if you expect Grand Tour: Road Trip It’s a sombre, calm affair compared to the trio’s previous work, and on second thought: if anything, it proves that age hasn’t weakened them in causing mayhem or making foreign affairs The ability to embarrass.
Zimbabwe, where their favorite movies were ultimately filmed, is a poor country with vast mineral resources, the flow of which is very tightly controlled. Still, it’s possible to buy large amounts of raw silver at dirt-cheap prices on the Zimbabwean market, setting the stage for one of the new special’s more ridiculous challenges: casting car bling with it.
Clarkson used this precious material to create the antelope skull. James May made himself a beautiful new steering wheel out of a solid piece of stuff. Hammond cast himself a new spoiler for his Ford Capri: but there wasn’t enough to make it full-size.
They set out with sterling silver decorations that burned in the Zimbabwean sun. But as they approached the border with neighboring Botswana, they realized that smuggling silver from Zimbabwe was highly illegal.
Given that they apparently didn’t go to jail (although that could change, as the Zimbabwean ambassador apparently attended Tuesday night’s screening), they apparently didn’t get caught because they adequately disguised the metal as part of a car. So here’s a top tip for would-be smugglers trying to get their hands on precious minerals from Zimbabwe: Just make them into gorgeous ornaments of your choice. Simple.
Their relative ease across the border was reminiscent of the Patagonia special aired almost a decade ago, in which angry Argentinian nationalists clashed with a BBC camera crew, leading to a tense finale in which the presenters fled to a nearby Chile.
Luckily, the final moments of “One for the Road” aren’t painful at all: In fact, they’re beautiful, poignant, and, at the aforementioned press conference earlier this week, an eye-opener Did it. It was indeed a fitting farewell to three incredible careers.
Grand Tour: One for the Road launches on Amazon Prime Video tomorrow (Friday, September 12).
