1 00:00:17,339 --> 00:00:19,839 Corrections by Wally73 2 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,740 Hello, hello, everybody. Thank you so much, thank you. 3 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,040 Thanks very much. 4 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:29,880 We're back. 5 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,840 We're back. We are back with a newlook Top Gear. 6 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:38,929 We have changed everything. 7 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,038 And to give you a taste of what you can expect over the coming weeks, 8 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:47,284 we have prepared a little montage. 9 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,880 Tallyho, tallyho, chaps. 10 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,520 They are all over me. 11 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:06,200 At Twickenham, for England. 12 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,889 We might actually just be in with a chance. 13 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,040 Let's do this for Carroll Shelby, come on. 14 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,520 You will find the source of the River Nile. 15 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,520 Here we are, ladies, at the bowling club. Lovely. 16 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,960 And, stop. I am so on board. 17 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,240 There is nobody driving. 18 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:45,960 The last arrival cross into Mexico... 19 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,600 I have accidentally painted a gentleman's sausage on a storm drain. 20 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,120 'My.'. 21 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,240 Big jump, whoa. 22 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,378 We haven't changed anything, have we? No. Not really. 23 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,040 Wait, I have bought a new jacket. You have new shoes. 24 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,240 I am in my 50s now. James, to be fair, you were born in your 50s. 25 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,380 To be honest, James turned 50 just last week. 26 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,440 Why are you applauding? 27 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:49,787 All he had to do to get to 50 was not die, 28 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,360 and the speed he drives, that is not difficult. 29 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,360 Anyway, we have a tremendous series coming up, some amazing races, 30 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,974 some incredible challenges and, of course, some brilliant cars. 31 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,600 And we start with the best of them all. 32 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,280 The Pagani Zonda is my favourite supercar. 33 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,836 But it has been around for a decade now, 34 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,160 and for the last few years Pagani have been promising again 35 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,760 and again that they will replace it with a brandnew car. 36 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,960 And now, finally, they have. 37 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,640 It is called the Huayra. 38 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,460 It costs £800,000 and it has a top speed of 230 miles per hour. 39 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,920 The name Huayra comes from the South American god of wind. 40 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,400 Probably not what you want to hear. 41 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,840 What you do want to hear is that it has six litre twin turbo V12, 42 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,000 made especially for it by AMG. 43 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,300 And once petrol is applied, it makes 733 brake horsepower. 44 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,560 And what you do want to hear and see is what that does. 45 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:40,920 Aaaargh, haha. 46 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,400 It spins its wheels all the time. 47 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,760 I'm in a monster. 48 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,840 Hahaha. 49 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,460 Dear God. 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds and then on into space. 50 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,000 That is 180. 51 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,820 That is savage. Savage, savage thing. 52 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,720 I can't get enough of that. I'm going to do that again. 53 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,440 The drama isn't just restricted to the speed. 54 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,860 Because inside the Huayra, it looks like a Victorian's idea of the 23rd century. 55 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,120 And the detail is beyond obsessive, every single nut and bolt 56 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,960 is made from titanium. 57 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,398 The name badge takes 24 hours to carve out from. 58 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:49,240 The name badge takes 24 hours a solid piece of aluminium. 59 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,838 Each wheel, also hewn from a single aluminium block, 60 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,239 Each wheel, also hewn from takes five days to make. 61 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,663 And look at this gear shifter, 62 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:05,214 all the mechanism is exposed so you can see the workings. It is 63 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,823 made from 67 different parts, all arranged just 64 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,720 so you can hear that mechanical clunk of a gear being selected. 65 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,480 You don't even need to use it, you can use the paddles by the wheel 66 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,361 but they have put that there because it makes it more of an occasion. 67 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,900 This fanatical attention to detail goes on and on and on. 68 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,760 Even the body is more hightech than the one you will 69 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,640 find on a Formula One car. 70 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,160 It is made from carbotanium. I even know what that means. 71 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,240 Now someone has told me. 72 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,072 It is a blend of carbon fibre and titanium, 73 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,720 which is incredibly light but is actually stiffer than carbon fibre 74 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,480 and does not shatter when you crash. 75 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,547 That makes things safer should you suddenly find all 730 brake horsepower 76 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,800 propelling you towards a hedge. 77 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,005 Not every element, though, is quite so cutting edge. 78 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,614 Pagani haven't gone with a fashionable twin plate clutch that so many cars use, 79 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:12,880 because they do make for faster changes. 80 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,760 They have gone instead for a more traditional single plate clutch because it is smaller 81 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,080 and a whole 100 kilograms lighter. 82 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,600 In fact, the Huayra weighs just 1,350 kilograms 83 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,460 and has the powertoweight ratio of 541 brake horsepower per ton. 84 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,600 That is more than you get from a Bugatti Veyron. 85 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,165 But where the Bugatti Veyron is fourwheel drive, this is only rearwheel drive 86 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,325 and, rather worryingly, we have now come to the part of the film where 87 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,947 we must see what it is like going round corners. 88 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,223 I understand the more infantile viewers, of which there are many, 89 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,320 will now want to see me sliding the back end around. 90 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,640 So, here goes. 91 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,720 Amazingly, you can corner this car like a halfwit 92 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,400 and come out the other side alive. 93 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,860 And that is because in the Huayra the black art of aerodynamics is watching over you. 94 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,725 You see those flaps on the outside? 95 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,467 There are two at the back and two the front. They measure how fast 96 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,120 you're going and then deploy to keep everything stable. 97 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:49,880 That is astonishing. 98 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,832 All from the back wheels, I am in love. 99 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,320 But the handling is not all down to the magic flaps. 100 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,880 It doesn't feel big, like a Lambo, 101 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:06,760 and it has all been set up so well and 102 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,100 made so stable that even I can corner it without hiding in the glovebox, whimpering. 103 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:19,720 God, this is properly put together. 104 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,960 The Zonda was always going to be a difficult act to follow, 105 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,600 but the Huayra has pulled it off. 106 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,900 It drives better, it looks better, and it hasn't lost any of the drama. 107 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,040 On top of that, it also has something that its main rivals, 108 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,200 Ferrari and Lamborghini, no longer possess. 109 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,880 This car, and this may get a bit Culture Show now, I know, 110 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:52,920 has still got its innocence. 111 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,760 Ferrari and Lamborghini haven't. 112 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,560 One is owned by Audi, 113 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,440 the other is a commercial machine for selling hats and keyrings. 114 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,534 Pagani is where those companies were 30 years ago, no corporate culture, 115 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:13,720 no branded teddy bears, they just want to make a bedroom wall pinup poster. 116 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,280 With a touch of the madness we saw in the Lamborghinis of a few decades ago. 117 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,320 And you can feel that. 118 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,340 There might be some people watching right now who could actually 119 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,360 afford one of these things. 120 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,036 And it is the job of you, me and everybody else to stand around 121 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,520 and join together in a chorus, 'Do it, do it, do it.' 122 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,620 Wow. That is an amazing looking thing. Crazy but wonderful. Amazing. 123 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,040 Now, do you know, do you know which of the world's cities 124 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,360 has placed the largest number of orders for this car? No. 125 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,160 Wakefield. Does it? No, I made that up. 126 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:22,756 Is it really as fast as it looks? 127 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,303 Yes, yes. You know the straight between Chicago 128 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,360 and Hammerhead? In this, it is not as long as you think. 129 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,667 It is just there. Is it not? So I can't relax. 'There.' 130 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,249 It is just one corner, it is amazingly insanely fast. 131 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:38,747 Now, obviously, we must find out how fast it goes around our track 132 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,392 and that of course means handing it over to our tame racing driver. 133 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,280 Some say that we have at least thought of a new way 134 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,280 of introducing him. But we haven't. 135 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:50,560 It's The Stig. 136 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:55,832 And he is off, surprisingly gentle at first, 137 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,845 but then the tyres light up, the spoilers spring into action. 138 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,240 Coming up to the first corner and he is, he is indicating, 139 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,680 seems unnecessary, but he is keeping it all in shape. 140 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,040 Just about. 141 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,667 Should explain that since the Olympics, The Stig has become obsessed with national anthems. 142 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,009 He is around Chicago and fires in towards Hammerhead, 143 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,240 Hammond was right, that took no time at all. 144 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,240 Underbraking and takes it easy through the left and right. 145 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,820 Now, hard on the power. Do you hear those turbo wastegates fluttering? 146 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,600 Now, follow through, surely he can't use all the power there. 147 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,360 He did. He double breaks as he passes the tyres, 148 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:50,992 presumably with his left foot, or the middle one. 149 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,400 Just two corners left. God he is coming in fast. 150 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,560 Steady, Stig, up to Gambon. He's very smooth through there. 151 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,600 And across the line. 152 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,920 Right, the Pagani, Pagan... 153 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,680 Hu... in. Huayra. 154 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,500 Huuuugh. It is a stupid name. Why is it stupid? 155 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,201 It hasn't got any constants in it. 156 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,280 Consonants are the meat of language, if you had no constants in your name 157 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,920 you would be... Ia. 158 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,240 And I'd be... Eey. 159 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:36,920 People have waited a long time for us to come back and that is it. 160 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,049 Anyway, the fastest car we have ever had around the track is 161 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,560 the Arial Atom V81.15.1. 162 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,498 Now, are you seriously suggesting that this is faster than that? 163 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,863 I would say it is in with a shout of being as fast, yes. 164 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,360 Well, you're wrong. 165 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,960 Because, the Pagani did it in 1... 166 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,840 13.8. I am not joking. 167 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,960 It is genuinely staggering. 168 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,494 I can't see that time being beaten ever, to be honest. 169 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,620 Anyway, it is time to do the news, and it is good news 170 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,300 because the Dacia Sandero is on sale in the UK and taking the nation by storm. 171 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,440 Great. Now, the Mercedes SLS, there it is. 172 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,369 There is a new black version of it, there is a picture of it there and it is yellow. 173 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,940 It has 60 more horsepower than the standard, more speed, more violence. 174 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,800 Dear God, is the brochure written in bullet holes? 175 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,747 No, the brochure is carved into your face with a hunting knife. Is it? 176 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:51,240 Subtle. 177 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,000 I wonder if they have addressed the problem with the old one, you could never get it sideways. 178 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,916 This one does not go in a straight line. 179 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,258 It is funny, weirdly, my friend just bought a black series Mercedes 180 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,720 and every time I see him, I say, 'How is it going?' 181 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 And he pretends it is great. 'It is fine. 182 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,600 'I am enjoying it.' 'But you have aged 30 years in one week.' 183 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:10,960 'I know. But I really like it.' 184 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,680 That's like saying, 'I have a new attack dog and it's great. 185 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,000 'You don't know when it's going to attack, or who. I love it.' 186 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,178 That is what that is. It's a big yellow attack dog. It is very silly. 187 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,018 Now, may I talk about 50 Shades Of Grey? 188 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,440 Really? 189 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,867 Can I just honestly ask, who here has read it? Be honest, 190 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,654 Who here has read it? We're noticing a trend. 191 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,458 It is mainly a women thing, I'm guessing, yes? 192 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,983 Men don't really have an equivalent, until now. 193 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,160 I have found the male equivalent of 50 Shades Of Grey. 194 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:45,720 Tremendous Tractors. 195 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,280 Come on, you're going to love it the most. 196 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,160 Why would you not read that? 197 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:01,649 It is all in here, isn't it? Spikes. 198 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,792 'These move through the ground to cover the seeds after they have dropped. 199 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,240 'This has chunky treads, to grip bumpy or sloppy ground.' 200 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,080 Hammond... This is absolutely marvellous. 201 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,640 I think you're reading more into it than is actually there. 202 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,120 'It cuts the stocks and threshes them up to knock the grain right out.' 203 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,240 I'm coming over all flushed. It is just a book about tractors. 204 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,232 And the best thing is, there is a series of them, 205 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,600 there is Dazzling Diggers, Amazing Aeroplanes, Enormous Erections. 206 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,760 What? I made that last one up. 207 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,800 'Spreads the straw behind it as the grain spills from the spout... 208 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,160 'For farmland can be rough.' 209 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:55,480 I've gone somewhere else. 210 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,414 You have gone crosseyed, is what you've gone. 211 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,240 Right, Volkswagen, Volkswagen named the Touareg, the big 4x4, 212 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,160 after the North African tribesmen. 213 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,716 It must have seemed like a very good name at the time, 214 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,152 because the other tough, romantic nomadic people, 215 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,849 eking a simple living from the harsh desert. 216 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,032 Unfortunately, it turns out that today the Touareg are running guns 217 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:25,020 from Libya into Mali and fighting there alongside hardline Islamists. 218 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:31,129 I think we can be pretty sure there will be some highlevel very urgent meetings at VW this week. 219 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,440 They are certainly dropping plans now for the new hatchback, 220 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:36,640 the BaaderMeinhof. 221 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,360 'This van, the new VW Lord's Resistance Army...' 222 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,380 That's the one with the independent rear access, or IRA. Stop it. Yes. 223 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,356 If you think about it, you only need one letter to 224 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,120 drop off the back of your Polo and you will have VW PLO. 225 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,100 It turns out every single Volkswagen is named after a terrorist organisation. 226 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,120 Right, there is a new Corvette out 227 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:08,560 and they have brought back the Stingray name. 228 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:12,040 Allnew chassis so it has perfect weight distribution, 450 brake horsepower from a 6.2 litre V8, 229 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,360 which means 0 to 60 will be under four seconds. 230 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,480 And the best thing is it makes you 27% more attractive to your sister. 231 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,880 No, you know those dotmatrix on motorways? 232 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,640 Overhead gantries that are used to warn you about impending doom? 233 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,112 Well, sometimes there is no impending doom, so they put up other messages. 234 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,289 I was driving along other day and one said, 235 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,600 'Have you prepared your car for winter?' 236 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,725 And I thought, 'When I bought it from Mercedes. 237 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,805 'I rather hoped they'd done that already.' 238 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:46,200 How do you prepare your car for winter? 239 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,080 We genuinely don't know, 240 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,609 does anyone have any ideas how you would prepare a car for winter? 241 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:53,840 Winter tyres. 242 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,978 Winter tyres, you could conceivably put winter tyres on 243 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,481 but you only need them for, what, half a day? And they cost about £150 each. 244 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,765 In the olden, olden, olden days, you probably did have to prepare your car for winter. 245 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,640 Perhaps that is the problem, the man writing the sign in 1953. Yes. 246 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,320 Is it you? Have you been moonlighting writing signs? 247 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:21,080 'Don't forget to line your engine block with some stout canvas.' 248 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,000 It was you. Can I direct you to your jacket? 249 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,400 Before you say I am locked in 1953, Mr Toad. 250 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,107 I am the only modern one here. Really? 251 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,880 You may remember a while back on Top Gear 252 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:46,600 we met the Racer Recovery Team, a group of injured soldiers 253 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,080 who were planning to take on the toughest race in the world. 254 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,996 I remember thinking, that is very noble, 255 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,401 but it is impossible because Mark Thatcher had for functioning limbs, 256 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,014 he never made it, so the idea that they would was, in my mind, preposterous. 257 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:04,743 The race was over 1,500 kilometres across South America, 258 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,960 it took two weeks, 305 of the entrants didn't finish. 259 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,540 But, and this is amazing news, last Sunday, they did. 260 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,520 Philip Gillespie, Matt O'Hare and the rest of the team, 261 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,680 deep, deep respect from all of us here, that is amazing. 262 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,960 Tremendous. Right, that is the end of the news. 263 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,209 I would like to move things on swiftly to the Bentley Continental. 264 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,760 There are various versions available, you can have one with a top speed of 187, top speed of 194, 265 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,240 a top speed of 198, 266 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:50,060 but what if none of these top speeds are quite what you're after? 267 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,040 Well, Bentley has a solution. 268 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,080 And here it is. The Continental GT speed. 269 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,920 This is not to be confused with the previous Bentley Continental GT speed, 270 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,560 or the Bentley Continental GT super sport or in fact any other. 271 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,040 Bentley Continental that looks exactly the same as this one. 272 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,480 No, this one is a bit special. 273 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,280 What this is is the fastest Bentley ever built 274 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,720 because it will be 205 miles per hour. 275 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:46,140 It will also go from 0 to 60 in just four seconds. 276 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,716 And to deliver that kind of performance, 277 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,440 the standard issue six litre twin turbo engine has been stoked 278 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:58,040 to produce 616 horsepower. 279 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,760 To ensure that all that power is delivered in an orderly fashion, 280 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,040 this car has been fitted with a new eightspeed automatic gear box. 281 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,880 To help it stand out next to a regular Continental GT, 282 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,125 the speed has been given a few signature flourishes. 283 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,560 Such as this black mesh radiator grille, 284 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:33,480 these rifled exhausts, 285 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,360 and inside, a gorgeous dark tinted aluminium fascia. 286 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,792 It costs just over £150,000, and at this point you may be thinking, 287 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:48,720 'So what? 288 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,200 'Why do we need another fast Bentley anyway?' 289 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,720 I thought exactly the same, until I drove it. 290 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,280 Up until now, every Continental GT has been, to my mind, 291 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,920 just a sort of big posh car built to the numbers. 292 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,520 Built to an easy directive. 293 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,080 But this car, finally feels, I think, like a Bentley should. 294 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,680 It is not the magnitude of the power that is important, it is 295 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,000 the way it is turned into speed. 296 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,760 You sort of get a discreet 'ahem' from the Butler, 297 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,880 and then this big aristocratic whomp in the kidneys. 298 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,000 The ride in a Bentley, I think, should be reasonably firm 299 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,383 but forgiving and supple, and that is what you get here. 300 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,103 You feel very much in control. 301 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,876 You can read the road through the wheels and through the steering wheel, 302 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,120 but it does not batter you in any way. 303 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,280 Likewise, that new eightspeed gear box is an absolute peach. 304 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,769 It is also intelligent, it will skip gears, 305 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,885 it will go from fourth to eighth if that is what is required. 306 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,836 The Continental has been around for ten years now, 307 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,396 and what this version feels like is a decade of engineering 308 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,040 coming together to make something rather special. 309 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,783 So to find out how good it really is, 310 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,240 we decided to take it somewhere more demanding than a Welsh B road. 311 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,800 So, since it has fourwheeldrive... 312 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,380 Yes, we're going to unleash her £150,000 Bentley on a fullblown 313 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,040 stage of the World Rally Championship. 314 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,720 Specifically, here, on a 15mile stage of the gruelling Welsh Rally. 315 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,520 This is Top Gear consumer journalism. 316 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,480 I have never driven a rally stage, and I'm not going to now. 317 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,880 I am giving the job to rally ace Kris Meeke. 318 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,934 Who you may remember from our race between a rally car 319 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,960 and Olympic goldmedal skelebob pilot in Amy Williams. 320 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,640 On that occasion my job was to sit next to him and not look scared. 321 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,405 Today, though, I would have to give Kris directions. 322 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,716 That meant getting to grips with the mystifying world of pace notes. 323 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,698 Basically, the number before the R, the R is a right, 324 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,960 the number is the severity of the bend. One is a slight bend 325 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,583 and the six is a real hard bend, so the numbers are graded one through to six. 326 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,072 The numbers between the corners are the distance, 327 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,880 so 40 is 40 metres, the C that you were calling is a crest 328 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,320 and the arrow is into, so that'll be crest into one right over crest. 329 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,640 So how do I do this and look out the window at the same time? 330 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,143 You don't look out, you have to feel the corners through your backside. 331 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,680 So your brain needs to be 200300 metres ahead of my driving. 332 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,080 If it goes wrong, and we have a crash, who says sorry first? 333 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,596 First thing I will do is check your pulse to see if you're still living, 334 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,316 then I will ask you to apologise. 335 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,903 Besides the complexity of the pace notes there was another worry. 336 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,218 A world Rally car is purposebuilt for the job. 337 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,480 It weighs just 1,200 kilograms, 338 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,640 and has bespoke brakes to help it stop. 339 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,618 Its gearbox is made to soak up the punishment, 340 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:45,280 its roll cages designed to keep the occupants in one piece. 341 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,940 By contrast, all we have changed on our 2.3 ton Bentley was the seats. 342 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,036 The seats are good. I think that is good thinking, 343 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,152 but most of other things about this car are bad, aren't they, for rally? Too big. 344 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,049 Yeah. A Bentley on a rally is a stupid idea. 345 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,245 It has all the horsepower you need to get it up to speed 346 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,965 but we are trying to stop 2.3 tonnes on road tyres so we don't have the grip. 347 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,600 And you haven't got the handbrake. You have the electric handbrake, which is no good. 348 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:21,800 It is not, but we will have to do a little bit of man manoeuvring around the hairpins. 349 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,409 Are you a bit scared about driving this rally course? 350 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,160 I am a little bit. You should be even more scared. 351 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,800 And on those final words of comfort we took place on the start line. 352 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,814 You see that bloke's moustache there? Yes. 353 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,076 That tells me everything is going to be all right. 354 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,529 So if you count me down, do a five. Yeah. 355 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,420 Five, four, three, two, one. 356 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,040 Four right. 40. 357 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,738 You need to be quicker, James, come on. 40 metres. Four right. 358 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,752 Suddenly, I knew what it felt like to be a rabbit 359 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:23,800 caught in the headlights. 360 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,240 Next, James, come on. Left, left plus two left. 361 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,009 James, I can't go up the road if you don't call out the notes. 362 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,360 One right. One right? 363 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,560 Repeat, repeat. Then three right and then 40 metres. 364 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,223 Five right into six left into 40 metres into five right. 365 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,116 This is the five, you're too late, James, come on. 366 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,560 Right, square right. Sorry, square left. 367 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,907 James, either get it right or shut up. 368 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,120 The red mist had descended on Chris. 369 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,040 A fog of doubt had enveloped me, 370 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,845 but it seemed he wasn't going to back off. 371 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,120 Ooph. 372 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,360 Next one. One right. 373 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:22,880 Bloody hell. 374 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,600 Four right. 375 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,640 On the plus side, the Bentley's fourwheeldrive was superb. 376 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,160 The power phenomenal. 377 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,680 And Chris was majestic. 378 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,080 Especially in the tight bends 379 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,080 where the Bentley's electric parking brake was useless. 380 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,520 Going into large hairpin right. 381 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,018 That's where you needed the handbrake. Yeah. 382 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,720 Ten miles in and I was giving Chris proper backup. 383 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,960 Five right. 384 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,760 Severe six right. OK. That's a bit better, James. 385 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,840 Through water. 386 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,720 40, four left. Tight. Nearly finished, James. 387 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,120 Two left. Tight. 388 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,440 Man in road. Two left, over a crest. 389 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,640 Jesus. 390 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,734 So, James May, James May... 391 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,520 The big question is, were you last? 392 00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,600 No. 393 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,280 We beat a proper WRC rally car by two seconds. 394 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,760 So you were second to last? Yeah. First of the winners. 395 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,654 I have to say, though, obviously I would like to mock you for your hopeless codriving skills, 396 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,800 but watching this on that rally circuit, 397 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,574 a deeply impressive spectacle, it really was. 398 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,729 Yeah, it is a deeply impressive car. 399 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,489 It's weird, I've never been a fan of the Continental, 400 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,560 but I drove the little V8 engine one last year 401 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,640 and I thought that was pretty good as well. Yeah, absolutely. 402 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,312 They have done a great deal to improve the car over the years. 403 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,680 But the trouble is, 404 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,681 they haven't really done anything to improve the people who buy them. No. 405 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,120 I mean, they do all that engineering work 406 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,885 and then they sell it to Mario Balotelli. Exactly. 407 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,183 Who? I knew you didn't know. 408 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,320 He's that Manchester City player with the blond Brazilian on his head. 409 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,920 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 410 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,481 Anyway, it is now time to put a star in our reasonably priced car. 411 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,347 My guest tonight is best known as a ginger man who is intent on bringing 412 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,680 suffering and misery to countless millions of innocent souls. 413 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,072 Don't worry, I'm not talking about Mick Hucknall. 414 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,365 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, from Homeland, 415 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:13,880 Damian Lewis. 416 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,760 You're here. Thank you. How are you? Really great. Have a seat. 417 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,480 Thank you. Have a seat. Thank you. Thank you. 418 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,120 I want to talk about Homeland, obviously, 419 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,325 I know everybody wants to do that, but... 420 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,880 I keep reading that you don't know how it ends, 421 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,320 but you must do, really. 422 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,316 We... I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you. 423 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,245 I don't know how it ends because they don't know how it ends. 424 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,240 It sounds a little avoiding to say that, 425 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,783 but honestly the writers write incredibly spontaneously. 426 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,400 They're actually sitting down this week to work out what happens next season. You're in a wood now. 427 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,072 It's a bit of a surprise I'm still alive, I think. Yeah. 428 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,200 Now they've got the headache of me still being alive, 429 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,089 they've got to work out what to do with me. 430 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:35,598 We. 431 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:35,758 We sat. 432 00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:35,998 We sat at. 433 00:33:35,999 --> 00:33:36,158 We sat at the. 434 00:33:36,159 --> 00:33:36,518 We sat at the table. 435 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:36,798 We sat at the table opposite. 436 00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:39,038 We sat at the table opposite him. 437 00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:39,158 We sat at the table opposite him. I. 438 00:33:39,159 --> 00:33:39,558 We sat at the table opposite him. I am. 439 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:39,678 We sat at the table opposite him. I am surprised. 440 00:33:39,679 --> 00:33:40,798 We sat at the table opposite him. I am surprised you. 441 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:41,238 We sat at the table opposite him. I am surprised you haven't. 442 00:33:41,239 --> 00:33:41,478 We sat at the table opposite him. I am surprised you haven't been. 443 00:33:41,479 --> 00:33:41,758 We sat at the table opposite him. I am surprised you haven't been on. 444 00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:41,878 I am surprised you haven't been on Match. 445 00:33:41,879 --> 00:33:42,118 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of. 446 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:42,238 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The. 447 00:33:42,239 --> 00:33:43,238 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. 448 00:33:43,239 --> 00:33:43,478 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. You. 449 00:33:43,479 --> 00:33:44,038 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. You are. 450 00:33:44,039 --> 00:33:44,318 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. You are a. 451 00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:44,558 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. You are a big. 452 00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:46,678 I am surprised you haven't been on Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. 453 00:33:46,679 --> 00:33:46,798 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I. 454 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:47,038 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am. 455 00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:47,198 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a. 456 00:33:47,199 --> 00:33:47,438 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a Liverpool. 457 00:33:47,439 --> 00:33:47,558 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a Liverpool fan. 458 00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:47,838 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a Liverpool fan. As. 459 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:47,958 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a Liverpool fan. As you. 460 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:49,758 Match Of The Day. You are a big fan. I am a Liverpool fan. As you can. 461 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:49,878 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell. 462 00:33:49,879 --> 00:33:50,158 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell from. 463 00:33:50,159 --> 00:33:50,278 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell from my. 464 00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:50,558 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell from my deep. 465 00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:50,798 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell from my deep Scouse. 466 00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:53,822 I am a Liverpool fan. As you can tell from my deep Scouse accent. 467 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,560 And last time I played, actually, I was playing in the centre midfield 468 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,223 for England against the rest of the world 469 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,520 with Jamie Redknapp. 470 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:08,320 It was just me and Jamie marshalling midfield 471 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:10,583 behind Shearer and Sheringham. 472 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,112 And I clattered into Zizou, Zinedine Zidane, 473 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,360 after about 15 minutes, and I didn't realise how angry he was. 474 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,720 Jamie Redknapp kept following me around the pitch, saying, 475 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:18,920 'Dam, Dam, calm down.' 476 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,467 And I said, 'What do you mean?' 477 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,263 He said, 'They haven't come to see YOU play.' 478 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,280 And then in the 30th minute, in front of 75,000 people, 479 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,160 what does Zidane do? 480 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,556 He rolled his foot over the ball a few times, 481 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,774 went to the touchline, stood there with the ball, 482 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,152 looked up at me as I came charging in, like this, 483 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,792 going to tackle Zidane, looked at me and went... 484 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,094 Poked it straight through my legs... 485 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,640 to spontaneous laughter. 486 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,520 I've never been laughed at by 70,000 people. 487 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,800 It would shrivel up and there'd be space for things, that's for damn sure. 488 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,036 But it was an amazing experience. 489 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,760 Cars. Cars. 490 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,680 I gather your first car was an Alfa Romeo? Yes, it was. 491 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,120 It wasn't a Spider, it wasn't a sexy Alfa Romeo. 492 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,420 I bought my Alfa Romeo for a grand on a forecourt in Balham High Road. 493 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,320 No. Yeah. And it wasn't even at a car dealership. 494 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,614 It was like a junk shop with four cars in front of it, 495 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:20,943 just lined up on the pavement. 496 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,240 I used to live in Balham and I know exact... 497 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,294 You bought an Alfa from that man? It was just off the pavement. 498 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,760 I was pulling out of the car park at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 499 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,516 where I'd been working for a couple of years. 500 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,960 I put my foot to the brake, it went straight to the floor. No, no. 501 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,969 I just rolled out straight across the road, 502 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,694 bang into the opposite wall. 503 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,800 Normally the Alfa Romeo prevents that happening by breaking down 504 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,689 on the way TO the Royal Shakespeare Company. 505 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,374 So if you'd gone through the woe and the misery of a very, very unreliable car, 506 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,440 presumably your next one was more sensible, more reliable? 507 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,778 It was a TVR. There you go. 508 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,200 Which one? The Chimaera. 509 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,040 TVR stands for Total Vehicle Reliability. 510 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,787 It's amazing fun, though, the TVR, when you get it going. 511 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,485 And you throw it around the country lanes. 512 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,000 I thought you were a bike man more than cars. 513 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,760 I do, well, I have had motorbikes. 514 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,125 I went and got my test and then totally fell in love 515 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,734 with the ultimate hairdresser's chopper bike. 516 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,120 Which was the Yamaha Virago 1,000cc highhandlebarred... 517 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,520 An Easy Rider bike. Chopper. Easy Rider, quite. 518 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,743 Did you never fall off a bike? 519 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:43,520 That's what would stop me getting on one, the terrible pain that would result. No idea. 520 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,560 I had a couple of prangs 521 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,360 and then I had a bad one just outside Pentonville Prison 522 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,085 on the Caledonian Road when a cabbie pulled out 523 00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:52,374 and I just went straight into his windscreen. 524 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,400 And I was out cold, 525 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,700 woke up in a sort of cinematic cliche of a circle of faces 526 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,100 as I came to. And also to feel this really hard grip on my wrist. 527 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,352 That's the first thing I remember, just thinking, 528 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,165 'That doesn't feel good. Someone's really holding onto me tight.' 529 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:16,352 Turned out the guy who was in the back of the taxi was a male nurse 530 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:19,965 from the Royal Free Hospital who'd taken a taxi because he was kissed. 531 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,720 He then said to me later, 532 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,623 he said, 'It was good I managed to get you into the recovery position.' 533 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,120 I said, 'Yeah, but why were you holding onto my wrists so hard?' 534 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:33,040 He said, 'Because I couldn't tell if you were actually dying 535 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,232 'or if I was just too kissed, I couldn't find your pulse.' 536 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,900 So it was just like... My God, come back. Holding onto me. 537 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,200 Normally these days when people have accidents, 538 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,263 the first thing they see is somebody videoing them. 539 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,138 That is today's version, isn't it? It is today's version. Ten iPhones. Yeah, exactly. 540 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,860 Now, obviously, you came here to do your lap. Yes. Which wasn't easy. 541 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:00,152 The sight that greeted us this morning, 542 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,640 let's have a look at the pictures we've got. This is our track. 543 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,180 That is what... Yeah. With light sleet. 544 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,658 So, realistically, you were never going to set the fastest time. 545 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,289 You know, it's quite nervewracking coming to do this for the first time. 546 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,729 You think, what's my limit? 547 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,058 At what point do I just follow through a bit? You know. 548 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,160 And will that be on the first corner? 549 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,036 And when I saw the weather, it was oddly relaxing. 550 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,400 You were thinking, now I can't win, so it doesn't matter? 551 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,280 Yeah, then I thought... 552 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,200 Then everyone was going, it's going to be great fun, it's quite icy out there, 553 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,769 you'll be able to lose the back end and throw it around a bit. 554 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,036 I was going, how do you know I'm going to be able to do any of that? 555 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,480 Well, who'd like to see him doing a bit of that? 556 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,240 Yes. 557 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,907 These are some of the practice laps. Let's just run the tape here. 558 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,463 Now, this is the followthrough. The fastest part, that's pretty ballsy. 559 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,320 And... 560 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,067 I wouldn't want to go off there because it's pretty fast. 561 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:05,569 Second to last corner, yep. 562 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,080 Well held. 563 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,560 Is it well held? Yes, it is well held. 564 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,040 And that one is? 565 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,165 I do like your determination to keep going. Because of the camera. 566 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,854 More rally driving, I think, today. Very good, though. 567 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,236 Eventually, you did manage to get a lap in. Yes. 568 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,040 Who here would like to see that? Let's go. 569 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,960 And they're off. 570 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,640 Determined. 571 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,720 Coming up to the first corner, just wet there, 572 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,320 nothing much to worry about. 573 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,343 Now there's something to worry about. 574 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,760 Oooh. That's slightly scary when the back does that. 575 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:57,920 Keep it on the throttle, Damo. 576 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,360 Change gear now. Now. 577 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,400 Braking's not easy into the Hammerhead at the best of times. 578 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,280 In those conditions... 579 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,200 Ooh, a dab of handbrake. 580 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,800 I see a dab of handbrake and a bit of under... Change gear. 581 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,840 The Skandi flick. I believe. It was a Skandi flick. 582 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,525 No racing driver should have to put his windscreen wipers on. Do you know what I mean? 583 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,729 When they're rallying, that is quite normal. 584 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,876 I wouldn't want to be going over there at anything more... 585 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,520 Can he make it all the way through the tyres? 586 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,400 Yup. 587 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,547 Back into the fast bit. Now, can he get to the second last corner right? 588 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:46,800 Yes... No. 589 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,840 Yes. 590 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,560 Into Gambon. Looking good. 591 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:53,880 No. No. 592 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,320 That was a lot of fun. That was tremendous. 593 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,103 That does look like a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was terrific. 594 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,841 So where do you think you've come? 595 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,560 So far, the slowest man we've ever had round here was John Prescott. 596 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,880 In a 1.56.7. Yes. 597 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,640 Damian Lewis, you did it in... 598 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,000 Two minutes... 599 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,600 nine seconds... 600 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:41,760 point one. 601 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:44,800 But... 602 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,680 Should we have a separate board for snow? 603 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,520 So I think you're the fastest person we've ever had in the snow. 604 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,245 So we'll put you up there. 605 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:05,960 It's good. 606 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,649 I have to say, actually... Great. 607 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,240 I do have to say, that is the slowest lap we've ever had. 608 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,654 But, and I'm sure everyone will agree with me on this, 609 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:25,280 by far and away the most entertaining. 610 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,605 Ladies and gentlemen, Damian Lewis. 611 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:39,743 Now, so far in this programme, 612 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,360 James has been rallying in a £150,000 Bentley, 613 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,654 and I've raced around our track in an £800,000 Pagani. 614 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,120 So someone's got to bring it all back down to earth. 615 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,560 Yes, and unfortunately that person is Jeremy. 616 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,560 Yes, as usual, it falls to me to be the voice of reason and common sense. 617 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,900 With this, the Peel P50, the smallest car ever made. 618 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:10,120 Until now. Because I have created, behold, this. 619 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,520 Now, I know. I know. 620 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,556 Incredulity is often the first response. 621 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,547 But let me talk you through it. 622 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,880 Because underneath the handcrafted aluminium bodywork, 623 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,360 you have the engine and the running gear from a quad bike. 624 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:38,040 But you will note it has lights and indicators and a number plate. 625 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,263 It's passed all the Government tests, 626 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,600 which means you can drive it on the road. 627 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,040 Are you seriously suggesting that that is an actual car? 628 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,600 I promise it's a real car. What's it called? Well, that's brilliant. 629 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,796 Because it's shorter and narrower than a Peel P50, 630 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,720 I've called it the P45. 631 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,280 Now I'm going to test it. 632 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,658 What, you're going to test a car that you built? Yes. 633 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,200 So what are we going to do next week? VW tests its new Golf? 634 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,614 Shut up. I'm going to be completely unbiased, as you shall see. 635 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,320 I began on the track. 636 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:27,160 And having determined very quickly that the P45 was exquisite in every way, 637 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,040 I took it onto the public highway. 638 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,280 I should make it plain this is Base L model that I'm driving now, 639 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,920 but there are some optional extras. 640 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:40,520 CAR BACKFIRES Urgh. Nothing wrong. 641 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,720 Edit that out. 642 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,000 There is, for instance, 643 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,480 the deluxe wash wipe option which costs just £1.99. 644 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,080 Good. 645 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,300 And also, for just £500, this does come with satellite navigation. 646 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,538 There's the sat nav. You see? 647 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:04,280 You just hold it up and see where you're going. 648 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,480 The P45 is designed to deal with all eventualities. 649 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:11,720 I'm relaxed. 650 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,640 So, I decided to join the main road. 651 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,640 Yes, look at this. Look at this. Very brilliant. 652 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:25,520 CAR BACKFIRES My God. 653 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:28,800 If you're watching this in the edit, make sure that doesn't go on television. 654 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,983 I don't want people thinking it's a death trap. 655 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,440 It happened again. Edit that out as well. 656 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,600 I can't believe how quiet the roads are this morning. 657 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,520 I'm barely seeing any traffic at all. 658 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,356 As I neared Guildford, I did find a jam, 659 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,200 but this was no problem for the super narrow P45. 660 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,960 The speed machine is coming through. 661 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,680 Nothing wrong. 662 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,360 Yes. 663 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,280 This is incredible. Ladies and gentlemen, 664 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,240 you are witnessing the birth of the future. 665 00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:17,680 I'm staggered that Ford, General Motors, Toyota, 666 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,592 all the automotive giants, haven't thought to make a car like this. 667 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,120 And yet, a poky little motoring show on BBC... 668 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,020 This is the way to drive the P45, with your face on the windscreen, 669 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,160 then it can't smash into it. 670 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,080 For local commuting, my car is faultless. 671 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,800 But what if you want to go further afield? 672 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,689 To find out, I pulled into a petrol station 673 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,232 and without even getting out, I brimmed its tank. 674 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:01,640 Good. 675 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:05,640 Damn. 676 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,680 I only have a 1.7litre fuel tank, 677 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,600 but the minimum delivery here is two litres. 678 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,112 Discretely, I squirted the difference into a bin. 679 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,880 Then I fired up the twostroke, 100cc engine 680 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,520 and set off to London. 681 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,329 Technically, I'm legally allowed to drive the P45 on motorways 682 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,560 and dual carriageways. 683 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,680 To see how it gets on, I'm about to join the fearsome A3. 684 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:51,480 Here we go. 685 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:52,760 Ooh. 686 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,920 Aarghhh. 687 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,845 Arghh. I've never been frightened of a Citroen Picasso before 688 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,240 and I just was. 689 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:03,880 Aarghhh. A van. 690 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:06,009 Arghh. I've got a weave on. 691 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:12,480 Yes. Help me. HELP. 692 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:14,920 How fast is that now? 693 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,800 34. Arghh. Lorry, lorry, lorry, lorry. 694 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,680 A lot of poo shot out then. 695 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,680 While this may be legal, it's also completely terrifying. 696 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,396 However, the advantage of a car this small is that 697 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,040 you don't have to take it on dual carriageways. 698 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:40,760 In fact, you don't have to use the main roads at all. 699 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,840 What you do instead is you drive it to the railway station 700 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,560 but instead of leaving it in the car park to be vandalised and stolen, 701 00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,720 you take it on the train with you. 702 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,040 I will be honest. 703 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,583 None of the train companies we contacted would play ball 704 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,960 so I'm using the coach instead. 705 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,440 Coach is good. Coach is better than a train. 706 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,000 Fewer diseases on a coach. 707 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,556 Of course, when you get to the big city, 708 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,040 you don't have to use the tube or the bus 709 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,165 because you have your car WITH you. 710 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,080 Dear. 711 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:46,880 I don't think... 712 00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:50,840 Just cut the cameras. 713 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:52,925 In London, I went for a little drive. 714 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,280 Yes. 715 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,800 All sorts of hand signals available. If I want to go... 716 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,240 left, right, somebody annoys me. 717 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:03,960 Then I went shopping. 718 00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,263 With the P45, there's no need to pay. 719 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,360 Or waste time looking for a parking space. 720 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,360 Dear. 721 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,920 Of course, a Peel P50 also fits in a lift, 722 00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:28,743 but because it has no reverse gear, you can't back it out again. 723 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,280 Unless there's a newsreader to hand. 724 00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,552 This, though, does have a reverse gear. 725 00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:36,920 So... here we go. 726 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,900 Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep... 727 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,720 I know what you're thinking. There's no way you'd be allowed 728 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,640 to drive around here with a twostroke engine 729 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,018 belching fumes into the faces of all the baby children. 730 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:57,800 But here's the thing. 731 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,200 The P45 is a hybrid. 732 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:02,680 When you come inside, you can disconnect the petrol engine 733 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,409 and connect up a couple of electric motors. 734 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,996 A very simple job. You take off a wheel, 735 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,467 connect a free wheeling hub... 736 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,960 It takes a couple of guys... minutes. 737 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,672 There are a couple of drawbacks. 738 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,880 Number one, the top speed is now 3mph. 739 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,480 Number two, the batteries will only last an hour. 740 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,320 But I'm a man and I can't think of any shopping expedition 741 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,800 that could possibly take longer than that. 742 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,240 Shoes, I've got some, I don't need any of those. 743 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:52,640 I've got a chair. 744 00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,023 There's nothing I want to buy. 745 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:58,240 Eventually, I bought a present for James. 746 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:02,480 Then I decided to find out just how quiet my car is 747 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:04,920 in electric mode 748 00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,000 so I took it here. 749 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,080 This is extraordinary. 750 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,205 Nobody's looking up. Nobody's noticing me. 751 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:24,298 The only trouble is that libraries are more interesting 752 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:25,520 than shopping centres. 753 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:27,640 Whoa. History Of Germany. 754 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,080 Can't be that big just to say, 'We lost a lot.' 755 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:35,120 An hour flew by. 756 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,094 Get out of the way, student. 757 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:39,600 Soon, the batteries were flat. 758 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:42,240 No. 759 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,227 Now, if this were a Peel P50, I could pick it up 760 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:49,520 and carry it out. 761 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,840 But I'm afraid the P45 is a bit heavier. 762 00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,223 A lot heavier. Weighs a tonne. 763 00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,903 There's only one thing for it. 764 00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:11,160 This is so embarrassing. 765 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,320 Sorry. Sorry, everybody. I'm so sorry. Really, I'm so sorry. 766 00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,063 That night I was due to go to a show. 767 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:26,320 Yes. 768 00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,280 Stupid idiot. 769 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,969 As I was running late, I decided to take a short cut. 770 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,760 Look here. 'Cyclists not allowed.' 771 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,160 Good. 772 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,436 I'm not a cyclist so here I come. 773 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:42,680 Hello... 774 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,280 Come on. Quickly... 775 00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:54,320 I'm really sorry. 776 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,223 Soon I was in the West End... 777 00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,360 Arghh. 778 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:01,880 And nearing the theatre. 779 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,440 This is the joy of a P45. 780 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,160 Everything is a drivethrough. 781 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,040 Hello. One, please. 782 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:17,440 Thank you very much. 783 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:21,520 Ooh... 784 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:23,880 There you go. 785 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,480 The show was ace. 786 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,680 Not a single gay man on that stage. 787 00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,965 However, my seating arrangements were a bit cramped. 788 00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,760 No. Cut. Cut. 789 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:00,840 The next morning, it was clear to me that the P45 790 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,600 was excellent but would it make commercial sense 791 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:06,760 to put it into production? 792 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,094 To find out, I'd set up an important business meeting. 793 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,418 To make sure I look my best, I'm wearing a suit, as you can see. 794 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,649 I've washed my hair and now I'm going to give the car 795 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,000 a wash and brushup as well. 796 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:27,640 Now, here we go. Yes. 797 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,440 Arghh. It's not warm. It's extremely cold. 798 00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,380 Yes. People pay many pounds for this in countries... 799 00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,160 This has gone quite badly. 800 00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:49,685 What's happened here? A terrible thing has happened. 801 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:53,680 A bad thing has happened. 802 00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:56,200 I've got completely wedged. 803 00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,680 With the P45 untangled, I headed off to my big business meeting. 804 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,720 First of all, I'd like to apologise for my... wet sleeves 805 00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,880 and my bloodshot eye I got soap in it. 806 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:27,920 We'll gloss over that. 807 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,960 Right, erm... Cars are getting bigger, these days. 808 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,276 I've got a picture of an original Ford Cortina, which. 809 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,103 I'm sure you won't remember, Deborah. 810 00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:39,960 And the modern Mondeo. 811 00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,707 It's the same story with the Golf and the same story 812 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,760 with the Fiesta and it's ridiculous 813 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:50,040 when we live in a country as cramped as ours. 814 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,441 So cars should be getting smaller. 815 00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,040 That is where this comes in. 816 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,320 This is my creation. 817 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:01,640 The P45. 818 00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:06,320 The idea is you can drive this to a railway station 819 00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,165 and then you pop it on a train or a coach, 820 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,249 go to the next city and you can use it there as well. 821 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:13,840 It's road lega... 822 00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,960 Can I make sure, because I might have missed something? 823 00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:18,840 You started off apologising why your arms were wet and then 824 00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:20,720 didn't explain why. 825 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,960 Because they've got water on them. 826 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,360 I travel back and forth from the West Country on the train. 827 00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:31,965 You say you can take that with you. 828 00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,432 That looks quite big to get on a train. 829 00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,360 That's because train companies put seats in their carriages, 830 00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,840 which they needn't do with this. 831 00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,667 If you just produced a carriage, you could drive in and sit there. 832 00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,245 Hold on. At the moment, you can't get it on a train? 833 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,863 Not as such. You've got to rely on the train companies 834 00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,272 redesigning their trains for you to get this on the train? 835 00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,752 Redesigning is easy you just take the seats out. 836 00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,160 OK. I, erm... 837 00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,743 Jeremy, is this your first business venture? 838 00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:06,880 Yes. 839 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,120 What would it cost, one of these, on the road? 840 00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:11,160 £8,000. £8,000? 841 00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:13,778 What would you make them for? 842 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,169 It'll cost £4,000 to build. 843 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,045 By children or will you get adults? 844 00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,347 Can he get children to work in a factory? That would be brilliant. 845 00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,280 Jeremy has asked if he could get children 846 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:26,720 to work in a factory. 847 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:28,880 Come and have a look. 848 00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,800 Theo Paphitis decides to take a closer look. 849 00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,320 Jeremy. It's chit. It isn't. 850 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,640 It is. Total and utter chit. 851 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,960 Theo Paphitis thinks Jeremy's car still needs work. 852 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,089 I don't understand why you're not seeing what I'm seeing here. 853 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:50,720 We are, Jeremy. 854 00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,440 I can see exactly what you're looking at. 855 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:56,898 It's just that I can see that it's loopy and you can't. 856 00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,338 How much of YOUR money have you invested in this? None at all. 857 00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,440 That is the best thing that you've done yet. 858 00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,352 Do you have a plan? Do you have any idea of the size of the market, 859 00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,116 are you going to sell it to that market? 860 00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,240 Yes. So, size of the market. 861 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,000 1,600 a month. 1,600 a month? Or a year. 862 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,254 Well, Jeremy. I'm going to make you an offer. 863 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,520 That's the ticket. 864 00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:28,360 £1 for 1%. 865 00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:32,409 Why would anybody buy this? 866 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,880 It's got stripes on it. I couldn't invest in you. 867 00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:42,880 I'm sorry. I'm out. 868 00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,400 Jeremy, I have to say one thing. 869 00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,347 It is the smartest I've ever seen you. 870 00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,760 Congratulations for that. 871 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,129 You've made, clearly, a real effort. 872 00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,454 However, I can't invest in ridiculous things. 873 00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,889 On that basis, I'm going to have to tell you I'm out. 874 00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,360 Jeremy, it's rubbish. It's useless. 875 01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:04,680 You're wasting your time. 876 01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,160 I can't invest in this. I'm out. 877 01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,054 Theo Paphitis is out, which means Jeremy's only chance 878 01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:13,960 is Duncan Bannatyne. 879 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:16,400 Well, Jeremy. 880 01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,494 I'm the last Dragon in. I tried to tempt them 881 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,254 by making an offer, hoping they would come in with me. 882 01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,680 Sorry, I can't understand a word you're saying. 883 01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:32,920 That is... I'm out. 884 01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,938 Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannatyne 885 01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:37,600 and now he too is out. 886 01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,320 All the Dragons have given him his P45. 887 01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,440 Well, I'm sorry... 888 01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,440 I'm unbowed by their negativity. 889 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,112 How can they not realise this is a car you NEVER need to park? 890 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,125 You can go to the theatre in it, shopping, your arms are free 891 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,480 so you can reach things from the shelves. 892 01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,338 You never need get out of it. 893 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:11,889 Which is ironic because the first thing anyone will want to do 894 01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:13,952 on getting in, is get out of it. 895 01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:16,920 It's a death trap. 896 01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,138 I feel like Vincent Van Gogh. 897 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,876 You've only got one ear? No. Nobody recognised his genius 898 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:24,680 until AFTER he died. 899 01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,796 What you're saying is, for this to be a commercial success, 900 01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,440 you have to be dead? 901 01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:36,400 Yes. 902 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,320 And on that bombshell, it is time to end. 903 01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:44,280 Thank you for watching. They'll see you next week. Good night. 904 01:01:44,305 --> 01:01:46,805 Corrections by Wally73