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02:39Σε αυτό είναι αυτό που έγιω γιατί από το βίντεο είναι η ώρα.
02:43Δημόσον περισσότερο δεδοτήριο.
02:46Δεν έχει τίποτα θάχνει να γίνεισουά στον το στραγιόζι για το χαρά.
02:48Παγόντα να υπηρθεί.
02:50Μουσίερφε.
02:51Η μάς ενόχει.
02:52Παγόντα.
02:54Η γάς μου ήταν αυτό που γινώργεί.
02:56Αλλά υποχάρη επαπλήθηκε για το στιγμό του αυτήν άτομα,
03:00ומ συνέχιες του ταινίς είχε η ΜΚ 2.
03:02και είναι γλωμικο για David Bailey και γυρήσα για Ισπέτρου Μόρσε και είναι το πρόσφαλό για Ισπέτρου Μόρσε και πιθανό για τον Ισπέτρου Ισπέτρου Ισπέτρου.
03:10Επίσης τον τ��썘 Ε unglaubνη … σωστά τουiasm causing κατανονιχει την底 että Μ΄2 είναι τομίξι του始 Occup 참όλού αριστερά σε 1959.
03:28Δεν εζύ 제 những βασιλικά μία βασ thrivy …
03:32δεν συμ제 vra책 αλεγές.
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05:43The 3.8 could hit 60mph in 8.5 seconds.
05:48That was faster than all the Germans.
05:50Faster than many of the purpose-built sports cars of the day.
05:54Faster even than some modern S-Type Jags.
06:01And best of all, it was accessible because it was so cheap.
06:07In fact, if you take into consideration just changing fashions,
06:11it wasn't the Jaguar of its time at all.
06:13It was the Subaru Impreza.
06:16An Aston Martin DB4 came in at 3,200 quid with 300 brake horsepower.
06:22But you could have a Mark II Jaguar 3.8 with 220 brake horsepower for 1,600 quid.
06:29Some people didn't even pay that much because the Mark II was the car of choice for Britain's villainous getaway drivers.
06:40Roy James, who was the great train robber's getaway driver, was very particular about his Jag Mark IIs.
06:45He'd always steal a 3.4 rather than a 3.8 just because he preferred the handling.
06:52Not a lot of people know that.
06:58The Mark II ran for most of the 60s.
07:01But by 1968, it was all over.
07:04And not such a bad thing, really.
07:05Because by then, Jaguar had been swallowed up by British Leyland.
07:09And predictably, the BL Monster was doing its bit to screw up everything.
07:14So it had its eight-year run, like most cars.
07:19But for me, it remains the ultimate Jaguar.
07:22It wasn't the first time they'd used this kind of design or this engine.
07:26But as a package, the Mark II became the definitive Jaguar saloon.
07:30It might not have the ultimate knockout glamour of the E-Type.
07:34But the way we look at Jaguars today as fast, affordable, classy sports saloons was defined by this car.
07:48You know, I like the Mark II hugely.
07:50But I didn't really get into Jaguar until they launched the supercharged version in 1994.
07:56Four, that's right.
07:57There's nothing more sinister than a black XJR.
08:02Hannibal Lecter had one.
08:03And he was sinister.
08:04And I had one.
08:05But you're quite sinister.
08:07And the great thing was, is that if you parked it outside a post office,
08:11while you were away, you always got the sense that it was in there, robbing the place.
08:17Or eating the postmistress.
08:19But the Lecter...
08:21The Lectermobile, thank you.
08:22Lectermobile has gone.
08:24Finished.
08:24This is the new XJ.
08:26This is the Jaguar saloon for the 21st century.
08:29And we'll be looking at it a bit later on.
08:31But now, it's the news.
08:34Right.
08:35We start tonight with some Vauxhall news,
08:38which will be of interest to these two chaps,
08:40because you've got an Astra Diesel.
08:42What is he doing here?
08:43And he's got a Vectra and not even the new one.
08:47Deary me.
08:48Anyway, we have managed to secure a photograph of next year's Astra.
08:52Who'd like to see what it looks like?
08:54Nope, not really.
08:55Not really.
08:55Me.
08:55You would like to see.
08:58Okay, fair enough.
09:01No!
09:01It is nice.
09:02It's unbelievably nice.
09:05It'll never look anything like that at all.
09:08No, well, I thought that.
09:09So I rang Vauxhall up and I said,
09:11look, is it really going to look like that?
09:13I said, yes.
09:14If it doesn't, can I eat your dog?
09:16and he said, yeah, okay, you can eat my dog.
09:18I promise you, the three-door Astra,
09:19apart from the back end,
09:20which will be a little bit different,
09:21will look like that.
09:22That's fabulous.
09:24Absolutely fabulous.
09:25Can I show you something interesting?
09:26Have a look at this, okay?
09:28It's a Ferrari, clearly,
09:29and this stripe is what we're interested in for the moment.
09:32Reading down this options list,
09:34how much do you reckon this costs?
09:36What, to have it painted on the car?
09:36To have that, if you buy just the red car,
09:38but you want it as an extra from the options list that I have here.
09:40£1,000.
09:41£1,500.
09:42For a bit of paint?
09:43£2,000.
09:43£7,000.
09:44How much?
09:45£3,643 quid for a stripe.
09:48Seriously.
09:48£3,006 bargain,
09:50says the man with the AstraZisle.
09:52He's got an AstraZisle.
09:54This is the Stradale,
09:55which, if I can explain,
09:56is taken from,
09:57they have a championship race,
09:59where these compete.
10:00This is the road-going version of the race car.
10:02So, it costs £30,000 more.
10:04It's £130,000.
10:05But it's lighter, it's lower,
10:06they firm up the suspension,
10:08lower the centre of gravity,
10:09more power, about 425 brake horsepower,
10:110-62 in 4.1 seconds.
10:14and it has got paddle shift
10:15and before you bleed,
10:16they're only like flappy gearboxes.
10:18It's actually quite good in that.
10:19I'm sorry.
10:20I'm sorry, everyone.
10:21Have you driven this car?
10:22I have, yes.
10:23And what happened when you drove this car?
10:24Well, I crashed it.
10:27Tell the nice ladies and gentlemen
10:29about what happened.
10:30Well, I was going round a corner
10:31and the next minute
10:32I went round lots and lots of corners
10:33very quickly.
10:34Spam it several times.
10:36Actually, this is why
10:36it's called the F360, this model.
10:39You just drive along
10:39and you go,
10:40and then you do a 360.
10:43Do you know,
10:43you could be right.
10:44You could be right.
10:45I've got news.
10:47When Rover MG
10:48bought itself from BMW
10:51for a tenner
10:51a few years ago,
10:53they made some fairly bold claims
10:55about what they were going to do.
10:56they said
10:57they were going to have
10:57a list of it here.
10:58They said they were going to have
10:58a new 45 by 2003.
11:02They said they were going to have
11:02a VA engine in the ZT.
11:05They said there was going to be
11:05an SV supercar.
11:08They said they were going to
11:09make a space shuttle.
11:10Yeah, a space station.
11:11Yeah, well,
11:11they were going to build
11:12a space shuttle
11:12to get to the Rover space station.
11:14The Rover space station
11:15would be fab, actually,
11:16wouldn't it?
11:16It would be dark metallic green.
11:19And it would have a grill on
11:21that would sort of appear
11:21every 24 hours
11:22and it rotated.
11:23And a really nice clock
11:25somewhere.
11:25I was just thinking of the idea
11:26of Rover launching something.
11:28It's T-minus six seconds.
11:30T?
11:30It's one side T.
11:31It's no sugar.
11:33I don't know why
11:34we're going to go into space.
11:35It's 3.30 now.
11:36We're knocking off Michael.
11:38We'll do the launch
11:39in the morning.
11:41Anyway,
11:42no Rover space station,
11:44no supercar
11:45that we've been able to see,
11:46no Rover 45s.
11:47They've not annexed China
11:48or bought India
11:49or all the things
11:50they said they were going to do.
11:51But what they have done,
11:52and I've got a photograph of it here,
11:53is launched
11:54some hoops
11:56for the MG.
11:58Check it out.
11:58Yeah,
11:58now buy those hoops
12:00which will cost you
12:03280 pounds,
12:04inclusive of the 80,
12:06or if you want them
12:06attached to the car,
12:08339 pounds.
12:12Right,
12:13reliability studies.
12:14We love these.
12:14Because,
12:15no,
12:15we do,
12:17because they tell us
12:17not,
12:18you know,
12:19which is the fastest,
12:19noughts to 60,
12:20but which cars break down
12:21and why.
12:22This is a good one.
12:23It's by a company
12:23called,
12:24I think,
12:24reliabilityindex.com.
12:27Internet.
12:27Possibly isn't the best of starts.
12:29But,
12:29this makes interesting reading.
12:31Here's their most reliable cars
12:33from their extensive survey work.
12:35Their top ten goes,
12:36as follows,
12:36number one,
12:37Mazda.
12:38Fair point.
12:39Yeah.
12:39Mazdas are reliable.
12:40Anyone got a Mazda?
12:42Does it ever break down?
12:44No,
12:44there you go.
12:45They never do.
12:45MX5 goes forever.
12:46Then in second place,
12:49Ford.
12:52Nowadays,
12:52Anyone got a Ford?
12:54Does it ever break down?
12:57Some do,
12:58some do.
12:58Anyway,
12:58the second most reliable car.
13:00I think this reliability index
13:02gets a bit weak here.
13:03Third most reliable make of car.
13:06Fiat.
13:13I mean,
13:13then it's got,
13:14you know,
13:14Honda,
13:14Volkswagen,
13:15Mercedes,
13:15Toyota,
13:16BMW,
13:17Volvo,
13:17all the people expected.
13:18But in third place,
13:19Fiat.
13:20What have they got
13:21as being the most unreliable car?
13:23Well,
13:23this is good fun
13:23because according to them,
13:25the second least reliable make,
13:27least reliable make,
13:28is Subaru.
13:30They never go wrong.
13:31They're the most reliable cars imaginable.
13:34I have never,
13:35in how long I've been doing this,
13:3615 years,
13:36I've never had a letter
13:37from a Subaru owner,
13:38ever,
13:39saying my Subaru broke down.
13:40So,
13:41that is...
13:42No,
13:42no,
13:42what was number one?
13:43What's the most unreliable car
13:44according to them?
13:45Toyota?
13:46It'll be Toyota.
13:46I bet it's something like...
13:47Toyota and Nissan.
13:48Lexan.
13:49Oh,
13:50Jeep was one?
13:50Yeah.
13:52Do you want that?
13:55Absolute rubbish.
13:56Well,
13:56this is interesting.
13:58A brochure about the opening
13:59of a new car park
14:01in Leeds.
14:02Oh, my God.
14:02Q Park is not only changing
14:05the way people park,
14:07but also the way they think
14:08about parking.
14:10Parking...
14:11I don't think about parking.
14:12Parking...
14:12You don't.
14:14It gets better.
14:15Parking provides a vital link
14:17in the mobility chain.
14:18It does.
14:18You stop your car,
14:19you go out,
14:19you go shopping.
14:20and end in itself.
14:22Well,
14:22you don't just go out
14:23to do some parking.
14:24Well,
14:24I don't.
14:25Have a nice day.
14:27Oh,
14:27that's better.
14:29I've been invited
14:29to the opening
14:31of this car park.
14:32In Leeds?
14:32Yeah,
14:33I have to say
14:33I'm very disappointed in it
14:35because when I joined Top Gear
14:36I thought,
14:37here we go.
14:38French film festival,
14:39Kristen,
14:40no.
14:41I've been invited
14:42to the opening
14:43of a car park
14:44and it says,
14:45yes, please,
14:45I would like to come
14:46to the opening
14:46of the car park.
14:47I will be arriving
14:48A. By car,
14:50B. On foot.
14:54So anyway,
14:54I rang them up
14:55and I said,
14:55I'd like to come in the car.
14:56Will they be parking?
14:59Last week,
15:00if you remember,
15:00we launched our search
15:01for rubbish cars.
15:03Well,
15:03not rubbish cars,
15:04cars that have been ruined,
15:05if you remember,
15:06people who've just
15:07done stupid things.
15:08I've got a good example
15:09that's been sent in
15:10to give you an idea
15:10of what we're looking for.
15:11Started life as a Volvo,
15:13okay,
15:13sensible car.
15:14I've actually seen this car
15:14in real life.
15:15Look at that!
15:17Look at that!
15:18What?
15:18He's welded
15:19half a wheelie into it.
15:21Where?
15:22On earth!
15:23When I saw that
15:24on the M4,
15:24there was a trail
15:25of traffic
15:26all trying to look
15:26not just at the car
15:28but at the idiot
15:30that did that to it.
15:31So,
15:32if that's you
15:33or if you've done
15:34anything like that
15:35to your car
15:35or you know anybody
15:36else who has,
15:37please drop us a line
15:38to,
15:39I'm a clot
15:40and I've ruined my car,
15:42BBC Top Gear,
15:43London,
15:44Wales,
15:45W12,
15:46Scotland.
15:47Now,
15:48in a couple of weeks
15:48we're having
15:49a bit of a theme
15:50to the show
15:51which is track days.
15:52So what we're looking for
15:53is people who've been
15:54videoing themselves
15:55or their friends
15:56going around the track
15:57when they've made
15:57a complete horlix of it
15:59and crashed.
16:00If you've got any tapes
16:01like that,
16:01do send them to us.
16:02Usual address,
16:03Top Gear,
16:03London,
16:04W12,
16:05England,
16:06Wales,
16:06Scotland,
16:06Isle of Man,
16:07Northern Ireland,
16:08Berwick.
16:09Now,
16:10when I hosted
16:11Have I Got News For You
16:12last year,
16:13seven people
16:14telephoned the BBC
16:15to say I was
16:15a very poor presenter.
16:17When my guest tonight
16:18hosted it,
16:1985 people rang up
16:21and said he was
16:22an excellent presenter.
16:23He is the conservative
16:24MP for Henley,
16:26he's editor of
16:26The Spectator
16:27and it seems
16:28he's 92 times
16:30better than me
16:30at hosting
16:31topical news quizzes.
16:33Ladies and gentlemen,
16:34Boris Johnson!
16:40How are you?
16:42Good to see you.
16:45Thank you.
16:47Thank you.
16:48This Have I Got News For You,
16:50Malarkey.
16:50Yes.
16:51This is tricky,
16:52isn't it?
16:52Very tricky.
16:53I mean,
16:54tricky for me at least,
16:54anyway.
16:55Well,
16:55it was tricky.
16:55It was trying to remember
16:56which bit you were supposed
16:57to be looking at
16:58at any given time.
16:59I think Angus Deaton
17:00earned his money.
17:01I think they should
17:02bring back Angus.
17:02Well,
17:03who thinks we should
17:04bring back Angus?
17:04I think they should
17:05bring back Angus.
17:06Not bring back Angus,
17:07but bring back Angus.
17:09The thing I've got to find out
17:11really is
17:12most politicians,
17:13Frazak and Worker,
17:14are pretty incompetent
17:15and then have a veneer
17:16of competence.
17:17Yes.
17:18You do seem to do it
17:19the other way around.
17:20Yes.
17:21You can't rule out
17:22the possibility,
17:23you know,
17:23beneath the elaborately
17:24constructed veneer
17:25of a, you know,
17:26blithering idiot.
17:26There are lurks
17:27of blithering idiot.
17:29Well, which is it?
17:29Are you a blithering idiot?
17:30No, no, no, no,
17:31my dear fellow.
17:33What's this about
17:33you driving a tractor
17:34through a barn then?
17:36Yes,
17:37it's perfectly true
17:37that this is a long time ago.
17:40I'm, you know,
17:41if you've ever driven
17:42a tractor very fast.
17:43No, nobody has.
17:46Well, this was actually
17:47rather a fast one
17:48by my standards.
17:50Massey Ferguson tractor
17:51had a great many
17:51very complicated gears
17:52and at the crucial moment
17:54I couldn't remember
17:55which gear was the one
17:56you used when you
17:57wanted to slow down
17:58and a sort of
17:59blankness descended
18:00and I went out
18:01through the back
18:02of the barn
18:02and, um...
18:04Through the wall?
18:04Yeah.
18:06And anyway,
18:07it was alright in the end.
18:08They docked my pay
18:09where I was working
18:10but so...
18:11It was perfectly easy
18:12to replace the wall
18:13so it could be...
18:14What were you?
18:15A tractor driver then?
18:16Part-time, yes.
18:17Part-time tractor driver.
18:18And now
18:19you write about cars.
18:21I do.
18:21Well, I do.
18:22But, you know,
18:23Jeremy,
18:23I sit at your feet
18:25in the terms of,
18:25you know,
18:25writing about cars.
18:26Anyway,
18:27I'm, you know,
18:27like Aeschylus
18:28feasting at the,
18:30you know,
18:30some scraps
18:31from the rich banquet
18:32of Homer.
18:32Yeah?
18:34That's something
18:35that goes down
18:37big on Top Gear.
18:37I was going to say,
18:38that's a good thing.
18:39That's a good thing.
18:39Is it?
18:40It is a good thing, yeah.
18:41Because, I mean,
18:41I do enjoy,
18:42it's in GQ magazine,
18:44your motoring column.
18:44Yeah.
18:45It is very good.
18:46It's very few.
18:47I don't know anything about cars.
18:48As you know,
18:48I don't really know.
18:49I shouldn't say that, actually.
18:50I do know.
18:51I know more
18:52than I used to.
18:52Can I just share
18:54a little observation
18:55that Boris made
18:55about the Maserati here?
18:57Look how much
18:58has been crammed in.
18:59The great big fat long things,
19:01the vast doodah
19:03with the squiggly bits
19:04coming out of the earth.
19:05Just look at those
19:06sucking,
19:07I do think,
19:08what do you really know
19:09your stuff there about cars?
19:11Absolutely no idea.
19:13Yeah.
19:14No, genuinely,
19:14I have no idea
19:15how an engine works.
19:16People have sat me down
19:18and said,
19:18no, no, no,
19:18the petrol goes in.
19:19Do you know?
19:20No, not the faintest.
19:21And then this pistons
19:22go up and down
19:22and somehow you go a lot.
19:24How does that happen?
19:25He'll know.
19:26He's got a beard
19:26and a rover.
19:28He'll know everything
19:29there is to know about it.
19:29It is a miracle.
19:30But I am a very keen cyclist.
19:32Unlike you,
19:33I think.
19:33I know this.
19:34I know this.
19:35And you talk on a mobile phone
19:37while you're doing it.
19:38No.
19:39You do?
19:39Well, I do.
19:40I do, yeah.
19:40I do.
19:41when I said no,
19:44I wanted to make a point
19:45about my willingness
19:46to learn and to reform
19:48because it's perfectly true
19:49that I did once
19:50talk on a mobile phone
19:51whilst cycling.
19:54And actually,
19:54why shouldn't you be able
19:55to talk on a mobile phone
19:56whilst cycling?
19:56Because you can't reach
19:57the brakes.
19:58You can with one hand.
20:00Oh, I have this exact same thing.
20:01Are you saying,
20:02are you saying
20:02that people with only one arm
20:03shouldn't be allowed
20:04to ride a bicycle?
20:07Are you?
20:08Because that,
20:09I put it to you,
20:10I put it to you,
20:10that is, that is,
20:11you know,
20:12that's discriminatory.
20:14Yes, people with one arm
20:15should not be allowed
20:16to ride a bicycle
20:16on the basis that...
20:18What do you mean?
20:18No one should be allowed
20:20to ride a bicycle.
20:21They take up too much space
20:23on the road
20:24and they don't pay
20:25to be there.
20:25Well, I think bicycles
20:27are absolutely wonderful.
20:28You wouldn't park
20:28in a cycle lane,
20:29would you?
20:30Park in one?
20:31You wouldn't park
20:31in a cycle lane?
20:31No, but I do drive
20:32in them fairly regularly.
20:33You drive in cycles?
20:34Yeah, and bus lanes.
20:35I think the bus lane
20:36is a very good idea.
20:38For you?
20:39Yeah, because you think
20:39everyone's not in this,
20:40fantastic, I'm late,
20:41I'll just zoom up.
20:43I don't know.
20:44You see,
20:44are you allowed
20:45to say that on telly?
20:47I just did.
20:48Whether it gets edited or not.
20:48Are you, I defy,
20:50I defy the makers
20:51of Top Gear
20:51to keep that admission
20:52in, you know,
20:53in the final edit.
20:54Well, now,
20:55we're not going to know...
20:55I think that's a bit
20:55of a challenge.
20:56Until Sunday night,
20:57we're not going to know
20:58whether it makes it
20:59into the final edit or not.
21:00That is outrageous.
21:01What, that I drive
21:01in bus lanes?
21:02Who here drives
21:03in bus lanes?
21:04One,
21:05us.
21:05Two, exactly.
21:06there's only three of us
21:07who drive in bus lanes.
21:08They're empty.
21:09Oh, are you saying?
21:11So what's it like
21:11on the road?
21:12Are you the kind of guy
21:13that has your car
21:13towed away the whole time?
21:15It has been towed away
21:16now and then, yeah.
21:17It has been towed away.
21:18I wouldn't hide it from you.
21:19But I have to say,
21:20the last time it happened,
21:21it was in defiance
21:22of every bylaw.
21:24It was, it was,
21:25my car was legally parked.
21:28It was absolutely
21:28no question.
21:29And I had the testimony
21:30of two traffic wardens
21:31that it was legally parked
21:33in a residence permit
21:34parking bay.
21:35Mm-hmm.
21:36But the point I want to make,
21:36the point I want to make
21:37is that once your car,
21:38do you know this,
21:39once your car has,
21:39it has one inch
21:41off the ground,
21:42once it's in that
21:43dreadful hammock
21:43and they've got it,
21:45it is no longer yours.
21:47You have no rights
21:47over that vehicle anymore.
21:48There's nothing you can say
21:49to the chap,
21:51the tower.
21:52I have a theory on that.
21:54Who'd like to hear
21:54my theory on that?
21:56Yeah.
21:56I think if you leapt
21:57onto the bonnet
21:58as it was dangling around.
21:59And you've got one wheel
22:00down onto the top.
22:01No, health and,
22:02there's no way in hell
22:03that a health and safety law
22:04is going to allow you
22:05to be,
22:06they'll have to put it
22:07back down again.
22:08I'm sure of that.
22:09Now, of course,
22:10you're here really
22:11to find out just how
22:12good a driver you are,
22:13I guess.
22:13Yeah, I have an idea
22:14about that.
22:15Really?
22:16How good a driver
22:16do you think you are?
22:17Extremely bad.
22:18Really?
22:18Yeah, extremely bad.
22:20Who'd like to see
22:21Boris's lap?
22:22There we go.
22:27Well, that was a start.
22:28It's already been made
22:29tear to me by my coach.
22:32Stick.
22:33I'm the worst driver
22:34he's ever made.
22:36You've got to aim
22:36for the apex.
22:38Aim for the apex.
22:43You hooted out me.
22:44Someone hooted out me.
22:46I'm so scared of you.
22:47in the car.
22:55Well, there we are,
22:56across the line.
23:02Don't feel bad
23:03about the off-road
23:04excursion there.
23:05Was it uncomfortable?
23:06No, it was fine.
23:07It was a very good car,
23:08the Nihar.
23:09It is a very good car.
23:10I'm very reasonably priced.
23:11I think you can buy them
23:11now for about 25p.
23:13That one, for sure.
23:15Now,
23:15where do you think
23:17you're going to come here?
23:19Do you think you're
23:19going to be up with JK
23:20and Jamie Oliver
23:21and Gordon Ramsay
23:22or are you going to be
23:22more of Jonathan Ross
23:23Harry Enfield?
23:24I think I'm towards the,
23:26if not the very last,
23:27I mean, I have no idea.
23:28No, you couldn't be
23:29slower than Harry Enfield.
23:30Well, I don't,
23:31I have no idea.
23:32I have not.
23:33He's, he's terrified
23:34someone's going to come
23:35one day and be slower than him.
23:36But he's only 12,
23:3713 seconds slower than JK,
23:39isn't he?
23:3913 seconds on that track
23:40is about four years.
23:42Real time.
23:43Anyway, I have your time here.
23:45You did it in one minute,
23:4756 seconds, everybody.
23:51He's faster.
23:54And Jonathan Ross.
23:58Ladies and gentlemen,
23:59Boris Johnson.
24:03the new Jaguar XJ.
24:13Now it looks,
24:14well, it looks exactly the same
24:16as the old Jaguar XJ.
24:17Seriously, that can't have been
24:18a difficult day for them
24:20in the design office,
24:20can it really?
24:21What are we going to do
24:22for the new Jag?
24:23Well, I quite like the old one.
24:24Actually, we'll do that.
24:25But, in fact, it's bigger.
24:27And that means you get a lot of stuff
24:29you didn't get on the old XJ.
24:31Things like room in the back,
24:33for full-size people.
24:34You all right there?
24:35Comfortable?
24:36Good.
24:36Actually, I've got to say,
24:37I never really noticed
24:38that as a big problem
24:39for some reason,
24:40but apparently there wasn't
24:41much space.
24:42You also get,
24:42for the first time in an XJ,
24:44a proper-sized boot
24:45that you can get stuff in.
24:48Comfy?
24:49Yeah, very.
24:50But despite all of this,
24:51despite being bigger,
24:52it manages to be
24:53a fifth of a ton lighter
24:55than the previous XJ.
24:57And that's because
24:58the new one is made
24:59of aluminium.
25:01And a lighter car
25:01is going to be nimbler,
25:02it's going to be faster,
25:04more economical,
25:05and, of course,
25:06kinder to the environment.
25:08The thing is, though,
25:09the old XJ,
25:10the one that I couldn't
25:11fit in the boot of,
25:12that was made of lead
25:13and rock
25:14and, like, churches.
25:16So it was like
25:17a big velvet glove.
25:19Pick you up
25:19at the end
25:20for the hard day at work
25:21and then gently
25:22deposit you at home.
25:24Now, this one,
25:25lighter,
25:26more high-tech,
25:26what worries me
25:27is that some of the
25:28Jaguariness
25:30will have been lost.
25:32So, to find out,
25:33I designed
25:34a cunning test.
25:38Because Jaguars
25:43are supposed to
25:43ease the burden of travel,
25:45I thought I'd see
25:46how far I could go
25:47in the new one
25:48before I got bored
25:49and tired
25:50and irritable.
25:53There are so many things
25:54that usually annoy me
25:56on a motorway,
25:56like people in Mondeo's
25:58registration number
25:59M134LWR
26:01who sit in a middle lane
26:02for no reason.
26:05But there is fun stuff, too.
26:08Well, here we are
26:09in Birmingham
26:09and I must say
26:10it's very nice of
26:10Bosch
26:12to advertise the programme
26:12like that.
26:15So far as the car's concerned,
26:16however,
26:17I've nothing to report.
26:19it's fine.
26:25The M6.
26:27All solid.
26:29If I were in a Mercedes,
26:31I'd be...
26:32Come on!
26:33Come on, everybody!
26:34Get out of the way!
26:36In the Jag.
26:38I'm relaxed.
26:38So they have an accident
26:44in roadworks
26:46and they're not even
26:47doing any roadworks
26:48and ordinarily
26:48that would annoy me
26:49but I'm not bothered.
26:55Eventually,
26:56I broke free
26:57from the obstacle course
26:58that is Birmingham
26:59and found
27:00and the supercharged Jag
27:01has lost
27:02none of its
27:03supercharged-ness.
27:06The extraordinary thing
27:07about this is
27:08is that whether you're
27:08doing 50 or 70
27:10or
27:10even a little bit more
27:12than that,
27:14there's no difference
27:15in
27:15how it feels or sounds.
27:18It's amazing.
27:18This is
27:21Staffordshire now,
27:23voted recently
27:24in a survey
27:24by Country Life magazine
27:25as the worst county
27:27in all of England.
27:29But they won't have
27:30looked at the important
27:31things like
27:32the quality
27:33of the slip roads
27:35going into
27:35motorway service stations.
27:37And on that front,
27:39Stafford Services
27:40is in a class
27:41of its own.
27:42And here we go.
27:43Good, brake hard,
27:48good brakes.
27:49Turn in,
27:50hug the apex
27:51all the way around,
27:51let it run wide.
27:53Oh, the air suspension
27:55working overtime here,
27:57keeping us flat and level
27:58into the head.
28:02And here we are,
28:04coming up to the pit.
28:06Phew, what a lap.
28:09I can't believe
28:09how light this door is.
28:11You know those
28:11little tights cars
28:13that all kids have?
28:15The red ones
28:15with the yellow roof.
28:16Door.
28:17That's what this feels like.
28:19Let's watch this, right?
28:25Still,
28:26it should pay dividends
28:28where it matters.
28:30Here.
28:32One of the worst things
28:34about the old Jag
28:35was filling it up.
28:35It used to
28:36all the time.
28:38This, though,
28:39is going in smoothly so far.
28:41that's a big improvement.
28:45Out of the services,
28:47it was time for another jam.
28:49And guess what was
28:49at the other end of it?
28:52Cheshire.
28:54I'm not sure
28:55that the Jag
28:56will play well here.
28:57I don't think
28:58its bonnet is onyx enough.
29:00If you are interested
29:02in aesthetics,
29:03a bit of advice,
29:04you've got to either have
29:05a Sport
29:06or the XJR
29:07like I've got here.
29:08Because if you buy the SE,
29:10you get
29:10the worst radiator grill
29:13in the world.
29:15And SEs,
29:16the wheels are too narrow on them.
29:19So they look pinched.
29:20Mm-hmm.
29:20Like Joyce Grenfell.
29:23Except not just pinched,
29:25so they've also got
29:25that silly grill.
29:27So they look...
29:28I don't know.
29:35Tell you what is nice.
29:37They must have been tempted
29:38to kind of go
29:39with the
29:39Conran Kevlar interior,
29:42but they've stuck
29:42with the wood
29:43and the leather.
29:44And even though
29:45the car's much bigger,
29:46you still feel hemmed in.
29:47and, you know,
29:48big, tall centre console
29:50and it's just nice.
29:52Feels like you're
29:53driving around
29:53in an eider now.
29:55Now,
29:56time for the
29:57traditional motorway
29:58traveller's
29:59mortgage board.
30:00Double-decker.
30:05Well,
30:05that's the trouble
30:06with eating a double-decker.
30:08Bits of it fall off
30:09and go in your lap.
30:12Just try a twirl.
30:14Boost.
30:15The guano.
30:16Oh,
30:17got it.
30:19New
30:19chunky Kit-Kat
30:21Twix.
30:22An old favourite.
30:24Mmm.
30:25That's very good.
30:27That was a delicious lunch.
30:29Very much
30:30looking forward
30:30to my tea.
30:36William Haig
30:37once said to me
30:38that I was
30:38the sort of person
30:39who thought
30:40that the Lake District
30:41got in the way
30:42of the M6.
30:44It does.
30:45I mean,
30:46we have to go
30:46around all these
30:47corners just
30:48because of
30:48these silly lumps.
30:50It is pretty,
30:51though.
30:54I hate car journeys.
30:57They're so
30:57mind-crushingly boring.
30:59But after six hours
31:01and 330 miles
31:02in the Jag,
31:03I was still relaxed.
31:05No matter what
31:06the irritation.
31:06this is Radio 1.
31:13Now, normally,
31:13that's like having
31:14a rusty screwdriver
31:15shoved into the side
31:16of your head.
31:19And I don't know,
31:20today,
31:20it's fine.
31:21You listen to this chap,
31:22he wants to
31:22big-slap his hoe.
31:25Why not?
31:26Good luck to you, fella.
31:27for Radio 4.
31:36Society has not
31:37always valued
31:38originality.
31:40Ooh, it's Melvin
31:40Bragg's philosophy show.
31:42To what extent
31:44is originality
31:44about perception
31:45rather than conception?
31:47And is originality
31:48a concept
31:48without meaning today?
31:50I'm not quite with you,
31:51there, Melvin.
31:52I don't really
31:53understand the question.
31:54of the cultural theory
31:55at Cardiff University.
32:05So, this is Glasgow.
32:07And I'm still
32:08feeling fresh.
32:09I shall plough on.
32:12Glad I did,
32:13because in Scotland
32:14the Jag got even better.
32:17When I was on the motorway,
32:19it felt like a big,
32:21comfortable cruiser,
32:22like a 7 Series BMW,
32:23but now the motorway
32:25network has finished
32:26and it's all gone
32:27twisty and curly,
32:28it seems to have shrunk.
32:30I would swear
32:31that I was driving a car
32:33the size of a 3 Series BMW.
32:36This is what we want.
32:38A car that soothes away
32:40the monotony of the motorway
32:41and then sticks its hand
32:44down the front of your trousers
32:46when the road gets curly.
32:49Which it has done.
32:53The old XJR drank fuel
32:58like a space shuttle,
32:59but this one had brought me
33:01from Stafford
33:01to the Scottish Highlands
33:02on one tank.
33:05Just.
33:08I'm now playing
33:09what I like to call
33:10fuel light bingo.
33:11The rules are very simple.
33:13You let the fuel light come on,
33:15then you let the needle
33:16go all the way through the red
33:17until it's bent like that
33:19round the bottom of the gauge.
33:21Then when you see a sign
33:23saying services
33:23one mile and 27 miles,
33:26go for the furthest one away
33:27and when you get there,
33:28go past that one too.
33:31If you win,
33:32you make it home,
33:34the next day
33:34your wife drives your car
33:35and she fills it up for you.
33:38I think it's a great game.
33:40My wife doesn't like it very much.
33:42I think it's brilliant.
33:44If you lose,
33:45you run out of petrol.
33:45When I finally coughed
33:51into a village shop
33:52that sold petrol
33:53from one of Robert Louis
33:54Stevenson's old pumps,
33:55it turned out the Jag
33:56had done 22.7 MPG.
33:59Not bad for a supercharged
34:014.2 litre V8.
34:15Oh dear.
34:25I seem to have run out of country.
34:28Still, this time of night
34:29should be quite a nice trip back.
34:36So what's the verdict then, Jeremy?
34:38Well, I still like the fuse bar
34:40best of all.
34:41I tried that boost with Guano.
34:43It was like a double-decker.
34:44It just sort of crumbles
34:45and then you arrive
34:46with brown all melted.
34:47Jeremy, you're not.
34:48The car.
34:49Thank you.
34:50Oh, the verdict's on the car.
34:52Well, it's very good.
34:53Yes.
34:53And at £58,000 for that XJR,
34:55it's also extremely good value for money.
34:57That's a lot less
34:58than you pay for the equivalent
34:59BM, Merc or Audi.
35:02What's your favourite in the range?
35:04The 4.2 SE.
35:06It's the most Jaguar-y.
35:08Yeah, yours?
35:08Well, I'm not saying it's my favourite,
35:10but just the entry level
35:11of the 3-litre V6,
35:13it's about 39.
35:14Yep.
35:14I think that's a perfectly acceptable car.
35:16It is, but that's, Jill.
35:17Honestly, I wafted up to John O'Groats,
35:18turned around and wafted back again.
35:20No backache,
35:21wasn't tired,
35:21wasn't stressed.
35:22It's a very good car.
35:23The only thing I didn't like about it
35:25was the air suspension.
35:26And we're seeing this
35:27more and more on big cars nowadays.
35:29The old XJ
35:30used to glide around at low speeds,
35:32but with air suspension,
35:33it just can't absorb bumps
35:34when it's going slowly
35:35like the old one.
35:36So you sort of crash into things.
35:38and we hope air suspension
35:39goes away very soon.
35:41And takes with it
35:42those flappy gearboxes.
35:43Yes.
35:43Obviously.
35:44Right, the cool wall,
35:45crucial point.
35:46Where's it going to go?
35:48Now, black XJR...
35:50Where is it going?
35:50I think we've kind of proven...
35:52Cool?
35:53Yeah.
35:53Do you know, I think...
35:54I think it's bordering on super...
35:56I think it could be so...
35:57A black XJR.
35:59It's there.
36:00Mmm...
36:00There.
36:00Jeremy, it's also getting higher.
36:04I'm not even going to go there this week.
36:06I can't be bothered.
36:07Then the rest of the range
36:08does have a problem.
36:09I...
36:10Can you do it for us?
36:11It's not exactly like that.
36:13Isn't that uncanny?
36:16That's incredible.
36:19That is the most...
36:20Isn't that a dreadful grill?
36:22It is a disaster.
36:23Just say yes, Jeremy.
36:24I have found a dealer
36:27who for 250 quid,
36:29that's 250 quid,
36:31will put you the XJR grill
36:32on any XJ.
36:34Really?
36:35That kind of admits it's wrong,
36:36but I reckon if it's got
36:37that standard grill on,
36:38I'm afraid with the
36:38Jeremy's face grill on it,
36:40that's uncool.
36:42Sorry.
36:42Just such a small thing
36:43spoils it.
36:44Exactly.
36:45Now, would you buy the Jag
36:46in preference to anything else?
36:48Yeah, I'm a Jag man, yes.
36:50Yeah, so would I.
36:51You?
36:52Well, I definitely wouldn't
36:53buy the 7 Series BM,
36:54No, it's too ugly.
36:56Audi AA isn't quite there yet.
36:59S-Class Mercedes...
37:01Merchant banker.
37:02Merchant banker.
37:03Yeah.
37:04Very much a merchant banker's car,
37:06so yeah, I would have the Jag.
37:07But there is one slight problem.
37:10In a few weeks,
37:11we're going to be running
37:12a road test of this.
37:13It's the new Volkswagen Phaeton,
37:15and I suspect
37:16that this will put
37:18a large German fly
37:20in Jaguar's ointment.
37:22Now then, Hammond,
37:23do you have
37:24£58,500
37:25to spend on a new XJR?
37:27No, I don't.
37:28No, me neither.
37:29No, you don't.
37:29Well, this is insider dealing
37:31where we've got more sense
37:32than money.
37:33And I've found
37:33that the original XJR,
37:35now this is the 1994 one,
37:36the first supercharged one,
37:38six cylinders,
37:38but still a very nice car.
37:40Possibly a bit more raw
37:41than the eight-cylinder ones
37:42as well.
37:42It looks essentially like this,
37:43but with different wheels.
37:44I've found one 70,000 miles
37:46in black,
37:47very Hannibal,
37:48less than £8,000.
37:49It's a good buy.
37:50They are a tempting buy.
37:51But, you're going to say...
37:53Well, I've just got
37:54a slight reservation on them.
37:55My worry is always this.
37:56Buy one by all means.
37:57It's a great car.
37:58It'll look like this.
37:59You'll be very happy.
38:00And I've nearly done this
38:01a couple of times.
38:02At the wheel about to buy it,
38:03bear in mind,
38:04it will lose money
38:05and never stop losing money.
38:07You pay £8,000 for one now.
38:08That'll be half next year
38:09and the year after
38:10until you've got to pay
38:11somebody a grand
38:11to take it away.
38:12I'm not saying don't buy one.
38:13I think they're fantastic.
38:15But buy one in the knowledge
38:16that you're going to have
38:17to keep it
38:17because it'll lose its value.
38:19Car supermarkets.
38:20Do you remember
38:20when these started,
38:21they tended to be full of
38:22three-year-old ex-rental cars
38:24and fleet stuff
38:25and it was, you know,
38:26boring.
38:26They were a bit shabby.
38:27A bit shabby, yeah,
38:27and a bit worn out.
38:28All of a sudden,
38:29these are full of
38:30really fantastic new car deals.
38:32Now, I'll explain why this is.
38:34If you're a main dealer,
38:35you have to take a certain
38:36allocation of cars
38:37off your manufacturer
38:38or importer.
38:39That's part of the deal
38:39of being a dealer.
38:41As we know,
38:41this year is not such
38:42a good year for car sales.
38:43They've got too much stuff.
38:45Now, they don't want
38:45to put them on the forecourts
38:46at a discounted price
38:47because it looks bad
38:49and in the long term
38:50it'll be bad for business.
38:51So what they're doing
38:51is they're quietly
38:52shoving them
38:53into the car supermarkets
38:54and they're bargains.
38:55Now, how about a Range Rover?
38:57Not the new one,
38:58I'm afraid,
38:58the previous model,
38:59the very boxy one.
39:00It was a £50,000 car
39:02but it's only £30,000.
39:04That's the starting price.
39:04Yeah, it's not bad, is it?
39:06And it's still a new car,
39:07it's just not the new Range Rover.
39:08Completely new,
39:09it just hasn't been sold yet.
39:10That's a good buy.
39:11But that's rubbish
39:12compared with this.
39:12I love this one,
39:13the Alfa Romeo 166.
39:15When was the last time
39:15anybody actually saw
39:16one of those on the road?
39:17You don't,
39:18but it's a really elegant car.
39:19It's absolutely fabulous.
39:21It looks terrific,
39:22the inside is fantastic,
39:23it makes a great noise,
39:24it's Italian,
39:25all the rest of it.
39:26Now, these are in car supermarkets.
39:28Let's take the 2-litre
39:29twin spark model.
39:30This has a list price
39:31of £20,750.
39:34I've seen it for less than £13,000.
39:37That is a saving.
39:38That is a fantastic saving,
39:39but here's a better one.
39:40The 2.5-litre V6 model,
39:42this is the quad cam engine,
39:43generally acknowledged
39:44to be one of the finest engines
39:46in the history of the Italian car.
39:48This car would retail at £24,250.
39:51I found it for less than £15,000.
39:54Less than the list price
39:55of a Focus diesel.
39:57It's Focus money,
39:58and that is such an elegant car.
39:59That is a very good one.
40:00Absolutely fabulous.
40:03This is the ultimate underground car.
40:06It's called the Jaguar XKRR.
40:09It's lowered,
40:10it's got racing seats,
40:11racing seatbelts,
40:12there's somewhere in there
40:13to put your helmet.
40:14It's got enormous wheels,
40:15it's got exhausts
40:16by Matrix Churchill.
40:18It's a concept,
40:19but unlike the R-Coupé
40:21that we saw at the start of the show,
40:23this one actually works.
40:31Unlike any XK that's gone before,
40:34this one has a manual gearbox,
40:36and you can do 58 miles an hour
40:39in first.
40:41They've also changed the rear suspension,
40:44which was always an XK Achilles heel.
40:47In fact, they've changed
40:48the entire rear end
40:49and fitted a limited slit there.
40:54Which means you can do this.
41:01If you try to do this
41:02in a normal XK,
41:03you'd spin.
41:06But this just grips and goes.
41:08It's a cat.
41:11Gone feral.
41:12I love this car,
41:16but sadly,
41:17they can't put it into production.
41:19Because Jaguar
41:19has a sister company,
41:21Aston Martin.
41:22And this would jump up and down
41:24all over Aston's new car,
41:26the DB7 GT.
41:32This shape has been with us
41:33for ten years now,
41:34but neither time
41:35nor Aston's
41:36misguided attempts
41:38to improve it
41:38with new wheels
41:39and flared sills
41:40have managed to ruin it.
41:46For the GT,
41:48they've really gone mad.
41:49There's a new boot lid
41:50with a sort of spoiler
41:51on the end of it,
41:52there are lumps on the bonnet
41:53with louvres,
41:54and there's a new radiator grill.
41:56Now, all these things
41:57are terrible,
41:58but look at it this way.
41:59When Sean Connery
42:01grew a beard,
42:01my wife still fancied him.
42:08Inside,
42:08you still get
42:09a handmade feel.
42:11When I close
42:12the centre console lid,
42:13for instance,
42:14the ashtray opens.
42:16And this window
42:17doesn't close properly,
42:18so once you're going
42:19more than, say,
42:1950 miles an hour,
42:21you get a little squeak
42:22of wind noise.
42:23Mind you,
42:24that's not the most annoying sound
42:26that the Aston makes.
42:29And stop this bong
42:30by closing the door,
42:32but then when you turn
42:32the ignition on,
42:34you get a new bong.
42:36It's presumably
42:36for the American market.
42:38Remind them
42:38that they're in a car.
42:46Actually,
42:47you couldn't sell this
42:48to an American.
42:49It wouldn't fit.
42:50I mean, I don't.
42:51Nowhere for my left leg,
42:53there's nowhere for my head.
42:56You have to remember
42:56that underneath everything,
42:58this is basically
42:59a Jaguar XJS.
43:00It's a 30-year-old design.
43:03And how much
43:04are they charging
43:04for all this?
43:05A hundred and four thousand pounds.
43:11It's time, therefore,
43:13to tuck the DB7 up in bed
43:15with a nice mug of cocoa
43:16and let Jaguar make
43:18that brilliant XKRR instead.
43:26Except for one tiny detail.
43:30This GT version
43:32is not just
43:33a cynical marketing exercise.
43:35It's not just a beard
43:37to cover up the wrinkles.
43:39What it is
43:40is amazing.
43:42It may be cramped,
44:02old and expensive,
44:03but it is epic fun.
44:06The old DB7 was never
44:11that much cop to drive,
44:12but in this,
44:13they've been through it
44:13with a fine-tooth comb
44:14changing just about everything.
44:17Rear wishbones,
44:18damper settings,
44:19they've stiffened up
44:20the bushes at the front,
44:21and I cannot tell you,
44:23I cannot stress enough
44:25just how much
44:26of an improvement it is.
44:27It's not just
44:32better than the old DB7.
44:34I don't know
44:35of any other car
44:36which offers such
44:37an intoxicating blend
44:39of grip,
44:41handling,
44:41and surprisingly,
44:42ride comfort.
44:44Oh, and there's
44:44something else
44:45in the mix as well.
44:48Power!
44:48God, it's fast!
45:01Sounds good, too.
45:04Listen to this.
45:14The 6-litre V12
45:16is more powerful
45:17than you get in a normal DB7,
45:19and then there's
45:20its party piece.
45:23Let me show you something.
45:26I'm going to stop,
45:28put it into fourth gear,
45:30and off we go.
45:32Sets off five,
45:33in fourth,
45:34foot hard down,
45:35and we're now going
45:3640 miles an hour,
45:3850 miles an hour,
45:3960 miles an hour,
45:4170,
45:4280,
45:43really into its stride now,
45:4490,
45:45100,
45:45at really gathering pace.
45:47Still in fourth,
45:48I haven't changed,
45:49120,
45:50130 miles an hour,
45:53135,
45:54we're on the rev limiter,
45:55that's naught
45:56to 135
45:57in one gear.
46:02For the last few years,
46:06the DB7's been
46:07an aging rocker,
46:08still trying to cut it
46:10in a cold-play MP3 world
46:12of Porsche 911s
46:14and Foo Fighter Ferraris.
46:18But now,
46:20thanks to a cocktail
46:21of Botox and Viagra,
46:23it's up there
46:23with the best of them.
46:25what a car.
46:31Oh no.
46:32The thing is,
46:32I really don't like
46:33all these sort of bumps
46:34and louvers
46:35they've put on it,
46:36so I had a wizard wheeze,
46:38like Boris Johnson has.
46:39Anyway,
46:40what you should do,
46:41buy a used DB7 V12,
46:44okay?
46:44Take it to Aston Martin,
46:45and I've checked,
46:46they can do this.
46:47They will put
46:48the GT suspension stuff on it,
46:50and then you can have one of these,
46:51they'll even do the engine
46:51as well if you want.
46:52I mean,
46:52that's brilliant.
46:53So how much does that cost then,
46:54Joey?
46:55Well,
46:55I use DB7s around about,
46:57I don't know,
46:5760,
46:57get a good one,
46:58and then 10 to 12,000
47:00for the suspension,
47:01and another 10,
47:02though you don't really need it,
47:03for the engine.
47:04That's brilliant.
47:05Is that your idea
47:05of a used car tip?
47:06Say,
47:07what you've done
47:07is take a really expensive car
47:09and turn it into,
47:10well,
47:11it's still a really expensive car,
47:12it's 80 grand.
47:13It's all part
47:14of the Top Gear service,
47:15as of course is our lap,
47:18so it's time to pump up the stig,
47:20see how fast
47:21you can make it go round.
47:22So,
47:23away you go,
47:24lots of wheelspin there,
47:26and up to the first corner,
47:286 litre V12 working hard.
47:34Mmm,
47:35Stiggy's in a mellow mood,
47:37I think,
47:37today.
47:38Now,
47:39down to Chicago.
47:43Tidy.
47:43Last week,
47:47he had the Alpina Z8,
47:49it was rubbish on the road,
47:50set a blistering time
47:51round our track,
47:52the Aston probably
47:52going to be the other way round,
47:53look at it in the hammerhead,
47:55it's that soft suspension,
47:56makes it so good on the road,
47:57that is really mad driving from the Stig.
48:00Not sure it's going to be fast here,
48:02that's what worries me.
48:05That is very fast through,
48:06the follow-through.
48:09Down to the penultimate bend,
48:10sliding all over the place.
48:12Oh,
48:13Stig,
48:14come on,
48:14up to Gamble,
48:16lurching in several different directions here,
48:19and across the line in,
48:20one minute,
48:2130.4 seconds.
48:24That's actually very quick,
48:26and do you know what,
48:26Aston Martin reckoned,
48:27it would have gone even quicker,
48:29but it had a full tank of fuel,
48:31and that slowed it up a bit,
48:31but that puts it there,
48:32it's faster than an Audi S4,
48:33just behind the Aswan.
48:35And behind the Alpina,
48:36but I don't care,
48:36because as road cars go,
48:38that's one of the best I've driven in years.
48:41Now,
48:41who'd like to see
48:43the XKRR do a lap?
48:46Yes!
48:47So would we.
48:48Trouble is,
48:49since I drove it,
48:50it's been back to Jaguar,
48:52and for reasons I don't fully understand,
48:53they've been fiddling with the rear suspension.
48:55So,
48:55when we rang them up,
48:56and said,
48:56can we have it back for the Stig to do a lap,
48:58they said,
48:59well,
48:59yes,
49:00but it's handling at the moment like a greasy weasel.
49:03And they said,
49:04they didn't think the Stig would want to drive it in that state.
49:08And they probably have a point,
49:09he wouldn't have done,
49:10if we'd have told him.
49:14Here he comes now,
49:15down the first corner,
49:17getting himself all back.
49:19Oh,
49:19look at it,
49:19already!
49:24Come on,
49:24Stig,
49:25try to stay with it.
49:26And that's a full 360 from the Stig.
49:33Cross the line,
49:35backwards.
49:38Good old Stig.
49:40Now,
49:41on that multi-directional bombshell,
49:45I'm afraid we've got to go.
49:47But,
49:47we'll see you next week.
49:48Good night,
49:49bye.
49:49applause
49:50RITE
49:51GONERL NOW
50:03R Whenever they we go,
50:05don't come golly.
50:06Thank you thank you.
50:06I'm sorry.
50:08Thank you.
50:09Bye.
50:09Congratulations.
50:09Good night.
50:09You've got to go!
50:11Absolutely.
50:12Good night.
50:13And you're doing it more.
50:16Good night.
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