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Episode 8 blends supercars with unconventional tests. The presenters drive the Ford GT40 and Maserati Quattroporte, while also seeing how a Toyota Prius holds up. In one memorable stunt, Top Gear uses a Boeing 747’s jet wash to blast a Citroën 2CV and a Ford Mondeo, testing their resistance to extreme conditions. Special guest Martin Clunes takes the Reasonably Priced Car for a spin. Supercars, spectacle and serious fun.
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00:00Tonight, Richard says goodbye to a motoring icon.
00:07The fastest car in the world comes to our track.
00:11And how good is the Citroen 2CV in a crosswind?
00:19Good evening. Now we've got a lot of V8s on the show tonight,
00:22and even a jet engine. So, to bring a bit of balance,
00:25we thought we'd start by looking at this very eco-friendly,
00:29semi-electric Toyota Prius.
00:32OK, we've looked at that now.
00:35So, let's move on to James,
00:38who's been hurtling around the mountain roads of Sicily
00:41in a thumping great Maserati.
00:44This is the Maserati Quattroporte.
00:48It costs £70,000,
00:50and in a world of German saloons shaped like briefcases,
00:53it looks absolutely beautiful.
01:00Quattroporte sounds exotic,
01:02but it simply means four doors.
01:05So, is the rest of this car that simple?
01:08Well, no.
01:11You see, most cars are fairly happy to be one thing,
01:14a hatchback or an estate car,
01:16but this Maserati wants to be two things.
01:19A dignified luxury saloon,
01:22and a high-performance sports car.
01:25It's Maserati's party piece,
01:27the original 1960s Quattroporte,
01:29inspired by the opening of Italy's new motorways,
01:32was once the fastest four-door saloon in the world.
01:35So, let's have a look at this car of two halves,
01:40beginning with luxury.
01:43On the surface, it's all there.
01:45Leather from the most upmarket cows,
01:47plenty of space,
01:48stylish Italian detailing,
01:50and the whole thing smells like an expensive Florentine handbag.
01:54But once you get on the move...
01:59Hmm.
02:00Now, my first beef about this car concerns its suspension.
02:04The low-speed ride is not exactly ministerial.
02:08It's the sort of thing that big Jags and Mercedes do much better.
02:14My main complaint, however, concerns the gearbox.
02:18Now, it's one of these flappy paddle jobs.
02:20It's a manual gearbox with an automated clutch,
02:23but when you're driving around town,
02:25you can press a button and turn it into a full automatic,
02:28which sounds great, but it's just...
02:30I don't know.
02:31Sometimes it feels like Maureen from driving school
02:34is changing gear for you,
02:35and on her first lesson at that.
02:37It just isn't as good as a real automatic.
02:44So, it's not brilliant when it's in executive wafting mode,
02:47and if I was Don Corleone and I'd just spent £70,000 on this,
02:51I think there'd be a horse's head in someone's bed by now.
02:56But let's see if you get your money's worth when it's a sports car.
03:01There's a place in Sicily that's just the job.
03:04The Targa Florio, miles and miles of bandit-ridden mountain roads
03:12that from 1906 to 1973 made up one of the greatest racetracks of the world.
03:21Over the years, the length of the course shrank from a staggering 700 miles to just 40.
03:27But even today, this route remains a great test of a car.
03:34The creator of this event was a man called Vincenzo Florio,
03:38and in the early days he had the only car on the island.
03:41But that wasn't going to stop him.
03:43He organised a race with a horse and a bicycle.
03:46And the horse won.
03:48So let's see if things have moved on.
03:50Right, once you start driving like an Italian, this starts to make much more sense.
04:06This is a fantastic bit of road.
04:08I've never been mad keen on these flappy paddle gearboxes, but you can know them to use it.
04:15You actually can just keep your foot planted in the carpet and flick the paddles,
04:20but if you back off a bit you can make the changes much crisper.
04:24You're getting to know it, you're building up a rapport with it.
04:29You can tell this is meant to be a sports car because of the engine.
04:38Yee-hee.
04:444.2 V8, 400 horsepower.
04:47Fabulous.
04:50Listen to that.
04:51It's not just the engine itself, but where it is.
04:53They've shifted it well back behind the front wheels
04:56and put the gearbox at the back, all for better balance.
05:00That's absolute supercar thinking, and it really shows.
05:05This is so chuckable for a 15-foot car.
05:08You can't even think you're in an NX5 or something.
05:13If I suddenly get spattered with flecks of vomit,
05:16that's the sound man in the passenger seat.
05:18He's really not enjoying this.
05:23This is absolutely amazing.
05:25Can you imagine what this was like in the 1950s?
05:28In an old car with no ABS and no traction control,
05:33sheer drops down into that valley.
05:35I'm surprised anybody got to the end.
05:36In the early days of this race, the local bandits used to hide in the hills
05:41and take potshots at the competitors as they went past.
05:44But they got around this problem by employing them as race marshals.
05:48Shooting all the drivers.
05:50Not that they'd get me today, obviously,
05:52because I'm outrunning everything.
05:55Even bullets.
05:58God, if I lived here, I'd kill myself.
06:02Actually, if you lived here, someone else probably kills you first.
06:05Well, that's another matter.
06:06So, when you're in town and just wanting to cruise about,
06:09there are better cars for the job.
06:11But out here, in the mountains, the big Maserati is a glorious sports car.
06:17Sure, the Germans also do a nice line in fast four-seaters.
06:21But against the charisma of the Quattroporte,
06:24they look a little more like just the top rung of a company car pecking order.
06:30The Quattroporte has no diesel or estate version sullying its bloodline.
06:35It's something very special.
06:46So, would you buy one?
06:48No, I wouldn't, you see.
06:50If I was called Flavio and I lived in the Sicilian hills, then I would.
06:53It would be absolutely fantastic.
06:54But in real life, I just think a Jaguar XJR would be better.
06:59Why?
07:00Because, well, this, OK, is a purebred Italian supercar.
07:04It's just got two extra doors and two extra seats.
07:07But the Jaguar, that's really a conventional luxury car
07:09that just happens to have a supercar engine in it.
07:13And the Jaguar just makes more sense, more of the time.
07:16It's that simple.
07:17So, what you're saying really is that buying one of these to use every day
07:20would be as daft as, you know, say, buying a huge great off-roader in Surrey
07:24just to do the school run.
07:25Exactly. It would be absolutely stupid.
07:27That would be a preposterous thing to do.
07:29Completely.
07:30OK, so let's move on and do the news.
07:32Absolutely. And in the news this week, the new Porsche 911.
07:37It's out very soon. There will be two models, the standard and the S.
07:40325 and 355 brake horsepower.
07:43Here it is. 58 or 65,000 pounds, depending upon which version you buy.
07:48Fantastic.
07:49You've been suckered.
07:50No doubt.
07:51That's not a new 911, is it?
07:52Yes, it is.
07:53No, the thing is, is that Porsche say every single one of those panels, except for the roof, is brand new.
07:58Absolutely.
07:59Now, frankly, I didn't believe them.
08:01So I rang them up and I said, prove it.
08:04And they sent us a tape of this car being designed.
08:08We can show that to you now.
08:10There they are.
08:12Now, we know that German fashion and hairstyles haven't moved on much, but I'm sorry.
08:17That car is just the old one.
08:19That's not new. There's no new 911 and there never has been.
08:21Thank you for the end.
08:22Right, do you remember our pickup truck?
08:24Yeah.
08:25Of course you remember our pickup truck. It's in the studio, here somewhere.
08:28It's still running, remarkably. What did we do to that?
08:30Everything.
08:31We set fire to it, drowned it, blew it up on the top of the building, all that sort of stuff.
08:34It still works at the end of it.
08:36Toyota have launched a new Toyota pickup truck and they've sort of named it after our experiment.
08:43They've called that the Toyota Hilux Invincible.
08:47So we named a car?
08:49Sort of, yeah.
08:50They acknowledge the role of our TV program in the naming of that car.
08:54That's brilliant news.
08:55That's fantastic. Perhaps this would catch on.
08:57Perhaps all cars could be named after what we think of them.
09:01Oh, yes.
09:03The Nissan 350 Noisy, for instance.
09:06The Porsche Cayenne Minga.
09:08Yes, that would be a good name.
09:09How about the Rover City Rubbish?
09:11Yeah.
09:12I like City Rubbish. The BMW 5-2 Ugly.
09:17Yeah, I think this is a good idea and I think this is going to catch on.
09:20Hey now, last week, you two were talking about these new tall hatchbacks and were they worth the extra money?
09:27We said no if they got five seats, yes if they got seven.
09:31Well, Honda has come along with the news this week that they've got something called an FRV.
09:36There it is.
09:37There it is.
09:38And they say, now, seating five or seven, okay?
09:42Actually, Honda had a better idea.
09:44Six seats.
09:46Now, you see, that's not better, is it really?
09:48Six is better than five.
09:50It's not better than seven.
09:52It's one worse.
09:53It's one worse.
09:54And what they actually say is, when you think about it, six seats are plenty for most small families.
09:59No, you see, it still doesn't stand up if you've got seven people to transport.
10:03That is a rubbish idea.
10:04It is a rubbish idea.
10:05It is a rubbish idea.
10:06That car would basically be beautifully made, unbelievably reliable, have a fantastic engine
10:10and isn't as good as a Toyota Corolla Verso.
10:12The end.
10:13Yeah.
10:14News from Germany where they have the autobahns.
10:16You know, unlimited, no speed limits on those things.
10:19Well, the two main political parties in Germany are now backing the scrapping of the de-restricted autobahns.
10:26They are thinking of imposing a blanket 80 miles an hour speed limit.
10:30What do they do?
10:31Well, absolutely.
10:32I mean, what do they do?
10:33Apart from anything else, if they do that, what's the point in having Germany?
10:41What?
10:42What's it for?
10:43Never mind Germany.
10:48Talking of speed, did you see the jet fighter this week?
10:51600 miles an hour and he crashed into a lamppost.
10:56Look at that, 54 feet off the ground at 600 miles an hour.
10:59Now, the Ministry of Defense is saying that if it can be proved that he was flying too low,
11:03and if you hit a lamppost, it's difficult to defend it, the pilot will lose his wings.
11:09Oh, no.
11:10We'd just like to say we've got space here for another presenter,
11:13and if you are the chap who is flying out and he leaves your job, you've got one here any time, mate.
11:18If we get him down here, bring his plane, we're going to see if we can knock the helmet off a policeman.
11:26I've got one word for you there, Jeremy.
11:28Chin strap.
11:30It's going to be very bad.
11:31Knock over a speed camera.
11:33You could have a call.
11:34Yes.
11:37Yes.
11:38Right, James.
11:39Can we just have a quick reminder, please, about the Top Gear Motoring Survey 2004.
11:43Now, this is the biggest survey of its kind in the world, or it will be if you bother to take part.
11:48We need you to do it.
11:49We can't do it ourselves.
11:50We can drive cars and tell you how fast they go.
11:52You can tell us how reliable they are, how good the dealer is, how good his coffee is, how clean his lavatory is.
11:57If you've got a car registered between 2000 on a Y plate and 2003 on a 52 plate, that's very important.
12:05Please tell us all about it.
12:07It's very simple.
12:08You log on.
12:09www.bbc.co.uk forward slash Top Gear.
12:15Click the survey button, fill it in.
12:17That's easy.
12:18You'll be making a very valuable contribution to this program and helping others by sharing your misfortune with them.
12:24Please help us out with that, if you can.
12:26Now, good news and bad news this week about caravans.
12:30The good news is that they are to be restricted to the inside lane only of the M5 this summer.
12:36Well, that is good news.
12:37The bad news, I'm afraid, before you burst into spontaneous applaud, the bad news is that the restriction is only for a very short stretch of the M5 on a hill outside Bristol.
12:50And it's only on Fridays from 4 till 8 and Saturdays from 8 till 2 and it's only in August.
12:55Well, what's the benefit of that?
12:57It turns out that the caravanners, there's an all-party caravan lobby at Westminster.
13:05Margaret Beckett is a member and the chairman is someone called Eric Illsley, who says he goes on holiday every year with his wife in a two-berth mistral.
13:14Eldest mistral, it's called.
13:16And he says that people always blame caravans for causing cues.
13:22Which they do.
13:23I mean...
13:24Well, that's what they do.
13:25They do, don't they?
13:26It's true.
13:27They do.
13:28It is a true fact.
13:29They do.
13:30He says lorries also cause cues.
13:31But the thing is, is that the lorry is delivering food and produce to the shops to make our lives better.
13:37How can your eldest mistral make my life better?
13:41It can't.
13:42It's ridiculous.
13:43It never will.
13:44Just a word of caution about caravans to motorcyclists.
13:49You'll be interested in this.
13:50On a sort of large capacity of motorcyclists, this is of course very easy to overtake a caravan.
13:54You just need a very small stretch of road.
13:56You spot it, you move out, you think, great, down two cogs, bang, pin it, you pass the mistral.
14:00In the twinkling of an eye, you knock it up a cog, you've got it pinned wide open and you're going past the Rover 75.
14:06And it's then you remember that ruddy great sticky out mirror thing that they stick on the driver's door.
14:13And I did this the other day and the first thing I knew about it was when I had this vision of myself coming towards me at a closing speed of 200 miles an hour.
14:21And today there's a bloke on a bike like mine.
14:26He's screaming.
14:27Yeah.
14:28You know, the lovely thing is that the caravan club always says, doesn't it, that our remembers always pull over when they see a huge queue of traffic behind.
14:35Rubbish.
14:36They don't.
14:37They just don't.
14:38Has anyone here ever had a caravan pull over and let you go by?
14:40No.
14:41No.
14:42Exactly.
14:43So if you are a caravaner and you do pull over to let normal motorists go by, write to us at, I'm a liar.
14:51BBC Top Gear Wood Lane London W12.
14:55Now we have a very, very interesting new car in the studio this week.
15:00It's over here.
15:01Have a look at this.
15:03This is the new Mercedes CLS.
15:06Now it's available with either a three and a half liter V6 or a five liter V8 engine goes on sale next year.
15:11We expect prices will start from about 45,000 pounds.
15:15But, and this is a really interesting thing, it comes with an automatic gearbox that has seven forward speeds.
15:21And for reasons we just can't quite fathom, two reverse speeds.
15:26Yes, that's very interesting Hammond.
15:28But this is more interesting, I think.
15:29It's the styling of the thing.
15:30Have a look.
15:31It's been made to look like a very svelte coupe.
15:34But, it is actually a four door and more to the point, the doors are pillarless.
15:39How cool is that?
15:40For some reason that's just, I don't know, fantastic.
15:43I think if we were doing the cool wall this week, we could have our first cool Mercedes.
15:48Quite possibly.
15:49Okay.
15:50Now, every week or so, some manufacturers somewhere in the world announces that they're going to stop making a particular type of engine.
15:57And to be honest, most times, well, we don't really care.
16:00But the other week, we heard about the death of something really rather special.
16:03So, get your Kleenex ready, because coming up now is an obituary.
16:15A moment's silence, please, for the passing of the queen mother of motoring, the Rover V8 engine.
16:21Now, I know we don't normally do engines, but stick with it, because this is an icon.
16:27It started out as an unloved orphan, but in its 37-year life, it has been in quite a few different cars.
16:36It first appeared in the Rover P5, then the Rover P6, and the Range Rover, and the Land Rover.
16:43The MGB GT, the MGR V8, the Morgan Plus 8, the Discovery, the Triumph TR8.
16:51Loads and loads of TBRs, the S, the Chimera, the Griffith.
16:54Then the Marcos, and the Ginetta, the Brabham single-seater racer.
16:58The Westfield SE8, and the Sherpa van.
17:01Basically, it has run Britain.
17:08Amazing.
17:09But for us, the best home that engine ever found was in this, the Rover SD1.
17:18The SD1 and this engine are one of the great partnerships of all time.
17:23Think of Lennon and McCartney, Morecambe and Wise, Tango and Cash.
17:29And the marriage very nearly never happened.
17:33The V8 was originally designed by General Motors in America.
17:37But nobody liked its radical aluminium block.
17:40And after just three years, GM killed it off.
17:43By happy accident, Rover's managing director spotted one lying abandoned in an American boatyard.
17:52He bought the rights, and here we are today.
17:55It was 1976 when the engine slotted itself into the SD1.
18:02A car full of ingenious technology.
18:05Locking petrol cap.
18:06Oh, that's important these days.
18:08Yes.
18:09A machine with flair.
18:11A sporting looking car has always been a bird catcher.
18:15And a car that was a design classic.
18:17In fact, the SD1's designer was so confident of his new creation, that when he unveiled it to management, he arranged to have it lined up next to a collection of Italian supercars.
18:28And not only was it handsome, it was clever.
18:34Take the dashboard, for example.
18:36All the dials and stuff are contained in a single sort of box unit that sits on top of the dash.
18:41So for right-hand drive versions, they screwed it down on this side.
18:45And for left-hand drive, they just screwed it down on the other side.
18:48And then they plugged the hole where the steering column would have been with an air vent.
18:52And at the end of it, it always had that engine.
18:56During its 37-year life, the V8 popped up as a 3.9 litre, a 4 litre, a 4.5 and a 5 litre.
19:04But in the SD1, it was a 3.5 litre, with 155 horsepower.
19:11Listen to it.
19:13It's just a fantastic noise. Simple as that.
19:17The police loved the SD1 so much that when they heard it was going out of production in 1986,
19:23they stockpiled cars so that they could keep using them after they'd died off.
19:28And now, today, the iconic V8 has finally followed its friend through the pearly gates.
19:34But don't worry, because the engine and the car live on together at the racetrack.
19:41In its day, the SD1 was a fantastic track racer, winning the Touring Car Championships in 1982 and 83.
19:51And here today, the old girl gets to relive some of her former glories in classic Touring Car racing.
19:58This is like old rockers on a reunion tour, and it's one of the cheapest motorsports you can do.
20:05Do you know how much it costs to run a season?
20:09That's the car, tyres, engine, 11 races, the lot.
20:13Ten grand. Two of that is the car.
20:16And I can't think of a better way to pay tribute.
20:23OK, here we are, on the grid.
20:28And we're off.
20:31All the cars are pre-1982,
20:33and essentially the racing is between big stuff that roars down the straights
20:37and small hatches that catch them in the corners.
20:40There were several SD1s on the track, but none, and here comes the first of the racing excuses,
20:47were quite as basic as mine, which had standard suspension and standard brakes.
20:53It's like driving a shopping car!
20:56Besides me, there was one other novice SD1 driver in a white car.
21:03So I made beating him my goal for the race.
21:06What a manoeuvre! And he's gone away from me!
21:15Right, he's in a rover like mine, this must be possible.
21:21Maybe he had more talent, but I like to think he had more power.
21:26Come on! Give me more power!
21:29I need more power!
21:31Give me more power!
21:34Give me more power!
21:35Dammit!
21:36No!
21:50There was nothing else for it, I'd have to drive right on my limit.
21:56But what a tribute to the big V8!
21:58And while others were going off all around me, I at least managed to stay on the track with my comedy suspension.
22:10Let's see what can happen to it! Come on!
22:14Finally, I got past my nemesis, but then, on the next corner, I ran out of talent and track.
22:20Yes! No! No! No!
22:24Cross!
22:25Oh!
22:27It helped! It was beautiful!
22:29Oh, no, my friend!
22:32No!
22:35Oh, boner!
22:36And that was that. My tribute to an amazing engine.
22:51I'm sorry, it was the best I could do.
22:54But thanks anyway for the 37 years of service.
22:57Great engine.
22:59Yeah.
23:01And I must say, I have to say this, a great drive from you.
23:05Really was.
23:06The press were less kind, I must admit.
23:09I've got a cutting here.
23:11Top Gear presenter struggles at snap.
23:13That is just so unfair!
23:14You saw all the other cars, they were cornering level and mine was leaning because I only had ordinary suspension and ordinary brakes and the engine wasn't as powerful as everyone else's.
23:26Do you want me to get you out of this hole?
23:27Yes, please.
23:29Shall we meet a guest?
23:30Yes, please.
23:31Okay, our star in the reasonably priced car tonight has very big ears.
23:37So big, in fact, that if the wheel comes off again, he'll be able to use them as air brakes.
23:41Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Clunes!
23:46How are you?
23:47Thank you very much.
23:50Have a seat.
23:56Now, a rapturous welcome.
23:59Yeah, not bad, was it?
24:00Now, did you see the show last week, when the wheel fell off?
24:04No, I didn't, but I've heard about it.
24:06So...
24:07They told me about it before I got in the car.
24:08Really, did that make you nervous?
24:09The wheel has come off.
24:10No, I was already nervous.
24:11Would you like to see it?
24:12Yeah, I'd love to, actually.
24:13We've got a film with Lionel Richie last week.
24:16Here he is, a bit brutal.
24:18And there goes the wheel.
24:20It's now overtaken.
24:22And off he goes.
24:24Hello?
24:26He was so nearly dancing on the ceiling there.
24:30Now, your car history, where does that begin?
24:35It started with a Hillman Minx that would get you from Wimbledon to Putney.
24:39And it once got stolen by somebody.
24:41But they only got as far as Putney, because that was as far as it would go through and fill the radiator back.
24:46But I found it and nicked it back and got it home.
24:49It's okay, technically that's not stealing if it's your own car.
24:52Yeah, that's true, yeah.
24:53Then you got the bit part actor.
24:55You were a bit part actor in Doctor Who.
24:58Quite a big part, actually.
24:59Thank you, yes.
25:00I was a guest baddie.
25:01Yes, I did.
25:02And then, yeah, I bought a BMW three-litre thing.
25:06Oh, quite a good...
25:07Before the seven series.
25:08The thing is, though, you needed to buy a good car, because we've actually got a photograph, I'm afraid to say, of you in Doctor Who.
25:15There it is.
25:18Mushrooms were mushrooms in those days.
25:21Oh, look at that.
25:23Now, since the days of men behaving badly, you've left London and moved to the quiet life, really.
25:30Well, I understand you spend most of your life doing carpentry.
25:33I do do a fair bit of carpentry, yeah, yeah, I do like it.
25:36Why?
25:37Why?
25:38Because I basically dress up and prat around for a living.
25:42That then gets squirted through the airwaves to people's television sets, and you're sort of left with very little result for your labors.
25:49So, it's actually quite good to go and bang and hammer something and, at the end of the day, have a tiny bit of wood left.
25:55Yeah, look at that.
26:00It was this big when I started.
26:03But life in the country suits you well?
26:05Does that suit your driving style down there?
26:07It suits I'm a land barge van driver, so I can see over the hedges and everything, and that's...
26:12Oh, you've got an Amazon?
26:13Oh, I've got an Amazon, yeah, but I've also got two campervans, two Volkswagens.
26:17Campervans?
26:18Well, actually, no, that's not strictly true.
26:20One's a 1969 Microbus with just one set of back seats, and the other was a 1977 delivery van, which I'm slowly doing up.
26:29But why... where's that thing you've got of all-time greatest cars? Because there's no Volkswagen vans on there.
26:35And I... you asked this audience, but through a couple of degrees of separation, everyone's had some exposure to these vans in their lives.
26:42Yeah, but they can't be the greatest car on the basis that they're not cars, they're actually vans.
26:46If we were to do the greatest vans of all time...
26:49Oh, bollocks. Yeah.
26:52No, you want to ask the audience what exactly, whether or not they...
26:57Well, hands up, who's had some experience of a Volkswagen campervan?
27:01Come on, or your friends' parents, you went for a ride in it, first snob...
27:05I'm quite interested, what experience did you have in a... yeah?
27:11It's just a camping holiday, that's not exactly the kind of experience you were thinking of, is it?
27:14It's time in a vehicle, isn't it?
27:16It's time in a vehicle, has anybody had an interesting experience in a campervan?
27:19Oh, you never said interesting.
27:22Um, and what about the cars you've got now?
27:25I've got the BMW 6 Series you slagged off on your programme.
27:29What was your problem? It's the first time I've had sat-nav, and you... why didn't you like the sat-nav?
27:34Well, it doesn't work in a BMW, that's why.
27:36It has no clue, for instance, about the A40, doesn't know that exists.
27:40It was set off from Oxford the other day, Oxford to London, that's the M40, not in a BMW.
27:45Really?
27:46Tries to steer me onto the M1.
27:47Have you switched her on, though? Her voice?
27:49Sandy.
27:50Is that what she's called?
27:51I call her Sandy.
27:52Oh, she's great.
27:53Turn left.
27:54Stroke my back.
27:55Yeah.
27:56Squeeze my leg.
27:57Make a, make a legal U-turn.
27:59So you're...
28:00Put these on.
28:01You're having an affair with a woman who lives in your dashboard.
28:04Yes.
28:05Lordy Lord.
28:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:07I don't need to go for it.
28:08It's quite scary, but don't you find the car quite uncomfortable?
28:11I don't, no.
28:12And I did have, I did have a 540 before that had those Recaro seats.
28:16I don't have a Recaro ass.
28:18I like it.
28:19I do.
28:20So that was a little sort of wedged in there.
28:22But this, no, I find it, I do find it car, but I've never driven the Jaguar or the, I'm
28:26not interested in Porsches, really.
28:28Um, I just like, it's a couple of very fast, comfortable chairs, and a great stereo.
28:32Yeah.
28:33Is it, is it a hard top?
28:34Yeah.
28:35You see, that's okay, because one of the things that worries me is if you have a soft top
28:38at our age, and I do, often, in a Mercedes, it's got a huge readout of what radio station
28:44you're listening to.
28:45Now, sometimes I listen to Magic FM.
28:47So everyone in a van, look at that.
28:50Magic, written right across the, and yeah, just going along to Lionel Richie songs.
28:55Sunglasses.
28:56Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
28:58No, no, it's Radio 1, really.
28:59I always have to have the sat nav on.
29:01But of course, being a Mercedes, it's entirely different.
29:04Make a Utah!
29:05You will go back, don't do it again!
29:09Uh, and lawnmowers, I understand you're pretty keen on those, too.
29:12Ah, yes.
29:13I do.
29:14The first week, I had so many crashes on it.
29:16Little red tractor, I whacked it into this, that, and the other.
29:19Now, you see, I've got a Kubota.
29:21I'm going to have to look after a Kubota.
29:23It's nice, it's a four-wheel drive, 16-speed, it's good.
29:25It's a nice thing.
29:26What's your garden like?
29:27It's, it's well known, it is what it is.
29:30And I just love that whole going up and down thing.
29:32Oh, the stripes.
29:33And also, how anal is this?
29:35I've got a garden that's got like patches of trees and things.
29:37And you try to work out the shortest route to cut your lawn.
29:40Ah, now what do you do?
29:41Do you go round the trees first and then start striping?
29:43This is what I'm saying.
29:44You know, you know what I'm talking about.
29:47I know exactly.
29:48But also, it gets you round every inch of your garden.
29:50And you sit.
29:51And you sit.
29:52And you sit.
29:53Look at my engine.
29:54You sit.
29:55You sit.
29:56Look at my engine.
29:57Well, I sit.
29:58I think, you know, I've already cut that bit and I'm going to have to go across it to get
30:01to that next.
30:02And that's the worst thing in the world.
30:03Up blades.
30:04Yes, exactly.
30:06Now, obviously, you came here to try your hand.
30:10Yes.
30:11In the Liana.
30:12Yes.
30:13With its wonky wheel.
30:14Yes.
30:15Who is it on here that you'd like to try and be?
30:17Well, obviously, you know, Neil Morrissey springs to mind.
30:19But he's right up the top.
30:20And I do happen to know, from very personal experience, he's a really good, fast driver.
30:25I sort of, when I got in with the Stig, I just thought, how can I get out of this with
30:30some digger?
30:31I'll be funny or sick or something that'll let me off.
30:34Is he frightening, the Stig, when you go round with him?
30:36No, very polite.
30:37Very nice.
30:38I had to ask him to sort of translate what he was saying.
30:40You know, he was going, hard on into the corner.
30:42I said, I've got enough to think about.
30:49I shouldn't be holding this.
30:56Well, the Stig said, actually, I had a quick word with him, that you plainly have had no
31:01experience of track driving.
31:02No.
31:03Which is his polite way of saying, you know.
31:05Van driver.
31:06Van driver, exactly.
31:08But that you were incredibly brave.
31:10And we've got some footage of Martin being brave.
31:15Who'd like to see his practice runs?
31:17Yeah.
31:18We've got a little bit of a tape here.
31:19Let's run that.
31:20Have a look.
31:21There we go.
31:22In the first corner, that one.
31:24And you never change your expression.
31:29There we go.
31:30Second to last corner.
31:31That's a tricky one.
31:32Off there.
31:33And here we go again.
31:34On the second to last corner again.
31:36Look at that.
31:37It's just not bothered.
31:39And here we go again.
31:42Same corner.
31:43That's a great.
31:44I just love that whole.
31:46The smiling.
31:49I'm off the road.
31:50I may die.
31:52After you'd calmed down a bit, we set the stopwatches.
31:57And this is Martin Clunes' lap.
32:02Aggressive start, I thought.
32:04Still wheels spinning and still no facial change there.
32:08That's the way my face rests.
32:11Yes, we've got that.
32:13That's quite nicely done, actually.
32:15Was it?
32:16Yeah, very good.
32:19Through Chicago.
32:20A little bit wide there, but again, not bad.
32:26That's it.
32:30You're certainly manhandling that thing.
32:34Now, here we go.
32:35Did you lift?
32:36Was that flat out through there?
32:38You did get through there without lifting off your accelerator at some point.
32:41Yeah, he made me, yeah, promise not to do that.
32:43Yeah, no, here we go.
32:44This is the second to last corner.
32:45This is the trickiest one we've got.
32:48And, yes, nicely through.
32:50And into Gambon corner.
32:51And there we are.
32:53Quite neatly, across the line.
32:56Well, it's still one minute, that's good.
33:05It's one minute, yeah.
33:06You're not Whiteley and Wogan.
33:08Oh, Harry Enfield.
33:09And Harry Enfield.
33:10Harry Enfield was the first person who ever came here.
33:12It was unbelievable how bad he was.
33:15Jonathan Ross got lost.
33:16You, far from a disgrace.
33:21Really?
33:22Yeah.
33:23I may as well break it to you now.
33:24I didn't beat Morrissey.
33:25You didn't beat Morrissey.
33:26No, I knew I wouldn't.
33:27I knew I wouldn't.
33:28But, you did do it.
33:29In, I think, a very respectable, since it's the same time as me.
33:33One minute, 50 seconds.
33:35Yay!
33:36Fantastic!
33:37Yeah!
33:38Right up there!
33:39Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Cruz!
33:44I'm up there with you!
33:48Yeah!
33:49Lionel Richie!
33:54This is Skoda's idea of a hot hatch.
33:57It's a Fabia, but it's got sports seats.
34:00It's got very sporty alloy wheels.
34:03And it's even been given a sporty name.
34:05It's called the Fabia DRS.
34:08Problem is, though, under the bonnet, it's got a diesel engine.
34:12Exactly.
34:13Now, Skoda are adamant about this.
34:15They say that is the future for hot hatch motoring.
34:18So, we thought, to prove them wrong, we'd have a sort of race between this and the Mini Cooper.
34:23Which is not actually as daft as it sounds.
34:25They're both around £12,000.
34:27They're both to about 125 miles an hour.
34:29And they both do 0-60 in about 9 seconds.
34:32So, what do we reckon?
34:33On our track, what do we reckon?
34:34Which would win?
34:35Mini!
34:36Mini!
34:37Yeah!
34:38Well, we can find out.
34:39To see if diesel has caught up with petrol, it is Clarkson in the Skoda and Richard Hammond in the Mini.
34:46I've got better traction off the line.
34:47I'm in the lead.
34:48That little Skoda is pulling it away like a train.
34:49Come to the first court.
34:50Oh!
34:51I've outbraked him into the first court.
34:52Oh!
34:53Oh!
34:54I've outbraked him into the first court!
34:55Oh!
34:56Oh!
34:57Oh!
34:58Oh!
34:59Oh!
35:00Oh!
35:01Oh!
35:02Oh!
35:03Oh!
35:04Oh!
35:05Oh!
35:06Oh!
35:07Oh!
35:08Oh!
35:09Oh!
35:10Oh!
35:11America!
35:19This thing rolls around a lot.
35:23Here we go, here we go, here we go.
35:24Power, power, power, power, power, power, power.
35:27I'm giving you everything I can!
35:29I've got a pillar!
35:31This easily weasley has so much power!
35:37I need it later.
35:38A little bit of understeer.
35:42Yes, quite a lot of understeer actually there.
35:45Oh, it's so close!
35:47The power just comes in huge lumps!
35:49It's sort of...
35:50Boom!
35:51Like you can hit with a wrecking ball and then...
35:56Just inching away on the straights,
35:58that thing has got that bit more.
36:02The Skoda Fabias weren't built to take the follow-through flat out,
36:05that's for sure.
36:07Oh, nor were they built to do that one either!
36:12Still, I'm in the lead!
36:14I cannot believe this thing!
36:20And I'm catching up again!
36:21Right up my trough again this time!
36:23It might be a diesel, it might be a Skoda!
36:24It's definitely a hot hatch!
36:25It might be a diesel, it might be a Skoda!
36:26It's definitely a hot hatch!
36:27Now that is a sad day!
36:28Well, doubly so, I lost another race in the same program and now diesel...
36:32I'm not talking about that!
36:33It's a sad day because diesel, it does seem, it has caught up to petrol!
36:38I know!
36:39Right, moving on!
36:40Now, in parts of London, they've introduced a new scheme where if you block a yellow box
36:45junction, you get a £100 fine!
36:46They say if the plan works, it could go nationwide!
36:47Well, we agree!
36:48We think offenders should be made to pay!
36:49But not with money!
36:50I'm at Victoria Street, in central London, at one of the worst box junctions in the country!
36:51This really is...
36:52I'm not talking about that!
36:53I'm not talking about that!
36:54It's a sad day because diesel, it does seem, has caught up to petrol!
36:55I know!
36:56Um, right!
36:57Moving on!
36:58Now, in parts of London, they've introduced a new scheme where if you block a yellow box
37:01junction, you get a £100 fine!
37:03They say if the plan works, it could go nationwide!
37:06Well, we agree!
37:07We think offenders should be made to pay!
37:10But not with money!
37:11I'm at Victoria Street, in central London, at one of the worst box junctions in the country!
37:18This really is the realm of the idiot!
37:21And we're waiting for the first offender!
37:24In the style of the great prankmeister, Jeremy Beadle, everything was set for our trap!
37:31Ohhhh!
37:33You've no idea how lucky you are!
37:37Oh!
37:38Please!
37:39Please be you!
37:42And then, at last...
37:45Stand by, this looks very good!
37:47Oh, yes!
37:49We've got one!
37:50He's in the net!
37:51Go!
37:52Go!
37:53Go!
37:54And cue the bears!
37:55Cue the bears!
37:56Ready!
37:57Hit it!
37:58Hit it!
37:59We think it's better!
38:00And we're talking about the yellow box!
38:05Go!
38:06Go!
38:07Go!
38:08Go!
38:09Go!
38:10Go!
38:11Go!
38:12Go!
38:13Go!
38:14Go!
38:15Go!
38:16Go!
38:17Go!
38:18Go!
38:19Go!
38:20Go!
38:21You see, if you just find someone, they cough up, and then a couple of weeks later, it's all forgotten.
38:42But I have a feeling he won't be forgetting that for some time.
38:46It's a good idea. It's an idea.
38:54I like it very much.
38:56But I think it would only work for trivial motoring offenses like speeding or talking on the mobile phone.
39:01People who block yellow box junctions are the most antisocial people in the world.
39:07And what I'd do is have police marksmen on tall buildings picking them off.
39:14That is a harsh line you take.
39:15You've seen the Day of the Jackal, the watermelon?
39:18That's what I'd do.
39:19Really?
39:19Yeah.
39:20And then what, you'd have, like, heads on spikes or something?
39:22No, no, no. There would be no head left.
39:24It would just come off.
39:25All over the inside of the car.
39:27Bear in mind, the police force is already overstretched.
39:29You're going to need a lot of manpower for this.
39:30I've thought about that.
39:32Volunteers.
39:32That's the answer.
39:33So, if you'd like to help us out, write to us at I'm retired and I'd like to shoot a yellow box blocker in the face at BBC Top Gear London W12.
39:46Can I talk about the GT40 now?
39:48Yes.
39:48Good.
39:49You see, over the years, a number of kit car manufacturers have made copies of it.
39:54They've been kind of plastic facsimiles with that Rover V8 engine that you were talking about earlier.
39:59Absolutely. Some had the Mustang engine as well.
40:00And to be honest, some were pretty good.
40:03I mean, these are very good indeed, but now Ford themselves has had a go at making a copy.
40:09So, think of it really as a GT40 for the 21st century.
40:19This isn't it.
40:25This is the old GT40, the one from the 60s, the 7-litre, 200-mile-an-hour monster.
40:33The one Le Mans four times on the trot.
40:50This is the new version, which Ford says merely takes its inspiration from the old one.
40:57But it has the same massive haunches, the same enormous tyres, the same Emmental front end, all full of holes.
41:05When you put the two of them together, they really do look exactly the same.
41:18Except for one thing.
41:20The old car was called the GT40 because it's 40 inches tall.
41:26Look, it isn't even as high as my legs.
41:30And as a result of that, I've never been able to fit inside.
41:33Let me show you the extent of the problem.
41:35OK, you have to kind of thread your legs between the steering wheel and the gear lever.
41:44There we go.
41:45OK, I've got my knees under the dash.
41:47My feet are on the pedals.
41:48But technically, you have to say I'm not really in the car.
41:53Well, it's kind of a fat peg in a small hole, really.
42:01Happily, however, the new car is 43 inches tall, which means I can fit inside.
42:08And that means I can take it for a drive.
42:12Bye.
42:13Bye.
42:13We actually drove one of these cars in America last year, but that was a pre-production mule.
42:29This, this is the 111,000 pound finished product the customers will actually buy.
42:37So let's see what it's like.
42:43The acceleration is astonishing.
42:52It actually hurts your neck muscles.
42:55It's trying to hold your head upright.
42:58But then it would, because this car develops 550 brake horsepower and 500 pound speeds of torque.
43:07It's not just faster than the old racer.
43:10It's faster than any car.
43:12You can buy today.
43:15Interperd, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140.
43:22Interperd, 150, 160.
43:29But I'm running out of runway.
43:31The top speed is 212 miles an hour, so it's faster than the Porsche Carrera GT and the McLaren Mercedes, both of which are three times more expensive.
43:44The key to this ferocious speed is, of course, the engine.
43:53It's a 5.4 litre supercharged V8.
43:58But don't get too excited, because it says here it was hand-built with pride.
44:02It's hand-built by Ronald and Ken.
44:06Basically, it was hand-built by Ron and Ken.
44:09And the block, well, that comes from one of those.
44:14Yep, the GT has pretty much exactly the same engine as a Ford Lightning pickup truck.
44:22Just like the old GT40 then, this is a blue-collar, working-class hero, taking a sledgehammer to the blue-blooded automotive aristocracy.
44:38The funny thing is, though, is it's all very civilised.
44:45I was expecting it to sound like a wolf stuck in a gin trap.
44:49I'm doing 130 miles an hour now, and I barely have to raise my voice.
44:55This is amazing when you think that huge engine and the whirring supercharger belt are just an inch behind your right ear.
45:03And even more amazing is the suspension, which cushions you from all the bumps and the ridges in the road.
45:11Because it's so quiet and comfortable, you sometimes think, oh, it's a normal car.
45:16But, of course, it isn't.
45:19The steering, for instance, is incredibly direct and incredibly precise.
45:26Just have to run over the white lines, and I can tell whether they used gloss or emulsion paint.
45:33Oh, then there's the brakes.
45:39The deceleration is so ferocious, it kind of pulls your head forwards.
45:44I'll end up looking like a giraffe at this rate with my neck muscles.
45:49A little bit more understeer than I was expecting here, but there's so much power we can cure it with a dab of throttle.
45:57There we go.
45:58This car is a sensation.
46:03Price-wise, it's about the same as a Ferrari 360 or a Lamborghini Gallardo, but they're like fine wines, delicate and crisp and subtle.
46:18This is more like one of those cocktails that taste like orange juice but blows your head off after two sips.
46:24And if you add water, you're going to wind up with some serious rumspin.
46:30The sad thing is that only 28 GTs are coming to the UK, and most will never see the rain.
46:48They'll be locked away with the family silver and only brought out for special occasions.
46:52I really can't see why.
47:00I mean, I am one of the lucky ones.
47:02I'm getting one of the 28.
47:05And I'm going to use it every day.
47:07I mean, why not?
47:08I've got loads of space.
47:09The visibility is very good.
47:10I've got air conditioning.
47:12The clutch is light.
47:13I can move the gear lever with one hand.
47:16It's great.
47:16I don't think I'll ever, ever want to get out of it.
47:34I've run it out of petrol.
47:40That's how much I love it.
47:42I'm still not going to get out of it, though.
47:46So, has it not got a very big tank, then?
47:53No, 17 and a half gallon.
47:55And you used all of that going around our track?
47:58Yeah.
47:58So, what does it do to the gallon, then, Jeremy?
48:01Oh.
48:01Sorry?
48:02Oh.
48:03Four miles to the gallon.
48:05Seriously, four miles to the gallon.
48:07Ford say, though, that if I'd been a bit more careful, I might have got it up to 12.
48:12Ooh, 12.
48:12You're not going to be careful, anyway.
48:14Look at it.
48:14That's the whole point of the car.
48:15And, actually, 17 and a half gallon tank for four miles to the gallon, how far does that
48:22mean you'll be able to go in your car before you run out of petrol?
48:2675 miles.
48:2875 miles?
48:30Yeah.
48:31Well, how far, then, do you live, for instance, from the Top Gear office?
48:3676 miles.
48:37Actually, it gets worse than that, because you know how he said, oh, I never want to
48:43get out of it.
48:44James and I have had to think about this.
48:45We don't think he'll be able to get into it.
48:48Let me demonstrate.
48:49James, come on in.
48:50Okay.
48:50Now, let's assume this is Jeremy's GT parked in an ordinary, multi-storey car park, anywhere
48:55you might see on an ordinary day.
48:57And James is parked up perfectly sensibly next to it.
49:00That's perfectly acceptable.
49:01No, that is a very considerate piece of parking.
49:03I've left plenty of space.
49:04I haven't bashed this bloke's posh sports car, as I've got it.
49:07Not in any way.
49:08So, James got out of there, no problem.
49:10How are you going to get in there?
49:12For a start, you'll have to leave your shopping behind, because there's no room in there at all.
49:16You just open the door.
49:17And get in your car.
49:18And then you go.
49:20You can't possibly get.
49:22Look, I mean, I'm sorry, the door has got a roof.
49:26Yeah, you go.
49:27You've got to go.
49:28No, it's just.
49:30Under the roof.
49:30What has he bought?
49:31Right, I think what's happened here is Jeremy's bought a car he can't get into.
49:35Yeah.
49:36If he could get into it, he couldn't go anywhere, because he'd run out of fuel.
49:40And even if he could get there, he couldn't take his briefcase, because it hasn't got a boot.
49:43He really hasn't thought it through.
49:44No, and actually, I mean, let's just talk about this four miles.
49:48No, you see, Jeremy, that doesn't count.
49:51No, you're not in the car.
49:52It's not really a driving position.
49:53You can't drive it with your buttons.
49:55I just want to get back to this fuel consumption.
49:57Four miles to the gallon.
49:59I mean, what does that work out at, like, in time?
50:01Well, that works.
50:02Let me just get my head around this.
50:03Fuel costs, that means it's a pound a mile.
50:06In fuel, doesn't it?
50:07That's just in fuel.
50:08Do you know, I was really, really, I thought it was hilarious when they announced that it
50:11was going to be delayed, and he'd have to wait for his GT.
50:13I thought that was great news.
50:15Actually, it can't arrive quick enough and start ruining his life.
50:18I can't wait.
50:19I've got some old jerry cans on my Land Rover.
50:21You could strap those to it, maybe with fueling.
50:23Jealousy is a cruel mistress.
50:26It's not as cruel as OPEC.
50:27I think it's probably time to find out how fast it goes around our track.
50:33Yeah, if you can get enough fuel in it to do a lap, obviously.
50:36If we can do that, because the original GT40 was built to beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
50:42Now, this one has been built to beat that.
50:46Ferrari 360 CS.
50:49That's the challenge.
50:50Stradale, that's the one that's basically built for the track.
50:53So, we handed the Ford over to something else that drinks a lot of petrol.
50:59The Stig.
51:01Away he goes.
51:02Lots of wheel spin there.
51:04Now, of course, 212 miles an hour, this is much faster than the Ferrari.
51:08But that doesn't matter here.
51:10It's all about front-end grip.
51:12Going in nicely into the first corner.
51:14Whoa, there was a slight there.
51:20Simply the best.
51:21Well, we'll see, shall we?
51:23Okay, into Chicago once again.
51:25No, no, no, that nose is running wide.
51:30GT40 has 150 more brake horsepower than the Ferrari.
51:35And twice as much torque, but it's American, so, of course,
51:39it won't be as good through the corners.
51:48Right, here we go, into the follow-through.
51:49Is he lifting?
51:50Yeah, saw the nose dip there as he lifted.
51:55And coming through, that is very fast.
51:57You have to say, it does look absolutely fabulous out there as he comes up now to the second-to-last corner.
52:03First half of the lap, it was neck-and-neck with the Ferrari.
52:05Can he pull it out here now?
52:07Going through Gambon.
52:08Ooh, plenty of sliding there, and across the line.
52:14Now, look.
52:15It was never going to beat these two, was it?
52:16The hypercars, as we call it.
52:18I mean, they cost three times more.
52:19They're like £320,000.
52:21But.
52:22This is the big one.
52:23Now, the producer of the show has actually bet me £5 that the Ford cannot beat that Ferrari.
52:30He says that it weighs a lot more, and that because it's American, it doesn't do handling as well as a Ferrari.
52:36I argue that the sheer power of that is going to pay dividends.
52:41I'm genuinely excited about this.
52:42You don't know, do you?
52:43I have no idea.
52:44So it had £122.3 to beat.
52:48£121.9.
52:50Whoa, yes!
52:58I'm £5 richer.
53:00You'll need it.
53:01£5 richer, which I shall put to the first gallon of fuel.
53:04Now, earlier on, James drove this 400-horsepower Maserati.
53:10Then Jeremy trumped that with the 550-horsepower Ford we've just seen.
53:15But now, I'm going to play the power joker with a jet engine.
53:19Let me show you how much power one of those has got.
53:23Well, to find out how powerful a jet engine is, first you need a jet.
53:27Well, we've got one.
53:29A Boeing 747, and it's ours for the day.
53:34And just in case you think we're on a film set, have a look out the window.
53:38That's Real Sky.
53:39The 747 is one of the great machines of our time, an icon.
53:47It's been around for 35 years and has carried 3.6 billion people.
53:52Half the world's population across the globe.
53:55And it's big, too.
53:56The tail is six storeys high, and you could park 45 cars on the wings.
54:01And even though it weighs almost 400 tons fully laden and carries this masseuse and 386 passengers,
54:09it can still travel at 575 miles an hour.
54:13Which brings us neatly to the engines.
54:21They're big.
54:28These are General Electric CF6s.
54:31They're 23 feet long, and they weigh six tons.
54:35One engine produces 58,000 pounds of thrust.
54:41And this has got four of them.
54:44But 58,000 pounds of thrust, that's kind of meaningless.
54:47How do you get your head round that sort of power?
54:50Our plan is to drive a car behind the 747, when the engines are at full power.
54:58The question is, how far can the engines blow the car off course?
55:03It's not as easy as you might think.
55:05It's too dangerous to drive them under here, behind the engines.
55:09They have to be well clear.
55:10In fact, they have to be way back here, past the tail.
55:14And then a bit more.
55:15That's a good 50 yards behind the engines.
55:20The first car we'll be subjecting to a good stiff breeze is this Ford Mondea.
55:26Modern, aerodynamic, good at coping with motorway crosswinds.
55:33Right, here we go.
55:36The pilot is easing up the throttle, building up the power.
55:43Now, it's crucial that we release the car at exactly the right time.
55:47Because if these engines run at full thrust for more than 20 seconds, they'll start to rip up the runway.
55:54And then we'll be in trouble.
55:58Okay, well, go on, man.
55:59All your own.
56:00Take off power.
56:01Okay, the engines are at full power.
56:03And here comes the Mondeo.
56:05Now, can they blow this one and a half ton car off course from 50 yards away?
56:10One, three, two, one.
56:13Oh, blimey, there it goes.
56:15The Mondeo must have been blasted a good 50 feet.
56:33But we haven't finished yet.
56:34Well, that was a modern, streamlined aerodynamic car.
56:37So let's have another go now and see what happens when we let loose the Top Gear crosswind on something a little more, well, slab-sided.
56:45A Citroën 2CV.
56:47Big engine.
56:49Lightweight hippie car.
56:51This should be fun.
56:52Okay, here we go again.
56:58The engines are up to 58,000 pounds of thrust.
57:03The car is released.
57:05And three, two, whoa, cricy!
57:12Yes, the 2CV really doesn't like crosswinds.
57:22Well, there you go, you see.
57:38Next time you're out, you think you might encounter crosswinds or have to drive behind a 747 at take-off thrust.
57:45You're better off with a Mondeo than a 2CV.
57:49It's a service we provide, this stuff, you know.
57:52We're getting very good at these public service films.
58:01I think so.
58:02Last week we did how much it costs to run a moustache in extra fuel.
58:07Then there was that.
58:08And next week we're actually going to answer the question that really is on the lips of the nation this summer.
58:14Can you ski on a public road behind the new Jaguar estate?
58:19Important question.
58:20So we'll see you then.
58:22Good night.
58:22Good night.
58:24Good night.
58:25Good night.
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