WEBVTT 00:11.072 --> 00:16.024 On today's show, James catches fire. 00:16.059 --> 00:18.037 Richard knocks something over. 00:18.072 --> 00:21.048 And I crash a Reliant Robin into to a lamppost. 00:28.012 --> 00:29.045 Hello! 00:29.080 --> 00:31.096 Hello, we're back! We're back! 00:33.048 --> 00:35.008 We're back and we are... 00:36.060 --> 00:39.001 .. more sensible than ever. 00:39.036 --> 00:42.044 Well, we're starting sensibly anyway, with this, 00:42.079 --> 00:43.993 the Bentley Continental GT. 00:44.028 --> 00:46.057 It's not my cup of tea, if I'm honest, 00:46.092 --> 00:51.576 but if you live in Cheshire and you have to travel great distances 00:51.611 --> 00:57.060 at high speed in drinks globe luxury it really is in a class of one. 00:57.095 --> 01:01.064 Now, however, there's a new version which is a bit different. 01:03.000 --> 01:09.074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 01:11.036 --> 01:16.012 It's called the Continental Supersports, and this is it. 01:16.047 --> 01:23.056 The fastest, most outlandish car Bentley has ever made. 01:23.091 --> 01:25.989 First of all, it's been lightened. 01:26.024 --> 01:30.061 The rear seat has been replaced with air. 01:30.096 --> 01:37.088 The sofas up front are now racing buckets trimmed in the Duke of Westminster's smoking jacket. 01:39.040 --> 01:43.052 And there is carbon fibre on the dash rather than walnut. 01:47.012 --> 01:52.068 The result is dramatic because that car weighs just two and a quarter tons, 01:52.103 --> 01:56.024 about the same as a three bedroom terraced house. 01:59.064 --> 02:03.052 Still, it's not like there isn't enough power to deal with the bulk. 02:03.087 --> 02:09.039 It has the same engine as before, a 6 litre twin turbo W12, 02:09.074 --> 02:15.008 but now it produces 621 horsepower. 02:19.020 --> 02:24.024 The result is 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. 02:40.080 --> 02:46.052 God, that is 167, 168 and it's still pulling! 02:48.092 --> 02:52.973 Flat out, it will do 204 miles an hour, 02:53.008 --> 02:57.048 even if you fill the tank with Jerusalem artichokes. 03:05.076 --> 03:11.024 That engine has been designed to run on something called bioethanol, fuel made from plants. 03:11.059 --> 03:15.559 And if you use that rather than petrol the power output remains 03:15.594 --> 03:20.060 the same, but you get fewer carbon dioxides coming out of the back. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.012 Sounds wonderful, if you believe in this carbon malarkey, 03:28.047 --> 03:30.036 but there are a couple of drawbacks. 03:32.032 --> 03:40.064 First of all, there are 8,850 petrol stations in Britain, but only 20 of them sell bio-ethanol. 03:40.099 --> 03:47.000 And, secondly, when you're running on maize it's not what you'd call economical. 03:50.064 --> 03:54.056 Honestly, it gets through veg faster than Paul McCartney's ex. 03:56.064 --> 03:59.969 The Supersports, then, it's all much as you'd expect, 04:00.004 --> 04:05.060 very fast, very heavy and at speed about six miles to the gallon. 04:08.036 --> 04:11.076 But don't be fooled by the headlines. 04:11.111 --> 04:16.012 This is spooky. 04:16.048 --> 04:22.064 I've got an automatic gearbox and air conditioning, satellite navigation and it's very quiet. 04:22.099 --> 04:28.068 It's just like a normal Bentley, but look at the way it changes direction. 04:36.052 --> 04:42.040 This car is like an elephant with the reflexes of a water boatman. 04:42.075 --> 04:45.579 And if you're watching in Poland and you don't know what 04:45.614 --> 04:49.049 a water boatman is, it's like an Evo X, it really is. 04:49.084 --> 04:54.016 And if you're watching in Ethiopia and you don't know what an Evo X is, 04:54.051 --> 04:59.020 what I mean is it does things rather well. No, not well! 04:59.055 --> 05:01.068 Why did I say "well"? Oh, God. 05:03.024 --> 05:09.000 Then you have the brakes which can tear your face off. 05:09.035 --> 05:11.048 Ready, now! 05:20.052 --> 05:24.033 To make the Bentley a race track screamer it's been fitted with 05:24.068 --> 05:30.096 carbon ceramic discs, new suspension bushes and different anti roll bars. 05:30.131 --> 05:34.004 Though when I say different I mean, of course, enormous. 05:36.040 --> 05:42.004 They've also reprogrammed the four wheel drive system so that now most of the power goes to the back. 05:46.052 --> 05:52.036 Imagine then that if you mash the throttle into the carpets halfway around a corner 05:52.071 --> 05:58.048 it will spin up its rear wheels and hang its tail out like a small dog. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.072 Sorry, but was a dreadful simile, dogs don't have wheels. 06:03.107 --> 06:05.056 Unless they'd been in an accident. 06:08.016 --> 06:10.041 But here's the extraordinary thing, OK? 06:10.076 --> 06:15.000 It doesn't! Coming up to the Hammerhead going the wrong way, 06:15.035 --> 06:16.072 halfway round, foot hard down... 06:24.028 --> 06:27.076 .. it doesn't! It just grips. 06:31.012 --> 06:37.012 Of course, you can make it misbehave if you go way too fast and poke it with a stick. 06:43.040 --> 06:47.013 But even if you do that the computer steps in, 06:47.048 --> 06:53.020 sends power to the front wheels and, bang, everything is sorted out! 06:53.055 --> 06:55.044 It is uncanny. 06:57.020 --> 07:00.076 It is a very impressive car, this. 07:00.111 --> 07:02.973 But I don't like it. 07:03.008 --> 07:08.084 What they've tried to do here is turn an ocean liner into a speedboat. 07:12.096 --> 07:15.973 And, yes, they have sort of pulled it off, 07:16.008 --> 07:22.084 but it still feels very big and very heavy. Oh dear! 07:34.092 --> 07:36.044 Whoa! 07:41.004 --> 07:48.008 So big and so heavy in fact that I believe it has just shredded its rear tyres. 07:50.096 --> 07:57.092 Oh dear! Now, I don't think that's legal any more or safe. 08:04.012 --> 08:05.973 The upshot then is simple. 08:06.008 --> 08:10.993 If I wanted to spend L163,000 on a speedboat 08:11.028 --> 08:16.000 I'd buy something that was designed to be a speedboat in the first place. 08:18.008 --> 08:23.004 In short, I'd buy an Aston Martin DBS. 08:40.024 --> 08:41.083 Thank you very much. 08:44.028 --> 08:48.000 Really? You would have the Aston? 08:48.035 --> 08:48.973 Oh, yeah. 08:49.008 --> 08:51.060 No, it's more nimble, it's got two more seats, 08:51.095 --> 08:53.017 doesn't weigh the same as a church. 08:53.052 --> 08:57.008 Doesn't eat its own shoes. No,this is t he best car in the world. No, it isn't. 08:57.043 --> 09:01.000 Yes, it is. Anyway, we must now find out how fast 09:01.035 --> 09:03.017 the Wilmslow Express goes round our track 09:03.052 --> 09:07.064 and that, of course, means handing it over to our tame racing driver. 09:07.099 --> 09:12.092 Some say that his discharge is luminous... 09:15.028 --> 09:19.546 .. and that even as we speak he is appearing on the main stage 09:19.581 --> 09:24.064 at Glastonbury performing his most famous hit, Superstition. 09:27.048 --> 09:30.024 All we know is he's called The Stig. 09:31.080 --> 09:36.080 He's off! Note the flags there, Stig displaying his support for the Norwegian football team. 09:36.115 --> 09:41.080 I tried to explain they aren't actually in the World Cup, but this made him very angry. 09:41.115 --> 09:45.056 Here he is, first corner, looking nice. 09:45.091 --> 09:47.008 Yes! 09:49.076 --> 09:55.558 Interestingly, he's the only person in the world who likes the sound of the vuvuzela, because he invented it! 09:55.593 --> 09:59.024 There he is, round Chicago, very tidy for a big car. 09:59.059 --> 10:01.088 Now, Hammerhead. This should be astonishing. 10:03.072 --> 10:06.080 Oh no, it's exploded! It's rolled end over end! 10:06.115 --> 10:09.569 This is incredible! But Stig's out of the wreckage! 10:09.604 --> 10:13.024 He's dodging the naked waitresses and... he's on fire! 10:13.059 --> 10:14.045 He's now coming up to Gambon. 10:14.080 --> 10:17.058 No, no! He's taking his helmet off! 10:17.093 --> 10:20.001 It's her! Right round the tiger! 10:20.036 --> 10:25.033 He's just a shaken hands with Elvis and there he is, across the line! 10:25.068 --> 10:32.024 I don't believe that, the most exciting thing I've ever seen and some idiot at Television Centre 10:32.059 --> 10:35.017 cut to an advertisement for a stupid little Korean hatchback. 10:35.052 --> 10:40.056 It's a good job ITV didn't cover the moon landings. 10 foot. 10:40.091 --> 10:42.021 Five foot. 10:42.056 --> 10:45.076 chocolate on your biscuit... 10:45.111 --> 10:48.017 Anyway, I have the time 10:48.052 --> 10:52.558 and it did it in 1:24.9, which puts it there. 10:52.593 --> 10:57.029 And that's not bad, really, for a small moon. 10:57.064 --> 11:02.064 Anyway, now we must turn our attention to the Icelandic volcano because although it went on 11:02.099 --> 11:07.553 to become global news, the actual eruption itself started out quite 11:07.588 --> 11:13.008 small and that got us wondering how close could you get to it in a car. 11:13.012 --> 11:17.080 Now, obviously, this was a job for a rugged, outdoorsy sort of chap. 11:17.115 --> 11:20.060 Unfortunately, Jeremy was on holiday, 11:20.095 --> 11:22.040 so James went. 11:29.004 --> 11:33.000 It's very hard to drive across Iceland at the best of times. 11:35.076 --> 11:38.061 But luckily I had just the vehicle for the job. 11:38.096 --> 11:45.040 This looks exactly like the Toyota that Jeremy and I 11:45.075 --> 11:47.033 drove to the North Pole. 11:47.068 --> 11:50.044 More to the point, this has been to the North Pole with us, 11:50.079 --> 11:54.048 but you never saw it and it never got any of the glory 11:54.083 --> 11:58.017 because it was the one driven by the camera crew. 11:58.052 --> 12:05.060 After we got back from the Pole our car went off to a museum whereas this one was just left to rot. 12:05.095 --> 12:10.028 Today, though, I'm going to bring it back to life and give it one more mission. 12:14.068 --> 12:19.080 Wow, I never actually thoughtI'd be so pleased to seeone of these again. 12:19.115 --> 12:21.029 This really brings it all back, 12:21.064 --> 12:27.048 the ice going on and on forever, the boulder field going on and on forever. 12:27.083 --> 12:29.076 I can hear Jeremy going on and on forever. 12:31.016 --> 12:33.044 Oh, God... 12:35.064 --> 12:40.056 No matter, my job is to turn this into the world's first volcano-proof car, 12:40.091 --> 12:42.989 which means a visit to Emil, 12:43.024 --> 12:48.025 the 4x4 genius who built it in the first place. 12:48.060 --> 12:51.001 I mean, what are the unique risks to volcano driving, 12:51.036 --> 12:54.088 apart from obviously being consumed by molten lava and burnt to a crisp? 12:54.123 --> 12:56.057 It depends on how close you want to get. 12:56.092 --> 12:59.981 Very close. As far as I can work out no-one's ever actually driven 13:00.016 --> 13:04.088 right up to the mouth of an active volcano in a car, so it's another Top Gear first if we can do it. 13:04.123 --> 13:06.017 Yeah. 13:06.052 --> 13:10.068 Some people claim you can walk on hot coals if you wet the bottom 13:10.103 --> 13:14.049 of your feet and I was just wondering, if there was some system 13:14.084 --> 13:20.032 of continuously wetting the tyres would it be possible to drive across the hot lava? 13:20.067 --> 13:24.056 If you don't fall through, possibly, yeah, if you drive fast. 13:27.068 --> 13:29.044 Emile didn't look very confident, 13:29.079 --> 13:33.036 but we set to work anyway... 13:35.028 --> 13:39.060 .. and by the next morning the volcano-buster was ready. 13:45.004 --> 13:48.080 I know I look a bit like a petty thief on my way home from some corrugated roof robbery 13:48.115 --> 13:52.012 at the allotment, but there's a very good reason for all of this. 13:52.047 --> 13:54.985 Their lava occasionally goes over an area of water and that 13:55.020 --> 14:00.025 causes an explosion throwing bits of lava and rock up into the air, 14:00.060 --> 14:06.000 so that's there to stop those lumps coming down and breaking the windscreen, or my head. 14:09.004 --> 14:12.985 We've also fitted our new and pioneering tyre cooling system. 14:13.020 --> 14:17.036 There's an oil drum on the back full of water and pipes feed the water to the tyres. 14:17.071 --> 14:20.981 Now, obviously, there's a risk of it freezing and we can't put antifreeze 14:21.016 --> 14:26.016 in the water because that pollutes the glacier, so we've added a dash of vodka. 14:31.012 --> 14:33.021 As I drove on to the glacier, I stopped to hook up with 14:33.056 --> 14:38.064 a volcanologist who couldn't get to the volcano because of the weather. 14:43.072 --> 14:47.997 And it's fantastically windy. I've never seen or felt a wind like it. 14:48.032 --> 14:53.084 Because of this storm that has been raging for the last few days, we haven't really been able to visit 14:53.119 --> 14:56.037 the area to see what's going on there. 14:56.072 --> 15:00.032 So at the moment, with this weather, in this white-out, 15:00.067 --> 15:02.012 really nobody knows what's happening. 15:02.047 --> 15:05.045 Exactly. Nobody can say. 15:05.080 --> 15:08.989 As night fell, the storm became worse. 15:09.024 --> 15:13.076 It was so bad that by morning, it had taken the lives of two locals. 15:15.060 --> 15:20.048 This is what we're seeing, or what we're not seeing, I should say. 15:23.088 --> 15:26.993 Visibility is probably less than 10m. 15:27.028 --> 15:33.060 We reckoned that as long as we could follow the car carrying Emil and the camera crew, we'd be OK. 15:35.056 --> 15:36.088 There it is. There he is. 15:38.004 --> 15:39.080 But we weren't. 15:41.060 --> 15:43.044 Oh, I've lost the tail lights. 15:43.079 --> 15:44.096 Wow, that's dark. 15:47.028 --> 15:49.989 Soon, we were completely lost. 15:50.024 --> 15:53.024 Can you see any red lights? I don't see anything. 15:53.059 --> 15:55.028 Oh, cock. 15:59.012 --> 16:02.001 Right, we are now, effectively, driving on instruments. 16:02.036 --> 16:05.036 Outside the window is just... it's a complete sheet of white. 16:05.071 --> 16:07.029 There's a blizzard going. 16:07.064 --> 16:09.064 The windscreen itself is freezing up. 16:09.099 --> 16:11.064 The windscreen wipers have frozen up. 16:11.099 --> 16:14.057 It's quite unnerving. 16:14.092 --> 16:18.020 Eventually, I had to get out to unjam the wipers. 16:18.055 --> 16:21.048 Ah! Oh, my God. 16:21.083 --> 16:23.071 Blinding. 16:23.106 --> 16:25.060 Look at that. 16:38.072 --> 16:40.080 Good job. 16:42.080 --> 16:46.985 God, I've never known anything like that. 16:47.020 --> 16:49.048 I hadn't realised how strong that was, being in here. 16:49.083 --> 16:50.997 I could hardly stand up. 16:51.032 --> 16:56.028 We ploughed onwards until, at last, salvation. 16:56.063 --> 17:01.024 Lights! Look, lights! There they are. Thank God. 17:03.064 --> 17:06.981 Eventually, the storm cleared and we arrived at 17:07.016 --> 17:12.028 our overnight stop, where we were greeted by a spectacular sight. 17:12.063 --> 17:14.096 Wow, look at that! Beautiful. 17:16.060 --> 17:18.029 How far away is that? 17:18.064 --> 17:21.023 About one and a half kilometres. 17:21.059 --> 17:23.529 I can hear it, as well. 17:23.564 --> 17:26.000 It's like cannon fire. 17:26.035 --> 17:28.036 That's fantastic. 17:35.056 --> 17:42.088 The next morning, still with no idea how big this eruption would become, I dropped off the professor... 17:42.123 --> 17:44.013 Thanks for a ride. 17:44.048 --> 17:51.056 .. and headed on alone, until at last I got my first close-up look at the volcano. 18:01.064 --> 18:03.044 God in heaven, look at that. 18:08.088 --> 18:12.033 Lava was spewing out at a temperature of 1,200 degrees centigrade, 18:12.068 --> 18:18.012 and right in front of my eyes, a brand-new part of the world was being created. 18:18.047 --> 18:21.025 It was now my job to test our volcano car by driving up to 18:21.060 --> 18:27.032 the crater and scooping up a fresh piece of landscape as a souvenir. 18:27.067 --> 18:30.084 And to help me with that, they've given me a garden trowel, 18:30.119 --> 18:34.096 on an extending pole, held on with sticky tape, and... 18:36.048 --> 18:37.993 .. a bucket. 18:38.028 --> 18:40.969 And of course, I have my corrugated roof 18:41.004 --> 18:45.028 and I'm in the best off-road vehicle I've ever driven. 18:45.063 --> 18:47.092 So, piece of cake, really. Here we go. 19:00.032 --> 19:02.040 Does look quite angry. 19:05.004 --> 19:07.021 Oh, God, look at that. 19:07.056 --> 19:10.997 Even though I was driving on lava that had fallen days ago, 19:11.032 --> 19:17.036 it was still red hot, and the Top Gear vodka tyre cooling system was working overtime. 19:17.071 --> 19:21.028 Right, what I need is for a piece to land quite near me, 19:21.063 --> 19:25.088 and then I can reach out of the window and grab it. 19:25.123 --> 19:27.080 Ooh! 19:30.072 --> 19:33.052 Bravely, I decided that was far enough. 19:33.087 --> 19:35.061 Oh, my word. 19:35.096 --> 19:39.056 I don't know if you can see this but it's raining red-hot lumps. 19:39.091 --> 19:42.047 It's quite... 19:42.082 --> 19:44.969 God, that's hot. 19:45.004 --> 19:48.072 It was time to break out the lava scoop. 19:53.012 --> 19:54.546 Whoa! Bloody hellfire. 19:54.581 --> 19:56.045 Look at the size of that! 19:56.080 --> 19:59.000 A piece of that would do nicely. 20:00.044 --> 20:02.522 Whoa! 20:02.557 --> 20:04.965 Yes! Yes! 20:05.000 --> 20:08.000 It's still glowing slightly. 20:08.035 --> 20:09.041 Yay-hey! 20:09.076 --> 20:13.008 God, that's hot. 20:13.043 --> 20:15.012 Whoa! 20:17.092 --> 20:20.021 Oh, that's getting a bit frisky. 20:20.056 --> 20:25.004 In the excitement of bagging a souvenir, I'd stayed still for too long. 20:27.080 --> 20:31.004 We're on fire. Right, I'm off. 20:34.088 --> 20:40.008 With the tyres steaming, I beat a retreat from the volcano, 20:40.043 --> 20:44.043 clutching my brand-new piece of planet Earth. 20:44.078 --> 20:48.044 I claim you for Queen Elizabeth and Top Gear. 20:53.088 --> 21:00.068 And best of all, the unsung hero finally got the recognition it deserves. 21:16.036 --> 21:18.524 And... 21:18.559 --> 21:21.012 Here is... 21:24.036 --> 21:27.061 Is that it? The piece of lava I brought backfor you. What a souvenir! 21:27.096 --> 21:32.061 Do you know, it was quite interesting. I asked a volcanologist the other day what caused that 21:32.096 --> 21:37.574 small eruption we saw in the film there to become so massive, to shut down all of Europe's airspace. 21:37.609 --> 21:43.052 And he said there must have been a trigger of some kind, a disturbance near the actual crater itself. 21:43.087 --> 21:47.969 Yes, something to do with weight, he said. It would need about two tonnes. 21:48.004 --> 21:52.040 If it was in the right place, it could trigger all of that. That's not strictly true, is it? 21:52.075 --> 21:57.052 James, have you been working recently on any oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico? 21:57.087 --> 22:03.041 Let's do the news. Just before we do, I don'tknow if you've heard... 22:03.076 --> 22:09.008 Barack Obama's been prattling on about British Petroleum and "this is 9/11 X 1,000," this oil spill... 22:09.043 --> 22:12.096 Did you hear how the English football fans responded during the America game the other day? 22:12.131 --> 22:17.060 They were actually singing, "You're not swimming any more!" 22:19.024 --> 22:21.096 That is classic. Right, let's really do the news. 22:21.131 --> 22:23.965 Yes, the news. 22:24.000 --> 22:31.060 Ferrari has broken the lap record of the Nurburgring for production cars with this, the 599XX. 22:31.095 --> 22:33.009 It did it in 6 minutes, 58 seconds. 22:33.044 --> 22:37.088 Nurburgring? That's faster than than Clay Regazzoni'slap record in an F1 car. 22:38.064 --> 22:43.036 I know the track's a bit shorter now, but that is almost unbelievably fast. For a road car. 22:43.071 --> 22:45.977 For a production car. That's incredible. 22:46.012 --> 22:50.008 It does have a six-litre V12 and 772 horsepower, 22:50.043 --> 22:55.969 and it costs L 1.2 million. 22:56.004 --> 22:58.969 And, you can't actually have it. 22:59.004 --> 23:02.009 Well, unless you've got L 1.2 million, obviously. 23:02.044 --> 23:06.084 No, you can buy it, and you own it, but then they don't let you have it, 23:06.119 --> 23:09.029 but they do let you drive it occasionally, if they feel like it. 23:09.064 --> 23:13.032 Can I just say, this was the actual photograph that Ferrari sent to us 23:13.067 --> 23:15.041 to show what the car looked like at the Nurburgring. 23:15.076 --> 23:19.028 Now, I'm not sure it's particularly brilliant. If we look at the graffiti on the track... 23:22.068 --> 23:27.053 That's not a map of the Nurburgring, is it? No. I... They didn't see that? 23:27.088 --> 23:31.981 You've seen it now. Too late. And I have to say, the manwho's responsible for this 23:32.016 --> 23:36.032 piece of graffiti has also been at work in Russia on a drawbridge. I've got a picture here. 23:38.092 --> 23:42.546 We're supposed to be being serious. Yeah, we are. According to the newspapers... 23:42.581 --> 23:46.965 Haven't we just shown two crudely-drawn images of a man's private parts? Yes. 23:47.000 --> 23:51.021 That's not serious, is it? According to the newspapers,Top Gear has become serious. 23:51.056 --> 23:58.012 Yes. So, here we go. Gentlemen, tell me, since we were last here, what is the best car you've driven? 23:58.047 --> 23:59.029 Good question, glad you asked it. 23:59.064 --> 24:02.016 It would be this, the Lamborghini Gallardo. 24:02.051 --> 24:03.965 This is the Superleggera, the new one. 24:04.000 --> 24:08.005 570. It's magnificent. Lightest, faster. 570 brake horsepower. Really? 24:08.040 --> 24:15.012 I haven't actually driven it as such, but I've looked at that picture of it and I'm desperate to drive it. 570. 24:15.047 --> 24:19.012 570. That's very interesting, because the standard carhas 560, doesn't it? Yep. 24:19.047 --> 24:23.535 And then Ferrari brought out the 458, which has got, I think, 562. 24:23.570 --> 24:28.024 Yes, two more. And then, mysteriou sly,Lamborghini came back with 570. 24:28.059 --> 24:29.981 We all know why it is. 24:30.016 --> 24:36.052 It's because Lamborghini are owned by Audi, so the Germans do the actual building of the cars, and then they... 24:36.087 --> 24:40.004 let the Italians do the brochure, so they just fill in the numbers. 24:40.039 --> 24:42.004 It's got a million horsepower, yes! 24:42.039 --> 24:43.559 100,000. It's invisible. 24:43.594 --> 24:45.045 And it's got cannons! 24:45.080 --> 24:48.580 What about you, then? Come on. I have actually driven it. 24:48.615 --> 24:52.045 AMG SLS. It is a mental. We've got a picture of it here. 24:52.080 --> 24:58.012 Honestly, it is insanely fast. The only thing I don't like about it, really, are the doors. 24:58.047 --> 25:01.973 It's got gull-wings, so I'll probably wait for the convertible. 25:02.008 --> 25:06.044 How can you have gull-wing doors on a convertible? They'd be all floppy. 25:06.079 --> 25:10.032 Idiot. You'd have normal doors and then it would be fantastic. 25:10.067 --> 25:12.037 No, that was awesome. So, James, you? 25:12.072 --> 25:17.056 Well, to be honest, I think it's got to be the new Boxster Spider, which I'm driving next week. 25:17.091 --> 25:20.041 So you haven't driven that either?No... He means... I've driven it, but... 25:20.076 --> 25:26.052 Oh, we're showing it on theprogramme next week. Through the magic of television, we recorded it. 25:26.087 --> 25:28.965 Now, have a look at this. This is a device. 25:29.000 --> 25:34.092 It fits on the exhaust pipe of your car and as you drive along, it cooks a burger for you. 25:36.084 --> 25:38.057 It's brilliant. What, in the exhaust fumes? 25:38.092 --> 25:41.072 No, no, no. The exhaust fumes don't cook the burger. 25:41.107 --> 25:44.017 It's like, you know, like a toasted-sandwich maker? 25:44.052 --> 25:48.048 Your hot gas from the exhaust heats it up and then it griddles the burger in between the two bits. 25:48.083 --> 25:51.005 It's a bit close to the whole exhaust process for food. 25:51.040 --> 25:56.060 Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time. 25:56.095 --> 26:01.008 Hammond. Yes, a normal Nissan GTRcosts, what, 60 grand? 60 grand. 26:01.043 --> 26:05.008 OK. Well, this is the new one. It's the Spec V. V Spec GTR. 26:05.043 --> 26:09.005 That is L125,000, all of a sudden. 26:09.040 --> 26:12.005 Yeah. Why is it L125,000. It's difficult to tell. 26:12.040 --> 26:15.056 It doesn't have more power than the normal car, but it does have something 26:15.091 --> 26:18.029 called a boost-control device. Basically, it's a button. 26:18.064 --> 26:24.064 When you press it, it spools up both the turbos and releases a sudden burst of more power! 26:24.099 --> 26:27.069 I just hope that button is mounted on top of the gear lever 26:27.104 --> 26:30.005 under like a little cage and you lift it and go. 26:30.040 --> 26:35.056 And then you've got to know the code word. And maybe two keys in the dash have to be turned simultaneously... 26:35.091 --> 26:39.079 Like on a nuclear submarine? Yes,that's what I'm thinking! You turn... 26:39.114 --> 26:43.068 A mission from the president. It's a go. I want it, just for that button. 26:43.103 --> 26:45.997 Yes. Because this is sensible Top Gear, I will say 26:46.032 --> 26:49.052 it also comes with a very competitive three-year warranty. Yeah. 26:49.087 --> 26:52.064 Now, are there any girls here? Good. 26:52.099 --> 26:55.989 Don't ever faint in Holland. 26:56.024 --> 26:58.061 That would be my Top Gear top tip for the night. 26:58.096 --> 27:01.017 We've got some footage here, explains what I'm on about. 27:01.052 --> 27:05.024 Start of a race. There's the grid girl. Oh, she's gone a bit wobbly. 27:05.059 --> 27:07.000 And she's fainted. There you go. 27:08.064 --> 27:13.044 So you're thinking, "Poor girl." You're thinking, "Ooh, no - now she's lying on the track." 27:13.079 --> 27:18.028 So, as we can see, men in high-visibility jackets have come over to make sure she's ok. 27:18.063 --> 27:19.061 Or are they making sure she's OK? 27:19.096 --> 27:22.001 How do you...? Oh, put your hand on her bottom. 27:22.036 --> 27:25.076 That's the ticket. That's what he'sdone. Checking for her pulse. 27:25.111 --> 27:27.076 Now let's hear what the driver's got to say. 27:35.020 --> 27:37.025 Get the girl off! 27:37.060 --> 27:40.032 That's a racing driver, isn't it? All over. 27:40.067 --> 27:42.048 Everybody, good news. 27:44.008 --> 27:45.068 No, wait. It's better than you think. 27:45.103 --> 27:48.064 The new Dacia... Duster... 27:50.096 --> 27:53.024 IS coming to the UK. Ok! 27:53.059 --> 27:55.092 That's great. 28:00.040 --> 28:05.076 That's great. Good. Now, for this new series of Top Gear, we have the new reasonably-priced car. 28:05.111 --> 28:10.084 I know, exciting. But it gave us a dilemma what to do with the old one. 28:13.048 --> 28:15.965 Every year in Britain, 28:16.000 --> 28:19.001 over two million cars go to their deaths. 28:19.036 --> 28:22.076 And frankly, it's a pretty cold and clinical affair. 28:22.111 --> 28:25.969 Tyres are made into carpet underlay. 28:26.004 --> 28:28.037 Dashboards are melted down to make garden furniture. 28:28.072 --> 28:34.542 The once-sleek bodywork gets reincarnated as a washing machine. 28:34.577 --> 28:41.012 All in all, a lot of eco-worthiness but absolutely no emotion. 28:43.052 --> 28:46.029 And that's quite sad when you think about it. 28:46.064 --> 28:51.060 Because the car doesn't just carry people. It carries memories. 28:53.048 --> 28:55.017 Take this one, for example. 28:55.052 --> 29:00.092 It's an ancient Mazda 323 that will never go up the hill at Goodwood... 29:00.127 --> 29:03.041 or turn on a plinth at a motor show. 29:03.076 --> 29:09.024 But it's been with the Lister family of Maidenhead for 23 years. 29:09.059 --> 29:12.092 It took Mum to and from hospital when the kids were born. 29:12.127 --> 29:14.973 It did years of school runs. 29:15.008 --> 29:21.032 And when Daniel and Rachel turned 17, they learned to drive in it. 29:21.067 --> 29:26.060 And then adopted it as their passport to teenage freedom. 29:26.095 --> 29:30.093 Sadly, the Listers' 323 is soon to be scrapped. 29:30.128 --> 29:34.096 And it makes you realise that when a car dies, 29:34.131 --> 29:38.064 it should be treated like a death in the family. 29:40.016 --> 29:43.045 And today we find ourselves in that very position. 29:43.080 --> 29:49.064 Because it's time to say goodbye to a special member of the Top Gear family. 29:50.048 --> 29:52.060 Our old reasonably priced car. 29:52.095 --> 29:54.993 The Chevrolet Lacetti. 29:55.028 --> 30:00.080 As a machine, it was never destined to set the automotive world alight. 30:00.115 --> 30:03.985 But it's certainly got some memories. 30:04.020 --> 30:12.020 Think of the real fear and exhilaration experienced by real-life celebrities in this car. 30:12.055 --> 30:17.064 The celebrity sweat from celebrity bums in this seat. 30:17.099 --> 30:20.004 What a life it's been. 30:40.064 --> 30:43.041 But now, it's at the end of its useful life, 30:43.076 --> 30:48.028 and because it's been such a hard life, we're not allowed to sell it. 30:48.063 --> 30:52.033 So with regret, the Lacetti must die. 30:52.068 --> 30:56.041 But the thought of it being crushed and recycled... 30:56.076 --> 31:03.004 and these tyres - Michael Gambon's tyres being turned into carpet underlay... 31:03.039 --> 31:04.053 I'm sorry, no. 31:04.088 --> 31:10.048 So instead, we've decided to give it a Viking burial. 31:11.052 --> 31:15.040 These magnificent chimneys were built in 1969. 31:15.075 --> 31:17.053 They're 550' high, 31:17.088 --> 31:22.080 and they weigh 7,185 tonnes each. 31:23.084 --> 31:31.016 Except today, they weigh a little bit more because each has been stuffed with 25 kilograms of nitroglycerine. 31:31.051 --> 31:36.013 In a few minutes, that'll go boom, and these will come crashing down. 31:36.048 --> 31:43.052 And in the process, they'll create a fitting tomb for our heroic little car. 31:43.087 --> 31:46.009 I can see already this is the right thing to do. 31:46.044 --> 31:51.060 If I were a reasonably priced car that had been driven round a television show's test track 31:51.095 --> 31:56.076 hundreds of times by celebrities from all over the world, that is the way I would want to go. 31:56.111 --> 32:00.000 I've never thought about it, but that is how I'd want to go. 32:01.052 --> 32:06.072 With the assembled mourners looking resplendent in high-visibility jackets, 32:06.107 --> 32:09.044 the funeral service was about to begin. 32:42.044 --> 32:44.025 And there we are. 32:44.060 --> 32:46.072 A dignified Viking burial. 32:46.107 --> 32:48.028 Nearly! 32:50.068 --> 32:56.048 You know, I can just see the nose of the car sticking out, which is pretty shoddy. 32:58.032 --> 33:03.000 You're supposed to cover the whole body, that's the basics, you don't walk away with an arm... 33:03.035 --> 33:06.016 sticking out of the ground and say, that's that done! 33:06.051 --> 33:08.012 You cover it all up. 33:11.036 --> 33:13.040 Oh, my God. 33:17.016 --> 33:18.037 You idiot! 33:18.072 --> 33:20.040 What? How was I to know? 33:22.088 --> 33:26.060 "I nearly buried it"? Nobody "nearly buries" anything! 33:26.095 --> 33:30.032 Anyway, we are very sad to say goodbye to the Lacetti... 33:30.067 --> 33:33.013 No, we're not, actually, we never really liked it. 33:33.048 --> 33:37.032 It was rubbish, to be honest. Now it's time to unveil its replacement. 33:37.067 --> 33:39.985 And here it is. Anybody want to guess what's under here? 33:40.020 --> 33:45.052 A Lamborghini, no, it isn't, it's the same height as him, so it can't be a Lamborghini. 33:45.087 --> 33:48.052 They just haven't got this at all, have they? Shall I just reveal? 33:48.087 --> 33:52.008 Are we ready? Here we go! This is the big moment! 33:53.060 --> 33:55.012 It's a Kia! 33:57.020 --> 34:01.072 Specifically... 34:01.107 --> 34:03.567 the Kia... 34:03.602 --> 34:05.993 the Kia cee'd, 34:06.028 --> 34:13.052 the only car in the worldthat actually has an apostrophe inits name. And what a machine it is. 34:13.087 --> 34:21.088 It has a 1.6 litre engine, which means it can go from 0-60 in a dazzling 10.4 seconds. 34:21.123 --> 34:27.000 And it'll go on to a mind-boggling top speed of 119 miles an hour. 34:27.034 --> 34:32.527 Engineered in Korea, built in Slovakia. Finished in brown. 34:32.562 --> 34:36.809 It is on sale to you for an incredibly reasonable L14,000. 34:36.844 --> 34:41.021 That's amazingly reasonable. It is incredibly reasonable. 34:41.056 --> 34:47.004 Astonishing. But there is one more issue, because new car means we've got a new lap time board. 34:47.039 --> 34:50.027 We couldn't just invite a celebrity tonight, and ask them, "So! 34:50.063 --> 34:51.981 "Where do you think you came on the board?" 34:52.016 --> 34:57.020 because there's no other names on it. So we've thought of a way of getting lots of names on it all at once... 34:57.054 --> 35:04.036 by inviting lots of celebrities to an all-star celebrity summer barbecue festival event. 35:06.016 --> 35:09.053 Since it was going to be a celebrity-packed day, 35:09.088 --> 35:13.032 we arrived at the track good and early to sort out the catering. 35:13.067 --> 35:16.033 I've got 32 sausages. That's going to be enough. 35:16.068 --> 35:18.965 I've got a cauliflower for if a vegetarian comes. 35:19.000 --> 35:22.088 With the barbecue lit, we turned our minds to the guest list. 35:22.123 --> 35:25.085 Well, I've invited Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp... 35:25.120 --> 35:28.013 Oh, you invited Johnny as well? I invited Johnny Depp. 35:28.048 --> 35:32.024 He's been invited twice, but he won't mind. I've invited her again. 35:32.059 --> 35:34.013 Look, if you invite Angelina, she won't come. 35:34.048 --> 35:37.013 She will. - No, she won't. - We're bigger than ever. She will. 35:37.048 --> 35:42.084 By 9am our spread was ready and we'd laid out a selection of toys to keep our A-listers entertained. 35:48.084 --> 35:50.033 I can't give Harrison Ford this. 35:50.068 --> 35:53.076 Do you think she saw when we went to Vietnam on those bikes? 35:53.111 --> 35:56.040 No. She isn't coming. 35:57.092 --> 36:00.981 And she wasn't. Who's that?That's not Angelina. 36:01.016 --> 36:05.048 I know who that is. Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor. 36:05.083 --> 36:07.037 I knew that. Nick. Jeremy. How are you? 36:07.072 --> 36:11.068 Nick was looking forward to driving our new reasonably priced car. 36:11.103 --> 36:15.004 Over there, in brown, the Kia cee'd. 36:15.039 --> 36:17.029 Now that is my sort of car. 36:17.064 --> 36:23.076 Dull, slow. But the PoliticalEditor's start was far from slow. 36:27.032 --> 36:30.544 Ooh, I like the smell of burning rubber. God, it's addictive! 36:30.579 --> 36:34.056 It would've been polite to show an interest in Nick's lap. 36:34.091 --> 36:37.045 Here we go! Don't brake! 36:37.080 --> 36:42.004 But we got distracted by our next guest - Al Murray... 36:42.039 --> 36:44.053 Hi. Pickled cucumber? .. who is my kind of guy. 36:44.088 --> 36:51.076 My favourite medium tank of the war, T-34-85 with the larger calibre gun that could take on a tiger. 36:51.111 --> 36:55.008 As Nick was on his hot lap, we should've paid attention. 36:55.043 --> 36:56.973 Not fifth, you...! 36:57.008 --> 36:59.052 But sadly, we got distracted again. 37:09.000 --> 37:09.969 Oh, I love it! 37:10.004 --> 37:14.052 Just give me a news conference now. I tell you what, no politician is safe! 37:14.087 --> 37:17.072 It was time to put the first ever result on the new board. 37:18.072 --> 37:21.005 Here it is. 37:21.040 --> 37:24.020 Nick Robinson, 1.499. First! 37:24.055 --> 37:26.965 You're the first! Amazing! 37:27.000 --> 37:31.000 The fastest man ever to go round this track in that car. 37:35.040 --> 37:36.981 As Al Murray roared off... 37:37.016 --> 37:39.028 Turn, turn, turn, turn, you doughnut. 37:41.056 --> 37:44.017 .. tall Dragon Peter Jones arrived. 37:44.052 --> 37:49.080 My day just immediately takes a downturn. No offence. 37:50.084 --> 37:54.004 With the hellos over, Peter unleashed his killer instinct to win. 37:56.064 --> 38:00.076 Wait a minute! You're supposed to let the other person... 38:00.111 --> 38:03.049 How competitive. He's actually playing himself! 38:03.084 --> 38:07.052 With the game over, we should've turned our attention to Al. 38:07.087 --> 38:12.977 Oh, yes! But at that mome nt,a Page 3 girl arrived. 38:13.012 --> 38:16.032 Peta, 23, from Essex. Hello, Jeremy Clarkson from Tops Gear. 38:16.067 --> 38:18.072 Tops Gear?! How are you? Very well. Come along. 38:18.107 --> 38:20.965 You're not Jewish, are you? I'm not, no. 38:21.000 --> 38:26.008 Good. So we've got sausages and we've got bacon and everything. 38:26.043 --> 38:31.016 Peta didn't fancy ham and sausages, or my vegetarian option. 38:31.051 --> 38:33.096 So at last we turned our thoughts to Al... 38:35.088 --> 38:38.000 .. just as he crossed the finishing line. 38:38.035 --> 38:39.029 One... 38:39.064 --> 38:41.080 Yes. Thank goodness it's a one. 38:41.115 --> 38:43.081 40... Yes. 38:43.116 --> 38:45.013 Ballpark. 38:45.048 --> 38:48.066 Eight... point one. 38:48.101 --> 38:51.049 You, sir, the fastest. 38:51.084 --> 38:53.973 A fact that Al was keen to point out to Nick Robinson. 38:54.008 --> 38:57.033 Whenever I see you on TV now I'm going to think, "Quicker than him". 38:57.068 --> 39:02.076 Whatever your Downing Street analysis might be, you might know more about 39:02.111 --> 39:07.097 the inner workings of the coalition, but I'm quicker than you. 39:07.132 --> 39:12.084 As the competitive Dragon pounded round, we decided to spy on him. 39:12.119 --> 39:14.589 He doesn't know we can see him. 39:14.624 --> 39:17.060 39:20.008 --> 39:22.040 Next to arrive was Johnny Vaughan. 39:22.075 --> 39:24.037 Vaughany! All right, Clarky. 39:24.072 --> 39:29.016 Who as a former star in the car was keen to gen up on the cee apostrophe dee. 39:29.051 --> 39:32.080 We're talking 124 brake horse power. 39:32.115 --> 39:34.079 What was the last one? 39:34.114 --> 39:36.009 The last one was 119. 39:36.044 --> 39:38.040 OK. So we're packing five more here. 39:38.075 --> 39:40.092 Five more horses in the stable. 39:42.056 --> 39:46.040 The competitive Dragon had finished his whole lap. 39:46.075 --> 39:48.997 Please tell me that was quick. 39:49.032 --> 39:53.029 Now we would find out the difference between our old Chevy and the new Kia. 39:53.064 --> 39:59.004 This is where all of South Korea is sitting and going, "Do we make a fast car than Chevrolet?" 39:59.039 --> 40:05.016 Seriously, can we go toe-to-toe with the North across the bamboo curtain? 40:05.051 --> 40:08.068 Where were you in the old car? 1.469. 40:08.103 --> 40:11.020 You did it in one minute... 40:11.055 --> 40:13.024 Oh, Jeremy. 40:15.080 --> 40:18.088 45.9. Yes! 40:20.008 --> 40:23.072 That's going to take some strangling, that. That's a second faster. 40:27.016 --> 40:30.048 As Peta, 23, from Essex hitthe track... I cannot change gear. 40:30.083 --> 40:34.033 .. Hammond's dreams finally came true. 40:34.068 --> 40:38.088 Make-up does a lot. You might gain a few pounds on thetelly, but it doesn't do that. 40:38.123 --> 40:39.985 It does. It does. Get off! 40:40.020 --> 40:44.004 Cos when Angelina comes, if you'vebent the badge, she'll be cross. You can't have it! 40:44.039 --> 40:48.535 Out on the track, it was starting to get wet and slippery. 40:48.570 --> 40:52.997 The chaps were desperately concerned for Peta's welfare. 40:53.032 --> 40:57.076 When does a gazebo become a tent?All right. This is not even a tent, is it? It is. 40:59.080 --> 41:02.981 It's a gazebo. No, it's not. It's not even that. 41:03.016 --> 41:07.080 Despite the rain, Peta matched Nick Robinson's time. 41:07.115 --> 41:09.096 Then Johnny Vaughan set off. 41:09.131 --> 41:11.037 Ignore the weather. 41:11.072 --> 41:14.076 To an inspiring soundtrack from Angelina. 41:19.032 --> 41:21.009 Don't lose your bottle, don't lose your bottle. 41:21.044 --> 41:24.076 Keep your foot down, keep your foot down, keep your foot down. 41:27.068 --> 41:30.985 The weather got worse and worse. 41:31.020 --> 41:34.068 Someone left a cake out in the rain. 41:37.048 --> 41:40.028 This is where you've got to have balls. This is where it counts. 41:40.063 --> 41:43.041 Meanwhile, I'd spotted our next guest. 41:43.076 --> 41:47.012 Someone I'd first encountered on The Jonathan Ross Show. 41:47.047 --> 41:48.001 Oh, my God! 41:48.036 --> 41:50.981 It's Angelina Jolie. No. Hammond, I've just remembered. 41:51.016 --> 41:56.080 It's June 10th, isn't it? Er, yes, it is. My wife's birthday. 41:56.115 --> 41:58.989 What, today? Yeah. You idiot. 41:59.024 --> 42:03.032 I'm going to, no, seriously,I'm goin g to go now, this second. What, now?! 42:03.067 --> 42:07.061 This second and I'm going to get her a birthday present. 42:07.096 --> 42:10.578 Next guest is here. He's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. 42:10.613 --> 42:14.025 Real man's man, you know? I'll be back, I'll be back. 42:14.060 --> 42:17.088 So I'm looking after the... ?Yes, yes. What's he called? Louie. 42:17.123 --> 42:20.041 Where's Jeremy going? 42:20.076 --> 42:24.060 Oh, hello. All right? Hello. I'm Bill. Nice to meet you. Hello, Louie. You all right? 42:24.095 --> 42:26.033 Louie seemed very friendly. 42:26.068 --> 42:30.028 Oh, mind. You're getting dribbled there, darling. Just dribbling on you. 42:30.063 --> 42:32.072 Yeah, it's dribbling on you. 42:33.076 --> 42:35.057 Johnny was still out driving. 42:35.092 --> 42:37.997 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! 42:38.032 --> 42:43.048 Bill went bird watching and that left to me all alone with my new best friend. 42:49.000 --> 42:53.060 I'll be over here. I'm just having a little stretch just before I get in there. Try it. 42:53.095 --> 42:57.075 Do what? Flat back over and just stretch out your hamstrings. 42:57.110 --> 43:01.056 I'm, I've got a war wound fromfighting a rugby player. No, no, no. 43:01.091 --> 43:03.053 No, honestly, you'll be surprised. 43:03.088 --> 43:11.008 With Jeremy still not back the celebrities were getting more and more unruly. 43:11.043 --> 43:13.977 Bill, get off the track! What the ... are you doing, Bill? 43:14.012 --> 43:17.048 The race track is no place for fancy cakes. Do you want something to eat? 43:17.083 --> 43:19.005 All right. Custard cream if you're asking. 43:19.040 --> 43:23.981 And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 43:24.016 --> 43:28.526 And side, two, three, four, catch, take it down, walk around, walk around. 43:28.561 --> 43:33.036 Flip ball change, flip ball change, step turn, step turn, in and look. 43:36.008 --> 43:41.985 Mercifully, I had to go and put Johnny's time on the lap board, but even that was stressful. 43:42.020 --> 43:47.088 We knock five seconds off, or we add five seconds for a wet lap in our mind, so it's five seconds gone. 43:51.076 --> 43:53.037 That's how it works! 43:53.072 --> 43:55.564 'Worse, Johnny started giving advice to Louie.' 43:55.599 --> 43:58.021 Watch your big end as you slide through Hammerhead. 43:58.056 --> 44:02.044 Your back end will slide out if you don't get the purchase up there. 44:02.079 --> 44:05.064 Also, watch your helmet against the steel bar. 44:05.099 --> 44:07.041 'Clarkson finally got back. ' 44:07.076 --> 44:11.001 Hammond! 'Just as the fire was being put out.' 44:11.036 --> 44:13.993 Don't put the fire barbecue out! I wanted one of those sausages. 44:14.028 --> 44:18.056 Louie, what have you done with the fireman who was in that jacket and helmet? 44:18.091 --> 44:21.028 Have things not been going smoothly since I just... 44:21.063 --> 44:23.553 Yeah, yeah. It's gone well. Has it? 44:23.588 --> 44:26.009 As Angelina wrestled with the Kia... 44:26.044 --> 44:31.048 Turn! Turn... We get out of the turn with speed, yes, because speed is our friend. 44:31.083 --> 44:33.033 .. our next guest arrived. 44:33.068 --> 44:39.092 Amy Williams, Britain's only gold medallist at the Winter Olympics. 44:39.127 --> 44:41.013 What is it that's worrying you? 44:41.048 --> 44:46.068 I'm quite scared and I'm worried that I'm just going to skid off course by trying to be too quick. 44:46.103 --> 44:48.981 Wait a minute. You earned your notoriety... 44:49.016 --> 44:55.052 from, let's be honest, skidding down a mountain at extremely high speed. Sophisticated skidding! 44:58.076 --> 45:01.005 I think that was... Was it a crow? Or was it a raven? 45:01.040 --> 45:06.092 In the celebrity gymnasium, I too was enjoying a spot of bird watching. 45:06.127 --> 45:09.080 Take your arms up to the side. 45:11.096 --> 45:15.049 Squats. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond is with Louie Spence. 45:15.084 --> 45:20.056 And you go flat out through there, and you come to a tight left here. 45:20.091 --> 45:22.973 Right. Quite a wide bit of the track there. 45:23.008 --> 45:27.040 So I can just go back to the flat out but up here, this tight bit here? 45:27.075 --> 45:32.016 You just go flat out through there, and then flat out round there. 45:32.051 --> 45:34.084 So, why am I so tight up to the edge here? 45:34.119 --> 45:37.981 As Jeremy tried to impress Amy... 45:38.016 --> 45:41.965 I'm extremely fit. I don't think a lot of people realise that. 45:42.000 --> 45:46.060 .. Angelina was finishing her lap, confident that she'd beaten Johnny Vaughan. 45:48.028 --> 45:53.026 He was 1:53.3. You did it in 1:50.8. 45:53.061 --> 45:58.024 Oh ho ho! Now that... That's good. 46:00.080 --> 46:02.025 .. when Louie out on the track. 46:02.060 --> 46:05.001 Where's that corner gone? There it is. 46:05.036 --> 46:12.020 I wanted to say hello to Amy, but unfortunately she was still being monopolised. 46:13.076 --> 46:16.032 I can do Congratulations, are you ready? 46:16.067 --> 46:17.084 Yeah. 46:25.060 --> 46:28.030 Despite a few pirouettes... 46:28.065 --> 46:31.000 .. Louie finally banged in a lap. 46:33.012 --> 46:37.516 You did it in 1:53.69. 46:37.551 --> 46:41.985 Louie was very unhappy. 46:42.020 --> 46:43.076 I gave a better show than Johnny. 46:43.111 --> 46:45.061 I mean he took no chances. 46:45.096 --> 46:49.060 No chances at all! So I left him and Hammond to say a tender goodbye... 46:49.095 --> 46:52.067 Can I have my helmet back now? 46:52.102 --> 46:55.005 .. and escorted Amy to the car. 46:55.040 --> 46:59.080 OK, so, skeleton run, here we go. But in a car. 47:01.056 --> 47:03.080 I was looking forward to watching her lap. 47:03.115 --> 47:05.583 But Hammond kept shouting at me. 47:05.618 --> 47:08.017 I've been running all of his. 47:08.052 --> 47:10.564 I've been in charge of everything you see here. 47:10.599 --> 47:13.041 This whole operation takes a lot of looking after. 47:13.076 --> 47:17.048 I've been back for hours. Standing on wobbling machine with a sports girl. 47:17.083 --> 47:21.020 Why can't I look after the girl? You can, but I'd like to have talked to her. 47:21.055 --> 47:24.000 Maybe you could have talked to Louie for a couple of minutes? 47:24.035 --> 47:26.001 I did! I said goodbye. 47:26.036 --> 47:30.036 Out on the track, Amy was displaying all of the raw skill... 47:32.044 --> 47:35.092 .. that had won her a gold medal. In my mind, she was brilliant. 47:40.044 --> 47:42.068 Whoa! Watch, watch, watch. 47:48.004 --> 47:49.969 Clap. No. 47:50.004 --> 47:52.993 Amy, you did it in... 47:53.028 --> 47:58.040 Now, bear in mind we've got a 1:53.7, and a 1:50.8. 47:58.075 --> 48:00.020 These are the wet times. Yeah. 48:00.055 --> 48:03.080 You did it in 1:50.9. 48:05.072 --> 48:08.009 So, you're there. I'm just disappointed about that. 48:08.044 --> 48:11.060 I think I do have to come back and practise a little bit more. 48:11.095 --> 48:14.053 I'd be delighted if you came back. Absolutely thrilled. 48:14.088 --> 48:17.012 When it's not raining. Maybe you could use a faster car? 48:17.047 --> 48:19.013 Come back any time. Move in. Practise constantly. 48:19.048 --> 48:25.080 With Amy gone, Jeremy decided there was no reason to stay. 48:28.028 --> 48:34.000 So, I sat down to wait for the real Angelina. 48:34.035 --> 48:35.052 Just give it another hour. 48:42.076 --> 48:45.056 She was so stunning. She is. Louie is a nice guy. 48:46.044 --> 48:49.052 Let me ask, let me ask. Did she turn up? Yep! Really?! 48:49.087 --> 48:52.001 No. No, I didn't think she would. 48:52.036 --> 48:56.041 Anyway, I'd now like you to have a look at this motorcycle. 48:56.076 --> 49:01.076 Now, I know it's not a motorcycle, OK? But the Government says it is. 49:01.111 --> 49:06.012 They say that because it only has three wheels, it's not a car. 49:06.047 --> 49:10.037 And as a result, you save L55 a year on your tax disc. 49:10.072 --> 49:13.993 Now obviously, the best way of exploiting this loophole 49:14.028 --> 49:17.080 is to take a wheel off your car and drive round on the other three, 49:17.115 --> 49:19.101 but we don't recommend that. 49:19.136 --> 49:21.088 So is there another way? 49:32.052 --> 49:34.004 This is a Reliant Robin. 49:35.076 --> 49:39.977 On the face of it, it's hard to see how it ever caught on. 49:40.012 --> 49:46.092 Even though it was made from plastic rather than steel, it cost more when it was new than a Mini. 49:49.036 --> 49:50.061 Catch on it did, though. 49:50.096 --> 49:54.076 The American Embassy in London ran three as diplomatic cars. 49:54.111 --> 49:56.001 Princess Anne had one. 49:56.036 --> 50:01.024 Here in the North of England, it was such a hit that by the middle of 50:01.059 --> 50:06.012 the 1970s, Reliant was the largest consumer of glass fibre in Europe. 50:06.047 --> 50:09.053 Even to this day, this remains the second best 50:09.088 --> 50:15.000 selling plastic car in history, after the Chevrolet Corvette. 50:16.004 --> 50:22.088 Unlike other three-wheelers, the Reliant's single wheel was at the front rather than the back. 50:22.123 --> 50:27.000 I've always been rather worried that this might have a profound effect 50:27.035 --> 50:28.096 on the handling. 50:32.024 --> 50:36.045 That's why I'm so scared about the challenge which has been set for me today. 50:36.080 --> 50:47.033 I have to drive that car all the way from here, on the outskirts of Sheffield, to a pigeon loft here, in Rotherham. 50:47.068 --> 50:51.024 That's a distance of 14 miles. 50:53.072 --> 50:57.048 On the way, there will be many perils such as roundabouts, 50:57.083 --> 51:03.076 pedestrian crossings, pedestrians and traffic lights. 51:05.064 --> 51:07.993 That's why I'm wearing a helmet. 51:08.028 --> 51:10.045 It's also why I insisted the car was fitted with a four-point 51:10.080 --> 51:18.000 safety harness, because I really genuinely believe that what I'm about to do is as dangerous as... 51:18.035 --> 51:22.072 Inviting you mum round for an evening on Chat Roulette. Why? 51:27.056 --> 51:29.068 Here we go. Reliant Robin. 51:37.036 --> 51:41.036 Oh, no. I've crashed it. I've crashed it almost immediately. 51:41.071 --> 51:43.545 I mean, literally, 20 feet. 51:43.580 --> 51:46.020 I can't get out, obviously. 51:46.055 --> 51:48.045 I'm completely stuck. 51:48.080 --> 51:54.052 Luckily, people in the North of England are friendly and keen to help out. 51:54.087 --> 51:56.036 Excuse me! 51:58.028 --> 52:00.053 Excuse me... 52:00.088 --> 52:03.544 Oh heavens, look who it is! It's Phil Oakey. 52:03.579 --> 52:07.000 Do you think you can push me back on my wheels? 52:07.035 --> 52:09.028 Yeah, certainly. Thanks very much. 52:12.080 --> 52:14.008 Thank you, so much. 52:16.044 --> 52:20.084 Thank you very much, Phil Oakey,o ut of the Human League! Pleasure. 52:22.036 --> 52:27.036 I suppose as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth 52:27.071 --> 52:30.965 putting Robin Reliants back on their wheels. 52:31.000 --> 52:34.060 When he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktail... 52:34.095 --> 52:38.053 Oh! Help! 52:38.088 --> 52:41.977 Again! Help! 52:42.012 --> 52:46.020 Where's Martin Fry out of ABC when you need him? 52:50.044 --> 52:53.060 That's a... useful feature. 52:59.092 --> 53:04.036 In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine. 53:05.056 --> 53:13.032 With 32 brake horse power on tap, 0-50 took 22 seconds. 0-60... 53:13.067 --> 53:14.997 wasn't really possible. 53:15.032 --> 53:21.068 In 1975 though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine. 53:21.103 --> 53:24.551 This improved the acceleration enormously. 53:24.586 --> 53:28.000 But the consequences were catastrophic... 53:35.060 --> 53:37.029 The lamppost! 53:37.064 --> 53:43.068 The big engine increase the top speed too... It would now do 85. 53:43.103 --> 53:47.008 That was catastrophic as well. 53:50.048 --> 53:52.037 Not again! 53:52.072 --> 53:58.009 Oh no! I'm 50 years old. 53:58.044 --> 54:01.056 I'm on the side of a street in Sheffield. 54:05.020 --> 54:07.040 Oh, is that the sound of somebody? 54:07.075 --> 54:11.040 Hello? Peter Stringfellow! 54:14.008 --> 54:17.068 Were you just walking by, or... 54:17.103 --> 54:19.055 Nearly! 54:19.090 --> 54:20.973 Yes! 54:21.008 --> 54:24.032 Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow out of lap dancing clubs. 54:24.067 --> 54:27.048 My pleasure. I can't thank you enough. 54:30.096 --> 54:37.044 To try and understand why the Robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts. 54:45.032 --> 54:47.044 How do you drive a Reliant? Straight lines. 54:47.079 --> 54:49.013 You don't go round roundabouts. 54:49.048 --> 54:52.092 You get to it and you see where you're coming off, and you go straight across. 54:52.127 --> 54:55.037 Try to avoid t'hill in t'middle. 54:55.072 --> 54:58.033 Cement on the passenger seat. Cement? 54:58.068 --> 55:01.080 Sack of cement on t'passenger seat belt, helps the balance. 55:01.115 --> 55:05.040 Why do you think Reliant owners have big tool boxes? 55:05.075 --> 55:07.025 To weigh it down. I was going to say... 55:07.060 --> 55:10.088 Your teeth, did you lose these in a Reliant accident? 55:10.123 --> 55:12.017 You did, didn't you? 55:12.052 --> 55:16.037 Why do you think, everybody, Reliants were so popular in t'North. 55:16.072 --> 55:21.033 The miners used them. But why? Because they weremore expensive than Minis. 55:21.068 --> 55:27.060 Because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence. 55:27.095 --> 55:32.061 So to get out of t'weather in winter when it were absolutely siling it down, 55:32.096 --> 55:37.028 they bought a Reliant. So it was just because minersdidn't have a driving licence? 55:37.063 --> 55:40.076 Some of them. But other ones, also in t'winter, with them being light, 55:40.111 --> 55:46.060 you'd get your normal car stuck in t'snow or whatever. 55:46.095 --> 55:48.080 These just simply glide over top. 55:48.115 --> 55:50.981 Until you get to a corner! 55:51.016 --> 55:54.040 Well, long as you live somewhere with a straight line to t'pit. 55:58.076 --> 56:02.001 Soon, I was back on my perilous journey. 56:02.036 --> 56:08.048 In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s, again. 56:10.032 --> 56:14.096 I grew up not far from here, so did James May, for that matter. 56:17.044 --> 56:20.068 When I were a lad round 'ere, all t'rich people, them as could 56:20.103 --> 56:24.021 afford four wheels on the car, they all had Ladas. 56:24.056 --> 56:29.000 Lah-de-dahs we called them. You didn't want to hit one of them, 56:29.035 --> 56:32.024 I'll tell you that for nowt, they were built like tanks. 56:34.072 --> 56:37.096 One of the best ways to protect your Robin was to lavish it with 56:37.131 --> 56:42.581 an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky And Hutch homage. 56:42.616 --> 56:48.032 The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans 56:48.067 --> 56:51.016 and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully. 56:51.051 --> 56:54.008 But this didn't always work. 57:01.056 --> 57:06.048 It really is a wonder how anyone in the North survived the 1970s. 57:06.083 --> 57:09.029 Of course, a lot didn't. 57:09.064 --> 57:15.084 In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573,000. 57:15.119 --> 57:21.053 Since then, it's dropped to just 513,000. 57:21.088 --> 57:27.965 Some of the lost 60,000 moved south, of course. 57:28.000 --> 57:33.096 But many, many, many more were wiped out by their three-wheelers. 57:38.052 --> 57:45.040 Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundais instead. 57:45.075 --> 57:49.012 This means the local TV news channel has to think of things 57:49.047 --> 57:53.012 other than Reliant crashes to put in its bulletins. 57:59.020 --> 58:06.008 To Braithwell in South Yorkshire and a blooming mystery that's baffling it's green-fingered residents. 58:06.043 --> 58:08.088 Harry is there for us. Harry, what's going on? 58:08.123 --> 58:10.025 Welcome to beautiful Braithwell. 58:10.060 --> 58:14.009 You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour. 58:14.044 --> 58:18.080 I have to say, there has been a real area of controversy here, because over the last few days... My God! 58:24.012 --> 58:27.064 Are you all right, sir? I'm getting used to it now, thanks. 58:27.099 --> 58:29.025 Thanks, very much. 58:29.060 --> 58:32.024 If you could just pop me back on the wheels. 58:34.016 --> 58:36.013 Thank you, so much. 58:36.048 --> 58:39.096 Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Look North. Pleasure. 58:39.131 --> 58:41.048 Thank you, so much. 58:55.048 --> 58:58.981 The Reliant three-wheeler soldiered on until 2001, 58:59.016 --> 59:03.024 but then with the mines gone, the customer base dried up. 59:03.059 --> 59:05.025 And it was gone too. 59:05.060 --> 59:12.088 I don't know why Jasper Carrot ever thought that this could be the basis for a joke. 59:12.123 --> 59:18.008 I don't know why we all laughed at Del Boy's Reliant, because it wasn't funny. 59:18.043 --> 59:20.076 It was a complete menace. 59:28.072 --> 59:30.536 Oh, God! 59:30.571 --> 59:32.965 Oh, dear. 59:33.000 --> 59:35.009 Oh, dear. Look at the pitch. 59:35.044 --> 59:39.020 I'm very glad I've put these safety things in. 59:40.088 --> 59:44.005 That's marvellous, thank you. Oh yes, that's comfortable. 59:44.040 --> 59:49.092 Thank you, very much. That's Dickie Bird MBE out of cricket umpiring here, he's not pleased. 59:49.127 --> 59:52.028 It's a cricket match on here! 01:00:01.096 --> 01:00:06.036 After this latest accident, I decided to see if there was 01:00:06.071 --> 01:00:10.051 some way of correcting the car's flawed design. 01:00:10.086 --> 01:00:14.032 I therefore found a workshop and cued the music. 01:00:18.040 --> 01:00:22.024 Oh, God, I've driven into the inspection pit. 01:00:22.059 --> 01:00:26.008 Soon though, the car was out, and we set to work. 01:00:34.032 --> 01:00:38.045 What staggers me most of all is that the Reliant was engineered and built 01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:44.072 in Tamworth in Staffordshire, and Tamworth over the years has produced many, many brilliant men. 01:00:44.107 --> 01:00:50.064 It was a Tamworth man who captured one of the Enigma coding machines from the Germans in the war. 01:00:50.099 --> 01:00:55.088 It's a Tamworth man who fronts The Teardrop Explodes. 01:00:55.123 --> 01:00:57.969 I mean, how many more do you want? 01:00:58.004 --> 01:01:03.040 So, how come no one in this town of excellence was able to see 01:01:03.075 --> 01:01:07.044 that the Reliant could be fixed in a trifle? 01:01:12.036 --> 01:01:14.977 How brilliant is this? 01:01:15.012 --> 01:01:16.977 It's still a three-wheeler. 01:01:17.012 --> 01:01:22.549 You still only pay motorcycle tax, but now, thanks to these stabilisers... 01:01:22.584 --> 01:01:25.048 it can't roll over any more. 01:01:32.096 --> 01:01:35.021 I only had six miles of the journey left. 01:01:35.056 --> 01:01:38.064 But with my new anti-capsize solution in place, 01:01:38.099 --> 01:01:41.068 I knew nothing could go wrong. 01:01:42.072 --> 01:01:45.064 And I knew that right up to the moment... 01:01:45.099 --> 01:01:46.597 when it did. 01:01:46.632 --> 01:01:48.356 Oh, my God! 01:01:48.391 --> 01:01:50.080 Oh, no! 01:02:04.040 --> 01:02:06.088 Neck broken, and drowned. 01:02:08.596 --> 01:02:10.965 So... 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:15.032 You can save L 55 off your annual motoring costs? 01:02:15.067 --> 01:02:16.001 Yes, you can. 01:02:16.036 --> 01:02:18.004 But you will be killed doing it? 01:02:18.039 --> 01:02:18.981 Yes, you will. 01:02:19.016 --> 01:02:23.084 And on that bombshell, it is time to end what I think has been a very serious show. 01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:26.044 I think we should congratulate ourselves on that. 01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:27.037 Very good work, well done. 01:02:27.072 --> 01:02:30.045 We'll see you next week for more sensible buying advice. 01:02:30.080 --> 01:02:35.048 Thank you so much for watching and do please remember, drive safely. 01:02:36.305 --> 01:02:42.567 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org