A Trois has arrived on Amazon Prime Video, and fans have already professed their love for the new episode as they watch Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , and James May causing mayhem across the UK with a number of French cars.

But as viewers saw, Richard Hammond managed to crash so well that he turned the car he was driving, a Renault Scenic, onto its side.

Talking to the press ahead of the episode’s release, Richard Hammond has opened up on not only his love for France, but the crash as well.

“It was our attempt at making cultural observations, prompted by the slightly provocative concept of ‘What’s the matter with the French?’

“I loved that idea, it was such a good starting point for the show, but by the end of it, we come to the conclusion, ‘Oh, nothing’.”

The ex-Top Gear presenter was then asked about his personal connection with France:

“Well, they’re very close, aren’t they? France was the first place that the Hammond family, 100 years ago, went on holiday abroad.

“I remember as a 10-year-old or 12-year-old, getting on the ferry, and thinking how they speak funny, and they’ve got funny money, and it’s amazing.

“So it always seemed exotic to me, even though it’s closer than some towns and cities in Britain are to where we lived.

“It’s a long way from us socially, and attitudinally. They’re different, aren’t they, the French, and that’s why it’s a great stepping-off point for the show.”

He continued: “It’s not surprising, given that they are certainly different in many, many, many ways, that their cars are expressions of that.”

Richard teased the episode’s level of, well, carnage, and how embarrassing it was to be watched by the public as he was filmed hitting and damaging cars:

“I did some French parking, which resulted in, ahem, some damage to it,” the revealed.

“It was weird filming that, because there were people in a restaurant watching and I went to park in a French fashion, and they didn’t know what we were doing.

“They obviously thought, ‘There’s that little fella off the telly, he’s clearly gone mad’ because I was destroying cars up and down the road.

“I ended up on my side at one point, inevitably, but we did that all in a very sort of French way.”

The Grand Tour presents: Carnage A Trois is now available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.

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Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond tour Europe in brand new British sports cars built to designs from the 1950s, an undertaking spoilt by the arrival of James May in a modern Honda Civic Ty... Read all Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond tour Europe in brand new British sports cars built to designs from the 1950s, an undertaking spoilt by the arrival of James May in a modern Honda Civic Type R. Back in the UK, Jeremy is at the track to test the Ford GT, and Celebrity Face Off s... Read all Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond tour Europe in brand new British sports cars built to designs from the 1950s, an undertaking spoilt by the arrival of James May in a modern Honda Civic Type R. Back in the UK, Jeremy is at the track to test the Ford GT, and Celebrity Face Off sees Stewart Copeland from The Police go head-to-head against Pink Floyd's Nick Mason in a ... Read all

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