The next day the sea is calm and the group sets off again, this time with May in Hammond's camper van with a borrowed outboard motor. May's car fails spectacularly once again and Hammond's car loses its steering and eventually its engine. Clarkson and Hammond leave the harbor in an attempt to make the crossing, but discover the water is too choppy and head back into the safety of the harbor.
However, Hammond is unable to stop and thus can't pick up May from the water, and May refuses to admit defeat to Clarkson in exchange for getting a lift out of the water. Hammond and Clarkson go in after May and find that their amphibious cars are seaworthy. The group hit the water with James May going in first, but his supposedly amphibious car soon begins to sink. Despite a couple of fires, they eventually make it to the Channel but delay their crossing to the next day. The trio improve upon their original vehicles, but discover they must drove to Dover and use their amphibious vehicles to cross the English Channel to France. Revisiting season eight's amphibious car challenge, the boys are tasked by the producers to try again. The Stig takes the Audi R8 around the test track in 1.24.4 However, the Stig eventually gets a time of 1.26.2. The Stig takes the Porsche Carrera 2S around the test track, but spins it coming out of the second to last corner. Unfortunately, the Audi R8 loses by roughly half a car length. The two argue over which car is better, but decide to settle it over a half-mile drag race. Hammond attempts to overtake Clarkson around the track, but the R8 has the grip through the corners and its V8 is more than a match to the Porsche's flat 6. It costs about the same as the Audi R8, but Hammond believes it can run rings around the Audi.
Richard Hammond disagrees, bringing out the Porsche Carrera 2S. Clarkson believes the R8 is almost completely without fault and absolutely stunning. The car has four-wheel drive, but you get almost no understeer. The R8 takes 4.6 seconds to go 0-60, and its top speed is 190mph. The R8 costs about £77,000 (roughly $156,000), but nearly everything on the car is an optional extra.
The first of them, “Seamen”, set in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, aired in December last year. Starting with season 4, The Grand Tour is now only about feature-length specials. Amazon has expanded its deal with the trio, which includes new solo shows (Our Man in Japan for May, and I Bought A Farm for Clarkson). The trailer also gives us a look at the funny stunts that the trio like to pull, including scanning for mines, or driving at top speed as bombs explode in the background.Īfter airing 38 episodes across three seasons between 20, The Grand Tour has really slowed down its production as it has moved away from the hybrid studio and outdoors format. As the trailer for The Grand Tour season 4 episode 2 shows, the tank treads have their problems too, as Hammond gets stuck on the beach. Soon after, they arrive on Madagascar and outfit their cars with tank treads that give them a lot more ground clearance, and the ability to move on any terrain. Clarkson, Hammond, and May do a drag race on a coastal highway - officially, it's La Nouvelle Route du Littoral, which is French for New Coastal Road - that is touted to be France's most expensive road project with an estimated cost of €1.66 billion (about Rs. The one-and-a-half-minute long trailer for The Grand Tour season 4 episode 2 “A Massive Hunt” opens on the French island of Réunion, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.