Are we all in agreement that Clarkson, Hammond, and May are among the best trios on TV?
After their dramatic exit from Top Gear, Amazon Prime quickly swooped up the trio to create The Grand Tour.
With essentially free-reign on what they could produce, The Grand Tour was brilliant television for us petrolheads.
In this blog, car leasing experts Nationwide Vehicle Contracts list the top ten The Grand Tour episodes.
Because they were in their Jaaaaaag! In this episode, the boys set out to prove that old Jags are not only still beautiful but also reliable.
They head to the Centennial State, Colorado, to put three second-hand Jaguars to the test. On their journey they race around an off-road track, drag race at USA's highest commercial airport, and even attempt to go skiing in their cars! Yes, you read that right.
The celebrities featured are Kiefer Sutherland and Luke Evans, both because they have the middle name of George.
In this episode, the trio are all over the world. Hammond heads to Dubai to test the Fate of the Furious's Ripsaw high-speed tank. Clarkson does his best mocking of a Ken Block car-skidding video in a Subaru Impreza, and James visits the Eboladrome in Swindon to test the Volkswagen Up GTI.
Bill Bailey and Dominic Cooper take part in the Celebrity Face-Off.
The trio is let loose in China, so what could be better? In this episode, the boys try to prove that second-hand luxury Western cars are better than the Hongqi L5, a Chinese luxury car worth nearly £900,000.
They land in the huge city of Chongqing. May brings a Mercedes-Benz S600, Hammond a Cadillac STS, and Clarkson a BMW 750i. Along the journey, they put their cars through a series of tests to help convince the people of China to consider a Western car.
Interestingly, this episode also offers a great insight into the Chinese car industry and its jaw-dropping manufacturing figures.
This episode takes the trio to Mozambique, where they are on a mission to end hunger by transporting fish from the coastal capital of Maputo to Bingo village, over 200 miles away. They must pick a vehicle and modify it for the job.
May fills his Mercedes-Benz estate with a large tank filled with seawater, Clarkson fits an ice machine in his Nissan truck, and Hammond arrives on a TVS Star motorbike (of course).
As you'd expect, they get into their usual mischief, playing pranks on each other along the way.
This episode is all about performance cars. Clarkson heads to Sweden to try out the new Lamborghini Urus, May tests the Alpine A110 at the Eboladrome, and Hammond pays tribute to legendary racing driver Jim Clark and his iconic Lotus 25.
According to Hammond and May, the average motoring spends 36 days of their life filling their vehicle up with fuel. So what do they do? They attempt to invent a way to refuel a vehicle on the move.
Elsewhere, Clarkson tells us the story of the battle between Audi Quattro and Lancia 037 at the 1983 World Rally Championship and Hammond tests a performance version of the Lamborghini Huracan called the Performante.
Anthony Joshua and Bill Goldberg take part in the Celebrity Face-Off.
This episode has 'buffoon' in, so as usual, the trio are getting up to some nonsense. They jet off to Nevada, where they are forced to go on an RV holiday. That's a caravan for us in the UK.
As you'd expect, it doesn't go well, and they end up buying three used RVs and modifying them to fit their personal needs.
A cross-continental trip in GT sports cars, what's not to like? In this episode, the trio drives the 1000km journey from the Black Sea in Georgia to the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan.
Clarkson drives the Aston Martin DBS, Hammond the Bentley Continental GT, and May the BMW M850i.
Along the way, they visit various landmarks, including the town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, and the cities of Tbilisi and Baku.
The trio attempting to break a world record, what could possibly go wrong? In this episode, the boys attempt to break the British water speed record for an amphibious car.
After several attempts, the boys get the job done and set a new national record of 47mph.
This episode isn't your usual Grand Tour mayhem. Here, the boys pay tribute to the medium-sized Ford saloon, which has helped many families across various generations.
Clarkson and May look into the Ford Cortina, they all pay tribute to the Ford Mondeo, and Hammond drives the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth around a race track.
What I like about this episode is that the boys discuss in depth how the cars represent a whole generation of Brits. Does this episode bring back any good memories for you?
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