After eight years together on Amazon Prime's “The Grand Tour,” Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May are about to hit the road for one final time.

And for many fans, the time spent watching the trio goes back to the early 2000s, when they formerly hosted “Top Gear.” In total, Clarkson, Hammond, and May have hosted car shows together for a period spanning 22 years.

The final episode of the The Grand Tour starring the trio will be streamed on Sept. 13. It will be a one-off special, and from the looks of a teaser trailer released on Thursday, there will be a variety of locations.

Amazon hasn't said whether the show will continue with new hosts, like Top Gear has. However, a social media post by Clarkson last year indicated that the show will indeed end after 2024. He said at the time, “no more Grand Tour after [2024].”

The Grand Tour first appeared on Amazon Prime in 2016 but went on hiatus after 2021 due to difficulties in filming new episodes caused by pandemic-related travel restrictions, resulting in only five seasons being filmed over the eight years, with the final two seasons each containing only four episodes. Amazon Prime originally snagged Clarkson for the show, together with Hammond and May, after Clarkson was fired from the BBC due to his 2015 attack on a fellow Top Gear staff member.

The Grand Tour proved to be a hit on Amazon Prime, which led to all three hosts getting standalone shows on the streaming service. They include “Clarkson's Farm” which provides snippets of Clarkson's life on his farm in the Cotswolds. Hammond's show is called “The Great Escapists,” and features both him and Tory Belleci as as fictionalized versions of themselves, and May has the show “James May: Our Man in…,” a travel show where May focuses on adventures across a single country per season.

More than two decades ago a trio of car dorks appeared on “Top Gear” together for the first time, and on September 13th they’ll end that run with one last back-to-basics Amazon Prime travel-across-a-desert special film. The Clarkson/Hammond/May throuple has been through the wringer and come back out again, making the journey from middle-aged entertainers to elderly curmudgeons along the way, and we’ve been there to see the whole thing unfold. They’ve been a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good.

This whole experiment probably should have ended when Clarkson physically and verbally assaulted a BBC co-worker in 2016, but here we are. The final nail will finally be driven into the long-overdue coffin of this show, which the presenters have clearly not enjoyed doing for at least five years, next month. Belligerent millionaire potato man Jeremy Clarkson is 64 years old, for goodness sake, just let him rest. Maybe his anger will subside in retirement.

Top Gear was extremely important to me as a young car enthusiast, and I regularly downloaded torrents from Final Gear to my college computer. This trio instilled an enthusiasm for cars and travel that inspired millions, but the immaturity and vigor of their early days has been replaced with the deep seated ire. There’s no more impressive hatred in a heart than that reserved for colleagues of 22 years. It has been easy to see that they’ve been mentally done with this show for years, but the Amazon money was too good to walk away from.

At any rate, here is the trailer for the final episode. I’m sure that there will be enough nostalgia to push this one up to heights of their earlier travelogue installments on The Beeb. It looks like it could be a return to form, and I truly hope it is. To end the tenure of this trio on a high point would be as much as we could wish for. I’m certainly wishing for it.

The Grand Tour is coming to an end and fans are sobbing as first glimpses of Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s last scenes together have been teased.

The trio, who first got together in 2003 for Top Gear, announced last November that their Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour was coming to an end.

The first finale special, which was filmed in Mauritania, aired earlier this year but now a first look at their Zimbabwe trip has been released.

The trailer begins with a sombre rendition of Audrey Hepburn’s Moon River before the trio all look downcast as their journey together comes to an end.

The clip adds: “After 22 years, the end has finally come.”

Throughout the montage, 64-year-old Clarkson looks fed up at a map while Hammond, 54, is stunned at something his co-star says and 61-year-old May is seen attempting to fix a car.

In another scene, Clarkson says: “So for the last time, here we go,” as the three friends begin racing.

The release says: “In their last adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island.”

The programme has run since 2016 but Clarkson has recently admitted that he’s too ‘unfit and fat and old’ for filming parts of the programme.

He told The Times: “I’ve driven cars higher than anyone else and further north than anyone else.

“We’ve done everything you can do with a car. When we had meetings about what to do next, people just threw their arms in the air.”

May has also said he thinks it’s the right time for a brand new motoring show to take the place of Top Gear and The Grand Tour because the presenters are too old.

However, he didn’t rule out the possibility of the trio reuniting on another project but added: You do have to bear in mind that we’re all getting on a bit.”

Last year, BBC made the decision to ‘rest’ Top Gear following Freddie Flintoff’s crash in 2022.

The Grand Tour: One for the Road launches on 13 September on Prime Video.