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After 22 years of automotive mayhem, the trio—Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May—have reached the end of the road. In their final special, "One For The Road," they head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own: a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri, and a Triumph Stag. We dive into the most emotional moments, the stunning African landscapes, and the legacy left behind by the men who changed car television forever. Goodbye to the best car show in the world.
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After 22 years of automotive mayhem, the trio—Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May—have reached the end of the road. In their final special, "One For The Road," they head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own: a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri, and a Triumph Stag. We dive into the most emotional moments, the stunning African landscapes, and the legacy left behind by the men who changed car television forever. Goodbye to the best car show in the world.
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00:01:17Hello and welcome to the Grand Tour, which this week comes to you from Nashville.
00:01:22There it is.
00:01:26It was a city that was named after General Nash, big war hero, kicked the British out.
00:01:35You ended up with independence and how's that working out for you?
00:01:40I mean, I only ask because we were looking the other day at the best-selling cars in America
00:01:44these days.
00:01:45This is the top five.
00:01:47There you go.
00:01:48That's independence.
00:01:50Working well.
00:01:51Toyota, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Honda.
00:01:53So what is actually made in Detroit these days?
00:01:57Well, mostly they just grow sustainable, organic peace beans.
00:02:02It's just women with armpit hair growing kale.
00:02:05That's all that's going on there.
00:02:07Municipal farms for the community.
00:02:09Now, the reason we've come to Nashville is very simple.
00:02:13In fact, it's because I've been to all 50 of the US states, but I've never been here
00:02:16before.
00:02:17And what a town.
00:02:19Yeah.
00:02:23It's a great place.
00:02:27We're loving it.
00:02:28And the music is amazing.
00:02:30Loving it.
00:02:34Not really.
00:02:35Mate, you can't.
00:02:36This is known as Music City USA.
00:02:38That's what it is.
00:02:39It's where we are.
00:02:40But it isn't, is it?
00:02:41Because Detroit is.
00:02:42Oh, no.
00:02:43Listen.
00:02:43No.
00:02:46Motown.
00:02:47Motown is just three minutes of jangly nonsense.
00:02:50Oh, come on, Hammond.
00:02:52It just isn't.
00:02:53You cannot possibly say that.
00:02:55Country and Western music is designed to make you miserable.
00:02:58Motown is designed to make you happy.
00:03:00No, he's absolutely right.
00:03:01Motown is happier music.
00:03:02I mean, take something like Martha Reeve dancing in the streets, okay?
00:03:06Listen to how happy the words are.
00:03:08Every guy grab a girl everywhere around the world.
00:03:11Isn't that what Donald was telling us to do?
00:03:17He did.
00:03:19He did.
00:03:20No.
00:03:21He said every guy grope a girl.
00:03:22Very differently.
00:03:24Detroit isn't just Motown.
00:03:26Bob Seger's from Detroit.
00:03:27It's Housewives music.
00:03:28Ted Nugent.
00:03:29Mad.
00:03:31Iggy Pop.
00:03:32Ridiculous.
00:03:32Madonna.
00:03:33Annoying.
00:03:34Eminem.
00:03:35Can't sing.
00:03:36Alice Cooper.
00:03:37Ridiculous again.
00:03:38Half the Eagles.
00:03:39Which half?
00:03:39Glenn Frey.
00:03:40I don't like that half.
00:03:43Nashville, right?
00:03:44What's come out of here?
00:03:45Mighty Cyrus.
00:03:46Brilliant.
00:03:49You just said that out loud on television.
00:03:52And the Ormond Brothers.
00:03:54Never heard of them.
00:03:55They have.
00:03:57The Ormond Brothers, they have that one hit, instrumental.
00:04:01What was it called?
00:04:02Jennifer.
00:04:03Oh, I hated that.
00:04:05You never hear it anymore, do you?
00:04:06No.
00:04:07Brothers.
00:04:07Weirdest thing.
00:04:08Weirdest thing.
00:04:10Well, I love that message.
00:04:12Oh, sorry.
00:04:12This is a message from Mr. Willman.
00:04:14I think we've gone a bit off topic.
00:04:15He might be cross.
00:04:16We have a bit.
00:04:16There is actually a car thing here, which we ought to talk about.
00:04:19It's called coal rolling.
00:04:20Are you familiar with this?
00:04:22Yes.
00:04:22It has its origins in a sport where people go with their pickup trucks into a field and
00:04:28see who can tow the heaviest thing.
00:04:30Yep.
00:04:31Oh, yeah.
00:04:31We've got some footage here of it happening.
00:04:33Look at that.
00:04:34The man in a pickup truck towing a heavy thing.
00:04:36There you go.
00:04:38Things you will never hear said at that event.
00:04:40Got to rush, lads.
00:04:40I'm late for a poetry reading.
00:04:44That's truck number three.
00:04:45Bernie Sanders, everybody.
00:04:48Anyway, the thing is, they worked out they could pull more heavy things if they fiddled
00:04:51with the ECU on the diesel engines because that would generate more power and, as a byproduct,
00:04:57more smoke.
00:04:58That's why it's called coal rolling.
00:05:00And now various kids have started to do it out on the highway.
00:05:03What they do is they go out on the street and then do it when they overtake a Toyota Prius.
00:05:07Look at this, right?
00:05:08Here we go.
00:05:09Oh, my God.
00:05:11Really?
00:05:12No, no.
00:05:12Oh, come on.
00:05:14Really?
00:05:15No, I...
00:05:18I like this.
00:05:19I know, I know, I shouldn't say this, but every time I overtake a Prius, I always think
00:05:24I could do this in fourth, but I'm going to use second instead.
00:05:28It'll annoy him even more.
00:05:29You do know you're 56 years old.
00:05:32Yeah, but I've got a mental age of nine.
00:05:34Oh, yeah.
00:05:34Should we get on with the show?
00:05:36I think we should have said it's time.
00:05:37Yes, on with the show.
00:05:38In our car show this week.
00:05:42James runs over a sun lounger.
00:05:47Richard has a beer.
00:05:51Oh, you go on a thing.
00:05:54You need to buy a BMW M3 because for £11,000 less, you can have a Jaguar XES, which is
00:06:02nicer to drive, more comfortable, and just as fast.
00:06:06It isn't just as fast.
00:06:08Yes, it is.
00:06:08No, it isn't.
00:06:09They both do 155 miles an hour.
00:06:11Yes, because the BMW has been electronically limited to 155.
00:06:14The Jag is just limited.
00:06:17Sorry to interrupt.
00:06:18It's just that both my colleagues are wrong.
00:06:20Because if you want a small, fast saloon car, what you absolutely have to have...
00:06:24If you're going to start going on about that Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifogliogliolio, I am going to stab you in
00:06:30the eye with this pen.
00:06:32No, it's a number of times.
00:06:33He's right.
00:06:34Alfa Romeo have not made a decent car for 30 years.
00:06:38Um...
00:06:38Um, nothing.
00:06:39Because we need to get back to the point.
00:06:41James and I decided it was time to sort out this Jaguar BMW debate with a proper old school road
00:06:46test in Scotland.
00:06:58Hello and welcome to Wales, where I've come with all of our film crews and this, the brand new Alfa
00:07:06Romeo Giulia Quadrifogliogliolio.
00:07:11I think.
00:07:12Whatever.
00:07:14Let's get on now and see what's what.
00:07:22Now, for this to be a proper Alfa Romeo, there must be something wrong with it.
00:07:29Think about it.
00:07:30A person who's kind to his mother and punctual and sober and well-dressed, he's an Audi.
00:07:37And nobody wants a friend like that.
00:07:40If you're going to form a relationship with a car, if you're going to develop a bond, it's got to
00:07:47have human qualities.
00:07:48And if it's going to have human qualities, it's got to have faults.
00:07:53And this car, I'm delighted to say, has a big one.
00:08:01I don't know quite how they've managed this, but it's not very easy to get out of.
00:08:05You've got this pillar here and then the wheel here, and there isn't enough of a gap between the two.
00:08:12Now, hang on a minute.
00:08:13Hang on.
00:08:15How Alfa Romeo is that?
00:08:18They put the door in the wrong place.
00:08:20It should be further back.
00:08:24That is brilliant.
00:08:28There's more, too.
00:08:29It's not a particularly handsome car.
00:08:32The wheels are too small.
00:08:34And for some reason, they've chosen to make the front look like a Wolseley.
00:08:40Now, in the recent past, James is quite right, Alphas have had their faults, and then no good bits to
00:08:46compensate.
00:08:47They've just been wrong-wheel-drive Fiat's with the word Fiat crossed out and Alfa Romeo written in in crayon.
00:08:53That, though, that's a very different animal.
00:09:31This is a fabulous car.
00:09:35An epic car.
00:09:36Probably because it's the love child of the same man who engineered the Ferrari 458.
00:09:50He's given it a carbon-fiber prop shaft, a carbon-fiber roof, a carbon-fiber bonnet, a proper, limited-slip
00:10:00differential, telepathic steering, and a clever gearbox.
00:10:03But the most impressive bit of this car is its turbo-charged 2.9-litre V6 engine.
00:10:13An engine that wobbles when you close the door.
00:10:17It's brilliant.
00:10:18Look at that.
00:10:20You don't get that sort of thing from an Audi, do you?
00:10:24Ferrari, which, of course, is part of the same company as Alfa Romeo, is very keen to point out that
00:10:30this is not the engine they use in the California with two cylinders removed.
00:10:35They say it's a complete coincidence that both engines have the same bore stroke and V-angle.
00:10:41They're adamant that this is all Alfa Romeo's own work.
00:10:45So, there we are.
00:10:48It is, then.
00:10:53And what work it is.
00:10:56You get 503 brake horsepower.
00:11:01That's 60 more than you get from a BMW M3.
00:11:0560.
00:11:11It's 175 more than you get from that jack that James would be droning on about now, had I not
00:11:18stepped in and saved the day.
00:11:20And then there's the way it revs.
00:11:32Most turbocharged engines are a bit easy at the top end, but because the twin-scroll turbo in this is
00:11:40mounted in the V of the engine,
00:11:43just like it is in a Ferrari California, coincidentally, the rev counter is still a blur right up to the
00:11:51red zone.
00:12:11So, this engine is, it's a masterpiece, an absolute gem.
00:12:21So, while this may look like a Wolseley, it certainly doesn't go like one.
00:12:28It has a top speed, in fact, of 191 miles an hour.
00:12:36What this car is, is a Ferrari, wearing four-door Sensi panties.
00:12:45And that brings me on to this car's party piece.
00:12:50At normal speeds, it's very quiet and very civilised.
00:12:54And even though it's running on wheels that appear to have come off the bottom of a sofa, it's very
00:13:00comfortable.
00:13:00Even if you push this, and put it in bumpy suspension mode.
00:13:07The only setting I haven't yet tried is this one.
00:13:11Race.
00:13:12And I think I should.
00:13:14Sadly, however, before I found somewhere to try it out, I received a telephone call.
00:13:25Oh, no.
00:13:27What?
00:13:28Have you got a film crew somewhere?
00:13:31Yes, I have.
00:13:32Are you using them to film an alpha?
00:13:35Yes, I am.
00:13:36Where are you?
00:13:37Wales.
00:13:38Wales?
00:13:38Wales can't just erase that we go to Scotland and then disappear off to Wales.
00:13:43I didn't tell you to go to Scotland.
00:13:44You decided to go to Scotland on your own.
00:13:48We've come all the way to Scotland to do this with these two cars.
00:13:51This is the test.
00:13:52You try to shoe all the leather houses.
00:13:54It's nice that there are Alfa Romeos in the world.
00:13:56That's a lovely thing that we can all carry on with the...
00:13:58It doesn't matter how good you think the Alfa Romeo is.
00:14:00This is a car programme.
00:14:02Concepts, dreams, imagining things.
00:14:04Scotland with two cars that are credible, relevant, important, work,
00:14:08and are real.
00:14:09They were still shouting at me as I arrived with all of the film crews at our track.
00:14:14Itch that you've managed to scratch over the last ten years, effectively.
00:14:17I don't know how.
00:14:18Why are you...
00:14:18It's breaking up.
00:14:20Oh, I've lost you.
00:14:29Race mode.
00:14:32Here we go.
00:14:46In race mode, everything is in a tensed-up state.
00:14:50The throttle response, the gearbox, the steering.
00:14:52And the traction control is off.
00:15:16This has now been transformed from something that was brilliant
00:15:20into something that is sensational.
00:15:33Of course, you'd never drive in race mode on the road.
00:15:37In the same way, you'd never take your wristwatch into space.
00:15:41But it's nice to know that it would still work if you did.
00:15:47This does.
00:15:49Oh, boy, this does.
00:15:55I've always said you can't be a true petrolhead until you've owned an Alfa Romeo.
00:16:02And the trouble is, I've always known there's no Alfa Romeo a true petrolhead would actually
00:16:07want to buy.
00:16:09There is now, though.
00:16:11Oh, there is now.
00:16:26And so, I decided to do something I've never done with any car I've ever filmed in my entire life.
00:16:32I decided when the test was over to go to the nearest Alfa Romeo dealer and buy one.
00:16:47Oh, there is now.
00:17:10Oh, there is now.
00:17:32What?
00:17:33It's about £60,000.
00:17:34Yeah, but, honestly, Jeremy, it doesn't mean anything.
00:17:36If Alfa Romeo launched a dog turd, you'd say it was brilliant.
00:17:39I guess not?
00:17:41You heard it.
00:17:42You saw it.
00:17:42It's a fantastic car.
00:17:44Anyway, listen, let's find out how fast the quattro biggie goes round the Ebola drone.
00:17:50That, of course, means handing it over to a man who thinks that tennis is something that was invented by
00:17:55Stalin.
00:17:57He's actually a local boy this week from the next state along.
00:18:00It's the American.
00:18:05There he is, and even he will enjoy this magnificent machine, I'm sure of that.
00:18:10And he's off with a glorious bark and a pop from that sensational V6.
00:18:16Ooh, it's wet.
00:18:17Okay.
00:18:18Alfa Romeo Juli quad bike something or another, I can't say it.
00:18:24Can't pronounce it.
00:18:26Don't really like driving it.
00:18:28For God's sake.
00:18:31So the tall one thinks this is a good car.
00:18:35I still think he was dropped on his head as a child.
00:18:38Yeah, but at least I don't wear a cowboy hat to weddings.
00:18:42Right now, powering majestically into your name here.
00:18:46This could be the single greatest lap we'll ever see.
00:18:49What are you on about?
00:18:50Beautifully balanced, hard on the power.
00:18:53Bit of a wobble there.
00:18:54Some oversteer, but he was designed to do that.
00:18:56No, he wasn't.
00:18:57Stop saying things, Hammond, I'm busy.
00:19:00This is just a BMW for people who like fancy coffee.
00:19:03No, it's a BMW for people of taste and discernment.
00:19:08No, it's a BMW for idiots.
00:19:09Hammond, be quiet.
00:19:10Look at the way it's dealing with old lady's house.
00:19:13Almost no problems at all.
00:19:15Now he can really turn it up for the sprinter substation.
00:19:18Such power.
00:19:19Such pedigree.
00:19:21Such bollocks.
00:19:22Just be quiet.
00:19:23Just two corners left.
00:19:25Glorious poise in the rain through there.
00:19:28Field of sheep.
00:19:28Keep another master class in suspension control and across the line.
00:19:35Come on, man.
00:19:36Well done.
00:19:37Come on.
00:19:38It didn't do.
00:19:39What?
00:19:40Come on.
00:19:40No, it was wet.
00:19:42It was wet, so there's no point putting it on the board.
00:19:44Just wear the computer out for no reason.
00:19:46Get on with it.
00:19:47No, we haven't got time.
00:19:48Get on with it.
00:19:49Alright, I'm going to do it.
00:19:50Let's have a look at the time.
00:19:51Here we go.
00:19:51Time for Jeremy's alpha quadruplogio.
00:19:56That's not quick, mate.
00:19:57I'm sorry.
00:19:58That's rubbish.
00:19:59In the dry, it would have done a 115.
00:20:02No, it wouldn't.
00:20:03Yes, it would.
00:20:03No, it wouldn't.
00:20:04It would.
00:20:05There's no point arguing anyway.
00:20:06He's got the Alfa Romeo thing out of his system, which is good because it's time now
00:20:10for us to enjoy a gentle stroll along the sunlit sidewalks of Conversation Street.
00:20:26It is right now.
00:20:30Okay, and we start with this.
00:20:32Yes, it's the new Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
00:20:35For God's sake!
00:20:36This is important news.
00:20:38It's not important news.
00:20:39It's niche news for morons.
00:20:41It's not!
00:20:42It's a superb car because you can have it with the same 500 horsepower engine that you get
00:20:47in the quadruplegio and with that, with that, you get four-wheel drive.
00:20:51Oh, so that one will work in the wet, will it?
00:20:54Yes.
00:20:54Hammond, when somebody has a baby, okay, do you go up to her and they go,
00:20:58look at my new baby that I've created.
00:20:59It's really ugly.
00:21:01Oh, only if it's ugly.
00:21:04It can't be cruel about Alfa Romeo, they're trying so hard.
00:21:08Well, let's just move it on, forget the Alfa then, forget the Alfa.
00:21:11Now, we should talk about where we are, okay, in Tennessee, because this is the best-selling
00:21:16vehicle in the state, okay, and...
00:21:19Yeah, we got a picture of a police car.
00:21:23And an ambulance.
00:21:25And a hearse.
00:21:27I'm detecting a theme here.
00:21:30The pickup truck, I think I'm right in saying, is very popular in this neck of the woods, yes?
00:21:34I'm sure you may be amazed to hear they really haven't caught on at all in the UK.
00:21:38I mean, almost nobody has one.
00:21:40No, you hardly ever see them, which is a shame because I love a pickup truck.
00:21:43Yeah, we know.
00:21:44I love a truck.
00:21:45I like a truck.
00:21:46Yes.
00:21:47I can say that here.
00:21:48Hold on.
00:21:48I can say that here.
00:21:49That's fine, you can say that, but they're not actually very sensible, are they?
00:21:53No, mate, that's not everything.
00:21:54Anyway, look, you drive around in your Ferrari, okay, and you happily put up with all the compromises
00:21:57that that imposes, so you put up with the cost and the inconvenience and it's not very comfortable
00:22:01because it's a fast car.
00:22:03Same with the pickup.
00:22:03You put up with the compromises, the weight, the size, the fuel consumption.
00:22:07Yeah, but what's the upside?
00:22:08It's a pickup truck.
00:22:10You can use it.
00:22:10Well, you can put logs in it and tow trees out of the woods with it.
00:22:14You could put a bear in it.
00:22:16Hammonds, you work in the media.
00:22:19The only thing you have to put in the back of a vehicle are the imputations to gala lunches.
00:22:23It's all you ever do.
00:22:25The problem actually in Britain with a pickup truck, I'm sorry to have to admit this, is
00:22:28that if you pulled up at a set of traffic lights and you had your cement mixer and your chainsaw
00:22:33in the back, they would be stolen.
00:22:35Immediately.
00:22:37Anything left in the open in Britain is like nuts at a party.
00:22:39You just help yourself.
00:22:41So why doesn't that happen here?
00:22:43Who's got a pickup truck here?
00:22:45Yeah.
00:22:45Holy cow.
00:22:46That's unbelievable.
00:22:47When you go shopping and put things in the back, why doesn't someone just help themselves?
00:22:52Because they shoot them here.
00:22:53What?
00:22:55Don't worry, Jack.
00:22:57Don't worry, Jack.
00:22:59Thank you, Donald.
00:23:01Don't worry.
00:23:03Have you ever had anything stolen when you were at a red light?
00:23:05Never.
00:23:06Has anyone ever had anything?
00:23:07No.
00:23:08No.
00:23:09I thought this was supposed to be crime ridden in America.
00:23:12Maybe people are honest.
00:23:14I don't know.
00:23:14It's possible.
00:23:14I'm honest, but if I was in Britain and I saw a pickup truck parked with a lawnmower,
00:23:17I'd think, oh, I love that.
00:23:21Now, yesterday, we went to, it was like a big classic car museum just out of town here,
00:23:27where you could also buy the exhibits.
00:23:28Great fun.
00:23:29It was a fantastic day out.
00:23:31Really enjoyed ourselves in there.
00:23:32I mean, it was full of, you know, sort of Mustangs and Camaros and stuff.
00:23:35Stuff like this.
00:23:35We've got a picture of this sort of thing.
00:23:3760s and 70s stuff.
00:23:38Now, we know that cars like this are horrible to drive.
00:23:42Terrible.
00:23:43But they're tremendous to look at.
00:23:45There was so much joy in car design back then.
00:23:48And you just see it in that car there.
00:23:50It actually made us slightly sad in a way, didn't it?
00:23:52Because as we were leaving, we suddenly started wondering, well, what are they going
00:23:55to put in that museum in 40 years' time?
00:23:58Who?
00:23:59The Miss Anne Bloody Duke.
00:24:01Exactly.
00:24:01I don't want to look at that now.
00:24:04No, exactly.
00:24:04Or the Dodge Dart.
00:24:07What child's going to say, oh, Daddy, Daddy, let's go and look at the 40-year-old Dart
00:24:11in the museum.
00:24:12Daddy is.
00:24:13Oh, no, it's true that car design has become so dreary lately.
00:24:16And I think part of it, it's almost as if the people who design cars don't actually
00:24:20like cars that much.
00:24:21Yeah, exactly right.
00:24:22But they did then and you can tell.
00:24:23I mean, there was a Cuda in there next to a Plymouth Fury and I just stood for about
00:24:27an hour just soaking them in.
00:24:29I saw a 1966 Cadillac.
00:24:32We've got a picture of it here, look.
00:24:33Now, what I like about this is that the bloke who designed the bonnet, he got to the grill,
00:24:38he thought, I'll finish with the bonnet, I'll do the grill.
00:24:39But he didn't tell the bloke's doing the wings and they kept going.
00:24:42Look, so he sort of goes like another foot.
00:24:45You end up with a fantastic look.
00:24:46It's like the Buick Riviera.
00:24:48They had one of those in there.
00:24:49I mean, look at that.
00:24:50That is it.
00:24:50Glorious.
00:24:51They had one of those as a toy when I was little.
00:24:53And if you put your finger over the back window, it flashed its lights.
00:24:57And you just look and you go, how can Buick have gone from doing that in, what, 30,
00:25:0240 years to doing this?
00:25:03Whatever, this brown...
00:25:04Look at...
00:25:05How have they done that?
00:25:06And it's the same as Chevrolet.
00:25:08There was an Impala in there, 1960.
00:25:10Look at that!
00:25:11That is exciting not moving.
00:25:13That's a Chevy Impala from the 60s.
00:25:15Let's have a look at one from today.
00:25:17Oh, for God's sake!
00:25:18How do they even have a nerve to call that an Impala because it isn't one?
00:25:21I was looking at a Corvette, a 70s Corvette.
00:25:25That's the C3 model if you're a Corvette nerd.
00:25:27This was a car that was driven by all of the astronauts.
00:25:30Exactly.
00:25:31And Dirk Diggler.
00:25:32Yep.
00:25:34So it's a car for porn stars and astronauts.
00:25:37What a strapline that is!
00:25:39What car is there today that could be driven by porn stars and astronauts?
00:25:42There isn't one.
00:25:43An Alpha?
00:25:48He's right.
00:25:50Astronauts have to get there.
00:25:52He's right.
00:25:52That's exactly what the quadriplegio is.
00:25:55It's for porn stars and astronauts which is what I am.
00:25:58Now, I would like to have a conversation about the Nürburgring because this is important.
00:26:05Last year, I was delighted.
00:26:06The people who run the Nürburgring in Germany, they said they were going to ban car manufacturers
00:26:11from setting a lap record.
00:26:13Sorry, but why were you delighted about that?
00:26:15Because that's an excellent idea.
00:26:17If you make a car that is excellent for doing a fast lap of the Nürburgring,
00:26:21it will be useless as a car everywhere else in your life.
00:26:24It's like setting your house up to play Laser Quest.
00:26:27It will be brilliant for playing Laser Quest, but it will be rubbish for a dinner party
00:26:31because it's full of lasers and darkness and fog and music and people running around
00:26:36thinking that they're in Star Wars.
00:26:37Or you could get a dog.
00:26:39You could train a dog as an attack dog, which is fantastic if you own a scrapyard
00:26:43and you need the dog to guard it, but if you take it home and expect it to be a
00:26:46pet,
00:26:47it will eat your children.
00:26:48It's completely useless.
00:26:49That's what happens when you set a car up for the Nürburgring.
00:26:52This isn't really a conversation, James.
00:26:54No, I think we've actually turned down Rant Lane this week.
00:26:58Well, there's more, actually.
00:26:59No, no, but the thing is, the bad news in all this is that they've decided that they will allow
00:27:04car manufacturers
00:27:05to set lap records again.
00:27:07Well, that's good.
00:27:08No, it's bad.
00:27:09OK.
00:27:09Because think of the cars that have come out recently that we've driven that have been developed
00:27:12so that they would go fast around the Nürburgring.
00:27:15BMW M4 GTS, you can't deny it, it's a terrible car.
00:27:18Nissan GT-R, the track edition, that is a terrible car.
00:27:22Even the Seat, the Seat Leon Cupra 280, that's got a hatchback record for going around the Nürburgring
00:27:28and it's rubbish.
00:27:29The Nürburgring ruins cars.
00:27:32I'm developing an app for the smartphone called Bomb the Nürburgring,
00:27:35where you guide a door near 17 over it and blow it up.
00:27:38What are you doing on this programme?
00:27:40Talking sense.
00:27:41Good question.
00:27:42I don't know.
00:27:43Because we have this old woman who has a baking show in Britain,
00:27:46she's called Mary Berry and it would be the same, you probably know,
00:27:49she's probably the same as her saying,
00:27:52I hate cakes.
00:27:53Yes.
00:27:54Mary Berry would agree with me because if she made a cake that had been developed on the Nürburgring,
00:27:59someone would put fried onions on the top and completely ruin it.
00:28:02You'd have a Victoria sponge with onion on the top for no reason.
00:28:06James, you know you're weird, don't you?
00:28:07That's not weird.
00:28:08That's the most sensible thing that's ever been said on this show.
00:28:11You are weird.
00:28:12Not weird.
00:28:12It is weird.
00:28:13We were coming through the airport here the other day,
00:28:15coming through Chicago and he went,
00:28:17Jeremy, smell my jacket.
00:28:19He said what?
00:28:20He did.
00:28:20He said, smell my jacket.
00:28:22I said, why?
00:28:22He said, because it smells of old record players.
00:28:25Mate, that is weird.
00:28:26But it is.
00:28:28You know record players don't smell of anything?
00:28:30They do.
00:28:31Old ones do.
00:28:32They smell of old record players.
00:28:33Who knows what an old record player smells like?
00:28:35I'd like us to move it on because it's getting scary now.
00:28:39That's not a record player.
00:28:41What do you want about?
00:28:42Does anybody have an old record player or anything old electrical?
00:28:45They smell, don't they?
00:28:46Does anybody ever smell to an old record player?
00:28:48Really?
00:28:48You think you have?
00:28:50You've smelled an old...
00:28:52God, it's truth.
00:28:55Did it have a wax cylinder on it, your old record player?
00:28:58What?
00:28:59I smell like old plastic and warm rubber.
00:29:01Yeah, exactly.
00:29:02The smell of his special drawer is that?
00:29:05Yeah.
00:29:06You're actually talking to Thomas Edison there.
00:29:09He invented the record player.
00:29:12Exactly.
00:29:13I am so.
00:29:15Now, as we're told almost every day these days, really, the world's coral reefs are all dying.
00:29:22And we're told that this is the fault of the car.
00:29:25Well, since we host a car show, we thought it would be our duty and responsibility to do something about
00:29:31it.
00:29:39Here in the Caribbean, all appears to be well.
00:29:43But under the shimmering blue sea, there's just miles and miles of sand.
00:29:50It's an underwater desert.
00:29:53And even when you do find a reef, most of the coral is dead or dying.
00:30:02Thirty-eight years ago, the local government sank a ship to encourage the coral to come back.
00:30:09And it's working.
00:30:11It's already an oasis of life.
00:30:16And that gave us an idea.
00:30:20Why use a ship as the hub of your coral reef?
00:30:24Why not use cars?
00:30:25There are millions of them.
00:30:27So that's exactly what we've done.
00:30:28We've got five cars.
00:30:29And rather than go through all the expense and complication of recycling them,
00:30:33we've stripped them, taken the engines out, removed the paint, and they're ready to go in the sea.
00:30:38Now, this really does make perfect sense.
00:30:39Because when the car is in the water, it will start to corrode.
00:30:43And that attracts all the things that help the coral grow.
00:30:45And then the car itself just rusts away to absolutely nothing.
00:30:49So this one, which started life as a pretty horrible Persia and was always a terrible car,
00:30:53will eventually become a beautiful coral reef.
00:30:57And all this happens quite quickly.
00:30:59So in just a few years' time, the BBC will be able to make a wildlife documentary just in this
00:31:04wheel arch.
00:31:04Anyway, we've got the cars, I've got a crane.
00:31:07All we need now is a boat, which is a job we gave to Jeremy.
00:31:10That's his responsibility.
00:31:12He'll have overdone it, won't he?
00:31:13Well, he'll have made a statement of some sort, so...
00:31:16Freight ship. Full-on freight ship. Or a tanker.
00:31:30Oh, he hasn't overdone it.
00:31:32Is that him?
00:31:35What is the point of that?
00:31:38Can you come and tie it up?
00:31:45Dude, that's the worst boat I've ever seen. That's awful.
00:31:48What's the matter with it?
00:31:49Well, it...
00:31:50We gave you $5,000 to buy a boat.
00:31:53Boats are expensive.
00:31:55Well, you didn't spend all five grand on...
00:31:57That is not a five...
00:31:59Listen, I've got two things. Be kind.
00:32:00Irrelevant. That is not a $5,000 boat.
00:32:03It's barely a boat.
00:32:04Look at it.
00:32:05It's brilliant. You've got a car on this.
00:32:07Uh, where?
00:32:08On the back.
00:32:09Who did you buy it from?
00:32:11A man.
00:32:11Was he laughing?
00:32:12No, he wasn't.
00:32:13Can I come aboard?
00:32:15No.
00:32:16I don't think it can take...
00:32:18Listen.
00:32:19It's terrible.
00:32:20Instead of just standing there criticising a man who's got toothache,
00:32:23why don't you go and get a car on the crane and start loading it?
00:32:30Soon, our first car was ready to be lifted onto the boat.
00:32:35It's just nice to be putting something back, really.
00:32:38Well, it genuinely is.
00:32:39It's a little old Corsa.
00:32:40Hello.
00:32:40And it's going to be full of coral.
00:32:42Mr. Coral coming swimming along.
00:32:43Ooh, there's something to latch on to.
00:32:45And his friend comes along.
00:32:46Then comes along.
00:32:47This is a genuinely brilliant thing.
00:32:48That doesn't fill me with total confidence.
00:32:58Down a bit.
00:33:00Down.
00:33:00You'll have to...
00:33:02That.
00:33:03Boom out.
00:33:04Is that the sign for boom out?
00:33:06That.
00:33:06That.
00:33:08It's like being guarded by the village people.
00:33:11See?
00:33:11It's working now.
00:33:12Unless...
00:33:13Arg!
00:33:14Arg!
00:33:15Inmense danger.
00:33:16You're really helping.
00:33:17I've got the guideline.
00:33:26Come down a bit, James.
00:33:27Watch for the wind.
00:33:29Right, Hammond, can you swing it round?
00:33:30Can we swing you?
00:33:31Yeah, swing it.
00:33:32Try and get it...
00:33:33Oh, shit!
00:33:36Who pulled that?
00:33:38We've got to save the car.
00:33:39It's a reef.
00:33:40Save it!
00:33:41I haven't got it.
00:33:42It's gone.
00:33:43Who pulled the...
00:33:44That's to release it, you muppet.
00:33:47I thought it was a guide rope.
00:33:49I thought you...
00:33:49No, I steer it.
00:33:50You just release it when it's on there.
00:33:52No, he told me to steer it with that rope.
00:33:54He said pull the rope to steer it.
00:33:55This is a 400,000 pound crane.
00:33:57Why would you steer it with a piece of string?
00:33:59It's got all these knobs and buttons.
00:34:01I steer it.
00:34:02You release it.
00:34:04So that's a quick release?
00:34:06Yes.
00:34:06Got it.
00:34:10What if we just said we only had four cars?
00:34:14So we've taken four cars, removed the engines and the paint
00:34:17and they're ready to go in the sea.
00:34:18Let's do that piece to...
00:34:19We'll do that piece to camera again.
00:34:20Yeah, yeah.
00:34:21Thing is, why use a ship as the hub of your reef?
00:34:24Why not use cars?
00:34:25There are millions.
00:34:26So we've taken four cars, removed the engines,
00:34:30stripped them down and taken the paint off
00:34:31and they're ready to go in the sea.
00:34:33And then James...
00:34:34Oh, yeah.
00:34:35And then this Peugeot was no good as a car, but the coral will just stick to it.
00:34:42Oxidising and algae.
00:34:44Doesn't take very long.
00:34:45And...
00:34:45One day, BBC, documentary, wheel arch.
00:34:48Yeah, from just four cars.
00:34:50Four cars.
00:34:51It's all you need for a race.
00:34:52Right.
00:34:53Here's the boat we've selected.
00:34:54It's a little bit damaged.
00:34:57With the release rope stowed, we managed to get the first of our four cars onto the boat,
00:35:03which had come with a broken roof.
00:35:06Oh, yes!
00:35:09Yes!
00:35:11Yes!
00:35:13Yes!
00:35:13Results!
00:35:14And then we have to secure it in place.
00:35:19I don't understand ratchet straps.
00:35:23Er...
00:35:23There's water coming into the boat.
00:35:25No, there was some in when I bought it.
00:35:27It's leaking.
00:35:28There's always a bit of water in the bilges.
00:35:30It's why boats have bilge pumps.
00:35:32No, it's coming in.
00:35:34It's not just like it's in, it's coming in.
00:35:37Well, there's none here.
00:35:38There's holes in the...
00:35:39Oh, shit.
00:35:40No, there is.
00:35:41Well, why don't attach us to the crane?
00:35:43I...
00:35:44It's gone down.
00:35:45It has gone down.
00:35:46It's going down.
00:35:47Well, no, if you attach us to the crane, it won't sink, will it?
00:35:50We're tied on.
00:35:52James, can you just take the slack?
00:35:55Sadly, James misunderstood this simple instruction.
00:35:59Oh, the whole thing has collapsed at the back.
00:36:02Oh, dear.
00:36:03Don't stop.
00:36:04What, what, what?
00:36:05It's falling over!
00:36:06James!
00:36:07It's falling!
00:36:08What are you on?
00:36:09Holy mother...
00:36:10Go it down!
00:36:11Abandon ship!
00:36:12Save yourself!
00:36:17James!
00:36:18Save it!
00:36:20Stop!
00:36:21What are you doing?
00:36:23Oh, God.
00:36:25The fencing foot service didn't do a job as good as this.
00:36:31I'm not talking to any of you.
00:36:33No, come on, it was made fun.
00:36:35You bought a crap boat, you put an idiot spank on the crane, and also, think what we
00:36:40were going to do for the conception of the car.
00:36:41People would love the car.
00:36:43They'd see it as a friendly, coral-loving thing.
00:36:46You're swimming like an old woman.
00:36:48I don't like being in the bloody water!
00:36:50Fact!
00:36:51I'm not comfortable.
00:36:52I'm from Birmingham!
00:36:53Yeah!
00:36:54Yeah!
00:36:55Having sunk a boat and two cars where the cruise liners normally park, the port authorities
00:37:01suggested we go away.
00:37:05So, we took our three remaining cars to a nearby marina, built ourselves a raft, and
00:37:11hired a boat which had a crane on the front.
00:37:18Hey!
00:37:19What?
00:37:20You're not operating the crane!
00:37:22You are operating the crane!
00:37:24Yeah!
00:37:25I'd just like to point out that I've been fired from a job that I was doing perfectly.
00:37:31Like that.
00:37:31I can't get the crane working.
00:37:33There must be a switch.
00:37:34Oh, well, don't come to me for help.
00:37:35I'm rubbish at cranes.
00:37:36Did I?
00:37:37Did I?
00:37:39Soon, we were ready to load our first car.
00:37:44You're miles away.
00:37:45You've got to be spot on.
00:37:46I can only lift it to there.
00:37:47This way, this way, this way, this way, this way.
00:37:50No, up, up, up.
00:37:52I can't, Jeremy, you'll have to go back!
00:37:54I can't do it if you keep moving the boat!
00:37:56I wanted to go backwards.
00:37:58I said, yeah, that way.
00:37:59Right, this way.
00:38:00You've got to get it right.
00:38:01I can't move it!
00:38:02I can't go that way!
00:38:02He's driving!
00:38:03I can't go!
00:38:04Why do we pick the other...
00:38:06Oh, God!
00:38:09Where are we going?
00:38:11The bad things!
00:38:12It's the wind!
00:38:14Why are we over here?
00:38:15It's the wind!
00:38:16Here we come!
00:38:17Here we come!
00:38:17Here we come!
00:38:17This is it!
00:38:18This is it!
00:38:19We're coming in hot!
00:38:21Stop!
00:38:22May we do something quickly in your life?
00:38:25I'm going to kill him!
00:38:27Here we go!
00:38:28Yes!
00:38:29Run away!
00:38:29Run away!
00:38:30We have hooked the apple!
00:38:34In a bit, in a bit, in a bit, in a bit, in a bit, in a bit.
00:38:37We are so good, it's almost incredible.
00:38:41Now we had our eye in...
00:38:47Loading the second car was the work of a moment.
00:38:51Oh, my God!
00:38:52Oh, my God!
00:38:53Yes!
00:38:55That's it!
00:38:56Hell do!
00:38:57This is the manliest thing I've ever done!
00:39:01I'm just going to rest my big balls on my crane!
00:39:09With our raft full, we headed out to the spot identified by marine biologists as having the perfect depth, current
00:39:17and temperature for a reef to form.
00:39:22Release the reef!
00:39:23Yes!
00:39:25There it goes!
00:39:26That's our reef!
00:39:27The reef ball!
00:39:28Come, Coral, come!
00:39:30Yes!
00:39:33Go!
00:39:35Yes!
00:39:36Oh, I'm pleased with that!
00:39:39The Peugeot 206!
00:39:41That is brilliant!
00:39:45That is brilliant!
00:39:45Next, we had to anchor the cars in place, which was a job for the only qualified diver among us.
00:39:51He'd even brought his own equipment.
00:39:55Right.
00:39:56Back is it.
00:39:57And that's on me now.
00:39:58Stop moaning!
00:40:00Ow!
00:40:13If he were a heart surgeon, he would turn up with an old leather bag with a saw and a
00:40:17hammering.
00:40:18I'm ready to do your operation. Here I am.
00:40:24It's like this whole table with his baker-like telephone on it.
00:40:27Hello, Hammersmith 37 here.
00:40:31James' suit was so old, it didn't come with air tanks.
00:40:35So annoyingly, it was our responsibility to keep him alive.
00:40:41How long have we got to do this for?
00:40:44For as long as he's down there.
00:40:46I can't, honestly, I'm exhausted.
00:40:48I'm getting dizzy.
00:40:50Why don't you keep going?
00:40:52No, look, there's a generator. Why don't we just connect it to the generator?
00:41:03Now, now, you're an idiot.
00:41:11My saving air.
00:41:14Oh, there we go.
00:41:16On.
00:41:17And relax.
00:41:20Come on, receive!
00:41:22Foster!
00:41:31Ow!
00:41:32Jesus!
00:41:35Jesus!
00:41:37Hey, hey!
00:41:38Oh!
00:41:42Absolutely fat!
00:41:44Dive! Dive!
00:41:45Die!
00:42:06Hey, James.
00:42:08When our colleague finally surfaced, he was very angry.
00:42:15That was nowhere near the cars.
00:42:18Nowhere near.
00:42:18What was nowhere near the cars?
00:42:19You might as well have dropped me off the coast of Los Angeles.
00:42:21I couldn't even see them.
00:42:23Just stop.
00:42:24What do you mean?
00:42:26How did you manage?
00:42:27You're the boat expert, as you're forever telling us.
00:42:29How did you manage to put the cars there and then move the boat about a hundred yards away?
00:42:34We drifted a bit.
00:42:35Have you done the job?
00:42:36No.
00:42:38What?
00:42:38The cars are not anchored, because when I got there, your drifting stupid orange biscuits
00:42:43in boat yanks me back off it.
00:42:46We don't have an afternoon to just throw away while you go paddling.
00:42:49You're saying...
00:42:50I'm going to have to do it, aren't I?
00:42:54Do I look like Roger Moore?
00:42:56Yeah.
00:42:56Yeah, you do.
00:42:57Yeah.
00:42:58Roger Moore the greengrove, sir.
00:43:00Let go.
00:43:01Yeah!
00:43:01Yay!
00:43:03I've just handed Jeremy a welding iron.
00:43:06Oh, dear God.
00:43:12I'm not sure I trust Jeremy to do welding.
00:43:16I wouldn't trust Jeremy to watch a YouTube guide to welding.
00:43:21Oh.
00:43:22What's that?
00:43:24That's gone wrong.
00:43:26Jeremy?
00:43:27Badly, horribly wrong.
00:43:37How did that go?
00:43:38Very well.
00:43:39Did it?
00:43:40Oh, yeah.
00:43:41Did it?
00:43:42Because all day, I'm not going anywhere in a house.
00:43:49We headed back to shore for an agreeable dinner, happy that our important environmental work
00:43:55was at last going well.
00:44:02But are the coral starting now?
00:44:06Yeah.
00:44:07So they're down there now, and a bit of coral's going to...
00:44:09Yeah.
00:44:09It'll start with something.
00:44:10No, we'll have done.
00:44:11It's not a big coral reef, but it's the start of a coral reef.
00:44:14Well done, chaps.
00:44:15But that is, we have done...
00:44:16I don't clink glasses, as you know, but we could raise a glass to our success today.
00:44:20Better than that.
00:44:30We're going to pick up our important marine biology work later on, but now it's time to
00:44:35play Celebrity Brain Crash!
00:44:45That doesn't get any better.
00:44:47That really doesn't get any better, that sting.
00:44:49But anyway, my guest tonight is from, well, how can I describe it, really?
00:44:54The second biggest and most important part of the world, as far as music is concerned.
00:44:59The North East of England.
00:45:00Oh, come on!
00:45:02Well, hello!
00:45:03Mark Knopfler, Paul Rogers, Gordon Sting, couple of people out of Little Mix.
00:45:09Lindisfarne.
00:45:10Yes, Lindisfarne.
00:45:10We'll gloss over that.
00:45:11But then we've also got the main man, the man we have lined up for you.
00:45:16He is the lead singer of the biggest rock band in the world, ACDC.
00:45:20Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Johnson!
00:45:25There he is!
00:45:26There he is!
00:45:27There he is!
00:45:27There he is!
00:45:27There he is!
00:45:29What are we going to talk to him about?
00:45:31Well, he's taken up motor racing.
00:45:33He's got a new TV show.
00:45:34Yes, on the road.
00:45:36Is it on the road?
00:45:37I'm going to talk to him simply about being at the front of the world's biggest rock band.
00:45:41Where is he?
00:45:41Hang on, where is he?
00:45:42Here he comes!
00:45:44Oh, there he is!
00:45:44There he is!
00:45:45The man himself!
00:45:46What a legend!
00:45:47I can't, I've always wanted to meet him.
00:45:49I'm thrilled.
00:45:50Yeah, no, he is an absolute...
00:45:51That is a legend, a proper...
00:45:52Oh, hello!
00:45:52Hello!
00:45:53Oh my...
00:45:54LAUGHTER
00:45:56Oh, God!
00:46:01Still Brian Johnson.
00:46:03APPLAUSE
00:46:05OK.
00:46:07Brian Johnson has been run over by some people who think they are playing football.
00:46:12But they're not.
00:46:13Well, it's not football, though, is it?
00:46:14Because they don't use their feet.
00:46:16That's not football.
00:46:18That's just people dressing up.
00:46:20LAUGHTER
00:46:21It's spookling football.
00:46:23That is football.
00:46:24With our feet.
00:46:25That is football!
00:46:27It's soccer!
00:46:28What?
00:46:29It's not soccer!
00:46:30It's football!
00:46:30It's a replay!
00:46:31Who says that?
00:46:320.75 billion people in the world call it football!
00:46:36Anyway, look, you can moan and shout all you like.
00:46:38The fact is, we're British, and we edit this show, and you'll just get cut out!
00:46:42No!
00:46:44No!
00:46:46No!
00:46:47No!
00:46:48No!
00:46:48No!
00:46:48No!
00:46:49No!
00:46:51No!
00:46:52No!
00:46:52No!
00:46:54No!
00:47:02No!
00:47:06So, Bryan Johnson has been run over by, um, some supremely brave and talented footballers.
00:47:19Does that mean he's not coming on, then?
00:47:22well james he's been hammered to the thickness of an envelope and his spine is now a jigsaw so
00:47:27that is enough right so we're going to do to fill the time i've got nothing we could get back
00:47:33to our
00:47:34important marine biology work plan do it yes let's do that so when we left the action um i'd
00:47:40successfully welded two cars to the seabed and that was good yeah and we pick up the action
00:47:46the next day as we go back to finish the job
00:47:53on our way to get the last car we stopped at the reef site to make sure everything was okay
00:48:01tom daly
00:48:16and after a few moments in the water we discovered it wasn't where the bloody hell are
00:48:23they there's the boy this is the boy where that mark yes that marks the spot they're just not here
00:48:30why did we trust you to fix them in place i did listen all people well i don't understand it
00:48:37because i don't normally make a mess of that oh you must have made a good job of it that's
00:48:41why
00:48:41they've gone there is evidence or a lack of it to suggest you can't oh look oh brilliant how the
00:48:55hell
00:48:55did they do that though you know this current that's losing us about look at them they're not going to
00:49:00make a reef are they well maybe it could be like a play area for the privileged some rusty cars
00:49:06that doesn't
00:49:07work does it no no obviously we had to retrieve them which meant moving the raft to the stern of
00:49:17our crane boat
00:49:20james have you untied that end yeah get ready to catch this rope here we go
00:49:26pull it along a bit and get it sort of squared up i'll have a nice ride right repositioning raft
00:49:35that's a reassuring noise uh where where's that come from james james what's that doing over there
00:49:44what's what doing no that all this bamboo's come off what have you untied i've untied the piece
00:49:50of string of the front but look there's half the craft is disappearing
00:49:56as the raft was disintegrating fast we had to get it to shore quickly
00:50:01firing up the machine
00:50:05sadly though jeremy's turn of speed only made things worse
00:50:10power power come on slow down it's falling apart
00:50:30a couple cars on that can you after we'd rescued james he stupidly suggested that to solve the problem
00:50:38we should ruin everyone's holiday
00:50:51i think these people should move out of the way
00:50:54my plan was to tow the cars off the beach and back to the harbor so we could start again
00:51:01which meant i'd need the help of the man from atlantis
00:51:05hold my hand there there there now let me go yeah that's me you have to let oh my my
00:51:10arm let me go
00:51:11now i'm fine i don't like it
00:51:28hammond tie both of them to this and give me a thumbs up if james gets those onto the road
00:51:33all the
00:51:33way back up to the harbor build another raft get them loaded on bring them back it's gonna take days
00:51:45okay don't stand near the back the brakes don't work
00:51:51okay
00:51:51so
00:51:52yeah
00:52:05no one
00:52:06that was rubbish
00:52:09i then said we should use my brilliant boat to tow the cars back to the reef site which would
00:52:16be quicker and
00:52:45easier
00:52:58with two rusty Peugeots in his swimming area and his beach furniture in ruins the hotel manager had had
00:53:05enough and ordered us to leave we've now lost four cars a boat and our raft but on the plus
00:53:15side we
00:53:15still had one car left and most importantly the crane boat but that night there was bad news
00:53:28the man who owns it's not best pleased with us because he has off hired it we've not got the
00:53:36crane boat no that was the most useful thing we had it yeah so what can we possibly do with
00:53:44a
00:53:44Land Rover it's well well what I can a positive the Land Rover is largely aluminium which is actually
00:53:53even better for creating a wreath yes yes yes but it's good if I've had a brainwave oh
00:54:06oh and so the next morning the people of Barbados were treated to the magnificent spectacle of a Land
00:54:18Rover gliding majestically on a bed of inner tubes across the Caribbean Sea right here we are in our
00:54:25final car and it's a classic it's a series one Land Rover it's a series two that's a series one
00:54:31it's
00:54:31close together it's got the barrel rolls on the doors it's a series two definitely make it a series
00:54:36two yeah I thought series two's had the lights angle I think we're getting stuck on this it's a
00:54:41Land Rover it's a lot it's an old Land Rover yeah the good thing about it is it corrodes much
00:54:44less
00:54:45quickly than the steel car we've also glued these limestone tiles to it because porous limestone is the
00:54:50perfect base foundation for coral to start a reef this is a coral reef making machine in fact the only
00:54:59fly
00:54:59in the ointment was its propulsion system
00:55:03can they go a bit faster no no it's filling with water the faster you go we'll sink it in
00:55:09the wrong
00:55:09place this is our last car our last chance bleating on oh don't go too fast you're going faster again
00:55:18Jeremy you're pulling it under relax am I the same species as that no Jeremy don't sink it before we
00:55:29you get there oh my god look at it that is phenomenal you're going to sink us don't race it
00:55:45that's the way oh I haven't got time for these two right let's go catch that sailor boat
00:56:07what's this sunshine
00:56:14why is it faster than me
00:56:26why is this beating break horsepower I cannot keep up with it
00:56:35when we drink our urine
00:56:36let's go see
00:56:38look at that thing look at that thing look at that thing look at that thing looks like
00:56:56that is just fabulous
00:57:06I could have buzzed around this amazing machine all day, but there was still important environmental
00:57:12work to do.
00:57:14So, reluctantly, I broke off to rejoin my stranded colleagues.
00:57:22You alright?
00:57:24Well, no, we've just been left adrift in a Land Rover.
00:57:27Fortunately for you, none of these ceramic tiles is loose, otherwise I'd chuck it in your
00:57:31head.
00:57:39Do you know, I think it actually handles better than it does on land.
00:57:43Soon we will reach the reef site, hunt to the inner chiefs, the Land Rover will sink and
00:57:48it will become a safe haven for cod and havoc and bream.
00:57:57Eventually we reached the site and set about scuttling our reef machine.
00:58:09Fire!
00:58:11Yeah!
00:58:13Yes!
00:58:18Here we go!
00:58:21Down!
00:58:22Sink!
00:58:23Woo!
00:58:32In truth, all great environmental projects are beset with problems, and ours, through
00:58:39no fault of our own except James's, was no exception.
00:58:54So, in the end, our new reef wasn't quite as spectacular as we'd hoped, but it was a start,
00:59:00and one day it'll be the core of something a thousand miles long, a new and beautiful home
00:59:07for the cod and the havoc of the Caribbean.
00:59:36Thank you so much, and a very big thank you to the Government of Barbados.
00:59:40Thanks for helping us out with that film, and we'd just like to say, no coral was damaged
00:59:44while we were building our reef.
00:59:46No.
00:59:46Or, if we're perfectly honest, creative.
00:59:49No.
00:59:50However, we did come back with a brilliant idea.
00:59:52You see, we liked it in the Caribbean, our crews liked it in the Caribbean, so we thought
00:59:56it would be a good idea next week to make a film comparing the motoring cultures of the
01:00:01French, the Dutch and the British Islands.
01:00:03Yeah, it was a great idea.
01:00:04Brilliant idea, but Mr. Willman, our producer, he decided it wasn't a brilliant idea, and
01:00:09that instead we should go to northern France with three old cars and drive around in the
01:00:13rain.
01:00:14So that's what we're actually doing, and on that terrible disappointment, it's time to
01:00:18end.
01:00:18Thank you so much for watching, thank you for coming.
01:00:21See you soon, take care.
01:00:33Bye.
01:00:35Bye.
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