- The Grand Tour travelling tent is in the port of Rotterdam, Holland from where Richard Hammond and James May introduce a twin test between two lightweight sports cars, the civilised Mazda MX5 and the stripped-out Zenos E10, against the stunning backdrop of Morocco. Unfortunately, the pair's North African adventure is ruined by the arrival of the horribly dressed Jeremy Clarkson in the horribly expensive Alfa Romeo 4C Spider. Also in this show, Hammond and May attempt to reinvent a traditional board game by playing it with cars, and legendary Dutch band Golden Earring are on the quayside to perform their hit song, Radar Love.
- The trio set up within the port at Rotterdam, Netherlands for the next episode. Dutch are the tallest people on the planet and Hammond hates it here. In Rotterdam you can't bring in a patrol car if it was built before 1992, or a diesel car built before 2000.
Following an argument over the best affordable roadster, the presenters travel to Morocco (Marrakech) for a road trip in the roadster they prefer
Hammond arrives for the trip with a Mazda MX-5 (bestselling 2 seat roadster of all time, AC, heated seats, lane control, cruise control, rain sensing wipers and dusk sensing headlights, BP 18,500) May seeks to prove that the Zenos E10S (Has no toys but May maintains that a sports has to have least weight. 2L turbo charged engine from ford focus ST, 250 BHP, 6 speed gearbox, less than 750 kgs, BP 33,000) is the best Clarkson puts his trust for enjoyment in the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider (BP 60,000, carbon fiber body, terrible build quality, no power steering, small petrol tank, small range, gives a cramp after 5mins of driving).
Along the way, the trio engage in a drag race, weigh their cars, and then conduct a timed lap of each car on a specially made circuit at Atlas Corporation Studios in Ouarzazate. In a drag race, the Zenos beats the Alpha and Clarkson can't figure out why. So, Clarkson decides to weigh the cars and builds a balanced scale for the same. His choice of counterweights are animals (cows, camels, donkeys). 2 cows begin to have sex. Eventually Clarkson decides to use dead animals to weigh the cars. Eventually the police arrive and shoos them off as using dead animals to weigh cars isn't allowed in Morocco. Hammond finds the film sets of Asterix and Obelix and Game of Thrones and thinks that he has found an ancient civilization built by aliens. To settle the arguments, the trio agree to have a race across the sets. The Mazda wins the race, with Alpha coming in 3rd
Conversation street. Police in Holland use Porsche 911, as someone convinced the Govt that they need a car that can drive in high speed in reverse, removable roof top and high speed for car chases. Their traffic police use mountain bikes, in the flattest country on earth. The Dutch have 185 Otters and killed 70 of them in road accidents in 2 yrs. They spent 150,000 euros on a squirrel bridge used by 3 squirrels in a year. Clarkson thinks that the day he is on a motorway and can't be bothered to race a speeding train on the tracks, is the day he would go for assisted death in Netherlands. They also review sex accessories as motoring accessories by finding innovative use for sex stuff. For eg. using a sex doll to drive in a high occupancy lane by pretending that you have another passenger in the car.
Meanwhile, Hammond and May make their own version of Battleships, using old cars as the "ships" and several G-Wizes as "missiles", and play their game to see who has the keenest strategy to win. May wins.
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