Behind The Mountain Pass From The Grand Tour’s New Trailer

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Its safe to say that almost every petrolhead in the world (including the cast and production of the new Top Gear) is waiting eagerly to see The Grand Tour, Jeremy, James and Richard’s new series that is now confirmed to launch on November 18 on Amazon. Yesterday, the latest trailer of The Grand Tour was dropped, showing the British blokes back into action in their usual fashion – sideways, crashing, jumping, travelling, all in the same humour and sarcasm that we have all gotten used to. And we honestly can’t wait to see the new series, specially after the mixed (mostly not-so-good) reviews from the new Top Gear.

In the trailer that dropped yesterday, The Grand Tour is introduced with a beautiful road that snakes over breathtaking landscapes before cutting to the next scene with supercars parked in a dark garage. For those of you wondering about this intense looking mountain road, we have done the background check for you.

The road that The Grand Tour opens to is in most probability the Tizi n’Tichka pass, a 200km long mountain pass in Morocco that links the south-east of Marrakesh to the city of Ouarzazate. Jalopnik pointed out that the road in the first shot from the new trailer is mostly in Morocco. This intense strip of tarmac laid atop of the High Atlas mountains at an altitude of 2,260mtrs (7,414ft) may very well be the very road that the ex-Top Gear men are going to be straddling upon in their new Amazon series.

This high mountain pass has been travelled before. In fact in 2012, the team at EVO UK has already driven on this beautiful mountain pass in a McLaren MP-4 12C and come back with some stunning photos and experiences.

For all those staying in Europe, this mountain pass that is part of the upcoming The Grand Tour series is not so difficult to get to. According to EVO UK, for anyone staying in Europe, the Tizi n’Tichka pass can be summited by car or motorcycle with a week’s holiday. More importantly, according to EVO, this mountain pass is absolutely worth taking out the time. Looking by the scenery and roads, I absolutely agree with them.

We will have to wait for sometime from the gents at The Grand Tour to show us this pass, as it might or might not be a part of the Pilot episode that is launching on November 18. All we know is that its certainly going to be worth the wait. In the meantime, here a video make by GM and Brembo Brakes attempting to conquer the Tizi n’Tichka road in the Atlas Mountains with a Cadillac ATS.