1 00:00:10,020 --> 00:00:14,210 Tonight, a BMW i8 at full chat in the Yorkshire Moors... 2 00:00:14,260 --> 00:00:16,930 the cream of Hollywood on our track... 3 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:20,180 and a pointless thing about old Land Rovers. 4 00:00:26,580 --> 00:00:30,660 Thank you, everybody, thank you! Thank you so much. 5 00:00:31,820 --> 00:00:34,250 Thank you, and welcome. 6 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:38,370 Welcome to what is, for the first time in many years, 7 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:39,690 an actual car show. 8 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:44,010 We've packed it with many facts and a lot of informations. 9 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:48,530 And we're starting the ball rolling with this, the Mercedes SLS. 10 00:00:48,580 --> 00:00:50,810 This was one of my favourite cars 11 00:00:50,860 --> 00:00:53,570 and I was very sad when they stopped making it. 12 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:56,490 But, happily, there is now a replacement, 13 00:00:56,540 --> 00:01:00,010 which I haven't been driving on the track... 14 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,930 because James has. 15 00:01:08,020 --> 00:01:11,210 This is what they've come up with. 16 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:13,940 It's called the AMG GT. 17 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:20,700 And it costs between £97,000 and £120,000. 18 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:29,290 Now, I have to be entirely honest with you - 19 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:32,290 when I woke up this morning and got out of bed to come and drive 20 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:35,340 this car, it was with a certain amount of disquiet. 21 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:41,090 I've always thought that AMG Mercedes are a bit - 22 00:01:41,140 --> 00:01:44,060 as my mother would say - unnecessary. 23 00:01:46,180 --> 00:01:49,700 I don't like the Stormtrooper body kit look. 24 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:54,650 I don't really like those pseudo-special forces names 25 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:56,820 like "SLS" and "Black". 26 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:00,640 Jeremy likes them a lot. 27 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:09,650 With this car, however, you sense that something is different, 28 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:12,500 that everything's a bit more grown-up. 29 00:02:15,340 --> 00:02:19,010 See, their last coupe, the SLS, had a massive, 30 00:02:19,060 --> 00:02:23,250 and again, not entirely necessary, 6.2-litre V8. 31 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,850 This car also has a V8, but it's a brand-new one 32 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:29,570 and it's a much more modest four litres. 33 00:02:29,620 --> 00:02:31,130 Because of that, 34 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:35,530 you might expect it to take a little longer to get from A to B. 35 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:37,050 However... 36 00:02:46,060 --> 00:02:52,610 The 0-60 time in that 6.2-litre SLS was 3.8 seconds. 37 00:02:52,660 --> 00:02:55,890 On this, the four-litre car, it is... 38 00:02:55,940 --> 00:02:57,570 exactly the same. 39 00:02:57,620 --> 00:03:00,290 The top speeds are almost exactly the same as well, 40 00:03:00,340 --> 00:03:03,420 both up in the high 190s. 41 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:08,770 Strewth! 42 00:03:08,820 --> 00:03:13,820 And AMG has achieved this by using brains to make the brawn. 43 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:18,850 This car has two turbochargers. 44 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:22,290 Normally, turbochargers would be bolted onto the outside of 45 00:03:22,340 --> 00:03:26,410 the engines, but on this car, they live inside the V of the engine. 46 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:30,370 What this means is the engine is more compact, 47 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:32,820 the turbos are more efficient. 48 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:39,010 So this car costs £50,000 less than the old SLS, 49 00:03:39,060 --> 00:03:43,420 it uses a lot less fuel and it still goes just as quickly. 50 00:03:44,660 --> 00:03:48,620 That is what they call on The Apprentice a "win-win". 51 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:56,770 And then there's the styling, 52 00:03:56,820 --> 00:04:00,050 which also has a new level of sophistication, 53 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:04,340 with an interior that's more James Bond than Fast And Furious. 54 00:04:07,780 --> 00:04:10,010 On the outside, it's much the same story. 55 00:04:10,060 --> 00:04:13,250 These doors are perfectly conventional 56 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:14,730 in and out sort of doors. 57 00:04:14,780 --> 00:04:18,410 They are NOT like those idiotic gull-wing things you get on the SLS, 58 00:04:18,460 --> 00:04:20,970 which makes it look as if it's sniffing its own armpits. 59 00:04:21,020 --> 00:04:23,410 This rear spoiler is actually an option, 60 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:27,850 but even that, by AMG's standards, is quite discreet. 61 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:32,740 In fact, the whole thing is quite pretty. Quite classic, even. 62 00:04:35,740 --> 00:04:39,970 And now we must move on to cornering, an activity where 63 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:43,780 AMG normally scores maximum points for mentalness. 64 00:04:46,260 --> 00:04:51,370 This is, when all's said and done, a 503 horsepower rear-wheel drive 65 00:04:51,420 --> 00:04:56,060 muscle car, and that sounds like a recipe for extreme trickiness. 66 00:04:57,460 --> 00:05:00,570 In fact, you can corner quickly in this thing, 67 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:03,220 and without soiling your trousers. 68 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:08,610 Which, once again, is thanks to intelligent engineering. 69 00:05:08,660 --> 00:05:11,890 In a normal car, the engine and the gearbox, 70 00:05:11,940 --> 00:05:15,250 they're just dead weight hanging in there and they move around a bit 71 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:18,010 and sort of spoil the balance as you go round corners. 72 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:22,090 In this car, the mountings for all that stuff are active. 73 00:05:22,140 --> 00:05:24,170 So, as you go through a bend, 74 00:05:24,220 --> 00:05:27,620 they stiffen up to keep all that weight in check. 75 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:31,930 It's a bit like the way a cat can walk along the top of a fence 76 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:34,920 using its tail to keep itself in balance. 77 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:38,450 However, if, like Jeremy, 78 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:43,140 you want to devour your back tyres in one sitting, you still can. 79 00:05:46,340 --> 00:05:48,010 Yes, thank you! 80 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:58,290 And then, there's the noise. 81 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:00,540 Are you ready? Here we go. 82 00:06:11,940 --> 00:06:14,450 I hate it when my prejudices are demolished, 83 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:17,170 but this card is giving me the fizz. 84 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:24,370 What I like most of all is that the GT is cleverly designed 85 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:27,250 to be Jekyll and Hyde. 86 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:29,250 I'm just going to quieten it down. 87 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:32,490 Turn off the manual change, the noisy exhaust. 88 00:06:32,540 --> 00:06:37,010 We'll put it back into comfort mode, comfort suspension... There you go. 89 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:42,330 When you turn all that off, it turns into this incredibly civilised, 90 00:06:42,380 --> 00:06:44,580 long-legged cruiser. 91 00:06:46,580 --> 00:06:47,770 I like what they've done. 92 00:06:47,820 --> 00:06:50,970 They've got rid of the Andy McNab names and all that nonsense 93 00:06:51,020 --> 00:06:54,540 and given us an AMG for grown-ups. 94 00:06:56,260 --> 00:06:59,130 I'm glad I got out of bed this morning. 95 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:08,660 It's what I've been saying for a long time. 96 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,300 So there you go, May. 97 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:18,010 Ha-ha-ha! I've been saying for ages, AMG Mercs are brilliant. 98 00:07:18,060 --> 00:07:21,090 Yes, there are couple of massive problems with this one, though. 99 00:07:21,140 --> 00:07:24,570 ~ What? ~ Well, firstly, it reminds me of you. 100 00:07:24,620 --> 00:07:27,290 The second one is that, to be honest, 101 00:07:27,340 --> 00:07:29,330 for not much more than half the price of this, 102 00:07:29,380 --> 00:07:33,130 you could have a Nissan GT-R, which, as we have established, 103 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:36,650 is the finest car in the world. 104 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:38,850 It's certainly up there, I will grant you that. 105 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:41,610 But I'll tell you what we'll do, we'll sort it out on the track, OK? 106 00:07:41,660 --> 00:07:43,970 We'll see how fast this one can get round. 107 00:07:44,020 --> 00:07:48,570 That of course means handing it over to our tame racing driver. 108 00:07:48,620 --> 00:07:56,010 Some say that last week, he won a BAFTA for Best Original Smell. 109 00:07:58,140 --> 00:08:01,330 And that when he dies, he thinks he'll go to Devon. 110 00:08:03,140 --> 00:08:05,880 All we know is, he's called The Stig! 111 00:08:06,980 --> 00:08:09,770 And he's... not in the car. 112 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:14,210 Oh, yes, Stig not happy about Ricciardo's lap... He's punched him! 113 00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:16,090 He's punched him! That's bad. 114 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:18,810 He's really not happy about that fast lap. 115 00:08:18,860 --> 00:08:22,810 He's in the car now, and he's off. A wheel-spinning start. 116 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:24,970 Obviously in a furious temper. 117 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:28,170 503 horsepower thundering through the light but strong 118 00:08:28,220 --> 00:08:29,730 carbon fibre prop shaft. 119 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:33,770 Oh, he's vandalised the first corner. He is really very annoyed. 120 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:35,490 But he is driving beautifully. 121 00:08:35,540 --> 00:08:40,930 ♪ You know I can't smile without you... ♪ 122 00:08:40,980 --> 00:08:44,690 Another slice of the calming Carpenters there. 123 00:08:44,740 --> 00:08:48,610 Through Chicago, looking very fast and very controlled. Now Hammerhead. 124 00:08:48,660 --> 00:08:51,690 James says this car can suffer from snap understeer, 125 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:53,810 so let's see what happens. 126 00:08:53,860 --> 00:08:56,250 No, not a thing. It's worth remembering, of course, 127 00:08:56,300 --> 00:08:59,100 that James suffers from being a moron. 128 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:04,250 ♪.. I feel sad when... ♪ 129 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:06,450 OK, into the Follow Through, 130 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:08,250 banging up the double clutch gearbox, 131 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:11,730 letting the perfect balance of the transaxle layout do its stuff. 132 00:09:11,780 --> 00:09:13,770 Just a stab of brakes past the tyres. 133 00:09:13,820 --> 00:09:17,130 Stig pretending the pedal is an Australian's face. 134 00:09:17,180 --> 00:09:20,610 Two corners to go... Oh, he's hot through there but very tidy. 135 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:22,370 Only Gambon left. 136 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:25,720 Laser-guided through there, and across the line! 137 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:30,900 I have the time here. 138 00:09:31,660 --> 00:09:33,410 Ready?! 139 00:09:33,460 --> 00:09:37,290 It did a 1.17.5. 140 00:09:37,340 --> 00:09:39,410 And that is... Well, look. 141 00:09:39,460 --> 00:09:43,170 That's quicker than the old SLS Black and, ahem, 142 00:09:43,220 --> 00:09:44,610 quicker than the Nissan GT-R. 143 00:09:44,660 --> 00:09:47,890 Which shows, James, that you don't know what you're talking about. 144 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:50,890 Hmm, interesting. Didn't actually feel like it would be that fast 145 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:52,450 when I was driving it, to be honest. 146 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:55,800 No, that's because... yeah, YOU were driving it. 147 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:00,930 Right, and now we must do the news. And we start with big news. 148 00:10:00,980 --> 00:10:03,690 This is the biggest news we've had in a long time, I would say. 149 00:10:03,740 --> 00:10:08,850 Because Ford, for the very first time, is making the Mustang 150 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,410 in right-hand drive and will be bringing it to the UK officially. 151 00:10:12,460 --> 00:10:14,690 You can buy them over here. There it is. 152 00:10:14,740 --> 00:10:18,610 Two versions - you can have a four-cylinder EcoBoost for £28,000, 153 00:10:18,660 --> 00:10:21,330 or for £33,000, a five-litre V8. 154 00:10:21,380 --> 00:10:24,130 Mm, the one I want, though, is the Shelby, the 350... 155 00:10:24,180 --> 00:10:27,930 ~ GT, yeah, yeah, yeah. ~ .. or something like that. It's 520 horsepower V8. 156 00:10:27,980 --> 00:10:30,450 ~ That's the one. There it is, look. ~ It looks brilliant. 157 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,810 But you can't, they're not bringing that one here. 158 00:10:32,860 --> 00:10:35,770 ~ They're not selling that one to us. ~ Why? ~ It's going to Canada in a year. 159 00:10:35,820 --> 00:10:37,850 Yeah, I know, but so is the internet, but that... 160 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:39,690 But that's not coming here, no, we can't... 161 00:10:39,740 --> 00:10:41,850 ~ Why won't they sell it to us? ~ I don't know. 162 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,650 But you must be very looking forward to a right-hand drive Mustang, Richard Hammond. 163 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:48,250 Yeah, you'd think... No, not really. 164 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:51,010 Because I don't want a right-hand drive Mustang. 165 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:54,970 Once it becomes right-hand drive, it's like it's trying too hard 166 00:10:55,020 --> 00:10:57,690 to be British and sophisticated and something it's not. 167 00:10:57,740 --> 00:11:00,610 I know what you mean. It's like when Americans come over here 168 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:03,050 and start using words like "bloody". 169 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:05,330 ~ Yes! ~ Isn't it? ~ It's exactly that. ~ It is. 170 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:07,770 And they say, "I'm going to the bloody pub!" 171 00:11:07,820 --> 00:11:10,770 ~ It doesn't sound right. It's the same. ~ Exactly, it is. 172 00:11:10,820 --> 00:11:13,850 Or they say "mate". They try and say "mate", but it just doesn't work. 173 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:15,770 Yes, cos they think we're Crocodile Dundee, 174 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:18,330 ~ cos it's all the same, cos they haven't got atlases. ~ Yeah. 175 00:11:18,380 --> 00:11:21,090 So that, realistically, should be called, now it's coming here, 176 00:11:21,140 --> 00:11:23,410 the "Ford Bloody Quid Mate". 177 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:25,770 Should be its name! Ooh, now... 178 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:28,250 Can I just do a survey? 179 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:31,650 How many people here enjoyed the ambulance film we did last week? 180 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:33,610 Yes! 181 00:11:33,660 --> 00:11:36,930 OK, you see, the problem we have is that we've had an electronic 182 00:11:36,980 --> 00:11:42,410 communication from a man called Mr E36-Man-4000, who says, 183 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:46,370 "Dear so-called Top Gear, I HATED your thing on ambulances. 184 00:11:46,420 --> 00:11:48,210 "Why don't you stick to cars?" 185 00:11:48,260 --> 00:11:51,570 Shall we show Mr... What's he called, Mr Hashtag? 186 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:53,570 Shall we show him what this show would be like 187 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:55,370 if we just talked about cars? 188 00:11:55,420 --> 00:11:57,690 ~ Yeah, OK. ~ Yeah, all right. 189 00:12:01,380 --> 00:12:03,610 I tell you what I drove this week... 190 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:06,820 ~ Volkswagen Passat diesel. ~ Did you? ~ Mm. 191 00:12:08,980 --> 00:12:11,120 Surprisingly comfortable. 192 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:17,130 I also drove an Audi TT. 193 00:12:17,180 --> 00:12:20,180 ~ Which is much nicer than you'd think. ~ OK. 194 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:26,610 Actually, I've been driving the new Porsche 911 Turbo, which is 195 00:12:26,660 --> 00:12:30,170 very fast but surprisingly quiet. 196 00:12:30,220 --> 00:12:32,380 Oh, is it? Mm-hm. 197 00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:40,770 Um, Aston Martin have built a new one-off for a Bond film. 198 00:12:40,820 --> 00:12:44,170 ~ It's called the DB10. ~ Yeah, mm. ~ Ooh! 199 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:47,170 ~ I don't think much of that, actually. ~ I don't like the way it looks. 200 00:12:47,220 --> 00:12:49,730 ~ No, I don't. ~ No, I do. ~ OK. 201 00:12:49,780 --> 00:12:51,610 Erm, Vauxhall... 202 00:12:51,660 --> 00:12:53,930 .. has a new car, the Corsa. 203 00:12:54,860 --> 00:12:57,000 I've got nothing on that. 204 00:12:58,380 --> 00:13:00,810 Shall we give up on car news? 205 00:13:00,860 --> 00:13:02,250 I'm going to take charge again, 206 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:04,450 because I want to talk about something else, right? 207 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:08,130 I want to talk about some experts who said last week 208 00:13:08,180 --> 00:13:10,890 they wanted to rip up all of Britain's railway lines and replace 209 00:13:10,940 --> 00:13:14,490 them with motorways that would then only be used by coaches. 210 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:17,170 ~ And I think that would be a shame. ~ Why would that be a shame? 211 00:13:17,220 --> 00:13:19,210 Because I like having coaches on motorways. 212 00:13:19,260 --> 00:13:23,250 ~ Why? ~ Because you can drive alongside them and use their Wi-Fi. 213 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:25,850 Can you?! 214 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:28,610 You can, honestly! Have you not done that? It's fabulous. 215 00:13:28,660 --> 00:13:31,170 My kids always say, "Daddy, Daddy, slow down to 70." 216 00:13:31,220 --> 00:13:33,330 ~ I mean, sorry, "Speed up to 70." ~ Yeah. 217 00:13:33,380 --> 00:13:35,090 "Catch the coach, quickly, 218 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:37,970 "so we can snapchat this picture of a poo I've done." 219 00:13:38,020 --> 00:13:39,610 They do! 220 00:13:39,660 --> 00:13:43,250 ~ So it's like a free roaming Wi-Fi? ~ Exactly! Do it on the way home. 221 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,050 It's incredibly cheap. 222 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:47,930 Now, a few years ago, we improved police cars, and last week, 223 00:13:47,980 --> 00:13:50,170 ~ we improved ambulances. ~ Yes, we did. 224 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:54,050 We are now the emergency service for the emergency services. 225 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:55,450 Yeah, we are. That's what we are. 226 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:57,930 Quite a lot of people have written to us and said, "Right, 227 00:13:57,980 --> 00:14:00,450 "when are you going to improve fire engines?" 228 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,970 Mm! No, but there's a... No, actually... 229 00:14:03,020 --> 00:14:05,210 We've looked into this and there's a problem, 230 00:14:05,260 --> 00:14:07,770 because if you have to build a vehicle big enough for all 231 00:14:07,820 --> 00:14:11,050 the water you need and pumps and ladders and buckets 232 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:15,330 and six burly men, and women, in Wellingtons, 233 00:14:15,380 --> 00:14:17,810 what you end up with is a fire engine. 234 00:14:17,860 --> 00:14:20,930 ~ Yeah. ~ But, specifically, a British fire engine. That's important. 235 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:23,290 Yeah, not one of those stupid American ones where all 236 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:25,170 ~ the firemen stand on the outside. ~ They do! 237 00:14:25,220 --> 00:14:28,170 So you get there and there's nobody on board to put the fire out! 238 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:31,330 Do you know what I like about the British fire engine? 239 00:14:31,380 --> 00:14:33,780 It says "Dennis" on the front. 240 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:36,250 Dennis is a reassuring name. 241 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:40,210 A Dennis would remember to return your lawn mower. 242 00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:43,970 It is interesting, actually, because American fire engines have really stupid names. 243 00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:46,170 I've got a picture of an American fire engine here. 244 00:14:46,220 --> 00:14:48,610 ~ Guess what that's called? ~ Fire Engine. 245 00:14:48,660 --> 00:14:51,010 No, it's called The Igniter. 246 00:14:51,060 --> 00:14:53,890 It is! 247 00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:57,570 ~ How does...? "I've already got a fire!" ~ Exactly! 248 00:14:57,620 --> 00:14:59,330 It should be called The Extinguisher. 249 00:14:59,380 --> 00:15:02,090 ~ They've probably got an ambulance called The Haemorrhage. ~ Yes. 250 00:15:02,140 --> 00:15:04,330 Right, earlier on, James 251 00:15:04,380 --> 00:15:08,010 had a go at a proper road test in a one-off car show 252 00:15:08,060 --> 00:15:11,250 ~ and now it's my turn. ~ Try not to muck it up. 253 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:14,930 No, no, no, relax, this is going to be a blizzard of facts 254 00:15:14,980 --> 00:15:18,650 because I'm going to talk about the new BMW M3. 255 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,050 It has a smaller engine than the old model, 256 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:24,770 three litres rather than four. 257 00:15:24,820 --> 00:15:28,730 It has two fewer cylinders, but it is turbo-charged, 258 00:15:28,780 --> 00:15:33,690 so you get a little bit more horsepower and 111 more torques. 259 00:15:33,740 --> 00:15:37,170 That means it's four seconds a lap faster 260 00:15:37,220 --> 00:15:39,730 round our track than the old car. 261 00:15:39,780 --> 00:15:43,090 And four seconds is a huge gulf because, remember, 262 00:15:43,140 --> 00:15:46,170 that was already five seconds a lap faster 263 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:47,650 round the Ascari track in Spain 264 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:49,570 than the equivalent Mercedes and Audi, 265 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:54,050 so this is properly quick AND it's more economical, 266 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:56,370 but, and this is the big one, 267 00:15:56,420 --> 00:15:58,420 is it nicer to drive? 268 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:07,920 Well, here it is, slithering about on our track. 269 00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:13,940 Look at that. I mean, that's just... the M3 signature dish. 270 00:16:16,140 --> 00:16:19,850 But, straightaway, I must tell you there is a bit of a niggle. 271 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:22,210 If you stick the tail out 272 00:16:22,260 --> 00:16:26,610 in a corner, which you can, easily, because it's an M3, 273 00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:30,650 you'll find it very hard to hold the drift 274 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:35,300 because the power steering is now electric rather than hydraulic. 275 00:16:38,060 --> 00:16:39,970 Going round a corner like this 276 00:16:40,020 --> 00:16:43,490 is like wrestling with the tail of an excitable crocodile. 277 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:45,730 It's not just hard to hold the slide, 278 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:49,490 it's also hard to straighten up again afterwards. 279 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:51,280 See what I mean? 280 00:16:53,460 --> 00:16:56,050 Now, I admit, in the real world, 281 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:59,010 this isn't going to be much of a problem... 282 00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:01,050 ever, if I'm honest. 283 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,810 And anyway, you can solve it by taking the steering 284 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:08,970 out of Sport Plus mode and putting it in Comfort mode. 285 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:11,160 Then everything is fine. 286 00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:20,090 Oh, yeah! 287 00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:22,210 In fact, everything is more than fine, 288 00:17:22,260 --> 00:17:26,020 everything is absolutely sublime! 289 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:34,850 I'm not going to beat about the bush, this car is... 290 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:36,170 utterly brilliant. 291 00:17:36,220 --> 00:17:39,370 It's well made, it's got seating for four, 292 00:17:39,420 --> 00:17:44,010 it's got a decent-sized boot, it's comfortable, it's quiet, 293 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:46,730 it's got lots of standard equipment. 294 00:17:47,980 --> 00:17:52,490 In many ways, this car is like the perfect dog - 295 00:17:52,540 --> 00:17:55,050 it's loyal, it's cute, it doesn't chase sheep, 296 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:56,970 it doesn't go wrong all the time 297 00:17:57,020 --> 00:18:00,130 and yet, if a burglar comes, it has the power 298 00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:02,460 to rip his throat out. 299 00:18:04,180 --> 00:18:07,490 "Look at me! I'm an attack dog now! 300 00:18:07,540 --> 00:18:10,060 "I'm fierce and bitey!" 301 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:16,210 And that really is that. 302 00:18:16,260 --> 00:18:18,930 It is a fabulous, wonderful car 303 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:21,610 and if you have £56,000 lying around, 304 00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:24,130 you should buy one immediately. 305 00:18:25,580 --> 00:18:27,250 Or should you? 306 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:31,010 Because today, we live in strange times. 307 00:18:31,060 --> 00:18:33,050 Environmental times. 308 00:18:33,100 --> 00:18:37,130 And BMW has another new car which reflects that. 309 00:18:37,180 --> 00:18:42,060 It's one of the most talked-about cars in years and this is it. 310 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:49,490 It's called the i8 and it's a hybrid, 311 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:52,170 which means it's powered by an electric motor 312 00:18:52,220 --> 00:18:59,130 and a tiny three cylinder, 1.5 litre, turbo-charged petrol engine. 313 00:18:59,180 --> 00:19:02,050 That doesn't sound like much of a recipe. 314 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:05,410 It sounds like a sort of glorified Toyota Prius, 315 00:19:05,460 --> 00:19:08,970 but let me give you the headline figures. 316 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:12,610 This car does 155mph 317 00:19:12,660 --> 00:19:16,970 and 134 miles to the gallon. 318 00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:20,570 And because it's so economical, 319 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:23,690 you get a £5,000 grant from the government if you buy one, 320 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:26,370 it's exempt from the London Congestion Charge 321 00:19:26,420 --> 00:19:29,090 and the road-tax bill, as you can see here, is... 322 00:19:29,140 --> 00:19:30,340 nil. 323 00:19:33,740 --> 00:19:34,930 It really does sound, then, 324 00:19:34,980 --> 00:19:39,610 like this car answers everyone's prayers, but does it? 325 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:43,370 Are pure-bred petrolheads like me really going to say, 326 00:19:43,420 --> 00:19:48,620 "Mm, yes, what I really want next is a three-cylinder hybrid?" 327 00:19:50,180 --> 00:19:53,370 Well, that is what I'm going to try and find out. 328 00:19:53,420 --> 00:19:56,570 I'm going to set the satellite navigation for Whitby 329 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:59,610 in North Yorkshire and, obviously, in a car as futuristic as this, 330 00:19:59,660 --> 00:20:01,610 you don't push buttons to do that, 331 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:04,690 you trace the letters you want on this pad here, 332 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:06,820 so, wuh... 333 00:20:08,420 --> 00:20:09,820 .. huh... 334 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:11,970 .. ih... 335 00:20:12,020 --> 00:20:13,580 tuh... 336 00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:17,170 Ah-ha! OK. 337 00:20:17,220 --> 00:20:20,810 'Whitby, North Yorkshire, guidance started.' 338 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:23,650 Now, the reason I've chosen Whitby is, 339 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,450 A, you get the best fish and chips and the world there 340 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:30,650 and, B, the M3 we saw earlier is waiting for me there, 341 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:35,090 which means, when I arrive, I will face a simple choice. 342 00:20:35,140 --> 00:20:38,900 Will I want to drive home in that or this? 343 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:46,010 With the sat nav looking for the most economical route to Whitby, 344 00:20:46,060 --> 00:20:48,330 I put my sensible head on and settled down 345 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:51,940 for a 200 mile fact-finding mission. 346 00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:58,370 You have a choice of three driving modes. 347 00:20:58,420 --> 00:21:00,410 Number one, electric drive. 348 00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:02,850 That's the electric motor only. 349 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:07,650 It gives you a range of 20 miles, 19 more than you get from a Prius 350 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:11,180 and probably enough for you to do your morning commute. 351 00:21:12,580 --> 00:21:14,530 Then, if you move the gear lever over here, 352 00:21:14,580 --> 00:21:17,890 you engage sport mode and that means the electric motor 353 00:21:17,940 --> 00:21:22,330 and the petrol engine are working together to give 352 horsepower 354 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:26,620 and it makes the car sort of firm and bitey and Nurburgringy. 355 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:34,780 But, since we are on the A1, I shall go for... comfort mode. 356 00:21:36,460 --> 00:21:37,800 Lovely. 357 00:21:38,540 --> 00:21:41,490 'And it really was lovely.' 358 00:21:41,540 --> 00:21:45,050 I know there is an electric motor in the front, 359 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:49,010 driving the front wheels through a two-speed automatic gearbox. 360 00:21:49,060 --> 00:21:51,730 I know there's a petrol engine at the back, 361 00:21:51,780 --> 00:21:55,210 driving the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic gearbox. 362 00:21:55,260 --> 00:21:59,770 I also know there is another small electric motor at the back, 363 00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:03,340 filling in the gaps and doing all sorts of clever things. 364 00:22:04,420 --> 00:22:06,930 And yet, sitting here, 365 00:22:06,980 --> 00:22:12,770 this car feels no weirder to drive than that... 366 00:22:12,820 --> 00:22:16,450 whatever it is, that hatchback thing there. 367 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:19,410 I've got a steering wheel, gear lever, accelerator, 368 00:22:19,460 --> 00:22:23,010 brake and Ken Bruce on the radio. 369 00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:25,250 How normal is that?! 370 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:28,890 ♪ BBC Radio 2! ♪ 371 00:22:28,940 --> 00:22:30,930 But there is a problem. 372 00:22:30,980 --> 00:22:35,250 If you're driving in comfort mode, you're not really charging up 373 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:39,300 the batteries and, eventually, they are going to go flat. 374 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:43,370 One solution is to turn off the motorway 375 00:22:43,420 --> 00:22:45,490 and charge them up at the mains, 376 00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:49,500 but, as you're about to see, this is not to be recommended. 377 00:22:58,660 --> 00:23:01,370 "Connect your vehicle and validate." 378 00:23:01,420 --> 00:23:04,490 Look, I can operate a Hoover! 379 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:07,370 Oh, this is stupid! 380 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:12,580 Well, it must... It must be charging. It's plugged in, so... 381 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:17,300 I shall go and get a cup of coffee. 382 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,530 While we wait for the batteries to charge, let me show you 383 00:23:23,580 --> 00:23:26,890 this incredible app that you can get with your i8, OK? 384 00:23:26,940 --> 00:23:30,250 If I push that, I can set the air conditioning 385 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:33,340 so the car is cool when I get back into it. 386 00:23:34,820 --> 00:23:36,690 How amazing is that?! 387 00:23:36,740 --> 00:23:38,290 If I can also flash the headlights, 388 00:23:38,340 --> 00:23:41,570 so I could find it if I've lost it in a car park. I can lock it. 389 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:43,330 I can unlock it. 390 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:46,610 I don't know why you'd want to do that remotely, but you can. 391 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:50,250 I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a feature on here 392 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:54,340 that enables the i8 to find another i8 for a good time. 393 00:23:55,540 --> 00:23:58,130 'After an hour, I went back to the car 394 00:23:58,180 --> 00:24:01,810 'and found that the charging point hadn't worked.' 395 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:08,090 If you had a pure electric car, you would be completely stuffed, 396 00:24:08,140 --> 00:24:10,810 but this is not a pure electric car. 397 00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:13,400 So I'm not. 398 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:19,090 I can either drive along without the batteries 399 00:24:19,140 --> 00:24:23,930 or I can put the gear lever over here to engage sport mode 400 00:24:23,980 --> 00:24:28,260 and then they are being charged up as I drive along. 401 00:24:30,820 --> 00:24:33,980 What's more, in sport mode, the i8 is properly fast. 402 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:39,330 I scoffed when BMW said they were going to make a hybrid 403 00:24:39,380 --> 00:24:42,820 that was as fast as a 911 or a Chevrolet Corvette, but... 404 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:46,240 .. it really is! 405 00:24:47,740 --> 00:24:50,740 'It's so fast that soon I was in the North.' 406 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:56,370 This is Doncaster. This is where I grew up. 407 00:24:56,420 --> 00:24:59,810 It was a mining town back then, but now look. 408 00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:01,860 It's a wind farm. 409 00:25:03,260 --> 00:25:07,340 Bit less romantic, the windmills, and they employ fewer people, but... 410 00:25:09,020 --> 00:25:11,100 Time moves on, I guess. 411 00:25:12,420 --> 00:25:15,450 'So far, then, the i8 had done well. 412 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:20,010 'But to find out if it could truly win the heart of the petrol head, 413 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:22,650 'I turned off the A1 and plunged into 414 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:25,690 'the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors.' 415 00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:43,490 So, let's find out. 416 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:50,850 Oh, God above, this is good! 417 00:25:55,580 --> 00:25:57,620 This is a revelation! 418 00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:09,690 It's the lightness that staggers you most of all. 419 00:26:09,740 --> 00:26:14,060 It's almost as though I'm steering using nothing but thought. 420 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,050 And because the heavy battery pack is located in the middle of the car, 421 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:25,050 here, low down, it has the same centre of gravity as... 422 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:26,740 as a worm! 423 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:32,850 Couple that to the four-wheel-drive system and, honestly, 424 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:37,580 you can go round any corner at any speed that takes your fancy. 425 00:26:39,220 --> 00:26:43,170 The harder I go, the faster I drive, 426 00:26:43,220 --> 00:26:45,130 the sharper I brake, 427 00:26:45,180 --> 00:26:48,860 the more electricity I'm making for the batteries. 428 00:26:49,940 --> 00:26:51,850 If you get busted for speeding in this car, 429 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:54,330 you get a thank-you letter from Greenpeace. 430 00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:56,050 And rightly so! 431 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:00,930 'But before we get carried away with this environmental stuff, 432 00:27:00,980 --> 00:27:04,660 'there's one important point we all need to remember.' 433 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:11,130 I've always had a fundamental problem with hybrids. 434 00:27:11,180 --> 00:27:12,850 And it's this. 435 00:27:13,780 --> 00:27:16,690 We all know the world has limited resources 436 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:20,010 and we must do all we can to eke them out. 437 00:27:20,060 --> 00:27:21,930 And you're not going to do that 438 00:27:21,980 --> 00:27:26,170 if you drive around in a car that has, effectively, two engines. 439 00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:29,970 You don't solve the problem of conspicuous consumption 440 00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:33,490 by using conspicuous consumption. 441 00:27:33,540 --> 00:27:34,970 The thing is, though, 442 00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:38,610 while you have to rape the world to make a car like that, 443 00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:40,970 the benefits of owning one for you and I, 444 00:27:41,020 --> 00:27:44,460 in the here and now, are immense, because that car... 445 00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:47,890 That car is staggering. 446 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,770 It's breathtaking. 447 00:27:54,380 --> 00:27:57,320 It's nearly as breathtaking as that view. 448 00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:08,130 'With the advert for Yorkshire over, I got back on the road.' 449 00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:09,730 It is incredible to think 450 00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:15,250 that I'm now cruising into Whitby in silent electric mode, 451 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:20,890 using electricity that I made by driving quickly on the moors. 452 00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:24,130 The message really is very clear from this car. 453 00:28:24,180 --> 00:28:27,500 If you want to save the planet, drive fast. 454 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:42,780 'After a short eco drive through the pretty fishing port of Whitby... 455 00:28:44,860 --> 00:28:49,660 '.. I arrived in the harbour, where I faced a very difficult choice.' 456 00:28:51,340 --> 00:28:53,210 Cod or haddock...? 457 00:28:55,420 --> 00:28:56,960 I think cod. 458 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,450 'Then I faced an even more difficult choice. 459 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:06,780 'Which of these cars would I drive back to London?' 460 00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:14,290 This is the hardest decision I've ever had to make between cars, ever. 461 00:29:14,340 --> 00:29:20,290 It's like the M3 is the best of where we've come from 462 00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:24,610 and the i8 is where going. 463 00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:28,010 There must have been a moment in history... 464 00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:29,850 when everybody had typewriters 465 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:32,690 and typewriters had been around hundreds of years 466 00:29:32,740 --> 00:29:36,570 and they were brilliant, and then somebody came along with a laptop. 467 00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:39,020 That is what's going on there. 468 00:29:45,260 --> 00:29:47,460 No, I've made my mind up. 469 00:29:59,380 --> 00:30:01,850 Bet you weren't expecting that! 470 00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:18,010 ~ What? ~ Hold on, hold on, hold on. 471 00:30:18,060 --> 00:30:20,090 Let me make sure I got this straight. 472 00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:23,290 ~ You, let's be honest, are our resident dinosaur. ~ I am. 473 00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:25,930 And you prefer the i8 to the M3? 474 00:30:25,980 --> 00:30:29,330 ~ No. ~ But in the film... ~ Yes, I know. 475 00:30:29,380 --> 00:30:30,850 I was wrong. 476 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:34,130 The thing is, I've had some time to do some thinking since then 477 00:30:34,180 --> 00:30:36,330 and there are one or two bits and bobs on the i8 478 00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:37,570 that would drive you mad. 479 00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:39,290 I mean, rear visibility is atrocious, 480 00:30:39,340 --> 00:30:42,210 the boot is microscopic, this window doesn't go all the way down, 481 00:30:42,260 --> 00:30:44,770 so you can't drive along with your arm hanging out 482 00:30:44,820 --> 00:30:48,290 and I discovered last week that an i8 has just been bought 483 00:30:48,340 --> 00:30:49,810 by Wayne Rooney. 484 00:30:49,860 --> 00:30:51,890 Oh, no. 485 00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:54,850 ~ And it gets worse. ~ How can it get worse than that? 486 00:30:54,900 --> 00:31:00,610 Because, in a laboratory in Munich, it can do 134 miles to the gallon, 487 00:31:00,660 --> 00:31:03,890 but have a guess how many miles to the gallon I averaged. 488 00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:05,650 ~ 80? ~ No. 489 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:07,770 ~ 79? ~ No! 490 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,770 ~ 78? ~ No, James! 491 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:14,290 I averaged 31 miles to the gallon. 492 00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:17,410 And other i8 owners are reporting the same sort of thing 493 00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:21,050 and it only has a tiny little fuel tank, seven gallons, 494 00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:24,010 which means you're going to be stopping for fuel all the time. 495 00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:26,250 So, when you said, "It's a laptop," 496 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:28,850 ~ it's one of those really early-days laptops? ~ It is. 497 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,330 They are on the right road, make no mistake about that, 498 00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:34,170 but they are not there just yet. 499 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:39,330 So, anyway, let's move on, let's put a Star In Our Reasonably Priced Car. 500 00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:41,850 Now, my guest tonight was Jordan Belfort's wife 501 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,290 in The Wolf Of Wall Street, 502 00:31:43,340 --> 00:31:45,650 one of my favourite films of the modern age. 503 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:49,570 She is now in a new film and she's brought along her co-star, 504 00:31:49,620 --> 00:31:52,130 so please welcome Margot Robbie 505 00:31:52,180 --> 00:31:54,610 and a man called Will Smith! 506 00:31:57,220 --> 00:31:59,090 Oh, heavens above! 507 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:02,850 Look what we've got for you! 508 00:32:02,900 --> 00:32:05,090 Yeah, we got you as well. 509 00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:07,410 ~ Good to see you. ~ Good to see you both. 510 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:09,730 Margot, I'll go round here. 511 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:13,770 And relax. 512 00:32:16,340 --> 00:32:22,410 ~ Have a seat! Have a seat! ~ This is fantastic! 513 00:32:22,460 --> 00:32:24,770 ~ Wow! ~ Is it really fantastic? ~ This is great. 514 00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:26,010 Cos I was going to begin 515 00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:28,250 by apologising for the trailers we have. 516 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:30,970 ~ The trailers! Oh! Those trailers, yeah. ~ They're really nice. 517 00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:35,570 ~ You know... ~ Will set his bar very high with trailers, though, so... 518 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:38,530 ~ Really? ~ Yes, his trailer is pimped. 519 00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:40,210 I'm very serious about trailers. 520 00:32:40,260 --> 00:32:42,530 The trailer, you know, it has to be, like, you know, 521 00:32:42,580 --> 00:32:46,170 you got to hook it up, have a stereo system, you know, it has to... 522 00:32:46,220 --> 00:32:49,320 Yours had mirrors on the roof... if I recall. 523 00:32:50,980 --> 00:32:54,570 I'm not insinuating anything, I'm just saying! 524 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:56,730 That's going to get in trouble! 525 00:32:56,780 --> 00:32:58,890 That's going to get us in trouble, there we go! 526 00:32:58,940 --> 00:33:01,810 Already in trouble where my mind's gone! 527 00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:06,490 ~ No, cos really, not that long ago, you were in Neighbours. ~ Yeah. 528 00:33:06,540 --> 00:33:09,330 What interests me about Neighbours, which is an Aussie TV... 529 00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:12,090 ~ I know what neighbours is! ~ Don't pretend you know. 530 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:16,290 Two days ago, they asked him what show I did in Australia, 531 00:33:16,340 --> 00:33:18,810 a very popular show, and you said it started with C. 532 00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:21,690 ~ I couldn't remember the name. ~ There's no C in it. 533 00:33:21,740 --> 00:33:24,130 I just can't see Will Smith finishing his day going, 534 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:26,330 "You know what, I think I'll watch Neighbours." 535 00:33:26,380 --> 00:33:28,210 "Ooh, 6.30, my show's on!" 536 00:33:28,260 --> 00:33:30,170 ~ Russell Crowe started in that, didn't he? ~ Mm. 537 00:33:30,220 --> 00:33:33,290 What's his name, Guy Pearce was another one. Kylie is another one. 538 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:36,210 ~ Yes, yes. ~ I was wondering, do you know Coronation Street? 539 00:33:36,260 --> 00:33:38,770 ~ Cos that's produced... ~ I know all those shows, man! 540 00:33:38,820 --> 00:33:43,090 ~ You don't! And you won't because... ~ I got the DVDs and everything! 541 00:33:43,140 --> 00:33:46,250 It's just unbelievable, I'm afraid. 542 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:49,090 I know all about this, the Coronation Street 543 00:33:49,140 --> 00:33:50,930 and Neighbours and all those. 544 00:33:50,980 --> 00:33:53,370 EastEnders, yeah. 545 00:33:53,420 --> 00:33:57,490 ~ Now, em, you are over here, obviously, to promote a film. ~ Yes. 546 00:33:57,540 --> 00:34:01,170 It's called Focus, but it isn't about the small Ford hatchback, 547 00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:05,090 which will have disappointed some people in here. It's... 548 00:34:05,140 --> 00:34:07,770 Well, it's a love story between you two, which is rather sweet. 549 00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:11,050 ~ Yeah. ~ It's interesting, it's... 550 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:15,650 My character plays a conman, a master thief, 551 00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:20,810 and part of being a master thief is he's a liar and... 552 00:34:20,860 --> 00:34:26,090 he meets Margot's character, Jess, and falls madly in love 553 00:34:26,140 --> 00:34:30,410 and realises quickly that lying and loving don't go together too well. 554 00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:34,810 They go together OFTEN, but they don't go together WELL. 555 00:34:34,860 --> 00:34:38,530 ~ I believe we have a clip, which we can show now. ~ OK. 556 00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:41,570 ~ ♪ This is a man's world... ♪ ~ Are you working an angle? 557 00:34:41,620 --> 00:34:45,770 ~ I wouldn't trust him, if I were you. ~ But I should trust you? 558 00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:50,490 ~ You've got a problem. ~ I am going to kill you. ~ Kill me later. 559 00:34:50,540 --> 00:34:54,050 ~ You lost everyone's money, my money?! ~ Hey! 560 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:55,570 ~ Wow! ~ Wow! 561 00:34:57,420 --> 00:35:00,170 ~ This is your mess. ~ I think you're losing it. ~ Whoa! Whoa! 562 00:35:00,220 --> 00:35:03,570 ~ Then why did you come up here? ~ Professional curiosity. 563 00:35:03,620 --> 00:35:06,660 And I like boobs. You know, I figured it was a win-win. 564 00:35:09,340 --> 00:35:12,460 'At the end of the day, this is a game of focus.' 565 00:35:19,980 --> 00:35:22,610 Did you notice when I had my shirt off? You noticed, didn't you? 566 00:35:22,660 --> 00:35:26,170 Did you see that shot? I just want to know if you saw the shot! 567 00:35:26,220 --> 00:35:28,290 That's what everyone took away from the trailer. 568 00:35:28,340 --> 00:35:31,010 ~ Margot had her trousers off. ~ Oh, yes! You saw that! 569 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:33,890 ~ Slightly more distracting. ~ I get that. I get that. 570 00:35:33,940 --> 00:35:36,770 And I've seen you with no shirt on a million times, but I've never... 571 00:35:36,820 --> 00:35:39,920 Well, I have seen Margot with no clothes on. 572 00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:43,460 I've never seen you... 573 00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:47,090 ~ This just got awkward. ~ It did. 574 00:35:47,140 --> 00:35:49,290 Now, one of the things that make it even more awkward 575 00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:53,770 ~ is you filmed quite a lot of the movie in Argentina. ~ Yes. Yeah. 576 00:35:55,980 --> 00:35:58,370 ~ How did that go for you? ~ For me? 577 00:35:58,420 --> 00:36:00,610 It was good. It was good, man. 578 00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:03,290 ~ Argentina's fantastic. ~ Is it? 579 00:36:05,660 --> 00:36:08,850 ~ What's wrong with Argentina? ~ What's wrong with Argentina? What happened? 580 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,840 ~ Every ~ BLEEP ~ thing! 581 00:36:17,980 --> 00:36:20,410 The thing is... Well, I enjoyed it and best of luck with it. 582 00:36:20,460 --> 00:36:22,930 ~ Well, thank you, man. ~ When's it open? ~ When does it open? 583 00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:28,370 ~ 27th. ~ 27th. ~ February 27th. ~ Is it the 27th here? Yes! OK! Yes. 584 00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:30,050 Now, we've got to get onto cars 585 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:32,330 because you grew up on a farm in Australia, 586 00:36:32,380 --> 00:36:36,090 so you, presumably, have been driving since you were naught 587 00:36:36,140 --> 00:36:37,930 because it's such a vast area. 588 00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:40,810 Yeah, it's huge, but, yeah, in our family, the rule was 589 00:36:40,860 --> 00:36:43,490 you could drive as soon as you could like, you know, 590 00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:44,970 physically reach the pedals 591 00:36:45,020 --> 00:36:48,730 and you could have the car on your own when you reached double digits, 592 00:36:48,780 --> 00:36:52,050 ~ so when you were ten, you were allowed to... ~ Wow. 593 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:54,450 And I remember being nine years old 594 00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:57,890 and arguing with the parents, being like, "Guys, this is absurd. 595 00:36:57,940 --> 00:37:00,250 "I'm not like..." And they're like, "No, you're nine. 596 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:02,810 "You have to wait another year." And I was like, "This is... 597 00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:04,970 "I can't believe this. This is ridiculous." 598 00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:07,850 ~ Have you been out to the outback? ~ The out... No, no, no. 599 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,010 I feel like you'd fit right in. You'd just love it. 600 00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:12,930 So it's a racial thing? You went racial. 601 00:37:19,580 --> 00:37:21,210 And, so, what was your first car? 602 00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:26,850 It was a candy apple-red IROC Z, a Camaro. 603 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:29,250 ~ Apparently you don't have those here. ~ No, we don't. No. 604 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:31,900 We have... What's the word? Taste. 605 00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:37,450 I was thinking, "Maybe this would indicate you don't know about cars," 606 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,570 and then I started to look into some of the lyrics. 607 00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:42,170 ~ Are you familiar with the lyrics of the early songs? ~ Oh, jeez. 608 00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:43,570 I wasn't born. 609 00:37:43,620 --> 00:37:46,930 ~ In a song called Gettin' Jiggy Wit It... ~ Yes. 610 00:37:46,980 --> 00:37:49,850 I remember that. Yeah, I know that one. 611 00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:53,290 I don't recognise that one. 612 00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:55,450 It's got 850is. 613 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,410 850is if you need a lift. 614 00:37:57,460 --> 00:37:59,530 ~ Who's the kid in the drop? ~ Who else? 615 00:37:59,580 --> 00:38:02,130 ~ Will Smith. ~ Will Smith. 616 00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:04,970 ~ Now, drop, I presume, means drop-top. ~ Drop-top, yes. 617 00:38:05,020 --> 00:38:07,420 They never did a drop-top 850. 618 00:38:10,220 --> 00:38:12,220 It's a small problem. 619 00:38:14,540 --> 00:38:16,490 No, no, hold on. 620 00:38:16,540 --> 00:38:19,410 Now, see, he thinks he knows everything. 621 00:38:19,460 --> 00:38:20,970 He thinks he knows everything. 622 00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:24,860 ~ In the United States, we do a thing where we customise our cars. ~ Yeah. 623 00:38:27,620 --> 00:38:29,730 ~ Can I just give you another one? ~ This is brilliant. 624 00:38:29,780 --> 00:38:33,450 Just Cruisin'. The Maestro. Do you know the next bit? 625 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:35,050 ~ Yes, yes, yes. ~ Nice flow. 626 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:39,050 ~ Nice flow. Hot like nitro. ~ Cool as ice, though. ~ Cool as ice, though. 627 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:42,330 ~ That's a dichotomy. ~ Do you know what a Maestro is? ~ You've got one? 628 00:38:42,380 --> 00:38:43,980 There you go. 629 00:38:48,620 --> 00:38:50,700 Oh, my God. 630 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:56,620 It is so awkward for me to hear you say my lyrics like that. 631 00:38:58,780 --> 00:39:02,530 ~ I'll bet. ~ No, it's making my eyes water. 632 00:39:02,580 --> 00:39:05,490 We've done enough of this now. We want to get onto your laps. 633 00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:08,850 ~ OK, yeah. ~ How did you enjoy it out there? ~ It was really fun. 634 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:11,610 ~ It was really nerve-racking, but it was really fun. ~ Was it? ~ Yeah. 635 00:39:11,660 --> 00:39:13,410 ~ You... ~ No, it's fantastic. 636 00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:17,090 I've never... You know, in the United States, 637 00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:19,330 ~ the stick is on the other side... ~ Yeah. 638 00:39:19,380 --> 00:39:21,810 .. so having to drive with the other... 639 00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,010 That's an advantage for you, of course, 640 00:39:24,060 --> 00:39:25,530 because you're used to driving... 641 00:39:25,580 --> 00:39:28,290 ~ Which is why he's mentioning it right now. ~ He's already started. 642 00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:30,130 Like, "In case she beat me on the laps." 643 00:39:30,180 --> 00:39:33,210 ~ It's the whole switching the side thing. ~ In case her time was better. 644 00:39:33,260 --> 00:39:36,090 OK. Margot, you went first and... 645 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:38,610 Well, there was a bit of an off. 646 00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:40,850 Crashed. Yeah. 647 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:42,330 Who'd like to see Margot... 648 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:46,370 I said specifically, "Let's not let Will know that that happened." 649 00:39:46,420 --> 00:39:49,210 Let's have a look. Come on. Let's play the tape. Margot's off. 650 00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:52,460 Oh, wow, it's Chicago. It's understeer at Chicago. 651 00:39:53,660 --> 00:39:55,450 ~ It's Ian! It's Ian! ~ Oh! 652 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:58,370 That is Ian the cameraman! 653 00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:01,570 Sorry! 654 00:40:01,620 --> 00:40:03,290 And he's dead! 655 00:40:08,340 --> 00:40:11,450 ~ Margot, we have... ~ I am sorry about that. ~ No, relax. 656 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:13,330 We've got a little present for you. 657 00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:15,890 It's the landing light you hit. 658 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:19,730 You can take that home as a souvenir of your trip to Top Gear. 659 00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:22,850 I'm so sorry about that. 660 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:26,890 ~ Right, now, we've got both your laps to have a look at. ~ OK. ~ Ladies first. 661 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:29,250 ~ Ladies first! ~ So, Margot, let's have a look at your lap. 662 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:32,040 This is going to end in a fist fight. 663 00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:35,290 Right, here we go. 664 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:39,050 Good clean, aggressive start. 665 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:43,490 Up to third. First corner, first corner. 666 00:40:43,540 --> 00:40:45,770 Let's have a look at this. 667 00:40:45,820 --> 00:40:48,130 ~ Good dab of the brakes. ~ It feel so much faster in the car. 668 00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:50,090 Everybody says it, but the slower you look... 669 00:40:50,140 --> 00:40:53,730 Oh, I don't know. There's a lot of understeer there. That's ballsy. 670 00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:56,130 Oh, God. 671 00:40:56,180 --> 00:40:58,530 Here we go. Are going to make it without running over Ian? 672 00:40:58,580 --> 00:41:01,250 Oh, waving to Ian! There's a little wave there. That was nice. 673 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:02,650 That was a "Sorry, Ian!" 674 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:04,890 Big corner, don't brake, don't brake, don't brake! 675 00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:07,080 Don't brake! Don't brake! 676 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:12,290 ~ You do look like you're concentrating in there. ~ Yeah. 677 00:41:12,340 --> 00:41:14,650 Trying not to hit anyone this time round. 678 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:17,700 This is good. I'm liking the look of this. 679 00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:21,050 ~ Yes. ~ Phew! 680 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:22,690 Right, coming up to the fastest bit. 681 00:41:22,740 --> 00:41:25,460 Foot down, foot down, foot down! 682 00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:30,860 ~ Confidence, that was. That was the look of confidence. ~ Great face. 683 00:41:31,860 --> 00:41:36,370 ~ Through the tyres. Yes. That does look quick. ~ Very aggressive. 684 00:41:36,420 --> 00:41:37,970 That was the fun one. I liked that. 685 00:41:38,020 --> 00:41:40,810 Second-to-last corner, this is what normally catches people out. 686 00:41:40,860 --> 00:41:44,250 ~ Yeah, that's the one. ~ Through there easily. Through Gambon. 687 00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:47,010 More understeer! A lot of understeer 688 00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:49,660 and across the line! There we are. 689 00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:53,450 That was very good. 690 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:55,040 And, now... 691 00:41:56,700 --> 00:42:00,210 ~ That was strong. ~ It is strong, Mr Will Smith. 692 00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:02,210 Yeah, no, but it was on the left. 693 00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:04,930 ~ For me, I'm used to driving... ~ Yeah, yeah. Any more? 694 00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:07,850 I had back surgery like three days ago. 695 00:42:11,540 --> 00:42:13,210 Who'd like to see the lap 696 00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:16,560 with the poor man with the back surgery himself? 697 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:21,140 Let's have a look. Here we go. 698 00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:23,840 Whoa! That was some revs! 699 00:42:25,860 --> 00:42:30,010 ~ Yep. ~ Whoo! 700 00:42:30,060 --> 00:42:32,890 ~ Right, this is the one. ~ Did you do a few practices? ~ Yeah. 701 00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:35,090 Yeah, I did a few practice laps. 702 00:42:35,140 --> 00:42:37,490 That's a hard bit of braking mid-corner, there. 703 00:42:37,540 --> 00:42:40,580 I tell you what, though, that car - Bubba GM's finest. 704 00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:45,290 Put that power into the road. Feeling good. 705 00:42:45,340 --> 00:42:51,210 There we go. This is the spiritual successor of the IROC Z. 706 00:42:51,260 --> 00:42:54,010 I'm on the wall now. They're putting me on the wall. 707 00:42:54,060 --> 00:42:59,450 My name with all of the fastest times on this track. 708 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:01,450 That is a confident man right there. 709 00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:04,290 It's actually lovely conditions for a fast time, this. 710 00:43:04,340 --> 00:43:06,810 Keeping it in the lines nicely. 711 00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:11,810 Yes. It's just like watching Daniel Ricciardo all over again. 712 00:43:11,860 --> 00:43:16,450 This is the one that makes my children proud. 713 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:18,650 Keep it in there. No braking. Flat out. Yeah? 714 00:43:18,700 --> 00:43:21,170 ~ No braking. Flat out. ~ Good man. 715 00:43:24,340 --> 00:43:26,410 Yep. That's looking very tidy. 716 00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:29,330 Second-to-last corner, you have any problems? 717 00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:31,610 No, that is neat. Very neat. 718 00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:33,770 And through Gambon. 719 00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:36,130 Still on all four wheels, unlike some people, 720 00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:39,090 ~ and there we are. Across the line. ~ Whoa! 721 00:43:39,140 --> 00:43:41,970 ~ That was nice. ~ That was so much fun. 722 00:43:42,020 --> 00:43:44,610 ~ Yeah. ~ Well done, you two. 723 00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:49,130 Where do you think you've come on the board? 724 00:43:49,180 --> 00:43:52,210 I'll be really psyched if I get on the board, to be honest. 725 00:43:52,260 --> 00:43:54,730 You can't not be on the it, because, trust me, 726 00:43:54,780 --> 00:43:56,650 Jack Whitehall, Ed Sheeran... 727 00:43:56,700 --> 00:43:59,450 So there's space down there for me? OK. I want 1:52. 728 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:02,340 1:52, and Will? 729 00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:05,960 Well, I want, like, 1:22. 730 00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:13,850 ~ Oh, you're asking what I think I did? ~ Yeah, yeah. 731 00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:18,170 I think I might be in the 1:50 zone. 732 00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:19,490 Right in there. 733 00:44:19,540 --> 00:44:21,930 ~ Somewhere with the Hugh Bonneville... ~ I felt like... 734 00:44:21,980 --> 00:44:24,490 These are wet times. Well, let's have a look, shall we? 735 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:27,650 ~ Let's have a look. I've got the times here. ~ Oh, jeez. OK. 736 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:29,930 ~ I'm going to did you first, Will. ~ OK. 737 00:44:29,980 --> 00:44:31,610 ~ Oh, jeez. ~ This is really exciting. 738 00:44:31,660 --> 00:44:33,770 ~ Will Smith... ~ This is very exciting. 739 00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:38,250 ~ You did a 1... ~ That's a good start. 740 00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:41,410 ~ .. 40... ~ Oh! 741 00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:43,810 ~ ..7... ~ Whoa! 742 00:44:43,860 --> 00:44:48,410 ~ ..2. ~ OK. Yeah. I'm not mad at that. ~ That is not a very bad time at all. 743 00:44:48,460 --> 00:44:49,690 That puts you... 744 00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:53,330 ~ Wow. OK, yeah. ~ That's really great. 745 00:44:53,380 --> 00:44:56,370 I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that. 746 00:44:56,420 --> 00:44:59,570 ~ That's not bad. ~ I like that. ~ That is not bad at all. ~ Yeah. 747 00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:04,050 ~ And, now, we must get onto your co-star. ~ OK. ~ Oh, God. 748 00:45:04,100 --> 00:45:07,600 If you beat me, this is your last day on the tour. 749 00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:12,290 I will never work again after this. 750 00:45:12,340 --> 00:45:15,580 It's Leo, Will Smith, and then TV. 751 00:45:18,860 --> 00:45:20,930 Margot Robbie, 752 00:45:20,980 --> 00:45:23,170 ~ 1... ~ Oh, good! 753 00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:27,500 ~ ..40... ~ What? ~ She'd better not. 754 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:33,330 ~ .. 7... ~ Oh! 755 00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:36,330 She'd better not. She'd better not. 756 00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:38,980 ~ .. 1! ~ Oh! ~ Oh! 757 00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:42,820 I'm not making it up. 758 00:45:45,340 --> 00:45:46,810 I'm sorry! 759 00:45:52,580 --> 00:45:54,260 ~ Holy ~ BLEEP! 760 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:05,730 This was a bad idea. This was a bad idea. 761 00:46:05,780 --> 00:46:07,170 It's like the Academy Awards 762 00:46:07,220 --> 00:46:10,420 where you've got to clap for the other person. 763 00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:19,810 ~ I don't know what to say now. ~ I actually can't believe that. 764 00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:23,570 Both of you have done amazing times. There was a tenth in it. 765 00:46:23,620 --> 00:46:26,530 Neither of you have got anything to be ashamed about and it has... 766 00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:29,970 Oh, no! One of us has something to be ashamed about! 767 00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:33,050 ~ I was trying to end on a really high note... ~ No, no. 768 00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:35,090 ~ .. coming up with some nice things... ~ Yeah. 769 00:46:35,140 --> 00:46:37,080 .. but you're right. 770 00:46:38,380 --> 00:46:40,490 Ladies and gentlemen, I think you'll all agree, 771 00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:43,980 this has been an absolute joy. Will Smith and Margot Robbie. 772 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:58,090 Right, now we must move on to some very sad news. 773 00:46:58,140 --> 00:47:02,210 The Land Rover Defender is going out of production 774 00:47:02,260 --> 00:47:06,730 and our producers thought that that meant it deserved a fitting obituary 775 00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:10,780 and all we needed for that was a beach and a rural simpleton. 776 00:47:16,300 --> 00:47:22,290 It's a little known fact that several of mankind's greatest inventions 777 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:27,020 have started out as drawings in the sand on a beach. 778 00:47:28,620 --> 00:47:30,930 Henry Royce of Rolls-Royce fame 779 00:47:30,980 --> 00:47:33,330 made his first sketch of the Merlin engine, 780 00:47:33,380 --> 00:47:37,050 the incredible motor that powered the Spitfire and the Lancaster, 781 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,570 in the sand at his local beach. 782 00:47:39,620 --> 00:47:42,770 Norman Woodland, no, I'd never heard of him either, 783 00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:46,090 was in Miami when he revolutionised shopping 784 00:47:46,140 --> 00:47:49,740 by drawing the first barcode in the sand. 785 00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:55,450 And, in 1947, here at Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey, 786 00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:58,440 it was the same story for the Land Rover. 787 00:48:00,180 --> 00:48:04,210 The sketch was done by a chap called Maurice Wilks 788 00:48:04,260 --> 00:48:07,810 who was the Technical Director for Rover cars. 789 00:48:07,860 --> 00:48:13,330 At the time, he used an old Bren gun carrier to get around on his farm 790 00:48:13,380 --> 00:48:18,170 until, one day, he swapped it for his neighbour's old Willys Jeep 791 00:48:18,220 --> 00:48:23,140 and soon thought, "Hang on. We can make something like this." 792 00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:27,930 So, he sketched out his creation in the sand 793 00:48:27,980 --> 00:48:32,580 and a first prototype was quickly built over the following few months. 794 00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:36,660 Sadly, though, there was a bit of an issue. 795 00:48:38,180 --> 00:48:42,010 You see, Maurice thought putting the steering wheel in the middle 796 00:48:42,060 --> 00:48:45,810 would mean they could sell it to right- and left-hand drive countries, 797 00:48:45,860 --> 00:48:48,400 without having to re-engineer it. 798 00:48:49,340 --> 00:48:51,610 But then they realised that, amongst other things, 799 00:48:51,660 --> 00:48:55,010 that was going to make hand signals rather tricky. 800 00:48:55,060 --> 00:48:57,800 So, it was back to the drawing board. 801 00:48:59,140 --> 00:49:03,450 And, a mere ten months after that shaky start, 802 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:06,660 the first Land Rover was born. 803 00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,570 It came in this green 804 00:49:13,620 --> 00:49:16,890 because the only paint Land Rover could lay their hands on 805 00:49:16,940 --> 00:49:21,010 was surplus army leftovers they used for Spitfires. 806 00:49:21,060 --> 00:49:25,170 The body was aluminium, not for clever engineering reasons, 807 00:49:25,220 --> 00:49:28,530 but because steel was in short supply. 808 00:49:28,580 --> 00:49:31,250 If ever there was an underdog... 809 00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:32,650 it was this. 810 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:36,290 Nobody back then could have predicted 811 00:49:36,340 --> 00:49:40,060 what a phenomenon the underdog would turn out to be. 812 00:49:41,620 --> 00:49:44,210 The military bought it by the thousand, 813 00:49:44,260 --> 00:49:49,290 and it was used by everyone from the Medical Corps to the SAS, 814 00:49:49,340 --> 00:49:53,970 while in civilian life, it was the very definition of versatile. 815 00:49:54,020 --> 00:49:56,250 You could have a Land Rover tank, 816 00:49:56,300 --> 00:49:57,770 a Land Rover train, 817 00:49:57,820 --> 00:49:59,450 a Land Rover conveyer belt, 818 00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:01,290 a snowplough, 819 00:50:01,340 --> 00:50:02,690 a fire engine, 820 00:50:02,740 --> 00:50:05,050 and, rather annoyingly... 821 00:50:05,100 --> 00:50:08,140 a Land Rover hovervan. 822 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:12,490 If explorers wanted to explore, 823 00:50:12,540 --> 00:50:17,410 adventurers wanted to conquer terrain that was unconquerable... 824 00:50:17,460 --> 00:50:19,730 they turned to one of these. 825 00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:23,890 It was the first production vehicle 826 00:50:23,940 --> 00:50:27,940 to travel 18,000 miles from England to Singapore. 827 00:50:29,380 --> 00:50:32,420 The first to cross the Bering Strait. 828 00:50:33,500 --> 00:50:36,090 And the machine of choice for Ranulph Fiennes 829 00:50:36,140 --> 00:50:38,970 on his epic trans-global expedition. 830 00:50:39,020 --> 00:50:41,250 In fact, at one time, 831 00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:47,530 the first car ever seen by 60% of the developing world was a Land Rover. 832 00:50:47,580 --> 00:50:53,810 And, on top of that, it's been in production for 67 years. 833 00:50:53,860 --> 00:50:55,970 67 years. 834 00:50:56,020 --> 00:50:59,970 Production run alone makes this thing one of the greats. 835 00:51:00,020 --> 00:51:04,410 Look at the other icons - Beetle, I'd say 57 years. 836 00:51:04,460 --> 00:51:09,010 2CV, that was a real fly-by-night - 42 years. 837 00:51:09,060 --> 00:51:14,650 So great is my love for this machine that when, 13 years ago, 838 00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:18,130 we ran a Top Gear competition asking viewers to vote for 839 00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:20,530 the greatest car of all time, 840 00:51:20,580 --> 00:51:22,810 I championed the Land Rover. 841 00:51:22,860 --> 00:51:25,410 And the public clearly agreed. 842 00:51:25,460 --> 00:51:27,130 Because it won. 843 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:31,010 I drove a Series 1 in that film. 844 00:51:31,060 --> 00:51:34,130 It was old and tatty and worn. 845 00:51:34,180 --> 00:51:38,570 But I fell so completely in love with it that I actually bought it 846 00:51:38,620 --> 00:51:40,490 so I could restore it. 847 00:51:40,540 --> 00:51:43,530 I'll never forget the day I brought it home 13 years ago - 848 00:51:43,580 --> 00:51:46,810 it stood in this very yard like a lost orphan. 849 00:51:46,860 --> 00:51:49,250 So I took it into the workshop, stripped it down, 850 00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:52,970 and laid it all out on the floor so I could begin that long, 851 00:51:53,020 --> 00:51:56,850 loving process of restoring it to its former glory. 852 00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:58,570 And here it is. 853 00:52:08,100 --> 00:52:09,810 Yeah, I mean... 854 00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:12,050 I have been REALLY busy. 855 00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:14,450 And-and the thing is it's... 856 00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:18,450 good to have a lot of spare parts cos Land Rovers break down a lot, 857 00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:20,810 so you never know. 858 00:52:20,860 --> 00:52:23,960 Can't be too sentimental about these things. 859 00:52:24,380 --> 00:52:27,770 But because it is the greatest car ever made, 860 00:52:27,820 --> 00:52:32,860 I must now try to make amends by giving it a fitting sendoff. 861 00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:37,690 And this is the perfect starting point. 862 00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:40,650 There are many great Land Rover TV adverts, 863 00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:44,570 but what you're watching now is the most famous of them all. 864 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:49,810 This is the one where it winches itself up a vast, steep dam. 865 00:52:49,860 --> 00:52:52,250 'Next time you're late for work 866 00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:54,770 'it's worth remembering that nothing 867 00:52:54,820 --> 00:52:58,620 'but nothing gets in the way of a Land Rover.' 868 00:53:02,300 --> 00:53:04,650 Now, the thing is... 869 00:53:04,700 --> 00:53:08,770 that advert, as exciting as it looked, was, I'm afraid, 870 00:53:08,820 --> 00:53:11,210 the result of... shall we say, 871 00:53:11,260 --> 00:53:12,970 the magic of television, 872 00:53:13,020 --> 00:53:16,850 because the Land Rover didn't winch itself up. 873 00:53:16,900 --> 00:53:20,090 The winch on the front bumper pulled it the first few feet 874 00:53:20,140 --> 00:53:21,890 out of the water, 875 00:53:21,940 --> 00:53:24,770 but then it was actually hauled the rest of the way up 876 00:53:24,820 --> 00:53:28,140 by a much bigger winch hidden at the top of the dam. 877 00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:32,930 So I think you can probably see what's coming next. 878 00:53:32,980 --> 00:53:35,650 As our tribute to the Land Rover Defender 879 00:53:35,700 --> 00:53:39,220 we are going to redo that stunt properly. 880 00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:46,220 Oh... God. 881 00:53:48,380 --> 00:53:52,380 The dam I'll be climbing is Claerwen in Wales. 882 00:53:53,420 --> 00:53:56,210 It's 1,200 feet wide and, 883 00:53:56,260 --> 00:54:00,410 more worryingly for me, 200 feet high. 884 00:54:00,460 --> 00:54:03,050 To make things worse, 885 00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:06,930 the Land Rover I'll be using is 64 years old. 886 00:54:06,980 --> 00:54:11,730 So, in order to do what they never managed in the TV advert, 887 00:54:11,780 --> 00:54:14,260 we've added some bits. 888 00:54:16,180 --> 00:54:19,930 When they made that advert there wasn't a winch around big enough 889 00:54:19,980 --> 00:54:23,930 to take on board all the cable you need to go up a big dam. 890 00:54:23,980 --> 00:54:27,210 So we - well, not Jeremy and me, somebody else - 891 00:54:27,260 --> 00:54:29,700 has built this ginormous one. 892 00:54:30,820 --> 00:54:34,450 Then there's the matter of the engine. 893 00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:39,650 You see, when this thing starts to go up the dam it will go vertical, 894 00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:44,010 and at that point the engine at the front will cut out. 895 00:54:44,060 --> 00:54:47,090 Problem, because we need the engine to power the winch. 896 00:54:47,140 --> 00:54:49,410 Solution... 897 00:54:49,460 --> 00:54:51,570 a second engine just for the winch. 898 00:54:51,620 --> 00:54:54,530 Best of all this is built so it can pivot. 899 00:54:54,580 --> 00:54:58,090 As the Land Rover goes vertical this stays level. 900 00:54:58,140 --> 00:55:02,090 None of this gave me much comfort, however, 901 00:55:02,140 --> 00:55:04,740 when I was standing at the bottom. 902 00:55:05,980 --> 00:55:07,930 Oh, bloody hell. 903 00:55:07,980 --> 00:55:10,090 It's much steeper 904 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:13,770 than the other dam in the advert. 905 00:55:13,820 --> 00:55:17,490 For a brief moment I thought I was off the hook 906 00:55:17,540 --> 00:55:20,730 because the start point looked completely inaccessible. 907 00:55:20,780 --> 00:55:24,570 Sadly, the producers had thought of that. 908 00:55:24,620 --> 00:55:26,780 I hate problem solvers. 909 00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:32,530 And this is just a little amuse-bouche. 910 00:55:33,340 --> 00:55:36,170 Eventually, I was in place. 911 00:55:36,220 --> 00:55:39,540 The winch cable was attached to the top. 912 00:55:42,500 --> 00:55:45,100 And it was time to begin. 913 00:55:46,620 --> 00:55:50,210 That's the engine in the back that powers the winch, remember, 914 00:55:50,260 --> 00:55:51,610 cos of the angle. 915 00:55:51,660 --> 00:55:54,730 Um... I'd love to think of something else to say or do. 916 00:55:54,780 --> 00:55:57,890 I can't, so I'm going to go. So, um... 917 00:55:57,940 --> 00:55:59,740 Right, here I go. 918 00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:06,570 Oh, it's tensioning up. 919 00:56:09,620 --> 00:56:11,490 This is OK so far. 920 00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:17,940 Oh! There it is. 921 00:56:19,860 --> 00:56:22,250 Oh, my God! 922 00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:26,300 Oh! Oh-ho-ho! Oh! 923 00:56:31,540 --> 00:56:33,650 I know it's slow. 924 00:56:33,700 --> 00:56:37,580 Any faster and I risk burning out all the winch motors and things. 925 00:56:38,740 --> 00:56:42,380 Plus, there was an issue with the face of the dam itself. 926 00:56:43,860 --> 00:56:47,570 The one on the advert was smooth concrete, this is rough stone. 927 00:56:47,620 --> 00:56:50,090 I didn't take that into account. 928 00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:54,850 What I've got to do is steer between these rocks 929 00:56:54,900 --> 00:56:56,650 where they stick out from the face. 930 00:56:56,700 --> 00:57:00,130 Oh! It's jerking. 931 00:57:00,180 --> 00:57:01,930 I'm having to read the surface. 932 00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:03,850 CLANG! Oh! 933 00:57:05,420 --> 00:57:09,620 This vertical off-roading gave me another problem. 934 00:57:11,260 --> 00:57:16,290 Because the Land Rover is winching itself up on its own winch, 935 00:57:16,340 --> 00:57:19,770 the cable has to feed evenly onto the drum. 936 00:57:19,820 --> 00:57:23,020 If it doesn't do that, everything gets ruined. 937 00:57:23,860 --> 00:57:29,210 I couldn't see the drum, so, up top, the producers were spotting for me. 938 00:57:29,260 --> 00:57:31,730 Straighten up, please, Richard. 939 00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:36,930 Ah... 940 00:57:36,980 --> 00:57:38,660 Oh... 941 00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:42,500 Oh... 942 00:57:44,940 --> 00:57:48,210 Because it's so slow I've got time to think about what would happen if... 943 00:57:48,260 --> 00:57:50,650 I can't, I daren't. I am now terrified. 944 00:57:50,700 --> 00:57:53,890 I am now absolutely petrified. 945 00:57:53,940 --> 00:57:55,140 Oh... 946 00:57:57,860 --> 00:58:01,740 Past the halfway point it started to get even worse. 947 00:58:03,380 --> 00:58:06,250 I can feel the front wheels now going very light... 948 00:58:06,300 --> 00:58:10,850 because... where it goes concave, where it bellies in like that... 949 00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:14,540 my winch cable is pulling the front of the car off the ground. Oh! 950 00:58:16,100 --> 00:58:19,200 And I can't tell you how horrible that feels. 951 00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:22,130 Oh-ho! 952 00:58:22,180 --> 00:58:24,330 Stop, stop, stop. 953 00:58:24,380 --> 00:58:26,650 I'm stopping, I'm stopping. 954 00:58:30,780 --> 00:58:33,610 ~ Honestly, mate, you've got about 20 seconds, I'm ~ BLEEP ~ scared, OK? 955 00:58:33,660 --> 00:58:35,330 And I mean it. 956 00:58:36,860 --> 00:58:40,290 OK, take your mind off it, take your mind off it. Um... this... 957 00:58:40,340 --> 00:58:42,250 THUMP! Ah! 958 00:58:42,300 --> 00:58:45,170 The water behind this dam can supply Birmingham 959 00:58:45,220 --> 00:58:48,810 with 79 million gallons a day. 960 00:58:48,860 --> 00:58:50,890 ~ Who gives a ~ BLEEP ~ right now? 961 00:58:50,940 --> 00:58:53,210 It's all right, we're good. 962 00:58:58,260 --> 00:59:00,400 It's really vertical now. 963 00:59:04,340 --> 00:59:05,740 Oh, God. 964 00:59:07,940 --> 00:59:09,610 I can hear the lines... 965 00:59:09,660 --> 00:59:12,760 I can actually hear the tension in that wire. 966 00:59:15,980 --> 00:59:17,530 As I get to the top, 967 00:59:17,580 --> 00:59:19,290 the cable becomes less strong. 968 00:59:19,340 --> 00:59:22,090 Partly because, as well as the weight of the Land Rover and me, 969 00:59:22,140 --> 00:59:26,140 it has to be carrying the weight of itself and the winch. 970 00:59:31,580 --> 00:59:35,490 Oh, God, I'm depending so much on things made by other people. 971 00:59:35,540 --> 00:59:39,730 Every single part now - the brake that stops the winch feeding out, 972 00:59:39,780 --> 00:59:42,020 the engine - everything. 973 00:59:43,620 --> 00:59:46,250 In the face of unutterable terror 974 00:59:46,300 --> 00:59:49,700 I was, finally, nearing the top. 975 00:59:51,660 --> 00:59:55,060 We have nearly done this, I've nearly cracked it. 976 00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:57,930 200 feet of near vertical rock. 977 01:00:03,380 --> 01:00:06,620 Just a few inches, another few turns on the winch. 978 01:00:11,100 --> 01:00:12,730 What a fantastic way... 979 01:00:12,780 --> 01:00:15,090 to pay tribute... 980 01:00:15,140 --> 01:00:17,970 to the car... What? 981 01:00:18,020 --> 01:00:22,210 It was at this point the producers broke the bad news. 982 01:00:22,260 --> 01:00:25,090 Because of where the winch cable was attached, 983 01:00:25,140 --> 01:00:30,330 the Land Rover wouldn't be able to climb over onto the flat dam top. 984 01:00:30,380 --> 01:00:33,220 And this meant only one thing. 985 01:00:35,220 --> 01:00:37,820 I'm going to have to go back down. 986 01:00:38,460 --> 01:00:41,460 I'm going to have to winch it down the dam. 987 01:00:44,060 --> 01:00:46,060 I really need a piss! 988 01:00:53,660 --> 01:00:56,610 Thank you. It was nothing. 989 01:00:56,660 --> 01:00:58,330 It was nothing. 990 01:00:59,820 --> 01:01:03,210 So... you failed. 991 01:01:03,260 --> 01:01:04,810 Well, I almost got to the top. 992 01:01:04,860 --> 01:01:07,250 Yeah, but then you just came straight back down again. 993 01:01:07,300 --> 01:01:10,530 I'm sorry, Hammond, if I said, "I'm going to drive to Bristol," and then 994 01:01:10,580 --> 01:01:14,570 got NEARLY to Bristol and came home again, that's NOT going to Bristol. 995 01:01:14,620 --> 01:01:17,490 Look, the main thing is I gave the Land Rover Defender 996 01:01:17,540 --> 01:01:21,290 ~ a fitting sendoff. ~ Yeah, but they're working on a new Defender now 997 01:01:21,340 --> 01:01:24,210 and it looks EXACTLY the same as the old one. 998 01:01:24,260 --> 01:01:28,730 So you said you'd drive to the top of a dam, which you didn't, 999 01:01:28,780 --> 01:01:32,690 to pay tribute to a car that you said was about to die, but it's not. 1000 01:01:32,740 --> 01:01:34,170 Yeah. 1001 01:01:34,220 --> 01:01:37,930 Well, that means you're a liar and you've completely wasted our time. 1002 01:01:37,980 --> 01:01:39,610 Yeah. 1003 01:01:39,660 --> 01:01:41,770 And on that bombshell, I'm afraid it's time to end. 1004 01:01:41,820 --> 01:01:44,490 Next week normal service is resumed. 1005 01:01:44,540 --> 01:01:46,970 James and I have a lot of crashes on purpose. 1006 01:01:47,020 --> 01:01:50,100 Hopefully we shall see you then. Thank you for watching, good night!