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00:00:00Tonight, I move my eyes.
00:00:15Richard vandalises the road.
00:00:17There you go.
00:00:18And James says cow.
00:00:20Cow!
00:00:27Hello!
00:00:29Hello!
00:00:30Good evening and welcome.
00:00:32Thank you so much.
00:00:35Now, this is a mobile telephone.
00:00:38It's fully functional and what I'm going to do is throw it in that laboratory.
00:00:44I know that's the first time you've ever seen a program start that way, but bear with me.
00:00:49Because if we now look, yep, it's only been in the water for a few seconds, but it's ruined forever.
00:00:56If you wanted to communicate with somebody, you'd be better off using a Brussels sprout.
00:01:00Yeah, but of course, because if you expose your phone to any form of moisture or heat or dust or vibration, it will break.
00:01:08It's not just phones, it's everything.
00:01:11Printers, laptops, Wi-Fi routers.
00:01:13My coffee machine breaks even when you expose it to coffee.
00:01:17Anything with a circuit board is as reliable as a Greek accountant.
00:01:21Yes, except, weirdly, except cars.
00:01:26Now, we were talking about this in the office the other day, and there was a bit of an argument.
00:01:32We were saying you can drive a car across the Sahara, the Arctic.
00:01:36You can run it through hurricanes and dust storms, and it'll be fine.
00:01:39Hmm, but the producers are saying that because modern cars are so complex and so electronical, they're bound to suffer from reliability problems like everything else.
00:01:49Right, so to see who is correct, the producers said to us, go out and each choose your favourite modern GT car, and then report with them to what's billed as the most hirsute and manly proving ground of them all.
00:02:04Austria.
00:02:04Austria.
00:02:05No, James, Australia.
00:02:08Same thing.
00:02:18This is the hirsute and manly proving ground in question.
00:02:24The vast, almost completely uninhabited, Northern Territory.
00:02:30Better known as the Outback.
00:02:34Richard had chosen to take on this brutal and enormous wilderness in a car that was designed for the car park at Old Trafford, a Bentley Continental GT.
00:02:52James had gone for a car that was designed for the velvet smoothness of the world's racetracks, a Nissan GT-R.
00:03:02And I was in the ultimate Monaco-Munich mile-muncher, the BMW M6 Grand Coupe.
00:03:12I'll tell you what, I think this is the first time in all of Top Gear's history where all three of us like all three of the cars.
00:03:31I mean, normally I'd get out and go, yours is rubbish and you've made the wrong decision and I'm the only one who's done it properly.
00:03:36It's a good point, actually, because I do like your car and I do like your car, Hammond, and I like my car, obviously.
00:03:40It's a GT-R. You can't not like a GT-R.
00:03:42If you like driving above all else and to the exclusion of all other considerations, you have to have one of these.
00:03:52If you have a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, what you're saying is, I'm not that interested in driving.
00:03:57It's showing off.
00:03:58It's showing off.
00:03:59Speaking of which, the Bentley Continental. Now, what happened there?
00:04:02We used to think it was a bit dull and now it's sort of good.
00:04:08But it was overnight.
00:04:09It was.
00:04:09We all must have woken up in the Independent Lental.
00:04:12I hate the Bentley Continental. I hate the Bentley Continental.
00:04:14God, I love the Bentley Continental.
00:04:16I don't understand that, because they haven't changed the styling much.
00:04:19Not since. I mean, it's been around a while now.
00:04:21But then you just woke up one morning and I went, that looks really good.
00:04:24I'd actually have a yellow one as well. I think it looks tremendous.
00:04:26But then while we're on the subject of styling...
00:04:28Oh, how we mocked when they said they were going to do this.
00:04:34Right, so you're going to do a four-door version of a two-door version of a four-door saloon car.
00:04:39And then it came out and you just thought, that is so good looking.
00:04:42I love that back wheel. That dished back wheel in there looks super fantastic, doesn't it?
00:04:46Almost a double bubble roof. I know it's carbon fibre, which is a little bit.
00:04:49Yeah, but we can gloss over that.
00:04:51But, God, it looks good.
00:04:53As we continued our three-car love-in, a challenge arrived.
00:04:57Here we go. You will drive to a farm, which is four days from here.
00:05:04Everything's four days from everything in Australia.
00:05:07And when you arrive, you will use your cars to round up 4,000 cows.
00:05:12But, can you do that?
00:05:14The farm is a big one. Three million acres.
00:05:17No, it's not three million.
00:05:18Oh, it's in work.
00:05:19I know it's in work, yeah.
00:05:20Three... It's not...
00:05:21It's 300,000.
00:05:23That's a big farm.
00:05:25Never mind that. Rounding up 4,000 cows using...
00:05:29These.
00:05:32Oh, God, James, what have you done?
00:05:34What's he done on what?
00:05:36As we know, there is a strong Republican movement in this country.
00:05:40People who think it's ridiculous to have a head of state living in London on the other side of the world.
00:05:45He turns up here with VAT on the number plate.
00:05:48What?
00:05:49Can you not see that? It's obvious.
00:05:52No.
00:05:53Charles and Camilla.
00:05:55You've done it on purpose, haven't you, James?
00:05:57No.
00:05:57Look, let me explain.
00:05:58You blithering idiot.
00:05:58You idiot!
00:06:00Oh, no!
00:06:01Mine says big royalist.
00:06:03It does!
00:06:04It totally does.
00:06:05You can see it.
00:06:06Big royalist.
00:06:06Luckily, mine just says BMW 001, because I covered myself on this occasion.
00:06:12No, you idiot.
00:06:13Bloody Mrs. Windsor.
00:06:14Oh, no! Bloody Mrs. Windsor!
00:06:17We're in trouble, Eric.
00:06:18Can you possibly know?
00:06:19I rang them up and said, can you provide a car?
00:06:21Can you make sure the number plate doesn't say convict or anything on it?
00:06:25And they've done that!
00:06:26We're going to have to drive through it.
00:06:28We'll be stoned by Republicans.
00:06:33As we set off, though, we had a more immediate problem.
00:06:37Could our complicated cars really cope with this vast superheated dust bowl?
00:06:43What's all once thought they'd try and sell the Senator in Australia, a big old saloon
00:06:52made in Germany in the 80s, and so they shipped one out here, and it lasted a couple
00:06:57of days, and then it split in half.
00:07:00Split in half.
00:07:02That's how brutal the Outback is.
00:07:04This car has electronic valve control, electronic gearbox control, an electronic differential.
00:07:13Everything is electronic.
00:07:15It actually has a sensor in the engine that adjusts all the settings so that no matter how
00:07:21hot it is or how cold it is, you always get 575 horsepower.
00:07:25And I'm expecting it to work here, in this dust, and this heat, and with these vibrations,
00:07:31and then go farming.
00:07:33My Nissan is an absolute nerd-fest.
00:07:40I'm going to give you a few examples.
00:07:42It's built in a hermetically sealed factory so that no dust can get into the engine or the
00:07:47gearbox.
00:07:48The tyres are filled with nitrogen because it's more stable than atmospheric air.
00:07:53The engine is canted slightly forwards under the bottom so that when it tenses up under
00:07:57acceleration, it all forms a nice, straight, efficient line.
00:08:03I mean, it's been built by the cream of Japanese automotive engineers at Nissan.
00:08:09That's a pretty good guarantee, but I bet even they, watching this, would think, are we sure?
00:08:15This has 30 ECUs in it.
00:08:25That's 30 laptops buzzing away all over.
00:08:28It's got two miles of wiring in it, a lot of which is super-fast, super-sophisticated,
00:08:33super-delicate fibre optics.
00:08:35Well, this dust is going to get everywhere, and delicate, modern, sophisticated electronics
00:08:40do not like dust.
00:08:45As Hammond was rabbiting on about dust, I decided to have a debate with James about which
00:08:53of our cars was the fastest.
00:08:56You know the Datsun you're driving is unbelievably fast, yes?
00:09:01Yes.
00:09:03Off the line, this will leave it for dead.
00:09:07The M6 will cream you.
00:09:10No, not off the line, it won't.
00:09:12You know that's nonsense.
00:09:15To prove him wrong, I decided to have a drag race on one of the many World War II airfields
00:09:24that litter this part of northern Australia.
00:09:28It is absolutely blistering, this thing.
00:09:310-60, 2.8 seconds.
00:09:342.8.
00:09:36Hammond, would you like to come and do the muses with your stately home in a drag race?
00:09:40Yes, all right, if I must.
00:09:44He's probably got a demented relation living in a tower in there somewhere.
00:09:49It didn't take long to find an airfield, and we lined up on the runway with me resigned
00:10:01to my fate.
00:10:02I have a four-litre twin-turbo V8, making 521 brake horsepower, but I think gun may struggle
00:10:13here.
00:10:13They've got launch control, more power, and they're lighter.
00:10:16It's come up here, what I have to do to engage the launch control.
00:10:21So, deactivate dynamic stability control.
00:10:25Select sequential mode with drive programme three.
00:10:28That sharpens out the gear changes.
00:10:30With the engine running, depress the brake with the left foot.
00:10:33Done that.
00:10:35Push the selector lever forwards and hold.
00:10:38A flag symbol appears in the instrument cluster.
00:10:42And doesn't.
00:10:45What's that again?
00:10:46Interfer...
00:10:47It will be a fairly simple process, but it will be beyond the mind of the average ape.
00:10:55Maybe the air conditioning has to be off.
00:10:59Let's try that.
00:11:00Nope.
00:11:01Things were much simpler in the Nissan.
00:11:04Right, on, on, on.
00:11:06Red, red, red.
00:11:08Manual mode first.
00:11:09Left foot on the brake.
00:11:11This is a tiresome formality.
00:11:12I'm sorry to waste your time, viewers.
00:11:15Nothing in the world moves off the line more quickly than a Nissan GT-R.
00:11:18That's just one of those facts.
00:11:19It's probably in the Bible somewhere.
00:11:22Right, not a lot to do in the Bentley before we do this.
00:11:25Lower the ride height.
00:11:26Done.
00:11:27Firm at the suspension.
00:11:28Let's have that on sport.
00:11:31And that's it.
00:11:32I'm ready to go.
00:11:33And after about half an hour, so was Jeremy.
00:11:36Okay, we're good to go.
00:11:38We're good to go.
00:11:39Three, two, one.
00:11:48Oh, it's gone.
00:11:49It's gone.
00:11:49It's gone.
00:11:50It's gone.
00:11:51BMW scrambling about for traction all over the shop.
00:11:55Should prove the point.
00:11:57This launch control doesn't work.
00:12:09It does about five feet and it goes, oh, I can't be bothered.
00:12:13As it seems, had James.
00:12:17Why did you stop?
00:12:19I what?
00:12:20Do you mean he won?
00:12:21The flags are down there.
00:12:23No, you said which is the quickest off the mark.
00:12:25Mine was.
00:12:26No, you weren't.
00:12:26It was.
00:12:27It wasn't.
00:12:28I went like a scalded rabbit.
00:12:29I know, but I was off the mark quicker.
00:12:31You weren't.
00:12:31Nothing is quicker off the mark than this car.
00:12:33Do you want to check the camera?
00:12:35Yes.
00:12:36Well, I'm going to go and check the camera.
00:12:37Right, we're going to check the camera.
00:12:39We went to check the camera.
00:12:41You watch this, OK?
00:12:43Right, and go.
00:12:46God, we haven't got very good reactions, have we?
00:12:48Not very good at all.
00:12:48Oh, my God, we are useless.
00:12:50No, that can't.
00:12:51That's an end.
00:12:51Yes, thank you.
00:12:53Yeah, you were first.
00:12:54What?
00:12:55Oh, God, look, the BMW is right at my last.
00:12:58Right, we've established, I think the Nissan just wins it,
00:13:01over 16 metres, followed by the Bentley.
00:13:05The BMW are rather a poor third.
00:13:07Yes.
00:13:08I, therefore, decided we should have another drag race
00:13:11in which James would go all the way and I'd go old school.
00:13:17Doing manual gear changes, manual start, no traction control.
00:13:22Me and the machine.
00:13:25This is a serious test, actually, of these cars,
00:13:28drag racing them in this heat.
00:13:31170 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:13:33Three, two, one.
00:13:35Come on, Bentley, come on, come on.
00:13:44I am hard on the heels of the Nissan.
00:13:46Oh, my God, I'm overtaking it.
00:13:54Come on, Bima.
00:13:57I've got the Datsun.
00:13:58That Bentley is unbelievably fast.
00:14:07But I'm going to get him.
00:14:12Oh, this is the closest I've ever seen.
00:14:15Come on, Bima, you can't lose to that monster.
00:14:22No way!
00:14:23No way!
00:14:24Ha, ha, ha, ha!
00:14:27Yes!
00:14:27Yes!
00:14:29What a machine you are, BMW!
00:14:36Having established that the most powerful car is the fastest,
00:14:41we got back on the road.
00:14:42Cooling down now in the evening, it's down to 98 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:14:49The producers said we'd be staying that night at the Million Stars Motel,
00:14:54which boasted the finest fish restaurant in the outback.
00:14:58And we were looking forward to that.
00:15:01However, when they told us we'd arrived...
00:15:03Where is it?
00:15:09I know exactly what this is.
00:15:11I've got it.
00:15:12What?
00:15:13Million Star Motel.
00:15:15Yeah.
00:15:16Best fish restaurant in the outback.
00:15:18It's a joke.
00:15:18Oh.
00:15:19Yes.
00:15:20It's a funny joke.
00:15:22Funny?
00:15:22Funny, yeah, good.
00:15:25So, we're tenting.
00:15:28We were given some horrible camping stuff and an Australian kitchen.
00:15:33And once that had been set up, we had to catch our supper.
00:15:38Mate.
00:15:39Thanks.
00:15:40Welcome to Tokyo.
00:15:46Oh, f***ing hell.
00:15:50What are you struggling with?
00:15:51Every single one.
00:15:52No, watch it.
00:15:53Can you look behind you when you do that?
00:15:55Yes.
00:15:56Why are you in your car?
00:15:58I am in the car because the crocodiles are in that pond.
00:16:02Oh, there are no crocodiles here.
00:16:05Well, there are.
00:16:06They can sit underwater.
00:16:07These are machines for killing and eating.
00:16:11They can tackle a water buffalo whole.
00:16:14Are you not scared of crocodiles?
00:16:15Well, I'm not when they're not there.
00:16:17Well, then there's the snakes.
00:16:18There's the death adders.
00:16:20There is no country on earth where the public perception of the country is further removed from the reality than Australia.
00:16:27It's just tourists.
00:16:29Hold on.
00:16:29What was that?
00:16:30What did that?
00:16:32Well, it's gone under the water.
00:16:33Where's he gone?
00:16:34I don't know, but he's gone down.
00:16:38Oh, look at that.
00:16:39Yes, it is.
00:16:41That is moving towards us, isn't it?
00:16:42Yes.
00:16:44Did you read last week about that one that ate a Bentley hole complete with the men in it?
00:16:48Yeah, but it spat the Bentley egg.
00:16:49It carries a spare set of teeth.
00:16:52Does it?
00:16:53Yes.
00:16:53Thank you very much.
00:16:58Now, because we're in Australia this week, and because Australia is enormous and full of a million things to do,
00:17:06we have no time to do the news, I'm afraid.
00:17:09Nor do we have time for the Stig to go around the track, but we have made time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:17:18And that's because my guest tonight is the best British actor ever to come out of Canada.
00:17:25Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, from America, Keefer Salamund!
00:17:33How are you?
00:17:34How are you?
00:17:35Great to see you.
00:17:36How are you?
00:17:37Hi.
00:17:37Great.
00:17:38Who's here?
00:17:40Thank you very much.
00:17:43How are you?
00:17:45I'm very well.
00:17:45How are you?
00:17:46Good.
00:17:46I think a lot of people would be surprised to find that you were actually born in London, weren't you?
00:17:51Yeah.
00:17:52Yeah, I was born in Paddington.
00:17:53In fact, there was a very funny moment.
00:17:55I was doing a documentary with a friend, and he was following me with a camera, and I said,
00:17:59oh, St. Mary's Hospital is right down here.
00:18:01That's where I was born.
00:18:02And as I was showing it to him, a wrecking ball came out of nowhere and just knocked it down,
00:18:07and apparently they were moving it across the street.
00:18:09So I got the last vision of the hospital that I was born in.
00:18:13The place of your birth, they've knocked it down?
00:18:14Yeah.
00:18:15Yeah, I know.
00:18:15They did that with mine.
00:18:16While I was being born.
00:18:19What's your father?
00:18:20He's Donald.
00:18:20Yes.
00:18:21I want to get onto this.
00:18:22It's slightly delicate, but nobody likes to think of their parents having sex.
00:18:26This is not something we can even visualize.
00:18:29But your father, of course, was in Don't Look Now.
00:18:31Yes.
00:18:31With Julie Christie.
00:18:33Yes.
00:18:33Is that a struggle for you to watch?
00:18:36It was a real struggle at about 13, 14, because Julie Christie was stunning, and you're 14 years old, and you're watching, and you're trying to block your father out.
00:18:45And then, no, this isn't going to work.
00:18:48This isn't going to work.
00:18:49But, yes, that moment was kind of tricky.
00:18:52Um, now, obviously, you're best known for 24, and I know a lot of people here will want me to talk about 24.
00:19:00Cheers.
00:19:00No, I think I'm right in saying, was it the first of the sort of what we now take as the norm, the binge-viewing box set?
00:19:05Yes.
00:19:06It sort of was.
00:19:06Before, and there'd never been, like, you were a big-name actor who took up a TV role, which now is the norm.
00:19:13I mean, you've got Kevin Spacey going in House of Cards and so on, but back then, you were either a TV actor or you were a movie actor.
00:19:20And so it was a groundbreaking thing.
00:19:22Well, for me, it was a no-brainer.
00:19:24I noticed the film world was changing.
00:19:27We used to have five studios that made 50-some-odd movies a year, went down to three studios that were making 15 movies a year.
00:19:33And all of a sudden, the movies that I liked, like Ordinary People or Terms of Endearment, the kind of $20 million movie wasn't getting made anymore.
00:19:41It was all superheroes.
00:19:42And all of the great drama was kind of shifting over to television.
00:19:45And with regards to the binge-watching, I ran into a gentleman at an airport, and he said, you ruined my honeymoon.
00:19:53And I said, how?
00:19:54And he said, well, my wife.
00:19:55I said, I don't even know your wife.
00:19:57And he said, no, no, no, not that, not that.
00:20:01We watched the first 12 hours of 24 on the plane from Los Angeles to Paris.
00:20:05And the first day of our honeymoon, we spent the next 12 hours in a hotel watching the next 12 hours.
00:20:11And I went, well, and I was flattered by that.
00:20:13Yeah, ruining people.
00:20:14It was 24 actually ruined my children's lives because they were young when it first started.
00:20:18And as soon as it was 9 o'clock was their bedtime, but they had to go immediately at 9 o'clock.
00:20:23And even now, when they hear the word previously, they go to bed.
00:20:27It's not how we go to bed.
00:20:28That's quite a great chore.
00:20:30But it was very important in my life.
00:20:32Very, very important.
00:20:33Thank you very much.
00:20:34No, I'm sure a lot of people here would agree with me on that.
00:20:36Didn't you do rodeo riding?
00:20:38I did, yeah.
00:20:39Yeah.
00:20:40Actually, professionally?
00:20:41I roped in the US TRC circuit.
00:20:43And I was fortunate enough, I think, I won about three or four.
00:20:47So why don't you do more movies that call for you to ride around on horses?
00:20:50They don't make a lot of them.
00:20:51I'm one of the few actors I know that's actually gotten to do a Western.
00:20:56Earlier in my career, I got to do films like Young Guns 1 and Young Guns 2.
00:20:59I wish they made one.
00:21:00I wish they could ride a horse.
00:21:00You must be able to ride a horse.
00:21:02Charlie Sheen didn't like horses and horses didn't like him.
00:21:05And that was firmly established when we were shooting Young Guns 1.
00:21:08And most of the scenes involving Charlie on a horse, he was on a ladder with a saddle and
00:21:13some poor teamster holding the bit.
00:21:15And he would hold the reins and he would kind of act his way out of that.
00:21:18And when we went to go do Three Musketeers, I remember saying to the AD, Lee Cleary, what
00:21:24are you shooting right now?
00:21:24And he said, oh, we've got Charlie coming around the bend on a horse.
00:21:27And I said, you do, do you?
00:21:28Oh, that's going to be great.
00:21:29I'll get your people out of the road.
00:21:32And he said, no, no, no, he's going to stop right by camera over there.
00:21:35I said, I promise you he's not.
00:21:37And they called action.
00:21:39And you could hear the horse starts off in a kind of a trot.
00:21:42And then in seconds, you could hear it's in a full gallop.
00:21:44Then off in the distance, you hear, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:21:49And then he came around the corner and he's holding on to the mane.
00:21:53He's let go of the reins.
00:21:55He's now holding on for dear life.
00:21:57And he's hitting the horse in the back behind the ear.
00:22:01And I remember Lee Cleary, he went, well, you weren't joking there, were you?
00:22:05And he didn't move, didn't move a muscle to help him, you know.
00:22:10Now, I'm going to move on to your cars because I've looked at your car history, which is pretty good.
00:22:14Thanks.
00:22:14Because you began with a 67 Mustang.
00:22:16I did, yes.
00:22:17When I was about 17 years old, I was living in New York and I wanted to get to Los Angeles.
00:22:22And I did a print ad for Levi's.
00:22:25And I took that money and I bought a 67 Mustang, six-cylinder.
00:22:30And I learned how to drive somewhere between New York and Maryland.
00:22:35And then got pretty good at it somewhere around the Texas Panhandle.
00:22:40You've got a Panamera now, Steve.
00:22:42I do, yeah.
00:22:42What in the name of all that's holy possessed you to buy a Panamera, which is not a good-looking car?
00:22:49It was, I think it's one of the most beautiful interiors I've ever seen.
00:22:52I like those buttons in a Harry Potter.
00:22:54That's brilliant.
00:22:55I think it's phenomenal.
00:22:56But I was actually going to shoot 24 in Cape Town in South Africa.
00:23:01And the flight I had was from Los Angeles to Frankfurt and then Frankfurt to South Africa.
00:23:05And Porsche, before Panamera had come out, they would take you off the plane.
00:23:10They would take your luggage off the plane.
00:23:12They would put it in a Panamera.
00:23:13The Panamera was being driven by a race car driver.
00:23:16And they would take you to the next terminal, which was about five miles away.
00:23:19And he would get it up to about 145 miles an hour.
00:23:23And halfway to the terminal, you're like, holy f***, I've got to get me one of these.
00:23:28Anyway, the lap.
00:23:29How was it out there?
00:23:31Well, first of all, you know, it's an amazing experience, I have to say.
00:23:36I've been watching this show for years.
00:23:38I've been making fun of people driving this car all the time.
00:23:41And the whole time while the Stig is driving, I'm like,
00:23:43Oh, I wish I'd never made fun of anybody driving this car.
00:23:47It scared the crap out of me.
00:23:49He got it going at such a point where I'm like,
00:23:51You're not going to make it.
00:23:52You're not going to make it.
00:23:52You're not going to make it.
00:23:53Literally, I felt like that sticker of Garfield at the back of the car.
00:23:58That would be the follow-through.
00:24:00Or go through the tires.
00:24:01So, who would like to see the lap?
00:24:06Can I say, can I introduce this?
00:24:08Yes.
00:24:09The following events take place in real time.
00:24:12I've always wanted to do that.
00:24:13Here we go.
00:24:13Let's play it.
00:24:14I like the color.
00:24:15Yeah, the color stands out well.
00:24:16You see, this is unusual weather for Britain in January.
00:24:19This is that moment where you think of nothing to say.
00:24:24Except Scheisse.
00:24:26You should have said, damn it.
00:24:28Damn it.
00:24:28We would have liked a damn it.
00:24:30Or maybe send me the schematics of the track on my PDA.
00:24:33That would have been another good one.
00:24:34That's very tidy through there.
00:24:37And, oh, yeah, no, that's very well done in that weather.
00:24:39Come on.
00:24:40Oh, you're in fourth, you prat.
00:24:42Pratt gives it away.
00:24:45Yes.
00:24:45No American's going to say Pratt or Canadian.
00:24:49Tidy again.
00:24:50Hit the brake like you hate it.
00:24:53Yes, look at the tech line there.
00:24:55Diving under brake.
00:24:55It does handle very well, that.
00:24:57Oh, no, wait.
00:24:57You've got it understeering there.
00:24:59Yeah.
00:24:59That is very slippery.
00:25:02It felt so much faster when they were doing it.
00:25:05Yes.
00:25:05It's tragic.
00:25:07Don't you dare take your foot off, you pussy.
00:25:09It's like a pussy.
00:25:10The slower it looks, weirdly, sometimes, the faster it is.
00:25:16Yeah.
00:25:17See, that's, look at that, staying away from the tyres.
00:25:21Very smooth again.
00:25:22I don't know what the time is yet.
00:25:23But I haven't seen.
00:25:25This was the tricky part.
00:25:27Oh, that's a tricky corner, that is.
00:25:28Oh, it's mean.
00:25:30But that's beautifully done.
00:25:32And again, beautifully done round Gamble and across the line.
00:25:35There you go.
00:25:36So, where do you think you've come?
00:25:52Oh, gosh.
00:25:53I have.
00:25:53Bearing in mind, okay, these are all dry laps up here.
00:25:56The wet ones start with James.
00:25:58But I can't remember what FW stands for.
00:26:00I think fairly.
00:26:02But it might not be.
00:26:04Oh, fairly wet.
00:26:04I think our fastest wet lap we've had so far at a one, what is it, 49.4?
00:26:10What do you think?
00:26:12I really haven't a clue.
00:26:14Okay, Kiefer Sutherland.
00:26:15You did it in, well, one.
00:26:19Good.
00:26:19That's not surprising.
00:26:21What is surprising in that weather is the next one, 40.
00:26:24Okay.
00:26:27What's terrifying...
00:26:28LAUGHTER
00:26:29Is if, and I like James Blunt a lot, he's a really good guy.
00:26:33Mm-hmm.
00:26:34But if James Blunt's faster than Jack Bauer, this could end 24, so...
00:26:38Yeah, okay.
00:26:40Right, here we go.
00:26:411, 40, 9...
00:26:432.
00:26:482.
00:26:482.
00:26:49So that is the wet...
00:26:522.
00:26:532.
00:26:542.
00:26:542.
00:26:553.
00:26:563.
00:26:572.
00:26:583.
00:26:593.
00:27:003.
00:27:01I've never run on a track.
00:27:02I mean, anything that I've ever been asked to do in a car, which is quite a lot of stuff,
00:27:06but they basically say, you know, okay, I want you to go as fast as you can, start here,
00:27:11and then when you see that bus, hit it, you know, that I do really well.
00:27:17Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, can I just say on behalf of all of us, thank you so much for coming.
00:27:20Gosh, thank you so much.
00:27:21Keep it, Sutherland.
00:27:22Thank you very much.
00:27:25Thank you very much.
00:27:26Right.
00:27:32Tonight, we are in Australia trying to find out if modern, complicated cars can survive the outback.
00:27:40Indeed, the producers had told us to drive from Darwin to a 3 million acre farm where we would have to round up 4,000 cows using a BMW M6, a Bentley Continental and a Nissan GTR.
00:27:53Yep, and when we left the action, we were sitting beside a crocodile-infested swamp trying to catch fish for our supper.
00:28:02And the good news is we survived the crocodile.
00:28:05We did, but we weren't out of danger yet because in Australia, animals don't just like to bite, sting and strangle you.
00:28:11They also love to jump out in the road and kill you in a crash.
00:28:15Absolutely.
00:28:16And that's why before we set off on the second day, we thought we should probably test our brakes.
00:28:21So we found a long, straight, empty piece of road, which isn't actually very difficult in the outback, and we set up a little experiment.
00:28:29Here is what we've planned.
00:28:38Richard Hammond will drive down this road at 60 miles an hour.
00:28:41When he gets to the checkered flags over there, he will brake.
00:28:45Now, the highway code says he will stop 240 feet later on this line here, right where James May and I are standing.
00:28:53Ah, yes, but the thing is, when the highway code was written, cars were small and light.
00:28:57That Bentley weighs two and a half tonnes.
00:29:00Yeah, two and a half tonnes.
00:29:02So, let's see how long it takes him to stop it.
00:29:0760 miles an hour.
00:29:09Braking!
00:29:15Highway code, two and a half tonne Bentley.
00:29:18I'll regret that.
00:29:21Missed opportunity.
00:29:24I mean, that's never going to come along.
00:29:25They volunteered and everything.
00:29:28Was that 60 miles an hour?
00:29:30Yep.
00:29:30Miles?
00:29:31Miles.
00:29:32I'm going to mark it here, look.
00:29:36B for Bentley.
00:29:38On the little wing.
00:29:39There you go.
00:29:40I elected to go next in the Grand Coupe, which, unlike Hammond's Bentley, didn't have carbon ceramic brakes.
00:29:50I'm going to be relying on old-fashioned steel and the quick reactions of a man in his prime.
00:29:56Do we need to be this far away?
00:29:57No, we could confidently move forwards.
00:29:59Yeah, think who's driving.
00:30:01Maybe that much.
00:30:03That much.
00:30:03That much.
00:30:04OK, I'm ready.
00:30:05Here we go.
00:30:06OK, up to 60.
00:30:09That does not take long.
00:30:11And braking.
00:30:14Oh, that hurt my face.
00:30:17More to the point, it had shattered Hammond's effort.
00:30:22What is the highway code on about?
00:30:23I don't know. What are they talking about?
00:30:25The BMW had stopped in just 75 feet.
00:30:30Quite a target for the Datsun to beat.
00:30:33What worries me is he doesn't ever use anything he's given to the full.
00:30:37Give him 900 horsepower, he uses 20.
00:30:39So he might not use all the brakes.
00:30:41No, he won't.
00:30:43As it turned out, he did use all the brakes.
00:30:47But even so...
00:30:49Oh, I think it's actually gone over the BMW.
00:30:52It has.
00:30:52The BMW has cleaned up there.
00:30:55But, although the BMW had won, all three cars had made a very good point.
00:31:01So when you go on a speed awareness course and the man goes, it'll take you 240 feet to stop.
00:31:06You just put your hand up and go, no, it doesn't.
00:31:08We have to do 70 miles an hour in Britain on the motorway because somebody might have a Ford Anglia and it will take them that long to stop.
00:31:15But if you're driving a good car like this, well, any one of ours, really, you should be allowed to go 140, 210 miles an hour.
00:31:24Yeah.
00:31:24I shouldn't have to suffer because somebody's still got an Anglia.
00:31:29Having established that our cars could stop on a stamp, we let them off the leash.
00:31:34542 horsepower from a twin-turbo V6.
00:31:48It is absolutely ballistic.
00:31:55The mid-range thrust of this, when you're midway to a corner, it just...
00:32:01Whoa.
00:32:02Oh, it launches itself.
00:32:06I think in this you could give some pretty good sports cars a pretty big surprise.
00:32:16In the early days, BMW's M cars sounded like 500 yards of ripping calico and they had telepathic steering and they were magnificent.
00:32:27In recent years, though, some of the magic has sort of gone.
00:32:32With this one, though, it is back.
00:32:37It is properly back.
00:32:43God, this is just electrifyingly good.
00:32:48Soon, the producers told us to pull over for some kind of motor racing event.
00:32:56What manner of thing will it be, I wonder?
00:33:00The mystery deepened when we arrived and were given idiotic health and safety outfits.
00:33:06What manner of thing will it be, I wonder if we have the most?
00:33:07It is.
00:33:07It is.
00:33:08It is.
00:33:09It is.
00:33:10It is.
00:33:11Holy cow.
00:33:21Most of the steel used to build modern China came out of this vast hole in the ground.
00:33:28But today, it would be our racetrack.
00:33:34It must be a hill climb, like Goodwood.
00:33:37Yeah, it is.
00:33:38But it's not exactly like Goodwood.
00:33:38Not exactly, no.
00:33:39Every single corner has got a drop on it that's lethal.
00:33:44Oh, hello.
00:33:45Oh, it's you.
00:33:47You will now take it in turns to drive up the hill climb course.
00:33:51It is, yeah.
00:33:52Attempting to beat a benchmark time.
00:33:54And let me guess, the benchmark time is set by the Stig?
00:33:57It isn't the Stig.
00:33:59But it is the Stig's Australian cousin.
00:34:08He's bigger than him.
00:34:09And he's got a bigger sausage.
00:34:14How did you find that out?
00:34:15Well, look.
00:34:15Even from here, one can see that he is a Big Stig.
00:34:21Big Stig would be laying down the gauntlet in a typical Aussie sports car.
00:34:25A Holden Ute.
00:34:30You know that, whatever it's called, Maloo?
00:34:33Yeah.
00:34:33It's got more horsepower than my BMWs.
00:34:35That's it?
00:34:36It's two more.
00:34:36Three, two, one, go!
00:34:47Whoa, that's a spectacular thing to look at.
00:34:50Oh, he's got it a bit sideways there.
00:34:59What?
00:35:06Am I the only one who really likes that?
00:35:08Are you?
00:35:08Yes, you are.
00:35:09Okay.
00:35:13And they're ready, steady, and...
00:35:15Across the line!
00:35:17Gordon Bennett, he was...
00:35:19As Big Stig's dust settled, the three of us made our way to the bottom of the mine.
00:35:28I'll win this.
00:35:29I seriously doubt that.
00:35:31Well, I will or he will, because we've got four-wheel drive.
00:35:33It's true.
00:35:34Four-wheel drive is useful on a tractor, but a normal road car, it's pointless.
00:35:37It's like water.
00:35:38How's it like water?
00:35:39Well, because it's neither good nor bad.
00:35:41It just doesn't do anything.
00:35:43Water's useful for a lot of things.
00:35:45It is if you put hops in it or grapes, but on its own.
00:35:48When was the last time a rear-wheel drive car won the World Rally Championship?
00:35:52Huh.
00:35:53Er, recently.
00:35:55Not that recently.
00:35:56In my mind, it was.
00:35:57It was 1983, and that was yesterday.
00:35:59Ever since then, it's been four-wheel drive.
00:36:01That's a rally stage, isn't it?
00:36:03I shall do this first, and you will witness poetry.
00:36:06Far away.
00:36:08In front of a crowd of bemused miners, I prepared for my run.
00:36:14Traction control off.
00:36:16Three, two, one, go!
00:36:21It's struggling for traction already.
00:36:24Drive for second.
00:36:26Still spinning the wheels.
00:36:27Third.
00:36:28Still spinning the wheels.
00:36:30Maybe I should have kept the traction control on.
00:36:35Oh!
00:36:37Slithering.
00:36:38Big slide.
00:36:42God, a bow.
00:36:43What if, all of a sudden, and then we just saw the underside of his BMW?
00:36:49Check the exhaust is okay.
00:36:57Come on, Beamer.
00:36:58Give me that.
00:36:59Five hundred and seventy-five horse-power.
00:37:05Four-wheel drive is for the weak.
00:37:09180 kph.
00:37:13And through the lorries and across the line.
00:37:16Next, the Bentley.
00:37:20And the magnificent country residence of the Duke of Marlborough takes its place on the starting line.
00:37:26I'm going to bias the suspension slightly towards soft, so I might get more traction that way.
00:37:32Three, two, one, go!
00:37:36Great, great, great.
00:37:38Good girl.
00:37:42After just 100 metres, the four-wheel drive Bentley was four seconds ahead of the BMW.
00:37:50Into the hairpin.
00:37:54Oh, four-wheel drive helped me round that a treat.
00:37:57Hairpin.
00:38:08China and silverware is going to fall over and make a terrible mess for the butler to clear up later.
00:38:14Right.
00:38:16Braking ready for the...
00:38:17Oh, God.
00:38:18Turning it.
00:38:20Come on, bite.
00:38:22There you go.
00:38:27Right, viewers, now we're alone.
00:38:33Look, that car should be the fastest up that course, but with the best one in the world, I'm not going to be.
00:38:37So, I've got a plan.
00:38:42English Stig.
00:38:43I've been carrying him around for days.
00:38:46With English Stig smuggled into the driving seat, the GTR readied for the off.
00:38:51There he is, look.
00:38:53Hello.
00:38:53Three, two, one, go!
00:39:03It's quite a vigorous start.
00:39:04Hello.
00:39:12Um, that was a racing line there, did you see?
00:39:15Yeah.
00:39:15None of what I'm seeing...
00:39:24Makes sense.
00:39:25...is possible.
00:39:36Oh, my God.
00:39:36Is that twitching in there?
00:39:38Oh, jeez, actually.
00:39:38Oh, my God.
00:39:45Where's he going?
00:39:46He forgot where the end mark is.
00:39:48Well, he did something, James Mayish.
00:39:53Oh.
00:39:55Thanks very much.
00:39:57There he is.
00:39:58That was very quick.
00:40:02Yeah.
00:40:03It was vigorous.
00:40:04Four-wheel drive.
00:40:05It's a good car.
00:40:06It flatters.
00:40:07It...
00:40:07I'm not saying, you know...
00:40:08No, no, no.
00:40:09He was right to say it.
00:40:10I, you know, I wasn't that confident, but it does look after you all the way.
00:40:13We have the times here, anyway.
00:40:14The Australian Stig and the HSV Maloo did a 117.8.
00:40:19I was a little bit slower, as it's turned out.
00:40:23Really?
00:40:24Go on.
00:40:24He was 117.8.
00:40:25I was 131.6.
00:40:28That is slower, isn't it?
00:40:29Bentley.
00:40:30118.6.
00:40:33Oh, that's not bad.
00:40:34That's pretty good.
00:40:36I'm pleased with that.
00:40:37You were really...
00:40:37You were only a second off.
00:40:39Yeah, I was on it in the old Bentley.
00:40:40GTR.
00:40:42113.3.
00:40:45Four and a half seconds faster than a Stig.
00:40:49Well, well done, you.
00:40:54As we got back on the road, I could accept that four-wheel drive makes sense in an iron ore mine.
00:41:00But James' time?
00:41:02No.
00:41:05One minute, 13 seconds, James May.
00:41:10It normally takes James May one minute, 13 seconds to go through a door.
00:41:15How did he do that?
00:41:16And more to the point, how did our cars do that?
00:41:21To be in this Bentley, hammering up that hill, you're asking a lot of a modern luxury car weighing the best part of two and a half tons.
00:41:30It did it.
00:41:30After a dirty, dusty day, we were looking forward to staying in an actual hotel.
00:41:41Sadly, though, this was the only one for miles.
00:41:47Evening.
00:41:48Evening.
00:41:48Is that a bed?
00:41:53Is it?
00:41:54Yeah.
00:41:56Jeremy therefore suggested we should leave immediately.
00:42:03And try a new type of tenting that he just thought of.
00:42:07What are you doing?
00:42:13Most people build a campfire and then sit round it, yes?
00:42:16Yes.
00:42:16What I've done is built the campfire round us.
00:42:20So we can sit in the middle, cook our salmonella, and none of all the dangerous animals can get it to us.
00:42:26I have revolutionised tenting, is what I've done.
00:42:30Hang on.
00:42:31What are you doing now?
00:42:33What's the best way of starting a fire?
00:42:35Petrol.
00:42:37What must the world look like from inside that head?
00:42:42Are you ready?
00:42:44Yes.
00:42:49Behold!
00:42:50I have made fire all around us.
00:42:52Brilliant.
00:42:53Jeremy.
00:42:53What?
00:42:54One of the many advantages of a single traditional campfire that you sit round is that you can move out of the way of where the smoke's going.
00:43:00Yeah, you can't with mine, but we are safe.
00:43:03Get down, get down low.
00:43:04Down low is better.
00:43:05I already am down low, it's worse.
00:43:06No, it's better here.
00:43:07Anyway.
00:43:08What?
00:43:09Where are the tents?
00:43:11They're the cars.
00:43:13Well, you plumb sack.
00:43:19The next morning, after another dreadful night, we were back on the road.
00:43:24And after about four hours, Professor Hammond finally realised something.
00:43:33It's big.
00:43:34It is big, Australia.
00:43:35We were headed for the gigantic farm where we'd be herding cattle, and it decided to try and reach it in one day.
00:43:44The drive would be enormous.
00:43:51I spy with my little eyes something beginning with T.
00:43:54Tree.
00:43:55I spy with my little eyes something beginning with T.
00:44:00Termite mound.
00:44:02I spy with my little eyes something beginning with T.
00:44:05It's tree, just stop it.
00:44:07Since Hammond wouldn't play, I tuned into the only station that my radio could receive.
00:44:15Lightweight heifers out of Darwin heading to Indonesia are now fetching up to $2.25 a kilo.
00:44:22Feed the steers heading to Indonesia up to $2.45 a kilo.
00:44:27Why don't you play steely, Dan?
00:44:31Normally, you get some excitement in this part of Australia when you have to overtake a convoy of gigantic road trains.
00:44:39We were actually quite looking forward to the peril.
00:44:56A lot of dust coming up here.
00:44:58But in cars as fast as ours, it was a doddle.
00:45:02I'm out of the way. I'm free.
00:45:04At one o'clock, I had a delicious Aussie lunch.
00:45:11Bloody hot ring burner.
00:45:13And then it was back to business as usual.
00:45:17C2 heifers sell from 160 to 176.
00:45:20Lightweight C3 heifers lifted four.
00:45:23They sell from 160 to 190.
00:45:25And heavyweight heifers returned up to 204 cents.
00:45:29C2 yearling steered the feeder.
00:45:34It was also the power of the farmhouse.
00:45:44Darkness had fallen when we finally reached the bottom of the farm drive.
00:45:49Joy of joys.
00:45:50but it took another two hours to reach the farmhouse at the top of it
00:45:59thank you where there were no spare bedrooms so i decided to try another new sort of tenting
00:46:09do you know what what we started this i liked all three cars i still do but my conviction that the
00:46:18bentley is the best is now absolute i just i still find it slightly sort of what there's still a
00:46:26slight hint of faux toffery about it which suits you very well obviously but the great thing about
00:46:31the nissan is it's just a finely honed driving instrument well no on the okay on the nurburgring
00:46:37don't mention the nurburgring but that's what it's for james no it's not jeremy your bm it does look
00:46:42brilliant there you go it's a very competent motor car the bmw that's damning with fake praise that
00:46:48is may yes exactly yours is a bit too dolce and gabbana yours is a bit too poundland they're both
00:46:55brilliant cars make no mistake what are you doing by the way claymores they're mines i brought them
00:47:00from britain ring our campsites with claymores then any aminal that comes they will be it will become
00:47:08a veneer when my work was done and may and hammond had drunk all the beer we turned in for the night
00:47:17what was that well that was the sound of me saving your life
00:47:26the next morning our campsite looked like an abattoir
00:47:35what's this crocodile's ear it's hairy crocodiles do have hairy ears they don't even have ears
00:47:45they do that was a crocodile who was coming to eat us and my claymore saved our lives look what
00:47:51we've got here hammond it's a crocodile's hoof you've detonated one of the man's cows let's not get bogged
00:47:58down with all blew up all right because i've been reading about this farm yes it's actually 3.2 million
00:48:07acres so some of the 200 000 acres just slipped in there and to put that in perspective this single
00:48:14farm is the same size as buckinghamshire and hertfordshire and surrey and east sussex and west
00:48:22sussex and kent combined it's the same size as the southeast of england everything you see here and
00:48:33a lot more besides is one farm and as we set off to do cattle herding we were still struggling to get
00:48:44our heads around the enormity of it all it's 250 miles from this farm to the nearest supermarket that's
00:48:54like driving from london to newcastle just to buy some washing up liquid and some bog roll and it's
00:49:01not driving on motorways it's not the a1 it's not the m1 it's tracks
00:49:05in britain the average beef herd is between sort of 28 and 50 cows and here it's 64 000
00:49:22our task was to round up 4 000 of them and we assumed this many would be easy to spot
00:49:29now have you raised your suspension up hammond yes i have
00:49:33can you see any cows no no not one but we could be in the equivalent of dover and the cows could be
00:49:43in beaconsfield well i was just thinking that what if they're all in the opposite corner
00:49:49it could be a hundred miles away from here
00:49:54even the high-tech bmw was no help voice commands new entry spell name of place
00:50:03some cows did you mean sheep hills no not sheep cows what's the noise you make to attract a cow
00:50:12if it was a dog it would be sort of i don't know anything about cows
00:50:17apart from what they taste like
00:50:20it is difficult to be a cowboy when we can't find any cows
00:50:25it's about 41 degrees out there
00:50:32no cows
00:50:35after an hour's meandering about however we struck gold
00:50:40cow
00:50:42up there yes cows i'm counting four cows that is a start get them round them up
00:50:49you two take the flanks i'll stay at the rear
00:50:59you don't get too close panic and you'll spoil the burgers
00:51:04we've got them we have them this is perfect
00:51:07we're brilliant at this but then they're going to break and go in the wood
00:51:20they're getting into the trees i can't go in there it's too rough
00:51:26and even though hammond had four-wheel drive it turned out he couldn't go in there either
00:51:31um i'm beached and by the time james had pulled him out three two one action
00:51:43our four cows had wandered off
00:51:53sick rap we found four cows and we lost them so what chance would we have when we found 4 000
00:52:02right right now this is the biggest flock of cows i have ever seen in my entire life
00:52:22our job was to get them all turned round and then herd them into a giant pen which was 10 kilometers away
00:52:35a pretty tall order for three cars like these
00:52:40it's like zulu watching them coming towards us
00:52:42here we go
00:52:53has anyone got any plans because i haven't
00:52:58hammond suggested we break the herd into smaller chunks but that didn't work at all
00:53:04they're going in completely the wrong direction now
00:53:07oh now they've come how they what they've gone
00:53:21they're just going around me they're not very scared of me
00:53:25yeah i'm in the middle i've been herded by the cabs it's all gone wrong
00:53:28okay they're charging me this is unexpected they're running towards me
00:53:43we're in the middle of the cows that we've been outwitted by cows
00:53:49um nice cows morning cows that ball's menacing me
00:53:59this is a remarkably brave cow it won't be pushed back into line at all
00:54:04well when i say cow i mean massive bull
00:54:09we've got i may need some help here this guy is properly stubborn
00:54:13i shall call you james may he fears the nissan more
00:54:18and as it turned out that wasn't entirely accurate
00:54:22he's head-butting me
00:54:30he head-butted your datsun
00:54:36meanwhile back in the bentley
00:54:40jeremy
00:54:43clearly things weren't going well so we made a decision
00:54:47i think there are too many for us
00:54:53well yes we need the cavalry
00:54:57and 10 minutes later it's arrived
00:55:11one of the most dangerous jobs in the world flying the robinson helicopters to muster the cattle
00:55:17on average around about eight are killed every year
00:55:21sometimes they will use the skids to actually push the cows into line
00:55:28with the air cavers back up we started to get our act together
00:55:36hammond you're the rough terrain response and i'm the quick response that's good that's good
00:55:42that's good
00:55:43channel and in i'll drive them forwards
00:55:50flank in flank in go on go left
00:55:54i was riding my horse
00:55:59braking right
00:56:01good work hammond good work
00:56:03that bentley going across that field is a sight to behold look at it look at its wheels
00:56:14soon we realized something oh there you go look at that
00:56:19stop gear was being ambitious and not rubbish
00:56:33we're all we're all you're all you're all you're all you're all you're all out
00:58:07I love that.
00:58:08God, that was fun.
00:58:09That was a lot of fun.
00:58:11It was.
00:58:12And these cars, better than horses.
00:58:14And nobody fell off.
00:58:15Yeah.
00:58:16But, can we just stop for a moment?
00:58:17The amazing thing, the cars survived it.
00:58:20Nothing broke.
00:58:21It's fantastic.
00:58:22And if Nissan, well actually all Bentley or BMW, if they made a laptop, I'd buy it.
00:58:27Yeah.
00:58:28You could throw a Nissan laptop in the lavatory, do a log on it, and you'd still be able to log on on it.
00:58:34You would.
00:58:35Anyway, we must now decide which of these cars is the best.
00:58:40Well, I'm not backing down, it's the Bentley.
00:58:43I'm not backing down, it is this Nissan.
00:58:45James, sorry mate, you are just wrong.
00:58:48The Nissan GT, it has a whiff of the Nürburgring.
00:58:51No, it's not just a whiff of the Nürburgring, it reeks of it.
00:58:55Your clothes will smell of it six weeks after you've been in it.
00:58:58It's better than it smelling of Ryan Giggs' bathwater.
00:59:01Mate, it's a Bentley.
00:59:04Think what that means.
00:59:05I'll tell you what it means, Hammond.
00:59:07It means it is £66,000 more expensive than this.
00:59:12Yes, because that's a Nissan.
00:59:14That's a Bentley.
00:59:15Yeah, exactly.
00:59:16It's a Nissan, and when you strip everything off this Nissan, you find underneath a racing car.
00:59:20When you strip all the stuff off of that Bentley, underneath it is a VW.
00:59:25If we strip all the stuff off you, we'd find underneath the same basic skeleton as you would find in a racing driver,
00:59:32but when we put it all back on as we must to make you James May, you're James May!
00:59:36That's the wrong car!
00:59:37Yes, but Hammond, if we stripped everything off of you, we'd find the same skeleton that you have in a racing driver
00:59:42when he was a little boy, but when you put it all back together, you're still Richard Hammond.
00:59:47You in that GT-R is like you in those shoes. Ridiculous!
00:59:53Says the man in the jacket woven out of 100% pure 1935.
01:00:00That was designed very specifically for a purpose, to feel good on the ragged edge of performance.
01:00:05You're not going to do that!
01:00:07You have a watch that can go to the moon. You're never going to go to the moon.
01:00:10They don't make moon boots in your size, but you like having that watch because it means it is a good watch,
01:00:16and it's the same with the car. You're just being a ******.
01:00:26And you've got to ****** like a ******.
01:00:29A crazy one!
01:00:31Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to interrupt at this point,
01:00:35because the fact of the matter is, by any measurable means you choose, the BMW is the best car.
01:00:41But, I wouldn't buy one.
01:00:44Well, why?
01:00:45Because fast expensive BMWs plummet in value as soon as you buy them.
01:00:49You buy one of those, within 18 months, you're going to lose 40,000, 45,000 pounds.
01:00:54And as a Yorkshireman, I just couldn't handle that. Really couldn't.
01:00:57That means you have to choose one of these.
01:01:00I know. I find myself now with the casting vote.
01:01:05The problem I have is, okay, I'm at the precise age when I'm growing out of the Nissan and into the Bentley.
01:01:12That's the problem I've got.
01:01:14And that is why you should have this.
01:01:16The Nissan will help you rage against the dying of the light.
01:01:21Rather than any of that, you can grow old gracefully and in comfort in the Bentley, which is a great place to be.
01:01:27It's got quilted leather in there.
01:01:28Look at that.
01:01:29Hammond, quilted leather is what an incontinent sheet looks like if you look at it under a microscope.
01:01:34I have made up my mind.
01:01:36Right now, I've made up my mind.
01:01:39I'm going to ditch my Yorkshire-ness, not care about the depreciation, go for the beam.
01:01:43We'll never change our life.
01:01:44We never will.
01:01:45It's breathtaking that car.
01:01:46All right.
01:01:47And on that bombshell, it's time to end.
01:01:48Thank you so much for watching.
01:01:49See you next week.
01:01:50Good night.
01:01:51Good night.
01:01:52Good night.
01:01:53Good night.
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