- The Grand Tour travelling tent arrives in Nashville, Tennessee from where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce their attempt to save the world's coral reefs using only a selection of car body shells and some extremely inept boat driving. Also in this show, Jeremy finally indulges his series-long Alfa Romeo obsession with a test of the new, 500 horsepower Giulia Quadrifoglio and AC/DC singer Brian Johnson comes to the tent to try his hand at Celebrity Brain Crash.—Carlo
- The Grand Tour travelling tent arrives in Nashville, Tennessee from where Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May introduce their attempt to save the world's coral reefs. In the interests of conservation, the three travel to Barbados and begin an earnest attempt to establish a new reef using only some car bodyshells as a foundation. Their efforts start badly and then get worse, involving inept crane driving, useless boat steering, and an embarrassing moment with a local hotel. Also in this show, Jeremy finally indulges his series-long Alfa Romeo obsession with a test of the new, 500 horsepower Giulia Quadrifoglio. Meanwhile, AC/DC and genuine rock legend Brian Johnson comes to the tent to try his hand at Celebrity Brain Crash.
- The trio host their next episode at Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is named after General Nash, who kicked the British out. The best-selling cars in US are all Hondas and Toyotas. Detroit has women with armpit hair growing Kale. Coal rolling is a sport where people test their pickup trucks to see who can roll the heaviest load. To get power up from the engine, they tweak the ECU, but it produces more smoke, hence the word Coal rolling. There is a loud banter with the crowd between football and American football.
To help save dying coral reefs off the coast near Barbados, the trio attempt to shore them up by dumping the shells of five car bodies to help them rebuild. May and Hammond get the cars and the crane. Clarkson gets a boat, which is very small, underwhelming, and ugly. They soon face issues from losing most of the bodies they bring, leaving them to attempt to complete their job with the body of a Land Rover. The first car goes into the harbor, when Hammond accidentally pulls the crane release string early, before the car is in position over the boat. The 2nd car gets on the boat but takes it down with it. After sinking 2 cars, the port authorities chased them away. They take the remaining cars to a nearby Marina and hire a boat crane to load them onto a handmade float. Miraculously, they get 2 cars onto the float and drop them where scientists have told them that a reef can form. Now May, a certified diver, goes down to anchor the cars. Hammond and Clarkson are on oxygen pumping duty, but they hook it to a generator and go skiing. But May could not anchor the cars as the boat he was tethered to, drifted while Hammond and Clarkson were busy water sporting. Clarkson goes down in a scuba to weld the cars. But Clarkson didn't do it properly and next day the currents had carried both cars to the beach. The trio must retrieve the cars from the beach. But May removes a central string on the float, and it comes apart. So, May proposes to tow the cars back to the Marina and build a new float to start over. He brings a JCB to the beach. May fails, so Clarkson proposes to use the boat crane to tow the cars to their correct spot in the ocean. But the boat crane rope also breaks and the cars drop near the beach. The hotel (to whom the beach belongs) order them off as they have ruined the beach and all the furniture in it. The next day, the boat crane owner takes his crane back, so the trio only have a land rover left. They tie big tube tires to it and Clarkson tows the car into position using a ski. They sink the car at the location.
Meanwhile, Clarkson travels between Wales and the Eboladrome, as he gives an extensive review of the new 500 horsepower Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio (turbo charged 2.9 L V6, 191 mph, Bp 60,000). Competitor to the BMW M3 (440 BHP) and the Jaguar ES (330 BHP). The car isn't easy to get out of. engineered by the same man who designed the Ferrari 458. Heavy on carbon fiber, slip disk differential, responsive steering, and a great gearbox. The Ferrari (which is part of the own company that owns Alpha Romeo) is at pains to point that the Giulia engine is not the same as theirs and that any resemblance to their own engine is only coincidental. The race mode in the Alpha is good. It does 1:27.1 on the Eboladrome and is 13th.
Conversation street. Alpha Romeo Stelvio is launched. Ford Pick Up truck is the bestselling car in Nashville. The trio wonder why people don't steal stuff when it is kept in the open back of a pickup truck. May offers that's because they shoot them here in US for that. Today's car museums have beautiful cars such as the Impala, Cadillac, Buick, a 70's corvette (driven by all the astronauts) because design was an art in the 70's, but the same brands are churning out boring looking cars now, which means the museums wont have anything to show in another 40 years. May talks about how car brands create cars for setting lap times around the Nürburgring, but aren't good at anything else, such as BMW M4 GTS, Nissan GTR, SEAT Leon Cupra 280 (hatchback).
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson comes to the tent to try his hand at Celebrity Brain Crash.
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