- The tent is once again in Loch Ness, This time Jeremy, Richard and James test the Jaguar F-Pace, the Bentley Bentayga and the Range Rover Autobiography with a road trip around central Europe.
- The Grand Tour tent is once again on the edge of Loch Ness, Scotland thanks to an amazing discovery made by the hosts since the last show. In this programme, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May test out the Jaguar F-Pace, the Bentley Bentayga and the Range Rover Autobiography with a road trip around central Europe taking in some of the most grown-up and not at all childishly rude place names the region has to offer. Also in this episode, Jeremy kills a few preconceptions as he takes to the Eboladrome in the Lexus GS F and legendary movie director Tim Burton crosses the Loch to try Celebrity Brain Crash. Plus, as launch control becomes increasingly common on high performance cars, the hosts examine the point of this feature with a short film presentation.
- The trio remain on the shore of Loch Ness for their next episode. Prince Charles inaugurated the Northern Highlands 500 project in Scotland, which had 500 miles of brilliant road across beautiful scenery as UK's answer to US route 66. But in 2 days, the police put clamps on it with speed cameras and pedestrian crossing etc, which ruined the road.
Heading over to Germany, the trio decide to take a road trip on the Romantic Road, in order to review a selection of British 4x4s - May tests out the Bentley Bentayga (160,000 BP, W12 600 BHP engine, 1950 W stereo), Clarkson drives a Range Rover (148,000 BP, 5L supercharged), and Hammond reviews the Jaguar F-Pace (28,000 BP, same aluminum frame as the Jag XE, 3L supercharged V6, 375 BHP. with all the optional extras, still costs only BP 51000). Travelling across Germany, Bavaria, and Austria, the pair pass by several places with humorous names linked to sexual actions (Wank, Kissing, Petting, Fucking, Wedding). Mr Wilman orders them into a nearby airstrip to sort out performance differences, where they are up against a BMW X5 M, 4.4L twin turbo charged 567 BHP. Bentley wins, BMW 2nd, range rover 3rd, Jag last.
The extras on the Bentley are costing more than Hammond's entire Jag. The trio head to Nürburgring for tests. They get on the autobahn. Clarkson argues that UK has grown 58% in last 15 yrs, and Germany 102%, as they go 200 mph, while UK goes 20 mph. Also, UK has more road deaths as people are looking at speedometers instead of looking where they are going. On the autobahn, Jag does 155 mph, Range rover 149 mph, Bentayga 6000 rpm. Sadly, May's satellite navigation takes them to Nuremberg, instead of Nürburgring. The only racetrack near there was an abandoned mine. Hammond does 5:56. May 6:16. Clarkson 3:56, as the Range rover allows him to take short cuts that the other simply couldn't.
Meanwhile, Clarkson heads to the Eboladrome to review the new Lexus GS-F. The cup holder is close to the satellite navigation mouse, which makes it impossible to get your cup without resetting the destination on the satellite navigation. 70,000 BP. No Wi-Fi, no DSG gearbox, no park assist. 5L V8, which requires no turbos or trickery, 0-60 in 4.5 secs, 170 mph, handles like a sports car (hard to believe that it's a 5-seater saloon). So, not good for day-to-day driving, but drives better than the BMWs and Mercedes. 471 BHP does 1:29.6 at the Elobadrome. Slower than an already out of date BMW M2.
Conversation street: BMW has come up with a plan where you can rent your car when you are not using it. Clarkson hates this idea. Another company takes your old car and whatever money they make off it, they give to your favorite charity. A website in UK tells how many of a particular car model are there in the UK. Citroen Saxo VTS had 5000 in 2008. 2017, 491 left. Vauxhall Calibra V16, 323 left. The Morris Ital, 175000 made, 35 left. but in a year, it had risen to 47. At that rate, by 2044 all 175000 would be back on the road. Launch controls are pointless as they only engage for 3 secs before they go off and in a race situation, you don't know if the lights will go green before the 3 secs. So, it's the most pointless invention ever.
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