---
title: "Drive Wire: The Grand Tour‘s Opening Scene Could Be the Priciest in TV History"
description: "A $3 million extravaganza to launch the next stage of Clarkson & Co.'s careers."
date: "2016-10-05"
modified: "2016-10-05"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/5445/drive-wire-the-grand-tours-opening-scene-could-be-the-priciest-in-tv-history"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "The Grand Tour"
---

# Drive Wire: The Grand Tour‘s Opening Scene Could Be the Priciest in TV History

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Hey there. Will Sabel Courtney here for Drive Wire on The Drive.

The opening scene of *The Grand Tour*, the new Amazon Prime TV show from the former cast of *Top Gear*,[could be the most expensiving opening of any TV show ever](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5427/the-grand-tours-3-million-opening-scene-could-be-the-priciest-tv-kickoff-ever>), according to a report from the British tabloid *The Sun*.

The opening scene, shot in the California desert last month, reportedly cost more than $3 million dollars to make.

Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond reportedly drove red, white, and blue Ford Mustangs, while a fleet of supercars and bizarre custom rides worth more han twenty million dollars pursued them.

[An anonymous source described the scene to](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/5329/exclusive-inside-the-grand-tour-taping-in-california>) *[The Drive](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/5329/exclusive-inside-the-grand-tour-taping-in-california>)* as "*Mad Max*-style." Sounds about right to us.

Luckily, we won’t have to wait much longer to see this scene for ourselves. *The Grand Tour*’s first episode debuts on Amazon Prime on November 18.

That’s it for Drive Wire. I’m Will Sabel Courtney; thanks for watching, and please check out TheDrive.com for more on the big stories from the transportation world.

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