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A Massive Hunt (or the Madagascar Special ) is the second episode of Season 4 of The Grand Tour - made up of Specials. It aired on December 17th, 2020, before its "planned" release on December 18th, 2020.

The episode saw the presenters travel across the Reunion Island in three performance pre-production cars before modifying them for a road trip across Madagascar in a massive treasure hunt.

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The intrepid trio find themselves back on four wheels for their latest adventure. Armed with sports cars, Richard, James and Jeremy think they are in for a cushy road trip as they arrive on the exotic island of Reunion and race on the world’s most expensive piece of tarmac. But a bizarre challenge propels them to Madagascar where they must tackle the world’s toughest road.

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The episode was filmed in November 2019 on the African island nation of Madagascar and on the French overseas territory of Reunion Island.

The special was expected to air in March/April 2020, however producer Andy Wilman, had contracted Coronavirus, having difficulty in breathing and "coughed his spleen out" but was on the road to recovery. The only parts that would be required was voiceovers and final edits which would've been made by Wilman. Due to this outbreak, the special was scheduled for release on 18th December 2020.

However, the trio surprisingly released it a day earlier after a short announcement on YouTube, with the description saying "All those marketing plans… wasted" in a jokingly manner.

• This is the sixth special episode of the entire show.
• This is the third special episode of The Grand Tour to be filmed in Africa, following the show's travels through Mozambique in Season 2 and Namibia in Season 1 .
• This is the first ever special of The Grand Tour, where not all of the cars have finished the journey and the second time for Richard Hammond . Travelling along the RN5 Hammond's Ford suffered a broken clutch on the journey, putting it out of action permanently.

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Madagascar was, as we told you last year, the desitination of  Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James may to go on an adventure.

During their journey on La Réunion they found a encrypted document which should possible lead them to a huge pirate treasure. They travelled to Madagascar to find that treasure.

But being on a treasure hunt isn’t really an easy thing to do. Especially if you know the roads on Madagascar which are famous as being the most terrible roads in the world.

Especially the Route National 5, the road our beloved presenters had to follow, is famous for his bad condition. Therefor real fanatic 4×4 drivers travel to Madagascar to take on the challenge and travel from south to north over this treacherous road.

The trio start their trip on La Réunion where we see Jeremy Clarkson in a normal Bentley Continental GT. James May is driving a Caterham Seven 310R and Richard Hammond is behind the wheel of a Ford Focus RS.

When they are on Madagascar the cars are totally transformed and if we didn’t know all the facts they even look like other cars. But during the filming the cars are really on Madagascar modified.

What will happen during the journey of the trio? Friday 18 december we will all know as the episode “A Massive Hunt” will be available on Prime Video.

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A spectre is haunting The Grand Tour  – the spectre of Europe. The latest instalment of Amazon Prime’s Clarkson-Hammond-May supervehicle, subtitled A Massive Hunt , sees the heroic champions of political incorrectness speak a considerable amount of French. For the show’s traditional fanbase of Eurosceptic-at-best dads, it might all be a little uncomfortable, but for the rest of us, it’s a sign of a more mellow, good-natured programme that sees the ruddy trio at their best.

A Massive Hunt is just that (please, please don’t acknowledge the pun): a big treasure hunt where the lads are sent to search for a hoard of pirate booty allegedly buried by Olivier Levasseur, an 18 th -century corsair nicknamed “ La Buse ” or “The Buzzard”. In true Grand Tour  grand tradition, the gang heads to a remote corner of the world and churns sections of it up in a makeshift convoy of Cronenbergian custom vehicles. This time, our lucky locations are the Francophone islands of Réunion and Madagascar.

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. The Indian Ocean, apparently, was the first place a currency exchange involving the Euro ever took place. It is also, coincidentally, home to a new ringroad in the sea, 12km long and spanning the entire circumference of the island. 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. 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. And they have a wonderful, if brief time in Réunion. “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.

Directions come from Andy Wilman, the long-time Svengali producer behind The Grand Tour  and, before that, Top Gear . By now, Wilman is a character in the series himself; he’s fully Grand Tour canonical, like a sort of off-camera, vengeful God. Bringing in Wilman and acknowledging the camera crews around the central trio of presenters has been a masterstroke for The Grand Tour , because it punctures the pretence that everything we witness is anything other than a massive set-up. Of course they aren’t really going on a treasure hunt. Of course James May isn’t really decoding a centuries-old coded message from a pirate king. The whole thing is an excuse to do dumb stuff with big cars in a tropical jungle, like it always has been.

Nonetheless, after the appetiser in Réunion, Wilman orders the crew to Madagascar for the main course, to track down the legendary 220lb golden cross La Buse supposedly buried somewhere on the island. The cross, they reckon, would now be worth £100m – more than enough for Clarkson to achieve his dream of owning every farm in Chipping Norton.

A Massive Hunt is imbued with a different energy to previous Grand Tour episodes. It’s less fraught. There are fewer, if any, loutish jokes about empire or ladyboys, and more loutish jokes about James May being covered in mud in his open-top Caterham (Clarkson to May: “Your car looks like Teddy Kennedy’s car after Chappaquiddick”) and how Hammond is childishly obsessed with pirate lore. The whole thing is somehow… a bit nicer. Even the French barely get a roasting. Not unlike the Top Gear  of yore, it’s silly, but not needlessly provocative. Mercifully, Greta Thunberg isn’t mentioned once. There’s no way anyone got punched on this set, hot food or not .

The Grand Tour went accidentally woke with its last episode, set in Vietnam and Cambodia, as Clarkson encountered a bone-dry riverbed and defensively acknowledged what the rest of us accepted a decade and a half ago – that climate change just might be real . Here, the show does touch briefly on the fact that most Madagascans live on less than a dollar a day, but it’s otherwise a largely apolitical hour and a half. Instead, The Grand Tour  leans into what was always its strength: the physical comedy and dad-bromance of its cast. 

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And so they drive, and drive, and drive. They take ferries and swampy roads. May gets covered in more mud. Hammond fixes caterpillar tracks to his Ford. If you ever wanted to see James May walk wordlessly and fully clothed into a swimming pool, or Jeremy Clarkson pull a banana tree onto himself, then deliver one of his portentious declarations (of a particularly bumpy road: “The Madagascans call this the R.N. 5, but there’s a better name… Hell ”) then this is the special for you. There is lots of charmingly bad improv comedy, like the three are doing panto at the side of a jungle road. And in a way, the pirate theme fits The Grand Tour ’s silly, old-fashioned rebel outlook. 

This is comfort food, nothing more. Your dad will love falling asleep in front of it on Christmas Day; it won’t spark any arguments. After all that Clarkson and his travelling circus have given the tabloids to write about in the last few years, what more do you really want?

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The Grand Tour ‘A Massive Hunt’ review: Madagascar trek is (mostly) worth the wait

Possibly born of pure annoyance from constant questions as to when it would finally appear, The Grand Tour’s second episode of Season 4 was at last released — and a day earlier than announced.

Titled “A Massive Hunt,” the special was shot last year, and until today, the only massive thing about it was the public badgering the hosts have endured as COVID-19 delays pushed the release date back by months.

This is the second installment of the Grand Tour’s new look, which ditches the tent home of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May and focuses on what fans have traditionally loved best — watching the three have caustic, cinematic motoring adventures against exotic backgrounds.

Shiny new toys

A Massive Hunt opens in the Indian Ocean, on Reunion, a French island off East Africa. Instead of the usual run-down crapmobiles the trio typically nurses across a far-flung finish line, they all have shiny new toys.

Clarkson is driving a V8 Bentley Continental, while Hammond is behind the wheel of the latest version of the Ford Focus, the RS. James May has drawn the inverse of Clarkson’s cushy Bentley, a Caterham V10R, a stripped-down lightweight racer. This appeals to his Reassembler side: “You even have to attach the steering wheel,” he says, beaming, as he… attaches the steering wheel.

We’re shown a 12 mile ring road built off-shore, like a rockslide-escaping Seven Mile Highway of the Florida Keys. It’s the most expensive road in the world, so of course the hosts conduct a drag race while the showroom shine is still on (longtime Top Gear /Grand Tour fans won’t be surprised by the first person to lose a speed contest on this engineering wonder.)

Still, this was initially disappointing, as part of the fun of Top Gear/Grand Tour is watching these millionaires battle their own pre-knackered modes of transportation, pushing through punishing terrain and staggering mileage as their cars fall apart around them. I should’ve had more trust; this is the Holy Trinity of Destruction, and these rides don’t stay commercial-ready for long.

If you enjoy the scripted bits of the Top Gear/Grand Tour oeuvre, this special is your huckleberry. The boys are going treasure-hunting, and their guiding light is a cryptogram reportedly left by hanged pirate Olivier Levasseur. May pretends to work on cracking the code as Hammond and Clarkson pretend to wait and for-real drink (the code’s alphabet is on Wikipedia, but its translated text is gibberish and remains incomprehensible.)

We are asked to believe that an entire retinue of camera crew and kit hang around for three days while this takes place, and that Hammond also waits quite some time before sharing pertinent treasure-hunting information.

They do, however, have the rare self-awareness to later wink at the viewer when they drastically modify their cars. For just as this begins to feel like a late Top Gear episode full of supercar poster shots — Clarkson crows about having a “proper, functioning, decent car” in a challenge for once — after it’s “learned” that they will take on the famously wretched roads of Madagascar, their beautiful new rides are adorned with winches, treads, and 4×4 light kits.

These vehicular transformations are credited to an amazingly “well-equipped” auto repair shop, and I do believe this is the first time it’s openly acknowledged that these challenge-related pimpings don’t take place at the trio’s own hands (I discovered the original Top Gear on my brother-in-law’s DVR, and as I watched stock cars magically transform into semi-trucks, I asked him, with great earnestness, if these three men were engineers in addition to car enthusiasts. He slowly, sadly shook his head.)

Atrocious roads

It soon becomes evident why the hosts enjoyed the first-ever privilege of starting from new: The roads, even the main roads, of Madagascar really are that atrocious. They wouldn’t have made it fifteen feet with the baseline of the already-exhausted blind buys with which they usually begin their adventures.

Mileage-wise, the crew doesn’t travel far, by Top Gear/Grand Tour standards, and the reason is apparent as the vehicles first get dusty and then half-drowned in foul mud. “The water’s like a bath that someone’s had diarrhea in,” May says as yet another wave of human excrement breaks over his head. The rock-strewn, deeply pitted roads they’re driving on look like what we in the West would use as a rough hiking trail (my husband mentioned that, and I mention that my husband mentioned that because he demanded credit.)

These men are their best when the fictional situation they’re in brings them into real trouble. They abandon one another, bicker over whether on not the place they’re heading actually exists, break down repeatedly, and enter and leave with general mayhem. As they labor for every mile of progress, sometimes on three wheels, the punishing manner in which they scrape their way down the road recalls the inch-by-inch progress of the Top Gear Polar Special.

A Massive Hunt is 90 minutes long, so there’s plenty of time for Hammond to have adventures with an auto-heating MRE and Clarkson to hurl a rotten coconut at some fresh ones.

Worth the price of admission alone are the views of Madagascar, not only for its spectacular beauty, but also the glimpses of its struggles as a developing nation. Clarkson states that most locals get by on less than a dollar a day, and in a culture accustomed to seeing Madagascar only through the Instagram filter of gorgeous beaches, entrancing biodiversity, and deep green tropical glades, the fuller picture is important to see.

Despite the worn faux premises and increasingly cringy ways in which the locals are inconvenienced (Hammond holds up an entire wedding party for two hours), the genuine misery on the face of May in particular is a reminder of the drastic physical toll these shoots must require. The gag setups are fake, but the strain they generate is quite real.

I’m at least a decade younger than Hammond, the baby of the trio, and as I watched yet more bits of vehicle fly off, leading to another winching scene, I lost count of the number of times I’d have picked my way to the nearest WiFi signal and first flight to running water. The distance was short, but the journey was long.

A Massive Hunt’s final scene is the usual Catskills-style gotcha, but the show does contain a somber Top Gear/Grand Tour first — yes, there are still room for those, and that’s what keeps us along for the ride when these three are in the driver’s seat.

The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. 

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The Grand Tour Madagascar Special trailer out! 2020’s biggest treasure hunt to air next month

In the new special, the grand tour’s jeremy clarkson, james may and richard hammond are back in cars, exploring the islands of réunion and madagascar..

It’s been a year after the most recent episode of The Grand Tour was released and so, to make up for the time they’ve been off our screens, it seems the boys have made it grand-er for this upcoming episode filmed in Madagascar. The trailer was released just earlier today after the team behind The Grand Tour social media posted a tiny hunt for the viewers in the form of tiny text you had to zoom in to find out the release date of the trailer.

The upcoming episode has been called The Grand Tour presents: A Massive Hunt. While the last episode saw Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond driving boats in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, this time they’re back in cars, exploring the islands of Reunion and Madagascar.

Jeremy Clarkson will be driving a Bentley Continental GT, Richard Hammond a Ford Focus RS, and James May for some reason a Caterham. The trio then does huge modifications to taken on touch conditions of Madagascar which will lead to Hammond ‘uninventing the wheel’.

There’s of course a drag race involved. It will be on a coastal highway – La Nouvelle Route du Littoral (French for New Coastal Road). It is touted to be France’s most expensive road project with an estimated cost of €1.66 billion (approximately Rs 14,630 crore).

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The episode was earlier scheduled to be released in September and Clarkson had expressed his frustration over the delay. When a fan tweeted that they were getting bored waiting for the TGT Special, Clarkson replied: ‘Me too’.

Mark your calendars before we forget to tell you. The episode will be released on Amazon Prime Video on 18 December.

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If you're a fan of  The Grand Tour , you've probably seen the Madagascar special . That saw Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond travel across Madagascar to find hidden pirate treasure. And they all bought their own vehicles to get them through the challenge. Clarkson bought a Bentley Continental  from 2014, which he turned into the MFB Continental. But, what happened to the car after it was finished in Madagascar? Was it scrapped? Thankfully, the answer is no.

What Happened To The Bentley MFB After Madagascar?

YouTube channel Grand Tour Nation was able to provide an update on the car and what's happened to it since Madagascar. The Grand Tour partnered with Bentley to modify the car to off-road usage, which was originally a press car. Bentley Motors' Head of Product Communications, Mike Sayer, said the work was very collaborative, and they helped finish the work off at Bentley to make sure that it all worked okay. Clarkson brought it back to the UK after falling in love with it.

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Clarkson's Madagascar Ride On The Road To Ruin

But, things got a bit messy as DVLA, which is the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, said it had to be destroyed as it had started out as a development mule. This rule is in place so that designs like this never seep into the production market. So, it looked like it was all over for the rather crazy off-road Bentley just as it arrived on British soil. Clarkson gave it back to the company, after using it on his farm for a period.

Clarkson's Bentley MFB Gets New Lease On Life

Yet thankfully, the car was instead placed on display at Bentley HQ in Crewe (Cheshire, England). Mike Sayer was so impressed by the car and how much punishment it could soak up when it was running through the horrible and tough roads and terrain of Madagascar. It is now displayed within the Bentley factory limits in a glass box that is just viewable from outside the factory on Pyms Lane, a road that goes past the factory. This means that the car has been saved from scrapping, thanks to Bentley being so unbelievably proud of the car that they helped build for the Amazon show.

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The Grand Tour: What Car Was Good Enough To Film Clarkson And Co. Through Madagascar?

Jeremy Clarkson was the first to admit the trio’s adventures through Madagascar was difficult , as they took to the world’s worst roads in order to find hidden pirate treasure. Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May modified their respective cars to cope with such an onslaught, but what vehicle was good enough to follow them in order to film?

Clarkson said the following:

“I think it’s probably fair to say it was not the hardest, that would have been the North Pole, but the toughest roads we’ve ever driven on.”

He also admitted that the roads were so difficult, one of them didn’t even manage to finish, making Grand Tour (and Top Gear ) history in the process:

“And it’s the first time, I think ever, that one of us fails to finish.

“The only problem is, it was filmed such a long time ago, we can’t remember which of us it was.”

The car that followed them? It was a Polaris RZR, chosen for its awesome off-roading abilities that were believed to be good enough to tackle the Route Nationale 5 that the episode was filmed on for the most part. It had sand, wet and thick mud, and rocks that the vehicles were expected to climb over, and the Polaris RZR XP 4 1000 ate these up with no issues, all while carrying a small camera team.

“With its combination of mud, rocks, sand, steep gradients and continual flooding, the RN5 is the most challenging road I’ve ever driven on,” said Phil Churchward , Series Director of The Grand Tour .

“What’s more, as well as being unbelievably bumpy, it’s also very narrow in sections with little room for mistake. So, all in all, not the easiest place to film a TV show.

“Quickly realising that a normal 4X4 wouldn’t work – no matter how trick the suspension – we chose the Polaris RZR. Not only did it ride the bumps, climb any gradient, and wade through constant flooded areas, it was incredibly easy to use as a camera platform – and we had over £200,000 of stabilised camera equipment rigged to it. Importantly, we never had to worry whether it would make it to the location each day.”

With a number of modifications such as 15-inch tyres, poly roof, windscreen, and a huge light bar to allow them to see what they were climbing over in the pitch black of the Madagascan night, this vehicle was unstoppable.

Alex Harrington

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