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Tonight, I talk to a man in sunglasses.

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James draws a square on a wall.

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And Richard plays with a soldier's chopper.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Hello, good evening. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.

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Now, in the '60s and '70s the TV schedules were awash with detective shows like The Baron,

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Department S, The Protectors, The Persuaders, The Saint, The Avengers.

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You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

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Let me explain. They were all basically the same.

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Every week a good looking man would run into a swanky hotel, punch

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a swarthy looking man in a Fez and then go to bed with a pretty lady.

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Anyone here old enough to remember that? Yeah, you, exactly.

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The only difference was the cars they all drove, OK?

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This is Brett Sinclair, Aston Martin DBS.

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Steed had a Broadspeed tuned Jag.

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And there is The Saint with his Volvo P1800.

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Now, the interesting thing is that almost none of them ever drove

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the Jensen Interceptor, and I think there's a very good reason for that.

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It looks fantastic, but it was built very badly by people who didn't seem to care what they were doing.

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Let me give you one example.

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When the people on the Jensen production line needed a new steering rack they'd go to

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the steering rack factory and buy one, often without bothering to check what car it was for.

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Some Interceptors were apparently sold fitted with steering racks designed for the Triumph Stag.

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That, then, is why it wasn't very popular with the TV heroes of yesteryear.

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It would never have worked properly.

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Now, though, a small company based here in the lungs of England

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has launched an updated version, which does.

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In the old car the big Chrysler engine turned petrol into noise,

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but very little power was produced on the way,

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so they've taken that engine out and thrown it away.

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In its place there's a 6.2 litre V8 from the modern day Corvette.

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The rear suspension is modern, too, as are the brakes.

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But, critically, the body, that glorious Italian styling, that's untouched.

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And it still has the best name ever put on a car...

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..Interceptor.

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What we have is much the same as that house over there.

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It's old and it's beautiful, but it has central heating, it has all the appurtenances of modern living.

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And unlike that modern day E type we looked at the other day this doesn't cost £500,000.

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This is 112,000.

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I know that's a lot if you're on benefits, but it's not a lot if you're on Elton John.

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I mean, if you are Elton John.

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And it's really not a lot when you see what this car can do.

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Thanks to 429 horsepower, 0 to 60 is dealt with in 4.5 seconds

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and the top speed is 167.

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It goes, then, like that other interceptor from the period,

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the English Electric Lightning.

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However, it as thirsty as the jet,

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and as noisy.

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The engine in this, though, sounds fantastic...I think.

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It's hard to be sure because there's so much wind noise

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coming from here and everywhere else.

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It's a reminder, really, that this car was built in the '70s

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in the West Midlands and these words,

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"West", "Seventies", "Midlands," they're not bywords for quality.

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There are other period features I don't much care for either.

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There's the air-conditioning. Two settings,

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sauna or Turkish prison.

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Then you've got the wipers, which are as good at removing water from the windscreen as a pair of pencils.

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And then there's the steering system.

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It's original, so it could be from a Triumph Stag or it could be from

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a lawn mower, who knows?

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What I do know is to make the car move that much

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you have to do quite a lot of flailing at the wheel.

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There are, however, some period features I love.

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The traditional white on black dials are the sort you get in war films, that you tap

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when they tell you bad news and then they tell you good news.

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Oh no, I've got no fuel!

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Oh, look, I've got a full tank!

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I also like having the dim dip switch on the floor.

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And, look at that radio!

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'This is the BBC Home Service.'

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It's from the James May collection.

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So, how do we sum this car up?

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Certainly it's more of a grand tourer than a raging

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B road barnstormer, but I think that what it is most of all

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is a time machine.

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In my head, right now this is not Top Gear and this is not 2011.

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It's 1972, I have an enormous moustache and I am the star

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of a new TV detective show.

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Nice wheels.

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-Rock your head.

-I would have done if you'd gone within a metre of me!

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It was like you're swatting a fly.

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-That was rubbish.

-Did you see that?

-Yeah, it was rubbish.

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We can't just go around pretending to punch each other.

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-You need a sort of proper sequence. Nice wheels, by the way.

-Isn't it just the best thing ever?

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We need to sort this out. We need a plan.

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So, we adjourned to the Top Gear office to plan our Interceptor tribute show.

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-Why don't we just make the title sequence?

-Mmm.

-Title sequence is a good idea because

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-that tells the whole story. It sums up the atmosphere and the setting.

-Exactly.

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They're always very short and they often end with a freeze.

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Exactly. And everyone turns like that.

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There's always somebody doing karate chops on people.

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-No, there's always a karate chop, shooting, car chase.

-Explosion.

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There was never any blood.

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-No.

-People were shot extensively.

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-Very close.

-Very close, and they never bled.

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-If anything ever has a button on it or a light, they're massive.

-Girls.

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Do you remember that bit in The Persuaders?

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Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, walking along, girl in

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a bikini walks between them for no obvious reason and they both go...

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The good thing about a karate chop is there's no blood.

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you wouldn't need blood. The whole shooting and no blood.

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-Karate chop, no blood, you fall over.

-There is karate.

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-You can do a karate chop.

-It's just there always was.

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-You get out of the car, karate.

-There was a karate specialist.

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You could be a karate specialist.

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-Yeah.

-Well, let's get out there and make a title sequence.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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-Did you kick that girl in the crotch?

-Yes, I did.

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It was actually in her crotch? You could edit that out.

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Can I just ask...?

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-Can I just ask, why don't we make that every week?

-Yes, I know.

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-I want to be a karate expert.

-I want an Interceptor.

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-I want a moustache.

-Well, there you go.

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-Who here would like us to stop making this rubbish and make that instead?

-Yes!

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Because think of the snogging!

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And I tell you what, I know the girl we could have.

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Wendi Murdoch! Blam!

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Apparently, according to one newspaper, so must be true, she growled when she hit him. Oh!

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-LAUGHTER

-Hammond likes a fighty girl.

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Anyway, before we do the news properly, there's something I need to explain.

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Very, very keen viewers may have noticed that this

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hour long programme, is sometimes 62 or even 63 minutes long.

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But this week BBC Two have told us it must be 59 minutes, no ifs or buts, on the nose.

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In fact, all the programmes on BBC Two tonight must be exactly to

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length because they're going at 10.00pm live to the MotoGP race.

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-Yes.

-I'm not interested in bike racing.

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Just because you're not interested

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doesn't mean that the BBC should deny all the people who are the opportunity of seeing it.

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Bike racing only works on YouTube.

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-What?

-Well, you just see the crashes and then...

-Oh, don't be sick!

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Hands up if you want to see bike racing? Two...

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So, about 8% of the population want me to get a move on.

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Yes, they do, so we're going to press on and start with the news.

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And we start with news you may have heard of this week, a new flying car has been announced.

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It costs £150,000. Here's a shot of it in the air.

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That's what it looks like as an aeroplane. And here's a shot of it on the ground.

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It's just a crumpled aeroplane, isn't it? It just comes pre crashed.

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There's an even bigger problem I've thought of.

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Everybody knows, James, you do have a light aircraft,

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-and before you take off you have to do pre-flight checks.

-Well, a few, yeah.

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-What are they?

-Eh?!

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You have to check the fuel...

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Why do you check the fuel?

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-So it hasn't got water in it.

-How would water get into the fuel?

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-Oh, we haven't got time for this!

-No, I'm very interested.

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-We haven't got time for this.

-It's only bike racing.

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-Tell me more about your pre-flight checks.

-No, just...

-You know what?

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Even I would rather watch bike racing than listen to James talk about his pre-flight checks.

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-So get on.

-I will. Now, there's a company in America called SSC

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and they brought out a car called the Aero, which,

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for a time, was the fastest car in the world, verified by Guinness. Faster than the Bugatti Veyron.

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They've come up with another new car.

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I've got a picture of it here. We have no details at all, but we do know its name.

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It's called the Twatawahfur.

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That's interesting. Is this going to be a rival for the new Pagani Huhurrua?

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What?

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The replacement for the Zonda, it's called that Hurh...

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-Hurraher.

-It's spelt H-U-A-Y-R-A. The Hurh...

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Huayra. So, you've got a choice now, if you're a wealthy person, between the Twatawahurrr,

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or the Hurwarrrrrrrr.

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So, are car makers now naming their cars after the noises people make when they're punched in the stomach?

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The Lamborghini Blurgha!

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Mini recently announced a new car.

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It's called The Mini Inspired By Goodwood.

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Stupid name, stupid price. £41,000.

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-For a Mini?

-For a Mini.

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41 grand. However, Aston has now gone one better, OK?

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We've got this new car, it's called the Cygnet and Colette

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-and that's £43,000.

-Eh?!

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43 grand for that!

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And we should point out that that is a Toyota iQ.

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Yes, it starts out as an 11 grand Toyota.

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Aston Martin take the Toyota badges off, put Aston Martin ones on, the price goes up to 31,000.

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They've now added the Colette badges, 43 grand.

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So, what do you get for that extra 12 grand on top?

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You need to look inside. Here they are, two cushions.

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LAUGHTER

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Wait a minute. What is the Cygnet AND Colette?

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It sounds like a lap dancing duo from Leeds.

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An ice skating duo, Cygnet and Colette.

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No, to be honest, we know that the Cygnet part is an Aston Martin Cygnet.

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It's the Colette thing.

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What is Colette? It sounds like a feminine hygiene product.

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Argh!

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-What?

-I made a mistake.

-Did you?

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You get more than just the cushions.

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I do apologise. You also get quilted sun visors, some biscuits.

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I'm just quoting what you get.

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"A guide to Paris, a plastic camera, an empty bottle

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"and four compilation CDs featuring bands such as The Morning Benders."

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LAUGHTER

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So, basically they're selling you a small Toyota full of clutter.

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Oh, now, the most important thing, obviously.

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A couple of weeks ago I showed you all a bird deposit

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-on my Range Rover. You may remember.

-Yes.

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And I invited viewers to send in pictures of bird dirt on their car that was more substantial.

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-We've had some, I admit.

-Oh, yeah.

-Here's one from Africa.

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-I think we know who did it!

-This is a marabou stork.

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God's cruellest joke, this bird.

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wWe haven't really got time for one of your bird lectures.

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You're getting it because this is more interesting than bike racing.

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God knew that bird would live in Africa when he gave it bald legs.

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Now, I'm sorry, but that's a bit unkind.

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So, its legs get hot and sunburnt and the only way it can cool them down,

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and I'm not making this up, is to wee on them constantly.

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-Yeah, but, Jeremy...

-So it wees on its legs.

-Car show.

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We're a car show.

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A giant stork that wees on its knees is not strictly our kind of deal.

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It is if it's standing on a Mitsubishi Lancer.

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-No!

-Which it is, so there's a car element to my story.

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-Anyway there's... What?

-That's a Galant.

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What a cretin you are!

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That could well be a Galant. It's a Galant!

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APPLAUSE

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Remind me never to have him round for dinner.

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How did you know it was a Galant,

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you can only see the back of the television?

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Anyway, I've just humiliated myself and will now commit suicide.

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-If I do that you'll be able to watch the bike racing.

-Yes, we will.

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So, I won't, I shall keep going with another bird dirt picture.

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Now, I don't think a bird did that.

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I think that was a man and I think, if that's your car, you should report him to the police.

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Not that you can because, of course, they've all resigned. But, anyway...

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-And that's the end of the news.

-It isn't, actually.

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-It is.

-It isn't.

-It is. I'm not going to waste time arguing. Move on!

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I will move it on because I want to talk about sport.

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You see, anyone can kick a football around and get an idea of what it would be like to be David Beckham.

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Anybody can pick up a golf bat and get an idea of what it would like to be a Freemason.

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-Let's get on with your point.

-If you want to drive a Formula One car you have to be a Formula One driver.

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An ordinary mortal can't just go into a Formula One factory and buy one, except now you can.

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This is the new Lotus T125.

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And straight away, an anorak would say, "that's not a Formula One car."

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And that's right.

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It isn't.

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But it does come with a Cosworth V8, a sequential gearbox,

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full downforce, a complicated steering wheel,

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a hand-operated clutch and all the other F1 trimmings as well.

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For instance, included in the price is Geoff,

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who is a fitness instructor.

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Alfonso, who will cook for you and your friends,

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and a team of mechanics who will accompany you

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and your car to any race track in the world.

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You also get a truck which is fitted with all the things you need,

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including a Jean Alesi...

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So let's just get this straight.

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If I buy one of these cars, I get you,

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a former Ferrari Formula One driver, to teach me how to drive it?

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It is like that.

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The only problem is that it is single seat.

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-When you are in, you are alone.

-Well, exactly.

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You will have to follow my instruction.

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Jean's first job was to get me comfortable in the car.

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The position is extremely important, because it is where you will

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have the feeling and the feedback from what is happening.

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Erm.

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-Now, you see...

-No, that is not the correct position.

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-Well, it is the position that I... that's it.

-It's my seat.

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Because I was so...generously proportioned,

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the only option was to remove the seat altogether.

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-OK...

-Well, I'm in.

-Yeah.

-But I am sitting on the floor.

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-OK, but now, with the foam, we will feel...

-With the foam?

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-A special foam.

-It's like being taught by Inspector Clouseau, this.

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Is there going to be a "minkey" coming in a minute?

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No, we have a special foam, and you will really feel at home.

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The foam fitting was rather disturbing.

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Why... what are you doing? You're in my actual anus.

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That was my actual anus that you put your hand in.

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It is a part of the programme!

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Things that just happened that I didn't think would happen today -

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Jean Alesi, who I used to hero-worship, is playing with my genitals.

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-And Jean.

-Yeah?

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Compared to the Formula One cars of, I don't know, pick a period.

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-'90s? Is this as fast as that?

-I would say '90s, yes.

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A lot faster.

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This is faster than a '90s Formula One car?

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Yes, because you have a lot more downforce.

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We have a floor which guarantees 60% of the downforce.

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-Really? So, it's got more downforce than even today's Formula One cars?

-Definitely, yes.

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-In terms of power, obviously it's down?

-We have 640 horsepower.

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Which is really enough for 600 kilo.

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Soon, I was ready for my first ever taste of Formula One.

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ENGINE REVS

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ENGINE STALLS

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Oh... No!

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Erm...

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Holy cow! Oh!

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That's acceleration, and I'm not even going fully down on the throttle.

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It's just terrifying. Oh, I can't turn the wheel!

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My legs are in the way! God, this is quite horrible!

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Unlike a Formula One car, which will rev to 17 or 18,000...

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Ow!

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..this is limited to just 10,500, and I'm glad about that!

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I've lost all the temperature out of the tyres. Oh, I don't like this.

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No, no, no. No, I don't want this.

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Thank you. I've driven a car that's got this much power before,

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and I've driven a car on slicks before,

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and I drove a car that weighs as little as this before,

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but I've never driven a car that has all of those things.

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Together. HE SIGHS

0:20:560:20:58

Nicer. HE LAUGHS

0:20:580:21:01

It wasn't nice. It had been terrifying.

0:21:020:21:05

And to explain why, I switched to my own car.

0:21:070:21:11

My mind tells me that it's OK to turn into the follow-through,

0:21:110:21:16

which is coming up now, at 90 miles an hour.

0:21:160:21:20

The thing is, in the Lotus, I have to tell my mind,

0:21:230:21:27

it's OK to go through that corner at 160 miles an hour.

0:21:270:21:33

And what's more, if I tried to do it in the Lotus at 90,

0:21:360:21:41

there won't be enough air going over the wings, so there won't be much

0:21:410:21:45

downforce, and the tyres will be cold, so there won't be much grip.

0:21:450:21:48

If I do it at the speed my mind says is safe, I will crash,

0:21:500:21:54

and I will be killed.

0:21:540:21:57

To stay alive, I have to go faster than my mind thinks is possible.

0:21:570:22:04

Then, there's the question of braking.

0:22:050:22:08

If I want to slow down enough at the hammerhead which is down there,

0:22:080:22:12

in this car which has enormous, ventilated discs, I would

0:22:120:22:15

have to start braking at this point, 140 metres from the corner.

0:22:150:22:22

But what if you braked the Lotus at this point?

0:22:220:22:26

So, he's come to a dead stop, never mind slowing-down enough,

0:22:330:22:38

60 yards from the corner.

0:22:380:22:41

So, what that means is,

0:22:410:22:43

when I'm driving the Lotus, I have to come past here,

0:22:430:22:46

with my foot buried in the loud pedal, still going like hell here,

0:22:460:22:53

still not braking, still not even thinking of braking

0:22:530:22:56

at this point, not here,

0:22:560:22:58

that would be stupid, I would look like an idiot.

0:22:580:23:01

My mind is now SCREAMING at me, stop! Stop!

0:23:010:23:05

You're going to be killed, but I'm still accelerating.

0:23:050:23:08

And when I get to about here, then I'll brake.

0:23:080:23:14

And I don't think I've got the balls for that.

0:23:140:23:17

To spur me on, I unchained the Stig.

0:23:200:23:25

Unlike me, this is a man that drives as fast as a car will go,

0:23:270:23:31

not as fast as he thinks he can go.

0:23:310:23:34

And what he's doing now is setting a lap time on our short circuit

0:23:340:23:39

in V8 powered Ariel Atom, the fastest road car we've ever tested.

0:23:390:23:44

He did it in 36.2 seconds.

0:23:460:23:50

So, can a fat, frightened 51-year-old man

0:23:520:23:56

overcome the limitations of his own mind and beat that time?

0:23:560:24:01

-Wish me luck, everybody.

-ENGINE STOPS

0:24:020:24:04

Oh, bloody hell!

0:24:040:24:06

Going a bit too hard through there!

0:24:120:24:14

I've got to get used to these brakes!

0:24:140:24:17

They just feel useless

0:24:170:24:19

until you stand on them! It's all over the place!

0:24:190:24:23

I am literally all over the place here!

0:24:230:24:27

-37.9, Jeremy.

-37.9 seconds was my last lap!

0:24:270:24:32

The whole thing is jumping about like a wild animal!

0:24:340:24:37

Come on, Jeremy! Yes!

0:24:400:24:43

Oh, Jesus, no!

0:24:430:24:45

-Ballsed it up.

-37.7.

0:24:450:24:48

37.7. Oh, no!

0:24:480:24:53

Oh, for crying out bloody loud!

0:24:530:24:55

Clearly it was time for another chat with Yoda.

0:24:550:24:59

Gears for the corners, Hammerhead, second?

0:25:000:25:05

-Second, for the first one, for the left. And first for the right.

-First for the right?!

0:25:050:25:09

Yes, because otherwise, the car is pushing down,

0:25:090:25:12

-so you use the engine braking to make the back slide a little bit.

-Yep.

0:25:120:25:18

-Then, you keep the 6th for the fast corner.

-6th gear?

-Keep the 6th.

0:25:180:25:22

-Then, second gear.

-For the Chicago. Through the tyres.

-Yes.

-Yes.

0:25:220:25:26

And then...

0:25:260:25:28

With the noise curfew on our track fast approaching,

0:25:290:25:33

this was my last chance to beat 36.2 seconds.

0:25:330:25:36

20 minutes. 20 minutes to try and beat that time.

0:25:370:25:42

Come on, now, come on! Come on! Come on!

0:25:450:25:48

Yes, finally, I have got the Chicago worked out.

0:25:500:25:54

Come on!

0:25:540:25:56

Feeling cramp in my hands!

0:25:560:25:59

-37.5, Jeremy.

-37.5!

0:26:020:26:04

Oh, that's braking! And the neck! My neck is absolutely destroyed!

0:26:120:26:19

-That's 37 dead.

-37. Come on!

0:26:210:26:25

Ow, my head!

0:26:290:26:32

Come on! Come on! Come on!

0:26:340:26:36

-35.8.

-Yes! Yes! Yes!

0:26:400:26:45

35.8! 35.8!

0:26:450:26:49

Eat that, Stig! Yes, yes, yes!

0:26:490:26:54

I'm a Formula One driver! Yes! Yes!

0:26:560:27:02

APPLAUSE

0:27:050:27:07

-Well done.

-Thank you.

-Well done.

-And I looked good.

0:27:070:27:09

-I looked good in that suit.

-I am slightly.

-What?

-No, well done.

0:27:090:27:14

It was good. But I'm slightly confused by this.

0:27:140:27:18

So, if you buy one of these, you don't actually race it.

0:27:180:27:21

No, what you do is, you hire a track, you ring Lotus,

0:27:210:27:24

they bring your car to the track with the mechanics, the chef, all the things

0:27:240:27:28

I talked about there, and you drive it around

0:27:280:27:31

until your neck hurts and then you go home.

0:27:310:27:33

-How much does all this cost?

-£650,000.

0:27:330:27:36

You see, that is quite a lot. Is it worth it?

0:27:360:27:39

Well, if you're one of the Scottish people

0:27:390:27:41

that won the Euro lottery millions, then, you know, it's probably worth it.

0:27:410:27:45

I mean, you'd have to lose a few pounds.

0:27:450:27:47

-LAUGHING AND GROANING

-I don't mean that cruelly.

0:27:470:27:50

I genuinely don't mean that cruelly, and anyway,

0:27:500:27:54

people in glass houses. But, the fact is, it's agony. It really is.

0:27:540:27:59

I was going around Chicago, yet my head is just really, like it's being pulled off,

0:27:590:28:03

and you know you can't accelerate to go round to the Hammerhead,

0:28:030:28:06

-until you get your head upright and rested on the air box.

-I know,

0:28:060:28:09

because when I drove that F1 car on the show a few years ago,

0:28:090:28:14

I could not believe how fast you had to go to make the thing work.

0:28:140:28:18

That car that you drove, came round here with the Stig at the wheel,

0:28:180:28:21

did a lap in 59 seconds, now we were very keen to find out

0:28:210:28:26

if this would go faster, so we brought it here and you won't believe this,

0:28:260:28:29

in the middle of July in a British summer, it was raining!

0:28:290:28:32

And in a show where we're already tight for a time,

0:28:320:28:36

there is no point entering a wet lap in this, what with that tell us?

0:28:360:28:39

So we'll get it back on a dry day and report back on how it does.

0:28:390:28:42

Now, it's time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.

0:28:420:28:46

Now, my guest tonight has long, straggly hair

0:28:460:28:49

and an incredible ability to heal the sick and feed the hungry.

0:28:490:28:54

Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus...

0:28:540:28:56

-it's Bob Geldof!

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:28:560:28:59

-How are you?

-Have a seat. Sir Bob!

0:29:030:29:06

-Great to have you here.

-Thank you.

0:29:100:29:12

You've topped what used to be called the hit parade,

0:29:120:29:15

you fed the world, but what a lot of people don't know, is that you built the M25.

0:29:150:29:20

I built the M23 and M25, Jeremy.

0:29:200:29:25

I didn't know you built the road to Gatwick.

0:29:250:29:27

If you know the Merstham interchange where you come off the 23

0:29:270:29:32

onto the 25, that is more or less were I had my road digging career.

0:29:320:29:36

And that is Geldof Corner. I know you've got Gambon Corner, which I'm sure we'll see later.

0:29:360:29:43

Geldof corner is there, hence the tailbacks for miles on the M25.

0:29:430:29:47

It's one of the best corners on the motorway network.

0:29:470:29:51

-And you built that!

-I built that.

0:29:510:29:53

Long before I could drive a car, they gave me the chance

0:29:530:29:56

to drive these immense machines which I think, it was 11 forward gears and six reverses.

0:29:560:30:02

Two engines. You've got two throttles,

0:30:020:30:05

you've got to sit like this with both feet on the throttles,

0:30:050:30:08

and a big bucket in the middle, which you drop.

0:30:080:30:11

-And is it hard?

-It's hard. I was crap. Yes.

0:30:110:30:14

-LAUGHTER

-And so you ran over a herd of cattle.

0:30:140:30:19

I ran over practically the same thing, a guy from the county council.

0:30:190:30:23

On the haul roads, as they're called,

0:30:230:30:25

there are no other vehicles allowed.

0:30:250:30:28

And the county council guy was nosing around there for some reason.

0:30:280:30:31

I came around the bend, and here he was in his Renault 4L,

0:30:310:30:34

and he just saw this huge thing and this 18-year-old without

0:30:340:30:39

a driving licence coming down the track.

0:30:390:30:41

And I slammed on the brakes

0:30:410:30:45

and these huge tyres just rolled over the front of the Renault,

0:30:450:30:50

the bonnet, and I saw the windscreen pull away from the top

0:30:500:30:55

and just flatten the engine and he was just like this.

0:30:550:30:58

I don't know what was happening in his pants,

0:30:580:31:00

but I saw his face

0:31:000:31:02

and I thought he was dead, I thought I'd killed him.

0:31:020:31:05

He got out. The foreman came gunning up on his Land Rover and just, I thought I was gone.

0:31:050:31:12

I was just on the way out, and he was just SCREAMING at this guy who got fired.

0:31:120:31:17

-The council official got fired?

-Yes.

-Well, that saved the council a few bob!

0:31:170:31:22

I read in your road building career

0:31:220:31:24

that your nick name on the site was Dublin.

0:31:240:31:27

Yes.

0:31:270:31:28

Wouldn't that apply to absolutely everyone, also working on the site?!

0:31:280:31:33

-No.

-Hey, Dublin! 5,000 people! "What?!"

0:31:330:31:38

No, because there were two crowds, essentially,

0:31:380:31:41

building the roads, certainly with this construction company,

0:31:410:31:45

there was a West Country crowd and there were as an Irish crowd.

0:31:450:31:48

It was like, I landed in India, not that long back,

0:31:480:31:51

on an Air India flight, and there were three other Air India flights,

0:31:510:31:55

and this is in India, and there was a man at the barriers

0:31:550:31:57

with a sign saying, Mr Patel, and I thought, that's not going to work.

0:31:570:32:01

It's the same as Dublin on this site. What sort of driver are you?

0:32:040:32:08

Not good. Really, I'm not.

0:32:080:32:09

I've got a Previa, because I had 600 children. And, you know...

0:32:090:32:15

-And 900 names between them.

-Yes. And all excellent.

0:32:150:32:18

And, you know, it's just, a superb thing.

0:32:180:32:22

You're up high.

0:32:220:32:24

You go like this and the wheel turns.

0:32:240:32:27

You've just got endless amount of power in the thing.

0:32:270:32:31

There isn't an endless amount of power in a Toyota Previa.

0:32:310:32:36

-It's a horrible car.

-No, it's not, it's really not.

0:32:360:32:38

I'm Mr Big on Toyota.

0:32:380:32:41

I've got a Lexus, so I don't pay the congestion charge.

0:32:410:32:44

-Oh, the hybrid one.

-And also, Jeremy, I think you should start now becoming a little

0:32:440:32:50

more environmentally aware. You know.

0:32:500:32:54

I am very aware of the environment

0:32:560:32:58

and I'm still not interested in it.

0:32:580:33:01

-You're a businessman now.

-Sometimes.

0:33:030:33:05

And you've got a lot of TV production companies.

0:33:050:33:08

So, how much time do you have left for music?

0:33:080:33:11

As most of the time, I do music, so there's still a lot of

0:33:110:33:16

the time spent on the Africa stuff, business stuff, music

0:33:160:33:20

and the family, but the only thing I like doing, being specific,

0:33:200:33:23

-the only thing that I like doing is music.

-Really?

0:33:230:33:26

-You're touring, soon, aren't you?

-Yes. September and November here.

0:33:260:33:31

-So, North and South.

-Because you had the album out, what...?

0:33:310:33:35

Three months ago.

0:33:350:33:36

-Which was Bob Geldof age, it's actually, what was it, 58 and three quarters?

-58 and a half.

0:33:360:33:41

I was going to call it that, and then I saw a book called

0:33:410:33:45

How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell and I thought, that was more ironic.

0:33:450:33:49

It's a good title.

0:33:490:33:50

It doesn't fit on iTunes very easily, how to, oh, there we go.

0:33:500:33:54

-You released that three months ago.

-You know how to use iTunes?!

-I do!

0:33:540:33:58

-What do you listen to in the car?

-What do I listen to?

0:33:580:34:02

-Rat Trap, I Don't Like Mondays.

-Classics.

0:34:020:34:06

-Classics from the late '70s.

-Yes.

0:34:060:34:11

-I presume you've got an iPhone thing.

-No, I don't have that.

0:34:110:34:14

We spent about two hours before this extolling the virtues of the Nokia 6310.

0:34:140:34:19

-Does anyone remember the 6310?

-Yeah.

-Five days without a charge.

0:34:190:34:23

Well, that's how long I do, because I've got no friends, so nobody rings me up.

0:34:230:34:28

There's self-evident reasons. The jeans, being one.

0:34:280:34:33

-At least I put socks on!

-No, he came here.

0:34:330:34:36

-Look, I'm wearing a sock!

-But you don't have beautiful ankles.

0:34:360:34:39

A beautiful turned ankle is something that I admire in somebody.

0:34:390:34:43

Your lap, how did it go out there?

0:34:440:34:48

I am so crap at this. You start off, and you're really nervous.

0:34:520:34:56

I'm not a speed head, and then I start to enjoy it

0:34:560:35:00

and be able to focus on what Stig told me. And I slowed down.

0:35:000:35:04

-Who would like to see the lap?

-Not me.

0:35:040:35:08

Come on, let's have a look, let's see how it went.

0:35:080:35:11

ENGINE REVS AND TYRES SCREECH

0:35:110:35:13

-Come on.

-BLEEP.

0:35:160:35:18

Already, we need the bleep machine there. Right, first corner.

0:35:180:35:23

Where are we going? Nice, wide line, like the look of that.

0:35:230:35:28

-Might be time to change gear.

-So slow. Go, go.

0:35:300:35:33

You've got to change up. Where are we going?

0:35:330:35:36

Oh, wide, you see, that's too fast. That's skidding wide.

0:35:360:35:42

Clarkson, Stig said it's raining now and the track is getting slippery,

0:35:420:35:47

so, that's going to slow me down, so shut up, I'm not making excuses.

0:35:470:35:51

Let's have a look at this torrential rain, yes,

0:35:510:35:55

I can see what the state means. That's pouring down out there.

0:35:550:35:59

Wait, I don't mean pouring down, do I?

0:36:000:36:02

It looks so slow yet feels so fast.

0:36:020:36:05

No, that is just quite slow. Change gear!

0:36:050:36:08

Take this extreme bend at full throttle, which is frightening.

0:36:080:36:14

-Oh, I say, that's good.

-Your instinct tells you to slow down.

0:36:140:36:20

-Ooh! You managed to stay off the bumpy bit, there.

-This is the worst.

0:36:220:36:27

-Gambon corner.

-0h, it is the worst. Absolutely awful. This is Gambon.

0:36:270:36:31

And you're...a little bit too slow.

0:36:310:36:33

Didn't use all of the road, but never-the-less,

0:36:330:36:36

across the line!

0:36:360:36:38

APPLAUSE

0:36:380:36:41

-Last.

-Where do we think?

0:36:430:36:46

-Third last.

-Third last?

-Yeah.

0:36:460:36:51

-What, Louie Spence speed?

-Yeah.

-1.53... No, that was wet. Yours was dry.

0:36:510:36:56

These are all wet. You need to be looking above them.

0:36:560:36:59

I know they are as people, but with regards to...

0:36:590:37:03

-So, anyway, Bob Geldof.

-Don't say and I'll watch it at home.

0:37:030:37:07

-I'm embarrassed. Seriously. It was rubbish.

-You did it...

-Look at him!

0:37:070:37:13

You did it in two minutes...

0:37:130:37:16

-I'm joking.

-I fully expect that.

0:37:180:37:24

He was going, "Mmmm? Mmmm, really?" One minute 40...

0:37:240:37:29

eight

0:37:290:37:31

point one. I don't think that is...

0:37:310:37:36

APPLAUSE

0:37:360:37:38

Faster than Jeff Goldblum!

0:37:400:37:42

Oh, God. Average at everything!

0:37:420:37:46

Well, not really. I was just thinking, you're - what are you,

0:37:460:37:49

-a Knight of the British Empire?

-Mmm-hmm.

0:37:490:37:52

-You were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

-Mmm-hmm.

0:37:520:37:56

And now, you are the 14th fastest celebrity ever to go round

0:37:560:37:59

-our track in a Kia Cee'd.

-You could have walked faster than that.

0:37:590:38:03

Hands up those that think you could do...who could be in the top ten if you did it.

0:38:050:38:10

Come on, hands up if you think...

0:38:100:38:12

LAUGHTER

0:38:120:38:14

-Thank you.

-Ladies and gentlemen, liars, Bob Geldof!

0:38:160:38:22

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:38:220:38:24

Well done. Thank you very much. Bob Geldof, everybody!

0:38:240:38:28

-How are we doing for time?

-No, we're all right. We're all right. Just press on.

0:38:330:38:38

Now, the other day,

0:38:380:38:40

we received a challenge from the world demolition champions.

0:38:400:38:44

We're not actually making that up. There really is such a championship!

0:38:440:38:47

There is, and they said to us that they reckon they could knock down

0:38:470:38:51

a row of houses faster than we could.

0:38:510:38:53

So we were prepared to accept this challenge,

0:38:530:38:56

but first, we thought we'd do a bit of practice.

0:38:560:38:59

So we got in touch with our old friends in the Albanian Mafia

0:38:590:39:02

and asked them if they had anything that needed knocking down.

0:39:020:39:06

Luckily, they said, "Yes!

0:39:060:39:07

"There's a man who annoyed us very much indeed and it would be

0:39:070:39:10

"an enormous help if you would come over and smash his house to bits."

0:39:100:39:14

So, we did.

0:39:140:39:15

This is the poor chap's house. This is where he had obviously tripped up.

0:39:180:39:24

And these are the machines we'd be using.

0:39:250:39:28

That there is a digger.

0:39:300:39:32

That is a bulldozer.

0:39:330:39:34

And that is a big crane with the pecky thing on the end of it.

0:39:350:39:38

-Bagsy I have that, it's the biggest.

-Bagsy I have the bulldozer. I'm having it.

0:39:380:39:43

'With our choices carefully worked out,

0:39:430:39:45

'Jeremy was keen to get cracking...'

0:39:450:39:47

Come on! Go, go, go!

0:39:470:39:49

'..but I thought it best we first examine the house.'

0:39:490:39:52

This building is basically a steel-reinforced concrete frame -

0:39:520:39:56

a series of uprights and then beams joining them together -

0:39:560:39:59

and then all the gaps are filled in with these things, which are pot bricks.

0:39:590:40:03

These are not structural. They're there simply to...

0:40:030:40:08

< DRILLING

0:40:080:40:10

OK...

0:40:130:40:15

Ye-e-e-s! You are history!

0:40:150:40:20

Oi! Not yet!

0:40:200:40:23

'Throughout the rest of the day, there were some issues.

0:40:270:40:31

'I, for example, was not that accurate with the digger.'

0:40:310:40:34

Oh, no, no! Hang on, hang on.

0:40:340:40:39

-CLUNK!

-Oh, God!

0:40:400:40:43

'Jeremy nearly caused a power cut.

0:40:430:40:46

'And when Richard stopped off in town to buy some tea,

0:40:490:40:53

'he got a bit confused with all his lorry's levers.'

0:40:530:40:58

Do you do tea? English breakfast tea for workers.

0:40:580:41:04

'But the biggest problem we had was the house itself.'

0:41:080:41:12

Come on!

0:41:150:41:17

-May?

-What?

-It won't fall down. You try.

0:41:190:41:23

'If I'm honest, that wasn't a great suggestion.

0:41:230:41:28

'Everything else we tried failed as well.'

0:41:330:41:37

Back! Give it some welly.

0:41:370:41:39

THUD!

0:41:410:41:43

JEREMY SIGHS

0:41:430:41:45

'In fact, by the time Hammond got back from clearing up his mess,

0:41:470:41:51

'it was almost dark and the house was still pretty much intact.'

0:41:510:41:55

APPLAUSE

0:41:590:42:02

Baffling. Absolutely baffling.

0:42:050:42:08

Clearly, clearly, it wasn't our fault that the house was still standing.

0:42:090:42:13

No, which left us with two possibilities.

0:42:130:42:16

Either Albanian houses are built superbly well,

0:42:160:42:19

which seems unlikely, or those diggery things and the pecky thing,

0:42:190:42:24

that equipment was no good.

0:42:240:42:27

We very quickly concluded that it was the equipment that was no good.

0:42:270:42:31

So for our challenge with the experts,

0:42:310:42:33

we decided to use military equipment.

0:42:330:42:36

This is the Witham Army Disposal Yard in Lincolnshire.

0:42:390:42:43

It's a giant toy cupboard.

0:42:430:42:45

And everything you see here is for sale.

0:42:490:42:53

-Can we use this to demolish the house?

-No, you can't use any weapons. Just the vehicle.

0:42:540:43:00

Hammond, the driving position has got you in mind in a Scorpion.

0:43:000:43:03

-Is that what this is?

-Yeah. £30,000. That's what it costs.

0:43:030:43:08

Already, I'm seeing buildings just fall down of their own free will.

0:43:080:43:13

-Didn't James Blunt use one of these in Kosovo?

-It's got peddles!

0:43:130:43:16

I thought he had a guitar.

0:43:160:43:18

-It's the Stormer.

-Yeah, the Stormer.

0:43:180:43:21

-Come on.

-20 grand, maximum.

-Stormer! That's a good name.

-£20,000.

0:43:210:43:27

So this, or a Ford Focus.

0:43:270:43:29

Inside, there was more. And soon, Hammond started to lose focus.

0:43:290:43:35

This is your absolutely bog standard British Army Land Rover,

0:43:350:43:39

cupboard for either, like, you know, parking ticket money or bullets.

0:43:390:43:45

-Oh, he's found a Land Rover.

-94,000 gentle miles. In a war zone.

0:43:450:43:52

Richard...not really what we're looking for.

0:43:520:43:55

-Please don't look at Land Rovers.

-OK.

0:43:550:43:59

That's the fuselage of a Harrier.

0:43:590:44:02

These are fantastic.

0:44:020:44:04

Oh, no. Oh, my God.

0:44:040:44:07

Come on, chaps. Yeah, there's nothing else to see in here.

0:44:070:44:09

HAMMOND SQUEALS

0:44:090:44:11

-Oh, my...

-Bloody hell.

-OH!

-Hammond's found the helicopters.

0:44:110:44:16

-Gazelles.

-Hey!

-Oh!

-Well, that's it. That's my life over.

0:44:160:44:21

'With both my colleagues now otherwise engaged, I went off on my own

0:44:210:44:26

'to find a vehicle that might be suitable for our demolition project.'

0:44:260:44:32

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Saxon.

0:44:340:44:38

It has an eight-litre, six-cylinder diesel engine.

0:44:380:44:42

Top speed - 30 miles an hour.

0:44:420:44:43

Or 60 if the tyres haven't been shot through.

0:44:430:44:48

It has all the things you need - power steering, automatic gearbox,

0:44:500:44:54

selectable four-wheel drive, grenade launchers.

0:44:540:44:58

Side windscreen wipers. Oh, yes.

0:45:000:45:03

'James, meanwhile, had decided that a Willys Jeep would be ideal.

0:45:040:45:08

'Although he was finding it quite difficult to explain why.'

0:45:080:45:12

RATTLING

0:45:130:45:16

Argh! Oh! Argh!

0:45:160:45:18

ARGH!

0:45:180:45:20

Argh! Argh!

0:45:200:45:22

The problem is that while you could drive this through a hail of petrol bombs

0:45:230:45:29

and small arms fire and you'd be fine,

0:45:290:45:32

I'm not sure you could drive it through a building.

0:45:320:45:35

Oh, Hammond!

0:45:350:45:37

HAMMOND LAUGHS

0:45:370:45:40

This is a 1977 Westland Gazelle helicopter.

0:45:410:45:44

One of the fastest helicopters built.

0:45:450:45:49

Top speed - 193 miles an hour.

0:45:490:45:51

Ha-ha! We've got to get us one of these. We need one of these.

0:45:510:45:57

Eventually, I nailed some sense into my colleagues and we all selected

0:45:590:46:03

the vehicles we'd be using for the demolition challenge.

0:46:030:46:07

This is a 434 Armoured Recovery Vehicle.

0:46:070:46:10

I've gone for it in this spec because it's got a crane,

0:46:100:46:13

which could be very useful to us.

0:46:130:46:16

But if all else fails, it weighs 15 tonnes,

0:46:160:46:19

so I could just use it as a sort of battering ram.

0:46:190:46:22

As you would imagine, mine is much bigger than Hammond's. This is a CET -

0:46:220:46:27

a Combat Engineering Tractor. And they're all very encouraging words.

0:46:270:46:31

It has a bucket on the front and many other things besides.

0:46:310:46:34

Unlike James's, mine is white. It's also absolutely excellent.

0:46:340:46:39

The tiller on the front is used for mine clearance,

0:46:390:46:42

but it can also be used for pulling down houses.

0:46:420:46:46

In my mind. What?

0:46:460:46:49

-Why is it white?

-United Nations.

-Ah!

0:46:490:46:52

Yes, this very vehicle has just come back from the Middle East

0:46:520:46:55

where it cleared 100 anti-tank mines.

0:46:550:46:59

It's kind of focused on one thing, isn't it? Mine clearance.

0:46:590:47:02

It is a mine clearing... You aren't clearing mines.

0:47:020:47:06

We are knocking a house down.

0:47:060:47:08

You've focused on one thing and we are not doing that thing.

0:47:080:47:10

It's a very, very specialised piece of equipment.

0:47:100:47:13

This... Incredibly specialised - the cab is on hydraulic rams.

0:47:130:47:17

-Mmm.

-It senses your weight, raises it to the correct height,

0:47:170:47:20

so that if there's a blast underneath, you're cushioned from that blast.

0:47:200:47:23

But it won't be, cos we're not clearing a minefield. We're knocking houses down.

0:47:230:47:28

You wait till you see what happens to a house

0:47:280:47:31

when it is presented with THIS moving at 400 rpm.

0:47:310:47:34

If the house explodes, you'll be OK, but that's about it.

0:47:340:47:37

-It just goes around doing this...

-It's like a mechanical cat.

0:47:370:47:41

-It's a military machine with some white paint on it.

-It isn't military!

0:47:410:47:45

It's for clearance and saving lives. Princess Diana had one of these.

0:47:450:47:48

LAUGHTER

0:47:480:47:51

The location for our demolition challenge was

0:47:520:47:54

the Christian Fields housing estate in Kent.

0:47:540:47:58

Each team would have to knock down six houses

0:47:580:48:01

and the professionals rocked up on the day

0:48:010:48:03

with a selection of conventional equipment

0:48:030:48:06

that we knew would not work.

0:48:060:48:08

As a result, they would be humiliated by Team Top Gear.

0:48:100:48:15

MILITARY MUSIC

0:48:150:48:18

HE HUMS

0:48:260:48:28

What a machine this is.

0:48:320:48:34

1,300 RPM.

0:48:350:48:37

I'm doing very nearly the top speed of six.

0:48:370:48:40

'The other machines were considerably faster,

0:48:410:48:44

'so in order not to keep the chaps waiting,

0:48:440:48:47

'I decided to take a shortcut.'

0:48:470:48:50

I think he thought, "The things on the front go round and smash everything.

0:48:500:48:54

"I work for the United Nations."

0:48:540:48:55

-He failed to work out it'll be the slowest..

-BANGING

0:48:550:48:58

You don't suppose by any chance that...

0:48:580:49:00

CRASHING

0:49:000:49:02

Ladies and gentlemen, Jeremy Clarkson, sometimes known

0:49:040:49:07

-as the silver-tongued cavalier of the Cotswolds.

-I hope that was...to come down.

0:49:070:49:12

'Before starting, the professionals had a pre-demolition briefing.'

0:49:120:49:17

All the works today are going to be carried out under BSEN 6187 demolition code of practice.

0:49:170:49:23

Richard, can you hand out the method statements to all the guys

0:49:230:49:26

-and the risk assessments?

-Yup.

0:49:260:49:29

'Mostly, they talked about health and safety, so we thought we should, too.'

0:49:290:49:33

-Don't have an accident.

-Don't have an accident.

0:49:330:49:36

If you DO have an accident, remember it was an accident.

0:49:360:49:39

'Briefing over, we got on with discussing the job.'

0:49:390:49:43

-Why don't you do those, James?

-OK.

0:49:430:49:46

Hammond, you do the cream ones, and I'll do this lot. That make sense?

0:49:460:49:51

-Two houses each then, effectively?

-Effectively.

0:49:510:49:54

'With all the complicated maths out of the way, it was time to begin.'

0:49:540:49:59

KLAXON BLARES

0:49:590:50:01

OK. Brace, Brace, brace. We're going in.

0:50:100:50:14

Look at his... He's concentrating like mad.

0:50:140:50:17

He looks like an orangutan when he concentrates.

0:50:170:50:19

Firing up the rotors!

0:50:210:50:24

Oh God!

0:50:280:50:30

Ooh-hoo hoo-hoo-hoo!

0:50:300:50:32

Woah!

0:50:320:50:34

Ha-ha!

0:50:340:50:35

Why didn't we have this in Albania!?

0:50:370:50:39

Goodbye, lavatory!

0:50:410:50:42

Bricks flying everywhere.

0:50:440:50:45

This is bloody brilliant.

0:50:450:50:48

Stop there, stop there! Jeremy, the roof's going to land on it.

0:50:490:50:54

'This was no problem because my destroyer of worlds

0:50:540:50:59

'had a special device for protecting the driver.'

0:50:590:51:01

-Is that...a remote control for that?

-Yes, it is!

0:51:020:51:08

-You can drive the whole thing from there?

-Yes.

-From there?

-Yes.

0:51:080:51:11

-Do you know how to?

-No. But how hard can it be?

0:51:110:51:14

ENGINE STARTS

0:51:140:51:16

-Woo-hoo-hoo. Look at that.

-Oh, my God!

0:51:160:51:18

-Now, stand back a bit.

-Really? Do you think?

-Good idea.

0:51:180:51:22

Ooh. Argh, argh, argh!

0:51:220:51:24

'At the other end of the estate, the professionals were working methodically.

0:51:270:51:31

'First removing all the rooves.

0:51:310:51:33

'And I thought I'd do the same thing with my army tank.'

0:51:330:51:38

Mounted on the back of my 434 is a big harpoon. I'll fire that over

0:51:400:51:44

with a cable attached, connect the cable up,

0:51:440:51:46

drive this way, pull the roof off, get on with it.

0:51:460:51:50

Live and, well, go.

0:51:500:51:53

Brilliant.

0:51:580:52:00

Let's begin.

0:52:000:52:01

The grappling hook will catch on the roof. That's it. It's caught it now.

0:52:030:52:07

Yeah. Here it comes. Pulling the roof off.

0:52:070:52:09

Let's have a look.

0:52:130:52:14

It's not off.

0:52:160:52:17

'On the plus side, though, the house now had another upstairs lavatory.'

0:52:170:52:22

Why have you pulled a portaloo over a building?

0:52:250:52:27

-It was supposed to pull the roof off.

-This isn't demolition, this is just stupid.

0:52:280:52:32

-Yahoo!

-'Whilst Hammond persevered with his idiotic roof-removal system,

0:52:350:52:40

'James was busy drawing a diagram.'

0:52:400:52:43

The four walls are pre-cast pieces of concrete

0:52:430:52:47

and then in the middle we have this, which is the chimney breast.

0:52:470:52:50

Then there are steel RSJs running across, like that.

0:52:500:52:53

Everything else in between is just wooden floorboards. So, if we knock out that bit there,

0:52:530:52:59

which is holding the house up, the roof and everything else will fall into a neat pile in the middle.

0:52:590:53:04

'My plan involved pulling the chimney breast out, using

0:53:050:53:08

'both my winch and the sheer power of my combat tractor.

0:53:080:53:12

'But it was hard to concentrate with the orangutan around.'

0:53:120:53:15

It's got a mind of its own.

0:53:170:53:19

'Having got in everyone's way, he then started throwing

0:53:200:53:23

'massive lumps of road over the houses and into the next street.'

0:53:230:53:27

-What have you done?

-I hit a water main!

0:53:340:53:37

Well, you're an idiot.

0:53:370:53:39

'As noon approached, our rivals were scything through their houses.

0:53:420:53:47

'But now my ingenious cable solution would put us back in the running.'

0:53:470:53:52

Here we go.

0:53:520:53:53

Oh! Oh, it's so close.

0:53:560:53:58

Yes. Yes! Ha-ha ha!

0:54:020:54:04

'But despite this success, let's not forget we still had Jeremy on our side.'

0:54:050:54:11

I've lost control completely now.

0:54:170:54:19

'In the spirit of teamwork, I decided to clear up his rubbish

0:54:220:54:26

'while Hammond set about finishing off my house.'

0:54:260:54:30

I think I'll need to give this the beans. Let's not mess about here. In we go.

0:54:300:54:34

Oh! The roof came open. I didn't expect that.

0:54:430:54:45

Hammond, what's happened here, mate, is you are now the foundations of the house.

0:54:450:54:50

Um, I think I might be a bit stuck.

0:54:500:54:53

Hang on, Hammond. I'm coming.

0:54:530:54:55

Where are you going?

0:54:570:54:59

BANGING AND CRASHING

0:54:590:55:03

Oh dear.

0:55:050:55:07

That felt nasty. What happened then?

0:55:090:55:11

James crashed into the corner of the house and now you've got a whole house on your head.

0:55:110:55:15

ENGINE STARTS

0:55:170:55:18

Engine running.

0:55:180:55:19

'May then winched Hammond's tank out...

0:55:210:55:25

'but Hammond himself was still trapped inside.

0:55:250:55:28

'Happily, though, as I'd finally house-trained my machine...'

0:55:280:55:32

Walkies. Yes! Good digger.

0:55:320:55:36

'..I was able to mount a rescue.'

0:55:360:55:39

BLEEP!

0:55:400:55:42

Bad digger!

0:55:420:55:43

Oh! I've scratched me tank. JEREMY LAUGHS

0:55:480:55:52

'By now, the professionals had pulled out an enormous lead.

0:55:540:55:58

'So, to try and catch up, I decided to dig even deeper

0:56:000:56:04

'into the military toy box.'

0:56:040:56:06

-Guys.

-What...?

-What on Earth is that?

0:56:060:56:10

I put some explosives in the house.

0:56:100:56:12

You might want to stand back.

0:56:120:56:15

Because now I'm going to do... the long walk.

0:56:150:56:18

Is that the suit or his piles that's making him walk like that?

0:56:240:56:27

FIRE IN THE HOLE!

0:56:300:56:34

You've only blown the bloody door off!

0:56:400:56:43

'After that failure,

0:56:430:56:45

'we decided just to use our machines as battering rams.'

0:56:450:56:49

DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS

0:56:490:56:51

Come on. Let's just get this job done.

0:56:510:56:53

Not going to use the rotavator. It's just TOO perilous.

0:56:590:57:04

Bloody hell fire! Ha-ha!

0:57:070:57:11

Argh!

0:57:110:57:12

DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS

0:57:120:57:14

Go on. In you go.

0:57:190:57:20

ARGH!

0:57:230:57:25

'Finally, we were really getting somewhere.'

0:57:250:57:28

Attack!

0:57:280:57:30

KLAXON BLARES

0:57:300:57:32

Oh, my God!

0:57:320:57:35

'The professionals had finished. They had knocked everything down.

0:57:350:57:39

'Whereas we...sort of hadn't.'

0:57:390:57:43

-Why don't we present them with a prize, OK...

-Yeah...

0:57:440:57:48

-..standing just there?

-Yes.

-That's a good idea.

-And then give them a really loud round of applause.

0:57:480:57:53

-A thunderous, "WELL DONE, WELL DONE!"

-And throw the thing over...

0:57:530:57:56

APPLAUSE

0:57:560:57:57

Well done. You beat us fair and square. Well done.

0:57:570:58:02

Can we just point out something very important?

0:58:030:58:07

-Well, as long as you're quick, bike race.

-I know, I know, I know.

0:58:070:58:10

-Now you're wasting time saying, "I know".

-I know. I know.

-Say it.

-Listen...

0:58:100:58:15

OK, you may have noticed during that whole sequence of knocking the houses down,

0:58:150:58:19

not one of us was wearing a high-visibility jacket, a hard hat or substantial shoes

0:58:190:58:23

-and I think I'm right in saying that none of us was killed.

-LAUGHTER

0:58:230:58:27

-And that is an excellent bombshell on which we could end, so...

-No.

0:58:270:58:30

No, no, no. I want to talk more about the machine.

0:58:300:58:33

No, I said in the film that this very machine, in fact,

0:58:330:58:37

had cleared 100 anti-tank mines. You're thinking,

0:58:370:58:39

-"How does it survive?"

-No.

0:58:390:58:41

I'm going to explain anyway, OK? This is one of the blades as it comes out the factory, yeah?

0:58:410:58:46

This one hit an anti-tank mine,

0:58:460:58:49

a mine designed to blow up a tank,

0:58:490:58:52

and that is the only damage that it did.

0:58:520:58:56

This is an astonishing piece of British engineering, I think.

0:58:560:58:59

-It is. We really must finish.

-What are they going to do? Cut us o...?

0:58:590:59:03

Oh, they have.

0:59:030:59:05

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