Friday, January 5, 2018

The Grand Tour S2: Up, down and round the farm

The recent episode of Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour gets round and dirty as they try out their most dirtiest tricks with the dirtiest cars on the planet.

The Grand Tour S2E05

It begins with Richard Hammond in Dubai, sampling the dirtiest machines in the planet, starting with the hardcore Sandrail offroader and a military vehicle called the Ripsaw, which was made famous from The Fate of the Furious. There's even the part where he and the Ripsaw wreck havoc throughout the streets of Dubai, especially the shopping mall!

Then, James May heads to the Eboladrome to try out the smallest hot hatch in the market, the up! GTi. When handed to The Grand Tour's nameless driver, it lapped round the track in 1:39.7 under foggy conditions, which is the slowest.

Dominic Cooper and Bill Bailey are competing each other for who is the fastest celebrity with failed band career in Celebrity Face Off. In that segment, Bill Bailey did it in 1:25.1 while Dominic Cooper did it in 1:23.6, making him the winner of this week's Celebrity Face Off.

And this episode ends with Jeremy Clarkson goes a la Ken Block by making his own version of Gymkhana using a second-hand Subaru WRX in his little video called Farmkhana. And then some behind the scenes footage about Jeremy's Farmkhana. Of course, some sheep are killed in the making of that clip.

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