The Grand Tour will return on September 16, 2022, as the trio of James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson will tour snowy Scandinavia in three all-wheel-drive, rally-inspired cars.
According to Amazon Studios, the special will see Hammond, Clarkson, and May “at the wheel of their three favorite rally cars” embarking “on a catastrophe-filled adventure that takes in Cold War submarine bases, frozen lake racetracks, crashes, and ski resort chaos as they drag their homemade houses from the coast of Norway to the Russian border.”
Although the official challenge is to take their favorite rally car around the northernmost part of Europe, as May and Hammond point out, the Audi that Clarkson chose was built quite a few years after the brand’s rallying heyday.
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Regardless, the Audi RS4 will take on a Subaru Impreza WRX STI and a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII in a series of challenges that sees the cars towing skiers and cabins and racing through the snow.
In a trailer for the new special, May appears to be driving the yellow Mitsubishi Evo VIII, which apparently was the cause of some distress. As previously reported, while driving through a tunnel at a Norwegian naval base near Tromsø, he reportedly lost control of the car at 75 mph (121 km/h) and crashed into a rock wall.
Indeed, a shot near the end of the trailer appears to show the Mitsubishi sliding sideways into a wall in a tunnel at a particularly high rate of speed. May reportedly suffered at least one broken rib and an impact to the head that bloodied him. Fortunately, the host has been publishing videos on YouTube as recently as three weeks ago, suggesting that he suffered no lasting damage in the incident.
The episode will be titled The Grand Tour Presents: A Scandi Flick, a reference to the driving style made famous by Scandinavian rally drivers, who first turned away from a corner, then into it, in order to encourage a vehicle to rotate and slide through a slippery turn.
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