Clarkson & Hammond Try To Get May Arrested By The French Police | The Grand Tour

Being well aquainted with the French police and their strictness when it comes to speeding, Hammond and Clarkson decide to help May broaden his cultural horizons by trying to land him in a French jail.
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[@matthewalden]

I believe when the french police sees James speeding, they thought it was a glitch or halucination.

[@mohamedaa158]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@mohamedaa158]

Made my day mate

[@MikeDCWeld]

They simply adjusted the calibration on their radars and went about their day! Later, ther supervisors called them into their office to ask why they'd written so many tickets for driving too slowly.

[@RFGfotografie]

Indeed xD

[@kitten8962]

Lol

[@straightbusta2609]

"I could've been raped or murdered!" "That gives me an idea" Classic Clarkson lol

[@jspaceemperor420]

And that sound, I don't know where it's from but it changes the whole clip, I scream laugh every single time 0:46

[@zwabbah4841]

LOL

[@zwabbah4841]

@@jspaceemperor420 same lol

[@trevorphilips2947]

Not even a single soul is desperate enough to rap Jeremy Clarkson.

[@westsenkovec]

Rare footage of Richard Hammond keeping the car on the road.

[@Anal0Avenger]

In the next season he has several episodes time to crash many cars.

[@bukanmatin5973]

@@Anal0Avenger Nice

[@julianagil2427]

Hahaha savage!

[@tomcooney2842]

2,000th like

[@roy04]

Rare footage of Captain Slow being the first to arrive

[@simonhorak]

Captain not so slow

[@thorbjrnmadsen4984]

simon h Captain Slow belongs to BCC, which is stupid

[@pffu100]

Thorbjørn Madsen BBC*

[@MTLoveridge]

Captain quick!

[@AbrahamArthemius]

Mr. Slowly

[@kennyboinx5805]

Captain car super slow

[@Wolf-jt7wo]

“Why are we going so slowly?” asks Captain Slowly 😆

[@vitamins6611]

No its Mr Slowly, and thats in Italy

[@szn00]

@@vitamins6611 It would have been funnier if it was _Monsieur Slowly_

[@carswithluke]

The French motorway police stopped me once and asked how much money I have on me and then tried to find a way to fine for me that exact amount, luckily I didn’t end up in prison though with “Pierre Le Burgluur” 😂

[@laurencethecamper5405]

Cars with Luke were u driving a jaaaaag?

[@Sheiza]

He obviosuly wasnt

[@nestam6844]

SWA1K3R the cop probably was

[@Sheiza]

Nesta M most likely

[@bwillis1891]

French motorway police are literally thieves! same happened to me.

[@noobflyboyx3301]

Dang. I was hoping for, "Aw, kriky, it's the French rozzers!"

[@straightbusta2609]

I mean yeah, but tbh, Albanian Rozzers is what goes perfectly... The way he says it is like running away from the police after committing war crimes in Albania

[@diogenes1351]

@@straightbusta2609 tonoit on bottom gear

[@Ederox26]

It,s difficult to have problems with French Police when it´s a Spanish road with spanish cars. The show it´s fantastic.

[@RaphaelAltieri]

That's exactly what I noticed !! xD The 1:39 timestamp shows hey are driving on the AP-2, km 151 probably in the Aragonese region... Quite far from France !

[@missbritlolita6348]

I’m relieved that I’m not the only one that realised 😂

[@destineos8038]

Exactly, when I saw the arrows on the road I was thinking : they are afraid of French cops but they aren’t in France 🤔

[@yes-xt5ph]

says a lot about society

[@keeperofeurobeat8421]

Anyone remember on that other car show where Jezza and Hamster got pulled over by the Italians for working?

[@asadkhan-qm1my]

The reason was they were working on a Sunday without a permit.

[@MiraSubieGirl]

In Italy you cannot work on Sunday unless its casual hours and must be a "needed essential" like a service station/gas pump for you americans.

[@homeofthemad3044]

It was actually Jezza and James

[@jessesteinbar]

What episode was that?

[@homeofthemad3044]

@@jessesteinbar Series 18 Episode 1 Top Gear

[@JunkyDIYguy]

Imagine Mr HAMMOND is driving that fast,,, but let's not go there

[@hybridAbsol]

Junky DIY guy the XKSS is fast but stopping when it goes wrong , NOPE NOPE NOPE

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

I believe this road turns slightly.

[@zoltancsikos5604]

Junky DIY guy Why bring it up then?

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

Junky DIY guy let's be lucky there's no corners...

[@Kasmuller]

Yea he just almost died Two times

[@FrontSideBus]

I love Hammond's laugh when he clocks onto what Jeremy is doing xD

[@quillmaurer6563]

0:56 I love the moment Hammond realizes what Clarkson is scheming.

[@samueljett7807]

That laugh lol

[@irissupercoolsy]

his laugh is so evil & adorable

[@usualblokeluke]

0:45 that split second moment when he stares into the camera as the music cues, you can see the deviousness as he comes up with his idea lol

[@AG-vo2ke]

“By nightfall he’ll be in a cell with Pierre le burglar” Jeremy Clarkson 2018

[@JafferManiar]

If you are in Europe and North America, always ask the police to show you their fines chart, which has the amounts listed for most offences. Then tell him to give you a ticket, which you will pay at the bank. They have no business asking you about money, let alone, handling cash.

[@TheDriftinAEandTheGT]

VTEC KICKED IN YO!

[@rev_limit8778]

The Driftin AE86 and The GT86 OI dummy the Civic doesn’t use VTEC anymore 😂

[@lewiswyatt4314]

@@rev_limit8778 are U mad

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

More like suicide kicked in.....

[@rabbits_foot]

@@rev_limit8778 the K20C1 in the new Civic Type R still has vtec, but not any of the L series motors in the base model / si models

[@bendover-eo9iu]

@@rev_limit8778 🙈🙈 Muppet

[@julianjot4151]

1:26 This is what it feels like driving on the middle lane on the autobahn

[@Mat-py4ys]

That Civic Type R in red is a spectacular sight zooming by.

[@Tracert-mc1hu]

It's like the mosquito you can't quite catch.

[@Eli-tk5vd]

I really love the sound that plays just before jeremy says, "Gives me an idea..." 😂😂😂

[@loldood505]

Hair Force One

[@bukanmatin5973]

The top gear plane

[@bigbalticbox]

There's actually a hairdressers not too far from where I live called that...

[@rayanfady4392]

"I could have been raped !" 😂😂

[@michaelgill7484]

Hardly something to joke about imo

[@rayanfady4392]

michael gill Its a wild exaggeration , thats all i meant...

[@Bru946]

michael gill oml get out of here

[@goodfortune4317]

i dont think hes joking.. he coulda been raped...

[@keeperofeurobeat8421]

"or murdered!"

[@AutoAgitator]

The relations could be tense because of the new Peugeot challenge they did a while back.

[@RWoody1995]

come on even the french must dislike the kind of peugeots they were taking the piss out of :P renault was definitely king over peugeot between the mid 2000's and mid 2010's.

[@zomkino]

@@RWoody1995 i'm french, my buddy had a peugeots, when showed him the clip of the peugeot thing they did, he was like "ah the bastards but the window problem thats true" but he said it jokingly ^^

[@automation7295]

@@RWoody1995 If people don't like Peugeot, why do people still buy them, even back then?

[@fto9398]

@@automation7295 you fucking again

[@admiralrng6506]

@@automation7295 because they're cheap mode of transport

[@calvarycustoms6681]

"Sew, yew ah ze eenfamous 'Capitain Slewww'??" 👮🏻🚔

[@kuyt20]

Read that in the voice of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. LOL

[@calvarycustoms6681]

Dave Mitch As intended. 😉

[@suman_b]

On point!

[@elenacaramidaru7607]

I read it in le baguette. Lips puckered and all.

[@guillaumeromain6694]

@@elenacaramidaru7607 it's ok. We do tend to read everything the Brits say with a stiff upper lip

[@ahnilatedahnilated7703]

I laughed so hard when I watched the show and Jeremy says "That gives me an idea, James"... :)

[@fourbypete]

LMAO. I love it when Jeremy's plans backfire.

[@chris_sndw]

La police: C'est captain slow, something must be wrong with our speed measuring device. He can't be so fast!

[@Max-hv6hw]

These three men are the most legendary car guys to ever live *_ever_*

[@him050]

If you’re going to use the same shot of Hammond laughing twice, it’s probably best to space them out a bit 😂

[@mrsissou1]

My question is, why do they say it’s the french motorway when it’s the spanish one? Oh wait I know! James May would have ended up in jail in a real french motorway

[@kjosh3151]

0:56 and 1:50 one exact same laughter edited into two context.... C'mon grand tour, I'm not getting the humanly and genuine funny laughter from your shows that I got when watching top gear season 1~22... Even their funny conversations seem fake because of the scripts and scene editing

[@bukanmatin5973]

Well, this is bad.

[@OneSandMan]

K JOSH i don’t understand what the issue is almost all shows do this

[@TREDxMUSIC]

0:56 was meant to sound sarcastic for the sake of the audience. 1:50 was a bit of a miss but they had those back of tg

[@OneSandMan]

@@TREDxMUSIC well no shit sherlock his comment stated that read it again dumbass

[@kuniosaiki]

XzRaiderzX That was in good taste and genuinely believable.

[@charelpeffer52]

James may is my spirit animal

[@generalgrievous5615]

"we couldve been raped, or murdered! Which gives me an idea. James!" -Jeremy Clarkson

[@saullevy5074]

0:56 Hammond's laugh 😂😂😂

[@larrylentini5688]

Giving police the power to collect fines on the spot is just begging them to turn into highway robbers.

[@ImTcheck]

John Doe still ready to beat ur silly rosbif ass

[@srfrg9707]

Lawrence Lentini The french police does not have the right to collect fines. By the way they dont wear red throusers and imperial guard helmets either. Just saying.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

It's a callback to one of the Top Gear DVD Specials where it ended with Hammond and Clarkson suddenly pulled over in France while on the way to Pau and left hitchhiking home.

[@mandataruu8685]

if you are not french, they will get money on the spot for fine..because is only way to colect it :-)))) if you not pay they will get your driving licence with them and send you a official fine with licence in it, and you will get back only by personal signature at your local center

[@Tracert-mc1hu]

@@mandataruu8685 The definition of extortion, taking your driver's license to get their money.

[@Fenriir_]

Plot twist: they're on a Spanish motorway.

[@iantownsend500]

This was a fantastic episode mind the whole series was brilliant

[@PublicBus09]

James: WHY ARE WE GOING SO SLOWLY? Me: Wait, that's illegal

[@mangotail6808]

Jeremy was once told by the police to go faster.

[@Alcatraz760]

I loved the Perfect Road Trip, and I didn't realise since they were at Pau it made sense it would be this bit of road where they got caught.

[@19Edurne]

Well, the countryside in this vid sure doesn't look like the Pyrenees... Since Pau is in the middle of it, I highly doubt the accuracy of your comment. Looks more like Spain to me. The French police is rarely found down there...unless they go there on holidays.

[@moorishstar]

1:40 AP-2 KM 151, so Spain near the town of "Les Borges Blanques" in Catalunya. It´s a 100 Km, or so, south of the Pyrenees.

[@oversteer_9339]

Ive been watching this multiple times and i should've known that they would always have funny plate numbers on their cars lol

[@mylesspear]

This was the best part of the episode!

[@jaymenelaou9778]

"Goodbye heritage Britain"

[@anomynous4420]

Well, that Aston Martin isn't even road legal and the Jaguar looks like a squashed E Type even though it was made before the E Type

[@jaymenelaou9778]

@@anomynous4420 ?

[@Renakaevo]

This fragment is not film in france, is spain! Its the ap2 motorway near Lleida (you can see the signs on the road).

[@LightBusterX]

AP-2 (E-90) KM 151 says that signal... ...which Google Maps refused to point, for some reason...

[@starchaser5188]

Hahaha Jeremy Clarkson reaction at the end was Gold 😅👌

[@bigbaba1111]

LOL. Jeremy is a savage. "Gives me an idea".😂

[@bobbyisland]

Clarkson: "Go on! Go on! Keep your foot in it! James: *shifts to 6th gear*

[@njabulogodfrey2039]

"Blooded samurai"

[@probablynotyourdad4616]

I love Hammonds reaction

[@raindropraindrop]

Constabulary with the same laughter 0:56 upon seeing a speeding car approaching from afar.

[@TheDutchSlayerNL]

That's in Spain look at the signs lmao

[@Markzilla214]

Clarkson your an absolute genius

[@legendaryepic24-7]

That episode looked so awesome

[@winks2756]

so funny how jeremy was talking about the top gear perfect road trip. it happen twice with hammond ahaha

[@srinathvenkataraman7373]

Jeremy was with top gear last time they were around in the Aston and it was the perfect road trip 😂

[@Mynx-]

"The Perfect Road Trip." Complete with French motorway policemen

[@markallen3293]

The Boys always put a smile upon my face... I'd like to hang out with them and have a pint.

[@julesjules351]

The Aston Martin incident Jeremy mentioned was from the end scene of Top Gear the Perfect Road Trip, which didn't involve James May, thus he bought Jeremy's suggestion of 'seeing how fast the Civil Type R can go

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

The irony of Captain Slow asking why they are going so slowly😎

[@Jeremy_Hill_2020]

was waiting for "oh crikey its the rozzers!"

[@xiong994]

Lol😂 I was waiting for it to backfire on Jeremy !

[@YasserAlthahabe]

I really miss this show Hope season 3 comes soon

[@siam9914]

Thia season was amazing

[@JingleBombzz]

It's not the end of the season yet, so it is amazing... not was.

[@UltraHylia]

“Annoingly, when we arrived, we found he had got away with his recklessness” TV’s biggest disappointment of 2018

[@iliashahbazi9029]

“Annoyingly though” lol

[@henryandoliverfan3115]

God I love these guys and their antics

[@olbradley]

I like how the one time Hammond and Clarkson want a policeman to show up they don't. Because it's Top Gear.

[@kanashimi4356]

Actually this is the Grand Tour.

[@olbradley]

@@kanashimi4356 They are basically the same thing.

[@kanashimi4356]

@@olbradley True

[@borris3768]

@@olbradley not really

[@TopStrikerMaverick]

“...the constabulary, who helped themselves to all of our money...” lmao

[@sandra.4097]

Haha this was great!! 😂👍

[@foreiigngoat6140]

I love them guys man 😍

[@cahesar]

It is fun because it a Spanish motorway AP2 not a French one. You can reckon it by the signs on the edges

[@iantownsend500]

I love all 3 cars

[@abhimanyu8461]

That e- type is a piece of art.😍😍😍

[@AtheistOrphan]

There is no e-type in the video! There is a Jaguar XKSS D-Type though

[@pedropereira6888]

damn just like old top gear...loved it

[@gowthamoleti1359]

It was from "The Perfect Road trip" DVD.

[@DozIT]

Gowtham Oleti no... it was from the latest episode of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video

[@gowthamoleti1359]

Ahem! can anyone explain him??

[@DozIT]

Gowtham Oleti I’ll be honest here I’m not too sure what you’re going on about, none the less it’s a great show! If you have amazon you should check it out (primevideo dot com)

[@gowthamoleti1359]

The incident which Jeremy shares is from The Perfect Road trip DVD. And you are saying me to watch this show??? I am a die hard fan of them and I had subscribed for Prime video since the beginning of season 1....

[@DozIT]

Ahhhh, okay was it a Top Gear special? I'll have to look it up later and watch it! And haha good, just making sure! Thankfully I already had Amazon Prime (for shipping reasons) when the show came out! Season 1 was meh, but the last three episodes have been great, and I am sure they will keep getting better :)

[@casehamatojones1369]

First; I *love* you guys by the way - *best* trio *ever* ! Keep doing what you’re doing because it is *amazing* !

[@JingleBombzz]

*stop* doing *this* please *!*

[@Matt09pearce]

*good* use of the *bold feature* used in the *youtube* *comment* section.

[@casehamatojones1369]

Jingle YaBombz *ok* I’ll *try* not *to* !

[@casehamatojones1369]

Matthew Pearce thanks, ahah ! I just always use it to exaggerate certain words .

[@ChaseEverything]

It's not amazing, It's Amazon 😂😂😂

[@danielthomas7629]

lol, they used the same shot of Hammond laughing twice.

[@noahlacy6989]

I love this channel please stay as the characters on this channel

[@w-james9277]

This episode was weird. James May loves classic cars and owns allot of them. I don't understand they chose him to be the modern one.

[@ulbejohannes]

that's exactly why they chose him.

[@fishwater]

He did say many times during the Reassembler programme though that he does not miss the olden days..."Old technology is useless but old design is still interesting."

[@Mereo110]

It's the real James May we're seeing here.

[@Ghost0fDeath1]

he like to drive car confortable and old cars weren't confortable

[@deathberry33]

Mr. May has proclaimed time and again that he is modern and contemporary.

[@danlyle531]

Was this where Clarkson and Hammond went on TG: The Perfect Road Trip?

[@funkyneon3148]

That is what this clip is referencing yes

[@Jack-sq8fb]

One of the best segments.... PAUSE in the world 🌎

[@poowaffle]

One of the best part on the show

[@FabioMV95]

Love that honda

[@frizyboy]

The mini passing on the right is quiet nice

[@Matt09pearce]

Louis Geuens funny you should say that because i redecorated my wallpaper in sick as soon as it popped into frame.

[@alfonta]

greatest tv show!

[@drphil9756]

I love these guys

[@otaimaksimaify]

That Civic is fine AF 👌👌

[@christianbuczko1481]

You know NOTHING about cars, id bet your about 10years old, you have no concept of what a masterpiece of engineering an Aston like that is. You could buy a dozen hondas to go ricing in for the cost of one Aston.

[@otaimaksimaify]

Christian Buczko bruhh, I don't even said a damn thing about that Aston. Why do people easily triggered over stupid comment on KZbin, scientist still baffled 😂

[@christianbuczko1481]

In this case, what you did was like walking into a room of beautiful woman, and ignoring them all for the fat wrinkly hiding in the corner...

[@FabioMV95]

Christian Buczko fk8 is aweasome

[@otaimaksimaify]

Christian Buczko whatever you said grandpa

[@joaobaptista8377]

"At The Speed His Now Traveling By NightFall He Will Be in A Cell with Pierre Le Burgluur"

[@sydssolanumsamsys]

yes, i watched the video too

[@shmookins]

Of course he's fine. It's James May. Things always workout for him because he's mellow like that.

[@jerryldavis1823]

Xkss is just amazing.

[@danielrothschild4912]

They should do an American police car challenge; Crown Vic vs Interceptor vs Humvee

[@vespabaviera6764]

What the hell? This is filmed in Spain on a Spanish motorway!

[@vincenzocicero5027]

Vespa Baviera How can you tell?

[@vespabaviera6764]

@@vincenzocicero5027 the road markings and the license plates

[@thomhates6919]

Spain is part of France

[@pulsarre8013]

@@thomhates6919 ahahahhaha

[@faliven]

@@thomhates6919 what ?

[@pffu100]

Great episode

[@alexcrawford5350]

I think they used the same exact clip of Richard laughing twice.

[@HECKproductions]

i shall hence forth call the forces which enforce the law nothing else but "constabulary"

[@paul.ciepiela]

It's not filmed in France tho, road signs in France are different, this is Spain

[@alwantamalus3709]

Then you think that Jeremy is lying in the show, he pretends he's in France but he's elsewhere

[@red-onecpasmoijetaitentrai3400]

Yes jeremy is lying It's in spain

[@Zak-ob5ze]

Proof

[@mikamo]

Zack E 1:40 sign says AP-2. That’s the Autopista 2, which is in the north of Spain.

[@ethanspaziani1070]

Excellent

[@javiert4611]

Good stuff

[@nicolasmolli]

Jeremy et Richard se sont déjà fait arrêtés par la gendarmerie. C'était dans le Road Trip Idéal en 2013. Mais, James a pu y échappé, car la gendarmerie n'était pas encore en place.

[@toddkaiser7594]

That's why they filmed in Spain instead of France. Speed limits are probably more lax in Spain than France . The genius of Jeremy Clarkson

[@Gremlinke96]

This is bait of EXCELLENT QUALITY

[@SpiritJellyfish1]

Just how fast was he going😅