1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,240 (ENGINE REVVING) 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,280 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLASTS) 3 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,040 (CHEERING) 4 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,440 Hello, everybody! Thank you. 5 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,880 Thank you very much. 6 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,280 Greetings, everybody. Thank you so much. 7 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,880 Thanks, everybody. Thank you. 8 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Thank you so much. And, yes! 9 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,800 -We're back! -(CHEERING) 10 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,160 We are! 11 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,680 Now, a lot of people have been saying, 12 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,080 "Why has it taken so long? What have you been doing?" 13 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,400 Well, hopefully we can answer that with this short montage 14 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,000 of what you can expect over the next...ahem...13 weeks. 15 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,600 ♪ ROXY MUSIC: Do The Strand 16 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,200 ♪ There's a new sensation ♪ 17 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,760 ♪ A fabulous creation ♪ 18 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,320 ♪ A danceable solution ♪ 19 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,760 ♪ To teenage revolution ♪ 20 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,080 Is that barrel gonna... 21 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,120 ♪ Do the Strand, love ♪ 22 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,720 ♪ When you feel love ♪ 23 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,320 Fire everywhere! 24 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,560 ♪ It's the new way ♪ 25 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,440 ♪ That's what we say ♪ 26 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,800 He's gone! 27 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,120 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 28 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,680 Look, hang on a minute. 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,760 ♪ Tired of the Tango? ♪ 30 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,360 "The nearest civilisation is a town called Moron. 31 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,520 In order to reach it, you must build the contents of these boxes. 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,000 You have enough food for seven days." 33 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,040 ♪ Dance on moonbeams ♪ 34 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,800 Oh, God! 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,760 ♪ Slide on rainbows ♪ 36 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,160 ♪ In furs or blue jeans ♪ 37 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,360 Were this not such a serious situation, 38 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,560 it would be a good laugh. 39 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,600 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 40 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,240 Bear, it's a bear! 41 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:49,720 -(GROWLS) -Aargh! 42 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,840 There must've been 30 or 40 people in the room when the police arrived. 43 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,640 -(THUDDING) -Whoa! 44 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,480 Clarkson! 45 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,240 Jesus Christ, I'm too close to the edge. 46 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,440 Oh! 47 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,880 JAMES: Let's sing a song. -No. 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,560 I am sitting where Jim Clark sat! 49 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:20,520 Going in hard and hot! 50 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:23,880 (ENGINE REVS) 51 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:25,600 -We're fleeing! -OK, flee. 52 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,480 Well, he'll be using a pistol, won't he? 53 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,280 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 54 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,920 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 55 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:40,960 I think... 56 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:43,960 I think you're gonna like this series. 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,400 And I particularly think you're going to like how it begins. 58 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,600 Because even over here, on this side of the pond, 59 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,960 we recognise that Detroit is the spiritual home 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,840 to anyone whose communion wine is petrol 61 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,160 and whose heart beats like a big, lumpy, wet V8. 62 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,680 Which is why this week, and it's long overdue, 63 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,000 The Grand Tour is off to the Motor City... 64 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,880 with an idea. 65 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,440 JEREMY: Of course, the whole world knows that Detroit 66 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,360 is now a shadow of its former self. 67 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,720 But we also know that efforts are being made 68 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,760 to bring life back to the ruins... 69 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,440 ...with urban farms. 70 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,680 Local people are being encouraged to grow... 71 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:05,320 kale and beans and seeds, 72 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,440 in plots like this where houses and businesses once stood. 73 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,320 (SIGHS) 74 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,120 It breaks your heart. 75 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,800 I mean, this is Detroit. 76 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,800 It shouldn't be a help-yourself, pop-up street allotment 77 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,160 for organic vegan peace hippies, 78 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,320 when it could be a pulsating playground for the petrolhead. 79 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,360 It has the roads, it has the space, 80 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,560 it was built by the rumble of a V8 81 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,040 and it should rumble to that sound once more. 82 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,880 (ENGINE STARTS) 83 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,560 So that's what we've come here to do... 84 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,800 ...make some noise. 85 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,240 (ENGINE REVVING) 86 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,040 These are the toys we'll be using. 87 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,040 Three American muscle cars, 88 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,440 all of which have been tuned to a tyre-shredding DEFCON one. 89 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,720 I have the Ford Mustang RTR Spec 3. 90 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,240 Mr Slowly has what's called The Exorcist. 91 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,480 And in his whining Dodge Challenger Demon... 92 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,440 (ENGINE WHINING) 93 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,600 ...Hammond has an erection. 94 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,360 Ah-ha-ha! 95 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,760 To make this, they took a Hellcat - 96 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,440 I drove one before on the show - 97 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,520 and just made it "more". 98 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,880 -More of everything. -(ENGINE GROWLS) 99 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,200 I have 840 horsepower, 100 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,840 a massive supercharger... 101 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,520 (SUPERCHARGER WHINES) 102 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,480 ...and on the bonnet there, or hood, 103 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,360 that's the biggest hood scoop ever fitted to a production car. 104 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,000 Ever. 105 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,040 (TYRES SCREECH) 106 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,200 -Yeah! -(SUPERCHARGER WHINES) 107 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:41,520 Noise! 108 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,200 Noise in the city! 109 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,240 (HEAVY ROCK PLAYS) 110 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,160 (ENGINE ROARING) 111 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:00,760 Bloody hellfire! 112 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,080 This car is tuned by Hennessey. 113 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,400 They've taken a standard Camaro 114 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,200 and they've given it 1,000 horsepower. 115 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,160 (ENGINE REVVING) 116 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:15,960 Jesus Christ! 117 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,760 They haven't touched anything else, only the engine. 118 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,600 Wheels are standard, brakes are standard, 119 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:24,480 suspension is standard, bodywork is standard. 120 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,000 It's all standard. 121 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:28,880 Except the power. 122 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,760 Jeez, I can't even steer it. 123 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,320 It's idiotic, honestly. 124 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,240 And yea, though I walk in the shadow 125 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,400 of the valley of death, I will fear no evil. 126 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,080 Because I am The Exorcist! 127 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,280 (TYRES SQUEAL) 128 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,880 This may look small and delicate 129 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,600 compared to the other two, 130 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,960 but be in no doubt, 131 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 it has the muscle car credentials. 132 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,600 Oh, yeah. 133 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,320 (CACKLES) 134 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,640 The fact is that the engine in Hammond's car... 135 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,880 ...is a push rod, two valve, iron museum piece. 136 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,400 And May's car, yes, it has 1,000 horsepower, 137 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,960 but it's running on standard brakes. 138 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,120 This... This is just a little bit cleverer. 139 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,840 They haven't just put a supercharger on it and left it at that. 140 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,400 They've stiffened up the suspension and lowered it 141 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,440 and stiffened the anti-roll bars. 142 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,040 So it can do this. 143 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,880 Jesus H Christ! 144 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,520 And it can do this. 145 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,760 -(TYRES SCREECH) -Yes! 146 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:12,600 This, then, is the Anthony Joshua of muscle cars. 147 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,640 Big and brawny, but it has brains as well. 148 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:20,760 Then there's its name. 149 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,640 It's the RTR, which stands for, 150 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,360 and I'm not making this up, Ready to Rock! 151 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:27,480 (LAUGHS) 152 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 These three cars, then, 153 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,320 they're the perfect fairground rides 154 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,960 in our perfect petrolhead theme park. 155 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,240 RICHARD: I mean, people travel all the way to Florida 156 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,000 to look at a man in a mouse suit 157 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,760 and watch an implausible train have an unrealistic crash. 158 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,520 Why not come here in your car and do this? 159 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,640 Whoo! 160 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,720 (CHUCKLES) What a day! 161 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:14,480 I just can't get over James May is The Ex-cre-cist 162 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,040 (CHUCKLES) 163 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,040 I am surprised to see you two so upbeat about this trip. 164 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,160 Why do you say that? 165 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,560 Well, you're always saying how much you don't like muscle cars. 166 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,600 Yeah, I just say that to annoy you. 167 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,120 Oh, right. 168 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,400 Nobody intelligent admits that they like muscle cars, 169 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:40,000 but secretly, deep down, everybody does. 170 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,040 They're like power rock ballads. 171 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,800 I mean, if you're driving along with friends 172 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,520 and Don't Stop Believing by Journey comes on the radio, 173 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,920 you say, "This is rubbish," and you huff and puff and turn it off. 174 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,920 If you're on your own and it comes on, you turn it up and you sing along. 175 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,880 You do. 176 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,200 Chaps, did you know mine only comes with one seat as standard? 177 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,240 -Really? -What? 178 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,000 As standard, you get one seat in a Demon. 179 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,080 You can opt to have the others put back in 180 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,560 and it costs you a dollar. 181 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,080 Which seat do they put in as standard? 182 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,720 (LAUGHTER) 183 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,360 JEREMY: Eventually, we decided to pull over in our motoring theme park 184 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,800 to see which of our fairground muscle rides 185 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,480 would be the fastest... 186 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,600 ...in a street drag race. 187 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,360 So what I'm thinking is here, when the lights go green... 188 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,360 What's a quarter of a mile, just beyond the church? 189 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,280 JAMES: Yeah, something like that. -Perfect. 190 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,800 -What if the police come? -Well, he won't. He's in Beverly Hills. 191 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,480 -I've seen the movie. -Why can't we just do this 192 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,840 on a racetrack or a runway like we usually do? 193 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,160 Because we're here to prove that this is a racetrack. 194 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,160 Detroit is empty now and should just be used for this sort of thing. 195 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,320 Yes, yes, but it isn't a real race, an actual racetrack. 196 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,560 -No, it is! -It is! 197 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,160 This is where the muscle car was born. 198 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,200 -I can't do it. -Why can't you do it? 199 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,880 Because Dodge only lent me that car 200 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,960 if I promised not to do any drag racing on the road with it. 201 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 What? That's what it's for! 202 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,040 -I know. -That's literally what it's for. 203 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,080 Yes, I know, but that's the way it is. Sorry.. 204 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:24,840 D'you think it's an insurance...? 205 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,840 -It is, because it's him. -No. It's not. 206 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,160 -Don't want it on the roof. -"Who's driving it?" Richard Hammond. 207 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,320 -You can't drive it. -It's just what they said and I'm really sorry. 208 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,840 -So, we can't do it, I'm sorry. -We can. 209 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,080 You're not gonna do it without that-- 210 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:38,760 Uh...let me think. Yeah, we are. 211 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,200 Just right... Just right the way, right the way off. 212 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,400 One for all and all for yourselves, that's how it goes, isn't it? 213 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:51,920 JEREMY: Having decided to make the doorway of a barber shop the finishing line, 214 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,360 James and I prepared for the race. 215 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,480 (ENGINE IDLING) 216 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,000 I'm only doing this to annoy Hammond. I mean, I can't possibly win. 217 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:02,080 Yes, I've got a supercharged V8, 218 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,480 but it only produces 720 horsepower. 219 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,880 That's 280 less than The Exorcist. 220 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,040 I don't wanna sound like you, but the launch control in this car 221 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,440 is so complicated there's a YouTube video about it. 222 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,480 And I have watched it, but I've forgotten. 223 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,960 Why don't we have a gentleman's agreement to not use launch control? 224 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,040 Well, that might save my clutch, so... 225 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,040 Yes, right. We won't use launch control. 226 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,920 -I've got a manual gearbox. RICHARD: You can both do it naked for all I care. 227 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,920 Just get on with it. 228 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,600 Oo-ooh, look at Captain Cheerful over there! 229 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,120 Air con is off. 230 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,200 (ENGINE REVVING) 231 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,400 (TYRES SQUEALING) 232 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,720 May got a good start. 233 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,560 Come on, come on, come on, come on, 234 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,600 there's only a one-car length in it! 235 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,120 Easy! 236 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,160 JEREMY: Bloody Nora, that was close! 237 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,240 But I got a terrible start, so we gotta do it again, May. 238 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:30,880 (RICHARD GROANS) 239 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,840 Put it in first gear. 240 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:37,920 (TYRES SQUEALING) 241 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,760 Whoa! 242 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,400 I can't do it. It's spinning its wheels. 243 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,960 Woo-hoo, hoo-hoo! 244 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,560 (SIREN BLARES IN DISTANCE) 245 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,240 You do know you're both too old for this, don't you? 246 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,520 JEREMY: What, for driving muscle cars up and down the public roads of Detroit? 247 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,600 Because nobody else is using them. 248 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,240 Well, Richard Hammond certainly isn't using them. 249 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,280 (LAUGHS) 250 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,120 Since it was one-all and we were having enormous fun annoying Hammond, 251 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:15,760 we decided to go again. 252 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,680 RICHARD: What is this, best of 30 now? 253 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,480 What else are we gonna do? 254 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,640 Keep going till one of you wets yourselves. 255 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,360 JEREMY: For the next 17 runs, 256 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,760 the result was always the same. 257 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,560 Thank you very much. 258 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,080 Come on! Come on! 259 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,920 Give up, buddy. 260 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,960 (GRUNTS) 261 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,520 I'm angry. 262 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,560 I'm not giving in, James. One more. 263 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,200 Oh, for God's sake! 264 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:53,560 I gave him my word I wouldn't use launch control. 265 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,360 I'm simply going to go back on that and not tell him. 266 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,760 (TYRES SCREECH) 267 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,320 That was a good gear change. So was that. 268 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:10,760 But there's just nothing I can do to get up with that 1,000 horsepower monster. 269 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,800 Finally, I waved the white flag. 270 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,080 And then we took a closer look 271 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:23,080 at the savage beating heart of The Exorcist. 272 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,160 And that's the standard Corvette engine, basically. 273 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,560 -Z06, yeah. -With a supercharger plonked on the top. 274 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,000 -That's there, yes? -Yes, 2.9 litre supercharger. 275 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,880 So the bit they've bolted to your engine 276 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,560 is bigger than most European engines? 277 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,040 -Yes. -So is the one on mine. It's 2.7 litres. 278 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,560 Yeah, not as big. The point is, Hammond, this is The Exorcist. 279 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,320 The job of The Exorcist is to vanquish the Demon. 280 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,800 It's like, you remember in the '60s, I think, 281 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,080 De Tomaso made a car called the Mangusta, 282 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,320 which is Italian for mongoose. 283 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,440 Yes, and a mongoose can kill a cobra, can't it? 284 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,920 -That's why they did it. -Yes, but this hasn't vanquished the Demon. 285 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:02,560 -It hasn't beaten it. -Tell you what. 286 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,040 Why don't you find a racetrack or a runway somewhere, OK? 287 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,640 I'll gracefully bow out. 288 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:12,400 And we can have a race between good...and evil. 289 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:24,880 First, though, we decided to find out which of our cars makes the loudest noise. 290 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,920 There were, of course, many possible locations 291 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,520 for this important test. 292 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,560 But eventually, we found one that was absolutely ideal. 293 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,160 RICHARD: What is this place? 294 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,160 Well, it obviously was a theatre. 295 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,960 They built it on the site 296 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,880 of Henry Ford's first ever workshop. 297 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,040 -And when I say theatre... -Oh, wow! 298 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,000 So it was in 1925 they built it, 299 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,960 when Detroit was just about the richest city in the world. 300 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,160 -You can see that. -They can just build that. 301 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,960 And then in the '70s, it was converted into a rock venue. 302 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,320 So, I mean, look at these tickets I've got for it. 303 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,320 RICHARD: ZZ Top. -ZZ Top and T Rex. 304 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,760 -What a gig that would've been! -It would've been fantastic. 305 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,440 Sly And The Family Stone, Spencer Davis. 306 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,280 Steve Winwood has performed in here. 307 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,040 David Bowie performed in here. 308 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,480 -Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Seger. -This was a serious venue. 309 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,160 Oh, serious venue. 310 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,680 And then, there were some credit card companies 311 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,720 in the offices which are behind that wall. 312 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,440 And they said, "We need some parking." 313 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,200 And just bought it and turned it into a multi-storey car park. 314 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,240 -That's amazing. -Takes the romance out of it. 315 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,080 It's sort of staggering. 316 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,520 It's the birthplace of Henry Ford's business. 317 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,560 RICHARD: Yeah. -Then a theatre. 318 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,560 It's a car park. 319 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,880 We can bring some theatre back with our noise test. 320 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,760 Actually, there's a kind of poetry to it, it's beautiful. 321 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,800 -Precisely. -Not just bringing the poetry, 322 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,800 also bringing the decibel-o-meter. 323 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,520 JEREMY: Oh, perfect. -So you can go and uh... go first. 324 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,520 Why am I going first? 325 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,800 -I just said you can go first. -He did. I heard him say it. 326 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,680 RICHARD: Since the owners feared the noise 327 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,040 from our engines would bring down the crumbling roof, 328 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,160 we were given protective clothing. 329 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,400 We have to put this on because there may be dust. 330 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:27,880 There will be dust. 331 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,280 Traction off. 332 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,320 I'll just make wheel spin. 333 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,240 Wheel spin, that just makes a huge amount of noise. 334 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,440 -Are you ready? -Yes. 335 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,280 (TYRES SCREECH) 336 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,560 Oh, yeah, check it out! 337 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,200 I can see jack shit. (LAUGHS) 338 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,880 (THEY BOTH COUGH) 339 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,880 -God, that's pretty horrible. -How loud? 340 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,960 -Well, at its peak... -Yeah? 341 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,760 125.2. 342 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,960 Well, wait a minute, you don't know, you haven't... 343 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 -You're the first to go. -125? 344 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,760 Yes. 345 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,080 The Who. 346 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,320 Widely regarded to be the loudest rock band of all time. 347 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,320 -Yes. -126 decibels. 348 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,080 Deep Purple, a mere 117 decibels. 349 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,520 That car is louder than Deep Purple. 350 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,320 But probably a lot quieter than my Demon. 351 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,400 Any minute now, a paramedic will be cutting his trousers off. 352 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,560 He should've taken them off before he got in. 353 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,640 I don't know why he wears trousers. 354 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Here we go. Ready in three, two... 355 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,240 (BLEEPING) 356 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,240 Oh, wait a minute, it hasn't done it. 357 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,280 (BLEEPING CONTINUES) 358 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,960 Easy mistake. 359 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,120 We've all done it - forgotten the key when you're doughnutting 360 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,320 in a Detroit theatre that's been turned into a multi-storey car park. 361 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:16,880 Everybody's been there. 362 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,080 OK. In three, two... 363 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,680 (ENGINE REVS, TYRES SCREECH) 364 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,680 (JEREMY CHUCKLES) 365 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,800 -125.2 to beat. -Yeah. 366 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,360 Doesn't make a lot of noise. 367 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 118.8, tiptoe boy. 368 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,000 It's got a 2.7 litre capacity supercharger on it! 369 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,680 Yeah, but, it doesn't make any noise. 370 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,880 They didn't build it for this, they built it for drag racing. 371 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,000 -And they wouldn't let me do that, so... -Oh, did they? 372 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,280 -How do we know? -Well, they did. 373 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,680 RICHARD: Before this sore point became even sorer, 374 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,720 I sent James off to have a go. 375 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,800 JEREMY: Don't think he's ever done a doughnut. 376 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,840 -No. No. -In his life. 377 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,240 We are about to witness James D May losing his virginity. 378 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,720 Popping his doughnut cherry. 379 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,520 (ENGINE ROARS) 380 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,520 JEREMY: James May, are you ready? 381 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,560 Fire it up in three... 382 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,200 (ENGINE REVS) 383 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,600 -(ENGINE STOPS) -Cock. 384 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,640 (RESTARTS ENGINE) 385 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,560 -(ENGINE STOPS) -Bollocks. 386 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,080 (LAUGHTER) 387 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:56,920 JEREMY: It took him a little while, but eventually he got the hang of it. 388 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,280 What's my score? 389 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,600 Why don't we just go? 390 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,040 -Come on, James, gotta go. -Yep, moving on. 391 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,080 -What was it? -Oh, I've wiped it. 392 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,360 -No, you haven't. -It was 12. 393 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,840 Come on... Why've I got this on my face? What was it? 394 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,680 It was 128, so just 2.8 more than me. 395 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,600 -So more? -Yes. 396 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:30,920 -Hold that. -Why? 397 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,440 Please just hold that. 398 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,400 Oh, I hate the victory dance! 399 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,840 -I hate the victory dance. -Good, right, let's move on. 400 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,800 How much is your car? How much? 401 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,840 -98, something like that? -£98,000. 402 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,560 -Yes. -£40,000. 403 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,480 Yeah, but mine's better, so it's more expensive. 404 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,520 -£40,000. -It's faster and louder. 405 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,680 720 horsepower, £40,000. 406 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,880 Am I the only person here who understands muscle cars? 407 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,120 That's a ridiculous thing to say! 408 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,320 JEREMY: Having had a very busy morning, 409 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,960 we were now hungry. 410 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Which, in this part of town, was a problem. 411 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,280 Not an abundance of restaurants around here, is there? 412 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,400 RICHARD: I haven't seen any. 413 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,160 JAMES: I just noticed a Coney Island Restaurant 414 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,880 but I'm afraid it's been shut for 30 years. 415 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,080 JEREMY: Having failed to find even a takeout, 416 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,480 we started to look for a hotel. 417 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,120 But there wasn't one of those either. 418 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,760 So we decided to buy a house. 419 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,000 Let me show you what we've got. 420 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,480 Handsome vestibule, feature tiled floor, front room here, 421 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,360 feature fireplace, loads of light from all these windows. 422 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,360 This, I would say, use as a dining room because it's adjacent to the kitchen. 423 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,840 Needs the appliances refitting, not a big job. 424 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,560 In there, I would say that's a really handy games room, 425 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,080 TV room, overlooking the garden and the double garage. 426 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:02,520 Here, perfect for a home office, maybe a snug. 427 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,800 Upstairs four bedrooms, and here's the kicker. 428 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,560 An independent granny flat with its own kitchen, 429 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,440 so Jeremy can live up there semi-independently for as long as he can manage. 430 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,080 And the price? $2,200. 431 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,600 Is that really only... What was it, $2,200? 432 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,000 -Yeah. -1800 quid. 433 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,200 Amazing, isn't it? 434 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,160 Shall I show you something else amazing? 435 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,280 Captain Slow has fallen for this eco-allotment claptrap. 436 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,840 I haven't fallen for it, and it's not claptrap, it's just a vegetable plot. 437 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,040 -It's only a bit. -Buy food, don't grow it. 438 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,360 -Why not? -That's a farmer's job. 439 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,800 Turning a city into a vegetable garden is ridiculous. 440 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,080 No, who's turned a city into a vegetable garden? 441 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,040 That's what they want to do and you're encouraging them. 442 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,080 Detroit should be for petrolheads. 443 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,720 It should be for massive V8s like our cars. 444 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,440 JAMES: It's a great idea by a city that's having a bad time 445 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,720 and trying to use its initiative. What's wrong with it? 446 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,320 It's not as if there's any vegetables in the shops. 447 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,040 -New is better. -I am not listening to any more of this. 448 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,160 I am going to go off. I'm gonna find a shop. 449 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,720 I'm gonna come back with burgers. 450 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,920 Well, you can have some curly kale in them. 451 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,440 Bloody allotment! 452 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,400 (CAR ENGINE STARTS) 453 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,480 Just because he's become a vegetarian 454 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,880 doesn't mean that absolutely everybody has to be one. 455 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,000 -Don't be a moron! -Well, I can't get out, he's parked in the way. 456 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,040 (ENGINE REVVING) 457 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,920 Well, on that terrible disappointment, back to the tent. 458 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,960 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 459 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,720 You asked for it. You asked for it. 460 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,280 We never got the burgers either. 461 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,600 No, we didn't. 462 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,200 We uh... 463 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,480 We shall pick that up later on. 464 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,240 But now it is time to drop the car keys of chat 465 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,360 down the drain of debate... 466 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,680 on Conversation Street. 467 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,720 (MELLOW JAZZ) 468 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,960 (LAUGHTER) 469 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,200 That's a little weird. 470 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,840 -How'd you do that? -Don't know. Can't remember. 471 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:11,640 Can I just begin by saying that I think the very concept of incongruity 472 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,200 was defined in that film in Detroit by James May, 473 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,680 the slowest moving man in history, 474 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,560 driving around in a car called The Exorcist. 475 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,400 Yeah, it just doesn't work. "James May is The Exorcist." 476 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,040 No, I mean, if he's gonna have a car, it should be called The Florist. 477 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,080 -(LAUGHTER) -Or The Organist. 478 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,880 -Simple change to that, The Onanist. -Nice. 479 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,760 -I think The Onanist would work well. -Have you quite finished? 480 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,840 -Uh...yeah. -Good, actually I'd like to talk about Motor City. 481 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,000 More specifically, what's happening to it. 482 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,520 I'll tell you what's happening to it. 483 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,680 It is being slowly ruined by vegetable-ists. 484 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,280 -Oh, God. -It is! 485 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,280 There are two million acres of land in Detroit, OK? 486 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,680 Would anybody like to guess how many acres have been given over to allotments? 487 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,600 MAN: Six. -(RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER) 488 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,800 -1,000. -No, it's three. 489 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,360 Three acres. 490 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600 -And he's driven over two of them. -Exactly. 491 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,080 Yes, and rightly so. It's like cancer. 492 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,120 -It's not like cancer! -It is! 493 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,240 If you said, "I've got two billion cells in my body 494 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,000 and only three are cancerous so I shall do nothing..." 495 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,760 You don't, you cut them out. 496 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,360 Yeah, but cancer is a serious threat to your health. 497 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,400 Well, so are vegetables. They are. 498 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,440 You do know you're mad? 499 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,320 No, I'll tell you what I'm mad about. 500 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,200 I'm mad as hell about Detroit. 501 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,840 Because in 1960, that was the richest city in America. 502 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,400 The richest. And now it is the poorest. 503 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,400 And no other city anywhere in the world has collapsed that quickly. 504 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,840 What about Hiroshima? 505 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,360 (LAUGHTER) 506 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:42,760 Apart from Hiroshima. 507 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,560 Pompeii. 508 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,640 Yes, apart from Hiroshima and Pompeii, 509 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,800 no city has collapsed as fast as Detroit has. 510 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,840 -It's unbelievable. -Incredible the scale of it. 511 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,160 There used to be 43 car factories in Detroit. 512 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,840 43. 513 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,880 Now two. Just two. 514 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,800 I actually think it's because America won the war, weirdly. 515 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,720 -Vietnam. -Really? 516 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,040 No, I was lying. They lost that one. 517 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,960 Not in all the films, they didn't. 518 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,560 They won in the films but when you add up all the battles they won, 519 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,600 -weirdly they lost the war. -Did they? 520 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,720 No, I'm actually talking about World War II. 521 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,600 At the end of that, Japan had lost its empire, so it lost all its resources. 522 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,280 So they were forced to make compact, economical, efficient cars. 523 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,520 And then the oil crisis hit in 1973, 524 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,280 and the Americans, with their big V8s, 525 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,280 were forced to buy small, compact, economical cars from Japan. 526 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,600 And then realised they were better. 527 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,960 No, I think it's because American cars are too cheap. 528 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,200 -Too cheap? -It's a business thing. That's the problem. 529 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:43,000 Sorry, everyone, I fear we are about to get an economic lecture from... 530 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,480 -...Chancellor Hammond here. -(LAUGHTER) 531 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,320 -Well, no. -The other Chancellor Hammond. 532 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,680 No, you are... Now concentrate, let me put this into context for you. 533 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,280 A lot of supercars have arrived on the scene recently. 534 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,280 I've got pictures of them. This is the McLaren Speedtail, 535 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,320 that's 1,000 horsepower. 536 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,160 Costs £2.1 million. 537 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,960 -And its wheels are odd. -They are. They don't match. 538 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,240 This is the Aston Martin Valkyrie, that's 1,000 horsepower again. 539 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,000 £2.5 million. 540 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,640 This one, that's the Ferrari FXX-K Evo, 541 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,720 1,000 horsepower, £3.5 million. 542 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,760 Best looking Ferrari of all time, that. 543 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,640 -It does look amazing, yeah, -It is absolutely staggering. 544 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,080 However, they've all got 1,000 horsepower, 545 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,480 which means they will all be undriveable. 546 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,120 Yeah, whereas my Exorcist has 1,000 horsepower 547 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,360 and is undriveable for under £100,000. 548 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,120 Yes, and that's... that's exactly my economic point. 549 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,760 They're selling them too cheap. 550 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,560 They're just giving it away. 551 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,080 If American carmakers doubled the price of the cars that they sell, 552 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,920 bear with me, they would double the money that they make. 553 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,880 It's not that complicated when you think about it. 554 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,600 If you follow the logic. 555 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,560 I've said before, the wrong Hammond is in charge of Britain's-- 556 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,600 Yeah. It is incredible. 557 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,200 You've got a supply and demand graph. 558 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,000 If you take away the demand axis, 559 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,680 life becomes much easier when it's all just supply. 560 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,240 Precisely. The Hellcat that I was driving 561 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,200 was priced at £67,000. 562 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,400 -Yeah. -People are now selling them, 563 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,440 that same car, second-hand for £120,000. 564 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,640 And one bloke has advertised one for half a million. 565 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,840 So that means they were too cheap and I'm right. 566 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,040 -It is hard to argue with that. -Unassailable. 567 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,160 And we don't have time, so let's move it on. 568 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,840 Because you may remember in the very first show 569 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,680 of The Grand Tour in the first season... 570 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,840 I was blown away by a McLaren P1. 571 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,320 Yeah, I do remember. You said it would be faster 572 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,880 than the Porsche 918 and the Ferrari LaFerrari. 573 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,800 -Mm-hm. -And, no, wait a minute, it wasn't, was it? 574 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,080 And as a result, the only thing that got blown away was your house. 575 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,600 -That's undoubtedly true. -Yeah. 576 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,520 But the thing is, it remains to this day the most exciting, 577 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,360 most brutal, most visceral car I've ever driven. 578 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,680 And I didn't think it could ever be topped, 579 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,480 but McLaren have given it a bash. 580 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,240 And I thought, "Well, if they've built a car that can out-P1 a P1, 581 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,200 I'd better test it somewhere a bit less... 582 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,680 narrow and a bit less tree-lined 583 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,600 and a bit less covered in deers and badgers than the Eboladrome. 584 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,800 (LAUGHTER) 585 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,080 So I took it to the fastest racetrack in Europe, 586 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,240 which is... Actually, anyone wanna guess which it is? 587 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,160 MAN: Monza? -No, not Monza. 588 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,720 -Spa. -Not Spa. 589 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:22,920 -Do you know? -What? 590 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,960 -Do you know? -(LAUGHTER) 591 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,160 Of course I know! 592 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,680 -You know? That's unusual. -Why is it unusual? 593 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,560 You didn't know any of the answers on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, did you? 594 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,480 I mean... 595 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,520 I'm just saying. 596 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,680 You didn't. 597 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,240 No. But, no. 598 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,760 No. 599 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,840 They didn't ask me any of the questions I knew the answers to. 600 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,080 -That's what it was. -No, but it's not called 601 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,680 Who Wants To Know Things Jeremy Happens To Know, is it? 602 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,840 -It's Thruxton. -What is? 603 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,880 Thruxton is the fastest racetrack in Europe. 604 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,600 So that's where I took the new McLaren. 605 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,000 NASA ARCHIVE: Engine's beginning throttling down now. 606 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,480 (indistinct radio chatter) 607 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,520 And lift-off. 608 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,840 ..clear of the tower. 609 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,320 Go with throttle up. 610 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,120 JEREMY: This is the car in question. 611 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,960 And let's begin by giving you some of the headlines. 612 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,640 There's no hybrid drive, like there was in the P1. 613 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,080 But even so, the 4 litre, twin turbocharged V8... 614 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,920 ...produces 789 horsepower. 615 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,160 And that means it's still pretty fast. 616 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,920 OK, right. 617 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,600 Left foot on brake. 618 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,280 (ENGINE REVVING) 619 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,560 Push launch. 620 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,280 Full throttle. 621 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,640 Boost building, boost ready, we're gone. 622 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,760 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. 623 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,520 That's 120...150. 624 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,880 Jesus H Christ! 625 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,880 It'll actually do 186 in 18 seconds, 626 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,960 and flat out is 208. 627 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,280 And that's really alarming. 628 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,480 I'm gonna be sick. Ohh! 629 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,000 Whoa! 630 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,760 The thing is, though, that lots of supercars are as fast as the McLaren these days. 631 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,360 Some are even more powerful, 632 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,160 and even more dramatic to behold. 633 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 But this is called the Senna. 634 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,760 It's named after Ayrton Senna, 635 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,400 and Ayrton was not a man who spent his evenings 636 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,160 cruising around Harrods at nine miles an hour. 637 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,320 And nor was he a man who spent much time at drag strips, 638 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,360 doing the standing quarter. 639 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,680 No. 640 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,440 Ayrton was a man who made his name at places like this. 641 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,640 Racetracks. 642 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,600 This is what the Senna was built to do: 643 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,160 get round any track, anywhere, 644 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,360 faster than any other road car ever made. 645 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,440 To do this, they had to make it light. 646 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,400 And they have. The doors, for example. 647 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,880 Even though they have windows in them here, 648 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:50,000 so passers-by can see the driver's trousers, 649 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,160 they only weigh nine kilograms 650 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,160 and that's less than one of Kate Moss's arms. 651 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,840 And then there's the seats. 652 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,880 They only weigh eight kilograms. 653 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:01,920 I've eaten puddings that weigh more than that! 654 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,760 NASA: Go with throttle up. 655 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,440 JEREMY: Having got the weight out, 656 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,760 the Senna's nearly a quarter of a ton lighter than the P1. 657 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,840 They had to think about grip. 658 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,320 They started with a new type of Pirelli tyre 659 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,560 that clings on like a panicky child on a fairground ride. 660 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,280 And then there's this moving rear wing, 661 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,640 which is somehow road legal. 662 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,840 It actually hangs from these pylons, 663 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,880 rather than sits on top of them, 664 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,360 because that improves downforce. 665 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,280 I asked James May to explain why, 666 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,040 but I'm afraid, after three hours, I went into a deep sleep. 667 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,520 The next most import thing when it comes to lap times 668 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,080 is how well it slows down. 669 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,840 I was once in a 24-hour race at Silverstone, 670 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,560 driving a terrible old diesel BMW 671 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:05,640 and yet I could keep up with a supercharged Jaguar XKR 672 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,440 because I had better brakes. 673 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,960 I'd look at him getting to the end of the Hangar Straight, 674 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,200 thinking, "Why are you braking now, you idiot? You don't need to." 675 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,160 And that is this car's party piece. 676 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,360 To show you how well this car stops, 677 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,400 I've organised a little test. 678 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,760 Right, I'm currently driving alongside a Jaguar F Type... 679 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:35,440 ...at 100 miles an hour. 680 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,080 When we get to that cone down there... 681 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,160 ...we're both going to brake. 682 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,600 Ready? 683 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,520 (TYRES SCREECHING) 684 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,480 (CHUCKLES) 685 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,880 How can you stop from 100 miles an hour to nothing in that distance? 686 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,040 So, it stops like it's run into a wall... 687 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,040 ...it's pressed into the road by witchcraft... 688 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,880 ...it weighs the same as a bag of whippets... 689 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,880 ...and it has nearly 800 horsepower on tap. 690 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,440 Put all that together and...um, well... 691 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,760 Oh, my giddy aunt! (LAUGHS) 692 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,440 It doesn't have the savagery of the P1. 693 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,000 The P1 was so scary, 694 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,160 it took me two months to get used to it, 695 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,160 to discover its little foibles. 696 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,920 This, though, even though I'm now in hunkered-down, 697 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,080 tightened-up, vicious race mode, 698 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,120 with the traction control wound right back, 699 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,360 I'm not frightened at all. 700 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,480 I'm starting to push the envelope after 20 minutes. 701 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,520 (ENGINE REVVING) 702 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,760 But you see, through there, the P1 would have understeered. 703 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,160 This just doesn't because 704 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,480 there's no weight to push it out of line. 705 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,480 It's like you're driving using nothing but telepathy. 706 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,120 (TYRES SCREECH) 707 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,760 And I'm loving it! (LAUGHS) 708 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,120 In the past, I've described various Ferraris 709 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,800 as feeling beautifully delicate. 710 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,320 But compared to this, they're like elephants! 711 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:07,880 Criticisms? 712 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,200 Not many, I mean, the usual McLaren stuff. 713 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,600 When you try to change it from comfort to track to sport to race, 714 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,120 it's all far too complicated. 715 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:22,120 And I know they saved 15 kilograms not fitting air conditioning, 716 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,960 but on a hot day like today, it's quite sweaty. 717 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000 But who cares? 718 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,480 Honestly, this thing is rewriting the supercar rule book, in my mind. 719 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,200 -(CHEERING) -Unbelievable car, that. 720 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,480 I'm actually proud to be British with that. 721 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,880 What? 722 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,280 -Yes, definitely. -What? 723 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,440 Well, just...while the film was on we've just been online and checked. 724 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,200 Thruxton is not the fastest track in Europe. 725 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,120 -What? -It's not. 726 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,000 -Why isn't it? -Well, it isn't the fastest track. 727 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,840 Well, it's the fastest racetrack in Wiltshire. 728 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,880 -It's in Hampshire. -You don't even know-- 729 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,520 -It's in Hampshire. You don't know where it is. -You don't even know that! 730 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,920 They described themselves as the fastest track in the South of England. 731 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,160 -Not Europe. -After Brexit it'll be the fastest in Europe. 732 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,200 Anyway, whatever, back to your film. 733 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,680 You said "rewriting the supercar rule book". 734 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,600 Those are big words. 735 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,040 Yeah, and they're correct. 736 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,760 -Are they? -No, they are. No, for once, I am actually... 737 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,760 First time this show I'm right. 738 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,320 Because that car... You remember the Lamborghini Huracán Performante? 739 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,880 -I loved that car. -OK, that blitzed our track. 740 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,640 Absolutely blitzed it, fastest road car ever round there. 741 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,880 I can guarantee the Senna will be quicker. 742 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,440 -Guaran-- -Here we go again. Good. 743 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,160 I promise it will be. 744 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,400 I promise. 745 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,600 If it isn't, can we blow up your house? 746 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,000 (LAUGHTER) 747 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,800 I haven't finished building it yet. 748 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,080 Well, when you've finished building it, can we blow it up? 749 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,040 Yes. 750 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,600 No, I am so confident the Senna will be faster, 751 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,520 that if it isn't, when I've finished building my house, you can blow it up again. 752 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,960 You do know that we will? We will do that. 753 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,160 -We will do that. -We will. 754 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,920 We'll wait till you're in. 755 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,160 Let's play the tape, come on. Let's have a look. 756 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,600 There's Abby, and she's off, 757 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,280 flying away from the line like a stabbed rat. 758 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,320 And coming onto the Isn't Straight. 759 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,720 Already carrying some serious speed. 760 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,600 Looking busy at the wheel on the bumpy surface of our track, 761 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,680 but those hydraulically interconnected dampers are doing their job 762 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,320 of keeping it all tied down. 763 00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,080 Oh, that is flying! 764 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,840 She's already dropping down into Your Name Here. 765 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,000 (TYRES SQUEAL) 766 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,840 Some squeal from the Pirelli P Zero Trofeos 767 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,480 as she carves round there and then it's back on the gas 768 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,640 to unleash that mighty twin turbo V8 769 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,560 for the return run down to the Isn't. 770 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,040 I am feeling confident here! 771 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,840 Right, now hard on those incredible carbon ceramic brakes 772 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,320 for the tight, and technical, Old Lady's House. 773 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,320 No excess weight to drag the nose wide. 774 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,200 And now, on the fast run to Substation, 775 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:33,680 riding the ruts and lumps with ease. 776 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,720 Two corners left. 777 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,080 More tyre squeal through there, 778 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,120 rear wing doing its thing. 779 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,880 And now a bit of oversteer and across the line. 780 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:44,600 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 781 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,320 Looks good, it does look good. 782 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,480 But... 783 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,320 Got everything we need to blow it up? 784 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,120 There it is, there's the Huracán Performante. 785 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,040 1.16.8. 786 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,160 And I have guaranteed it'll be faster 787 00:44:58,200 --> 00:44:59,560 or you'll blow my house up. 788 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,200 And you're doing well on facts this week, so far, aren't you? 789 00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:04,040 How are you feeling? 790 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,840 -Totally relaxed. -Are you really? 791 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,480 -(MOUTHS) -(LAUGHTER) 792 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,160 Thing is, we haven't got far to go to blow it up, have we? 793 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,440 It's just gonna be over there. 794 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,360 Come on, let's see how fast it was. 795 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:17,720 RICHARD: Oh, oh... 796 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,760 (AUDIENCE CHEERS) 797 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,280 -Damn! -1:12! 798 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,640 JAMES: That is serious. 799 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,880 That's four seconds quicker. 800 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,640 That's quicker than the Vulcan, and the Vulcan isn't even road legal. 801 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,920 That's absolutely amazing. 802 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,000 That is astonishing and we can add it to the list of things that you know. 803 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,240 (LAUGHTER) 804 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,960 -Anyway, we must now get back to our film. -Yes. 805 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,080 Earlier on, we decided that Detroit should be 806 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,840 a big sort of petrolhead theme park, 807 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,280 so we went over there with three tuned muscle cars. 808 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,240 So far we've staged a drag race, done some doughnuts 809 00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,760 and Jeremy has driven over some vegetables. 810 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,960 And then the next day, we decided that what Detroit really needs is a racetrack. 811 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,360 Yeah, even though it already has two. 812 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,400 Yes, but we wanted something more earthy. 813 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,920 So we headed for the city centre. 814 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,160 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 815 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,360 As we headed for the downtown area, 816 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,680 I decided to do a bit of muscle car housekeeping. 817 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,680 Can I just ask everybody what your average fuel consumption 818 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:45,680 has been since we got to Detroit? 819 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:49,600 Overall, over the whole trip, eight mpg. 820 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,280 Yeah, mine is a healthy 3.9 miles per gallon. 821 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,640 You're joking? 3.9? 822 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,200 Yes, siree Bob. 823 00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:02,800 13 mpg from the Mustang. 824 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,240 Is it a hybrid? 825 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,480 (LAUGHS) 826 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,480 If it had been a hybrid, it would have fitted in very well 827 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,160 with what the centre of Detroit has become these days. 828 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,440 Florist...cafés... 829 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,040 Oh, for heaven's sake, Urban Ramen! 830 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,080 No, no, no, no! 831 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,720 In 1997, in downtown Detroit, 832 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,920 someone put a gun against my head. 833 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:42,640 Now it's just all hipsters with dogs and bicycles. 834 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,800 If you want to start a tech business, bugger off to San Francisco. 835 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:51,800 Oh, for God's sake, have you seen this little urban garden? 836 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,360 Oh, no. 837 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,840 Why has he got such a problem with gardens? 838 00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,080 Look down there, it's just all greenhouses 839 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,840 full of little artisan...soaps. 840 00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,320 There's a Tesla! 841 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,760 There's a bloody Tesla in Detroit! 842 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,440 If only the world were full of people like Jeremy Clarkson. 843 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,240 Then we could have slavery and witch burning. 844 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,600 JEREMY: Right, well, we've established one thing. 845 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,880 The centre of Detroit... that ain't a racetrack, 846 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,920 that's a wholefood market. 847 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,600 We need to get out of here, this is the enemy. 848 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,400 Having returned to the rundown suburbs, 849 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,520 we eventually found the perfect place to build a racetrack: 850 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,880 Cadillac's old Conner Avenue Factory. 851 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,480 For over 60 years, they stamped out the body panels here 852 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,600 for icons, like the Eldorado, the Fleetwood, 853 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,640 and the Coupe de Ville. 854 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,240 If it were up to James, this creaking monument 855 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,440 to the Motor City's decline would be turned into a shrubbery. 856 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,080 But it wasn't up to James. 857 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,840 So it would become a Monte Carlo-style tunnel feature 858 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,560 on our Detroit-themed racetrack. 859 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,760 Right, so what I thought we'd do is 860 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,440 we'd name all of the corners and all of the straights 861 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,840 after various musicians who are from Detroit. 862 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:30,960 So, for example, put that there, and then this would be Alice Cooper Corner. 863 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,160 -Yeah, nice touch. -And I've got all the faces. 864 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,240 I've got Glenn Frey from the Eagles, Jack White, Madonna, 865 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,040 Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent. 866 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,560 What's that stick for? 867 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,720 Oh, that's um... that's Iggy pop. 868 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,040 -Oh, yeah, it's like he's here. -Yeah, exactly. 869 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,080 Then as we go into the back section over there, 870 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,600 you've got Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Diana Ross, 871 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,320 Sonny Bono, Martha Reeves, 872 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,720 Anthony Kiedis, Smokey Robinson. 873 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,520 You look in the book and you just go... 874 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,680 "They can't all be from Detroit!" 875 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:02,600 Did you know Madonna was from Detroit? 876 00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,160 No. 877 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,160 Because building the track involved heavy machinery 878 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,040 and manual labour, 879 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,560 Hammond insisted on doing everything himself. 880 00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,600 That is gonna be a fast corner. 881 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,640 (BLEEPING) 882 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,040 Despite this, though, he soon had everything ready. 883 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,880 Sadly, though, he had got a bit confused about 884 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,360 naming the corners after local musicians. 885 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,680 -What? -Why have you... Why have you got The Edge? 886 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:51,040 Well, you said there was Sonny Bono. 887 00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,080 Yes, Hammond, Sonny Bono 888 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,400 and The Edge from the famous Detroit rock band U2. 889 00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,080 Exactly. 890 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,000 Because the track had been built by the world's most accident-prone driver, 891 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,840 we thought it best that the God-fearing Exorcist 892 00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,520 should christen it. 893 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,120 (ENGINE REVVING) 894 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:21,040 So bumpy! 895 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:25,640 What the hell is this? 896 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,560 What's that, some sort of chicane he's put in there? 897 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,600 Whoa, slippery, that's slippery as hell! 898 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,560 What? That... That's unbelievably narrow! 899 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,600 What's he thinking of? 900 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,040 Oh, hello. 901 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,320 Here he comes. 902 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:06,640 After his run, James couldn't wait to give Hammond some constructive feedback. 903 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,040 I just wanna say, Hammond, you witless dishcloth! 904 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,600 That is the worst racetrack I've ever been round. 905 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,320 It's slippery, it's full of holes, it's full of obstacles for you to crash into. 906 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,360 -It's narrow. -It's challenging, isn't it? Technical. 907 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,280 It's not challenging. It's only about that much bigger than the car 908 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:22,840 and it's made of butter. 909 00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,640 And...it appears to be full of asbestos waste. 910 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,360 Oh, it is full of asbestos. 911 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,200 -Sorry about that. -Well, thank you! 912 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:31,680 Close your window. 913 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,680 JEREMY: All of us then set about our practice laps, 914 00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:43,560 on Hammond's death trap. 915 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,440 Thin bit! Oh, God! 916 00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,480 (TYRES SCREECH) 917 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,080 I can't see a bloody thing. 918 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,360 My own car doesn't fit round my own racetrack! 919 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,680 What have I done? 920 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,360 JEREMY: Despite the peril, though, 921 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:02,840 we gave it everything. 922 00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,680 And by the end of the session, 923 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:12,880 there was nothing in it between The Demon and the Exorcist. 924 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,240 The Mustang, though, that was in a league of its own. 925 00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:23,720 (TYRES SCREECH) 926 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,960 ♪ I'm not gonna take it any more ♪ 927 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,400 56.4. 928 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:36,840 Yes, you're fastest. 929 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:37,960 Well, of course it's the fastest, 930 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,760 it's a muscle car that handles. 931 00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,880 However, these were just unofficial practice laps. 932 00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,240 Now it was time for the one-shot, 933 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,760 winner-takes-all real thing. 934 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,400 In three, two, one... 935 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,680 -Begin! -(ENGINE REVS) 936 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,280 Brakes for that bit. Bit of downshift. 937 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:20,960 Massive bump. 938 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,680 Oh, God! 939 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:28,920 Hammond. 940 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,760 Slippery. 941 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,640 JEREMY: And here he is. Here he comes. 942 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,200 -I've pooed myself. -Funny noise. 943 00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,720 JAMES: However, the trouser accident had clearly been worth it. 944 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,000 You've just broken your own record. 945 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,080 -That's remarkable cos-- -59.66. 946 00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,680 -Really? -Yeah. 947 00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:00,720 I'm happy with that and I haven't hit any famous musicians 948 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,600 or bits of old car factory. 949 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,640 JEREMY: Next it was the turn of Corporal Crash. 950 00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:11,800 Where's the fire engine gone? 951 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,120 Fire engine's over there, ambulance is... 952 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,080 Oh, we're all comedians today. 953 00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,760 Remember, if you lose to James May... 954 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,160 It's more humiliating, It's worse than death. 955 00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,760 In three, two, one, go. 956 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,360 Looking for grip. 957 00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,320 Turn in neat, crisp by The Edge. Whoa! 958 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,360 (TYRES SCREECH) 959 00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,040 Oh, he's gone over The Edge! 960 00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,360 -Again. -(LAUGHTER) 961 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,720 Oh-oh. 962 00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,800 -Hammond's lap's going well. -Yeah, isn't it? 963 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,200 (SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE) 964 00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:50,320 So which corner is that he's gone off on? 965 00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,520 I mean, obviously it is him. 966 00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,400 Amazingly, it wasn't. 967 00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,600 Is that Madonna? That's Madonna. I dunno. 968 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,400 Now we're in the open. 969 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:13,320 Oh, Christ! 970 00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:17,920 Yes, no, Beelzebub's got a bit of understeer there. 971 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,480 That felt good. It felt like a quick one. 972 00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,480 Ah, I don't know how to put this to you but... 973 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,520 (GUFFAWS) 974 00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:36,440 -No, no, no, no, no. -Yeah, yeah. 975 00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,400 Point four of a second slower than James May! 976 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:42,960 This is what death feels like. 977 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,560 OK, get out of the Demon, 978 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,320 we've done the Demon and The Exorcist. 979 00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,360 It's time for the Blue Nun. 980 00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:50,880 -Blue Nun? -Yeah. 981 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:52,920 (ANGELIC SINGING) 982 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,200 JEREMY: Totally pointless waste of time this. 983 00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:03,200 We've established the Mustang is the fastest by an enormous margin. 984 00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:06,400 Um...I'd better go and do it, I suppose. 985 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,280 RICHARD: Jeremy smug in My Little Pony. Are you ready? 986 00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,800 In three, two, one, begin! 987 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:24,080 Ohh, yes! 988 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,200 This is a properly sorted track car. 989 00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,560 That's what we're looking at here. 990 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,560 JAMES: Properly sorted it may be. 991 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,080 But I had a plan that would spoil its afternoon. 992 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,600 -You're running! -I know, but you'll see. 993 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,640 Gotta get down to this corner before he gets back. 994 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,160 Help me tip this over. 995 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,200 -What is it? -It's organic palm oil. 996 00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:47,720 Very slippery. 997 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,640 It's the revenge of the urban farmer. 998 00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,280 Into the blind bend. There is Stevie Wonder. 999 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,360 You do know it's palm oil that's ruining life for the world's orangutans? 1000 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,160 Only this one. 1001 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,720 JEREMY: Come on, come on. 1002 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,280 Short shifting into third. 1003 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,720 -Ohhh! -(JAMES LAUGHS) 1004 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,600 And on that terrible disappointment... 1005 00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,640 -For him. -It's back to the tent. 1006 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,840 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1007 00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:26,760 -You! -What? 1008 00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,800 -I thought it had been you. -Oh, no. 1009 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,520 You ruined my lap. 1010 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,720 You said Detroit had to be a playground 1011 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,520 and that's what I was doing, I was playing. 1012 00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,200 Listen, can my practice time stand? 1013 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,880 Cos that was still the quickest. 1014 00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,040 That's not how it works. 1015 00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,320 You can't just say that because you were the quickest in qualifying, 1016 00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:47,600 you would have won the race if you hadn't crashed. 1017 00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,760 -Well, I can say it. -You can say it. 1018 00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:51,160 I could say I'm the captain of the English cricket team. 1019 00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,480 I wouldn't be any good at it. 1020 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,360 (LAUGHTER) 1021 00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,840 Ah, well, moving on. 1022 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:00,920 I know where he was going with that. 1023 00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,960 Anyway, look, in part one of that film, 1024 00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,880 we said that we would have a race between the Demon and The Exorcist, 1025 00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:09,480 a drag race, yeah? 1026 00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,520 And then it never happened. 1027 00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,440 Except it did. 1028 00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:18,080 Yeah. You see, Dodge said we couldn't drag race it on the street. 1029 00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,840 But they didn't say anything about airfields. 1030 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,680 So after we'd finished at our track, we found one of those. 1031 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,960 I bowed out of this, like I said, cos the Mustang 1032 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,560 in a drag racing environment's never gonna win. 1033 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:33,280 It became a two-horse race between Sir Crashalot and the Onanist, OK? 1034 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,240 -(RICHARD LAUGHS) -But we have a problem. 1035 00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,640 See, we only have time left in the show, realistically, for one more thing. 1036 00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,520 We've got the guest segment. This week I should tell you, 1037 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,880 it's between Howard from the Halifax adverts... 1038 00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,120 ...and Adrian Chiles, 1039 00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,880 to find the fastest person you don't really hear from much any more. 1040 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000 We'll have a vote, I think. 1041 00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:02,240 Who here would like to see the celebrity segment? 1042 01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,520 (LAUGHTER) 1043 01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:08,640 There's one over there. 1044 01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,320 And who'd like to see the drag race? 1045 01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:12,120 (CHEERING) 1046 01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,800 -Does that mean they're not coming on? -Very much so, James. 1047 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,160 So here it is, then, the race between good and evil. 1048 01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,400 Right, here we go, viewers. 1049 01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:39,520 It's either salvation or a world plunged into eternal darkness. 1050 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:49,680 OK, this is it: the race between good and evil. 1051 01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:51,440 Are we ready, gentlemen? 1052 01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:53,480 -We ready? -No. 1053 01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,440 What's happening? 1054 01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,600 I've got a couple of things to do before we start. 1055 01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,480 Are you saying you can't just drag race this now? 1056 01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,720 Well, you've gotta do it properly, this is a proper drag racing car! 1057 01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,280 What is he doing? 1058 01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,400 This is what you get when you buy a Demon. 1059 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,000 Costs you an extra dollar and you get this crate. 1060 01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,200 Oh-ho-ho! 1061 01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:17,880 It's like a picnic hamper for men. 1062 01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,920 Then, underneath, and to either side, 1063 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,600 I've got boxes with the new EC - I've everything I need. 1064 01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,280 -ECU? -Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1065 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,320 -(GRUNTS) -Look at that! 1066 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,000 (ELECTRIC MOTOR WHIRS) 1067 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:36,880 He's got this enormous crate and some bags 1068 01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,320 and tins...full of tools, 1069 01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,000 with two space savers and... 1070 01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,480 Space saver wheels? 1071 01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:45,920 Hang on. 1072 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,400 Why are you putting space savers on it? 1073 01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,440 They're drag racing tyres, they're lighter. 1074 01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:53,760 I don't need grip at the front, just got to steer. 1075 01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,360 JAMES: What else does he have to do, apart from change the wheels? 1076 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,120 Um...he's got a new ECU to fit. 1077 01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:01,480 -Are you serious? -Yes. 1078 01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,920 So it's not really a drag racing car at all? 1079 01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:07,360 It will be once he's completely rebuilt it. 1080 01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:10,840 (DRILL WHIRS) 1081 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,680 This is an old-fashioned view of television but I think we've lost the moment. 1082 01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:19,080 I think I agree with you. This was gonna be the big end of the show, 1083 01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:20,480 good versus evil. 1084 01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,480 I could have walked to the end by now. 1085 01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,440 I've gotta take back tyre pressures down to 20 psi. 1086 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,920 Nice fat, squishy contact patch. 1087 01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,960 (AIR PUMP HISSING) 1088 01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,640 Exactly 25 minutes so far it's taken him to do his quarter-mile run. 1089 01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:44,480 Oh, so, this is where it breathes through its eye. 1090 01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,080 Look at that! That goes at the back of its eye. 1091 01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:50,720 So... 1092 01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:52,920 Hammond, that is a significant component. What is it? 1093 01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,920 -Air filter. -Does it not have an air filter? 1094 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:59,080 Yeah, but this is a performance one. It's gonna gulp through air. 1095 01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,640 -Right, so that's it, good. -Now I've gotta do the ECU. 1096 01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:11,240 Which goes in here, I believe. I'll have to take that out. 1097 01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:15,600 So he's now got a different ECU just telling the engine to be powerful. 1098 01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,280 Right, why didn't they just put that in from the start? 1099 01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:21,440 That's good to go. 1100 01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,760 JEREMY: Sadly, though, it wasn't. 1101 01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:28,440 He's now refuelling his car with a special... How many octane? 1102 01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:31,840 It's ethanol and gasoline mixture...um...104. 1103 01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:35,520 JEREMY: After the refuelling, we hoped he was done. 1104 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:38,480 But, no. 1105 01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:39,920 Right, hang on a minute. I've got to put it 1106 01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:41,920 in neutral to get that in the middle. 1107 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,000 Hammond, you're taking the whole dashboard off. 1108 01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,360 This has to come out because I'm gonna put in a new control panel here. 1109 01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:48,920 I get a new button on it. 1110 01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,360 He's taking the whole centre console out, the whole of that. 1111 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,280 He's had to put it in neutral to lift it all off. 1112 01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,680 What for? 1113 01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:58,960 Because you can then fit a button, that enables him 1114 01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,680 to select what sort of fuel he's running on. 1115 01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:05,360 Why don't they just put that in from the start? 1116 01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:09,960 This all goes back in here, with my new switch gear in. 1117 01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,120 It's an hour and seven minutes. 1118 01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,560 Actually, you're right, it is. It's over an hour now. 1119 01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,240 God! 1120 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,280 -There we go. -(BLEEPING) 1121 01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,400 JEREMY: Finally, the rebuild of the Demon was complete. 1122 01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:28,520 It was time for the drivers to warm their tyres. 1123 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,920 In three, two, one, burn out! 1124 01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:34,920 (ENGINES REVVING) 1125 01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,320 Right, your tyres are warm. Are you now ready? 1126 01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,480 -What? -Are you ready to come to the start line? 1127 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:55,520 -No! -What do you mean, no? 1128 01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,280 -No, that was just a celebratory burnout. -Oh, jeez, he's got out. 1129 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:00,880 I've done all the building work, now I've gotta set the car up. 1130 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,440 I've gotta get in the right modes, there's stuff to do, mate. 1131 01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,120 Oh, I've had enough. I'm sorry, I've had enough. 1132 01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:06,960 Bye. 1133 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:08,960 (SIGHS) We're never gonna do this. 1134 01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,880 So, I need to go into Drag. Drag Mode Activating. 1135 01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,240 Excellent. Drag Transmission, Drag Traction, Power. 1136 01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:20,400 So Power needs to go up to 840. 1137 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,240 We are now in High Octane. 1138 01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:23,720 Ho-ho! 1139 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,600 I've never known anything like it. 1140 01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,920 JAMES: With our starter on his way back to London, 1141 01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,400 the traffic lights were brought in, 1142 01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,520 and finally we were ready to go. 1143 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,640 I'm gonna bust your ass, evil boy! 1144 01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,040 Oh, yes. 1145 01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:42,600 What are you gonna do with it now? 1146 01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,480 Cos I've seen the film and I wouldn't do it. 1147 01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:53,520 (ENGINES REVVING) 1148 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,920 I'm getting ahead! I think I'm getting ahead! 1149 01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:09,640 Come on, Demon! 1150 01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,080 Argh, so annoying! 1151 01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:24,280 Urghh! 1152 01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:27,200 Aha! Evil wins! 1153 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,120 Evil wins! Woo-hoo! 1154 01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,240 -(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) -Ye-e-e-s! 1155 01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:38,880 Yes! 1156 01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:40,920 Victory for the Demon. 1157 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:42,640 Thank you. Ha-ha! 1158 01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,680 -Cos I won. -Yes, you won. 1159 01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,040 -You did win. Well done. -You noticed, then? 1160 01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:48,360 -Yes, I noticed it. -That I won? 1161 01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:49,920 At the end of the race, my car 1162 01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:52,200 was in front of your car, which means I won. 1163 01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:54,760 Can I just point out, first you had to spend half a day 1164 01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,920 rebuilding half your car, and then you had to run it on fuel 1165 01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,760 that you can't buy from a normal petrol station. 1166 01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:06,600 Wait a minute, your Excrement runs on that clever fuel all the time. 1167 01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,720 I was sort of banking on you not knowing that. 1168 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,880 -Yes, well, I do know. -Gentlemen, gentlemen. 1169 01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,960 I think we have to agree, the Mustang is the only car 1170 01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:17,560 here that ticks all the muscle car boxes. 1171 01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,840 It's cheap, it's powerful, it runs on fuel you can buy, 1172 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,840 and you can have it with the steering wheel on the correct side. 1173 01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,440 You don't get it, do you? You just don't get it. 1174 01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,800 A muscle car is supposed to have 1,000 horsepower, 1175 01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,440 be undriveable and have a stupid name. 1176 01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:33,880 It's called Ready To Rock! That is a stupid name! 1177 01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,600 Listen, Hammond, not only are you the fiscal brain of this operation... 1178 01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,280 I am. 1179 01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,120 ...you're also the resident muscle car enthusiast, yes? 1180 01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:45,320 So, and I know the answer to this, cos you told me on the plane on the way home. 1181 01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:47,120 Of the three cars, which would you actually buy? 1182 01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:48,440 -Buy? -Buy. 1183 01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:49,720 -With my own money? -Yes. 1184 01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:51,760 -Buy? Myself? -Yes. Yes. 1185 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,480 -It's the Mustang. -There you go, the Mustang. 1186 01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,400 And so on that terrible disappointment for you... 1187 01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,600 -Snowflakes. -...it's time... it's time to end. 1188 01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,920 Now, next week it is a Grand Tour Special, 1189 01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:08,280 where we attempt to become the first ever television show 1190 01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:09,920 in the history of television 1191 01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:13,240 to go to Colombia and not use the C-word. 1192 01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,280 See you then. Goodbye.