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Opera, Arts and Donuts is the third episode of The Grand Tour . It was released on Amazon Prime on 2nd December, 2016.

• 1.1.1 Main Film
• 1.1.2 Other Film
• 1.2 Conversation Street
• 1.3 Celebrity Brain Crash
• 2 Cars featured

Synopsis [ ]

Film(s) [ ], main film [ ].

Jeremy Clarkson and James May plan to undertake a Grand Tour across Italy, driving an Aston Martin DB11 and a Rolls-Royce Dawn respectively. Their plans are interrupted by Richard Hammond arriving uninvited in a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat . The tour starts at the Palio di Siena, passing through the Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza and ending up in the Venetian Lagoon. However, the scenic cultural tour is constantly interrupted by Hammond's loud Hellcat with his revving, his constant need to refuel, and his insistence on performing donuts whenever possible. They eventually manage to ditch him and end up in Venice, but Hammond had somehow caught up and as he was doing donuts in a speedboat, Clarkson and May end up in the harbor.

Other Film [ ]

Hammond and May destroy Clarkson's house at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire. However, first they have to remove the roof tiles by hand to give a bat who lives there the chance to leave because Hammond didn't want to go to jail for killing it. They then tear down part of the house will mechanical wrecking machines, finding some Shakira CDs, a voodoo doll with James' face on it and a photo album with pictures of Hammond in it, before blowing it up.

Conversation Street [ ]

Sting: Clarkson wears high heel shoes.

The trio discuss May's initial excitement that Whitby is the center of the UK's jet industry. And then his disappointment upon finding out that they mean the gemstone (loose definition since it is actually coal), and not planes. They also discuss the fall in UK citizens learning to drive.

Celebrity Brain Crash [ ]

On Celebrity Brain Crash , Simon Pegg was on his way to the tent while eating a cornetto, before he was distracted and assaulted by seagulls before he falls to his "death" from Whitby Swing Bridge by falling off it as it was open and into the freezing waters.Jeremy Clarkson presents his take on automated vehicles, designing a car that can be controlled by speaking into a phone. In reality, the vehicle is controlled by a Romanian on a bike, as Clarkson dislikes the idea that automation would rob people of jobs.

Cars featured [ ]

• 1 Hammond's Rimac Crash
• 2 Enviro-mental

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The Grand Tour BEHIND THE SCENES in Vicenza, Italy (season 1)

Jeremy Clarkson in the Aston Martin DB11, James May in a Rolls Royce Dawn and Richard Hammond in a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, drive through the narrow streets of Vicenza when filming The Grand Tour episode 3, Opera, Arts and Donuts.

The Grand Tour BEHIND THE SCENES Somewhere in Italy the Wrong Way (season 1)

During filming sometimes you can take the wrong direction. In this case Clarkson, Hammond and May have to turn back in Italy while recording episode 3, Opera, Arts and Donuts.

The Grand Tour BEHIND THE SCENES in Florence, Italy (season 1)

Jeremy Clarkson in the Aston Martin DB11 and James May in a Rolls Royce Dawn drive through the narrow streets of Florence

The Grand Tour BEHIND THE SCENES in St Agata, Italy (season 1)

During the third episode of The Grand Tour, Opera, Arts and Donuts, we briefly see Richard Hammond visiting the Lamborghini Museum in St. Agata in Northern Italy. He was also spotted by our friends of Supercar Swede.

The Grand Tour: Behind the Scenes in Italy

Exclusive behind the scenes filming of The Grand Tour, Richard Hammond is visiting the Lamborghini Museum in Italy.

The Grand Tour: Behind the scenes filming in Whitby

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The Grand Tour: Series 1, Episode 3 – Opera, Art and Donuts

• The travelling tent lands on the quayside in Whitby, England.
• Clarkson, Hammond and May go on an Italian Grand Tour in an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and a Dodge Challenger Hellcat.
• Jeremy faces the consequences of a foolish bet.

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The tent is on the quayside of Whitby harbour in North Yorkshire.

The presenters go “Grand Touring” in Italy with May in the Rolls-Royce Dawn, Clarkson in the Aston Martin DB11 and Hammond in the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. Clarkson and May’s tour starts at the Palio di Siena horse race, before viewing The Birth of Venus painting at Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Clarkson and Hammond race each other the Mugello Circuit.

In the tent the presenters discuss Whitby jet.

Returning to Italy, Hammond visits the Lamborghini Museum whilst Clarkson and May watch Carmen staged at the Verona Arena, in the Piazza Bra. The tour continues via the Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza and ends up in the Venetian Lagoon.

Simon Pegg “falls to his death” from Whitby Swing Bridge. Clarkson presents his take on automated vehicles.

Fulfilling their bet from episode one, Hammond and May destroy Clarkson’s house at Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire.

0:02:25 – Jeremy’s family proudly comes from Tickhill near Doncaster.

0:03:06 – Yorkshire did have one car maker of note. They were called Jowett, they were based in Bradford and they went out of business in 1954.

0:03:06 – The BBC sit-com Last Of The Summer Wine ran from 1973 until 2010, although it felt like a lot longer.

0:03:51 – Magaluf is a resort on the Spanish island of Majorca. It is where a lot of young British people go to compare notes on interests such as drinking, dancing and casual sex.

0:04:40 – The Palio di Siena is a bareback horse race around the Piazza del Campo held twice a year to honour the Virgin mary. Palio is also the name of a Fiat.

0:05:09 – The Rolls-Royce Dawn has a 6.6-litre twin turbo V12 engine with 563bhp, 0-62 in 4.9 seconds, and a top speed of 155mph (limited).

0:05:17 – The Aston Martin DB11 has a 5.2-litre twin turbo V12 engine with 600bhp, 0-62 in 3.9 seconds, and a top speed of 200mph.

0:05:36 – The official name of this colour is actually Cinnabar Orange. Other colours available on the DB11 include Silver Fox, Yellow Tang, Silver Blonde and Hardly Green. We’re not making this up.

0:06:38 – The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat has a 6.2-litre supercharged V8 engine with 707bhp, 0-62 in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 199mph.

0:08:18 – As on all modern Rolls-Royces, the Dawn’s Spirit of Ecstasy’s radiator mascot electrically retracts. This stops people stealing it when you’re parked and means if you run over someone, it won’t stab them in the kidney.

0:10:46 – The very British Rolls-Royce Motor Car company was bought by the very German BMW in 1998.

0:15:00 – The painting Jeremy and James are looking at is The Birth Of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Or, as Hammond would call it, That Nudey Lady Standing In A Shell.

0:17:39 – Jeremy is talking about the classic, metal-toothed Bond baddie Jaws played by Richard Kiel. He appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me, where he pulled the roof off a van, and Moonraker, where he smashed through a building in a cable car and then disappeared off into space with a lady.

0:21:47 – Sometimes on The Grand Tour the director eventually has to tell the presenters that play time is over, otherwise they’d be out there all day.

0:24:59 – Richard Hammond went to art college. Not that you’d know.

0:28:53 – A Kilkenny cat is an Irish expression used to describe something that fights with pluck and tenacity. No one knows where it comes from. Well, it comes from Kilkenny in Ireland, but it’s not entirely clear why.

0:30:33 – Oxford is British university city. It’s near where Jeremy lives, which is why he knows an abnormal amount about its ring road.

0:35:02 – Rolls-Royce claims the Dawn is ‘the sexiest Rolls-Royce ever built’. Mmm.

0:37:21 – The 6.2-litre, V8-powered, 707 horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat has an eco mode.

0:38:25 – The Hellcat engine is so powerful that during its development Dodge had to upgrade their engine test rigs or they would have been torn to pieces.

0:40:40 – Carman turns out to be an opera written by Georges Bizet and first performed in 1875. Despite the title, it contains almost no mention of crankshafts, bore spacing or double wishbone suspension systems.

0:41:23 – The DB11 is the first Aston Martin with a quiet start system. Press the starter button to fire the engine into full theatrical mode. Press and hold the starter button if it’s 7am and you  don’t want your neighbours to hate you.

0:44:54 – How many people in this crowd? We don’t know but Jeremy estimated it at ’47 billion’.

0:48:35 – Hammond’s very subtle speedboat is an 800 horsepower C237 SUNUS racing boat. It can do 115mph. Or just zoom around in circles with an idiot in it.

0:49:09 – Jeremy claims he nearly drowned in Venice.

0:54:37 – “It’ll go t’ foot of our stairs” – An old Yorkshire expression of surprise and amazement based around taking a trip to the base of a staircase.

0:56:52 – Bats are highly protected in the UK. Unlike rats.

0:57:25 – James May really is very unkeen on heights. Other things James doesn’t like; formal clothes, the Nurburgring, people who say ‘myself’ when they mean ‘me’.

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The Grand Tour is back on our screens with new series’ first show showing up on Amazon’s Prime Video web-based feature the previous evening. Assuming you’ve perused Driving’s scene guide on The Grand Tour season 3, you’ll realize the presentation show is as activity pressed as anyone might think possible, highlighting a cutting edge muscle vehicle cavort through the roads of Detroit and Abbie Eaton’s anxiously expected Ebola drome lap in the McLaren Senna. This is what the pundits have made of The Grand Tour Season Three, Episode One up until now.clickhere

At least there was no American pillock squeezed into a racing helmet drawling inanities.

Was it really Jeremy’s house?

Yes, but all is not as it seems…. https://www.topgearbox.com/entertainment/the-grand-tour/jeremy-clarkson-blows-up-his-own-house-annoys-neighbours/

When they roll the Silhouette just before the go to Conversation Street, Clarkson in the middle can be seen wearing what appears to be ladies high heel shoes……………………………..check it out

I… didn’t like it. I agree with post above, everything felt too forced. It’s more like watching people pretend to be trio and overdone it. Journey itself was kinda cut, in previous trips finale of it felt like the end, here I was all wut.

I feel like the show, in comparison to Top Gear, is too “americanised”. Everything about it feels a little bit forced and too over the top, even conversations between the three beloved presenters seem to lack a little bit of authenticity of their usual banter. The jokes are getting repetitive. Although The Grand Tour is shot beautifully, and the huge budget is clearly visible, it just isn’t as laid back as Top Gear was, which is a real shame. Episode three was so far the best one though, hopefully they will pursue this direction. Also, is it just me, or James barely even speaks during the studio (tent) bits, like Conversation Street? GIMMIE MORE MAY.

The studio segments of this episode felt a lot more relaxed than the previous 2. Perhaps it is that they are on ‘home’ turf, but I think we can see them getting more relaxed with the format, and that was good as the jokes were a little more natural and the mood light.

The big film was a lot of fun. Yes, they were playing cliches but this was slightly different. Each of them was driving a car that was a cliche representative of them. Jeremy was the ‘Aston’ (who had a personality/colour conflict), James was the Rolls with the top down who loves art and quiet, and Richard, was the wanna-be-american boy who loved burning tires off in an american car. This will be a great film to re-watch as I’m sure little details will pop out about the cars=presenters.

Overall, this was as good as anything the last series of the show of which we do not speak. (It was on the BBC2, Sunday evening, filmed somewhere in Britain).

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The travelling tent lands on the quayside in Whitby, England where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce a modern take on the traditional Italian grand tour featuring an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and an uninvited guest. Also in this show, Jeremy faces the consequences of a foolish bet and Simon Pegg is the star guest.

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1x1 - The Holy Trinity

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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May start their brand new car show with hundreds of cars, thousands of people, a fire spitting metal scorpion and a squadron of jets in the California desert, plus three amazing hybrid hypercars and a brilliant BMW.

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November 24, 2016

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bring the traveling Grand Tour tent to The Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg in South Africa. In this show, the three hosts are forced to become special forces soldiers with an all action challenge at a top secret training base, deep within Jordan. Also in this episode, Jeremy introduces the 800 horsepower Aston Martin Vulcan to the Grand Tour test track, and James is sent to investigate an unusual form of motorsport called spinning.

1x3 - Opera, Art and Donuts

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1x4 - Enviro-mental

December 8, 2016

The studio tent is back in Whitby, England as Jeremy Clarkson introduces an almost impartial test of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS against the BMW M4 GTS, and the three hosts attempt to make cars from sustainable materials. Comedian Jimmy Carr is the celebrity guest.

1x5 - Moroccan Roll

December 15, 2016

The Grand Tour studio arrives in Rotterdam where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce a lightweight sport car test featuring the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, the Mazda MX5 and the Zenos E10 in the stunning landscapes of Morocco. Also in this show, Hammond and May play a traditional board game using cars and Dutch band Golden Earring are the guest stars.

1x6 - Happy Finnish Christmas

December 22, 2016

The Grand Tour tent is in Kakslauttanen, Finland, deep within the Arctic Circle with a show in which Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson compare the Ford Mustang V8 and the Ford Focus RS, James May recounts the bitter 1960s battle for endurance racing supremacy between Ferrari and Ford, and the presenters run through some ideal Christmas gifts for car fans.

1x7 - The Beach (Buggy) Boys - Part 1

December 29, 2016

In the first of two special shows, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are challenged to complete an epic journey across Namibia in three beach buggies, each built to their personal spec. What starts off as a simple determination to win an argument with their boss turns into an amazing adventure across some of the most incredible desert scenery Africa has to offer.

1x8 - The Beach (Buggy) Boys - Part 2

December 31, 2016

In the second show of a two-part special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are battling across Namibia in a quest to prove that beach buggies are brilliant. Having survived the challenges of the desert, the trio must now brace themselves for even greater hardship involving rough roads, camping, rhino conservation and a rather unusual river crossing.

1x9 - Berks to the Future

January 6, 2017

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From the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce their attempts to buy used Maseratis for a bargain price and then use them to tour the drizzle flecked landscapes of the North of France. Also in this programme, Richard takes the Abarth 124 Spider to the Eboladrome, Jeremy comes up with a way to install cutting edge features in an older car, and Olympic cycling champion turned car racer Sir Chris Hoy is invited to try Celebrity Brain Crash.

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For those of you who watch The Grand Tour on the television, (like myself), Xbox or other means other than computer, (or I’ve heard tablets as well), you may have missed out on Amazon’s “X-Ray.” X-Ray provides General Trivia facts about the cars, track, places, crew and all sorts of things about The Grand Tour and everything involved, so for those that missed it here is X-Ray General Trivia for Episode 3.

Scene 1: The Intro

Alrighty, the intro to episode 3! The boys are home! We are in for a real treat as the trio takes us on a road trip across Italy.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:00:00

The studio part of this episode takes place in the UK.

Scene 2: More Intro

Small videos of the boys driving in their homeland. It’s been said that these 3 classics overheated quite a lot during the filming of this intro.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:00:04

Jeremy Clarkson : Writer, broadcaster, loud noise. Richard Hammond: Writer, broadcaster, goose nemesis. James May : Writer, broadcaster, likes a nice sit down.

Scene 3: Welcome to England!

So is it fish n’ chips n’ scraps? Or is it bits? All I know is I’d love to try some REAL fish n’ chips. Also is Jeremy the most “Yorkshire” of them all? He thinks so.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:02:25

Jeremy’s family proudly comes from Tickhill near Doncaster.

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Scene 3: Yorkshire is no Detroit…

Here it was determined that that Yorkshire isn’t exactly the Detroit of the British Isles.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:03:06

Yorkshire did have one car maker of note. They were called Jowett, they were vased in Bradford and they went our of business in 1954

Scene 3: 3 Old Men

Discussing a television show about 3 badly dressed old men and everything they did went wrong….hmmmm rings a bell.

The BBC sit-com Last Of The Summer Wine ran from 1973 until 2010, although it felt like a lot longer.

Scene 3: What is a Grand Tour?

James tells us a bit of history as to what a Grand Tour actually is.  The boys start their Italian road trip.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:03:51

Magaluf is a resort on the Spanish island of Majorca. It is where a lot of young British people go to compare notes on interests such as drinking, dancing, and casual sex.

Scene 4: Horse racing is Intense!

We get a small taste of how brutal this race really is.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:04:40

The Palio di Siena is a bareback horse race around the Piazza del Campo held twice a year to honour the Virgin Mary. Palio is also the name of a Fiat.

Scene 4: Rolls-Royce

And here we have the cars, starting with S.S. Rolls.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:05:09

The Rolls-Royce Dawn has a 6.6-litre twin turbo V12 engine with 563bhp, 0-62 in 4.9 seconds, and a top speed of 155mph (limited).

Scene 4: The Aston

The mighty DB11. The replacement for the DB9. (Not the prettiest Aston in my personal opinion…)

General Trivia   Starts at 0:05:17

The Aston Martin DB11 has a 5.2-litre twin turbo V12 ingine with 600 bhp, 0-62 in 3.9 seconds, and a top speed of 200mph.

Scene 4: Brown or Orange?

Is Clarkson’s Aston brown or sunburnt orange?

General Trivia   Starts at 0:05:36

The official name of this colour is actually Cinnabar Orange. Other colours available on the DB11 include Silver Fox, Yellow Tang, Silver Blonde and Hardly Green. We’re not making this up.

Scene 4: The Hellcat!

Our favorite “secret American” shows up in one of the most American cars on the market, The 707bhp Hellcat!

General Trivia   Starts at 0:06:38

The Doge Challenger SRT Hellcat has a 6.2-litre supercharged V8 engine with 707 bhp, 0-62 in 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 199mph.

Scene 4: The Spirit of Ecstasy.

Very pretty music set with gorgeous cars in a breath taking location….tearing up at this point.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:08:18

As on all modern Rolls-Royces, the Dawn’s Spirit of Ecstasy radiator mascot electrically retracts. This stops people stealing it when you’re parked and means if you run over someone, it wont stab them in the kidney.

Scene 4: Rolls details

James gives us his thoughts on the Rolls. “It’s very serene”.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:10:46

The very British Rolls-Royce Motor Car company was bought by the very German BMW in 1998.

Scene 4: Paintings

Ah yes, here we have culture in art, peace and quiet….minus the quiet…and the peace.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:15:00

The painting Jeremy and James are looking at is The Birth Of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Or, as Hammond would call it, That Nudey Lady Standing In A Shell.

Scene 5: Donuts at the Track

After Hammond “challenged” Jeremy to a power stand off, they take to a track to see if the Aston can hold off the Hellcat.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:17:39

Jeremy is talking about the classic, metal-toothed Bond baddie Jaws played by Richard Kiel. He appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me, where he pulled the roof off a van, and Moonraker, where he smashed through a building in a cable car and then disappeared off into space with a lady.

Scene 5: Get to Work!

Richard finally gets Clarkson to turn off stability control and have some fun! Maybe too much fun?

General Trivia   Starts at 0:21:47

Sometimes on the Grand Tour the director eventually has to tell the presenters that play time is over, otherwise they’d be out there all day.

Scene 5: Painting

After all the racing about, Hammond and Clarkson join May in a bit of painting. I think they did rather well, haha.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:24:59

Richard Hammond went to art college. Not that you’d know.

Scene 6: Where Have all the Drivers Gone?

The boys have a chat about how the numbers of people learning to drive have dropped by a LOT in just a few years.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:28:53

A Kilkenny cat is an Irish expression used to describe something that fights with pluck and tenacity. No one knows where it comes from. Well, it comes from Kilkenny in Ireland, but it’s not entirely clear why.

Scene 6: Expensive Roundabouts..

Jeremy tells us an interesting story about 2 roundabouts that are very, very expensive.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:30:33

Oxford is British university city. It’s near where Jeremy lives, which is why he knows an abnormal amount about is ring road.

Scene 7: Wearing Your Seat belt?

Hammond reads a bit on the Dawn and makes sure James is wearing his seat belt.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:35:02

Rolls-Royce claims the Dawn is ‘the sexiest Rolls-Royce ever built’. Mmm.

Scene 7: MPG’s

A discussion on their overall miles per gallon so far in the trip….the Hellcat’s numbers are a little painful.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:37:21 

The 6.2-litre, V8-powered, 707 horsepower Dodge Challenge Hellcat has an eco mode.

Scene 7: Hammond Annoying James….yup

Hammond being Hammond, romping the go pedal and annoying the hell out of May. But mmmm that Hellcat sounds soooooo good!

General Trivia   Starts at 0:38:25

The Hellcat engine is so powerful that during its development Dodge had to upgrade their engine test rigs or they would have been torn to pieces.

Scene 7: Musicals

James and Jeremy “enjoying” a musical performance…and then there’s Hammond enjoying donuts.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:40:40

Carmen turns out to be an opera written by Georges Bizet and first performed in 1875. Despite the title, it contains almost no mention of crankshafts, bore spacing or double wishbone suspension systems.

Scene 7: Quiet Mode

Clarkson and May attempt to get away from Hammond so they can enjoy the rest of the trip in peace and quiet. *Spoiler, it doesn’t work…

General Trivia   Starts at 0:41:23

The DB11 is the first Aston Martin with a quiet start system. Press the starter button to fire the engine in full theatrical mode. Press and hold the starter button if it’s 7am and you don’t want your neighbours to hate you.

Scene 7:  One Big Party

Jeremy set up a trap to try and get Hammond to fall behind by sending out a “Tweet” stating Hammond will be appearing at this location.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:44:54

How many people in this crowd? We don’t know but Jeremy estimated it at ’47 billion’.

Scene 7: A Fast Boat

Oh hey it’s Hammond in a fast loud “obnoxious” (but awesome) speed boat.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:48:35

Hammond’s very subtle speedboat is an 800 horsepower C237 SUNUS racing boat. It can do 115mph. Or just zoom around in circles with an idiot in it.

Scene 7: Water Donuts!

Donuts, donuts and more donuts! Annnnd in goes Clarkson and May, whoops.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:49:08

James claims he nearly drowned in Venice.

Scene 8: Self Driving Cars

Clarkson shows off his very own “self driving car”, modeled after Google’s self driving car.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:54:37

“I’ll go t’foot of our stairs” – An old Yorkshire expression of surprise and amazement based around taking a trip to the base of a staircase.

Scene 9: Jeremy’s House

Jeremy lost a bet. Hammond and May prep Jeremy’s house for destruction.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:56:52

Bats are highly protected in the UK. Unlike rats.

Scene 9: James Doesn’t Like Heights

Still more prepping for what’s going to be a pretty spectacular ending.

General Trivia   Starts at 0:57:25

James May really is very unkeen on heights. other things James doesn’t like: formal clothes, the Nurburgring, people who say ‘myself’ when they mean ‘me’.

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Opera, Arts, and Donuts

The travelling tent lands on the quayside in Whitby, England where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce a modern take on the traditional Italian grand tour featuring an Aston Martin DB11, a Rolls-Royce Dawn and an uninvited guest. Also in this show, Jeremy faces the consequences of a foolish bet and Simon Pegg is the star guest.

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Ep 3. Opera, Art and Donuts

• December 2, 2016
• 8.2   (3,109)

In the third episode of The Grand Tour season 1, titled Opera, Art and Donuts, the hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May head to Italy to test three top sports cars: the Lamborghini Aventador S, the Honda Civic Type R, and the Mazda MX-5 RF. The trio drives on some of Italy’s best roads and puts the cars to the test on a track.

The episode starts with the hosts discussing their upcoming trip to Italy while enjoying some coffee and donuts. They explain that their goal is to find out which of the three cars is the best sports car for all occasions. While James May is convinced that the Mazda MX-5 RF is the best of the three, Jeremy and Richard disagree and argue that the Lamborghini Aventador S is the best.

Once in Italy, the hosts travel to the city of Vicenza, where they visit an opera house to test the acoustics of the cars. They take turns revving their engines and driving around the empty opera house, enjoying the sounds of the engines echoing throughout the building.

Next, the trio heads to Padua to visit an art gallery. There, they come across some abstract art pieces that they struggle to understand. However, a local expert helps them gain a better appreciation of the artworks. The hosts then decide to create their own abstract art pieces using the sports cars as their tools.

After the art gallery, they drive to a race track outside of the city, where they will test the capabilities of the cars. They try out the cars on different terrains, including a gravel track, a rallycross circuit, and a straight track for top speed tests. The Lamborghini Aventador S proves to be the fastest, but the Mazda MX-5 RF excels in driving dynamics and handling.

Throughout the episode, there are also various humorous segments, such as the trio’s attempt to drive through a toll booth at high speed and the disastrous consequences that follow. There is also a segment where they visit a vineyard and try to make wine with the cars.

Overall, the Opera, Art and Donuts episode of The Grand Tour season 1 is a fun and entertaining watch. The hosts’ antics and competitive banter keep things interesting, and the stunning Italian scenery and beautiful sports cars make for great viewing.

• Genres Arts & Culture Automotive Comedy Documentary & Biography Travel
• Cast Jeremy Clarkson Richard Hammond James May Simon Pegg
• Channel Amazon Studios
• First Aired December 2, 2016
• Content Rating TV-14
• Runtime 63 min
• Language English
• IMDB Rating 8.2   (3,109)

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