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In Episode 6, the team dig into French style. Jeremy Clarkson reviews the Citroën C2. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond pits the Renault Megane and Peugeot 307 coupe convertibles against each other. Also, a feature on “heroes of the street” rounds out the show. Guest star Sanjeev Bhaskar takes the Reasonably Priced Car. Perfect if you love unconventional sleek designs and fun performance.
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00:00Tonight, Richard drives a pair of wheeled accessories.
00:07I discover if the Australians are better at cars than they are at rugby.
00:12And James tries to finish the job of killing our Toyota.
00:18Hello and welcome. Now we get a lot of letters of complaint on Top Gear from people with sensible shoes that we only do fast, expensive cars.
00:27So, Mr Hushpuppy and Mr Brogue, look at this. It's the new Citroen C2.
00:33It's a replacement for the little Saxo, and coming up now is my road test of it.
00:42It's a little bit shorter than the old Saxo, which makes it easier to deal with in supermarket car parks.
00:49And with a split-folding rear tailgate and a practical boot, it's an ideal tool for the weekly shop.
00:57Of course, ever since the 2CV, Citroen has been the badge of choice for those of a guardian disposition.
01:06So, if you're the sort of person who dines on tofu and plays whale song at dinner parties, you'll love the diesel version, which does 78 miles to the gallon.
01:17Old people are going to like the way it's so easy to drive, and the prices too, which start at just £7,500.
01:29And this being Citroen already, there's a £500 cashback offer.
01:34It's at the track where things start to go wrong.
01:44If you buy the hot version, the 1.6 VTR that I have here, you have to have a flappy paddle gearbox.
01:51Which is horrid.
01:56Into fourth.
01:57And it's not that electric to drive. There's none of the joie de vivre you used to get from old hot citrons.
02:09It's a bit stodgy.
02:11It's not that fast either for a car with sporting pretensions. 121 miles an hour isn't really enough.
02:22So, it's a wonderful car then for everyone except the thrusting young man who wants to get a move on.
02:29No. Actually, it's thrusting young men who are going to like this car most of all.
02:40Look at the details. The gear lever that seems to have come from a sex shop.
02:46The translucent trim. The 12 million gigawatt stereo.
02:51And the bump which is full of words like wicked and cool.
02:55And this, it seems, is the language of something called cruising.
03:01Which isn't what I thought it was.
03:06Every week in every town in Britain, thousands of young men gather to smoke in a public place.
03:13It's a baseline wall of baseball hats and noise.
03:17This, it turns out, is cruising.
03:25Oh, look at that one.
03:29The Mitsubishi L200 van.
03:35This cruising thing. What's it about?
03:39What's it about?
03:40Yeah.
03:41It's about flexing man.
03:42It's about what?
03:43Flexing man. Have a good timing.
03:44Flexing?
03:45Yeah, yeah.
03:47What are you on about?
03:49No, no, no, no.
03:51What is flexing?
03:53Flexing means winding, basically.
03:55It means winding.
03:56I don't know why.
03:57I'm none the wiser.
03:58We're flexing, we're winding.
03:59I've got cameras.
04:00Does anybody here speak English?
04:03Does anybody speak English here?
04:06Showing off.
04:07Showing off.
04:08This man speaks English.
04:09Flexing and winding means showing off.
04:17An Astra with a six grand stereo in it.
04:22Your car's on fire.
04:25Small Citroens became gods to this lot.
04:28Street heroes better even than girls.
04:32There were three reasons for that.
04:34One, they were cheap.
04:35Two, they were forever being offered with free insurance, which when you're 19 years old is more important than life itself.
04:42And three, they were easy to modify.
04:46It all started with the Saxo, which caught Citroen by surprise.
04:49They had no idea that this little car would become the darling of the cruise scene.
04:55I've seen Saxos that have had 40, 50 grand spent on them.
04:59I don't know how the Saxo took off as it did.
05:01As it did, it just kind of exploded.
05:03And once a car gets popular, then more and more people are doing more and more stuff for it.
05:06So they can get these great bumpers and great suspension kits and engine upgrades.
05:10And it's just one of those cars that wears its modifications really nicely.
05:14And nine times out of ten, they look stunning modified, you know.
05:17How much did your Saxo cost?
05:20I spent about nine buying it and around £12,000 doing it up.
05:24So it's a £21,000 car.
05:27Well done.
05:28At the moment.
05:29Oh, you've got to do more?
05:30Eventually, yeah.
05:32This market is now so vast that when Citroen were designing this thing about 18 months ago,
05:37they actually brought one here and said to these guys, is it okay? Do you like it?
05:43I bet they never did that when the tree huggers were buying their cars.
05:46Taking all the stuff that we're doing to ours, our older cars, and now they're doing it to production cars, aren't they?
05:55Is that a bad thing?
05:57No.
05:59What it does mean, though, is that the C2's big wheels and wheel archers, its translucent sex-aid gear lever,
06:06the trillion-watt stereo, all of it will be ripped out and replaced with the next generation of modifications.
06:13I came with a Citroen C2, and I want to know what you would do to it if you had one.
06:21I would supercharge it.
06:22Supercharge it, turbocharge it, put a V8 in it.
06:25MRO KG, M1 nachos.
06:28Put the engine in the boot.
06:29Put the engine in the boot.
06:32And then make it four-wheel drive.
06:34Is this how it starts?
06:35Is this your little thing, well, we've got an idea, let's go and do it.
06:38Yeah.
06:39And then what, you go and hold up a post office or something?
06:42No, no, no, no!
06:45That makes me feel very sad, that.
06:47Why?
06:48Well, I just wish that we'd have flexing and winding when we were kids,
06:51because I love this whole modifying scene.
06:53I think it's brilliant.
06:54We did have cruising, though.
06:56I know, but that meant going to a gentleman's lavatory, and that's...
07:00Anyway, Citroen C2.
07:02Things I like about it.
07:03It's already available with free insurance.
07:06I like the fact it's smaller than the Saxo that it replaces.
07:09I love this split-folding rear tailgate like you get on a Range Rover.
07:13And already there's a new model called the GT, which has a 1.6-litre engine,
07:17and you don't have to have the flappy paddle gearbox with it.
07:20Well, thank God for that.
07:22The only drawback, so far as I can see, is that Citroen never does terribly well in reliability surveys.
07:27No, they don't.
07:28And it has to be said that our favourite small car, which is still the Toyota Yaris,
07:31that generally does pretty well.
07:33It does, it does.
07:34So we would still say that if you are a young man who wants to modify his car,
07:38or a Guardian reader, or a normal person,
07:41the Yaris is probably still your best bet.
07:44And the Yaris does come with free insurance,
07:46and your dealer will tell you that that's only until December the 19th.
07:50But don't worry.
07:51We know better.
07:52That'll be extended.
07:53It will be extended.
07:54And that's a smooth link.
07:56We like a smooth link on Top Gear.
07:57He's talking about Toyota.
07:58And now we're going to talk about our pickup truck.
08:01May I remember we bought one a couple of weeks ago.
08:03The idea was we were going to see if you could actually destroy it.
08:10We tried drowning it in the Bristol Channel.
08:13We smashed it through the Top Gear production office.
08:16Dropped a caravan on it.
08:19We hit it with one of those wrecking balls,
08:22and then we set fire to it.
08:28And it still survived.
08:32Now we concluded, after that,
08:34that it was pretty much unkillable.
08:37Trouble is though, you see,
08:38we were thinking laterally about this,
08:40and what we needed to do was think vertically.
08:43This is Rachel Point Tower Block in Hackney, East London.
09:01Former home to around 200 people, 23 stories of late 1960s dream housing.
09:06Well, in a few minutes, this monument to miserable Britain will be reduced to a pile of rubble.
09:17The building is meticulously laced with high explosives.
09:22When they go off, this street in the sky will be brought down to earth with a bag.
09:27Ah, you're thinking, I bet they've parked the old Toyota right next to it.
09:34But you'd be wrong.
09:35Because we've come up with something much better.
09:38That's 240 feet up.
09:47We're really not mucking about this time.
09:49There are 12,500 tonnes of council concrete in this building.
09:54Nothing can possibly survive what is about to happen here.
09:58Do you think it'll survive?
10:01No.
10:02You never know what's going to happen.
10:04Could just disappear in with a pile.
10:06Yeah, but what have you done?
10:07You set fire to it.
10:08You hit it with a wrecking ball.
10:09You put it in the sea.
10:10I think this will probably finish it off.
10:12It's not going to survive.
10:14Do you want to bet?
10:15Yeah.
10:16How much?
10:17£10.
10:18I'll have a tenner with you,
10:19but you won't be able to drive it away.
10:23It's going to get expensive, isn't it?
10:25Right.
10:28Here we go.
10:35Five.
10:36Nine.
10:37Eight.
10:38Seven.
10:39Six.
10:40Five.
10:41Four.
10:42Three.
10:43Two.
10:44One.
10:49You can't stop it there.
10:51You've got to be joking.
10:52Why have you stopped it?
10:54I'll show you what happened later.
10:55That's evil.
10:56It stops people turning over to heartbeats.
11:00What are we doing next?
11:01I'll tell you what we're doing next.
11:03Earlier on, we saw Jeremy looking at a street hero car
11:07for people who like to flex and wind.
11:10Whatever that is.
11:11But what happens if you're the kind of person
11:13who has to have the latest titanium palm-top coffee machine?
11:17What are you going to go for?
11:27You can forget the likes of Ford and Honda.
11:30Wrong badge.
11:31Wrong message.
11:32You need something with a bit of style and pizzazz,
11:34but nothing that requires effort.
11:37So, the Alphas and TVRs are out too.
11:40But, something has arrived that might just do the job.
11:52And would you look at those?
11:54This is the Renault Megane CC.
11:56And this is the Peugeot 307 CC.
12:01We'll take them both together,
12:02because they kind of look the same, cost the same, and do the same.
12:07And I've brought them for a little drive around London's Docklands,
12:11the epitome of modern Britain.
12:14Docklands was a wasteland in the middle of nowhere.
12:17Now it's got fantastic new developments,
12:20but it's still in the middle of nowhere.
12:25The newcomers who live here,
12:26they have no heritage,
12:29no roots,
12:30no mention in the doomsday book.
12:32They earn money,
12:33they see stuff in shops,
12:35and they buy it.
12:36That's just the way most of us are.
12:38Me?
12:39I'm parcel to a shirt.
12:42So, just why are these cars so modern Britain?
12:45Well, for one thing,
12:46they are achingly fashionable,
12:48inside and out,
12:49with designer touches everywhere.
12:52Look at that.
12:53The brushed aluminium on matte black effect.
12:56That's perfection to a bloke, that is.
12:59I'd have all my clothes in brushed aluminium and matte black if I could.
13:04In catwalk terms then, bang on.
13:06And best of all,
13:07you can pose in them all year round.
13:10The folding hardtop used to be the preserve of expensive Mercedes.
13:16And then Peugeot introduced it on the little 206 CC.
13:21That became the best selling cabriolet in Great Britain, instantly.
13:25So it's a fair assumption that these two are going to sell in their billions.
13:36But if you're choosing on the roof alone, go for this Renault.
13:39Because whereas the Peugeot's roof is made of mere tin,
13:42on the Renault Megane, it's folding glass.
13:45So you can split them on the roof.
13:48But as for everything else,
13:50it's Arsenal versus Man United.
13:52Both have two litre engines,
13:54with around 140 brake horsepower.
13:56Both cost around £18,000.
13:58Both have chrome gear knobs.
14:00And with some cars,
14:02you see them and say,
14:03that's a man's car.
14:04Or a girl's car.
14:06But these, these are neither really.
14:08They're kind of in the middle.
14:10Perhaps verging a little bit on the girly.
14:13So all things to all people,
14:18for all seasons.
14:19But there's one thing missing.
14:21Neither of them is a sports car.
14:24So if it's a full-out B-road blaster you're looking for,
14:27look elsewhere.
14:28All that clever folding roof gubbins has made them heavy.
14:32They weigh more than the moon.
14:34You can get a 180 brake horsepower version in the Peugeot,
14:39but even that takes 10 seconds to hit 60.
14:42So wherever you're going,
14:44you'll not be going there quickly.
14:48But that's okay,
14:49because it's harder to window shop at high speed.
14:52Shops.
14:53Lots of shops.
14:57But for all their glamour,
14:58I don't like these cars.
15:00It's not because they're slow.
15:02It's because they are just fashion nonsense.
15:05Mobile phones on wheels.
15:07There's just nothing really there.
15:10They are off the peg designer merchandise.
15:14Bottle glamour.
15:15Flat screen tellies.
15:17Looks is everything.
15:19It doesn't matter how they work.
15:21And what they do is give the full, instant consumer hit.
15:25You see one of these cars,
15:27you want it.
15:28Then you get it.
15:29And for a while,
15:30you're glad you've got it.
15:32Then in about a year,
15:33when you've pressed all the buttons
15:34and all the gizmos have gone whir,
15:36you'll be bored with it.
15:37But it doesn't matter,
15:38because by then,
15:39something else will come along.
15:41And do you know what?
15:42Makes me sick just thinking about it.
15:51What makes you sick?
15:53Cars are fashion items.
15:54I like Land Rovers.
15:55Not these.
15:56They're just bits of fashion tinsel.
15:58See, the thing is,
15:59I've got much better reasons for not liking this,
16:01Peugeot,
16:02than the fashionness of it.
16:04I mean, the roof.
16:05Brilliant.
16:06No denying that.
16:07Look at the downside.
16:08You've got no space in there at all.
16:10And it weighs so much.
16:11I drove one of these the other day.
16:13It's broken.
16:15They both do that.
16:16I mean, as we stand here,
16:17both of these cars are slowly
16:19sinking into the floor.
16:21They're that heaven.
16:22So if I were to say to you,
16:23okay,
16:24I'm going to shave your poodle.
16:26Right.
16:27Unless you tell me
16:29which one
16:31you'd have.
16:35Which one or the poodle's bald?
16:37Bring on the razor, mate.
16:39I'm afraid.
16:41Okay, fair enough.
16:42There's your answer.
16:43Let's meet a guest, shall we?
16:44I guess you've all seen the Kumars at 42.
16:46Well, now's your chance to see one at 85,
16:48because we're going to put him in the Liana.
16:50Ladies and gentlemen, Sanjeev Bhaskar!
16:52First question is an obvious one.
16:58When did you get your first Datsun?
17:04Well, I've had two.
17:05Yeah.
17:06Thanks.
17:07Thanks for bringing up such a painful memory.
17:08Actually, the first Datsun, the second Datsun I had coincided with the first bit of telly I'd ever done.
17:18And I was parked outside some studio, still cock-a-hoop about being on TV.
17:19And I was just parked on one side.
17:20And without any kind of notice whatsoever, a guy just got in and he said,
17:24Five quid, mate, it's just round the corner.
17:25And I said, what?
17:26And he said, it's five quid, mate, just round the corner.
17:27And I said, I'm not a cab driver, I'm on television.
17:28And he went, who are you?
17:29So where did your car journey begin?
17:30Well, I had a kind of nemesis when I was very young, which was Mr. Hussein's son.
17:37And I was kind of like, I'm going to play a background.
17:39And I thought, I'm not a cab driver, I'm on television.
17:42And he went, who are you?
17:43So where did your car journey begin?
17:45Well, I had a kind of nemesis when I was very young, which was Mr. Hussein's son.
17:58And I remember the day the whole car journey started was, I was about 17, 16, 17, I was watching Top Cap.
18:06And my dad came in and he kind of switched off the TV.
18:09And he said, Mr. Hussain's son has just taken the engine out of their Cortina, polished it, taken it apart, polished it and put it back.
18:18And I said, yeah, I've just missed the end of Top Cap.
18:20And so they suggested, when I said I wanted a car, they suggested that Mr. Hussain's son, who was just phenomenally practical, they said, why don't you go with him to an auction?
18:32I said, okay.
18:33So we went to this auction and this green Morris Marina turned up and the guy said, no, no, no.
18:44If it was yours, it was a lovely car.
18:45And they said, let's start the bidding at £200.
18:51And they got £250, £300, £350.
18:55And Mr. Hussain's son said to me, he said, you should get some practice in.
18:58So he said, do I hear £350?
19:00And I sort of went like that.
19:01And he said, do I hear £400?
19:05I was thinking, I don't want it!
19:06And he goes, it's too late.
19:07It's kind of, do I hear £400?
19:09Going once, twice, three times.
19:11To the scared gentleman in the first right.
19:13So I ended up with this green Morris Marina that was just crap.
19:17So what have you got now?
19:18I've got, I've got a Peugeot 406.
19:21There's a...
19:22Lots of people have got, which one?
19:26Coupe.
19:26I've got a 2.2 coupe.
19:28Yeah.
19:28That doesn't strike me as being a particularly Indian choice of car.
19:35You picked your words very carefully there.
19:39Well, I mean, I've been to India.
19:41Yeah, yeah.
19:41And it seems to me that size is what matters there.
19:45The larger the car, the kind of better it is.
19:47And yet you've gone for something smaller.
19:49Yeah, there's two aspects to that.
19:52One is that in India, size doesn't matter.
19:54If you need to get 18 people in the car, you can.
19:58That's the first thing.
19:59And the second thing about, it's my mate Joe, who kind of deals in Peugeot, who kind of said 406.
20:05And I thought, lovely.
20:06Now, Indians do like bling.
20:08I mean, if there was a Dapson bling.
20:09Well, we've had, hold on a minute.
20:11Now, we've had flexing, I've got that and winding.
20:13Yeah.
20:14What's bling?
20:15Bling is just, you know, flash, colour.
20:16It's kind of like Indian parents, traditional Indian parents, are the only ones who'd watch The Fast and the Furious.
20:23And say, if you became an accountant, you should get a car like that.
20:25Nice blue light underneath.
20:28And one, when you put the, when you put your Indian music on, it goes,
20:31So, um.
20:34Have you actually driven in India?
20:36Uh, only, only once.
20:38Isn't it just the scariest thing in known universe?
20:41I've done nothing scary.
20:43I mean, there's a road from Pune to Bombay, which is supposed to be the most dangerous road in the world.
20:51In the world.
20:52I think, and how many people die on the roads in India?
20:53I think there's 164 people a day.
20:56Yeah.
20:56I mean, that's probably just one Datsun.
20:58Yeah.
20:58Yeah.
20:59That was, that was only the people falling off the roof.
21:02Yeah.
21:03The 18 people inside were far.
21:05But it's also, I mean, but that's, it's true, it's a high number, but, you know, there's also a billion people.
21:10Yeah.
21:10So it's kind of.
21:11But there's only the same number of cars on the roads there that we have here.
21:14Yeah, but there's a lot more people crossing it.
21:15That's true.
21:16And animals.
21:16And I also think, actually, that the highway code is at odds with the Hindu code.
21:21That sense of, no, it'll be all right.
21:24No, your brakes have failed.
21:25It won't be all right.
21:26Yeah, exactly.
21:27No, no, it will.
21:27I've said a prayer to my God.
21:29Your brakes don't work.
21:32But I would say to this guy I was talking to in India, he was saying, well, if it's my day to die, it's my day to die.
21:36So I'll go on the wrong side of the road.
21:38And you go, yeah, what about the blight you hit?
21:39It's his day to die.
21:40Yeah, exactly.
21:41And the might is right, that's a scary rule.
21:46Yeah, it's kind of, again, there's two things about the road, the highway code, as opposed to the Hindu code.
21:52Well, one is that, yeah, might is right.
21:54I mean, if you've got a truck and the other person's got a bicycle, you have right of way.
21:57Yeah.
21:58And the second thing is that it's always the responsibility of the person behind.
22:03So nobody goes, cut me up.
22:05Because you should look out for him.
22:08Everyone's doing that.
22:09So it kind of works in a bizarre way.
22:11But the other thing, to tell you the reason that I stopped driving, I did about a mile, and I told my cousin to take over.
22:17And I said, it was at night, and nobody uses their headlights.
22:19A very few people use their headlights.
22:21Because, you know, you wear them out.
22:24You just have to buy another one.
22:26And so there was, there was, I stopped when I saw one headlamp coming towards me.
22:30And I said, look, I don't know if that's a scooter or it's a truck with one failed headlamp.
22:36And he kind of, my cousin stopped for a second, he said,
22:38or two scooters transporting a wardrobe.
22:41I said, do you know, you're right, there is that third option.
22:48I'm an idiot.
22:49I don't know why I didn't think of it.
22:51But the great thing is, when things do wear out, the improvisation that you see on the roads in India is just,
22:58you see a truck that's hit a tree at a speed, you think, that was doing Mach 4.
23:03And it's not written off.
23:05No.
23:05And the thing in India, Paul McGann told me a great story.
23:09It's the first time he went to India.
23:10A friend of his had said, when you cross over the border into India, he was in Nepal at the time,
23:16he said, you will know, there will be something that will tell you that instant that you're in India.
23:20And he crossed over at this truck stop at about 3 o'clock in the morning.
23:23He's looking around thinking, well, there's no one here.
23:25And it's kind of, my friend said something would happen.
23:28And at that moment, they heard a truck coming around the corner with two small boys holding on to the radiator at the front.
23:36One pouring water into the top.
23:38The other one catching it at the bottom.
23:44I'm here.
23:45I genuinely love that.
23:46It's that fatalistic thing.
23:48They just won't give up, you know.
23:49Anyway, of course, Liana, how was it out there?
23:53It's just a fantastic and phenomenal mixture of really exciting and incredibly frustrating.
24:00It's just, I was so disappointed.
24:03Well, I tell you what, before we see your lap, shall we see some of your practices?
24:06Oh, do we have to?
24:08Well, shall we?
24:10Oh, I'm sorry about this, but we're just, the audience has decided.
24:14It's true.
24:14Here we go.
24:15Here's the first one.
24:17And that's coming into a difficult corner.
24:18Oh, a bit of a...
24:19Oh, no, he's gone.
24:22Oh, no, he's gone.
24:24And again.
24:25Oh, yes.
24:29But wait.
24:31Keep going.
24:32That was the best.
24:33Nice recovery.
24:35Thank you very much.
24:36I admire your spirit.
24:38Do you know, halfway through that 360, I thought, I've seen this in Bond films.
24:42And the thing to do is, if I can put it into gear as I'm turning, wind down the window and
24:48take a gun out, this is going to look really good.
24:51Shall we see how you, well, how would you like to have done, first of all?
24:54Oh, please.
24:55It's just so frustrating.
24:57It was wet out there, yeah?
24:58It was, yeah.
24:58So, how would you like...
25:00And also, it was, there was, somebody had put, I'm sorry.
25:04Here we go.
25:04You should be told the truth about these things.
25:07It was wet out there.
25:08Yeah.
25:08There was an albatross that flew in front of the wind.
25:11At one point, which is very rare for this part of England.
25:14And also, there was an ornate tissue box.
25:17We did that in honor of you coming.
25:19We put a tissue box on the back seat.
25:21Which weighted the car down.
25:26Who would like to see his lap, then?
25:28Here we go.
25:29Here we go.
25:30There's the tissue box, look.
25:34And that's a pathetic start.
25:37But, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
25:39Oh, that's looking good.
25:41Right, coming up to Chicago.
25:42Tricky corner.
25:45Nice, tidy.
25:47Very good.
25:48I was pleased.
25:52What was the lip thing there?
25:54Fair.
25:56Tidy again.
25:57Very tidy.
25:59Really wish my mum hadn't taught me to drive.
26:05Oh, this is a weird tongue thing you've got going in the car.
26:09Nicely held on your fast lap here.
26:12And coming up to final corner, which is Gambo.
26:15Bit of tail out there.
26:16And there we go, across the line.
26:25So, what do we call it, damp or wet?
26:28Wet.
26:29Wet.
26:29No, no, who said damp?
26:32It was wet.
26:33You did understand the question.
26:35You went on.
26:35I'm calling it a wet lap.
26:38Yeah, thank you.
26:39And you did it in one minute.
26:42Bearing in mind, quick wet laps are 154.
26:46Okay.
26:47You did it in one minute.
26:4950.
26:49One.
26:51Done.
26:51Oh.
26:55Ladies and gentlemen, a thousand back up.
27:02I am standing there.
27:04That's brilliant.
27:08Right.
27:09We've got a bit of a sort of street heroes theme going on this week.
27:12And look what I've got.
27:19If I could only have one drink for the rest of my life,
27:22it would be a pint of bitter.
27:24And if I could only drive one supercar, it would be this.
27:28The Aston Martin Vantage G.
27:34It's superb.
27:38In the 1970s, Aston Martin was in trouble
27:40that had turned into a maker of soft GT cars.
27:44And then, in 1974, it went bust.
27:52Meanwhile, the opposition was on a roll.
27:55The Italians were saving weight and putting the engine in the middle.
27:58The Germans were still putting it in the back, but with stunning results.
28:03Something had to be done.
28:05So, Aston's engineers, backed with cash from another optimistic owner,
28:10took one of their standard two-door coupes, whipped the engine out,
28:14gave it 40% more power, bolted it back in,
28:17fiddled with the suspension, and tarted up the bodywork a bit.
28:20And then, I like to think, they went to the pub.
28:24And they didn't drink, frankly, because what they had produced
28:27was, to my mind, a definitive 1970s supercar.
28:32In order to understand the impact of the Vantage,
28:38I want you to imagine a simple scene down your local boozer.
28:42Now, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Porsche, all that lot,
28:45they're the blokes round the bar with the big opinion,
28:48giving it lots of that.
28:50Aston Martin is the quiet bloke in the corner,
28:52with his pint of best and the crossword.
28:54And then, suddenly, he decides he's had enough.
28:59So he gets up,
29:01he takes them all outside,
29:02and he gives them a bloody good hiding.
29:11That's exactly what the Vantage did.
29:14At its launch in 1977,
29:16it was the world's fastest production car,
29:19beating the Ferrari Daytona to 60 miles per hour,
29:21only by a tenth of a second,
29:23but in a bar brawl down at the rack and pinion,
29:26that was enough.
29:28Aston was back in business,
29:30and showing how the future of the British supercar would be.
29:34Big, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive,
29:37weighty, well-built,
29:39not to be messed with.
29:41And it was this approach that would set them apart
29:44from the rest of Europe.
29:46The Italians, you see,
29:48would concentrate on making a really, really fast car,
29:51but then they'd start to worry about all the practical stuff,
29:54like, where's the driver going to sit,
29:55and can he see out,
29:57and how are you going to join up all those wires
29:59that make the lights work?
30:01The British way, however,
30:02is to start with a normal car,
30:04and then make it very fast.
30:06Think of the Jaguar XJR.
30:08It's one of the world's most comfortable saloon cars,
30:11and it just happens to go like a stabbed rat.
30:14So, this Aston's actually perfectly comfortable.
30:17I can get in and out okay,
30:18I can see where I'm going,
30:19I can see behind me.
30:20It's even got quite a decent boot.
30:22I mean, it'll still pull my face off if I wanted to,
30:25but most of the time,
30:26it just sort of soothes my fevered brow.
30:31And then there's the engine.
30:33There's no high-rev melodrama here,
30:35just a big, lazy 5.3-litre V8.
30:40Say you wanted a bang in a nail.
30:42You could belt it really hard with a little hammer,
30:45or you could give it a tap with a really big one.
30:47The Aston's engine is a sledgehammer.
30:55Right, let's meet some more people who might appreciate it.
30:59Here we are at the Campaign for Real Ales Festival in Chapel.
31:03These chaps can tell you the specific gravity of 300 ales,
31:06all in the time it takes me to sink a swift pint.
31:09This is where the honesty and goodness of real beer
31:13is preserved and honoured.
31:16This is serious business, drinking this stuff.
31:18What is a proper pint?
31:20High-quality malted barley.
31:23A decent beer is really,
31:24you've got the brewer's heart and soul in it.
31:28Traditional ingredients.
31:30Tis simple, but it is also complicated as well.
31:33And a careful selection of hops.
31:36What's 501 minus 137?
31:42Why are you trying to trick us?
31:43Yeah, see, they're not real beer drinkers.
31:45They don't play darts.
31:47Yeah, it's darts.
31:47So, beer isn't complicated.
31:53It's just a few simple ingredients,
31:54all brewed up together.
31:56But you could still get it wrong.
31:58I mean, you could get longer.
32:00Supercars aren't complicated either.
32:02Power, good looks, a great noise.
32:05But you could get that wrong as well.
32:06You could end up with a Ferrari Testarossa.
32:09Aston Martin, though, got it spot on.
32:13I cannot remember ever wanting a car
32:17as badly as I want this Aston.
32:20It is fantastic.
32:22I absolutely love it.
32:26And the thing is, so does everyone else.
32:28Look, if I were driving a Porsche 911 down this street,
32:31some of the villagers would secretly hate me.
32:33But everybody loves the Aston.
32:35It may be rare and a bit pricey,
32:37but somehow it's of the people.
32:41This is the way a British supercar should be.
32:45Its values are sound and robust.
32:47It's like these magnificent men.
32:49They carry a torch for purity.
32:52And even though they may drop it occasionally,
32:53they are warriors, guardians of a simple faith.
32:57They're beer.
32:58Proper beer, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
33:01One is simple, straightforward,
33:04and for people who don't want anything too fancy.
33:07And the other's a pint.
33:08Cheers.
33:11Fabulous car, that.
33:12Absolutely brilliant. I'd love one.
33:13Word of warning, though,
33:14don't think you can go out there and buy a cheap one.
33:16You have to spend at least 50,000 ready for a good one.
33:19Which is a bit steep.
33:20Frankly, knocks it off my Chrissy Prezzy list, if I'm honest.
33:23You've done it again!
33:23You're not going to believe it.
33:25Always smooth this week.
33:26That was another leak.
33:27Because we're moving on to look at Christmas.
33:29It's not far away,
33:30and a lot of you might be considering perhaps
33:32grazing the interweb in your Chrissy Prezzy search.
33:35And we've made a few helpful selections for you.
33:39First of all, you know when you're driving along
33:41and you're a bit desperate to go to the loo...
33:44It happens.
33:45It happens.
33:45It's a long drive,
33:47and then when you get there,
33:48it looks like this.
33:50Oh, dear.
33:50Yeah, great.
33:50I know, it's nasty.
33:53You need worry no more,
33:55because we've found on the interweb...
33:58Well, I'll show you.
33:59Here it is.
34:01Yep.
34:03It's a lavatory that attaches to the bumper of your car.
34:06It's called a bumper dumper.
34:07So you can simply pull onto the hard shoulder,
34:12attach it.
34:1335 quid plus 3 quid for the additional loo roll holder.
34:17The optional, I should say.
34:18It comes with a bucket.
34:19We've got a picture of it here.
34:21Okay?
34:22Now, that's got a 5-gallon capacity.
34:24Oh, that's plenty.
34:26That's plenty.
34:27So you can have a pretty substantial supper and not worry.
34:30Nice.
34:31If that's not the one for you,
34:32you could try these.
34:33Now, you haven't got your Ferrari anymore, have you?
34:35No.
34:35No, I know.
34:36But don't worry,
34:37because you can still have a slice of that Maranello magic in your life with this.
34:43It's a gear lever from a Ferrari,
34:45but it's also a sink plunger.
34:50That's a combination I would never have thought of.
34:53No, it's a rare thing,
34:54but it is going to bring a little bit of glamour to an otherwise mundane task.
34:58Absolutely.
34:58How much is it?
34:59It is going to set me back 17 pounds.
35:02Set me back?
35:04If you're worth 17 pounds.
35:05Yeah, but I know, it's magnificent.
35:06It's six-speed as well, apparently.
35:08Six-speed sink plunger.
35:11Upping the price a little bit.
35:13Now, let's just say you've got a girl back to your flat.
35:17You flip the lights on and offer her a seat on this.
35:21Oh, look at that!
35:23It's a NASCAR sofa.
35:251,300 pounds in real leather.
35:28That's...
35:28And it's got flames on it!
35:31Yeah, and everything.
35:32That's brilliant.
35:33The best bit about this is in the middle there,
35:35if you look closely,
35:37this is the real killer line.
35:38She's on that end,
35:39and you're on that end,
35:39and there's a bit of a silence,
35:40and you're sort of...
35:42shuffling towards it.
35:43Yeah, well, all right.
35:43Don't need to demonstrate with me.
35:44Don't be scared.
35:45It'll be fine.
35:46And you can point to that in the middle and say,
35:47look, that you'll find is an embroidered signature
35:51of Jeff Gordon.
35:55Who is Jeff Gordon?
35:56No idea!
35:58But it is!
35:59I think he...
36:00Why has Jeff Gordon got his name on a...
36:02Does anyone here know who Jeff Gordon is?
36:04NASCAR driver.
36:05He's what?
36:06Hold on.
36:07A NASCAR driver.
36:08He's a driver in NASCAR?
36:10Yeah, I knew that.
36:11You knew it?
36:12Why didn't you say that?
36:12I didn't have a clue!
36:13But it's got his name embroidered on your sofa.
36:15So, there we are.
36:161,300 pounds,
36:18and it comes with the name of a NASCAR driver.
36:20Is he successful?
36:21Very successful.
36:22A very successful NASCAR driver.
36:24That's great.
36:25Um, Australia.
36:26Yes?
36:27I want to talk about that a little bit now.
36:28Uh, nice country.
36:30Lovely prawns.
36:31Nice prawns, great climber,
36:33and really, not bad at rugby.
36:35They're all right.
36:37Second best.
36:38Of all the losing teams in the World Cup,
36:41they were number one.
36:42The best losers.
36:43They were the best losers in the World Cup.
36:46Thing is, though,
36:47how many things in your house
36:50have got made in Australia on them?
36:53None.
36:54Can anybody here think of anything they own
36:56that was made in Australia?
36:58Definitely silence.
37:00See, the thing about Australia is
37:01it's not an engineering hotbed.
37:03We've looked into this,
37:04and we've found that in the last 200 years
37:06the only thing the Australians have invented
37:08is the rotary washing line.
37:11That's it.
37:12Yeah, and now they've made a car.
37:16Here it is.
37:17A big two-door coupe called the Monaro.
37:20On sale in Britain next spring
37:22from your Vauxhall dealer,
37:24sporting a price tag of £28,000.
37:26Being Australian, it's not the most elegant car in the world,
37:37nor is it the most complicated.
37:39You get a limited slip differential,
37:41rear-wheel drive,
37:42and the same 5.7-litre V8
37:44that you get in a Corvette.
37:47It's far from the most sophisticated engine
37:50in the known universe,
37:51but because it's so big,
37:53you can put it in 6
37:55and pootle around at 3,
37:57doing plenty of miles to the gallon.
38:00Or you can poke it with a stick.
38:06Then you will go from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds
38:09and reach a top speed of over 160,
38:13usually sideways.
38:14Everybody's doing it,
38:17they're going to dance now.
38:19Come on, baby,
38:20dance now.
38:22The Rotary washing line,
38:23and now the Rotary car.
38:26Come on, baby, dance now.
38:29Now, you might think this looks awfully dangerous,
38:32but it is Australian, remember,
38:33and they like a bit of danger.
38:36They've got wild dogs that eat babies for fun.
38:40They've got great white sharks.
38:42They've got boxed jellyfish.
38:43They've got snakes like crocodiles.
38:45And now they've got this,
38:48the red-backed, funnel-webbed car.
38:56For Europe, they have tweaked the chassis a bit,
39:00made it a bit more fun.
39:01And you can temper the lively rear end
39:05by turning the traction control on.
39:07But if you do that,
39:09the car sends out some very straight-talking Aussie messages.
39:14Let me show you what I mean.
39:15What a poof-ta.
39:17Back's to the wall, everyone.
39:19There's a pom on board.
39:21He's turned the traction control on.
39:23What a poof-ta.
39:24Poof-ta?
39:25You poof.
39:26What a poof-ta.
39:28My Sheila could go out the corner faster than this.
39:32Poof-ta.
39:32Poof-ta.
39:33Poof-ta.
39:34Poof-ta.
39:34This does become wearisome after a while.
39:36You hopeless call.
39:38Shut up.
39:39And you got lucky in the rugby.
39:41Shut up.
39:42Poof-ta.
39:43I'm going to turn it back.
39:44Poof-ta.
39:45Off again.
39:46There we are.
39:47And actually, that's no big problem,
39:48because, despite appearances,
39:51this car really is a big, friendly giant.
39:55Honestly, I have never driven a car around here
40:05that's just so easy at the limit.
40:09It's phenomenal.
40:11Right, flooring.
40:12Woo-hoo-hoo!
40:17And not just easy at the limit,
40:19it's also easy if you go beyond.
40:21Into that world of smoke and noise
40:29and looking where you're going,
40:32out of the side window.
40:37Slow in, break.
40:40And ready.
40:42Side window, going down there.
40:44Ha-ha-ha-ha.
40:46Big and simple,
40:54and I love it.
40:57Think of it as a triumph of torque over intelligence.
41:07A cut-priced BMW M5.
41:12A Jaguar XKR that's drunk.
41:19To be honest, the cameraman's not enjoying this very much,
41:24but I love it.
41:27It is a hooligan special.
41:30But it's not insensible.
41:32The seats are perfect.
41:33There's no other word for them.
41:35The driving position is spot on.
41:36The ride comfort is phenomenal for a car of this type.
41:40There's space in the back for adults,
41:42and with a boot this size,
41:45you can even call it practical.
41:48Unbelievable.
41:51And when you bear the price in mind,
41:53it's also very well equipped.
41:55I've got cruise control,
41:56trip computer,
41:57fancy stereo air conditioning,
41:59electric seats.
42:00Just about the only thing that's missing
42:02is satellite navigation.
42:03But then you don't need it,
42:06because, like everything Australian,
42:08it knows exactly where it's going.
42:13Earl's Court.
42:16Of course, the big problem with this is,
42:21if you buy one,
42:22five of its mates will turn up with backpacks
42:25and want to live in your garage.
42:26Yes.
42:28Absolutely.
42:28Which is going to be annoying.
42:30Um, I tell you,
42:31I've just noticed something, actually.
42:33That rings a bell.
42:342017.
42:352017 on the number plate.
42:36No, no, no, no, no.
42:37It was the score in a recent game of rugby.
42:41That's what it is.
42:42That's what it is.
42:432017.
42:44It was.
42:48It was.
42:50Amazing confidence, isn't it?
42:52It just shows up there.
42:53Amazing.
42:54Still, is it really only £28,000?
42:56Yeah.
42:56Because that's a lot of car.
42:57It is a lot of car for very little money.
42:59I think the reason is,
43:00is that we've become used now
43:01to rather high-tech stuff.
43:02You know, Evo 8s
43:03with active yaw control
43:04and twin-stage turbocharging.
43:06This is just meat and pie engineering, really.
43:09What we've got to find out now, though,
43:11is how fast it is.
43:12So, pray silence, please,
43:15for Dame Edna Everstig.
43:18And away he goes,
43:20keeping the wheel spin under control,
43:22even though it is rather wet out there today.
43:24Oh, look at that spray.
43:26Looking tidy in the first bend.
43:32Greg there,
43:32although Stig simply knows it
43:34as the tune from the AEG advert.
43:36Looking amazingly neat there.
43:38Oh, very, very neat.
43:40Not much sign of oversteer so far.
43:45OK, we're coming up to the Hammerhead.
43:46On the brakes, turn in.
43:47Oh, wait a minute.
43:48Oh, it's running wide there.
43:50That is not very fast at all.
43:54On the power,
43:55a little bit of a squirm on the way out.
43:56Will he be quick through the follow-through?
43:57Not bad.
43:58Stig did tell me
43:59he couldn't take it at full throttle
44:00because the Holden's
44:01such a big, heavy, lumbering thing.
44:04He also said the brakes
44:05didn't work well on the track.
44:06Is that going to harm the time?
44:09He's got round there better than Sanjeev.
44:10And coming up to the last corner,
44:12keeping it under control.
44:13Oh, and across the line
44:15in one minute,
44:1733.9.
44:21Hey, that's not bad in the way.
44:22That's very good.
44:23Down there.
44:27I don't know why.
44:28I couldn't think of Holden a voice.
44:30It's losers.
44:30Is that not how you spell it?
44:31No, losers.
44:32Hey, that's, but give it its due.
44:34That's not bad.
44:34You haven't put a W on that for a wet lap.
44:36That was a wet lap.
44:37That was quite quick.
44:37The thing is, though,
44:38because it's got that big Corvette 5.7-litre engine in it,
44:41you can tune it up.
44:43I mean, you take your wallet in
44:45and then you can spend as much as you like.
44:47So, obviously,
44:48I had to have a go
44:49in one of the faster versions.
44:56Imagine a Lotus Carlton
44:58and a Calibra Turbo
44:59coming together
45:00in a broom cupboard somewhere.
45:05This is the illegitimate love child
45:07that would result.
45:08It's got 440 brake horsepower.
45:13It does 0-60 in 4 seconds or so.
45:16It has fully adjustable suspension
45:18and it's arrived in Britain
45:19spoiling for a freight.
45:22So, we thought we'd give it one.
45:30So, from the country that gave the world
45:33the rotary washing line,
45:34the Holden Minaro.
45:35And from the country that gave the world
45:46everything else,
45:47including Australia, actually,
45:49the supercharged Jaguar XKR.
45:54They both cost around £70,000,
45:57so this should be close.
45:58This should be epic.
46:00Hopefully, this should be
46:02Johnny Wilkinson
46:03and Elton Flatley
46:04all over again.
46:11The Jag got off
46:12to a flying start,
46:14but as the race progressed,
46:15the Aussie
46:16started to close the gap.
46:22Damn!
46:22I think I've won.
46:26That is the first time
46:27I've ever heard anybody
46:28in a racing situation say that.
46:30Damn, I think I've won.
46:31Yeah, well, did I win, actually?
46:33Can we just have a look at the...
46:34I think you did.
46:35Ooh, you did.
46:35Look, just by one sort of car's length.
46:38Anyway, let's move on
46:40from that small and lucky victory
46:41they had.
46:42The Cool War.
46:43Where do we think...
46:44Hey, hold on a minute.
46:46What?
46:46Jeremy,
46:47all the Fords
46:48have moved to Sub-Zero.
46:51All of them.
46:52Yeah, it's a fluid thing,
46:53the Cool War.
46:53As you know,
46:54it's never anything fixed
46:55and I thought,
46:55I looked at them,
46:56I thought,
46:56they're nice cars.
46:57Really?
46:57I'll tell you what,
46:57they're moving back.
46:58It's that fluid.
46:59That's ridiculous.
46:59No, look,
47:00I want to make it
47:00absolutely plain.
47:02I'm not doing this.
47:03If anybody's watching
47:04from, like, Dagenham,
47:05I'm not responsible for that.
47:08Okay?
47:09Let's move on.
47:10The Holden Monaro.
47:11Vauxhall Monaro,
47:12as it will be.
47:13What do we think?
47:14Cool, bro.
47:15Cool?
47:15Well, I'm going to ask,
47:16I'm going to canvas
47:16the opinion of people
47:17who've dressed properly.
47:18What do you think?
47:19Cool, makes a nice noise.
47:20Cool car,
47:20even though it's Australian.
47:22We'll give them
47:22a little something.
47:22Yeah, well, they can't
47:23play rugby.
47:23And you?
47:25Coolish.
47:25You think it's coolish?
47:27Okay, well,
47:28does anyone think
47:28it's not cool?
47:30Really?
47:31Well, let's come
47:31and have a word
47:32with this chap.
47:32Why is it not cool?
47:33It looks like
47:34Knight Rider,
47:3545 years on.
47:36You see,
47:37what I love about
47:38this car
47:39is it has
47:40no styling.
47:41No.
47:42There's no pretensions
47:43about it.
47:43And you know
47:44exactly,
47:45you don't have to
47:45explain anything
47:46with it.
47:47So I'm going to put it
47:47in the cool section
47:48no doubt about it.
47:49Okay, two more cars.
47:50These are the ones
47:51I drove earlier
47:51in the programme.
47:52These little fashion
47:53accessories,
47:53the 307cc
47:55and the Renna-Meganne CC.
47:56You're pulling a face.
47:57What are you saying?
47:58I've had them both.
47:59You've had them both?
48:01No, but you see,
48:02you haven't had them both.
48:03They're both brand new.
48:04Oh, no.
48:04Old ones are them both.
48:06No, there were no
48:07old ones.
48:07They've only just done them.
48:08They're new.
48:09What, you've had that,
48:10you've had the hatchbacks?
48:11Ever wished
48:11you hadn't started something?
48:12Ah, you had the convertibles
48:15before the metal roofs,
48:15the last models of them.
48:17And did you like them?
48:18Awful.
48:18Awful.
48:19They were fab.
48:20Fab.
48:21I couldn't get any.
48:22You two know each other?
48:23Yeah.
48:24I just follow her.
48:25So you thought they were fab.
48:27You thought they were awful.
48:28We think these new ones
48:29are absolutely terrible.
48:31Truly awful.
48:31Terrible.
48:33They're cool.
48:37They are.
48:38Don't come here and argue with us.
48:41This is the way they're all.
48:42It's not,
48:42we're not saying they're good.
48:44That's a different thing entirely.
48:46They haven't got this yet.
48:47No,
48:48they are cool,
48:49okay,
48:49but we should explain,
48:50because they're kind of French,
48:52a bit chic,
48:53because they're fashion,
48:54in fact,
48:54already,
48:55can you hold this?
48:55Yeah.
48:56Already,
48:56you see,
48:57if you bought one then they were cool,
48:58but now they're on the way down.
49:00They're going out of fashion.
49:00They're already.
49:02But they're moving down again.
49:03Don't take so long
49:04putting them on the wall,
49:05Jeremy,
49:05or they're moving again.
49:06They're going.
49:06Okay,
49:07is that good?
49:08Yeah.
49:08Anything else we ought to be moving?
49:10If you move a single Ford,
49:11I'll telephone them now
49:12and I'll send them copies
49:13of everything you've said.
49:15Where's May?
49:15I don't know.
49:16Over there somewhere.
49:18Now,
49:18earlier on,
49:19I left our Toyota pickup
49:20on top of a tower block
49:21that was about to be demolished
49:23with explosives.
49:24Who would like to see
49:25what happens next?
49:26Yes!
49:29Play it.
49:30Three,
49:31nine,
49:32four,
49:33three,
49:34two,
49:35one.
49:46Ah,
49:46five,
49:53one.
49:55One.
49:56Two,
49:57two,
49:59three,
50:00two.
50:01Two,
50:01three,
50:02three,
50:03one.
50:03Two,
50:04three,
50:05one.
50:06The moment of truth.
50:08So, the moment of truth.
50:14Will it be buried under thousands of tons of public housing?
50:26No, there it is.
50:38It may have escaped being buried alive, but that 240-foot drop has taken its toll.
50:59It's smashed and bashed almost beyond recognition.
51:05Oh, dear.
51:08I'd say that was pretty ronied.
51:13Have you got a crowbar with you?
51:15Yeah.
51:19Again, we've got our mechanic with us, and as before, he's not allowed spare parts, and he can only use basic tools.
51:31Too much.
51:33It doesn't look good.
51:36Now, is this it?
51:37All right, this is it.
51:39I'm going to give it a go.
51:39I'm going to give it a go.
51:41I'm going to give it a go.
51:41I'm going to give it a go.
51:43I'm going to give it a go.
51:44I'm going to give it a go.
51:44I'm going to give it a go.
51:46Come on.
52:08But, but, but, but, but, but, but.
52:10Okay, James. James.
52:13Now, we've seen that it's started.
52:15Yeah, it did start.
52:16But did it move?
52:18I can hardly believe this myself.
52:20Ladies and gentlemen, here it is!
52:22That's just...
52:23I wanna, I wanna make sure, I wanna make sure you're being honest, okay?
52:29This is very important.
52:30When Jeremy did it, the rules were you couldn't replace any parts, no spare parts allowed.
52:35You did the same, no spare parts.
52:36No spare parts.
52:37No spare parts.
52:38No spare parts.
52:39No spare parts.
52:40The mechanic reconnected the battery, put a bit of diesel in it, brum, off it went.
52:41Well, that's just unbelievable.
52:42I just can't believe it.
52:43I mean, look at the extent of that.
52:44It's not bad.
52:45Taxed worse.
52:46Taxed worse.
52:47Oh no, look here.
52:48Look, the whole chassis.
52:49Well, I was gonna say cracked, but splits a better word.
52:51Yeah, well, it has actually broken in half right across, and we're in the strange situation
52:52where the bodywork is actually holding the chassis together.
52:53I don't know.
52:54I don't know.
52:55No spare parts allowed.
52:56No spare parts allowed.
52:57You did the same.
52:58No spare parts.
52:59No spare parts.
53:00The mechanic reconnected the battery, put a bit of diesel in it, brum, off it went.
53:01Well, that's just unbelievable.
53:02I just can't believe it.
53:03I mean, look at the extent of that.
53:04It's not bad.
53:05Taxed worse.
53:06You've taxed worse.
53:07Oh no, look here.
53:08Look, the whole chassis, well, I was gonna say cracked, but split's a better word.
53:13Yeah, well, it has actually broken in half right across, and we're in the strange
53:17situation where the bodywork is actually holding the chassis together.
53:21Honestly, I'm stuck for...
53:23I mean, we could carry on trying to destroy it, but do you know what?
53:28I think we should build a plinth.
53:30Yeah?
53:31Absolutely.
53:32Put it on there as a museum piece for all of time.
53:33What do we think?
53:34Do we do that?
53:35Yes!
53:38Okay, well, there we are.
53:40On that note of unexpected generosity from our audience, and in the presence of, frankly,
53:49automotive greatness, it is time to end the show.
53:53Good night.
53:54See you next week.
54:00...from the Top Gear team next Sunday on BBC Prime.
54:03Well, next, more than just a sleepless night as we reveal more from the people who have trouble
54:08with sleep.
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