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-Now on Top Gear - Rutledge thinks he's James Bond...

-This is a car you want to save the world in.

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-Dominic Monaghan thinks he's lost on our track.

-This car is a hunk of junk.

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-And Tanner thinks he's going to throw up.

-I get car-sick.

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APPLAUSE

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Welcome to Top Gear.

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On this show, there will be no cooking, no-one will be taking an emotional journey,

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but if it has an engine and tyres, it will be right here.

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I'm Adam Ferrara, that's Tanner Foust and this is Rutledge Wood.

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We've got an amazing show. I get to drive the Aston Martin V12 Vantage.

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We challenge Tanner to a drifting competition and Dominic Monaghan is our big star in a small car.

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But first, we start with a question. What do you want from a car?

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-Horsepower.

-Enough room for the kids.

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Yes, both of those things would be nice. I would like everything in one car -

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something that's good on the freeway and great on the racetrack, with five seats, a real trunk

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-and it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

-You're very selfish.

-Good luck.

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It may sound impossible, but I'm not so sure.

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The Sierra Nevada mountains, California.

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In winter, this frozen wilderness is entombed in ice.

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But when spring brings a thaw,

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deep in the forest, a beast stirs.

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ENGINE REVS

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This...is the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

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It's what happens when you take engineers and say,

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"Here's your coffee, there's your pencils. Don't be a bunch of pansies!"

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And did they man up!

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That's no surprise because Mitsubishi's engineers are good at building stuff. Lots of stuff.

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Cars is just a very small part of their business.

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They make ships, electronics. You may have a Mitsubishi TV in your living room.

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And they make airplanes.

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In fact, Mitsubishi manufactured the wildly successful Zero,

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one of the best business models on the planet -

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build it, jump in and crash it into a ship.

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When you buy a car, you want more than a one-way trip

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and the Evo delivers.

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The Evo packs 291 horsepower into just four cylinders and two litres.

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That's more horsepower per litre than a Ferrari F430.

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0 to 60? 4.9 seconds.

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While the interior is nothing to write home about, it's what you can't see that is so incredible.

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A dizzying array of computers and sensors do lots of crazy things,

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but ultimately, somehow it puts the power to the exact tyre that needs it when it needs it.

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With this cool all-wheel control button, you can choose between different surfaces.

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You can select "tarmac", which is "pavement" to us,

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or "gravel" or "snow" which basically changes the strategy

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and how the car uses its power to maximise performance on that surface.

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That all sounds great, but does it work?

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To find out, I've come to Mammoth Mountain.

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With an 11,000-foot summit, it's one of the highest ski areas in America,

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not the normal place you'd test a car,

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but since Mitsubishi claims that this is no ordinary car, we needed an extraordinary test.

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OK, here's the plan.

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I'm going to race this Evo against these skiers, disguised as walking skittles.

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'The skittles might dress loud, but these guys are extreme skiing pros -

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'big mountain-skiing, extreme daredevils who do not know fear.

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'They will race to the summit by gondola,

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'then take a three-minute banzai run down 3,000 feet to the finish line at Little Eagle Lodge.

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'I will take the twisting seven-mile route to the finish

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'that will be a supreme test of the Evo's ability on pavement, gravel and snow.'

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Good to meet you, guys. I need a bit of critical information.

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-How long are you sitting on the gondola?

-About 14 minutes.

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-I could get pretty far down the road by that point.

-Yeah.

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-How quick are you getting up to?

-Between 60 and 70mph.

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-What?!

-Yeah.

-Are you guys ready to give it a shot?

-Absolutely.

-Yeah.

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All right, see you at the lodge.

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Hey, Tanner!

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Son of a...

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If I can't take advantage of these first 14 minutes or so, then I am absolutely screwed.

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OK, going through the hordes of people here.

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'Mammoth gets nearly 1.5 million visitors each year and they all seem to be here now.'

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I'll try not to run over anybody as everybody comes out of a nice day of skiing.

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'My fate hung on the Evo's ability to adapt to changing road surfaces.

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'The first two miles were pavement.'

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Oh, no!

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'And a big, stupid, slow bus!'

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I am absolutely screwed.

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Just people enjoying their afternoon. But this is a race.

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ENGINE REVS

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Thank you, buddy.

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TYRES SCREECH

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'The road was now a loose surface, but in "gravel" mode, the Evo got its claws out and clung on.

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'A good thing too because coming off here would be permanent.'

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Yes!

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'Up above, the skittles were climbing relentlessly to the summit.

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'But I was making great time until the inevitable happened.'

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-TYRES SCREECH

-Holy crap!

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'A propane truck.

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'Highly explosive. I was doomed.'

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It's a beautiful road too. It's really nice. I could be flying right now.

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They're probably changing gondola now, getting on to the second one.

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Go, go, go, go, go!

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Come on, Bessie. Come on, girl!

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'It was becoming clear that what we had here was a road hog.'

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This is crazy. 'Probably over-compensating for something.'

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He was super-short growing up, always got picked on,

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so he got a job driving the biggest, slowest truck he could find and put "flammable" stickers all over it,

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so nobody would pass him. He's laughing in there!

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'12 minutes down. The skiers were a few hundred feet from the top

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'and I might as well have been going backwards.'

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-Ready, dude?

-Yeah, let's do this.

-Come on, truck!

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Go, go, go, go, go!

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'Somewhere above the snow clouds,

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'they were coming for me.

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'The luminous hellhounds were on my trail.'

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'A minute later, I finally lost the angry little guy in the big truck

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'and with the weather closing in fast, the Evo was about to face its ultimate test -

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'eight-foot-deep snow.

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'I kicked it into "snow" mode. This was it.

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'I'd either be shredding like Shaun White or sinking up to my windows.'

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LAUGHTER

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This is awesome!

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I would rather be in this Evo than a Jeep going through this snow right now.

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'Not only could this car drive on snow, it mastered it, it owned it.

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'It was a glorious, beautiful thing and I was in love.'

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This is heaven!

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Oh, my gosh!

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Even when the Evo's almost stuck, it just doesn't give up, sending that power where you need it.

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For all you Subaru owners who think the Evo is just a pavement queen, think again. This is the real deal.

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'And then they were on me like fluorescent devils.

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'And the orange one was in my sights.'

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HE LAUGHS

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How did those guys get down here so quick?

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'We were neck and neck with just a mile to go and now the skiers had the advantage.

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'They could go off trail through the woods. The Evo was good, but not that good.'

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Whoa!

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Son of a bitch!

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Oh, my God, this is going to be so close!

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Come on!

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'As we burst out of the storm and into the sunlight, it was too close to call.'

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Aaaaagh!

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Yes!

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APPLAUSE

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You know what? I'm getting the feeling you really like this car.

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That was some of the most fun I've ever had behind the wheel.

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A world-class sports car disguised as a family car for 34 grand.

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It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

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It's not about looks. If you need to express your virility, get a yellow Lamborghini. This is for drivers.

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If you like the way cars feel from behind the steering wheel, this is it.

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It is now time to take a look at a legendary luxury British sports car favoured by James Bond.

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For this, we needed a host that was handsome, debonair,

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charming, fearless,

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and unfortunately, I was busy.

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-LAUGHTER

-So we sent the guy with the beard.

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This is a car maker that defines itself in three words -

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power,

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beauty,

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soul.

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A British company with nearly 100 years of history...

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..a rich racing heritage

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and a tradition of creating instantly recognisable, iconic sports cars.

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It can only be...

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Aston Martin.

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This particular Aston Martin is the V8 Vantage.

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It's Aston's smallest and least expensive car

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with the base model setting you right about 120,000 dollars.

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Now, that's pretty big money for an entry level to the brand,

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but it is beautiful and it is an Aston.

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Now, this has a 4.7-litre V8 that puts out 420 horsepower,

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which sounds great, but it's pulling 3,600 pounds along with it,

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which is a huge amount of weight for a car this small.

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In comparison, the Porsche 911 weighs 500 pounds less.

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The worst part about this car is the power doesn't come on till high in the RPMs,

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so you've really got to flog it to feel like you're getting anywhere.

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It doesn't feel as fast as it should be.

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When a car looks this fast and costs this much,

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you expect it to deliver.

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If you think about all the cars you could buy for 120,000 dollars,

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a Porsche 911, an Audi R8, the Mercedes CL 63,

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or even for less money, the Nissan GT-R,

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I'd rather have any one of those over this.

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So the car will do 180 miles an hour,

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but the speedometer goes up to 220.

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Is that a British thing?

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Lying?

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So what do you do if your 120-grand car has beauty and soul,

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but no power?

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Well, the engineers at Aston Martin decided the best answer was a heart transplant.

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I'm driving an Aston Martin. I feel like 007.

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This is the kind of car you want to save the world in.

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Wood. Rutledge Wood.

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Just as Q Branch modified James Bond's personal cars,

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Aston's goons somehow wedged a 6-litre V12 from the larger DB9

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into the comparatively tiny Vantage.

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This was no small amount of work. It's clear to see there's a big difference.

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In the V8, you've got tons of room around the engine. In the V12, you can barely fit your hand in there.

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For the engineers to fit this motor, they had to cant the radiator, shave the oil pan

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and even run a smaller alternator, but that's what hot-rodding is.

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You take the smallest car you have and cram the biggest motor in there you can.

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Finally, the Brits took a page from the Americans.

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This car has a 6-litre V12 that puts out 510 horsepower,

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190 miles an hour top speed.

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0 to 60 is 4.1 seconds.

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'The cost for all this wonderfulness?

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'180 grand.

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'And for that, you get a car that's even sexier than the V8.

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'If the V8 is Angelina Jolie...

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'the V12 is Angelina Jolie in knee-high boots...

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'with a riding crop.

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'Added aggressive touches give it the look of a cage fighter.

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'From the race-derived side sills and rear spoiler to the carbon details on the hood,

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'the V12 is muscular and menacing.

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'So the V12 was showing some promise after the disappointment of the V8.

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'It had the beauty and it had the soul.

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'The question was - did it really have the power?

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'On the edges of the Mojave Desert in California

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'is a six-mile-long dry lake bed.

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'This hot-rodder's playground has no speed limits

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'and is known simply as El Mirage.'

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Oh, that power is incredible!

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I see what was wrong with the V8 Vantage. It just didn't have enough motor for the car.

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But this...this is it.

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'The V12 is only available with a manual transmission,

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'so you know it's a pure-bred driver's car.'

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What fun would a car like this be if you couldn't take traction control off?

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That is just a beast!

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Oh, sideways!

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Oh, that's pretty!

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Oh, yeah, I'll hang it out there.

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'The V12 has almost perfect weight balance between the front and rear wheels

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'and it only weighs 110 pounds more than the V8, despite the extra cylinders.

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'That all sounds good, but what does it mean in real world performance?

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'0 to 60 is 0.6 seconds quicker than the V8.

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'That doesn't seem like much return for an extra 60 grand,

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'so it was time to put the British hot rod to the test... the American way.'

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'Within seconds, the V12 had established an unbeatable lead.

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'The V8 was eating my dust.'

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Oh, man, let's see how fast we can get it. 120...

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130...

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140...

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150! Look at that!

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160!

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'The V12 will do 190 miles per hour, but on this surface, there was no chance of getting there.

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'175 was the best I could get,

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'and the V8, it was totally dusted.'

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You know the one thing that doesn't make sense about this car?

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The speedometer in this one only goes up to 200.

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Liars!

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All of these Brits are liars!

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'You can't fault Aston Martin here.

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'They tackled the issue with the lack of power in the V8 head-on and created the V12.

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'But they did such a great job that the Vantage has been propelled towards a higher level.

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'It has the performance, the price tag and with only 300 being made,

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'the exclusivity needed to achieve the coveted tag of "supercar".'

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APPLAUSE

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Clearly, the V12 is better than the V8, but is it really worth 60 grand more?

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I think it is. The V8 just didn't have the power it needed for the car.

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-The V12 solves that entirely.

-Yeah, but it costs 180,000 dollars.

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You can get a Mercedes SLS AMG for that or a Porsche Turbo S and still have a huge pile of money left over.

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You could get 1.8 million pairs of tube socks.

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Yeah, but here's the thing.

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When you spend that much money, what do you tell people you drive? A Mercedes? A Porsche?

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-That won't get you laid.

-Or an Aston Martin.

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Aston - it just makes you feel important.

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It may be classy, but how fast does it go around the Top Gear test track

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at the hands of our silent racing driver? Take it away, Stig.

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The Stig, of course, is the fourth member of our team,

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whose sole purpose is to shake down each new car we review. Let's see how the V12 Vantage performs.

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A lot of wheelspin off the line. 510 horsepower - can't argue that,

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but she is a heavy beast.

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Braking into the first corner, it's 3,700lbs.

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Still looking pretty composed as he comes through the chicane.

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Now he comes into the teardrop, the slowest part of the track.

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With rear-wheel-drive cars, it's tough to get the power down. Can he do it without sliding?

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He's working hard today. Catches a little bit of air.

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Onto the straight at over 120 miles an hour.

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And into the trickiest braking spot. This is the most dangerous spot.

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Aston Martin, no problem. Really looking pretty good.

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A little wheelspin coming into the last S.

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Coming into the final corner now. This is going to be a pretty quick time for such a big machine.

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And...across the line.

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There he goes.

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I'm not the hugest fan, but that looked pretty clean.

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You've got the Viper at the top, some Lamborghinis. The Aston Martin with an extra 1,000lbs

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-comes in at 1:28.2.

-Wow!

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1:28.2.

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Earlier, we had the Evo. The Stig took this around the track.

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34,000 car, basically a fifth the price of the Aston Martin,

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did it in 1:29.2. Only a second slower than the Aston Martin.

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It's unbelievable.

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All right. Now it's time for our Big Star in a Small Car.

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He's been trapped on a desert island after an aeroplane accident in Lost,

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he's been on an amazing journey in Lord of the Rings and he had visions in Flash Forward,

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but I bet he didn't see himself in a 17,000 hatchback riding on an old runway.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Dominic Monaghan.

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How you doing, man? Nice to see you! Have a seat.

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So I have to ask, first off you drive what has been described as a tinted and dented Prius.

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That's true, yeah. I drive a pretty awful Prius.

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-Yours is an '05. Do you have that funny sticker on the bumper?

-I do.

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So in LA and California, they put this little yellow sticker on the bumper to drive in the HOV lane.

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-All of a sudden, nobody's giving out the sticker any more.

-It's gold dust. I had to put it on and razor it,

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so people can't pull it off. For a while, you could park on a meter in California for free.

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You can't do that now. I have so many parking tickets!

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On Lost, a lot of you guys were getting pulled over like it was the Lost curse.

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-Out of the main cast, they probably got 9 out of 14 of us.

-Wow!

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On my driving licence - I have two now - both have goofy faces.

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The first is a big Joker grin and the second is like this.

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-Do cops like that? Is it a good ice breaker?

-No, they don't like it.

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Cops like you if you're a sexy girl. Apart from that, no chance.

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I know you like to go fast, but you're on the waiting list for a Tesla Model S.

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-That's their new four-door.

-I made a decision

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that I can buy any car I want so long as it's electric or hybrid. Hopefully, electric.

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For me, cars are not quite yet at the point where I need them to be for my imagination.

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I don't like that noise that the indicator makes. Click-click, click-click.

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I want a different noise. And I don't like it when the windscreen wiper goes...uuurgh!

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I want it to go across like this.

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I want it to go from four-seater to two-seater when I ask and the paint to change colour

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and I want the speakers playing inside to flip and play outside when I'm hanging outside.

0:25:540:25:59

I want my car to drive me to where I want to go, then go find parking.

0:25:590:26:04

-And I want it to talk to me.

-Sure!

-To ask me how my day was

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-and to talk to a car thief and say, "You just stole Dom's car."

-"Not cool. Take it back."

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"Pull over or you're in trouble." And then knock the guy out!

0:26:150:26:19

-You want to drive a mood ring! Every day a different colour.

-My mood changes so much.

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-It should reflect in my car.

-Well, since you like fast cars, you were at home in our Suzuki.

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-Kinda!

-Do you want to see his lap?

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Let's take a look.

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Nice little start there.

0:26:380:26:41

-Having a little...

-Oh! Couldn't put it into second!

0:26:420:26:47

Look how small I am - like a little leprechaun!

0:26:470:26:51

Is it as racy as your Prius, dare I say?

0:26:510:26:56

You know, the Prius takes a long time to respond.

0:26:560:27:00

-You don't say(!)

-This is stick shift so...

-This is the most technical part.

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It looks like I'm going so slow!

0:27:060:27:10

No braking. Just tapped the brake there. Very naughty.

0:27:100:27:14

-You have to remind yourself.

-'Yeah, yeah.' This car is a hunk of junk!

0:27:140:27:20

Cameraman's Curve. It's like Dead Man's Curve except we'll lose a cameraman.

0:27:200:27:25

Yeah, I spin out a little bit here. Definitely.

0:27:250:27:30

You look good in a helmet.

0:27:300:27:32

God, it looks like 20mph!

0:27:340:27:37

Oh, that's beautiful. And across the line! APPLAUSE

0:27:370:27:42

-So, be honest...

-What did the spaceman do? 1:55?

0:27:430:27:48

-Yeah, Buzz Aldrin. How do you think you did?

-Oh, man, I think I did like one forty...

0:27:480:27:54

one?

0:27:540:27:56

LAUGHTER

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Wow, you're ambitious. I like that about you.

0:27:580:28:02

-We're talking about Buzz Aldrin. He's been 25,000 miles an hour.

-Cool.

-You had trouble breaking 90.

0:28:020:28:09

-But what is he now? 80?

-Maybe!

0:28:090:28:12

-I can't beat an 80-year-old man?

-Well, I guess we'll find out. You did it...

0:28:120:28:18

-Oh, no.

-In one minute,

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fff...

0:28:210:28:23

..forty...

0:28:240:28:26

..five three.

0:28:260:28:29

10 seconds!

0:28:290:28:31

-So I was just over 10 seconds...

-Barely. But like you said, he's 80.

-Yeah.

-He won't notice.

0:28:340:28:40

LAUGHTER Let's hear it again for Dominic Monaghan.

0:28:400:28:46

When he's not stunt-doubling for Marty McFly, Tanner competes in a motorsport called drifting.

0:28:490:28:56

-He says it's an art form that requires supreme car control and immense mental focus.

-Yeah.

0:28:560:29:02

We say it's a bunch of guys sliding around like morons.

0:29:020:29:06

-He is the two-time drifting champion.

-The champion moron.

0:29:060:29:11

So we organised a test of his skill.

0:29:110:29:13

If you're going drifting, you're going to want one of these - a Nissan 370Z.

0:29:220:29:27

Rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, light weight and 332 horsepower.

0:29:270:29:34

How could Tanner resist?

0:29:340:29:36

-In the south we call that a power slide.

-In New York, we call it grand theft auto.

0:29:410:29:46

-Gentlemen!

-Very impressive, young fella.

-Welcome to my backyard. Ready to get your asses kicked?

0:29:520:29:58

-What was that?

-That was drifting.

0:29:580:30:01

Originated in the hills of Japan.

0:30:010:30:03

'Tanner felt it necessary to give us the entire history of drifting,

0:30:030:30:08

'like how it was started in the '70s by a Japanese racer with wild style, and how it's still popular today.'

0:30:080:30:14

-Drifting is a style thing.

-Oh, it's like figure skating!

0:30:140:30:18

-You're the Brian Boitano of drifting!

-That's it.

0:30:180:30:22

'These guys can make fun of me all they want, but drifting takes years to perfect.

0:30:220:30:29

'It may look like just a bunch of smoking tyres, but it requires extreme precision

0:30:290:30:35

'and the ability to make the rear tyres lose traction at will,

0:30:350:30:39

'which allows the back of the vehicle to slide - or drift.

0:30:410:30:47

'I could beat Adam and Rutledge at any drifting challenge with my eyes closed.'

0:30:480:30:53

-Ready to get this show on the road?

-We've levelled the playing field, my fast and furious friend.

0:30:530:30:59

-Yeah. You're not going to drive. You're the driving instructor for a great team-mate.

-I get car sick.

0:30:590:31:07

That's a real manly statement. "I get car sick."

0:31:070:31:11

-Want to meet your team-mate?

-Yeah. Who is it?

-Hey, Brian!

0:31:110:31:16

Come on out!

0:31:160:31:18

He's pretending to be blind, right?

0:31:210:31:24

This way, Brian!

0:31:240:31:26

'I thought my buddy Brian Fischler and his seeing-eye dog Nash would be the perfect partner.

0:31:260:31:32

'Brian's a fellow stand-up comic who agreed to help me out.

0:31:330:31:39

'Rutledge and I had Tanner right where we wanted him,

0:31:390:31:43

'but we thought it was only fair to at least give Tanner a chance to teach Brian how to drive.'

0:31:430:31:50

-It's been a long time since I sat behind the wheel.

-OK, let's keep those comments to a minimum.

0:31:500:31:55

-Can you drive a manual?

-I've never driven a stick. The clutch is this thing on the right?

0:31:550:32:02

-They didn't tell you that. They wanted to make it more complicated.

-Apparently.

-Yeah.

-Awesome(!)

0:32:040:32:10

-It's the one on the left, actually.

-Is it? That's not the brake? Do you drive with two feet or one?

0:32:100:32:17

Good question. Two feet.

0:32:170:32:19

Bring the clutch in until you feel it bite. Good. Take your foot away.

0:32:190:32:23

-You're in gear and rolling.

-I take it off the clutch?

-Yep. Wanna try a burnout?

-Yeah.

0:32:230:32:30

-Handbrake. That's how you stop.

-That wasn't a burnout?

-No. Shall we let Nash out?

-Yeah.

0:32:300:32:36

-We might wanna let Nash out.

-'While Nash was busy walking Tanner,

0:32:360:32:41

'we tried to figure out what he sees in the so-called sport of drifting.'

0:32:410:32:46

-Look at you!

-Ha-ha!

0:32:510:32:54

-That's fun!

-Maybe that's why Tanner likes it.

0:32:540:32:57

-All right, start turning the steering wheel left.

-Left.

0:32:570:33:03

To the right, to the right. And to the left. Sorry, right!

0:33:030:33:07

Right. Left, left! brake, brake, brake. Clutch!

0:33:090:33:13

So let's go straight ahead. Sorry, sorry, straight.

0:33:150:33:19

Stop! Stop, hard!

0:33:210:33:23

'Tanner definitely had his work cut out. No way could he win!

0:33:230:33:28

-'We were so confident, we decided to take a break.'

-Rest rooms and wifi. All we need.

0:33:280:33:34

'I updated my Facebook status saying I was going to whup Tanner in a drifting competition.

0:33:340:33:40

'And, for some reason, Rutledge thought I'd be interested in fishing called noodling.'

0:33:400:33:46

-You pull it up for a second...

-'A way to catch catfish with your bare hands.'

-Are you paying attention?

0:33:460:33:53

No.

0:33:530:33:54

Hard left, hard left! Left! Left!

0:33:570:33:59

-Left! OK, Brian, you were on the clutch?

-No. I was on the brake.

0:33:590:34:05

Jump the clutch.

0:34:050:34:08

Push it to the floor. Full throttle.

0:34:090:34:13

Whoa.

0:34:130:34:14

Hold it, hold it.

0:34:140:34:16

That's Brian driving a six-speed. Are you kidding me?!

0:34:160:34:21

OK, that's enough.

0:34:210:34:23

-What did we hit?

-Nothing. We're fine.

0:34:250:34:27

-He's so much better than you are!

-He's better than you, too!

-The blind can drift.

0:34:270:34:33

'We needed to start the competition before Brian got any better.

0:34:330:34:37

'There were three events.

0:34:370:34:40

'Handbrake parking.

0:34:400:34:42

Doughnuts. And the first event - the burnout. Burning rubber for the longest distance wins.'

0:34:420:34:50

-Why don't I start?

-Do it, Rutledge.

0:34:500:34:52

Get full-on redneck on us.

0:34:530:34:55

Yee-ha, baby!

0:34:550:34:58

-That was impressive.

-I liked it.

0:35:080:35:11

Y'all are gonna need a long measuring tape!

0:35:110:35:15

-'Clearly, rednecks and burnouts go together like whisky and hunting.' No way!

-Wow!

0:35:150:35:21

That looks like 98 feet if I stop at the nose of the cone.

0:35:210:35:25

-What do you think, Brian?

-Not bad, but it's definitely beatable.

0:35:250:35:29

-Nobody likes blind AND cocky!

-Man, he is gonna beat you.

0:35:290:35:33

-Just hold your steering wheel straight until we hit something or I say stop.

-Gotcha.

-Full throttle.

0:35:350:35:43

Jump the clutch!

0:35:430:35:45

And stop.

0:35:480:35:51

-Oh, man! That looks close!

-Uh-oh.

0:35:520:35:55

-Good. Let's measure it.

-I said he would beat you. I didn't know he'd beat me also.

0:35:550:36:01

-Call it out.

-98, 99, 100...and...

0:36:010:36:05

-five. 105.

-Well done, my friend.

0:36:050:36:10

Thank you.

0:36:100:36:12

You realise that Top Gear's reputation rests on your shoulders?

0:36:120:36:17

-Thank you.

-'The pressure was on,

0:36:170:36:19

'but I knew Adam would be clutch in this situation.

0:36:190:36:25

'Apparently, he's all clutch.'

0:36:250:36:28

-Ladies and gentlemen...

-Clutch!

-Exhibit A!

0:36:280:36:32

There's not a skid mark on the road.

0:36:320:36:35

It's kind of hard to see. You have to look in the distance. That's kinda hard.

0:36:350:36:41

-Walk straight.

-What happened?

0:36:410:36:44

-Did you do something to the tyres?

-I'll measure it for you.

0:36:440:36:48

Right to the... That's 11 inches.

0:36:480:36:52

-Pretty good.

-Nice work.

0:36:520:36:54

You got totally smoked by your blind friend.

0:36:540:36:59

'Adam and Rutledge didn't know what hit them. We gave them a beat down in the burnout competition

0:36:590:37:05

'and we were ready to beat them again in the art of the controlled spinout, known as the doughnut.

0:37:050:37:11

'A doughnut is accomplished by spinning the rear tyres while you steer the car in a circle,

0:37:130:37:19

'the bigger, the better.

0:37:190:37:21

'The rules were simple. Do as many circles as you could within the cones. Hit any, you're disqualified.

0:37:210:37:29

-'Mr Clutch was up first.'

-On our toes.

0:37:300:37:34

If I scream, "Run!", take off.

0:37:340:37:37

Oh! He's not in the circle, but...

0:37:410:37:45

-He's going back for another cone.

-Did he hit another one?

-Yeah.

0:37:450:37:49

-He can't even see inside the car!

-He's blind now, too?

-It's smoking.

0:37:490:37:55

Yes, that would have been nice if it had been in the circle.

0:37:550:38:01

-Yeah.

-Who's up next? I'd like to see you do better.

0:38:010:38:05

-Brian's up next.

-I'm sorry I said "see", but go.

0:38:050:38:09

'None of Adam's doughnuts counted. I knew that Brian could do better and he was blind.'

0:38:090:38:16

We'll drive around in a circle, then I'll say, "Full throttle."

0:38:160:38:20

- And that's all the way down? - He's never driven a manual before.

0:38:200:38:25

-And he's blind.

-And he's headed right for us.

0:38:250:38:29

Ease it back. Don't put pressure on him. One step back...

0:38:350:38:40

-And full throttle!

-OK, come on, Nash!

-That's enough!

0:38:400:38:44

Come on, Nash.

0:38:530:38:56

'Neither Brian nor Adam were able to stay within the circle. It was my time to shine.'

0:38:560:39:03

SOUTHERN COUNTRY MUSIC

0:39:110:39:14

-Oh, my God, the smoke!

-He's consistent!

0:39:280:39:32

How much more of that can we take?!

0:39:320:39:35

-I don't know about that.

-Well done.

0:39:350:39:39

You don't know about that?!

0:39:390:39:41

That was like a pirouette. I thought drifting was like figure skating? I just wowed the crowd.

0:39:410:39:47

'Rutledge won the doughnut event. If were were to win the entire competition,

0:39:490:39:55

'we'd need to win the final challenge - handbrake parking.

0:39:550:39:59

'Each driver would have to do a 180-degree drift into a parking place and get all four tyres in.

0:39:590:40:06

'I've practised doing this for years, but this wasn't about me.'

0:40:060:40:11

Can you do it better than Brian, who has never seen these boxes or the colour of this car?

0:40:110:40:17

Because if he wins this, in the ultimate drifting competition,

0:40:170:40:21

you two got smoked by a blind dude.

0:40:210:40:24

'Tanner was right. Our plan was beginning to backfire.

0:40:240:40:28

'I couldn't let that happen, so I took matters into my own hands.'

0:40:310:40:36

-Rutledge is coming right now.

-Looks good.

0:40:360:40:39

-That was amazing. Are you unloading something?

-Is this the white zone?

0:40:440:40:51

'I didn't have much faith that Mr Clutch would do any better.'

0:40:510:40:55

-Good speed.

-Yes!

0:40:560:40:59

-Oh, that's...

-With the roll!

0:41:020:41:05

Wow!

0:41:050:41:06

So once he flicked it over, he held the clutch in so it rolled backwards.

0:41:060:41:12

-But that...that would certainly work.

-'It had all come down to this.

0:41:120:41:17

'Brian had come too far to lose now.'

0:41:170:41:20

A little faster, a little faster...and now! Yes.

0:41:200:41:25

-They're pointed in the right direction.

-A little faster... Now!

0:41:280:41:33

-YEAH!

-Oh!

0:41:360:41:39

We are so in there!

0:41:390:41:41

I've seen it all.

0:41:440:41:46

-Closer than I thought it'd be.

-Maybe next time.

0:41:460:41:50

You didn't win it. Brian won it.

0:41:500:41:53

-Absolutely.

-You can't take credit.

-Fair is fair, you guys won. So, ladies and gentlemen,

0:41:530:41:59

-let's welcome the first ever Top Gear blind drift champion, Brian Fischler, and his dog, Nash!

-Yeah!

0:41:590:42:06

-Good to see you.

-How you doing?

0:42:100:42:15

Thank you!

0:42:190:42:21

-That was some awesome driving.

-Well, now that I am the Top Gear drifting champ,

0:42:220:42:28

-applying for a New York cabbie's licence will be easy.

-I think Nash will check out if you do that.

0:42:280:42:34

When you first went into first gear and stalled it...

0:42:340:42:38

LAUGHTER

0:42:380:42:41

-Beautiful!

-Nash doesn't like that idea.

-To the victor go the spoils!

0:42:500:42:56

Well, that's it for this episode of Top Gear!

0:42:560:43:00

Thanks for watching. Good night.

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