Friday, June 16, 2023

The Grand Tour presents Eurocrash

Last year, Clarkson, Hammond, and May explored the Scandinavian winter wonderland in three 4WD saloons. Now, they're doing something unconventional as the recent Grand Tour adventure pulled a road trip like no other.

The Grand Tour presents Eurocrash

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Titled Eurocrash, the latest Grand Tour adventure saw Clarkson, Hammond, and May attempt to do a road trip like no other; a 1400-mile road trip in four countries formerly involved during the communist era; Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia.

Starting at the port of Gdansk, Poland, the presenters showcased three cars no one used on a road trip. Richard Hammond drives a Chevrolet SSR, Jeremy Clarkson in a Mitsuoka Le Seyde, and James May in a Crosley convertible. That's two neo-classical cool cars and one hopelessly slow vintage city car.

The Poland leg of the trip saw Hammond attempting to race in a Formula Easter race, which is known to be the Communist answer to Formula 1 in the 70s to 80s, a chance encounter with what's known to be the second-largest Jesus statue in the world, a visit to the site popularized by The Great Escape and of course, stealing a Nigel Mansell wax statue from the Krakow Wax Museum.

In the Slovakia leg of the trip, Clarkson samples Skoda's Le Mans competitor that never was while James May takes on the wickedly fast Praga Bohema hypercar and a peek at a flying car prototype.

As the trio arrived in Hungary, they survived arrow attacks from archers.

The road trip ends in Slovenia, where they gave the Jaguar hot rod backup car with a cheeky naming a downhill sendoff with a face-melted Nigel Mansell wax statue on it, while their little sightseeing in Bled got interrupted by a final challenge; driving their way to the airplane taxing to leave Slovenia.

A road trip no one tried in a trio of cars no one had driven on a road trip before, a cheeky-named backup car, Formula Easter, the second-largest Jesus statue in the world, a stolen Nigel Mansell wax statue, a Praga Bohema hypercar, archers, and a climactic race to the airplane, this is The Grand Tour like no other.

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