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(ENGINE REVVING)
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(TRAIN WHISTLE BLASTS)
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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
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JEREMY: Thank you so much.
-(WHISTLING)
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They're a rowdy bunch.
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Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
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Hello, and welcome to what
is a Grand Tour mini-special.
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It's all based around here
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in this rather troubled
part of the world.
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You've got Syria and Iraq and
Iran, sort of at the bottom.
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And then at the top
you've got Russia.
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But in-between you have
this sliver of peace
and prosperity.
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And that got us thinking.
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You see, if you live on
the shores of the Black Sea
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and you're partial to
a bit of fish, you're fine.
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But...
What if you like bream?
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-(LAUGHTER)
-You see,
bream likes fresh water.
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And the Black Sea is salty.
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The nearest fresh water
is all the way over here
in the Caspian.
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And that is a thousand
kilometres away.
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Yeah, so we were wondering,
if you have to drive
all that way for your supper,
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what would be the best car?
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Obviously, you'd need some
sort of GT, but which one?
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The new Aston Martin DBS? The
new Bentley Continental GT?
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Or the newerer BMW 8 Series?
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Now this is exactly the
sort of question this show
was designed to answer.
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(LAUGHTER)
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So, this week, we took
The Grand Tour to Batumi,
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in the former Soviet State
of Georgia.
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(GULLS CRY)
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JEREMY: The meeting point
was on the shores of
the Black Sea,
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and naturally enough James
May was the last to arrive.
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In the new BMW 8 Series.
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God, it doesn't look anything
like as good in the flesh
as it did in the pictures.
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RICHARD: It is
disappointing in the metal.
I'm afraid that's the case.
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-And brown!
-What?
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-Brown!
-It's sunburst orange.
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-Mate, that's a brown car.
-Sunburst orange.
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JEREMY: It's brown!
JAMES: Orange!
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-It looks very like a Toyota.
-It doesn't.
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Is it on delivery wheels -
are they specially for
delivering it?
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-What are you talking about?
-Those little wheels they can
move it around on.
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That's what I mean. They're
not big enough, are they?
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-Can you have
a 22-inch wheel?
-No.
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-Why not?
-Why would you want
a 22-inch wheel?
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-It would spoil the ride.
-It would fill the arches.
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RICHARD: Yeah.
-Ooh, ooh, ooh!
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And I suspect...
criminal offence.
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-What?
-Anyone who puts an M badge
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on a BMW that isn't an M BMW
has to go to prison.
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So this is one of those
M cars that isn't an M car.
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-They've done that before.
-No, it's not the M8.
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-Why does it say M8 on it?
-Because it's the M Sport,
in effect.
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-So M Sport just means
not an M, doesn't it?
-Yeah.
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But it's in-between the M
and the normal cars.
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That's why you have M Sport
5 Series, for example.
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This is like Elton John's
Greatest Hits
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without Your Song
or Tiny Dancer on it.
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James, I don't want to be
childish about this now...
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-Do you not?
But you're going to.
-I hate your gear lever.
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-I love it.
-Look at it!
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I think that's fantastic.
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JEREMY: And the rest...
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It's a horrible gear lever
in a boring interior.
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JAMES: That's contemporary
and tasteful.
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Let's look at yours.
What have you got?
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You've got the new Bentley
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that's the same
as the old Bentley.
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Apart from being
a completely new car.
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-Yeah, but it looks the same.
-It doesn't look the same.
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It's complete...
different front end.
Different size.
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-No, it looks like
an Aventador.
-Different back.
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-No.
-It's a completely new car.
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-This monochrome Union Jack
applied by Germans?
RICHARD: Yes?
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RICHARD: There is
some German involved.
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-Chassis? German.
-Yeah.
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-Engine? German?
-Yeah.
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Oh, no, the Germans
have done all the tech
and engineering.
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That'll-- No, wait,
it will be brilliant.
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-(LAUGHTER)
RICHARD: What?
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It's a bit... I use the word
advisedly - it's a bit camp.
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JEREMY: It's not camp!
-It is.
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-What's camp about that?
-It's all pleated
and leathery and... Urgh!
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JEREMY: It does give
good occasion, that.
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RICHARD:
That is a special event.
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JAMES: Does Liberace pop up
out of the centre console
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and play the piano for you?
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You see, the reason I'm not
having a go at your interior
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is my Aston has been
delivered with
Birmingham spec.
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JAMES: That's horrible!
-Ooh, that's quite vivid,
isn't it?
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I mean, worryingly for you,
I quite like that interior.
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JEREMY:
You like that? Exactly.
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So this is...it's a DB11.
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Well, no. It's the DBS.
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JEREMY: Superleggera.
RICHARD: Because it's
very light, isn't it?
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-Is it?
-That's what superleggera
means, yeah?
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It's 72 kilograms lighter
than a DB11.
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And no more expensive.
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-It's a bit more expensive.
-How much more expensive?
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-It's ยฃ67,000 more...
-Yes.
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-...than the DB11.
-How much is it?
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-A lot.
-Is it something like a
quarter of a million pounds?
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-No!
-What is it, then?
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-A little bit less.
-230?
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-A bit less.
-225?
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-Yes.
-Mine's ยฃ100,000.
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It's contemporary
and it's modern.
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It's no good saying,
"It looks Japanese"
as if that's a slur.
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-The Japanese
advanced the car massively.
-No, no, that just means...
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(CONVERSATION FADES)
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JEREMY: Eventually,
we decided to stop arguing
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and drive from here
on the Black Sea
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right through Georgia
and Azerbaijan
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to the Caspian for a nice
piece of grilled bream.
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Funny thing is,
I've no idea what
to expect on this journey.
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I mean, I've seen the
Grand Prix from Azerbaijan
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and I've seen Borat .
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Hmm... Which is it?
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I don't know what the roads
are gonna be like.
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I mean, should we be doing
this in pick-up trucks?
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Or tanks?
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I mean, this is
the former Soviet Union.
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It doesn't look it,
but it is.
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Whatever. The roads
at this point were fine.
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So, we could get to know
our cars.
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The question I really want
to answer on this journey
is this:
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How can the DBS be worth
ยฃ67,000 more than the DB11
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when,
from where I'm sitting...
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they appear to be
exactly the same.
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At first, you're forced
to say, "Well, it isn't."
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This interior
simply isn't good enough
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in a ยฃ225,000 car.
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Just not even close.
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You look at the Bentley
and you go,
"That is an interior."
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It's chintzy, but it's...
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fabulous.
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However, as we left the city,
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the DBS's true colours
started to shine through.
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This is by far the most
powerful car here,
and the lightest.
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And the most
sort of aggressive.
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And yet it just glides along,
in GT mode,
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which I'm in now -
Grand Touring mode.
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It's like a hovercraft.
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Whooosh!
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(WHISPERS) I'm driving
a twin-turbo-charged VI2.
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I can go 211mph.
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And I can whisper at 70.
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But when you shift from
GT mode to Sport mode,
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it's a very different animal.
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-Ready?
-(ENGINE REVS)
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(ENGINE ROARS)
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Jesus Christ. Whoo!
(CHUCKLES)
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Right, there's
a small difference there
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between the DB11 and...
and this.
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I'm afraid you're going
to have to face facts,
both of you.
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You're in wheelbarrows
and I'm in a spaceship.
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Ahh.
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An old man imagining
he's James Bond.
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The thing is, if we're going
to talk about long-legged,
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luxurious,
continent-crossing GT cars
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we're talking about Bentleys.
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They're the definitive GTs.
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Whisper-quiet,
velvety-smooth,
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a hint of
massive power waiting.
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626 horsepower
under my right foot.
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(REVVING)
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Ooh-hoo, my word.
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Ha-ha!
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But the GT car,
first and foremost,
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has got to be
a nice place to be.
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Because, by definition,
you're going to spend
a lot of time in it.
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And this
is a fine place to be.
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This finish on the centre
console - this metal here -
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is aluminium that's been
milled in the same way
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that they mill aluminium
inserts in the back of
expensive watches.
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If I press this button here
I can rotate between
my different screens.
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Oh, analogue dials
and clocks!
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In the centre of the dash,
thank you.
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(CHUCKLES)
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The problem for me with the
Bentley and the Aston
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is that they're actually
a bit too hung-up
on being British.
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It is a bit of a British
disease. We can't
shake it off.
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We're obsessed
with phoney heritage
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and the meaning of tradition.
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It's all just nonsense,
really.
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Actually, if you want to talk
about heritage and traditions
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then the BMW
has the strongest.
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It's still made in Munich
by the same company.
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They make their own bits.
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And some of those bits
are very good.
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It has a 4.4-litre
twin-turbo-charged V8,
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developing 523 horsepower.
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(ENGINE REVS)
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It also has four-wheel drive,
rear-wheel steering,
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and adaptive anti-roll bars.
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It has an eight-speed
gear box.
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It's not twin clutch,
but it is flappy paddle,
and it is very sharp.
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There we go -
drop it down to three.
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This is a proper car.
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Not tinsel!
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JEREMY: After James
had finished his
interesting lecture
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on what's wrong with Britain,
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May started to think
about buying some fruit.
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JAMES:
Anybody need a lemon?
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Er...
No, I'm all right, thanks.
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I don't want...
Oh, hang on, they've all had
the same idea here, look.
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Lemons on the right.
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There can't be
another lemon stall.
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Seriously...
It is - it's more lemons.
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Why doesn't someone go,
"Right, everyone is selling
lemons on this piece of road,
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we're gonna sell furniture."
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Also, as a general rule,
you don't need many lemons,
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whatever you're making.
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We must have driven past,
what, 10,000?
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There's some more here
on the right.
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Well, that's one evening
with Richard Hammond's
gin and tonic intake.
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Just trying out
the voice activation system.
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Always worth a laugh.
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"Enter country."
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FEMALE VOICE: Please
say the name of the country.
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-Georgia.
-Malta. Accepted.
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-I don't want to go to Malta.
-Would you like to enter
a destination?
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-No.
-Please say
the name of the country.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of the desired country.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of a country.
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For example, England.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of the desired country.
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Say the name
of the country as one word.
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For example, France.
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Yes. Georgia.
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-Cancel.
-(BEEP)
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JEREMY: Even though our cars
didn't recognise Georgia
as a country,
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we soon arrived
in the town of Gori.
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The birthplace
of Joseph Stalin.
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Look at that -
is that a Stalin museum?
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Can we just have a look?
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Yeah, we can have a look.
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Trouble is, when you tend
to go into a building
owned by Stalin
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you rarely come out again.
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JEREMY: In the museum grounds
we found the house
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where the Soviet dictator
grew up.
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So Stalin sat at that table
in the morning,
when he was a little boy.
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-Yes.
-And said,
"One day when I grow up
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I want to be
the nastiest piece of work
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the world has ever seen."
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And the parents
would have said,
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"There's a little boy
in Austria
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and he wants to be the
nastiest piece of work.
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But we think, son, you can be
an even nastier piece of
work." And then he was.
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"You can be whatever
you wanna be, son."
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"If you wanna be
the biggest bastard
the world has ever seen."
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-Bastard is a good word.
-And his mum said to him,
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"Are you sure you wouldn't
like to follow your father
and be a shoemaker?"
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"No. I want to murder
20,000,000 people."
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He was actually sitting right
here in his little shorts
and his little moustache.
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That is really
weird, though,
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isn't it, to think
what started in here.
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-(THUDDING)
-I've broken Stalin's house.
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-(LAUGHTER)
-Jeez, I'm going to
the Gulag.
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-James!
-(GUFFAWING)
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"I've broken Stalin's house!"
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JEREMY: Outside, we checked
out the statue of Stalin.
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Which that night
caused a debate between...
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well, two of us.
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The man who beat Hitler
is from your town,
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so obviously,
as they have done,
you put up a statue to him.
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But then it turns out
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that he's an even bigger
mass murderer,
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so do you take it down?
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Eee, it's tricky, that one.
It's very tricky.
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Can we talk about our cars?
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BOTH: No.
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I'm not interested
in the war.
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Well, it's more than the war,
Hammond.
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This is the sort of pivotal
bit of 20th-century history.
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It affected the whole world.
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-Right. Well, I'm off to bed.
-What?
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-I'm off to bed.
-Going to bed?
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I'm going to bed.
See you in the morning.
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We must have bored him,
cos he's left some of
his gin and tonic.
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JEREMY: After some more
considered debate
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about the town's
Stalin's problems,
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I had a brainwave.
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I tell you what,
that statue...
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maybe we
could take it down for them.
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-Make up their minds
for them.
-Exactly.
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-Do you know--
-Cos they're...
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This whole town, big dilemma.
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Do you know what it's like?
It's like someone who has
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an old piece of furniture
that they don't really like,
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but they can't throw it away
because it was
their grandma's.
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But we'll go
and throw it away for them.
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And then
they're actually glad.
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Cos there's no question they
shouldn't have a statue...
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-Course you shouldn't.
-I mean, I can't remember
the town in Austria,
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not Germany,
where Hitler was born.
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But I bet they haven't
got a statue to him...
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And so, that night,
when the town's people
were fast asleep...
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(FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL)
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JAMES: Kill the lights.
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JEREMY: Hang on.
Where is it? Where's...
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-(SMASHING)
JAMES: No, I meant--
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-I may have
overdone that bit.
-I meant turn them off.
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JEREMY: Can you
put the ladder...
Put the ladder... No.
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(ARGUING)
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JAMES: You go up the ladder.
-I know. Put it on the back.
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JAMES: That is his back.
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JEREMY: Right. Right.
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(CLATTERING)
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Open it.
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-(GROANING) Come on.
-(CLANGING)
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(WHIRR OF CHAINSAW)
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The next morning
as we were saddling up,
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Richard Hammond
had a question.
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Why have you put Nigel
Mansell's head on my bonnet?
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JEREMY: I thought
you'd like it. You know.
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British racing driver,
British car,
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I thought
it would be appropriate.
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It's a bold statement,
isn't it?
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You've got a famous
Brummie in the car,
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and on the front of the car.
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Nigel Mansell must have been
a big name around here.
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A lot of people
looking at him.
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Was Nigel Mansell
popular here?
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JEREMY:
Yes. Global superstar, mate.
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Global superstar.
They love him.
330
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- Why? Are people pointing?
-Yeah.
331
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They must have been
into racing or something.
332
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Did Nigel
ever race a Bentley?
333
00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,800
No, mostly Williams
is what he's famous for.
334
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,440
Oh, yeah, that might be
what's confusing people.
335
00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,640
That's why they look puzzled.
336
00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,080
I'd quite like to be
Richard Hammond.
337
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Life is so much simpler.
338
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Our next destination was
a racetrack 70 miles away.
339
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And because James and I
had racist satnavs...
340
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we were taking guidance
from the man up front.
341
00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,040
Which was a mistake.
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Hammond, we've definitely
been round here before.
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If you wanted me to be
in charge of navigation,
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you shouldn't have glued
Nigel Mansell's head
to my bonnet.
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00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,080
I'm trying.
346
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,720
Eventually, Hammond managed
to stumble across the highway
leading out of town.
347
00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,960
But things
didn't really get any better.
348
00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,040
Why are we going so slowly?
I'm being overtaken
by trucks.
349
00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,920
Well, Nigel Mansell's head
gets in the way of road signs
350
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,920
and I have to crane round him
to see them.
351
00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:26,920
And I don't want
to miss them.
352
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,520
There's a sign there to
Tehran, which is in Iran.
353
00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,560
We're not going to Iran.
354
00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,240
Well, I don't know.
I can't see the bloody signs,
because of Nigel.
355
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,400
(HORN BEEPS)
356
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,040
Now I've been overtaken
by an orange van.
357
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,280
Everybody filming us.
This is embarrassing.
358
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,560
We're going to be
all over the news.
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Hammond's gonna read it
and say, "That wasn't
Nigel Mansell, you bastards."
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It was somebody called
Josephine Stalin.
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RICHARD: Eventually,
I found what I reckoned
was our turn-off.
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- It's down here.
-No, it's not down here.
363
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We'll go down this bit
and then there'll be
a bigger road again
364
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,080
and we'll be there.
365
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,160
JEREMY: And that is
exactly what didn't happen.
366
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,800
-(THUD)
-Aaargh! Hammond!
367
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,640
JEREMY: Ooh,
I've just grounded out!
368
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,520
Yeah, that happens a lot
on main roads.
369
00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,440
(THUD)
370
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,000
The DBS is actually
five millimetres lower
371
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than the DB11 which,
of course, is marvellous
on a road like this.
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-(THUDDING)
JEREMY: Aaargh!
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Still....at least things
soon got worse.
374
00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,640
That man is armed.
375
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,280
Another man
with a machine gun.
376
00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,480
OK. A lot of people
with machine guns.
377
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,280
A local then explained to me
exactly where we were.
378
00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,800
(BIRDS CHIRRUPING)
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JEREMY: It's the border
that isn't a border.
380
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,400
You look on here, right?
381
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,720
-We're here.
-Yeah.
382
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,480
Yeah? That is the border
383
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,240
between Georgia...and Russia
384
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,640
as recognised by...
most people in the world.
385
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,800
But the Russians reckon...
it's here.
386
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,160
So, well, what they do,
387
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,080
is they put this barbed-wire
fence up...
388
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,560
At night they move it.
389
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,880
Right.
390
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,520
-The Russians move it?
-The Russians move it.
391
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,760
So you go to bed at night,
you're living in Georgia,
392
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,880
you wake up in the morning -
you're Russian.
393
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,320
But people live here.
394
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,800
And this is a rural spot
in the middle of nowhere.
395
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,280
What if somebody did this in
Ross-on-Wye where I live?
396
00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,800
Yeah, what if you suddenly
woke up and the Welsh
suddenly decided...
397
00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,520
It's about the same
sort of distance.
"Right, you're in Wales."
398
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:55,000
JEREMY: We then met
an actual casualty
of this border dispute.
399
00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,320
JEREMY:
Sir, are you Georgian?
400
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,760
(TRANSLATOR
SPEAKS GEORGIAN)
401
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,560
(THEY SPEAK GEORGIAN)
402
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,680
Can you come across here,
though?
403
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,640
(TRANSLATOR SPEAKS GEORGIAN)
404
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,240
JEREMY: Are there
Russian soldiers over there?
405
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,520
Sadly, because
we're The Grand Tour
and not the United Nations...
406
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,680
...all we could do was remove
Nigel Mansell's head,
407
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,960
sack Hammond as navigator...
408
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,760
and resume our search
for the racetrack.
409
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,760
And once
we found the right road
410
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,560
James started to attract
some special friends.
411
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,880
In their BMWs.
412
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,440
Holy moly!
413
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,480
Have you seen
what's sticking out of
the bonnet of that thing?
414
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,680
(BACKFIRING)
415
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,880
He's an emeritus professor
at Tbilisi University.
416
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,920
-He studies Latin
and Ancient Greek.
-(LAUGHTER)
417
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,880
(ENGINE REVS)
418
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,480
That's how he gets to work
in the morning.
419
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,560
Oh, James,
there's another one.
420
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,200
Oh, this one's even better.
421
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,680
I've never felt more like
a gooseberry, Hammond.
422
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,240
I know what you mean.
423
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,720
And we're spoiling
the moment for him.
424
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,680
(ENGINE REVS)
425
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,080
Oh, this is great! (LAUGHS)
426
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:16,320
Ha-ha-ha!
Ah, they're everywhere.
427
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,840
Having parted company
with James's fan club,
428
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000
we eventually arrived
at the racetrack.
429
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,920
Built in the days
of communism...
430
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,880
it hosted some terrible
and boring races,
431
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,880
until the Soviet Union
and it fell apart.
432
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,520
A few years ago, though,
433
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,720
it was brought back to life.
434
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,280
(JEREMY CRIES OUT)
435
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,560
Now, what you've gotta
remember:
436
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,040
715 horsepower is...
437
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,520
a huge amount.
438
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,120
That is a cathedral of power!
439
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,800
119, 122, 129,
440
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,200
136!
441
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,040
God, that is so quick.
442
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,000
And the best thing is,
it's old school.
443
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,000
All of that power
goes to the rear wheels.
444
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,080
There's no...
four-wheel drive.
445
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,920
There's no
four-wheel steering.
446
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,880
-There's no fancy trickery.
-(TYRES SQUEAL)
447
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,880
Oh, look at this.
448
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,520
Drifting with the
traction control on.
449
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,160
(TYRES SCREECH)
450
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,360
Yessss!
451
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,000
We like this.
452
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,160
And with
the traction control off...
453
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,960
I liked it even more.
454
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,080
(TYRES SCREECHING)
455
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,240
Look at that. Hah, ha-ha!
456
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,640
(TYRES SCREECHING)
457
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,880
The DB11 was the first
Aston I've ever driven
that felt good...on a track.
458
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,560
(TYRES SCREECH)
459
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,080
And this is the second.
460
00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:06,040
(TYRES SCREECHING)
461
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,240
Jesus, what a car!
462
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,200
Uh, Richard Hammond
driving around in
Chatsworth House here.
463
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,880
This engine - this
twin-turbo, six-litre W12
464
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,000
is actually the all-new
engine out of the Bentayga,
465
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,840
but set up specially
for this car.
466
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,360
Putting out
626 brake horsepower.
467
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,920
And it's mounted further back
in the car than before.
468
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,800
And the front wheels
are further forwards.
469
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,560
Which gets it closer
to 50-50 weight distribution.
470
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,080
And there's the keyword:
weight.
471
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,480
-There's a lot of it.
-(TYRES SCREECH)
472
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,480
Two and a quarter tons of it.
473
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,040
So for it to stand a chance
of doing anything sporty,
474
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,880
it's all about
controlling that weight.
475
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,360
To do that Bentley has
equipped the Continental
476
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,120
with an arsenal
of high-tech weapons.
477
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,640
Torque vectoring,
four-wheel drive,
478
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,960
superfast
adaptive suspension.
479
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,560
And active diffs.
480
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,240
All of which means
this big old Hector
481
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,560
can, to use appropriate
Bentley parlance,
482
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,680
pick up its skirts and run.
483
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,680
(TYRES SCREECHING)
484
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,600
Ooh, lovely.
485
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,760
(CHUCKLES)
486
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,440
(TYRES SCREECHING)
487
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,720
The guy who designs the
traction control for this car
488
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,600
-is apparently
a drifting champion.
-(TYRES SCREECHING)
489
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,080
And you can tell.
490
00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,800
He's built a Bentley
for himself.
491
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,320
(TYRES SCREECHING)
492
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,880
(LAUGHS) I swear...
493
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,000
Ha-ha-ha!
494
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,360
It's... It's indecent
asking it to do that.
495
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,640
JAMES: Meanwhile, in the BMW,
496
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,640
I too had been
leaning on the electronics.
497
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,440
Previously on the road
I had this set up
498
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,600
in my version of Sport,
which you can program.
499
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,480
And I had the steering
on comfort,
and the ride on comfort.
500
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,600
But now...
I have it in Sport Plus.
501
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,640
(ROAR OF ENGINE)
502
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,160
I have the least power - 523.
503
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,040
I have the lowest
power to weight ratio.
504
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,000
Look, it's a meaty engine
with lots of low-down grunt.
505
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,800
I can dig deep.
506
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,960
(ENGINE REVS)
507
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Combine that
with the four-wheel drive
508
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,960
and the four-wheel steering,
509
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,360
and the 8 Series
is exactly what you'd expect.
510
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,880
It's easy. It's a BMW.
It feels like a BMW.
511
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,960
It's so easy, in fact,
512
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,320
that while going past
the pits,
513
00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,120
I noticed something.
514
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,440
There's a bloke
with a stopwatch there.
515
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,080
Does that mean they're
actually taking times?
I presume it does.
516
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:48,600
JEREMY: They were.
So, all of us
517
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,240
decided to concentrate
on some hot laps.
518
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,080
Bouncing over
the kerbs there.
519
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,000
Unleashing it - and bam!
520
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,480
More speed.
521
00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,480
Come on. Come on, turn.
Grip. Grip, grip, grip, grip.
522
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,880
(ENGINE ROARS, TYRES SCREECH)
523
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,800
The brakes, the turning...
524
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,040
the acceleration...
525
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,320
all absolutely...
526
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,080
brilliant.
527
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,280
What happens here?
528
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,800
Stay wide, dab of brakes...
529
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,960
-now bean it.
-(ENGINE REVS)
530
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,400
Is this the fast one
or the slow one?
531
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,440
God, it can pick up.
It just charges.
532
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,200
(ENGINE ROARS)
533
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,440
0-60 in 3.4 seconds,
534
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,600
which is...
absolutely mind-boggling
535
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,400
in a car this big.
536
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,040
Send it in.
537
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,160
-(RATTLING)
-Oh, collecting
a bit of kerb.
538
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,960
These brakes
are gonna get hot.
539
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640
These are the largest steel
brakes on any production car,
540
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,160
but I'm still asking
a lot of them.
541
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,840
(ENGINES ROAR)
542
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,800
JEREMY: Eventually we pitted
to see how we'd done.
543
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,880
-No surprises here.
RICHARD: Go on.
544
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,800
-Aston was the fastest.
-Oh, God.
545
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,360
-No, but obviously by
an enormous margin.
-Fair enough.
546
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,920
-Yes.
-Two minutes, yes?
547
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,640
-Two minutes dead,
pretty much.
-Faster by two minutes?
548
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,040
-No, no. Two minutes.
-(CHUCKLING)
549
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,320
Here's the interesting one,
though.
550
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,800
The former President
of Georgia
551
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,320
when this track
was reopened,
552
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,840
a few years ago -
he set a time.
553
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,800
-Did he?
-Yeah. In a Formula 3 car.
554
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,000
Two minutes five dead.
555
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,400
That's the President
of Georgia.
556
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,880
-So, James May.
-Yes? (LAUGHS)
557
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,360
Were you faster or slower,
do you think,
558
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,200
than the President
of Georgia?
559
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,520
-Do I have to be the
President of Georgia if I--
-No.
560
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,480
I'm gonna say I was slower.
561
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,880
-You're absolutely right.
But...
-(LAUGHTER)
562
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,560
Here's something interesting.
563
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,920
You were only point-eight
of a second slower
564
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,840
than the President of Georgia
and he was in
a Formula 3 car.
565
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,800
Do you think you
were faster than the
President of Georgia?
566
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,160
I'll be honest, I'd very,
very much like to have been.
567
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,760
-James May, you did 2:05.8.
-Yes.
568
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,560
-Richard Hammond.
-Yes?
-Two minutes...
569
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:10,920
Yes?
570
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,200
...four...point eight.
571
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,040
-So you're only
a second quicker.
-Ohh.
572
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,280
-That's the closest
you two have ever been.
-Yeah, that is.
573
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,560
Oh, hang on.
574
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,320
A text. Oh, God. Mr Wilman.
575
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,160
How does he know
when we're all sitting...
576
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,000
It's uncanny.
577
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,560
-Go on, then.
-Right.
578
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,440
I've seen how fast you can go
in your cars on a flying lap.
579
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,400
-Yes.
-Now we shall see
580
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,760
how fast you can go when
you're bursting for a pee.
581
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,400
-What?
-Really?
582
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,400
Right, each of you will drink
three pints of water,
583
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,440
wait 20 minutes
584
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,320
and then see how much
your times improve.
585
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,040
JEREMY: Soon, we were
ready to begin the test.
586
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,560
Right, so we drink these,
and then when we've
drunk all three,
587
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,520
-start the timer?
-Yeah.
588
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,920
(GULPING)
589
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,720
(JEREMY SIGHS)
590
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,600
-That's disgusting.
-Mm.
591
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,160
It's just revolting,
this stuff.
592
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,240
Women drink this,
you know, for fun.
593
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,680
-Couldn't we have
done it with wine?
-Shut up.
594
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,600
-(BLEEP)
-Oh, God.
595
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,040
-Have you finished?
-I'm going.
596
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,680
-How have you done that?
-(BLEEP)
597
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,640
Why are you
so far ahead of me?
598
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,040
(BLEEP)
599
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,200
The thing is, this is quite
an interesting test,
600
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,480
because when I drive
normally, I drive on the
motorway at 70mph.
601
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,920
-Of course you do.
-When I need a pee,
I'll do 180.
602
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,080
-This test is unfair.
-Why is it?
603
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,480
-Well, my capacity
is smaller than you two.
-Er...
604
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,360
Plus, it's got to go less
distance to my stomach, then
less distance to my bladder,
605
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:00,880
and then less distance
to my chap.
606
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:02,760
-But...
-What?
-We're older.
607
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,040
-Yes.
-And you have
wooden bladders.
608
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,520
When you get older...
Younger viewers may be
interested in this.
609
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,120
...it comes on more suddenly,
doesn't it?
610
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040
I can do the nights still.
I don't need to get up
in the night.
611
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,080
Mind you, that's prostrate
cancer, isn't it?
612
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,080
-Is it?
-Yeah, it is. It's a sign.
613
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,320
You know with prostrate
cancer, they tell you
614
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,240
you've got to put your finger
in your back bottom
and have a rummage about.
615
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,840
Now, never having done that,
I don't know what it should
feel like normally.
616
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,440
-So I don't know...
-No, it's the doctor.
617
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,280
That's why you
get the doctor to do it.
618
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,280
-No, it says check yourself.
-You don't back on
to your own digit.
619
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,480
-It's... That's what it says.
-It isn't.
620
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,720
Posters say,
"Check your anus."
621
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,920
I've never seen a poster
that says, shove your finger
up your arse. I just...
622
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,400
Well, I've never understood
it cos it does say
in the adverts,
623
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,080
check yourself,
prostrate cancer.
624
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,080
No, you check yourself
for testicular cancer,
you spanner.
625
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,120
You rummage your nuts about
to make sure there's no...
626
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,440
-That you can do, yes.
-That's correct.
627
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,280
No, that's what you
tell your wife.
628
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,080
JAMES: Mercifully, my
20-minute wait was soon over.
629
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,480
Four, three, two.
630
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,440
-One.
-(BLEEP)
-Goodbye.
631
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,920
Ooh, no, that hurts.
(GROANING)
632
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,000
-Three, two, one.
-(BLEEP)
-I'm out of here. Good luck.
633
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,160
Ooh, it is starting.
And running's unwise.
634
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,120
(REVVING)
635
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,920
(REVVING)
636
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,400
I don't need a wazz.
I don't need a wazz.
637
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,520
(TYRES SQUEAL)
638
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,000
Oh, God, it's...
it's interfering.
639
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,760
Aah... aah...
640
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,880
Come on. Come on!
641
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,200
I'm not thinking about it.
642
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,160
I'm just
not thinking about it.
643
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,880
Need a wee.
Braking, braking hard.
644
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,640
Oh, it's worse going through
the corners because it all
sloshes to one side.
645
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,760
Oh, God.
646
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,240
(GROANS)
647
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:12,120
If Williams
had given their drivers
648
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,840
three pints of water before
every race last year,
649
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,920
they'd have won everything.
650
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,440
Oh, God,
I'm living in my bladder.
651
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,800
Don't relax!
652
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:28,800
(GROANING)
653
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,760
I'm never gonna make it.
654
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,840
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
655
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,080
(GROANS)
656
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,080
That'll do. That'll do.
657
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,960
Just... (GROANS)
658
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,160
Can't run. (HYPERVENTILATING)
659
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,600
It's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen.
660
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,200
-(TRICKLING)
-What? Who's in there?
661
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,080
-James.
-Bugger off,
I'm having a wazz.
662
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,200
-Hurry up.
-I'm having a wazz.
663
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,800
Just hurry up! I'm going
to go in a minute.
664
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,600
-(SILENCE)
-Oh, he's...
665
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,760
Right, that's it. Let me in.
666
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,760
-(TRICKLING)
-Oh, God, there's more!
667
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,120
Oh, God.
668
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,160
It's just awful. When you...
669
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,040
Listen, mate, James
is in there and I'm first.
670
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,080
You ain't getting in
ahead of me.
671
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,200
-It's fine. Just relax.
-There's no way.
672
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,600
It is awful, though, when
you get to the door,
673
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,600
your body's saying,
yes, time to go.
674
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,160
-But then you can't.
-Stop talking.
675
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,000
Why aren't you bothered
anyway?
676
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,840
Well, I solved the problem,
second corner.
677
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,120
-Oh, yeah.
-So...
678
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,560
-James...
-I'm having a wazz.
679
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,000
Yes, I know.
I've got the times.
It's quite interesting.
680
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,840
You were a second slower
on that lap.
681
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,760
I'm desperate for a slash.
682
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,280
Do you think
you were faster or slower?
683
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,000
I don't care.
684
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,120
-Richard Hammond...
-J...
685
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,640
your original lap, two
minutes four point eight.
686
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,040
-Your new lap...
-Stop talking.
687
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,000
-Two minutes...
-Yes, whatever.
688
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,840
..zero point five.
689
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,560
You were slower as well.
690
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,560
Because I was
concentrating on not
doing what you've done.
691
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,880
Yeah, well, that's
interesting. Because I did
what I did, look at that.
692
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,480
How interesting is that.
Exactly the same.
693
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,880
-I mean, I was basically...
-James!
694
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,400
-Hurry up!
-I was point three
of a second slower.
695
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,360
But basically the same.
696
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,360
JEREMY: After our
important day's work,
697
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,280
I cleaned myself up and we
headed into Tbilisi,
698
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,000
Georgia's capital,
699
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:38,120
for something you can only
get in this country.
700
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,320
You see, the thing is,
America gave the world
aviation.
701
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,040
Germany gave it the car.
Britain gave it the internet.
702
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,880
But Georgia's contribution
was much more profound
and important.
703
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,160
You see, Georgia
gave the world... wine.
704
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,640
They've been making wine
in Georgia for 4,000 years.
705
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,800
It's such a big thing here,
they now have spas
where you can bathe in it.
706
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,480
-How does it feel?
-Tremendous.
707
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,640
This is wine.
708
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,360
-That's the great thing about
that. He doesn't need a plug.
-No.
709
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,280
He will simply lower himself
down and consume
his bathwater.
710
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,080
If I were to take
the plug out now,
711
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,640
would you panic
and try and drink it all
before it went away?
712
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,160
Hang on, I just need to
rinse my hair.
Hold on a minute.
713
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,800
-He's actually going to...
-Oh, God, he is.
-..wash his hair in wine.
714
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,400
Oh, no, he is!
715
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,480
Oh, God,
I got some in my mouth.
716
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,440
James, do not
fall asleep in the bath.
717
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,400
-OK.
-He's going to.
718
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,600
Now I can relax.
719
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,560
-(DISTANT BANG)
-Ooh...
720
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,360
JEREMY: The next morning,
we went for a drive
around Tbilisi,
721
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,640
one of the coolest cities
we'd ever been to.
722
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,200
Who is this on his horse?
723
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,560
According to the sign, it's
King David the Builder.
724
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,360
-What?
-Better than
Eric the Chemist.
725
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,560
(LAUGHS)
726
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,160
The last builder I had
working on the house
727
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,520
didn't look like that.
728
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,480
He certainly didn't
turn up on a horse.
729
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,640
We then found a flea market
730
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,120
and decided to test the boot
space in our grand tourers
731
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,800
by picking up
a few souvenirs.
732
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,840
-(LAUGHTER)
-I'm not sure
733
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,160
they would have been
able to win a war like this.
734
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,160
This is a Russian wall clock.
735
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,560
It says Moscow on the dial.
It works.
736
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,400
-(WHIRR AND CLICK)
-Is it a Soviet one?
-Yeah.
737
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,960
A Soviet cine-camera.
738
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,360
Now, come on.
739
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,320
(PLAYS QUIETLY)
740
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,640
How much is
the record player?
741
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,600
-I'm going to do a selfie.
-(CLICK)
742
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,640
I like the way
that they've captured the
lustfulness of the lady dog
743
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,200
and the wistfulness of James.
744
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,320
Having done our shopping,
745
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,280
Hammond and I
were soon back at our cars
746
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,360
and filling up the boots.
747
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,400
-What have you bought?
-A giant pair of jugs.
748
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,960
Georgian wine jugs.
749
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,760
Do you know what the Georgian
is for wine jugs?
750
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:37,400
-No.
-Norks.
751
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,600
-Is it?
-Yeah.
752
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,920
So you've got
two giant norks.
753
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,760
Yeah. A guitar and a clock.
754
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,040
And I'm very pleased
with my purchases.
755
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,440
What's with the trombone,
or whatever it is?
756
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,920
Well, it won't fit.
757
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,960
With my record player and my
bird and my gas mask...
758
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,400
That's a striking piece.
Well, put it
on the back seat.
759
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,640
-Quite small.
-It will go on...
760
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,800
The back seat
will accommodate that, look.
761
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,920
-He's going to be critical.
-Oh, my God!
762
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,800
There you go.
Told you he would.
763
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,640
-Do Aston Martin
describe that as a back seat?
-Yes.
764
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,440
I wouldn't call it
a leather pouch.
765
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,200
(STRAINS AND LAUGHS)
766
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,800
-I can't argue...
-(LAUGHS)
767
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,040
-I can't argue with him.
-It's not acceptable.
768
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,440
-Are you actually in?
-Yes.
769
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,520
-Head room?
-(WAILS) No.
770
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,440
That is absolutely hopeless.
771
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,800
Anyway, the interesting thing
about the Aston Martin is...
772
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,680
-I've got quite a lot to say.
-I need to get out now!
773
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,840
At this point,
James came back.
774
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,680
After a very ambitious
shopping trip.
775
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,800
Could you hold
the porcupine, please?
776
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,560
Yak goes in first.
777
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,480
You won't...
How big is that boot?
778
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,920
-It is actually really big.
-It's unnecessarily big,
actually.
779
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,520
-It's too much boot.
-It's a grand tourer.
780
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,160
It's for taking luggage as
you said only the other day.
781
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,560
His Master's Voice
will go there.
782
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,400
And then the Spanish
man-o-war...
783
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,200
JEREMY: I then came up with
a plan to get rid of what
wouldn't fit in my car.
784
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,320
I bought you a present.
785
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,640
You're a musical man.
786
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,160
That's very thoughtful
of him, actually.
787
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,480
Thank you.
788
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,120
With our souvenirs
loaded up,
789
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,960
we got back on the road.
790
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,280
(RATTLING)
791
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,840
Lot of rattling in here.
I'm a bit worried that
792
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,600
my big jugs are going to rub
against my clock and ruin it.
793
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,640
JAMES: I thought you jammed
your clock between the jugs,
so that it wouldn't.
794
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,760
Finbarr Saunders
And His Double Entendres.
795
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,680
JEREMY: Soon,
we arrived at the border.
796
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,280
Where Europe stops
and Asia begins.
797
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,280
So there we are.
Bye-bye, Georgia,
the birthplace of wine,
798
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,520
and hello Azerbaijan,
799
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,600
the birthplace of something
very nearly as important.
800
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,480
Oil.
801
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,760
It was first discovered here
in the third century.
802
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,800
Marco Polo wrote about it
a thousand years ago.
803
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,360
He said it didn't
taste very nice.
804
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,600
The oil industry began here.
805
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,840
This was the first country
in the world to develop
offshore drilling.
806
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,360
But, weirdly,
we are struggling
to find a petrol station.
807
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,440
This meant
we had to back off a bit.
808
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,640
Which prompted
some smug eco-sermons
from Hammond and May.
809
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,160
As we're now in the cruise,
810
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:45,800
my car can do
a very clever thing.
811
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,400
Its W12 can shut down
six cylinders
812
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,680
and run as a V6
to save fuel.
813
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,760
And you can get
as much as 30mpg,
814
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,640
but actually that's quite
a lot for a 2.2-tonne car.
815
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,080
And more importantly, it
means I get a 500-mile range
out of a tank.
816
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,560
What I can do is
I can put it in Eco Pro mode,
which I'm just doing now,
817
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,960
which shuts down
some vital features.
Not the engine fortunately.
818
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,320
And I have an active grille.
819
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,000
The flaps open
when they need to
820
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,640
and then shut for better
aerodynamic efficiency
when they're not needed.
821
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,320
So this is all hi-tech stuff
we're doing.
822
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,200
Jeremy,
what's your Aston Martin got?
823
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,680
Well, between 40 and 80
824
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,400
it'll shut down six
of the cylinders and run
as a straight six
825
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,760
until the catalytic converter
on the shut-down bank
gets cool,
826
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,560
then it starts that bank up
again and shuts
the other one down,
827
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,040
alternating to make sure
everything is at
the optimum temperature.
828
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,040
Ha-ha!
They weren't ready for that.
829
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,160
Happily, at this point
830
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,360
we finally found
a fuel station.
831
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,640
Oh.
832
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,280
Now, that's
an oil company name
I wasn't expecting.
833
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,880
Really?
834
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,840
I know this is childish
but it says...
835
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,600
(LAUGHTER)
836
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,640
-I wish we had Turd Petrol
in Britain.
-I really do.
837
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,080
Turd Petrol!
838
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,880
JEREMY: Why don't
they sponsor
a Formula 1 team?
839
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,240
Powered by Turd!
840
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,040
-Think of the skid marks.
-Think of the commentary.
841
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,240
(LAUGHING)
842
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:23,080
Back on the move,
we started to soak up
the local motoring culture.
843
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,200
Which didn't take long.
844
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,320
Lada, Lada
845
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,280
and Lada.
846
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,400
RICHARD:
Lada, Lada, Lada.
847
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:39,640
Lada, Lada.
848
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,240
Three Ladas there,
a Lada there,
849
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,200
two Ladas there.
850
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:45,600
If there's
a Lada owners' club
851
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,680
in Azerbaijan,
it could be massive.
852
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,080
"What Car?" must have been a
very thin magazine over here.
853
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,000
(RICHARD AND JEREMY LAUGH)
854
00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:01,440
JEREMY: At the next town,
May and I
wanted to pull over.
855
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,320
And Hammond didn't.
856
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:05,880
It's all very nice
jollying around
857
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,720
but these are GT cars.
858
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,520
We've got
a couple of miles in them.
859
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,960
We've got miles to go.
We need to get a move on.
860
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,040
The town, however,
was called Ganja.
861
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:20,680
So obviously May and I
wanted to experience
the architecture.
862
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,960
-You know I'm building
a new house?
-Yes.
863
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,800
I think I've got
the scale of it wrong.
864
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,200
-Really?
-Mm. I think it needs
to be more like this.
865
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:51,960
This. I like the arch.
866
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,200
I think the Cotswolds needs
this kind of architecture
in it.
867
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,960
Can we stop stopping off
to look at things?
868
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,480
The whole point of this trip
is to prove that these
powerful GT cars
869
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,440
can devour continents
and we're not
devouring any miles.
870
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,200
-Ooh.
-Well, we need to get going.
871
00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:07,800
You do know that these
aren't actually quicker
872
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,560
than any
other type of car?
873
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,240
-What?
-No, in the real world.
874
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,160
I mean, these feel great.
That's why we like them.
875
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,000
It's nice having a powerful
car, etc.
But in the real world
876
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,080
they don't go any faster
or slower than any
other type of car.
877
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,920
-But they go faster.
-They don't.
878
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,840
What? Those Ladas we've
been overtaking endlessly
since we got here.
879
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:28,800
You're saying that my twin
turbocharged Aston Martin
is no faster than them?
880
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,840
Not in the real world.
881
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,680
I'll demonstrate it to you,
tomorrow.
882
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:35,640
Oh, God.
883
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,440
Right, May,
what is your thinking?
884
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Well, I've bought this
Renault 9. It's the GTL.
885
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,840
And I've flown Abbie
out to drive it
886
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,360
and we're going to drive 50
miles to a place called the
Garden of Paradise.
887
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,440
Why can't we just
go where we're going?
888
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,720
Cos I just said we're going
to the Garden of Paradise.
It'll be nice.
889
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,320
-So Abbie gets a two-minute
head start.
-Mm-hm.
890
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:06,960
You won't be
able to catch her.
891
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,080
-We will.
-You won't.
892
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,000
-A two-minute head start...
-Yes.
893
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,360
-..and you think we can't
catch her up in 50 miles?
-Exactly.
894
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,800
That's not in good condition.
895
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,160
It wasn't very expensive.
896
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,560
Start the engine, please.
897
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,080
(ENGINE STRUGGLES TO
TURN OVER, STARTS)
898
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:24,520
-Oh, well.
-Oh, well.
899
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,080
Oh, we're in trouble now.
900
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,080
-Right, you ready?
-Purrs like a kitten.
901
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,920
In three, two, one...
902
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,640
-Go!
-(ENGINE STALLS)
-(ABBIE CHUCKLES)
903
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,720
-Professional racing driver.
-She's good. She's good.
904
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,600
-You've bought a dog.
-It doesn't work!
905
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,640
(ENGINE REVS)
906
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,080
-There.
-Ooh.
907
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,320
So James May's experiment...
908
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,520
Is an Aston Martin DBS,
twin turbo,
909
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,400
faster than an ancient
rusting Renault 9?
910
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,680
18 seconds.
911
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:02,920
Stop sounding excited about
this ridiculous escapade.
912
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,000
Two, one, begin.
913
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,120
(REVVING)
914
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,840
Right, let's get this charade
over with, shall we?
915
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,360
And prove that James is mad.
916
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,800
The point of having a GT car
with tonnes of power is it
makes you feel good
917
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,760
and it's nice.
But it's not quick.
918
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,800
All cars in the real world
go at the same speed
919
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,400
because how fast they go is
dictated by external factors,
920
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:34,920
not the car itself.
921
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,920
Traffic lights,
speed cameras,
922
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,720
other cars,
pedestrians crossing.
923
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,880
All these things
just bunch everybody up.
924
00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,680
If you have a powerful engine
in your car, you can get home
at night more quickly.
925
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:51,960
Which means you spend more
time with your children.
926
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:57,480
Which means they're
less likely to grow up
as glue sniffers.
927
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,080
JEREMY: Soon we were out of
the town and on the motorway.
928
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,240
But there was a problem.
929
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,240
These speed cameras,
they're at every 100 yards.
930
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,200
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
931
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:13,120
But Abbie has got
the same problem.
932
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,040
She's not
getting away from us.
933
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,840
-No, but we're not catching
her either, are we?
-No.
934
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:27,120
Once we got off the motorway,
though, Hammond and I
splashed the brown roadblock
935
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,080
and got cracking.
936
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,360
Abbie is a brilliant driver.
937
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,440
Make no mistake. She's
a lot better at it than me.
938
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,320
But I've got 14 times
more horsepower.
939
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,640
All I had to do
to catch her, then,
940
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,560
was overtake everything.
941
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,440
But that wasn't easy.
942
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,400
Single unbroken line.
Can't overtake.
943
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,680
Can't overtake.
944
00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:55,680
Right, we're stuck
behind a Lada.
945
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,640
-Oh, God, car coming
the other way.
-(HORN)
946
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,440
Oh, come on,
come on, come on.
947
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,920
And there's Jeremy Clarkson
behind a lorry.
948
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,280
As I am.
949
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,080
Yeah, that's what you need.
950
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,160
Town...
951
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,240
Oh... What are you doing?
952
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,720
-(HORN)
-You dithering half-wit.
953
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,600
In James' real world, we
weren't getting any breaks.
954
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,240
Oh, great. Digger.
955
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,920
Oh, God.
956
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,440
Whereas up ahead,
Abbie was in scythe mode.
957
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,840
Oh, come on!
958
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,000
Right, Lada...
Lada, Lada, Lada.
959
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,520
It's like they're releasing
them every seven seconds
coming the other way.
960
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,800
Oh, good. Red light.
961
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,760
Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
962
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,760
Nine, eight, seven, six,
963
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,600
five, four,
964
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,280
three, two...
965
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,920
Hello, chaps.
Waiting at the lights?
966
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,920
Oh, Christ.
967
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,760
Mercifully, though, we were
soon out of the town
968
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,720
and onto the open road.
969
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,240
(HORN)
970
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,520
RICHARD: Freedom!
971
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:28,880
Yes!
972
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,480
Splash the Lada.
973
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,360
-(HORN)
-Another one.
974
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,320
It's clear.
975
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,960
But then, with just 10 miles
to go, everything got rural.
976
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,560
Hammond, cows, cows, cows!
977
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:49,880
(BARKING)
978
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,760
As things became
even more rural,
979
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,200
the Aston started
to have a problem.
980
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:00,320
It's barely moving.
What's he doing?
981
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,200
RICHARD:
Can't you pick it up a bit?
982
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,880
JEREMY:
It's bumpy and the camber
is all over the shop.
983
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,120
Yeah, it's not perfect but
it's drivable. Come on!
984
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:14,120
Hammond, I've got 715
horsepower and only
rear-wheel drive.
985
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,360
Right, this is ridiculous.
I'm going to come past.
986
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,840
I've got torque vectoring,
four-wheel drive.
It can handle this.
987
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,760
RICHARD: Meanwhile, further
back in the Eeyore W...
988
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,320
I bet you she's still
two minutes ahead.
989
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,160
Why have you stopped?
990
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,720
Because there's an entire
farm coming towards me.
991
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,680
(BLEATING AND BELLS RINGING)
992
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,640
It's a river of wool
and lunch.
993
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,440
Please don't
scratch my Bentley.
994
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:56,800
Please don't scratch
my Bentley.
995
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,560
(LOWING AND BELLS RINGING)
996
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:03,880
All right?
997
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,320
JEREMY: As we approached
journey's end, the road
surface improved.
998
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,240
So we could both unleash
our massive horsepower.
999
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,360
So here we are,
ladies and gentlemen.
1000
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,160
Richard Hammond's
on a mountain road
1001
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:27,600
in a Bentley going quickly.
1002
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,840
So nothing can go wrong here.
1003
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:35,720
We've got to have
closed the gap by now.
1004
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,640
No offence, Abbie,
but you're not having this.
1005
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,760
JEREMY:
The finish line at the Garden
of Paradise was close.
1006
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:48,280
And as we entered
the outskirts,
the patio of paradise,
1007
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,240
Abbie was in sight.
1008
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,960
The race we knew
would be ours
1009
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,600
but then it turned out
that actually
1010
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,920
the finish line
was in the 14th Century.
1011
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:04,200
RICHARD: Oh, my word.
1012
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:06,080
Getting narrow, very narrow.
1013
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,120
(KNOCKING)
1014
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,600
Oh, I don't know how much
1015
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,480
a carbon fibre chin spoiler
is on one of these
1016
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,000
but I bet it's a lot.
1017
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,480
(REVVING)
1018
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,160
Abbie, however,
wasn't worried about
that sort of thing.
1019
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,680
(KNOCKING)
1020
00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:28,400
That's the sound of a crow
rubbing against
a Russian stereo.
1021
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,400
(SCRAPING)
1022
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:34,200
(SCRAPING)
1023
00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:36,240
That was not good.
1024
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,440
-Hello.
-Hammond, I'm beached.
1025
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,640
I'm going to find
another route.
1026
00:54:45,720 --> 00:54:47,640
-Oh, is it really round here?
-(KNOCKING)
1027
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,880
A lot of noise
from the boot now.
1028
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,160
JEREMY: Meanwhile,
I'd found another route
1029
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,440
that wasn't much better.
1030
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,840
-(SCRAPING)
-Oh, God.
1031
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,760
James May's ideal motor race,
this. I'm doing four, three.
1032
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,280
By this stage
I knew I'd lost.
1033
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,600
So I needed to
come up with an excuse.
1034
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,920
Are these for the head?
1035
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:13,560
A hat.
1036
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,720
This is not
Bentley country now.
1037
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:19,720
This is really
Land Rover territory.
1038
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,040
James May, you are
a bloody idiot.
1039
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,680
Sit-rep, man arrived
at the window,
1040
00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:30,240
took 30 units of currency
away and I now have this hat.
1041
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:39,480
Eventually Hammond and I
found Abbie's victorious
Renault at the finish line.
1042
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,040
And then what was definitely
several hours later,
1043
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,040
May turned up.
1044
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:46,600
RICHARD: Oh, here he is.
1045
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,560
JEREMY: Oh, God.
1046
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,040
-Who won, then?
-We did!
1047
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,880
-Did you?
-No. No. We didn't.
1048
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,800
-He went hat shopping.
-I did. Look.
1049
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,840
-Really?
-It took him ages
choosing that one.
1050
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,280
Honestly,
we must have been... How
long were we hat shopping?
1051
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,600
Must have been a good half
hour to get the right one.
1052
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,320
Well, half an hour
with the black one
and then I didn't like it.
1053
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,160
That does not happen
by accident.
1054
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,240
That sort of thing
takes time.
1055
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,040
Anyway, this does prove,
does it not, that fast cars,
yes, they're great,
1056
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,280
but they're not fast. In the
real world a Renault 9 is as
fast as an Aston or Bentley
1057
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:21,720
-or a BMW.
-Ow! Agh! Agh!
1058
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,560
-What?
-Ohh! There's been
an accident.
1059
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:25,960
There's no other word for it.
1060
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,720
-The... My... Look.
-You've ruined your crow.
1061
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,680
The crow's beak's
come off and base.
1062
00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:35,720
But more... Look. That all
was in me a minute ago
1063
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,000
and now it's not.
1064
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,240
Why's it coming out of you?
1065
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,560
Because half the crow's face
went in there
1066
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,520
-when I picked it up.
-It attacked you?
1067
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,320
That was a really priceless
ornament, that.
1068
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,720
That's a real shame.
1069
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,240
That's coming out at a rate.
1070
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,200
I reckon you've probably got
three, maybe four minutes.
1071
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,560
-That's a pint.
-It's not a pint. It's spread
out thin on the floor.
1072
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,440
If this were you there'd be
bloody helicopters coming,
1073
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,760
-trousers being cut off.
-Yeah. I'd be out of here
by now.
1074
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,760
I'm just getting on with it.
Go and have a look
1075
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,760
-how much damage
you've done in yours.
-Mine'll be fine.
1076
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,880
I won't have done any damage
in the Bentley.
1077
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,480
-Oh, God!
-(JEREMY LAUGHS)
1078
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:15,160
-Go on, say it.
-I've lost my jugs
and my clock.
1079
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,120
-All I've got is this ring.
-(JEREMY LAUGHS)
1080
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,360
JEREMY: With James'
unrealistic real world test
out of the way,
1081
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,440
we continued heading east
1082
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:33,360
and eventually we arrived
at the fount of everything.
1083
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,120
The cradle of humankind
is in South Africa.
1084
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,280
That's where we began
as a species.
1085
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:57,240
But the cradle of everything
that makes us special
1086
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,160
is here.
1087
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:04,240
The things that we make
out of what's coming
out of the ground here
1088
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,720
boggles the mind.
1089
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,280
Toothbrushes, crayons,
1090
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,440
heart valves, parachutes,
1091
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:12,920
anti-freeze.
1092
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,480
JAMES: Vinyl records,
cassette tapes,
1093
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,440
CDs, training shoes.
1094
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,880
Guitar strings, balloons,
1095
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,600
sunglasses, life jackets.
1096
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,920
Anaesthetics,
enamel, dentures,
1097
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,400
prosthetic limbs, shampoo.
1098
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,120
Disposable ballpoint pen,
1099
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,640
smartphone,
1100
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,280
face creams, deodorants.
1101
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,600
Lipstick, fishing rods,
1102
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,400
electric blankets,
insect repellent,
1103
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,160
umbrellas, roofing.
1104
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,160
Light switches, dishwashers,
1105
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,400
John Travolta's face.
1106
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,320
Antiseptic,
food preservatives,
1107
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,440
basketballs, putty,
1108
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:58,440
motorcycle helmets, boats,
1109
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,120
soft contact lenses.
1110
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,120
The crackly bottle
your water comes in.
1111
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,240
Fan belts, satellite dishes,
1112
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,200
Frisbees, heat,
1113
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,400
light.
1114
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,000
And most importantly of all,
1115
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,720
the amber nectar
of the gods, petrol.
1116
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,960
JEREMY: Oil is so important
here, in fact,
1117
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,120
they've built a spa
where you can bathe in it.
1118
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,880
It was like the wine spa
we found in Georgia,
1119
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,240
apart from in every way.
1120
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,920
(BUBBLING)
1121
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,920
-Is that really crude oil?
-Yeah.
1122
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,120
I feel like a guillemot.
1123
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:44,320
(LAUGHS)
1124
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,840
Any minute now some woman
with hairy armpits
1125
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,760
will take me to a yurt
and wash me down
with Fairy Liquid
1126
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,360
and say,
"Look what we found."
1127
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,400
-Where's our baths?
-We've only got the one bath.
1128
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:54,800
You're not getting in here
with me.
1129
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:56,560
Well, I'm not
getting in after you.
1130
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,440
-Why not?
-Are you kidding?
1131
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:02,160
Well, because that would be
full of your scabs
and dandruff...
1132
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,760
JEREMY: The next day,
after I'd been scraped clean,
1133
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,280
we set off
for the Caspian Sea.
1134
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:16,080
And since we were almost
at journey's end,
1135
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,480
it felt like a good time
to sum up our cars.
1136
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,400
All the things a car
has to excel at
1137
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,080
to be a good GT car,
1138
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,160
luxury, comfort,
power, style,
1139
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,120
make for just
a good car of any sort.
1140
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,520
And this new Bentley
Continental GT
1141
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:39,440
is a very, very,
very good GT car.
1142
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:43,000
But it has surprised me
beyond that.
1143
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:47,880
At the track, when two
and a quarter tonnes of car
felt nimble and agile.
1144
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,920
But above all else
it's about this interior.
1145
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:57,080
This is just a nicer place to
be than anywhere else.
1146
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:01,040
Got to say it...
This thing is a masterpiece.
1147
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,600
They've absolutely nailed it.
1148
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,840
And it deserves to wear
its flying B.
1149
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,920
What a thing.
1150
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,040
So, my BMW.
Now, when we started
this trip,
1151
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,720
I merely thought
it was rather good.
1152
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,880
But now... I'm pretty much
in love with it.
1153
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:31,320
And most of that,
to be honest, is because
of that V8 engine.
1154
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,920
It's smooth,
it's quiet, it's unobtrusive,
1155
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,400
but then you just knock
it down a few
and give it a bit of shoe...
1156
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:38,560
(REVS)
1157
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,320
See? It becomes sonorous.
1158
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,600
Its voice becomes
more heartfelt
1159
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,720
and it tingles
through the steering wheel
and through my buttocks.
1160
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:47,040
It's lovely.
1161
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:48,400
And the other thing...
1162
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,240
And I know this is
going to sound
1163
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,440
a little bit sort of
#FirstWorldConsideration
1164
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,560
but it's only ยฃ100,000.
1165
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:00,880
Considerably less than
half the price of
the Aston Martin.
1166
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,920
It also looks better
and it's made by Germans.
1167
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:06,640
Buy this.
1168
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,520
JEREMY:
It's been a great trip, this.
1169
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,760
A couple of things
we've learned on the way...
1170
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,000
No.1, Georgia, hidden gem.
1171
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:24,600
Tbilisi in particular.
1172
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:28,760
And No.2, pottery is
much sharper
than you might imagine.
1173
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:35,000
Then there's the DBS
and that is tricky.
1174
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,080
It is as fast as hell
and it's comfortable
1175
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,640
and it looks sensational.
1176
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:43,720
It's a hugely appealing car
1177
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:50,000
but is it worth ยฃ70,000 more
than the also hugely
appealing DB11?
1178
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,000
And I don't think it is.
1179
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,040
I just don't think it is.
1180
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,920
Maybe if they'd fitted
an interior that
made you feel special
1181
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,840
like the interior does
in the Bentley,
1182
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,520
I'd have a different view,
but they didn't.
1183
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:09,800
So I don't. Sorry.
1184
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:16,040
JEREMY: After a stunning
drive through the tip of
the Caucasus,
1185
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:21,080
we eventually arrived in
the jaw-dropping capital
of Azerbaijan.
1186
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:32,360
Here we are. Baku,
1187
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:36,280
where there is, let's be
honest, some architecture.
1188
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,800
I mean, look at that.
1189
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,960
A British architect
did that,
1190
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,440
my favouritest building
in the world
1191
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,400
by a long way.
1192
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,320
These cars are now looking...
well, I'd call them heroic.
1193
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,960
James would say disgusting.
1194
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:03,360
James May, how annoyed
are you by the dirtiness
of your car?
1195
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,640
-(LAUGHS)
-I was just saying
that we're in disgrace.
1196
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:08,120
Because this is a shiny,
spangly city.
1197
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,160
We should make our cars
shiny and spangly.
1198
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,440
It only takes a minute
to clean them.
1199
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,000
These look like
they've done work
1200
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,960
and battled
and fought through.
1201
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,320
-No, they look dirty.
-(LAUGHS)
1202
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,000
Ooh, hello. This is a bit of
the Grand Prix track.
1203
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,000
Of course, they have the
Grand Prix here now.
1204
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,920
Why don't we do a lap
of the Grand Prix track?
1205
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:41,760
Well, because I doubt
you can. It's not just
a track, is it?
1206
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,720
Well, why don't we do a drag
race on the main straight?
1207
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:50,000
Because it's a city. You
can't just do a drag race.
1208
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,280
What if we asked
really nicely?
1209
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:59,560
As Hammond didn't have
an answer to that,
I did ask really nicely.
1210
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:03,160
And the next day
they really did close off
the main straight.
1211
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:06,640
So we could have
our important drag race.
1212
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,640
(REVVING)
1213
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,960
The Aston should
absolutely cream this.
1214
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,880
On paper it's faster to 60
and it's more powerful.
1215
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:20,440
And it's lighter.
1216
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,160
But it's rear-wheel drive
and it's a wet track.
1217
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:28,800
I have four-wheel drive
and launch control.
1218
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,920
My only slight worry is
James has got them as well.
1219
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,360
Here's my prediction.
Their four-wheel drive
systems and launch controls
1220
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,800
will get them
off the line quickly.
1221
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:45,000
And then once
I've got the power down,
I'll just become a missile.
1222
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,000
This is not a race
to see who wins.
1223
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,760
It's a race to see which one
of my colleagues loses.
1224
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:57,720
(REVVING)
1225
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:00,720
OK, here we go.
1226
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,920
And we are away!
1227
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,360
Can't get the power down.
1228
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,760
Whoa!
1229
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,480
Oh, I feel it slithering,
that four-wheel drive
doing its job.
1230
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,840
Whoa! OK...
1231
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:34,040
Bentley's reeling me in.
I don't think
he's going to do it.
1232
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,320
Come on, BMW.
1233
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,040
Yes! (LAUGHS)
1234
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,280
Where's Jeremy gone?
1235
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,880
Interesting building here.
It's a government building.
1236
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:47,960
I'm just going to
have a look at it.
1237
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,440
Yeah, nice.
1238
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:57,160
Having looked
at the building, I decided
to have another go.
1239
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,280
But still the Aston
would not behave.
1240
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,600
Oh, my....
1241
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,640
Oh, jeez.
1242
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,200
Victory!
1243
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:19,840
So is it just
all over the place?
1244
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:24,240
I'm using about a quarter
throttle and it's sideways.
1245
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,680
(LAUGHS)
It's not brilliant, is it?
1246
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:30,400
Well done for getting
permission but not so good
on the weather.
1247
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,160
I therefore decided that
before we tried again,
1248
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,400
I should do something
about the weather.
1249
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,080
So I got us
and all our crew vehicles
1250
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,720
to drive up and down the
track to try and dry it out.
1251
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,400
This took quite a while.
1252
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:52,080
RICHARD ON RADIO:
Jeremy, on that first run,
did some poo come out?
1253
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:56,360
Difficult to keep the poo in
when your anus
is as well oiled as mine.
1254
01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:00,120
How dry are we going to be
able to get this track?
1255
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,160
JEREMY: It's drying out
on James' side.
1256
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,000
If we do another run
with me there...
1257
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,960
-Be all right.
-Well, it's hardly
real world, is it,
1258
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,280
choosing which bit of
the road you drive on
to make your car faster.
1259
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,360
As that is in fact exactly
what you do in a race,
1260
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:18,600
I ignored him
and lined up
1261
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:21,680
for our third attempt
on the dry line.
1262
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:27,320
So, BMW, Bentley or
the surface-to-air missile.
1263
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:29,320
Which will win?
1264
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,400
Amber.
1265
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,000
JEREMY: Ohh!
1266
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,320
It's a great start.
1267
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,760
Jesus! It's still doing it.
1268
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,720
80mph, 90mph.
1269
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:56,920
Oh, it's going
sideways again.
1270
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:58,920
Oh, my...
1271
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,880
Ohh!
1272
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,240
Oh, jeez!
1273
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,400
-Reel him in, reel him in.
-Come on, BMW.
1274
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,160
Oh, bugger!
1275
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,960
(LAUGHS)
1276
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,920
Well, there we are. The Aston
was by far the most exciting
to look at there.
1277
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,160
As usual.
1278
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,040
So now let's get some lunch.
1279
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:35,200
And moments later
we found our grail.
1280
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:44,560
There we are, look, 50 feet
below sea level and we have
arrived at journey's end.
1281
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,840
The Caspian.
1282
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:51,520
The largest inland body of
water in the world.
1283
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,920
Our journey is complete.
1284
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,880
Let's get a bream.
1285
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:14,960
A bream's fish?
1286
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,640
No, Hammond, they're cows.
Of course they're fish!
1287
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,680
I don't like fish.
1288
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,760
-Well, on that terrible
disappointment...
-For him.
1289
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:24,720
Mm. ...back to the tent.
1290
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,520
-(CHOKES)
-(LAUGHTER)
1291
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,000
Why did you say "Back to
the tent," you idiot?
1292
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,080
Um... Oh, right, um...
It just slipped...
1293
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,520
-I've got biscuit.
-(LAUGHTER)
1294
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:39,720
-You don't do that.
-It slipped out.
-Never do that.
1295
01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:43,320
It gives us a chance at least
to say how good GT cars are.
1296
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:45,240
-I love them.
-Mm.
1297
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,080
Engine at the front and all
the power you need.
1298
01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:48,320
They're everything
you want in a car.
1299
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,320
I agree. The BMW
was the best as well.
1300
01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:51,640
-Eh?
-Yes, but, James,
1301
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:53,000
why don't you tell
the ladies and gentlemen
1302
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:56,160
about the BMW's
lane departure system?
1303
01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,240
You know, the one that
keeps you in the white lines
when you're driving along.
1304
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,360
Yeah, well, the thing is,
it was a pre-production car.
1305
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,680
It had a slight glitch in it.
You couldn't turn it off.
1306
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,800
And it's quite annoying
on the road because
it does that.
1307
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:09,760
But on the track,
the problem is that you
aim for a perfect apex
1308
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,560
but the car thinks, he's
about to have an accident.
1309
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,840
It just throws you
back into the middle of
the track again.
1310
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:16,440
-(LAUGHTER)
-It was extremely irritating.
1311
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,600
There was that, which
you moaned about a lot,
and the gearbox.
1312
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:21,680
Yeah, the gearbox, well...
(LAUGHS)
1313
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,440
The problem there is,
the display on the dash,
there's two of them.
1314
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,280
-One of them says
what gear you've selected...
-Mm.
1315
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:31,760
...but the other one says
what gear the car
thinks you should be in.
1316
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,360
So, again on the track,
you'll be driving along,
1317
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:34,640
going, here comes
a left-hand bend...
1318
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,280
(IMITATES CHANGING DOWN)
1319
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:39,280
..right down to second and
the car would go, seventh?
1320
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,240
(LAUGHTER)
1321
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,440
-That is annoying.
-It's basically just Germans
1322
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,440
saying, "The Englander
knows nothing here."
1323
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:46,960
-(LAUGHTER)
-Exactly.
1324
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,000
But it was bloody fast,
the BMW.
1325
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,720
-It was excellent.
-But I still think the
Bentley was the best.
1326
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:53,320
-It was the best.
-I agree.
1327
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:54,880
-What?
-I agree.
1328
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:56,320
Look, I really like
the DBS, OK?
1329
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:57,720
It was a fantastic car.
1330
01:11:57,760 --> 01:11:59,120
I like the DB11 as well.
1331
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:00,320
And the Vantage.
1332
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:03,160
But for doing that journey...
1333
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,120
-I'd choose the Bentley.
-Wait a minute,
1334
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,800
haven't you just recommended
the Aston Martin DBS
to a friend of yours?
1335
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,600
-Yes, I have.
-(LAUGHTER)
1336
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,240
-And has he since bought one?
-Yes, he has.
1337
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:15,400
(LAUGHTER)
1338
01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:17,400
And on that terrible
disappointment, for him,
1339
01:12:17,440 --> 01:12:20,600
it's time to end. Thank you
so much for watching.
Goodbye!
1340
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:22,520
(CHEERING)
1341
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:26,640
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