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Episode 5 pays tribute to the quirky Swedish car maker Saab. Jeremy and James explore Saab’s motorsport legacy, while Richard Hammond races a jet-powered flying man against a rally-spec Skoda. Guest star: Matt Smith from Doctor Who.
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00:00Tonight, Maserati brings some V8 thunder to our track.
00:16Mercedes brings some smoke, and we wave goodbye to Saab.
00:30Hello, everybody. Good evening. Hello and welcome. Thank you so much.
00:35We begin. We begin with a letter. Thank you, everybody.
00:42It's from a Swiss gentleman, and it says,
00:44Dear C. Apelle, Top Gear, you're more than halfway through this series,
00:50and yet you still haven't raced a car against something that isn't a car.
00:56He's right, we haven't, and we should.
01:00As with our off-road scooters last week,
01:07this race will take place in Wales.
01:10And this is the rally car we'll be fielding,
01:13a Skoda Fabia Super 2000.
01:18Last season, this car dominated the championship,
01:21winning seven out of the 12 rallies
01:22and locking out the entire podium with a 1-2-3 on four of those occasions.
01:27But although the car is clearly no slouch,
01:30is it any kind of match for the non-car thing we've got lined up for today?
01:36In fact, if I were the car,
01:38I might possibly be weeing myself right now.
01:42Because today, it will be taking on Yves Rossi,
01:46the world's first jet-powered flying man.
01:49Ive, I have many questions, starting with, what exactly is this thing?
01:57That's a wing, and to push me in the air, four engines.
02:02It's very simple.
02:03Four jets?
02:03Yeah.
02:04And you steer just with your moves of arms and legs.
02:09So you haven't got, like, levers to control the...
02:12Nothing.
02:13The only thing is a little throttle that I have here.
02:18That's the only thing that command.
02:22Well, look, all the best, I'll be on the ground.
02:26Yeah.
02:27And that brings us neatly to the actual driving of the car.
02:34Now, obviously, I could take the wheel of that thing myself
02:37and show that Swiss cuckoo clock some real talent.
02:39But under the Top Gear Apprentice driver training scheme,
02:42I've agreed to let the guy behind me, Tony Gardemeister,
02:46cut his teeth on this one.
02:47To be fair, he's pretty good already.
02:50Finnish rally champion.
02:51Many, many world rally podiums to his name,
02:56but still keen to get some tips from me.
03:00So let's see how this race will work.
03:06This is the course the car will be racing around.
03:10Eight miles of prime Welsh rally stage.
03:13As the car sets off,
03:16Eve will climb to 8,000 feet in a helicopter,
03:19jump out and then follow the course from above.
03:26Now, Rocketman can travel at a steady 120 miles an hour,
03:29and we can't.
03:30Well, obviously, I could,
03:32but I'm not sure yet about a novice driver.
03:35Anyway, he might think because of his cruising speed,
03:37we don't stand a chance here,
03:38but there's more to it than that.
03:40You see, at the end of the race,
03:41Eve has to land,
03:42which means he has to cut his engines,
03:44deploy his parachute,
03:44and all sorts of technical Rocketman stuff has to happen.
03:49So trust me, we're in with a shout here.
03:52And also, we will be busy covering precious Miles
03:55whilst his chopper is still climbing to launch height.
03:59Just relax, Tony.
04:01I'm here if you need me.
04:02Obviously, Eve could cut a corner up there,
04:08but don't worry, we've thought of that.
04:10We have positioned a farmer out there with an air rifle
04:12with strict orders to shoot him down
04:15if he sees any infringement.
04:17That's FIA rules or sorted.
04:20As the chopper lifted, the flag dropped.
04:26We're off!
04:28Oh!
04:32Oh, my God, he's quite confident.
04:43Good God!
04:51We're doing that with a bit.
04:53Yeah, just as you are.
04:5650 seconds.
04:57We are absolutely monster in this chopper.
05:05It's a 50 seconds to go.
05:07We've got 265 bhp down here.
05:11Tony's using, I'd say all of them.
05:13Yeah.
05:13Woo-hoo-hoo!
05:15However, as we passed the three-mile mark,
05:19Eve was ready to jump.
05:201-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0.
05:40And in a border.
05:42Oh, he's thrown. I can't see him out of the car.
06:01But somewhere up there, he was following our course and closing the gap.
06:12Just concentrate, please. As a new driver, you get giddy, you show off, and it goes wrong.
06:28Up there, he is hitting speed to about 120, 150, 80 miles an hour.
06:35In just, well, a lycra suit, a small crash helmet, and a kitchen table on its back.
06:42How the hell did I get mixed up in this? I mean, I'm just baggage now.
06:56Within seconds, Eve had caught up.
06:59I see the car. I see the car.
07:03There he is. There he is.
07:06He's ahead of us. He is ahead.
07:10Ow!
07:14As Eve streaked into the lead, we still had just under four miles to go.
07:19In the air!
07:26In the air!
07:33He's gone!
07:34Up ahead, Eve's journey was, unfortunately, almost done.
07:51It's almost done.
07:52There he is. There's his parachute.
07:53We've got to just take advantage while he's slowing through the air to land.
07:55We've got to give it everything we can.
07:57We've got to give it everything we can.
07:58We've got to just take advantage while he's slowing through the air to land.
08:00We've got to give it everything we can.
08:01We've got to give it everything we can.
08:02We've got about two minutes now.
08:07Absolutely.
08:08This is going to be so close.
08:09Oh, my word.
08:10There he is.
08:11There he is.
08:12There he is.
08:13There he is.
08:14There he is.
08:15There's his parachute.
08:16There he is.
08:17There he is.
08:18There's his parachute.
08:19He's schools.
08:20He's going there, he's behind the hill.
08:32We've got to go too close to the air.
08:33We are close.
08:34We are close.
08:35We are close.
08:36We are.
08:37He's near the hill.
08:39We are close.
08:42We are close.
08:43He's close.
08:45We are close.
08:46Yes, he's behind the street.
08:47I don't know.
08:48It's not down yet.
08:51We still have a chance here.
08:54This is it.
08:56Where is he? Where is he? Is he there?
09:00Oh no!
09:02Did we last?
09:03Oh, look at that.
09:08Don't blame yourself. That's the main thing, man.
09:10Don't blame yourself. Come on.
09:12You did a great job.
09:13Thanks for the guiding.
09:15Yeah, I was happy.
09:16Yeah, thank you.
09:17I'm going to sit here for a little bit now, just...
09:19But you look a little bit dark now.
09:21Yeah, I... Yeah, you know, I'm just going to sit here for a minute.
09:27Ah, f***.
09:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
09:33And that's it. Listen.
09:36Yeah.
09:37Is that a bit scary?
09:39Yes! Very.
09:41It's so dark.
09:43He said at one point, something was getting loose.
09:46Yeah, me.
09:47My bowels, specifically.
09:48It was really scary.
09:50But what gets me about the other guy, Eve, flying,
09:52is there must have been the first time he did that.
09:55I mean, you can't work up to being a jet-powered man, can you?
09:57No, you can't start with propellers.
09:59That's...
10:00Oh no!
10:01You can't work up to it.
10:01So there must have been a first day.
10:03You must have woken up one day and thought,
10:04right, pfft, well, it's today.
10:06I'm going to jump off a helicopter with a kitchen table strapped to my back and a couple of jets,
10:10and I'm pretty confident I can fly.
10:12Anyway, we must now do the news and we begin with this.
10:17What is the worst thing in the world?
10:20Drying on trousers.
10:21No, he's right. Actually, you're right.
10:23Drying on trousers is the worst in the world,
10:25but the second worst thing in the world is when you're going on a journey somewhere
10:28and someone in the car says,
10:29do you mind if we stop for some reason?
10:31Oh, look, there's an ancient monument.
10:32You think, I don't want to go and look at an ancient monument,
10:33but I want to go and look at my friends we're going to see on scene for five years.
10:37No, no, you're absolutely right,
10:38because there are some people who,
10:39they stop on the journey at a motorway services to play a fruit machine.
10:42No, it's worse.
10:44There's people who say, I need to stretch my legs.
10:47If you're out at Guinness and you've been in a box
10:49in a Japanese prisoner of war camp for six months,
10:51yes, you need to stretch your legs,
10:53but after 30 miles in a car, you don't.
10:55But it's when people say they need to stop to eat.
10:57I've got to stop to eat.
10:58Why? I can't imagine a journey long enough that means you are going to need refueling.
11:02It's not.
11:02Well, if you were driving from Cairo to Khartoum.
11:05Yes, but not in Britain if you're going from Leicester to Birmingham.
11:08You don't need food. You're not going to starve in that time.
11:11No, and I'm glad you brought this up because this is where I'm going, okay?
11:13Because one of the places I could never understand why people stopped at was Little Chef.
11:19Because what they did, no, no, really,
11:20what they did was they took ingredients and then ruined them.
11:23I can let you know that I once stopped at Little Chef very early in the morning,
11:27and I said, could I have an omelette?
11:29And the woman said, no, I'm sorry, sir, the powder hasn't arrived yet.
11:33That's not a good sign, is it?
11:34I once dropped a sausage from my plate in Little Chef, and it bounced.
11:39I just beat it out of old squash balls.
11:43Now, the other day, we heard that they'd shut, getting on for half their, um, their outlets,
11:49as it were, and we weren't the slightest bit surprised.
11:51But the other day, we stopped at one that was still open,
11:53and I went in, and the guy said, he gave me this paper cut, and he said,
11:57it's a, it's a casserole mash. Now, I thought, that's just going to be bits of placenta.
12:02Oh, God.
12:03Garnished with the chef's bodily fluids.
12:07Nice.
12:08The second nicest thing I've ever put in my mouth.
12:10Second.
12:12Second.
12:14Okay.
12:16It was, it was brilliant.
12:17Oh, I loved it, to be honest.
12:19But you know why it is?
12:19It's because they've got, um, Heston Blumenthal doing the, the Little Chef menu.
12:23Yeah, he cut his teeth, didn't he, in Heston Services.
12:25Yes.
12:28BMW has sent us news of a new Mini. It's a concept, okay? There's a picture of it here.
12:32It's a twee little van with Buckingham picked out in old-fashioned sign writing,
12:38and it looks like the sort of thing we might have been driving just after we won the war.
12:43Oh, for God. Please, don't go there.
12:46Won it.
12:47Don't go there.
12:48They've done this before, haven't they, BMW?
12:49Do you remember, a year or so ago, they did a Mini, another Mini like that,
12:52but in the back it had a wicker work, picnic hamper, and a silver tea set.
12:57The point is, we would like to extend an invitation to people of Germany to come over here,
13:02not in a bomber.
13:02No, not all at once.
13:04Not all at once.
13:05Not all at once.
13:06Marching, but come over here as tourists, and we'll show you the Shard.
13:12For example, in London, modern skyscraper, we'll show you the Range Rover Evoque,
13:16we'll take you to an Adele gig.
13:18No, maybe not Adele.
13:19Not Adele.
13:20The YTV are covering it, because we'll just get out of it.
13:25I'll be upset.
13:26No, we'll have a fancy line.
13:27Yeah.
13:34Germans need to come here, okay?
13:36They really do.
13:37They need to come here and understand we're not driving around in twee little vans,
13:41tugging our forelocks at the squire anymore.
13:43No, but it's true, because they are obsessed with this, the Germans.
13:46Bless them.
13:46They always say, oh, we love your England with your queen in your little houses,
13:50mit out as electricity.
13:52We should go over to Germany with mullets and leather shorts,
13:55and wonder about whistling scorpion tunes, and see how they like racial stereotyping,
14:00which we don't do.
14:03News from the continent.
14:04I've always wanted to say that.
14:06News from the continent.
14:08The French have announced that from July the 1st,
14:11you must, by law, carry a breathalyzer kit in your car.
14:14Now, you can understand the logic behind that,
14:17until you think about it carefully, because then there's a flaw, okay?
14:20You come out of a bar, you've had a glass of wine, you think,
14:22am I okay for driving?
14:24You use your breathalyzer kit, and it says, yes, you are,
14:27but then you can't drive because you've used your breathalyzer kit.
14:30And it's a one-shot deal.
14:31Well, of course it is.
14:31You'd have to walk to a chemist and buy another breathalyzer kit before you could set off.
14:35Don't they also make us carry warning triangles when we're driving?
14:38Yes, and in France, you've also got to carry a full set of spare bulbs,
14:41and a high-visibility vest.
14:43Aren't all those things kind of the police's job?
14:46Do they also want us to stick a lot of cones in the back of the car,
14:48just in case, and maybe a radio and a notepad and a pencil?
14:51But if they're turning us all into policemen,
14:54we could stop other motorists and help ourselves to 130 of their euros.
14:57Yes, we could stop Brits on the last tolls just before Calais,
15:01who were rushing to get the ferry and have been speeding.
15:04Has anyone here been caught speeding in France?
15:07Well, it's like saying, has anybody been to France?
15:09Yes.
15:11Do you have to carry, like, handcuffs in a big trunction as well?
15:14No, that's Holland.
15:17Now, Richard, tell me, when you go to work at the BBC in London,
15:21where do you park your car?
15:23Well, Jeremy, I park it in the car park at the BBC,
15:26underground, where everybody else parks.
15:27Where do you park?
15:29I park in the underground car park.
15:30It's a bit of a walk, but that's what you're supposed to do.
15:33Yeah.
15:33Now, there is a loading bay just outside our office,
15:35which is a lot more convenient,
15:37but obviously there's no parking there.
15:39Now, I took a photograph in this loading bay this week, okay?
15:42Here it is.
15:42Now, we may recognize this car if we watch The Apprentice.
15:46It belongs to Lord Sir Sugar.
15:48Yeah, but to be fair,
15:49his chauffeur was probably loading him into the building at the time.
15:51Exactly.
15:52So he could be in the loading bay.
15:52Technically, this was a delivery, so that's fine.
15:55More worrying is this.
15:57Okay, if we zoom in.
15:59Now, right there, there's a little Fiat Panda,
16:02parked blocking the door,
16:03and the honest working men whose job is to deliver things to the BBC.
16:07And I'm wondering, Hammond,
16:08who has a little Black Fiat Panda?
16:10I don't know.
16:11At the BBC?
16:13I don't know.
16:14Um, is it?
16:15Does David Attenborough?
16:16No, he doesn't.
16:17Paxman, moving on.
16:19Most important news of the week.
16:20As we know, road safety campaigners are forever telling us these days
16:23that driving is extremely difficult.
16:25It's so difficult that you couldn't possibly do something else at the same time,
16:29but we disagree with this.
16:30We absolutely think driving is easy, and you can do pretty much anything while you're driving
16:34in perfect safety.
16:34We do think that, and a couple of weeks ago,
16:36he said to prove that point, he would drive around our track
16:39while sewing a button onto his shirt.
16:42Okay, who'd like to see me try that?
16:43Yes, I would.
16:44There you go.
16:45We've got it on tape.
16:46This is a little Suzuki Swift.
16:48There's me at the wheel, and here I am sewing a button on as I drive.
16:52Try and get it back underneath again before we get to the hammerhead,
16:56which is tricky because I've got too many chins,
16:57and I can't really see what I'm doing.
17:00Memo to self, lose weight.
17:03So there you are, ladies and gentlemen.
17:04You can do it.
17:05You can sew a button.
17:09That goes on with it.
17:10Hold on, because after you'd said you'd do that,
17:14James then said he reckoned he could drive a lap of our track in a car
17:18whilst in a sleeping bag.
17:21Can you?
17:22Well, let's find out.
17:23Well, here we go.
17:24Here I am driving along in a Suzuki Swift exactly as you were.
17:27Are you wearing normal clothes, James?
17:29No, I'm in a sleeping bag.
17:29I'm in a fucking corner.
17:31Shuffling wheel.
17:32Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.
17:35Now, just tell me, was it easy?
17:37There was only one problem, actually.
17:39That blithering idiot Hammond has turned the heater up to full blast
17:42because it looks funny.
17:44And of course, I can't reach the knob.
17:47So there we are, road safety enthusiasts,
17:49proof that you can do other things while driving.
17:51I'm not suggesting that people do.
17:53Don't, for heaven's sake, drive to work tomorrow morning,
17:55you know, in a sack or anything like that.
17:57But we just showed that you can drive while sewing or in a sleeping bag seat
18:01and certainly drive while eating an apple or...
18:03Yeah, putting a CD in.
18:04Well, if you're still living in the 1980s,
18:05yes, putting a CD in.
18:07Driving is easy.
18:09It's not difficult.
18:10Right, now, moving on to this.
18:13It is a Maserati Gran Turismo
18:16and it is a soft, floppy and very enormous barge
18:21for people who can't drive.
18:24Our studio director's got one.
18:27I really don't like it at all,
18:28but Maserati has now scratched its head
18:31and tried something a bit different.
18:32This is what they've come up with.
18:46The Gran Turismo MC Stradale.
18:53It's still vast.
18:55The gap between the wheels is longer than it is on a Range Rover.
18:59And even beyond the wheels, look, it just keeps on going.
19:02Still, it's now been lowered and lightened and stiffened.
19:12So, theoretically, it's become a proper, no-nonsense road racer.
19:17It even has a button marked race on the dashboard.
19:29That speeds up the gear changes,
19:31backs off the traction control
19:33and turns the exhaust all the way up to 11.
19:39Under the bonnet, the V8 has been tweaked.
19:42So, it's now firing 444 horsepower at the rear wheels.
19:47And the results of all this are dramatic.
19:50The standard car is like a duvet on a hot night,
20:08flopping about everywhere, being annoying.
20:11This, though, in race mode, this is as tidy as a marine's bunk.
20:15You can sense that the suspension is doing battle with the bulk of the thing.
20:28But you can also sense it's a battle.
20:30The suspension is winning.
20:32There's a majesty to the way this car drives.
20:39And it feels like it has a soul, too.
20:41Oh, I like you.
20:45Oh, and Joe Walsh was wrong, because my Maserati actually does 187.
20:56So, it goes brilliantly.
20:58And thanks to carbon brakes, it stops just as well.
21:05However, if you want a road racer, you should know there's a new alternative from the door.
21:11Sensible, no-nonsense Germans at Mercedes-Benz.
21:21This is the C63 Black.
21:23It's the latest plunge into the world of insanity from the skunkworks deep inside the bowels of AMG.
21:30In many ways, it's very similar to the Maserati.
21:39Both cost around £110,000.
21:42Both are two-seaters.
21:44Both have double-clutch gearboxes.
21:46And both are jolly fast.
21:49But there are differences.
22:02Big ones.
22:07You look at this car and you take in the aero tweaks on the front end, the nostrils in the bonnet,
22:13the massively flared wheel arches and the enormous carbon fibre rear wing.
22:19And you sit in here and you know you have strengthening braces.
22:23And you have a hot diff.
22:24And you think, yes, this is a full-on racing car.
22:32It isn't.
22:33It isn't that.
22:35It isn't even close to that.
22:41Oh!
22:44No, no, over there, go over there, over there, go over there!
22:50What is that rear wing doing?
22:52I think it's providing rear end lift.
22:55There's no grip at all.
22:56It's hilarious!
23:04Through the corners, there's just no way that I can keep up with the man in the Maserati,
23:10because he is driving a racing car and I, I'm wrestling a mad yellow bear.
23:17This, honestly, it is Winnie the Pooh with road rage.
23:25I mean, obviously, it's much more spectacular to go round the corner in a cloud of your own smoke,
23:31but it's slower, as you can see, because after every single corner, he's 300 yards ahead, almost.
23:41100 yards ahead, 200 yards ahead, 300 yards ahead.
23:46So, on a track, the Maserati is better.
23:57However, as an everyday road car, there are some issues, chief among which are the racing harnesses.
24:04Look at this. Honestly, it's like something out of an S&M catalogue.
24:10And it means you can't reach the glove box, you can't reach car park pay machines or toll booths.
24:16They couldn't have ruined the car more if they'd smeared the carpets with dog dirt.
24:21And even if you ignore the bondage gear, all is still not well.
24:29If you take the gearbox out of race mode and put it in every day going to the shops, auto,
24:36it sits down there in the bowels of the car thinking,
24:39now, he's just pulled that lever, that means I have to do something.
24:44What is it? I have to bake a cake.
24:47No, mow the lawn. No.
24:53I know, I'm a gearbox. He's pulled a lever, that means he wants third.
24:58It's so dim-witted and slow in normal mode, it makes the whole car feel like it isn't joined up properly.
25:06So, how does the Mercedes stack up as a road car?
25:12Well, like the Maserati, the rear seats have been removed, but for a fee,
25:16Mercedes will put them back.
25:18They will also, free of charge, move the steering wheel and the pedals over to the correct side of the car.
25:25And look at this. It hasn't been invented in Italy yet.
25:28It's called a seat belt and it's so simple and easy to use.
25:35And there's more.
25:36It's smaller than the Maserati, much like Lincolnshire, so it's easier to park and it has a fantastic central command unit,
25:45which not only tells you where you are and what you're listening to,
25:48but also, if you push this button here, how much G you're generating in the bends.
25:54Where the throttle is, and how much brake you're using, and the condition of your tyres.
26:01What it should say is very poor, because in the last corner, you turned them all into smoke.
26:08Yes, I'm just taking the children to school now.
26:11I'm on the school run.
26:14Just turning left into Acacia Avenue.
26:17The biggest problem, though, with this car is that it's not what you'd call comfortable.
26:23Honestly, if you want to know how this car rides, sit on a piano and ask someone to push you down that
26:28cobbled hill they used in the Hovis ads. It's ridiculous. I actually own the predecessor of this car,
26:35and I've been saying for years, it rides too harshly. And what have they done with the replacement?
26:40They've made it worse.
26:41So, there we are. Both these cars are good fun on the track, albeit for very different reasons.
26:51But for commuting, and shopping, and going out for dinner, thanks to the ride in the Mercedes,
26:57and the gearbox in the Maserati, no. Neither of them work very well at all.
27:11So, are you finally admitting that AMG Mercs are ridiculous?
27:27Well, I mean, if you're me, with my very specific requirements for a car, it's very good indeed.
27:34Yeah, but quite a lot of people aren't you, Jeremy, so for all of them?
27:38Well, as I said in the film, uh, it is a bit stiff.
27:41Yeah, just, why don't you tell the ladies and gentlemen how many laps of our track you managed in it
27:46before the rear tires were down to the canvas?
27:48It's a very pretty girl in there, haven't you seen it?
27:51How many laps did you manage of our track before the rear tires were lunched?
27:55Um, how many?
27:59Four, four laps of the track. Now, that adds up to 6.8 miles. That works out at £85 a mile,
28:08just in tires to run this car.
28:11Yes, and, uh, we're now gonna have to man our wallets once more, because it's time to find out
28:17how fast Mercedes and the Maserati go around our track, and that, of course, means handing them
28:23over to our tame racing driver. Some say that he is the only man in history to buy a DFS sofa
28:31when there wasn't a sail-on, and that his favourite boxing venue is Munich Airport.
28:40All we know is, he's called the Stig!
28:44And they're off now, the Maserati is undoubtedly quicker through the corners,
28:48but the Merc will blitz it on the straights. Obviously, we're not going to find out here,
28:52because, well, look, the Merc is already twitching, and wait for it. Yep, smoke, and sliding!
29:02Stig, unfortunately, still obsessed with the arches. Chicago, once again, the Merc's sideways.
29:09They should have called it the Crab. Okay, hard on the brakes for Hammerhead. What'll happen in here,
29:13I wonder. Yep, there goes the Mercedes. Oh, we're leaving the Maserati sliding,
29:18and the Merc continues to smoke like a refinery fire. Can you have your own and feel the
29:23bread and cheese? I've been lifting leaks. The double helping of angry dribble there. Okay,
29:29now, here we go. The Maserati has a V8 engine. The Merc is now unleashing a 6.2-litre, 510-horsepower
29:36V8 atom bomb. Just a fantastic amount of power in that thing. Two corners left, looking pretty even so far.
29:45And ultimate corner. Didn't go sideways, but Gambon, he did, and there we are across the line.
29:54Now, the Maserati. Yes. The Maserati did it in 123.1, so it goes there. Not bad.
30:03Very nearly as quick as a Ferrari 430, in fact. Come on, then. The Mercedes. Yes.
30:08One, 21, dead. What? Wow. Look at that. It's between a 599 and a SLR.
30:17Oh, no, no, no, no, no. How did it do that? Because as I've explained to you many times,
30:25Hammond, precision and technicality will always be beaten by shouting and smoking and power.
30:31Oh, for goodness sake. Anyway, it's now time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
30:37My guest tonight is quite simply Doctor Who, which probably explains how he was able to travel
30:42back in time to the 1980s and steal Philoki's hair. Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Smith!
30:52How are you?
30:53How are you, mate, man?
30:54Good to see you.
30:55Thank you for having me on.
30:56It's a pleasure.
30:57Yeah.
30:58Doctor Who is among us.
31:01He is.
31:02Not wearing your Doctor Who outfit.
31:09No, mate, no, yeah, just me, uh, me CVs and I've got odd socks on look.
31:13Oh, no.
31:14You're actually dressed more like, well, because I've discovered you are actually a football
31:18enthusiast.
31:19Oh, yeah, big, and you're, yeah, a massive football enthusiast.
31:22A massive football enthusiast.
31:23Did you ever play properly?
31:24I played for, uh, yeah, yeah, I mean, I sort of went through the youth academies and I
31:29played for Forest, I played for Leicester, and I got to about, yay!
31:33And, um, there's actually a Leicester City supporter here.
31:37There's, uh, he's here, I should say it that way around, shouldn't I?
31:40So you played, and then what happened?
31:42That you caused you?
31:43I had a back injury called spondylitis, so it's some sort of strange name.
31:48Was it caused by your hair, by going all on one side?
31:52Yeah, I mean, I was, I was injured for a year, and God bless my dad, he, he, he'd drive me up
31:57from school every day when I was playing at Leicester, and I'd get the treatment up there,
32:01and, but I, I just never recovered, and so, you know, they let me go.
32:05Could you, do you reckon you could have been a footballist, then, if your back hadn't
32:08of, I hope so.
32:09I was captain at, uh, at the time at Leicester, what was it, under-15s, and, uh, I, you know,
32:15I had a great season.
32:16I mean, who knows?
32:17The one, the one player that I played with, and at Forest, we were there, we were two years
32:22unbeaten, and the only player that went on to play, uh, in the premiership was Jermaine
32:26Genas, that was it.
32:27V.
32:28V.
32:29V.
32:30Let's move off football.
32:31Okay.
32:32On to Doctor Who, which is, I'm sure, where everybody wants to go.
32:35The longest running sci-fi series in the world, isn't it?
32:38That's correct.
32:39Is it 50 years now, or next?
32:4050 years in, on, I think it's November 23rd or 24th, 2013.
32:4550 years, and you're the youngest Doctor ever, aren't you?
32:47I am the youngest carnation.
32:48I'm in the Guinness Book of Records, which, as a child, I was like, yes!
32:52The youngest Doctor Who?
32:54Yeah.
32:54It's better than seeing how many beans you can put up your nose.
32:56It blasts people.
32:58Because one of the things that fascinates me is now children, I mean, when I was growing
33:01up and Doctor Who had the Daleks on, I'd be like, oh, it's a thing with a sink,
33:04conjure!
33:05And I was terrified.
33:06But now, I mean, my, even my youngest plays, you know, Call of Duty and plays the
33:09Nazi zombies with dogs that explode.
33:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:12And so, is it quite difficult to try and think of something that will scare a child
33:16who has just finished shooting an alien in the face on a, on a PlayStation?
33:21Well, no, because I, well, yes, perhaps, but Doctor Who isn't scary in the way that
33:25there is blood and guts and people getting blown up.
33:27And actually, how scary is that?
33:29I think scary is in tension and in, and in, which is why I think the angels are very scary,
33:33because when you, you know, if you're not looking at them, they go,
33:37Yeah, that is quite scary.
33:39What's that grinning doll one called?
33:42Which ones?
33:43Is it, it looks a bit like Richard Hammond.
33:47There were some dolls in this one, and they walk, they're, they're the peg dolls,
33:50or there's the scarecrows, which was a tenet episode.
33:53And then there's, but Cybermen aren't scary.
33:56Yes, but, yeah.
33:57They are not scary.
33:58Somebody said they are, they aren't, because they only, it's like, they're here, right,
34:02and yell there, and then they come at you like this.
34:04And they're slow, I know.
34:05You could just walk away, oh, there's a Cybermen there, I'm just going to stroll over here.
34:09Never apply logic to Who, because...
34:11This is, I suppose.
34:12Yeah.
34:12So, presumably there's a lot goes with being Doctor Who, that's not just playing Doctor Who.
34:16I mean, everywhere you go, you've got to have children saying,
34:19who's the scariest monster?
34:20Yes.
34:21I don't know if I should even say this, but I got home last night,
34:24got to my door, and there was a little girl of about 12 or 13,
34:28reading a book, sort of in a bush, who said,
34:31don't worry, I'm not a homeless person.
34:33And then she said, could you just say, hey, I'm the Doctor.
34:37So I sort of went, hey, I'm the Doctor.
34:42And went, go home.
34:43Yeah, that is quite scary.
34:45Yeah.
34:45Yeah, you could get in trouble for that.
34:47But anyway, we had Michael Fassbender on last week.
34:50I know, he did well, didn't he?
34:51He did well, and he's not the only one that's appeared naked in a film recently.
34:55You have, too, in the womb.
34:57You had your Time Lord.
34:59Oh, God, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:00It was with Eva Green, you know, played a bonga, a very beautiful woman.
35:04She was, Casino Royale.
35:06The first scene of the first day is,
35:09we're on the sort of most northerly point of Germany,
35:12and it's Baltic cold, it's March, and I've got to get in the sea.
35:15Anyway, so I get there, I go in the sea, freeze my f*** off,
35:19come out, and then do this scene with Eva Green.
35:22And, you know, what can you do but apologize and go,
35:26it's normally much more majestic.
35:29It was awful.
35:30This beautiful French woman, you're like,
35:32and I saw, I saw, like, in the film, you sort of see her eyes,
35:36I come, and she goes,
35:38You what?
35:41I come out of the water.
35:42I see, I go with you.
35:44And then she's like,
35:46Yeah, it was crap, basically.
35:49Now, cars.
35:50Obviously, because you're such a young Doctor Who,
35:52I can't imagine your car history is particularly brilliant.
35:55Well, no, it's, I, um, the first car I had was,
35:59I passed at 18, and then I got a Corsa, which I bought brand new.
36:02But, you know, and I got to say to it,
36:04it was a brilliant little motor,
36:05and it's still going, it's still going.
36:08And it was, it was an extra.
36:09So it's what, 10 year, it's a 10 year old box, of course.
36:1110 year old, my sister's driving it about,
36:13and, uh, I broke the wind mirror,
36:15so I just taped it up with gaffer tape,
36:17and I had that for, like, four years,
36:17and my friends would call it the shed.
36:20Was it much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside?
36:22I don't know.
36:24What do you dream of owning?
36:25Do you know what I'd like most of all?
36:27I'd like an old 911.
36:29I know this is the point of control.
36:30You may as well have an old one,
36:31because the new one is exactly the same as it.
36:34Sexy cars, they're, especially the old 911,
36:38from, like, what was it, in the, in the 90s.
36:40It was right.
36:41They're the same as they are now.
36:43It's not new.
36:46Um, obviously, of course, you came here to do your lap.
36:49Yeah.
36:49How did it go?
36:51I was getting frustrated.
36:52I spun off a couple of times, and, uh,
36:54but I just thought, right, hell for leather.
36:56But I think that was my problem.
36:58A lot of the guests that come here
36:59struggle with the second to last corner.
37:01Yeah.
37:02And, um, we've got some footage of you
37:04attempting to get round there.
37:05Would anybody like to see that?
37:07Yeah.
37:08Let's have a look at Matt
37:09coming up to the second to last corner,
37:11and run a bit wide there.
37:15Now, that was attempt number one there.
37:18And then that's bandone with a new line.
37:20And there we are at there, not crossing the line.
37:22Here we are again.
37:23Ah, you f*****.
37:25See, that's quite angry, but, oh dear now.
37:29I really admire, I do admire America as well, I can do it.
37:39Who here would like to see Matt's lap?
37:42Yes.
37:42Play the tape.
37:44Oh no.
37:45Now, let's see if we can see any evidence of this aggressive driving.
37:50Right, concentrate, calm, we're singing in the rain.
37:57That's not a bad idea, actually.
37:58We're singing in the rain.
37:59I was getting too annoyed, you see.
38:02Ooh, a couple of bites of tyre in there.
38:04Wide, wide, wide.
38:05That's a tortured tyre, but it is clinging on well.
38:09I'm just sort of breaking around it, aren't I?
38:12Mm-hmm.
38:13Down and down, just a little punky.
38:19Running a bit wide there.
38:21Those tyres, they're working for a living today.
38:24This is the hammerhead coming up.
38:26It's like an angry shark.
38:29Oh, yeah.
38:33Quite nicely done in.
38:34Lot of understeer at the first part, and okay on the way out.
38:45And we're going to hit Gambon like a train.
38:49Come on.
38:49I'd like to see a man planning ahead, because we're only at the follow-through,
38:53still got that to do, and the tyres.
38:56Long way.
38:59Good cutting.
39:03Yeah, yeah.
39:04What if you were in very soon?
39:08You can leave it in third, actually, for Gambon.
39:10And lots of understeer again, but across the line.
39:21You are by no means the first Doctor Who that we've had down here.
39:25I know.
39:25You've had Chris and David.
39:26We've had, we've had, yeah, Christopher Eccleston,
39:28and we've had, uh, David Tennant.
39:30We've even had Billy Piper, actually.
39:32Yeah.
39:32I've driven with Billy, she, she's quick.
39:35She did it in the La Sette in a one, uh, I haven't got my glasses on, I can't read it.
39:40It was either a 1.46.3 or a 1.48, so I haven't got any glasses.
39:43She did it in, uh, 1.48.3, actually, she was the quickest.
39:491.48.3, what were the others?
39:51Eccleston was 1.52.4 in the Liana, and, uh, Dave was 1.48.8.
39:561.48.8, so where do you think you've come?
39:59Do you know what?
40:00Actually, you're in a new car, because they did it in the, either the Liana or the Lissetti,
40:04as you say, so where do you think you've come?
40:05I have no idea.
40:06I don't, I mean, I'm no, I'm nowhere near Fassbender or near that.
40:09Oh, I don't really want to be below Louis Walsh.
40:14Where is Louis Walsh?
40:15147.7, but that wasn't rapid.
40:20You did it.
40:221.40, so that's good.
40:313.7.
40:33Get in!
40:34That's the fastest Doctor Who, and you go right up there.
40:39I'll take that, I'll take that, absolutely.
40:43That's a bloody good time.
40:45Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:47That is a good time, up there with Ryan Reynolds, exactly the same.
40:50Right, and it's weird, because normally when a lap looks boring and slow and steady,
40:55they're the quick ones, and yours look properly aggressive.
40:58So, that is, I mean, do you drive the Tardis like that?
41:00Is it the full?
41:01Yeah, absolutely, that's the only way to drive the Tardis.
41:03That's probably why it's always broken.
41:05Yeah.
41:05Because I was having to hit it with your screwdriver.
41:08Anyway, been a huge pleasure to have you here.
41:10Thanks for having me on.
41:10The fastest Doctor Who.
41:12I'm really tough with that.
41:13We've ever had, ladies and gentlemen.
41:15Max Smith!
41:16Now, when we heard the news that Saab had closed down, Jeremy and I were genuinely very sad.
41:35Although, we weren't actually sure why, so we went to investigate.
41:42Saab began as an aeroplane maker.
41:45But after the Second World War, it noticed that demand for fighter planes had dropped off dramatically.
41:52So it decided to start making cars as well.
41:56The first effort was created by two men, one who designed wings and one who designed bomb racks.
42:02Neither had done a car before, and it kind of showed.
42:05That prototype had enclosed front wheels, which was very aerodynamic.
42:13But as you drove along the쪽 때문에 in winter, snow would build up in the arches.
42:16And it was only when you got to a corner you noticed the steering had jammed.
42:22There were other issues too.
42:24The rear window was tiny and there was no boot lid.
42:31Mass production wasn't their bag either.
42:34While Austin made a car every 27 seconds,
42:37it took Saab 27 minutes.
42:40Oh, and all their cars were painted green.
42:46So, a green car with no boot you could use
42:49and in bad weather, no steering.
42:52But the biggest problem in those early days was the engine,
42:56as James shall now explain.
43:00This is the 92.
43:03It was Saab's first production car
43:05and it came with a thirsty two-stroke engine
43:07that produced just 25 horsepower.
43:11The real problem, however, is that the engine was only lubricated
43:15when you had your foot on the throttle
43:17because in a two-stroke, the engine oil is mixed with the fuel.
43:20So, if there's no fuel going in, there's no oil going in.
43:24Now, this wasn't an issue when you were driving along on the level like this
43:27or going up a hill
43:28because you always had your foot on the throttle
43:29and you always had the fuel and oil going in.
43:33However, once you were going downhill like this,
43:35you had a problem because you had to brake with your left foot.
43:38But, whoa, keep the power on a bit with your right foot
43:42so that the engine's still got some oil.
43:43Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is very tricky.
43:47And it feels... It's stupid.
43:49I'm driving and stopping at the same time.
43:51And then, of course, you'd arrive at the bottom of a hill
43:53with your brakes completely boiled over
43:56and your 65-mile-an-hour Saab would be absolutely unable to stop.
44:01It's hopeless.
44:03Saab's history is littered with terrible mistakes like this.
44:06There was the 900 convertible,
44:10which was as rigid as a week-old salad.
44:14There was the Sonnet,
44:15which was supposed to have been a sports car, but wasn't.
44:20And then, in 1992,
44:22they even made a car with no steering wheel.
44:25In actual fact, the more you drive this,
44:39the easier it becomes.
44:40The temptation is to just stare at the end of the bonnet in wonderment
44:43that you can actually have any directional control at all.
44:46So, lots of Swedish strangeness
44:51and an advertising campaign
44:53that didn't make much sense either.
45:00Only one aircraft manufacturer makes cars.
45:04Sierra, Alpha, Alpha, Bravo.
45:08Yes, Saab loved reminders
45:10that their cars came from a company that made jet fighters.
45:14But it was nonsense.
45:15This jet fighter, for example,
45:18had an engine made by Volvo.
45:20Saab, it's a pity other cars aren't built this way.
45:25The idea was that you were buying a jet fighter for the road.
45:30But were you?
45:32So, James, you have a pilot's licence,
45:34and I believe you've been in a Typhoon fighter aircraft.
45:39Yes.
45:39Is there anything in here that puts you in mind of that plane?
45:44No.
45:45Or nothing?
45:47No.
45:49Is the key down here on a Typhoon?
45:52No.
45:53Do you have to lock the Typhoon in reverse
45:57before you can take the key out?
45:59No, it doesn't have reverse as such.
46:01It has reverse thrust.
46:02Yeah, but it doesn't have a reverse gear.
46:04It doesn't have a key, actually.
46:05It doesn't have a key or reverse.
46:07So this is really not the same.
46:09However, it does have a night panel button here.
46:13Now, if I push this,
46:14it shuts down all the dials apart from the speedo.
46:16Now, I can see that this would be useful
46:19if you were in an F-14 over the Pacific,
46:23looking for the landing lights on your aircraft carrier.
46:26But on the A-38, just outside Derby,
46:30why would you want that?
46:31No.
46:31I always used to worry that actually it was all just broken anyway.
46:35I mean, how'd you know?
46:37I must say, I went in an F-15 once.
46:40Oh, yeah, you did.
46:41It's very, very different
46:42because nothing in here is covered in sick.
46:44Even after Saab was taken over by General Motors in the late 80s,
46:50their marketing men kept at it.
46:52Breathtaking acceleration.
46:54Here we have an F-22 Raptor, not built by Saab,
46:58being used to advertise what is basically a Vauxhall Cavalier.
47:02Saab, pure driving pleasure.
47:06So, Saab, checkered history, bonkers advertising,
47:10and lots and lots of harebrained ideas.
47:12But for every idea they had that didn't work,
47:15they had another which did, often brilliantly.
47:21And one of the most brilliant ideas of them all was this.
47:27The 99 Turbo.
47:32Now, Saab weren't the first to turbocharge a car.
47:35I think that was Chevrolet, and then there was BMW and Porsche.
47:38But they were the first to put a turbocharger
47:41on a sort of mainstream car, which was this.
47:44It was thanks to this car that everything in the 80s went turbo crazy.
47:49The word turbo, as a result,
47:51came to just mean anything that was really good.
47:53Oh, it did, didn't it?
47:53I had a turbo vacuum cleaner, which was sort of fair enough,
47:56but a mate of mine had some turbo sunglasses.
47:59And it actually set it on the lens, turbo.
48:01Turbo.
48:02You also got turbo razors, do you remember?
48:05Turbo aftershave.
48:07Did you?
48:07Yeah, I didn't, because I don't wear aftershave,
48:09because I'm not from Cheshire.
48:11But there was more, too,
48:14because you could even buy your turbo with water injection.
48:18I don't understand that.
48:19Well, I could explain it to you, but you're not interested.
48:22No, I am interested.
48:23No, you're not.
48:23Are you really interested?
48:24I am interested.
48:25OK, water injection in the inlet cools the charge and makes it denser.
48:29It's the job that was later done by the interview.
48:31I'm not interested.
48:34All we need to know is that with water injection,
48:37this turbocharged pocket rocket could get from 0 to 60 in 8 seconds.
48:43That's quick even by today's standards.
48:47It accelerates faster than a Mini Cooper, modern Mini Cooper,
48:50and a Renault Sport Twingo 133.
48:53This is a fast car.
48:55Wait!
48:57It is quick.
49:01Now, there is some Saab weirdness, I'll be honest.
49:05The steering wheel comes out of the dashboard at an angle,
49:08so it's like that.
49:09And there's a button here that says extra.
49:12Extra what?
49:13It doesn't say, it just says extra.
49:16Try it.
49:17Ready?
49:17Yep.
49:20You haven't got any more interesting or attractive.
49:26Little details aside, this is a fantastic car.
49:30This is a truly fantastic car.
49:33This is a legendary car.
49:34It is.
49:34I used to covet this massively.
49:37It wasn't just the speed I liked, either.
49:42Because when you look at the bumpers sticking out like a spoiled child's bottom lip,
49:47you get a sense that the Scandinavian engineers cared about the safety of you and your family.
49:53Do you know, I had my first proper road accidents in one of these.
49:58Not driving.
49:59I was a passenger here on this side.
50:01It was, um, I was only 17.
50:03It belonged to my girlfriend's dad.
50:05And it was quite a rare car then.
50:06It was lovely.
50:07It was white with a blue stripe on the side.
50:09And the interior was this sort of brick red dusty colour.
50:13And it was a really, really nice car.
50:15We went round a roundabout and a car coming up the road didn't stop.
50:18T-boned us right here.
50:19I was perfectly okay.
50:21Well, you would be in a Saab.
50:22Yeah.
50:22So, what was the girl called?
50:29Kate?
50:29No.
50:30Well, you can remember the Saab had brick red upholstery and it had a blue stripe.
50:34And where you were sitting, you can't remember the name of your girlfriend.
50:37The girlfriend's up to me.
50:38What was she called Derek?
50:41Because this car was fast and safe and a bit left field,
50:46it brought the Saab brand to the attention of a very specific type of customer.
50:50A customer who's remained loyal ever since.
50:54This person likes Audis.
50:56This one likes Ferraris.
50:58This one likes the bus.
51:00This one has a Honda.
51:02He has a Peugeot.
51:03And then you have this chap with the black polo neck and the thin specs.
51:08He's an architect.
51:09And he likes Saabs.
51:10Oh, the Lees are brown.
51:18Research has shown that Saab drivers are the best educated people on the roads.
51:25The 99 gave Saab customers other companies could only dream about.
51:30This car, then, was Saab's dark side of the moon.
51:36Their first big hit.
51:38The one we all remember.
51:42None of the models that followed the 99 Turbo appeared to have quite the same appeal.
51:48But they did.
51:49What we have here is a 1980s BMW hanging upside down eight feet from the ground.
51:58And what we're going to do is drop it.
52:05You wouldn't want to be in that if it fell from the crane upside down.
52:08If you were Richard Hammond, you'd be all right.
52:10But everybody else...
52:11Yeah, that's toast.
52:12The steering wheel is now touching the ceiling.
52:16So, let's see what happens when we drop a 1980 Saab 900 from the same height.
52:29God, I really wouldn't have believed that.
52:31I would not have believed that in a million years.
52:34Look at that.
52:35And I think you would probably be able to get out as well.
52:38That's stunning.
52:39I have heard it said, but Saab made the pillars so strong
52:42that when they went rallying, they didn't actually have to fit a roll cage.
52:45Is that true?
52:46Yeah.
52:47I mean, they had to fit one because of regulations,
52:49but it wasn't actually necessary.
52:51You know, I was talking the other day to a friend of mine
52:54who's a senior designer with another Swedish car company.
52:58And he said nobody could ever work out why Saab costs so much
53:02until they crashed it.
53:06Saab were always pathological about safety.
53:09Before putting a car on sale,
53:11they'd make sure it could survive just about anything.
53:15Even a head-on collision with a moose.
53:22This attention to detail caused a few problems
53:24when they were conceiving the 9000.
53:27Because, to save costs,
53:29it was designed in tandem with the Lancia Thema.
53:32The idea was that, behind the two different badges
53:37and underneath the two different bodies,
53:40the cars would actually be the same.
53:43And it seemed like they were,
53:45up until the point that they were crash-tested.
53:48Lancia's engineers described the results as perfect.
53:52Saab's engineers described them as,
53:54and I'm quoting directly here,
53:55not good at all.
53:57And from that moment on,
53:59the joint venture completely fell apart.
54:03The Saab ended up with much bigger wheels than the Lancia.
54:07It was also made out of thicker steel,
54:09and it had a completely different rear axle.
54:13Now, sticking to principles like that is expensive.
54:16And Saab was losing money hand over fist
54:18on every car it made.
54:20Even advertising it as a jet fighter for the road didn't help.
54:29Saab 9000.
54:31So, in 1989,
54:33Saab was bailed out by General Motors.
54:37To try and larch some fiscal sense into them,
54:40a team of executives from GM went over to Sweden and said,
54:44look, this is a Cavalier from our Vauxhall division.
54:47And to make your new car,
54:49what you do is change the body and the badges.
54:52That's it.
54:53Nice and cheap.
54:54Body and badges.
54:57Saab ignored them so completely
54:59that their new 900 shared only a third of its components
55:03with the Cavalier.
55:05When the time came to replace the 900 with the 9.3,
55:09the General Motors executives went over to Sweden again and said,
55:13OK, here is the Vauxhall Vectra.
55:15Now, this time, we mean it.
55:18Only change the body and the badges.
55:22Nothing else.
55:24Guess what?
55:25The Swedes went even more mental.
55:28They changed so much that even the wheelbase was different.
55:32At one point,
55:33a General Motors accountant went over to Sweden
55:36to see why Saab was costing them so much money.
55:38And he got into the new 9.3,
55:40turned on the sat-nav and thought,
55:42wait a minute,
55:44that's not one of our systems.
55:46And he was right.
55:47It wasn't.
55:48Saab had developed at vast expense their own system
55:51because they thought GMs wasn't good enough.
55:55Eventually, General Motors had had enough.
56:00And in 2010,
56:01as Saab was finishing the job of turning the Vauxhall insignia
56:05into the completely different 9.5,
56:07the Detroit giants pulled the plug.
56:10The brand itself will have some residual value,
56:14but the company's facilities are likely to be broken up and sold.
56:19At the last minute, a buyer was found,
56:22a Dutchman who owned a small car company called Spiker.
56:25To get the money rolling in,
56:29he needed to get the new 9.5 into the showrooms as quickly as possible.
56:34That meant it went on sale before it was finished.
56:38And that meant it was a commercial flop.
56:41And so, in January of this year,
56:43Saab closed down for good.
56:52So this is it.
56:54This is the last ever Saab.
56:55That we're in right now.
56:58Yeah.
57:00This is the final chapter.
57:04I really like the way they did things.
57:11I am going to miss Saab.
57:14It is a sad day.
57:17It is sad.
57:21It's a sad day, too, for the Swedish town of Trollhattan,
57:24where, for 60 years, the workforce has tried to be different,
57:28to be better,
57:30to think outside the box.
57:37And, of course, it's very sad for our architect friend,
57:40who, from now on, will have to buy a 5-series.
57:43Still, there's one cram of comfort,
57:45because let's not forget whose engines powered the first-ever jet fighter.
57:52BMW.
57:53You ought to know, actually, that the Messerschmitt 262 was supposed to use BMW engines,
58:13but it didn't actually work, so it had Junker's engines, and it went into action.
58:16James, we haven't really got time for your precise history of aviation since 1944 right now,
58:21because what I'm interested in,
58:22all those architects who've got Saabs today,
58:25if the company's gone,
58:27are they going to be able to keep their cars on the road?
58:29I mean...
58:29Well, you might imagine,
58:30that if you had a Saab,
58:32you could take it to a Vauxhall dealer,
58:33but because Saab changed so much,
58:35you may as well take it to W.H. Smith's.
58:37I mean, they'd be more likely to be able to service it.
58:39Yeah, but actually, the good news is,
58:41just this month,
58:42a new company has started up specifically to provide parts for Saabs,
58:47so if you are an architect,
58:48fingers crossed,
58:49you should be okay for a bit.
58:51Do you know,
58:52that's the second week on the trot we've ended
58:54with a useful piece of consumer advice.
58:57Yes, it's weird.
58:58And on that bombshell,
59:00it is time to end.
59:01Thank you so much for watching.
59:02Good night.
59:03And there's comedy coming up here on BBC HD tomorrow
59:11as Jed Rington begins to smell a rat.
59:14The bleak old shop of stuff continues at half past eight.
59:17The bleak old shop where you won the confine.
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