Plot

The travelling tent lands on the quayside in Whitby, England where Jeremy, Richard and James introduce a modern take on the traditional Italian grand tour featuring an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and an uninvited guest.

The Grand Tour travelling tent pitches up on the quayside in the English coastal town of Whitby from where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce a modern take on the traditional gentleman's tour of Italy. With Jeremy in an Aston Martin DB11 and James in a Rolls-Royce Dawn, the pair are set for a leisurely trip of culture and fine dining until a noisy and unwelcome guest arrives. Also in this show, Jeremy discovers the terrible consequences of a foolish bet made earlier in the series and actor Simon Pegg is the special star guest.

The travelling tent lands on the quayside in Whitby, England where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce a modern take on the traditional Italian grand tour featuring an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and an uninvited guest. Also in this show, Jeremy faces the consequences of a foolish bet and Simon Pegg is the star guest.

The trio host their next episode within Whitby, United Kingdom.

The presenters take on a tour of northern Italy, travelling across the country in a car of their choosing (introduce a modern take on the traditional Italian grand tour) May takes the Rolls-Royce Dawn (BP 268,000) with him Clarkson travels in the Aston Martin DB11 (high on beauty and aesthetics, replacement for the DB9, 5.2L twin turbo charged V12, 600 BHP, comes with a cheaper option of an AMG V8 engine) Hammond occupies the driver seat of the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat (he brings his own truck with sets of extra tires for when he wears them out doing doughnuts in the middle of town squares, 6.2L V8 HEMI, Super charged, drinks 18.5 gallons of fuel in 13 mins at full throttle, faster than a 911 GT3, and costs only BP 50,000, 700 BHP).

The group begin at the Paleo Di Siena horse race, exploring art in Florence, racing each other at the Mugello Circuit, visiting the Lamborghini Museum and Piazza die Signoria, Vicenza, and finish off their tour in the city of Venice. Hammond keeps revving his Dodge and that irritates May. In Florence Hammond does Doughnuts in the town square while May and Clarkson visit the Uffizi Museum.

When Hammond challenges Aston Martin's performance, Clarkson pulls into the Mugello circuit. The DB11 is not a race car, but has an awesome traction control and aero-dynamics that suck air in through vents in the side windows and shoot them out through the rear, giving it an air rear wing. DB11 is half a second faster than the Dodge around the track, but costs BP 100,000 more than the Dodge.

Dodge does 6.6 mpg, Rolls does 15.7, Aston does 21 mpg. Aston DB11's interiors are bad. They reach Modena, which is the home of Ferrari, Lambo, and the Maserati. Clarkson and May gift Hammond a large portrait (which doesn't fit in his car), so he must return home. But Hammond saws the portrait in half, hangs it on either side of his Dodge and reaches Verona.

To get rid of Hammond, Clarkson tweets that Hammond will make an appearance in the Piazza at Vincenza and Hammond gets caught up in the huge crowd there. Clarkson and May speed towards Venice. As they enjoy a gondola ride in Venice, Hammond catches up a speedboat, does water doughnuts and makes them fall off the gondola into the water.

Meanwhile Hammond and May fulfill a bet from the first episode during their HyperCard reviews, by destroying Clarkson's old home in Chadlington, Oxfordshire as part of the wager Clarkson lost. As per UK laws a house cannot be demolished if it has a bat living in it. So, Hammond and May had to remove the roof of Clarkson's house and give a chance to the bat to move away, before they could demolish it. Notes: The demolition of Clarkson's Oxfordshire home was scripted for The Grand Tour, as it was scheduled to be demolished at the time of filming for this episode

Conversation Street. Whitby sells polished coal, by branding it as jewelry called Jet. In UK in 2007 16000 driving tests were conducted, that dropped to 4500 in 2015. Clarkson says that it's because of the ugly cars that makers make these days. One UK council paid BP 9 MM to a contractor to shrink 2 roundabouts, a job that should have taken only 30,000 pounds. BMW has the habit of making awesome concept or homage cars, that they have no intention of moving to full production.

Clarkson makes his own version of self-driving car, which is propelled by a man driving the car with cycle under the bonnet.