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The Grand Tour Will Have The Most Expensive Opening Scene In The History of TV

The Grand Tour, Amazon Prime’s car show that stars the former team of presenters from Top Gear, will reportedly have the most expensive scene ever filmed for television.
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The news comes from the Brits at The Sun, who have inside information regarding the opening shot of the first episode of The Grand Tour. It reportedly cost $3.2 million just to film that scene, which is claimed to involve six jet planes, 150 cars, 2,000 petrolheads, and many acrobats and stilt-walkers.

From the previous paragraph, it is clear that the Clarkson, Hammond, and May trio have indeed created a “Grand Tour,” as something of this magnitude was not seen before on the previous show they used to present.

If it has, we do not recall the moment, but this should be memorable. We believe Amazon executives feel the same way, but the budget has been signed off, so it might be too late to argue with the crew.

The first episode of The Grand Tour will air on Amazon Prime on November 18th, 2016. It will be followed by the rest of the season, which will be published in a weekly dose.

To view The Grand Tour, a person requires an Amazon Prime subscription, so only “Smart TVs” will be able to show you this show, along with non-smart TVs that have an HDMI “dongle” that enables them to access the internet and stream video.

Apparently, the trio will appear in red, white, and blue Ford Mustang cars, that have been “heavily modified.” The trio of vehicles will be joined by various supercars of all sorts, which are reportedly worth $25.5 million.

Curiously, the trailer for Amazon Prime’s show featured three Volkswagen Beetle-based dune buggies, which were supposedly driven by the three presenters through the desert.

Evidently, the trailer could have featured multiple shots from different film days, as most of them do. We remember it also had an Alfa Romeo 4C driving towards a castle that was placed in the desert, so we simply have to wait and see.
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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