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The Grand Tour Series 3 Episode 4 Preview – ‘Pick Up Put Downs’

In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May investigate the new breed of European pick-up trucks hoping to take on the American and Japanese establishment. Clarkson has a Volkswagen Amarok, Hammond has a Ford Ranger while May is in the new Mercedes X-class.

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Collectively they test their trucks with a series of challenges built around the many stages of life in the developing world, starting with rural subsistence and running through the toppling of the dictator, the descent into civil war, and the bit where some idiot blows up a helicopter.

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Along the way, there are chases and races and quite a lot of needless gunfire until the best pick-up is decided upon by everyone except James.

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Also, in this show, Jeremy is at the Eboladrome to test the snorting, swollen, near-600 horsepower Jaguar XE Project 8. The Project 8 is powered by a 5.0-litre Supercharged V8 engine and is the most powerful road-legal Jaguar in history. The Jag has also achieved the fastest lap ever for a Jaguar on the Nordschleife, faster than any other four-door production-intent sedan in history and faster than many renowned supercars.

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The fourth episode of The Grand Tour Series 3 will stream on Amazon Prime Video on February 1st 2019, so if you haven’t got an active Prime Video account yet make sure you sign up here. Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel or bookmarking TopGearbox.com, as we’ll be bringing you previews for every single upcoming episode of The Grand Tour Series 3 in the weeks to come.

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Are you looking forward to seeing the boys put a bunch of pick-up trucks through a series of strange tests? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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3 comments

Andy Chen January 24, 2019 at 11:58 pm

Glad to see Jag show up this early in the series,and worth remembering that S03 will be the last series with tent and track test

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Lowry January 22, 2019 at 11:04 pm

Is that date correct? Isn’t the Colombia special, part 2 supposed to air February 1st ?

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Aaron C January 23, 2019 at 3:27 am

No Colombia Part 2 airs on January 26th. The air date is correct.

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