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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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00:00:28Transcription by CastingWords
00:01:00Hello, everybody. Thank you.
00:01:03Thank you very much.
00:01:06Greetings, everybody. Thank you so much.
00:01:13Thanks, everybody. Thank you.
00:01:16Thank you so much.
00:01:18And, yes!
00:01:20We're back!
00:01:22We are!
00:01:24Now, a lot of people have been saying,
00:01:26why has it taken so long? What have you been doing?
00:01:30Well, hopefully, we can answer that
00:01:32with this short montage of what you can expect
00:01:35over the next 13 weeks.
00:01:40There's a new sensation
00:01:42A fabulous creation
00:01:46A danceable solution
00:01:50To take the revolution
00:01:56Is that barrel gonna...
00:01:59To the stress
00:02:01When you feel low
00:02:05Fire everywhere!
00:02:07It's the new way
00:02:10That's my feeling
00:02:11Ah! He's gone!
00:02:13To the stress
00:02:14Hang on a minute!
00:02:16I'm tired of the tangle
00:02:18The nearest civilization is a town called Moron.
00:02:21In order to reach it,
00:02:22you must build the contents
00:02:23of these boxes.
00:02:24You have enough food
00:02:25for seven days.
00:02:27Ah!
00:02:30Ah!
00:02:33Ah!
00:02:35Ah!
00:02:36Well, it's not such a
00:02:38serious situation.
00:02:39It would be a good laugh.
00:02:40Do this, man!
00:02:46The bats!
00:02:47The bats!
00:02:48Ah!
00:02:54There must have been 30 or 40 people
00:02:56in the room when the police arrived.
00:02:58Oh!
00:03:00Foxon!
00:03:02Jesus Christ, now I'm too close to the edge.
00:03:04Oh!
00:03:09Let's sing a song!
00:03:11No!
00:03:13I am sitting where Tim Clark sat!
00:03:18Going in hard and hard!
00:03:23We're fleeing!
00:03:24Okay, please!
00:03:27Well, there'll be even a pistol, won't there?
00:03:32No!
00:03:33No!
00:03:34No!
00:03:36No!
00:03:36No!
00:03:36No!
00:03:37No!
00:03:37No!
00:03:38No!
00:03:39I think...
00:03:42I think you're going to like this series
00:03:44and I particularly think you're going to like how it begins
00:03:47because even over here on this side of the pond,
00:03:50we recognise that Detroit is the spiritual home to anyone
00:03:55whose communion wine is petrol
00:03:57and whose heart beats like a big, lumpy, wet V8.
00:04:02Which is why this week, and it's long overdue,
00:04:06the Grand Tour is off to the Motor City with an idea.
00:04:10I think you're going to be here!
00:04:14I think you're going to be here!
00:04:39Of course, the whole world knows that Detroit
00:04:42is now a shadow of its former self.
00:04:47But we also know that efforts are being made
00:04:49to bring life back to the ruins
00:04:53with urban farms.
00:04:57Local people are being encouraged to grow kale
00:05:01and beans and seeds
00:05:04in plots like this where houses and businesses once stood.
00:05:12It breaks your heart.
00:05:14I mean, this is Detroit.
00:05:16It shouldn't be a help-yourself-pop-up-street allotment
00:05:21for organic vegan peace hippies
00:05:24when it could be a pulsating playground
00:05:27for the petrolhead.
00:05:31It has the roads.
00:05:33It has the space.
00:05:35It was built by the rumble of a V8
00:05:37and it should rumble to that sound once more.
00:05:43Make some noise.
00:05:44Let's go, guys!
00:05:46Let's go.
00:05:50Let's go on.
00:06:01Let's getTA.
00:06:05Let's go!
00:06:07Let's go on!
00:06:07Let's go!
00:06:09Let's go on!
00:06:18These are the toys we'll be using.
00:06:21Three American muscle cars,
00:06:24all of which have been tuned to a tyre-shredding DEFCON 1.
00:06:33I have the Ford Mustang RTR Spec 3.
00:06:40Mr. Slowly has what's called the Exorcist.
00:06:48And it is whining Dodge Challenger Demon.
00:06:54Hannan has an erection.
00:07:00Oh-ha-ha!
00:07:06To make this, they took a Hellcat, I drove one before on the show,
00:07:10and just made it more, more of everything.
00:07:14I have 840 horsepower.
00:07:17A massive supercharger.
00:07:22And on the bonnet there, or hood,
00:07:24that's the biggest hood scoop ever fitted to a production car.
00:07:27Ever.
00:07:31Yeah!
00:07:34Noise!
00:07:37Noise in the city!
00:07:39Noise in the city!
00:07:53That's a hell of fire!
00:07:56This car is tuned by Hennessy.
00:07:59They've taken a standard Camaro,
00:08:00and they've given it 1,000 horsepower.
00:08:04Noise in the city!
00:08:07Noise in the city!
00:08:08Noise in the city!
00:08:08Noise in the city!
00:08:08Noise in the city!
00:08:09Jesus, fuck.
00:08:12They haven't touched anything else, only the engine.
00:08:15Wheels are standard, brakes are standard, suspension is standard, bodybuilding is standard.
00:08:19It's all standard.
00:08:22Except for power.
00:08:29They still can't even steer it.
00:08:34It's idiotic, honestly.
00:08:39And yea, though I walk in the shadow of the valley of death, I will fear no evil.
00:08:45Because I am the exorcist.
00:09:02This may look small and delicate compared to the other two, but being no doubt,
00:09:07it has the muscle car credentials.
00:09:11Oh, yea.
00:09:15The fact is that the engine in Hammond's car is a push-rod, two-valve, iron museum piece.
00:09:25And May's car, yes, it has 1,000 horsepower, but it's running on standard brakes.
00:09:33This, this is just a little bit cleverer.
00:09:36They haven't just put a supercharger on it and left it at that, they've stiffened up the suspension and lowered
00:09:43it and stiffened the anti-roll bars.
00:09:45So, it could do this.
00:09:51So, it could do this.
00:09:56And it can do this.
00:10:02This, then, is the Anthony Joshua of muscle cars.
00:10:07Big and brawny, but it has brains as well.
00:10:13Then does its name.
00:10:16It's the RTR, which stands for, and I'm not making this up, ready to rock.
00:10:27These free cars, then, they're the perfect fairground rides in our perfect Petrohead theme park.
00:10:36I mean, people travel all the way to Florida to look at a man in a mouse suit and watch
00:10:40an implausible train have an unrealistic crash.
00:10:43Why not come here in your car and do this?
00:11:05I just can't get over.
00:11:06James May is the Exorcist.
00:11:11I am surprised to see you two so upbeat about this trip.
00:11:16Why do you say that?
00:11:17Well, you always say how much you don't like muscle cars.
00:11:21Yeah, I just say that to annoy you.
00:11:23All right.
00:11:27Nobody intelligent admits that they like muscle cars, but secretly, deep down, everybody does.
00:11:34They're like power rock ballads.
00:11:37I mean, if you're driving along with friends and Don't Stop Believing by Journey comes on the radio,
00:11:42you say, this is rubbish, and you huff and puff and turn it off.
00:11:45If you're on your own and it comes on, you turn it up and you sing along.
00:11:50You do.
00:11:52Chaps, did you know mine only comes with one seat as standard?
00:11:58Really?
00:11:58What?
00:12:00As standard, you get one seat in a demon.
00:12:03You can opt to have the others put back in, and it costs you a dollar.
00:12:07Which seat do they put in as standard?
00:12:10That's right.
00:12:12That's right, natuurlijk.
00:12:13Come on.
00:12:15Come on.
00:12:20Eventually, we decided to pull over in our motoring theme park to see which of our fairground muscle
00:12:27rides would be the fastest in a street drag race.
00:12:38so what i'm thinking is here when the lights go green down what's a quarter of a mile just
00:12:44beyond the church yeah something like that perfect what if the police come oh he won't he's in
00:12:49beverly hills i've seen the movie why can't we just do this on a racetrack or a runway like we
00:12:54usually do because we're here to prove that this is a racetrack detroit is empty now and should
00:12:58just be used for this sort of thing yes yes but it isn't a real race is an actual race
00:13:02no it is this
00:13:03is where the muscle car was born i can't do it why can't you do it because dodge only lent
00:13:08me that
00:13:08car if i promise not to do any drag racing on the road with it what it is that's what
00:13:13it's for i know
00:13:14i know it's literally what it's for i know but that's the way it is i'm sorry do you think
00:13:19it's
00:13:19an insurance it is it's because it's no it's because i don't want it on the roof who's driving
00:13:23it richard hammond you can't drive it it's just what they said and i'm really sorry so we can't do
00:13:28it
00:13:28i'm sorry we can we're not going to do it without that uh let me think yeah we are just
00:13:34right just
00:13:34right the way right the way one for all and all for yourselves that's how it goes isn't it
00:13:42having decided to make the doorway of a barber shop the finishing line james and i prepared for the race
00:13:51i'm only doing this to annoy hammond i mean i can't possibly win
00:13:54yes i've got a supercharged v8 but it only produces 720 horsepower that's 280 less than the
00:14:04exorcist i don't want to sound like you but the launch control in this car is so complicated there's
00:14:10a youtube video about it and i have watched it but i've forgotten why don't we have a gentleman's
00:14:15agreement and not use launch control well that might save my clutch so
00:14:21yes right we won't use launch control i've got a manual gearbox you won't do it naked for i care
00:14:26just get on with it look at captain cheerful over there
00:14:31in the back of the car is off
00:14:41is off
00:14:43is
00:14:44is
00:15:05Now you've got a good start.
00:15:12Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, there's only a one car, then finish!
00:15:18Easy!
00:15:20Bloody Nora, that was close, but I got a terrible start, so we're going to do it again, mate.
00:15:28I'm in first gear.
00:15:40I can't do it, it's spinning its wheels.
00:15:49You do know you're both too old for this, don't you?
00:15:52Well, for driving muscle cars up and down the public roads of Detroit,
00:15:56because nobody else is using them.
00:15:58Well, Richard Hammond certainly isn't using them.
00:16:03Since it was one all and we were having enormous fun annoying Hammond,
00:16:08we decided to go again.
00:16:11What is this? Best of 30 now?
00:16:14Well, what else are we going to do?
00:16:16Keep going to one of your wets yourselves.
00:16:20For the next 17 runs, the result was always the same.
00:16:26Thank you very much.
00:16:30Come on! Come on!
00:16:32Come on!
00:16:33Give up, buddy.
00:16:38I'm angry.
00:16:40I'm not giving in, James. One more.
00:16:41Oh, for God's sake!
00:16:43I gave him my word I wouldn't use launch control.
00:16:48And I'm simply going to go back on that and not tell him.
00:16:57That was a good gear change. So was that.
00:17:00But there's just nothing I can do to get up with that 1,000 horsepower monster.
00:17:08Finally, I waved the white flag and then we took a closer look at the savage beating heart of the
00:17:16Exorcist.
00:17:17And that's a standard Corvette engine, basically.
00:17:20Z06, yep.
00:17:21With a supercharger plonked on the top. That's there, yes?
00:17:25Yes, 2.9 litre supercharger.
00:17:27So the bit they bolted to your engine is bigger than most European engines.
00:17:33Yes.
00:17:33So is the one on mine. It's 2.7 litres.
00:17:36Yeah, not as big.
00:17:37The point is, Simon, this is the Exorcist.
00:17:39The job of the Exorcist is to vanquish the demon.
00:17:42It's like, you remember in the 60s, I think, Di Tommaso made a car called the Mangusta,
00:17:47which is Italian for mongoose.
00:17:49Yes, and a mongoose can kill a cobra, can't it?
00:17:51That's why they did it.
00:17:52Yes, but this hasn't vanquished the demon. It hasn't beaten it.
00:17:56Tell you what, why don't you find a racetrack or a runway somewhere, OK?
00:18:01I'll gracefully bow out and we can have a race between good and evil.
00:18:14First, though, we decided to find out which of our cars makes the loudest noise.
00:18:20There were, of course, many possible locations for this important test.
00:18:26But eventually, we found one that was absolutely ideal.
00:18:45What is this place?
00:18:47Well, obviously, it was a theatre.
00:18:50They built it on the site of Henry Ford's first-ever workshop.
00:18:56And when I say theatre...
00:18:59Oh, wow!
00:19:00So, it was in 1925 they built it when Detroit was just about the richest city in the world.
00:19:04Oh, you can see, look at that.
00:19:05And they could just build that.
00:19:06And then in the 70s it was converted into a rock venue.
00:19:11So, look at these tickets I've got for it.
00:19:14ZZ Top.
00:19:15ZZ Top.
00:19:15And T-Rex.
00:19:17Wow, what a gig that would have been.
00:19:19Fantastic.
00:19:19Sly and the Family Stone.
00:19:21Spencer Davis.
00:19:23Steve Winwood has performed in here.
00:19:24David Bowie performed in here.
00:19:26Blue Oyster Cult.
00:19:27Bob Caesar.
00:19:27This was a serious venue.
00:19:29Oh, serious venue.
00:19:30And then there were some credit card companies in the offices which are behind that wall.
00:19:34And they said, we need some parking.
00:19:37And just bought it and turned it into a multi-storey car park.
00:19:40That's amazing.
00:19:41I mean, it's sort of staggering.
00:19:44It's the birthplace of Henry Ford's business.
00:19:47Yeah.
00:19:48Then a theatre.
00:19:49It's a car park.
00:19:51We can bring some theatre back with our noise test.
00:19:53Actually, there's a kind of poetry to it. It's beautiful.
00:19:56Precisely.
00:19:56Not just bringing the poetry, also bringing the decibel-o-meter.
00:19:59Oh, perfect.
00:20:01So, you can go and go first.
00:20:03Why am I going first?
00:20:05I just said you can go first.
00:20:07You did. I heard him say it.
00:20:10Since the owners feared the noise from our engines would bring down the crumbling roof,
00:20:15we were given protective clothing.
00:20:19We've got to put this on because there may be dust.
00:20:21There will be dust.
00:20:26Traction off.
00:20:28I'll just make wheels spin.
00:20:30Wheel spin.
00:20:31That just makes a huge amount of noise.
00:20:33Are you ready?
00:20:34Yes.
00:20:49Oh, yeah. Check it out.
00:20:59Oh, God, that's pretty horrible.
00:21:03How loud?
00:21:04Well, at its peak?
00:21:06Yep.
00:21:08125.2.
00:21:10Wait a minute.
00:21:11You don't know.
00:21:11You're the first to go.
00:21:13125?
00:21:13Yes.
00:21:16The Who.
00:21:19Widely regarded to be the loudest rock band of all time.
00:21:22Yes.
00:21:24126 decibels.
00:21:26Deep Purple.
00:21:27A mere 117 decibels.
00:21:30That car is louder than Deep Purple.
00:21:33But probably a lot quieter than my demon.
00:21:44Any minute now, a paramedic will be cutting his trousers off.
00:21:47You should have taken him off before he got in.
00:21:49I don't know why he wears trousers.
00:21:51Here we go.
00:21:52Ready?
00:21:52Three, two.
00:21:56Oh, wait a minute.
00:21:57It hasn't done it.
00:22:02Easy mistake.
00:22:04We've all done it.
00:22:05Forgotten the key when you're doughnutting in a Detroit theatre that's been turned into a multi-story car park.
00:22:10Everybody's been there.
00:22:12Okay.
00:22:13In three, two...
00:22:18.
00:22:19.
00:22:20.
00:22:24.
00:22:26.
00:22:26.
00:22:27.
00:22:39125.2 to beat?
00:22:41Yeah.
00:22:43It doesn't make a lot of noise.
00:22:46118.8 tiptoe, boys.
00:22:482.7-litre capacity supercharger on it.
00:22:51Yeah, but it doesn't make any noise.
00:22:53Well, they could build it for this. They built it for drag racing.
00:22:54They wouldn't let me do that, so...
00:22:56Did they? How do we know?
00:22:57Well, they did.
00:23:00Before this sore point became even sorer,
00:23:03I sent James off to have a go.
00:23:07Don't think he's ever done a doughnut.
00:23:09No.
00:23:10In his life.
00:23:11No.
00:23:11We are about to witness James D. May losing his virginity.
00:23:16Popping his doughnut cherry.
00:23:22James May, are you ready?
00:23:24Fire it up in three.
00:23:34Cock.
00:23:47It took him a little while, but eventually, he got the hang of it.
00:24:06What's my score?
00:24:08Why don't we just go?
00:24:10Go on, James, we've got to go.
00:24:11Yep, moving on.
00:24:13What was it?
00:24:13Oh, I've wiped it.
00:24:15No, you haven't.
00:24:15It was 12.
00:24:17Come on, what was...
00:24:18Why have I got this on my face?
00:24:19What was it?
00:24:20It was 128, so just 2.8 more than me.
00:24:22So more?
00:24:23Yes.
00:24:24Hold that.
00:24:25Why?
00:24:26Please just hold that.
00:24:27Oh, I hate the victory dance.
00:24:29I hate the victory dance.
00:24:31Good, right, let's move on.
00:24:32How much is your car?
00:24:32How much?
00:24:3398, something like that.
00:24:3498,000 pounds.
00:24:36Yes.
00:24:3640,000.
00:24:37Yeah, but mine's better, so it's more expensive.
00:24:3940,000.
00:24:40It's faster and louder.
00:24:41720 horsepower, 40,000 pounds.
00:24:44Am I the only person here who understands muscle cars?
00:24:49That's a ridiculous thing to say.
00:24:55Having had a very busy morning, we were now hungry,
00:24:59which in this part of town was a problem.
00:25:04There's not an abundance of restaurants around here, is there?
00:25:08I haven't seen any.
00:25:10I just noticed the Coney Island restaurant,
00:25:13but I'm afraid it's been shut for 30 years.
00:25:17Having failed to find even a takeout,
00:25:20we started to look for a hotel.
00:25:23But there wasn't one of those either.
00:25:26So we decided to buy a house.
00:25:33Let me show you what we've got.
00:25:34Handsome vestibule, feature tile floor.
00:25:37Front room here, feature fireplace,
00:25:39loads of light from all these windows.
00:25:41This, I would say, used as a dining room
00:25:43because it's adjacent to the kitchen.
00:25:45Needs the appliances refitting.
00:25:46Not a big job.
00:25:48In there, I would say,
00:25:49that's a really handy games room, TV room,
00:25:52overlooking the garden and the double garage.
00:25:54Here, perfect for a home office, maybe a snug.
00:25:57Upstairs, four bedrooms.
00:25:59And here's the kicker.
00:26:01An independent granny flat with its own kitchen,
00:26:04so Jeremy can live up there semi-independently
00:26:06for as long as he can manage.
00:26:08And the price?
00:26:09$2,200.
00:26:13Is that really only, what was it, $2,200?
00:26:16Yeah.
00:26:171,800 quid?
00:26:18Yeah, I know.
00:26:18It's amazing, isn't it?
00:26:19So I'll show you something else amazing.
00:26:21Captain Slow has fallen for this eco-allotment claptrap.
00:26:26I haven't fallen for it, and it's not claptrap.
00:26:28It's just a vegetable plot.
00:26:30It's only a bit.
00:26:30Yes, buy food and grow it.
00:26:32Why not?
00:26:33It's a farmer's job.
00:26:34Turning a city into a vegetable garden is ridiculous.
00:26:38Who's turned a city into a vegetable garden?
00:26:39That's what they want to do, and you're just encouraging them.
00:26:42Detroit should be for petrol heads.
00:26:44It should be for massive V8s like our cars.
00:26:46It's a great idea by a city that's having a bad time
00:26:49and trying to use its initiative.
00:26:50What's wrong with it?
00:26:51And it's not as if there's any vegetables in the shops.
00:26:53New is better.
00:26:54I am not listening to any more of this.
00:26:56I am going to go off.
00:26:57I'm going to find a shop.
00:26:58I'm going to come back with burgers.
00:27:00Well, you can have some curly kale in them.
00:27:01Bloody allotment.
00:27:05Just because he's become a vegetarian
00:27:07doesn't mean that absolutely everybody has to be one.
00:27:11Don't be a moron.
00:27:12I can't get out.
00:27:13He's parked in the way, haven't I?
00:27:22Well, on that terrible disappointment, back to the tent.
00:27:29You asked for it.
00:27:30You asked for it.
00:27:31You never got the burgers, are you?
00:27:33No, you didn't.
00:27:38We shall pick that up later on,
00:27:41but now it is time to drop the car keys of chat
00:27:45down the drain of debate
00:27:48on Conversation Street.
00:27:58That's all weird.
00:27:59What do you do?
00:28:00I don't know.
00:28:01I can't remember.
00:28:01Actually, can I just begin by saying that
00:28:03I think the very concept of incongruity
00:28:06was defined in that film in Detroit
00:28:08by James May,
00:28:10the slowest moving man in history,
00:28:12driving around in a car called The Exorcist.
00:28:15Yeah, it just doesn't work, does it?
00:28:16James May is The Exorcist.
00:28:18No, I mean, if he's going to have a car,
00:28:20it should be called The Florist.
00:28:21Yeah.
00:28:22Or The Organist.
00:28:25Simple change to that, The Organist.
00:28:27Nice.
00:28:28I think The Organist have worked well.
00:28:29Have you quite finished?
00:28:30Yeah.
00:28:31Good.
00:28:31Actually, I'd like to talk about Motor City.
00:28:34More specifically, what's happening to it?
00:28:36I'll tell you what's happening to it.
00:28:37It is being slowly ruined by vegetableists.
00:28:40Oh, God.
00:28:40It is.
00:28:41Look, there are two million acres of land in Detroit.
00:28:45Okay, would anybody like to guess
00:28:46how many acres have been given over to allotments?
00:28:49Six.
00:28:51I'll tell you, it's...
00:28:52No, it's three.
00:28:54Three acres.
00:28:55Three acres.
00:28:56And he's driven over two of them.
00:28:57Exactly.
00:28:58Listen, rightly so.
00:28:59It's like cancer.
00:29:00It's not like cancer.
00:29:02It is.
00:29:03It's like saying,
00:29:03if you said,
00:29:04I've got two billion cells in my body
00:29:06and only three are cancerous,
00:29:07so I shall do nothing,
00:29:08you don't, you cut them out.
00:29:10Yeah, but cancer is a serious threat to your health.
00:29:12Well, so are vegetables.
00:29:13Yeah.
00:29:14You do know you're mad.
00:29:16No, I tell you what I'm mad about,
00:29:18I'm mad as hell about Detroit,
00:29:19because in 1960,
00:29:21that was the richest city in America,
00:29:25the richest,
00:29:26and now it is the poorest,
00:29:28and no other city anywhere in the world
00:29:30has collapsed that quickly.
00:29:32What about Hiroshima?
00:29:36Apart from Hiroshima?
00:29:38Pompeii.
00:29:39Yes, apart from Hiroshima and Pompeii,
00:29:42no city has collapsed as fast as Detroit has.
00:29:45It's unbelievable.
00:29:46Yeah, it's incredible, the scale of it.
00:29:47There used to be 43 car factories in Detroit.
00:29:5043.
00:29:51Now, two.
00:29:53Just two.
00:29:54I actually think it's because America won the war.
00:29:57Which, weirdly.
00:29:58Vietnam.
00:29:58Really?
00:29:59No, I was lying.
00:30:00They lost that one.
00:30:02Well, not in all the films they didn't.
00:30:03No, they won in the films,
00:30:04but actually when you add up all the battles they won,
00:30:06weirdly, they lost the war.
00:30:08Incredible.
00:30:08Yeah.
00:30:09No, I'm actually talking about World War II,
00:30:10because at the end of that,
00:30:11Japan had lost its empire,
00:30:13so it lost all its resources,
00:30:14so they were forced to make
00:30:16compact, economical, efficient cars.
00:30:18And then the oil crisis hit in 1973,
00:30:20and the Americans, with their big V8s,
00:30:22were forced to buy small, compact, economical cars
00:30:24from Japan,
00:30:25and then realised they were better.
00:30:27No, I think it's because American cars are too cheap.
00:30:32Too cheap?
00:30:32It's a business thing.
00:30:33That's the problem.
00:30:34Sorry, everyone, I fear we are about to get
00:30:36an economic lecture from, um...
00:30:39Chancellor Hammond here.
00:30:41No, well, no.
00:30:42The other Chancellor Hammond.
00:30:43No, you are.
00:30:45Now, concentrate.
00:30:46Let me put this into context for you.
00:30:47A lot of supercars have arrived on the scene recently.
00:30:50I've got pictures of them.
00:30:51This is the McLaren Speedtile.
00:30:53That's 1,000 horsepower.
00:30:54Yeah.
00:30:55Costs 2.1 million pounds.
00:30:57And its wheels are odd.
00:30:58Yeah, they are.
00:30:58They don't match.
00:30:59This is the Aston Martin Valkyrie.
00:31:01That's 1,000 horsepower again.
00:31:022.5 million pounds.
00:31:05This one, that's the Ferrari FXX-K Evo.
00:31:081,000 horsepower, 3.5 million pounds.
00:31:12Best of the Ferrari of all time, though.
00:31:14It does look amazing.
00:31:14Yeah, it does.
00:31:15It is absolutely staggering.
00:31:16However, they've all got 1,000 horsepower, which means they will all be undriveable.
00:31:22Yeah, whereas my exorcist has 1,000 horsepower and is undriveable for under 100,000 pounds.
00:31:28LAUGHTER
00:31:28Yes, and that's exactly my economic point.
00:31:32They're selling them too cheap.
00:31:33They're just giving it away.
00:31:34If American car makers doubled the price of the cars that they sell, bear with me, they would double the
00:31:41money that they make.
00:31:42It's not that complicated when you think about it.
00:31:45You follow the logic.
00:31:46I've said before, the wrong hammers is in charge of Britain.
00:31:49Yeah.
00:31:50It is incredible.
00:31:51You've got supply and demand graph.
00:31:53If you take away the demand axis, life becomes much easier when it's all just supply.
00:31:58Precisely.
00:31:59The Hellcat that I was driving was priced at £67,000.
00:32:02Yeah.
00:32:03People are now selling them that same car secondhand for £120,000, and one bloke has advertised one for half
00:32:09a million.
00:32:10So that means they were too cheap, and I'm right.
00:32:14LAUGHTER
00:32:15It is hard to argue with that.
00:32:17Unassailable.
00:32:18And we don't have time, so let's move it on.
00:32:20Because you may remember in the, actually, the very first show of the Grand Tour, in the first season,
00:32:25I was blown away by McLaren P1.
00:32:29Yeah, I do remember.
00:32:30You said it would be faster than the Porsche 918 and the Ferrari, the Ferrari.
00:32:34And, no, wait a minute.
00:32:35It wasn't, was it?
00:32:36And as a result, the only thing that got blown away was your house.
00:32:39Yes, that's undoubtedly true.
00:32:41Yeah.
00:32:42But the thing is, it remains to this day the most exciting, most brutal, most visceral car I've ever driven.
00:32:48And I didn't think it could ever be topped, but McLaren have given it a bash.
00:32:52And I thought, well, if they've built a car that can out-P1 a P1, I'd better test it somewhere
00:32:59a bit less narrow
00:33:01and a bit less tree-lined and a bit less covered in deers and badgers than the Ebola-drome.
00:33:06So I took it to the fastest racetrack in Europe, which is, actually, do you, anyone want to guess which
00:33:12it is?
00:33:13No, not Monza.
00:33:15No, not Monza.
00:33:16Not Spa.
00:33:16Not Spa.
00:33:17Do you know?
00:33:17What?
00:33:18Do you know?
00:33:20Of course I know.
00:33:21You know?
00:33:22Yes.
00:33:22Yes.
00:33:22That's unusual.
00:33:23Why is it unusual?
00:33:24Well, you didn't know any of the answers on who wants to be a millionaire.
00:33:36No, they didn't ask Jeremy happens to know, isn't it?
00:33:41Thruxton.
00:33:42Why?
00:33:42Thruxton is the fastest racetrack in Europe, so that's where I took the new McLaren.
00:34:10And let's begin by giving you some of the headlines.
00:34:13There's no hybrid drive like there was in the P1, but even so, the four-litre twin-turbocharged
00:34:23V8 produces 789 horsepower, and that means it's still pretty fast.
00:34:37OK.
00:34:38Right.
00:34:40Left foot on brake.
00:34:44Push launch.
00:34:48Full throttle.
00:34:50Boost building.
00:34:51Boost ready.
00:34:52We're gone.
00:34:52Boost building.
00:34:54OK.
00:34:55Go, go.
00:34:57Now.
00:34:58486 in 2.7 seconds.
00:35:02That's 120.
00:35:04150, 100, Jesus, 8 Christ.
00:35:11I'll actually do 186 in 18 seconds, and flat out, it's 208.
00:35:19That's really alarming.
00:35:22I'm going to be sick now.
00:35:25Whoa!
00:35:28The thing is, though, that lots of supercars are as fast as the McLaren these days.
00:35:35Some are even more powerful, and even more dramatic to behold.
00:35:43But this is called the Senna.
00:35:45It's named after Ayrton Senna,
00:35:47and Ayrton was not a man who spent his evenings cruising around Harrods
00:35:51at nine miles an hour,
00:35:54and nor was he a man who spent much time at drag strips doing the standing quarter.
00:35:59No. Ayrton was a man who made his name at places like this.
00:36:06Racetracks.
00:36:12This is what the Senna was built to do.
00:36:16Get round any track anywhere faster than any other road car ever made.
00:36:26To do this, they had to make it light.
00:36:29And they have.
00:36:31The doors, for example, even though they have windows in them here,
00:36:35so passers-by can see the driver's trousers,
00:36:39they only weigh nine kilograms,
00:36:42and that's less than one of Kate Moss's arms.
00:36:45And then there's the seats.
00:36:46They only weigh eight kilograms.
00:36:49I've eaten puddings that weigh more than that.
00:36:51Going throttle up.
00:36:54Having got the weight out,
00:36:57the Senna's nearly a quarter of a ton lighter than the P1.
00:37:01They had to think about grip.
00:37:05They started with a new type of Pirelli tyre
00:37:08that clings on like a panicky child on a fairground ride.
00:37:12And then there's this moving rear wing,
00:37:16which is somehow road legal.
00:37:18It actually hangs from these pylons rather than sits on top of them
00:37:23because that improves downforce.
00:37:26I asked James May to explain why,
00:37:29but I'm afraid after three hours, I went into a deep sleep.
00:37:35The next most important thing when it comes to lap times
00:37:38is how well it slows down.
00:37:42I was once in a 24-hour race at Silverstone
00:37:46driving a terrible old diesel BMW,
00:37:50and yet I could keep up with a supercharged Jaguar XKR
00:37:55because I had better brakes.
00:37:59And look at him getting to the end of the hangar straight thinking,
00:38:02why are you braking now, you idiot?
00:38:04You don't need to.
00:38:06And that is this car's party piece.
00:38:10To show you how well this car stops,
00:38:13I've organised a little test.
00:38:18Right, I'm currently driving alongside a Jaguar F-Type
00:38:23at 100 miles an hour,
00:38:25and when we get to that cone down there...
00:38:30..we're both going to brake.
00:38:34Ready?
00:38:51How can we stop from 100 miles an hour to nothing in that distance?
00:38:59So, it stops like it's run into a wall,
00:39:03it's pressed into the road by witchcraft,
00:39:08it weighs the same as a bag of whippets,
00:39:12and it has nearly 800 horsepower on tap.
00:39:16Put all that together, and, erm, well...
00:39:25Oh, my giddy-up!
00:39:35It doesn't have the savagery of the P1.
00:39:40It doesn't have the savagery of the P1.
00:39:40The P1 was so scary,
00:39:42it took me two months to get used to it,
00:39:47to discover its little foibles.
00:39:49This, though,
00:39:52even though I'm now in hunkered-down,
00:39:55tightened-up, vicious race mode,
00:39:57with the traction control wound right back,
00:40:01I'm not frightened at all.
00:40:03I'm starting to push the envelope up to 20 minutes.
00:40:13You see, through there the P1 would have understeered.
00:40:17This just doesn't,
00:40:19because there's no way to push it out of line.
00:40:23It's like you're driving using nothing but telepathy.
00:40:36I'm loving it!
00:40:42In the past, I've described various Ferraris
00:40:45as feeling beautifully delicate,
00:40:48but compared to this, they're like elephants.
00:40:57Criticisms?
00:40:58Not many.
00:40:59I mean, the usual McLaren stuff,
00:41:01when you try to change it from comfort to track to sport to race,
00:41:05it's all far too complicated.
00:41:07And I know they saved 15 kilograms not fitting air conditioning,
00:41:12but on a hot day like today, it's quite sweaty.
00:41:18But who cares?
00:41:29Honestly, this thing is rewriting the supercar rulebook in my mind.
00:41:54I'm actually proud to be British for that.
00:41:56What?
00:41:58Yes, definitely.
00:42:00What?
00:42:01Um, well, just, well, while the film was on,
00:42:04we've just been online and checked.
00:42:05Thruxton is not the fastest track in Europe.
00:42:09What?
00:42:09It's not.
00:42:10Why isn't it?
00:42:11Well, it isn't the fastest track.
00:42:13Well, it's the fastest race track in Wiltshire.
00:42:14It's in Hampshire.
00:42:15You don't even know that.
00:42:17It's in Hampshire.
00:42:17You don't even know that.
00:42:18You don't even know that.
00:42:19They describe themselves as the fastest track in the south of England.
00:42:24I mean, after Brexit, it will be the fastest in Europe.
00:42:27Anyway, whatever, back to your film.
00:42:29You said rewriting the supercar rulebook.
00:42:32Those are big words, mate.
00:42:33Yeah, and they're correct.
00:42:35Are they?
00:42:35No, they are.
00:42:36No, for once, I am actually correct.
00:42:38First time this show, I'm right.
00:42:39Because that car, you remember the Lamborghini Huracan Performante?
00:42:44OK, that blitzed our track.
00:42:47Absolutely blitzed it.
00:42:48Fastest road car ever round there.
00:42:49I can guarantee the Senna will be quicker.
00:42:53Here we go again.
00:42:54Good.
00:42:55I promise it will be.
00:42:57I promise.
00:42:58If it isn't, can we blow up your house?
00:43:01I haven't finished building it yet.
00:43:04When you finish building it, can we blow up your house?
00:43:06Yes.
00:43:07I am, no, I am so confident the Senna will be faster,
00:43:11that if it isn't, when I've finished building my house,
00:43:14you can blow it up again.
00:43:15You do know that we will.
00:43:16We will do that.
00:43:17We will do that.
00:43:18We will.
00:43:19We'll wait till you're in.
00:43:23Let's play the tape.
00:43:24Come on, let's have a look.
00:43:26There's Abi, and she's off, flying away from the line like a stabbed rat,
00:43:31and coming onto the Isn't Straight, already carrying some serious speed.
00:43:37Looking busy at the wheel on the bumpy surface of our track,
00:43:40but those hydraulically interconnected dampers are doing their job of keeping it all tied down.
00:43:47That is flying.
00:43:48It's already dropping down into your name here.
00:43:52Some squeal from the Pirelli P-Zero Trofeos as she carves around there,
00:43:57and then it's back on the gas to unleash that mighty twin-tobo V8 for the return run down to
00:44:03the Isabel.
00:44:03I am feeling confident here.
00:44:06Right now, hard on those incredible carbon ceramic brakes for the tight and technical old lady's house.
00:44:14No excess weight to drag the nose wide.
00:44:17And now, on the fast run to substation, riding the ruts and lumps with ease.
00:44:24Two corners left, more tyre squeal through there.
00:44:28Rear wing doing its thing, and now a bit of oversteer and across the line.
00:44:33APPLAUSE
00:44:34Looks good, it does look good, but...
00:44:40You've got everything you need to throw it up.
00:44:42Well, there it is. There's the Hurricane Puffle Mountain.
00:44:44Look, 1.16.8, and I have guaranteed it'll be faster.
00:44:48Yeah, you're doing well on facts this week so far, aren't you?
00:44:52How are you feeling?
00:44:54Totally relaxed.
00:44:55Are you really?
00:44:58The thing is, we haven't even got far to go to blow it up, have we?
00:45:01It's just going to be over here.
00:45:02Come on, let's see how fast it was.
00:45:10Damn!
00:45:13That is serious.
00:45:16That's four seconds quicker.
00:45:19That's quicker than the Vulcan, and the Vulcan isn't even road legal.
00:45:22That's absolutely amazing.
00:45:24That is astonishing, and we can add it to the list of things that you know.
00:45:30Anyway, let's now get back to our film.
00:45:33Yes.
00:45:34Earlier on, we decided that Detroit should be a big sort of petrolhead theme park,
00:45:39so we went over there with three tuned muscle cars.
00:45:43Yep, and so far, we've staged a drag race, done some donuts,
00:45:47and Jeremy has driven over some vegetables.
00:45:49And then the next day, we decided that what Detroit really needs
00:45:53is a racetrack.
00:45:55Yeah, even though it already has two.
00:45:57Yes, but we wanted something more earthy.
00:45:59So, we headed for the city centre.
00:46:21As we headed for the downtown area, I decided to do a bit of muscle car housekeeping.
00:46:29Can I just ask everybody what your average fuel consumption has been since we got to Detroit?
00:46:35Overall, over the whole trip, eight MPG.
00:46:40Yep, mine is a healthy 3.9 miles per gallon.
00:46:44You're joking.
00:46:453.9.
00:46:46Yes, sir, Ebon.
00:46:5013 MPG from the Mustang.
00:46:53If it had been a hybrid, it would have fitted in very well with what the centre of Detroit
00:46:58has become these days.
00:47:03Florist.
00:47:06Cafes, oh, for heaven's sake, urban ramen, no, no, no, no.
00:47:14In 1997, in downtown Detroit, someone put a gun against my head.
00:47:21Now, it's just all hipsters with dogs and bicycles.
00:47:27If you want to start a tech business, bugger off to San Francisco.
00:47:33Oh, for God's sake, have you seen this?
00:47:35Little urban gardens.
00:47:37Oh, no.
00:47:39What's he... Why has he got such a problem with gardens?
00:47:42Look down there, it's just all greenhouses full of little artisan soaps.
00:47:47There's a Tesla.
00:47:48There's a bloody Tesla in Detroit.
00:47:52If only the world were full of people like Jeremy Clarkson,
00:47:54then we could have slavery and witch burning.
00:47:57Right, well, we've established one thing.
00:47:59The centre of Detroit, that ain't a racetrack, that's a whole food market.
00:48:05We need to get out of here, this is the enemy.
00:48:12Having returned to the rundown suburbs,
00:48:14we eventually found the perfect place to build a racetrack.
00:48:22Cadillac's old Connor Avenue factory.
00:48:27For over 60 years, they stamped out the body panels here for icons,
00:48:32like the El Dorado, the Fleetwood and the Coupe de Ville.
00:48:40If it were up to James, this creaking monument to the Motor City's decline
00:48:45would be turned into a shrubbery.
00:48:51But it wasn't up to James,
00:48:53so it would become a Monte Carlo-style tunnel feature
00:48:56on our Detroit-themed racetrack.
00:49:03Right, so what I thought we'd do is we'd name all of the corners
00:49:06and all of the straights after various musicians who were from Detroit.
00:49:11So, for example, put that there, and then this would be Alice Cooper Corner.
00:49:16Nice touch.
00:49:17And then I've got all the faces.
00:49:18I've got Glenn Frey from the Eagles, Jack White, Madonna,
00:49:21Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent.
00:49:23What's that stick for?
00:49:24Oh, that's Iggy Pop.
00:49:27Oh, yeah, it's like it's here.
00:49:29Yeah, exactly.
00:49:30Then, as we go into the back section over there,
00:49:33you've got Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Diana Ross, Sonny Bono,
00:49:38Martha Reeves, Anthony Kiedis, Smokey Robinson.
00:49:41I mean, it is just, you look in the book, you just go,
00:49:43they can't all be from Detroit.
00:49:46Did you know Madonna was from Detroit?
00:49:48No.
00:49:52Because building the track involved heavy machinery and manual labour,
00:49:57Hannand insisted on doing everything himself.
00:50:03That is going to be a fast corner.
00:50:08Despite this, though, he soon had everything ready.
00:50:22Sadly, though, he had got a bit confused about naming the corners
00:50:25after local musicians.
00:50:31What?
00:50:31Why have you got The Edge?
00:50:33Well, you said there was Sonny Bono.
00:50:35Yes, Hammond.
00:50:37Sonny, Bono and The Edge from the famous Detroit rock band U2.
00:50:41Sally!
00:50:45Because the track had been built by the world's most accident-prone driver,
00:50:50we thought it best that the God-fearing exorcist should christen it.
00:51:04It's so bumpy.
00:51:08What the hell is this?
00:51:18What's that?
00:51:19Some sort of chicane he's put in there.
00:51:23Whoa!
00:51:24Slippery.
00:51:25That's slippery as hell.
00:51:28That's unbelievably narrow.
00:51:30What's he thinking of?
00:51:38Oh, hello.
00:51:40Here he comes.
00:51:45After his run, James couldn't wait to give Hammond some constructive feedback.
00:51:51I just want to say, Hammond, you witless dishcloth.
00:51:55That is the worst racetrack I've ever been round.
00:51:57It's slippery.
00:51:58It's full of holes.
00:51:59It's full of obstacles for you to crash into.
00:52:01It's narrow.
00:52:03It's challenging, isn't it?
00:52:03It's not challenging.
00:52:04It's only about that much bigger than the car.
00:52:06And it's made of butter.
00:52:09And it appears to be full of asbestos waste.
00:52:12Oh, it is full of asbestos.
00:52:13Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
00:52:13Oh, well, thank you.
00:52:14Sorry.
00:52:15Yeah, close your window.
00:52:23All of us then set about our practice laps on Hammond's death trap.
00:52:28Thin bits.
00:52:29Oh, God.
00:52:32Let's see, bloody thin.
00:52:37My own car doesn't fit round my own race track.
00:52:41Oh, we're done.
00:52:44Despite the peril, though, we gave it everything.
00:52:51And by the end of the session, there was nothing in it between the demon and the exorcist.
00:52:59The Mustang, though, that was in a league of its own.
00:53:07I don't want to take it anymore.
00:53:1556.4.
00:53:20Yes, your fastest.
00:53:22Well, of course it's the fastest.
00:53:22It's a muscle car that handles.
00:53:26However, these were just unofficial practice laps.
00:53:30Now it was time for the one-shot winner-takes-all real thing.
00:53:37It's three, two, one, begin!
00:53:48Brakes for that bit.
00:53:50Bit of downshift.
00:54:03Massive pump.
00:54:06Oh, God.
00:54:13Hammond.
00:54:16Slippery.
00:54:20And here he is.
00:54:22Here he comes.
00:54:27I pooed myself.
00:54:29Funny noise.
00:54:31However, the trouser accident had clearly been worth it.
00:54:36You've just broken your own record.
00:54:39Well, that's remarkable.
00:54:4059.66.
00:54:42Really?
00:54:42Yep.
00:54:43I'm happy with that, and I haven't hit any famous musicians or bits of old car factory.
00:54:49Next, it was the turn of Corporal Crash.
00:54:55Where's the fire engine gone?
00:54:56I saw the fire engine over there.
00:54:58Ambulance is...
00:54:59Oh, we're all comedians today.
00:55:01Yeah.
00:55:01Yeah.
00:55:01Remember, if you lose to James May...
00:55:04It's more humiliating.
00:55:06It's worse than death.
00:55:08In three, two, one, go.
00:55:15Looking for grip.
00:55:17Turning neat, crisp by the edge.
00:55:19Whoa!
00:55:21Oh, he's gone over the edge!
00:55:23Again.
00:55:29Hammond's lap's going well.
00:55:30Yeah, isn't it?
00:55:33So, which corner is that he's gone off on?
00:55:36I mean, obviously, is him.
00:55:39Amazingly, it wasn't.
00:55:48Is that Madonna?
00:55:49That's Madonna.
00:55:50Yeah, I don't know.
00:55:53Now we're in the open.
00:55:56Oh, right.
00:56:00Yes, L.C. Bob's got a bit of understeer there.
00:56:02Oh!
00:56:06That felt good.
00:56:07It felt like a quick one.
00:56:11Ah, I don't know how to put this to you, but...
00:56:17No.
00:56:19No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:56:21Yeah, yeah.
00:56:210.4 of a second slower than James May.
00:56:26This is what death feels like.
00:56:27Yeah, okay, get out of the demon.
00:56:29We've done the demon and the exorcist.
00:56:31It's time for the blue nun.
00:56:34Blue nun?
00:56:35Yeah.
00:56:35Yeah.
00:56:40Totally pointless waste of time, then.
00:56:43We've established the Mustang is the fastest by an enormous margin.
00:56:49Erm...
00:56:49But I'll go and do it, I suppose.
00:56:54Jeremy Smug in My Little Pony.
00:56:56Are you ready?
00:56:57In...
00:56:58Three...
00:56:59Two...
00:56:59One...
00:57:00Big in!
00:57:07Oh, yes.
00:57:09This is a properly sorted track car.
00:57:13That's what we're looking at here.
00:57:15Properly sorted, it may be, but I had a plan that would spoil its afternoon.
00:57:22You're running!
00:57:23I know, but you'll see.
00:57:24I've got to get down to this corner before he gets back.
00:57:27Help me tip this over.
00:57:29What is it?
00:57:30It's organic palm oil.
00:57:31Very slippery.
00:57:32It's the revenge of the urban farmer.
00:57:38Into the blind band.
00:57:40There is Stevie Wonder.
00:57:43You do know it's palm oil that's ruining life for the world's orangutans.
00:57:47Only this one.
00:57:48Come on, come on.
00:57:50Soap shifting into her.
00:57:59And on that terrible disappointment...
00:58:01For him.
00:58:02It's back to the tent.
00:58:09You.
00:58:12I thought it had been you.
00:58:14You ruined my lap.
00:58:16You said Detroit had to be a playground,
00:58:19and that's what I was doing.
00:58:20I was playing.
00:58:21Listen, can my practice time stand?
00:58:24Because that was still the quickest.
00:58:26That's not how it works.
00:58:27You can't just say that because you were the quickest in qualifying,
00:58:30you would have won the race if you hadn't crashed.
00:58:33Well, I can say it.
00:58:33Well, you can say it.
00:58:34I could say I'm the captain of the English cricket team.
00:58:36I wouldn't be any good at it.
00:58:41Ah, well, moving on.
00:58:44I don't know where he was going with that.
00:58:45Anyway, look, in part one of that film, we said that we would have a race between the demon and
00:58:52the exorcist,
00:58:53a drag race, yeah?
00:58:54And then it never happened.
00:58:56Except it did.
00:58:58Yeah.
00:58:59You see, Dodge said we couldn't drag race it on the street, but they didn't say anything about airfields.
00:59:05So after we'd finished at our track, we found one of those.
00:59:09Now, I bowed out of this like I said I would because the Mustang and the drag racing environment is
00:59:13never going to win.
00:59:14And it became a two-horse race between Socrashalot and the owner-nest, OK?
00:59:19But we have a problem.
00:59:20See, we only have time left in the show, realistically, for one more thing.
00:59:25We've got the guest segment.
00:59:26And this week, I should tell you, it's between Howard from the Halifax advert
00:59:32and Adrian Childs to find the fastest person you don't really hear from much anymore.
00:59:41We'll have a vote, I think.
00:59:44Who here would like to see the celebrity segment?
00:59:51There's one over there.
00:59:53And who'd like to see the drag race?
00:59:57Does that mean they're not coming on, then?
00:59:58Very much so.
00:59:59Very much so, James.
01:00:00So here it is, then, the race between good and evil.
01:00:18Right, here we go, viewers.
01:00:20It's either salvation or a world plunged into eternal darkness.
01:00:30OK, this is it. The race between good and evil. Are we ready, gentlemen?
01:00:36We ready?
01:00:37No.
01:00:39Go.
01:00:41What's happening?
01:00:42I've got a couple of things to do before we start.
01:00:45You say you can't just drag race this now?
01:00:48Well, you've got to do it properly. This is a proper drag racing car.
01:00:51What is he doing?
01:00:53This is what you get when you buy a Demon.
01:00:55Cost you an extra dollar, and you get this crate.
01:01:01It's like a picnic hamper for men.
01:01:04Then, underneath, and to either side, I've got boxes with a new ECU.
01:01:07I've got everything I need.
01:01:09ECU?
01:01:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:11Look at that!
01:01:18He's got this enormous crate, and some bags and tins, full of tools.
01:01:25With two space savers, and...
01:01:28Space saver wheels?
01:01:29Hang on. Why are you putting space savers on it?
01:01:33They're drag racing tyres. They're lighter.
01:01:35I don't need grip at the front, do I? They've just got to steer.
01:01:39What else does he have to do apart from change the wheels?
01:01:41Erm, he's got a new ECU to fit.
01:01:44Are you serious?
01:01:46Yes.
01:01:46So it's not really a drag racing car at all?
01:01:49It will be, once he's completely rebuilt it.
01:01:57This is an old-fashioned view of television, but I think we've lost the moment.
01:02:01I think I agree with you. This was going to be the big end of the show.
01:02:03Yeah.
01:02:04Good versus evil.
01:02:05I could have walked to the end by now.
01:02:08I've got to take back tyre pressures down to 20 psi.
01:02:12Nice, fat, squishy contact patch.
01:02:21Exactly 25 minutes so far. It's taken him to do his quarter-mile run.
01:02:27Oh, sir, this is where it breathes through its eye. Look at that. That goes to the back of its
01:02:31eye.
01:02:35So, I mean, that is a significant component. What is it?
01:02:38Air filter.
01:02:39Does it not have an air filter?
01:02:41Yeah, but this is a performance one. It's going to gulp through air.
01:02:50Right, so that's it. Good.
01:02:51Yep. Now we're going to do the ECU, which goes in here, I believe. I'm going to have to take
01:02:55that out, I think.
01:02:56So he's now got a different ECU just telling the engine to be powerful.
01:03:00Right. Why didn't they just put that one in from the start?
01:03:04That's good to go.
01:03:06Sadly, though, it wasn't.
01:03:09He's now refuelling his car with a special how many octane?
01:03:13It's ethanol and gasoline. Mixture, um, 104.
01:03:18After the refuelling, we hoped he was done. But no.
01:03:23Right, hang on a minute. I've got to put it in neutral to get that in the middle.
01:03:27Hammond, you're taking the whole dashboard out?
01:03:28Yeah, this has to come out because I've got to put in a new control panel here.
01:03:32I've got a new button on it.
01:03:34He's taking the whole centre console out, the whole of that.
01:03:37He's had to put it in neutral to lift it all off.
01:03:40What for?
01:03:41Because you can then fit a button that enables him to select what sort of fuel he's running on.
01:03:48Why don't they just put that in from the start?
01:03:50So this all goes back in here with my new switchgear in.
01:03:55It's an hour and seven minutes.
01:03:57Actually, you're right. It is. It's over an hour now.
01:04:00God.
01:04:01There we go.
01:04:06Finally, the rebuild of the demon was complete.
01:04:09And it was time for the drivers to warm their tyres.
01:04:14In three, two, one, burn out!
01:04:31WHISTLE SCREAMS
01:04:32Right, your tyres are warm. Are you now ready?
01:04:35What?
01:04:36Are you ready to come to the start line?
01:04:38No!
01:04:39What do you mean, no?
01:04:40No, that was just a celebratory burnout.
01:04:42Oh, jeez, he's got out.
01:04:43I've done all the building work. Now I've got to set the car up.
01:04:46What?
01:04:46I've got to get in the right modes. There's stuff to do, mate.
01:04:48Oh, I've had enough. I'm sorry, I've had enough. Bye!
01:04:52We're never going to do this.
01:04:55So, I need to go into drag. Drag mode activating. Excellent.
01:04:59Drag transmission, drag traction, power. So, power needs to go up to 840.
01:05:05We are now in high octane. Ho-ho!
01:05:08I don't know. Do you like it?
01:05:10With our starter on his way back to London, the traffic lights were brought in,
01:05:14and finally, we were ready to go.
01:05:21I'm going to bust your ass, evil boy.
01:05:24Oh, yes.
01:05:26What are you going to do with it now?
01:05:27Because I've seen the film and I wouldn't do it.
01:05:50I'm going ahead. I think I'm going ahead.
01:05:52I'm going ahead. Come on, David.
01:06:02Ah, so annoying.
01:06:08Ah-ha! Evil wins. Evil wins.
01:06:19Yes! Yes!
01:06:22Yes!
01:06:24Victory for the demon. Thank you.
01:06:26Ah-ha!
01:06:28Yes, I won.
01:06:29You won.
01:06:30You did win. Well done.
01:06:31I did. You noticed that? Yes, I noticed.
01:06:32That I won. Yes.
01:06:33At the end of the race, if you saw, my car was in front of your car, which means I
01:06:37won.
01:06:37Can I just point out that first you had to spend half a day rebuilding half your car,
01:06:41and then you had to run it on fuel that you can't buy from a normal petrol station.
01:06:45No, wait a minute. Your excrement runs on that clever fuel all the time.
01:06:51I was sort of banking on you not knowing that.
01:06:53Yes, well, I do know it.
01:06:55Gentlemen, I think we have to agree that the Mustang is the only car here that ticks all the muscle
01:07:01car boxes.
01:07:02It's cheap, it's powerful, it runs on fuel you can buy, and you can have it with the steering wheel
01:07:07on the correct side.
01:07:09You don't get it, do you? You just don't get it. A muscle car is supposed to have a thousand
01:07:13horsepower, be undriveable, and have a stupid name.
01:07:16It's called Ready to Rock! That is a stupid name!
01:07:19Listen, Hammond, not only are you the fiscal brain of this operation, you're also the resident muscle car enthusiast.
01:07:26Yes.
01:07:26So, and I know the answer to this, because you told me on the plane, on the way home, of
01:07:30the three cars, which would you actually buy?
01:07:32Buy?
01:07:32Buy?
01:07:33With my own money?
01:07:34Yes.
01:07:34Buy?
01:07:35Yes.
01:07:35Myself?
01:07:36Yes.
01:07:36It's the Mustang.
01:07:37There you go, the Mustang.
01:07:39And so on that terrible disappointment for you...
01:07:42Snowflakes.
01:07:43It's time to end.
01:07:46Now, next week, it is a Grand Tour special, where we attempt to become the first ever television show in
01:07:53the history of television to go to Colombia and not use the C word.
01:07:58See you then.
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