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A Massive Hunt (or the Madagascar Special ) is the second episode of Season 4 of The Grand Tour - made up of Specials. It aired on December 17th, 2020, before its "planned" release on December 18th, 2020.

The episode saw the presenters travel across the Reunion Island in three performance pre-production cars before modifying them for a road trip across Madagascar in a massive treasure hunt.

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The intrepid trio find themselves back on four wheels for their latest adventure. Armed with sports cars, Richard, James and Jeremy think they are in for a cushy road trip as they arrive on the exotic island of Reunion and race on the world’s most expensive piece of tarmac. But a bizarre challenge propels them to Madagascar where they must tackle the world’s toughest road.

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The episode was filmed in November 2019 on the African island nation of Madagascar and on the French overseas territory of Reunion Island.

The special was expected to air in March/April 2020, however producer Andy Wilman, had contracted Coronavirus, having difficulty in breathing and "coughed his spleen out" but was on the road to recovery. The only parts that would be required was voiceovers and final edits which would've been made by Wilman. Due to this outbreak, the special was scheduled for release on 18th December 2020.

However, the trio surprisingly released it a day earlier after a short announcement on YouTube, with the description saying "All those marketing plans… wasted" in a jokingly manner.

  • This is the sixth special episode of the entire show.
  • This is the third special episode of The Grand Tour to be filmed in Africa, following the show's travels through Mozambique in Season 2 and Namibia in Season 1 .
  • This is the first ever special of The Grand Tour, where not all of the cars have finished the journey and the second time for Richard Hammond . Travelling along the RN5 Hammond's Ford suffered a broken clutch on the journey, putting it out of action permanently.

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The new Grand Tour is … actually quite charming? We’re as shocked as you are

By Thomas Barrie

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A spectre is haunting The Grand Tour  – the spectre of Europe. The latest instalment of Amazon Prime’s Clarkson-Hammond-May supervehicle, subtitled A Massive Hunt , sees the heroic champions of political incorrectness speak a considerable amount of French. For the show’s traditional fanbase of Eurosceptic-at-best dads, it might all be a little uncomfortable, but for the rest of us, it’s a sign of a more mellow, good-natured programme that sees the ruddy trio at their best.

A Massive Hunt is just that (please, please don’t acknowledge the pun): a big treasure hunt where the lads are sent to search for a hoard of pirate booty allegedly buried by Olivier Levasseur, an 18 th -century corsair nicknamed “ La Buse ” or “The Buzzard”. In true Grand Tour  grand tradition, the gang heads to a remote corner of the world and churns sections of it up in a makeshift convoy of Cronenbergian custom vehicles. This time, our lucky locations are the Francophone islands of Réunion and Madagascar.

Réunion, which is almost 6,000 miles away from mainland Europe and our first stop, is literally part of France, as Clarkson quickly points out: it shares the same laws and tax system and counts as a region of the Eurozone. The Indian Ocean, apparently, was the first place a currency exchange involving the Euro ever took place. It is also, coincidentally, home to a new ringroad in the sea, 12km long and spanning the entire circumference of the island. Built at a cost of £112m per kilometre, even Clarkson is impressed by “the most expensive tarmac in the world.” And so, to introduce their cars, we’re treated to a drag race. As usual, the vehicles are chosen to reflect their drivers’ IDs: a massive Bentley for Clarkson that he wonderfully describes as “a suet pudding of torque and opulence”; a light, turbocharged Ford Focus RS for 50-year-old boy racer Hammond; an open-top Caterham 310-R designed in the 1950s for old man May. And they have a wonderful, if brief time in Réunion. “What’s this?” we hear you gasp, “ The Grand Tour and the EU luvving it up?” Yep: truly, Joe Biden could learn a thing or two about bipartisanship from this episode.

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Directions come from Andy Wilman, the long-time Svengali producer behind The Grand Tour  and, before that, Top Gear . By now, Wilman is a character in the series himself; he’s fully Grand Tour canonical, like a sort of off-camera, vengeful God. Bringing in Wilman and acknowledging the camera crews around the central trio of presenters has been a masterstroke for The Grand Tour , because it punctures the pretence that everything we witness is anything other than a massive set-up. Of course they aren’t really going on a treasure hunt. Of course James May isn’t really decoding a centuries-old coded message from a pirate king. The whole thing is an excuse to do dumb stuff with big cars in a tropical jungle, like it always has been.

Nonetheless, after the appetiser in Réunion, Wilman orders the crew to Madagascar for the main course, to track down the legendary 220lb golden cross La Buse supposedly buried somewhere on the island. The cross, they reckon, would now be worth £100m – more than enough for Clarkson to achieve his dream of owning every farm in Chipping Norton.

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A Massive Hunt is imbued with a different energy to previous Grand Tour episodes. It’s less fraught. There are fewer, if any, loutish jokes about empire or ladyboys, and more loutish jokes about James May being covered in mud in his open-top Caterham (Clarkson to May: “Your car looks like Teddy Kennedy’s car after Chappaquiddick”) and how Hammond is childishly obsessed with pirate lore. The whole thing is somehow… a bit nicer. Even the French barely get a roasting. Not unlike the Top Gear  of yore, it’s silly, but not needlessly provocative. Mercifully, Greta Thunberg isn’t mentioned once. There’s no way anyone got punched on this set, hot food or not .

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The Grand Tour went accidentally woke with its last episode, set in Vietnam and Cambodia, as Clarkson encountered a bone-dry riverbed and defensively acknowledged what the rest of us accepted a decade and a half ago – that climate change just might be real . Here, the show does touch briefly on the fact that most Madagascans live on less than a dollar a day, but it’s otherwise a largely apolitical hour and a half. Instead, The Grand Tour  leans into what was always its strength: the physical comedy and dad-bromance of its cast. 

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And so they drive, and drive, and drive. They take ferries and swampy roads. May gets covered in more mud. Hammond fixes caterpillar tracks to his Ford. If you ever wanted to see James May walk wordlessly and fully clothed into a swimming pool, or Jeremy Clarkson pull a banana tree onto himself, then deliver one of his portentious declarations (of a particularly bumpy road: “The Madagascans call this the R.N. 5, but there’s a better name… Hell ”) then this is the special for you. There is lots of charmingly bad improv comedy, like the three are doing panto at the side of a jungle road. And in a way, the pirate theme fits The Grand Tour ’s silly, old-fashioned rebel outlook. 

This is comfort food, nothing more. Your dad will love falling asleep in front of it on Christmas Day; it won’t spark any arguments. After all that Clarkson and his travelling circus have given the tabloids to write about in the last few years, what more do you really want?

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The Grand Tour Madagascar special: Amazon repairs children’s football pitch destroyed by the presenters

James may and richard hammond dig trench across children's pitch in pirate treasure search for the grand tour: a massive hunt.

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Amazon will repair a football pitch in a poverty-stricken Madagascar town which was destroyed during filming for Jeremy Clarkson’s latest show .

Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May shot the new episode of their travel show The Grand Tour on the Indian Ocean island.

A hunt for lost treasure provides the backdrop to the former Top Gear presenters’ adventures in the Amazon Prime special.

In one scene Hammond and May are convinced that the pirate treasure is buried beneath a football pitch used by children in the town of Saranambe.

The pair excavate a large trench across the middle of the pitch, which the voiceover says is the only sports facility in the town.

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They find no treasure, but the pitch is left unplayable with children falling into the large hole in its centre.

Asked if he had repaired the damage, May told i : “Not me personally but we did have it repaired. The football pitch actually needed mending.”

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He added: “It wasn’t level in the middle so we filled it in and levelled it off. It’s actually a better pitch now than it was. If we left a massive hole then the children falling in it would have been buried alive.”

Clarkson, filming in another part of the island when his co-stars dug up the pitch, said: “I knew I’d be blamed by the media and they’d say, ‘Jeremy Clarkson did this’ but actually I haven’t.”

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The presenter said the search for the treasure supposedly buried on the island by French pirate La Buse was a fool’s errand.

“I don’t believe in the whole pirate treasure nonsense. None has ever been found in entire human history. But I always thought it was an interesting trip to make.”

In the 90-minute episode, called A Massive Hunt , the well-travelled trio attempt to traverse “the worst road in the world”, a boulder-strewn dirt track overlooking the Indian Ocean.

Clarkson drives an armour-plated Bentley Continental GT, May chooses a Caterham with Hammond negotiating a Ford Focus RS on tank treads.

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After just over a year of waiting, The Grand Tour is finally back with their second special just in time for the Christmas holidays, A Massive Hunt.

The new special gives us host Jeremy Clarkson Richard Hammond and James May journey through Madagascar in search of buried treasure. The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt (the follow up to The Grand Tour Presents: Seaman) is one of the trios longest single episode specials to date. The episode comes in at a running time of 1 hour and 30 minutes. The cinematic running time also fits nicely alongside what seems to be one of their more movie-like episodes.

With a semi-scripted and semi-real storyline, James and Richard drag Clarkson along on a trip across Madagascar to find a multi-million dollar hidden pirate treasure. As is customary with the big epic specials, the three presents each modify their cars in several characteristic ways to help them battle the horrific roads of Madagascar. We see Hammond replace his four wheels with army tank tracks and James and Jeremy raising their own cars with some huge new tyers.

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Since this is an episode of The Grand Tour you can be sure that you will be in for a laugh with these fully grown children. Some of the program's best laughs come from James May who constantly finds himself covered in turd filled water. Out of context that does sound a little strange, I'll admit that. The presents also stick the same old traditions to buy each other silly presents and leaving each other behind in times of need. Just like best mates do.

This new episode is a definite improvement on the guys last outing which saw them travel across the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia in three different boats. The next special was rumoured to be taking place in Russia but because of the effects of COVID-19, it will now be filmed in Scotland.

Talking to The Express, James May had the following to say about the Scotland special.

"We’ve already filmed one for next year which is our recent Scotland adventure, so I would hope we could do another one next year but it’s slightly out of our control." - James May

There is no release date just yet but it's likely to be around Easter time.

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The Grand Tour: Jeremy Clarkson Gives Behind The Scenes Details On Beach Explosions

It took a while, but The Grand Tour finally made its way back to Amazon after a year-long gap since the last episode that kicked off the new episode style. In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond, and James May found themselves searching for hidden pirate treasure in Madagascar. Here, they traversed some of the worst roads in the world with three modified cars.

Clarkson, choosing a Bentley Continental for his travels, fell in love with the vehicle and eventually took it home, but this wasn’t before the car went through hell in order to find the pirate La Buse’s lost treasure.

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Not only did it clamber through mud and over rocks to reach its objective, but it almost came to a sticky end when, in attempt to find buried treasure in Libertalia, the car was almost blown up by explosives. The ex-Top Gear presenter, wanting to do things in his usual style, planted explosives across the beachfront, but when he lit the fuse, it didn’t take the three minutes that he was expecting to blow up.

Instead, it took very little time for the spark to reach the explosives, with Clarkson just being able to reach the safety of the Bentley before the sand around him erupted into chaos.

He told The Express that while he was very close to the explosions, he wasn’t hurt and didn’t damage his hearing. He was however shaken by what happened:

Clarkson said: “The Bentley has got double glazing which deadened the sound somewhat.

“There was a bit of an alarm at the speed that fuse went. But, yeah it was a thorough test, let’s put it that way.”

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He continued:

“Never mind these metal detectorists, they want to get out there with some dynamite.”

Unfortunately, if you’ve seen  A Massive Hunt , you’ll know that the trio failed to find the treasure despite Clarkson’s innovative means of finding it.

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He also didn’t plant dynamite with a mickey mouse fuse as a camera crew sat by 20ft away. It was fun looking but obviously staged. He wasn’t using detonation cord.

The Grand Tour ‘A Massive Hunt’ review: Madagascar trek is (mostly) worth the wait

Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May playing boules in Madagascar

Possibly born of pure annoyance from constant questions as to when it would finally appear, The Grand Tour’s second episode of Season 4 was at last released — and a day earlier than announced.

Titled “A Massive Hunt,” the special was shot last year, and until today, the only massive thing about it was the public badgering the hosts have endured as COVID-19 delays pushed the release date back by months.

This is the second installment of the Grand Tour’s new look, which ditches the tent home of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May and focuses on what fans have traditionally loved best — watching the three have caustic, cinematic motoring adventures against exotic backgrounds.

Shiny new toys

A Massive Hunt opens in the Indian Ocean, on Reunion, a French island off East Africa. Instead of the usual run-down crapmobiles the trio typically nurses across a far-flung finish line, they all have shiny new toys.

Clarkson is driving a V8 Bentley Continental, while Hammond is behind the wheel of the latest version of the Ford Focus, the RS. James May has drawn the inverse of Clarkson’s cushy Bentley, a Caterham V10R, a stripped-down lightweight racer. This appeals to his Reassembler side: “You even have to attach the steering wheel,” he says, beaming, as he… attaches the steering wheel.

We’re shown a 12 mile ring road built off-shore, like a rockslide-escaping Seven Mile Highway of the Florida Keys. It’s the most expensive road in the world, so of course the hosts conduct a drag race while the showroom shine is still on (longtime Top Gear /Grand Tour fans won’t be surprised by the first person to lose a speed contest on this engineering wonder.)

Still, this was initially disappointing, as part of the fun of Top Gear/Grand Tour is watching these millionaires battle their own pre-knackered modes of transportation, pushing through punishing terrain and staggering mileage as their cars fall apart around them. I should’ve had more trust; this is the Holy Trinity of Destruction, and these rides don’t stay commercial-ready for long.

If you enjoy the scripted bits of the Top Gear/Grand Tour oeuvre, this special is your huckleberry. The boys are going treasure-hunting, and their guiding light is a cryptogram reportedly left by hanged pirate Olivier Levasseur. May pretends to work on cracking the code as Hammond and Clarkson pretend to wait and for-real drink (the code’s alphabet is on Wikipedia, but its translated text is gibberish and remains incomprehensible.)

We are asked to believe that an entire retinue of camera crew and kit hang around for three days while this takes place, and that Hammond also waits quite some time before sharing pertinent treasure-hunting information.

They do, however, have the rare self-awareness to later wink at the viewer when they drastically modify their cars. For just as this begins to feel like a late Top Gear episode full of supercar poster shots — Clarkson crows about having a “proper, functioning, decent car” in a challenge for once — after it’s “learned” that they will take on the famously wretched roads of Madagascar, their beautiful new rides are adorned with winches, treads, and 4×4 light kits.

These vehicular transformations are credited to an amazingly “well-equipped” auto repair shop, and I do believe this is the first time it’s openly acknowledged that these challenge-related pimpings don’t take place at the trio’s own hands (I discovered the original Top Gear on my brother-in-law’s DVR, and as I watched stock cars magically transform into semi-trucks, I asked him, with great earnestness, if these three men were engineers in addition to car enthusiasts. He slowly, sadly shook his head.)

Atrocious roads

It soon becomes evident why the hosts enjoyed the first-ever privilege of starting from new: The roads, even the main roads, of Madagascar really are that atrocious. They wouldn’t have made it fifteen feet with the baseline of the already-exhausted blind buys with which they usually begin their adventures.

Mileage-wise, the crew doesn’t travel far, by Top Gear/Grand Tour standards, and the reason is apparent as the vehicles first get dusty and then half-drowned in foul mud. “The water’s like a bath that someone’s had diarrhea in,” May says as yet another wave of human excrement breaks over his head. The rock-strewn, deeply pitted roads they’re driving on look like what we in the West would use as a rough hiking trail (my husband mentioned that, and I mention that my husband mentioned that because he demanded credit.)

These men are their best when the fictional situation they’re in brings them into real trouble. They abandon one another, bicker over whether on not the place they’re heading actually exists, break down repeatedly, and enter and leave with general mayhem. As they labor for every mile of progress, sometimes on three wheels, the punishing manner in which they scrape their way down the road recalls the inch-by-inch progress of the Top Gear Polar Special.

A Massive Hunt is 90 minutes long, so there’s plenty of time for Hammond to have adventures with an auto-heating MRE and Clarkson to hurl a rotten coconut at some fresh ones.

Worth the price of admission alone are the views of Madagascar, not only for its spectacular beauty, but also the glimpses of its struggles as a developing nation. Clarkson states that most locals get by on less than a dollar a day, and in a culture accustomed to seeing Madagascar only through the Instagram filter of gorgeous beaches, entrancing biodiversity, and deep green tropical glades, the fuller picture is important to see.

Despite the worn faux premises and increasingly cringy ways in which the locals are inconvenienced (Hammond holds up an entire wedding party for two hours), the genuine misery on the face of May in particular is a reminder of the drastic physical toll these shoots must require. The gag setups are fake, but the strain they generate is quite real.

I’m at least a decade younger than Hammond, the baby of the trio, and as I watched yet more bits of vehicle fly off, leading to another winching scene, I lost count of the number of times I’d have picked my way to the nearest WiFi signal and first flight to running water. The distance was short, but the journey was long.

A Massive Hunt’s final scene is the usual Catskills-style gotcha, but the show does contain a somber Top Gear/Grand Tour first — yes, there are still room for those, and that’s what keeps us along for the ride when these three are in the driver’s seat.

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In the second of a series of feature-length The Grand Tour specials, we come upon hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond playing bocce in a sun-splashed seaside resort that looks like it’s in the south of France. It’s actually on the island of Réunion, which is a part of France but in the Indian Ocean. It’s a pretty cushy trip to start, but we know they won’t be there very long.

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The Gist: There, the guys do what they usually do, which is trot out their car of choice to use throughout the special. Jeremy has a V8 Bentley Continental, “a big, heavy suet pudding of torque and opulence.” Richard has a Ford Focus RS, which he says “It’s light, 1500 kilos, and it’s clever.” James, quirky as ever, picks a Caterham 310R race car, which he admits is a “faff to get in.” It also has a deadman’s key on the outside, which Richard and Jeremy keep removing after James is fully buckled and zipped in. The three of them have a drag race on a new ring road France is building in the ocean, about 100 yards offshore.

As they wile away in relative luxury, “Mr. Willman” (executive producer Andy Willman) tells them that a massive gold cross, worth tens of millions of pounds, is buried somewhere on the east coast of Madagascar. They’re given a map and an encoded message, which James takes days to even slightly decode. When they realize they need to go over to Madagascar, which James says has the worst roads in the world, they decide they have to prepare their cars for the journey.

Jeremy armors the Bentley, and gives it the ability to go through almost a foot of water without stalling out. Richard arms his Focus with a front rollbar and replaces the wheels with small treads, literally “reinventing the wheel,” as he says. James puts bigger rear tires on the light-as-heck Caterham.

As they drive up the coast to the town that Richard swears the treasure is buried — he’s known about the legend since “forever” but didn’t tell his matemies — they’re at first dismayed that the roads are smooth and they souped up their cars for nothing. But then the roads get rough…. then rougher… and then so rough that they can barely be called roads. We’re talking narrow passes full of ruts and dirt and massive puddles (which James has to endure in the roof-less Caterham), testing the abilities of all three cars.

The treads on Richard’s Focus keep falling off, while Jeremy’s behemoth of a Bentley eventually blows a radiator part. Somehow, though, James’s Catherham does the best, despite the entire interior and exterior being caked in mud.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Well, given who’s hosting this show, it should remind you of the four years of The Grand Tour , and before that, many, many years of Clarkson, May and Hammond on Top Gear .

Performance Worth Watching: We love James May because he’s so damned droll, all the time. Even when he’s being splashed with mud and excrement in the Catherham, he takes it in stride and with a quip. While Clarkson plays the puffed-up sophisticate and Hammond plays the adrenaline junkie, May is always in the middle, experiencing these adventures much the way we might, with some mild complaining and a wicked sense of humor.

Memorable Dialogue: Richard goes all Bear Grylls and makes a beach oven to poach a fish. He tries to make more out of it than it is. “Two hours from now that is going to be… a cooked fish.”

Sex and Skin: Would you want any on this show?

Our Take: Listen, if you don’t know what you’re going to get by now after 12 years of Clarkson, Hammond and May on Top Gear and four years of them on The Grand Tour , then you’re probably not a fan. If you came at this show from that perspective, you might appreciate the scenery as the hosts travel up the coast of Madagascar, through some of the roughest road conditions ever seen. But you might have your doubts about some things.

For one, do the haughty Clarkson, semi-daffy May and cackling Hammond really have the ability to modify expensive performance cars, like they claim? Of course they don’t; they have a slew of mechanics who did that work for them. Are they really roughing it on the beach? Probably not. Are they on their own trying to get these cars through the ruts and mud of these terrible roads? No, they have a caravan of production cars around them, though, as the program showed, they can get stuck just as easily as the hosts can.

No, the formula for The Grand Tour is pretty much set in stone; these three middle-aged Brits go on an adventure and try to prove that the car they chose is the best one for the trip. They are rude and blunt with each other, but ultimately help each other out of jams when needed. By no means, though, is the show any sort of depiction of reality. In a lot of spots, it felt downright scripted, or at least the conversations were guided. The show, and the specials, are meant to be an adventure road-comedy of sorts; given that we laughed a few times during the hosts’ difficulties in Madagascar, A Massive Hunt hit its mark.

But we’re also happy to see this era end with the three of them on the beach on “Pirate Island,” with Richard holding a chalice he found, disappointed that’s it’s “only” the Holy Grail. That’s about as goofy as we’ve seen this show get, and it feels like a good way to end things. But we’re pretty sure we’ll see these guys together again.

Our Call: STREAM IT. While the The Grand Tour’ s formula may be a bit tired, A Massive Hunt works because Clarkson, May and Hammond have been doing this together for 17 years, and they have each other’s rhythms down pat.

Should you stream or skip The Grand Tour: #AMassiveHunt on @PrimeVideo ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) December 18, 2020

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Explosions, pirates and treasure… the Grand Tour is back for Christmas and it’s business as usual

  • Published : 0:02, 17 Dec 2020
  • Updated : 0:46, 17 Dec 2020

THE timing just couldn’t be better.

We can all have some familiar faces in our homes this Christmas after all.

The Grand Tour returns for a Christmas episode

That’s because after an entire year of waiting, and a pretty rubbish year at that, Clarkson , Hammond and May are back to remind us they still make the best car show on TV.

The new episode of The Grand Tour drops at one minute past midnight tonight on Prime Video.

And I’d love to see the stats because I’m confident a lot of people will stay up for it. If you are undecided, take it from me: It’s worth it.

You’ll see cars, explosions, stunning scenery, a big dollop of silliness and a Hammond injury. Pretty much business as usual, then. And as comforting as a bowl of hot soup in January.

The lads go on a pirate treasure hunt in the special

Except this time they’re in search of pirate treasure in a 90-minute special called A Massive Hunt.

Clarkson said: “Hammond is obsessed with pirates. I think they’re just aquatic burglars. Or wife-beaters. But I was very interested in where this quest would take us: Madagascar.”

The film starts with a drag race on the most expensive stretch of tarmac in the world, a ring road built on stilts out to sea.

But soon the trio find themselves on what is officially the worst road in the world. Clarkson in an armour-plated Bentley, May in a Caterham and Hammond in a Ford Focus RS on tank treads.

Hammond, May and Clarkson are a ...sand of brothers

Clarkson said: “Both my colleagues made unwise choices as far as the cars are concerned. They really did suffer terribly. When I got into camp every night, I was three bottles in by the time those two turned up.

“Richard Hammond didn’t crash, which is an unbelievable achievement. But if he tells you he burned his bits with a self-heating army ration meal . . . he did. That’s a very funny scene.”

As is the “Swiss knee” gag. As is the bit where the beach gets blown up. Clarkson said: “I see no point in using tools when you have explosives. Explosives require less effort. I like explosives.”

You can learn more about the cars and Madagascar and other little nuggets from my Zoom chats elsewhere on these pages.

Richard Hammond on the beach in Madagascar

Because from here on out, I have other news.

The boys have already filmed the next special — in Scotland, driving American classics — after Covid scuppered the original plan to go to Russia.

Executive producer Andy Wilman said: “The cars were so brilliant, Richard, Jeremy and James were on their A-game immediately.

“I cannot wait to get this film out. It’s like, ‘Yep, f*** you Covid, we can do this and it’s as good as a big one’.”

James May turned his Caterham into 'a dune buggy'

May added: “It proved we don’t need an exotic location to do this. The important thing is you have us three doing something we like and buggering about.

‘WE’LL KEEP GOING AS LONG AS WE CAN’

“If you’re watching The Grand Tour from Sri Lanka, Scotland is as exotic and beautiful as Sri Lanka is from Scotland. So there’s always going to be a large part of the audience which finds anywhere in the world fascinating.”

And after that? When will the band get back together?

Hammond said: “The stories aren’t going away, the places we visit aren’t going away, our desire to go there in new and ridiculous ways is not going away, so we’ll keep going as long as we can.

The lads on their marks with Bentley, Caterham and Ford Focus

“We are aware that we’re very lucky. When you’re a host on a show — one of the best things about that show being that it is escapism and adventure and travel and exotic cars — it’s great for the viewers but we are still appreciative of the fact it is also amazingly good for us.

“Even though sometimes it is uncomfortable for real, or dangerous for real, we’ll keep doing that as long as people are prepared to watch us.”

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. . . on his Bentley Continental GT

LET me put it this way, apart from the Alfa GTV6, it’s the only car from a special I’ve brought back to live with me.

I just completely fell in love with it. It’s just a fabulous piece of engineering. But then came word from the DVLA. Because it started its life as a development mule, my beloved car has to go to the crusher.

. . . on Madagascar

IT is just built for television. You’re driving along the road and you have that verdant green jungle to your left and then that impossibly blue sea to your right with the white beaches with nothing and nobody on them.

You are going along, and you know there’s a drone up there with a 4K camera on it, and you just think this is going to look – and indeed it does – absolutely spectacular.

. . . on the other two

NOTHING changes, not even slightly. We just wind each other up or we think, “I can cheer myself up by annoying Hammond somehow”. Or May, and it’s very easy to annoy May – just speak and he’ll be annoyed.

“But yes, it was a good, fun trip. Chemistry can’t be manufactured. We’re able to just get on with it, which is a blessing.

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 . . . on his Caterham Seven 310R

I TURNED the Caterham into a sort of dune buggy, I think it looked cool.

I know if I get showered in s**t or something, viewers love it. Anyway, it all showered off after a couple of months. When we got home I saw a Caterham drive by and I thought, “That looks stupid, the wheels are too small, it’s just all wrong”.

. . . on the worst road ever

WE were driving off small cliffs. It wasn’t just a bit rough, or a bit lumpy, it was a boulder field in places. It doesn’t really serve the term road or even track, you’re just driving over the scenery.

At times I was driving along and people walking were over­taking me. I really like this film, I think it is good knockabout fun. It has a sort of family panto atmosphere to it, we’re pleased with that. We like it.

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 . . . on his Ford Focus RS

THE tank tracks were amazing but perhaps are more designed with snow in mind. I was a little heavy-handed, as has happened in the past. But I was staggered by what it took.

It never ceases to amaze me what an apparently ordinary road car will take. Unless it’s your own in which case you’ll find it won’t.

. . . on Bear Grylls

HAMMOND mocks Bear Grylls by telling viewers to “Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.”

I love what he does and I love survival stuff because I’m a little boy at heart. The guy is the real deal. But if you set yourself up a bit, if you’re there advising somebody how to do these things, we are kind of duty-bound to mock him. But he’s a star at what he does, there’s no denying.

. . . on being unlucky

THE reason we’re lucky together is that we’re weirdly unlucky. Jeremy summed it up recently when we were talking. He said: “It’s very weird when I do stuff in my own life, I don’t fall over, things don’t catch fire, cars don’t break down or explode, or boats sink, or whatever, but when we’re all together they just do.”

And that’s why we’re lucky. It just happens.

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Explosions, pirates and treasure… the Grand Tour is back for Christmas and it’s business as usual

  • Published : 20:05 ET, Dec 16 2020

THE timing just couldn’t be better.

We can all have some familiar faces in our homes this Christmas after all.

The Grand Tour returns for a Christmas episode

That’s because after an entire year of waiting, and a pretty rubbish year at that, Clarkson, Hammond and May are back to remind us they still make the best car show on TV.

The new episode of The Grand Tour drops at one minute past midnight tonight on Prime Video.

And I’d love to see the stats because I’m confident a lot of people will stay up for it. If you are undecided, take it from me: It’s worth it.

You’ll see cars, explosions, stunning scenery, a big dollop of silliness and a Hammond injury. Pretty much business as usual, then. And as comforting as a bowl of hot soup in January.

The lads go on a pirate treasure hunt in the special

Except this time they’re in search of pirate treasure in a 90-minute special called A Massive Hunt.

Clarkson said: “Hammond is obsessed with pirates. I think they’re just aquatic burglars. Or wife-beaters. But I was very interested in where this quest would take us: Madagascar.”

The film starts with a drag race on the most expensive stretch of tarmac in the world, a ring road built on stilts out to sea.

But soon the trio find themselves on what is officially the worst road in the world. Clarkson in an armour-plated Bentley, May in a Caterham and Hammond in a Ford Focus RS on tank treads.

Hammond, May and Clarkson are a ...sand of brothers

Clarkson said: “Both my colleagues made unwise choices as far as the cars are concerned. They really did suffer terribly. When I got into camp every night, I was three bottles in by the time those two turned up.

“Richard Hammond didn’t crash, which is an unbelievable achievement. But if he tells you he burned his bits with a self-heating army ration meal . . . he did. That’s a very funny scene.”

As is the “Swiss knee” gag. As is the bit where the beach gets blown up. Clarkson said: “I see no point in using tools when you have explosives. Explosives require less effort. I like explosives.”

You can learn more about the cars and Madagascar and other little nuggets from my Zoom chats elsewhere on these pages.

Richard Hammond on the beach in Madagascar

Because from here on out, I have other news.

The boys have already filmed the next special — in Scotland, driving American classics — after Covid scuppered the original plan to go to Russia.

Executive producer Andy Wilman said: “The cars were so brilliant, Richard, Jeremy and James were on their A-game immediately.

“I cannot wait to get this film out. It’s like, ‘Yep, f*** you Covid, we can do this and it’s as good as a big one’.”

James May turned his Caterham into 'a dune buggy'

May added: “It proved we don’t need an exotic location to do this. The important thing is you have us three doing something we like and buggering about.

‘WE’LL KEEP GOING AS LONG AS WE CAN’

“If you’re watching The Grand Tour from Sri Lanka, Scotland is as exotic and beautiful as Sri Lanka is from Scotland. So there’s always going to be a large part of the audience which finds anywhere in the world fascinating.”

And after that? When will the band get back together?

Hammond said: “The stories aren’t going away, the places we visit aren’t going away, our desire to go there in new and ridiculous ways is not going away, so we’ll keep going as long as we can.

The lads on their marks with Bentley, Caterham and Ford Focus

“We are aware that we’re very lucky. When you’re a host on a show — one of the best things about that show being that it is escapism and adventure and travel and exotic cars — it’s great for the viewers but we are still appreciative of the fact it is also amazingly good for us.

“Even though sometimes it is uncomfortable for real, or dangerous for real, we’ll keep doing that as long as people are prepared to watch us.”

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. . . on his Bentley Continental GT

LET me put it this way, apart from the Alfa GTV6, it’s the only car from a special I’ve brought back to live with me.

I just completely fell in love with it. It’s just a fabulous piece of engineering. But then came word from the DVLA. Because it started its life as a development mule, my beloved car has to go to the crusher.

. . . on Madagascar

IT is just built for television. You’re driving along the road and you have that verdant green jungle to your left and then that impossibly blue sea to your right with the white beaches with nothing and nobody on them.

You are going along, and you know there’s a drone up there with a 4K camera on it, and you just think this is going to look – and indeed it does – absolutely spectacular.

. . . on the other two

NOTHING changes, not even slightly. We just wind each other up or we think, “I can cheer myself up by annoying Hammond somehow”. Or May, and it’s very easy to annoy May – just speak and he’ll be annoyed.

“But yes, it was a good, fun trip. Chemistry can’t be manufactured. We’re able to just get on with it, which is a blessing.

grand tour pirate treasure

 . . . on his Caterham Seven 310R

I TURNED the Caterham into a sort of dune buggy, I think it looked cool.

I know if I get showered in s**t or something, viewers love it. Anyway, it all showered off after a couple of months. When we got home I saw a Caterham drive by and I thought, “That looks stupid, the wheels are too small, it’s just all wrong”.

. . . on the worst road ever

WE were driving off small cliffs. It wasn’t just a bit rough, or a bit lumpy, it was a boulder field in places. It doesn’t really serve the term road or even track, you’re just driving over the scenery.

At times I was driving along and people walking were over­taking me. I really like this film, I think it is good knockabout fun. It has a sort of family panto atmosphere to it, we’re pleased with that. We like it.

grand tour pirate treasure

 . . . on his Ford Focus RS

THE tank tracks were amazing but perhaps are more designed with snow in mind. I was a little heavy-handed, as has happened in the past. But I was staggered by what it took.

It never ceases to amaze me what an apparently ordinary road car will take. Unless it’s your own in which case you’ll find it won’t.

. . . on Bear Grylls

HAMMOND mocks Bear Grylls by telling viewers to “Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.”

I love what he does and I love survival stuff because I’m a little boy at heart. The guy is the real deal. But if you set yourself up a bit, if you’re there advising somebody how to do these things, we are kind of duty-bound to mock him. But he’s a star at what he does, there’s no denying.

. . . on being unlucky

THE reason we’re lucky together is that we’re weirdly unlucky. Jeremy summed it up recently when we were talking. He said: “It’s very weird when I do stuff in my own life, I don’t fall over, things don’t catch fire, cars don’t break down or explode, or boats sink, or whatever, but when we’re all together they just do.”

And that’s why we’re lucky. It just happens.

GOT a story? RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL  [email protected]

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1. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen (2019)

TV-MA | 91 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

The route begins in Cambodia at Siem Reap and then winds downriver to Tonlé Sap lake, before joining the Mekong Delta and sailing into Vietnam. The final port of call is Vung Tau, in south Vietnam.

Director: Phil Churchward | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May

Votes: 4,256

2. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick (2022)

TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Jeremy, Richard, and James head to the Scandinavian Arctic Circle. Driving their favorite rally cars, the boys embark on a catastrophe-filled adventure, taking in Cold War submarine bases, frozen lake racetracks, and ski resort chaos.

Votes: 4,047

3. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown (2021)

TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

The presenters are celebrating the great 70s American cars they saw in TV shows, as they road trip around Scotland, creating chaos on the streets of Edinburgh and building a homemade floating bridge across the Hebridean sea.

Director: Phil Churchward | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 2,681

4. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Fall Guys (2017)

TV-14 | 70 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

A race to Niagara Falls from Central Park NY. A new AMG is tested on the track.

Directors: Phil Churchward , Brian Klein , Kit Lynch Robinson | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 1,629

5. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt (2020)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May journey through Madagascar in search of buried treasure.

Votes: 3,414

6. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: International Buffoons Vacation (2019)

TV-14 | 81 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are forced to go on an RV holiday in the southwestern United States, despite regarding such things as slow, uncomfortable and pointless. ... See full summary  »

Director: Kit Lynch Robinson | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Mike Skinner

Votes: 1,642

7. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: Funeral for a Ford (2019)

TV-14 | 55 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May present a short and informative history class on one of the bedrocks of British life; the medium-sized Ford saloon.

Directors: Brian Klein , Kit Lynch Robinson | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 1,987

8. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: Well Aged Scotch (2019)

TV-14 | 66 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

The trio head to Inverness, Scotland, with a selection of inexpensive rare Italian Classics - Clarkson infatuated by his Alfa Romeo GTV6, May over the moon with his Lancia Gamma 2500 Coupe and Hammond in awe of his Fiat X1/9.

Votes: 1,274

9. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Grand Tour Presents: Carnage A Trois (2021)

TV-14 | 68 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

On a road trip, the trio dish up a hair-raising mountain climb, bomb defusals, propeller powered cars, helicopter stunts and the most thrilling race of their lives before reaching the English Channel for a jaw dropping medieval climax.

Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 2,643

10. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Colombia Special Part 1 (2019)

TV-14 | 54 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

In a special episode of the show, Clarkson, Hammond and May clatter across Colombia in a Jeep Wrangler, a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up, and a Fiat Panda 4x4.

Director: Kit Lynch Robinson | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May

Votes: 2,034

11. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: The Colombia Special Part 2 (2019)

In part two of this episode, Clarkson, Hammond and May continue their task of getting high-quality photos depicting interesting animals. In Colombia, they drive a Jeep Wrangler, Chevrolet Silverado pick-up and a Fiat Panda 4x4.

Votes: 2,000

12. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: Feed the World (2018)

The presenters are forced to work together to transport fish to impoverished communities in Mozambique's interior. The starting point is Mozambique's capital, Maputo, at the very southern end of the country.

Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May

Votes: 1,927

13. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: Legends and Luggage (2019)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Jeremy Clarkson playing around with some Lancia's. James is showing us a historical Porsche and Richard takes Clarkson to Stansted Airport to try out new ways to bring you from A to B.

Directors: Brian Klein , Kit Lynch Robinson , Gavin Whitehead | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 1,181

14. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: [censored] to [censored] (2017)

TV-14 | 62 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

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.

Directors: Phil Churchward , Kit Lynch Robinson | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Mike Skinner

Votes: 1,578

15. The Grand Tour (2016–2024) Episode: Motown Funk (2019)

TV-14 | 69 min | Comedy, Sport, Talk-Show

Jeremy, Richard and James go to Detroit with a brilliant idea. Jeremy test drives the new McLaren Senna on the fastest track in Europe, that isn't actually the fastest track.

Directors: Brian Klein , Gavin Whitehead | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond , James May , Abbie Eaton

Votes: 1,823

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