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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel across the world to meet different automobile manufacturers and drive cars made by them.
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00:01:00Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Now, coming up in this week's show...
00:01:18A supercar is dismantled for no reason, a man with no shirt on, and my whole tongue is wrapped up in intestine.
00:01:28My whole tongue is wrapped up in intestine.
00:01:32Those are the highlights. Those are the best bits. They really are.
00:01:38Anyway...
00:01:40Over here in the West, we tend to think that at £360,000, a Rolls-Royce Phantom is quite expensive.
00:01:50But this week, the Grand Tour is focusing mostly on China. And over there, things are a bit different.
00:01:58Not that long ago, China was full of old, bent-over rice farmer ladies, up to their ankles, in mud.
00:02:14But these days, things have changed a bit.
00:02:20As recently as the 1980s, people here would lie awake at night...
00:02:32dreaming of having enough money...
00:02:48to buy a mule.
00:02:50Whereas now, just 30 years later, they dream of being able to buy a Honki.
00:03:00Specifically this Honki, the L5.
00:03:04In Chinese, Honki means the red flag, the symbol of communism.
00:03:13But there's nothing at all communistical about this monster's price tag.
00:03:19Which is £880,000.
00:03:25The interior is an exquisite work of art, with rosewood panelling and cream leather.
00:03:32The dashboard and centre console are fully digital.
00:03:36There's jade in the door handles and gold and sunflowers everywhere else.
00:03:44I only saw this thing for the first time a few moments ago, and already, I'm in love.
00:03:49I love the way each door weighs the same as a medium-sized mountain.
00:03:54I love the red flags here, and on the bonnet.
00:03:57And on the bonnet, I love the flagpoles.
00:03:59It's like...
00:04:00It's like a cartoon baddies car, because in real life, nobody could be that bad.
00:04:05I mean, it's impossible.
00:04:07One thing the Honki doesn't have is armour plating.
00:04:16But even so, it weighs just shy of 3.2 tonnes.
00:04:22Now, to move this enormous weight around, it's fitted with a 6-litre V12 engine, which turns petrol into silence.
00:04:34It's not particularly comfortable, though.
00:04:38The seats especially are very hard, and the steering wheel adjuster button is broken, and there are no cup holders.
00:04:45And it certainly isn't fast.
00:04:47In fact, it has the same power-to-weight ratio as a Peugeot 308 Beezle.
00:04:53Honki won't say what the Nord 60 time is.
00:04:57I suspect because it won't actually do 60.
00:05:02You know what, though?
00:05:03I don't care about any of that, because it is just magnificent and evil.
00:05:08Gloriously, brilliantly evil.
00:05:14Despite its villainous presence, though, the price is mad.
00:05:19So, I called May and Hammond, and we came up with an idea.
00:05:35If you are a Chinese businessman or businessman woman, and you want a car that reflects your status, you don't need to spend £880,000.
00:05:43You can simply pop over to Europe and buy a Mercedes S-Class like this one.
00:05:49And even though this is the 6-litre V12, it cost me just £8,800.
00:05:59In other words, you could have a hundred of these for the price of a Honki.
00:06:05At this point, my colleague Richard Hammond arrived in something or other.
00:06:11What is that?
00:06:13This is a Cadillac STS, and you can shut up.
00:06:15I wasn't going to say anything.
00:06:17Good, because this is fitted with one of the best engines of all time.
00:06:21The creamy smooth 4.6-litre Northstar V8, making 300 all-American horsepower.
00:06:27That engine was designed so it can run for up to 100 miles with no coolant in it at all, by shutting down one bank of the V8 until it cools, and then the other one, and then the other one.
00:06:37That is clever.
00:06:38And front wheel drive?
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:40But it's a luxury car.
00:06:42Who cares what wheels have been driven, James?
00:06:44Well, people who care about torque steer, weight distribution, dignified engineering, doing things properly.
00:06:50All right, all right.
00:06:51Cancel all the track days I've entered in it, and I'll just drive around in it as a luxury car.
00:06:56Anyway, this is the Mercedes S-Class, which, as we know, is really a sort of paradigm for the luxury car, and it's a pioneer of many things that are new on cars, and that we all come to see as standard seven years later.
00:07:06For example, first car to have...
00:07:09Soft closed doors.
00:07:11How many miles has it done?
00:07:13180.
00:07:141,000.
00:07:15Yeah, well, I figured.
00:07:16Where did your car come from?
00:07:18Germany.
00:07:19A German?
00:07:20Mm-hmm.
00:07:21Bought a Cadillac.
00:07:23We were then interrupted by the arrival of Clarkson in a BMW.
00:07:28Ooh.
00:07:29I see you've bought the long car.
00:07:32Yours is long as well.
00:07:34Are you two being from the 1970s?
00:07:36They're the long wheelbase.
00:07:37And this is long?
00:07:38It is long.
00:07:39This is the BMW 750 IL, as Q called it in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
00:07:46Did he?
00:07:47He did.
00:07:48Nobody told it.
00:07:49Nobody on set said, uh, Desmond, that's not...
00:07:52You would think, wouldn't you?
00:07:53Oh, well.
00:07:54And in the film, they used 740s, rebatch.
00:07:56Is that?
00:07:57Yeah, this is the real deal.
00:07:59The 5.4-litre V12, and all I paid for it was £8,400.
00:08:06That is one hell of a lot of car.
00:08:08I only paid £3,000 for my Cadillac.
00:08:13That's a Cadillac.
00:08:14Yes.
00:08:15Oh.
00:08:16The point I'm going to make is, what kind of a moron in Germany said,
00:08:19there's Audi, there's BMWs, there's Mercedes.
00:08:23I should buy a Cadillac.
00:08:24In fact, I know exactly...
00:08:26You know those Germans you see that think they're Hell's Angels?
00:08:29They're dentists, but they have Harley-Davidson's.
00:08:31Yes.
00:08:32And they go to the Oktoberfest and they drink Budweiser.
00:08:34Yes.
00:08:35Well, I know the Germans you mean.
00:08:36He does.
00:08:37No, you're wrong.
00:08:38Because the previous owner of that car was an American general living in Germany.
00:08:42Was he?
00:08:43A general.
00:08:44He was an American general and he bought that because he recognised what Cadillac intended
00:08:46with that car, which is to take on Audi, BMW, Mercedes directly with that car with the
00:08:51North Star engine.
00:08:52Oh, yes.
00:08:53They were very successful at that, weren't they?
00:08:54Because Europe is full of Cadillacs.
00:08:55Yeah, you see them everywhere.
00:08:56You never see an Audi.
00:08:57Dripping over these.
00:08:58Rarity and exclusivity are part of luxury.
00:09:01Let's have a look at yours.
00:09:02Mine, honestly, is a perfect neck.
00:09:04It's absolutely fine.
00:09:05I saw that.
00:09:06I saw that.
00:09:07So what?
00:09:08That's got double glazing and it has gone wrong.
00:09:10Oh, wait a minute.
00:09:11Come on.
00:09:12What's the disease?
00:09:13It's got...
00:09:14James, is that between the paint?
00:09:15Yeah, it's got mumps.
00:09:16Incredible.
00:09:17That's the most depressing.
00:09:18A double glazed window with mildew in between it.
00:09:20What's the matter?
00:09:21You've got mildew inside your windows.
00:09:23Where?
00:09:24There.
00:09:25Well, it's just, it's...
00:09:26That's really poor.
00:09:27Oh, my God.
00:09:28What's the...
00:09:29Basically, it's disappearing before your eyes.
00:09:31How can a German car go?
00:09:32Are you sure it's a real one?
00:09:34Was it parked in the sea when you bought it?
00:09:36Let's not get bogged down with the oxidisation of my car.
00:09:39Because a lot of Chinese people, as we know, come to Europe these days,
00:09:42mostly to go to the Lister Shopping Village,
00:09:44which is now a bigger tourist attraction for the Chinese in England
00:09:48than Buckingham Palace.
00:09:49True fact.
00:09:50Anybody else find that faintly depressing?
00:09:51Very depressing.
00:09:52Okay.
00:09:53If Chinese people are going to come to the UK
00:09:55and buy Western soap and Western frogs,
00:09:57why would they not buy Western cars when they're there?
00:10:00Yeah, because you can't, you can't buy these cars secondhand over here.
00:10:03No, they're not.
00:10:04This vintage isn't available here.
00:10:05No, no.
00:10:06Because when these cars were new, everyone in China had...
00:10:08Bicycles?
00:10:09Yes.
00:10:10Yes.
00:10:11Yeah.
00:10:12And what we're saying is you can buy one of these for a lot less than a luxury honky.
00:10:17A lot, lot less.
00:10:18And that's what we're here to prove, people of China.
00:10:20We couldn't have chosen a better location for our test.
00:10:27The absolutely mind-blowing city of Chongqing.
00:10:33Let me give you a few facts and figures, if I may, about Chongqing.
00:10:50Population in the municipal area of around 30 million,
00:10:54so it's one of the biggest cities in the world.
00:10:5714 different car makers here, so it's China's Motown,
00:11:00and it's the capital of the Chinese motorcycling industry.
00:11:04And they made 100 million laptops here last year.
00:11:15Apparently the city is twinned with Leicester, and you can see why.
00:11:19Apart from everything about it.
00:11:26Oh, look, a train going through a building.
00:11:29Obviously.
00:11:32It's an amazing-looking place.
00:11:35I mean, the people of Dubai think they're good at knocking up a building quickly,
00:11:38but look at the stuff being built here.
00:11:44Of course, when a city gets this big this fast,
00:11:48there are many ways to make money.
00:11:54There's steel.
00:11:56And glass.
00:11:57And concrete.
00:11:58But one man thought, hold on.
00:12:01Every one of the rooms in every one of those buildings...
00:12:07...is going to need a door.
00:12:10Genius.
00:12:11No-brainer on the dragon's den, that's for sure.
00:12:17It was such a good idea, he now has a drive-through door factory.
00:12:22Security doors.
00:12:32Front doors.
00:12:35Interior doors.
00:12:37Really fancy schmancy doors.
00:12:39Ornate doors.
00:12:40Bank.
00:12:41Bank.
00:12:42Vault.
00:12:43Door.
00:12:44Car doors.
00:12:45Five million of them last year.
00:12:46Five million doors.
00:12:48Oh, that's not very interesting, is it?
00:12:50Yes, but now I'm the richest man in the world.
00:12:54If employees angel over time, it is not devil when they get salary.
00:13:00Okay, he's not a brilliant writer, but what a maker of doors.
00:13:04The most noticeable thing about Chongqing, though, is the heat.
00:13:14This is called the furnace of China.
00:13:19Average daily temperatures this time of year, which is mid-July, 45 degrees.
00:13:26With 80% humidity.
00:13:30This place is hot.
00:13:32Like, mega hot.
00:13:35It's so hot and so sticky that five minutes after putting up a building,
00:13:41the jungle is growing out of it.
00:13:44And this is okay if you're in an air-conditioned BMW or Cadillac.
00:13:50However...
00:13:52I'm gonna have to tell you that the air conditioning simply doesn't work in my car.
00:13:57Please, no.
00:13:59Not here.
00:14:02Have you heard the news?
00:14:04James' aircon.
00:14:05What?
00:14:07Oh, dear.
00:14:11Oh, that is gonna feel that.
00:14:13Yeah.
00:14:14Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
00:14:17Aircon issues aside, though, it did seem like we were onto something with our pre-owned Western limousines.
00:14:23Cars here cost roundabout twice as much as they do in the UK because of taxes and profiteering from the car company.
00:14:35So if you see someone in a Range Rover Velar as I just did, that here is 140,000 pounds.
00:14:44Yeah, I mean, that S-Class there, that's a tasty one. That's a 300,000 pound car in China.
00:14:53And that's why this BMW makes sense.
00:14:56You could come to Europe, pick up a 750 IL like this for 8,500 pounds, pay for the shipping to China, pay the taxes, and it would still cost you less than a Honda Civic.
00:15:09And it's not like this is on its last legs.
00:15:13I don't have a single thing in here that's broken.
00:15:17The steering wheel adjuster, unlike in the Honky, is working.
00:15:21Indicators, lights, stereo, everything. Everything works. Windows.
00:15:25I've even got a cassette player. You know that.
00:15:32All my electrics were working too.
00:15:35But actually, in this superheated city, there's an even better reason for buying a Cadillac.
00:15:42When Americans build a car, they start with the air conditioning unit and then say,
00:15:48right, let's fit a car to it. It's top priority.
00:15:51Speaking of which...
00:15:54What this is, viewers, if you're wondering, is something called an ice towel.
00:15:58You soak it in water and it remains cool for up to two hours.
00:16:02Borrowed it from one of the crew. It's fantastic.
00:16:07Eventually, we decided to leave the centre of the biggest city you've never heard of.
00:16:13So we negotiated this gentleman sausage-shaped junction to try our cars on the freeway.
00:16:21Where immediately, we had a problem.
00:16:30Every few hundred yards, there's a gantry with cameras covering all the lanes.
00:16:35And every single car is photographed and every single photograph is then analysed by an official in a room.
00:16:46To make sure the driver is smoking.
00:16:49Because as far as I can work out, that is still compulsory here.
00:16:53Other things, well, they're making sure that you have your seatbelt done up, that you're not talking on a mobile phone.
00:17:01And that you're not, how can I put this, touching either yourself or your passenger.
00:17:07Apparently, that's a thing in China. Quite a few people are prosecuted for pleasuring themselves or one another on a long journey.
00:17:17Yes.
00:17:19Yes.
00:17:20Oh, yes.
00:17:21Oh.
00:17:22Oh, yes.
00:17:24That is...
00:17:25It's actually really nice.
00:17:29Ow!
00:17:31Shit, I've found my todger.
00:17:33Eventually, we arrived at the location for our first test.
00:17:42It's one of 78 centres around Chongqing where teenagers can learn to drive away from the traffic.
00:17:50To us, however, it looked like a race track, which made it perfect for an ingenious handling test that I just thought of.
00:17:59Now, to do this, we're going to use drones like this one, which have been fitted with flamethrowers.
00:18:07They actually use these in China for clearing litter that's got stuck on overhead power cables.
00:18:15Right. So, how are we going to use airborne flamethrowers like this to test the power and agility of our cars?
00:18:23Good question.
00:18:24Each of our cars has, as you can see, been fitted with three chains of firecrackers.
00:18:28One on the bonnet, one on the roof, one on the boot lid, okay?
00:18:31So, you drive around a special course here while you're attacked by the airborne flamethrowers.
00:18:36And then, you score a point when you've finished for every one of the targets that haven't gone off.
00:18:42Since we were up against two geeky millennials and we'd be driving powerful western saloons, we figured we could outrun and outsmart the drones easily.
00:18:57Sadly, though, it was a massacre.
00:19:04There's a massacre.
00:19:05Ah! Fire from the sky!
00:19:07Ah! Ah!
00:19:08Ah!
00:19:09Ah!
00:19:10Ah!
00:19:11Ah!
00:19:12Ah!
00:19:13Ah!
00:19:14Ah!
00:19:15Ah!
00:19:16Ah!
00:19:17Ah!
00:19:18Ah!
00:19:19Ah!
00:19:20Ah!
00:19:21Ah!
00:19:22Ah!
00:19:23Ah!
00:19:24There's the drone on my left.
00:19:25The first one.
00:19:26store.
00:19:27Ah!
00:19:28ら!
00:19:29Ah!
00:19:30Ah!
00:19:31Ah!
00:19:32Oh!
00:19:33Shots!
00:19:34Oh!
00:19:36Oh!
00:19:37Oh!
00:19:38Ah!
00:19:39Oh!
00:19:40Ah!
00:19:41Fire everywhere!
00:19:45Oh!
00:19:46Ah!
00:19:47everybody can jump, dude!
00:19:50Bandits at 10 o'clock
00:20:00Battle of alarm did it one of the love yeah, you know dogs don't like fire. I hate it
00:20:20That was a totally useless test why was it well
00:20:39We did nothing to convince Chinese business people that our second-hand limos were a good idea
00:20:44And we all scored naught yeah, and we all ruined our paintwork as well
00:20:48Yes, but it'll buff out anyway
00:20:51Anyway, we shall pick that up later on but now it is time for us to splash in some puddles of chat
00:20:59Left by the drizzle of debates that falls on Conversation Street
00:21:04If we may and before we were allowed to drive over there we all had to sit Chinese driving tests now
00:21:24We've seen driving tests around the world I remember one in India
00:21:27I encountered once where a woman passed even though she was in the back of the car and her examiner was in another car following along behind
00:21:36Yeah, it used to be in Egypt that you had to drive six feet forwards
00:21:40But then six feet backwards and then you'd pass
00:21:45Yeah, anyhow, so we figured that together Chinese driving test. It would be you know quite an easy test
00:21:50However, we were in for a bit of a surprise now. I actually got some footage of Hammond taking his test. Anyone want to see it?
00:21:58Yeah, it's poor quality. It's on my phone, but here we go
00:22:03Test Center
00:22:05All right, so he has to ball his fists
00:22:10Then a squat
00:22:13Yes, and then he has to get on some way scales
00:22:17Tense moments here tense moment
00:22:19Still tense
00:22:22You passed
00:22:24That was but it was the easiest driving test. I've ever heard basically I passed because I proved that my hands do that and I'm affected by gravity
00:22:42That's it. I think it is actually just a test to check that you are a human being another dog
00:22:46Because they can't it wasn't however afterwards we were taken into a sort of lecture theater by a a man
00:22:52Who's talks us through the perils of the of the road in China?
00:22:56And he said that we had to look out for a number of things running out into the road in front of us including and I'm not this
00:23:02He said quote. Yes, you will back me up on this. This is what he said including dogs children and women
00:23:08That's what he said
00:23:10Be careful they run out into the road. Oh, you never know their own prediction
00:23:13I
00:23:15Don't think the hashtag me to movement has reached Chongqing just yet. Mind you you say that there are 78
00:23:23Self-made billionaire women in the whole world and 49 of them are Chinese. Yeah, well, there would be more but some of them got run over
00:23:33Anyway, look can we talk about that honky for a bit? I knew you'd want to talk about that. It's so you it's interesting
00:23:39It's got him written all over it bad news though. You can't have it in brown
00:23:45Oh, yes, you love a brown. Oh, your cars are grey and dark green mine are blue metal fake red and orange
00:23:53I can't see into your mind
00:23:56God knows I'm not sure I want to but I know James me as you drift off to sleepy Bobo's tonight a
00:24:02Brown honky will
00:24:06Well, I don't like brown cars. It's like I'm saying I love horses
00:24:13True you love a brown car never had a brown car and I am interested in the honky said tell us more about it
00:24:18Okay, something I didn't say in the film
00:24:20She's quite interesting is that when you order one they send a tailor round to your place of business and he measures you up for a suit
00:24:27That you then wear when you take delivery of the car. Really? Yeah
00:24:32I'd actually quite like to be the tailor who made the suit for you when you take delivery of your honky
00:24:37It would have some writing on it. Would it not in Chinese?
00:24:41It would be in English. Would it be a pithy description of the wearer? Yes, that's what it was
00:24:46Actually, it's funny you should say that because in China
00:24:48There's a tendency for people to wear clothing with English words written on them
00:24:53They've obviously got no idea what those words say I was sitting in a traffic jam one day there and there was a woman on a bus next to me
00:25:01And she was a perfectly respectable
00:25:0350-something woman on her way obviously to an office job or whatever. She was wearing a white blouse with red flowers on it now
00:25:09I took a picture here it is
00:25:11And what that says is he was a f***ing arsehole
00:25:14I would love a picture of her face when somebody explained to her what it said on her shirt
00:25:23Do you know what's really amazing about that? That's exactly what I was gonna have put on your honky seat
00:25:28She knew
00:25:30I want to get back to cars if I may because there's some truly astonishing
00:25:36Stats really about cars in China. We've got a graph here of global car production. Yes, there's the UK in 10th place
00:25:43We made one point six seven million cars here in 2017 the Japan eight point three five million China has put it up
00:25:5424.8 million cars they made there and what's
00:25:58Extraordinary is that you can't just buy a car and then use it
00:26:01You have to apply to a a government-run lottery for a registration plate for your car now. Here's one. Okay
00:26:09In Beijing last year for every thousand people who applied for a registration plate for a car
00:26:15They intended to buy for every thousand to apply. How many do you think actually got one my five hundred?
00:26:21200 six hundred three hundred three three people
00:26:25Thousand people who applied only three actually got a registration plate were allowed to buy a car
00:26:31This is good conversation this whole issue. Yeah in really interest. Hmm. Would you like to guess what was the best-selling car in China in 2017?
00:26:41Well Volkswagen have been there forever. They say I'm gonna say
00:26:45Persat I'm gonna say it's a mid-size Hyundai of some sort sort of boxy thing and you're both wrong
00:26:52It's the ruling Hong Lang
00:26:54What that? Yep, there it is
00:26:56That's the best-selling car in China. They sold half a million of them in China in 2017
00:27:02Really? Half a million? Half a million of those were sold, yeah
00:27:05They sold half a million
00:27:08Ruling Hong Wang. Those? That's more than the Ford Focus
00:27:12Yeah, and don't forget the Ford Focus is sold globally
00:27:14That's just sold in China
00:27:17The car, the Chinese car that caught my eye I must say was the best tuned T77 familiar with it?
00:27:22Oh, the best
00:27:24No, no, exactly. I've got a picture of it here
00:27:27It looks a bit like the Lamborghini from last week the Eurus
00:27:30But it's much smaller 1.2 litre engine SUV all quite normal
00:27:34Except it comes with something called a dashboard assistant
00:27:38Which is a little holographic figure that pops up and then you talk to it
00:27:41And it helps you set the sat nav and make phone calls and so on very high tech
00:27:44Yeah, except the little holographic figure is of a Japanese a Japanese school girl
00:27:51And then you can choose what color miniskirt you'd like to wear
00:27:56A picture. I'm not making it up. There's a picture here
00:28:02I'm not sure about that
00:28:04I'm not either but here's the thing James
00:28:06The Chinese don't care what we think anybody because they look at us like we look at cows
00:28:13We're just big daft things standing around
00:28:16Only instead of milk we give them luggage and watches
00:28:20That's actually the end of conversation street
00:28:23It's not the end however of the Chinese stuff because we had a call the other day from a Chinese car manufacturer called neo
00:28:29And they said we have built a blisteringly fast all-electric supercar and would one of you
00:28:37Like to try it out. Yeah now after his escapade going up a swiss hill in a blisteringly fast all-electric supercar
00:28:44Richard Hammond said that he really didn't think he was the man for the job
00:28:48However
00:28:50It turned out that the car was only available for one day and unfortunately on that day. I had the boiler man coming around
00:28:55Yeah, and I had a dental
00:28:58Dentist dental appointment. Yeah. Yep. So guess what?
00:29:01Oh
00:29:15Here it is
00:29:19It's called the ep9 and it's pretty clear that this is no nissan leaf
00:29:25Because a leaf doesn't have giant head restraints to stop g-forces from snapping your neck during heart cornering
00:29:36And that's just the start of it
00:29:42What I have here is a comparison between this neo ep9 and the rimac concept one in which I had my little
00:29:52tumble down a twist mant inside
00:29:54So in the rimac concept one power
00:29:58One thousand two hundred and seven brake horsepower in this neo
00:30:04One thousand three hundred and forty one brake horsepower power to wait in the rimac is
00:30:11Six hundred and fifty two brake horsepower per turn in this neo
00:30:15Seven hundred and seventy three brake horsepower per turn
00:30:20Oh good
00:30:24Oh
00:30:27So no pressure then
00:30:32Right the high voltage system is active so here it goes to launch it's got to be in drive
00:30:39Left foot on brake right foot mash the throttle right hand hold that back for one two three four five come off the brake
00:30:45Ahhhh
00:30:54Sweet Mary mother of jesus
00:31:00It's just insanity
00:31:01They say they say they're not to sixty two point seven seconds
00:31:100 to 125 in seven seconds seven seconds
00:31:15That direct immediate power you get from these electric super cars is like nothing out
00:31:29It's like one minute i'm here and then bam i'm over there
00:31:39It's like driving a jet engine something else about which i have bad memories
00:31:44This is a bad place
00:31:47However there is some good news for people like me
00:31:50That's put everything back where it should be my eyes have come forward my lungs are on the front again
00:32:04Now if you want to experience this phenomenal speed for yourself
00:32:16You will need two things
00:32:18First of all a lot of money because this costs 1.15 million pounds
00:32:27Secondly a racetrack
00:32:29Because it works like that ferrari fxx where you buy the car they deliver it to a track for you along with a support team
00:32:38You drive it crap yourself then they take it away and hose it out for you
00:32:43Since it's an electric car you'll be wondering about range
00:32:48Obviously if you hammer it around a track you are going to wear those batteries out pretty quickly
00:32:52However on the plus side they only take 45 minutes to charge
00:32:59On the minus side you have to take the batteries out to do it
00:33:10And as they weigh 317 kilograms each you won't be doing that on your own
00:33:18It is a bit more of a faff than say a can of petrol
00:33:29However if you're an electric petrol head and you're tempted by the neo
00:33:34You might be interested to know that it's not short of pedigree
00:33:38There's evidence that the people behind this thing really know what they're doing
00:33:44For starters the outfit that makes the ep9 also runs a formula e-team
00:33:50One which won the inaugural championship in 2015
00:33:54And until recently the ep9 itself held a lap record around the nurburgring
00:34:04With an astonishing time of 6 minutes 45.9 seconds
00:34:11Which means it isn't just about going fast in a stray line
00:34:15It has active suspension active aerodynamics torque vectoring and all of that means only one thing
00:34:30Grip grippity grip
00:34:31It has a motor at each of the four wheels for a four wheel drive system that can be monitored and controlled constantly by the car's onboard brain
00:34:52Add to that the active aerodynamics on that vast wing and a diffuser running the length of the car
00:34:58It produces more downforce than an f1 car
00:35:06Jesus
00:35:08It's like driving an octopus
00:35:12There's no doubt that as a piece of engineering the neo is deeply impressive
00:35:19And then slingshot
00:35:21But what I love about it most is that thanks to its phenomenal grip
00:35:32I could hammer it round our track all day and still be the right way up
00:35:37And from me
00:35:38There is no higher compliment
00:35:51Thanks for sticking me with that
00:35:54You know um
00:35:55Interesting
00:35:58Watching that has convinced me that I will never buy an electric car as long as I live
00:36:03Why not?
00:36:05Because why on earth would I want to employ a team of men and buy a forklift every time I need to go anywhere?
00:36:13Yeah, that's all very well
00:36:14But a lot of people are more enlightened than you including me in fact Sir Hammond
00:36:17Yes
00:36:18Tell me what are the how does it compare with the Rimac?
00:36:22Yes
00:36:22They are sure
00:36:23The neo it's just the neo is just more of everything
00:36:26It's more power more grip more speed
00:36:28I don't I have to say that looked painfully fast that car I mean
00:36:32It is astonishingly fast
00:36:34But it is a novelty an amazing powerful fast one
00:36:37But a novelty nevertheless
00:36:39And we should make it absolutely clear that you can't drive it on the road at all can you?
00:36:42It's not road legal
00:36:43You can't unlike the Rimac which you can that's what makes it so amazing
00:36:46And there's a new Rimac coming out soon that'll have more than 1900 horsepower
00:36:52But imagine the size of the internal combustion engine you would need to make 1900 horsepower it would be
00:36:57It'd be massive that's why the future of supercars like that is electric
00:37:02It is
00:37:03What?
00:37:04It is
00:37:06It is
00:37:06It is
00:37:07That's the way it's gonna go
00:37:08It's the way it is going
00:37:09Okay then let's find out how fast your beloved neo goes around the ebola drone
00:37:16And it's off to the sound of the spin cycle
00:37:20Jiggling around on its racing car suspension as it powers onto the Izzard
00:37:27It's exciting
00:37:29A lift and then building up speed again
00:37:32That is looking pretty brisk
00:37:36Right now down into your name here
00:37:39Sparks flashing off the rear diffuser
00:37:42Torque vectoring should be doing its stuff around here to keep it in place
00:37:46And now back to full voltage for the frantic whirr back down the Izzard
00:37:53Sounding more like a jet fighter and less like a Zanussi now
00:37:59Okay hard braking for old ladies house
00:38:02More milk floaty noises and now the run to substation
00:38:06If it crashes here there really will be a lot of sparks
00:38:12Okay two corners left
00:38:14Very tidy through there just field of sheep to go
00:38:18Keeps it neat and across the line
00:38:20I look good
00:38:21She did well there
00:38:22She did do well there
00:38:23She did well
00:38:26So exciting are those noises
00:38:28I like the noises
00:38:30What you can't like those
00:38:31No they're hot there's a whole new set of noises you pillock
00:38:34Okay it's the future
00:38:35Okay let's see how fast you're elegantly entitled n10 no neo
00:38:40EP9 yes got round shall we here we go top 10 come on there you go oh yeah oh yes oh yes come on come on yeah
00:38:55That is faster
00:38:58Faster than the aston martin vulcan you're absolutely right hammond it is a very impressive car and it is faster than a vulcan
00:39:06But it's slower than the petrol powered mclaren senna which is road legal so that is petrol one
00:39:13Yes electricity zero all right don't do that face don't do that face
00:39:19No
00:39:23James just
00:39:25Move it on quick
00:39:26Yes in this show we are explaining to the people of china that they don't need to waste huge sums of money on new luxury cars
00:39:33When they could buy something used from europe for a lot less now so far we've done city driving
00:39:39We've done motorway driving and we've done a completely pointless handling test that jeremy devised
00:39:45Yep
00:39:45And now we had to get to a rally stage to take part in another test that he dreamt up whilst enjoying another night on the pneumonia
00:39:53Whatever okay
00:39:54However listen before we left the test center where we did the flamethrower the the flamethrower handling test
00:39:59Uh, we pop next door to something called the zunyi conference center
00:40:07It was on this very spot in 1935 that chairman mao unveiled the plans for the future of his country
00:40:18This then is the birthplace of communism in china and today it stands as an anti-capitalist shrine
00:40:29Naturally, we headed straight for the gift shop
00:40:34Oh, that is exquisite. Yes. I'll definitely have a chairman now snow globe
00:40:40That one
00:40:42Oh, look
00:40:44How much are these
00:40:47So that's
00:40:49It's donald trump
00:40:51I'm absolutely starving
00:40:54Oh, that's handy
00:40:55That'll do
00:40:57Having paid our respects to communism
00:41:01We got back on the road in our fire damaged cars with james still moaning about his temperature issues
00:41:10The air conditioning is now so broken that it's permanently hot even when i turn it to low and press every auto button
00:41:16I
00:41:18Decided there was only one thing i could do about this ignore him
00:41:23jesus
00:41:26They're actually building another motorway with viaducts and tunnels on the other side of the valley
00:41:32Not one motorway. Why do you need another one over there?
00:41:36Still all these motorways did mean we could prove that our cars work well
00:41:40As long distance cruisers
00:41:45If you gloss over the slightly worn interior trim on this car
00:41:50I am staggered at how comfortable it is
00:41:53Every inch of the cadillac
00:41:55It's fitted with something called continuously variable road sensing suspension
00:42:00Or suspension
00:42:03And there's more
00:42:04In britain this car was described as astonishingly reliable not my words the words of the r a c the royal automobile club
00:42:15the queen herself as good as commended this car's reliability
00:42:22Meanwhile in the stuck record
00:42:25lovely engine silky smooth seats are comfortable everything works except the air conditioning
00:42:35I'm running out of fuel
00:42:37That's happened very suddenly
00:42:40This is may how's everyone doing for fuel
00:42:44I have about a quarter of a tank
00:42:48I'm gonna need more fuel the mighty north star has drunk it
00:42:52Happily we soon saw signs for a service station
00:42:57That's excellent i was just about to start panicking
00:43:04Oh
00:43:06Small problem here
00:43:09It's not open
00:43:12So we drove on to the next one
00:43:14Oh thank god
00:43:18Where is it
00:43:21Where's the fuel
00:43:24Oh it's not finished
00:43:27There could even be fuel tanks waiting to go in
00:43:29So we drove on to the next one
00:43:35Please let this one be open
00:43:38But that didn't have fuel either
00:43:41How much money are they spending on service stations
00:43:45Well a lot but they're not earning any from them i can tell you that
00:43:48The problem china has is it's building motorways so fast
00:43:55That the people building the service stations to supply the motorway with fuel
00:44:01Can't keep up
00:44:03Jack my fumes are running out there
00:44:07After passing two more unfinished service stations we finally got lucky
00:44:13Oh thank god
00:44:16Oh that's a relief
00:44:18However our problems weren't quite over
00:44:21I mean is that petrol or diesel
00:44:26What what's that that does green mean petrol or diesel
00:44:36Oh well
00:44:38How do you know which fuel is which
00:44:39Well we have no idea she just comes this is what she just did with mine
00:44:43She just put that in and i'm going is it petrol
00:44:45She's putting it in whatever it is
00:44:49With the lucky dip fill up complete we were ready to roll
00:44:55However in the rac-approved cadillac
00:45:00My car won't start it's the battery
00:45:04Or have you filled it up with ribena
00:45:06As the rest of china was keen to use this one completed service station
00:45:13I had to push hammond clear of the pumps
00:45:18It's not really the message we want to be sending out to
00:45:22The people of china that our cars have broken
00:45:25I'm doing manual labor
00:45:27I've found the battery
00:45:28Success
00:45:36Hammond quite a lot of chinese people looking
00:45:42Well that's the jump leads test done
00:45:44We've done the jump leads test if ever we needed them
00:45:47Yeah those chinese made jump leads were
00:45:50Excellent excellent not that we needed them
00:45:52Back on the road i was wondering if the battery wasn't the only issue
00:46:00I can't understand the german messages on the dash but the engine warning light is on
00:46:06I'll be very disappointed if my glorious north star engine lets go
00:46:13It's not going to it's tough
00:46:16It could be fine
00:46:17In fact we all had issues chief among which was trying to understand the road signs
00:46:28Don't dream when what don't drumming when tired drumming
00:46:33Descent length surplus
00:46:36Overspeeding prohibition
00:46:38Don't dreaming when tired again we got a lot of don't dreaming when tired
00:46:43There was another problem too the roads had no drainage so even in a shower
00:46:53Look at that the cars on the other side are sending fountains of water onto this one
00:47:03Whoa aquaplaning
00:47:06Holy moly that man's dropped his crash helm it's actually come off his head
00:47:18Still at least when it got dark things got worse
00:47:26Whoa
00:47:28Whoa
00:47:30It's really epilepsy these cameras
00:47:33Constantly being flashed
00:47:36Oh
00:47:39After this long and difficult journey we reached the overnight's halt
00:47:44Where we were hoping to unwind with some relaxing comfort food
00:47:53Holy cow that is hot
00:47:56Oh geez
00:47:58Oh what what what that's goose intestine
00:48:02Do you see the test your son
00:48:04I've seen more appetizing things than that stuck to the back of my terrier
00:48:08Oh
00:48:10A rubber hose pipe
00:48:11Nice
00:48:12Coated in a napal
00:48:14hell
00:48:15Now as our mouths melted i brought up another idea i'd had
00:48:21We really should be in the back of these cars
00:48:24Because
00:48:25I agree
00:48:26I agree if you're a chinese businessman you're not going to drive a car with a 750 mile or canada are you going to be in the back
00:48:32Well actually it's more relevant here anyway isn't it because that's what people care about
00:48:36It's all they care about
00:48:37The rear seat accommodation leg room
00:48:39Now jaguar audi mercedes and bmw all make long cars
00:48:45Specifically for the chinese market
00:48:49So look why don't we i'm sure we could do this
00:48:51Why don't we hire some local chauffeurs to drive our cars and we'll ride in the back
00:48:56Which is what we should be doing isn't it that's that's a proper place to assess them
00:48:59That is a good idea and how's this for taking it one step further
00:49:05Why don't we tonight modify our cars to make them more relevant and luxurious
00:49:13For the chinese business community
00:49:16Okay
00:49:17And while we're at it if you two dress less like tramps and more like gentlemen of commerce the ladies and gentlemen of china might take us more
00:49:26Seriously
00:49:26Well so you're saying we won't get saved
00:49:29Yes
00:49:30My whole tongue is wrapped up in intestine
00:49:39The next morning we reconvened after buying ourselves some business suits
00:49:51We're supposed to be sending out a message that we're important
00:49:54And that people should listen to what we have to say now i've done that i think we are doing that well
00:49:59No i am
00:50:00No you just look like you've got a submachine gun in a violin case
00:50:04You've seen james by the way this morning no no i haven't seen what he's gone for but let's be honest brown
00:50:09Yes
00:50:10It'll be brown
00:50:11It'll be brown
00:50:11Nothing is more certain
00:50:13Sombre
00:50:13Brown
00:50:14Severe
00:50:14Yeah
00:50:14It's not brown
00:50:15It's not brown
00:50:17That's not
00:50:19Good morning Vietnam
00:50:22That is bold
00:50:24Now don't pretend you did that on purpose
00:50:27Well shall i be honest
00:50:28Yes
00:50:28Yes
00:50:28I ordered it
00:50:30Using a translation app i got for my phone
00:50:32And you mistook green for grey
00:50:35I don't know if i did or they did or it doesn't work but i said light
00:50:38Comma grey meaning lightweight
00:50:41Gray
00:50:41But i've got green
00:50:42Yes and you look ridiculous and nobody's going to listen to a word you say
00:50:48The fact is though we were all suited up so it was time to get into the back of our modified cars
00:50:54And get going
00:50:58What's that
00:51:00That's one of the modifications
00:51:01It's giovanni
00:51:02That's kato
00:51:04See i ask him for something and then he passes it through the ski hatch
00:51:08Absolute genius
00:51:10Barbarous
00:51:12Having agreed that my manservant was a brilliant idea we introduced ourselves to our chauffeurs
00:51:19And then set off
00:51:24My driver is the excellent mr who
00:51:30I wonder if he's a doctor actually
00:51:33Doctor who is not a particularly tall man but nevertheless the space in the back of the s-class is fantastic
00:51:38I've got all this leg room i can adjust the seat i can recline myself a bit i can make myself a bit more upright
00:51:44It's quite warm the air conditioning still doesn't work i should actually
00:51:48warm doctor who of that
00:51:50Doctor i apologize the air conditioning is broken
00:52:02Obviously our cars were built before bluetooth and internet connectivity had been invented
00:52:09But that's okay because it means you're forced to spend your time in the back
00:52:13Doing something interesting
00:52:17What i'm going to do
00:52:19Instead of watching cnn drone on about donald trump or checking on nasdaq prices
00:52:25Is uh
00:52:26Make a model a matchstick model in the eiffel tower
00:52:30My colleagues had also decided to make the back seat a place of learning and self-enrichment
00:52:40I've said many times on this program how i can't cook anything other than baked beans
00:52:45I'm going to use this journey together with this simple stove this wok and these ingredients
00:52:51To put that right and learn how to make supper
00:52:55I've got my
00:52:57Cookery book here
00:52:59Steamed razor clams with black beans and chili sauce
00:53:04I meanwhile have decided to try my hand at painting
00:53:08Now this is an ideal studio because i can paint the things that i'm going to see out of the window
00:53:15Sort of montage if you like of typical roadside sites on a chauffeur journey through china
00:53:22So i've got some trees here
00:53:25Trees
00:53:26Pretty over there
00:53:34Lovely lovely
00:53:35Not now catered i could be sitting here now
00:53:43Answering pointless emails from pointless people with nothing better to do all day not now catered
00:53:50But no
00:53:52I'm doing something useful
00:53:55something joyous
00:54:01Not now cake no kato no that's inappropriate
00:54:05Oh yeah oh yeah
00:54:10Watercress
00:54:14Spend enough time on the motorway in the back of your luxury car and you could turn yourself into a part-time professional chef we could improve
00:54:25Meanwhile in the bmw
00:54:27Kato my suit my suit jacket kato fire extinguisher kato now
00:54:33Thank you
00:54:35Yeah
00:54:38After a few more mostly five free miles we pulled over to compare our work
00:54:43May we see james may what you have achieved instead of doing emails
00:54:50Well it's naive
00:54:57If i were your mum or dad i'd put that on the fridge door and i'd be very proud of you
00:55:02This is going on the wall at home
00:55:03Can we taste your soup well you'll have to suck my tie
00:55:09That's where it all ended up
00:55:10Were you were you expanding your mind by setting yourself on fire is that all no no no no no it's matches
00:55:16One snapped and it went into my sleeve you've ruined that beautiful suit
00:55:21I want to see what you've done yeah
00:55:23I'm a bit embarrassed by it and i'm on it
00:55:25Is it it's a burn wreck isn't it it's not my best work
00:55:29This was going to be your birthday present they've said it's crap you know haven't it
00:55:32Please don't laugh
00:55:33All right and you made that really in the back of your car
00:55:40Yeah no but look at great cost
00:55:48For the next leg of our journey we tried out the modifications we'd made to our cars
00:55:53So they'd suit the world of modern commerce
00:55:55Businessmen always want a flatbed when they're on an airplane so why wouldn't you want one if you're in your car
00:56:05Very simple to achieve this recline the front seat put a mattress on it duvet pillow
00:56:12Take off what's left of your jacket and into bed
00:56:16Oh it's gone dark that's nice
00:56:20In the cadillac hammond had been a little more ambitious
00:56:25Oh
00:56:29Name me one businessman hotel that doesn't have a gym
00:56:34Exactly they all do which is why i've fitted my cadillac with this rowing machine so as we drive along
00:56:41i can get in shape
00:56:43Healthy body means a healthy mind
00:56:45How's life in your car mr hammond it's brilliant thank you what about you
00:56:49No i'm just nodding off i'm going to tunnel it feels like night suddenly
00:56:55Um question though what's what's james done i can't see it
00:57:02A bit more on the coals
00:57:03I
00:57:06Realize this now looks like an idiotic idea it was already a sauna in my car so i've built a sauna in it but
00:57:14Let's imagine you were in far north of china. Let's imagine it's the winter you can get through from the other side
00:57:20through that door
00:57:21Enjoy a sauna go back into your car carry on with your oil painting
00:57:26Oh
00:57:31There was however one small drawback to my plan my driver couldn't see his mirrors
00:57:40Whoa bollocks
00:57:43all right all right
00:57:44God doctor who's getting a roach drop i know it's steamed up hang on
00:57:49all right all right all right
00:57:50Oh
00:57:53That's so nice
00:57:56Oh that's lovely
00:57:59That is lovely lovely lovely lovely
00:58:06Not not yet kato
00:58:15The next morning having proved that all cars need saunas gyms and beds
00:58:20We sacked our chauffeurs and headed for the location of our final challenge
00:58:29However in the uss norman schwarzkopf
00:58:35What does that one mean
00:58:40It's not well
00:58:41Oh
00:58:43Oh that's another one i don't i don't know what that warning says either
00:58:50Oh god
00:58:51It's dying
00:58:52It's losing oil
00:59:10What's happened
00:59:12Loads of warnings came on
00:59:13And then it lost power
00:59:16I made it to this off-ramp and now it's
00:59:20It died
00:59:20Oh dear
00:59:22Not sure my jump leads are going to get that going are they
00:59:25No
00:59:25Oh look
00:59:27Oh dear
00:59:28That's really gone bang hasn't that
00:59:29There's oil coming out everywhere
00:59:32Do you know the number for the emergency services
00:59:35No i don't
00:59:36Do you know how to say it my cadillac's broken down
00:59:39Do you know what junction you're at
00:59:40No
00:59:41Oh dear
00:59:42Oh
00:59:42Neither do i
00:59:43It's you
00:59:43Oh i don't know
00:59:45Come on we've got a long way to go
00:59:49Leaving the multilingual brummie to deal with the chinese breakdown services
00:59:54James and i got back onto what is fast becoming the eighth wonder of the world
01:00:05China's road network
01:00:12In 1988 china had no motorways at all and now 30 years later it has 84 000 miles of them
01:00:21That's more than any other country in the world
01:00:35And they're only just getting into their stride since 2011 they've been building 6 000 miles of motorway every year
01:00:436 000 miles a year
01:00:47It beggars belief and it's not like the terrain is easy
01:00:51Here though there ain't no mountain high enough and there ain't no valley low enough to stop them
01:01:01This bridge for example
01:01:04Is 34 miles long
01:01:07And then there's this one the douche bay pan gian bridge
01:01:16You could fit the london shard underneath it
01:01:19Twice over
01:01:32I'm telling you
01:01:32In britain we're doomed we're doomed
01:01:39We were headed though for an old road to test the one thing we hadn't tested so far
01:01:46And here in china it's the most important thing
01:01:51The thing is luxury is all very well but in china driving is a relatively new thing people have only been doing it for
01:01:5730 years and as is the way with all new things
01:02:02It should be fun
01:02:04Eventually we well two of us arrived at the location we'd selected
01:02:10It's known as the 24 curve road because it has
01:02:2024 fun-filled curves
01:02:23It was built in 1935 to ferry us military equipment to china
01:02:31And it hasn't really been maintained since
01:02:34So the surface is loose and potholed and it looked like it should be a right laugh
01:02:43This was actually part of the road that the only road that linked the then capital of china with india and burma
01:02:50Yeah, well before that all the supplies that came into china had to be flown over the himalayas
01:02:54Which was incredibly dangerous in the 30s. I think the americans lost something like
01:02:57Sorry sorry to interrupt see this stupid thing
01:03:03Never mind that look what he's driving. Why is that hammond? I guess the cadillac's definitely broken there
01:03:11Nice
01:03:15Check out my Fulu. Why have you got that? Well, I wasn't gonna let you have all the fun was I?
01:03:20Never mind that. Why have you got it? Well, my telephone translation device at the toll booth worked
01:03:26To a degree to this extent what somebody got you a car. Look, I've got wheels three of them
01:03:33588 cc twin cylinder two-stroke. It's in the back
01:03:38Look at that
01:03:40It's actually smaller than its own air filter. I was gonna say my alternator is bigger than that
01:03:45Anyway, listen here's what we're doing. Yeah, it's a test of speed because we are against the clock bear that in mind
01:03:52Okay, okay and durability at the same time
01:03:55So you've got to get up this road which goes all the way up there. Okay as fast as possible
01:04:00And keep your car in one piece in the process
01:04:05Richard and I decided that james should volunteer to go first
01:04:12Oh, you look exactly like a racing driver apart from visually
01:04:15It's a racing cloud. Can we just get on with it? It's very hot in here
01:04:19Are you going with the window down or up a lot of stones down?
01:04:22It's a small risk from being hit by a stone is a large risk of dying from suffocation. Right
01:04:28Anything else we want to say to him?
01:04:30Yes, let's take some time and prepare mentally
01:04:33And really think about this. Have you visualized the course? No
01:04:36Okay
01:04:38He looks quite cross
01:04:40Three two one go
01:04:47Oh God, I can't I can't see around right hand bends because of my sauna
01:04:57Oh
01:05:00I've just realized that I've only been comfortable for 20 minutes of this entire trip
01:05:04My car's been too hot my suits too hot now the roads too rough
01:05:16Bit of squirreling there from the broken traction control
01:05:24The finish line I've done it
01:05:26Next it was my turn
01:05:34All right, I'm attaching the wobbly headed symbol of capitalism here
01:05:39to bring me good fortune on this perilous test
01:05:41If you're ready
01:05:44Yes
01:05:44Five
01:05:45Four
01:05:46Three
01:05:47Two
01:05:49One
01:05:50Go
01:06:00Now I'm guessing that James May will have gone for caution
01:06:04I'm not going to
01:06:05I'm going for speed and power
01:06:10And then just trust in the BMW build quality
01:06:16My wobbly headed symbol of capitalism is wilting
01:06:20It's not
01:06:22Jesus that was a big tail slide there
01:06:29Stick it in here
01:06:30Oh, yes
01:06:35Oh, what's happened?
01:06:50Yeah
01:06:53You overdid it, didn't you?
01:06:54Yeah
01:06:55So I've won that
01:06:57Well, we don't know
01:06:58We haven't got your time yet
01:06:59You said your words
01:07:01Test of durability and is against the clock
01:07:03Your car is broken
01:07:05It's not broken, a tyre's come off
01:07:07Broken
01:07:09Down at the start line
01:07:10I was waiting for the signal to go
01:07:16Little cubby hole
01:07:17Richard Hammond
01:07:20Hello, yes
01:07:21Three, two, one, go
01:07:23Oh, come on
01:07:24I'm not
01:07:25Right
01:07:25Okay
01:07:25Here I go
01:07:28And we're off
01:07:30Oh
01:07:30Christ
01:07:34Now I'm limited on power
01:07:37Top speed
01:07:3839 miles an hour
01:07:41You're never going to get an air ambulance in here, are we?
01:07:44Well, you might have a very long winch
01:07:51Oh
01:07:53Big drops
01:07:54I don't like that
01:07:55Ow
01:07:56Nervous of hill climbs these days
01:08:03A line
01:08:04A line
01:08:05Ow
01:08:07Oh my god
01:08:09Oh dear
01:08:11Oh god
01:08:21Did anyone, did, did he just, did he just crash it?
01:08:23Was that a crash or did he just disappear behind the...
01:08:26He has, look, he's gone off there
01:08:31So there we are, I'm afraid that Richard Hammond's luck has finally run out
01:08:37And it's with deep regret and great sadness that James and I must now announce the untimely demise of...
01:08:43I'm all right
01:08:47Not again
01:08:49How's he do it?
01:08:50I don't know
01:08:51Well, on that terrible disappointment, back to the tent
01:08:57Oh my face
01:08:59I'm okay
01:09:01I'm okay
01:09:03Bye bye
01:09:03Don't worry
01:09:05Don't worry
01:09:07Smug
01:09:08Smug because I won that
01:09:11No, you didn't
01:09:12I did, I was the fastest and it was supposed to be a test of fun and you moaned the entire way up the hill
01:09:18It was supposed to be a test of durability and you had to change a wheel and where's the fun in that?
01:09:22Well, I wasn't the idiot that put a sauna in my car
01:09:25What's wrong with the sauna?
01:09:26Because in every hotel that's got a sauna the corridors are always full of wet idiots with those slippers that don't fit
01:09:33Hello, hello, I did have quite a big crash at the end there
01:09:38There's nothing particularly remarkable about that, is there?
01:09:41The fact is the reason you crashed
01:09:44Obviously your incompetence, but also because your Cadillac broke down and your Mercedes
01:09:50Was too humid so that means the winner is definitely of the whole thing the bmw
01:09:55750 art was actually no to be fair the real winner of the whole thing was our brilliant idea
01:10:03To sell secondhand limos to the Chinese
01:10:06No, he's absolutely right about that because it makes them happy and it helps us with our balance of payments
01:10:11Everybody wins it was a good idea
01:10:13Except for one tiny detail you see this program is shown in every single country in the world
01:10:21Except one
01:10:24Which one?
01:10:25China
01:10:27So this entire show has been a total waste of time
01:10:31It's an hour of your life you'll never get back
01:10:35And on that terrible disappointment it's time to end next week
01:10:38I'm happy to say we're back in the groove
01:10:39We're in scotland and I get an alfa romeo g2b6 might be very happy see you then take care good night
01:10:44We're out of scotland
01:11:14we're out of scotland
01:11:20bmw
01:11:21so
01:11:21The
01:11:24mhm
01:11:25so
01:11:27Ms.
01:11:28Thank you
01:11:29really
01:11:31I
01:11:31I
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