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Tonight - James gets lost in a Lamborghini.

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Richard drives over a bridge in a Ferrari.

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And I wear a small hat in an Aston Martin.

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Hello! Thank you!

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Thank you very much, thank you.

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We're back! We're back.

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And while we were off air, the three of us had a bit of an argument

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about what would be the best car to take on a Grand Tour of Europe.

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I reckon, and I'm right,

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it's the Aston Martin DBS Volante.

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Richard says, no, it isn't,

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it's the Ferrari California,

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and James - who's a bit weird -

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says it's the Lamborghini Gallardo, the new one with the 560-horsepower engine.

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Well, it is.

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No, it isn't!

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What that is is a two-seater, mid-engine, 560-horsepower supercar.

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What you want for a Grand Tour is engine at the front,

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nice comfy suspension,four seats and a boot for all your luggage.

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Exactly, like the Aston.

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Well, yeah, it's the best apart from the fact that the Ferrari costs GBP140,000,

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the Lambo GBP150,000 and the Aston is the best part of GBP170,000.

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Yes.

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And it's the slowest to 60mph.

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Yes.

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And it's got the smallest top speed.

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Yes. But...That's a V8, that's a V10,

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that's a V12. More is better.

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No! It is.

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Isn't.It is.

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It isn't.

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I'll hold my breath.

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He is now holding his breath.

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Anyway. The producers said that the only real way to sort this out

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was to take these cars on an actual Grand Tour.

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So we thought, "Yes! South of France,

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or Italy,or the Black Forest."

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But then they said no. They said that we had to take them...to Romania.

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This is what springs to mind when we think about Romania.

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Not that we do very often.

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We imagine it's full of oxes and

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people throwing stones at gypsies.

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So you'd imagine that turning up in cars like this might look like showing off.

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We did, too.

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Coming here in a car that costs GBP168,000

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is a bit like turning up in the Sudan in a suit

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made entirely out of food.

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'But then we arrived in the Black Sea town of Mamaia.

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'And it wasn't really what we were expecting.'

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My God!

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Jag. Porsche. Ferrari. Ferrari.

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Audi R8 V10. Another Ferrari.

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If Simon Cowell came here they'd put him on income support.

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Look at it!

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That's a 430. That's a 599.

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OK. We're not as conspicuous as I first feared.

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Have you ever seen the like, Hammond?

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No, it's staggering!

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'And then, just when we thought the car park couldn't get any better...'

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Oh my God! That is, isn't it?

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It is a Dacia Sandero.

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That is it.

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I think this is the 1.6.

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I think it is the 1.6.

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I forgot that this is where the Sandero is from.

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I've been thinking about that car for two years.

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'Sadly, before he could think about it any more,

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'a challenge arrived.'

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"You are here to seek out a road "built by a former dictator.

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"Officially it's called the Transf... Transfi..."

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That. Trans...

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Transfgs...

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"..Transfagarasan Highway.

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Unofficially it's known as Ceausescu's Folly.

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"People speak of it in hushed whispers.

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"They say it's the best road in the world."

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So we're here to look for it.

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We've got to find it.

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We decided to look in the mountains,which were 300 miles away.

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And on the journey, each of us would hope to prove our car was best.

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Yes, if you used facts and figures

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when buying a car, you probably would end up with the Lamborghini or the Ferrari,

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in the same way that if you used facts and figures to buy a house,

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you'd end up in Dunfermline.

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Because you get a lot more for your money.

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This is a whole new type of car for Ferrari.

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This is the first with the V8 engine in the front.

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It's the first direct injection engine they've produced,

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it's the first Ferrari with a metal folding roof.

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This is the first time Ferrari have produced a car with a DSG gearbox

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which means you get absolutely seamless gear changes.

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This isn't a Ferrari for the track,

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it's for long journeys exactly like this one.

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'And now James had the chance to explain

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"why he brought a mid-engine two-seater supercar on a Grand Tour.'

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By driving around in a Lamborghini,you are actually doing the world a favour.

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Because it's a thing of beauty,other people can look at it and they can enjoy it.

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It's like owning one of Raphael's virgins

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and running around the streets holding it above your head

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rather than just putting it on the wall.

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'So that we could talk to each other on our long journey,

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'we decided to pull over and connect our phones into the cars' Bluetooth systems.

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'In the Aston and the Lamborghini,this was very easy.'

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Bluetooth, on.

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Press enter to continue.

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Bluetooth on the phone.

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'However, in the Ferrari...'

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'Every new phone must be prepared before it is used.'

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Yes, preparing my phone.

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'You may have...'

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Yes, yes, yes.

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'..so that you can press the phone's button and say "Call Mary"

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to place a call to Mary.

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'Pressing the VR button while the system is speaking...'

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Please stop!

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Synchronising...yes!

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I'm there! I'm connected! I'm Bluetoothed!

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Bluetooth switched on. Oh, joy.

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'..Home, work, mobile or pager.'

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Work! I'm at work!

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'Name, please.'

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Richard! How does that help?!

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'Please repeat the name after the beep.'

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'With our phones connected -eventually - we put our roofs up,

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'which, without wishing to boast,you can do on the move in the Aston,

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'and then we were ready for a motorway blast to Bucharest.'

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Oh! There's the V12!

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"1  2  5  0  8
'1, 2, 5, 0, 8...'

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What?!

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"...0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  1
'..0, 2, 0, 0, 0,'0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1...'

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CLEAR!

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'Then we did what we weren't supposed to do.'

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In 3, 2, 1, go!

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Oh, yeah, this is what we mustn't do.

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It just has the legs, that Ferrari.

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Just, just, just.

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Yeah, this might be a GT car,but it's...

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It's not a slouch.

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Aston Martin has gone to simply enormous lengths

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to make the DVS convertible as light as possible.

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It has a carbon-fibre bonnet,

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carbon-fibre wings,

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carbon-fibre boot,

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carbon-fibre door-pulls, even.

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They've even made the carpet out of a specially lightweight weave.

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And the results speak for themselves.

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This is by far and away the heaviest car of the three.

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Have you noticed something, Hammond?

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What?

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I don't see a black Lamborghini anywhere near us.

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What, you mean the one that is on paper the fastest here?

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'James was merrily tootling along,

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'apparently under the illusion he was presenting his wine programme.'

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Good place to stop for a bag of grapes.

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There's three more people holding up grapes, there's a fourth...

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a fifth, a sixth. I think we're well covered for grapes, there.

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'Meanwhile, Hammond's Ferrari had decided all on its own 'to make a telephone call.'

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'Selected. Calling...Vernon Kay.'

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What?! Vernon...?

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'Is this correct?'

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Why are you calling Vernon Kay?

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Why are you doing that?

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'Hello?'

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Vernon?

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'Hi?'

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Hello, mate,it's Richard Hammond.

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'For miles, our convoy ruled the road. But then...'

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Oh, my God! Look here!

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What's that?! Wha..?

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That's the Dacia Sandero.

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I'm going to see if I can hold on to the back of it.

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The 1.2 16-valve -that thing can shift!

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Come on! Keep up with the Sandero!

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'Hammond's Ferrari might have got it, but unfortunately...'

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Why are you doing that now?

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Why are you calling Vernon Kay again?

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'Hi, Richard!'

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Vernon! Er, it's Richard Hammond. Again.

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Er...I'm really sorry.

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'No, it's fine. I'm just in the studio, everyone's stopped work...'

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Good. Good.

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'While refuelling on the outskirts of Bucharest,

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'James and Richard bought me a present.'

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Great(!)

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What now?

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My life is complete, that's what.

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Very big round here, apparently.

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'And then James thought of a new game.'

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Why don't we have a sat-nav challenge?

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Because mine is a German one and will be superior.

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It's Audi, isn't it? It is.

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Good idea. We can start here.

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Ready steady go, set your sat-nav for the People's Palace.

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I know it exists. First to get to the People's Palace is the winner.

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Are you ready?

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Yes.

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Steady? Yes.

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Go!

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Now, I should explain before we start, I have a Volvo system.

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Unanimously, everybody agrees it's the worst sat-nav in the world.

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Rise! Rise!

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'Mercifully, in the California,

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the sat-nav system was much better than the Bluetooth.'

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Nearby point of interest, that's the first order of business.

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'Whereas in the Lambo,

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James was regretting his new game.'

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Country.

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I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q... 
I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q...

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It goes from Portugal to Sam...

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How can it not have...?

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The Italians don't acknowledge the existence of Romania.

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1-1-7
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1 1 
1-1...

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No, no, no. 1 to 42, that is all.

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Right, I've got it.

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No! No, no!

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Er, People's Palace? People?

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Not the best present I've ever had,if I'm honest,

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but it's tactless to just ignore them.

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'Please follow the road.'

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Yes.I will gladly follow the road,

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for...7.3kms.

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Technology and I are now getting on absolutely fine.

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'Calling Stephen Accountant.'

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No, no, no, don't do that.

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Go to the roundabout here. Yep.

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And here...

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Here in sub... No.

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One of the most irritating things about the Volvo system that Aston use,

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 is that it tells you where you've been.

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Which is only of any use if you think your wife's having an affair.

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James was now on the move,

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but obviously his map had been drawn by a distant relative.

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When he said roundabout, did he mean roundabout?

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Or did he mean crossroads?

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Fortunately, the producers had given me a Romanian phrasebook.

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Unfortunately,it was a bit confusing.

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the sat-nav race was hotting up.

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Hammond! Get him!

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What's he doing here?

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Come on!

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I'm winning by 1.5 metres.

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I found it first.

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No, I found it with my eyes.

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No, you didn't. I found it first.

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This...

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But when we saw the People's Palace,

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we sort of stopped.

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Today it's the Romanian Parliament building.

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But it was once the private house of notorious dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

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If that's his idea of a house,

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what's his idea of a road gonna be like?

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You know that is the heaviest building in the world?

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That's what you'd build, isn't it?

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It is. A million cubic metres of marble in there.

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Ceausescu was a mental, wasn't he? Complete mental.

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And an unpleasant mental.

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He had people go ahead of him and paint the leaves green, wherever he went.

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As we waited,

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James had become really lost.

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That's it.

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While we waited we were informed we might get a visit from a local dignitary.

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The Secretary General of the Chamber of Deputies.

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Jeremy, you are familiar with the local customs, aren't you?

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What?

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Penis out. When she stands to shake hands, you just plop it in.

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And that's what you do.

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That's how it works.

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Hello, sir. Hello.

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It was a Lam...Lam...Lamborghini.

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Behold the People's Palace.

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James, you lost that one. Quite badly.

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While waiting for James the local dignitary had given us permission

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to drive in the network of tunnels underneath the government building.

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This, we feel, is not something that would be allowed in Britain.

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Start the music!

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Jeez, there's a corner there!

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Dust. Dust!

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Can't see a thing!

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We then decided to bring a bit of science to the party.

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That is a decibel-o-meter and I'm going to see how loud the Ferrari is. Ready?

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Not too bad, 70...82.

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 89? 89

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I saw an 89 average. -I saw 89. -89, yeah.

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What a lot of dust, jeez.

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It's quite dusty down there.

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This is our best game yet.

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All you need to play this game,

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in case you're interested at home,

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is a People's Palace, with a tunnel underneath it. Yeah.

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Three supercars and a cheap app and you're there! You're there!

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It turned out that all three cars were equally loud.

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So, we abandoned the science

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and went to the pub.

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Where we were just in time to catch the local version of Top Gear.

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SPEAKS IN ROMANIAN

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I just wish that girl would get out the way,

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so we could see the car more!

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I bet that would sound good in the tunnels.

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What a magnificent thing.

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We'll pick that, er,

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we'll pick that up later on.

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But now it is time to do the news.

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And we begin with a story from Australia, in fact.

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Er, Australian authorities

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are really going to get tough on boozed up fans

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at the Bathurst Motor Race.

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Well, I say motor race, it's actually a fight

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between rival gangs of Ford supporters and GM supporters.

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OK, now the way they've cracked this, is they say

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each fan is going to be limited to just 24 cans of lager each per day.

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Just 24?

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24 a day, no more than that.

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And Australians, don't think you can get round this by switching to wine,

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because that's limited as well,

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to four litres a day.

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Do you know what they're doing,to get round it?

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What, Australians? Yeah.

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Australians are going there two weeks before the race

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and burying beer.

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We have an Australian guest on later,

328
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I'm going to talk to him about this. I'm fascinated. Yes.

329
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Now. We must move on. We must.

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McLaren have a announced a new supercar, here it is.

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It's called the MP4-12C.

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Mmmm. That'll sound good with adenoids.

333
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"Wanna come for a ride in my MP4 dash 12C?"

334
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No, I don't, it sounds like a telephone.

335
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However, um, interesting thing about this car particularly

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is the previous McLaren supercars, the F1 and the Merc SLR,

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were very, very expensive.

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This - GBP170,000.

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-Oh, cheap.-Oh, that's all right then.

340
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As I said that I realised...

341
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I know what you mean it's cheap-er.

342
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Absolutely.

343
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It's same...Half the price of the SLR.

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This is the first time they've put their own engine into it,

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3.8 litre 2 turbo V8, so there's a lot of exciting things about it.

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I hope that works, McLaren have had a rotten week.

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All their vehicles have been recalled,

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cos they've been amputating peoples' limbs.

349
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No that's not... no, yeah.

350
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What?

351
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It's not the vehicles, mate,

352
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it's the prams, the pushchairs,

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Maclaren buggies.

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Oh! I thought Rowan Atkinson had had his arm cut off by his car. -No.

355
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It's Maclaren prams?

356
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Yes, the buggies, the pushchairs.

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Oh, God!

358
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Interesting thing about this story

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is it's come about because of 12 cases in the States

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of children having their fingers amputated.

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So, as a result they've recalled all the pushchairs.

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But the pushchairs are the same all over the world

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and it's only in the States they're recalling them. Not here.

364
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No, there's a very good reason for that though.

365
00:19:26,900 --> 00:19:29,460
British parents are more...

366
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What's the word I'm looking for?

367
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Intelligent. Yes!

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Cos how could you? Hey!

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US ACCENT: I can't shut this buggy down,

370
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there's these pink things in the way.

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I've got the kid screaming his head off! Shut-up, Junior.

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That's got it!

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Stop yelling.

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It's...there you go.

375
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Now, do you want to combine your love of camping,

376
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 with your love of buying the wrong Porsche?

377
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No, because I have good news, OK?

378
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Because you can now buy, um, well,

379
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it's a new type of Boxster, OK?

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With a tent on the top of it.

381
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Here it is.

382
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Look at that roof!

383
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It looks like a tramp's hat.

384
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It's called the Boxster Spyder

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and it's a super lightweight version.

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It only weighs 1,250 kilos, top speed

387
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166mph, 0-60 in 4.8 seconds.

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And it's that fast because it's got a very clever gearbox.

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It's called a... it's...

390
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Well, it's...

391
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Is it German?

392
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It's a German name. And it's complicated.

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Let me just spell this out -

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it's a D-O-P-P-E-L

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K-U-P-P-L

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U-N-G

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S-G-E-T...

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R...

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I-E...

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B...

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E.

402
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That's what it is...I...

403
00:20:54,530 --> 00:20:56,500
Can we? Get it on the screen.

404
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,870
Are there any Germans here?

405
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That's a long word!

406
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:01,130
That is a...

407
00:21:01,130 --> 00:21:01,870
Do you know what that means?You speak German.

408
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I do.

409
00:21:03,140 --> 00:21:05,160
What's the only German you can say?

410
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,140
Naturlich ist Hans nass, er steht unter dem Wasserfall

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What's that mean?

412
00:21:08,890 --> 00:21:11,350
Naturally Hans is wet he's standing under a waterfall.

413
00:21:13,660 --> 00:21:14,520
OK.

414
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,700
I use it all the time.

415
00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,820
That's kind of a one shot deal,isn't it?

416
00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:21,630
Er, anyway, if you want the wrong car,

417
00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:23,400
which has no door handles,

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00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,750
and no air conditioning and no radio

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and has a tent on the top of it,

420
00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:28,780
then there you are,

421
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the Boxster double line. Spyder.

422
00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:32,010
It's not got all those things to keep it light

423
00:21:32,010 --> 00:21:33,500
 cos it's still GBP44,000.

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00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,060
GBP44,000, you don't even get door handles.

425
00:21:37,470 --> 00:21:38,680
We've been sent this.

426
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,490
It's an eco-friendly, portable,

427
00:21:41,490 --> 00:21:44,600
disposable, cardboard lavatory,

428
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,850
for use by the side of the road.

429
00:21:46,850 --> 00:21:48,690
The idea is you're driving along, you get caught a bit short,

430
00:21:48,690 --> 00:21:50,560
can't find the nearest karzy,

431
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,340
you pop this out, erect it and do what you have to do.

432
00:21:53,340 --> 00:21:55,400
Are you about to tell us you have been caught short? No.

433
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,760
Cos I don't think you should.

434
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:57,710
No, I was going to say,

435
00:21:57,710 --> 00:22:00,430
we shall give this a fair test on Top Gear

436
00:22:00,430 --> 00:22:03,700
by giving it to the world's most practical man, Clarkson.

437
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,110
What you want me to build it?

438
00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:08,110
I do.

439
00:22:08,110 --> 00:22:10,620
Oh, God, I hate this sort of thing.

440
00:22:11,300 --> 00:22:12,620
Where's the instructions?

441
00:22:12,620 --> 00:22:13,970
Have you ever noticed,

442
00:22:13,970 --> 00:22:15,430
watching him do anything practical,

443
00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:17,420
it's like watching an orangutan?

444
00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:19,920
It is! Look at his face.

445
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,280
-Honestly, look at his face,-it goes all...It's very long.

446
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,300
He's happy, but confused.

447
00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:27,070
They actually put a picture of Jeremy on the bag, look,

448
00:22:27,070 --> 00:22:28,630
showing you how to assemble it.

449
00:22:29,470 --> 00:22:31,630
These instructions, look!

450
00:22:31,630 --> 00:22:34,420
They bear no relation, as always,

451
00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:36,600
to the thing they're supplied with.

452
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:37,930
See, he's doing the ape thing.

453
00:22:37,930 --> 00:22:38,790
And bear in mind,

454
00:22:38,790 --> 00:22:39,890
you have to erect this...

455
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,650
while basically desperate for a number two, with...

456
00:22:42,650 --> 00:22:43,730
I was going to say...

457
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With lorries going by.

458
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,990
Could you erect this while you were touching cloth? You can?

459
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,700
See if you can get that erected.

460
00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:55,430
I'm prepared to bet that question has never been asked on any other car show.

461
00:22:57,550 --> 00:22:58,330
She's good.

462
00:22:58,330 --> 00:22:59,460
How've you done that?

463
00:23:00,070 --> 00:23:01,630
She's bloody done it, look.

464
00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:02,710
That was it.

465
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,000
How did you do that?

466
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,580
Look she's made a lavatory.

467
00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:11,790
You did what?

468
00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:13,260
I'm female.

469
00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:15,690
You're a...she's a female.

470
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,590
So, you just put that up at the side of the road and then...

471
00:23:21,590 --> 00:23:23,160
There's no need to demonstrate!

472
00:23:29,810 --> 00:23:31,780
How did you think that was going to go?

473
00:23:31,780 --> 00:23:34,320
How did you think that was going to work?

474
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,970
You great dumb ape.

475
00:23:36,970 --> 00:23:38,900
Do you know what, honestly?

476
00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:40,630
I'd rather just crap myself.

477
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,980
I think I just did!

478
00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:46,610
Can we move on?

479
00:23:46,610 --> 00:23:49,470
I'm not the world's most unpractical man. -You are.

480
00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:51,400
I am, actually. You're right.

481
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,220
Anyway, we've got to get on.

482
00:23:52,220 --> 00:23:54,690
Yes, anyway, we've had a letter.

483
00:23:54,690 --> 00:23:56,650
It's literally from some bankers

484
00:23:56,650 --> 00:23:57,870
and it says,

485
00:23:57,870 --> 00:24:00,410
"Dear Top Gear, this time last year

486
00:24:00,410 --> 00:24:02,000
we didn't have any money,

487
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,830
"but the Government has given us some now.

488
00:24:03,830 --> 00:24:07,010
"However, we don't want the public to know that we're loaded again,

489
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,850
"so we need really fast, expensive cars that are quite discreet.

490
00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:13,860
"Can you help?  Yours sincerely, some bankers."

491
00:24:13,860 --> 00:24:17,810
Well, as it happens, yes, we can help.

492
00:24:22,180 --> 00:24:24,580
And we begin with something from BMW.

493
00:24:30,650 --> 00:24:34,210
This here is the BMW 760Li.

494
00:24:34,210 --> 00:24:35,160
Or to give it it's other name -

495
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,850
the BMW Move Over Poor Person.

496
00:24:37,850 --> 00:24:40,230
Because this is the biggest,most expensive

497
00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:44,130
and most powerful car BMW makes.

498
00:24:47,050 --> 00:24:49,340
It has a six litre V12,

499
00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:50,740
which sounds like plenty.

500
00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:54,140
But, obviously,someone at BMW thought, "No".

501
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,970
So, for a bit of extra "schnell,"

502
00:24:56,970 --> 00:24:59,420
this car has got two turbo chargers.

503
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,590
The result is 544 BHP.

504
00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:06,810
And the power station under the bonnet is connected to

505
00:25:06,810 --> 00:25:10,380
a brand new eight speed gearbox.

506
00:25:11,660 --> 00:25:14,910
Put all that together and even someone as laid back as me

507
00:25:14,910 --> 00:25:21,120
can quite easily, look, get a bit of a lick on.

508
00:25:22,650 --> 00:25:25,660
It'll batter most 911's in a sprint to 60,

509
00:25:26,820 --> 00:25:30,730
and de-limited, it would hit 188 miles per hour.

510
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,420
But those numbers only tell half the story.

511
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,020
This is a bizarre kind of fast.

512
00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:43,080
It's quiet and relaxed and smooth.

513
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,520
It's like swimming over a waterfall of double cream.

514
00:25:51,470 --> 00:25:53,280
A luxurious waterfall, too.

515
00:25:54,150 --> 00:25:56,610
The 760 has seats that massage you,

516
00:25:56,610 --> 00:25:59,940
and an SAS spec night vision system.

517
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:03,940
And here's a clever thing.

518
00:26:03,940 --> 00:26:05,400
Pulling up to this junction,

519
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,810
the view is quite obstructed,

520
00:26:06,810 --> 00:26:08,230
I can't really see what's coming.

521
00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:10,010
But if I press this button,

522
00:26:10,010 --> 00:26:11,970
there are little cameras mounted on the wings

523
00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:15,590
that give you eyes on the side of your head. It's like being a rabbit.

524
00:26:17,210 --> 00:26:18,150
And the price?

525
00:26:18,150 --> 00:26:21,140
A smudge under GBP100,000.

526
00:26:21,790 --> 00:26:23,900
If you have that sort of money to spend on a car,

527
00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:27,460
there's a good chance you'll want to pay someone to drive it for you.

528
00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:30,640
So that's exactly what I've done,I've got myself a chauffeur.

529
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,970
He's in a bit of a bad mood to be honest,

530
00:26:33,970 --> 00:26:35,830
because I've told him this is my test.

531
00:26:35,830 --> 00:26:38,550
It's not about tyre smoke and going sideways.

532
00:26:38,550 --> 00:26:41,090
Dignified driving is what I want.

533
00:26:42,180 --> 00:26:44,340
This version of the seven series is only available

534
00:26:44,340 --> 00:26:46,130
as a long wheel base model,

535
00:26:46,130 --> 00:26:49,010
which means you get an extra five inches of leg room in the back.

536
00:26:49,010 --> 00:26:51,050
Doesn't sound like much, but it makes a world of difference.

537
00:26:51,050 --> 00:26:53,130
And I can watch the TV.

538
00:26:53,130 --> 00:26:56,540
I've got something on here, it's interesting, it's about antiques...

539
00:26:56,540 --> 00:27:00,750
What are you doing, man?

540
00:27:05,410 --> 00:27:06,400
Bloody hell!

541
00:27:07,220 --> 00:27:08,590
Oh, God, I see the problem.

542
00:27:08,590 --> 00:27:11,130
The Mercedes S63 has turned up,

543
00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:13,090
that's the other car I was going to test,

544
00:27:14,150 --> 00:27:16,410
and that sort of puts Stigs on heat.

545
00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:23,860
That S-class is actually the AMG tuned version.

546
00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:25,390
Apparently it's a bit of a rocket ship,

547
00:27:25,390 --> 00:27:27,480
I can see why Stig's got the red mist.

548
00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:31,400
Luckily, Stig's a bit too stupid

549
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,510
to work out where all the driver aids are on this.

550
00:27:35,870 --> 00:27:37,190
Oh no, he's found it.

551
00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:41,190
Stig has put the dynamic driving control into sport plus,

552
00:27:41,190 --> 00:27:44,270
that sharpens up throttle response and gear changes!

553
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:47,680
Bloody Nora.

554
00:27:52,450 --> 00:27:54,590
God, he's switched the stability control off altogether...

555
00:27:59,810 --> 00:28:03,660
That locks up the rear differential for extra....ow! Hooligan!

556
00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:17,840
So, the Mercedes. The most powerful non-turbo V8 car in the world.

557
00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:20,580
It costs the same as the BMW,

558
00:28:20,580 --> 00:28:24,610
it comes only in business class,long wheel base form, like the BMW,

559
00:28:24,610 --> 00:28:28,130
and like the BMW, it's dripping with technology.

560
00:28:30,110 --> 00:28:34,190
Even the interior lighting has three different colour settings.

561
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,080
In fact, there's such a bewildering array of gizmos on both cars,

562
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,840
that it's almost impossible to choose between them.

563
00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:51,770
We're going to make it easier with a game of Top Trumps.

564
00:28:51,770 --> 00:28:53,450
Here's my opponent, the Stig.

565
00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:54,760
It's like normal Top Trumps,

566
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,290
except all of Stiggy's cards are the BMW,

567
00:28:57,290 --> 00:29:00,090
and all of mine are the Mercedes. Ready?

568
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,470
OK, TV screens.Mercedes has TV in the front.

569
00:29:08,150 --> 00:29:09,830
BMW...I know the answer to this,

570
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:11,270
it's got two, isn't it?

571
00:29:11,270 --> 00:29:14,910
Front and rear, so you win that pair.

572
00:29:16,910 --> 00:29:18,010
Climate control.

573
00:29:18,010 --> 00:29:20,200
Mercedes - two zone.

574
00:29:20,990 --> 00:29:22,490
And the BMW, we know,

575
00:29:22,490 --> 00:29:24,330
has four zone climate control,

576
00:29:24,330 --> 00:29:25,950
so you win that pair.

577
00:29:26,890 --> 00:29:28,000
It's not difficult.

578
00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:32,620
Seat massage system. Mercedes -front and rear seat massage.

579
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:40,860
And the BMW, massage seat only in the front, so I win that pair.

580
00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:42,700
Right, BHP...

581
00:29:47,950 --> 00:29:49,970
OK, that's not working,

582
00:29:49,970 --> 00:29:53,480
so let's go back to the traditional,philistine Top Gear method.

583
00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:55,360
A drag race.

584
00:29:56,470 --> 00:29:59,140
I went in the Mercedes with Stig at the wheel.

585
00:30:00,110 --> 00:30:02,140
I think I'll have "Firm massage" for this.

586
00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:10,300
The BMW quickly took the lead.

587
00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:13,710
And stayed there till the end.

588
00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:18,140
That made Stig so angry he went home.

589
00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:22,350
So, the S-class. When you drive it,

590
00:30:22,350 --> 00:30:26,360
you realise it's got much more of a split personality than the BMW.

591
00:30:28,070 --> 00:30:31,170
On the one hand, it has lots of very civilising features,

592
00:30:31,170 --> 00:30:33,650
it has active body control,

593
00:30:33,650 --> 00:30:37,860
and it's so clever it can detect a cross-wind and compensate for it.

594
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:42,050
It even has a drowsiness sensor to prevent you from nodding off.

595
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:50,560
But put your foot down and suddenly it erupts with typical AMG volcanic storm and fury.

596
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,990
And here's something that really baffles me.

597
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,820
On the dashboard I have a race timer

598
00:31:00,820 --> 00:31:03,350
that allows you to record your lap times. But why?

599
00:31:04,330 --> 00:31:06,460
I mean, in a 911 GT3, yes.

600
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:08,310
But who's that for?

601
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,630
Sir Alan Sugar on a track day?

602
00:31:12,290 --> 00:31:14,030
And that's the problem with the Mercedes,

603
00:31:14,030 --> 00:31:16,850
it has a strangely confused personality.

604
00:31:17,020 --> 00:31:18,560
And for that reason,

605
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,110
Mercedes S63 AMG...

606
00:31:22,650 --> 00:31:24,020
..you're fired.

607
00:31:31,060 --> 00:31:32,440
So, let's just get this straight.

608
00:31:33,150 --> 00:31:35,840
Quite wrongly, you prefer the BMW.

609
00:31:36,390 --> 00:31:38,380
No, I think they're both completely pointless.

610
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:39,890
Couldn't agree with you more.

611
00:31:39,890 --> 00:31:41,330
They are absolutely pointless.

612
00:31:41,330 --> 00:31:43,370
And now, I'm afraid,

613
00:31:43,370 --> 00:31:47,380
we must dive even more deeply into the murky waters of their irrelevance

614
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:50,270
by handing them over to our tame racing driver.

615
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,500
Some say, that in the autumn,

616
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,960
all his arms go brown and fall off.

617
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,530
{\a6\fn??????\c&HFFDC35&\fs16}

618
00:31:58,530 --> 00:32:00,770
And that if he wrote you a letter of condolence,

619
00:31:58,770 --> 00:32:02,770
{\a6\fn??????\c&HFFDC35&\fs16} 

620
00:32:00,770 --> 00:32:02,530
he would at least get your name right.

621
00:32:04,490 --> 00:32:07,460
All we know is, he's called the Stog

622
00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:08,460
You mean the Stig.

623
00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:11,240
That's what I said. I said it!

624
00:32:12,790 --> 00:32:13,620
And they're off!

625
00:32:13,620 --> 00:32:15,390
It is very wet out there,

626
00:32:15,390 --> 00:32:18,350
tiny wiggle of the hips from the BMW as the turbos spool up.

627
00:32:18,970 --> 00:32:20,370
Here's something not very interesting,

628
00:32:20,370 --> 00:32:24,370
that 760 has BMW's first petrol V12 with two turbos.

629
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,380
That is much more interesting there,

630
00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:29,200
he's going very sideways!

631
00:32:30,090 --> 00:32:34,490
{\c&H26F4FF&}{\fs14}MUSIC: "Rabbit" By Chas and Dave

632
00:32:34,020 --> 00:32:36,740
I should say the Stig is deeply saddened

633
00:32:34,540 --> 00:32:41,740
{\a6\fn??????\c&HFFDC35&\fs16} 

634
00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:38,560
that Chas and Dave have split up.

635
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,750
This is his way of getting through the pain.

636
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,400
That BMW is very sideways there,

637
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,450
coming up to the hammerhead we're expecting understeer here

638
00:32:46,450 --> 00:32:49,110
from these two-tonne barges.

639
00:32:49,910 --> 00:32:53,610
And, yep, the seven series is ploughing wide, but more composed.

640
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,940
I suspect because the traction control can't be fully switched off.

641
00:32:58,380 --> 00:32:59,760
Here we are, follow-through.

642
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,410
It really is wet out there.

643
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,490
Stig would be better off in an actual barge, I think.

644
00:33:05,490 --> 00:33:06,810
Quick through the tyres,

645
00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:09,520
look up "brave" in the dictionary it says "See The Stig".

646
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:10,950
Two corners left.

647
00:33:10,950 --> 00:33:13,030
BMW's all over the shop.

648
00:33:13,030 --> 00:33:14,830
That let the S-class ahead,

649
00:33:14,830 --> 00:33:16,740
but they're evenly matched coming through Gambon!

650
00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:18,550
Across the line!

651
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,520
Does it go here?

652
00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:23,110
No, it doesn't.

653
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:24,860
Does it go here?

654
00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:25,950
No, it doesn't.

655
00:33:27,290 --> 00:33:27,990
Go on then.

656
00:33:27,990 --> 00:33:31,850
Right, the Mercedes S63 did it there in 1.32.1.

657
00:33:31,850 --> 00:33:36,060
The BMW did it in... 1.31.2

658
00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:39,110
There we are. If you are a banker

659
00:33:39,110 --> 00:33:41,300
and you like to get anywhere in a big hurry,

660
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:42,570
go for the BMW.

661
00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:44,860
Consumer advice for you there.

662
00:33:45,530 --> 00:33:48,280
Now, it is time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.

663
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,910
My guest tonight, it seems,always wanted to be a racing driver,

664
00:33:52,910 --> 00:33:56,420
but then he accidentally ended up being in films like

665
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,100
Star Trek, Finding Nemo,

666
00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:02,100
Blackhawk Down, Troy,

667
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:03,880
and so on and so forth.

668
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,530
So, here to find out what on earth went wrong,

669
00:34:06,530 --> 00:34:08,650
from somewhere called Australia,

670
00:34:08,650 --> 00:34:10,350
ladies and gentlemen, Eric Bana!

671
00:34:14,620 --> 00:34:15,760
Good to see you, how are you?

672
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,930
Very well, very well.

673
00:34:16,930 --> 00:34:17,920
Have a seat.

674
00:34:19,830 --> 00:34:21,550
A proper superstar is here!

675
00:34:22,950 --> 00:34:23,790
What's in there?

676
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,520
There?

677
00:34:26,410 --> 00:34:29,040
It's water, it's OK, it won't have anything dangerous in it. -Yeah.

678
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:32,070
This Bathurst Motor Race we were talking about,

679
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,830
have you heard about the beer thing?

680
00:34:33,830 --> 00:34:39,190
They're limiting the amount of beer each fan can take to 24 cans a day.

681
00:34:39,190 --> 00:34:41,090
That's a serious restriction.

682
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:45,100
That's practically tee-totalling, isn't it?

683
00:34:45,860 --> 00:34:49,400
This rivalry between Ford and GM,

684
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,270
it's ingrained from birth,isn't it, in all Australians?

685
00:34:52,270 --> 00:34:54,840
It's pretty deep seated.

686
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,920
They were the two main manufacturers, if you're my age,

687
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,280
when you were growing up. It was, you know,

688
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,140
the General Motors product which was Holden,

689
00:35:02,140 --> 00:35:05,660
Commodores and Toranas and for me it was Falcons.

690
00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:07,920
I said to the two guys,

691
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,900
the two Aussies who are here in the audience somewhere,

692
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:12,550
I said "Eric Bana's coming on,"they went "Ah, Ford bloke."

693
00:35:13,580 --> 00:35:14,420
That was it. You're a Ford bloke

694
00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:16,120
so you're no good. You're a Ford bloke,

695
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,360
they're Holden blokes.

696
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,530
Completely discounted me, huh?

697
00:35:18,530 --> 00:35:20,450
Yeah, exactly.

698
00:35:20,450 --> 00:35:23,360
It seems to me that Bathurst combines everything, really,

699
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,030
that you need in Australia.

700
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:26,310
Outside cooking, obviously.

701
00:35:26,310 --> 00:35:28,400
Drinking and sport.

702
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,620
This sport thing, it's weird,

703
00:35:30,620 --> 00:35:32,630
cos you're no good at it.

704
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:33,520
Oh, really?

705
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,030
Really? Cite a couple of examples.

706
00:35:37,030 --> 00:35:38,640
The Ashes.

707
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,160
The most recent one,

708
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:40,940
the most recent one.

709
00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:42,050
Rugby, the other day?

710
00:35:42,050 --> 00:35:43,130
Didn't we beat you last week?

711
00:35:43,130 --> 00:35:44,840
We weren't playing! It was Jonny

712
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,810
Wilkinson and some lawyers.

713
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,190
Do you know the best thing about having an Aussie here,

714
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:53,770
and I don't know if it's the same in Australia,

715
00:35:53,770 --> 00:35:57,760
there are very few countrymen or countrywomen that we can tease.

716
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,750
Australia and England, it seems to me, are the last two countries

717
00:36:01,750 --> 00:36:03,460
where if you can go there and go,

718
00:36:03,460 --> 00:36:05,400
"Hide your wallet under the soap, he won't find it there."

719
00:36:06,350 --> 00:36:08,280
If you said to the Americans you lost in Vietnam!

720
00:36:11,790 --> 00:36:13,040
They just don't find that funny.

721
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,910
I mean, to be honest, we're happy, we ended up in the best country.

722
00:36:15,910 --> 00:36:20,240
It's not a bad second prize as far as you're concerned. -It's dangerous.

723
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,700
 It's quite dangerous, Australia. -Why?

724
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:23,920
How old are you?

725
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,930
41.

726
00:36:24,930 --> 00:36:27,570
You must be the oldest Australian that hasn't been eaten by a shark

727
00:36:27,570 --> 00:36:29,430
or bitten by a spider that killed him.

728
00:36:29,430 --> 00:36:35,710
That's what happens when you have great beaches. Ha ha!

729
00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:38,520
We've got great beaches. -Oh, you do!

730
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:40,830
I know. Awesome surf, too.

731
00:36:40,830 --> 00:36:43,040
At least we have nice names.

732
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,380
Give me an example.

733
00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,180
The thing I love about Australia

734
00:36:46,180 --> 00:36:48,220
is the literal names.

735
00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:50,380
"We've got this big, sandy desert in the middle, what shall we call it?

736
00:36:50,380 --> 00:36:51,530
"The Great Sandy Desert."

737
00:36:52,370 --> 00:36:54,420
"We've got this reef off the coast, it's like a barrier.

738
00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:56,690
"The Great Barrier Reef."

739
00:36:56,690 --> 00:36:58,480
This is, of course, as opposed to...

740
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,900
The White Cliffs of Dover,

741
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:01,750
Yeah.

742
00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:04,810
-Green Park. -That's true, Green Park isn't very good.

743
00:37:04,810 --> 00:37:06,370
Four Weddings And A Funeral.

744
00:37:06,370 --> 00:37:07,410
That wasn't a very good...

745
00:37:07,410 --> 00:37:08,610
What about Mad Max?

746
00:37:08,610 --> 00:37:11,110
"It's about a bloke who's mad and he's called Max."

747
00:37:11,110 --> 00:37:12,100
Perfect title.

748
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,670
I want to get on to the car thing,

749
00:37:14,670 --> 00:37:18,180
cos let's be honest, this proper love that you have,

750
00:37:18,180 --> 00:37:22,460
you are now a bona fide Australian racing driver.

751
00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:26,230
I just have a bit of fun in the Australian GT series,

752
00:37:26,230 --> 00:37:31,150
which is like your version of, it'd be FIA, GT3 racing,

753
00:37:31,150 --> 00:37:33,410
so I'm in a Porsche cup car, 911.

754
00:37:33,410 --> 00:37:36,530
But you're pretty good, it's not like you're some actor who's...

755
00:37:36,530 --> 00:37:38,290
I don't know. I enjoy it

756
00:37:38,290 --> 00:37:39,780
and I'd never stop doing it,

757
00:37:39,780 --> 00:37:41,980
I'm just, you know, I'm obsessed.

758
00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:45,350
Do you say "I'm not gonna do that film because I wanna do that race?"

759
00:37:46,590 --> 00:37:47,980
Is this on in America?

760
00:37:47,980 --> 00:37:50,770
America is the only country in the world this isn't shown.

761
00:37:50,770 --> 00:37:52,480
Of course I've done that! Are you kidding me!

762
00:37:56,090 --> 00:37:56,810
Good man!

763
00:37:57,380 --> 00:37:59,290
Everywhere else in the world will hear that, but not America.

764
00:38:00,290 --> 00:38:01,330
They'll never find out.

765
00:38:01,330 --> 00:38:04,900
If I could just say, you've been in some massive films,

766
00:38:05,630 --> 00:38:08,460
but the one that seems to me to be closest to your heart is the one

767
00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:10,340
you've just brought out now,

768
00:38:10,340 --> 00:38:11,840
which is Love The Beast.

769
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,640
Love The Beast.

770
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:13,550
Tell me about that,

771
00:38:13,550 --> 00:38:17,140
because it's a very small film compared to, let's say, Troy.

772
00:38:17,140 --> 00:38:19,520
It's a documentary I directed.

773
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,520
I, one day, was looking at my beast,

774
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,650
which is my Ford Falcon coupe.

775
00:38:24,650 --> 00:38:26,510
I've had this car since I was 15.

776
00:38:26,510 --> 00:38:28,390
And I thought this actually isn't a car,

777
00:38:28,390 --> 00:38:33,260
it's some kind of a personal possession

778
00:38:33,260 --> 00:38:37,170
that gets carted around through all kinds of different circumstances.

779
00:38:37,170 --> 00:38:41,650
I started thinking more and more about that, and how cars,

780
00:38:41,650 --> 00:38:43,900
objects in particular, cars,

781
00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:46,610
I feel can transcend themselves to become something else.

782
00:38:46,610 --> 00:38:48,690
I feel very deeply about it.

783
00:38:48,690 --> 00:38:50,380
I couldn't agree more. -Right.

784
00:38:50,380 --> 00:38:53,420
I really do believe that cars take on a personality.

785
00:38:53,420 --> 00:38:54,760
Not all cars, but some do.

786
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,930
So this film is about your relationship with this car?

787
00:38:58,930 --> 00:39:03,560
Yeah, and then I was competing in Targa Tasmania that year,

788
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,010
so I thought well, we'll just make the rally

789
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:08,620
a bit of an action backdrop to this story

790
00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:11,670
about a guy having a car for his whole life.

791
00:39:11,670 --> 00:39:13,280
Having a relationship with a car. -Yeah.

792
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,520
OK, we have a clip here

793
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:15,590
which I'd like to show everyone.

794
00:39:15,590 --> 00:39:18,340
3..2..1..go!

795
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,770
Then a five left.

796
00:39:28,260 --> 00:39:29,310
It's slippery apparently.

797
00:39:29,310 --> 00:39:30,490
I feel like I'm breaking in a horse.

798
00:39:30,490 --> 00:39:33,250
I feel like both horses are learning, me and the car.

799
00:39:33,250 --> 00:39:35,350
Take the left, we need to stay on.

800
00:39:35,350 --> 00:39:39,090
Six left, one-two right, 100.

801
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:40,520
Cut up here.

802
00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:46,940
Jeez!

803
00:39:47,350 --> 00:39:48,360
That hurt?

804
00:39:51,170 --> 00:39:54,200
I think what hurt the most was

805
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,680
just knowing it was gonna happen,

806
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,070
you know, before it happened.

807
00:39:57,070 --> 00:39:59,260
I could have told you that,

808
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:00,730
if you've got a muscle car, you go round a corner,

809
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:03,880
you're gonna hit a tree.

810
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,200
Now you end wondering whether to rebuild that car again.

811
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,470
True.

812
00:40:08,470 --> 00:40:10,450
One of the things I was facing...

813
00:40:10,450 --> 00:40:12,130
Whilst I was shooting the documentary,

814
00:40:12,130 --> 00:40:14,690
I never planned on crashing the bloody car.honestly

815
00:40:14,690 --> 00:40:16,950
You know, I'd killed it basically,

816
00:40:16,950 --> 00:40:18,590
and then for a couple of months we thought it was...

817
00:40:18,650 --> 00:40:22,240
It was dead and that we couldn't in fact repair it.

818
00:40:22,590 --> 00:40:25,310
And I decided that if it required a reshell,

819
00:40:25,310 --> 00:40:27,530
that I would not rebuild the car.

820
00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:29,780
But does it? -It doesn't.

821
00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:31,440
So you're gonna rebuild it again?

822
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,570
We're gonna rebuild it again.

823
00:40:32,570 --> 00:40:35,280
You realise everything you earned from Star Trek

824
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,070
is going to be lost the next time you try to go round a

825
00:40:38,070 --> 00:40:40,010
corner when you've rebuilt it. -Yeah.

826
00:40:40,010 --> 00:40:44,220
Now, obviously, you didn't come thousands of miles

827
00:40:44,220 --> 00:40:45,880
to just sit and talk about this.

828
00:40:46,540 --> 00:40:50,480
You came to have a go out there in the reasonably priced car.

829
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:51,650
So, how was it?

830
00:40:51,650 --> 00:40:53,370
It was slippery,

831
00:40:53,370 --> 00:40:54,780
but it was a lot of fun.

832
00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:58,990
It's been a while since I've driven such a reasonably priced car.

833
00:41:00,370 --> 00:41:02,580
Who would like to see Eric's lap?

834
00:41:02,580 --> 00:41:04,040
Yes!

835
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:05,320
Let's have a look!

836
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,550
That is slippery.

837
00:41:08,550 --> 00:41:10,270
I'll never play Test cricket,

838
00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:13,610
but I'll drive the Top Gear track!

839
00:41:15,050 --> 00:41:16,110
First corner, now...

840
00:41:16,110 --> 00:41:20,390
Oooh, you see, there's somebody who knows how to drive, look at that!

841
00:41:22,290 --> 00:41:25,090
Feel the grip from the reasonably priced Lacetti now.

842
00:41:26,060 --> 00:41:27,120
Get over!

843
00:41:29,010 --> 00:41:30,880
Were you really putting your heart and soul into this?

844
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,580
Yes, you were!  -I'm not even

845
00:41:33,580 --> 00:41:36,250
going to pretend I don't care what my lap time is.

846
00:41:36,250 --> 00:41:37,790
Get out of the way, birds!

847
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,580
Look, non-dangerous birds.

848
00:41:40,580 --> 00:41:42,500
Not like those ones that burst on your windscreen,

849
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,660
showering you in worms which is what happens in Australia.

850
00:41:45,660 --> 00:41:48,060
Ooh, bit of understeer there.

851
00:41:48,060 --> 00:41:49,660
Lots of understeer there.

852
00:41:51,490 --> 00:41:52,570
Time to put it away.

853
00:41:52,570 --> 00:41:53,590
Ah, these  slots!

854
00:41:53,590 --> 00:41:54,890
Gearbox, sorry about that.

855
00:41:54,890 --> 00:41:55,830
Hasn't mended.

856
00:41:56,540 --> 00:41:58,530
Follow throyuth, I may need to ask you, flat through there?

857
00:41:58,530 --> 00:41:59,990
Flat.

858
00:41:59,990 --> 00:42:01,540
And flat through the tyres,

859
00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:02,470
I'm guessing.

860
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,120
Yep, that looks pretty flat to me.

861
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,390
Second to last corner,

862
00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:07,560
this is the tricky one.

863
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,250
I don't think I ever got this one right.

864
00:42:09,250 --> 00:42:12,410
Let's have a look. You've got to cut it a bit, yes. Perfect.

865
00:42:12,410 --> 00:42:13,930
Now, just Gambon.

866
00:42:14,710 --> 00:42:17,120
Ooh, that's quite legal, most people cheat.

867
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,260
There we are, across the line!

868
00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:29,850
Aha! Now, bearing in mind that that was a wet lap...

869
00:42:29,850 --> 00:42:34,160
It was very slippery. I was waiting for it to dry out, but...

870
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,670
All right! Enough excuses!

871
00:42:35,670 --> 00:42:38,330
It's a wet lap. You were being a racing driver there.

872
00:42:38,330 --> 00:42:40,720
I was looking for the fastest ever wet lap,

873
00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:44,800
which I think was Jamie Oliver on 147.7.

874
00:42:45,510 --> 00:42:47,790
I'm in two minds, I'd like to beat him.

875
00:42:47,790 --> 00:42:49,600
But my wife loves him.

876
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,170
Eric Bana, you did it in 1...

880
00:43:09,330 --> 00:43:14,010
That is the fastest wet lap.....We've ever had.

881
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,510
The fastest.

882
00:43:18,070 --> 00:43:23,230
You are 0.2 of a second faster than a chef.

883
00:43:24,590 --> 00:43:26,380
But you are the fastest Australian.

884
00:43:26,380 --> 00:43:29,450
Is there a wet track Ashes I can take back to Australia?

885
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,820
Tell you what, we'll burn the car and put it in a little thing,

886
00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:34,760
Tell you what, we'll burn the car and put it in a little thing,

887
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,000
you can take it back and Australia can have some ashes. -All right.

888
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,460
Ladies and gentlemen, Eric Bana!

889
00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:52,050
Now, tonight we're in Romania,

890
00:43:52,050 --> 00:43:54,570
looking for the best road in the world.

891
00:43:54,570 --> 00:43:57,230
We're driving an Aston Martin,a Ferrari and a Lamborghini

892
00:43:57,230 --> 00:44:00,340
and so far we'd each decided that our car was the best.

893
00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:05,240
James had got lost, and we'd ended up by mistake in Bucharest.

894
00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:19,680
We left Bucharest the next morning and headed west,

895
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:24,190
still full of wonderment for this amazing country and our cars.

896
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,590
This car is actually filling me with a sort of primordial lust.

897
00:44:30,590 --> 00:44:34,330
It actually tingles down in my bowels. It's sinful.

898
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,250
I cannot tell you how joyful it is to drive

899
00:44:40,250 --> 00:44:44,150
 a V12 sports car with a proper manual gearbox.

900
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:50,120
Manual gearbox, really in a GT car?

901
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,540
You want that? It's about making your life easier.

902
00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:54,530
Fast, but easier and more comfortable.

903
00:44:54,530 --> 00:44:56,960
If you're gonna go GTing,

904
00:44:58,030 --> 00:45:00,410
Ferrari, surely

905
00:45:04,630 --> 00:45:06,570
Then disaster.

906
00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:09,920
Romania only has 143 miles of motorway

907
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,900
and by 11am we'd used every one of them.

908
00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:18,740
Ah, James, policemen. Many, many traditions and rituals surrounding policemen.

909
00:45:18,740 --> 00:45:22,790
Amongst them, if he has a gun, you must go and unbutton him,

910
00:45:22,790 --> 00:45:25,870
just because that says I trust you with your weapon.

911
00:45:25,870 --> 00:45:27,560
Go and unbutton one.

912
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:28,600
Righto.

913
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,970
No, just knock his hat off, James.

914
00:45:30,970 --> 00:45:32,300
They think it's funny.

915
00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:35,260
They often express their humour here with gunfire.

916
00:45:38,580 --> 00:45:42,020
We then told James we were stopping to put our wind deflectors up.

917
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:44,870
But in fact, the real reason we stopped here

918
00:45:44,870 --> 00:45:48,270
is so that I could give him a surprise present.

919
00:45:50,070 --> 00:45:51,860
Oh, God! Is it an ox?

920
00:45:52,590 --> 00:45:54,710
Is it a gypsy? A big one?

921
00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:55,880
Nope.

922
00:45:56,470 --> 00:45:57,390
It's over there.

923
00:45:58,970 --> 00:46:00,170
What, some wood?

924
00:46:00,170 --> 00:46:02,310
In front of the wood.

925
00:46:02,310 --> 00:46:03,370
No!

926
00:46:03,370 --> 00:46:04,590
Yep, seriously.

927
00:46:05,130 --> 00:46:06,820
I have bought you, it's second hand,

928
00:46:06,820 --> 00:46:10,490
but I have bought you a Dacia Sandero.

929
00:46:11,110 --> 00:46:12,400
Really? Yes.

930
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,520
Oh, mate! That's my Dacia Sandero?

931
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,350
No piano's going to land on it, it's not a Morris Marina.

932
00:46:17,350 --> 00:46:18,640
I'm quite touched.

933
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:19,550
That's fantastic!

934
00:46:19,550 --> 00:46:20,410
Can I drive it?

935
00:46:20,410 --> 00:46:22,730
You go and drive it while we're putting these on.

936
00:46:24,570 --> 00:46:26,730
He's genuinely chuffed to bits!

937
00:46:28,340 --> 00:46:30,820
For two years, I've been dreaming about this car,

938
00:46:30,820 --> 00:46:34,340
and now I was actually driving it.

939
00:46:34,340 --> 00:46:36,510
The Lamborghini is all very well,

940
00:46:36,510 --> 00:46:39,100
that's like the ultimate expression of what a car can be,

941
00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:41,380
but this is the essence of a car.

942
00:46:41,380 --> 00:46:44,430
All the bits you need, nothing more. No flim-flam.

943
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,820
This is a bit of a faff, isn't it?

944
00:46:47,630 --> 00:46:52,260
Ah! A cool, refreshing, communist water.

945
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,300
Jesus!

946
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,870
I could buy that for Hammond,that could be his present.

947
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:00,500
Listen to this!

948
00:47:03,190 --> 00:47:05,240
Nice throaty little warble from the engine.

949
00:47:06,010 --> 00:47:08,420
It's a happy car. Dacia Sandero.

950
00:47:09,450 --> 00:47:10,600
That is an excellent present.

951
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,120
I don't know what he was thinking of there,

952
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,720
cos his presents are supposed to be irritating,

953
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,480
but that's not irritating. That's superb!

954
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:19,830
Could you see anything in your screen?

955
00:47:19,830 --> 00:47:21,580
Nothing.

956
00:47:21,580 --> 00:47:22,640
When the roof's down?

957
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,690
As soon as the roof's down, the slightest hint of sun, it's gone.

958
00:47:24,690 --> 00:47:26,190
-You're back! -Ya.

959
00:47:26,190 --> 00:47:27,120
How is it?

960
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,050
-And? -Good fun, basic, small, sporty.

961
00:47:30,050 --> 00:47:33,280
But you haven't got the little side joke, have you?

962
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,120
What?

963
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:35,610
Well, you can't take it back hand luggage.

964
00:47:35,610 --> 00:47:36,700
I'll drive it back.

965
00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:37,500
All the way? Yeah.

966
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:40,040
It took 2 and a half days to get here...

967
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,310
No!

968
00:47:43,390 --> 00:47:44,410
Stop!

969
00:47:45,220 --> 00:47:46,530
Stop!

970
00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:48,150
My car's parked there.

971
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:50,560
You're supposed to look.

972
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,440
Look! Mirrors!

973
00:47:55,250 --> 00:47:58,160
My arse! You just backed straight into it, man!

974
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,130
Why did you leave it parked behind a lorry?

975
00:48:00,130 --> 00:48:01,780
I didn't know there was anybody in it.

976
00:48:01,780 --> 00:48:03,700
I was leaving it out of shot.

977
00:48:04,530 --> 00:48:06,900
I've only had it about half an hour. Yeah.

978
00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:10,540
I think he was saying in Hungarian, or whatever it is,

979
00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:13,420
it's my fault for parking the car.

980
00:48:13,420 --> 00:48:14,560
Well... Probably was.

981
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:15,740
It sort of is.

982
00:48:17,550 --> 00:48:19,450
Jeez!

983
00:48:20,730 --> 00:48:21,790
Oh, well.

984
00:48:22,370 --> 00:48:24,460
You'd have used it for work and everything, wouldn't you?

985
00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:25,580
Why don't you go away?

986
00:48:25,580 --> 00:48:28,930
It would have made you happier.

987
00:48:28,930 --> 00:48:30,960
There is an old tradition in this country

988
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,390
that on the third Wednesday of every month,

989
00:48:33,390 --> 00:48:35,140
which is what today is,

990
00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:36,390
people with a black T-shirt on

991
00:48:36,390 --> 00:48:39,100
and a picture of a stupid Russian sparkplug shut up.

992
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,540
I liked the Dacia Sandero.

993
00:48:45,110 --> 00:48:46,650
It was honest and simple.

994
00:48:46,650 --> 00:48:48,400
It was refreshing.

995
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,870
It's broken.

996
00:48:52,260 --> 00:48:54,090
As we travelled further west,

997
00:48:54,090 --> 00:48:58,010
the high-tech modern Romania we knew ran out.

998
00:49:00,610 --> 00:49:04,360
It's getting a bit more Borat round here.

999
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,970
{\a6\fn??????\c&HFFDC35&\fs16} 

1000
00:49:04,970 --> 00:49:06,450
It's gypsy country here.

1001
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,190
I am told they can be a bit violent

1002
00:49:10,190 --> 00:49:11,760
if they don't like the look of you.

1003
00:49:12,450 --> 00:49:13,630
And on top of that,

1004
00:49:13,630 --> 00:49:15,830
guess who was leading the convoy?

1005
00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:19,530
I'm gonna take a punt on going right now.

1006
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,470
Do we know that this is the right way?

1007
00:49:22,470 --> 00:49:25,040
Oh, sorry, Hammond, I'm just following May.

1008
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,210
You do know what you just said, don't you?

1009
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,800
This road is becoming alarmingly lumpy.

1010
00:49:32,540 --> 00:49:34,940
I'm worried about my Reventon-style nose.

1011
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,570
The nose is too low.

1012
00:49:37,570 --> 00:49:40,420
He's gonna have to admit he's brought the wrong car.

1013
00:49:41,010 --> 00:49:43,630
Soon, we were really lost.

1014
00:49:43,630 --> 00:49:45,970
They're building what can only be...

1015
00:49:45,970 --> 00:49:46,960
Yes, it's a public execution.

1016
00:49:48,220 --> 00:49:49,130
Where on the map does it say

1017
00:49:49,130 --> 00:49:51,950
"Turn right at the partially built gallows?"

1018
00:49:51,950 --> 00:49:53,190
That woman has an axe.

1019
00:49:53,190 --> 00:49:55,080
That big woman has an axe.She has an axe.

1020
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,370
We drove deeper and deeper into Borat country.

1021
00:49:59,370 --> 00:50:03,310
But luckily, I brought something that would help me blend in.

1022
00:50:05,530 --> 00:50:06,760
I'm wearing this hat,

1023
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,560
so gypsies think I am one.

1024
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:10,810
And that's fine.

1025
00:50:10,810 --> 00:50:12,430
I'm just a lucky gypsy.

1026
00:50:13,170 --> 00:50:14,920
A pools-winning gypsy.

1027
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,630
James said the next turning would take us back to the main road.

1028
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:21,560
It didn't.

1029
00:50:24,670 --> 00:50:25,930
Holy moly.

1030
00:50:26,750 --> 00:50:27,880
Oh, yeah!

1031
00:50:30,260 --> 00:50:32,450
Oh, no, wait. If you look what's behind you...

1032
00:50:34,650 --> 00:50:36,520
The evidence is not stacking up!

1033
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,640
Is this the horse and cart? That's a horse.

1034
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,420
We wanted to hit James over the head with a hammer,

1035
00:50:41,420 --> 00:50:43,920
but the kids beat us to it.

1036
00:50:47,550 --> 00:50:49,130
Are you seeing this?

1037
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,630
Did you shrink the man in the car behind?

1038
00:50:56,630 --> 00:50:58,860
Did you shrink that man, gypsies?

1039
00:50:59,790 --> 00:51:02,130
Getting through the village was bad enough,

1040
00:51:02,130 --> 00:51:04,900
getting out of it was even trickier.

1041
00:51:05,700 --> 00:51:08,320
Oh, my God, you're joking!

1042
00:51:10,510 --> 00:51:12,990
Please fall off! Please fall off! Please fall off!

1043
00:51:14,060 --> 00:51:16,420
OK, this is certainly a Grand Tour for these cars.

1044
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,410
But with the village behind us and armed with some directions,

1045
00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:23,290
it was plain sailing back to the main road.

1046
00:51:32,750 --> 00:51:36,730
'He's at the end of the road with another car.'

1047
00:51:38,870 --> 00:51:40,840
Thankfully, the damage was light.

1048
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:41,690
My hat!

1049
00:51:41,690 --> 00:51:42,520
Give me a washer bottle.

1050
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,530
Yeah, it smells of detergent.

1051
00:51:44,530 --> 00:51:46,950
Is everybody all right in that car?

1052
00:51:46,950 --> 00:51:50,510
That's his second bit of bad luck.

1053
00:51:50,510 --> 00:51:51,210
Whose?

1054
00:51:51,210 --> 00:51:53,240
James's. That's his second car of the day.

1055
00:51:53,950 --> 00:51:55,960
James... Are there any cars you won't destroy?

1056
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,870
How many cars have you destroyed today?

1057
00:51:57,870 --> 00:52:00,020
I didn't destroy it. I stopped, as you saw.

1058
00:52:00,020 --> 00:52:04,030
I saw you driving like an absolute maniac...

1059
00:52:04,030 --> 00:52:04,920
Shut up!

1060
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,630
..Into this poor man's classic Dacia.

1061
00:52:07,420 --> 00:52:09,480
Anyway, James, as you know on Top Gear...

1062
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:11,310
Yes, goodbye.

1063
00:52:11,310 --> 00:52:12,440
Thank you.

1064
00:52:22,070 --> 00:52:25,410
Our hunt for the fabled road was not going well.

1065
00:52:25,410 --> 00:52:27,530
And then it got worse.

1066
00:52:30,010 --> 00:52:32,540
It went dark, we couldn't find a hotel,

1067
00:52:32,540 --> 00:52:36,110
the petrol stations were closed,and because I was very low on fuel,

1068
00:52:36,110 --> 00:52:38,280
I found a quiet dead-end road

1069
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,900
and suggested we sleep in the cars.

1070
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:44,270
That put James and Richard in a bit of a mood.

1071
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,790
Listen, I can cheer you two up.

1072
00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:49,270
Would you like some cannabis?

1073
00:52:49,270 --> 00:52:50,720
Yes, please. Right.

1074
00:52:52,390 --> 00:52:53,910
-Thanks. -Eh?

1075
00:52:54,870 --> 00:52:57,090
That's cannabis. No, specifically,

1076
00:52:57,090 --> 00:53:00,510
it says it's Swiss cannabis ice tea.

1077
00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:01,830
That's the best sort.

1078
00:53:01,830 --> 00:53:03,140
You can get this in petrol stations.

1079
00:53:03,140 --> 00:53:05,360
They sell cannabis in petrol stations here?

1080
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,490
Would you like some plum liqueur in a bottle the shape of a violin?

1081
00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:10,290
Say yes.

1082
00:53:10,290 --> 00:53:11,850
Yes, it's just what the doctor ordered.

1083
00:53:14,150 --> 00:53:15,610
Oh, dear...God!

1084
00:53:15,610 --> 00:53:16,870
It gives you a fantastic natural feeling.

1085
00:53:17,770 --> 00:53:19,610
Plum liqueur and cannabis!

1086
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:23,880
That's never been tried before.

1087
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,390
Give us a go.

1088
00:53:26,020 --> 00:53:26,830
It's good.

1089
00:53:26,830 --> 00:53:28,120
So we sleep in our cars?

1090
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,000
Yes.

1091
00:53:29,660 --> 00:53:30,800
I haven't got a back seat.

1092
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,220
I told you,

1093
00:53:32,220 --> 00:53:33,400
you brought the wrong car.

1094
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:34,800
When I chose it,

1095
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,340
I should have thought "Better get one with a crap back seat!"

1096
00:53:37,340 --> 00:53:38,990
Just get in your car.

1097
00:53:40,180 --> 00:53:41,940
Well, that's the plum liqueur gone!

1098
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,520
We set about our unplanned consumer test.

1099
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,430
So, it is a four-seater, they sell it as a four-seater.

1100
00:53:50,020 --> 00:53:53,030
That must mean a human being can get in the back.

1101
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:00,330
Sorry! Sorry, everyone.

1102
00:54:00,330 --> 00:54:01,520
What are you doing?

1103
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:02,610
It's a design fault.

1104
00:54:02,610 --> 00:54:03,790
People are trying to sleep!

1105
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,630
I'm gonna sleep in the front.

1106
00:54:35,900 --> 00:54:37,860
Bloody hell!

1107
00:54:41,700 --> 00:54:43,500
Oh, sorry, mate!

1108
00:54:44,650 --> 00:54:45,790
You sleep all right?

1109
00:54:45,790 --> 00:54:47,320
Yeah. Yeah, well.

1110
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:48,450
Good.

1111
00:54:48,450 --> 00:54:49,970
Did you use the back?

1112
00:54:49,970 --> 00:54:50,970
No, I tried...

1113
00:54:58,170 --> 00:54:59,800
What's that?

1114
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:09,520
It's a dam.

1115
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,260
It's all right, it's quite safe.

1116
00:55:11,260 --> 00:55:12,470
I should imagine it was built by the Russians

1117
00:55:12,470 --> 00:55:14,840
or the North Koreans. So we'll be fine.

1118
00:55:15,290 --> 00:55:16,190
Had I known...

1119
00:55:16,190 --> 00:55:16,990
Sorry, mate.

1120
00:55:16,990 --> 00:55:18,760
..You'd parked us next to that,

1121
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,050
I wouldn't have enjoyed such a deep sleep.

1122
00:55:20,730 --> 00:55:23,140
The quality of all Soviet buildings is fantastic.

1123
00:55:23,140 --> 00:55:24,340
I'm sure that'll be...

1124
00:55:26,110 --> 00:55:27,490
Why don't you shut up?

1125
00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:32,980
We set off once more in search of our road.

1126
00:55:35,660 --> 00:55:37,100
Oh, my God!

1127
00:55:41,390 --> 00:55:42,990
Suddenly, I'm awake.

1128
00:55:45,570 --> 00:55:48,590
And soon we reach the mountains where the road surface

1129
00:55:48,590 --> 00:55:51,770
became as pimply as a teenager's face.

1130
00:55:54,140 --> 00:55:56,380
Look at the road now! It's practically ploughed!

1131
00:55:58,370 --> 00:56:01,850
This was yet another problem for James in his supercar.

1132
00:56:06,670 --> 00:56:08,410
Please let it end!

1133
00:56:10,180 --> 00:56:12,480
The torture went on for hours,

1134
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:16,430
but eventually, the mountains gave up their secret.

1135
00:56:17,140 --> 00:56:18,010
Look!

1136
00:56:18,670 --> 00:56:19,730
God!

1137
00:56:19,730 --> 00:56:24,000
Ha! Ha! That's the most amazing road I've ever seen.

1138
00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:28,870
Built in the Seventies,

1139
00:56:28,870 --> 00:56:31,660
this is the Transfagarasan Highway.

1140
00:56:32,580 --> 00:56:36,270
6,000 tonnes of dynamite were used to make it.

1141
00:56:36,270 --> 00:56:39,060
And 40 lives lost.

1142
00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:44,740
But from above,

1143
00:56:44,740 --> 00:56:46,180
it looks like every great corner

1144
00:56:46,180 --> 00:56:48,800
from every great racetrack in the world

1145
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:57,980
has been knitted together to create one unbroken grey ribbon of automotive perfection.

1146
00:57:15,220 --> 00:57:17,420
This is what we came here for!

1147
00:57:18,140 --> 00:57:19,530
Oh, yes!

1148
00:57:19,530 --> 00:57:21,270
Our cars had done motorways

1149
00:57:21,270 --> 00:57:23,540
and city centres and gypsy villages,

1150
00:57:24,170 --> 00:57:26,290
they'd been slept in and written on,

1151
00:57:26,290 --> 00:57:30,120
but now they had a chance to let their hair down.

1152
00:57:44,130 --> 00:57:44,890
Oh, that's heavenly.

1153
00:57:45,750 --> 00:57:48,890
That traction control in a setting that allows a little bit of slip.

1154
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:00,020
Look at that!

1155
00:58:00,990 --> 00:58:02,910
The grip! The balance!

1156
00:58:02,910 --> 00:58:04,620
Can't beat the work on this.

1157
00:58:06,990 --> 00:58:08,920
But here on this road,

1158
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,850
the happiest bunny of us all, was James.

1159
00:58:16,550 --> 00:58:18,920
I brought the right car!

1160
00:58:22,190 --> 00:58:24,240
Lamborghini pay-back time!

1161
00:58:25,540 --> 00:58:26,910
Oh, yeah!

1162
00:58:32,710 --> 00:58:33,490
I have to say,

1163
00:58:33,490 --> 00:58:36,760
this is one of the two or three best cars in the world right now.

1164
00:58:41,590 --> 00:58:45,850
The strange thing is, those two are driving two of the others.

1165
00:58:47,370 --> 00:58:50,510
The road just got better and better.

1166
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:52,320
We were wrong!

1167
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,300
This is better than the Stelvio.

1168
00:58:52,300 --> 00:58:57,300
{\a6\fn??????\c&HFFDC35&\fs16} 

1169
00:58:54,300 --> 00:58:56,720
This is the best road in the world.

1170
00:58:58,050 --> 00:59:01,540
And the Romanian helicopter cameraman wasn't bad either.

1171
00:59:10,350 --> 00:59:12,980
What a finale to our Grand Tour!

1172
00:59:14,070 --> 00:59:15,530
Just wanna say, Romania,

1173
00:59:15,530 --> 00:59:17,080
thank you for having us!

1174
00:59:17,710 --> 00:59:19,330
And can we stay?

1175
00:59:19,330 --> 00:59:22,500
For ever!

1176
00:59:41,250 --> 00:59:42,670
Anyway...

1177
00:59:43,610 --> 00:59:45,990
What we learned from our lengthy trip to Romania

1178
00:59:45,990 --> 00:59:50,070
was that the Aston Martin, as I predicted at the beginning, was the best.

1179
00:59:50,070 --> 00:59:51,760
Except it was the Lamborghini.

1180
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:53,380
The Ferrari was the best.

1181
00:59:53,380 --> 00:59:58,340
Look, guys, the two people whose opinion I respect most of all

1182
00:59:58,340 --> 01:00:00,470
on all matters motoring -

1183
01:00:00,470 --> 01:00:02,500
the Stig and Tiffany Dell -

1184
01:00:03,170 --> 01:00:07,290
both say that the Aston Martin is the best car in the world right now.

1185
01:00:07,290 --> 01:00:08,580
Well, they're both wrong.

1186
01:00:08,580 --> 01:00:10,520
Aha! Let me draw your attention to this.

1187
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:14,890
This is a report of our visit in one of the leading Romanian newspapers,

1188
01:00:14,890 --> 01:00:17,410
and look at the caption to this picture here.

1189
01:00:17,410 --> 01:00:19,210
It's in Romanian, but I'll translate,

1190
01:00:19,210 --> 01:00:20,750
"Jeremy Clarkson in the Aston Martin,

1191
01:00:20,750 --> 01:00:21,850
"is the best car in the world,

1192
01:00:21,850 --> 01:00:23,460
camera video."

1193
01:00:24,890 --> 01:00:26,040
It doesn't say that.

1194
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:27,170
Yes, it does.

1195
01:00:27,170 --> 01:00:29,250
On that bombshell,it is time to end.

1196
01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:31,340
Thank you so much for watching.Good night!