If you’re expecting The Grand Tour: One for the Road to be a sombre, sedate affair compared to the trio’s previous work, think again: if anything, it proves that advancing age hasn’t blunted their capacity for causing mayhem, or embarrassment to the foreign office.
Zimbabwe, the gloriously filmed final location for their beloved format, is a poor country with a great deal of mineral wealth, the movement of which is very strictly controlled. It’s possible to buy large quantities of raw silver in Zimbabwean markets for ridiculously cheap prices, though, which formed the basis for one of the new special’s more ridiculous challenges: casting car bling from it.
Clarkson fashioned an antelope skull from the precious material. James May crafted himself a nifty new steering wheel with a solid lump of the stuff. Hammond cast himself a new spoiler for his Ford Capri: but didn’t have enough to make it full size.
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