“What’s this?” we hear you gasp, “ The Grand Tour and the EU luvving it up?” Yep: truly, Joe Biden could learn a thing or two about bipartisanship from this episode.ĭirections come from Andy Wilman, the long-time Svengali producer behind The Grand Tour and, before that, Top Gear. And they have a wonderful, if brief time in Réunion. As usual, the vehicles are chosen to reflect their drivers’ IDs: a massive Bentley for Clarkson that he wonderfully describes as “a suet pudding of torque and opulence” a light, turbocharged Ford Focus RS for 50-year-old boy racer Hammond an open-top Caterham 310-R designed in the 1950s for old man May. Built at a cost of £112m per kilometre, even Clarkson is impressed by “the most expensive tarmac in the world.” And so, to introduce their cars, we’re treated to a drag race. It is also, coincidentally, home to a new ringroad in the sea, 12km long and spanning the entire circumference of the island. The Indian Ocean, apparently, was the first place a currency exchange involving the Euro ever took place. Réunion, which is almost 6,000 miles away from mainland Europe and our first stop, is literally part of France, as Clarkson quickly points out: it shares the same laws and tax system and counts as a region of the Eurozone.
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