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Thank you. 7 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,720 Hello, and welcome to what is a Grand Tour mini-special. 8 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,560 It's all based around here 9 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,160 in this rather troubled part of the world. 10 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,680 You've got Syria and Iraq and Iran, sort of at the bottom. 11 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,000 And then at the top you've got Russia. 12 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:25,280 But in-between you have this sliver of peace and prosperity. 13 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,480 And that got us thinking. 14 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,680 You see, if you live on the shores of the Black Sea 15 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,960 and you're partial to a bit of fish, you're fine. 16 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,760 But... What if you like bream? 17 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,040 -(LAUGHTER) -You see, bream likes fresh water. 18 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,720 And the Black Sea is salty. 19 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,200 The nearest fresh water is all the way over here in the Caspian. 20 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,080 And that is a thousand kilometres away. 21 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:54,120 Yeah, so we were wondering, if you have to drive all that way for your supper, 22 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,400 what would be the best car? 23 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,640 Obviously, you'd need some sort of GT, but which one? 24 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,960 The new Aston Martin DBS? The new Bentley Continental GT? 25 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,600 Or the newerer BMW 8 Series? 26 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,280 Now this is exactly the sort of question this show was designed to answer. 27 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:13,600 (LAUGHTER) 28 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,680 So, this week, we took The Grand Tour to Batumi, 29 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,280 in the former Soviet State of Georgia. 30 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,760 (GULLS CRY) 31 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,600 JEREMY: The meeting point was on the shores of the Black Sea, 32 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,120 and naturally enough James May was the last to arrive. 33 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,800 In the new BMW 8 Series. 34 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,520 God, it doesn't look anything like as good in the flesh as it did in the pictures. 35 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,360 RICHARD: It is disappointing in the metal. I'm afraid that's the case. 36 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,160 -And brown! -What? 37 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,000 -Brown! -It's sunburst orange. 38 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,040 -Mate, that's a brown car. -Sunburst orange. 39 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,560 JEREMY: It's brown! JAMES: Orange! 40 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,600 -It looks very like a Toyota. -It doesn't. 41 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:12,640 Is it on delivery wheels - are they specially for delivering it? 42 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,280 -What are you talking about? -Those little wheels they can move it around on. 43 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,320 That's what I mean. They're not big enough, are they? 44 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,520 -Can you have a 22-inch wheel? -No. 45 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,720 -Why not? -Why would you want a 22-inch wheel? 46 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,040 -It would spoil the ride. -It would fill the arches. 47 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:25,760 RICHARD: Yeah. -Ooh, ooh, ooh! 48 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,040 And I suspect... criminal offence. 49 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,600 -What? -Anyone who puts an M badge 50 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:34,560 on a BMW that isn't an M BMW has to go to prison. 51 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,480 So this is one of those M cars that isn't an M car. 52 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,920 -They've done that before. -No, it's not the M8. 53 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,800 -Why does it say M8 on it? -Because it's the M Sport, in effect. 54 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,240 -So M Sport just means not an M, doesn't it? -Yeah. 55 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,880 But it's in-between the M and the normal cars. 56 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,560 That's why you have M Sport 5 Series, for example. 57 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,880 This is like Elton John's Greatest Hits 58 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,360 without Your Song or Tiny Dancer on it. 59 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,160 James, I don't want to be childish about this now... 60 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,520 -Do you not? But you're going to. -I hate your gear lever. 61 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,320 -I love it. -Look at it! 62 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,720 I think that's fantastic. 63 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,080 JEREMY: And the rest... 64 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,200 It's a horrible gear lever in a boring interior. 65 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,640 JAMES: That's contemporary and tasteful. 66 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:10,960 Let's look at yours. What have you got? 67 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,200 You've got the new Bentley 68 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,360 that's the same as the old Bentley. 69 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,600 Apart from being a completely new car. 70 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,960 -Yeah, but it looks the same. -It doesn't look the same. 71 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,800 It's complete... different front end. Different size. 72 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:22,440 -No, it looks like an Aventador. -Different back. 73 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,880 -No. -It's a completely new car. 74 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,440 -This monochrome Union Jack applied by Germans? RICHARD: Yes? 75 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,920 RICHARD: There is some German involved. 76 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,880 -Chassis? German. -Yeah. 77 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,160 -Engine? German? -Yeah. 78 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,320 Oh, no, the Germans have done all the tech and engineering. 79 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,080 That'll-- No, wait, it will be brilliant. 80 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,120 -(LAUGHTER) RICHARD: What? 81 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,480 It's a bit... I use the word advisedly - it's a bit camp. 82 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,360 JEREMY: It's not camp! -It is. 83 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,920 -What's camp about that? -It's all pleated and leathery and... Urgh! 84 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,640 JEREMY: It does give good occasion, that. 85 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,240 RICHARD: That is a special event. 86 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,600 JAMES: Does Liberace pop up out of the centre console 87 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,600 and play the piano for you? 88 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,440 You see, the reason I'm not having a go at your interior 89 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,320 is my Aston has been delivered with Birmingham spec. 90 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,760 JAMES: That's horrible! -Ooh, that's quite vivid, isn't it? 91 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,200 I mean, worryingly for you, I quite like that interior. 92 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:16,920 JEREMY: You like that? Exactly. 93 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,240 So this is...it's a DB11. 94 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,560 Well, no. It's the DBS. 95 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,080 JEREMY: Superleggera. RICHARD: Because it's very light, isn't it? 96 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,920 -Is it? -That's what superleggera means, yeah? 97 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,880 It's 72 kilograms lighter than a DB11. 98 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,440 And no more expensive. 99 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,160 -It's a bit more expensive. -How much more expensive? 100 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,960 -It's £67,000 more... -Yes. 101 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,200 -...than the DB11. -How much is it? 102 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,800 -A lot. -Is it something like a quarter of a million pounds? 103 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:44,320 -No! -What is it, then? 104 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,240 -A little bit less. -230? 105 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,240 -A bit less. -225? 106 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:50,960 -Yes. -Mine's £100,000. 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,800 It's contemporary and it's modern. 108 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,080 It's no good saying, "It looks Japanese" as if that's a slur. 109 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,120 -The Japanese advanced the car massively. -No, no, that just means... 110 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:59,560 (CONVERSATION FADES) 111 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,320 JEREMY: Eventually, we decided to stop arguing 112 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,200 and drive from here on the Black Sea 113 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,440 right through Georgia and Azerbaijan 114 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,360 to the Caspian for a nice piece of grilled bream. 115 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,000 Funny thing is, I've no idea what to expect on this journey. 116 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,840 I mean, I've seen the Grand Prix from Azerbaijan 117 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,880 and I've seen Borat . 118 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,520 Hmm... Which is it? 119 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,960 I don't know what the roads are gonna be like. 120 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,600 I mean, should we be doing this in pick-up trucks? 121 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,240 Or tanks? 122 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:46,200 I mean, this is the former Soviet Union. 123 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,840 It doesn't look it, but it is. 124 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,240 Whatever. The roads at this point were fine. 125 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:57,480 So, we could get to know our cars. 126 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,200 The question I really want to answer on this journey is this: 127 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:09,000 How can the DBS be worth £67,000 more than the DB11 128 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,800 when, from where I'm sitting... 129 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,120 they appear to be exactly the same. 130 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,800 At first, you're forced to say, "Well, it isn't." 131 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,840 This interior simply isn't good enough 132 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,720 in a £225,000 car. 133 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,760 Just not even close. 134 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,920 You look at the Bentley and you go, "That is an interior." 135 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,200 It's chintzy, but it's... 136 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,640 fabulous. 137 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,840 However, as we left the city, 138 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,920 the DBS's true colours started to shine through. 139 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,800 This is by far the most powerful car here, and the lightest. 140 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,840 And the most sort of aggressive. 141 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,000 And yet it just glides along, in GT mode, 142 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,960 which I'm in now - Grand Touring mode. 143 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,440 It's like a hovercraft. 144 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,040 Whooosh! 145 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:06,120 (WHISPERS) I'm driving a twin-turbo-charged VI2. 146 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,000 I can go 211mph. 147 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,920 And I can whisper at 70. 148 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,800 But when you shift from GT mode to Sport mode, 149 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,960 it's a very different animal. 150 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,240 -Ready? -(ENGINE REVS) 151 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,520 (ENGINE ROARS) 152 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,000 Jesus Christ. Whoo! (CHUCKLES) 153 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,080 Right, there's a small difference there 154 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,720 between the DB11 and... and this. 155 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,440 I'm afraid you're going to have to face facts, both of you. 156 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,320 You're in wheelbarrows and I'm in a spaceship. 157 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Ahh. 158 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,080 An old man imagining he's James Bond. 159 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,880 The thing is, if we're going to talk about long-legged, 160 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,320 luxurious, continent-crossing GT cars 161 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,280 we're talking about Bentleys. 162 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,480 They're the definitive GTs. 163 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,360 Whisper-quiet, velvety-smooth, 164 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,200 a hint of massive power waiting. 165 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,880 626 horsepower under my right foot. 166 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,280 (REVVING) 167 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,200 Ooh-hoo, my word. 168 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,440 Ha-ha! 169 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,720 But the GT car, first and foremost, 170 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,520 has got to be a nice place to be. 171 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,600 Because, by definition, you're going to spend a lot of time in it. 172 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,000 And this is a fine place to be. 173 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,880 This finish on the centre console - this metal here - 174 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,960 is aluminium that's been milled in the same way 175 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,640 that they mill aluminium inserts in the back of expensive watches. 176 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,200 If I press this button here I can rotate between my different screens. 177 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,080 Oh, analogue dials and clocks! 178 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,000 In the centre of the dash, thank you. 179 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,360 (CHUCKLES) 180 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,360 The problem for me with the Bentley and the Aston 181 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,960 is that they're actually a bit too hung-up on being British. 182 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,400 It is a bit of a British disease. We can't shake it off. 183 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,480 We're obsessed with phoney heritage 184 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,120 and the meaning of tradition. 185 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,240 It's all just nonsense, really. 186 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,880 Actually, if you want to talk about heritage and traditions 187 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,960 then the BMW has the strongest. 188 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,080 It's still made in Munich by the same company. 189 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,200 They make their own bits. 190 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,640 And some of those bits are very good. 191 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,760 It has a 4.4-litre twin-turbo-charged V8, 192 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,440 developing 523 horsepower. 193 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,280 (ENGINE REVS) 194 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,520 It also has four-wheel drive, rear-wheel steering, 195 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,320 and adaptive anti-roll bars. 196 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,280 It has an eight-speed gear box. 197 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,760 It's not twin clutch, but it is flappy paddle, and it is very sharp. 198 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,760 There we go - drop it down to three. 199 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,040 This is a proper car. 200 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,040 Not tinsel! 201 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,200 JEREMY: After James had finished his interesting lecture 202 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,040 on what's wrong with Britain, 203 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,240 May started to think about buying some fruit. 204 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:23,240 JAMES: Anybody need a lemon? 205 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,800 Er... No, I'm all right, thanks. 206 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,560 I don't want... Oh, hang on, they've all had the same idea here, look. 207 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,200 Lemons on the right. 208 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,920 There can't be another lemon stall. 209 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,320 Seriously... It is - it's more lemons. 210 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,400 Why doesn't someone go, "Right, everyone is selling lemons on this piece of road, 211 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,600 we're gonna sell furniture." 212 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,040 Also, as a general rule, you don't need many lemons, 213 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,360 whatever you're making. 214 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,640 We must have driven past, what, 10,000? 215 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,240 There's some more here on the right. 216 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,960 Well, that's one evening with Richard Hammond's gin and tonic intake. 217 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,000 Just trying out the voice activation system. 218 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:05,520 Always worth a laugh. 219 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,880 "Enter country." 220 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,080 FEMALE VOICE: Please say the name of the country. 221 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,480 -Georgia. -Malta. Accepted. 222 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,160 -I don't want to go to Malta. -Would you like to enter a destination? 223 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,800 -No. -Please say the name of the country. 224 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,680 Georgia. 225 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,920 Please say the name of the desired country. 226 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:27,880 Georgia. 227 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,920 Please say the name of a country. 228 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,960 For example, England. 229 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,600 Georgia. 230 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,200 Please say the name of the desired country. 231 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,120 Say the name of the country as one word. 232 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,080 For example, France. 233 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,280 Yes. Georgia. 234 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,920 -Cancel. -(BEEP) 235 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,080 JEREMY: Even though our cars didn't recognise Georgia as a country, 236 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,920 we soon arrived in the town of Gori. 237 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,000 The birthplace of Joseph Stalin. 238 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,160 Look at that - is that a Stalin museum? 239 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,640 Can we just have a look? 240 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:06,560 Yeah, we can have a look. 241 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,120 Trouble is, when you tend to go into a building owned by Stalin 242 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,960 you rarely come out again. 243 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,400 JEREMY: In the museum grounds we found the house 244 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,400 where the Soviet dictator grew up. 245 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,200 So Stalin sat at that table in the morning, when he was a little boy. 246 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,600 -Yes. -And said, "One day when I grow up 247 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,080 I want to be the nastiest piece of work 248 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,960 the world has ever seen." 249 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,760 And the parents would have said, 250 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,240 "There's a little boy in Austria 251 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,880 and he wants to be the nastiest piece of work. 252 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,200 But we think, son, you can be an even nastier piece of work." And then he was. 253 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,360 "You can be whatever you wanna be, son." 254 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,360 "If you wanna be the biggest bastard the world has ever seen." 255 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,520 -Bastard is a good word. -And his mum said to him, 256 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:48,200 "Are you sure you wouldn't like to follow your father and be a shoemaker?" 257 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,960 "No. I want to murder 20,000,000 people." 258 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,240 He was actually sitting right here in his little shorts and his little moustache. 259 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,160 That is really weird, though, 260 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,440 isn't it, to think what started in here. 261 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,840 -(THUDDING) -I've broken Stalin's house. 262 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:05,960 -(LAUGHTER) -Jeez, I'm going to the Gulag. 263 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,160 -James! -(GUFFAWING) 264 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,000 "I've broken Stalin's house!" 265 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,680 JEREMY: Outside, we checked out the statue of Stalin. 266 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,320 Which that night caused a debate between... 267 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,200 well, two of us. 268 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,880 The man who beat Hitler is from your town, 269 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,200 so obviously, as they have done, you put up a statue to him. 270 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,240 But then it turns out 271 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,520 that he's an even bigger mass murderer, 272 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,400 so do you take it down? 273 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,200 Eee, it's tricky, that one. It's very tricky. 274 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,680 Can we talk about our cars? 275 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,280 BOTH: No. 276 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,000 I'm not interested in the war. 277 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,960 Well, it's more than the war, Hammond. 278 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,320 This is the sort of pivotal bit of 20th-century history. 279 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,320 It affected the whole world. 280 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,320 -Right. Well, I'm off to bed. -What? 281 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,000 -I'm off to bed. -Going to bed? 282 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:00,800 I'm going to bed. See you in the morning. 283 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,200 We must have bored him, cos he's left some of his gin and tonic. 284 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,240 JEREMY: After some more considered debate 285 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,520 about the town's Stalin's problems, 286 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,880 I had a brainwave. 287 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,240 I tell you what, that statue... 288 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,440 maybe we could take it down for them. 289 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,280 -Make up their minds for them. -Exactly. 290 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:21,680 -Do you know-- -Cos they're... 291 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,520 This whole town, big dilemma. 292 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,840 Do you know what it's like? It's like someone who has 293 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,480 an old piece of furniture that they don't really like, 294 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,160 but they can't throw it away because it was their grandma's. 295 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,880 But we'll go and throw it away for them. 296 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,400 And then they're actually glad. 297 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,080 Cos there's no question they shouldn't have a statue... 298 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,880 -Course you shouldn't. -I mean, I can't remember the town in Austria, 299 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,480 not Germany, where Hitler was born. 300 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,680 But I bet they haven't got a statue to him... 301 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:50,720 And so, that night, when the town's people were fast asleep... 302 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,680 (FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL) 303 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,640 JAMES: Kill the lights. 304 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,480 JEREMY: Hang on. Where is it? Where's... 305 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,600 -(SMASHING) JAMES: No, I meant-- 306 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,280 -I may have overdone that bit. -I meant turn them off. 307 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,640 JEREMY: Can you put the ladder... Put the ladder... No. 308 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:06,160 (ARGUING) 309 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,520 JAMES: You go up the ladder. -I know. Put it on the back. 310 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,120 JAMES: That is his back. 311 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,160 JEREMY: Right. Right. 312 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,800 (CLATTERING) 313 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,800 Open it. 314 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,600 -(GROANING) Come on. -(CLANGING) 315 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,560 (WHIRR OF CHAINSAW) 316 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,200 The next morning as we were saddling up, 317 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,160 Richard Hammond had a question. 318 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,520 Why have you put Nigel Mansell's head on my bonnet? 319 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,280 JEREMY: I thought you'd like it. You know. 320 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,080 British racing driver, British car, 321 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:46,160 I thought it would be appropriate. 322 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,800 It's a bold statement, isn't it? 323 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,680 You've got a famous Brummie in the car, 324 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:50,720 and on the front of the car. 325 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,800 Nigel Mansell must have been a big name around here. 326 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,040 A lot of people looking at him. 327 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,080 Was Nigel Mansell popular here? 328 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,920 JEREMY: Yes. Global superstar, mate. 329 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,520 Global superstar. They love him. 330 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,560 - Why? Are people pointing? -Yeah. 331 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,240 They must have been into racing or something. 332 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,280 Did Nigel ever race a Bentley? 333 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,800 No, mostly Williams is what he's famous for. 334 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,440 Oh, yeah, that might be what's confusing people. 335 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,640 That's why they look puzzled. 336 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,080 I'd quite like to be Richard Hammond. 337 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,960 Life is so much simpler. 338 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,520 Our next destination was a racetrack 70 miles away. 339 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,800 And because James and I had racist satnavs... 340 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,800 we were taking guidance from the man up front. 341 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,040 Which was a mistake. 342 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,800 Hammond, we've definitely been round here before. 343 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,560 If you wanted me to be in charge of navigation, 344 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,960 you shouldn't have glued Nigel Mansell's head to my bonnet. 345 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,080 I'm trying. 346 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,720 Eventually, Hammond managed to stumble across the highway leading out of town. 347 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,960 But things didn't really get any better. 348 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,040 Why are we going so slowly? I'm being overtaken by trucks. 349 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,920 Well, Nigel Mansell's head gets in the way of road signs 350 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,920 and I have to crane round him to see them. 351 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:26,920 And I don't want to miss them. 352 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,520 There's a sign there to Tehran, which is in Iran. 353 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,560 We're not going to Iran. 354 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,240 Well, I don't know. I can't see the bloody signs, because of Nigel. 355 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,400 (HORN BEEPS) 356 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,040 Now I've been overtaken by an orange van. 357 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,280 Everybody filming us. This is embarrassing. 358 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,560 We're going to be all over the news. 359 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,680 Hammond's gonna read it and say, "That wasn't Nigel Mansell, you bastards." 360 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,680 It was somebody called Josephine Stalin. 361 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,960 RICHARD: Eventually, I found what I reckoned was our turn-off. 362 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,400 - It's down here. -No, it's not down here. 363 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,560 We'll go down this bit and then there'll be a bigger road again 364 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,080 and we'll be there. 365 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,160 JEREMY: And that is exactly what didn't happen. 366 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,800 -(THUD) -Aaargh! Hammond! 367 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,640 JEREMY: Ooh, I've just grounded out! 368 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,520 Yeah, that happens a lot on main roads. 369 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,440 (THUD) 370 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,000 The DBS is actually five millimetres lower 371 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,000 than the DB11 which, of course, is marvellous on a road like this. 372 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,920 -(THUDDING) JEREMY: Aaargh! 373 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,560 Still....at least things soon got worse. 374 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,640 That man is armed. 375 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,280 Another man with a machine gun. 376 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,480 OK. A lot of people with machine guns. 377 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,280 A local then explained to me exactly where we were. 378 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,800 (BIRDS CHIRRUPING) 379 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,560 JEREMY: It's the border that isn't a border. 380 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,400 You look on here, right? 381 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,720 -We're here. -Yeah. 382 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,480 Yeah? That is the border 383 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,240 between Georgia...and Russia 384 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,640 as recognised by... most people in the world. 385 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,800 But the Russians reckon... it's here. 386 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,160 So, well, what they do, 387 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,080 is they put this barbed-wire fence up... 388 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,560 At night they move it. 389 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,880 Right. 390 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,520 -The Russians move it? -The Russians move it. 391 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,760 So you go to bed at night, you're living in Georgia, 392 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,880 you wake up in the morning - you're Russian. 393 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,320 But people live here. 394 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,800 And this is a rural spot in the middle of nowhere. 395 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,280 What if somebody did this in Ross-on-Wye where I live? 396 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,800 Yeah, what if you suddenly woke up and the Welsh suddenly decided... 397 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,520 It's about the same sort of distance. "Right, you're in Wales." 398 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:55,000 JEREMY: We then met an actual casualty of this border dispute. 399 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,320 JEREMY: Sir, are you Georgian? 400 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,760 (TRANSLATOR SPEAKS GEORGIAN) 401 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,560 (THEY SPEAK GEORGIAN) 402 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,680 Can you come across here, though? 403 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,640 (TRANSLATOR SPEAKS GEORGIAN) 404 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,240 JEREMY: Are there Russian soldiers over there? 405 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,520 Sadly, because we're The Grand Tour and not the United Nations... 406 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,680 ...all we could do was remove Nigel Mansell's head, 407 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,960 sack Hammond as navigator... 408 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,760 and resume our search for the racetrack. 409 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,760 And once we found the right road 410 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,560 James started to attract some special friends. 411 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,880 In their BMWs. 412 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,440 Holy moly! 413 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,480 Have you seen what's sticking out of the bonnet of that thing? 414 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,680 (BACKFIRING) 415 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,880 He's an emeritus professor at Tbilisi University. 416 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,920 -He studies Latin and Ancient Greek. -(LAUGHTER) 417 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,880 (ENGINE REVS) 418 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,480 That's how he gets to work in the morning. 419 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,560 Oh, James, there's another one. 420 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,200 Oh, this one's even better. 421 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,680 I've never felt more like a gooseberry, Hammond. 422 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,240 I know what you mean. 423 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,720 And we're spoiling the moment for him. 424 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,680 (ENGINE REVS) 425 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,080 Oh, this is great! (LAUGHS) 426 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,320 Ha-ha-ha! Ah, they're everywhere. 427 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,840 Having parted company with James's fan club, 428 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000 we eventually arrived at the racetrack. 429 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,920 Built in the days of communism... 430 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,880 it hosted some terrible and boring races, 431 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,880 until the Soviet Union and it fell apart. 432 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,520 A few years ago, though, 433 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,720 it was brought back to life. 434 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,280 (JEREMY CRIES OUT) 435 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,560 Now, what you've gotta remember: 436 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,040 715 horsepower is... 437 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,520 a huge amount. 438 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,120 That is a cathedral of power! 439 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,800 119, 122, 129, 440 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,200 136! 441 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,040 God, that is so quick. 442 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,000 And the best thing is, it's old school. 443 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,000 All of that power goes to the rear wheels. 444 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,080 There's no... four-wheel drive. 445 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,920 There's no four-wheel steering. 446 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,880 -There's no fancy trickery. -(TYRES SQUEAL) 447 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,880 Oh, look at this. 448 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,520 Drifting with the traction control on. 449 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,160 (TYRES SCREECH) 450 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,360 Yessss! 451 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,000 We like this. 452 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,160 And with the traction control off... 453 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960 I liked it even more. 454 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,080 (TYRES SCREECHING) 455 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,240 Look at that. Hah, ha-ha! 456 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,640 (TYRES SCREECHING) 457 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,880 The DB11 was the first Aston I've ever driven that felt good...on a track. 458 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,560 (TYRES SCREECH) 459 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,080 And this is the second. 460 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:06,040 (TYRES SCREECHING) 461 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,240 Jesus, what a car! 462 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,200 Uh, Richard Hammond driving around in Chatsworth House here. 463 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,880 This engine - this twin-turbo, six-litre W12 464 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,000 is actually the all-new engine out of the Bentayga, 465 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,840 but set up specially for this car. 466 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,360 Putting out 626 brake horsepower. 467 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,920 And it's mounted further back in the car than before. 468 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,800 And the front wheels are further forwards. 469 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,560 Which gets it closer to 50-50 weight distribution. 470 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,080 And there's the keyword: weight. 471 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,480 -There's a lot of it. -(TYRES SCREECH) 472 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,480 Two and a quarter tons of it. 473 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,040 So for it to stand a chance of doing anything sporty, 474 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,880 it's all about controlling that weight. 475 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,360 To do that Bentley has equipped the Continental 476 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,120 with an arsenal of high-tech weapons. 477 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,640 Torque vectoring, four-wheel drive, 478 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,960 superfast adaptive suspension. 479 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,560 And active diffs. 480 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,240 All of which means this big old Hector 481 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,560 can, to use appropriate Bentley parlance, 482 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,680 pick up its skirts and run. 483 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,680 (TYRES SCREECHING) 484 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,600 Ooh, lovely. 485 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,760 (CHUCKLES) 486 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,440 (TYRES SCREECHING) 487 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,720 The guy who designs the traction control for this car 488 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,600 -is apparently a drifting champion. -(TYRES SCREECHING) 489 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,080 And you can tell. 490 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,800 He's built a Bentley for himself. 491 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,320 (TYRES SCREECHING) 492 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,880 (LAUGHS) I swear... 493 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,000 Ha-ha-ha! 494 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,360 It's... It's indecent asking it to do that. 495 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,640 JAMES: Meanwhile, in the BMW, 496 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,640 I too had been leaning on the electronics. 497 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,440 Previously on the road I had this set up 498 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,600 in my version of Sport, which you can program. 499 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,480 And I had the steering on comfort, and the ride on comfort. 500 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,600 But now... I have it in Sport Plus. 501 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,640 (ROAR OF ENGINE) 502 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,160 I have the least power - 523. 503 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,040 I have the lowest power to weight ratio. 504 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,000 Look, it's a meaty engine with lots of low-down grunt. 505 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,800 I can dig deep. 506 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,960 (ENGINE REVS) 507 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Combine that with the four-wheel drive 508 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,960 and the four-wheel steering, 509 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,360 and the 8 Series is exactly what you'd expect. 510 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,880 It's easy. It's a BMW. It feels like a BMW. 511 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,960 It's so easy, in fact, 512 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,320 that while going past the pits, 513 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,120 I noticed something. 514 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,440 There's a bloke with a stopwatch there. 515 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,080 Does that mean they're actually taking times? I presume it does. 516 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:48,600 JEREMY: They were. So, all of us 517 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,240 decided to concentrate on some hot laps. 518 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,080 Bouncing over the kerbs there. 519 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,000 Unleashing it - and bam! 520 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,480 More speed. 521 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,480 Come on. Come on, turn. Grip. Grip, grip, grip, grip. 522 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,880 (ENGINE ROARS, TYRES SCREECH) 523 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,800 The brakes, the turning... 524 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,040 the acceleration... 525 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,320 all absolutely... 526 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,080 brilliant. 527 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,280 What happens here? 528 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,800 Stay wide, dab of brakes... 529 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,960 -now bean it. -(ENGINE REVS) 530 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,400 Is this the fast one or the slow one? 531 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,440 God, it can pick up. It just charges. 532 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,200 (ENGINE ROARS) 533 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,440 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, 534 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,600 which is... absolutely mind-boggling 535 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,400 in a car this big. 536 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,040 Send it in. 537 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,160 -(RATTLING) -Oh, collecting a bit of kerb. 538 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,960 These brakes are gonna get hot. 539 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640 These are the largest steel brakes on any production car, 540 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,160 but I'm still asking a lot of them. 541 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,840 (ENGINES ROAR) 542 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,800 JEREMY: Eventually we pitted to see how we'd done. 543 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,880 -No surprises here. RICHARD: Go on. 544 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,800 -Aston was the fastest. -Oh, God. 545 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,360 -No, but obviously by an enormous margin. -Fair enough. 546 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,920 -Yes. -Two minutes, yes? 547 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,640 -Two minutes dead, pretty much. -Faster by two minutes? 548 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,040 -No, no. Two minutes. -(CHUCKLING) 549 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,320 Here's the interesting one, though. 550 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,800 The former President of Georgia 551 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,320 when this track was reopened, 552 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,840 a few years ago - he set a time. 553 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,800 -Did he? -Yeah. In a Formula 3 car. 554 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,000 Two minutes five dead. 555 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,400 That's the President of Georgia. 556 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,880 -So, James May. -Yes? (LAUGHS) 557 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,360 Were you faster or slower, do you think, 558 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,200 than the President of Georgia? 559 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,520 -Do I have to be the President of Georgia if I-- -No. 560 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,480 I'm gonna say I was slower. 561 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,880 -You're absolutely right. But... -(LAUGHTER) 562 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,560 Here's something interesting. 563 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,920 You were only point-eight of a second slower 564 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,840 than the President of Georgia and he was in a Formula 3 car. 565 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,800 Do you think you were faster than the President of Georgia? 566 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,160 I'll be honest, I'd very, very much like to have been. 567 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,760 -James May, you did 2:05.8. -Yes. 568 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,560 -Richard Hammond. -Yes? -Two minutes... 569 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:10,920 Yes? 570 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,200 ...four...point eight. 571 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,040 -So you're only a second quicker. -Ohh. 572 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,280 -That's the closest you two have ever been. -Yeah, that is. 573 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,560 Oh, hang on. 574 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,320 A text. Oh, God. Mr Wilman. 575 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,160 How does he know when we're all sitting... 576 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,000 It's uncanny. 577 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,560 -Go on, then. -Right. 578 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,440 I've seen how fast you can go in your cars on a flying lap. 579 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,400 -Yes. -Now we shall see 580 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,760 how fast you can go when you're bursting for a pee. 581 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,400 -What? -Really? 582 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,400 Right, each of you will drink three pints of water, 583 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,440 wait 20 minutes 584 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,320 and then see how much your times improve. 585 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,040 JEREMY: Soon, we were ready to begin the test. 586 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,560 Right, so we drink these, and then when we've drunk all three, 587 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,520 -start the timer? -Yeah. 588 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,920 (GULPING) 589 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,720 (JEREMY SIGHS) 590 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,600 -That's disgusting. -Mm. 591 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,160 It's just revolting, this stuff. 592 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,240 Women drink this, you know, for fun. 593 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,680 -Couldn't we have done it with wine? -Shut up. 594 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,600 -(BLEEP) -Oh, God. 595 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040 -Have you finished? -I'm going. 596 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,680 -How have you done that? -(BLEEP) 597 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,640 Why are you so far ahead of me? 598 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,040 (BLEEP) 599 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,200 The thing is, this is quite an interesting test, 600 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,480 because when I drive normally, I drive on the motorway at 70mph. 601 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,920 -Of course you do. -When I need a pee, I'll do 180. 602 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,080 -This test is unfair. -Why is it? 603 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,480 -Well, my capacity is smaller than you two. -Er... 604 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,360 Plus, it's got to go less distance to my stomach, then less distance to my bladder, 605 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,880 and then less distance to my chap. 606 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,760 -But... -What? -We're older. 607 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,040 -Yes. -And you have wooden bladders. 608 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,520 When you get older... Younger viewers may be interested in this. 609 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,120 ...it comes on more suddenly, doesn't it? 610 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040 I can do the nights still. I don't need to get up in the night. 611 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,080 Mind you, that's prostrate cancer, isn't it? 612 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,080 -Is it? -Yeah, it is. It's a sign. 613 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,320 You know with prostrate cancer, they tell you 614 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,240 you've got to put your finger in your back bottom and have a rummage about. 615 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,840 Now, never having done that, I don't know what it should feel like normally. 616 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,440 -So I don't know... -No, it's the doctor. 617 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,280 That's why you get the doctor to do it. 618 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,280 -No, it says check yourself. -You don't back on to your own digit. 619 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,480 -It's... That's what it says. -It isn't. 620 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,720 Posters say, "Check your anus." 621 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,920 I've never seen a poster that says, shove your finger up your arse. I just... 622 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,400 Well, I've never understood it cos it does say in the adverts, 623 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,080 check yourself, prostrate cancer. 624 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,080 No, you check yourself for testicular cancer, you spanner. 625 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,120 You rummage your nuts about to make sure there's no... 626 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,440 -That you can do, yes. -That's correct. 627 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,280 No, that's what you tell your wife. 628 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,080 JAMES: Mercifully, my 20-minute wait was soon over. 629 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,480 Four, three, two. 630 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,440 -One. -(BLEEP) -Goodbye. 631 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,920 Ooh, no, that hurts. (GROANING) 632 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,000 -Three, two, one. -(BLEEP) -I'm out of here. Good luck. 633 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,160 Ooh, it is starting. And running's unwise. 634 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,120 (REVVING) 635 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,920 (REVVING) 636 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,400 I don't need a wazz. I don't need a wazz. 637 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,520 (TYRES SQUEAL) 638 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,000 Oh, God, it's... it's interfering. 639 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,760 Aah... aah... 640 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,880 Come on. Come on! 641 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,200 I'm not thinking about it. 642 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,160 I'm just not thinking about it. 643 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,880 Need a wee. Braking, braking hard. 644 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,640 Oh, it's worse going through the corners because it all sloshes to one side. 645 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,760 Oh, God. 646 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,240 (GROANS) 647 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,120 If Williams had given their drivers 648 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,840 three pints of water before every race last year, 649 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,920 they'd have won everything. 650 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,440 Oh, God, I'm living in my bladder. 651 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,800 Don't relax! 652 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:28,800 (GROANING) 653 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,760 I'm never gonna make it. 654 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,840 (BRAKES SQUEAL) 655 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,080 (GROANS) 656 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,080 That'll do. That'll do. 657 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,960 Just... (GROANS) 658 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,160 Can't run. (HYPERVENTILATING) 659 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,600 It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. 660 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,200 -(TRICKLING) -What? Who's in there? 661 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,080 -James. -Bugger off, I'm having a wazz. 662 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,200 -Hurry up. -I'm having a wazz. 663 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,800 Just hurry up! I'm going to go in a minute. 664 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,600 -(SILENCE) -Oh, he's... 665 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,760 Right, that's it. Let me in. 666 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,760 -(TRICKLING) -Oh, God, there's more! 667 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,120 Oh, God. 668 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,160 It's just awful. When you... 669 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,040 Listen, mate, James is in there and I'm first. 670 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,080 You ain't getting in ahead of me. 671 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,200 -It's fine. Just relax. -There's no way. 672 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,600 It is awful, though, when you get to the door, 673 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,600 your body's saying, yes, time to go. 674 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,160 -But then you can't. -Stop talking. 675 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,000 Why aren't you bothered anyway? 676 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,840 Well, I solved the problem, second corner. 677 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,120 -Oh, yeah. -So... 678 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,560 -James... -I'm having a wazz. 679 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,000 Yes, I know. I've got the times. It's quite interesting. 680 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,840 You were a second slower on that lap. 681 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,760 I'm desperate for a slash. 682 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,280 Do you think you were faster or slower? 683 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,000 I don't care. 684 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,120 -Richard Hammond... -J... 685 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,640 your original lap, two minutes four point eight. 686 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,040 -Your new lap... -Stop talking. 687 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,000 -Two minutes... -Yes, whatever. 688 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,840 ..zero point five. 689 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,560 You were slower as well. 690 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,560 Because I was concentrating on not doing what you've done. 691 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,880 Yeah, well, that's interesting. Because I did what I did, look at that. 692 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,480 How interesting is that. Exactly the same. 693 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,880 -I mean, I was basically... -James! 694 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,400 -Hurry up! -I was point three of a second slower. 695 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,360 But basically the same. 696 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,360 JEREMY: After our important day's work, 697 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,280 I cleaned myself up and we headed into Tbilisi, 698 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,000 Georgia's capital, 699 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:38,120 for something you can only get in this country. 700 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,320 You see, the thing is, America gave the world aviation. 701 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,040 Germany gave it the car. Britain gave it the internet. 702 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,880 But Georgia's contribution was much more profound and important. 703 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,160 You see, Georgia gave the world... wine. 704 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,640 They've been making wine in Georgia for 4,000 years. 705 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,800 It's such a big thing here, they now have spas where you can bathe in it. 706 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,480 -How does it feel? -Tremendous. 707 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,640 This is wine. 708 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,360 -That's the great thing about that. He doesn't need a plug. -No. 709 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,280 He will simply lower himself down and consume his bathwater. 710 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,080 If I were to take the plug out now, 711 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,640 would you panic and try and drink it all before it went away? 712 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,160 Hang on, I just need to rinse my hair. Hold on a minute. 713 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,800 -He's actually going to... -Oh, God, he is. -..wash his hair in wine. 714 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,400 Oh, no, he is! 715 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,480 Oh, God, I got some in my mouth. 716 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,440 James, do not fall asleep in the bath. 717 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,400 -OK. -He's going to. 718 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,600 Now I can relax. 719 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,560 -(DISTANT BANG) -Ooh... 720 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,360 JEREMY: The next morning, we went for a drive around Tbilisi, 721 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,640 one of the coolest cities we'd ever been to. 722 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,200 Who is this on his horse? 723 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,560 According to the sign, it's King David the Builder. 724 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,360 -What? -Better than Eric the Chemist. 725 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,560 (LAUGHS) 726 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,160 The last builder I had working on the house 727 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,520 didn't look like that. 728 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,480 He certainly didn't turn up on a horse. 729 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,640 We then found a flea market 730 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,120 and decided to test the boot space in our grand tourers 731 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,800 by picking up a few souvenirs. 732 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,840 -(LAUGHTER) -I'm not sure 733 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,160 they would have been able to win a war like this. 734 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,160 This is a Russian wall clock. 735 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,560 It says Moscow on the dial. It works. 736 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,400 -(WHIRR AND CLICK) -Is it a Soviet one? -Yeah. 737 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,960 A Soviet cine-camera. 738 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,360 Now, come on. 739 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,320 (PLAYS QUIETLY) 740 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,640 How much is the record player? 741 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,600 -I'm going to do a selfie. -(CLICK) 742 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,640 I like the way that they've captured the lustfulness of the lady dog 743 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,200 and the wistfulness of James. 744 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,320 Having done our shopping, 745 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,280 Hammond and I were soon back at our cars 746 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,360 and filling up the boots. 747 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,400 -What have you bought? -A giant pair of jugs. 748 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,960 Georgian wine jugs. 749 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,760 Do you know what the Georgian is for wine jugs? 750 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,400 -No. -Norks. 751 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,600 -Is it? -Yeah. 752 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,920 So you've got two giant norks. 753 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,760 Yeah. A guitar and a clock. 754 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,040 And I'm very pleased with my purchases. 755 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,440 What's with the trombone, or whatever it is? 756 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,920 Well, it won't fit. 757 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,960 With my record player and my bird and my gas mask... 758 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,400 That's a striking piece. Well, put it on the back seat. 759 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,640 -Quite small. -It will go on... 760 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,800 The back seat will accommodate that, look. 761 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,920 -He's going to be critical. -Oh, my God! 762 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,800 There you go. Told you he would. 763 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,640 -Do Aston Martin describe that as a back seat? -Yes. 764 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,440 I wouldn't call it a leather pouch. 765 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,200 (STRAINS AND LAUGHS) 766 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,800 -I can't argue... -(LAUGHS) 767 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,040 -I can't argue with him. -It's not acceptable. 768 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,440 -Are you actually in? -Yes. 769 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,520 -Head room? -(WAILS) No. 770 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,440 That is absolutely hopeless. 771 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,800 Anyway, the interesting thing about the Aston Martin is... 772 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,680 -I've got quite a lot to say. -I need to get out now! 773 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,840 At this point, James came back. 774 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,680 After a very ambitious shopping trip. 775 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,800 Could you hold the porcupine, please? 776 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,560 Yak goes in first. 777 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,480 You won't... How big is that boot? 778 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,920 -It is actually really big. -It's unnecessarily big, actually. 779 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,520 -It's too much boot. -It's a grand tourer. 780 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,160 It's for taking luggage as you said only the other day. 781 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,560 His Master's Voice will go there. 782 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,400 And then the Spanish man-o-war... 783 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,200 JEREMY: I then came up with a plan to get rid of what wouldn't fit in my car. 784 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,320 I bought you a present. 785 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,640 You're a musical man. 786 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,160 That's very thoughtful of him, actually. 787 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,480 Thank you. 788 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,120 With our souvenirs loaded up, 789 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,960 we got back on the road. 790 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,280 (RATTLING) 791 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,840 Lot of rattling in here. I'm a bit worried that 792 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,600 my big jugs are going to rub against my clock and ruin it. 793 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,640 JAMES: I thought you jammed your clock between the jugs, so that it wouldn't. 794 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,760 Finbarr Saunders And His Double Entendres. 795 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,680 JEREMY: Soon, we arrived at the border. 796 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,280 Where Europe stops and Asia begins. 797 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,280 So there we are. Bye-bye, Georgia, the birthplace of wine, 798 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,520 and hello Azerbaijan, 799 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,600 the birthplace of something very nearly as important. 800 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,480 Oil. 801 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,760 It was first discovered here in the third century. 802 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,800 Marco Polo wrote about it a thousand years ago. 803 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,360 He said it didn't taste very nice. 804 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,600 The oil industry began here. 805 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,840 This was the first country in the world to develop offshore drilling. 806 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,360 But, weirdly, we are struggling to find a petrol station. 807 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,440 This meant we had to back off a bit. 808 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,640 Which prompted some smug eco-sermons from Hammond and May. 809 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,160 As we're now in the cruise, 810 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:45,800 my car can do a very clever thing. 811 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,400 Its W12 can shut down six cylinders 812 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,680 and run as a V6 to save fuel. 813 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,760 And you can get as much as 30mpg, 814 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,640 but actually that's quite a lot for a 2.2-tonne car. 815 00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,080 And more importantly, it means I get a 500-mile range out of a tank. 816 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,560 What I can do is I can put it in Eco Pro mode, which I'm just doing now, 817 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,960 which shuts down some vital features. Not the engine fortunately. 818 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,320 And I have an active grille. 819 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,000 The flaps open when they need to 820 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,640 and then shut for better aerodynamic efficiency when they're not needed. 821 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,320 So this is all hi-tech stuff we're doing. 822 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,200 Jeremy, what's your Aston Martin got? 823 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,680 Well, between 40 and 80 824 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,400 it'll shut down six of the cylinders and run as a straight six 825 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,760 until the catalytic converter on the shut-down bank gets cool, 826 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,560 then it starts that bank up again and shuts the other one down, 827 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,040 alternating to make sure everything is at the optimum temperature. 828 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,040 Ha-ha! They weren't ready for that. 829 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,160 Happily, at this point 830 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,360 we finally found a fuel station. 831 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,640 Oh. 832 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,280 Now, that's an oil company name I wasn't expecting. 833 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,880 Really? 834 00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,840 I know this is childish but it says... 835 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,600 (LAUGHTER) 836 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,640 -I wish we had Turd Petrol in Britain. -I really do. 837 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,080 Turd Petrol! 838 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,880 JEREMY: Why don't they sponsor a Formula 1 team? 839 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,240 Powered by Turd! 840 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,040 -Think of the skid marks. -Think of the commentary. 841 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,240 (LAUGHING) 842 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:23,080 Back on the move, we started to soak up the local motoring culture. 843 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,200 Which didn't take long. 844 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,320 Lada, Lada 845 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,280 and Lada. 846 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,400 RICHARD: Lada, Lada, Lada. 847 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:39,640 Lada, Lada. 848 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,240 Three Ladas there, a Lada there, 849 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,200 two Ladas there. 850 00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:45,600 If there's a Lada owners' club 851 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,680 in Azerbaijan, it could be massive. 852 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,080 "What Car?" must have been a very thin magazine over here. 853 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,000 (RICHARD AND JEREMY LAUGH) 854 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:01,440 JEREMY: At the next town, May and I wanted to pull over. 855 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,320 And Hammond didn't. 856 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:05,880 It's all very nice jollying around 857 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,720 but these are GT cars. 858 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,520 We've got a couple of miles in them. 859 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,960 We've got miles to go. We need to get a move on. 860 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,040 The town, however, was called Ganja. 861 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:20,680 So obviously May and I wanted to experience the architecture. 862 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,960 -You know I'm building a new house? -Yes. 863 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,800 I think I've got the scale of it wrong. 864 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,200 -Really? -Mm. I think it needs to be more like this. 865 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,960 This. I like the arch. 866 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,200 I think the Cotswolds needs this kind of architecture in it. 867 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,960 Can we stop stopping off to look at things? 868 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,480 The whole point of this trip is to prove that these powerful GT cars 869 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,440 can devour continents and we're not devouring any miles. 870 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,200 -Ooh. -Well, we need to get going. 871 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:07,800 You do know that these aren't actually quicker 872 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,560 than any other type of car? 873 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,240 -What? -No, in the real world. 874 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,160 I mean, these feel great. That's why we like them. 875 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,000 It's nice having a powerful car, etc. But in the real world 876 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,080 they don't go any faster or slower than any other type of car. 877 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,920 -But they go faster. -They don't. 878 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,840 What? Those Ladas we've been overtaking endlessly since we got here. 879 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,800 You're saying that my twin turbocharged Aston Martin is no faster than them? 880 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,840 Not in the real world. 881 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,680 I'll demonstrate it to you, tomorrow. 882 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:35,640 Oh, God. 883 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,440 Right, May, what is your thinking? 884 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,520 Well, I've bought this Renault 9. It's the GTL. 885 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,840 And I've flown Abbie out to drive it 886 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,360 and we're going to drive 50 miles to a place called the Garden of Paradise. 887 00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,440 Why can't we just go where we're going? 888 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,720 Cos I just said we're going to the Garden of Paradise. It'll be nice. 889 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,320 -So Abbie gets a two-minute head start. -Mm-hm. 890 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,960 You won't be able to catch her. 891 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,080 -We will. -You won't. 892 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,000 -A two-minute head start... -Yes. 893 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,360 -..and you think we can't catch her up in 50 miles? -Exactly. 894 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,800 That's not in good condition. 895 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,160 It wasn't very expensive. 896 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,560 Start the engine, please. 897 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,080 (ENGINE STRUGGLES TO TURN OVER, STARTS) 898 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,520 -Oh, well. -Oh, well. 899 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,080 Oh, we're in trouble now. 900 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,080 -Right, you ready? -Purrs like a kitten. 901 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,920 In three, two, one... 902 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,640 -Go! -(ENGINE STALLS) -(ABBIE CHUCKLES) 903 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,720 -Professional racing driver. -She's good. She's good. 904 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,600 -You've bought a dog. -It doesn't work! 905 00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,640 (ENGINE REVS) 906 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,080 -There. -Ooh. 907 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,320 So James May's experiment... 908 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,520 Is an Aston Martin DBS, twin turbo, 909 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,400 faster than an ancient rusting Renault 9? 910 00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,680 18 seconds. 911 00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:02,920 Stop sounding excited about this ridiculous escapade. 912 00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,000 Two, one, begin. 913 00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,120 (REVVING) 914 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,840 Right, let's get this charade over with, shall we? 915 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,360 And prove that James is mad. 916 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,800 The point of having a GT car with tonnes of power is it makes you feel good 917 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,760 and it's nice. But it's not quick. 918 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,800 All cars in the real world go at the same speed 919 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,400 because how fast they go is dictated by external factors, 920 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:34,920 not the car itself. 921 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,920 Traffic lights, speed cameras, 922 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,720 other cars, pedestrians crossing. 923 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,880 All these things just bunch everybody up. 924 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,680 If you have a powerful engine in your car, you can get home at night more quickly. 925 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:51,960 Which means you spend more time with your children. 926 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,480 Which means they're less likely to grow up as glue sniffers. 927 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,080 JEREMY: Soon we were out of the town and on the motorway. 928 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,240 But there was a problem. 929 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,240 These speed cameras, they're at every 100 yards. 930 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,200 Yeah, I mean, it's crazy. 931 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:13,120 But Abbie has got the same problem. 932 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,040 She's not getting away from us. 933 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,840 -No, but we're not catching her either, are we? -No. 934 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:27,120 Once we got off the motorway, though, Hammond and I splashed the brown roadblock 935 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,080 and got cracking. 936 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,360 Abbie is a brilliant driver. 937 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,440 Make no mistake. She's a lot better at it than me. 938 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,320 But I've got 14 times more horsepower. 939 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,640 All I had to do to catch her, then, 940 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,560 was overtake everything. 941 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,440 But that wasn't easy. 942 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,400 Single unbroken line. Can't overtake. 943 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,680 Can't overtake. 944 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:55,680 Right, we're stuck behind a Lada. 945 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,640 -Oh, God, car coming the other way. -(HORN) 946 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,440 Oh, come on, come on, come on. 947 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,920 And there's Jeremy Clarkson behind a lorry. 948 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,280 As I am. 949 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,080 Yeah, that's what you need. 950 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,160 Town... 951 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,240 Oh... What are you doing? 952 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,720 -(HORN) -You dithering half-wit. 953 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,600 In James' real world, we weren't getting any breaks. 954 00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,240 Oh, great. Digger. 955 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,920 Oh, God. 956 00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,440 Whereas up ahead, Abbie was in scythe mode. 957 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,840 Oh, come on! 958 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,000 Right, Lada... Lada, Lada, Lada. 959 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,520 It's like they're releasing them every seven seconds coming the other way. 960 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,800 Oh, good. Red light. 961 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,760 Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. 962 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,760 Nine, eight, seven, six, 963 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,600 five, four, 964 00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,280 three, two... 965 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,920 Hello, chaps. Waiting at the lights? 966 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,920 Oh, Christ. 967 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,760 Mercifully, though, we were soon out of the town 968 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,720 and onto the open road. 969 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,240 (HORN) 970 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,520 RICHARD: Freedom! 971 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:28,880 Yes! 972 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,480 Splash the Lada. 973 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,360 -(HORN) -Another one. 974 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,320 It's clear. 975 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,960 But then, with just 10 miles to go, everything got rural. 976 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,560 Hammond, cows, cows, cows! 977 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,880 (BARKING) 978 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,760 As things became even more rural, 979 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,200 the Aston started to have a problem. 980 00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:00,320 It's barely moving. What's he doing? 981 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,200 RICHARD: Can't you pick it up a bit? 982 00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,880 JEREMY: It's bumpy and the camber is all over the shop. 983 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,120 Yeah, it's not perfect but it's drivable. Come on! 984 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:14,120 Hammond, I've got 715 horsepower and only rear-wheel drive. 985 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,360 Right, this is ridiculous. I'm going to come past. 986 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,840 I've got torque vectoring, four-wheel drive. It can handle this. 987 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,760 RICHARD: Meanwhile, further back in the Eeyore W... 988 00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,320 I bet you she's still two minutes ahead. 989 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,160 Why have you stopped? 990 00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,720 Because there's an entire farm coming towards me. 991 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,680 (BLEATING AND BELLS RINGING) 992 00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,640 It's a river of wool and lunch. 993 00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,440 Please don't scratch my Bentley. 994 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:56,800 Please don't scratch my Bentley. 995 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,560 (LOWING AND BELLS RINGING) 996 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:03,880 All right? 997 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,320 JEREMY: As we approached journey's end, the road surface improved. 998 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,240 So we could both unleash our massive horsepower. 999 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,360 So here we are, ladies and gentlemen. 1000 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,160 Richard Hammond's on a mountain road 1001 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:27,600 in a Bentley going quickly. 1002 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,840 So nothing can go wrong here. 1003 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,720 We've got to have closed the gap by now. 1004 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,640 No offence, Abbie, but you're not having this. 1005 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,760 JEREMY: The finish line at the Garden of Paradise was close. 1006 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:48,280 And as we entered the outskirts, the patio of paradise, 1007 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,240 Abbie was in sight. 1008 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,960 The race we knew would be ours 1009 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,600 but then it turned out that actually 1010 00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,920 the finish line was in the 14th Century. 1011 00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:04,200 RICHARD: Oh, my word. 1012 00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:06,080 Getting narrow, very narrow. 1013 00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,120 (KNOCKING) 1014 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,600 Oh, I don't know how much 1015 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,480 a carbon fibre chin spoiler is on one of these 1016 00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,000 but I bet it's a lot. 1017 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,480 (REVVING) 1018 00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,160 Abbie, however, wasn't worried about that sort of thing. 1019 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,680 (KNOCKING) 1020 00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:28,400 That's the sound of a crow rubbing against a Russian stereo. 1021 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,400 (SCRAPING) 1022 00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:34,200 (SCRAPING) 1023 00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:36,240 That was not good. 1024 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,440 -Hello. -Hammond, I'm beached. 1025 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,640 I'm going to find another route. 1026 00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:47,640 -Oh, is it really round here? -(KNOCKING) 1027 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,880 A lot of noise from the boot now. 1028 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,160 JEREMY: Meanwhile, I'd found another route 1029 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,440 that wasn't much better. 1030 00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,840 -(SCRAPING) -Oh, God. 1031 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,760 James May's ideal motor race, this. I'm doing four, three. 1032 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,280 By this stage I knew I'd lost. 1033 00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,600 So I needed to come up with an excuse. 1034 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,920 Are these for the head? 1035 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:13,560 A hat. 1036 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,720 This is not Bentley country now. 1037 00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:19,720 This is really Land Rover territory. 1038 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,040 James May, you are a bloody idiot. 1039 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,680 Sit-rep, man arrived at the window, 1040 00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:30,240 took 30 units of currency away and I now have this hat. 1041 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:39,480 Eventually Hammond and I found Abbie's victorious Renault at the finish line. 1042 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,040 And then what was definitely several hours later, 1043 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,040 May turned up. 1044 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:46,600 RICHARD: Oh, here he is. 1045 00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,560 JEREMY: Oh, God. 1046 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,040 -Who won, then? -We did! 1047 00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,880 -Did you? -No. No. We didn't. 1048 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,800 -He went hat shopping. -I did. Look. 1049 00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,840 -Really? -It took him ages choosing that one. 1050 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,280 Honestly, we must have been... How long were we hat shopping? 1051 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,600 Must have been a good half hour to get the right one. 1052 00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,320 Well, half an hour with the black one and then I didn't like it. 1053 00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,160 That does not happen by accident. 1054 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,240 That sort of thing takes time. 1055 00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,040 Anyway, this does prove, does it not, that fast cars, yes, they're great, 1056 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,280 but they're not fast. In the real world a Renault 9 is as fast as an Aston or Bentley 1057 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:21,720 -or a BMW. -Ow! Agh! Agh! 1058 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,560 -What? -Ohh! There's been an accident. 1059 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:25,960 There's no other word for it. 1060 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,720 -The... My... Look. -You've ruined your crow. 1061 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,680 The crow's beak's come off and base. 1062 00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:35,720 But more... Look. That all was in me a minute ago 1063 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,000 and now it's not. 1064 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,240 Why's it coming out of you? 1065 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,560 Because half the crow's face went in there 1066 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,520 -when I picked it up. -It attacked you? 1067 00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,320 That was a really priceless ornament, that. 1068 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,720 That's a real shame. 1069 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,240 That's coming out at a rate. 1070 00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,200 I reckon you've probably got three, maybe four minutes. 1071 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,560 -That's a pint. -It's not a pint. It's spread out thin on the floor. 1072 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,440 If this were you there'd be bloody helicopters coming, 1073 00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,760 -trousers being cut off. -Yeah. I'd be out of here by now. 1074 00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,760 I'm just getting on with it. Go and have a look 1075 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,760 -how much damage you've done in yours. -Mine'll be fine. 1076 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,880 I won't have done any damage in the Bentley. 1077 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,480 -Oh, God! -(JEREMY LAUGHS) 1078 00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:15,160 -Go on, say it. -I've lost my jugs and my clock. 1079 00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,120 -All I've got is this ring. -(JEREMY LAUGHS) 1080 00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,360 JEREMY: With James' unrealistic real world test out of the way, 1081 00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,440 we continued heading east 1082 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:33,360 and eventually we arrived at the fount of everything. 1083 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,120 The cradle of humankind is in South Africa. 1084 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,280 That's where we began as a species. 1085 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:57,240 But the cradle of everything that makes us special 1086 00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,160 is here. 1087 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:04,240 The things that we make out of what's coming out of the ground here 1088 00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,720 boggles the mind. 1089 00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,280 Toothbrushes, crayons, 1090 00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,440 heart valves, parachutes, 1091 00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:12,920 anti-freeze. 1092 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,480 JAMES: Vinyl records, cassette tapes, 1093 00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,440 CDs, training shoes. 1094 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,880 Guitar strings, balloons, 1095 00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,600 sunglasses, life jackets. 1096 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,920 Anaesthetics, enamel, dentures, 1097 00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,400 prosthetic limbs, shampoo. 1098 00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,120 Disposable ballpoint pen, 1099 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,640 smartphone, 1100 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,280 face creams, deodorants. 1101 00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,600 Lipstick, fishing rods, 1102 00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,400 electric blankets, insect repellent, 1103 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,160 umbrellas, roofing. 1104 00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,160 Light switches, dishwashers, 1105 00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,400 John Travolta's face. 1106 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,320 Antiseptic, food preservatives, 1107 00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,440 basketballs, putty, 1108 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:58,440 motorcycle helmets, boats, 1109 00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,120 soft contact lenses. 1110 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,120 The crackly bottle your water comes in. 1111 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,240 Fan belts, satellite dishes, 1112 00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,200 Frisbees, heat, 1113 00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,400 light. 1114 00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,000 And most importantly of all, 1115 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,720 the amber nectar of the gods, petrol. 1116 00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,960 JEREMY: Oil is so important here, in fact, 1117 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,120 they've built a spa where you can bathe in it. 1118 00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,880 It was like the wine spa we found in Georgia, 1119 00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,240 apart from in every way. 1120 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,920 (BUBBLING) 1121 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,920 -Is that really crude oil? -Yeah. 1122 00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,120 I feel like a guillemot. 1123 00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,320 (LAUGHS) 1124 00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,840 Any minute now some woman with hairy armpits 1125 00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,760 will take me to a yurt and wash me down with Fairy Liquid 1126 00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,360 and say, "Look what we found." 1127 00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,400 -Where's our baths? -We've only got the one bath. 1128 00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:54,800 You're not getting in here with me. 1129 00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:56,560 Well, I'm not getting in after you. 1130 00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,440 -Why not? -Are you kidding? 1131 00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:02,160 Well, because that would be full of your scabs and dandruff... 1132 01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,760 JEREMY: The next day, after I'd been scraped clean, 1133 01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,280 we set off for the Caspian Sea. 1134 01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:16,080 And since we were almost at journey's end, 1135 01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,480 it felt like a good time to sum up our cars. 1136 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,400 All the things a car has to excel at 1137 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,080 to be a good GT car, 1138 01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,160 luxury, comfort, power, style, 1139 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,120 make for just a good car of any sort. 1140 01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,520 And this new Bentley Continental GT 1141 01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:39,440 is a very, very, very good GT car. 1142 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,000 But it has surprised me beyond that. 1143 01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:47,880 At the track, when two and a quarter tonnes of car felt nimble and agile. 1144 01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,920 But above all else it's about this interior. 1145 01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:57,080 This is just a nicer place to be than anywhere else. 1146 01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,040 Got to say it... This thing is a masterpiece. 1147 01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,600 They've absolutely nailed it. 1148 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,840 And it deserves to wear its flying B. 1149 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,920 What a thing. 1150 01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,040 So, my BMW. Now, when we started this trip, 1151 01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,720 I merely thought it was rather good. 1152 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,880 But now... I'm pretty much in love with it. 1153 01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:31,320 And most of that, to be honest, is because of that V8 engine. 1154 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,920 It's smooth, it's quiet, it's unobtrusive, 1155 01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,400 but then you just knock it down a few and give it a bit of shoe... 1156 01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:38,560 (REVS) 1157 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,320 See? It becomes sonorous. 1158 01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,600 Its voice becomes more heartfelt 1159 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,720 and it tingles through the steering wheel and through my buttocks. 1160 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,040 It's lovely. 1161 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:48,400 And the other thing... 1162 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,240 And I know this is going to sound 1163 01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,440 a little bit sort of #FirstWorldConsideration 1164 01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,560 but it's only £100,000. 1165 01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:00,880 Considerably less than half the price of the Aston Martin. 1166 01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,920 It also looks better and it's made by Germans. 1167 01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:06,640 Buy this. 1168 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,520 JEREMY: It's been a great trip, this. 1169 01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,760 A couple of things we've learned on the way... 1170 01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,000 No.1, Georgia, hidden gem. 1171 01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:24,600 Tbilisi in particular. 1172 01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:28,760 And No.2, pottery is much sharper than you might imagine. 1173 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:35,000 Then there's the DBS and that is tricky. 1174 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,080 It is as fast as hell and it's comfortable 1175 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,640 and it looks sensational. 1176 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:43,720 It's a hugely appealing car 1177 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:50,000 but is it worth £70,000 more than the also hugely appealing DB11? 1178 01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,000 And I don't think it is. 1179 01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,040 I just don't think it is. 1180 01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,920 Maybe if they'd fitted an interior that made you feel special 1181 01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,840 like the interior does in the Bentley, 1182 01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,520 I'd have a different view, but they didn't. 1183 01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:09,800 So I don't. Sorry. 1184 01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:16,040 JEREMY: After a stunning drive through the tip of the Caucasus, 1185 01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:21,080 we eventually arrived in the jaw-dropping capital of Azerbaijan. 1186 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,360 Here we are. Baku, 1187 01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:36,280 where there is, let's be honest, some architecture. 1188 01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,800 I mean, look at that. 1189 01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,960 A British architect did that, 1190 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,440 my favouritest building in the world 1191 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,400 by a long way. 1192 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,320 These cars are now looking... well, I'd call them heroic. 1193 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,960 James would say disgusting. 1194 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:03,360 James May, how annoyed are you by the dirtiness of your car? 1195 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,640 -(LAUGHS) -I was just saying that we're in disgrace. 1196 01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,120 Because this is a shiny, spangly city. 1197 01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,160 We should make our cars shiny and spangly. 1198 01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,440 It only takes a minute to clean them. 1199 01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,000 These look like they've done work 1200 01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,960 and battled and fought through. 1201 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,320 -No, they look dirty. -(LAUGHS) 1202 01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,000 Ooh, hello. This is a bit of the Grand Prix track. 1203 01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,000 Of course, they have the Grand Prix here now. 1204 01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,920 Why don't we do a lap of the Grand Prix track? 1205 01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:41,760 Well, because I doubt you can. It's not just a track, is it? 1206 01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,720 Well, why don't we do a drag race on the main straight? 1207 01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:50,000 Because it's a city. You can't just do a drag race. 1208 01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,280 What if we asked really nicely? 1209 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:59,560 As Hammond didn't have an answer to that, I did ask really nicely. 1210 01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,160 And the next day they really did close off the main straight. 1211 01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:06,640 So we could have our important drag race. 1212 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,640 (REVVING) 1213 01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,960 The Aston should absolutely cream this. 1214 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,880 On paper it's faster to 60 and it's more powerful. 1215 01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,440 And it's lighter. 1216 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,160 But it's rear-wheel drive and it's a wet track. 1217 01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:28,800 I have four-wheel drive and launch control. 1218 01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,920 My only slight worry is James has got them as well. 1219 01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,360 Here's my prediction. Their four-wheel drive systems and launch controls 1220 01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,800 will get them off the line quickly. 1221 01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:45,000 And then once I've got the power down, I'll just become a missile. 1222 01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,000 This is not a race to see who wins. 1223 01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,760 It's a race to see which one of my colleagues loses. 1224 01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,720 (REVVING) 1225 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:00,720 OK, here we go. 1226 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,920 And we are away! 1227 01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,360 Can't get the power down. 1228 01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,760 Whoa! 1229 01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,480 Oh, I feel it slithering, that four-wheel drive doing its job. 1230 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,840 Whoa! OK... 1231 01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:34,040 Bentley's reeling me in. I don't think he's going to do it. 1232 01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,320 Come on, BMW. 1233 01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,040 Yes! (LAUGHS) 1234 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,280 Where's Jeremy gone? 1235 01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,880 Interesting building here. It's a government building. 1236 01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:47,960 I'm just going to have a look at it. 1237 01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,440 Yeah, nice. 1238 01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:57,160 Having looked at the building, I decided to have another go. 1239 01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,280 But still the Aston would not behave. 1240 01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,600 Oh, my.... 1241 01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,640 Oh, jeez. 1242 01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,200 Victory! 1243 01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:19,840 So is it just all over the place? 1244 01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:24,240 I'm using about a quarter throttle and it's sideways. 1245 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,680 (LAUGHS) It's not brilliant, is it? 1246 01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:30,400 Well done for getting permission but not so good on the weather. 1247 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,160 I therefore decided that before we tried again, 1248 01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,400 I should do something about the weather. 1249 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,080 So I got us and all our crew vehicles 1250 01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,720 to drive up and down the track to try and dry it out. 1251 01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,400 This took quite a while. 1252 01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:52,080 RICHARD ON RADIO: Jeremy, on that first run, did some poo come out? 1253 01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:56,360 Difficult to keep the poo in when your anus is as well oiled as mine. 1254 01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:00,120 How dry are we going to be able to get this track? 1255 01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,160 JEREMY: It's drying out on James' side. 1256 01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,000 If we do another run with me there... 1257 01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,960 -Be all right. -Well, it's hardly real world, is it, 1258 01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,280 choosing which bit of the road you drive on to make your car faster. 1259 01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,360 As that is in fact exactly what you do in a race, 1260 01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:18,600 I ignored him and lined up 1261 01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:21,680 for our third attempt on the dry line. 1262 01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:27,320 So, BMW, Bentley or the surface-to-air missile. 1263 01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:29,320 Which will win? 1264 01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,400 Amber. 1265 01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,000 JEREMY: Ohh! 1266 01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,320 It's a great start. 1267 01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,760 Jesus! It's still doing it. 1268 01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,720 80mph, 90mph. 1269 01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:56,920 Oh, it's going sideways again. 1270 01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:58,920 Oh, my... 1271 01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,880 Ohh! 1272 01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,240 Oh, jeez! 1273 01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,400 -Reel him in, reel him in. -Come on, BMW. 1274 01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,160 Oh, bugger! 1275 01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,960 (LAUGHS) 1276 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,920 Well, there we are. The Aston was by far the most exciting to look at there. 1277 01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,160 As usual. 1278 01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,040 So now let's get some lunch. 1279 01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:35,200 And moments later we found our grail. 1280 01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:44,560 There we are, look, 50 feet below sea level and we have arrived at journey's end. 1281 01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,840 The Caspian. 1282 01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:51,520 The largest inland body of water in the world. 1283 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,920 Our journey is complete. 1284 01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,880 Let's get a bream. 1285 01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,960 A bream's fish? 1286 01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,640 No, Hammond, they're cows. Of course they're fish! 1287 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,680 I don't like fish. 1288 01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,760 -Well, on that terrible disappointment... -For him. 1289 01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:24,720 Mm. ...back to the tent. 1290 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,520 -(CHOKES) -(LAUGHTER) 1291 01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,000 Why did you say "Back to the tent," you idiot? 1292 01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,080 Um... Oh, right, um... It just slipped... 1293 01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,520 -I've got biscuit. -(LAUGHTER) 1294 01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,720 -You don't do that. -It slipped out. -Never do that. 1295 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:43,320 It gives us a chance at least to say how good GT cars are. 1296 01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:45,240 -I love them. -Mm. 1297 01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,080 Engine at the front and all the power you need. 1298 01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:48,320 They're everything you want in a car. 1299 01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,320 I agree. The BMW was the best as well. 1300 01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:51,640 -Eh? -Yes, but, James, 1301 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:53,000 why don't you tell the ladies and gentlemen 1302 01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:56,160 about the BMW's lane departure system? 1303 01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,240 You know, the one that keeps you in the white lines when you're driving along. 1304 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,360 Yeah, well, the thing is, it was a pre-production car. 1305 01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,680 It had a slight glitch in it. You couldn't turn it off. 1306 01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,800 And it's quite annoying on the road because it does that. 1307 01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,760 But on the track, the problem is that you aim for a perfect apex 1308 01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,560 but the car thinks, he's about to have an accident. 1309 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,840 It just throws you back into the middle of the track again. 1310 01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:16,440 -(LAUGHTER) -It was extremely irritating. 1311 01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,600 There was that, which you moaned about a lot, and the gearbox. 1312 01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:21,680 Yeah, the gearbox, well... (LAUGHS) 1313 01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,440 The problem there is, the display on the dash, there's two of them. 1314 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,280 -One of them says what gear you've selected... -Mm. 1315 01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:31,760 ...but the other one says what gear the car thinks you should be in. 1316 01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,360 So, again on the track, you'll be driving along, 1317 01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:34,640 going, here comes a left-hand bend... 1318 01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,280 (IMITATES CHANGING DOWN) 1319 01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,280 ..right down to second and the car would go, seventh? 1320 01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,240 (LAUGHTER) 1321 01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,440 -That is annoying. -It's basically just Germans 1322 01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,440 saying, "The Englander knows nothing here." 1323 01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:46,960 -(LAUGHTER) -Exactly. 1324 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,000 But it was bloody fast, the BMW. 1325 01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,720 -It was excellent. -But I still think the Bentley was the best. 1326 01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:53,320 -It was the best. -I agree. 1327 01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:54,880 -What? -I agree. 1328 01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:56,320 Look, I really like the DBS, OK? 1329 01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:57,720 It was a fantastic car. 1330 01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,120 I like the DB11 as well. 1331 01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:00,320 And the Vantage. 1332 01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,160 But for doing that journey... 1333 01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,120 -I'd choose the Bentley. -Wait a minute, 1334 01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,800 haven't you just recommended the Aston Martin DBS to a friend of yours? 1335 01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,600 -Yes, I have. -(LAUGHTER) 1336 01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,240 -And has he since bought one? -Yes, he has. 1337 01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:15,400 (LAUGHTER) 1338 01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:17,400 And on that terrible disappointment, for him, 1339 01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:20,600 it's time to end. Thank you so much for watching. Goodbye! 1340 01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:22,520 (CHEERING) 1341 01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:26,640 (AUDIENCE MEMBER WHISTLES) 98799

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