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00:00:00Tonight, James experiences the sheer grunt of a Chevrolet Silverado.
00:00:13I go airborne in a Ford Velociraptor, and Richard Hammond carries some wood.
00:00:25Hello. Hello, good evening.
00:00:29Hello, now.
00:00:32Thank you very much.
00:00:34A while back, I heard that Lexus was working on a car called the RCF.
00:00:40It would be a two-door coupe with a 5-liter V8 engine,
00:00:44and it would take on the smaller AMG Mercs and M-powered BMWs,
00:00:50and I was very excited.
00:00:51I couldn't wait to give it a spanking around our track,
00:00:55and now I have...
00:00:57I expected it to be sharp, but violent.
00:01:11Raw, but civilized.
00:01:22Powerful, but controlled.
00:01:24I expected a bank of Tokyo high-tech, with the exhaust bark of a mad dog.
00:01:36But actually, it turned out to be fat and useless.
00:01:42really fat.
00:01:46With two people on board, it weighs nearly two tons.
00:01:52So look what happens when you put it in a drag race with a BMW M4.
00:01:57The BMW M4 just walks away.
00:02:10I have 40 more horsepower than he does, and I'm being humiliated.
00:02:18The enormous weight means it's no good in the corners either.
00:02:27I have got many, many different settings in here.
00:02:33And I've got G-shift control, whatever that is, and VDIM.
00:02:39I've got standard, Eco, Sport S, Sport S Plus, something called Slalom.
00:02:48It doesn't matter which one you select.
00:02:51You just get yards and yards of wearisome understeer,
00:02:56and then a lot of electronic interference.
00:03:00There is, however, another setting in the RC F, which makes it even worse.
00:03:06If you put it in Sport Plus, and then push this button here...
00:03:10Look, I'm now in expert mode.
00:03:13It says it there.
00:03:14I have told the car that I am an expert.
00:03:18I don't need the electronic stuff.
00:03:20I can manage.
00:03:25Oh, God.
00:03:31Lurchy.
00:03:32That's the word I'm looking for there.
00:03:34Lurchy.
00:03:40I'm really struggling to deal with the weight.
00:03:43Come on.
00:03:46What are you doing that?
00:03:49I'm an expert.
00:03:50Look, look how I'm going around this corner.
00:03:53That's an expert piece of...
00:03:55Oh, I'm on the grass.
00:03:58The simple truth of the matter is,
00:04:01you can put John Prescott in a pair of running shoes,
00:04:05but it won't make him an athlete.
00:04:06I really don't like this car.
00:04:10I don't like the way it looks.
00:04:11I don't like the way it goes.
00:04:13I don't like the way it feels.
00:04:16But what really annoys me,
00:04:18what really gets my goat,
00:04:20is that I know Lexus can do so much better.
00:04:25A few years ago,
00:04:36they gave us the LFA.
00:04:40A car which, I'll admit,
00:04:42has many faults and irritations.
00:04:49The seatbelt, for example,
00:04:51is incredibly difficult to do up.
00:04:53um there are no cup holders it's impossible to plumb your telephone or whatever into the stereo
00:04:59system and the fuel tank is the size of a disposable lighter which means you have to fill up
00:05:04every five minutes and then you have to get out and then it takes you a week to do your seat
00:05:09bolt up again i still haven't done it it's like giving myself a prostate exam
00:05:15but these little things pale into insignificance when you unleash its astonishing v10 engine
00:05:34it produces 552 horsepower that means naught to 60 in 3.7 seconds
00:05:57it also means a top speed of 202 and even more amazingly
00:06:02it revs from idle to the red line in an almost unbelievable 0.6 of a second
00:06:16but the best thing is the noise
00:06:21it sounds baleful it sounds like a wild animal that's sad about something
00:06:26this is what i was looking for in the new lexus
00:06:43a sense that the engine is actually alive that it's a sentient being
00:06:50and there was more i was looking for too
00:06:54the lfa does not have
00:06:56an expert facility or a g-shift thing or vdim
00:07:05it corners well because it's well engineered
00:07:08and it's light very light
00:07:19so i love the way that it feels so violent and raw
00:07:29this car is simply out of this world
00:07:40and look at the difference in styling see how one looks like that stupid food that's drizzled in
00:07:51jus and served on a bed of stupid beans to idiots in overpriced restaurants
00:07:57and the other is as simple as a freshly picked blackberry
00:08:04i know that this cost five or six times more
00:08:07than the new rcf and i know it's full of carbon fiber and all sorts of clever engineering that you
00:08:14can't reasonably expect to find further down the fiscal food chain
00:08:20but surely they could have captured the spirit of this car the essence its soul and transplanted that
00:08:29into the rcf surely they could
00:08:31or maybe they couldn't maybe the lfa is so good not even the people who made it
00:08:43know how to make it again
00:08:45you said you were going to give it a spanking yeah but you gave it a kicking well it's rubbish
00:09:02it is absolutely rubbish in fact it's so bad i'm not even going to bother getting the sting to take
00:09:06it around the track it'd just be a complete waste of time oh now we also bring you up to speed with
00:09:11the latest in car news okie doke a new skoda coming out it's called the superb there it is mainly for
00:09:18minicabbers but what you really need to know is underneath if you peel away the body it's basically
00:09:22a golf okay there's another new skoda the octavia the vrs that's a golf as well new audi rs3 sportback
00:09:30here it is that's a golf new skoda fabia ah is that a golf no that's polo is it oh this is confusing
00:09:38it's not confusing it is no it's not it's really really simple all cars are basically a golf
00:09:44underneath or a polo or a fiat 500 except for this this is the citron ds5 that's basically a peugeot
00:09:53underneath oh and the fiat 500x that well is that not a fiat 500 no that's an alfa romeo
00:10:01is it anyway that's cleared up this week's motoring news for you moving on do you remember
00:10:06that six-wheeled uh mercedes g-wagon that i drove six wheel drive thing yes in the desert yes yes well
00:10:12mercedes have now announced that they're making a four-wheel version of it oh there it is yeah look
00:10:17at that so they've made a four-wheel version of the six-wheel version of the four-wheel car they
00:10:21already had i think it looks great massive wheels made possible by portal axles so it's
00:10:28raised up it's got about 422 brake horsepower i think it is from it's a v8 twin turbo it is quite
00:10:34costly two hundred thousand bands for that i know i know i know but if you look closely it's got side
00:10:41pipes oh yeah and all of a sudden ladies and gentlemen richard hammond has become uncomfortable
00:10:47in his trousers well i love do you love side pipes i could tell that from the strip of your front pipe
00:10:55oh now there's a sort of motor racing it's called gt3 anyone seen it there's a picture of a grid here
00:11:02right okay look at it it's just amazing astin's mclaren's porsches bmws nissan gtr's fabulous series yeah
00:11:09very exciting because you can recognize the cars but now bentley has announced that they're going to
00:11:13build a car that's inspired by that race series it's called the gt3r here it is and it's a sort of
00:11:20stripped down pumped um road going two-seater version of the race car 580 horsepower from its v8 i like
00:11:28the look of that it does and well you'll like the sound because it's got a titanium exhaust that they
00:11:33say gives it a baritone wall so it's got tom jones underneath it basically they've struck tom jones
00:11:40how it sounds aston martin have got a very similar sort of thing called the vantage v12 gt3
00:11:46exactly whoa that is a v12 obviously 600 horsepower so 20 more than the bentley and it's half a ton
00:11:52lighter that is properly blowing my frock up that thing i don't know he is philosophy news
00:12:00everybody no don't groan because this is i know it sounds dreary but
00:12:05driverless cars are coming as we know and somebody pointed out this week and i think it's rather a good
00:12:11point that that they will have to make from time to time ethical decisions what like should we cancel
00:12:18third world debt no jones not that you're driving along okay and you're heading towards an accident
00:12:23well you're not driving you're sitting there you're heading towards an accident it's going to be fatal
00:12:27the only solution is to swerve onto the pavement but there are two pedestrians there
00:12:32what does the car do well is this the moral maze or something no it's a genuine thing because
00:12:39basically you will have bought a car that must be programmed in certain circumstances to kill you
00:12:46it will go there's two there there's only one person in me i'm going to kill him and you'll just have
00:12:51to sit there as the lorry comes and there's nothing you can do well maybe driverless cars will have to
00:12:55come with like an override button just a big button with me on it so in a crash save me just hit that
00:13:02well maybe it could have a sliding scale so you could say look if it's a load of children on the
00:13:06pavement obviously don't run them down but cyclists we are we are in dark territory well the interesting
00:13:17thing is all of us are programmed because we're humans because we're animals basically to look
00:13:22after ourselves self-preservation always kicks in and you will swerve away from danger not not
00:13:28necessarily oh well now you say that but recently scientists conducted an absolutely awful genuinely
00:13:34awful experiment but with a very interesting result they got a load of monkeys with their babies and
00:13:38put them in a box and then they heated the floor this actually happened i'm you know just reporting they
00:13:44heated the floor up till it became really unbearable and all of the monkeys picked up their babies and
00:13:50held them but when the floor got hotter and hotter until it was absolutely unbearable every one of them
00:13:55put the babies down and stood on them i'm i'm surprised i'm surprised you didn't save this for the
00:14:04christmas show mate what a lovely story what a nice tale i love a story i'm just saying these driverless
00:14:13cars everybody goes oh aren't they clever they can stop at red lights they are going to have to face
00:14:17all sorts of things like who do i kill now we are programmed to look after ourselves and these
00:14:22driverless cars are going to be programmed to do the maths and say a lot of people over there i'm
00:14:27going to kill you and whether to stand on a baby monkey now brooklyn's world's first purpose-built
00:14:36race track do you remember it well no he will oh yeah he will obviously okay we've got some footage
00:14:41of it here to remind everyone this was just outside london and look at it and everybody walked fast and
00:14:45we're in bracken white those days and you went unbelievable look at this 120 miles an hour
00:14:50on the banking and then there's james may look in his pedal car and then it was just fantastic but
00:14:58the war started they built an aeroplane factory on the circuit and that was the end of that
00:15:03ever since there's been a group of enthusiasts who want brooklyn's to reopen and this oh last week
00:15:07actually they were given a grant by the lottery people of 4.6 million pounds and i just think that's
00:15:13going to be brilliant get that back astin's bentley's belting around at the weekend
00:15:18fatherington sorbet wheel to wheel with the duke of winden it's a very good idea for an appealing
00:15:23sunday afternoon watching the toffs kill themselves you just pop down the a3 on a sunday afternoon let's
00:15:29go and watch the earl of bradford's head come off how much did you say they've been given 4.6 million
00:15:35pounds well that's not enough is it the shopping center next to our office costs one and a half
00:15:39billion yes exactly it isn't very much you call it right well spotted hammond in fact all they can
00:15:45afford to do with that is rebuild the start finish straight well hang on just the start finish
00:15:51straight of a race circuit is not much use in itself no unless they spent all 4.6 million on lottery
00:15:57tickets it's lottery money they could take the grant spent on lottery tickets and win a lot more good
00:16:03thinking from richard hammondbury saved motor racing for the nation now i know this is a car show but
00:16:11please bear with us because i want to talk about this it's one of those watches that's worn by people
00:16:17who play golf and do business and they're always banging on about these pins that you can see here yeah
00:16:24they say that if they pull those pins out the watch will send their precise position to a team of
00:16:30professionals who will come and rescue them so if they're out climbing a mountain or rowing across
00:16:36an ocean which they aren't because they're playing golf and doing business no but if they were doing
00:16:40those things and something went wrong then thanks to their watch they'd be okay ah but would they to
00:16:46find out the producers decided that one of us should be dumped somewhere with minimal kit with virtually
00:16:52no food somewhere very very remote to see if the system works
00:17:22well that's it i am now marooned here wherever the hell here is
00:17:49bloody hell
00:17:53my only hope now is my watch so it's time undo this
00:18:04there and then pull that bit out
00:18:10and that's it done
00:18:15pulling those pins activates a distress signal that's picked up by a leosar low earth polar orbit satellite
00:18:22which then forwards my exact coordinates to a central command center the team here then
00:18:28scramble the nearest highly trained search and rescue unit who arrive at my location within hours
00:18:38sadly however today the scramble command has not been sent to a highly trained search and rescue unit
00:18:48so
00:18:56running on petrol
00:18:58it's a brilliant idea and
00:19:00i'm not sure the ferrari does that i think it does but i think they're just being honest about it
00:19:04because they're recognizing that it's a means of improving the efficiency is that your bag rigging
00:19:09oh i think this is the signal from our esteemed colleague richard hammond is it where is he
00:19:15wait a minute he would appear to be in africa is it
00:19:20so look no i think you'll find that is canada specifically the rockies
00:19:30crikey um actually that is quite serious we really do need to get on this james so
00:19:36excuse me could we see the pudding menu
00:19:39right that bit suspends off this bit
00:19:50that watch transmits for 24 hours
00:19:56and then that's it
00:19:57right so this is the mountain there's my tent
00:20:05mountain trees hills this is all we are there's a cameraman a sound recordist and a bloke from the
00:20:11office and he's just a media lovey i know you think there's a five-star hotel just down there but
00:20:19there's not nothing else there's no survival experts here fact of the matter is i'm completely
00:20:26stuck until yogi the boar and booboo get here
00:20:31knowing we were his only hope we had some important decisions to make
00:20:36raunchy apple fritters sounds quite interesting james james james james you know in the colonies
00:20:43australia south africa america canada and so on everybody loves pickup trucks yes
00:20:49well why don't we get a pickup truck to go and rescue hammondon because pickup trucks generally
00:20:55only have two seats and there would be three of us when we've rescued him why don't we get two pickup
00:20:59trucks one for you one for me it would a increase our chances of finding him and b there'd be a seat
00:21:05to get him back in but in thunderbirds inevitably one and two kind of went first and they always yeah
00:21:15alan and no not alan who drove thunderbird one scott virgil no virgil was two was he two scott was one
00:21:25virgil was two alan was three gordon was four gordon
00:21:29in canada the temperature was a bit at minus 10 so i urgently needed some warmth
00:21:36what would have been wrong with giving me a lighter
00:21:46can't get my fire lit cold beans they're a bit frozen in the middle
00:21:55having finished our lunch i'm not sure about the red you know we went to book some flights to
00:22:07vancouver okay you actually just missed the last flight out today have we yeah what a rotten bit of
00:22:14luck should we get another drink there's a delta one that leaves at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
00:22:19don't like delta seat upholstery would you go from manchester manchester no you know this is the
00:22:27bbc i think would be idiotic to go to manchester i mean that would be just stupid there's lufthansa
00:22:32stewardesses wear trousers there's one from gatwick which goes by calgary gatwick he doesn't like
00:22:39gatwick i hate gatwick out there somewhere there are bears as many as 180 000 black bears
00:23:01i can't remember what it was about 15 000 grizzlies
00:23:09in the morning i was cold and exhausted from lack of sleep but most of all i was anxious
00:23:27any minute there any minute
00:23:34i mean they've had 24 hours i mean
00:23:3924 hours you can get anywhere in the world in 24 hours surely
00:23:50where the hell are they
00:23:53i can't remember james
00:24:03it stopped beeping well yeah it would why would it because the watch thing only transmits the
00:24:11distress signal for 24 hours then the battery runs out
00:24:16seriously well yeah it's only well did you make a note of where he was well i didn't you you've got the
00:24:21thing well i remember he was he was on something called i think it was wolf mountain and he go up bear
00:24:30pass sounds grizzly
00:24:34that was a good joke no actually do you know the biggest problem is not bears and wolves
00:24:40cougars loads of cougars well that's all right then there's not that sort of cougar
00:24:44oh you mean like a big cat thing
00:24:52as i couldn't move from the spot where the watch had transmitted the distress signal
00:24:57i was hard at work trying to make my life here more comfortable
00:25:08i want somewhere to sit i can't sit on the snow so i'm building a shelter
00:25:12spark you bastard there we go we have fire
00:25:28and with my supplies dwindling i also needed to think about food animals for food
00:25:39guinea pigs all animals can be a source of nourishment a few including worms and insects
00:25:46can be collected with little skill
00:25:59i'm bored i'm cold i'm unhappy i'm hungry i'm scared
00:26:06and i don't want to be wearing a hat just for a minute
00:26:08oh to alleviate the boredom and stave off the cold i tried to make some sas style pine needle tea
00:26:21oh oh oh oh where are they just where
00:26:37unfortunately we were a little bit delayed at vancouver airport yes but eventually we made it to the car park
00:26:46where our pickup truck rescue vehicles were waiting
00:27:09james yeah that's not a lot of it that's a collapsed sun isn't it yeah never mind that look
00:27:15mine is actually comes to up to my nipples i didn't realize it was and yet do you know what
00:27:21the other thing is if i actually find richard hammond i'm not going to see him am i i'll just
00:27:26run straight over you know to something else about mine this entire vehicle is a transportation
00:27:32device for its own spare wheel look that's all the back's full of that's really stupid look at
00:27:37the size of it anyway listen we've got everything we need here i've got a big warm coat i've got
00:27:42a massive car a rough idea of where richard hammond is yeah so let's go into vancouver get a hotel
00:27:51good night's rest get rid of this jet lag
00:27:56it's not funny i don't know what they've got to get here tomorrow morning early
00:28:13that's the first time i've seen this film and um i'm sorry you two went into vancouver well yes to
00:28:38to get rid of your jet lag.
00:28:39Yes.
00:28:40Now, tiredness kills Hammond.
00:28:41Haven't you seen those signs on the motorway?
00:28:43Exactly.
00:28:44What annoys me as well here is that you chose to do it
00:28:46in big American pickup trucks.
00:28:48Well, that's a good idea because we hardly ever do
00:28:50big American pickup trucks on Top Gear.
00:28:52I know.
00:28:53I'm always campaigning to do them.
00:28:54I know, and in part two of the film,
00:28:56we do them extensively on many different types of terrain.
00:28:59Yes, without me.
00:29:01Oh, this is unbelievable.
00:29:02I've never heard such ingratitude.
00:29:045,400 miles we traveled to come and rescue you.
00:29:08In slow motion.
00:29:09Yeah, but we thought you liked tenting.
00:29:12I do.
00:29:12In the Lake District, where there's a bit of drizzle
00:29:14and you can go out for some cake,
00:29:16not on top of a mountain at minus 10, surrounded by bears.
00:29:20Well, we'll find out later on if Richard Hammond manages
00:29:23to be grateful about any of this.
00:29:24But now it's time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:29:29Now, funnily enough, my guest tonight
00:29:30spent quite a lot of time in Canada as well.
00:29:32Is she an ungrateful, angry little man?
00:29:34No, no, she isn't.
00:29:36She is the star of both The X-Files and The Fall.
00:29:38Ladies and gentlemen, it is Gillian Anderson!
00:29:52Ha-ha!
00:29:54Excellent.
00:29:55Thank you so much for coming.
00:29:59So you can remember my name throughout the show?
00:30:01No, it goes on there.
00:30:02Eventually, it goes on there.
00:30:04But I did have to look whether it was a J or a G.
00:30:06Now, one of the things that amazed me is you today joined a very small band of people
00:30:12who've been on this show, including...
00:30:13But by doing the worst time ever, rather than...
00:30:16Well, we'll get to that later.
00:30:18Okay.
00:30:19How did you know?
00:30:21How did you know?
00:30:22No, no, no!
00:30:23Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Cowell, Michael Gambon, and you?
00:30:27What?
00:30:28Everyone's offered a car and driver to come down here, but you said, no, no, I'll drive myself.
00:30:32Yeah.
00:30:33And you did drive yourself?
00:30:34I did drive myself.
00:30:35Very rare.
00:30:36Have you got a problem with drivers?
00:30:37Are you just like driving?
00:30:38I just like being in control, I think.
00:30:39Really?
00:30:40Ultimately.
00:30:41No, I do like...
00:30:42I drive everywhere.
00:30:43I drive everywhere.
00:30:44You grew up in England, didn't you?
00:30:45Because I know a lot of people have been very surprised to hear you talking with an English
00:30:48accent.
00:30:49Yeah.
00:30:50But you actually did grow up...
00:30:51Was it London?
00:30:52It was London.
00:30:53You grew up in London.
00:30:54But then you learned to drive in America.
00:30:57At 16.
00:30:58At 16.
00:30:59And it was a Volkswagen family that you'd come from.
00:31:01Well, when we were living in London, we had a beetle, an old original body beetle, the
00:31:07skinny ones with the pointy tops.
00:31:09And then when we moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, we got what's called a rabbit, which is, I think,
00:31:13a golf.
00:31:14A Volkswagen golf is a rabbit.
00:31:16I'm not sure a rabbit.
00:31:17Yeah.
00:31:18I think they are the same thing.
00:31:19Oh, God.
00:31:20But that's what I...
00:31:21That's what I...
00:31:23It does exist.
00:31:24Yes, it does.
00:31:25So, anyway, so you learned to drive at 16.
00:31:28Yes.
00:31:29In the States.
00:31:30And it went well?
00:31:31Yes.
00:31:32No, no, no.
00:31:33Well, very well.
00:31:34And then, you know, you were kind of on probation for a period of time when you get your driver's
00:31:36license, where you can drive, but you have to have somebody who has a driving license
00:31:39in the car.
00:31:40Okay.
00:31:41And I didn't on the first time I went out and got into two car accidents on the same
00:31:46day.
00:31:47I was literally, I swear to God, going to my very first acting class.
00:31:51And I got rear-ended.
00:31:53And I thought it was my fault.
00:31:54And so I said, I'm so sorry.
00:31:56Just go.
00:31:57Go away.
00:31:58And I didn't get any information.
00:31:59And then I had to pretend later that I got hit in the parking lot.
00:32:01They must have thought that all their Christmases had come at once.
00:32:03Yes.
00:32:04Somebody apologized for being stationary one of them.
00:32:05Yes.
00:32:06So what was the second one?
00:32:07The second one was, um, I was trying to parallel park and swung out and side-swiped
00:32:12her woman in a large, uh, old Cadillac.
00:32:16And she, she was very large.
00:32:18And her son was very large.
00:32:19And they had a very large baseball bat.
00:32:21They were determined that they were going to get money.
00:32:24So they drove, they followed me home.
00:32:27With a baseball bat?
00:32:28With a baseball bat.
00:32:29And I walked up to the front door.
00:32:30My mum answered.
00:32:31And there were these two people, um, wanting money standing behind me.
00:32:35And she had this sense of mind to look in a wallet and pretend that she only had $20.
00:32:40And so she gave it to them and sent them on their way.
00:32:43Yeah.
00:32:44So anyway, you grew up, you grew up in the UK, ended up in America, ended up acting obviously.
00:32:48So presumably you end up in Los Angeles at some point.
00:32:50Yes.
00:32:51And then what car did you have once all the X-Files had taken off?
00:32:54Well, while I was, um, I don't know why, but when, when we were shooting in Vancouver,
00:32:59I had a Boxster.
00:33:00Um, and then, uh, while we were in LA, uh, I did a commercial and they paid me in a car.
00:33:07And I got to choose a car.
00:33:09So I chose an, uh, an old body 911.
00:33:12A 911?
00:33:13Yeah.
00:33:14I'd have gone for a Veyron.
00:33:15Well, I'm sure that the budget, uh, restricted me.
00:33:19It wasn't any car.
00:33:21It wasn't any car.
00:33:22So you were a fan of a 911?
00:33:23Yes, very much.
00:33:24Yeah.
00:33:25What is it that you like about 911s?
00:33:27Um, I liked about that particular car.
00:33:30I liked how much you could feel the road in it.
00:33:32I felt, it felt, you know, it's a very basic car.
00:33:35I always think that it's popular in America because 911 is what you dial if you crash.
00:33:39Yeah.
00:33:40So why do I crash?
00:33:41Oh, I know it's, there's a number.
00:33:42Because it did, it's the same thing.
00:33:43That's not bad.
00:33:44That's not a bad accent.
00:33:45I'm better in the sheriff, but there's, but that's about it.
00:33:48So have you, have you got lots of speeding tickets or are you?
00:33:51I've had a few.
00:33:52You have?
00:33:53The, the, the nicest, um, the nicest thing that ever happened was in Canada on Christmas
00:33:58Eve, uh, in Vancouver I was properly speeding and the policeman pulled up beside me, drove
00:34:04in front of me and slowed me down.
00:34:06And then he put his hand out the window and gave me the thumbs up.
00:34:10No.
00:34:11What's properly speeding?
00:34:12Probably about 110.
00:34:13Miles now.
00:34:14Yeah.
00:34:15How many tickets have you got?
00:34:16Do you get a lot of tickets?
00:34:17I've just got my first in 35 years.
00:34:19No.
00:34:20Yep.
00:34:21Is, is that...
00:34:23You know, you've got an innocent face like mine.
00:34:26You don't like to cause offence, which I don't.
00:34:29I smell bulls**t.
00:34:31There was...
00:34:32The other one you had in Los Angeles, did you have a Land Rover?
00:34:37I had a, yes, I did.
00:34:40I, um, I, I, I fell in love with the idea of having an old fashioned Defender.
00:34:47A red one with a cream top and it was as much the look of it as anything else.
00:34:51And they're a f***ing pain in the arse of driving.
00:34:54They are.
00:34:55The wheels are this big and they don't, and they don't.
00:34:57And there's no shoulder room at all.
00:34:59And there's no...
00:35:00I bought it for about $12,000.
00:35:02I put about $35,000 into it.
00:35:06And I sold it on a celebrity auction for $12,000.
00:35:12Because it's only recently they've started making cars.
00:35:15Well, old Artie wanted them to last and work.
00:35:17I would never thought of that before.
00:35:18No.
00:35:19But they are quite reliable now.
00:35:20You and your accent.
00:35:21It's very impressive.
00:35:22I don't know.
00:35:23Is that Australian?
00:35:24Anyway, it's time now to talk about your lap.
00:35:31Because...
00:35:32Sorry, 2,765 laps.
00:35:34Well, it was about that.
00:35:36You have set a record.
00:35:38Most amount of laps done.
00:35:40Because most people come down and do seven or eight.
00:35:43What?
00:35:44Really?
00:35:45You did 22.
00:35:46Oh.
00:35:47I'm going to be brutally honest with you.
00:35:51No.
00:35:52No.
00:35:53What?
00:35:54Well, your first five were all over two minutes.
00:35:58Right.
00:35:59Which is, um...
00:36:00Yeah.
00:36:01Off the...
00:36:02Well, crap.
00:36:03It sucked at the beginning.
00:36:06It was wet and I couldn't...
00:36:07I couldn't see the lines.
00:36:08And I got three hours of sleep last night.
00:36:10That doesn't help.
00:36:11Um...
00:36:12Right.
00:36:13Well, couldn't see the lines.
00:36:14Yeah.
00:36:15Three hours sleep.
00:36:16Yeah.
00:36:17Body working okay?
00:36:18Oh, sticks.
00:36:19No, no.
00:36:20Frozen shoulder.
00:36:21Okay, so that's good.
00:36:22But I don't...
00:36:23They're not...
00:36:24Yeah, excuses.
00:36:25So...
00:36:26Yeah, yeah.
00:36:27Would you like to see your lap?
00:36:28Yes.
00:36:29Would everyone else like to?
00:36:30Yeah!
00:36:31Here we go.
00:36:32Whoa, that's a lot of power on the...
00:36:37On the start there.
00:36:39That's a dirty look.
00:36:43Keeping it tight.
00:36:46Very tight through there.
00:36:50Tyre's being tortured.
00:36:52Here we go.
00:36:54This is good.
00:36:55This is really good.
00:36:57And...
00:36:58Yep.
00:36:59It is wet through there.
00:37:00Well, moist.
00:37:01My foot's on the floor.
00:37:02Is it?
00:37:03Right now, the hammerhead.
00:37:04Are we going to be too brutal through here?
00:37:05We are a bit.
00:37:06A little bit too much gas.
00:37:07But held it all together nicely.
00:37:08Keeping it in the middle road on the way out.
00:37:09And...
00:37:10Well, there was a gear change.
00:37:11I turned on climate control.
00:37:12Don't get distracted with the follow-through looming.
00:37:13Yes, nicely.
00:37:14That's very nicely done.
00:37:15And...
00:37:16Very quiet and smooth.
00:37:17Here we go.
00:37:18Only two corners to go.
00:37:19Oh, that was a sudden gear change there.
00:37:20And...
00:37:21only gambol left.
00:37:22Very nice through there.
00:37:23And across the line.
00:37:24So, ha-ha!
00:37:25So, ha-ha!
00:37:26So, ha-ha!
00:37:27Bearing in mind, as we've established...
00:37:28how do you want to see the flow-through looming...
00:37:29Yes, nicely.
00:37:30That's very nicely done.
00:37:31And...
00:37:32Very quiet and smooth.
00:37:33Here we go.
00:37:34Only two corners to go.
00:37:36Oh, that was a sudden gear change there.
00:37:39And...
00:37:40Only gambol left.
00:37:42Very nice through there.
00:37:43And across the line.
00:37:45So, ha-ha!
00:37:48So, ha-ha, bearing in mind, as we've established, like your first five laps of your 22, we're about here.
00:38:03Yeah.
00:38:03Two minutes.
00:38:04Where do you think you came in the end?
00:38:09I think I'm probably still below Jack.
00:38:11What, slower than 1.54.5?
00:38:13I don't know what that means.
00:38:15One minute.
00:38:16I don't know what that means.
00:38:18It's a unit of time.
00:38:19Oh, I know.
00:38:21Well.
00:38:23One.
00:38:24Yeah.
00:38:25So, you improved.
00:38:27Yes.
00:38:31Forty.
00:38:32Oh.
00:38:33Oh.
00:38:41Eight.
00:38:42No.
00:38:43Point five.
00:38:44Oh.
00:38:44Oh.
00:38:44F**k.
00:38:45The old Mildly Moist.
00:38:47Which is actually...
00:38:49Yes!
00:38:52I beat Charles Dunn!
00:38:54You beat Charles Dunn, you beat Josh Stone, you beat Kiefer Sutherland.
00:39:01That's a reboot.
00:39:03That is quite something.
00:39:05Wow.
00:39:06That's one of the fastest wet time we've ever had.
00:39:09Or Mildly Moist.
00:39:09I think it is.
00:39:10It was more than Mildly Moist.
00:39:12I'll be the judge of what's moist and what's rough.
00:39:18And that was Mildly Moist.
00:39:20Okay.
00:39:22I know what.
00:39:23You are easily, not only the fastest wet lab, but also most improved.
00:39:30Oh.
00:39:30So, ladies and gentlemen, Gillian Anderson!
00:39:34Gillian!
00:39:36That's good.
00:39:40Now, tonight, Jeremy and I are using two huge American pickup trucks to rescue Richard Hammond,
00:39:47who's been abandoned on a freezing cold mountaintop in the Canadian Rockies.
00:39:52We pick up the action after we've had a good night's rest in a downtown Vancouver hotel.
00:40:00We set off before dawn, not knowing exactly where Hammond was.
00:40:15But we did know he was at least 400 miles away.
00:40:19So, we had plenty of time to get to know our vehicles.
00:40:22I am driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck, which is, by miles, the best-selling vehicle in America.
00:40:35Ford sells one of these things every 35 seconds.
00:40:39And that's only in America, remember.
00:40:4235 seconds.
00:40:43If you were to park every F-150 that's ever been made since 1948, side-by-side, not end-to-end, side-by-side,
00:40:53the line would stretch round the equator.
00:40:57Twice.
00:40:58The reason it sells so well is simple.
00:41:03It's cheap.
00:41:05You can have an F-150 with an automatic gearbox, cruise control, air conditioning,
00:41:10and a 350-horsepower V8 motor for the equivalent of £20,000.
00:41:17And that's what we pay in Europe for a Vauxhall Astra diesel.
00:41:20By comparison, my pickup truck is a sales disaster.
00:41:30What I'm driving here, viewers, the Silverado, the Chevrolet Silverado,
00:41:35is the second-best-selling pickup truck.
00:41:38They only manage to shift one of these every minute.
00:41:42I'm amazed Chevrolet is still in business.
00:41:45Meanwhile, very far away, my third day on the mountain was beginning.
00:41:54I didn't sleep last night.
00:41:55I was cold all night.
00:41:58We're going to have to get more firewood.
00:42:01The thought of that, swinging that axe again.
00:42:05It's probably a good diet, this.
00:42:06You'll see it on This Morning at some point.
00:42:09Well, what you need is to be abandoned by two good friends.
00:42:12Well, when I see good friends, I mean bastards.
00:42:19Look, that's what I call a breakfast.
00:42:23Thank you very, very much.
00:42:24Oh, that's perfect.
00:42:29After our winter-warming breakfast, we were back on the road
00:42:33and delving once more into our pickup trucks.
00:42:36I'm going to be honest with you.
00:42:40This is no ordinary F-150.
00:42:43This is the top-of-the-range Raptor model,
00:42:46which has been beefed up, supercharged and intercooled
00:42:49and then renamed Velociraptor by a company called Hennessy,
00:42:55makers of the Venom,
00:42:56one of the fastest road cars the world has ever seen.
00:43:00So, the 6.2-litre V8 that I have under the bonnet
00:43:08produces 623 horsepower.
00:43:13That's 212 more than standard.
00:43:17And that makes it quick.
00:43:19Alarmingly quick.
00:43:24Listen to this!
00:43:27It's like a jet.
00:43:28While Jeremy was in a supercharged rocket ship,
00:43:34I was riding a wave of low-down grunt.
00:43:39I have at my disposal
00:43:40a 6.6-litre turbocharged V8 diesel engine.
00:43:46It develops 765 pound-feet of torque.
00:43:52That's more than one of those super-sport Bentley Continentals.
00:43:55I also have the Z71 off-road pack,
00:43:59which means I get a lot of underbody strengthening,
00:44:02beefed-up dampers,
00:44:03and it has a standard, a sophisticated four-wheel drive system.
00:44:07I think for International Rescue,
00:44:09this is like Thunderbird 2.
00:44:11It's the one that does all the really serious, proper work.
00:44:14With 52 hours gone and International Rescue nowhere in sight,
00:44:24I was resorting to extreme measures to find food.
00:44:28This is the snare.
00:44:30It just tightens.
00:44:32Like that.
00:44:33I lay this on the rabbit trail,
00:44:37which is here.
00:44:38Foot,
00:44:39court,
00:44:39rabbit,
00:44:40dinner.
00:44:42There.
00:44:43Apparently, the way you bait it
00:44:45is with P.
00:44:47Another layer.
00:44:58Two.
00:45:02Four.
00:45:06What if a bear comes now?
00:45:08Meanwhile, James and I,
00:45:13keen to be ready for any emergency,
00:45:15had decided to buy vital rescue equipment.
00:45:19Why?
00:45:20What's that bit there for?
00:45:22It's a fan opener.
00:45:22Bottle opener.
00:45:24What?
00:45:24You need a bottle opener.
00:45:25It's a bottle opener.
00:45:26It opens beer.
00:45:27Yes.
00:45:28We want them.
00:45:29Is that...
00:45:30That's worth having, isn't it?
00:45:31What is it?
00:45:32Scrapey, scrapey.
00:45:33Brushy, brushy.
00:45:34You think there's a brush?
00:45:35Well, okay.
00:45:36Saw the brush off.
00:45:37I can't buy just one end, can I?
00:45:39There you go.
00:45:40See, there's just one end.
00:45:41Yeah, but you might as well have a brush as well.
00:45:42No, you don't need a brush.
00:45:47I haven't made these
00:45:49exactly like the ones in the book
00:45:51because I once saw
00:45:54Ray Mears
00:45:55make snowshoes
00:45:57and they were more like this.
00:46:07That's it.
00:46:22That's where I peed.
00:46:25No rabbit.
00:46:26It's all rubbish.
00:46:34Nothing works.
00:46:38Where the f*** are they?
00:46:40I have my seat heater on.
00:46:54It's very nice.
00:46:56I really am starting to deeply like my Velociraptor.
00:47:00This reminds me
00:47:02and you're going to think I'm mad
00:47:03but it's true.
00:47:04It reminds me
00:47:05of a 1992
00:47:07supercharged
00:47:09Aston Martin.
00:47:10They're very similar.
00:47:12I used to love that car.
00:47:14This looks like rather than
00:47:15attractive small town.
00:47:16I wouldn't mind stopping
00:47:17for something like a cappuccino.
00:47:21By mid-afternoon
00:47:22there was still no sign
00:47:24of yogi and boo-boo
00:47:25so I prepared myself
00:47:27for a third night
00:47:28in the open.
00:47:31And if you want to write
00:47:33to the BBC
00:47:33and say this is some
00:47:35rare type of tree
00:47:36and has to be preserved
00:47:38you can stick it up your arse.
00:47:42Sick of the sight of this place.
00:47:45I'm a television presenter
00:47:46from Birmingham
00:47:47not bare f***ing grills.
00:47:51Despite our best efforts
00:47:53James and I
00:47:54were still more than
00:47:55150 miles
00:47:57from our friend and colleague.
00:47:59Night was falling
00:48:00the roads were getting worse
00:48:02and there was another issue.
00:48:05Sit rep.
00:48:06James May does not like
00:48:07driving in the snow
00:48:08and has now reduced his speed
00:48:10to about three.
00:48:13To annoy him
00:48:14as much as he was annoying me
00:48:16I decided to ignite
00:48:18my collapsed sun.
00:48:20Right.
00:48:23Clarkson!
00:48:27I've never ever
00:48:28encountered a light
00:48:30like that
00:48:30on the front of a car.
00:48:31Seriously, very funny
00:48:32but could you turn
00:48:33the big light off?
00:48:34Only when you speed up.
00:48:38Turn the f***ing light off!
00:48:42It was a long
00:48:43horrible drive
00:48:44but mercifully
00:48:46when we were just
00:48:47ten miles from Hammond
00:48:48we found a lodge
00:48:49where we could spend
00:48:51the night.
00:48:54And the next morning
00:48:55I came up with a plan.
00:48:58Hammond
00:48:59is ten miles away
00:49:01and four thousand feet
00:49:02above us
00:49:02so
00:49:03we have a race
00:49:05and if you get there first
00:49:07you don't have to rescue him.
00:49:11Come on, that's an incentive.
00:49:13No, you're right, it is, isn't it?
00:49:14So if you don't get there first
00:49:17you have to drive
00:49:17what, 15 hours
00:49:18back to Vancouver
00:49:19with Richard Hammond
00:49:20in your pickup truck.
00:49:21Can you imagine
00:49:22driving 15 hours
00:49:23back to Vancouver
00:49:24with him either dead
00:49:26or bad-tempered?
00:49:29Where the f***ing are you?
00:49:32I peed in a bottle
00:49:33in my tent last night
00:49:34and it felt dirty!
00:49:37Enough!
00:49:37With a good breakfast
00:49:41under our belts
00:49:42James and I
00:49:43were planning our routes.
00:49:46So Hammond
00:49:47is around there
00:49:48that's where the signal
00:49:49came from
00:49:49from his watch
00:49:50so if I go up
00:49:52what I think
00:49:53is Wolf Pass
00:49:54the corpse of Richard Hammond
00:49:56will be around here
00:49:57somewhere.
00:49:58It's slightly longer
00:49:59but it's only a little bit longer
00:50:00but
00:50:01I'm avoiding that
00:50:03massive rise
00:50:04there
00:50:04I'm going to go that way.
00:50:05You ready, mate?
00:50:06I've never been more ready.
00:50:083
00:50:092
00:50:101
00:50:11Begin!
00:50:18This is an interesting race
00:50:19it really is
00:50:20because
00:50:21although our pickup trucks
00:50:23appear to be the same
00:50:25but actually
00:50:27they're not the same at all.
00:50:30His is all about
00:50:31strength
00:50:32and torque
00:50:33and this is all about
00:50:34speed and power.
00:50:36And then
00:50:37there's our driving styles
00:50:38James's is very
00:50:40slow
00:50:41and methodical
00:50:42and full of maths
00:50:43mine's more sort of
00:50:45put your fork down
00:50:48and hope for the best.
00:50:53Traction control is on
00:50:54thumbs outside the wheel
00:50:57that's the other off-road tip
00:50:58absolutely gorgeous scenery
00:51:01Hammond would have been
00:51:02having a lovely time
00:51:02looking at this
00:51:03it's like being at a spa
00:51:06you
00:51:14going on there
00:51:16in the Ford
00:51:25in the Ford
00:51:25I've decided to use
00:51:26one of God's highways
00:51:28rivers as we know
00:51:41are level
00:51:42unless they're waterfalls
00:51:43just hope we don't encounter
00:51:45one of those
00:51:46there's my camera
00:51:49yep
00:51:50I can now see
00:51:51what I'm doing
00:51:53two miles completed
00:51:58no serious problems
00:52:00jeez
00:52:03yes
00:52:06good work
00:52:07I love my pickup truck
00:52:12I really love it
00:52:13both of us were now
00:52:16off the beaten track
00:52:18and full of steely
00:52:19determination
00:52:20come on Jeremy
00:52:28you need to get there first
00:52:30the third one
00:52:33is power sliding
00:52:34oh yes
00:52:37this is called wrestling
00:52:41with the controls
00:52:42whoa
00:52:46oh
00:52:48Silverado
00:52:52why don't you
00:52:54come to your senses
00:52:56temperatures and pressures
00:52:59all in the green
00:53:00this is shouting
00:53:02and power
00:53:03versus thought
00:53:04and talk
00:53:05come on
00:53:07I've got some rooster tails now
00:53:10good news Hammond
00:53:15the velociraptor works well
00:53:17in these conditions
00:53:18where is he
00:53:20where is he
00:53:21hello
00:53:27hello
00:53:29I'm James
00:53:30oh
00:53:30I'm Jeremy
00:53:31should we be friends James
00:53:32yes
00:53:33let's be best friends
00:53:34forever and ever
00:53:34right James
00:53:35I must tell you all about myself
00:53:37actually that's my favourite hobby
00:53:38telling people how wonderful I am
00:53:40oh is it really Jeremy
00:53:41that's funny because I actually
00:53:42am brilliant at him
00:53:43are you
00:53:44yes I am
00:53:44but I'm very modest
00:53:45are you
00:53:46yes that's why I drive a yellow Ferrari
00:53:48do you
00:53:48I drive everything better than everybody else
00:53:50let's have another friend
00:53:52but let's leave him to die on a mountain top shall we
00:53:54oh that'd be funny wouldn't it then
00:53:55we could look really cool with it
00:53:56knowing that Hammond would be on high ground
00:53:59I was now climbing
00:54:01hard
00:54:02oh god I love this thing
00:54:16really properly do
00:54:18all day yesterday this was an Aston Martin V8 Vantage
00:54:28now it's a Group B Audi Quattro
00:54:30on my route I too was climbing
00:54:40do your stuff Z71 pack
00:54:48you can actually feel the wheels going
00:54:53is it this one is it that one
00:54:54I'll put a bit of power there
00:54:57I'll put a bit to that one
00:54:58but as we climbed past 4,000 feet
00:55:04the going started to get really tough
00:55:07keep going keep going keep going
00:55:11keep going keep going
00:55:12Fenderbird 2 is still go
00:55:15keep those revs up keep the wheels spinning
00:55:21come on Jeremy you need to get there first
00:55:25I do not want to drive back to Vancouver
00:55:27with my Velociraptor being soiled by Hammond's cheesy decomposing bottom
00:55:33oh my head's come off has it
00:55:38well a man threw a knife at me but I caught it in my teeth
00:55:41literally my head came off
00:55:42oh well I'm okay
00:55:44who are you
00:55:44in the cock
00:55:47ha
00:55:47right in the nads
00:55:49look at that
00:55:50driving along
00:55:54singing this song
00:55:56come on
00:55:58something in a winter wonderland
00:56:03situation update viewers
00:56:08bit too close to the edge there
00:56:10I've got to be careful how I move
00:56:13otherwise I'll fall into the valley
00:56:15still could be worse
00:56:18whoa
00:56:21oh no
00:56:22faced with the prospect of having to rescue the world's angriest man
00:56:36where are you you pair of middle-aged
00:56:39James and I had both decided to rip out our own fingernails
00:56:43ow
00:56:45ow
00:56:46this made progress much easier
00:56:52that feels good
00:56:54temperatures and pressures still in the green
00:56:57with snow chains fitted
00:56:59you're supposed to be gentle
00:57:01but luckily my colleague doesn't know what that means
00:57:05dig and claw
00:57:09dig and claw
00:57:10come on
00:57:11digging
00:57:11damn it
00:57:13blast
00:57:13come on
00:57:21come on
00:57:23you know you want to do this
00:57:26you don't want Richard Hammond in you
00:57:28oh no
00:57:29the news was grim
00:57:35you are genuinely a bit of a desperado here silverado
00:57:49loving that
00:57:51loving that
00:57:52loving that as well
00:57:54I'm still coming Richard Hammond
00:57:56and you know what
00:57:58so was I
00:58:00underway three wheels on my wagon
00:58:06and I am still rolling along
00:58:08come on machine
00:58:10where is James May
00:58:13where is May
00:58:15a bit of beans there
00:58:18slightly less beans there
00:58:20for the climb
00:58:21that's an engine
00:58:28it's not a plane
00:58:30it's a car
00:58:30that's got to be them
00:58:40where the bloody hell have they been
00:58:43come on
00:58:45do it
00:58:47claw
00:58:47stop panicking
00:58:49just
00:58:50ease it off
00:58:52really struggling
00:58:55really struggling here
00:58:56come on
00:58:57come on
00:59:02it's Hammond
00:59:04Hammond is there
00:59:05how could it have taken
00:59:07that long
00:59:08May
00:59:09bad news
00:59:10you're gonna have to take Hammond
00:59:12back
00:59:13to Vancouver
00:59:14that's a powerful vehicle
00:59:15that is a go anywhere car
00:59:17so where the
00:59:18have you been
00:59:20and he's in an appalling temper
00:59:22absolutely shocking
00:59:24where are you going
00:59:26well now what
00:59:28oh that's your rescue
00:59:30is it
00:59:31hold on
00:59:40hold on
00:59:41that
00:59:43was
00:59:44shocking
00:59:45I have seen Thunderbirds
00:59:46and I never saw Alan
00:59:48flying along
00:59:49listening to Boston
00:59:50eating a bar of chocolate
00:59:51no you're saying that
00:59:52neither did I see Virgil
00:59:53suggesting they stop for a cappuccino
00:59:55they were both focused on the job in hand
00:59:57yes
00:59:58but
00:59:59in that film
01:00:00we did prove
01:00:01that you watch system works
01:00:03and
01:00:04both James and I
01:00:05completely fell in love
01:00:06with our pickup trucks
01:00:07didn't we
01:00:08yeah no this is a very good point
01:00:09because
01:00:10I mean let's be honest
01:00:11for twelve years
01:00:12we've looked down our noses
01:00:13at big American pickup trucks
01:00:14but having spent
01:00:16quite a few days in them
01:00:17we ended up
01:00:18completely besotted
01:00:19it's the value that staggers me
01:00:21because American
01:00:22pickup trucks are exempt from the
01:00:24gas guzzle attacks
01:00:25they are spectacularly cheap
01:00:27yeah I know
01:00:28I'm surprised actually
01:00:29there aren't more people
01:00:30importing them over here
01:00:31yeah well I think the problem is
01:00:32a car this
01:00:33vehicle I should say
01:00:34this size
01:00:35wouldn't really work in Britain
01:00:37and there's another problem
01:00:38excuse me Hammond
01:00:39I think
01:00:40if you put something in the back
01:00:41every time you pull up
01:00:43at a set of red lights
01:00:44someone is going to nick it
01:00:45yeah
01:00:46you're dead right
01:00:47but even so I maintain
01:00:48my Silverado
01:00:49it was brilliant
01:00:50well it was James
01:00:51but let's be honest
01:00:52it didn't actually reach
01:00:53the top of the mountain did it
01:00:55no I wasn't going to mention that
01:00:56actually just before the end
01:00:57it did break a drive shaft
01:00:59yeah I did wonder if you were
01:01:00going to mention that
01:01:01because it wasn't in the film
01:01:03in the end neither Thunderbird
01:01:04fat nor Thunderbird slow
01:01:06actually rescued
01:01:07that is true
01:01:08no an actual rescue person
01:01:10had to come and save me
01:01:11and can I just talk about
01:01:13the four days
01:01:14four days of misery
01:01:16I endured
01:01:17whilst you two dawdled
01:01:18from breakfast to breakfast
01:01:19in your heated trucks
01:01:21no I'm sorry there isn't time
01:01:22and on that bombshell
01:01:23we really must end
01:01:24thank you so much for watching
01:01:26goodnight
01:01:27thank you
01:01:28thank you
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