In the next (and presumably final) outing for the Grand Tour, the boys are in West Africa. The premiere date on Prime is Feb 16
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True to his history, Jezza picks a F-Type for the show. (I still have his Top Gear review loaded as a video in the car.)
Hamilton goes Aston; Captain Slow goes EU with a Maserati. It should be a proper send-off.

Press Release:
“For their latest adventure, Jeremy, James and Richard travel to wild and remote country of Mauritania, in West Africa. Their challenge is to follow in the footsteps of the world’s most dangerous race, the iconic Paris-Dakar. But instead of competing in bespoke, hand built Dakar racers, our unfit trio must complete their journey in second hand sports cars, modified by them.

Jeremy opts for a Jaguar F Type V6, Richard too goes British with an Aston Martin Volante V12, whilst James takes a punt on Italy with a Maserati. The boys report to the northern part of Mauritania, inside the perilous Foreign Office Red Zone, where they must rendezvous with their cars, which are delivered courtesy of the world’s longest iron ore train, a 1.2 mile monster that travels this country’s only railway line.

From there, Jeremy, James and Richard strike out into the Sahara, heading south for Senegal and the famous finish line on the beach of Dakar. Along the way they must descend treacherous ravines by cable, James must battle with mysterious sand storms that threaten his car, they must build unusual and ingenious devices to help their cars cope with the car killing roads, and they must extract themselves from a deadly minefield. Also, given they are in the Sahara in one of the least populated countries in the world, they have to travel with their own fuel bowser, which they must protect at all costs, from being blown up.

Having conquered the Sahara, our heroes’ problems are far from over. In order to reach Senegal they must make a perilous river crossing, across a river with no bridge. Now fully able to travel to far flung and exotic places the boys are back at their best, with the incredible back drop of Mauritania providing a spectacular setting for one of their most action packed adventures yet.”

 

Didn’t realize they were still making these, I stopped after the first 3 seasons. This one sounds entertaining, thanks for the info.

 

They've actually said this is the penultimate episode. There will be one more after this that I believe has already finished shooting. But then no more.

 

I watched this last night. Has anyone started work on a "JAAAAG" badge for the back of their car yet?

 

They must have milked the supercharger.
I'd have been interested in seeing them spec and modify the cars.
The modified exhaust and rear skid plate was cool but no intentional misfire was a miss.
Seeing Richard deal with the stupid Aston door hinge brought back nightmares of moving a Vanquish in and out of the shop everyday. What idiot thought it was a good idea to have doors that could guillotine your foot? The V12 startup is cool though, that 1 second of spin before light-off.

 

Yep, it would have been nice to get a peek under the hood to see exactly what they did to get the SC to scream so much.
It seems they completely rerouted the intake system and air filters to have them sitting up high on top of the SC.
Also they fudged the opening, showing a different F-Type that Jeremy bought (a base model) and not the modified one used in Africa (a V6S).

 

Enjoyed it, funny! Super charge whine interesting. Too bad it is last one.

 

I just watched the trailer, Jeremy jumping the F Type hurts me a little bit, lol

 

You might not want to watch him driving down a cliff, then!

 

There will be one more later this year. They are headed to Zimbabwe. Filming has already been completed.

 

If you are wondering who built the cars for them there is some info here https://waxy.es/grand-tour-sand-job/ they specialize in building propper dakar rally cars.

 

Drive Tribe vid showing most of the modifications:


Turns out I was right about how they increased the SC whine!