The Grand Tour season 3 is on the way, thanks to a successful second series on Amazon Prime.

Related: The Grand Tour will return for series 4 – but with some huge changes

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be driving back onto our screens very soon, but what can we expect from the three amigos when they finally return with more rubber-burning action?

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The Grand Tour season 3 airdate: When does it start?

Amazon has announced that the new series will return to Prime Video on January 18, 2019 - so quite a bit later than previous years.

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'I don’t know what they’re going to do, I just know it isn’t going to work.' #TheGrandTour returns 18 January only on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/15CfKL9e2c — The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) November 27, 2018

Back when the former Top Gear trio left the BBC and launched their new show on Amazon Prime, it ran from November 2016 to early February the following year. The second season started a bit later in December 2017, also with a February end date.

The Grand Tour season 3 trailer: Where can I watch it?

With news of the return date, Amazon also dropped some teasers - including an awful lot of Hammond!

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It's only the trailer and we already have a montage of Hammond accidents. #TheGrandTour pic.twitter.com/GoJEKJCDYd — The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) December 5, 2018

The Grand Tour season 3: The game

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Whilst we're all sitting patiently waiting for series three to finally hit our screens, Amazon announced that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are bringing new-season wheels to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in The Grand Tour Game.

As well as featuring cars from the upcoming show, it will also feature iconic locations, including The Grand Tour's signature Eboladrome test track.

The Grand Tour season 3 locations: What can we expect?

Jezza and the gang have been teasing locations during filming, with Mongolia, Colombia and Hong Kong all looking to be involved in the new series.

They have been given an added freedom they didn't necessarily get when they hosted Top Gear on the Beeb.

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Chatting to Digital Spy, he previously told us: "We didn't used to be able to go, when we were at the BBC, to Iran or Zimbabwe, because the Beeb is banned. Iran didn't even allow Ski Sunday in – that wildly political programme! So we weren't allowed in either. But we are now. So Iran is somewhere I'd really like to go."

The Grand Tour season 3 episodes: How many will there be?

When Clarkson, May and Hammond first signed their deal with Amazon, they agreed to 36 episodes over three years. As the first season contained 13 episodes and the second series had 11, it seems pretty likely that season 3 will feature 12 episodes.

The Grand Tour season 3: How can I watch it?

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When it is finally released – as well as the first and second seasons – you can watch it all online via Amazon Prime.

If you want a full guide as to what the hell Amazon Prime is and how you can watch it on your desktop, smartphone, tablet or TV, head over to our in-depth handy primer here.

The Grand Tour season 3: Will there be any changes?

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have made some crucial changes to the show's format.

One segment of the trio's shows, dating back to their Top Gear days, has been bantering with celebrity guests - from Carol Vorderman to Tim Burton - about their motoring likes and dislikes.

That will change in the new Grand Tour episodes, because the trio have dropped the celebrity interviews entirely.

"It's easier to spend the money and time on films, rather than on the guest. And I think the viewers would agree," Jeremy Clarkson told Digital Spy recently.

The Grand Tour season 3: How expensive will it be?

When they first joined Amazon, the team were given a whopping budget of £160 million. It means on average they have around £4.5m to spend per episode.

This makes it Amazon's biggest investment in original content to date, and easily one of the most expensive UK shows ever made.

The gamble clearly paid off, as the first season of The Grand Tour made a nice profit of £8.39 million before taxes, (nearly $11 million dollars), according to AOL UK.

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While chatting with Matt Baker on The One Show in June, James was quizzed on how much was being spent on the latest series.

"As little as possible," James joked. "No, it's about the same, I would think. It is quite an expensive show to make.

"There's a lot of travel involved. There's a lot of crew involved. There's a lot of tech involved, filming in 4K. But that's boring stuff. It's going to look largely the same, but we've moved it on a bit in a way that I can't really tell you about yet because you're the enemy and it's secret!"

We're guessing the same rules will apply to series 3, so expectations are high.

The Grand Tour season 3: Will there be anything from the boys until the launch?

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There's always DriveTribe – the motoring app launched by Clarkson, Hammond and May. The trio teamed up with Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman and Beamly tech mogul Ernesto Schmitt to launch the service in 2016.

DriveTribe is being presented as a car enthusiast's equivalent to Twitch, where gamers can watch other amateurs and professionals in action.

"Gamers have got Twitch, travellers have got TripAdvisor and fashion fans have got, oh, something or other too," Hammond told The Guardian.

"But people who are into cars have got nowhere. There's no grand-scale online motoring community where people can meet and share video, comments, information and opinion. DriveTribe will change that. And then some!"

The Grand Tour: Remind us of the drama that went down in series 2...

Where to start? Poor Richard Hammond was injured last March in a motorbike accident, and had to be airlifted to hospital just three months later after crashing a Rimac Concept One electric car while taking part in the famous Hemburg time-trial.

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Show boss Wilman said he was lucky to be alive after the incident, and a Grand Tour spokesperson at the time said: "Richard Hammond was involved in a serious crash after completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland in a Rimac Concept One, an electric super car built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour season 2 on Amazon Prime, but very fortunately suffered no serious injury.

"Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames. He was flown by Air Ambulance to hospital in St Gallen to be checked over revealing a fracture to his knee."

Even Jeremy was left shaken by the incident, and took to social media at the time as he described it as the "most frightening" crash he's ever seen.

He tweeted: "It was the biggest crash I've ever seen and the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK."

Fortunately, everyone has since made a full recovery.

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