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Hi, I'm Rory Reid. Welcome to Extra Gear.

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We are back for a brand-new series,

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crammed full of Top Gear goodies,

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and we've got a brand-new studio.

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CHEERING

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Yeah.

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I like it, too. So good to be back.

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OK, tonight, I get my hands on a Mk I GT40

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with some special tuition from Le Mans winner Jackie Oliver.

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Right, I want to open it up a bit.

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ENGINE ROARS

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Oh-ho-ho!

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Chris takes on Australian V8 around Dunsfold.

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Ha-ha!

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Is there any other way to behave?

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Sabine joins us in the studio to explain what this is all about.

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I can't see anything.

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Woohoo!

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And John Hennessy is here, just in case you hadn't had your fill of V8 goodness.

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That's how we roll.

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This is Extra Gear.

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First up, I want to get my guests out.

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We've got a lot to talk about.

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He is a Texan tuner whose voodoo engine upgrades

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have taken Mustangs to another level.

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Please welcome John Hennessy.

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And she's the queen of the ring and an all-round automotive lunatic,

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please welcome Sabine Schmitz.

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Right, so, tonight's Top Gear was all about the V8.

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I was in a Jag, Chris was in a McLaren, two very handsome

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British sports cars.

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But it wasn't really a surprise

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that Mr LeBlanc went for an American car, was it?

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Yeah, I mean, he's got to go for the Mustang.

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He's playing on the home team.

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So, this started life as a GT 350 R.

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And that has 500 horsepower, but you felt the need to add another 300.

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Yeah, it was my own personal car and I thought,

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I'm probably not going to modify this car much.

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But it didn't take long and I thought, you know what?

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It's got great grip, great brakes and it handles wonderfully

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but I find it just needs a little more torque, a little more horsepower.

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-So...

-So you added 300 more?

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Yeah. You know when a car needs more...

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-Yeah.

-Straight line.

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-Go for it.

-It just needed more... Needed more bollocks to go proper.

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I've never heard anyone say that a 500 horsepower car

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-needs more bollocks.

-That's what we did.

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What's the process? What did you do? How do you make this car go faster?

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This particular car, so it has a pretty highly tuned

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5-litre V8 engine from Ford.

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It turns 8,200 rpm.

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That's a flat plane crank, which is pretty trick and pretty cool.

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We added a 2.9-litre supercharger system to it,

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so we upgrade the air intake, fuel injectors,

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we pretty much leave the exhaust alone.

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It just has an amazing sound.

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Retune the computer, it's capable of turning 8,200 rpm

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and it sounds like pure madness when it's under boost.

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How do you know how much the engine can take, though?

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Do you just, like, crank it all the way up to 300 and see what happens?

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Or do you go up incrementally?

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We don't really know. Kind of like a U-boat's commander doesn't

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really know how deep his submarine will go, he just has to, like,

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gradually test it out, and we built, gosh, in the last year-and-a-half,

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be built probably 50 of those and...

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So, essentially, Matt LeBlanc was kind of a guinea pig.

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Well, look, if Top Gear can't break it, nobody can break it.

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-So it's very reliable.

-Sabine, you saw the cars, I was in the Jag,

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Chris was in a McLaren, Matt was in the bright-yellow...

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..thing that makes 800-odd horsepower.

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What would you go for? Would you go British or American?

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Not British. Since got married, left McLaren, I...

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His car is a beast.

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I would love to drive this one.

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-You're going to.

-Yeah.

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-I'm sure.

-Cool.

-I still think I had the best car, though.

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Man, that Jag, I mean, it's a great all-rounder.

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It's part 4x4.

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It's essentially, like, a little bit of a Land Rover inside a sports car.

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When you've got all-wheel drive, and you can put the power down in the Mustang,

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forget about it in first or second gear,

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it's a third gear and up car.

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It is an extra gear kind of car.

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Plus, I know you saw, when I won that shoot-out in the quarry...

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I had no doubt. I had no doubt, when you guys did that...

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The draw. That all-wheel drive was good.

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-You rotated it well, too.

-Oh, thank you.

-Yeah.

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Now, while we're on the subject of Anglo-American relations,

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the GT40 made an appearance on tonight's Top Gear

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and, let's just say, it left a lasting impression.

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This is the 1964 Mk I GT40.

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Chassis number 1008.

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Yes, it's been dressed up to look like a younger model but, trust me,

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this is one of the originals.

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A car that was born out of Henry Ford II's desire to thrash

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Ferrari in their own back yard at the Le Mans 24-hour race.

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And thrash them it did, winning four times in a row.

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The Mk I was developed here in Britain by a team led by John Wyer.

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The early cars performed pretty dismally at races, so Ford,

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impatient to win, handed the project to a Texan, Carroll Shelby,

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in time for the 1966 Le Mans.

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It seemed as though the Brits had missed their chance,

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as Shelby's team drove their more powerful 7-litre GT40s to victory

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in both '66 and 67.

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American engineering might have won the day initially,

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but the Brits never gave up.

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John Wyer continued to modify the Mk I GT40

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using his smaller engine and, by a twist of fate,

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larger engines were banned in Le Mans,

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and that meant Ford had to turn to British engineering once again.

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Shelby was out and Wyer, the plucky Brit, was back in.

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It's a fascinating story

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and one that's best told by a man who was there.

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I'm riding with Jackie Oliver, who won Le Mans in 1969 driving a GT40.

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Jackie, this is a bit of a homecoming for you, isn't it?

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Driving a Mk I GT40.

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Absolutely. And it's brilliant to be back behind the wheel of it.

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The car you won in, that wasn't the Shelby version,

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it was the British JW version, wasn't it?

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Explain to me the difference in philosophies between the two cars.

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Shelby was all about horsepower.

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They turned the engine into a 7-litre from a 5-litre.

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JW took the car over,

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they refined the chassis to make the cars go quicker around the corner

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and for the drivers to be more comfortable driving them.

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So there were clear differences between the two cars.

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Tell me about the differences between the two men,

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Carroll Shelby and JW.

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Carroll was a...

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..hard-charging American.

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That's the way he went racing.

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John Wyer, we used to call him Darth Vader,

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because there was something a little scary about him.

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A minute ago you said to me that these cars were comfortable to drive.

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How could it be that at Le Mans, when you're doing 200mph,

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-these things were comfortable?

-Well, it's an easy car to drive.

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Very light on the steering, very comfortable driving position.

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That was the most satisfying thing about racing a GT40.

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JW never gave up, even though Henry Ford took the project away from him.

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What was the feeling in the camp when they got another shot

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and actually won?

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That was very satisfying for John Wyer and the drivers who drove for

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them, and I'm sure Carroll Shelby was very gracious

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with regard to the success,

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but I think when he got back home he was saying, "Dammit.

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"The Brits did it."

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Far from landing on the scrapheap of history,

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the 5-litre British GT40 finally had its day,

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winning Le Mans in '68 and '69, rivalling its American cousin.

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Jackie, I'm sat next to a Le Mans winner in a Mk I GT40.

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Please tell me I can have a go.

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-You can have a go.

-Come on!

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-It's alive!

-It's alive.

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It's a tiger.

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-Woo!

-All right.

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What an opportunity.

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And what a car. I can't believe this thing is more than 50 years old.

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It's responsive, isn't it?

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I was expecting an absolute animal

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but it's actually quite a refined car.

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Right, I want to open it up a bit.

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ENGINE ROARS

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Oh-ho-ho!

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Carroll Shelby, I'm sure he did a fantastic job, but, I mean,

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this JW thing, it just proves...

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..bigger isn't always better.

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ENGINE ROARS

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Oh, it sounds so good.

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APPLAUSE

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I love this story.

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I think we have to tell the story, though,

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because whenever we talk about the GT40, everyone assumes it's this big

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American icon, but without the Brits it just wouldn't have happened,

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-would it?

-The chassis basically started as a Lola Mk VI,

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so, really, there's a lot of British DNA in the GT40

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before the car was even born.

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And, Sabine, you've driven the GT40?

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Oh, yes. I've driven it in South Africa in Kyalami on the racetrack.

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Yeah. What do you like about it?

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I love that pure driving.

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You know, I don't like that computer stuff.

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You know, even for a seat you have five computers to move it forward,

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-to heat it up and everything.

-Yeah.

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So to drive such a pure car with your hands

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and you feel it with your back

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and with your bottom, you have the feeling to the road,

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you're connected to the steering wheel and the road and the tyres.

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-Brilliant.

-John, you've driven a GT40?

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I have not. I've driven the Ford GT, the newer one they built,

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Ford built in '05 and '06,

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but the original GT40, I haven't had my chance.

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-Maybe you could hook me up.

-I'll try and sort you out.

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But you've got a heritage edition, don't you?

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One of the new ones, the 2018 Ford GT.

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It's the heritage edition.

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It's the red with white, like AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney drove to win

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the overall at Le Mans back in '67.

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So it's kind of Ford made that to commemorate that win 50 years later.

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They didn't make many of them, though, did they?

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No, the new one, they're only making 18.

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I think I've got number three of the 18, so I feel pretty honoured.

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Ford picked everybody that got one of those cars, and I honestly didn't

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think I'd be in that list, but I feel very fortunate to get one.

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There's something else that comes out of America

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that I feel needs discussing - figure of eight racing.

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More specifically, figure of eight chain racing.

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Sabine, you and Chris were lucky enough

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to experience this in America. Well, let's have a look.

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-SABINE:

-Hey, buddy.

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-Oh, God, no.

-Let's smash some stuff.

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SHE CACKLES

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Oh! Go, go, go, go, go, go!

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Oh! Agh!

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Whoo!

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Ow!

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Ow!

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-Shit!

-I can't see anything!

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Ow! OW!

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Oh, my God! This is the worst thing I've ever done.

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Ever!

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HE SIGHS

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Chris, good job.

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Are you still there?

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You total lunatic.

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That was absolute carnage.

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I've got to say, I preferred watching rather than being in there.

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What was it like, actually driving from the front?

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Perfect. I had a good position, I had no mirrors,

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I couldn't see what's happening behind me,

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so it was really scary for...

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..poor Chris. I enjoyed it.

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The look on his face when you were in the car. Look at that.

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I think I might just set that as my phone wallpaper.

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You want that place.

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He had the brakes, I had only the acceleration

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and the steering wheel. And he was screaming, "Brake, Sabine!

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"Please, brake!" I said, "Honey, I don't have brakes."

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"Oh, yeah!" And then he starts braking,

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but after a couple of laps he said, "I don't do anything here,

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"I just sit here and wait what happens."

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-It's a bit like me and you at the Nurburgring that time.

-Yeah.

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I think I had a similar facial expression.

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And the producer... Yeah.

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They insisted that we show this.

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Bad times. Bad times.

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John, this figure of eight racing is actually a real thing, isn't it?

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People actually do this.

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They do.

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-Why?

-You know, look, it's one of these things,

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it's kind of like a lot of what we do, it's pointless,

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and that's the fun part of it.

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-So, it's good entertainment.

-I suppose it is.

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Our producer's also managed to dig up this little gem.

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Let's take a look at this.

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-PA:

-Get ready, get set

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and ho-o-o-o-o-old on!

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Look out in the middle.

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Look out in the middle! No, no, no, no! Oh!

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Scary Gary in the middle!

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Yo! In the middle again!

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They're getting a little randy.

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HE GRUNTS

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Yes! Yes!

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Yes! How about it for the school buses?

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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What a thing.

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Absolutely insane. I should point out, though,

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that the schoolchildren were actually unloaded before.

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I think. I don't know.

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All right, I want to talk about your Venom project.

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Back in 2014, the Venom GT

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recorded the highest speed ever for a road car.

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You smashed the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

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and that had set the record back in 2010.

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How much did that actually beat it by?

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That car went 270.

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We beat the Bugatti guys by a couple of miles per hour.

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I think the interesting thing to note was that we hit that speed

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in less than half the distance.

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The Bugatti took almost five miles to hit their speed.

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We did it in a little less than 2.5.

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We actually have a clip of it. Let's roll this.

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ENGINE ROARS

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By the way, just as a side note, something that I'm proud about,

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we consider that an American car but, don't misunderstand it,

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it had a lot of British DNA.

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Basically, the Venom GT started as a Lotus Exige chassis, and we wanted

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something very lightweight, so give yourselves a handclap.

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You're welcome.

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-We just gave it a little extra horsepower.

-Yeah.

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Let's talk about the actual runway.

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-How long is that?

-This particular runway,

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this is the Shuttle landing facility.

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This is where they used to land the space shuttle at Nasa,

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the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. So the total distance

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end to end from grass to grass is 3.2 miles,

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and we calculated that we needed about seven-tenths of a mile

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to slow down, so we set cones up at 2.4 miles

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and allowed ourselves about a tenth of a mile...

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..fudge factor in terms of just being able to brake.

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Is that when you scream, "Fudge"?

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Yeah, yeah.

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There's actually alligators in that swamp.

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So you're going to have some serious fudge if your brakes don't work at

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-the end of the runway.

-You'll be their fudge.

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Presumably you can't just rock up to Nasa and say, "Look,

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-"let me borrow your track?"

-No,

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you're dealing with the government

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so it took us two years to get into Nasa. We asked very politely,

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but they weren't interested in allowing anybody to come in there

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to set some sort of speed record, but then we found a little bit

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of a loophole in their rules in that if we were showing up

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to do proper engineering testing and validation of the car,

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they were fine with that and they said, "Look,

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"if you're here validating your tyres and the safety of your car

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"and you happen to set a record, then we'll allow that."

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So, two years later, we finally got the chance to run it there.

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Since then, Koenigsegg have actually smashed that record

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and word on the street is that Bugatti and you guys

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are actually hot on their heels.

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Hey, you know, the Koenigsegg guys, I mean, they destroyed our record.

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And I'm glad that they did because our record stood

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for almost four years and I'm like, if nobody else wants to play,

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it doesn't really give us any relevance to come back

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-and run a big number.

-Yeah, they hit 284.

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They went 284. And I'm sure that the Bugatti guys

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are not going to take that sitting down so I imagine they'll jump back

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in and go out and possibly better that number.

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And once those guys duke it out a bit, we'll come out with our new

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car and see if we can settle it once and for all.

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-OK, what's your number?

-I'd like to get 300.

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We'll see. We think the car's capable.

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It's got enough power and the aero's right, just got to make sure

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it has the proper balance of enough downforce but

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not too much downforce. The Venom F5.

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So maybe we'll see some time next year.

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And, Sabine, what's the fastest you've gone?

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-355...kilometres.

-KPH.

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-220, 225?

-You had him worried there for a second.

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-What was that in?

-In the Bugatti Veyron.

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-In competition.

-In Abu Dhabi on a normal road.

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Well, maybe we'll come back and we'll film with you.

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Yeah, or we borrow it and we go on the Nordschleife again!

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No, no, you're not driving.

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-Come on, Rory.

-Only if I can drive.

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You have no clue about the Nordschleife.

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-It's too dangerous.

-Be careful what you wish for.

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This is true. This is true.

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All right. Now, no episode of Extra Gear would be complete without

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a Harris Hot Lap, and this week Chris takes what might be

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his last chance to fling the Vauxhall VXR8 around Dunsfold.

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Is there any other way to behave in an HSV GTSR?

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I think you've got to do it, haven't you?

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I love this thing. I know it's not as polished as an AMG

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or an M car, but it has a personality all of its own

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and one that we have to celebrate because, sadly,

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we're not going to see another one. It's the last of the lot.

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I think they're great cars.

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The interior's a bit ropey and the plastics aren't as good and all that

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stuff, but who cares? It's bright-green and it's a larrikin,

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or is it a bogan? It might even be a bogan, you know.

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It's a yobbo of a car.

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It's one of those cars that feels enormous when you get in it.

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595 horsepower, 460-odd foot-pounds of torque.

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It's big.

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But it's quite nimble.

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It's really well sorted.

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You can tell it's been developed by a bunch of people

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that really know how to drive and enjoy driving.

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It stops well, too.

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Pretty much two tonnes of car and it holds itself down very well.

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Brakes are good, grip is good and, when you want it to slide,

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you just sort of think about it and what happens?

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Here we go. Look at that, it's wanting to slide the whole time.

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Chris doing what Chris does best.

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Let's talk about this car.

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The VXR8 is...

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I guess it has something in common with the Mustang, doesn't it?

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It's just this kind of affordable, raw,

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high-performance car that is aimed at the common man.

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And it's... It's there to be enjoyed

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and tyre smoke and wild sideways action

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is kind of what it's all about. Can you...

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-Does that kind of resonate with you?

-Yeah, it does.

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I had a car very similar to that. It was my daily driver

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for a couple of years. In the US, they sell

0:21:090:21:12

a similar version called a Chevy SS and we tuned it up a little bit.

0:21:120:21:16

-So a lot of fun. Great value.

-Yeah.

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Sabine, I know you're all about precision on the Nurburgring,

0:21:180:21:22

making sure your lines are tight, coming out of a corner

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and accelerating at just the right point,

0:21:250:21:27

braking at just the right point. But, surely, you...

0:21:270:21:29

You know, you've got to enjoy being a hooligan sometimes as well.

0:21:290:21:32

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the V8 stuff from the Australian race...

0:21:320:21:35

..like the Holden Commodore, yeah?

0:21:350:21:39

-Yeah.

-These things are so good.

0:21:390:21:41

A friend of mine, he bought one and I had a look at it.

0:21:410:21:44

It was a piece of...rubbish.

0:21:440:21:46

But it was a Holden Commodore! We had so much fun with it.

0:21:460:21:49

Yeah, but it might be the end of an era. These things are dying out.

0:21:490:21:52

-It's kind of going down...

-It's a shame.

-It's going down the road

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of, you know, hybridisation and electric cars, and things like that.

0:21:550:21:59

You're not a fan?

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Not a fan. Anyone else in here a fan of electric cars?

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-ALL:

-No.

-All about the V8, yeah?

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I mean, if I want to drive a golf cart, I go to the golf course.

0:22:070:22:10

Yeah.

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-Well said. Well said.

-100% with you.

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Now, I need to address Chris Harris.

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He was calling Australians bogans.

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And our producer's actually found a clip of Chris

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when he was down under reviewing the HSV Maloo,

0:22:210:22:24

where he kind of did the same thing.

0:22:240:22:26

I'm not going to resort to crude stereotypes.

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So, I'm going to don my bluey.

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I've got my Vegemite.

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And I've got my can of VB.

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We shouldn't be clapping that. We shouldn't be clapping that.

0:22:470:22:50

What is going on with the shorts?

0:22:500:22:52

-Yeah.

-That is truly offensive.

0:22:520:22:54

Chris, ever the diplomat. Anyway, that's about all

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we have time for tonight. Let's give a big thank you to my guests,

0:22:560:22:59

John Hennessey and Sabine Schmitz.

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Cheers, guys. See you next week. Goodnight.

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