1 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,480 (ENGINE REVVING) 2 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,440 (TRAIN WHISTLE BLASTS) 3 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,960 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 4 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,920 -Hello! -Hello, everybody! 5 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,200 -Hel-lo! -You got tickets? 6 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,040 Thank you so much. 7 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,840 Thank you, everybody. Thank you. 8 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,200 RICHARD: Cut! 9 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,200 JEREMY: Thanks so much, everybody! 10 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,040 Thank you, thank you, thank you. 11 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,480 And welcome. And in today's incredibly topical show: 12 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,520 Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon... 13 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,080 -...some angry cyclists... -(FURIOUS SHOUTING) 14 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,520 ...and I throw a sandwich out of the window. 15 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,720 (APPLAUSE) 16 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,360 All that... 17 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,280 All that is to come. 18 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:45,320 But first, Aston Martin has just launched a new car. 19 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,040 And here's Richard Hammond to tell us all about it. 20 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,440 (LAUGHTER) 21 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,240 (TECHNO-STYLE MUSIC) 22 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,760 (MELLOW PIANO MUSIC) 23 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,880 RICHARD: This is the new V8 Vantage. 24 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,560 And, well, it's not an ugly car, is it? 25 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,560 I mean, I'm not sure about this colour. 26 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,280 You'd be on the phone to your doctor if your wee came out like this. 27 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,880 But the shape itself is stunning. 28 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,080 This is one of those superstar cars 29 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,360 that leave a wake of dropped jaws 30 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,000 and phone camera flashes. 31 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,400 (ENGINE REVS) 32 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,240 And as the smallest, punchiest, 33 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,600 sportiest car in the Aston line-up, 34 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,040 it's fast too. 35 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,200 0-60 takes three-and-a-half seconds. 36 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,840 So you're not gonna be embarrassed by 911 Carreras. 37 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,320 Top speed, 195. 38 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,160 But here's the thing. 39 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,800 Astons have always been beautiful and fast 40 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:31,400 in a straight line, 41 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,120 but when you're making a sports car, 42 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,160 that's the easy part. 43 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,880 It was when you dug deeper under the skin, 44 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,920 into the areas you couldn't see, 45 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,560 that in the past they often came up short. 46 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,840 The trouble is, the company has never had the money 47 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,720 or the manpower of Porsche or Ferrari, 48 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,040 and you could sense that in their cars. 49 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,080 They just didn't feel as well made 50 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,120 or well-engineered as some rivals. 51 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,800 That means they sold mainly to people 52 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,440 listening to their hearts and not their heads, 53 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,440 because your heart says, "I want an Aston" 54 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,480 even when your head says, 55 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,440 "That door doesn't fit properly." 56 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,840 But this is 2018. 57 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,880 Good looks and speed aren't enough if bits are coming off in your hand. 58 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,560 This car can't be nice to drive, "for an Aston". 59 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,080 It can't be well made, "for an Aston". 60 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,480 It's got to be good, full stop. 61 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,720 So, let's start with the interior, 62 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,080 a place that normally tells you straightaway 63 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,640 if corners have been cut. 64 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,640 And the news in here is good. 65 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,720 Everything you see is brand new, 66 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,640 not warmed-up leftovers from an older model. 67 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,520 And it all feels properly put together... 68 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,320 as it should in a car that costs £121,000. 69 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,120 And if you push down on the electric height adjustor, 70 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,000 it has the lowest driving position 71 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,240 of any car I've ever been in. 72 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,800 I mean, I wouldn't claim to be a tall man, but... 73 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,880 ...this is low. 74 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:15,520 I feel seven. 75 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,720 Then we come to the engine. 76 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,360 It's a four-litre V8. 77 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,480 It has twin turbos. 78 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,720 It makes 510 horsepower, and... 79 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:29,560 ...it's German. 80 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,360 Specifically from the AMG division of Mercedes. 81 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,400 Yes, this will make people of a Brexity persuasion choke on their real ale, 82 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,440 but look at it this way. 83 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,600 Why waste money you don't have 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,600 developing an OK engine, 85 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,560 when you can buy in a brilliant one? 86 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,120 Besides, there's a plaque here that says, look, 87 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,160 it's been inspected by somebody at Aston Martin. 88 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,480 Presumably to make sure those slapdash German engineers 89 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,440 have done things properly. 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,200 But although the Vantage has Mercedes lungs, 91 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,160 the engineers have tried to make sure 92 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,120 it sings with an Aston voice. 93 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,040 (ENGINE ROARS) 94 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,960 Yeah, in an AMG, this engine doesn't make this noise. 95 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 In a Merc, it's all oom-pah bass. 96 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,520 Whereas Aston Martin have added 97 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,640 some British gravel to the mix. 98 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,560 (ENGINE REVS) 99 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,600 (ENGINE RUMBLES) 100 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,560 Rrrr! 101 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:38,040 So, it's handsome, quick, tuneful and feels well built. 102 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,320 But now we come to the acid test - 103 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,760 how the new Vantage handles corners. 104 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,640 And, on paper at least, things seem promising. 105 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,320 (TYRES SCREECH) 106 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,200 It's built on an all-new chassis, 107 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,720 a shorter version of the one under the DB11. 108 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,800 And it's the first Aston Martin 109 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,560 to be fitted with an electronic diff, 110 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,120 a very expensive but very valuable weapon of war. 111 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,240 So, let's see what's what. 112 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:10,960 (ENGINE REVS, TYRES SCREECH) 113 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:17,640 Yeah, it works. 114 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,320 (TYRES SCREECH) 115 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,480 This is in control of its power. It really is. 116 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,480 It's been set up by a man who used to work 117 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,600 at suspension masters Lotus. 118 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,800 And you can tell. 119 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,160 This just feels fabulous. 120 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,360 (RICHARD LAUGHS) 121 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:53,840 This knows what it wants to be. 122 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,760 There's no soft GT mode like you get in the DB11. 123 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,600 Your entry level setting is Sport, 124 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,120 and then it goes Sport Plus and Track. 125 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,600 That's what I want, it's a sports car! I don't want a soggy setting. 126 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,120 Yeah, this is superb. 127 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,360 Of course, it's still a car from a small British company, 128 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,080 so there are a few issues. 129 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,800 Visibility is not brilliant. 130 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,760 For me, sitting down here, it's like trying 131 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:34,880 to drive a car from the back of a crowded lift. 132 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,960 There's no glove box. 133 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,880 I don't like the sound of the indicators. 134 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,160 It's like a 1980s Casio keyboard. Listen. 135 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,760 (THUD OF INDICATOR CLICKING) 136 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,640 And there's too much Alcantara. This will be all right when it's new, 137 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,440 but buy one of these second-hand, 138 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,880 and it'll be like using somebody else's flannel. 139 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,840 Still, in the big scheme of things, 140 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,760 these are just niggles. 141 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,760 Because overall, the Vantage is fantastic fun. 142 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,160 In the past, you could buy an Aston and love it, 143 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,640 but still know deep down that a 911 was a better car. 144 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,080 With this new Vantage, that gap has been closed 145 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,040 to a point where it doesn't matter. 146 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,760 It's not just brilliant "for an Aston Martin". 147 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,600 It's brilliant, full stop. 148 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,960 (APPLAUSE) 149 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:45,840 Good car. 150 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:47,360 It is a good car. 151 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,040 -I can see out. -Can you? Can you really? 152 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,880 Amazing, I know. I really can see out. 153 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,760 I agree with you, it is a brilliant, brilliant car. 154 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,000 But one thing I ought to mention - 155 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,880 you know all that tech inside it? 156 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,280 That is Mercedes stuff, 157 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,440 but it's last-generation Mercedes stuff they're fitting. 158 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,080 But it's still better than all the stuff that Aston used to fit. 159 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,120 That's true. No, that is true. 160 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,640 And the other thing, you expressed surprise that it's got that AMG engine. 161 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,040 But remember, the Aston V12, they've been using for years, that's German. 162 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,840 -It's made in Germany. -Yes. 163 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,720 That makes it sort of German, doesn't it? 164 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,880 No, no, no. It's where it's designed and developed that matters. 165 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,000 -No, he has got a point. -Yeah, I mean... 166 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,720 your autobiography, you could get it printed in Germany 167 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,440 but it would still be dreary because you designed and conceived it. 168 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,600 It's... 169 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,640 Can't argue with that, May, it would be. 170 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,200 Let's not get bogged down with what's German, and what's not. 171 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,640 The point is, OK, unlike the previous Vantage, 172 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,600 that is way, way more than a pretty face. 173 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:45,880 I mean, a lot more. 174 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,240 But, now, let's find how fast 175 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,040 Abbie can get one around the Eboladrome. 176 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,200 (ENGINE REVS) 177 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,600 JEREMY: And away it goes, 178 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,000 with a little bit of wheel spin 179 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,200 and a wiggle of the hips under power, 180 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,960 but Abbie's got it under control, 181 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,520 hammering onto the Isn't. 182 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,960 Working away there at that unusual and frankly stupid 183 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,680 square steering wheel. 184 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,400 And already we're at the drop down into Your Name Here. 185 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,200 Was that a four-wheel drift? 186 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:17,920 And another one! 187 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,520 And now hard braking... 188 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:22,560 Ooh, look at that, turns in well. 189 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,440 And that looks quick. 190 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,720 Seems a bit lively there as all that turbocharged torque 191 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,280 tries to kick the tail out. 192 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,440 If this run was at night, she'd be in trouble 193 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,080 because the Vantage's headlamps are woeful! 194 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,560 But no complaints about the speed, that's for sure. 195 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,960 OK. Oh, coming in wide for Old Lady's House. 196 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,760 But keeping it neat round there, 197 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,000 and now the short squirt down to Substation. 198 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,440 Floaty under braking. Flicks it in. 199 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,480 Just Field of Sheep to go. 200 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,080 Surprisingly un-slidy and across the line! 201 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,120 -Oh, there we go. -Looks exciting. 202 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,160 -It does. -That was lively. 203 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,880 Like an old-fashioned racing car, moving around. 204 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,520 -The old days. -That was a good-looking lap, that. 205 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:17,000 Let's find out where it ended up on our lap board. 206 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,440 Shall we? Here we go. 207 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Aye, aye...ooh. 208 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:25,440 Exactly the same speed as a 911 GT3 RS. 209 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,800 When you think the Aston doesn't have a massive wing 210 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,760 and scaffolding in the back, that is pretty impressive. 211 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,840 -It is very impressive. -But never mind that. 212 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,520 It's no faster than a BMW M5. 213 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:38,040 Yes, but I think what that says, James, 214 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,320 is the M5 is seriously quick. 215 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,720 -Well, quite. -Yeah, yeah. 216 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,720 You do forget just how fast that thing is. 217 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,360 It is, it certainly is. 218 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,640 But now it is time to buy a four-pack of chat... 219 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:51,400 (LAUGHTER) 220 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,400 ...from the off-licence of debate. 221 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,480 (GROANS) 222 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,080 ...on Conversation Street! 223 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:58,960 (MELLOW JAZZ) 224 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,400 (LAUGHTER) 225 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,720 -I remember that one. -I remember that one. 226 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,080 -I enjoyed that one a lot. -(LAUGHS) 227 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,440 Anyway, Volkswagen. They've come up with a new, a one-off, racing car. 228 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,360 All electric, uh... all-wheel drive. 229 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,200 It's called the IDR, I've got a picture of it here. 230 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,200 Now, what interests me about it is that 231 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,600 there's a claim that it generates so much cornering force, 232 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,440 it can cause the driver to black out. 233 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,640 Is... Is that a good idea? 234 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,960 A car that renders its driver unconscious? 235 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,240 I just don't believe it. 236 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,360 I know Kimi Raikkonen goes unconscious, 237 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,520 but that's normally after the race in the hotel bar. 238 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:37,680 Yeah, that doesn't count. 239 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,200 That is Kimi's problem. 240 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:40,800 The other problem with that is, 241 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,360 it's not lateral G that makes you go unconscious, is it? 242 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,640 That's G from side to side, that's not really the issue. 243 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:47,520 Lateral G is what you get in a car 244 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:49,760 and it's where the blood goes from side to side. 245 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,800 It's only got that... And I'm wide, but it only goes that far. 246 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,840 So in your head you've got one bit a bit drowsy and black-outy, 247 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,160 but the other side of your head, when going round a corner, 248 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,200 is really alert cos it's full of blood. 249 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,480 No, it's more interesting - different sides of your head do different things. 250 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,440 Go that way, and you'd be: "I want to be really precise, and do science," 251 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,240 go this way, you'd be all creative: 252 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,680 "I just want to paint..." Algebra... "I just want to sing." 253 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,320 (LAUGHTER) 254 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,240 When motor racing commentators talk about, 255 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,000 "That car's got 5G going through that corner," 256 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,800 you think, "But it's five lateral G." 257 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,400 -Yes, exactly. -It's not the same 5G you get in a fighter plane 258 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,640 when the blood's going effectively from the top of your head 259 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,200 down to the bottom of your feet, which is a very long way, 260 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,680 so your head empties and that's when you do black out. 261 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,000 JAMES: Yes, exactly. 262 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,280 And it used to be alleged that Douglas Bader 263 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,320 could pull tighter turns in his Hurricane 264 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,000 than other pilots because he didn't have any legs 265 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,520 so the blood couldn't go into them, it stayed in his body. 266 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,160 -I didn't know that. -Apparently so. 267 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,520 Didn't that mean he'd just get a big stiffy? 268 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,000 -Well... -(LAUGHTER) 269 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:47,480 Because all his, all this... 270 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,960 It's science, that is medical science! 271 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,360 JAMES: He's right. 272 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,360 -All his blood went there. -It did. 273 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,000 He was known during the Battle of Britain as Douglas Boner. 274 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,440 (LAUGHTER) 275 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,680 "My joystick's broke! Oh, I've got the wrong one." 276 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,960 "Ooh, I love a dogfight, a nice..." 277 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,840 We... We can move on. 278 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Now, you might be wondering why we haven't featured 279 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,440 the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, their new sort of super luxury SUV, on this series. 280 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,400 And that's because Rolls-Royce did express 281 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,720 some reservations about lending us one 282 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,880 because they said they were worried we might say it was ugly. 283 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,040 -Why would they think that? -Because they've seen it? 284 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,680 (LAUGHTER) 285 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,320 We've actually got a picture of the Cullinan here. There it is. 286 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,800 JAMES: Yeah. RICHARD: (GAGS) Oh, sorry. 287 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,520 JEREMY: It's a very interesting car. 288 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,800 And I don't doubt that it's exquisite to drive and to sit in. 289 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,840 But it is disgusting to look at, isn't it? 290 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,120 -That's the main thing. -I've been thinking about this, OK? 291 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,920 You might want to drive one, or own one. 292 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,480 But you're gonna have to come out of your house 293 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,240 and walk up to it and see it. 294 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,680 So I was wondering, could you dig a tunnel, if you had one, 295 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,800 from your cellar, and then that emerges underneath it? 296 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,240 -Then you wouldn't have to look at it. -Exactly. 297 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,040 You'd have to cut a hole in the bottom of your Rolls-Royce to get in 298 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,280 and nobody's gonna do that. 299 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,520 What if you fitted the Cullinan with... 300 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,440 you know that magic glass that is clear when you look through it at right angles, 301 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,400 but if you look through it at any other angle, 302 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,240 it's sort of frosted so you can't... 303 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:14,960 -That won't work. -How do you know? 304 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,800 Because I've got that - and I genuinely have got that - 305 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,800 in the bathroom in my flat in London. 306 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,720 -Right. -Now, for six years I've been taking showers by the window. 307 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,520 (LAUGHTER) 308 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,520 Cleaning my gentleman's area very thoroughly, 309 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,400 and sometimes quite quickly. 310 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:35,600 And... 311 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,200 I'm actually not making this up. 312 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,240 The floor is six storeys down, the pavement. 313 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,040 You go, "Well, I can't see that, 314 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,280 so nobody down there can see me." 315 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,760 But a friend, the other day, said 316 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,840 "You know you can be seen from the street?" 317 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,760 -Oh, my God! -Seriously. 318 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,200 -But you can't see out when you're in the shower? -No, I said. 319 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,240 -Well, the builder put the glass in the wrong way round. -Must have done. 320 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,400 I think that builder saw you coming. 321 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,920 (LAUGHS) 322 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,600 (APPLAUSE) 323 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,280 -I think the only answer for Rolls-Royce... -Hold on. 324 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 I just heard... Is there a phone in there? 325 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,080 No, you had a stroke. Again. 326 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,080 I'm sure I heard a phone. Wait a minute, wait a minute. 327 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,200 WOMAN: My school alarm, I'm sorry. -Was it you? 328 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,400 -My school alarm, I'm sorry. -Your what alarm? 329 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,800 My school alarm to pick my kids up from school. 330 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,520 Oh, well, that... Now you're a terrible parent! 331 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,280 (LAUGHTER) 332 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,200 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the art of great parenting, right there! 333 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,960 I'm gonna call the NSPCC on you. 334 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,520 How old are your children? 335 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,320 -Oh, 11... -Oh, for God's sake! 336 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,320 She still hasn't moved. 337 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,080 -Oh, they'll be fine. -11, nine, eight and three. 338 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,440 -I wasn't that interested. -(LAUGHTER) 339 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,560 We've established they're not in their 30s, is what I was trying to say. 340 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,040 -Meanwhile... -Yes. 341 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,160 I don't think that that one-way glass 342 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:02,960 that isn't one-way is gonna work. 343 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,920 I think really Rolls-Royce's only hope with that new car 344 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,040 is they're gonna have to hope they can find 345 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,400 a lot of very rich people with absolutely no taste. 346 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,320 -That's their only chance. -Where are they gonna find people like that, I wonder? 347 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,960 -Well, there's Cheshire. -Yeah. 348 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 -Dubai. -Solihull, Monaco, Moscow. 349 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,080 Beverly Hills. They're gonna sell millions of the things. 350 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:23,920 Yeah, they are. 351 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,080 Massive hit. 352 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,080 Now, there's a man in Nottingham. 353 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,640 He's building a house and he's told the planners that outside, 354 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,880 the big empty area, is actually 355 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,640 a landing pad for a self-driving electric flying car. 356 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,320 Hm, yeah, that sounds like what he's built is a helicopter landing pad. 357 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,920 Yes, it does, it does sound very like that. 358 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,760 Unless he's planning to land there in this, 359 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,320 the new Aston Martin flying car. 360 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,800 Looks very cool. 361 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,480 No, Hammond, that's not a flying car, that's just a drawing 362 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,640 of something that'll never happen. It won't. 363 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,560 But somebody has actually made a real flying car and I've got a picture. 364 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,880 JEREMY: That's practical! JAMES: Pretty dreary actually, isn't it? 365 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,760 JEREMY: You can't drive that on the road. 366 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,560 If you took it into town and someone dinged the folded-away wing, 367 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,320 you couldn't fly it then. 368 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,040 -Nobody flies in a bent aeroplane. -No, exactly. 369 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:12,080 And when are people gonna get it into their heads that a flying car is an aeroplane? 370 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,880 Because, if your car flies, why the bloody hell would you drive anywhere? 371 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:18,560 I mean, it just doesn't make sense. 372 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,280 Or worse, you're driving that, 373 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,160 not feeling at all self-conscious around the M25, 374 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,640 you hear there's a bit of a traffic jam ahead, 375 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,560 so you think, "I'll lower the wings, build up to a take-off speed 376 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,080 of, what, 120, 150." 377 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,560 The police will go, "What the bloody hell are you doing?" 378 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,320 They're gonna have a word. You'd need to get a pilot's licence to operate that. 379 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,920 -That takes months. -And then you'd have to learn that gobbledegook you two... 380 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,480 No, you'd have to learn to communicate in the air-- 381 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,760 Yes, but you two don't talk English when you get up in there. 382 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,760 There's a language so you can pass information quickly and clearly. 383 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,000 Yes, but why do you got your own alphabet for? 384 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,240 "Did you come through the alpha vector 385 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,080 on the three approach to four LH? 386 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,400 Oh, I had to get on the tower and say I was--" 387 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,560 It's about controlled airspace! 388 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,000 "I was Mug Paper Picture Oscar." 389 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,400 Why do you have to have a word for a letter? 390 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,920 So that you know what the letter is - a P and a B on a crackly radio sound the same. 391 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,040 Is that why you call him a bunt all the time? 392 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,760 JAMES AND RICHARD: Yes. 393 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,240 That's exactly why, so that it's clear. 394 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320 Now, there is a new report which says the Scottish 395 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,920 are the best drivers in the world. 396 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,640 If you think about it, they've got Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, 397 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,560 David Coulthard, Franchitti, Allan McNish... What? 398 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,240 No, not best in that way, they mean the safest drivers in the world. 399 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,800 -That's what they mean. -The safest drivers aren't the best drivers. 400 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,040 -Well, they sort of are. -No, they aren't. 401 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,920 If that were true, if you think about it, 402 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,080 I would be a better driver than Jackie Stewart 403 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,000 because I've had fewer crashes. 404 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,920 -But I'm not better, am I? -No, you're emphatically not. 405 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,800 -Exactly. -What they're saying is... 406 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,520 Actually, 51 per cent of Scottish drivers 407 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,480 have never been in an accident. 408 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,560 -51 per cent. -That's not that good though. 409 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,880 That means 49 per cent of Scottish people have been 410 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,800 in an accident. That's nearly half of them. 411 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,240 -Well-- -No, but it's "never" is the big word, though, isn't it? 412 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,080 I mean, never... Who here's never had an accident? 413 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,480 Never? But how long have you been driving? 414 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520 Um...one month. 415 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560 -(LAUGHTER) RICHARD: Well done! 416 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,960 -She's doing well. -Well, there you go. 417 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,320 RICHARD: Keep it up. 418 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,000 Keep going. 419 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,240 -That's better than you did. -That's quite a record. 420 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,680 (LAUGHTER) 421 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,560 I did 36 hours before 422 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,680 I was off the road with no wheels on my car. 423 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,680 Er...we'll drop that. 424 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,720 That hasn't worked out quite as well as I'd hoped. 425 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,040 That is the end of Conversation Street. 426 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,400 RICHARD: Yes -Thank you very much. 427 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,480 Lovely, lovely. 428 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,560 Now, this year marks the 50th anniversary 429 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,800 of the first landings on the Moon, 430 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,720 and I thought I should take a little celebratory look back 431 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,200 at that truly historic mission. 432 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,640 James, this isn't a grand tour of whatever is in your head. 433 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,800 -You do know that? -No, but I promise 434 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,440 there will be some cars in this film. 435 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:07,880 Eventually. 436 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,680 I believe that this nation should commit itself 437 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,560 to achieving the goal before this decade is out 438 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,600 of landing a man on the Moon 439 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,160 and returning him safely to the Earth. 440 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,800 JAMES: When President Kennedy made that speech to Congress 441 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,720 in 1961, 442 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,680 he gave the scientists at NASA a planet-sized headache. 443 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,160 Let me try and put the size of that headache into some sort of perspective. 444 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,800 When Kennedy said those words, 445 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,840 America's total experience in space amounted to 446 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,000 just one 15-minute suborbital flight 447 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:49,480 that reached an altitude of just 116 miles above the Earth. 448 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:55,080 By contrast, a journey to the Moon was 238,000 miles, 449 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,000 and no rocket existed that was powerful enough to get the astronauts there. 450 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,480 And even if they did reach their destination, 451 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,080 there was then the immense challenge of getting them home again. 452 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,840 Let's imagine this basketball I'm holding is the Earth, 453 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,600 in which case the Moon can be represented by a baseball 23 feet away. 454 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,080 There it is over there. 455 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,400 All the space exploration that had taken part so far, 456 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,320 so all the Mercury capsules, all the Soviet stuff, 457 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:24,640 that happened about there. 458 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,080 Now, the thickness of this piece of paper 459 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:32,800 represents the corridor that the astronauts would have to fly along 460 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,360 to get home safely. 461 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,800 Now, to do that, obviously you'd want some sort of guidance computer on board. 462 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,720 Problem is, the computers of the time were so huge and so primitive, 463 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,080 they lived in their own buildings. 464 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,200 And the President wanted all this done within the decade. 465 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,720 People thought he was mad. 466 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720 Nevertheless, the brains at NASA knuckled down, 467 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,440 and throughout the 1960s set about developing 468 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,680 and testing the rockets and the technology that would be 469 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840 needed to crack this monumental nut. 470 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,800 However, machinery on its own was not enough. 471 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,040 Equally important to the success of the space programme 472 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,680 were the astronauts. 473 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960 Now, these men were generally of a type. 474 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,040 They were fighter jocks and test pilots, 475 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,520 and they were very familiar with moving around at very high speed. 476 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,360 So, and I did promise we'd get some cars into this, 477 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,400 when it came to moving around on the face of the Earth, 478 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,160 there was one car they favoured above all others. 479 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,480 (ROCK MUSIC) 480 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,560 The Corvette - 481 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,920 America's "premier" sports car. 482 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,320 The big love-in between the American astronauts and the Corvette 483 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,080 started with Alan Shepard... 484 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,280 ...the first American in space in 1961. 485 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,320 And on his safe return to Earth, 486 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,720 he was given a free Corvette by General Motors, 487 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,200 a sort of medal for services to the country. 488 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,760 (MILITARY MARCH PLAYS) 489 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,680 However, even though Shepard was deemed worthy 490 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,440 of a tickertape hero's welcome by the American public, 491 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,520 NASA saw astronauts like him as government employees, 492 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,840 and as such, unable to accept free gifts. 493 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:35,360 So, an enterprising Corvette dealer near the Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida 494 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,320 came up with a cunning idea. 495 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,640 He offered the astronauts a special deal 496 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:46,880 whereby they could lease a Corvette for the enormous sum of...one dollar. 497 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,640 Now, NASA couldn't complain about that. 498 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,200 Technically the cars weren't free, they were being paid for. 499 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,360 So all the astronauts bit his hand off. 500 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,240 Gus Grissom, the second American in space, had one. 501 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,040 So did Gordon Cooper, a man so cool 502 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,240 he actually fell asleep on the launch pad 503 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280 while waiting for lift-off. 504 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,800 Jim Lovell, the hero of the ill-fated 505 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,120 "Houston, we've had a problem" Apollo 13 mission - 506 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,440 he too was a Corvette man. 507 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,720 Basically, in the '60s and '70s, 508 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,080 Cape Kennedy and the surrounding roads 509 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,760 were awash with spacemen driving one-dollar Corvettes. 510 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,320 But it was the holy trinity of Shepard, Cooper and Grissom 511 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:35,480 who were the real petrolheads. 512 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,000 The good news for them was that the Space Center here at Kennedy 513 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,320 was criss-crossed with lovely wide, straight roads 514 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,040 which NASA engineers used to move stuff about - 515 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,040 i.e. rockets. 516 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,640 But that meant, as far as those three were concerned, 517 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,200 that they were in heaven. 518 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,680 They'd come to places like this after work 519 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,120 and just drag race the hell out of their cars, 520 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,720 and then they'd have them modified, 521 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,080 and then they'd drag race them a bit more. 522 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:06,560 Gordo Cooper allegedly had his car modified up to 180 miles an hour, 523 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,960 and he and Gus Grissom even used to go and pit crew 524 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,400 for a racing team if they had a weekend off. 525 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,360 They liked cars. 526 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,280 Then there was astronaut John Glenn, 527 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,880 the first American to orbit the Earth, 528 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,160 and as a test pilot, the first man 529 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,920 to cross the American continent at supersonic speeds. 530 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,160 Clearly, this was a man comfortable with putting his foot down. 531 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,120 However, the car he drove 532 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,960 was not quite as sporty as a Corvette. 533 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,120 Yes, John Glenn, holder of supersonic flight records 534 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,600 and the first American to orbit the Earth, drove this. 535 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,920 It's called a Prinz. 536 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,400 It's made by the long-dead German car maker NSU, 537 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,720 and it's a microscopic economy car. 538 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,400 It has an engine of just under 600cc, two cylinders. 539 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,200 (ENGINE JUDDERS) 540 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,960 0-60? 541 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,480 35 seconds. 542 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,120 But Glenn wasn't worried about the sedate pace. 543 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,120 He lived out in the sticks, 544 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,200 he had a long commute to Cape Kennedy, 545 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,720 and he wanted a car that gave him good gas mileage. 546 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,760 Right, let's give it some beans and see what it'll do. 547 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,640 (ENGINE HUMS) 548 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,160 That's what it'll do. 549 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,480 -(CAR SQUEAKS) -Oh, man! 550 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,440 (ENGINE REVS) 551 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,520 I've read accounts by the astronauts of what the rocket launches were actually like - 552 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,720 a lot of noise, a lot of clattering, a lot of banging. 553 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,000 Well, John Glenn was ready. 554 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,080 By 1969, just inside Kennedy's deadline, 555 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,520 NASA was ready to try landing some men on the Moon. 556 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,320 The astronauts chosen were Buzz Aldrin, 557 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,960 who drove a Corvette, 558 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,320 Neil Armstrong, who drove a Corvette, 559 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,040 and Mike Collins, who drove a Beetle. 560 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,280 Presumably that's why they left him in the command module 561 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,760 and didn't let him walk on the lunar surface. 562 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,960 The rocket that would take them there, the Saturn V, 563 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,800 was, and remains, the most complex machine ever built. 564 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,520 It was constructed of three million components, 565 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,080 all of them provided, as the astronauts, used to joke, 566 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,760 by the lowest bidder. 567 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,560 And it stood as tall as a 30-storey building. 568 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,680 NASA ANNOUNCER: Ignition sequence starts. 569 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080 Six, five, four, 570 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,080 three, two, one, zero. 571 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,680 All engines running. Lift-off. 572 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,560 We have a lift-off, 32 minutes past the hour. 573 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,760 Lift-off on Apollo 11. 574 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,280 At blast-off, these five engines produced 575 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,160 seven-and-a-half million pounds of thrust. 576 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,160 During the first-stage burn, the rocket produced 577 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,040 enough power to light the whole of New York 578 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,000 for 75 minutes. 579 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,080 It burnt its fuel at a rate of 20 tonnes per second 580 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,720 and just two-and-a-half minutes after launch, 581 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,440 nearly all of it was gone... 582 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,160 ...leaving just enough to take the three astronauts to the Moon 583 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,320 and return them safely to Earth. 584 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,480 And even though 411,000 of America's brightest minds 585 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,520 were fully engaged in this perilous endeavour, 586 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,120 sending three men to the Moon, 587 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,680 bringing them home safely again, they were still 588 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,600 very much constrained by the technology of the day. 589 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,080 If you have a Ford Fiesta, the engine management system 590 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,240 in your car has 10,000 times the computer processing power 591 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,720 that they had. 592 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,720 -Eagle to Houston, we have you now. Do you read? Over. -Loud and clear. 593 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,480 JAMES: When the astronauts finally approached 594 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,120 the surface of the Moon, 595 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160 the landing was not without drama. 596 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,880 CONTROL: OK, all flight controllers, gonna go for landing. 597 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,800 JAMES: The designated spot was full of craters... 598 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,080 CONTROL: Houston, you are go for landing. 599 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,040 JAMES: ...forcing Armstrong to fly manually 600 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,000 and look for another place to set down. 601 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,680 CONTROL: Four forward, drift in to the right a little. 602 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,120 OK, engine stop. Mode control, both auto. 603 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,080 Descent engine command override off. 604 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,240 We copy you down, Eagle. 605 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,280 Houston, uh... Tranquillity Base here. 606 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,360 The Eagle has landed. 607 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,400 When they finally landed, they had just 20 seconds of fuel remaining. 608 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,760 But no matter, they were down on the Moon. 609 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,960 That's one small step for man... 610 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,520 ...one giant leap for mankind. 611 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,600 (MILITARY BAND PLAYS) 612 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,640 JAMES: Back on Earth, a heroes' welcome awaited. 613 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,680 And once he got home, Armstrong, like so many astronauts, 614 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,280 would swap the seat in his spacecraft 615 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,240 for a seat in a Corvette. 616 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:36,400 And when I say Corvette, I mean this actual Corvette. 617 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,200 This one. 618 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,920 This was his. 619 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,160 Oh, my word. 620 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,400 I'm turning onto the space shuttle runway. 621 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,360 It's three miles long. 622 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,800 Here are some enormous skid marks left by the wheels of the space shuttle. 623 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,080 But this is Neil Armstrong's Corvette! 624 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,040 Ohh! (CHUCKLES) 625 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,280 His hands were here. He looked at the instruments like that. 626 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,920 He... He touched that. 627 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,840 Neil Armstrong! 628 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,800 The first person to set foot 629 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,760 somewhere other than the Earth. 630 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,200 I mean, almost a quarter of the world's population watched him live. 631 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,960 The owner of this car, when he realised what it was he'd found, 632 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 decided not to restore it. 633 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,960 He would leave it exactly as it was. 634 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,320 He would just do enough to make it run. 635 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,520 So he hasn't done the paint, he hasn't replaced bits in here. 636 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,960 This is all exactly as he found it. 637 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,080 There's patina on the bonnet there. 638 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,560 There's a scuffed bit on the door. It's real! 639 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,240 Hello, rev counter. 640 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,440 Neil Armstrong's looked at you, hasn't he? 641 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,440 Oh, I think a Huey is coming. 642 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,400 There's Mr Huey, there's the evocative one. 643 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,480 (HELICOPTER WHIRS) 644 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,360 Those are the two sounds of the '60s, aren't they, 645 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,000 that one and the sound of Neil Armstrong speaking from the Moon. 646 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,480 Neil Armstrong's Chevrolet Corvette. 647 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,160 Love it. Love it. 648 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,560 What an honour. 649 00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,800 (APPLAUSE) 650 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,520 ...can take off and land six times on that runway. 651 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:03,840 -Easily. -Well done. 652 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,120 Thank you. 653 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,560 Hold on. 654 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,520 What's gone wrong with astronauts? 655 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,320 They don't go to the Moon any more. 656 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,640 No, no, no, no, they used to be rock gods. 657 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,440 I mean, if you think about it, 658 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,280 they would drive their Corvette into town, 659 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,640 get hammered, 660 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,440 get Chlamydia, and the next morning, 661 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,840 they'd be upside down in a star fighter. 662 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,200 Whereas I met one not that long ago, 663 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,960 he was the first astronaut ever to dock the space shuttle 664 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,960 to the space station in space, 665 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,880 and he turned up for the interview in a maroon Toyota Camry. 666 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,280 And... 667 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,520 And he had his polo shirt tucked into his chinos. 668 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,960 Your point about the polo shirt is? 669 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,840 My point is very simple, OK? 670 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,960 You look at pictures from the space station. 671 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,760 I follow it on Instagram. Look at this. 672 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:58,160 I mean, I'm sorry, they look like people who run a port-a-loo rental company. 673 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,360 If you go for an audition with NASA, yeah, 674 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,120 and you don't arrive in the car park in your Corvette 675 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,840 on full opposite lock, you don't get the job. 676 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,040 They should get the maths out of the space programme 677 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,920 and replace it with some flamboyance. 678 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,120 You probably need a little bit of maths. 679 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,400 No, you don't, you just want them to be funny. 680 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,560 No, that's children's entertainers you're thinking of, Jeremy. 681 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,880 - Not astronauts. - Buzz Aldrin, 682 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,760 a flamboyant man, used to wear shirts like that. 683 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,640 I met him, he had an excellent shirt on. 684 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,160 Very funny. One of my favourite stories about Buzz Aldrin, 685 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,960 second man on the Moon, you mentioned him in your film. 686 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,960 He was being interviewed many years after the Moon landing. 687 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,960 Very nervous young reporter standing there. Live interview, this was. 688 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,880 "We're going over live now," 689 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,160 and the director's going, "In five, four..." 690 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,960 And on three, Buzz Aldrin leant to the reporter and went, 691 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,600 -"Nothing about the Moon, OK?" -(LAUGHTER) 692 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,000 -"That's all I've got!" -"I've got no questions! I've got literally nothing!" 693 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,120 Anyway, that's enough about space. I wanna move it on. 694 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,040 Because I came into the office um...the other day 695 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,640 and told these two that the Citroen C3 Aircross 696 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,600 that I'd been driving was very good. 697 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,440 And they said it wasn't. 698 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,480 -Because it isn't. -Yes, it is. 699 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,960 And I decided to prove that it is 700 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,640 by doing one of those very thorough tests 701 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,880 where we cover all the things that matter 702 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,120 in a car of this type. 703 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,400 Wait a minute, is this gonna be one of those stupid films 704 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,400 where you do ridiculous tests to discover 705 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,440 if a car can, I dunno, drive faster than itself? 706 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,440 No. 707 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,040 JEREMY: This is the car in question. 708 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,360 It's a five-seater, front-wheel drive hatchback. 709 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,440 Prices start at £14,720 710 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,160 and it looks rather funky, 711 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,520 with those splashes of orange paint here and there. 712 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,640 It's also easy to see out of 713 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,640 because the windows are made from glass. 714 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,640 And all the controls fall easily to hand, 715 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,040 because they're on the dashboard or the steering wheel, 716 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,160 rather than under the carpet in the boot. 717 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,120 But you may be wondering what makes it so special. 718 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,400 Well, to find out, I've decided to break the test 719 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,120 down into segments, 720 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,080 so that all the important questions can be answered. 721 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,200 To find out, we've come here 722 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,440 to the banked Millbrook Bowl in Bedfordshire. 723 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,640 Citroen say that because the quite small, 724 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,360 1.2 litre, three-cylinder engine 725 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,800 in this particular version of the Aircross is turbocharged, 726 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,880 it produces 128 horsepower. 727 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,800 And now it's time to see what that means 728 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,560 in terms of top speed. 729 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,200 And here we go. 730 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,640 Obviously you can't go as fast on a banked track 731 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,480 as you can on the straight and level. 732 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,520 I was going to ask James May why this is so, 733 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,360 but um...I was frightened he might tell me so I... 734 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,920 so I didn't. 735 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,760 That's 100, moving up into the fifth lane, 736 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,600 the lane of terror. 737 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,880 114, there it is. 738 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,840 And I think that's it. 739 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,880 Top speed is... 740 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,200 Oh, 115. No. 741 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,280 The little car has more to give. 742 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,040 Right, I think we've established there 743 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,160 that this car's top speed here on the Millbrook Bowl 744 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,160 is 115 miles an hour. 745 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,640 And that, for a practical, high-riding, family SUV, 746 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,920 which can do 50 miles to the gallon in ordinary driving, 747 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,560 is not bad. 748 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,600 But can it do better? 749 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,680 OK, what I've done now is hooked up to the back end of a Bentley Bentayga. 750 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,880 Now, this is a car with a top speed 751 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:01,880 of 180 miles an hour. 752 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:12,040 What it's doing is, it's punching a hole in the air for me 753 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,200 and I'm driving along in a vacuum. 754 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,680 So that should mean I go faster. Let's find out. 755 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,400 That's 115 easily. 756 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,120 116... 757 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,920 117... 758 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,320 I'm also using less fuel, 759 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,520 so this is good for the environment as well. 760 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,640 119, 120 miles an hour now. 761 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,000 121...this is flying! 762 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,600 122 miles an hour, 123! 763 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,400 What we're doing now is proving 764 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:54,480 that the Citroen C3 Aircross can go faster than itself. 765 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,560 124! 766 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,920 God's truth, it's like being in Bluebird! 767 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:03,560 My only worry is that I just saw a single magpie 768 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,600 and it is Friday the 13th as I do this. 769 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,520 So now I'm gonna ease out of this dangerous situation. 770 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,520 Well, if the space is smaller than the Aircross, 771 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,480 then the answer is no. 772 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,640 But if the space is bigger, then the answer is yes. 773 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,080 And with that sorted out, 774 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,920 it's time for one of the most important tests 775 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,680 a little car can face. 776 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,440 To find out, I've come to Southampton docks, 777 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,880 where obviously I've been forced to wear a hard hat 778 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,120 in case a ship... lands on my head. 779 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,080 Anyway, as you can see, the little car has been attached 780 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,960 by rope to the enormous car transporter. 781 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,400 Which I've just noticed has a face. 782 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,400 It's Boaty McBoatface! 783 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,560 The challenge I'd come up with 784 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,480 was to see if the one-tonne C3 785 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,760 could pull the 13,000-tonne ship 786 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,800 a distance of 25 metres. 787 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,360 Right, now, I should explain 788 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,040 that my colleagues May and Hammond 789 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,280 think this is a stupid test. 790 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,000 They say the Aircross only develops 151 torques 791 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,000 and that that isn't enough to pull a medium-sized child. 792 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,760 I, however, disagree. 793 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,040 Let's do this! 794 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:55,760 (ENGINE CRUNCHES) 795 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,760 Oh, Christ, there's some elasticity in that rope! 796 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,640 Oh, hello? Why's it going backwards? 797 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,760 This is a bit of a worry. 798 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,480 Is that ship... The ship's going back! 799 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:12,920 Look. 800 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,960 The ship is going back. 801 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,520 What... The situation's bad. 802 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,400 As we reattached the tow rope, 803 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,400 I wondered what had gone wrong. 804 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,040 Why did... Did he put his engines in reverse as a sort of amusing joke? 805 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,640 I mean, he is Greek, the captain. 806 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,120 We're not German! It's... 807 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,560 We didn't mess your economy up. 808 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:39,400 With the rope reattached, we began the test again. 809 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:40,760 Here we go. 810 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:45,800 (ENGINE STRAINING) 811 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,080 That's just clutch spin. 812 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,160 Now it's just clutch. That's clutch. 813 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,720 Traction control off, that's the only solution. 814 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,240 (ENGINE REVVING) 815 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:04,960 (ENGINE GRINDS AND CRUNCHES) 816 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,120 Hang on. 817 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,080 I think that ship is moving. 818 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,360 (TYRES SQUEAL) 819 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,800 I think we're getting further and further with each pull. 820 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,440 Come on, Boaty! Move, you vicious boat! 821 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,960 Give it a bit of left and right. 822 00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,280 What a machine this is! 823 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,880 (STRAINS) 824 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,600 The power and strength of the Citroen. 825 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,840 -That... -(SHIP'S HORN BLARES) 826 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,200 That is Boaty McBoatface admitting defeat. 827 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,400 And with that sorted out, 828 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,280 it was time to address the C3's practicality. 829 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:47,880 (PHONE BLEEPS) 830 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,320 I should explain, these are not actually Angelina's children, 831 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,160 they're much um... cheaper. 832 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,600 Let's just get your names, first of all. You're? 833 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,920 -Cardboard. -Cardboard. 834 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,280 -Satisfied customer. -Satisfied customer. 835 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,000 -Goat. -Goat? 836 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,360 -Dislocated elbow. -Dislocated elbow. 837 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,400 -(CLICKS TONGUE) -I'm sorry? 838 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,920 -(CLICKS TONGUE) -(CLICKS TONGUE) Is that right? 839 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,840 Don't wanna mispronounce it. And you're? 840 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,600 -Vauxhall. -Vauxhall. 841 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:13,880 Right, come on. 842 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,000 Let's see how many of you can get into the Citroen. 843 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:25,600 VAUXHALL: Where's my seat belt? 844 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,880 Hang on, Vauxhall's got a problem. What is it, Vauxhall? 845 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,160 -No seat belt. -There is a seat belt. 846 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:31,640 No, there isn't! 847 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:32,880 Vauxhall, no, no, 848 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,400 there must be a seat belt. There we are. 849 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,680 It's somewhere in here. You just have to find it. 850 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,560 Who's gonna be driving the car, though? 851 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:39,960 Probably your mum. 852 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,320 Your dad's left home to be with a French woman. 853 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,320 -My dad is in America. -Your dad's Brad Pitt. 854 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,000 Not your real dad, you were bought from a market somewhere. 855 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,880 Oh, I found it, look. 856 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,320 -Ta-dah! -That's just weird. 857 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,360 Now, come on, Vauxhall, sit properly. 858 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,480 Hah. They're all in. 859 00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,760 No space, I'm afraid, for either of you. 860 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,800 -Y-You've had it. -Oh. 861 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,160 -Can I sit in the boot? -In the boot? 862 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,080 Well, no, because you see, if your mum goes into town, 863 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,400 or to Africa, and buys a disabled child, 864 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,360 where would its wheelchair go? 865 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,520 Must say, I am surprised. 866 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,520 I thought horses were bigger than this. 867 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,440 Anyway, come on, let's see if we can uh...get you in. 868 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,360 Come on, up you come, up you come, there you go. 869 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:34,560 Up you go. 870 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,400 Oh, yep. 871 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,200 Citroen say that this has... 872 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,160 the biggest boot in its class. 873 00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:51,720 (CHURCH BELL CHIMES) 874 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,360 To answer this, we've come to France... 875 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,240 ...where an armed robbery is in progress. 876 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,600 (ENGINE IDLING) 877 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,560 (ENGINE REVS) 878 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,280 (CRUNCHES) 879 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,120 RADIO: Burglars anglais avec visages horribles 880 00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,280 are maintenant making their escape 881 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,800 in a red nineteen-seventy-deux 882 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,320 De Tomaso Pantera GTS. 883 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,680 Mmm. 884 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,320 Oui, je les ai vus, cinq par cinq. 885 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,360 Oui. 886 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,320 Au dessus et sortir. 887 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:54,600 Right. 888 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,560 (SIREN BLARES) 889 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,240 Let's do this! 890 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,720 (SIREN BLARING) 891 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,440 All around the world, 892 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,080 police forces normally have pretty good cars. 893 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,160 The Americans have Crown Vics, 894 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,400 Germans have BMs, Italians have Alfas. 895 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,720 But France has always been a bit of a burgling free-for-all, 896 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,960 because you knew that you were only ever gonna be chased 897 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,760 by Inspector Clouseau in a diesel Renault Mégane. 898 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,760 Well, not today. 899 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,960 Because I'm in an Aircross and I've got a moustache. 900 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,040 To make my life a bit tricky, 901 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,280 the robbers' Pantera wasn't standard. 902 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,600 It had an all-aluminium, seven-litre V8, 903 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,800 producing 550 horsepower - 904 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,760 four times more than I had. 905 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,320 (TYRES SCREECHING, ENGINE REVS) 906 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,360 Soon I caught up with them. 907 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,480 But to get ahead, I decided to take a shortcut. 908 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:26,520 -Digger. -(HORN BLARES) 909 00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,560 -Deploy skill. -(TYRES SCREECH) 910 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:33,920 Skill used. 911 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,280 No need to slow down because of my raised suspension. 912 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,760 Come on, dogged little Citroen! 913 00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:54,040 Argh! You couldn't have done that in a De Tomaso. 914 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,200 Where is he? Where is he? 915 00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:04,160 (ENGINE REVVING) 916 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:07,320 I can hear him. 917 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:08,760 He's like an Australian. 918 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,840 You can hear him before you see him. 919 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,880 Right, I'm gonna cut him off. 920 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,840 (TYRES SQUEALING) 921 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,160 Ha-ha! 922 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,760 Got him! 923 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:25,920 (HORN BLARES) 924 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,800 Les anglais avec les visages horribles s'enfuient. 925 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,480 (SIREN BLARES) 926 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,080 I know where he's going and I know I'm gonna get there first. 927 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,120 Ooh, heavens! 928 00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,000 Ooh, damn it! 929 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,120 (SIREN WAILS, TYRES SCREECH) 930 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:14,800 There he is! 931 00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:23,760 Were this not such a serious situation, 932 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,040 it would be a good laugh. 933 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,320 Ultimate baddy's car, of course, the De Tomaso Pantera. 934 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,800 It even has an Argentinian flag on its badge. 935 00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:57,000 (HORNS BLARE) 936 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,960 Agh! Deploying skill! 937 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,040 (HORN BLARES) 938 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,440 Skill s... Ooh, skill not successful. Sorry, my bad. 939 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,360 Oh, no, he's going right! 940 00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,320 (TYRES SCREECH) 941 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,800 (ANGRY SHOUTING) 942 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,120 I think I hit one. 943 00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,160 Did I? Oh, no. 944 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,280 (ANGRY SHOUTING) 945 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,240 It's OK, I've got 'em all now. 946 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,080 Come on, get back in the chase here, man! 947 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:30,880 Payback! 948 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:38,240 Little bit bumpy. 949 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,920 There's the car! 950 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,480 It was beginning to seem that despite my best efforts, 951 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,720 I wouldn't be able to catch the Pantera. 952 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,360 But then, when all seemed lost, 953 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,440 the Citroen played its trump card... 954 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,120 ...and didn't break down. 955 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,480 Whereas the Pantera reverted to type and did. 956 00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:09,160 There you go, son. 957 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,240 Oh, God! 958 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,240 He's using hair dye! 959 00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,440 Anyway, it's now time for the final test, 960 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:19,880 the big one - 961 00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,880 the answer to the question I'm asked 962 00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,200 five or six times a day. 963 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,240 Italy is a difficult country to invade, 964 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,480 because it's surrounded on three sides by sea 965 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,520 and on the fourth by mountains. 966 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,640 These mountains. 967 00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:43,800 The Alps. 968 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,520 But back in 218 BC, 969 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,880 a Tunisian general called Hannibal 970 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,720 did cross those mountains, 971 00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,720 using elephants to carry his gear. 972 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,320 And what I want to know is: 973 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,760 could he have used an Aircross instead? 974 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,040 I mean, obviously, the Aircross wasn't invented 975 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,800 200 years before the Baby Jesus, 976 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,600 but if it had been, could he have used it? 977 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,200 We know that the Citroen is powerful and torquey. 978 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:21,880 But what really matters on a job like this is traction. 979 00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,160 And that's where this knob down here comes in. 980 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,280 It engages something called the grip control system. 981 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,320 And that sounds like a gimmick. 982 00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,120 But it isn't. 983 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,280 Last winter, Britain was hit with a weather bomb 984 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,480 which became known as the Beast from the East. 985 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,040 Everything stopped and nothing was moving, 986 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,440 apart from me in an Aircross. 987 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,680 I genuinely couldn't believe it. 988 00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:56,320 I put it in snow mode and it was going through drifts 989 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,280 up to its door handles. 990 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,360 So let's see if it can pull off the same trick here, 991 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,760 when the track runs out and the going gets tougher. 992 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,680 Yes, look at the little Citroen, clawing away. 993 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,080 No elephant could do this. 994 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,040 I am zooming up here. 995 00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,200 God knows what sorcery the computers are using 996 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,160 to keep me going here, but they are. 997 00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,080 (CHUCKLING) 998 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:43,720 Downhill stretch here, 999 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,600 so engaging the hill descent control. 1000 00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:51,240 Take your foot off the clutch and off the brake. 1001 00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,520 You can hear the anti-lock brake system working, 1002 00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,240 keeping me in check, 1003 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,800 stopping the back sliding round, stopping me accelerating. 1004 00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,160 That's so clever in a little car like this! 1005 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,840 But as the climb resumed, the going got really rough. 1006 00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,000 No, no. 1007 00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,520 Let's just pop it into... 1008 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:17,840 mud mode. 1009 00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,000 There we go. There you have it. 1010 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,400 Come on, little car, come on, little car. 1011 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,640 That's the engine mountings you can hear wobbling away, 1012 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:35,120 but the good news is, the engine is still in. 1013 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:43,920 With the satnav telling me Italy was just two miles away, I found another path. 1014 00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,480 I've passed 2,000 metres here. 1015 00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,400 Christ, if I go over the edge now... 1016 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:54,840 Agh. 1017 00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:03,120 Finally, the border moved into view. 1018 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,120 Come on, little Aircross! 1019 00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:19,600 There you are, clever car! 1020 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:30,600 So there we are. 1021 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,120 Faster than itself at the test track. 1022 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,160 Strong enough to pull a ship. 1023 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,440 Big enough for the entire Jolie family and a horse. 1024 00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,880 And better at invading Italy than an elephant. 1025 00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,160 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1026 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,120 -What a car. -Really? 1027 00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,280 What a machine. Pumpy little car. Amazing. 1028 00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,920 Are you all right? 1029 00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,760 -In the head, I mean. -What do you mean? 1030 00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:03,560 We learned nothing. 1031 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,040 You learned it could get to the top of that mountain, 1032 00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,840 even though it doesn't have four-wheel drive. 1033 00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,760 But what about things that matter to people who buy that sort of car? 1034 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,320 What about, you know, boot, interior space? 1035 00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:17,680 -I did boot! -OK, safety, insurance group, all that. 1036 00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,600 -That's a bit boring. -And are you seriously expecting us to believe 1037 00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,160 that a little French hatchback 1038 00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,080 can catch a tuned De Tomaso Pantera on a mountain road? 1039 00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,920 Well, you say that - James Bond, Goldeneye, you may remember. 1040 00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,800 He is in his Aston DB5, he's chasing the Ferrari 355, 1041 00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,360 he caught up with it. 1042 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,200 Then there was the other Bond film called... 1043 00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,760 Quantity of Porridge, something like that. 1044 00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,840 He is in his Aston DBS, 1045 00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,560 Italian police, diesel-powered Alfa 159, 1046 00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,280 keep up with him no problem at all. 1047 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,120 You do know they're not documentaries, don't you? 1048 00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,280 It was The Rock, The Rock was a Hummer and a Ferrari again. 1049 00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,920 Look, can we try and salvage some useful information out of this? 1050 00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:57,320 There's no need. 1051 00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,960 No, there is, I mean, OK... 1052 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,640 lsn't that Citroen basically, tell me if I'm right, 1053 01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,680 the same car as the Vauxhall Crossland? 1054 01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,400 -It is. -Yes, it is, good point. 1055 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,120 So, for instance, would you buy one of those instead? 1056 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:12,280 Well, you can't have the Vauxhall with the grip control system, 1057 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:13,960 so it's no good as an elephant. 1058 01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,240 No, the elephant test isn't actually relevant. 1059 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,680 Is there not something um... OK, the Vauxhall, is it... 1060 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,000 How easy is it to vacuum out the interior? There you go. 1061 01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:25,800 I knew you were gonna mention that. 1062 01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,520 So what I did was I took the Vauxhall down to a man 1063 01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,640 who knows a thing or two about vacuuming, 1064 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,720 none other than Sir Dyson. 1065 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,680 (VACUUM CLEANER WHIRS) 1066 01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,080 Can you get that bit in there? 1067 01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:53,280 (VACUUM CLEANER OFF) 1068 01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:54,880 -Any good? -Brilliant. 1069 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:56,480 -Is it? -Very easy. Brilliant. 1070 01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,520 Sir James Dyson. 1071 01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,320 Doing a test, an important test for us there. 1072 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,280 -Actually was James Dyson. JAMES: Just a minute. 1073 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,320 -What? -Sir James Dyson 1074 01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,800 is developing a new solid state battery. 1075 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,240 He is working on the future of global personal transport. 1076 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,520 -Yeah. -And you've wasted his whole afternoon... 1077 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:23,240 -...vacuuming out the interior of a Vauxhall. -Yes. 1078 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,720 -You have literally speeded up the end of the world. -Yes. 1079 01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,240 And on that terrible disappointment, it's time to end. 1080 01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:31,560 Thank you so much for watching. See you next time. 1081 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,520 -Goodbye. -(APPLAUSE)