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- Hello!
- Hello, everybody!
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- Hel-lo!
- You got tickets?
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
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Cut!
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Thanks so much, everybody!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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And welcome. And in today's
incredibly topical show:
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Neil Armstrong
walks on the Moon...
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...some angry cyclists...
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...and I throw a sandwich
out of the window.
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All that...
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All that is to come.
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But first, Aston Martin has
just launched a new car.
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And here's Richard Hammond
to tell us all about it.
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This is the new V8 Vantage.
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And, well,
it's not an ugly car, is it?
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I mean, I'm not sure
about this colour.
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You'd be on the phone to your doctor
if your wee came out like this.
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But the shape itself
is stunning.
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This is one of those
superstar cars
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that leave a wake
of dropped jaws
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and phone camera flashes.
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And as the smallest, punchiest,
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sportiest car in
the Aston line-up,
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it's fast too.
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0-60 takes
three-and-a-half seconds.
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So you're not gonna be
embarrassed by 911 Carreras.
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Top speed, 195.
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But here's the thing.
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Astons have always been
beautiful and fast
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in a straight line,
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but when you're
making a sports car,
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that's the easy part.
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It was when you dug
deeper under the skin,
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into the areas you couldn't see,
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that in the past
they often came up short.
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The trouble is, the company
has never had the money
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or the manpower
of Porsche or Ferrari,
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and you could sense that
in their cars.
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They just didn't feel
as well made
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or well-engineered
as some rivals.
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That means
they sold mainly to people
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listening to their hearts
and not their heads,
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because your heart says,
"I want an Aston"
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even when your head says,
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"That door doesn't fit
properly."
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But this is 2018.
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Good looks and speed aren't enough
if bits are coming off in your hand.
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This car can't be nice
to drive, "for an Aston".
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It can't be well made,
"for an Aston".
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It's got to be good, full stop.
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So, let's start
with the interior,
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a place that normally
tells you straightaway
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if corners have been cut.
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And the news in here is good.
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Everything you see is brand new,
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not warmed-up leftovers
from an older model.
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And it all feels
properly put together...
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as it should in a car
that costs £121,000.
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And if you push down on
the electric height adjustor,
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it has the lowest
driving position
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of any car I've ever been in.
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I mean, I wouldn't claim
to be a tall man, but...
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...this is low.
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I feel seven.
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Then we come to the engine.
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It's a four-litre V8.
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It has twin turbos.
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It makes 510 horsepower, and...
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...it's German.
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Specifically from the AMG
division of Mercedes.
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Yes, this will make people of a Brexity
persuasion choke on their real ale,
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but look at it this way.
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Why waste money you don't have
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developing an OK engine,
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when you can buy in
a brilliant one?
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Besides, there's a plaque
here that says, look,
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it's been inspected by
somebody at Aston Martin.
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Presumably to make sure those
slapdash German engineers
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have done things properly.
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But although the Vantage
has Mercedes lungs,
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the engineers
have tried to make sure
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it sings with an Aston voice.
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Yeah, in an AMG, this engine
doesn't make this noise.
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In a Merc,
it's all oom-pah bass.
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Whereas Aston Martin have added
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some British gravel to the mix.
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Rrrr!
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So, it's handsome, quick,
tuneful and feels well built.
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But now we come
to the acid test -
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how the new Vantage
handles corners.
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And, on paper at least,
things seem promising.
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It's built on
an all-new chassis,
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a shorter version of
the one under the DB11.
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And it's the first Aston Martin
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to be fitted with
an electronic diff,
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a very expensive but very
valuable weapon of war.
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So, let's see what's what.
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Yeah, it works.
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This is in control
of its power. It really is.
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It's been set up
by a man who used to work
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at suspension masters Lotus.
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And you can tell.
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This just feels fabulous.
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This knows what it wants to be.
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There's no soft GT mode
like you get in the DB11.
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Your entry level setting
is Sport,
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and then it goes
Sport Plus and Track.
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That's what I want, it's a sports car!
I don't want a soggy setting.
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Yeah, this is superb.
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Of course, it's still a car
from a small British company,
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so there are a few issues.
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Visibility is not brilliant.
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For me, sitting down here,
it's like trying
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to drive a car from
the back of a crowded lift.
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There's no glove box.
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I don't like the sound
of the indicators.
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It's like a 1980s
Casio keyboard. Listen.
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And there's too much Alcantara.
This will be all right when it's new,
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but buy one of these
second-hand,
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and it'll be like using
somebody else's flannel.
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Still, in the big scheme
of things,
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these are just niggles.
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Because overall,
the Vantage is fantastic fun.
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In the past, you could buy
an Aston and love it,
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but still know deep down
that a 911 was a better car.
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With this new Vantage,
that gap has been closed
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to a point where
it doesn't matter.
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It's not just brilliant
"for an Aston Martin".
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It's brilliant, full stop.
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Good car.
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It is a good car.
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- I can see out.
- Can you? Can you really?
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Amazing, I know.
I really can see out.
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I agree with you, it is
a brilliant, brilliant car.
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But one thing
I ought to mention -
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you know all that tech
inside it?
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That is Mercedes stuff,
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but it's last-generation
Mercedes stuff they're fitting.
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But it's still better than all
the stuff that Aston used to fit.
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That's true.
No, that is true.
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And the other thing, you expressed
surprise that it's got that AMG engine.
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But remember, the Aston V12, they've
been using for years, that's German.
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- It's made in Germany.
- Yes.
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That makes it sort of German,
doesn't it?
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No, no, no. It's where it's
designed and developed that matters.
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- No, he has got a point.
- Yeah, I mean...
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your autobiography, you could
get it printed in Germany
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but it would still be dreary because
you designed and conceived it.
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It's...
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Can't argue with that, May,
it would be.
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Let's not get bogged down with
what's German, and what's not.
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The point is, OK,
unlike the previous Vantage,
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that is way, way more
than a pretty face.
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I mean, a lot more.
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But, now, let's find how fast
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Abbie can get one
around the Eboladrome.
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And away it goes,
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with a little bit of wheel spin
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and a wiggle of the hips
under power,
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but Abbie's got it
under control,
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hammering onto the Isn't.
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Working away there at that
unusual and frankly stupid
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square steering wheel.
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And already we're at the drop
down into Your Name Here.
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Was that a four-wheel drift?
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And another one!
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And now hard braking...
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Ooh, look at that,
turns in well.
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And that looks quick.
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Seems a bit lively there as
all that turbocharged torque
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tries to kick the tail out.
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If this run was at night,
she'd be in trouble
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because the Vantage's
headlamps are woeful!
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But no complaints about
the speed, that's for sure.
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OK. Oh, coming in wide
for Old Lady's House.
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But keeping it neat round there,
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and now the short squirt
down to Substation.
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Floaty under braking.
Flicks it in.
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Just Field of Sheep to go.
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Surprisingly un-slidy
and across the line!
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- Oh, there we go.
- Looks exciting.
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- It does.
- That was lively.
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Like an old-fashioned
racing car, moving around.
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- The old days.
- That was a good-looking lap, that.
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Let's find out where
it ended up on our lap board.
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Shall we? Here we go.
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Aye, aye... ooh.
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Exactly the same speed
as a 911 GT3 RS.
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When you think the Aston
doesn't have a massive wing
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and scaffolding in the back,
that is pretty impressive.
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- It is very impressive.
- But never mind that.
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It's no faster than a BMW M5.
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Yes, but I think
what that says, James,
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is the M5 is seriously quick.
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- Well, quite.
- Yeah, yeah.
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You do forget
just how fast that thing is.
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It is, it certainly is.
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But now it is time to buy
a four-pack of chat...
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...from the off-licence
of debate.
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...on Conversation Street!
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- I remember that one.
- I remember that one.
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I enjoyed that one a lot.
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Anyway, Volkswagen. They've come up
with a new, a one-off, racing car.
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All electric, uh...
all-wheel drive.
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It's called the IDR, I've
got a picture of it here.
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Now, what interests me
about it is that
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there's a claim that it generates
so much cornering force,
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it can cause the driver
to black out.
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Is... Is that a good idea?
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A car that renders
its driver unconscious?
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I just don't believe it.
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I know Kimi Raikkonen
goes unconscious,
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but that's normally after
the race in the hotel bar.
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Yeah, that doesn't count.
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That is Kimi's problem.
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The other problem with that is,
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it's not lateral G that makes
you go unconscious, is it?
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That's G from side to side,
that's not really the issue.
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Lateral G
is what you get in a car
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and it's where the blood
goes from side to side.
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It's only got that... And I'm
wide, but it only goes that far.
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So in your head you've got one
bit a bit drowsy and black-outy,
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but the other side of your head,
when going round a corner,
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is really alert
cos it's full of blood.
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No, it's more interesting - different
sides of your head do different things.
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Go that way, and you'd be: "I want to
be really precise, and do science,"
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go this way,
you'd be all creative:
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"I just want to paint..." Algebra...
"I just want to sing."
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When motor racing
commentators talk about,
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"That car's got 5G going
through that corner,"
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you think,
"But it's five lateral G."
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- Yes, exactly.
- It's not the same 5G you get in a fighter plane
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when the blood's going effectively
from the top of your head
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down to the bottom of your
feet, which is a very long way,
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so your head empties and
that's when you do black out.
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Yes, exactly.
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And it used to be alleged
that Douglas Bader
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could pull tighter turns
in his Hurricane
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than other pilots because
he didn't have any legs
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so the blood couldn't go into
them, it stayed in his body.
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- I didn't know that.
- Apparently so.
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Didn't that mean
he'd just get a big stiffy?
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Well...
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Because all his, all this...
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It's science,
that is medical science!
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He's right.
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- All his blood went there.
- It did.
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He was known during the Battle
of Britain as Douglas Boner.
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"My joystick's broke!
Oh, I've got the wrong one."
252
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"Ooh, I love a dogfight,
a nice..."
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We... We can move on.
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Now, you might be wondering
why we haven't featured
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the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, their new sort
of super luxury SUV, on this series.
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And that's because
Rolls-Royce did express
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some reservations
about lending us one
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because they said they were
worried we might say it was ugly.
259
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- Why would they think that?
- Because they've seen it?
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We've actually got a picture of
the Cullinan here. There it is.
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- Yeah.
- Oh, sorry.
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It's a very interesting car.
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And I don't doubt that it's
exquisite to drive and to sit in.
264
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But it is disgusting
to look at, isn't it?
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- That's the main thing.
- I've been thinking about this, OK?
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You might want to drive one,
or own one.
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But you're gonna have to
come out of your house
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and walk up to it and see it.
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So I was wondering, could you
dig a tunnel, if you had one,
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from your cellar, and then
that emerges underneath it?
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- Then you wouldn't have to look at it.
- Exactly.
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You'd have to cut a hole in the
bottom of your Rolls-Royce to get in
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and nobody's gonna do that.
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What if you fitted
the Cullinan with...
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you know that magic glass that is clear
when you look through it at right angles,
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but if you look through it
at any other angle,
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it's sort of frosted
so you can't...
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- That won't work.
- How do you know?
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Because I've got that - and
I genuinely have got that -
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in the bathroom
in my flat in London.
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- Right.
- Now, for six years I've been taking showers by the window.
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Cleaning my gentleman's area
very thoroughly,
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and sometimes quite quickly.
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And...
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I'm actually not making this up.
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The floor is six storeys
down, the pavement.
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You go, "Well, I can't see that",
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so nobody down there
can see me."
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But a friend,
the other day, said.
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"You know you can be
seen from the street?"
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- Oh, my God!
- Seriously.
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- But you can't see out when you're in the shower?
- No, I said.
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- Well, the builder put the glass in the wrong way round.
- Must have done.
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I think that builder
saw you coming.
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- I think the only answer for Rolls-Royce...
- Hold on.
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I just heard...
Is there a phone in there?
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No, you had a stroke.
Again.
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I'm sure I heard a phone.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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- My school alarm, I'm sorry.
- Was it you?
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- My school alarm, I'm sorry.
- Your what alarm?
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My school alarm to pick
my kids up from school.
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Oh, well, that...
Now you're a terrible parent!
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Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the art
of great parenting, right there!
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I'm gonna call the NSPCC on you.
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How old are your children?
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- Oh, 11...
- Oh, for God's sake!
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She still hasn't moved.
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- Oh, they'll be fine.
- 11, nine, eight and three.
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I wasn't that interested.
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We've established they're not in their
30s, is what I was trying to say.
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- Meanwhile...
- Yes.
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I don't think that
that one-way glass
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that isn't one-way
is gonna work.
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I think really Rolls-Royce's
only hope with that new car
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is they're gonna have
to hope they can find
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a lot of very rich people
with absolutely no taste.
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- That's their only chance.
- Where are they gonna find people like that, I wonder?
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- Well, there's Cheshire.
- Yeah.
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- Dubai.
- Solihull, Monaco, Moscow.
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Beverly Hills. They're gonna
sell millions of the things.
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00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,920
Yeah, they are.
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Massive hit.
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00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,080
Now, there's a man
in Nottingham.
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He's building a house and he's
told the planners that outside,
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the big empty area, is actually
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a landing pad for a self-driving
electric flying car.
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00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,319
Hm, yeah, that sounds like what he's
built is a helicopter landing pad.
328
00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,920
Yes, it does,
it does sound very like that.
329
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,760
Unless he's planning
to land there in this,
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the new Aston Martin flying car.
331
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,800
Looks very cool.
332
00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,480
No, Hammond, that's not a flying
car, that's just a drawing
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of something that'll
never happen. It won't.
334
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,559
But somebody has actually made a real
flying car and I've got a picture.
335
00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,880
- That's practical!
- Pretty dreary actually, isn't it?
336
00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,760
You can't drive
that on the road.
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00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,559
If you took it into town and
someone dinged the folded-away wing,
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you couldn't fly it then.
339
00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,040
- Nobody flies in a bent aeroplane.
- No, exactly.
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00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,079
And when are people gonna get it into their
heads that a flying car is an aeroplane?
341
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,880
Because, if your car flies, why the
bloody hell would you drive anywhere?
342
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,560
I mean, it just doesn't
make sense.
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Or worse, you're driving that,
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not feeling at all
self-conscious around the M25,
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you hear there's a bit
of a traffic jam ahead,
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so you think, "I'll lower the
wings, build up to a take-off speed"
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00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,080
of, what, 120, 150."
348
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,560
The police will go, "What the
bloody hell are you doing?"
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They're gonna have a word. You'd need to
get a pilot's licence to operate that.
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- That takes months.
- And then you'd have to learn that gobbledegook you two...
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00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,480
No, you'd have to learn to
communicate in the air...
352
00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,760
Yes, but you two don't talk
English when you get up in there.
353
00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,760
There's a language so you can pass
information quickly and clearly.
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00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,000
Yes, but why do you got
your own alphabet for?
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00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,240
"Did you come
through the alpha vector"
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00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,079
on the three approach
to four I.?
357
00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,400
Oh, I had to get on the tower
and say I was...
358
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,560
It's about controlled airspace!
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00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,000
"I was Mug Paper
Picture Oscar."
360
00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,400
Why do you have to have
a word for a letter?
361
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,920
So that you know what the letter is - a P
and a B on a crackly radio sound the same.
362
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,040
Is that why you call him
a bunt all the time?
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00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,760
Yes.
364
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,240
That's exactly why,
so that it's clear.
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00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320
Now, there is a new report
which says the Scottish
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are the best drivers
in the world.
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00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,640
If you think about it,
they've got Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart,
368
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,560
David Coulthard, Franchitti,
Allan McNish... What?
369
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,240
No, not best in that way, they mean
the safest drivers in the world.
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- That's what they mean.
- The safest drivers aren't the best drivers.
371
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,040
- Well, they sort of are.
- No, they aren't.
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00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,920
If that were true,
if you think about it,
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I would be a better driver
than Jackie Stewart
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because I've had fewer crashes.
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00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,920
- But I'm not better, am I?
- No, you're emphatically not.
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00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,799
- Exactly.
- What they're saying is...
377
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,520
Actually, 51 per cent
of Scottish drivers
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have never been in an accident.
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- 51 per cent.
- That's not that good though.
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00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,880
That means 49 per cent of
Scottish people have been
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00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,800
in an accident.
That's nearly half of them.
382
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,240
- Well...
- No, but it's "never" is the big word, though, isn't it?
383
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,080
I mean, never... Who here's
never had an accident?
384
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,480
Never? But how long
have you been driving?
385
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520
Um... one month.
386
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560
Well done!
387
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,960
- She's doing well.
- Well, there you go.
388
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,320
Keep it up.
389
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,000
Keep going.
390
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,240
- That's better than you did.
- That's quite a record.
391
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,559
I did 36 hours before
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00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,680
I was off the road with
no wheels on my car.
393
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,680
Er... we'll drop that.
394
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,720
That hasn't worked out
quite as well as I'd hoped.
395
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,040
That is the end of
Conversation Street.
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00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,400
- Yes.
- Thank you very much.
397
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,480
Lovely, lovely.
398
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,559
Now, this year marks
the 50th anniversary
399
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,800
of the first landings
on the Moon,
400
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,720
and I thought I should take a
little celebratory look back
401
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,200
at that truly historic mission.
402
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,640
James, this isn't a grand tour
of whatever is in your head.
403
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,800
- You do know that?
- No, but I promise
404
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,440
there will be
some cars in this film.
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00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:07,880
Eventually.
406
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,680
I believe that this nation
should commit itself
407
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,560
to achieving the goal
before this decade is out
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00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,600
of landing a man on the Moon
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00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,160
and returning him
safely to the Earth.
410
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,800
When President Kennedy
made that speech to Congress
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00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,720
in 1961,
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00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,680
he gave the scientists at
NASA a planet-sized headache.
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00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,160
Let me try and put the size of that
headache into some sort of perspective.
414
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,800
When Kennedy said those words,
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America's total experience
in space amounted to
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just one 15-minute
suborbital flight
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00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:49,480
that reached an altitude of
just 116 miles above the Earth.
418
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:55,080
By contrast, a journey to
the Moon was 238,000 miles,
419
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and no rocket existed that was powerful
enough to get the astronauts there.
420
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,480
And even if they did
reach their destination,
421
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,080
there was then the immense challenge
of getting them home again.
422
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,840
Let's imagine this basketball
I'm holding is the Earth,
423
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,600
in which case the Moon can be
represented by a baseball 23 feet away.
424
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,080
There it is over there.
425
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,400
All the space exploration
that had taken part so far,
426
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,320
so all the Mercury capsules,
all the Soviet stuff,
427
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:24,640
that happened about there.
428
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,080
Now, the thickness
of this piece of paper
429
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:32,800
represents the corridor that the
astronauts would have to fly along
430
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,360
to get home safely.
431
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,800
Now, to do that, obviously you'd want
some sort of guidance computer on board.
432
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,720
Problem is, the computers of the
time were so huge and so primitive,
433
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,080
they lived
in their own buildings.
434
00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,200
And the President wanted all
this done within the decade.
435
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,720
People thought he was mad.
436
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720
Nevertheless, the brains
at NASA knuckled down,
437
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,440
and throughout the 1960s
set about developing
438
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,680
and testing the rockets and
the technology that would be
439
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840
needed to crack
this monumental nut.
440
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,800
However, machinery on
its own was not enough.
441
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,040
Equally important to the
success of the space programme
442
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,680
were the astronauts.
443
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960
Now, these men
were generally of a type.
444
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,040
They were fighter jocks
and test pilots,
445
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,520
and they were very familiar with
moving around at very high speed.
446
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,360
So, and I did promise we'd
get some cars into this,
447
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,400
when it came to moving around
on the face of the Earth,
448
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,160
there was one car they
favoured above all others.
449
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,560
The Corvette -
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00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,920
America's "premier" sports car.
451
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,320
The big love-in between the
American astronauts and the Corvette
452
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,080
started with Alan Shepard...
453
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,280
...the first American
in space in 1961.
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00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,320
And on his safe return to Earth,
455
00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,720
he was given a free Corvette
by General Motors,
456
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,200
a sort of medal
for services to the country.
457
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,680
However, even though
Shepard was deemed worthy
458
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,440
of a tickertape hero's welcome
by the American public,
459
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,520
NASA saw astronauts like him
as government employees,
460
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,840
and as such,
unable to accept free gifts.
461
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:35,360
So, an enterprising Corvette dealer near
the Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida
462
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,320
came up with a cunning idea.
463
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,640
He offered the astronauts
a special deal
464
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,880
whereby they could lease a Corvette
for the enormous sum of... one dollar.
465
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,640
Now, NASA couldn't
complain about that.
466
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,200
Technically the cars weren't
free, they were being paid for.
467
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,360
So all the astronauts
bit his hand off.
468
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,240
Gus Grissom, the second
American in space, had one.
469
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,040
So did Gordon Cooper,
a man so cool
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00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,240
he actually fell asleep
on the launch pad
471
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280
while waiting for lift-off.
472
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,800
Jim Lovell,
the hero of the ill-fated.
473
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,120
"Houston, we've had a
problem" Apollo 13 mission -
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00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,440
he too was a Corvette man.
475
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,720
Basically, in the '60s and '70s,
476
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,080
Cape Kennedy
and the surrounding roads
477
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,760
were awash with spacemen
driving one-dollar Corvettes.
478
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,320
But it was the holy trinity of
Shepard, Cooper and Grissom
479
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,480
who were the real petrolheads.
480
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,000
The good news for them was that
the Space Center here at Kennedy
481
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,320
was criss-crossed with
lovely wide, straight roads
482
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,040
which NASA engineers
used to move stuff about -
483
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,040
i.e. rockets.
484
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,640
But that meant, as far as
those three were concerned,
485
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,200
that they were in heaven.
486
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,680
They'd come to places
like this after work
487
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,120
and just drag race
the hell out of their cars,
488
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,720
and then they'd
have them modified,
489
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,080
and then they'd drag race
them a bit more.
490
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:06,560
Gordo Cooper allegedly had his car
modified up to 180 miles an hour,
491
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,960
and he and Gus Grissom
even used to go and pit crew
492
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,400
for a racing team
if they had a weekend off.
493
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,360
They liked cars.
494
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,280
Then there was astronaut
John Glenn,
495
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,880
the first American
to orbit the Earth,
496
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,160
and as a test pilot,
the first man
497
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,920
to cross the American
continent at supersonic speeds.
498
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,160
Clearly, this was a man comfortable
with putting his foot down.
499
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,120
However, the car he drove
500
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,960
was not quite as sporty
as a Corvette.
501
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,120
Yes, John Glenn, holder of
supersonic flight records
502
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,600
and the first American to
orbit the Earth, drove this.
503
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,920
It's called a Prinz.
504
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,400
It's made by the long-dead
German car maker NSU,
505
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,720
and it's a microscopic
economy car.
506
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,400
It has an engine of just
under 600cc, two cylinders.
507
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,960
0-60?
508
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,480
35 seconds.
509
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,120
But Glenn wasn't worried
about the sedate pace.
510
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,120
He lived out in the sticks,
511
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,200
he had a long commute
to Cape Kennedy,
512
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,720
and he wanted a car that
gave him good gas mileage.
513
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,760
Right, let's give it some
beans and see what it'll do.
514
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,160
That's what it'll do.
515
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,480
Oh, man!
516
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,520
I've read accounts by the astronauts of what
the rocket launches were actually like -
517
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,720
a lot of noise, a lot of
clattering, a lot of banging.
518
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,000
Well, John Glenn was ready.
519
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,080
By 1969, just inside
Kennedy's deadline,
520
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,520
NASA was ready to try landing
some men on the Moon.
521
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,320
The astronauts chosen
were Buzz Aldrin,
522
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,960
who drove a Corvette,
523
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,320
Neil Armstrong,
who drove a Corvette,
524
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,040
and Mike Collins,
who drove a Beetle.
525
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,280
Presumably that's why they
left him in the command module
526
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,760
and didn't let him walk
on the lunar surface.
527
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,960
The rocket that would take
them there, the Saturn V,
528
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,800
was, and remains, the most
complex machine ever built.
529
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,520
It was constructed of
three million components,
530
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,080
all of them provided, as
the astronauts, used to joke,
531
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,760
by the lowest bidder.
532
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,560
And it stood as tall
as a 30-storey building.
533
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,680
Ignition sequence starts.
534
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080
Six, five, four,
535
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,080
three, two, one, zero.
536
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,680
All engines running.
Lift-off.
537
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,560
We have a lift-off,
32 minutes past the hour.
538
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Lift-off on Apollo 11.
539
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,280
At blast-off, these
five engines produced
540
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,160
seven-and-a-half million
pounds of thrust.
541
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,160
During the first-stage burn,
the rocket produced
542
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,040
enough power to light
the whole of New York
543
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,000
for 75 minutes.
544
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,080
It burnt its fuel at a rate
of 20 tonnes per second
545
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,720
and just two-and-a-half
minutes after launch,
546
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,440
nearly all of it was gone...
547
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,160
...leaving just enough to take
the three astronauts to the Moon
548
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,320
and return them safely to Earth.
549
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,480
And even though 411,000
of America's brightest minds
550
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,520
were fully engaged
in this perilous endeavour,
551
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,120
sending three men to the Moon,
552
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,680
bringing them home safely
again, they were still
553
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,600
very much constrained by
the technology of the day.
554
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,080
If you have a Ford Fiesta,
the engine management system
555
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,240
in your car has 10,000 times
the computer processing power
556
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,720
that they had.
557
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,720
- Eagle to Houston, we have you now. Do you read? Over.
- Loud and clear.
558
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,480
When the astronauts
finally approached
559
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,120
the surface of the Moon,
560
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160
the landing was not
without drama.
561
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,880
OK, all flight
controllers, gonna go for landing.
562
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,800
The designated spot
was full of craters...
563
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,080
Houston, you are go for landing.
564
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,040
...forcing Armstrong
to fly manually
565
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,000
and look for another place
to set down.
566
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,680
Four forward,
drift in to the right a little.
567
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,120
OK, engine stop.
Mode control, both auto.
568
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,080
Descent engine command
override off.
569
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,240
We copy you down, Eagle.
570
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,280
Houston, uh...
Tranquillity Base here.
571
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,360
The Eagle has landed.
572
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,400
When they finally landed, they had
just 20 seconds of fuel remaining.
573
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,760
But no matter, they were
down on the Moon.
574
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,960
That's one small step for man...
575
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,520
...one giant leap
for mankind.
576
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,640
Back on Earth,
a heroes' welcome awaited.
577
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,680
And once he got home, Armstrong,
like so many astronauts,
578
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,280
would swap the seat
in his spacecraft
579
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,240
for a seat in a Corvette.
580
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:36,400
And when I say Corvette,
I mean this actual Corvette.
581
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,200
This one.
582
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,920
This was his.
583
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,160
Oh, my word.
584
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,400
I'm turning onto
the space shuttle runway.
585
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,360
It's three miles long.
586
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,800
Here are some enormous skid marks left
by the wheels of the space shuttle.
587
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,080
But this is
Neil Armstrong's Corvette!
588
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,040
Ohh!
589
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,280
His hands were here.
He looked at the instruments like that.
590
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,920
He... He touched that.
591
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,840
Neil Armstrong!
592
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,800
The first person to set foot
593
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,760
somewhere other than the Earth.
594
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,200
I mean, almost a quarter of the
world's population watched him live.
595
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,960
The owner of this car, when he
realised what it was he'd found,
596
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
decided not to restore it.
597
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,960
He would leave it
exactly as it was.
598
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,320
He would just do enough
to make it run.
599
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,520
So he hasn't done the paint,
he hasn't replaced bits in here.
600
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,960
This is all exactly
as he found it.
601
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,080
There's patina
on the bonnet there.
602
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,560
There's a scuffed bit
on the door. It's real!
603
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,240
Hello, rev counter.
604
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,440
Neil Armstrong's
looked at you, hasn't he?
605
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,440
Oh, I think a Huey is coming.
606
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,400
There's Mr Huey,
there's the evocative one.
607
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,360
Those are the two sounds
of the '60s, aren't they,
608
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,000
that one and the sound of Neil
Armstrong speaking from the Moon.
609
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,480
Neil Armstrong's
Chevrolet Corvette.
610
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,160
Love it. Love it.
611
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,560
What an honour.
612
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,520
...can take off and land
six times on that runway.
613
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:03,840
- Easily.
- Well done.
614
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,120
Thank you.
615
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,560
Hold on.
616
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,520
What's gone wrong
with astronauts?
617
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,320
They don't go to the Moon
any more.
618
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,639
No, no, no, no,
they used to be rock gods.
619
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,440
I mean, if you think about it,
620
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,280
they would drive
their Corvette into town,
621
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,639
get hammered,
622
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,440
get Chlamydia,
and the next morning,
623
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,840
they'd be upside down
in a star fighter.
624
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,200
Whereas I met one
not that long ago,
625
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,960
he was the first astronaut
ever to dock the space shuttle
626
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,960
to the space station in space,
627
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,880
and he turned up for the interview
in a maroon Toyota Camry.
628
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,280
And...
629
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,520
And he had his polo shirt
tucked into his chinos.
630
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,960
Your point
about the polo shirt is?
631
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,840
My point is very simple, OK?
632
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,960
You look at pictures
from the space station.
633
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,760
I follow it on Instagram.
Look at this.
634
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,160
I mean, I'm sorry, they look like people
who run a port-a-loo rental company.
635
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,360
If you go for an audition
with NASA, yeah,
636
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,120
and you don't arrive in
the car park in your Corvette
637
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,840
on full opposite lock,
you don't get the job.
638
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,040
They should get the maths
out of the space programme
639
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,920
and replace it
with some flamboyance.
640
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,120
You probably need
a little bit of maths.
641
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,400
No, you don't, you just want
them to be funny.
642
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,560
No, that's children's entertainers
you're thinking of, Jeremy.
643
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,880
- Not astronauts.
- Buzz Aldrin,
644
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,760
a flamboyant man, used to
wear shirts like that.
645
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,639
I met him, he had
an excellent shirt on.
646
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,160
Very funny. One of my favourite
stories about Buzz Aldrin,
647
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,960
second man on the Moon,
you mentioned him in your film.
648
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,960
He was being interviewed many
years after the Moon landing.
649
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,960
Very nervous young reporter standing
there. Live interview, this was.
650
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,880
"We're going over live now,"
651
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,160
and the director's going,
"In five, four..."
652
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,960
And on three, Buzz Aldrin
leant to the reporter and went,
653
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,600
"Nothing about the Moon, OK?"
654
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,000
"That's all I've got!" -"I've got no
questions! I've got literally nothing!"
655
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,120
Anyway, that's enough about
space. I wanna move it on.
656
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,040
Because I came into the
office um... the other day
657
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,639
and told these two that
the Citroen C3 Aircross
658
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,600
that I'd been driving
was very good.
659
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,440
And they said it wasn't.
660
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,480
- Because it isn't.
- Yes, it is.
661
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,960
And I decided
to prove that it is
662
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,639
by doing one of those
very thorough tests
663
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,880
where we cover
all the things that matter
664
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,120
in a car of this type.
665
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,400
Wait a minute, is this gonna
be one of those stupid films
666
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,400
where you do ridiculous
tests to discover
667
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,440
if a car can, I dunno,
drive faster than itself?
668
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,440
No.
669
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,040
This is the car in question.
670
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,360
It's a five-seater,
front-wheel drive hatchback.
671
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,440
Prices start at £14,720
672
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,159
and it looks rather funky,
673
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,520
with those splashes of
orange paint here and there.
674
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,639
It's also easy to see out of
675
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,640
because the windows
are made from glass.
676
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,640
And all the controls
fall easily to hand,
677
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,040
because they're on the
dashboard or the steering wheel,
678
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,160
rather than
under the carpet in the boot.
679
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,120
But you may be wondering
what makes it so special.
680
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,400
Well, to find out, I've
decided to break the test
681
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,120
down into segments,
682
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,080
so that all the important
questions can be answered.
683
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,200
To find out, we've come here
684
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,440
to the banked Millbrook Bowl
in Bedfordshire.
685
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,640
Citroen say
that because the quite small,
686
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,360
1.2 litre,
three-cylinder engine
687
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,800
in this particular version of
the Aircross is turbocharged,
688
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,880
it produces 128 horsepower.
689
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,800
And now it's time
to see what that means
690
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,560
in terms of top speed.
691
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,200
And here we go.
692
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,639
Obviously you can't go
as fast on a banked track
693
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,480
as you can
on the straight and level.
694
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,520
I was going to ask James May
why this is so,
695
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,360
but um... I was frightened
he might tell me so I...
696
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,920
so I didn't.
697
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,760
That's 100, moving up
into the fifth lane,
698
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,600
the lane of terror.
699
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,880
114, there it is.
700
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,840
And I think that's it.
701
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,880
Top speed is...
702
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,200
Oh, 115. No.
703
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,280
The little car has more to give.
704
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,040
Right, I think we've
established there
705
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,159
that this car's top speed
here on the Millbrook Bowl
706
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,160
is 115 miles an hour.
707
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,639
And that, for a practical,
high-riding, family SUV,
708
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,920
which can do 50 miles to the
gallon in ordinary driving,
709
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,560
is not bad.
710
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,600
But can it do better?
711
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,680
OK, what I've done now is hooked up
to the back end of a Bentley Bentayga.
712
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,880
Now, this is a car
with a top speed
713
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:01,880
of 180 miles an hour.
714
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:12,040
What it's doing is,
it's punching a hole in the air for me
715
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,200
and I'm driving along
in a vacuum.
716
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,680
So that should mean
I go faster. Let's find out.
717
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,400
That's 115 easily.
718
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,120
116...
719
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,920
117...
720
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,320
I'm also using less fuel,
721
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,520
so this is good for
the environment as well.
722
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,640
119, 120 miles an hour now.
723
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,000
121... this is flying!
724
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,600
122 miles an hour, 123!
725
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,400
What we're doing now is proving
726
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:54,480
that the Citroen C3 Aircross
can go faster than itself.
727
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,560
124!
728
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,920
God's truth,
it's like being in Bluebird!
729
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:03,560
My only worry is that
I just saw a single magpie
730
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,600
and it is Friday the 13th
as I do this.
731
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,520
So now I'm gonna ease out
of this dangerous situation.
732
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,520
Well, if the space is
smaller than the Aircross,
733
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,480
then the answer is no.
734
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,640
But if the space is bigger,
then the answer is yes.
735
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,080
And with that sorted out,
736
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,920
it's time for one of
the most important tests
737
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,680
a little car can face.
738
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,440
To find out, I've come
to Southampton docks,
739
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,880
where obviously I've been
forced to wear a hard hat
740
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,120
in case a ship...
lands on my head.
741
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,080
Anyway, as you can see, the
little car has been attached
742
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,960
by rope to the enormous
car transporter.
743
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,400
Which I've just noticed
has a face.
744
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,400
It's Boaty McBoatface!
745
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,560
The challenge I'd come up with
746
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,480
was to see if the one-tonne C3
747
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,760
could pull the 13,000-tonne ship
748
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,800
a distance of 25 metres.
749
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,360
Right, now, I should explain
750
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,040
that my colleagues
May and Hammond
751
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,280
think this is a stupid test.
752
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,000
They say the Aircross
only develops 151 torques
753
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,000
and that that isn't enough to
pull a medium-sized child.
754
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,760
I, however, disagree.
755
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,040
Let's do this!
756
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,760
Oh, Christ, there's some
elasticity in that rope!
757
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,640
Oh, hello?
Why's it going backwards?
758
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,760
This is a bit of a worry.
759
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,480
Is that ship...
The ship's going back!
760
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,920
Look.
761
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,960
The ship is going back.
762
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,520
What... The situation's bad.
763
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,400
As we reattached the tow rope,
764
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,400
I wondered what had gone wrong.
765
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,040
Why did... Did he put his engines in
reverse as a sort of amusing joke?
766
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,640
I mean, he is Greek,
the captain.
767
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,120
We're not German! It's...
768
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,560
We didn't mess your economy up.
769
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,400
With the rope reattached,
we began the test again.
770
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:40,760
Here we go.
771
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,080
That's just clutch spin.
772
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,160
Now it's just clutch.
That's clutch.
773
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,720
Traction control off,
that's the only solution.
774
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,120
Hang on.
775
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,080
I think that ship is moving.
776
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,800
I think we're getting further
and further with each pull.
777
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,440
Come on, Boaty!
Move, you vicious boat!
778
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,960
Give it a bit of left and right.
779
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,280
What a machine this is!
780
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,600
The power and strength
of the Citroen.
781
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,840
That...
782
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,200
That is Boaty McBoatface
admitting defeat.
783
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,400
And with that sorted out,
784
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,280
it was time to address
the C3's practicality.
785
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,320
I should explain, these are not
actually Angelina's children,
786
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,160
they're much um...
cheaper.
787
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,600
Let's just get your names,
first of all. You're?
788
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,920
- Cardboard.
- Cardboard.
789
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,280
- Satisfied customer.
- Satisfied customer.
790
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,000
- Goat.
- Goat?
791
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,360
- Dislocated elbow.
- Dislocated elbow.
792
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,400
I'm sorry?
793
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,920
Is that right?
794
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,840
Don't wanna mispronounce it.
And you're?
795
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,600
- Vauxhall.
- Vauxhall.
796
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:13,880
Right, come on.
797
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,000
Let's see how many of you
can get into the Citroen.
798
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,600
Where's my seat belt?
799
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,880
Hang on, Vauxhall's got a problem.
What is it, Vauxhall?
800
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,160
- No seat belt.
- There is a seat belt.
801
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:31,640
No, there isn't!
802
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:32,880
Vauxhall, no, no,
803
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,400
there must be a seat belt.
There we are.
804
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,680
It's somewhere in here.
You just have to find it.
805
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,560
Who's gonna be driving
the car, though?
806
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:39,960
Probably your mum.
807
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,320
Your dad's left home
to be with a French woman.
808
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,320
- My dad is in America.
- Your dad's Brad Pitt.
809
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,000
Not your real dad, you were
bought from a market somewhere.
810
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,880
Oh, I found it, look.
811
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,320
- Ta-dah!
- That's just weird.
812
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,360
Now, come on, Vauxhall,
sit properly.
813
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,480
Hah. They're all in.
814
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,760
No space, I'm afraid,
for either of you.
815
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,800
- Y-You've had it.
- Oh.
816
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,160
- Can I sit in the boot?
- In the boot?
817
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,080
Well, no, because you see,
if your mum goes into town,
818
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,400
or to Africa,
and buys a disabled child,
819
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,360
where would its wheelchair go?
820
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,520
Must say, I am surprised.
821
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,520
I thought horses
were bigger than this.
822
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,440
Anyway, come on, let's see
if we can uh... get you in.
823
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,360
Come on, up you come,
up you come, there you go.
824
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:34,560
Up you go.
825
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,400
Oh, yep.
826
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,200
Citroen say that this has...
827
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,160
the biggest boot in its class.
828
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,360
To answer this,
we've come to France...
829
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,240
...where an armed robbery
is in progress.
830
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,120
Burglars anglais
avec visages horribles
831
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,280
are maintenant
making their escape
832
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,800
in a red nineteen-seventy-deux.
833
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,320
De Tomaso Pantera GTS.
834
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,680
Mmm.
835
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,320
Oui, je les ai vus,
cinq par cinq.
836
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,360
Oui.
837
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,320
Au dessus et sortir.
838
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:54,600
Right.
839
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,240
Let's do this!
840
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,440
All around the world,
841
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,080
police forces normally
have pretty good cars.
842
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,160
The Americans have Crown Vics,
843
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,400
Germans have BMs,
Italians have Alfas.
844
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,720
But France has always been a
bit of a burgling free-for-all,
845
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,960
because you knew that you
were only ever gonna be chased
846
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,760
by Inspector Clouseau in
a diesel Renault Mégane.
847
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,760
Well, not today.
848
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,960
Because I'm in an Aircross
and I've got a moustache.
849
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,040
To make my life a bit tricky,
850
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,280
the robbers' Pantera
wasn't standard.
851
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,600
It had an all-aluminium,
seven-litre V8,
852
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,800
producing 550 horsepower -
853
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,760
four times more than I had.
854
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,360
Soon I caught up with them.
855
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,480
But to get ahead,
I decided to take a shortcut.
856
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:26,520
Digger.
857
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,560
Deploy skill.
858
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:33,920
Skill used.
859
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,280
No need to slow down because
of my raised suspension.
860
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,760
Come on, dogged little Citroen!
861
00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:54,040
Argh! You couldn't have
done that in a De Tomaso.
862
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,200
Where is he? Where is he?
863
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:07,320
I can hear him.
864
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:08,760
He's like an Australian.
865
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,840
You can hear him
before you see him.
866
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,880
Right, I'm gonna cut him off.
867
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,160
Ha-ha!
868
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,760
Got him!
869
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,800
Les anglais avec les visages
horribles s'enfuient.
870
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,080
I know where he's going and I
know I'm gonna get there first.
871
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,120
Ooh, heavens!
872
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,000
Ooh, damn it!
873
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:14,800
There he is!
874
00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:23,760
Were this not such
a serious situation,
875
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,040
it would be a good laugh.
876
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,320
Ultimate baddy's car, of
course, the De Tomaso Pantera.
877
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,800
It even has an Argentinian
flag on its badge.
878
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,960
Agh! Deploying skill!
879
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,440
Skill s... Ooh, skill not
successful. Sorry, my bad.
880
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,360
Oh, no, he's going right!
881
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,120
I think I hit one.
882
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,160
Did I? Oh, no.
883
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,240
It's OK, I've got 'em all now.
884
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,080
Come on, get back
in the chase here, man!
885
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,880
Payback!
886
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:38,240
Little bit bumpy.
887
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,920
There's the car!
888
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,480
It was beginning to seem
that despite my best efforts,
889
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,720
I wouldn't be able
to catch the Pantera.
890
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,360
But then, when all seemed lost,
891
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,440
the Citroen played
its trump card...
892
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,120
...and didn't break down.
893
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,480
Whereas the Pantera
reverted to type and did.
894
00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:09,160
There you go, son.
895
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,240
Oh, God!
896
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,240
He's using hair dye!
897
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,440
Anyway, it's now time
for the final test,
898
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:19,880
the big one -
899
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,880
the answer to
the question I'm asked
900
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,200
five or six times a day.
901
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,240
Italy is a difficult country
to invade,
902
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,480
because it's surrounded
on three sides by sea
903
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,520
and on the fourth by mountains.
904
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,640
These mountains.
905
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:43,800
The Alps.
906
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,520
But back in 218 BC,
907
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,880
a Tunisian general
called Hannibal
908
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,720
did cross those mountains,
909
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,720
using elephants
to carry his gear.
910
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,320
And what I want to know is:
911
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,760
could he have used
an Aircross instead?
912
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,040
I mean, obviously,
the Aircross wasn't invented
913
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,800
200 years before the Baby Jesus,
914
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,600
but if it had been,
could he have used it?
915
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,200
We know that the Citroen
is powerful and torquey.
916
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:21,880
But what really matters on
a job like this is traction.
917
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,160
And that's where this knob
down here comes in.
918
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,280
It engages something called
the grip control system.
919
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,320
And that sounds like a gimmick.
920
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,120
But it isn't.
921
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,280
Last winter, Britain was
hit with a weather bomb
922
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,480
which became known as
the Beast from the East.
923
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,040
Everything stopped
and nothing was moving,
924
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,440
apart from me in an Aircross.
925
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,680
I genuinely couldn't believe it.
926
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:56,320
I put it in snow mode and
it was going through drifts
927
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,280
up to its door handles.
928
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,360
So let's see if it can pull
off the same trick here,
929
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,760
when the track runs out
and the going gets tougher.
930
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,680
Yes, look at the little
Citroen, clawing away.
931
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,080
No elephant could do this.
932
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,040
I am zooming up here.
933
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,200
God knows what sorcery
the computers are using
934
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,160
to keep me going here,
but they are.
935
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:43,720
Downhill stretch here,
936
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,600
so engaging
the hill descent control.
937
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:51,240
Take your foot off the clutch
and off the brake.
938
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,520
You can hear the anti-lock
brake system working,
939
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,240
keeping me in check,
940
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,800
stopping the back sliding
round, stopping me accelerating.
941
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,160
That's so clever
in a little car like this!
942
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,840
But as the climb resumed,
the going got really rough.
943
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,000
No, no.
944
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,520
Let's just pop it into...
945
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:17,840
mud mode.
946
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,000
There we go.
There you have it.
947
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,400
Come on, little car,
come on, little car.
948
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,640
That's the engine mountings
you can hear wobbling away,
949
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:35,120
but the good news is,
the engine is still in.
950
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:43,920
With the satnav telling me Italy was just
two miles away, I found another path.
951
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,480
I've passed 2,000 metres here.
952
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,400
Christ,
if I go over the edge now...
953
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:54,840
Agh.
954
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:03,120
Finally, the border
moved into view.
955
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,120
Come on, little Aircross!
956
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:19,600
There you are, clever car!
957
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,600
So there we are.
958
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,120
Faster than itself
at the test track.
959
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,160
Strong enough to pull a ship.
960
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,440
Big enough for the entire
Jolie family and a horse.
961
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,880
And better at invading Italy
than an elephant.
962
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,120
- What a car.
- Really?
963
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,280
What a machine.
Pumpy little car. Amazing.
964
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,920
Are you all right?
965
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,760
- In the head, I mean.
- What do you mean?
966
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,560
We learned nothing.
967
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,040
You learned it could get
to the top of that mountain,
968
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,840
even though it doesn't
have four-wheel drive.
969
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,760
But what about things that matter
to people who buy that sort of car?
970
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,320
What about, you know,
boot, interior space?
971
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:17,680
- I did boot!
- OK, safety, insurance group, all that.
972
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,600
- That's a bit boring.
- And are you seriously expecting us to believe
973
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,160
that a little French hatchback
974
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,080
can catch a tuned De Tomaso
Pantera on a mountain road?
975
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,920
Well, you say that - James Bond,
Goldeneye, you may remember.
976
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,800
He is in his Aston DB5,
he's chasing the Ferrari 355,
977
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,360
he caught up with it.
978
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,200
Then there was the other
Bond film called...
979
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,760
Quantity of Porridge,
something like that.
980
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,840
He is in his Aston DBS,
981
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,560
Italian police,
diesel-powered Alfa 159,
982
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,280
keep up with him
no problem at all.
983
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,120
You do know they're not
documentaries, don't you?
984
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,280
It was The Rock, The Rock was
a Hummer and a Ferrari again.
985
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,920
Look, can we try and salvage some
useful information out of this?
986
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:57,320
There's no need.
987
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,960
No, there is, I mean, OK...
988
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,640
isn't that Citroen basically,
tell me if I'm right,
989
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,680
the same car as
the Vauxhall Crossland?
990
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,400
- It is.
- Yes, it is, good point.
991
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,120
So, for instance, would you
buy one of those instead?
992
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:12,280
Well, you can't have the Vauxhall
with the grip control system,
993
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:13,960
so it's no good as an elephant.
994
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,240
No, the elephant test
isn't actually relevant.
995
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,680
Is there not something um...
OK, the Vauxhall, is it...
996
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,000
How easy is it to vacuum out
the interior? There you go.
997
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:25,800
I knew you were gonna
mention that.
998
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,520
So what I did was I took
the Vauxhall down to a man
999
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,640
who knows a thing or two
about vacuuming,
1000
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,720
none other than Sir Dyson.
1001
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,080
Can you get that bit in there?
1002
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:54,880
- Any good?
- Brilliant.
1003
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,480
- Is it?
- Very easy. Brilliant.
1004
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,520
Sir James Dyson.
1005
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,320
Doing a test, an important
test for us there.
1006
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,280
- Actually was James Dyson.
- Just a minute.
1007
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,320
- What?
- Sir James Dyson
1008
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,800
is developing a new
solid state battery.
1009
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,240
He is working on the future
of global personal transport.
1010
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,520
- Yeah.
- And you've wasted his whole afternoon...
1011
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:23,240
- ...vacuuming out the interior of a Vauxhall.
- Yes.
1012
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,720
- You have literally speeded up the end of the world.
- Yes.
1013
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,240
And on that terrible
disappointment, it's time to end.
1014
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:31,560
Thank you so much for
watching. See you next time.
1015
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,520
Goodbye.
80310
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