- Original release
- Previous episode S00E17 - Series 8 Best of (4)
- Number S00E18
- Episode runtime 60 minutes
- Country United Kingdom
- Original language English
- Genres Comedy, Documentary, Talk Show, Travel
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S Best of Series 5 - 8
In this special compilation Clarkson is in a Volvo XC90 in a "Biathlon", competing against May in an Audi Q7, as they endure a cross-country course complete with 2 shooting rounds, before trying out the new Range Rover Sport to see if he can avoid being locked on by the main cannon of a Challenger 2 tank. A world champion all-terrain skateboarder is pitted against a Group N Mitsubishi rally car, May is in Dubai and driving the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Clarkson races against the climber Leo Houlding to the top of the Verdon Gorge in France in an Audi RS4, before trying to drive up a mountain in a Land Rover Discovery.
Spoiler warning: this post-finale analysis discusses events and themes from The Grand Tour Season 7, including the finale, which aired on Prime Video on September 4, 2026.
Season 7 of The Grand Tour arrived with an enormous challenge: how do you continue a series so closely associated with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May without simply imitating them? Across its four episodes, the 2016 Prime Video hit leaned into that question rather than pretending it did not exist. Thomas, Francis and James were introduced with an official blessing from Clarkson in the premiere, and by the finale, the season had become less about replacing the original trio and more about proving that The Grand Tour is a format strong enough to survive a change in rhythm, chemistry and perspective.
The finale worked because it understood what viewers actually come to The Grand Tour for. Yes, the cars matter. Yes, the jokes matter. But the secret engine of the series has always been the collision between expertise, idiocy and friendship. Episode 4’s mission to discover “the strongest car ever made” could have been a simple excuse for destruction, and to be fair, it absolutely was that too. But the destructive tests had an old-school Grand Tour purity to them: a daft question treated with total seriousness, an escalating series of challenges, and the wonderful sense that no producer in the room had been brave enough to say, “Maybe this is too much.”
