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The boys head to Italy for an epic supercar road trip featuring the Pagani Huayra, Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, and Aston Martin Vanquish. The Stig takes each to the Top Gear test track, while Damian Lewis stars as the first celebrity in the new Reasonably Priced Car.
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00:00:00Hello! Hello, everybody!
00:00:22Thank you so much. Thank you.
00:00:25Thanks very much.
00:00:26We're back!
00:00:32We're back!
00:00:34We're back with a new look, Top Gear.
00:00:37We have changed everything.
00:00:39And to give you a taste of what you can expect over the coming weeks,
00:00:44we have prepared a little montage.
00:00:46Tally-ho, tally-ho, chaps.
00:01:00They're all over me!
00:01:03At Twickenham for England!
00:01:05We might, actually, just be in with a chance.
00:01:14Let's do this for Carroll Shelby. Come on!
00:01:18You will find the source of the River Nile.
00:01:21Here we are, ladies, at the bowling club.
00:01:31Ooh, lovely.
00:01:34And...
00:01:35Stop!
00:01:36Oh, I am so on board!
00:01:40There's nobody driving!
00:01:43The last to arrive will cross into Mexico.
00:01:52Hello, I've accidentally painted a gentleman's sausage on a storm drain.
00:01:58Oh, my!
00:02:00Ooh-hoo!
00:02:07Big jump.
00:02:08Well...
00:02:08Big jump.
00:02:12Big jump.
00:02:22There you are.
00:02:24We haven't changed anything, have we?
00:02:26No, not really.
00:02:27No, wait, I bought a new jacket.
00:02:29And you've got some new shoes?
00:02:30Yeah, I'm in my 50s now.
00:02:32Yeah, James, to be fair, you were born in your 50s.
00:02:35No, actually, to be honest,
00:02:37James turned 50 just last week.
00:02:40Yeah.
00:02:43Why are you applauding?
00:02:45No, no, all he has to do to get to 50 is not die.
00:02:49And the speed he drives, that's not difficult.
00:02:52Anyway, we have got a tremendous series coming up.
00:02:55Some amazing races, some incredible challenges,
00:02:57and, of course, some brilliant cars.
00:02:59And we start with the best of them all.
00:03:02The Pagani Zonda is my favorite supercar.
00:03:10But it's been around for a decade now.
00:03:13And for the last few years, Pagani have been promising again and again
00:03:18that they'll replace it with a brand new car.
00:03:21And now, finally, they have.
00:03:32It's called the Huayra.
00:03:47It costs 800,000 pounds,
00:03:50and it has a top speed of 230 miles an hour.
00:03:54The name Huayra comes from a South American god of wind.
00:04:06Probably not what you want to hear.
00:04:09What you do want to hear is that it has a 6-liter twin-turbo V12
00:04:13made specially for it by AMG,
00:04:16which, once petrol is applied,
00:04:19makes 730 brake horsepower.
00:04:22And what you do want to hear and see
00:04:27is what that does.
00:04:39It spins its wheels all the time!
00:04:48I'm in a monster!
00:04:52Oh, dear God!
00:04:574 to 60 in 3.2 seconds,
00:05:00and then on into space!
00:05:04That's 180!
00:05:09That is savage!
00:05:12Savage, savage thing!
00:05:15I can't get enough of that!
00:05:17We'll do that again.
00:05:18The drama isn't just restricted to the speed.
00:05:23The drama isn't just restricted to the speed.
00:05:25Because inside the Huayra,
00:05:27it looks like a Victorian's idea of the 23rd century.
00:05:33And the detail is beyond obsessive.
00:05:36Every single nut and bolt is made from titanium.
00:05:41The name badge takes 24 hours to carve out from a solid piece of aluminium.
00:05:47Each wheel, also hewn from a single aluminium block,
00:05:51takes five days to make.
00:05:53And look at this gear shifter.
00:06:00All the mechanism is exposed so you can see the workings.
00:06:04It's made of 67 different parts,
00:06:06all arranged just so you can hear that mechanical clunk of a gear being selected.
00:06:11You don't even need to use it.
00:06:13You could just use the paddles by the wheel,
00:06:14but they've put that there because it makes it more of an occasion.
00:06:23This fanatical attention to detail goes on and on and on.
00:06:28Even the body is more high-tech than the one you'll find on a Formula One car.
00:06:33It's made from carbotanium.
00:06:38And I even know what that means.
00:06:41Now somebody's told me.
00:06:43It's a blend of carbon fibre and titanium,
00:06:46which is incredibly light,
00:06:47but it's actually stiffer than carbon fibre
00:06:50and doesn't shatter when you crash,
00:06:53which makes things safer should you suddenly find
00:06:55all 730 bhp propelling you towards a hedge.
00:06:59Not every element, though, is quite so cutting-edge.
00:07:06Pagani haven't gone with a fashionable twin-plate clutch
00:07:09that so many cars use today
00:07:10because they do make for faster changes.
00:07:12They've gone instead for a more traditional single-plate clutch
00:07:15because it's smaller and a whole 100 kilograms lighter.
00:07:21In fact, the Huayra weighs just 1,350 kilograms
00:07:26and has a power-to-weight ratio of 541 bhp per tonne,
00:07:32which is more than you get from a Bugatti Veyron.
00:07:37But where the Bugatti Veyron is four-wheel drive,
00:07:40this is only rear-wheel drive.
00:07:42And rather worryingly, we've now come to the part of the film
00:07:45where we must see what it's like going round corners.
00:07:51OK, now I understand the more infantile viewers,
00:07:53of which there are many,
00:07:55will now want to see these sliding the back end around.
00:07:58So, here goes.
00:08:00Amazingly, you can corner this car like a half-wit
00:08:21and come out the other side alive.
00:08:23And that's because, in a Huayra,
00:08:26the black art of aerodynamics is watching over you.
00:08:30You see those flaps on the outside?
00:08:34There's two at the back and two at the front.
00:08:36They measure how fast you're going
00:08:38and then deploy to keep everything stable.
00:08:48That's us!
00:08:49It's all I say!
00:08:53Oh, for the back, I'm in love!
00:08:55But the handling isn't all down to the magic flaps.
00:09:00It doesn't feel big like a Lambo.
00:09:03And it's all been set up so well and made so stable
00:09:07that even I can corner it hard
00:09:09without hiding in the glove box whimpering.
00:09:11The Zonda was always going to be a difficult act to follow,
00:09:25but the Huayra has pulled it off.
00:09:28It drives better, it looks better,
00:09:31and it hasn't lost any of the drama.
00:09:34On top of that, it also has something that its main rivals,
00:09:39Ferrari and Lamborghini, no longer possess.
00:09:42This car, and this might all get a bit culture-show now, I know,
00:09:51has still got its innocence.
00:09:54Ferrari and Lamborghini haven't.
00:09:57One's owned by Audi,
00:09:58the other is a commercial machine for selling hats and keyrings.
00:10:04Pagani is where those companies were 30 years ago.
00:10:07No corporate culture, no branded teddy bears.
00:10:09They just want to make a bedroom wall pinup poster
00:10:12with a touch of the madness we saw
00:10:15in the Lamborghinis of a few decades ago.
00:10:18And you can feel that.
00:10:28There might be some people watching right now
00:10:32who could actually afford one of these things.
00:10:36And it's the job of you, me, and everybody else
00:10:38to stand around and join together in a chorus.
00:10:41Do it, do it, do it, do it.
00:11:01Wow!
00:11:02That's an amazing looking film.
00:11:05Crazy.
00:11:06Crazy, they're wonderful.
00:11:07Amazing.
00:11:08Now, do you know,
00:11:09do you know which of the world's cities
00:11:13has placed the largest number of orders for this car?
00:11:17No.
00:11:17Wakefield.
00:11:18Is it?
00:11:18No, made that up.
00:11:20Is it really as fast as it looks, though, honestly?
00:11:23Yes, yes.
00:11:24You know the straight between Chicago and Hammerhead?
00:11:26Yeah.
00:11:26In this, it's not as long as you'd think.
00:11:29Is it not?
00:11:29It's there.
00:11:29Is it not?
00:11:30Is it not?
00:11:30I can relax.
00:11:31No!
00:11:31It's just one corner.
00:11:32It's amazingly, insanely fast.
00:11:34Well, now, obviously, we must find out
00:11:36how fast it goes around our track.
00:11:38And that, of course,
00:11:39means handing it over
00:11:40to our tame racing driver.
00:11:42Some say that we have at least thought
00:11:44of a new way of introducing him.
00:11:47But we haven't.
00:11:49It's the stick!
00:11:50And he's off.
00:11:53Surprisingly gentle at first,
00:11:55but then the tyres light up
00:11:56and the spoilers spring into action.
00:11:58Right, OK, coming up to the first corner
00:12:00and he is indicating.
00:12:03Seems a bit unnecessary,
00:12:05but he's keeping it all in shape.
00:12:07Just about.
00:12:13Should explain,
00:12:15since the Olympics,
00:12:15Stig has become obsessed with national anthems.
00:12:17All right, he's round Chicago,
00:12:21fires it toward Hammerhead.
00:12:22Hammond was right.
00:12:23That took no time at all.
00:12:25Swirmed under braking,
00:12:27takes it easy through the left
00:12:29and right.
00:12:31Now, hard on the power.
00:12:35Did you hear those turbo wastegates fluttering?
00:12:39Now, follow through.
00:12:41Surely he can't use all the power there.
00:12:43I think he did.
00:12:45Dabber brakes as he passes the tyres,
00:12:46presumably with his left.
00:12:47One foot, or the middle one.
00:12:49Just two corners left.
00:12:51God, he's coming in fast.
00:12:53Steady stick, up to Gambong.
00:12:56He's very smooth through there.
00:12:58And across the line.
00:13:02Right.
00:13:03Now, Pagani.
00:13:05Yes.
00:13:05Pagani.
00:13:06Pagani.
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00:13:21Consonants are the meat of the language.
00:13:22If you didn't have consonants in your name, you'd be...
00:13:25...I-ah.
00:13:27And I'd be...
00:13:30...I-ah.
00:13:32People have waited a long time for us to come back, and that's it.
00:13:37Anyway, okay, the fastest car we've ever had round the track
00:13:40is the Ariel Atom V8 115.1.
00:13:43Now, are you seriously suggesting that this is faster than that?
00:13:48I'd say it's in with a shout of being as fast, yeah.
00:13:51Well, you're wrong.
00:13:52Oh.
00:13:52Because the Pagani did it in one 13-point head.
00:13:59I am not going to say that.
00:14:01It's genuinely staggering, staggering.
00:14:09Can't see that time being beaten ever, to be honest.
00:14:14Anyway, it is time to do the news,
00:14:18and it's good news
00:14:20because the Dacia Sandero is on sale in the UK
00:14:23and taking the nation by storm.
00:14:26Great.
00:14:27Yeah.
00:14:28Now, the Mercedes SLS.
00:14:30There it is.
00:14:31There's a new black version of it.
00:14:33There's a picture of it there, and it's yellow.
00:14:35It's got 60 more horsepower than the standard car.
00:14:39More speed, more violence.
00:14:41Dear God, is the brochure written in bullet holes?
00:14:43Dic-dic-dic-dic-dic-dic-dic-dic.
00:14:44It doesn't matter.
00:14:45No, the brochure is carved into your face with a hunting knife.
00:14:48Is it?
00:14:49That's what they do.
00:14:50I wonder if they've addressed the problem with the old one,
00:14:52which is that you could never get it sideways, could you?
00:14:54No, this one doesn't go in a straight line.
00:14:56Not, it's funny, actually.
00:14:57Weirdly, a friend of mine has recently bought a black series Mercedes,
00:15:00and every time I see him, I say,
00:15:02how's it going, and he pretends it's great.
00:15:03It's fine.
00:15:05I'm really enjoying it.
00:15:06But you've aged 30 years in a week.
00:15:08Hello.
00:15:09I like it.
00:15:10It's like saying, I've got a new attack dog, and it's great.
00:15:14You never know when it's going to attack or who, and I love it.
00:15:18And that's what that is.
00:15:19It's a big yellow attack dog.
00:15:21It's very silly.
00:15:22Now, may I talk about Fifty Shades of Grey?
00:15:25Really?
00:15:27Can I just honestly just ask, who here has read it?
00:15:30Be honest, who here has read it?
00:15:31Yes?
00:15:32We're noticing a trend.
00:15:34It's mainly a women thing, I'm guessing, yes?
00:15:36And men don't really have an equivalent, until now,
00:15:39because I have found the male equivalent of Fifty Shades of Grey.
00:15:44Tremendous tractors.
00:15:49Come on.
00:15:51You're going to love it the most.
00:15:54Oh, yeah.
00:15:56Why would you not read that?
00:15:58Oh, it's all in here, isn't it?
00:16:00Spikes.
00:16:00These move through the ground to cover the seeds after they drop.
00:16:04This has chunky treads.
00:16:08Grip, bumpy or slippery ground.
00:16:12This is absolutely marvellous.
00:16:14Hammonds, I think you're reading more into it than is actually there.
00:16:19It cuts the stalks and threshes them, to knock the grain right out.
00:16:27It's just a book about tractors, and the best thing is, there's a series of them.
00:16:30There's dazzling diggers, amazing aeroplanes, enormous erections.
00:16:36What?
00:16:38I made that last one out.
00:16:41Spreads the straw behind it as the grain spills from the spout.
00:16:44Half of farmland can be rough.
00:16:53I've gone somewhere else.
00:16:54You've gone cross-eyed is what you've gone.
00:16:56Right.
00:16:57Volkswagen, okay.
00:16:58Volkswagen named the Tuareg, which we've got a picture of here, the big 4x4, after the
00:17:03Tuareg, the North African tribesman, okay?
00:17:06Yes, and it must have seemed like a very good name at the time, mustn't it?
00:17:09Because they're a tough, romantic, nomadic people.
00:17:12They're eking a simple living from the harsh desert.
00:17:15Hmm, unfortunately, it turns out that today, the Tuareg are running guns from Libya into
00:17:20Mali, and fighting there alongside hardline Islamists.
00:17:24Yeah, I think we can be pretty sure there will be some high-level, very urgent meetings
00:17:28at VW this week.
00:17:30Yes, they're certainly dropping plans now for the new hatchback, the Bader-Meinhof.
00:17:35Yes.
00:17:36They're not that anymore.
00:17:37This van, the new VW Lord's Resistance Army, up it will strike you.
00:17:41That's the one with the Independent Rear Access, or IRA for short, isn't it?
00:17:46Stop it, yes.
00:17:46But if you think, actually, if you think about it, you only need one letter to drop off the
00:17:50back of your Polo, and you'll have a VW PLO.
00:17:55It turns out every single Volkswagen is named after a terrorist organisation.
00:18:01Right, there is a new Corvette app.
00:18:03Now, they've brought back the Stingray name.
00:18:06All new chassis, so it's got perfect 50-50 weight distribution, 450 brake horsepower from
00:18:106.2 litre V8, which means 0-60, will be under four seconds.
00:18:15And the best thing is, it makes you 27% more attractive to your sister.
00:18:22Now, you know those dot matrix signs on motorways, the overhead gantries that are used to warn
00:18:27you of impending doom, okay?
00:18:28Well, sometimes there is no impending doom, so they put up other messages.
00:18:32Now, I was driving along the other day, and one said, have you prepared your car for winter?
00:18:37And I thought, well, when I bought it for a Mercedes, I'd rather hope they'd done that
00:18:42already.
00:18:43Like, near to the heater.
00:18:44Well, how exactly do you prepare your car for winter?
00:18:47What do you suppose?
00:18:47Well, we genuinely don't know.
00:18:49Does anybody have any ideas how you would prepare a car for winter?
00:18:52Winter tyres.
00:18:53Shovel.
00:18:53Winter tyres.
00:18:54That's, I mean, you could conceivably put winter tyres on, but you'd only need them for,
00:18:57what, half a day?
00:18:58Yeah.
00:18:59And they cost, like, 150 quid each.
00:19:01In the olden, olden, olden days, you probably did actually have to prepare your car for winter.
00:19:06Yeah, no, perhaps that's the problem.
00:19:08The man writing the sign is stuck in 1953.
00:19:11Yes.
00:19:12Is it you?
00:19:15Have you been moonlighting writing signs?
00:19:18Don't forget to lag your engine block with some stout canvas.
00:19:21It was you.
00:19:22Can I direct you to your jacket?
00:19:24I could see you looking.
00:19:25What?
00:19:26Before you say I'm locked in 1953, Mr. Toad.
00:19:30Fashion.
00:19:38I'm the only modern one here.
00:19:39Really?
00:19:41You may remember a while back on Top Gear, we met the Racer Recovery Team, that group of
00:19:45injured soldiers who were planning to take on the toughest race in the world, the Dakar.
00:19:50Yeah, I remember thinking, well, that's very noble, but it's impossible because, you know,
00:19:55Mark Thatcher, he had four functioning lens, he never made it, so the idea they would was,
00:19:59in my mind, preposterous.
00:20:00Well, the race was over 8,500 kilometres across South America.
00:20:04It took two weeks.
00:20:0530% of the entrance didn't finish.
00:20:08But, and this is amazing news, last Sunday, they did.
00:20:14Dead.
00:20:14Which is just...
00:20:15Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:19So, Philip Gillespie, Matt O'Hare, and the rest of the team, deep, deep respect from all
00:20:27of us here.
00:20:28That's an amazing one.
00:20:29Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:30Tremendous.
00:20:30Right, that is the end of the news, and I'd like to move things on swiftly now to the
00:20:35Bentley Continental.
00:20:37There are various versions available.
00:20:38You can have one with a top speed of 187, top speed of 194, or a top speed of 198.
00:20:44But, what if none of these top speeds are quite what you are after?
00:20:50Well, Bentley has a solution.
00:20:53And here it is, the Continental GT Speed.
00:21:14Now, this isn't to be confused with the previous Bentley Continental GT Speed, or the Bentley Continental
00:21:20GT Super Sports, or in fact, any other Bentley Continental that looks exactly the same as
00:21:25this one.
00:21:27No, this one is a bit special.
00:21:31What this is, is the fastest Bentley ever built, because it will do 205 miles an hour.
00:21:40It will also go from 0 to 60 in just 4 seconds.
00:21:43And to deliver that kind of performance, the standard issue 6-litre twin-turbo engine has
00:21:52been stoked to produce 616 horsepower.
00:21:58And to ensure that all that power is delivered in an orderly fashion, this car has been fitted
00:22:04with a new 8-speed automatic gearbox.
00:22:06To help it stand out next to a regular Continental GT, the speed has been given a few signature
00:22:24flourishes, such as this black mesh radiator grille, these rifled exhausts, and inside, a gorgeous,
00:22:34dark-tinted, aluminium fascia.
00:22:39It costs just over £150,000.
00:22:44And at this point, you might be thinking, so what?
00:22:47Why do we need another fast Bentley anyway?
00:22:55I thought exactly the same, until I drove it.
00:22:59Up until now, every Continental GT has been, to my mind, just a sort of big, posh car built
00:23:07to the numbers, built to an easy directive, if you like.
00:23:11But this car finally feels, I think, like a Bentley should.
00:23:16It's not the magnitude of the power that's important, it's the way it's turned into speed.
00:23:23You sort of get a discreet ahem from the butler, and then this big, aristocratic whoomp in the kidneys.
00:23:30And the ride, the ride in a Bentley, I think, should be reasonably firm, but forgiving, supple.
00:23:41And that's exactly what you get here.
00:23:42You feel very much in control.
00:23:44You can read the road through the wheels and through the steering wheel,
00:23:48but it doesn't batter you in any way.
00:23:51Likewise, that new eight-speed gearbox is an absolute peach.
00:23:55It's also intelligent. It will skip gears. It'll go from fourth to eighth, if that's what's required.
00:24:04The Continental has been around for ten years now,
00:24:07and what this version feels like is a decade of engineering coming together
00:24:12to make something rather special.
00:24:15So to find out how good it really is,
00:24:17we decided to take it somewhere more demanding than a Welsh B-road.
00:24:21So, since it's got four-wheel drive...
00:24:27Yes, we're going to unleash our 150,000-pound Bentley
00:24:35on a full-blown stage of the World Rally Championship.
00:24:41Specifically here, on a 15-mile stage of the grueling Welsh Rally.
00:24:47This is Top Gear Consumer Journalism.
00:24:58I've never driven a rally stage.
00:25:01And I'm not going to now.
00:25:03I'm giving the job to rally ace Chris Meek.
00:25:07Go, go, go!
00:25:08Who you may remember from our race between a rally car
00:25:11and Olympic gold medal skele-bomb pilot Amy Williams.
00:25:17On that occasion, my job was to sit next to him and not look scared.
00:25:25Today, though, I would have to give Chris directions,
00:25:28which meant getting to grips with the mystifying world of pace notes.
00:25:32How do I do this and look out of the window at the same time?
00:26:00What do I do?
00:26:00You don't look out.
00:26:01You have to feel the corners through your backside.
00:26:04So, your brain needs to be 200 or 300 metres ahead of my driving.
00:26:10If it goes wrong and we have a crash, who says sorry first?
00:26:15First thing I'll do is check your pulse to see if you're still living,
00:26:18and then I'll ask you to apologise.
00:26:19Besides the complexity of the pace notes, there was another worry.
00:26:27A world rally car is purpose-built for the job.
00:26:30It weighs just 1,200 kilograms and has bespoke brakes to help it stop.
00:26:37Its gearbox is made to soak up the punishment.
00:26:40Its roll cage is designed to keep the occupants in one piece.
00:26:43By contrast, all we'd changed on our 2.3-ton Bentley was the seats.
00:26:57Seats are good.
00:26:58I think that's good thinking.
00:27:00But most of the other things about this car are bad, aren't they, for rallying?
00:27:03Yeah.
00:27:03Too big.
00:27:04A Bentley on a rally stage is a stupid idea.
00:27:06It's got all the horsepower you need to get it up to speed,
00:27:11but we're trying to stop 2.3-tonnes on road tyres,
00:27:14so we don't have the grip out of it.
00:27:16And you haven't got the handbrake?
00:27:17No.
00:27:17Because you've got the electric handbrake, which is no good for...
00:27:20No, it's not, but we'll just have to do a little man-manoeuvring around the hairpins.
00:27:25Are you a bit scared about driving this on a rally course?
00:27:28I am a little, but you should be even more scared.
00:27:32And on those final words of comfort...
00:27:36We took our place on the start line.
00:27:40You see that bloke's moustache there?
00:27:43Yeah.
00:27:44That tells me everything's going to be all right.
00:27:47So if you count me down, if you do a 5...
00:27:49Yep.
00:27:515, 4, 3, 2, 1...
00:28:04We're off.
00:28:044 right.
00:28:0640.
00:28:09Are you going a bit quicker, James?
00:28:11Come on.
00:28:1140 metres.
00:28:134 right.
00:28:17Suddenly, I knew what it felt like to be a rabbit caught in the headlights.
00:28:23Yeah, yeah.
00:28:23Next note, James.
00:28:24Come on.
00:28:24Left, left, plus 2 left.
00:28:31James, I've got to go off the road.
00:28:32You don't call the notes.
00:28:34One right.
00:28:35One right.
00:28:37Repeat.
00:28:37Repeat.
00:28:37Three right, and then 40 metres.
00:28:43Five right into six left, then 40 metres into five right.
00:28:46This is a fight.
00:28:47You're too late, James.
00:28:48Come on.
00:28:51Right.
00:28:51Square right.
00:28:53Sorry.
00:28:53Square left.
00:28:54Whoa.
00:28:56James, either get it right or shut up.
00:28:58The red mist had descended on Chris.
00:29:04A fog of doubt had enveloped me, but it seemed he wasn't going to back off.
00:29:16Next note, next note.
00:29:17Start one right.
00:29:20Whoa.
00:29:21Bloody hell.
00:29:22Four right.
00:29:23On the plus side, the Bentleys' four-wheel drive was superb.
00:29:33The power, phenomenal.
00:29:36And Chris was majestic.
00:29:41Whoa.
00:29:42Whoa.
00:29:44Especially in the tight bends, where the Bentleys' electric parking brake was useless.
00:29:50Going into large hairpin ride.
00:29:55That's where you needed the handbrake.
00:29:57Yeah.
00:30:03Ten miles in, and I was giving Chris proper backup.
00:30:07Five right.
00:30:09Tightening to severe six right.
00:30:11OK.
00:30:12That's a bit better, James.
00:30:15Through water.
00:30:1640, four left.
00:30:22Got it.
00:30:23Tightening.
00:30:24Finish, James.
00:30:27Two left, tightening.
00:30:31Man in rows.
00:30:33Two left, over a crest.
00:30:37It's easy.
00:30:38It's easy.
00:30:38It's easy.
00:30:38It's easy.
00:30:39It's easy.
00:30:40It's easy.
00:30:41It's easy.
00:30:42It's easy.
00:30:43It's easy.
00:30:44It's easy.
00:30:45It's easy.
00:30:46It's easy.
00:30:47It's easy.
00:30:48It's easy.
00:30:49It's easy.
00:30:50So, James May, James May, the big question is, were you lost?
00:30:57No.
00:30:58We beat a proper WRC rally car by two seconds.
00:31:03So you were second to last?
00:31:05Yep.
00:31:06You were the first of the winners.
00:31:07I have to say, though, obviously I'd like to mock you for your hopeless co-driving skills,
00:31:12but watching this on that rally circuit, a deeply impressive spectacle.
00:31:16I mean, it really was.
00:31:17Yeah, it is a deeply impressive car, actually.
00:31:19And it's weird, I've never been a fan of the Continental, but I drove the little V8 engine one last year, and I thought that was pretty good as well.
00:31:25Yeah, absolutely.
00:31:26The thing is, they have done a great deal to improve the car over the years.
00:31:30But the trouble is, they haven't really done anything to improve the people who buy them.
00:31:35No.
00:31:36I mean, they do all that engineering work, and then they sell it to Mario Balotelli.
00:31:41Exactly.
00:31:43Who?
00:31:44I knew you didn't know.
00:31:45He's that Manchester City player with a blonde Brazilian on his head.
00:31:48Oh, yeah.
00:31:50Anyway, it is now time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:31:55My guest tonight is best known as a ginger man, who is intent on bringing suffering and misery to countless millions of innocent souls.
00:32:05Don't worry, I'm not talking about Mick Hucknall.
00:32:08Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, from Homeland, Damien Lewis!
00:32:15Welcome!
00:32:17You're here.
00:32:19How are you?
00:32:20Good. Have a seat.
00:32:22Have a seat.
00:32:25How are you at?
00:32:28I want to talk about Homeland, obviously.
00:32:30I know everybody wants to do that, but I keep reading that you don't know how it ends, but you must do, really.
00:32:38Well, I could tell you, but I have to kill you.
00:32:43I don't know how it ends, because they don't know how it ends, and sounds, you know, a little avoiding to say that.
00:32:51But honestly, the writers write incredibly spontaneously.
00:32:54They're actually sitting down this week to work out what happens next season.
00:32:57Because you're in a wood now.
00:32:58It's a bit of a surprise I'm still alive, I think.
00:33:00Yeah.
00:33:01So now they've got the headache of me still being alive, they've got to work out what to do with me.
00:33:05Obama's a fan, isn't he?
00:33:06The President of America is a huge fan, and invited my wife and I to the White House.
00:33:11You are kidding.
00:33:12I sat convinced we would be sitting, you know, by the revolving doors, you know, just on the way to the toilet, you know,
00:33:18and we consistently being hit on the back of the head as old people went to pee.
00:33:23And then, actually, we sat at the table opposite him.
00:33:27The other, the other programme I'm surprised you haven't been on yet is Match of the Day, because you're a big football fan, aren't you?
00:33:32I do like, I do like a bit of footy, yeah.
00:33:34You are a...?
00:33:35I'm a Liverpool fan.
00:33:37As you can tell from my deep Scouse accent.
00:33:41Have you never played in one of those pro-am celebrity...?
00:33:45I've actually twice had the extraordinary experience of playing at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 people.
00:33:52And last time I played, actually, I was playing in the centre midfield for England against the rest of the world with Jamie Redknapp.
00:33:59So it was me and Jamie marshalling midfield behind Shearer and Sheringham.
00:34:05And, er, I clattered into Zizou, Zinedine Zidane, after about 15 minutes.
00:34:11And I didn't realise how angry he was, but Jamie Redknapp kept following me around the pitch going,
00:34:15Dane, Dane, calm, Dan!
00:34:17And I said, what do you mean? What do you mean?
00:34:19And he said, they haven't come to see you play!
00:34:22And then, in the 30th minute, in front of 75,000 people, what did Zidane do?
00:34:28He rolled his foot over the ball a few times, went to the touchline, stood there with the ball,
00:34:34looked up at me as I sort of came charging in, like, let's go, I'm going to tackle Zidane.
00:34:38Looked at me and went, boop, poked it straight through my leg.
00:34:42To spontaneous laughter. I've never been laughed at by 70,000 people.
00:34:48It would shrivel up and there'd be space to get into the legs, that's for damn sure.
00:34:52But it was an amazing experience.
00:34:54Um, cars.
00:34:55Cars.
00:34:56I gather your first car was at Alfa Romeo.
00:34:59Yes, it was. I mean, it wasn't a spider. It wasn't a sexy Alfa Romeo.
00:35:04I bought my Alfa Romeo for a grand on a forecourt in Balham High Road.
00:35:10No.
00:35:11Yeah. And it wasn't even at a car dealership.
00:35:13It had, it was like a junk shop with four cars in front of it, just lined up on the pavement.
00:35:19I used to live in Balham and I know exactly, you bought an Alfa from that man.
00:35:24It was just off the pavement.
00:35:26I was pulling out of the car park at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I'd been working for a couple of years.
00:35:31I put my foot to the brake, went straight to the floor.
00:35:35No, no, no.
00:35:36And I just rolled out straight across the road, bang, into the opposite.
00:35:39Because normally the Alfa Romeo prevents that happening by breaking down on the way to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
00:35:45So, if you'd gone through the woe and the misery of a very, very unreliable car.
00:35:49Yeah.
00:35:50Presumably your next one was more sensible, more reliable.
00:35:54It was a TVR.
00:35:56There you go.
00:35:57Which one?
00:35:58The Chimera.
00:35:59See, TVR stands for Total Vehicle Reliability.
00:36:03Which is amazing fun though, a TVR, when you get it going and you throw it around the country lanes.
00:36:09But I thought you were a bike man more than cars.
00:36:13I did.
00:36:14Well, I have, I have had motorbikes.
00:36:16I went and got my test and then totally fell in love with the ultimate hairdresser's chopper bike.
00:36:22Which was the Yamaha Virago 1000cc high handle barred.
00:36:28Oh, sort of an easy rider bike.
00:36:30Yeah, it was an easy rider.
00:36:31Chopper, chopper style.
00:36:32A chopper bike.
00:36:33You never fall off a bike, because that's what would stop me getting on one, is the terrible pain that would result.
00:36:38No, I did.
00:36:39I, I had a couple of prangs and then I had a bad one, just outside Pentonville prison, on the Caledonian road, when a cabbie pulled out and I just, I just, I was straight into his wind, windscreen.
00:36:51And was out cold, woke up in a, in a sort of cinematic cliche of a circle of faces.
00:36:58So it was all just like, as I came to, and also to feel this really hard grip on my wrist.
00:37:05And that's the first thing I remember just thinking, oh, that doesn't feel good.
00:37:08Someone's really holding onto me tight.
00:37:10Turned out the guy who was in the back of the taxi was a male nurse from the Royal Free Hospital, who'd taken a taxi because he was pissed.
00:37:18He then, he then said to me later, he said, it was good I, it was good I managed to get you into the recovery position.
00:37:25And I said, yeah, but why were you holding onto my wrist so hard?
00:37:28And he said, cause I couldn't tell if you were actually dying or if I was just too pissed, I couldn't find your pulse.
00:37:33So he was just like, where the fuck is it? My God, come back!
00:37:40Because normally these days when people have accidents, the first thing they see is somebody videoing them.
00:37:46That is today's version, isn't it?
00:37:47It is today's version.
00:37:48Yeah, just ten iPhones.
00:37:49Yeah, exactly.
00:37:50Now, obviously, you came here to do your lap.
00:37:54Yes.
00:37:55Which wasn't easy.
00:37:57The sight that greeted us this morning, let's have a look at the, the pictures we've got here.
00:38:01This is our track, that is what, yeah, with light sleet.
00:38:09So, realistically, we're never going to set the fastest time.
00:38:13I, you know, it's quite nerve-wracking coming to do this for the first time.
00:38:17You think, what's my limit?
00:38:19At what point do I just follow through a bit, you know?
00:38:23And, and will, and will that be on the first corner?
00:38:27And, er, when I saw the weather, it was oddly relaxing.
00:38:30So you're thinking, well, now I can't win, so it doesn't matter.
00:38:33Yeah, then I thought, ah, and then everyone was going, oh, it's going to be great fun, it's quite icy out there,
00:38:38you'll be able to lose the back end and throw it around a bit.
00:38:41I was going, how do you know I'm going to be able to do any of that?
00:38:44Well, who'd like to see him doing a bit of that?
00:38:48These are some of the practice laps, let's just run the tape here.
00:38:52Now, this is the follow through, the fastest part, that's pretty ballsy.
00:38:57And, yeah, I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to go off there, because it's pretty fast.
00:39:02What is that, second to last corner?
00:39:04Yep.
00:39:07Well held.
00:39:09Is it well held?
00:39:10Yes, it is well held.
00:39:12And that one is...
00:39:16I do like your determination to keep going.
00:39:19Because we're at the camera.
00:39:21More rally driving, I think, today.
00:39:24Very good, though.
00:39:27Eventually, you did manage to get a lap in, yes?
00:39:30Yes, yes.
00:39:31Who here would like to see that?
00:39:32I do.
00:39:33Let's go.
00:39:37And they're off!
00:39:38Are determined.
00:39:39So, coming up to the first corner, just wet there, nothing much to worry about.
00:39:45Now there's something to worry about.
00:39:47Ooh.
00:39:48That seems slightly scary when the back does that.
00:39:53Get on the throttle, Damo!
00:39:54Look at that!
00:39:55Change gear now!
00:39:56Now!
00:39:57Braking's not easy into the hammerhead at the best of times in those conditions.
00:40:00Ooh, a dab of handbrake!
00:40:02I see a dab of handbrake there and a bit of unders...
00:40:05Change gear!
00:40:06The Scandi flick, I believe.
00:40:07It was a Scandi flick.
00:40:08It was a Scandi flick.
00:40:09No racing driver should have to put his windscreen wipers on.
00:40:10I mean, do you know what I mean?
00:40:11Do you know what I mean?
00:40:12No, that is...
00:40:13Well, in the world of rallying, that's quite normal.
00:40:14I wouldn't want to be going over there at anything more than...
00:40:15And can you make it all the way through the tyres?
00:40:16Yep!
00:40:17And back into the fast bit.
00:40:18Now, can you make it all the way through the tyres?
00:40:19Yep!
00:40:20Back into the fast bit.
00:40:21Now, can you make it all the way through the tyres?
00:40:22Yeah!
00:40:23Back into the fast bit.
00:40:24Now, can you make it all the way through the tyres?
00:40:26Yes!
00:40:27Yes!
00:40:28Yes!
00:40:29And then there's a racing car going on with the windscreen wipers on.
00:40:32I mean, do you know what I mean?
00:40:34No, that is...
00:40:35Well, in the world of rallying, that's quite normal.
00:40:36I wouldn't want to be going over there at anything more than...
00:40:38And can you make it all the way through the tyres?
00:40:41Yeah!
00:40:42Back into the fast bit.
00:40:43Now, can you get to the second last corner right?
00:40:45Yes!
00:40:46No!
00:40:47Yes!
00:40:48Into Gambon!
00:40:50Looking good!
00:40:51Oh, no!
00:40:52No!
00:40:53Oh, that was a lot of fun.
00:41:04That was tremendous.
00:41:08That does look like a lot of fun.
00:41:10It was a lot of fun. It was terrific.
00:41:12So, where do you think you've come?
00:41:16See, hmm.
00:41:18So far, the slowest man we've ever had around here was John Prescott.
00:41:21In a 1.56.7.
00:41:25Yes.
00:41:26Damien Lurse, you did it in...
00:41:29Two minutes.
00:41:36Nine seconds.
00:41:39Point one.
00:41:42But...
00:41:43Oh.
00:41:47Should we have a separate board for snow?
00:41:55So, I think you're the fastest person we've ever had in the snow.
00:42:00So, we'll put you up there.
00:42:02Hey!
00:42:02This is good!
00:42:11I have to say, actually...
00:42:12It's great.
00:42:13I do have to say, that is...
00:42:15The slowest man we've ever had around the top of the test track.
00:42:20But, and I'm sure everyone will agree with me on this,
00:42:23by far and away the most entertaining.
00:42:25Ladies and gentlemen, Damien Lewis!
00:42:26Now, so far in this programme, James has been rallying in a £150,000 Bentley,
00:42:42and I've raced around our track in an £800,000 Pagani.
00:42:46So, someone's got to bring it all back down to earth.
00:42:50Yes, and unfortunately, that person is Jeremy.
00:42:53Yes, and as usual, it falls to me to be the voice of reason and common sense.
00:42:58With this, the Peel P50.
00:43:01The smallest car ever made.
00:43:04Until now.
00:43:05Because I have created, behold, this.
00:43:14Now, I know, I know, incredulity is often the first response.
00:43:21But let me talk you through it, because underneath the hand-crafted aluminium bodywork,
00:43:27OK, you have the engine and the running gear from a quad bike.
00:43:32But, you will note, it has lights and indicators and a number plate.
00:43:38It's passed all the government tests, which means you can drive it on the road.
00:43:43Are you seriously suggesting that that is an actual car?
00:43:47I promise it's a real car.
00:43:50What's it called?
00:43:51Ah, well, that's brilliant.
00:43:52Because it's shorter and narrower than a Peel P50, I've called it the P45.
00:43:59And now, I'm going to test it.
00:44:02What?
00:44:02You're going to test a car that you built?
00:44:05Yes.
00:44:05So, what are we going to do next week, then?
00:44:06VW tests its new golf.
00:44:08Shut up.
00:44:09I'm going to be completely unbiased, as you shall see.
00:44:18I began on the track.
00:44:20And, having determined very quickly that the P45 was exquisite in every way, I took it on to the public highway.
00:44:31Now, I should make it plain.
00:44:32This is the base L model that I'm driving now, but there are some optional extra...
00:44:37Oh!
00:44:39Nothing wrong.
00:44:40Edit that out.
00:44:43There is, for instance, the deluxe wash-wipe option, which costs just £1.99.
00:44:49Good.
00:44:50And, also, for just £500, this does come with satellite navigation.
00:44:59There's the sat-nav. You see? You just hold it up and see where you're going.
00:45:03The P45 is designed to deal with all eventualities.
00:45:10I'm relaxed.
00:45:13So, I decided to join the main road.
00:45:18Yes, look at this.
00:45:20Look at this.
00:45:21Very brilliant.
00:45:22Oh!
00:45:23Oh, my God!
00:45:25If you're watching this in the edit, make sure that doesn't go on television and people think it's a death trap.
00:45:30Oh!
00:45:31It happened again!
00:45:32Edit that out as well.
00:45:34Oh, I can't believe how quiet the roads are this morning. I'm barely seeing any traffic at all.
00:45:44As I neared Guildford, I did find a jam, but this was no problem for the super-narrow P45.
00:45:50I can't believe it.
00:45:51The speed machine is coming through.
00:45:53Oh!
00:45:54Oh!
00:45:55Oh!
00:45:56Oh!
00:45:57Oh!
00:45:58Oh!
00:45:59Oh!
00:46:00Oh!
00:46:01Oh!
00:46:02Oh!
00:46:03Oh!
00:46:04Oh!
00:46:05Oh!
00:46:06Oh!
00:46:07Oh!
00:46:08Oh!
00:46:09Oh!
00:46:10Oh!
00:46:11Oh!
00:46:12Oh!
00:46:13I'm just staggered that Ford, General Motors, Toyota, all the automotive giants haven't thought to make a car like this, and yet, a pokey little motoring show on BB...
00:46:26Oh!
00:46:31This is the way to drive the P45. I've just decided, with your face already on the windscreen, then it can't sort of smash into it.
00:46:39So, for local commuting, my car is faultless. But, what if you want to go further afield?
00:46:47Well, to find out, I pulled into a petrol station, and without even getting out, I brimmed its tank.
00:47:00Good.
00:47:04Damn!
00:47:05I only have a 1.7 litre fuel tank, but the minimum delivery here is 2 litres.
00:47:22Discreetly, I squirted the difference into a bin.
00:47:25Let's see here.
00:47:26Oh!
00:47:29Then, I fired up the 2-stroke 100cc engine, and set off to London.
00:47:34Technically, I'm legally allowed to drive the P45 on motorways and dual carriageways.
00:47:41So, to see how it gets on, I'm about to join the fearsome A3.
00:47:50Here we go.
00:47:51Oh!
00:47:52Oh!
00:47:53Oh!
00:47:54Oh!
00:47:55Oh!
00:47:56Oh!
00:47:57I've never been frightened of a Citra Picasso before, and it just was!
00:48:00Oh!
00:48:01Oh!
00:48:02Oh!
00:48:03Oh!
00:48:04Oh!
00:48:05Oh!
00:48:06Oh!
00:48:07Oh!
00:48:08Oh!
00:48:09Yes!
00:48:10Help me!
00:48:11Help!
00:48:12Help!
00:48:13How fast is that now?
00:48:14Oh!
00:48:16Oh!
00:48:17Oh!
00:48:18Oh!
00:48:19Ohh!
00:48:20A lot of poo!
00:48:21Shut out, man!
00:48:22So, while this may be completely legal, it's also completely terrifying.
00:48:28However, the advantage of a car this small is that you don't have to take it on dual carriageways.
00:48:36In fact, you don't have to use the main roads at all.
00:48:44What you do instead is you drive it to the railway station,
00:48:49but instead of leaving it in the car park to be vandalised and stolen,
00:48:55you take it on the train with you.
00:48:58Now, I will be honest, none of the train companies we contacted would play ball,
00:49:04so I'm using the coach instead.
00:49:07Coach is good. Coach is better than a train.
00:49:11Fewer diseases on a coach.
00:49:14And, of course, when you get to the big city,
00:49:19you don't have to use the tube or the bus,
00:49:22because you have your car with you.
00:49:28Oh.
00:49:33Oh, dear.
00:49:36Oh.
00:49:41Oh.
00:49:43Just cut the cameras.
00:49:49In London, I went for a little drive.
00:49:52Yes.
00:49:54All sorts of hand signals available.
00:49:56I can go if I want to go left, right, somebody annoys me.
00:50:00And then I went shopping, and with the P45, there's no need to pay.
00:50:07Always time looking for a parking space.
00:50:16Oh, dear.
00:50:17Now, of course, a PLP50 also fits in a lift, but because it has no reverse gear,
00:50:27you can't back it out again, unless there's a newsreader to hand.
00:50:31This, though, does have a reverse gear.
00:50:33So, here we go.
00:50:36Now, I know what you're thinking.
00:50:48There's no way you'd be allowed to drive around here with a two-stroke engine,
00:50:52belching fumes into the faces of all the baby children.
00:50:55But here's the thing.
00:50:57You see, the P45 is a hybrid.
00:51:00So, when you come inside, you can disconnect the petrol engine
00:51:02and connect up a couple of electric motors.
00:51:07Very simple job.
00:51:08You simply take off a wheel, connect a freewheeling hub.
00:51:12I mean, it takes a couple of guys' minutes.
00:51:15There are a couple of drawbacks.
00:51:28Number one, the top speed is now three miles an hour.
00:51:32And number two, the batteries will only last an hour.
00:51:36But I'm a man, and I can't think of any shopping expedition
00:51:40that could possibly take longer than that.
00:51:45Shoes, I've got some.
00:51:47I don't need any of those.
00:51:50I've got a chair.
00:51:53There's nothing on the body.
00:51:55Eventually, I bought a present for James.
00:51:59And then I decided to find out just how quiet my car is in electric mode.
00:52:04So, I took it here.
00:52:12This is extraordinary.
00:52:15Nobody's looking up.
00:52:17Nobody's noticing me.
00:52:20The only trouble is that libraries are more interesting than shopping centres.
00:52:25Whoa.
00:52:26The history of Germany.
00:52:28Can't be that big just to say we lost a lot.
00:52:32An hour simply flew by.
00:52:34Get out of the way, student.
00:52:37And soon, the batteries were flat.
00:52:39Oh, no.
00:52:43Now, if this were a peeled P-50, I could simply pick it up and carry it out.
00:52:49But I'm afraid the P-45 is a bit heavier.
00:52:53But a lot heavier.
00:52:54Weigh the time.
00:52:55There's only one thing for it.
00:53:08This is so embarrassing.
00:53:10That night, I was due to go to a show.
00:53:24Oh, yes.
00:53:26Stupid idiot.
00:53:27And as I was running late, I decided to take a shortcut.
00:53:31Look here.
00:53:32Cyclists not allowed.
00:53:35Good.
00:53:36I'm not a cyclist.
00:53:38So, here I come.
00:53:41Hello.
00:53:41Opposing boot.
00:53:46Come on, quickly.
00:53:52I'm really sorry.
00:53:55Soon, I was in the West End.
00:53:57Ah!
00:53:58And nearing the theatre.
00:54:04This is the joy of a P-45.
00:54:07Everything is a drive-thru.
00:54:09Hello.
00:54:12Um, one, please.
00:54:15Thank you very much.
00:54:18Oh!
00:54:21There you go.
00:54:29The show was ace.
00:54:35Not a single gay man on that stage.
00:54:39However, my seating arrangements were a bit cramped.
00:54:51Oh, no!
00:54:54Cut.
00:54:55Cut.
00:54:58The next morning, it was clear to me that the P-45 was completely excellent.
00:55:02But, would it make commercial sense to put it into production?
00:55:07To find out, I'd set up an important business meeting.
00:55:11To make sure I look my best, I'm wearing a suit, as you can see.
00:55:14And, I'll wash my hair, and now I'm going to give the car a wash and brush up as well.
00:55:25Now, here we go.
00:55:26Here we go, yes.
00:55:27Here we go, yes.
00:55:28Ah, it's not warm.
00:55:29It's extremely cold.
00:55:31Ah, yeah, I'll be well up.
00:55:36Oh, yes.
00:55:37People pay many pounds for this in countries.
00:55:43Oh, that's cold quite badly.
00:55:45What's happened here?
00:55:46There's a terrible thing that's happened.
00:55:48There's a bad thing that's happened.
00:55:52And, I've got completely weds.
00:55:57With the P-45 untangled, I headed off to my big business meeting.
00:56:02First of all, I'd like to apologise for my, um, wet sleeves.
00:56:23And, um, my bloodshot eye.
00:56:25I got soap in it.
00:56:25We'll gloss over that.
00:56:27Um, right.
00:56:28Um, cars are getting bigger these days.
00:56:32With a picture here of an original Ford Cortina, which I'm sure you won't remember, Deborah.
00:56:38And the modern Mondeo, which is bigger.
00:56:40And it's the same story with the Golf, and it's the same story, uh, with the Fiesta.
00:56:45And it's ridiculous when we live in a country as cramped and as overcrowded as ours.
00:56:50So, cars really should be getting smaller.
00:56:52And that is where this comes in.
00:56:55This is my creation.
00:56:59The P-45.
00:57:01Um, now the idea is, you can drive this to a railway station, and then you pop it on the train or a coach or whatever,
00:57:09go to the next city, and then you can use it there as well.
00:57:12It's road legal.
00:57:13Can I just make sure, because I think I might have missed something here.
00:57:16You started apologising why your arms were wet, and then didn't explain why.
00:57:20Because they've got water on them.
00:57:22Yeah.
00:57:25I actually do travel back and forward from the West Country on the train.
00:57:29You say you can take that with you.
00:57:31That looks quite big to get on the train.
00:57:33That's because train companies, um, put seats in their carriages, which, of course, they needn't do with this.
00:57:39If you just produced a carriage, you could drive in and just sit there.
00:57:43Hold on a minute.
00:57:43So, at the moment, you can't get it on a train?
00:57:47Not as such.
00:57:48No.
00:57:49So, you've got to rely on the train companies redesigning their trains for you to get this on the train.
00:57:53Well, redesigning is quite easy.
00:57:55You just take the seats out.
00:57:57Okay, I, um...
00:57:59Um, yeah, Jeremy, is this your first business venture?
00:58:03Yes.
00:58:06And what would it cost to have one of these on the road?
00:58:09£8,000.
00:58:10£8,000?
00:58:11And what would you make them for?
00:58:12It'll cost £4,000 to build.
00:58:14By children, or are you going to get adults?
00:58:16Can you really get children to work in a factory?
00:58:18Because that would be brilliant if you could.
00:58:21Jeremy has asked if he could get children to work in a factory.
00:58:26You must come and have a look.
00:58:29Theopaphitis decides to take a closer look.
00:58:33Jeremy, it's shit.
00:58:38It isn't.
00:58:39It is.
00:58:39Totally and utter shit.
00:58:41Theopaphitis thinks Jeremy's car still needs work.
00:58:45Well, I don't understand why you're not seeing what I'm seeing here.
00:58:49No, we are, Jeremy.
00:58:50Can I just say, I can see exactly what you're looking at.
00:58:53It's just that I can see that it's loopy and you can't.
00:58:56How much of your money have you invested in this?
00:58:58Absolutely none at all.
00:59:00That is the best thing that you've done yet.
00:59:03Do you have a plan?
00:59:04Do you have any financial protection?
00:59:05Do you have any idea of the size of the market?
00:59:07How are you going to sell it to that market?
00:59:09Yes.
00:59:11So, size of the market?
00:59:14$1,600 a month.
00:59:16$1,600 a month?
00:59:17Or a year.
00:59:22Well, Jeremy, I'm going to make you an offer.
00:59:25That's the ticket.
00:59:26£1 for 1%.
00:59:28Why would anybody buy this?
00:59:36It's got stripes on it.
00:59:38I couldn't invest in you.
00:59:40I'm sorry, I'm out.
00:59:43Jeremy, I have to say one thing.
00:59:46It is the smartest I've ever seen you.
00:59:48So, congratulations for that.
00:59:50You've made clearly a real effort.
00:59:52However, I can't invest in ridiculous things.
00:59:56So, on that basis, Jeremy, I'm going to have to tell you I'm out.
00:59:59Jeremy, it's rubbish.
01:00:01It's useless.
01:00:02You're wasting your time.
01:00:05I can't invest in this.
01:00:07So, I'm out.
01:00:09Theopaphitis is out, which means Jeremy's only chance is Duncan Bannertine.
01:00:15Well, Jeremy, I'm the last dragon in and I, you know, I tried to tempt him by making it
01:00:19off and hoping they would come in with me.
01:00:23Sorry, I can't understand a word you say.
01:00:28That is ammo.
01:00:32Jeremy has insulted Duncan Bannertine and now he, too, is out.
01:00:37All the dragons have given him his P-45.
01:00:42Oh, I'm sorry.
01:00:54I'm unbowed by the negativity.
01:00:56I mean, how can they not realise this is a car you never need to park?
01:01:01You can go to the theatre in it, you can go shopping in it, your arms are free, so you
01:01:04can reach things from the shelves.
01:01:06You never need get out of it.
01:01:08Which is ironic because the very first thing anyone is going to want to do upon getting
01:01:12in is get out of it.
01:01:14And it's a death trap.
01:01:16I feel like Vincent Van Gogh.
01:01:18What, you've only got one ear?
01:01:19No.
01:01:20Nobody recognised his genius until after he died.
01:01:24So what you're saying is, for this to be a commercial success, you have to be dead.
01:01:34Yes.
01:01:36And on that bombshell, it is time to end.
01:01:39Thank you very much for watching.
01:01:41They'll see you next week.
01:01:42Good night.
01:01:43Thank you very much.
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