Battle of the First Cars Top Gear USA

Now, on Top Gear...it's the battle of the first car.

LAUGHTER

We drive our dream first cars...

I can't get enough of this car!

The Pawn Stars race around our track...

No way Chumlee is going to beat me.

And we find out which one of us had the best first car as a teenager.

ALL: Oh!

CHEERING

Welcome to Top Gear. Getting your first car

is one of those moments in life you'll never forget.

Your first car actually helps define who you are.

Having the coolest car in high school can mean

who you're friends with, what parties you get invited to, maybe even help you out with the ladies.

-That work for you?

-I didn't wear purple!

Who do you think had the coolest first car of the three of us?

AUDIENCE SHOUTS OUT

-I love this place!

-You're wrong but thanks for playing.

Well, to find out who did have the best first car,

we were reunited with the same cars that we drove all those years ago.

BIRDS TWEET

BELL RINGS

Each of us got our first car in high school.

And we wanted to find out who had the best.

So we each bought versions of the first cars we drove back then,

and met up at a high school in Los Angeles.

This...is my first car. 1985 Honda CRX.

It's the perfect first car. You get 40 miles to the gallon, just about,

it's nimble, it brakes well, it's lightweight.

It's actually, for a sporty car, got a huge amount of utility.

I know that in the back of this car, you can fit four kegs of...soda,

or anything else you wanted to put in there, a lot of it.

1987 Dodge Aries K, that's "klass" with a K.

How great is this for a first car?

Are you kidding me?

No, this is great! You can't get in any trouble with this as a first car.

You're speeding in this, the cop will think,

"The poor guy's having a stroke, I'll let him go to the hospital."

-Unfortunately, I know what Rutledge's first car is.

-What do you think?

It is him personified in a car.

You're not wrong.

-Unbelievable.

-Look at that!

Wow, with the chrome rims and everything!

You are in love with this car all over again, aren't you?

-I totally am!

-It's the Barbie pick-up.

This is a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup diesel.

-Course it is!

-Is this the exact one you had in high school

-or did you find another one?

-This is another one, mine was tan,

-it was a gift from my grandpa.

-How did you sneak home with this loud diesel lumbering up your driveway?

-Exactly!

-Well, that would mean I needed a reason to be out late

which I didn't have in high school.

-You drove this in high school?

-Yeah, loved it.

Each of us was sure we had the best first car, no-one would back down.

So it was time for our first challenge.

"The best first car for teens has been debated for years.

"To find out which of your first cars is the best,

"you'll compete in challenges that will determine which of you made the best choice

"all those years ago. Your first challenge is 60 miles away."

-60 miles away?

-How long is it going to take this VW to do 60 miles?

Are you kidding? I will be riding in style the entire way there.

-You might want to pack a lunch.

-You'll need to stop for Geritol in that thing!

-You might want a truck stop to...

-I'm going to get on the road, see you guys down there!

OK, see you there.

Guys, I babied my car way too much. I always wanted to try this...

TYRES SCREECH

The reverse doughnut! The man gets style points.

What you need is some trays, that's what we used to do, go tray-sliding.

Gentlemen, I think it's lunchtime.

Go!

Oh, he's crease-crashing.

There he goes!

There he goes, look at him!

Yeah, there we go!

This is the redneck coming out in him.

Oh, my gosh, he's going to crash that thing.

'And even grandad wanted to get in on the action.'

-Ready?

-Ready!

TYRES SCREECH

Oh, my God!

-Oh...oh...

-Uh-oh, uh-oh, oh no!

-How's that?

-He's just crashed into a tree!

-Don't hit my car!

-GENTLE CRASH

In high school, this was about the time the cops would show up

-so I think it's a good idea if we leave.

-OK.

-OK.

-See ya!

With our first cars nicely warmed up, we headed off to our first challenge.

We had plenty of time to reacquaint ourselves with the vehicles that carried us through high school.

I'm completely in love with the Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup

all over again. This really is the perfect first car for a teenager.

It's fun to drive, it's cheap to own,

and still slides under the parents' radar.

LOUD BUMP

Ouch. If I was in high school and had bottomed out my car like that,

going over an intersection, I'd literally start crying.

My mum said, on more than one occasion, if I put half the effort

into school that I put into my car, I'd be president.

In high school, I didn't have any aspirations of racing cars

for a living but because I had a CRX and I thought driving was fun,

from day one, I've made my living at it.

If I had a Dodge Aries growing up as kid, every time I thought about

leaving the house would be, "Oh, God, I'm going to have to get in a car and drive," like Adam does.

If I went to school with Tanner, I would punch him in the neck.

Every day.

Tanner reminds me of all those kids on Long Island.

I grew up on Long Island and all the rich kids used to drive through our town to get out to the Hamptons,

cos they would summer out there, in the Hamptons. In the winters,

we'd go out and rob their houses.

I know this looks like an old man's car

because it is, I got it from an old man.

My grandfather passed away and I was the next in line.

In my family, that was called the "dead relative inheritance programme".

-Rut, you have any jobs in high school?

-'Oh yeah, big time.'

-I worked at a toy store.

-You're kidding?

No, I can juggle so I was pretty good there.

Was that part of the job application?

"OK, can you juggle?"

Tanner, what jobs did you have in high school?

I was a bag boy at a country club.

That's great.

Hey, that caddie scholarship's still up, you know!

How would you like to mow my lawn?

Not for the golf thing, it was to drive the golf carts.

I learned a lot about driving with those golf carts.

You get those carts up to 45 miles an hour and then do 360s down the grass, it was rad!

We'd arrived at our first challenge.

It looked like my high school was having a garage sale.

We didn't know what was coming next but it didn't look good.

HE LAUGHS

Come on, Rut, let's go!

-Oh, I got it.

-Don't dent my car!

-Don't worry about me!

-Oh, you... Come on! Get off!

-I got it! I got it!

"Build quality is the hallmark of great cars.

"To find out how well built and maintained your cars are,

"you will test their ability to track straight.

"You will accelerate to 30 miles an hour

"and let go of the steering wheel before entering the Alley Of Junk."

Wow!

"The car that hits the least amount of junk, wins."

-I think Tanner should go first.

-I second that.

What? All right. It's a Honda, they drive...straight.

Problem is, I happen to know my car pulls to the left.

I think there's a couple of old computers in there, there's some wine barrels. If he hits

-one of these tyres, that'll smash the car in half.

-Here he comes.

OK, accelerating up to 30. That's 20. I'm screwed.

-This is going to be so bad!

-Hands up!

-Hands off.

Oh, it's starting to turn! Oh, there it is!

'My Honda made it a full 30 feet before veering off

'into the Alley Of Junk. Not bad for a 25-year-old car

'and I'd only lost half of my side panel so I was still in the game.'

-Smells funny!

-Your car is plastic, it just broke off!

-Wow!

-Look, you can tell where it first started,

-took out a bicycle helmet...

-A disco ball, a fan.

That made a real, real mess.

RUTLEDGE LAUGHS LOUDLY

'Rut's mini-truck was up next.'

You know how long it's going to take him to get up to 30 miles an hour?

-True.

-He has to start all the way back in high school.

I'm ready, let's do this!

'I loved my car so much, I didn't want to wreck it.'

OK, so that's 30, here's what we're going to do.

I'm going to drive with my knees, I'm going to lock it on.

I know my kids are watching. Don't cheat in school!

Only cheat when you need to beat your friends.

Here we go.

Ohhhh!

Wooo!

He didn't hit a thing! Was his hands up?

Amazing! Amazing!

'I successfully cheated my way through the Alley Of Junk.'

That was terrible!

'I wasn't going to let anything damage my baby.

'This wasn't just a car, it was like family.'

-Straight as an arrow!

-All right.

-How did...

-What happened? It, er ...

-I don't want to hear about it, to be honest.

-It's OK, it's OK.

-Did you see it?

I didn't hit a thing.

'Principal Rooney and his Dodge were up next.'

OK, 30 miles an hour, hands up.

Here we go.

-How much stuff is he going to hit?

-I don't know. I saw his car on the freeway, pulling to the right.

Easily he took out half of the stuff! Look out!

Look out! Oh...

You picked up my boxers.

-A slight drift.

-That was worse than mine, we should measure it.

-Where's my mark?

-Your mark is right there.

-Yeah.

-And where's Adam's first hit?

I'd say that's where you started.

It looks a lot worse than it really is.

I think it's safe to say you lost, Adam.

-What is this?

-"The Best Yearling Cock".

-What does it say?

-The "Best Yearling Cock - 1st place".

-You couldn't make that up!

-Look, see.

-2007, that's a...

-Vintage cock.

OK.

CHEERING

-You cheated.

-I merely protected my Volkswagen Rabbit.

You disgust me.

I can't even look at you. I would much rather look at this.

This is the ultimate fantasy first car.

A Corvette ZR1, am I right?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

I always thought, growing up, Corvettes were creepy. For me,

when I was a kid, the dream first car was a Ferrari.

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

What's wrong with you? This is a supercharged American beast, am I right?

It's no Rabbit.

We couldn't agree so we decided to settle it once and for all.

-Ha ha!

-My gosh, once again, you have brought a dull spoon

-to a gunfight.

-Are you kidding me?

That is a night at the opera, this is a bar fight.

-How fast do you go?

-202.

-202, really?

-Yeah.

205.

Three miles an hour, that's great.

No, it's three miles an hour faster.

There's no denying the Corvette is fast on paper, but...

-No, no, it's fast right here!

-Big engine, nice blue paint job, some chrome wheels...

-for your divorcee.

-That is a little Jersey Shore, the chrome wheels.

-Oh yeah, those are Snooki wheels.

-I agree with you, it's a little much.

-This has so much more technology in one wheel compared to the entire car...

-And yet it's slower!

Whatever. I think we should probably race them.

You're right, we have to have a drag race.

-A dr...

-A drag race.

-I'm not going to drag race a Ferrari!

-A straight-line drag... You've got 100 horsepower more than I do.

-Say it again!

-All right, fine.

Strap in there, wear some necklaces,

I'll take you on in a drag race. No problem!

-Drag race.

-Drag race!

Finally, I got Tanner to agree to a race I could actually win.

Normally American cars struggle against the Euro elite

but the ZR1 is something special

which has been 60 years in the making.

The 'Vette was born in the '50s

and has been roaring through the ages ever since.

In the '60s, they were the height of cool. The astronauts drove them

so if you had the right stuff, you had a Stingray.

Through the years, they've had some growing pains with body styles

but in the '90s, they began working towards a vision,

a car that would stand toe to toe and slug it out

with Ferrari and any other European supercar.

This is that car.

This is the 2011 Corvette ZR1,

a carbon-fibre shelled, supercharged battering ram!

'This is the culmination of that vision but...is it a supercar?'

It has a 6.2-litre aluminum black V8 with a supercharger,

that puts out 638 horsepower, making it more powerful than a Porsche GT2.

It is the fastest production car GM has ever made.

And it can go 0-60 faster than a Lamborghini Gallardo.

And it's American-made.

I know, the rest of the world thinks Americans are arrogant,

-and to be fair, we

-BLEEP

-are.

'So, it's a supercar on paper, but does that make it a supercar?

'Well, all that glitters is not gold.'

Is it fun to have all this horsepower? Yeah,

but if I needed a daily driver, I wouldn't buy this car.

I mean, you can't see the edges of the car,

you can't go a lot of places. For speed bumps, you have to come in at an angle,

and everyone's honking at you.

And the interior feels more Chevette than Corvette.

The dashboard's plasticky, the steering wheel's cheap.

Look, something had to give. At 115,000,

it's half the price of the average supercar. Money went into one thing only - performance.

This car is perfect, it's got plenty of power,

just hit the throttle and hold on!

It's like this car was built on a dare.

"Put a supercharger on, I dare you!" And they did!

This is one of the best Corvettes ever made.

It's taken them 60 years to develop the ZR1

but Corvette has finally got themselves a supercar.

Supercar? This is a supercar.

This is the Ferrari 458

and it's quite possibly the best supercar ever built.

Welcome to the future.

This car is an absolute technological marvel.

There is no other car on the planet that brings together

form and function with such an exclamation point.

Ferrari has taken all the technology they've gained from over 31 Formula One titles

and put it together into one positively flawless package.

There's no manual transmission which, for someone like me,

is a source of bitterness.

But this twin-clutch system is so good, so good,

that I think I get it now.

So, is all this technology crammed under the skin of a prancing horse really worth it?

Well, if you've got 250,000 to spend,

prefer a steering wheel to look like a video-game controller,

have a constant craving for the sweet sound of a mid-engine...

..and the ability to go 0-60 in 3.4 seconds...

..then I'd say yes, it's absolutely worth it.

Oh, my God, I can barely talk driving this car!

It's all encompassing, the emotional experience is unreal.

This is one of the few cars I have ever driven that feels like

it's really pushing the limits of what is technologically possible.

These carbon brakes supposedly can work at almost 1,000 degrees centigrade,

which is the temperature of molten lava...

I can't get enough of this car!

9,000 rpm, I love it!

Oh, my gosh, this is relentless.

No fun, no fun, I'm working.

I'm working, I'm professional.

OK, I'm going to do an upshift.

Watch the incredible shock load on my finger when the next gear hits.

Unbelievable how smooth the shifting is.

There's something about this car that makes you realise

that the impossible is possible.

'The 458 is not just a supercar,

'it's one of the best supercars ever made

'and somebody needed a lesson in what that meant.'

Slippery little bastard, ain't you?

So, you're loving that big, blue marshmallow, huh?

Oh, are you kidding? This is a battering ram.

What is that colour blue called? Is it "I'm trading in my 40-year-old wife for two 20-year-olds" blue?

Really? You really got to talk about a mid-life crisis, driving that?

I can respect the fact that car has over 630 horsepower

but it is just a poor man's Ferrari when it comes down to it.

This wasn't made in Maranello, it was born in Kentucky,

it's been drinking bourbon and it's looking for a fight.

Oh, look at you with the horsepower now!

We traded punches on the mountain road but the warm-up was over.

It was time to race.

It's the ultimate showdown - technology versus tradition.

Italian engineering versus American brute force,

and only one shall emerge victorious.

Tanner's a professional race driver, that's why I wanted a drag race

so I don't have to worry about turning.

Oh, it's on. Oh, it's on.

I'm going to get smoked. Let's be honest, that Corvette,

it's made for this. The magnetic suspension on the Corvette, it squats like a drag car.

People at Ferrari would do that.

All right, see that sign down there? That's the finish line.

You'll see my tail lights, then you'll see the sign.

All right, let's do this.

ENGINES ROAR

Ready. Three, two, one,

go!

Wheelspin, OK...

See ya!

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Damn, he's good.

120...

130...

-Yes!

-BLEEP.

I have no explanation for that!

Don't get cocky, I think that was more me than the car.

I thought that you were going to dust me on that one.

Did you get too much wheelspin?

-Yeah, a little bit.

-You had a burnout right there, American style.

-It looked good though.

-It looked good.

'My plan had failed. Race boy won again...for now.'

CHEERING

That settles it, the Ferrari is better than the Corvette.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

No, no, all that settles is you're a race-car driver and I'm not.

You put a race-car driver in that Corvette, it's going to beat the Ferrari.

OK, OK, we're all about fairness here.

When we want to compare cars with scientific precision,

we give them to the best test-driver on Earth.

Is he a robot? Is he a man? Even we don't know.

'We are 30 seconds from drop, 30 seconds, 01.5 miles from the drop.'

'Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,

'four, three, two, one, clear the drop.'

'Top Gear headquarters, the Stig has landed.'

The Stig is the fourth member of our team.

His sole purpose is to drive every car we review

around our 1.6 mile track, designed specifically to highlight

the strengths and weaknesses of any car.

So it's time to see what kind of time he can put down for the Corvette ZR1.

As it leaves the line, not much wheelspin,

very good launch from the Stig as he rows through the gears

towards over 100 miles an hour

on the first straight.

First corner there, keeping it very tidy.

Oh, I spoke a bit too soon as he gets a bit of opposite lock.

That's going to cost him time but very difficult

with this car to keep it in a straight line, it wants to slide.

Into the Teardrop now, the critical section of the track.

Will he get a good exit with minimal wheelspin?

Wow, he is really pushing it there!

A little bit of wheelspin but he fights it and gets the power down.

Good gosh, this could be one of the fastest straightaways

we've ever had on this track.

135 miles an hour as he passes the tyres,

and that's a 100-mile-an-hour drift.

The Stig is earning his kibbles today,

for sure, as he comes in to Cameraman Corner.

The ZR1 should be in the top five or so

as he comes through the S's and into the last corner.

Little bit of a wobble as he crosses the line.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK, so he lapped the Ferrari after the ZR1,

and the Stig did a lap time of 1:23.3.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

A tenth of a second faster than the 12-cylinder Murcielago SV.

-OK.

-Pretty impressive.

-I know, I'm stunned. Keep going.

-We did a lap for Corvette.

-Yes, we did.

-Who thinks the Corvette was faster?

CHEERING

Well, it was. 1:22.4.

-Yes!

-Which proves, undeniably, that yes, you were right, Adam,

-it was your fault.

-Yes! I knew it!

There is a problem though, this car is on 22-inch wheels

-which are not factory wheels...

-Blah blah blah...

-..which makes it a bit slower.

Which makes the Corvette faster. It's a sad story,

tell it somebody else.

The Corvette won that and I am going to win our first car challenge.

OK. "A great first car should be easy to drive."

-Like the Rabbit!

-Hard to look at, though.

OK. "To find out which of your cars is the easiest to learn in,

"you'll teach unlicensed high-school students

"to drive around this course.

"Fastest time wins."

Unlicensed? That's bad news, like never having driven before.

Where are these students?

-Oh, my God.

-They look just like us!

Are skinny jeans cool?

-Gentlemen, how are you doing?

-How are you, fellas?

That's close enough.

If we were in high school right now, that's what we would look like, clearly.

-He has more facial hair than I do.

-That's true!

Did you learn to drive in that car?

I did, when I was 13, my grandpa taught me how to drive

on a dirt road in New Mexico. Easiest car in the world to learn to drive.

Let the clutch out, it will just pull itself.

Automatic, my friend, automatic.

Do you really think you're going to convince a high-school student to get in that car?

You can either ride on a bus or that.

-Er, a bus.

-Do high-school kids know how to drive stick now?

-Not at all.

-Right, are we ready to do this?

-Yeah.

-Let's do this.

-Fellas, let's go.

For this challenge, our teenage lookalikes would have to navigate

our first cars between cones, parallel-park them,

and get them back to the starting point as fast as possible.

We needed to break the ice so we talked about the only thing

teenage boys care about.

The CRX is actually an amazingly good car for meeting girls.

-You got a girlfriend? She broke up with you?

-Mm-mm.

-For women, Halloween is basically an excuse to wear sexy stuff.

-Exactly.

-You will never figure girls out.

-No?

-No.

The cool thing about these is you can take one of these and swap in

like a Jetta TDI swap, that's a turbo direct injection

so it's a turbo diesel...

Rutledge had no chance in this race.

Not only was he boring his giant mini-me to sleep...

I don't know if you've seen this before, it's a cassette player.

They had these before iPods.

..but he and Tanner both had stick shifts.

-Have you driven a manual?

-No.

-Never driven a manual?

-No, not really.

Er, OK, so clutch is on the left.

Brake's in the middle, gas on the right.

-OK.

-Does that make sense?

-No.

I appreciate your honesty.

How are you boys feeling about the clutches?

I think we got this thing won over here!

Adam! You ready over there?

'Ready when you are, my friend!'

'OK, let's get it down.'

Put the clutch in, foot on the brake so we don't take off, OK.

Let's start it up. Clutch in, clutch in.

ENGINE ROARS

OK. Three...

I'll be completely honest...

..two...

-..we're probably not going to win.

-Right.

Let it out. ..one, go!

All right, take it easy, there you go, that's it.

-All right, that way...

-Where am I going?

Go, go, go, go, and faster!

Oh, my gosh, this is dangerous.

Right into this box, right here, stop. Perfect!

Straight into that and stop in the box, good.

Take your foot off the brake and then slowly ease your foot off the clutch.

Yes, give it a little gas. Look, we're rolling, OK, great.

-Great, now put it in drive. I love it!

-Let's ease up this way a bit.

ENGINE STALLS

-That's a stall, you did great.

-I'm sorry.

Easy, easy, that's it, you're a very impressive young fellow.

I got an idea, these guys aren't paying attention. Let's just drive right through that.

Take your foot off the clutch. Great, we parallel-parked.

Go that way.

Crank it, crank it, turn, turn.

And stop.

Ow!

Go right back in the box. Stop! Put it in park!

-Ha ha! How do you feel?

-Great! Woo!

Hard turn, clutch out, clutch out!

Look, you're doing great. Don't panic, whatever you do, don't panic.

Crank it in there, go, go, go.

You got it! And stop. Yes, that's what I'm talking about!

-There you go.

-I'm on the cones!

It's OK, no-one can tell.

That was a shocking amount of effort but we did it.

OK, clutch in now, perfect.

You nailed it.

-Oh, look, the softball team's here!

-How was that?

-Where did you stop? For Melissa Etheridge tickets?

-Don't listen to him.

That's a terrible reference. Could you use a reference from this century, like Katy Perry

or Taylor Swift? These kids don't know who Melissa Etheridge is!

Kid, get out now. Every instinct that tells you to dress like him,

get out. This is what losers look like, OK?

So pay no attention to them, all right?

Don't let it happen to you.

Dairy Queen, could you go for a sundae?

Now it's time for something we call Big Star, Small Car.

You guessed, it's where we put celebrities in our Suzuki SX4

and send them around the test track to see who's got the fastest time.

Today, we've got not one, but two celebrities -

Rick and Chumlee from the hit show, Pawn Stars.

CHEERING

So, fellas, I've got to ask, who's the better driver?

-I am.

-Obviously me.

The thing is, all things being equal, I weigh 100lbs lighter, so...

Oh, that's... Don't listen to that!

He drives like a grandma!

That should help you!

Rick, you're going to go first. I'm going to clear all these people out,

we'll meet you guys at the hangar. When you're done, Chumlee's going to run.

Track is clear, and Rick's off.

Not a bad start, needs to pick it up a little though.

There is no way Chumlee is going to beat me.

Just don't break the car.

Ooh, that trash talk is starting early!

-Not bad.

-I think I could have done that one better.

Turn off that AC, I'll get a little more power!

Learning the trick of the trade there!

-Nice.

-As long as I'm not last place, I'm cool. There is no way he's going to beat me.

Ooh, trash talking...and he's across!

Now, Chumlee's up.

All right, let's get this started.

And there he goes.

That noise means you need to shift.

Looks like he could use a little practice with the stick.

Wouldn't say he's comfortable behind the wheel.

Damn it.

Looks like Rick's trash talk may have paid off.

Seems to be my trouble spot.

BLEEP.

Come on, Chum, I've seen faster laps at a kiddie pool.

Slow down, slow down, slow down.

Come on...

And he's across.

Yay.

Bubbling with enthusiasm. Chumlee, everyone.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Come on up here, guys, Rick and Chumlee, everybody!

-What's up, brother?

-Have a seat, guys.

So, fellas, how was it out there?

-It was good.

-It was fun.

-Fast?

-Er..

-A little.

-Sort of!

Does anybody ever bring any weird cars in to pawn?

Yeah, a 1932 Lincoln LeBaron.

-What's that?

-It's a pretty neat car,

they only made 112 of them and it has a V12 in it

that puts out a whole 150 horsepower.

Wow, pretty serious! Do you guys ever buy any of the cars

that people come in to bring, do y'all ever keep them?

Yeah, my 40 Coupe came in the pawn shop.

I paid 4,000 for it and spent 100,000 to fix it!

Makes sense, we probably all do that at home, er...

Chum, what about you, you ever bought any of the cars?

Yeah, the Buick Regal, with hydraulics on it, you know.

-Did it have hydraulics on it when you bought it?

-No.

It had Daytons on it and it was ready to go, but...

-Where do you get your car style from?

-The hood!

LAUGHTER

There's nothing like popping a wheelie down the street, 90 inches in the air!

In a car, oh, I love it, I love it.

So, what were your first cars?

1973 Volkswagen Thing.

CHEERING

Really?

-Not a particularly attractive car...

-In your opinion!

-..but a real cult classic.

-Chumlee, what was your first car?

-Mine was even worse.

I came home one night to a '93 Geo Metro in my driveway.

LOUD CHEERING

I left it on the side of the road three months later!

-You left it on the side of the road?

-Perfectly running.

It was that bad, it just had to go.

-I didn't want it any more.

-And what do you drive now?

A Maserati and a Range Rover.

AUDIENCE: Oooh!

That seems like a natural progression, right?

-Geo to a Maser... What's your daily driver?

-I have a Porsche Panamera.

-It's turbo?

-No, just the S.

-Really?

AUDIENCE: Aw...

-I know. He's a family man.

-OK, yeah, a family truckster.

Chumlee, yours is a Maserati, what kind of Maserati?

-The Gran Turismo.

-Nice!

CHEERING

And what made you want that car?

I mean, it's fast, it's sexy, it's got a lot of room inside.

-What's the fastest you've been in that Maserati?

-Er...

-Let's just say any time I go above 140, my gas pedal gets wobbly!

-Just a little natural shake!

-Probably about 160.

-How fast you been in the Porsche?

-The legal limit.

-Sure, sure!

What's your favourite car of all the ones you've ever owned?

Er, got to be my Volkswagen Thing.

I mean, I don't know if it was the coolest car I ever owned,

it was the one I had the most fun in though.

You're 16 years old, your first car.

A lot of first memories in that car!

Yeah!

What did you guys think about the Suzuki SX4, how was it out there?

-Er...

-It's no Maserati!

Who do you guys think did better?

AUDIENCE: Rick!

-AUDIENCE MEMBER: Chumlee!

-Really?

-Yeah!

-All right. Rick, you went first.

-OK.

-You did it

in 1:48.1.

LOUD CHEERING

Not a lot of guys get to say they're above Michelle so that's a nice...

..that's a nice treat for you. Chumlee...

-Just go ahead and move Tony Hawk down!

-OK, OK...

That's what we like to hear!

You did it in one minute...

51.5!

CHEERING

It was close!

-So close.

-Almost.

All right, so as far as first cars go,

coolest first car ever, Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup, true or false?

BOTH: False.

Well, I'm going to try to prove you wrong as we get back to our first cars face-off.

It was time for our last challenge.

This does not look good.

"Teenagers are twice as likely as adults

"to get in an accident. A great first car will protect its occupant in a crash,

"and be resilient enough to drive away.

"To see which of your cars is the safest,

"they'll be pulled towards each other at 25 miles an hour,

-"for a combined crash speed of 50 miles an hour."

-What?!

"The winner will be the car that can drive away."

-This is not good.

-I don't want to do this, it's stupid.

-That truck is beautiful!

-It's not beautiful.

I don't want to see it smashed.

-This car sucks, that car's a piece of...

-That car's going to survive!

-That's already fallen apart.

-I'm kind of getting attached to this car.

-You shouldn't.

My Rabbit is in great shape! I would drive that right now.

That's going to be like a beer can, just...

-Just glass blowing out of it, a big fire.

-A mess, really bad.

I'm ready for some explosions. Let's pull the trigger.

Here we go.

ALL: Oh!

I think I got the worst of that.

They knocked your hazards on!

That is a completely destroyed Honda.

You have three wheels on the ground!

-I protected your two cars.

-Oh, that's what you're going with?

You T-boned me in the driver door! I protected your car from getting damaged.

-Is this yours?

-Oh, just put that in the truck.

That's good. Two seats are on top of each other.

Why do we destroy everything that is good?

OK, I will say this. If that is how safe the CRX is,

I wouldn't want my kid driving it.

See. And what about this, would you put your kid in this thing?

If they didn't ride in the back, yes.

-No.

-No. So that leaves...

..the Dodge! Yes, the Dodge, my friend. This is the safest car.

That's what a 50-mile-an-hour crash looks like.

The hit was violent, but to succeed in the challenge,

we had to be able to drive away.

-I'm taking my Honda home.

-You want to put it in the back of Rut's truck? You think it'll drive?

-Mm-mm.

-I think you should try it.

HE REVS ENGINE

Great, now pull away.

ADAM AND RUTLEDGE SHOUT OUT

-Perfect.

-I think I'm going to leave it here.

-That's good there.

I can't believe it drives on three wheels!

Oh, God, I'm crying.

Oh, God, that was awful!

Tanner had killed his CRX. Now it was down to either me or Adam.

Let's mount up. Hope it starts!

-You started?

-She's alive!

What's the matter?

I don't know, I think I ran out of gas, maybe.

-You need a lift?

-I do need a lift.

-All right, well, good luck getting one! Let's go, Adam!

-Can I hop in there?

Guys?

Seriously?

CHEERING

Dodge Aries K, best first car ever!

-No, that's not true.

-Yes, it is.

-How do you think you won?

Because we both drove out side by side, that would make it a tie.

But you cheated! The only reason the CRX didn't win is because it was simply too fast.

-What?

-It got to the crash too early, was waiting there patiently.

By the time you got there, you hammered it from both sides.

-I'm just saying!

-I know this is hard for you

but this is what losing feels like. You lost!

If you have problems about losing, talk to Rut cos you lost too!

-I didn't!

-Yes, you did!

I won teaching the kids how to drive,

the Alley Of Junk, I did, I didn't chicken out

because ooh, we don't want to damage the paint on this!

So I win, so that makes the Dodge Aries K

best first car ever! That's all we have time for.

See you next time!

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