 After the Linz family were named the official winners of Season 8,  it was revealed that the Bransen and Weaver Families would compete  in the "Final Amazing Challenge". The two families would race back  and forth between the last roadblock of the race (a map of North and  Central America) and a set of 12 clueboxes, each of which contained  an icon, representing something the families did on the race. The  object of the challenge was to race (as a family) out to the  clueboxes, get the icons one at a time, and then place them on the  appropriate place on the map. Whichever team finished this challenge  first would win a brand new GMC Yukon XL, the same vehicle that had  been used on the race. The Bransen family won the challenge and the  vehicle.