Jeremy Clarkson's final Grand Tour Lancia is for sale without reserve
The Montecarlo Clarkson could not leave in Botswana is leaving his garage
Jeremy Clarkson is selling the three cars he kept when The Grand Tour stopped filming. The Lancia Montecarlo Spider from the final special, the Alfa Romeo GTV6 from the 2019 Scotland episode and the Lincoln Continental Mark V from Lochdown go to Iconic Auctioneers at the NEC Classic Motor Show in Birmingham on 14 November, none of them with a reserve. His explanation is one sentence long: he rarely gets to drive them any more.
One for the Road ended on the salt pans, and the Lancia Montecarlo came home
The Montecarlo Spider is the last car Clarkson drove for The Grand Tour, across Zimbabwe and into Botswana for One for the Road, and the one he then bought himself. It is a second-series car, one of 817 Spiders Lancia built in 1980 and 1981 before the model ended, registered in 1982 and painted Lotus Blue. The expedition changes are all still on it: Delta Integrale wheels, headlights and grille, Ferrari 308 tail lights, four exhaust pipes, cloth seats, and a button-free Alcantara wheel fitted because he did not trust 1980s Italian electrics in 40-degree heat. Max500 in Surrey has since refettled it, the doors the trio removed for the Makgadikgadi crossing are back on, and the odometer reads 62,740 miles. Clarkson wrote in The Sunday Times that owning the mid-engined Lancia felt more essential than his next breath.
The Alfa Romeo GTV6 is a car Clarkson has already regretted selling once
The 1983 GTV6 is the contradiction in the sale. Clarkson owned a GTV6 years ago, sold it, and has called it the car he most regretted letting go. For Well Aged Scotch, broadcast on 22 February 2019, he paid £10,000 for this Alfa Rosso example with 20,000 miles from its 83-year-old first owner, then drove the North Coast 500 in it beside James May's Lancia Gamma Coupé and Richard Hammond's Fiat X1/9. On camera he praised its 2.5-litre Busso V6, rear transaxle and twin-plate clutch; the same episode gave it a propshaft failure and an awkward gear change. It now shows 28,315 miles, has been maintained in-house and carries an MOT to 14 June 2027. On mileage and condition it is the best car of the three.
A 5.8-metre Lincoln Continental Mark V with nitrous, a Cartier clock and bagpipes
The 1978 Lincoln is the car Clarkson chose for Lochdown in July 2021, when Covid kept the trio in Britain asking why 1970s American land yachts never sold in Europe. It is 5.8 metres long, left-hand drive and Wedgwood Blue, and its 6.6-litre V8 makes 170 hp, which Clarkson judged insufficient and answered with a nitrous kit that never worked for want of the supporting modifications. The kit is still fitted, as are the Cartier dashboard clock he admired on camera and the set of bagpipes in the boot. It shows 68,285 miles and has an MOT to 13 August 2027. Near the end of Lochdown he admitted he wanted the car in his life, and remarked on how few of the cars from the programmes any of the three presenters had actually kept. That remark is what this sale undoes.
No reserve and a 15% premium at the NEC in Birmingham on 14 November
All three are lots in The Iconic Sale at the NEC Classic Motor Show, on Saturday 14 November, and none carries a reserve, so the highest bid takes the car. Buyers add Iconic's 12.5% premium plus VAT, 15% all in. Clarkson's own reason is that he "rarely gets a chance these days to drive or enjoy these very special and quite famous cars", so it is "probably for the best" if they go to someone who can. Iconic says a fuller reason "will become clear in the forthcoming season of Clarkson's Farm" and leaves the story to him. The fifth series, released in June, is where Clarkson disclosed his cancer diagnosis; a sixth has no date yet.
The Grand Tour restarted on 4 September without him, and the presenter premium is real
The Grand Tour returned on 4 September with Francis Bourgeois and the Throttle House pair, so these are memorabilia from a closed era, not props from a running one, and there are data points on what that is worth. The Alfa Romeo 75 Clarkson bought for £450 for a 2008 Top Gear challenge was advertised in July 2025 at £15,000 with no MOT, on nothing but who had driven it. Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello was estimated above the model's own auction record this month for the same reason. None of Clarkson's three would draw a collector on its own merits, and only the GTV6 makes a case.
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Provenance usually means who owned a car. With these three it means who was filmed being let down by it: the Alfa lost its propshaft on the North Coast 500, the Lincoln's nitrous never fired, the Lancia crossed Botswana with no doors. Clarkson kept them anyway, after saying on Lochdown how rarely any presenter kept a show car and after writing that the Montecarlo felt more essential than his next breath. Selling all three at once with no reserve is Clarkson declining to put a price on that sentence, and letting a room in Birmingham do it instead.
On 14 November the Montecarlo sells for more than the Alfa and the Lincoln combined, and the GTV6 finishes second although it is the only good car of the three by any measure other than television. Clarkson's Farm series five arrived in June; on that rhythm the hammer falls months before the series that is supposed to explain it, so every bidder prices these cars without knowing why they are for sale. If the Lancia does not clear the other two together, the presenter premium is smaller than a £15,000 Alfa 75 suggested.
