The eleventh episode of the first series of the Amazon motoring show The Grand Tour premiered on the 20th of January, 2017. It is entitled Italian Lessons. Filming for the studio segments of the show took place in Loch Ness, Scotland.
Synopsis[]
Segments[]
The guys take a tour of Northern France in three second-hand Maseratis with their tour becoming complicated by the realisation that May has broken his arm.
Test Track[]
Hammond makes his first visit to the Eboladrome to test the Fiat Abarth 124 Spider.
Celebrity Brain Crash[]
The guest this week was British Olympian Chris Hoy, who was killed after being blown up in a rowing boat by a land mine in Loch Ness.
In this show...[]
- [Jeremy] urinate[s] on an engine...
- Richard wears an anorak...
- And James takes drugs...
Tent Location[]
For this episode, the tent was pitched in Loch Ness, Scotland in the United Kingdom. More specifically, the tent was pitched on the shores of Loch Ness itself.
Trivia[]
The commercial Clarkson makes for his Ghibli references the 1984 Volkswagen commercial "The Man", and marks the third time Clarkson would directly parody this ad, the first being in Series 25 Episode 5 of Top Gear (Classic), involving an S-Class Mercedes, and the second being back in Series 13 Episode 7 of Top Gear, as part of the Scirocco Diesel Advert challenge.
