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00:00:10Tonight, a BMW i8 at full chat in the Yorkshire moors.
00:00:14The cream of Hollywood on our track,
00:00:17and a pointless thing about old Land Rovers.
00:00:20.
00:00:27Thank you everybody, thank you.
00:00:29Thank you so much.
00:00:31Thank you and welcome.
00:00:34Welcome to what is, for the first time in many years,
00:00:38an actual car show.
00:00:40We've packed it with many facts and a lot of information.
00:00:44And we're starting the ball rolling with this, the Mercedes SLS.
00:00:48This was one of my favourite cars,
00:00:51and I was very sad when they stopped making it.
00:00:54But happily, there is now a replacement,
00:00:57which I haven't been driving on the track.
00:01:00Because James has.
00:01:08This is what they've come up with.
00:01:11It's called the AMG GT.
00:01:14And it costs between £97,000 and £120,000.
00:01:27Now, I have to be entirely honest with you.
00:01:29When I woke up this morning and got out of bed to come and drive this car,
00:01:33it was with a certain amount of disquiet.
00:01:35I've always thought that AMG Mercedes are a bit, as my mother would say, unnecessary.
00:01:44I don't like the Stormtrooper body kit look.
00:01:49I don't really like those pseudo Special Forces names like SLS and Black.
00:01:56Jeremy likes them a lot.
00:02:05With this car, however, you sense that something is different.
00:02:09That everything's a bit more grown up.
00:02:12See, their last coupe, the SLS, had a massive, and again not entirely necessary, 6.2 litre V8.
00:02:23This car also has a V8, but it's a brand new one.
00:02:26And it's a much more modest 4 litres.
00:02:29Because of that, you might expect it to take a little longer to get from A to B.
00:02:34However...
00:02:46The 0-60 time of that 6.2 litre SLS was 3.8 seconds.
00:02:53On this 4 litre car, it is exactly the same.
00:02:58The top speeds are almost exactly the same as well.
00:03:00Both up in the high 190.
00:03:09And AMG has achieved this by using brains to make the brawl.
00:03:17This car has two turbochargers.
00:03:19Normally, turbochargers would be bolted onto the outside of the engines.
00:03:23But on this car, they live inside the V of the engine.
00:03:26What this means is the engine is more compact, the turbos are more efficient.
00:03:35So this car costs £50,000 less than the old SLS.
00:03:39It uses a lot less fuel.
00:03:41And it still goes just as quickly.
00:03:45That is what they call on The Apprentice a win-win.
00:03:48Win-win.
00:03:55And then there is the styling, which also has a new level of sophistication.
00:04:00With an interior that is more James Bond than Fast and Furious.
00:04:04On the outside, it is much the same story.
00:04:10These doors are perfectly conventional in and out sort of doors.
00:04:15They are not like those idiotic gullwing things you get on the SLS,
00:04:19which makes it look as if it is sniffing its own armpits.
00:04:21This rear spoiler is actually an option.
00:04:24But even that, by AMG standards, is quite discreet.
00:04:27In fact, the whole thing is quite pretty. Quite classic, even.
00:04:36And now, we must move on to cornering.
00:04:39An activity where AMG normally scores maximum points for mentalness.
00:04:46This is, when all is said and done, a 503-horsepower rear-wheel-drive muscle car.
00:04:51And that sounds like a recipe for extreme trickiness.
00:04:56In fact, you can corner quickly in this thing and without soiling your trousers.
00:05:03Which, once again, is thanks to intelligent engineering.
00:05:09In a normal car, the engine and the gearbox, they're just dead weight hanging in there.
00:05:14And they move around a bit and sort of spoil the balance as you go around corners.
00:05:17In this car, the mountings for all that stuff are active.
00:05:22So, as you go through a bend, they stiffen up to keep all that weight in check.
00:05:27It's a bit like the way a cat can walk along the top of a fence,
00:05:32using its tail to keep itself in balance.
00:05:36However, if, like Jeremy, you want to devour your back tyres in one sitting,
00:05:42you still can.
00:05:43Yes, thank you.
00:05:48And then, there's the noise.
00:05:58Are you ready? Here we go.
00:05:59I hate it when my prejudices are demolished, but this car is giving me the fizz.
00:06:16What I like most of all is that the GT is cleverly designed to be Jekyll and Hyde.
00:06:27I'm just going to quieten it down, turn off the manual change, the noisy exhaust.
00:06:32We'll put it back into comfort mode, comfort suspension. There you go.
00:06:36When you turn all that off, it turns into this incredibly civilised long-legged cruiser.
00:06:46I like what they've done. They've got rid of the Andy McNabb names and all that nonsense,
00:06:51and they've given us an AMG for grown-ups.
00:06:54I'm glad I got out of bed this morning.
00:07:06I haven't been spending for a long time.
00:07:08So there you go, mate.
00:07:11I've been saying for ages, AMG Mercs are brilliant.
00:07:18Yes, there are a couple of massive problems with this one, though.
00:07:21What?
00:07:22Well, firstly, it reminds me of you.
00:07:25The second one is that, to be honest, for not much more than half the price of this,
00:07:29you could have a Nissan GT-R, which, as we have established, is the finest car in the world.
00:07:37It's certainly up there, I'll grant you that, but I'll tell you what we'll do.
00:07:40We'll sort it out on the track, okay?
00:07:41We'll see how fast this one can get round.
00:07:44And that, of course, means handing it over to our tame racing driver.
00:07:49Some say that, last week, he won a BAFTA for best original smell.
00:07:58And that when he dies, he thinks he'll go to Devon.
00:08:03All we know is he's called the Stig!
00:08:07And he's not in the car.
00:08:10Oh, yes, Stig, not happy about Ricciardo's lap lap.
00:08:13He's punched him!
00:08:14He's punched him!
00:08:15That's bad.
00:08:16He's really not happy about that fast lap.
00:08:19Oh, he's in the car now, and he's off.
00:08:22A wheel-spinning start, obviously, in a furious temper.
00:08:25503 horsepower thundering through the light, but strong thumb-fibre prop shaft.
00:08:30Oh, he's vandalised the first corner.
00:08:32He's really very annoyed.
00:08:33But he is driving beautifully.
00:08:36Oh, I can't smile without you.
00:08:41Another slice of the calming carpenters there.
00:08:45Chicago looking very fast and very controlled.
00:08:48Now, Hammerhead.
00:08:49James says this car can suffer from snap understeer, so let's see what happens.
00:08:54No, not a thing.
00:08:55It's worth remembering, of course, that James suffers from being a moron.
00:08:58DAF feels sad.
00:09:05Okay, into the follow-through.
00:09:06Banging up the double-clutch gearbox.
00:09:08Letting the perfect balance of the trans-axle layout do its stuff.
00:09:12Just a stabber brakes past the tyre.
00:09:14Stig pretending the pedal is an Australian's face.
00:09:16Two corners to go, coming, ooh, it's hot through there, but very tidy.
00:09:21Only Gambon left.
00:09:23Laser-guided through there.
00:09:24And a rustle line.
00:09:29I have the time here.
00:09:31Ready?
00:09:32It did a 1.17.5.
00:09:37And that is, well, look, that's quicker than the old SLS Black.
00:09:42And quicker than the Nissan GT-R, which shows, James, that you don't know what you're talking about.
00:09:49Interesting.
00:09:50Didn't actually feel like it would be that fast when I was driving it, to be honest.
00:09:52No, that's because, yeah, you were driving it.
00:09:56Right, and now we must do the news.
00:09:58And we start with big news.
00:10:00This is the biggest news we've had in a long time, I would say.
00:10:04Because Ford, for the very first time, is making the Mustang in right-hand drive
00:10:10and will be bringing it to the UK officially.
00:10:13You can buy them over here, there it is.
00:10:15Two versions, you can have a four-cylinder EcoBoost for £28,000
00:10:19or for £33,000 a 5-litre V8.
00:10:22The one I want, though, is the Shelby, the 350 GT-R or something like that.
00:10:25520 horsepower V8, that's the one, there it is, look.
00:10:30Yeah, it looks brilliant.
00:10:31But you can't, they're not bringing that one here.
00:10:33They're not selling that one to us.
00:10:34Why?
00:10:35It is going to Canada in a year.
00:10:37Yeah, but so's the internet, but that's...
00:10:39Yeah, but that's not coming in, no, we can't...
00:10:41I don't know, I don't know.
00:10:42But you must be very looking forward to a right-hand-drive Mustang, Richard Hammond.
00:10:45Yeah, you'd think.
00:10:46No, not really.
00:10:48Because I don't want a right-hand-drive Mustang.
00:10:51Once it becomes right-hand-drive, it's like it's trying too hard to be British and sophisticated and something it's not.
00:10:58I know what you mean, it's like when Americans come over here and start using words like bloody.
00:11:02Yes, it's exactly that.
00:11:04It is, and they say, I'm going to the bloody pub.
00:11:07It doesn't sound right.
00:11:09That's the good thing, it's the same.
00:11:10Exactly, it is.
00:11:11Or they say mate, they try and say mate, but it just doesn't work.
00:11:14Yes, because they think that we're Crocodile Dundee, because it's all the same, because I've got atlases.
00:11:17Yeah.
00:11:18So that realistically should be called, now it's coming here, the Ford bloody quid mate.
00:11:23Yeah.
00:11:24That's its name.
00:11:25Ooh, now, can I just do, can I just do a survey?
00:11:28How many people here enjoyed the ambulance film we did last week?
00:11:32Yes!
00:11:33Okay, you see, the problem we have is that we've had an electronic communication from a man called Mr. E36 Man 4000, who says,
00:11:42Dear so-called Top Gear, I hated your thing on ambulances, why don't you stick to cars?
00:11:49Shall we show Mr, what's he called, Mr Hashtag, shall we show him what this show would be like if we just talked about cars?
00:11:55Yeah, all right, okay.
00:11:56Let's do it, right.
00:11:57Let's do it.
00:11:58Let's do it, right.
00:11:59Let's do it, right.
00:12:00Let's do it, right.
00:12:01I'll tell you what I drove this week, Volkswagen Passat Diesel.
00:12:02Did you?
00:12:03Mmm.
00:12:04Surprisingly comfortable.
00:12:05I also drove an Audi TT, which is much nicer than you'd think.
00:12:19Actually, I've been driving the new Porsche 911 Turbo, which is very fast, but surprisingly quiet.
00:12:29Is it?
00:12:30Is it?
00:12:31Is it?
00:12:32Mmm-hmm.
00:12:36Um, Aston Martin have built a new one-off for a Bond film.
00:12:41It's called the DB10.
00:12:42Yep.
00:12:43I don't, I don't, I don't think much of that, actually.
00:12:46I don't, I don't like the way it looks.
00:12:47No, I don't.
00:12:48No, I do.
00:12:49Okay.
00:12:50Um, Vauxhall has a new kind of Corsair.
00:12:53I've got nothing, look at that.
00:12:59Shall we give up on car news?
00:13:01I'm going to take charge again because I want to talk about something else, right?
00:13:04I want to talk about some experts who said last week they wanted to rip up all of Britain's railway lines,
00:13:10replace them with motorways that would then only be used by coaches.
00:13:14And I think that would be a shame.
00:13:16Why would that be?
00:13:17Because I like having coaches on motorways.
00:13:19Why?
00:13:20Because you can drive alongside them and use their Wi-Fi.
00:13:23Can you?
00:13:25You can't just...
00:13:26I can, honestly.
00:13:27We've not done that.
00:13:28It's fabulous.
00:13:29My kids always say, Daddy, Daddy, slow down to 70.
00:13:31I mean, Tommy, speed up to 70.
00:13:33Yeah.
00:13:34Catch the coach quickly so we can snapshot this picture of a poo I've done.
00:13:38It's like a free-roaming Wi-Fi.
00:13:41Exactly.
00:13:42You do it on the way home, it's incredibly cheap.
00:13:45Now, a few years ago we, uh, we improved police cars and last week we improved ambulances.
00:13:49Yes, we did.
00:13:50We are now the emergency service for the emergency services.
00:13:54Here we are.
00:13:55Really?
00:13:56Quite a lot of people have written to us and they said, right, when are you going to improve fire engines?
00:14:00Hmm.
00:14:01No, but there's a...
00:14:02No, actually, there's a problem.
00:14:03We've looked into this and there's a problem because if you have to build a vehicle that's big enough for all the water you need,
00:14:08and pumps and ladders and buckets, and six burly men and women in, um, Wellingtons, what you end up with is a fire engine.
00:14:17Yeah.
00:14:18But specifically a British fire engine, that's important.
00:14:21Yeah, not one of those stupid American ones where all the firemen stand on the outside.
00:14:25They do.
00:14:26So you get there and there's nobody on board to put the fire out.
00:14:28Do you know what I like about the British fire engine?
00:14:31It says Dennis on the front.
00:14:34Dennis is a reassuring name.
00:14:36A Dennis would remember to return your lawn mower.
00:14:40It is interesting actually because American fire engines have really stupidness.
00:14:44I've got a picture of an American fire engine here.
00:14:46Guess what that's called?
00:14:47Fire engine.
00:14:48No, it's called the igniter.
00:14:51Well, it is.
00:14:53I mean, how does...
00:14:55I've already got a fire.
00:14:56Exactly.
00:14:57It should be called the extinguisher.
00:14:59It's like they've probably got an ambulance called the hemorrhage.
00:15:01Yes.
00:15:02Right, earlier on, James had a go at a proper road test in our one-off car show, and now it's my turn.
00:15:10Try not to muck it up.
00:15:11No, no, no, relax.
00:15:12This is going to be a blizzard of facts because I'm going to talk about the new BMW M3.
00:15:19It has a smaller engine than the old model, three litres rather than four.
00:15:25It has two fewer cylinders, but it's turbocharged, so you get a little bit more horsepower and 111 more torques.
00:15:34That means it's four seconds a lap faster round our track than the old car.
00:15:40And four seconds is a huge gulf because, remember, that was already five seconds a lap faster round the Ascari track in Spain than the equivalent Mercedes and Audi.
00:15:50So this is properly quick, and it's more economical, but, and this is the big one, is it nicer to drive?
00:15:59Well, here it is, slithering about on our track.
00:16:08Look at that. I mean, that's just the M3's signature dish.
00:16:14But straight away, I must tell you, there's a bit of a niggle.
00:16:21If you stick the tail out in a corner, which you can easily, because it's an M3, you'll find it very hard to hold the drift because the power steering is now electric rather than hydraulic.
00:16:36Going round a corner like this is like wrestling with the tail of an excitable crocodile.
00:16:43It's not just hard to hold the slide, it's also hard to straighten up again afterwards.
00:16:49See what I mean?
00:16:51Now, I admit, in the real world, this isn't going to be much of a problem. Ever, if I'm honest.
00:17:01And anyway, you can solve it by taking the steering out of sport plus mode and putting it in comfort mode.
00:17:08Then, everything is fine.
00:17:18Oh, yeah. In fact, everything's more than fine. Everything is absolutely sublime.
00:17:31I'm not going to beat about the bush. This car is utterly brilliant.
00:17:36It's well made, it's got seating for four, it's got a decent sized boot, it's comfortable, it's quiet, it's got lots of standard equipment.
00:17:48In many ways, this car is like the perfect dog.
00:17:53It's loyal, it's cute, it doesn't chase sheep, it doesn't go wrong all the time.
00:17:57And yet, if a burglar comes, it has the power to rip his throat out.
00:18:02Look at me! I'm an attack dog now!
00:18:07I'm fierce and biting!
00:18:09And that really is that. It is a fabulous, wonderful car and if you have £56,000 lying around, you should buy one immediately.
00:18:25Or should you?
00:18:26Because today we live in strange times, environmental times.
00:18:33And BMW has another new car which reflects that.
00:18:37It's one of the most talked about cars in years.
00:18:40And this is it.
00:18:46It's called the i8.
00:18:48And it's a hybrid.
00:18:49Which means it's powered by an electric motor and a tiny three-cylinder 1.5 litre turbocharged petrol engine.
00:18:59That doesn't sound like much of a recipe.
00:19:02Sounds like a sort of glorified Toyota Prius.
00:19:05But let me give you the headline figures.
00:19:09This car does 155 miles an hour and 134 miles to the gallon.
00:19:16And because it's so economical, you get a £5,000 grant from the government if you buy one.
00:19:24It's exempt from the London congestion charge.
00:19:27And the road tax bill, as you can see here, is nil.
00:19:30It really does sound, then, like this car answers everyone's prayers.
00:19:38But does it?
00:19:40Are purebred petrol heads like me really going to say,
00:19:45Mmm, yes, what I really want next is a three-cylinder hybrid?
00:19:50Well, that is what I'm going to try and find out.
00:19:54I'm going to set the satellite navigation for Whitby in North Yorkshire
00:19:57and obviously in a car as futuristic as this.
00:20:00You don't push buttons to do that.
00:20:01You trace the letters you want on this pad here.
00:20:04So, w-h-h-e-ta.
00:20:16Okay.
00:20:18Whitby, North Yorkshire. Guidance started.
00:20:21Now, the reason I've chosen Whitby is,
00:20:23A, you get the best fish and chips in the world there,
00:20:26and B, the M3 we saw earlier is waiting for me there,
00:20:30which means when I arrive, I will face a simple choice.
00:20:35Will I want to drive home in that or this?
00:20:42With the sat-nav looking for the most economical route to Whitby,
00:20:45I put my sensible head on and settle down for a 200-mile fact-finding mission.
00:20:54You have a choice of three driving modes.
00:20:58Number one, electric drive. That's the electric motor only.
00:21:03Gives you a range of 20 miles, 19 more than you get from a Prius,
00:21:07and probably enough for you to do your morning commute.
00:21:12Then, if you move the gear lever over here, you engage Sport mode.
00:21:16That means the electric motor and the petrol engine are working together
00:21:19to give 352 horsepower,
00:21:22and it makes the car sort of firm and bitey and Nürburgringy.
00:21:26But, since we are on the A1, I shall go for comfort mode.
00:21:36Lovely.
00:21:38And it really was lovely.
00:21:41I know there's an electric motor in the front,
00:21:45driving the front wheels through a two-speed automatic gearbox.
00:21:49I know there's a petrol engine at the back,
00:21:51driving the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic gearbox.
00:21:55I also know there's another small electric motor at the back,
00:22:00filling in the gaps and doing all sorts of clever things.
00:22:04And yet, sitting here, this car feels no weirder to drive
00:22:11than that, whatever it is, that hatchback thing there.
00:22:16I've got a steering wheel, gear lever, accelerator brake,
00:22:20and Ken Bruce on the radio.
00:22:22How normal is that?
00:22:28But there's a problem.
00:22:31If you're driving in comfort mode,
00:22:33you're not really charging up the batteries,
00:22:35and eventually, they are going to go flat.
00:22:39One solution is to turn off the motorway and charge them up at the mains.
00:22:46But, as you're about to see, this is not to be recommended.
00:22:49Connect your vehicle and validate.
00:23:01Look, I can operate a hoover!
00:23:04Oh, this is stupid!
00:23:06Well, it must...
00:23:09It must be charging. It's plugged in, so...
00:23:13I shall go and get a cup of coffee.
00:23:15While we wait for the batteries to charge, let me show you this incredible app that you can get with your IAs, OK?
00:23:27If I push that, I can set the air conditioning so the car is cool when I get back into it.
00:23:33How amazing is that?
00:23:37I can also flash the headlights so I could find it if I'd lost it in a car park.
00:23:40I can lock it.
00:23:42I can unlock it.
00:23:44I don't know why you'd want to do that remotely, but you can.
00:23:46I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a feature on here that enables the I8 to find another I8 for a good time.
00:23:56After an hour, I went back to the car and found that the charging point hadn't worked.
00:24:02If you had a pure electric car, you would be completely stuffed.
00:24:08But this is not a pure electric car.
00:24:11So I'm not.
00:24:16I can either drive along without the batteries,
00:24:20or I can put the gear lever over here to engage sport mode,
00:24:25and then they're being charged up as I drive along.
00:24:31What's more, in sport mode, the I8 is properly fast.
00:24:36I scoffed when BMW said they were going to make a hybrid that was as fast as a 911 or a Chevrolet Corvette,
00:24:42but it really is.
00:24:48It's so fast that soon I was in the north.
00:24:52This is Doncaster.
00:24:54This is where I grew up.
00:24:57It was a mining town back then, but now look, it's a wind farm.
00:25:01Bit less romantic, the windmills.
00:25:05And they employ fewer people, but time moves on, I guess.
00:25:11So far then, the I8 had done well.
00:25:15But to find out if it could truly win the heart of the petrol head,
00:25:19I turned off the A1 and plunged into the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors.
00:25:25So let's find out.
00:25:48Oh, God, above this is good.
00:25:50This is a revelation.
00:26:06It's the lightness that staggers you most of all.
00:26:10It's almost as though I'm steering using nothing but thought.
00:26:14And because the heavy battery pack is located in the middle of the car, here, low down,
00:26:22it has the same centre of gravity as a worm.
00:26:27A couple of laps to the four-wheel drive system.
00:26:31And honestly, you can go around any corner at any speed that takes your fancy.
00:26:37The harder I go, the faster I drive, the sharper I brake, the more electricity I'm making for the battery.
00:26:49If you get busted for speeding in this car, you get a thank you letter from Greenpeace.
00:26:54And rightly so.
00:26:55But before we get carried away with this environmental stuff, there's one important point we all need to remember.
00:27:05I've always had a fundamental problem with hybrids.
00:27:10And it's this.
00:27:13We all know the world has limited resources and we must do all we can to eke them out.
00:27:20And you're not going to do that if you drive around in a car that has effectively two engines.
00:27:26You don't solve the problem of conspicuous consumption by using conspicuous consumption.
00:27:32The thing is though, while you have to rape the world to make a car like that, the benefits of owning one for you and I in the here and now are immense.
00:27:44Because that car, that car is staggering.
00:27:48It's breathtaking.
00:27:54It's nearly as breathtaking as that view.
00:27:56With the advert for Yorkshire over, I got back on the road.
00:28:08It is incredible to think that I'm now cruising into Whitby in silent electric mode, using electricity that I made by driving quickly on the moors.
00:28:21The message really is very clear from this car.
00:28:24If you want to save the planet, drive fast.
00:28:38After a short eco drive through the pretty fishing port of Whitby,
00:28:44I arrived in the harbour where I faced a very difficult choice.
00:28:49Cod or haddock?
00:28:55I think cod.
00:28:59Then I faced an even more difficult choice.
00:29:03Which of these cars would I drive back to London?
00:29:07This is the hardest decision I've ever had to make between cars, ever.
00:29:13It's like the M3 is the best of where we've come from and the i8 is where we're going.
00:29:24There must have been a moment in history when everybody had typewriters and typewriters have been around hundreds of years and they were brilliant.
00:29:33And then somebody came along with a laptop.
00:29:36That is what's going on there.
00:29:45No, I've made my mind up.
00:29:47But you weren't expecting that.
00:30:00Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:30:17Let me make sure I've got this straight.
00:30:19You, let's be honest, are our resident dinosaur.
00:30:22I am.
00:30:23And you prefer the i8 to the M3.
00:30:26No.
00:30:27But in the film, you...
00:30:28Yes, I know, I was wrong.
00:30:31Thing is, I've had some time to do some thinking since then.
00:30:34And there are one or two bits and bobs on the i8 that would drive you mad.
00:30:38I mean, rear visibility is atrocious, the boot's microscopic.
00:30:40This window doesn't go all the way down so you can't drive along with your arm hanging out.
00:30:44And I discovered last week that an i8 has just been bought by Wayne Rooney.
00:30:50Oh, no.
00:30:52And it gets worse.
00:30:53How can it get worse than that?
00:30:55Because in a laboratory in Munich, it can do 134 miles to the gallon.
00:31:01But have a guess, how many miles to the gallon I averaged?
00:31:0480.
00:31:05Nope.
00:31:0679.
00:31:07No.
00:31:0878.
00:31:09No, James.
00:31:11I averaged 31 miles to the gallon.
00:31:14Another i8 owners are reporting the same sort of thing.
00:31:17And it only has a tiny little fuel tank, seven gallons.
00:31:21Which means you're going to be stopping for fuel all the time.
00:31:24So when you said it's a laptop, it's one of those really early days laptops.
00:31:28It is.
00:31:29They're on the right road.
00:31:30Make no mistake about that.
00:31:31But they are not there just yet.
00:31:34So anyway, let's move on.
00:31:36Let's put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:31:39Now, my guest tonight was Jordan Belfort's wife in The Wolf of Wall Street, one of my favourite films of the modern age.
00:31:45She's now in a new film.
00:31:47And she's brought along her co-star.
00:31:49So please welcome Margot Robbie and a man called Will Smith.
00:31:54Oh, heavens above.
00:31:55Look what we've got for you.
00:31:56Yeah, we've got you as well.
00:31:57Good to see you.
00:31:58Good to see you.
00:31:59Good to see you.
00:32:00Good to see you.
00:32:01Oh, God.
00:32:02Go around here.
00:32:03Thank you, honey.
00:32:04And relax.
00:32:05Have a seat.
00:32:06Have a seat.
00:32:07Have a seat.
00:32:08This is fantastic.
00:32:09Wow.
00:32:10This is great.
00:32:11Because I was going to begin by apologizing for the trailers we have.
00:32:28The trailers?
00:32:29Oh, those trailers, yeah.
00:32:30They're really nice.
00:32:31You know, Will set his bar very high with trailers though, so.
00:32:35Really?
00:32:36Yeah, his trailer's pimp.
00:32:38Yeah, I'm very serious about the trailer.
00:32:40The trailer, you know, it has to be, you know, you've got to hook it up.
00:32:43You've got to have a stereo system.
00:32:44You know, it has to.
00:32:45Yours had mirrors on the roof.
00:32:51I'm not insinuating anything, I'm just saying.
00:32:54That's going to get in trouble.
00:32:56That's going to get into trouble.
00:32:58Already in trouble where my mind's gone.
00:33:00No, because really, not that long ago, you were in Neighbours.
00:33:05Yeah.
00:33:06What interests me about Neighbours, which is an Aussie TV show.
00:33:09I know what Neighbours is, man.
00:33:10I know what Neighbours is.
00:33:11Two days ago, they asked him what show I did in Australia, very popular show, and you
00:33:17said it started with C.
00:33:18I couldn't remember the name.
00:33:19There's no C in it.
00:33:20I just can't see Will Smith finishing a day at work going, do you know, I think I'll
00:33:25watch Neighbours.
00:33:26It's 6.30, my show's on.
00:33:28Russell Crowe started in that, didn't he?
00:33:31So then Guy Pearce was another one, Kylie's another one.
00:33:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:34And I was wondering, do you know Coronation Street?
00:33:36Because that's produced literally.
00:33:37Yeah, yeah, I've done all those shows, man.
00:33:39You don't.
00:33:40And you were because nobody.
00:33:41I've got the DVDs and everything.
00:33:45It's just unbelievable.
00:33:46I do.
00:33:47I have all of this.
00:33:48I have all of this.
00:33:49The Coronation Street and Neighbours and all of them.
00:33:51Yeah.
00:33:52He said it.
00:33:53Yeah.
00:33:54Now, you're over here, which is a promote a film.
00:33:57Yes.
00:33:58It's called Focus, but it isn't about the small Ford Hatchback.
00:34:01No.
00:34:02It's disappointed some people in here.
00:34:05It's, well, it's a love story between you two.
00:34:07Yeah.
00:34:08It's really, it's interesting.
00:34:09It's, it's, um, my character plays a, a con man, a master thief.
00:34:16And part of being a master thief is he's a, he's a liar.
00:34:20And he meets Margo's character, Jess, and falls madly in love and realizes quickly that lying and loving don't go together too well.
00:34:30They go together often, but they don't go together well.
00:34:35I believe we have a clip which we can show now.
00:34:38Really?
00:34:39It's okay.
00:34:40This is a man's word.
00:34:41Are you working an angle?
00:34:42I wouldn't trust him if I were you.
00:34:43But I should trust you.
00:34:44This is a man's word.
00:34:46You've got a problem.
00:34:47I am going to kill you.
00:34:49Tell me later.
00:34:50But it would mean nothing.
00:34:51You lost everyone's money.
00:34:52My money.
00:34:53Hey!
00:34:54Wow.
00:34:55Wow.
00:34:56Without a woman on.
00:34:57This is your mess.
00:34:58I think you're losing it.
00:34:59Whoa, whoa.
00:35:00And why'd you come up here?
00:35:01Professional curiosity.
00:35:03And I like boobs.
00:35:04I figured it was a win-win.
00:35:06At the end of the day, this is a game of focus.
00:35:10Did you notice when I had my shirt off, you noticed, didn't you?
00:35:23Did you see that shot?
00:35:24I just want to know if you saw the shot.
00:35:28Margot had her trousers off.
00:35:30Oh, yes.
00:35:31You saw that.
00:35:32Slightly more distracting.
00:35:33I get that.
00:35:34I get that.
00:35:35And I've seen you with no shirt on a million times.
00:35:37But I've never seen...
00:35:38Well, I have seen Margot with no shirt on.
00:35:39Well...
00:35:40I've never seen you in no shirt.
00:35:43This just got awkward.
00:35:45It did.
00:35:46Now, one of the things that make it even more awkward is you filmed quite a lot of the movie in Argentina.
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:53Yeah.
00:35:54There we go.
00:35:56How did that go for you?
00:35:58For me?
00:35:59Yeah, well...
00:36:00It was good, man.
00:36:01Argentina's fantastic.
00:36:02Is it?
00:36:06What's wrong with Argentina?
00:36:07What's wrong with Argentina?
00:36:08What happened?
00:36:09Every thing.
00:36:18No, but I enjoyed it.
00:36:19And best of luck with it.
00:36:20Thank you, man.
00:36:21When's it open?
00:36:2227th.
00:36:2327th.
00:36:24Is it 27th here?
00:36:25Yes.
00:36:26Yeah.
00:36:27Okay.
00:36:28Yes.
00:36:29Now, we've got to get on to cars because you grew up on a farm in Australia.
00:36:32Mm.
00:36:33So, you presumably have been driving since you were nought because it's such a vast area.
00:36:38Yeah, it's huge.
00:36:39But yeah, in our family the rule was you could drive as soon as you could like, you know,
00:36:44physically reach the pedals and you could have the car on your own when you reach double digits.
00:36:49So, when you were ten, you were allowed to, you know...
00:36:52Wow.
00:36:53And I remember being like nine years old and arguing with the parents, being like,
00:36:57guys, this is absurd.
00:36:58I'm not like...
00:36:59And they're like, no, you're nine, you have to wait another year.
00:37:01And I was like, this is...
00:37:02I can't believe this.
00:37:03This is ridiculous.
00:37:04Have you been out to the Outback?
00:37:05No, no, no.
00:37:06Oh, please.
00:37:07I feel like you'd fit right in.
00:37:08You'd love it.
00:37:09See, it's a racial thing.
00:37:10Yeah, there's...
00:37:11Yeah, there's...
00:37:12And so, what was your first car?
00:37:21It was a, um, a candy apple red IROC Z.
00:37:26A Camaro.
00:37:27Apparently, you don't have those here.
00:37:28No, we don't.
00:37:29No.
00:37:30What's the word?
00:37:31Taste.
00:37:32I was thinking, well, maybe this would indicate you don't know anything about cars.
00:37:37And then I started to look in some of the lyrics, actually.
00:37:39Have you been familiar with the lyrics of the early songs?
00:37:41Oh, jeez.
00:37:42Oh, jeez.
00:37:43I was born.
00:37:44In a song called Getting Jiggy With It.
00:37:46Yes.
00:37:47I remember that.
00:37:48Yeah, I remember that one.
00:37:50I don't recognize that one.
00:37:53He's got 850 IS.
00:37:55850 IS if you need a lift.
00:37:57Who's the kid in the drop?
00:37:58Who else?
00:37:59Will Smith.
00:38:00Will Smith.
00:38:01Will Smith.
00:38:02Now, drop, I presume, means drop top.
00:38:04Drop top, yes.
00:38:05They never did a drop top 850.
00:38:06No, no.
00:38:07It's a slip.
00:38:08It's a slip.
00:38:09It's so cool.
00:38:10Hold on.
00:38:11See, now here, so he thinks he knows everything.
00:38:12He thinks he knows everything.
00:38:13He thinks he knows everything.
00:38:14In the United States, we do a thing where we customize our cars.
00:38:15Yeah.
00:38:16Can I just give you another one?
00:38:17This is great.
00:38:18Just cruising.
00:38:19The maestro.
00:38:20Do you know the last bit?
00:38:21Yes, yes, yes.
00:38:22Nice flow.
00:38:23Nice flow.
00:38:24Hot like nitro.
00:38:25Cool as ice though.
00:38:26Cool as ice though.
00:38:27It's a dichotomy.
00:38:28Do you know what a maestro is?
00:38:29Oh, you've got one?
00:38:30There you go.
00:38:31I don't...
00:38:32I don't...
00:38:33I don't...
00:38:34I don't...
00:38:35I don't...
00:38:36I don't...
00:38:37I don't...
00:38:38I don't...
00:38:39I don't...
00:38:40I don't...
00:38:41I don't...
00:38:42I don't...
00:38:43I don't...
00:38:44I don't...
00:38:45I don't...
00:38:46I don't...
00:38:47I don't...
00:38:48I don't...
00:38:49Oh my god.
00:38:50It is so awkward for me to hear you say my lyrics like...
00:38:56I'll bet.
00:38:57You know, it's making my eyes water.
00:39:01We've done enough of this now.
00:39:04We want to get onto your laps.
00:39:05Okay, yeah.
00:39:06How did you enjoy it out there?
00:39:08It was really fun.
00:39:09It was really nerve-wracking.
00:39:10Was it?
00:39:11Yeah.
00:39:12You...
00:39:13It was fantastic.
00:39:14Like, I've never...
00:39:15Well, you know, in the...
00:39:16In the United States, the...
00:39:18Stick is on the other side.
00:39:19Yeah.
00:39:20So, having to drive and do it with the other...
00:39:22It was, um...
00:39:23That's an advantage for you, of course.
00:39:24Yeah.
00:39:25Because you're used to driving.
00:39:26Which is why he's obviously mentioning it right now.
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:28Yeah, he's already started.
00:39:29He's like, in case she beats me on the laps.
00:39:30It's the whole...
00:39:31In case her time was better.
00:39:33Okay.
00:39:34Margot, you went first.
00:39:35And...
00:39:36Well, there was a bit of an off.
00:39:39Crashed.
00:39:40Who'd like to see Margot's...
00:39:42I said specifically, let's not let Will know that that happened.
00:39:46Let's have a look.
00:39:47Come on, let's play the tape.
00:39:48Margot's off.
00:39:49Oh, wow.
00:39:50It's Chicago.
00:39:51It's understeer in Chicago.
00:39:52Ah!
00:39:53It's Ian!
00:39:54It's Ian!
00:39:55Ooh!
00:39:56Oh!
00:39:57He's Ian, the cameraman.
00:39:58Sorry!
00:39:59And he's dead!
00:40:00Good!
00:40:01Margot, we have a little...
00:40:02I am sorry about that.
00:40:03No, relax.
00:40:04We've got a little present for you.
00:40:05Yeah.
00:40:06It's the landing right here.
00:40:07You can take that home as a souvenir of your trip to Top Gear.
00:40:08Oh, man.
00:40:09I'm so sorry.
00:40:10Right.
00:40:11Now, we've got both your laps to have a look at.
00:40:12Okay.
00:40:13Ladies first.
00:40:14So, Margot, let's have a look at your trip.
00:40:15Oh, man.
00:40:16Oh, man.
00:40:17Oh, man.
00:40:18Oh, man.
00:40:19Oh, man.
00:40:20Oh, man.
00:40:21Oh, man.
00:40:22Oh, man.
00:40:23Oh, man.
00:40:24Oh, man.
00:40:25This is going to end in a fist fight.
00:40:26Right.
00:40:27Here we go.
00:40:28Good, clean, aggressive start.
00:40:29Let's have a look at this.
00:40:30Good, damn with the brakes.
00:40:31I feel so much faster in the car.
00:40:32Everybody says it.
00:40:33But the slower you look, weirdly, no, actually, I don't know.
00:40:34There's a lot of understeer there.
00:40:35That's ballsy.
00:40:36Oh, God.
00:40:37Oh, man.
00:40:38Oh, man.
00:40:39Oh, man.
00:40:40Oh, man.
00:40:41Oh, man.
00:40:42Oh, man.
00:40:43Oh, man.
00:40:44Oh, man.
00:40:45Oh, man.
00:40:46Oh, man.
00:40:47Oh, man.
00:40:48Oh, man.
00:40:49Oh, man.
00:40:50Oh, man.
00:40:51Oh, man.
00:40:52Oh, man.
00:40:53Oh, man.
00:40:54Oh, man, I'll see.
00:40:55Oh, god.
00:40:56Here we go.
00:40:57We're going to make it without running over Ian.
00:40:58Oh, waving to Ian.
00:40:59There's a little wave there, that was noisy.
00:41:01Oh, there was a cure, Ian.
00:41:02Oh, god, don't break, don't break, don't break, don't break.
00:41:05Don't break.
00:41:06Don't break.
00:41:07You do like you're concentrating in there.
00:41:11Yeah.
00:41:12Yeah.
00:41:13Trying not to hit anyone this time.
00:41:15This is good.
00:41:16I'm liking the look of this.
00:41:17Look at this.
00:41:18Holy, beautiful.
00:41:21Like coming up to the fastest bit.
00:41:23Foot down, foot down, foot down, foot down.
00:41:27Confidence, that was. There was a look of confidence.
00:41:32Through the tyres, yes.
00:41:35That does look quite great.
00:41:36That was the fun one. I like that.
00:41:38Second to last corner, this is what normally catches people out.
00:41:41Yeah, that's the one.
00:41:42Through there easily, through Gambon.
00:41:44More understeer, a lot of understeering across the line.
00:41:48There we are.
00:41:51That was very good.
00:41:53And now...
00:41:57That was strong.
00:41:58Yeah, it is strong, Mr. Will Smith.
00:42:00Yeah, but everything was on the left for me.
00:42:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:04Anymore?
00:42:05I had back surgery like three days ago.
00:42:12Who would like to see the lap with the poor man with the back surgery?
00:42:19Let's have a look. Here we go.
00:42:21Whoa, that was some revs.
00:42:26Yep.
00:42:30This is the one.
00:42:31Did you do a few practices?
00:42:32Yeah, yeah, I did a few practice labs.
00:42:35That's a hard bit of braking mid-corner there.
00:42:37I'll tell you what though, that car, one of GM's finest.
00:42:40You're powering through, feeling good.
00:42:45There we go.
00:42:46This is the spiritual successor of the IROC Z.
00:42:50I'm on the wall now, they're putting me on the wall.
00:42:54My name with all of the fastest times on this track.
00:42:57That is a confident man right there.
00:42:59It's actually lovely conditions for fast times this.
00:43:03Keeping it in the lines nicely.
00:43:06Yes.
00:43:07Just like watching Daniel Ricciardo all over again.
00:43:11It's the one that makes my children proud.
00:43:13Keep it in there, no braking flat out, yeah?
00:43:14No braking flat out.
00:43:15Good man.
00:43:16Yeah, that's looking very tidy.
00:43:17Second to last corner.
00:43:18You have any problems?
00:43:19No, that is neat.
00:43:20Very neat.
00:43:21And through Gambon, still on all four wheels, unlike some people.
00:43:36And here we are across them.
00:43:37Woo!
00:43:38That is fun.
00:43:40That is almost fun.
00:43:42Yeah.
00:43:43Well done, you two.
00:43:45Where do you think you've come on the board?
00:43:48I'll be really psyched if I get on the board, to be honest.
00:43:52You can't not be on it.
00:43:53No, you can't.
00:43:54Because trust me, Jack Whitehall, Ed Shea...
00:43:56So there's space down there for me?
00:43:57Okay.
00:43:58I want 152.
00:44:00152 and...
00:44:02Will?
00:44:04Well, I want like 122.
00:44:09You're asking what I think I did.
00:44:11Yeah, yeah.
00:44:12Oh, no.
00:44:14I think...
00:44:15I might be in the 150 zone, right?
00:44:19You're right in there somewhere.
00:44:20Somewhere with the hue...
00:44:21I felt like I was...
00:44:22I felt like I...
00:44:23These are wet times.
00:44:24Well, let's have a look, shall we?
00:44:25Yeah.
00:44:26Let's have a look.
00:44:27I've got the times here.
00:44:28Okay.
00:44:29I'm going to do you first, Will.
00:44:30Okay.
00:44:31Oh, geez.
00:44:32This is really exciting.
00:44:33This is very exciting.
00:44:34You did.
00:44:35A one.
00:44:36That's a good start.
00:44:3740.
00:44:38Woo!
00:44:39Seven.
00:44:40Whoa!
00:44:41Two.
00:44:42Okay, yeah.
00:44:43I'm not at that.
00:44:44I'm not at that.
00:44:45I'm not at that.
00:44:46I'm not at that.
00:44:47I'm not at that.
00:44:48That's not bad at all.
00:44:49That puts you...
00:44:50Wow.
00:44:51Okay, yeah.
00:44:52That's really great.
00:44:53I'm not at that.
00:44:54I'm not at that.
00:44:55I'm not at that.
00:44:56That's not bad.
00:44:57I like that.
00:44:58That is not bad at all.
00:44:59Yeah.
00:45:00And now, we must get on to your co-star.
00:45:02Okay.
00:45:03God.
00:45:04If you beat me, this is your last day on the tour.
00:45:06I will never work again after this.
00:45:11It's Leo, Will Smith, and then TV.
00:45:15Margot Robbie.
00:45:16One.
00:45:17Oh, good.
00:45:1840.
00:45:19Ooh!
00:45:20What?
00:45:21She better not.
00:45:22Seven.
00:45:23Oh!
00:45:24She better not.
00:45:25I can't believe it.
00:45:26She better not.
00:45:27I can't believe it.
00:45:28She better not.
00:45:29She better not.
00:45:30I can't believe it.
00:45:31She better not.
00:45:32She better not.
00:45:33I can't believe it.
00:45:34She better not.
00:45:35One.
00:45:36Whoa!
00:45:37I'm not making it up.
00:45:38I'm not making it up.
00:45:39I'm not making it up.
00:45:40I'm sorry!
00:45:41This is a bad idea.
00:45:42This whole thing is a bad idea.
00:45:43It's like the Academy Awards where you got to clap for the other person.
00:46:16I don't know what to say now.
00:46:17I actually can't believe that.
00:46:18I don't know what to say now.
00:46:19I actually can't believe that.
00:46:20Both of you have done amazing times.
00:46:22Yeah.
00:46:23There was a tenth in it.
00:46:24Neither have you got anything to be ashamed about.
00:46:26And it has been.
00:46:27Oh no, one of us has something to be ashamed of.
00:46:29I was trying to end on a really high note.
00:46:32No, no.
00:46:33Coming up with some nice things.
00:46:34Yeah.
00:46:35But you're right.
00:46:36Yeah.
00:46:37Ladies and gentlemen, I think you'll all agree.
00:46:40This has been an absolute joy.
00:46:42Will Smith and Margot Robbie.
00:46:44Right.
00:46:45Now, we must move on to some very sad news.
00:46:58The Land Rover Defender is going out of production.
00:47:02And our producers thought that that meant it deserved a fitting obituary.
00:47:07And all we needed for that was a beach and a rural simpleton.
00:47:14It's a little known fact that several of mankind's greatest inventions have started out as drawings in the sand on a beach.
00:47:29Henry Royce of Rolls-Royce fame made his first sketch of the Merlin engine, the incredible motor that powered the Spitfire and the Lancaster in the sand at his local beach.
00:47:40Norman Woodland, though I'd never heard of him either, was in Miami when he revolutionised shopping by drawing the first barcode in the sand.
00:47:52And in 1947, here at Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey, it was the same story for the Land Rover.
00:48:01The sketch was done by a chap called Morris Wilkes, who was the technical director for Rover Cars.
00:48:07At the time, he used an old Bren gun carrier to get around on his farm until one day he swapped it for his neighbour's old Willis Jeep and soon thought, hang on, we can make something like this.
00:48:22So he sketched out his creation in the sand, and a first prototype was quickly built over the following few months.
00:48:32Sadly, though, there was a bit of an issue.
00:48:36You see, Morris thought putting the steering wheel in the middle would mean they could sell it to right and left-hand drive countries without having to re-engineer it.
00:48:48But then they realised that, amongst other things, that was going to make hand signals rather tricky.
00:48:54So it was back to the drawing board.
00:48:59And a mere ten months after that shaky start, the first Land Rover was born.
00:49:11It came in this green, because the only paint the Land Rover could lay their hands on was surplus army leftovers they used for spitfires.
00:49:21The body was aluminium, not for clever engineering reasons, but because steel was in sure supply.
00:49:29If ever there was an underdog, it was this.
00:49:33Nobody back then could have predicted what a phenomenon the underdog would turn out to be.
00:49:41The military bought it by the thousand, and it was used by everyone from the Medical Corps to the SAS.
00:49:48While in civilian life, it was the very definition of versatile.
00:49:54You could have a Land Rover tank, a Land Rover train, a Land Rover conveyor belt, a snow plough, a fire engine, and, rather annoyingly, a Land Rover hover van.
00:50:07If explorers wanted to explore, adventurers wanted to conquer terrain that was unconquerable, they turned to one of these.
00:50:18It was the first production vehicle to travel 18,000 miles from England to Singapore.
00:50:27The first to cross the Bering Strait, and the machine of choice for Ranulph Fiennes on his epic transglobal expedition.
00:50:37In fact, at one time, the first car ever seen by 60% of the developing world was a Land Rover.
00:50:48And on top of that, it's been in production for 67 years.
00:50:5367 years. The production run alone makes this thing one of the greats.
00:51:00Look at the other icons, beat them. I'd say 57 years.
00:51:042 CV. Well, that was a real fly-by-night, 42 years.
00:51:08So great is my love for this machine, that when, 13 years ago, we ran a Top Gear competition, asking viewers to vote for the greatest car of all time,
00:51:21I championed the Land Rover, and the public clearly agreed, because it won.
00:51:27I drove a Series 1 in that film. It was old and tatty and worn, but I fell so completely in love with it that I actually bought it so I could restore it.
00:51:40I'll never forget the day I brought it home, 13 years ago. It stood in this very yard like a lost orphan.
00:51:46So I took it into the workshop, stripped it down, and laid it all out on the floor so I could begin that long, loving process of restoring it to its former glory.
00:51:57And here it is.
00:52:08Yeah, I mean, I have been really busy.
00:52:12And the thing is, it's good to have a lot of spare parts, because Land Rovers break down a lot, so you never know.
00:52:21Can't be too sentimental about these things.
00:52:23But because it is the greatest car ever made, I must now try to make amends by giving it a fitting send-off.
00:52:32And this is the perfect starting point. There are many great Land Rover TV adverts, but what you're watching now is the most famous of them all.
00:52:45This is the one where it winches itself up a vast, steep dam.
00:52:49Next time you're laid for work, it's worth remembering that nothing, that nothing, gets in the way of a Land Rover.
00:52:58Now, the thing is, that advert, as exciting as it looked, was, I'm afraid, the result of, shall we say, the magic of television.
00:53:13Because the Land Rover didn't winch itself up.
00:53:17The winch on the front bumper pulled it the first few feet out of the water, but then it was actually hauled the rest of the way up by a much bigger winch hidden at the top of the dam.
00:53:28So I think you can probably see what's coming next. As our tribute to the Land Rover Defender, we are going to redo that stunt properly.
00:53:39Oh, God.
00:53:48The dam I'll be climbing is Clarewen in Wales.
00:53:53It's 1,200 feet wide and, more worryingly for me, 200 feet high.
00:54:01To make things worse, the Land Rover I'll be using is 64 years old.
00:54:07So in order to do what they never managed in the TV advert, we've added some bits.
00:54:16When they made that advert, there wasn't a winch around big enough to take on board all the cable you need to go up a big dam.
00:54:24So we, well, not Jeremy and me, somebody else, has built this ginormous one.
00:54:30Then there's the matter of the engine.
00:54:33You see, when this thing starts to go up the dam, it will go vertical.
00:54:40And at that point, the engine at the front will cut out.
00:54:44Problem, because we need the engine to power the winch.
00:54:47Solution, a second engine just for the winch.
00:54:52Best of all, this is built so that it can pivot.
00:54:54As the Land Rover goes vertical, this stays level.
00:54:58None of this gave me much comfort, however, when I was standing at the bottom.
00:55:05Oh, bloody hell.
00:55:08It's much steeper than the other dam in the advert.
00:55:13For a brief moment, I thought I was off the hook, because the start point looked completely inaccessible.
00:55:21Sadly, the producers had thought of that.
00:55:23I hate problem solvers.
00:55:29And this is just a little amuse-bouche.
00:55:32Eventually, I was in place.
00:55:36The winch cable was attached to the top.
00:55:39And it was time to begin.
00:55:47That's the engine in the back that powers the winch, remember, because of the angle.
00:55:52Um, I'd love to think of something else to say or do.
00:55:55I can't, so I'm going to go.
00:55:57So, um, right, here I go.
00:55:59Oh, it's tensioning up.
00:56:09This is okay so far.
00:56:15Oh, there it is.
00:56:20Oh, my God.
00:56:22Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:56:30I know it's slow, any faster, and I risk burning out all the winch motors and things.
00:56:38Plus, there was an issue with the face of the dam itself.
00:56:43The one on the advert was smooth concrete.
00:56:46This is rough stone.
00:56:48I didn't take that into account.
00:56:52What I'm going to do is steer between these rocks where they stick out from the face.
00:56:56Oh, it's jerking.
00:57:00I'm having to read the surface.
00:57:03Oh.
00:57:05This vertical off-roading gave me another problem.
00:57:11Because the Land Rover is winching itself up on its own winch.
00:57:16The cable has to feed evenly onto the drum.
00:57:19If it doesn't do that, everything gets ruined.
00:57:21I couldn't see the drum.
00:57:25So, up top, the producers were spotting for me.
00:57:29It's great enough, please, Richard.
00:57:31Wow.
00:57:35Oh.
00:57:37Oh.
00:57:41Oh.
00:57:42It's because it's so slow, I've got time to think about what would happen if it...
00:57:48I can't, I dare.
00:57:49I am now terrified.
00:57:51I am now absolutely...
00:57:53Oh.
00:57:58Past the halfway point, it started to get even worse.
00:58:02I can feel the front wheels now going very light.
00:58:06Because where it goes concave, where it bellies in like that.
00:58:10My winch cable is pulling the front of the car off the ground.
00:58:14Oh.
00:58:16I can't tell you how horrible that feels.
00:58:20Oh.
00:58:22Oh, stop, stop, stop.
00:58:24I'm stopping, I'm stopping.
00:58:25Honestly, mate, you've got about 20 seconds. I'm scared, okay? And I mean it.
00:58:37Okay, take your mind off it, take your mind off it.
00:58:40This...
00:58:42The water behind this dam can supply Birmingham with 79 million gallons a day.
00:58:49Who gives a right now?
00:58:51It's all right, we're good.
00:58:52We're good.
00:58:58It's really vertical now.
00:59:04Oh God.
00:59:08I can hear the lines, I can actually hear the tension in that wire.
00:59:16As I get to the top, the cable becomes less strong.
00:59:19Partly because as well as the weight of the Land Rover and me, it has to be carrying the weight of itself on the winch.
00:59:31Oh God, I'm depending so much on things made by other people.
00:59:36Every single part now.
00:59:38The brake stops the winch feeding out, the engine, everything.
00:59:41In the face of unutterable terror, I was finally nearing the top.
00:59:52We have nearly done this, I've nearly cracked it.
00:59:55200 feet of near vertical rock.
00:59:57Just a few more inches, another few turns on the winch.
01:00:02What a fantastic way to pay tribute to a car.
01:00:16What?
01:00:18It was at this point, the producers broke the bad news.
01:00:22Because of where the winch cable was attached, the Land Rover wouldn't be able to climb over onto the flat dam top.
01:00:30And this meant only one thing.
01:00:32I'm going to have to go back down.
01:00:37I'm going to have to winch it down the dam.
01:00:41I really need a piss!
01:00:45I really need a piss!
01:00:54I don't think we should do nothing.
01:00:56Really.
01:00:57It was nothing.
01:01:01So, you failed.
01:01:04Well, I've almost got to the top.
01:01:06Yeah, but then you just came straight back down again.
01:01:08Well, I'm sorry Hammond, if I said I'm going to drive to Bristol, and then got nearly to Bristol, and then came home again, that's not going to Bristol.
01:01:15The main thing is, I gave the Land Rover Defender a fitting send-off.
01:01:19Yeah, but Hammond, they're working on a new Defender now, and it looks exactly the same as the old one.
01:01:25So, you said you'd drive to the top of a dam, which you didn't, to pay tribute to a car that you said was about to die, but it's not.
01:01:33Yeah.
01:01:35Well, that means you're a liar, and you've completely wasted our time.
01:01:39And on that bombshell, I'm afraid it's time to end.
01:01:42Next week, normal service is resumed.
01:01:44James and I have a lot of crashes on purpose.
01:01:47Hopefully, we shall see you then.
01:01:49Good night!
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