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In Episode 4, the presenters build and test off-road mobility scooters in the British countryside. Jeremy tests the Ferrari FF and the Bentley Continental GT V8 in the Arctic Circle, while James May takes the new Fisker Karma for a drive in Florida. Guest star: Michael Fassbender.
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00:00:00Tonight, I wear a hat, James wears a hat, and Richard is behind a low wall.
00:00:21Thank you. Hello, thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you and welcome.
00:00:34Now, last week, you may remember, we asked James May to test an exciting fast Vauxhall,
00:00:40and he ended up reviewing a slow, small Fiat.
00:00:43Well, this week, we asked him to go to Florida and try out a new type of electric car.
00:00:48And we said to him, James, this time, can you try to stay on topic?
00:01:03Here it is. It's called the Fisker Karma.
00:01:06And let's not be having any debate. It looks fantastic.
00:01:10But maybe that's not surprising.
00:01:17Because the company that makes it was set up not by an engineer, as usual, but by a designer.
00:01:23Now, he was responsible for the Aston Martin V8 Vantage and the BMW Z8 Roadster.
00:01:29So, obviously, he knows his way round a pencil.
00:01:32But it's not the looks that we're interested in.
00:01:35It's what goes on underneath that bodywork.
00:01:43As with most electric cars, underneath here is a great big slab of batteries.
00:01:48And you can plug those into a socket at your house or your office and recharge them.
00:01:52And then you have a range of 50 miles, which doesn't sound very good, does it?
00:01:57But then, I just touch this lever here, I engage a two-litre petrol engine, which is under the bonnet.
00:02:03But unlike, say, a Toyota Prius, the engine isn't connected to the wheels.
00:02:08Instead, it drives an electricity generator.
00:02:12See, at this point, the display is telling me I only have nine miles of range left.
00:02:17And normally, I'd be going, oh, God, will I make it?
00:02:19But no, because I know, with the touch of that paddle, or even leaving it to its own devices,
00:02:24the petrol engine will make more electric.
00:02:29So, it's driven by electric motors, but it has its own on-board power station.
00:02:35And you might be thinking, you've sort of heard something a bit like that before.
00:02:40Well, you have.
00:02:44Yes, I'm talking about the Hammerhead Eagle Eye Thrust,
00:02:47which, I might point out, was also fitted with its own electricity generator.
00:02:52And that was two years ago.
00:02:56There's no polite way of putting this.
00:02:59Fisker have very blatantly, brazenly, I'd say, copied my idea for a long-range electric car.
00:03:06Except they didn't have their style by Jeremy.
00:03:09But the technology is exactly the same, as my lawyers will be making very clear quite soon.
00:03:16Admittedly, the Fisker is much better built than the Eagle Eye Thrust.
00:03:20And it's probably the most politically correct car on Earth.
00:03:24It has solar panels on the roof, because, of course, in the car, all this stuff here runs off electricity,
00:03:31and that would drain the battery.
00:03:32But that can produce a sort of low-voltage circuit, if you like,
00:03:36that can drive the radio and the sat-nav and the interior lights and your iPod and, you know,
00:03:43even the little system that recognises this key.
00:03:46That's being powered by the sun.
00:03:49And that is just the start of it.
00:03:53This version I have here is called the Eco Chic.
00:03:56They have actually called it that, because it embraces a lot of very right-on and ethically sound materials.
00:04:02For example, the glitter in the metallic paint is made with ground-up, minute particles of recycled glass.
00:04:09And on the inside, we find a piece of wood trim.
00:04:13And that is only taken from trees that have been burnt down in forest fires or felled by storms.
00:04:18And it's not varnished, because there is no varnish in nature.
00:04:22These glass inserts have in them a fossilised leaf, a leaf that has fallen of its own accord, not plucked.
00:04:29And all of the interior fabrics, they're very, very funky,
00:04:32and, most importantly, there are no animal products in there at all.
00:04:37The only animal product in this car is me.
00:04:40All of which ought to keep this chap here very happy indeed.
00:04:44And yet, I'm told, if I go any closer than this, he'll still probably have my leg off.
00:04:49Which just goes to prove that animals are ungrateful.
00:04:56Basically, if the Fisker was any more green, it would be chaining itself to a Japanese whaling ship.
00:05:02But I like being in it.
00:05:04It's just a very nice place to be the Fisker.
00:05:07It makes you realise that, you know, just putting leather on everything is a terrible old cliché.
00:05:13It's what the Romans would have done.
00:05:15And on top of that, I like driving it.
00:05:18It's a nice handling car, this. It's not a Lotus. It's not a Ferrari 458. It's a GT car. It's a GT car for long journeys, but that's nice to drive.
00:05:29And even though its arsenal of batteries means it weighs two and a half tonnes, it does shift along.
00:05:35The car will do 0-60 in just a tad over six seconds.
00:05:42It doesn't have a very high top speed, only 125 miles an hour.
00:05:46But the point is, electric motors produce excellent torque.
00:05:50A thousand pound feet, in fact, which is more than a Veyron.
00:05:53I love electric powered cars. Just a sort of slight whining spaceship noise.
00:06:04Now, the price. All electric cars are expensive and the Fisker, at £86,000, is no exception.
00:06:12This means it'll appeal only to the well-heeled petrol head.
00:06:16So, since I was in Florida, I went to see one.
00:06:19Hello there, Jims, me bunny lad. What brings you to this neck of the woods?
00:06:23Yes, it's ACDC frontman, Brian Johnson.
00:06:27It's the first car thing I've ever seen that actually looks like the drawings that you see before they actually come out, isn't it?
00:06:33Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good looking, isn't it?
00:06:34It really is a cracking looking jam jar, isn't it? Look at the state of that.
00:06:37Do you want to try it? Absolutely, me son. Do you want to try it, mate?
00:06:40Yeah. All right then. Well, mine's different.
00:06:50This is fantastic.
00:06:53This is a 1928 Le Mans body, four and a half litre Bentley.
00:06:59Brian really does use this every day. He uses it to go down the shop's life for a bite of milk.
00:07:10Oh, my God, me son. Fond to do it.
00:07:18Despite the mangled gear changes, I was very much enjoying living in the past.
00:07:23I can feel the moustache growing.
00:07:28God, the smell is tremendous. Hot castor oil. Well-known laxative. I'll probably have diarrhoea by the time we get there.
00:07:34Brian, however, wasn't coping so well with living in the future.
00:07:38Oh, Christ, now what happens? I'm getting near the bottom of me battery level. Oh, my word. Right. Now, and...
00:07:48That means I have to do something, and I'm...
00:07:54Bugger.
00:07:56What...
00:07:57What...
00:07:58What the heck is that?
00:07:59I'm trying to follow James's instructions, which were as clear as mud. Look at me, he goes flying by with his thumb up.
00:08:05He's having a whale of a time, and I'm trying to figure out this computer thing.
00:08:08Soon, the famous Geordie hat model wanted his Bentley back. But before we parted, I offered to show him what AC and DC can really do.
00:08:26I put it in sport mode. That means, as I pull away, every bit of electricity available to this car goes to maximum acceleration.
00:08:321,000 pound-feet of torque in the back wheels.
00:08:42Yellow, yellow, yellow, green.
00:08:46Johnson makes a good start.
00:08:48The Vizca takes it.
00:08:53Come on, you little bugger.
00:08:56Oh, I'm afraid Thunder Guts is a bit of a dwindling speck, ladies and gentlemen.
00:09:022,000 pound-feet of torque in the back wheels.
00:09:082,000 pound-feet of torque in the back wheels.
00:09:11Did you enjoy that, me son?
00:09:12I did. Not as much.
00:09:13Well, to be honest, you know, I felt a bit cowardly.
00:09:16Not as much as I enjoyed meself in this, I'll bet you.
00:09:20Tell you what, your car looks heroic in my rear-view mirror.
00:09:23But also, I'm afraid, quite small.
00:09:25Yes.
00:09:27But it's starting to rain.
00:09:29It is starting to rain, isn't it?
00:09:30I don't have a hood.
00:09:32But I do, but it takes 45 minutes to erect.
00:09:35I'll see you back down the other end.
00:09:36I'll see you back down the other end.
00:09:37Thanks, guys, for that.
00:09:39I'm going to start the b**** no hanging.
00:09:46Hey!
00:09:47What?
00:09:48What's wrong with you?
00:09:50You've done it again!
00:09:51You're supposed to be driving a Fisker and then you're a Bentley with a Rockstar.
00:09:56What?
00:09:57Next week, James is revealing a Saab, okay?
00:09:59And then halfway through, he'll break off for a spot of scuba diving with Fergal Sharky.
00:10:04Can I just get you the Fister, right?
00:10:06Yes, it's Fisker. It's a K.
00:10:08It's a K.
00:10:09I thought that was a stupid name.
00:10:13I think let's just move on.
00:10:14Fisker, can I just clear it up?
00:10:17You have the traditional electric car, all electric, like a Nissan Leaf and a Gee Whiz.
00:10:21Now, that's just batteries and you have to charge them up at night, yeah?
00:10:24Yes.
00:10:25Then you have stupid hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, which are normal cars that have electric motors for a bit of extra power, yeah?
00:10:32Yes.
00:10:33So the Fisker is what?
00:10:35It's actually a petrol engine car.
00:10:38But in a normal car, you get the power from the engine to the back wheels through a gearbox and shafts and so on.
00:10:43On this one, you use the generator and the electric motors.
00:10:46I'm lost, don't...
00:10:47It's a more efficient way of tapping the energy in the fuel.
00:10:51That's why it accelerates like a 400 horsepower GT car, but it only uses as much fuel as a mid-sized battery.
00:10:56No, no, I just don't understand how it works.
00:10:58I can't dumb it down to your level, because I'm scared of heights.
00:11:02That's the problem.
00:11:03No, listen.
00:11:04It's energy, you use it to drive the wheels.
00:11:06You get more of it by using that system.
00:11:08People get confused, they talk about electric energy.
00:11:11Just tell him it's magic.
00:11:13It's magic.
00:11:14It's magic electric pixies.
00:11:15There are fairies in the car driving wheel.
00:11:17That's all you needed to say.
00:11:19So that's not actually how it works?
00:11:20I don't bother, actually.
00:11:21I'm not interested.
00:11:22Let's do the news.
00:11:23Now, there are proposals this week in the corridors of power that anyone who passes their driving test
00:11:30must be accompanied for the first few years on the road by an experienced sober person who's over 25.
00:11:37You can kind of see why they think that's a good idea, though, can't you?
00:11:40Because, you know...
00:11:41That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard of.
00:11:42What?
00:11:43The stupidest.
00:11:44Okay, I have spent 17 years ferrying my daughter about.
00:11:48Last month, she passed her driving test, which means it's now her turn to ferry me about.
00:11:53Specifically, to and from the pub.
00:11:55Okay?
00:11:56Now, what's the point if she gets to the pub and she can't run me home if I've had a drink?
00:12:02It doesn't work.
00:12:03Actually, no, it's more complicated than that because she couldn't get to the pub to pick you up
00:12:06because she couldn't drive there on her own anyway, so...
00:12:09So she'd have to get an older boyfriend?
00:12:12Yeah.
00:12:13Well, that'd be...
00:12:14Hello, Dad, have you met Keith?
00:12:15He's 53.
00:12:16Why are you looking so excited?
00:12:19He's brought his teenager with him.
00:12:23Are you just her experienced driver?
00:12:26Because this is properly embarrassing for you if that's not what's happening.
00:12:30Think of me as a kindly experienced driver, my dear.
00:12:33It's gross.
00:12:34Seriously, though, the government ought to recognise that without the sort of young people who tear around in cars,
00:12:39we wouldn't have won the Battle of Britain.
00:12:41That is a fact.
00:12:42It is a fact, actually.
00:12:43Teenagers, they sleep and they tear about.
00:12:46It's what they do.
00:12:47Yeah.
00:12:48And they have more sex than us.
00:12:49They do that.
00:12:50And they don't get fat.
00:12:51And they don't get hangovers.
00:12:52It's just better than...
00:12:53No, no, basically, everybody else, the rest of us are just old and bitter.
00:12:57Yes.
00:12:58Young is better.
00:12:59Young is better.
00:13:00And the government should, instead of saying the children have to have old people with them when they're driving around,
00:13:05should just say to my daughter, go to the pub and pick your dad up.
00:13:09I've got some news.
00:13:11Cadillac has made a concept car and here it is.
00:13:13It's called the CL.
00:13:14Oh.
00:13:15It looks astonishing.
00:13:16It's got a twin turbo, a V6 in it.
00:13:18They say it's going back to their roots.
00:13:20What, so it'll rock for five hours after you get out of it?
00:13:23No.
00:13:24Does they have a 400-year-old woman from Florida in it?
00:13:27No.
00:13:28No, it's about the sort of grandeur and splendor and scale.
00:13:31It's 19 feet long, so it's enormous.
00:13:34But it's only, it's only 50 inches high, so it's long and low and mean.
00:13:37So, they've built a plinth.
00:13:39Essentially.
00:13:40Yes.
00:13:41But it comes, it comes, they say, with a cigar humidor in it.
00:13:44What, in America?
00:13:45Well...
00:13:46That's like saying this new car for Saudi Arabia with a minibar.
00:13:49Yeah, you couldn't use it, could you?
00:13:51No.
00:13:52It's new car for Israel, the bonnet's made of bacon.
00:13:54Yeah, don't, don't smoke cigars in America.
00:13:56But it's a magnificent looking thing.
00:13:58Now, a couple of years ago, Ferrari brought out a car called the 599XX.
00:14:03A picture of it here, okay?
00:14:04Now, it's slightly unusual, this, because it cost you a million quid,
00:14:07but you couldn't take it home with you.
00:14:09Ferrari kept it, okay?
00:14:10And nor could you drive it on the road, even if you wanted to,
00:14:13because it's not road legal, and you couldn't sell it without Ferrari's permission.
00:14:17Now, the only thing you could do was ring Ferrari and say,
00:14:20could you take it to such and such a track?
00:14:22You could have a couple of laps in it, and then they'd take it away again.
00:14:24Yeah.
00:14:25Did anybody actually fall for this?
00:14:27Yeah, 30 people.
00:14:2830 people, that's a good deal.
00:14:29That is a good deal.
00:14:30I'll have one of those.
00:14:31A million pounds.
00:14:32And now, Ferrari is saying to these 30 people,
00:14:35if you give us another 200,000 pounds,
00:14:39we'll fit the car you don't actually have with a rear spoiler.
00:14:42Spoiler?
00:14:43200,000?
00:14:44200,000?
00:14:45200,000 pounds for that rear spoiler.
00:14:47What's it made from?
00:14:48Spoiler material.
00:14:51It's one of those, you know, well, you won't know,
00:14:53but it's a DRS spoiler like you get in Formula One.
00:14:55I know that, they sell sofas.
00:14:57It's a DRS one, so it opens and closes,
00:15:00depending on whether you go around the corner or go down the street.
00:15:03Can I just say, who are these 30 people that bought those things?
00:15:05I want their email addresses, because I'd like to sell them a clock.
00:15:10What clock?
00:15:11It's really big, it's on like a tower in London,
00:15:14next to the Houses of Parliament, and I can sell it to them.
00:15:16Would they take it home with them?
00:15:18No, they couldn't take it home, but it'll be their clock.
00:15:20Good marketing.
00:15:22Oh, now, here we go.
00:15:24Right, ready, stand by, everybody.
00:15:25It's exciting day today, because this morning I had my first drive in,
00:15:28the new 9-11.
00:15:29And it's a very good thing.
00:15:31It's not new, Richard.
00:15:32It's an excellent car.
00:15:33It isn't new.
00:15:34Well, it is new.
00:15:35It isn't.
00:15:36That's the new 9-11.
00:15:37Okay, right, we've got a photograph here of the one before.
00:15:39Wow.
00:15:42Let's have a look at the one before that.
00:15:44Wow.
00:15:45And the one before that.
00:15:47No.
00:15:48I bet that one's blue, but most of them are all exactly the same.
00:15:52They look similar, if you can get your head round that concept.
00:15:55It's an entirely new 9-11, and it is a very good car.
00:15:58Well, I drove it.
00:15:59Yes, you did.
00:16:00I thought it had a very good engine.
00:16:02Sounds brilliant.
00:16:03And the steering was rubbish.
00:16:04It's not rubbish.
00:16:05What have they done to it?
00:16:06It is different.
00:16:07It's electric for the first half.
00:16:08Ah, so they put electric power steering on and ruined it.
00:16:11Well, they have ruined it.
00:16:12It's less 9-11.
00:16:14There you go.
00:16:15Do you agree the steering's rubbish?
00:16:17It's awful, you know, and I hate it, but I agree with you.
00:16:21No, it's a brilliant car.
00:16:22The next car, the steering isn't appalling, but it doesn't feel like a 9-11 anymore.
00:16:27Stay with me.
00:16:28If you take away a 9-11's steering field, the traditional steering field, you've taken away
00:16:33everything, it's a bit like, does anybody remember, we sold Fawlty Towers to the Americans,
00:16:37okay?
00:16:38And they were going to remake it over there, and they couldn't make it gel with audiences,
00:16:41and they said, there's one of these characters isn't working, so guess which character they
00:16:45got rid of in America?
00:16:46Sybil.
00:16:47Not Manuel.
00:16:48The Major.
00:16:49Polly.
00:16:50Basil.
00:16:51They got rid of Basil Fawlty, so that Fawlty Towers would work in America, and that's
00:16:56what they've done, they've got rid of Basil Fawlty.
00:16:57I know what you mean, they've killed the thing that made it feel unique.
00:16:59Exactly.
00:17:00So that is the end of the news.
00:17:02So, moving on.
00:17:03Normally, when a new Ferrari is launched, we test it on our track, but with this, the
00:17:10new FF, we decided to push the boat out.
00:17:13So we decided to take it to the largest, most advanced automotive test facility in the
00:17:18world.
00:17:19Argyplog.
00:17:26Argyplog used to be a small Swedish mining town slap bang in the middle of Europe's
00:17:32last great wilderness.
00:17:34But since the 1980s, it's become the winter home of Mercedes, Volkswagen, Toyota, General
00:17:40Motors, Ford, and Fiat, and Peugeot, and Renault.
00:17:44Whatever you drive, chances are, it was developed here.
00:17:49Ordinarily, the population of this little town is 3,000.
00:17:54But every year, as the snows begin to fall, 9,000 car engineers descend on the place to
00:18:00make sure that next year's models start, stop, steer, and continue to work, even when the
00:18:06temperature falls down to minus 30 degrees.
00:18:10So why have we brought this fragile thoroughbred here?
00:18:16Well, that's simple.
00:18:17Because it's the first Ferrari ever to have four-wheel drive.
00:18:22This means you can take it on to the test track, which is on an enormous frozen lake.
00:18:31Scary.
00:18:32And when you're there, you can do this.
00:18:46I'm pulling shapes.
00:18:48I'm pulling shapes now.
00:18:52Now, I have had more fun than this in my life.
00:18:55I know I have.
00:18:56I can't quite remember at the moment when that was.
00:19:02Normally, you wouldn't dream of driving a 6.3-litre, 650-horsepower V12 Ferrari,
00:19:12even in a light shower.
00:19:14Therefore, cruising around João Le Pen in your carefully designed topless swimsuit.
00:19:20But this, you could take this to San Moritz.
00:19:23Drink Napoleon brandy without getting your lips wet.
00:19:27And my eyes, I've got the traction control off.
00:19:30And I'm doing 100 miles an hour.
00:19:34Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
00:19:36And thanks to the four-wheel drive system, I'm fine.
00:19:44Although, actually, I'm only sort of fine.
00:19:46Because if I'm honest, this thing does have some slightly odd characteristics.
00:19:51It's so darting and...
00:19:57This is very twitchy.
00:20:00It's a dead straight line, but look how much steering I'm having to do in this thing.
00:20:03I'm endlessly adjusting the throttle, endlessly sawing away at the wheel just to try and keep pointing in the right direction.
00:20:14The reason it feels odd is because Ferrari's four-wheel drive system is unlike anything we've ever seen before.
00:20:21I'm going to sound like James May now, but bear with me.
00:20:25You see, in a normal four-wheel drive car, the engine sends its power through the gearbox to a transfer box mounted somewhere here.
00:20:32Now, that splits the power.
00:20:35Some of it goes down the shaft to the back wheels, some of it down the shaft to those at the front.
00:20:41Now, obviously, the shaft going to the front has to go underneath the engine, which means the engine has to be raised.
00:20:48Now, Ferrari say that if you raise the engine, that's bad for fuel economy, bad for styling, bad for handling, bad for everything which they say matters.
00:20:58So, in the FF, the power going to the back wheels comes out of the back of the engine and the power going to the front comes out of the front.
00:21:13This means it has to have two gearboxes.
00:21:16And because the one at the front is only very little, it can only ever handle 20% of the engine's power.
00:21:22And if you go into fifth, it shuts down completely.
00:21:28What it all means, though, is that for the first time ever, you can do this with a Ferrari.
00:21:40But is Ferrari's very complicated solution really worth it?
00:21:47Bentley would argue that it isn't.
00:21:50This is the new Continental GT.
00:21:57It's a lighter, nimbler, sportier version of the car Wayne Rooney drives.
00:22:06Instead of the massive, thirsty, heavy 6-litre twin-turbo W12 engine in his car, this has a positively microscopic twin-turbo 4-litre V8.
00:22:18It also has a completely conventional four-wheel drive system.
00:22:24So does that mean the engine's in the sky and the car wallows about like an elephant perched on a beach ball?
00:22:30Tell you what, let's find out.
00:22:33Let's find out.
00:22:44Right now, it's very hard to see why Ferrari has gone to all the trouble of reinventing the wheel, because, if I'm honest, this does not handle like the Natural History Museum.
00:22:54For a big old bruiser like this, it's bloody good.
00:23:03I've never been a fan of the Continental, but I'm loving this.
00:23:08That's a good noise as well, a dirty, dirty noise.
00:23:11That is a rude sound.
00:23:17So what we have here are two cars that appear to be very similar.
00:23:21They're both red.
00:23:26They both have two doors, four seats, and four-wheel drive.
00:23:31But there are some differences.
00:23:33One sings baritone.
00:23:36One sings tenor.
00:23:38The interior of the Bentley is simple, classical, elegant.
00:23:44The interior of the Ferrari is a mess.
00:23:47All the knobs are on the steering wheel, there's a rev counter in front of the passenger, and most of the dials make no sense at all.
00:23:56Weirdly, though, the Ferrari is the most practical.
00:23:59It's got a bigger boot than a Renault Scenic, and if you fold the back seats down, it's long enough to accommodate what pass these days for skis.
00:24:09However, the Ferrari is £227,000.
00:24:14That's £100,000 more than the Bentley.
00:24:20So, what about speed?
00:24:22Well, the next day, we carved a quarter-mile drag strip into the lake to find out.
00:24:30If this were a dry piece of tarmac, the Ferrari would monster it.
00:24:35650 horsepower.
00:24:38This has 500.
00:24:39The Ferrari's got more torque, and it's lighter.
00:24:42Much, much lighter.
00:24:47Three, two, one, go!
00:24:52Yes, traction control working well for a blinding start from the Bentley.
00:25:10Oh, my word, it's in the lead!
00:25:15Come on, Bentley, come on!
00:25:17Oh, the Ferrari's coming!
00:25:22Oh, no, I can't deal with that power!
00:25:28Oh, he's got a tank slapper on!
00:25:31He is wobbly!
00:25:33But it's closer than I thought!
00:25:38In a straight line, then, the Ferrari is the quickest.
00:25:42But how would they compare on a circuit?
00:25:44Well, to find out, we need a track, and luckily, we have one.
00:25:49Because what you see here, bulldozed from the snow,
00:25:53is an inch-perfect replica of Silverstone.
00:25:56Cops, flat out in a Formula One car.
00:26:12I'm doing 47.
00:26:14And I've got a big slide on.
00:26:16Ho, ho, ho, ho! Come on!
00:26:17Ooh, come on!
00:26:20Right.
00:26:21Chapel.
00:26:22Chapel's a long right.
00:26:24Followed by a gentle left onto the hangar straight.
00:26:27This...
00:26:28This is uncanny.
00:26:32Why don't they have Formula One races here?
00:26:36That would be proper comedy.
00:26:39Silverstone on Ice.
00:26:40Breaking points a lot earlier here than...
00:26:45Whoo!
00:26:47Surely not.
00:26:49No, don't get stuck.
00:26:51Oh, you stupid, stupid thing, man!
00:26:54Having established that our ice version of Silverstone was all in order,
00:26:59we could now see which car could get round the fastest.
00:27:02To find out, we need a man skilled in the potent cocktail of big horsepower and little grip.
00:27:09And luckily, just such a man is arriving now.
00:27:13He's not the Stig's Alpine cousin.
00:27:16He's just the Stig.
00:27:26Apparently, he's come all the way across the North Sea in there.
00:27:29Soon, we had him out of the hovercraft and into the Ferrari.
00:27:35Five!
00:27:37Four point seven!
00:27:38Two point three!
00:27:40One!
00:27:41Go!
00:27:43So, here we go.
00:27:46A genuine 208-mile-an-hour racehorse
00:27:50on one do-or-die lap.
00:27:58One!
00:27:59One!
00:28:00One!
00:28:02Two!
00:28:03One!
00:28:09Did you go into fifth gear?
00:28:14You went into fifth, didn't you?
00:28:16I said, don't go into fifth.
00:28:18It'll just become rear-wheel drive and then this'll happen.
00:28:22Eventually, we had him back on track and look how hard he's having to work.
00:28:30The Ferrari has incredibly complex electronics and that weird four-wheel drive system.
00:28:36But this is not a car in which you can relax.
00:28:40You have to drive it.
00:28:41You have to work.
00:28:47So, four minutes and four seconds.
00:28:51Then it was the turn of the Bentley.
00:28:54Five!
00:28:55Four point eight!
00:28:56Two point seven!
00:28:58One!
00:28:59Go!
00:29:05The Continental is so much easier to drive.
00:29:09Partly that's because it had better studded tyres than the Ferrari,
00:29:12but mostly because it's simpler.
00:29:14It has that conventional four-wheel drive system
00:29:17and a normal automatic gearbox, rather than a flappy paddle manual.
00:29:21This is a car in which you can sit back and let the machine do the work.
00:29:26Its V8 will even run on just four cylinders to save fuel.
00:29:30But not here. Not with Stig at the wheel.
00:29:33Look at him! Not doing anything.
00:29:35But will it be faster? Can it be faster?
00:29:39Coming round club now, so we'll know soon enough.
00:29:46You hateful imbecile!
00:29:49Wow!
00:29:51Now, that is actually a surprise.
00:29:54The Bentley did it in 3.51, so that's nine...
00:29:5713 seconds quicker.
00:30:04So, when you're dancing on ice in Lapland, the Bentley is the fastest.
00:30:10And I'm glad about that, because of the two, this is my favourite.
00:30:15I like it a lot.
00:30:16However, if I were going on a skiing holiday, I wouldn't use on either of these.
00:30:26Because, if I wanted a car that would get me to San Moritz, and then keep on working when I got there,
00:30:34I'd use what the crew has been using to film me here.
00:30:38A Range Rover.
00:30:39A Range Rover.
00:30:49There you go.
00:30:51That was about as much fun as you can have in a two-day period.
00:30:5413 miles to get there, but, God, it was fun.
00:30:59Interesting conclusion, though.
00:31:02No, I have actually driven the Ferrari on a dry track, and to be honest, it's not really a driver's car.
00:31:06I mean, neither is the... neither is the Bentley.
00:31:10And this is really why I arrived at that conclusion, because if you don't want the last word in handling precision,
00:31:16you just want four seats in something that works on snow, you may as well have the Range Rover.
00:31:20Fair enough. Can I just get back to the Ferrari, though? Because it seems that they've given it that wantonly complicated four-wheel drive system.
00:31:26And all that's just to lower the engine a bit?
00:31:30Yes, I'm not going to dumb it down anymore just for you, but, yes, that's it.
00:31:33Yeah.
00:31:34It does seem a bit mad.
00:31:35No, it is. I mean, I think this is too complicated for its own good, it's too big, it's too expensive.
00:31:40I think it'll depreciate like a chest of drawers falling off a cliff, and from some angles, it looks like an accident in a Russian tractor factory.
00:31:47It's not their finest hour, is it?
00:31:48No, they should have called it the Ferrari India Special.
00:31:50Anyway, it's now time to put a start in our reasonably priced car.
00:31:57Now, my guest tonight has appeared in Inglourious Basterds, Shame, X-Men, Haywire, in fact, pretty well every film that's come out in the last six months.
00:32:06He's half German and half Irish.
00:32:08So, ladies and gentlemen, please say, top of the Morgan, to Michael Fassbender!
00:32:13Hey!
00:32:17Hey!
00:32:19Hey!
00:32:21Have a seat!
00:32:23Have a seat!
00:32:26Now...
00:32:30In the olden days, and I know children watching won't believe this, it was possible to go to the cinema and see a film that didn't have Michael Fassbender in it.
00:32:38Yeah!
00:32:39But, um, I mean, obviously you first came to my attention, at least, in Inglourious Basterds.
00:32:44Yeah.
00:32:45Um, with you.
00:32:46Yes.
00:32:47Does everybody do that to you in the street?
00:32:48Yeah, exactly, and it still takes me, I'm like, what's he doing?
00:32:52I've done 18 films since then.
00:32:54But Shame is the one everybody's talking about.
00:32:56Now, you had to do, let's be honest, a full frontal need scene.
00:33:00Was it hard?
00:33:02No.
00:33:03I mean, man, this was an impressive sausage.
00:33:09I don't know what I can say to that now.
00:33:14So, could you say to your mum, would you like to come and see my new movie?
00:33:18Yeah, exactly, yeah.
00:33:19She was actually going to come and see it in Venice, and I said to my mum, I was like, sure, you know, I was like, come over, we'll all watch it together.
00:33:25You know, enough months had passed for me to think it won't be that bad.
00:33:29Uh, luckily, you know, her back played up.
00:33:31She's sort of got a bad lower back, so, you know, whether that was psychosomatic or not, I don't know.
00:33:36Uh, but, uh, thankfully, she, she didn't make it.
00:33:39So, it was, uh, because the first thing my dad sort of said, because he was behind me, leaned over my shoulder, and he was like, thank God your mother wasn't here.
00:33:45Because it was, I mean, what is interesting, I've been doing this show, what, ten years?
00:33:50And I think in all of that time, only three or four of my friends have ever said, could I have tickets for the show?
00:33:56This week, when people discovered you were coming on, I've had to get a minibus, and they're all girls.
00:34:02So, can we come and look at his...
00:34:04Lap time.
00:34:06Yes, exactly.
00:34:09Um, so, anyway, you've spent, you've just done Shame, obviously, where you spend the entire time naked.
00:34:14And now you're in a film, uh, where you get to spank Keira Knightley.
00:34:19Yes.
00:34:20That's what's Dangerous Method.
00:34:22Dangerous Method, yeah.
00:34:23And what's that all about?
00:34:24It's, um, it sort of focuses around Freud, um, Jung, and, um, one of their sort of mutual patients, uh, Sabina Spielrein, played by, uh, Keira.
00:34:35And, um, basically, that, that sort of relationship, the sort of, the meetings of minds between Freud and Jung, and then the sort of, you know, the fracturing of that relationship.
00:34:44And, and she's kind of in the centre of it all.
00:34:47I think we've got a clip, actually, of the trailer. We can have a look at it now. Let's have a look at that.
00:34:51Sex.
00:34:52Male.
00:34:53Family.
00:34:54Child.
00:34:55Divorce.
00:34:56No.
00:34:58Why should we put so much effort into suppressing our most basic natural instincts?
00:35:03There's a rumour we've taken one of your patients as a mistress.
00:35:09Don't you think we ought to stop?
00:35:11Do you want to stop?
00:35:14Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable, just to be able to go on living.
00:35:20I'll have some of that.
00:35:21Like a bit of psychoanalysis.
00:35:23Um, when you were reading the script for that, and you got to the bit where you spank Keira Knightley.
00:35:31Yeah.
00:35:32How much more did you read before you rang your agents and said, yeah, I'll do it?
00:35:35Yeah, it wasn't in the script. I'd sort of insist, and I was like, then I'll do it.
00:35:39But you began, I think I'm right in saying, on Holby City. And then you were in a Guinness advert.
00:35:45Yeah.
00:35:46Which must have been, well, I mean, that's really perfect for you.
00:35:49Well, yeah, I mean, I thought, you know, I actually said to them, I said, is there any way you could give me a Guinness credit card?
00:35:55Which is sort of like a white line along the top, which meant that I could have free Guinness for the rest of my life.
00:36:00All over the world.
00:36:01And yes, did you get it?
00:36:02Negative.
00:36:03That's annoying.
00:36:04Yeah, I know.
00:36:05But actually, you're not wholly Irish. You're half...
00:36:07Half German.
00:36:08Half German?
00:36:09Yeah.
00:36:10Half Irish?
00:36:11Yeah.
00:36:12That's quite an odd combination. I mean, it's like, this must be done absolutely perfectly tomorrow.
00:36:18Is that sort of slightly different...
00:36:20Yeah. One part of me wants to sort of, you know, be very efficient, and then the other side is a little bit reckless.
00:36:27And you're a Formula One fan?
00:36:28Yes.
00:36:29So, is it Irvine or Schumacher?
00:36:31Schumacher.
00:36:32Schumacher?
00:36:33Yeah.
00:36:34Yes, exactly.
00:36:35Still Schumacher, or have you switched now to Vettel?
00:36:38You know, I'm still, you know, I've got to say, I'm still a Schumacher man. I mean, I still, I'd like to see him sort of, you know, get the car that he wants underneath him and really sort of, you know, I don't know if, you know, it'll be possible to sort of get up to sort of Vettel's level or, you know, or...
00:36:55Well, he's got it in him. He's a seven-time world champion. I'm with you. I think he's just brilliant.
00:36:59I know.
00:37:00Have you met him?
00:37:01I was really lucky to sort of get invited to Silverstone last year. And he did come out of the sort of Mercedes garage and I was sort of running behind him.
00:37:08You know, stalker. And I was like, I was like, Schumacher, Schumacher. And he kept walking and I was like, Michael! And he turned around. And I was like, I still think you're the best. And he was kind of looking at me with a bit of smile and there was a lot of fear in his eyes.
00:37:22So, er, I did get a chance to go.
00:37:24So he didn't do that?
00:37:25No, no. He didn't know who the hell I was.
00:37:27Now, it's interesting. Obviously you are a big Formula One fan. But as far as I can work out, you've only ever had one car.
00:37:35Yeah. It was a Peugeot 306 Turbo Diesel Spinnaker Special Edition.
00:37:41What is a Spinnaker? Can you remember what it was? Or was it just a local dealer putting Spinnaker on it and charging an extra 500 quid?
00:37:48That was pretty much it. I think different coloured seats.
00:37:51Wow. Has it gone now, right?
00:37:52Travelling in style. I, yeah, I crashed it and totally did it in.
00:37:56And that's that?
00:37:57Yeah. And I said to the guy when I was bringing the car up, I was like, these damn Peugeots. And he was like, well, the fellow Peugeot said they're not designed to go flying over the curb at 50 miles an hour.
00:38:04So what do you get around on, then, if Peugeot's been crashing?
00:38:10I used motorcycle. I had, yeah, I know. I knew you'd be happy about this. I started with the Speed Triple and then I got the GS 1200 BMW Adventure.
00:38:22May's got one of those.
00:38:23Yeah. It's an amazing piece of equipment. It's, you know, for the weight of it, when it's moving, it's so well balanced.
00:38:29Are you allowed to ride bikes if you're involved in films all the time? Because if I were filmed, I'd just say, no, you can't, they're too dangerous.
00:38:35Yeah, sometimes. I drove the Speed Triple, I drove it out to Berlin for Inglorious Bastards. They were like, so we have the ticket, you know, for Michael to fly over.
00:38:44And they were like, no, no, he's going to make his own way there. And they were like, okay. And then I turned up on the bike and they went, oh, ****.
00:38:50So they were like, you know, I couldn't ride when I was filming that.
00:38:54No, I just wouldn't allow anyone I knew and liked to ride a motorcycle. That's why I encourage May and Hammond to ride theirs as much as possible.
00:39:03So obviously you came here to do your lap. How was the Stig out there?
00:39:07Yeah, he's amazing. I think, you know, he was probably getting a little bit fed up with me because, you know, he's given me the information and I'm not sort of putting it to use.
00:39:16I think he's jealous because your helmet is now more famous than his.
00:39:25I'm talking about the one he wears in X-Men, that magneto helmet.
00:39:29Yeah, yeah.
00:39:30Before you arrived, we had a bit of a problem. We've got some footage here of the preparation, which we've never had to do before.
00:39:36This is the second to last corner and it was just sheet ice. So we sent our boys out there to go and try and get rid of most of it for you.
00:39:46Yeah.
00:39:47And it didn't really help.
00:39:48Well, I mean, I can't really blame the ice, to be honest.
00:39:51Who'd like to see the lap?
00:39:53Yeah!
00:39:54Here we go, take a look.
00:39:58It looks dry. Was it slippery?
00:40:00Sweating.
00:40:01It was, uh, it was only really that second to last corner where the ice was really playing.
00:40:07A few times it was, uh, it was a bit too much squealing. It was like a pig.
00:40:11That's good. No, Luke's keeping that tidy. Oh, very tidy, actually, through there.
00:40:16This is always a tricky one.
00:40:20Little bit wide.
00:40:21Yeah, way wide in there.
00:40:22Little bit, but not too bad.
00:40:25And hammerhead. How are we gonna cope through here?
00:40:30I'll cut that a little bit by the looks of it and say nothing.
00:40:33Wide again, is it?
00:40:34Nah, I'd say that was all right, actually.
00:40:37I reckon.
00:40:38Yep, all looking smooth as hell.
00:40:41Sweating like a cornered nun.
00:40:43Sweating like a cornered nun?
00:40:45Where did you get that one from?
00:40:47That's where you spun off then, was it, on the snow?
00:40:49Yeah, I see, yeah, drifted over there.
00:40:51Yep, two wheels off, brawls-y.
00:40:54Ooh, you can't cut that corner, can you? No, that's tricky.
00:40:57Yeah, I kept cutting that, that was a problem.
00:40:59And that was all right through Gamble, and there we are across the line.
00:41:12Where do you reckon?
00:41:13Um, I said I'd be, you know, happy with a 1.45, I suppose.
00:41:18A 1.45?
00:41:19Somewhere in the 1.45, but I don't think that's gonna happen now.
00:41:22Well, it was, I mean, that ice on the second to last corner.
00:41:25You're letting me down gently, I like it.
00:41:28Michael Fassbender.
00:41:30You did it in one.
00:41:32Forty.
00:41:35Two.
00:41:38Point eight.
00:41:39And that was with ice on the second to last corner.
00:41:56That's okay.
00:41:58I wasn't expecting that at all.
00:42:01That was a fantastic time.
00:42:02Really happy with that, yeah.
00:42:03I'm thrilled you could come today.
00:42:05Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Fassbender.
00:42:06Thank you so much.
00:42:07Thank you so much.
00:42:08Thank you so much.
00:42:09Thank you so much.
00:42:10Thank you so much.
00:42:11Thank you so much.
00:42:12Thank you so much.
00:42:17Now, in this country, we like to do everything we possibly can
00:42:22to make life more pleasant for disabled people.
00:42:24We have pelican crossings that beep, and we have ramps in front of public buildings,
00:42:29and we have buses that kneel down.
00:42:31Yes, and there's even a range of off-road mobility scooters
00:42:34so that people with disabilities can get out into the countryside and do rambling.
00:42:39Problem is, they don't look very off-roady to us.
00:42:41I mean, this is hardly a Toyota Land Cruiser, is it?
00:42:45And they are fantastically expensive.
00:42:47Yeah, this one's £6,500.
00:42:49Yes, and that gave us an idea.
00:42:51Could we do something genuinely worthwhile for once?
00:42:54Could we build an off-road mobility scooter that doesn't cost a fortune?
00:43:01Yeah, well, the producers told us we should go and do exactly that,
00:43:05and then meet up in Wales for a series of tests.
00:43:10This is exactly the sort of damp, muddy countryside that ramblists love.
00:43:15Ideal conditions, then, to test our machines.
00:43:18This is what I've created.
00:43:22I built it from two scooters, so I've ended up with two engines,
00:43:26four-wheel drive, the four at the back, and four-wheel steering, the four at the front.
00:43:32It's got chunky off-road lawnmower tyres, a sound system, and binoculars for bird-watching.
00:43:37And with that in mind, check this out.
00:43:39This is a hide that fits over the top of the scooter, so I can sneak up silently without frightening even the most timid bird.
00:43:48Birds such as the pied wagtail and the coot.
00:43:55Crikey!
00:43:56Stephen Hawking has arrived.
00:44:00Were you not listening to the challenge?
00:44:03Yes.
00:44:04It said mobility scooters, off-road.
00:44:06Well, forgive me for taking it maybe a bit too seriously, but, as far as I can make out, mobility scooters are for people who have difficulty walking.
00:44:15Mm-hm.
00:44:16I'm concerned with people who have no choice but to be in this, which is a wheelchair.
00:44:21And why shouldn't people in wheelchairs be able to go rambling?
00:44:25You are right. I was with some disabled children the other day, and they're all confined to wheelchairs, they're all electric,
00:44:30and they were all saying they wished they were a bit more spunky, I think was the word they used.
00:44:35Well, fast was actually the word they used.
00:44:37This isn't fast, if I'm honest, but it's versatile, that's the idea.
00:44:40It's go anywhere, because once you get out into the countryside, you can't do that.
00:44:44So you've got a coffee machine on it?
00:44:46I've got everything.
00:44:47I've got drinks, I have sat-nav and comms, an electronic tablet.
00:44:51You mean an iPad?
00:44:52Exactly.
00:44:54What's this on the back?
00:44:55It's a gravel dispenser that puts gravel under the wheels.
00:44:58I've got the idea from the railways, so if you get a bit stuck in a boggy bit.
00:45:01What's this handle for?
00:45:03Ah, that's very clever.
00:45:04You see, when you're going up or down a steep bit, but you want to remain level, you wind that and it changes the angle of the seat.
00:45:10At this point, the peace of the morning was shattered by the arrival of the local boy.
00:45:16That is him making that noise, isn't it?
00:45:18It is.
00:45:19He looks like an idiot.
00:45:20Well, he is an idiot.
00:45:22He has built a half-track.
00:45:24Gentlemen!
00:45:25Hello!
00:45:28Ah, I know.
00:45:29Surely it's supposed to be, well, A, electric and B, not for invading France.
00:45:33No, where did it say that it's supposed to be electric?
00:45:36Well, isn't it in the regulations?
00:45:38No, it doesn't have to be electric.
00:45:39Let me talk you through what I've done here.
00:45:41The chassis, it's composed of two different vehicles.
00:45:43A mobility trike here, that's his front end.
00:45:46Then it's mated to one of those powered wheelbarrows that builders use for cutting huge amounts of stuff over rugged terrain.
00:45:53Obviously, that gives it tremendous off-road capability and in such an environment you will need extras, so I've fitted a winch.
00:45:59Mm-hmm.
00:46:00Oh, not again.
00:46:01Have you mounted it to the front wings?
00:46:03No, it's to the chassis this time.
00:46:05I've learned that one.
00:46:06Right, good.
00:46:07I've got an inclinometer because this can achieve incredible angles of lean this way and that way.
00:46:12Can it?
00:46:13Yes.
00:46:14Well, can I just say this, this is actually important.
00:46:17We not only had to build machines that worked better than what you can buy off the shelf off-road, but were cheaper.
00:46:23This is the most important thing.
00:46:25Now, mine, all in, £2,700.
00:46:29£2,400.
00:46:31Really?
00:46:32£1,200 for the trike, £1,200 for the wheelbarrow, the rest was just sweat and work.
00:46:36Interesting.
00:46:37Yeah.
00:46:38Well, what was yours?
00:46:39£2,000.
00:46:40Is it?
00:46:41So that represents a massive saving.
00:46:43Well, there we are.
00:46:44If you were disabled and you want to go into the countryside...
00:46:48Hello.
00:46:49Exactly.
00:46:50Exactly.
00:46:52Obviously, we'd test our machines in the hills later.
00:46:55But first, we had to make sure they worked in town.
00:47:00This, of course, is very important.
00:47:02A Range Rover doesn't just work in the countryside.
00:47:06It has to work in the city as well.
00:47:08And so must this.
00:47:11Coming home!
00:47:19I'll do what I normally do in town, which is go into the bakers.
00:47:23Morning.
00:47:24Have you got an iced finger?
00:47:30Morning.
00:47:32There are many regulations, as you would imagine, this being Britain, governing the use of mobility scooters.
00:47:39And this meets almost all of them.
00:47:42I'm good for width.
00:47:43I'm good for length.
00:47:44I'm good for speed.
00:47:46But I do have a problem with weight.
00:47:48And so does my scooter.
00:47:50Excuse me.
00:47:51Would you be...
00:47:52I'd hate to do this because I'm trying to get down there and it's a bit stuck.
00:47:59I'm so sorry.
00:48:02Sorry.
00:48:03Sorry.
00:48:04It's not quite as easy as it looks.
00:48:07And again, sorry.
00:48:08Bye.
00:48:09Bye.
00:48:11Oh, policeman.
00:48:12Got to be careful at the speed limit.
00:48:13I'm only allowed to do four miles an hour in built-up areas.
00:48:19That's more than four.
00:48:20Feel the speed!
00:48:22The speed!
00:48:25Four miles an hour, officer.
00:48:27You look really uncomfortable in there.
00:48:29Well, it's my first time.
00:48:30Yeah, but there you go.
00:48:31Yeah, I have done that a few times.
00:48:32The first time you get in, your feet are going like this all the time, aren't they?
00:48:34Yeah.
00:48:35Yeah.
00:48:36But it's all on this.
00:48:37All on this little wizard's hat thing.
00:48:39Yeah, that's right.
00:48:40Just down there.
00:48:41Come on!
00:48:42All right, then.
00:48:43Come on.
00:48:44Okay, okay, okay.
00:48:45Hold on, hold on.
00:48:46Three, two, one.
00:48:47Come on!
00:48:50Oh, come on!
00:48:55That's all I got!
00:48:57Here's the big test.
00:48:58Will it fit in a disabled lavatory?
00:49:00Yep!
00:49:05Morning!
00:49:06Just browsing!
00:49:08Oh, oh, oh!
00:49:09That's bad!
00:49:10Ah!
00:49:11I'm sorry!
00:49:18Despite the mishaps...
00:49:23We decided our machines worked well in an urban environment.
00:49:26So we headed back out to the fields, where my half-track was even better.
00:49:32Seems able to tackle quite steep slopes, which is potentially good.
00:49:38Easy.
00:49:39Plenty of torque from that petrol engine.
00:49:42Adaptive suspension is working.
00:49:45Look at that.
00:49:46That's just climbed up there as if it wasn't there.
00:49:49Check my wildlife screen.
00:49:50That's a blackbird.
00:49:52Okay, I'm driving now in stealth mode.
00:49:54Of course, you can't see that because I'm so well camouflaged and silent.
00:50:00I have to say, though, the four-wheel drive system is working magnificently well.
00:50:05The ride is good.
00:50:06The grip is good.
00:50:08I've built a Land Rover here.
00:50:12Oh, no! I've run over my hide!
00:50:15Since the hide clearly needed more work...
00:50:19Ah!
00:50:21The producers told me to get rid of it, and then they gave us a challenge.
00:50:25You will now report to...
00:50:28Hmm.
00:50:30Choued... Choued Dog?
00:50:31No.
00:50:32It's a Welsh thing.
00:50:34Choued...
00:50:36Choued...
00:50:37Choued Dog.
00:50:38Where you will take part...
00:50:40Oh, God, in an off-road race.
00:50:42Yay!
00:50:43Hang on a minute, it gets worse.
00:50:45You will be working as a team against a group of wounded servicemen
00:50:49who will be using the off-the-shelf off-road scooters.
00:50:54The terrain we'd have to cross was brutal.
00:50:57Wet grass, mud and steep, wooded slopes.
00:51:01The finish line was on a mountain three kilometres away.
00:51:04And this is who we were up against.
00:51:08Your... your neck.
00:51:11Mark.
00:51:12Mark.
00:51:13Ben.
00:51:14Ben.
00:51:15Er, so let's just get the wounds worked out.
00:51:17Spinal injuries.
00:51:18Spinal injury.
00:51:19Right leg blowing the amputee.
00:51:21Right leg, so that's nothing, there's...
00:51:23Yeah, do... kick it as well if you want.
00:51:26Gone. And you are...
00:51:28Left arm, right leg.
00:51:30Left arm, right leg?
00:51:31Yeah.
00:51:32How did you do that?
00:51:33As I was spinning down, I landed on the ground, I think I landed on my arm first.
00:51:36Which just...
00:51:37Was that a bomb?
00:51:38Yeah.
00:51:39Despite their injuries, though, they were feeling confident.
00:51:42Do you honestly think you're going to beat us?
00:51:43Yeah, definitely.
00:51:44It's a fact of it, isn't it?
00:51:45They're just playing mental games with his dumbness.
00:51:47Put some beers in it.
00:51:49All right then.
00:51:50Case of beers.
00:51:51Case of beers.
00:51:52Case of beers.
00:51:53I was going to say three.
00:51:54Case of beers.
00:51:55Case of beers.
00:51:57The military boys used their orienteering skills to map out a manageable route for their scooters.
00:52:03Yeah, take it easy on the rocket bit on this.
00:52:05Yeah, that's...
00:52:06And then just burn up one can.
00:52:08We, however, were so confident in our engineering, we decided to go as the crow flies.
00:52:14We're being started with a traditional Welsh hunting horn.
00:52:17Go!
00:52:18Yeah!
00:52:19Yes!
00:52:20Yes!
00:52:21Yes!
00:52:22Go, go, go.
00:52:23Come on!
00:52:24Mate!
00:52:25Mate!
00:52:26Mate!
00:52:27Mate!
00:52:28Mate!
00:52:29This is full speed.
00:52:30I hate it when they make us do a race.
00:52:31I should've...
00:52:32I should've known.
00:52:33Come on, boys.
00:52:34Let's get up this hill.
00:52:35Go, go, go, go, go.
00:52:36There's no question mine is faster than yours.
00:52:41And quieter.
00:52:42Ah!
00:52:43Oh, no, our steering's jammed.
00:52:44I'm losing traction completely.
00:52:45Mate, go forward, get forward.
00:52:46Devine.
00:52:47Oh!
00:52:48Oh, no!
00:52:49Oh!
00:52:50Oh, no, our steering's jammed.
00:52:54There's no question mine is faster than yours, and quieter.
00:53:01Ah!
00:53:02Oh, no, my steering's jammed.
00:53:06I'm losing traction completely.
00:53:09Mate, go forward, go forward.
00:53:10Do a bit of convoy formation here, lad.
00:53:12That's a good effort.
00:53:13Go, go, go.
00:53:14Yes!
00:53:15Oh, no, I can just engage seat angle alteration.
00:53:22Oh.
00:53:32While Sir Ranulf May was stuck...
00:53:34What have you done?
00:53:35...I went to help the orangutan.
00:53:37Try and get the bodywork off the wheel.
00:53:40You try and turn the wheel to the left.
00:53:42This is teamwork now, isn't it?
00:53:44Yeah, we're actually doing teamwork.
00:53:46What am I thinking of? I've got my gravel system to deploy.
00:53:50Watch this.
00:53:52Pulling the string, dispenses gravel from the hopper in front of the wheels, improving traction.
00:53:58Deploy.
00:54:02Hang on, right.
00:54:04Go, go, go.
00:54:08Having mended Jeremy's scooter, Thunderbird 1 then had to rescue me.
00:54:13Oh, yes.
00:54:14Yes, yes, yes.
00:54:15Oh, this is just glorious.
00:54:19Tremendous.
00:54:23Stop it.
00:54:26Ow!
00:54:27Get down there, look.
00:54:28There.
00:54:29There, there, there.
00:54:30There, there, there.
00:54:31Susan!
00:54:32How did you get there?
00:54:33We'll see you again.
00:54:34I feel a great beer coming on.
00:54:35Who are these?
00:54:36Hammond!
00:54:37They're ahead of us.
00:54:38Go.
00:54:39I'm going to find a left here, babe.
00:54:40Go, go, go, go.
00:54:41Worried by the progress of our rivals, Hammond and I stopped to discuss our colleague.
00:54:46I mean, look at him, he's pretty pointless.
00:54:48There is a bit of a, bit of a rise in the terrain there.
00:54:49Nope.
00:54:50We're ahead of us!
00:54:51Go.
00:54:53On the back of the left here, Ben. Go on, go, go, go.
00:54:56Worried by the progress of our rivals,
00:54:59Hammond and I stopped to discuss our colleague.
00:55:02I mean, look at him. He's pretty pointless.
00:55:06So, that is a bit of a rise in the terrain there.
00:55:11Nope.
00:55:15Do we, in these unique circumstances, merely leave him?
00:55:19Mm-hm. Or shoot him and leave him?
00:55:21Because we were working as a team, we decided to just leave him.
00:55:27I feel bad. I do... I feel bad.
00:55:29I'm getting better.
00:55:35Right. I think... that way.
00:55:41The ProRider Road King is doing well here.
00:55:44A moment of actual progress.
00:55:46Hey, we're rolling.
00:55:52I was rolling, too, and had left Jeremy far behind.
00:55:55It's getting very muddy now, but that's OK.
00:55:58This is where tracks are absolutely perfect.
00:56:01It's going to get tricky up there, you know, with them contour lines.
00:56:08Yeah. We'll just keep doing what we're doing, yeah?
00:56:09Yeah. We're doing all right.
00:56:10Yeah. We'll be doing all right.
00:56:11Yeah. We'll be doing all right.
00:56:12Yeah. We're doing well. We're doing well.
00:56:13It's going to get tricky up there, you know, with them contour lines.
00:56:15Yeah. We'll just keep doing what we're doing, yeah?
00:56:16Yeah. We'll be nice.
00:56:17Sportster, this is ProRider Road King. Come in.
00:56:20I may need you winch a tiny bit.
00:56:21Oh, God.
00:56:23Once again, I had to abandon my pursuit of our rivals
00:56:26to go and rescue the orangutan.
00:56:27What have you done?
00:56:28What have you done?
00:56:29Let it rock. Go on.
00:56:53Yeah, that's much better.
00:56:55That isn't... No, no!
00:56:59Lovely, lovely.
00:57:00Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:57:03The ProRider was eventually righted.
00:57:07Ha, ha, ha!
00:57:08But this teamwork nonsense wasn't getting us anywhere.
00:57:12Ram me!
00:57:20Jeremy.
00:57:21Go. It's going to be dark by the time I get there.
00:57:24Mate, I'm going to.
00:57:25Go. Be the team.
00:57:27Be the team.
00:57:28And beat the soldiers on the top gear thing that that's suddenly become.
00:57:32Yes.
00:57:33I'm not giving in, but I don't want you to wait any more.
00:57:37So long, ProRider.
00:57:39Go, go, go, go, go.
00:57:40Obviously, the servicemen were in the lead,
00:57:43but they were still taking the long way round.
00:57:46If I'm going to stand the chance of preserving my team's honour,
00:57:49I'm going to have to go straight up.
00:57:51Ha, ha, ha!
00:57:52To help me, my rivals were starting to struggle.
00:58:01Mate, I have my legs falling off.
00:58:10We're through.
00:58:11Nessar vehicles would have been just stumped by that.
00:58:15Are you stuck, Mark?
00:58:16Oh!
00:58:21Landed right on my GPS.
00:58:25Meanwhile, much further back...
00:58:27Now that my weight is on the back wheels, I have traction.
00:58:31Oh, yeah.
00:58:33I'm surfing now.
00:58:35Just pre-bend it outwards.
00:58:36Mark's control panel had snapped off in the fall,
00:58:38and getting it fixed again had cost them precious time.
00:58:41Can you hear that?
00:58:41Yeah, I can hear some engine.
00:58:43I can hear Hammond.
00:58:43Hammond?
00:58:44There's no way you could have got up here that fast.
00:58:45Go, go, go.
00:58:46Come on, Unstoppable Sportster.
00:58:47I'm going to pick my lines, keep the thing as level as I can.
00:58:49That's it there, isn't it?
00:58:50There's something there.
00:58:51That's it.
00:58:52That's just coming.
00:58:53Yeeerve.
00:58:57Come on, Unstoppable Sportster.
00:59:00I'm going to pick my lines.
00:59:02Keep the thing as level as I can.
00:59:05That's it there, isn't it?
00:59:06There's something there.
00:59:07That's it, that's the summit.
00:59:08Yeehee, that's the race to the finish line.
00:59:11That's got to be it.
00:59:12That's got to be the summit out there.
00:59:15Come on!
00:59:20Last push now, boys.
00:59:23I'm going to make it!
00:59:26Go in, go in, go in. Go, go, go, go.
00:59:28Last little bit.
00:59:32Yes! This is it. This is the summit.
00:59:37Oh.
00:59:40All right, lads.
00:59:42Welcome.
00:59:44Right on, mate.
00:59:45Well done, well done.
00:59:47It's just me.
00:59:48Meanwhile, far, far away...
00:59:50Now, look at this. It's a 17th century pub.
00:59:54And look at that step there.
00:59:56Now, if you're in a normal, conventional electric wheelchair,
00:59:59that would be game over and no pint.
01:00:03But now, watch this.
01:00:06Full power.
01:00:11Hang on, hang on.
01:00:13Hang on, hang on.
01:00:24Oh, cock.
01:00:26Still, could be worse.
01:00:29Fenton!
01:00:30Fenton!
01:00:33Fenton!
01:00:35Oh, Jesus Christ!
01:00:36Fenton!
01:00:41Mine was terrible.
01:00:42And I'm glad I pushed it down a hill and made Fenton jokes about it,
01:00:45because it was rubbish.
01:00:46Oh, sorry.
01:00:47What?
01:00:48Mine was a lot worse.
01:00:50I don't know.
01:00:51I was going to say, mine was brilliant.
01:00:53Er, it wasn't.
01:00:54It was? I was the only one who made it.
01:00:56Er, I don't think you were, actually, Hammond,
01:00:58because I think you were beaten by these chaps.
01:00:59I was, I was.
01:01:01I think that's what happened.
01:01:02So, James, have you got something for them?
01:01:03Yes, that is why it is an absolute pleasure, gentlemen,
01:01:06to give you, as promised, beer.
01:01:09Well done, guys.
01:01:10Well done, chaps.
01:01:11You earned it.
01:01:14Now, can I just ask,
01:01:16because as you know,
01:01:18Top Gear is famous throughout the world for its consumer advice,
01:01:21so which one of these three would you say was the best?
01:01:24This one here wouldn't turn like that.
01:01:25The trike?
01:01:26Yep.
01:01:27But that's still expensive, isn't it?
01:01:28What is it?
01:01:29Five...
01:01:30Five thousand pounds.
01:01:31I think I've got the answer to this, actually.
01:01:32It's car makers.
01:01:33Because you know how they're always branching out
01:01:35and they make things like
01:01:36trendy designer kettles
01:01:38and overpriced carbon fibre mountain bikes and things.
01:01:40Why don't they just stop all that
01:01:41and concentrate on making an affordable
01:01:43off-road wheelchair or scooter that works?
01:01:46So if you think about it,
01:01:47this is a really good idea,
01:01:49car makers making wheelchairs.
01:01:50It's a good idea.
01:01:51It is a good idea.
01:01:53And it's on Top Gear.
01:01:55And that is a bombshell.
01:01:57So let's end quickly.
01:01:58See you next week.
01:01:59Take care.
01:02:00Good night.
01:02:05Brand new comedy here on BBC HD tomorrow.
01:02:08Robert Webb and Katherine Parkinson star in the bleak old shop of stuff at half past eight.
01:02:13at half past eight.
01:02:19See you next week.
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