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In Episode 3, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond are enlisted to help film the car chase sequence for the film The Sweeney, driving a Jaguar XF-R and a Ford Focus ST with explosive stunts and crashes. Meanwhile James May tests the new Fiat Panda and finalises a review of the current Vauxhall Corsa VXR Nürburgring Edition. Guest star: Ryan Reynolds in the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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00:00:00Tonight, I drive around a field, James measures a runway, and Richard lays a cable.
00:00:30Hello, everybody. Hello and good evening. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
00:00:36Now, as we know, James May lives in 1956, so he maintains that you can have more fun in a small, simple car like an Austin A35 or a Wolseley Hornet than you can in the big, fire-spitting supercars that Hammond and I thump round the track every week.
00:00:57So we said to him, all right, as a special treat this week, why don't you do the power test?
00:01:01Get yourself down to the track, because we have found a car that could have been made specifically with you in mind.
00:01:13When I arrived at the track, everything looked promising.
00:01:17That is a Vauxhall Corsa.
00:01:23Ah, there's a note.
00:01:27It's from Pinky and Perky.
00:01:28Dear James, hope you enjoy taking this to the max.
00:01:32P.S. It was developed at your most favourite place in the whole wide world.
00:01:45Oh, God.
00:01:46This wasn't what I had in mind, but since I was here and the camera crew were paid for, I had no choice but to get on with it.
00:01:58Well, it's certainly quick.
00:02:010-60 in 6.5 seconds.
00:02:04At a top speed of 145 miles an hour.
00:02:08Hell, this is a Vauxhall Corsa.
00:02:10The engine is a beefed-up version of the standard 1.6-litre turbo, and it's now being coupled with a new sports exhaust, as a result of which it produces 202 horsepower.
00:02:25A 202 horsepower is a huge amount to put through the front wheels of a small car like this, and the results ought to be pretty dramatic.
00:02:38And by dramatic, I mean, of course, appalling in the bends.
00:02:42So, let's see if that's true, with the aid of our senior Cornering Solutions consultant.
00:02:57Now, on paper, this really ought not to work.
00:03:00All that power in the front wheels should just make it crown straight on in the corners and consume its own tyres.
00:03:06But actually, it doesn't.
00:03:08The reason for that is they've actually given this car a bespoke suspension specially set up for this,
00:03:16and they've developed a very clever dip, which manages the way the power is fed to the wheels.
00:03:27It's good, isn't it?
00:03:32It's actually better than good.
00:03:34And I have to admit that it's time on the Nürburgring has made this one of the best-handling hot hatchbacks you can buy.
00:03:43So, it was developed on a track, and it's brilliant on a track, but on the road...
00:03:49I don't know.
00:03:52Well, I'm very pleased to be able to report that my prejudices remain completely intact.
00:03:57When you add the word Nürburgring to the name of a car, it's really just code for ruins.
00:04:03Because the ride is absolutely rock hard.
00:04:06Oh!
00:04:07It's ridiculous.
00:04:08Oh!
00:04:09I mean, car makers become obsessed with making their cars go round this irrelevant, historic German racetrack as fast as possible,
00:04:18without realising that they're ruining the car for those of us who live in the real world.
00:04:23Ow!
00:04:24It's utterly hopeless.
00:04:25It's not just ruined, it's expensively ruined, because this car costs £22,000.
00:04:37With a few options, like leather seats and sat-nav, it's over £24,000.
00:04:43This isn't what I meant when I said small cars can be fun.
00:04:51What I meant was this, the new Fiat Panda.
00:04:55It doesn't have a Yobbo body kit or a map of a track on the dash.
00:05:00And, although its engine is turbocharged, it's only a 0.8-litre two-cylinder that makes a modest 84 horsepower.
00:05:10Yet, I believe this car is more fun than the Corsa.
00:05:14It's not actually about how much power you have, it's about how much power you can use.
00:05:29And in this, you can use pretty much all of it, all of the time.
00:05:33Look, I like sitting five millimetres above the road in a 500 horsepower supercar as much as anybody else.
00:05:47Whee!
00:05:47But skinny tyres and a roly-poly body?
00:05:50That's fun.
00:05:51The lack of grip means that more of the time, you're driving this car at the edge, even at quite normal speed.
00:05:58And it's at the edge where things become absolutely tremendous.
00:06:04A little bit of spiralling.
00:06:06And as for that engine, well, it may be tiny, but it packs a punch.
00:06:11And it sounds just brilliant.
00:06:15Oh, I love that thrilling noise.
00:06:20It's such a happy sound.
00:06:23It's a bit like a dog running around with a frisbee in its mouth, going, come on, come on, come on, come on.
00:06:26Throw the frisbee, throw the frisbee.
00:06:30And the cost of this bundle of fun?
00:06:33Around £11,000.
00:06:35Half the price of the Corsa.
00:06:37However, there is a potential problem with a small-engined car.
00:06:46Here's the stick, taking the Panda from nought...
00:06:49..to 70 and back to nought again.
00:06:59He did that, according to the wheel-o-distance, in 305 minutes.
00:07:07But the big question is, how does a small-engined car like this cope when it's weighed down with people?
00:07:15Now, if it's just the stick, then it makes no odds, as you can see quite clearly.
00:07:21But if it's normal members of the public, then I think we may have a problem.
00:07:25You see, according to the newspapers, more than a quarter of adults are now obese.
00:07:33And in just a few years' time, over 50% of the population will be absolutely enormous.
00:07:39So, what could a typical family of the future do to this car's performance?
00:07:44So, what's that means?
00:07:44Thanks.
00:07:45Don't.
00:07:45Oh, my God.
00:08:15320, 325.
00:08:19Right, so with just the Stig, it was 305 metres.
00:08:24With our family on board, it took an extra 177 metres,
00:08:30more than half as much again.
00:08:35So, if you buy this car,
00:08:37you might want to think about going easy on the pasties.
00:08:43But trust me, it's worth it.
00:08:45James Hunt was once famously asked
00:08:51what was the best car he'd ever driven,
00:08:53and the answer was not a Ferrari or a Porsche or any supercar.
00:08:57It was his old Austin A35 van,
00:09:01which had virtually no power and very, very skinny tyre.
00:09:05In other words, exactly the same qualities you get with the Panda.
00:09:09And if that's good enough for James Hunt, I rest my case.
00:09:17And goodbye.
00:09:17I'm glad you brought James Hunt into it there, James,
00:09:34because I'm always getting you two muddled up.
00:09:36Well, we don't have quite a lot in common.
00:09:38I mean, same name, same hair.
00:09:40Yeah, I wish you had the same pulse rate,
00:09:42because I have never heard so much drivel.
00:09:47Let me make it absolutely plain.
00:09:48A car becomes interesting at the limit of grip of its tyres, OK?
00:09:53And in things like a big Lambo or a big Aston or those things you like,
00:09:55that happens at really colossal speed.
00:09:58Yeah.
00:09:58So you have to drive them on the track to have fun in them, yes?
00:10:01But on a car like this with really skinny tyres,
00:10:03all that stuff happens at normal speed,
00:10:05so you don't need to go to the track.
00:10:06You enjoy them on a normal road at normal speed.
00:10:09No, that's rubbish.
00:10:10You couldn't...
00:10:10A normal hatchback, you drive it around the city centre roundabout,
00:10:12it's not skinny about all over the place.
00:10:14No, this is.
00:10:16This is on those eco fuel-saving tyres.
00:10:18I went straight off at...
00:10:19You're saying the Fiat Panda's good because it crashes more easily?
00:10:23Yes.
00:10:26And it's now time to find out how fast it goes around our track.
00:10:30No, no, no, we're not...
00:10:31No, the programme isn't long enough to put a panda round.
00:10:34Oh, God.
00:10:34It isn't.
00:10:35It isn't.
00:10:35We're going to see how fast the Vauxhall goes round,
00:10:38and that means, of course, handing it over to our tame racing driver.
00:10:42Some say that he has 50,000 photographs of his own camera.
00:10:48And that 60 years ago this week,
00:10:51he, too, became a queen.
00:10:54All we know is, he's called the Stig.
00:10:58And he's away.
00:11:00Lots of wheelspin off the line.
00:11:02It's a cold day out there.
00:11:03The air's dense and small turbocharged engines like that.
00:11:07Look at it.
00:11:08Flying into the first corner.
00:11:10Sticky tyres howling in pain.
00:11:16Oh, dear.
00:11:17The Stig continues his obsession with the Archers.
00:11:19Tracking tidily round Chicago.
00:11:23Clever limited slip diff doing its job.
00:11:25Hard on the Brembo brakes for Hammerhead.
00:11:27Will it understeer?
00:11:28No.
00:11:29Getting a bit squirrelly, though.
00:11:31Looks like the back end wants to step out.
00:11:33Certainly more excited to watch than May's Panda.
00:11:35I'm not very hungry.
00:11:36I've been nibbling all morning,
00:11:38making stuff for the freezer for Thursday.
00:11:40Midlands mimsy there.
00:11:42Right, unleashing all it's got.
00:11:43Tool chucking snow onto the follow-through.
00:11:46There's no doubt cars developed at the Nurburgring
00:11:48are useless on the road.
00:11:49James is right about that.
00:11:50But this isn't a road, and it's doing well.
00:11:53Little blob of phlegm.
00:11:55Coming up now to Gambon.
00:11:57Rounded like a terrier.
00:11:58And across the line.
00:12:03And it did it in one minute 19.2.
00:12:12One minute 31 seconds is where it did it.
00:12:15So, James, can we now stop doing small,
00:12:18simple hatchbacks in the power tests?
00:12:20You can, yeah.
00:12:21Good.
00:12:22You are sacked.
00:12:23Well, that's good news.
00:12:26And speaking of which, it is time to do the news.
00:12:28And I'll start off with something very exciting.
00:12:30Because there is a new Morgan.
00:12:32And after an absence of ten years,
00:12:33they have revived their legendary plus-eight name.
00:12:36They've made a new one.
00:12:37I've got a picture.
00:12:37Here it is.
00:12:38Oh, yeah.
00:12:39Oh, God.
00:12:40Morgan don't have a styling department, do they?
00:12:41They've just got a photocopier.
00:12:44It's not like a normal photocopier.
00:12:45You know normally you put your piece of paper on
00:12:47and you select the size?
00:12:48Yeah.
00:12:48On Morgans, you select the year.
00:12:50Anything from 1931 to 1931.
00:12:52Look, shut up.
00:12:54This is an all-new car.
00:12:54It's got the classic body shape.
00:12:56Yes, but it's got a 4.8-litre BMW V8 in there.
00:12:59It'll be good for 60, probably in under four seconds,
00:13:01something like that.
00:13:02It's going to be the fastest accelerating Morgan
00:13:04they've made ever in like a...
00:13:05Wow.
00:13:06It's exciting.
00:13:07Do you have to buy the petrol with those ration coupons?
00:13:10No.
00:13:11Shut up.
00:13:12It's actually very modern.
00:13:13It's got a bonded aluminium chassis
00:13:14and the aluminium body is superformed.
00:13:17It's very high-tech.
00:13:18What?
00:13:18How many guineas is it?
00:13:19It's £85,000.
00:13:24It's very modern and high-tech under there
00:13:25and I want one of those very much indeed.
00:13:27It's fantastic.
00:13:28Well, you can't have one, Hammond.
00:13:28There's a war on.
00:13:29Of course.
00:13:31I'm going to roll it down to make Spitfires out of you.
00:13:33Shut up.
00:13:34It's exciting and I want one.
00:13:35I've got news about Toyota and Subaru
00:13:37because they've collaborated on a new car.
00:13:39We've got a picture of it here.
00:13:40It's called the GT86.
00:13:41Now, this is going to be £25,000
00:13:44which makes it more expensive than a VW Scirocco
00:13:47and it's not the best-looking car in the world, is it?
00:13:50No, not really.
00:13:51No, it isn't.
00:13:51But the interesting thing about it,
00:13:53the thing that means that everybody's anticipating this very eagerly
00:13:56is it has a limited slip differential
00:13:57and rear-wheel drive.
00:14:00Yeah.
00:14:00You know, it's hard to explain really to non-car people
00:14:03why rear-wheel drive is important.
00:14:04So, let me put it this way.
00:14:07Front-wheel drive is cornflour
00:14:09and rear-wheel drive is a roux.
00:14:13That's it.
00:14:13That's quite good.
00:14:14Yeah, that's good.
00:14:14What are you going on about?
00:14:16Wait, I don't know about cornflour,
00:14:18you'd use it to, well, thicken a sauce, say.
00:14:22Why would you want to thicken a sauce?
00:14:24Ketchup comes out the bottle
00:14:25and if that's ketchup, I don't want it thicker.
00:14:27It's just what it is.
00:14:28I have to let you into a little secret we learned this week
00:14:30is Richard Hammond has his Sunday lunch every Sunday.
00:14:32Anyone here familiar with the countrywide chain of stores?
00:14:36Oh, I am.
00:14:36Yeah?
00:14:37They're big sort of cash-and-carry warehouses for rural people
00:14:40and you go down there and you buy stones and gravel and things for your horses
00:14:44and he has his lunch.
00:14:46They do a nice Sunday roast.
00:14:48$5.99.
00:14:49I bet you in how much?
00:14:51$5.99 and you get all the vegetables you want.
00:14:53I bet the vegetables, I bet you any money that they wilted
00:14:56because they've been boiled for so long.
00:14:58They're properly cooked, yeah.
00:14:59That's not properly cooked.
00:15:00That's ruined.
00:15:01Oh, I hate those.
00:15:02Oh, Richard Hammond will be here on Sunday.
00:15:03We'd better put the sprouts on now.
00:15:05It's like going for your lunch in B&Q.
00:15:08No.
00:15:09Big treat children this week.
00:15:10We're going to have lunch in Halfords.
00:15:13That's very funny, but can I get back to the car?
00:15:15The thing about it is it isn't a great-looking car
00:15:18and it is a bit pricey,
00:15:19but it also has a boxer engine in it.
00:15:22Yeah, two litre.
00:15:23Yeah, exactly.
00:15:24Oh, and that's good, isn't it?
00:15:25Yeah.
00:15:25It's special.
00:15:26Would you like to explain, Jeremy,
00:15:27to all of us why having a boxer configuration engine is a good thing?
00:15:30Yes, I will.
00:15:32Really?
00:15:33A boxer engine is like going to Jamie Oliver's restaurant for your lunch.
00:15:38Yes.
00:15:38And a normal engine is like going to Countrywide
00:15:41for over-boiled vegetables.
00:15:44It's a nice lunch,
00:15:45and they give you a wooden spoon with a number on,
00:15:47and when they call the number out,
00:15:48you go and get your meat,
00:15:49and then when you've got your meat,
00:15:50you can get all the vegetables you want.
00:15:51They go,
00:15:51Mr. Almond,
00:15:52your table for four.
00:15:56Good news, chaps.
00:15:57No, what?
00:15:58There's a new dacier,
00:16:00and I've got a...
00:16:01I've got a picture of it.
00:16:02Here it is.
00:16:03It's called the Lodgy.
00:16:04Oh, that's a looker, isn't it?
00:16:06Anyway, moving on.
00:16:09Whiplash is a charter for fraudsters.
00:16:11I know what you mean.
00:16:12No, we all know this, okay,
00:16:13because you have a car accident.
00:16:14You go,
00:16:14I've got whiplash,
00:16:15and then you rate the other motorists' insurance policy,
00:16:18and you get benefits for the rest of your life.
00:16:21Now, the government has said that this has to stop,
00:16:23so they have announced,
00:16:24the government, right,
00:16:26that if the impact speed
00:16:28is less than six and a quarter miles an hour,
00:16:31you can't have whiplash.
00:16:33Six and a quarter?
00:16:33Six and a quarter.
00:16:35But then they're also saying
00:16:35if it's like six and a half,
00:16:37you could get whiplash at that speed.
00:16:39You could do that speed sitting down quickly.
00:16:41Look, I'm doing about six and a half,
00:16:43I've got whiplash.
00:16:44What is Sue here?
00:16:44It should be 63 miles an hour.
00:16:46That would be a reasonable speed.
00:16:48The question should be,
00:16:49is your car absolutely and entirely wrecked?
00:16:53Is it crumpled like a discarded crisp bag,
00:16:55in which case you might have gone?
00:16:56Has the boot lid badge been stenciled onto your own spine?
00:17:01Well, then you've got whiplash.
00:17:02No, no, no, it's not.
00:17:03It's can you actually look up your own arse now?
00:17:08Yeah, you've possibly got some whiplash.
00:17:10It could be.
00:17:11Honestly, I really do genuinely believe this.
00:17:13People who claim they've got whiplash when they haven't,
00:17:14I don't believe in capital punishment,
00:17:16but they should be shot.
00:17:18Really?
00:17:19Where would you shoot them?
00:17:20In the head.
00:17:21No, I mean, I meant more sort of geographically.
00:17:24Yeah.
00:17:25Where would you shoot them?
00:17:25Oh, God.
00:17:26On their own or in front of anyone?
00:17:28Do you want to say that?
00:17:28In front and behind.
00:17:29It usually goes well when you do, maybe on a different show.
00:17:33Let's just get it just so we can straighten out your belief.
00:17:36Who do you think should be shot, where, and in front of whom?
00:17:39Just tell us that.
00:17:40Oh, now, moving it on, I've got some actual news.
00:17:46Oh, don't be daft.
00:17:47What, in our news section?
00:17:47In the news section, yes.
00:17:49It's not just rubbish.
00:17:50Therefore, we're in uncharted waters here.
00:17:52Okay.
00:17:52I have it on good authority that Land Rover is currently working on a 300 horsepower convertible version of the new Evoke.
00:18:02The Evoke?
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:03Oh, have you got a picture?
00:18:04No, no, no, no.
00:18:05Well, I've got a picture here of the hard time one, because it's so secret, this.
00:18:08It's only I know it.
00:18:09Well, not only I, but everybody now knows about it.
00:18:11So I thought, look, you could...
00:18:12Stand back, he's got scissors!
00:18:15Oh, look at him concentrate.
00:18:18Look at him there.
00:18:21It's the dog here, orangutan.
00:18:23Look at his happy little face, completely absorbed in his own world.
00:18:27And if you watch very carefully, everybody, you can see Jeremy's mouth moving entirely.
00:18:31Yeah, it is.
00:18:34It's quite tricky going down the door mirror.
00:18:36It's a tricky windscreen bit now, isn't it?
00:18:38Ready?
00:18:39And across the line.
00:18:41Actually, it was quite good, isn't it?
00:18:43It was quite good.
00:18:44All right.
00:18:44Am I right in saying that would be the first ever convertible off-road car?
00:18:49Yeah, well, apart from the original Willys Jeep and the first Toyota Land Rover and the original Land Rover, but apart from that, yeah.
00:18:55Apart from the very origins, Genesis, the whole foundation, if you will, of the entire concept of off-roader is founded upon a convertible.
00:19:04Yeah, did I say that out loud?
00:19:05You did, and we all heard that.
00:19:07That is a bit like saying they should make a song called Blue Suede Shoes.
00:19:10Yes, they should.
00:19:11I've done that before.
00:19:13Right, there's a new car I want to tell you about.
00:19:14I've got a picture of it.
00:19:15I'm only going to flash it up on the screen for one second, and I want you to tell me what you think it is, okay?
00:19:19Are you ready?
00:19:19Here we go, and on, and off.
00:19:22What was that?
00:19:23Uh, Aston Martin.
00:19:25Aston Martin, yeah.
00:19:25No, you see, it wasn't.
00:19:27It wasn't.
00:19:27That, in fact, let's get it up again.
00:19:29That is the new Mondeo.
00:19:31Did it?
00:19:32No, it's actually...
00:19:32Was it done by a Chinese person?
00:19:35No, it wasn't.
00:19:37No, but let me explain, because this is quite complicated.
00:19:39That's been launched in America already as the Ford Fusion, and it's not coming to Britain until next year.
00:19:44So, Ford in Britain, the sort of...
00:19:47They're not admitting that that's the new Mondeo, because they think that people won't continue to buy the current one for a year.
00:19:52But that is the new Mondeo, and it's coming next year, so there.
00:19:56Now, if you're under 40, chances are you may not remember a television show called The Sweeney.
00:20:01So, to fill you in, every week, it was a cop show, in essence.
00:20:05Every week, the hero would have some casual sex with a lady.
00:20:09Then he'd punch a baddie in the middle of his face,
00:20:11and then drive a Ford Granada very briskly across some waste ground in South London.
00:20:16Now, the reason we bring this up is we heard the other day that they were making a film of this TV series starring Ray Winston and Plan B.
00:20:25Yeah, and this gave us an idea, because for ages we've wanted to make a proper movie car chase.
00:20:31We reckon we'd be pretty good at it.
00:20:32Yeah, so we got in touch with the film's producers, and we said,
00:20:35look, there's bound to be a car chase in it, so can Hammond and I make it for you?
00:20:39And they said, yes.
00:20:46This being The Sweeney, the location was in the serf of England.
00:20:51And while the main crew were hard at work shooting shootouts,
00:20:56and people jumping off boats,
00:20:59Hammond and I were trying to decide what sort of car chase we wanted to make.
00:21:03And then there was the Bond film in Vietnam,
00:21:06and that was just stupid stunt after stupid stunt, all shot from a helicopter,
00:21:10so you never had a sense of speed.
00:21:12So you want to be close, so if a car does, like, a jump and, like, a roll,
00:21:16then you want to be up close and see, maybe see the driver's face,
00:21:19as if you were in the car with them, there's these amazing things happening.
00:21:22No, no, no, there's no jump and a roll.
00:21:24Well, no, there'd be stunts, it's a car chase.
00:21:26So when one of the stunts happens, if, right, here's an idea,
00:21:28so say, helicopter here, right, car comes out, barrel roll happens,
00:21:33bam, boom, you want to be back wide so you can see the helicopter.
00:21:36Yeah, but there's no heli, we're not having any cars crashing into helicopters.
00:21:39No, but that's...
00:21:40No, we're not.
00:21:41Well, why not?
00:21:42Well, because that's just stupid.
00:21:43This is The Sweeney.
00:21:45It's the real police chase.
00:21:47Honestly, just think, Ronan, Bullet, Italian job, the original one,
00:21:51good, gritty car chasers, because they're real.
00:21:54How many jumps were the car, and we were there in Ronan?
00:21:58Yes, but we need to drag The Sweeney into this century,
00:22:01so we need cars going into helicopters.
00:22:03What are those drawings?
00:22:04What you want people...
00:22:05What are those drawings?
00:22:06Oh, no, you see, look, car going into helicopter.
00:22:08You want to make this real...
00:22:10What's that?
00:22:11That, now, this is very clear, right?
00:22:13Train going along, there isn't a car,
00:22:15as you know, one of those flat ones there,
00:22:16and he times his jump, so he's got a second to get through.
00:22:20No, no, no.
00:22:20I mean, there's a chance.
00:22:22Since we weren't getting anywhere,
00:22:23I went off to meet our actors.
00:22:28Well, I want to shoot you.
00:22:29No, I mean, you shot four, really.
00:22:31We're both gentlemen.
00:22:32Shoot them together.
00:22:33Hello.
00:22:34Hello, mate.
00:22:34Actors.
00:22:35Hi, my name's Richard.
00:22:36I'm, well, the director, I suppose,
00:22:39and so you're Plan B.
00:22:41I'm Plan B. Nice to meet you.
00:22:42Well, can I call you Plan?
00:22:44Yeah, you can call me Plan, if you like.
00:22:45And over here, of course.
00:22:47Morning.
00:22:49Delighted to meet you.
00:22:50Hello, mate.
00:22:50Great pleasure.
00:22:51It's an honour to work with you, really.
00:22:54When are you working with us?
00:22:55Later on today, we're going to be doing some stunt work,
00:22:58and it's going to be,
00:22:59and obviously, I mean, you'll be able to handle it,
00:23:00the variety of stuff you've done.
00:23:02I think...
00:23:02Mate, we're a bit busy in here at the minute.
00:23:04Can you go and run it somewhere else?
00:23:05You've got stuff, I know, you're busy, and that's great,
00:23:07and it's going to be,
00:23:08I can't wait, and you're going to handle all of it so well.
00:23:10I mean, if you think...
00:23:11What am I going to handle what?
00:23:12What were you talking about?
00:23:13Long Good Friday.
00:23:15Great.
00:23:16Anger in there.
00:23:17The Long Good Friday.
00:23:18Anger.
00:23:19And then the same career.
00:23:20Who framed Roger Rabbit?
00:23:21No, no, it's not him.
00:23:22That's, um...
00:23:24No, I'm not Boboskis, mate.
00:23:25Whilst Hannond was making friends with the stars,
00:23:31I was meeting the cars that the film's producers had chosen.
00:23:37The baddies would be using a Jaguar XFR,
00:23:41and the goodies, a Ford Focus ST.
00:23:47And straight away, there's a problem.
00:23:50Because anyone who knows anything about cars will watch this film
00:23:53and say, well, there's no way that a Ford Focus can keep up
00:23:57with a supercharged 500-horsepower V8 Jag.
00:24:00I mean, the speed difference,
00:24:02as I shall now demonstrate on our closed piece of road,
00:24:06is immense.
00:24:08To make matters worse, this isn't an ST.
00:24:25It's a 1.6-litre EcoBoost with ST badges, ST wheels,
00:24:36and, look, fake dials on the dashboard.
00:24:45I decided to put these concerns to the film's director, Nick Love.
00:24:49The problem you've got is a Ford Focus cannot keep up with a Jag.
00:24:54It's about the skill of the driver, not the car.
00:24:56You see, it's a story being told in a movie.
00:24:58No, I'm sorry.
00:24:58It's a better driver in the world.
00:24:59If Egan is a good driver, he can keep up with anybody.
00:25:01He can't.
00:25:03He can in my film.
00:25:04Well, he can't, because we're directing this.
00:25:07You're going to have to get faster cars than the Focus.
00:25:09We've got a very restricted amount of money to make the films,
00:25:12and we can't just go and...
00:25:12What are we going to do, go and buy Ferraris?
00:25:14What's the budget?
00:25:16Of the film?
00:25:16Yeah.
00:25:17Three million quid.
00:25:17Whoa!
00:25:19What, for just this film?
00:25:21Three million quid.
00:25:22That's nothing.
00:25:23That's literally where we're on the line.
00:25:24Let's put them in Veyron's.
00:25:25Are you sure?
00:25:26Well, you can get two for that.
00:25:28Can you also explain to him, we're trying to keep it real.
00:25:31He wants to do this thing where it jumps over a train.
00:25:33Yeah, well, the idea is...
00:25:35No, no, no, no, get this, Nick.
00:25:36There's a train coming along, and when it comes through,
00:25:39your man's there in his car, and he times it,
00:25:41jumps through the gap.
00:25:42Come on, that's real.
00:25:43Brilliant.
00:25:45We're going to need something faster than the Focus.
00:25:47No, we just need to think big in terms of action.
00:25:50You see, now, this is a motorway bridge,
00:25:52you know, the ones where they haven't finished building it,
00:25:53and the car comes off, but look, it's beginning to twist,
00:25:56and that's a helicopter.
00:25:57I'm getting a migraine, I've got to tell you,
00:25:59I am properly getting a migraine.
00:26:00You're talking ****, the pair of you.
00:26:02You want to do a car commercial,
00:26:03and you want to make a film that no-one's going to believe.
00:26:05If you're going to do it, do it properly.
00:26:07That's all I'm saying.
00:26:07Having got the distinct impression from the director
00:26:13that I couldn't change the cars, I had to get creative.
00:26:16Sorry about this, mate.
00:26:18We have the baddie.
00:26:21So, the front-wheel drive Ford would be driven
00:26:24by former rally champion Mark Higgins,
00:26:27and the rear-drive Jag by drifting world champion Mauro Callo.
00:26:31Okay, three, two, one, to catch up, go.
00:26:37And to get round the speed difference,
00:26:39I'd created a scene in which the Jag is held up by traffic.
00:26:47And three, two, one, hit.
00:26:53Try again, try again, try again.
00:26:57Oh, yes!
00:27:01Man alive, are we getting some shots here.
00:27:07Whilst Jeremy was lost in the land of reality,
00:27:11I was at the location for the climax of the chase,
00:27:14a deserted caravan park,
00:27:16where I was setting up a dramatic jump.
00:27:20You're all right?
00:27:21You're all right?
00:27:22Oh, yeah.
00:27:23And hold it there, that's perfect.
00:27:25I come racing up that field.
00:27:27Between those two posts, there's going to be a barrier.
00:27:29I'm going to smash through it.
00:27:30That's some drama.
00:27:31Then up the ramp, I get air there,
00:27:33past the caravans, and land on the grass.
00:27:36With the ramp hidden from the cameras,
00:27:38I nicked one of the backup focuses and was ready to go.
00:27:42I'd love it if they used the actual shot with me doing it.
00:27:44That'd be brilliant.
00:27:45I'd be in the film.
00:27:47First off, drive through the gatepost.
00:27:48And now, get me some air.
00:27:58Yeah!
00:27:59That felt good.
00:28:00That felt like we had air in everything.
00:28:02However, when I watched it back on the monitor...
00:28:05Play it again.
00:28:10This is rubbish.
00:28:15Meanwhile, I was now filming the cars from the front,
00:28:18which meant my drivers had to be made to look exactly like the main actors.
00:28:22What's going to happen is you're alongside him.
00:28:25Yeah.
00:28:25You're going exactly the same speed.
00:28:27He, when he's ready to make this turn,
00:28:29you're not ready for him to make this turn.
00:28:31Yeah.
00:28:31You think he's going on down there.
00:28:32Yeah.
00:28:33Yeah.
00:28:33He's going to lock up,
00:28:34which then causes your handbrake turn.
00:28:36We'll get that in a minute.
00:28:36I then disconnected the Jag's anti-lock brakes,
00:28:41so it would lock up in a cloud of tyre smoke.
00:28:44And then we went for a take.
00:28:46Okay, we're ready.
00:28:49Mark, less moving around, less moving.
00:28:52Yes, that's good.
00:28:57Oh!
00:29:04Oh!
00:29:04Oh, I may have to go to the lavatory for a little while.
00:29:14What?
00:29:15Hold on a minute.
00:29:17How the hell could you not know who Ray Winston is?
00:29:21Well, no, think about it.
00:29:22Middle-aged, Cockney, actor.
00:29:23It's Bob Oskins, isn't it?
00:29:24It is.
00:29:26That bit where the car, where you drove them together,
00:29:28that was just wanton destruction.
00:29:30No, no, it wasn't, because we had three Jags, didn't we?
00:29:33Yeah, five focuses.
00:29:34Five Ford focuses.
00:29:35And remember, we had three million pounds to play with.
00:29:38No, we didn't, no, we didn't have three million quid,
00:29:40but we were allowed to do light damage.
00:29:42We really were.
00:29:43Anyway, we'll pick that up later on.
00:29:45Now, it is time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:29:49Now, over the years, we've had many guests on this program,
00:29:52all different sorts, men, women, Americans, Germans,
00:29:57a lesbian.
00:29:57Um, we've never had a Canadian, though.
00:30:02That, however, is about to change.
00:30:05Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Ryan Reynolds!
00:30:07Hello, sir!
00:30:11Hello!
00:30:12How are you?
00:30:13Very well, how are you?
00:30:14Very well, thank you.
00:30:16Hi, everybody.
00:30:17Hello.
00:30:18Hello.
00:30:18Hello.
00:30:19Hello.
00:30:20Have a seat.
00:30:21I'd love to.
00:30:23I'd love to.
00:30:24Have a seat.
00:30:25It's like looking in a mirror.
00:30:27It really is.
00:30:28It really is.
00:30:29Not for you.
00:30:30So, 2010, you were voted the sexiest man alive.
00:30:34Oh, wow.
00:30:36That was 2010, though.
00:30:38I'm on the lecture circuit now.
00:30:41I'm just thinking, your school days,
00:30:43were they just a blizzard of snogging and smooth moves?
00:30:47No, it wasn't that.
00:30:48I was a bit of a little pariah at school.
00:30:51I have three older brothers,
00:30:53and all of whom were kicked out of this very same school.
00:30:55So, from the moment I got there, I was a marked man.
00:30:59What were they kicked out for?
00:31:00Just random things.
00:31:01Just mostly drugs and violence.
00:31:02Okay.
00:31:04And I was kicked out for...
00:31:07I was actually kicked out for something I think you'd appreciate.
00:31:09I was kicked out for stealing a car.
00:31:11Stealing a car?
00:31:12No, but wait.
00:31:13I didn't actually steal a vehicle.
00:31:15What we did was a teacher that we had
00:31:17who was just 100% awful.
00:31:20He had this little car.
00:31:22It was one of those little Volkswagens.
00:31:24And so my friends and I just played an April Fool's prank on him.
00:31:26And we picked it up.
00:31:27We lifted it up and carried it down the block.
00:31:29And there was about eight of us.
00:31:31We were just talking about this last week.
00:31:33The best thing you can have with the little car is to pick it up and turn it around.
00:31:35So it's facing the other way.
00:31:36And people come out of the store and think...
00:31:37Fun little practical joke.
00:31:38That's a better idea.
00:31:39Because in Canada, if you move it more than 10 feet, it's a felony.
00:31:44I didn't know that.
00:31:45So you moved a car more than 10 feet and then that was grand theft also.
00:31:49Yeah, one city block was 100% grand theft.
00:31:52Now, obviously, Sexiest Man Alive, 2010.
00:31:54But reading through your notes, also Clumsiest Man Alive.
00:31:59Oh, definitely, yeah.
00:32:01I mean, there's a thing.
00:32:02Zurich, Switzerland.
00:32:04It is impossible to hurt yourself in Zurich.
00:32:07You go there, you eat cheese, and then you come back.
00:32:09Exactly.
00:32:09So how did you manage to hurt yourself?
00:32:10I jumped off a bridge.
00:32:14But there was water below.
00:32:16And I dove in and I broke a vertebrae diving in.
00:32:20You've also been run over.
00:32:22I have been run over, yeah.
00:32:23I was 19 years old.
00:32:25I was in Vancouver and I was at a bar and I had a few drinks.
00:32:27So I left my car and I decided to walk home.
00:32:30So you're being responsible.
00:32:31Exactly, very, very responsible.
00:32:33And I was crossing the street at about 2 in the morning
00:32:35and I was hit by a drunk driver.
00:32:40I always wondered if he tells people that he got hit by a drunk pedestrian.
00:32:45I would.
00:32:46So did that hurt?
00:32:47Yeah, that was bad.
00:32:48I broke a lot of bones.
00:32:50That was all the left side of my body I broke.
00:32:51But I was 19, so at that point you're just made of rubber and magic.
00:32:55So you can bounce back.
00:32:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:58So bearing in mind that you can't jump off a bridge without breaking your back,
00:33:01was skydiving the perfect hobby to take up?
00:33:05God, you're like my mother.
00:33:08I mean, really?
00:33:08Old enough.
00:33:09Just killing me.
00:33:11My friends were trying to get their license,
00:33:13so I decided I would get my license skydiving.
00:33:16And I did 12 jumps, which were all highly successful.
00:33:22And then it was 13.
00:33:23And then 13th one, I had a problem where the chute didn't open.
00:33:27And I had to pull the reserve.
00:33:30But the weird thing is that when you're in a situation like that,
00:33:33you're flying down at 120 miles per hour.
00:33:36And when your chute doesn't open, you seriously have to think about pulling the other one.
00:33:39That's the weird thing.
00:33:41Like, time slows down, and you're thinking,
00:33:42but if I pull the other one, then I'll have none left.
00:33:45So I'm just going to wait to see if something happens.
00:33:52And sure enough, at the last minute, I pulled the reserve chute,
00:33:55which you can't steer, and I ended up landing in a field,
00:33:57which ironically contained only a dead horse.
00:34:00I don't know what omen that is.
00:34:02Usually it's a black crow that tells you you're going to die,
00:34:04but I just...
00:34:04Well, the...
00:34:05...lead next to a dead horse, yeah.
00:34:07You have a new film out, Safe House.
00:34:09I do, yeah.
00:34:10So when's the movie out?
00:34:11The film is out February 24th here in the UK.
00:34:14We have a clip of that, which we're going to show for you now.
00:34:16Let's have a look.
00:34:17Let's do it.
00:34:44That's a big crash.
00:34:52That's a big crash.
00:34:57That's Denzel Washington, isn't it?
00:34:58Yes, yes.
00:34:59A little backseat driving right there.
00:35:00Yes.
00:35:01A little backseat driver.
00:35:02A little backseat driver.
00:35:03So what is it about?
00:35:04Give us the plot.
00:35:05Give us the story.
00:35:06I play a guy who's what's called a safe house operator,
00:35:09or a housekeeper,
00:35:10and they're real...
00:35:12They're CIA-owned apartments and flats all around the world,
00:35:14and they're run by usually a low-level CIA guy.
00:35:18And then one day in walks Denzel Washington's character,
00:35:21who's probably one of the world's worst murdering,
00:35:24sociopathic, kind of Hannibal Lecter types,
00:35:26and I'm left to deal with this guy,
00:35:29who I'm deeply ill-equipped to deal with.
00:35:32So it's not like The Devil Wears Prada, then?
00:35:35No, no.
00:35:36It's not the proposal to...
00:35:38It's not a rom-com, no.
00:35:39No, that's good.
00:35:40Can I just say that God is normally quite fair?
00:35:44Yeah.
00:35:44With his dishing out of talents?
00:35:46Yeah.
00:35:47I mean, for instance, David Beckham,
00:35:48okay, he said he's going to be very good-looking,
00:35:50immensely talented footballer,
00:35:52and to balance that up, I'll give him a squeaky voice.
00:35:54You're funny and good-looking and not fat.
00:36:00Where's your squeaky voice?
00:36:02Oh, where's my...
00:36:03What's my...
00:36:03Have you got B.O.?
00:36:04Have I got 41 nipples?
00:36:06Have I got, uh...
00:36:07Have you got very tiny testes?
00:36:09Yeah, just...
00:36:10It's like Braille down there, Jeremy.
00:36:14You have a very short...
00:36:16That's what it is.
00:36:17Braille.
00:36:17Yeah.
00:36:18The whole system...
00:36:20Yeah.
00:36:21Yeah.
00:36:21I mean, everybody has...
00:36:23I have a lot of things wrong.
00:36:24I'm blind, I'm deaf, I'm...
00:36:27Yeah, well...
00:36:28I have a sense of smell because I have a cold which I haven't mentioned.
00:36:30Yeah.
00:36:31Thank you for the tongue kiss earlier.
00:36:33Uh...
00:36:34Um...
00:36:34I, uh...
00:36:36Just went deep with it, too.
00:36:38Um...
00:36:39No, I...
00:36:40We all have crazy faults.
00:36:42I mean, you know, I don't have, like...
00:36:43My fault isn't something, like, horrendous.
00:36:45Like, you know,
00:36:46I can't stop murdering children.
00:36:47Stop.
00:36:51I like to think I'm a horrible driver.
00:36:53Because I...
00:36:54Horrible or bad?
00:36:55Um...
00:36:55Well, I just...
00:36:56I ride motorcycles everywhere.
00:36:58So you can just race up through traffic.
00:37:00It's always bumper to bumper.
00:37:01And when your oncoming traffic is all stopped,
00:37:03you just go right up the middle.
00:37:04But I have this tendency when I am in a vehicle
00:37:06to think I can slip that entire vehicle right up the middle.
00:37:10And it's only, like, at the last second where I'm hitting the brakes,
00:37:12I'm into a...
00:37:13What, you remember you're in a car?
00:37:14Yeah.
00:37:14So you quite like bikes?
00:37:16I do.
00:37:16I like bikes a lot, yeah.
00:37:17What sort of bikes?
00:37:18Um...
00:37:18I have a...
00:37:19I have an old Paul Smart.
00:37:21Um...
00:37:21Ducati, which is a nice little bike.
00:37:23I know what a Ducati is.
00:37:24Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:37:24Ducati, yeah, it's a Ducati.
00:37:25I have a Deus.
00:37:26Is it Deus or Deus?
00:37:27No, it's a Deus, yeah.
00:37:28It's D-E-U-S.
00:37:29That's how we pronounce it over there.
00:37:31But you guys say Nissen.
00:37:32So I have no idea what's happening right now.
00:37:34And every single car is pronounced differently in America.
00:37:36Because the high-end guys are Herndy.
00:37:38Yeah.
00:37:38Nissan B-Durby, Jaguar.
00:37:40What is it, Jaguar here?
00:37:44Jaguar.
00:37:44Yeah, Jaguar.
00:37:45Oh, it's spelled.
00:37:46Yeah.
00:37:51No, no, I'm sorry.
00:37:52That was mean of me.
00:37:55Now, you came down here to obviously try your hand.
00:38:00Yeah.
00:38:00In the Keir C apostrophe D.
00:38:01What was your goal?
00:38:03My goal was just to see if I could drive a manual car.
00:38:06I haven't done that since I was in high school.
00:38:08So that was interesting.
00:38:09Yeah.
00:38:10Well, who'd like to see Ryan's, Ryan's lab?
00:38:13Oh, boy.
00:38:13Okay, play the tape.
00:38:17This is stupid.
00:38:19Crispy.
00:38:20Yeah.
00:38:20It smells exactly like clutch.
00:38:23Smells like clutch.
00:38:24Yeah.
00:38:24Clutch does smell like clutch.
00:38:25Yeah, it does smell bad, yeah.
00:38:26It's an annoying thing.
00:38:28The wide Formula One line in the...
00:38:30I'm a big guy, too.
00:38:30I make that whole car look like a children's toy.
00:38:33You should see me in it.
00:38:34Like a sweater made of metal.
00:38:39Yeah.
00:38:40Every time I shift, I make a dumb face.
00:38:43That's wide.
00:38:44That's really wide.
00:38:44Terrible.
00:38:45That gives you a...
00:38:45I know it could give you a fast...
00:38:47Where are you going?
00:38:48F***ing f***ing manual.
00:38:49Yeah, back!
00:38:50That's right!
00:38:50That's the beat machine.
00:38:54It's obviously blown up.
00:38:55There we...
00:38:55Now, keeping it tidy through the lines there.
00:38:58Yes, pretty good.
00:39:00Very good, actually.
00:39:02No, very good.
00:39:03Are we going to be able to find fourth?
00:39:07Let's turn from hell coming up.
00:39:10Oh, yeah, this turn I would not find every time.
00:39:12Oh, that's almost beautiful.
00:39:13Yeah.
00:39:13That's what I call the adult diaper.
00:39:17Whoa!
00:39:18That's cutting that one.
00:39:20That's quite uncomfortable at that speed.
00:39:22Yeah.
00:39:22Look at it gripping.
00:39:23That's nicely done.
00:39:24Not too cheaty on the cutting.
00:39:26And a crown gown ball.
00:39:28There we are, ladies and gentlemen.
00:39:30Press the line.
00:39:30There we go.
00:39:34Wow.
00:39:35So...
00:39:36Where would you like to appear on the board?
00:39:42I'm going to say somewhere in the middle.
00:39:43I'm going to say...
00:39:43Somewhere in the middle.
00:39:44But didn't you...
00:39:45Actually, I know you did.
00:39:46Because you told our researchers you were desperate.
00:39:48Because you went back out.
00:39:50Yeah.
00:39:51Having spent a lot of time saying,
00:39:51Oh, do you mind if I go and have another game?
00:39:53Yeah, give me another shot at this.
00:39:53Because you wanted to beat...
00:39:55Tom Cruise.
00:39:56Yeah, I did want to beat Tom Cruise.
00:39:57Yeah, that's the honesty.
00:39:58I wasn't talking about the driving, though.
00:40:04Yes.
00:40:04I'm going to guess that I have one, four, five.
00:40:07One, four, five.
00:40:08And that's being really generous.
00:40:09Well, you did a one.
00:40:14This is terrible.
00:40:15Forty.
00:40:16Okay, there's a four.
00:40:18Three.
00:40:19Oh!
00:40:21Point seven.
00:40:23You beat Tom Cruise!
00:40:25You're a fast driver.
00:40:26Wow!
00:40:30Wow!
00:40:31All right.
00:40:32Congratulations.
00:40:34Give me that cone.
00:40:36Oh!
00:40:36Oh!
00:40:36Oh!
00:40:37Shake that back.
00:40:38Oh!
00:40:39Oh!
00:40:39Oh!
00:40:39This is...
00:40:42Wow!
00:40:45That's, uh...
00:40:46That's worth getting your pneumonia for.
00:40:48I love that.
00:40:50Wow!
00:40:50Life just gets worse.
00:40:53You look like that.
00:40:55Oh, wow.
00:40:56And you're a film star, and you can drive.
00:41:00Yeah.
00:41:00But I break every bone in my body almost with the cycle of each moon.
00:41:05So don't worry.
00:41:06Well, it has been...
00:41:07I'm on the way out of here.
00:41:08It's been a great pleasure to meet you, and a great pleasure for those girls to stand that
00:41:12close to you.
00:41:13Thank you, girls.
00:41:13Ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Reynolds!
00:41:16Thank you, guys.
00:41:24Now, now, tonight, Jeremy and I are having a go at making a car chase for the new Sweeney movie,
00:41:31and so far, well, there have been a few disagreements.
00:41:35Jeremy wants the action to be realistic, which means boring.
00:41:38I want it to be exciting, full of stunts and massive explosions.
00:41:42Well, it's a film.
00:41:45What we've done now is we've reconnected the ABS.
00:41:50The electronic differential is now working, so he should be able to do a power slide through there.
00:41:56Okey-doke.
00:41:56Here we go.
00:41:57Three, two, one.
00:41:58Hit it.
00:42:01Yes, yes.
00:42:06Whilst Jeremy was faffing around with his anti-lock brakes, I'd raided the Sweeney's budget
00:42:11and come up with a way of getting the car to jump properly.
00:42:15It's an air cannon.
00:42:16What it does is, car mounted up on the cannon there.
00:42:19It charges with a huge compressor there.
00:42:21It's actually nitrogen, and it fires the car out over that way, so you get big air.
00:42:27And Jeremy said about keeping it real.
00:42:29Well, check this out up there.
00:42:30So often when you see a car jump in a film, you realise the engine's gone.
00:42:35Not this time, I've left it in.
00:42:37Three million quid.
00:42:38What's an engine?
00:42:39With the cannon primed, we were ready for liftoff.
00:42:42OK.
00:42:42Three, two, one.
00:42:55That's a jump.
00:42:57Yes.
00:42:58Mr Picky, however, wasn't so impressed.
00:43:01Have you ever heard the word continuity?
00:43:05Yes.
00:43:05Here is your car.
00:43:07Yes.
00:43:08Right, the next shot is what?
00:43:11The next shot is, ah, no, this is when there'll be another car driving away.
00:43:16So we cut, we cut that.
00:43:17No, we see it land on its roof.
00:43:20And then we're expected to believe that somehow it's still drivable.
00:43:25I don't get it.
00:43:26This is the movies.
00:43:27That's what happened.
00:43:28Did you never watch?
00:43:29Let's, Chips, remember that.
00:43:32Then right along, one minute you've got a man on a Harley and he's approaching the back
00:43:35of a lorry with his tailgate down.
00:43:36Then he's in a massive jump.
00:43:37You look up and briefly he's on a dirt bike.
00:43:39And then he lands and he's back on a Harley again.
00:43:41Yeah, but that's rubbish.
00:43:42No, that's the movies.
00:43:44We all expect that.
00:43:44This car will never work.
00:43:47It's not plausible.
00:43:49You can't edit your way out of that.
00:43:52Just let me get in the edit suite and work some magic.
00:43:55You won't believe it.
00:44:01First, though, I needed some close-up shots of the actors, which I would then cut into the
00:44:06scene where the car flies through the air.
00:44:08Does Nick know about this?
00:44:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:44:10Hang on.
00:44:10It's going to cut.
00:44:11Sure.
00:44:11Because we'd got off to a bad start, I was keen to demonstrate they were in good hands.
00:44:17You're going to be in the air.
00:44:19And at that point, if you'd both give me excitement, you're in a chase.
00:44:25Elation, you're in the air.
00:44:27But I want to see determination as well.
00:44:29You're in a chase mixed with vengeful, righteous fury.
00:44:33So there's so many emotions going on in a split second.
00:44:37There's so many emotions you're going to have to feel.
00:44:39Let's start with nothing, okay?
00:44:40Okay.
00:44:40That's a blank canvas.
00:44:42I'm blanking it.
00:44:43Let's paint on to it.
00:44:43As you hit the ramp.
00:44:44Richard, Richard.
00:44:45I don't feel like you're giving me a nice direction.
00:44:47You're giving it all to him.
00:44:48Let's just...
00:44:48What about me?
00:44:49Ben, blank again for me.
00:44:50Blank.
00:44:51You're frying an issue now, aren't you?
00:44:52Let's, let's blank it.
00:44:54And let's start, okay?
00:44:55So as we hit the jump, remember, elation, excitement, vengeful fury and fear.
00:44:59Yeah.
00:45:00So vengeful fury comes before fear?
00:45:03Oh, at the same time.
00:45:04And what am I being frightened of, though?
00:45:05Because it's already happened, isn't it?
00:45:07I wouldn't be frightened after the event.
00:45:08Well, I'll be frightened when I'm in the air.
00:45:10You're in this...
00:45:11Well, we're in the air.
00:45:12This is the bit...
00:45:12We haven't landed.
00:45:13This is...
00:45:13Oh, this all...
00:45:14Didn't four emotions take place in the air?
00:45:16Yeah.
00:45:17You're in the air for a while.
00:45:18So let's...
00:45:19That'll be a long while, won't it?
00:45:20It's a big...
00:45:20It's a big jump.
00:45:22And just one last...
00:45:23We have to land.
00:45:24I'm going to say forwards.
00:45:26Yeah.
00:45:26And you go forwards.
00:45:26I'm going to say backwards.
00:45:27Yeah.
00:45:28Forwards, backwards, and away.
00:45:30Forwards, backwards, forwards, and then drive away?
00:45:33Or backwards, forwards, backwards, and then drive away?
00:45:34That's forwards.
00:45:35You land forwards, backwards, forwards, forwards, backwards, and then drive away.
00:45:41I thought there had to be another backwards.
00:45:42Because you've got to be, you know, before you drive away.
00:45:45Don't forget, and if you don't mind, I want to catch just the whispering trace of those emotions from the sky.
00:45:50They're dissipating as you land.
00:45:52That's all going to come through, and then back.
00:45:53Oh, don't he go on.
00:45:54Oh, don't you?
00:45:58While Richard Ford Coppola was with the stars, I was trying to make the angry director understand the problems of driving a big jag around that caravan park.
00:46:07I have to slide this car on grass, and the problem is, the traction control is on, so it's not letting me slide foot hard down.
00:46:19Hard down, and it won't slide.
00:46:20That is the traction control on.
00:46:26Can I just say, that was s***?
00:46:28All right, do you want to see it with traction control?
00:46:30Off.
00:46:31Off?
00:46:31Yeah.
00:46:31Okay.
00:46:32Now watch this.
00:46:33Okay.
00:46:37Get the power on.
00:46:39Feel the tail go.
00:46:40Hold that slide.
00:46:45That is what we need.
00:46:49Which do you prefer, traction control on or off?
00:46:52Off.
00:46:53Off?
00:46:53Yes.
00:46:53Well, that means you're going to have to have a line of dialogue where one of them says, turn the traction control off.
00:47:00Not in my film, no.
00:47:01You're going to have to, and it's ten seconds to do it.
00:47:04You have to hold it down for ten seconds.
00:47:05Anyone who's got a jag watching the film will go, you can't do that.
00:47:08I have to say, it doesn't matter.
00:47:10It's not a f***ing film for jag watchers.
00:47:12It's a film for people to go to the cinema.
00:47:13Why doesn't he say, why do they make it ten seconds?
00:47:17Well, he could say that.
00:47:18No, because it kills the f***ing...
00:47:20Oh, f*** off.
00:47:21It kills the tension.
00:47:22I'm trying to make a film that's going to connect with a wide audience, mate.
00:47:24You know, but it's like...
00:47:25You can't in the...
00:47:26Can I finish?
00:47:26What's...
00:47:26Can I just speak?
00:47:28Ninety minutes into the film is the main car chase.
00:47:31You can't have someone pressing a f***ing button.
00:47:33What are you going to do?
00:47:33A close-up of a button?
00:47:34Yeah.
00:47:36You're not putting that in my film.
00:47:38I like the traction control off.
00:47:40I don't want all bollocks about the traction control, what it does and what it doesn't do.
00:47:44You said you wanted me to do something real.
00:47:46I'm doing something real.
00:47:49Actually, you know what you should do?
00:47:50You're f***ed off.
00:47:52This altercation meant the director was not in the best of moods when he went to have
00:47:59a look at an edit of Richard's big jump.
00:48:01Right, now, look, this is still work in progress, but I have begun the polishing process and I've
00:48:06worked on the sand.
00:48:07Okay.
00:48:08Enjoy.
00:48:09Go, go, go, go, go.
00:48:39It's all there, isn't it?
00:48:41What I've done here is I've set up a practice area for the next stunt so I don't leave tyre
00:48:53marks in the grass at the actual location, which is over there.
00:48:57Well, I guess we were wondering how the world's angriest man would respond to Hammond's car jump.
00:49:09And now we know.
00:49:10Come here, you f***ing old f***!
00:49:12Kill ya!
00:49:17Because the director was busy hurting Richard for writing off one of the Fords, I seized the
00:49:22opportunity to give the baddies their new dialogue.
00:49:25You're driving, aren't you?
00:49:26Yeah.
00:49:27I need you to say turn off the ABS, you say how, and you say pull the rhythm.
00:49:33How do you say that in Serbian?
00:49:35What?
00:49:36How do you say it in Serbian?
00:49:37Yeah, you need a Serbian.
00:49:38I'm Serbian.
00:49:39You're Serbian?
00:49:40Yeah.
00:49:41Have a look.
00:49:42Look at the airlock.
00:49:43Well, I've written this all in rhyming, so that rhythm and blues, fuse.
00:49:46Or you could say Rodney.
00:49:47No, he's not.
00:49:48He's a Serb.
00:49:49Yeah, but you'll have learned his English, won't you, in London.
00:49:52He's only been here a day.
00:49:53Rhythm.
00:49:54Pull.
00:49:55Do it with a Borat accent.
00:49:56Pull the Rodney.
00:49:57Pull the Rodney?
00:49:58Yes.
00:49:59Pull the Rodney.
00:50:00Rodney Buse.
00:50:01Fuse.
00:50:02Similarly.
00:50:03Go on.
00:50:04You go.
00:50:05How many horsepower has that Ford got?
00:50:07Okay.
00:50:08Right.
00:50:09250.
00:50:10It hasn't actually really, because it's not really an orange, but don't let that bother you.
00:50:14250.
00:50:15God Plod must be Robin.
00:50:17Robin Hood.
00:50:18God.
00:50:19God Plod must be Robin, because they're keeping up with you.
00:50:22God Plod must be Robin.
00:50:23Yeah?
00:50:24We've got 503.
00:50:25Now, this is the critical bit.
00:50:28When you're in the caravan site, you turn off the traction control.
00:50:33Turn off the traction control.
00:50:35Love it.
00:50:36Ah.
00:50:37Ah.
00:50:38How do I do that?
00:50:39Whatever you want.
00:50:40Oh, ah, you mean?
00:50:41Ah.
00:50:42Push the alarm.
00:50:43Push the alarm?
00:50:44Push the alarm.
00:50:45Push the alarm.
00:50:46It's Len Hutton.
00:50:47Now, was he a cricketer or a trade union leader?
00:50:48Trade union leader.
00:50:49Was he?
00:50:50Nah, he was a cricketer.
00:50:51But whatever he was, it's Len.
00:50:52Push the alarm.
00:50:53Push the alarm.
00:50:54And then, this is the complicated bit that we really do need to get in.
00:50:59You have to hold it down for ten seconds.
00:51:02You have to hold it down for ten seconds.
00:51:05Yeah?
00:51:06I mean, it ain't the most riveted dialogue.
00:51:08It depends how you deliver it.
00:51:10You're in a panic.
00:51:11Turn off the traction control.
00:51:12Where's the Len?
00:51:13Where's the Len?
00:51:14Okay.
00:51:15All right.
00:51:16Let's do it.
00:51:17All right, mate.
00:51:18Good.
00:51:19Thanks.
00:51:20With the dialogue sorted, I went to see my rather bruised colleague, who was now setting up a stunt in which the Jag would clip a caravan.
00:51:28What are you doing?
00:51:29Filling the caravan with petrol.
00:51:31Why?
00:51:32So it explodes in the car, isn't it?
00:51:34Ooh.
00:51:35Why would the caravan explode?
00:51:37Because I filled it with petrol.
00:51:39But caravans are made from plywood, and plywood does not blow up when you bang into it.
00:51:45It doesn't.
00:51:47If they have gas bottles in them, they would explode.
00:51:50See, that's what I'm replicating.
00:51:52Car.
00:51:53Okay, well...
00:51:55Just a boof.
00:51:58Okay, just like a boof.
00:52:00Yeah.
00:52:01But please don't come mad.
00:52:04No.
00:52:08I then went to the other side of the caravan park because a piece of equipment called a Russian arm, which cost £6,000 a day to rent, had just arrived from the set of Spielberg's War Horse.
00:52:21There it is.
00:52:22And it's gyro stabilised, so it's smooth, even if the car's going over rough ground.
00:52:27So even when the car's moving along, it can do that, which gives you very, very dynamic shots.
00:52:33This is what Hammond doesn't understand, is that you can use the camera to make the chase, the real chase, exciting.
00:52:42You don't need to have the car going through the air with two people out of the sunroof with Mach 10s shooting at the car behind.
00:52:49Eventually, Hammond called to say the caravan clip stunt was ready.
00:52:53But since my pro drivers were busy with the Russian arm, I fired up a backup jag and volunteered to do the driving myself.
00:53:00G75, take one, B camera.
00:53:05Got my own airbag here, so if I don't want to do that, I'll be OK.
00:53:09Perspex in case I hit the driver's door. Airbags are disconnected.
00:53:14Traction control is off.
00:53:19OK.
00:53:21Camera's recording, please.
00:53:22Action, Jeremy.
00:53:37Whoa!
00:53:39What the hell?
00:53:45Hammond!
00:53:49It was supposed to be a gas bottle.
00:53:52What the hell?
00:53:53You blew the wrong caravan up.
00:53:55Well, you hit the wrong one.
00:53:56I didn't hit the wrong one.
00:53:57That was the one we were supposed to hit.
00:53:59Well, you should have labelled it.
00:54:03Have you any idea?
00:54:04The angry man is going to see this.
00:54:07He's going to see that.
00:54:08And then he's going to see his £50,000 Jaguar XFR.
00:54:14Oh, my Lord.
00:54:16That wasn't supposed to happen.
00:54:18Because he said light bodywork damage.
00:54:20You've ripped its arse off.
00:54:22Because then Jaguar can repair it and I don't have to pay the full price.
00:54:25I mean, he's going to see what's happened here, Hammond.
00:54:28Wrong caravan.
00:54:31This.
00:54:33The explosion was late.
00:54:37God almighty.
00:54:38There's the edit.
00:54:39How can you edit an explosion to happen earlier than it does?
00:54:51You know, Ray Winston was watching that explosion.
00:54:55From here.
00:54:56OK?
00:54:57He's watching.
00:54:58I know.
00:54:59This is not a word of a lie.
00:55:01That's a piece of glass from the caravan has penetrated this caravan.
00:55:08If that had hit here, would you like to know what Sophie Raworth would have said on the 6 o'clock news tonight?
00:55:16Hammond and I decided to beat a retreat before the world's angriest man found out how much of his money had gone up in smoke.
00:55:33To try and cheer him up, we decided to demonstrate that despite all the mishaps, we had ended up with a good car chase.
00:55:40Put it on here.
00:55:50How many horsepower has Plod got?
00:55:52250.
00:55:54God.
00:55:55Plod must be Robin.
00:55:56This thing's got 503.
00:56:02Turn off the ABS.
00:56:03How'd you do that?
00:56:06Pull the rhythm.
00:56:10Gritty.
00:56:13Gritty.
00:56:27Turn off the traction control.
00:56:31You have to hold it down for 10 seconds.
00:56:3310 seconds.
00:56:36Why didn't we get a BMW?
00:56:38You only have to push the LEM for 5 seconds.
00:56:55Full 10?
00:56:56Oh yeah.
00:56:5710 seconds and then the viewers left you no doubt.
00:56:59Go!
00:57:00I think when the world's angriest man sees that, he's going to be quite pleased.
00:57:06Do you?
00:57:07No, I think so.
00:57:08I mean, I know there are one or two rough edges in it, but overall, it has a gritty reality.
00:57:13He's very keen on hero shots, you see Ray, you see Plan.
00:57:14Yeah, this is Ray Winston out of The Departed.
00:57:15Ray Winston out of The Departed.
00:57:16Ray Winston out of The Departed.
00:57:17Ray Winston out of The Departed.
00:57:18Ray Winston out of Coal Mountain.
00:57:19Out of Bet364.
00:57:20Out of Bet364.
00:57:21Out of Bet364.
00:57:22Out of Bet364.
00:57:23Out of Bet364.
00:57:24There he is, rocking about as the car lands.
00:57:25And I think...
00:57:26I think...
00:57:27I think we can pat ourselves on the back.
00:57:28I think we can pat ourselves on the back.
00:57:29I mean, I know there are one or two rough edges in it, but overall, it has a gritty reality.
00:57:34He's very keen on hero shots.
00:57:36You see Ray.
00:57:37You see Plan.
00:57:38Yeah, this is Ray Winston out of The Departed.
00:57:42Ray Winston out of Coal Mountain.
00:57:45Out of Bet364.
00:57:46Out of Bet364.
00:57:47There he is, rocking about as the car lands.
00:57:50And I think...
00:57:51I think we can pat ourselves on the back.
00:57:56I don't know where he is now, but he's probably regretting his behaviour today.
00:58:00It was just a personality clash.
00:58:02Really?
00:58:03It was...
00:58:04Oh.
00:58:05Oh, not my car.
00:58:15This...
00:58:28This perfectly sane, rational, very professional man, was driven to an act of petty vandalism
00:58:35by your incompetence.
00:58:37He ruined my car.
00:58:38You ruined his film.
00:58:40Can I just say, actually, we got a call the other day, and this is absolutely true,
00:58:44from a Hollywood producer, who asked if we could film a lorry chase through Moscow
00:58:49for the new Die Hard film.
00:58:51Seriously.
00:58:52But he's gonna change his mind when he sees that, isn't he?
00:58:54Aha!
00:58:55You say that, but we brought back the rushes, the sort of raw material, from our shoot,
00:58:59and we gave that to the editors, okay?
00:59:02It's still work in progress, but who here would like to see what they've come up with?
00:59:06Yeah!
00:59:07Okay, let's run the tape, let's have a look.
00:59:09The End
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01:00:50Come on.
01:00:51It's not bad.
01:00:52Actually, it's not bad.
01:00:54It's not bad at all.
01:00:55And on that bombshell, it is time to end.
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