0:00:11 > 0:00:16Tonight, James experiences the sheer grunt of a Chevrolet Silverado.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18I go airborne in a Ford Velociraptor.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21And Richard Hammond carries some wood.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello!
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Hello, and good evening.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Hello. Now...
0:00:35 > 0:00:40Thank you very much. A while back I heard that Lexus
0:00:40 > 0:00:43was working on a car called the RCF.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47It would be a two-door coupe with a five-litre V8 engine
0:00:47 > 0:00:53and it would take on the smaller AMG Mercs and M-powered BMWs.
0:00:53 > 0:00:54And I was very excited.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58I couldn't wait to give it a spanking round our track.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00And now I have.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I expected it to be sharp, but violent.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23Raw, but civilised.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Powerful, but controlled.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34I expected a bank of Tokyo hi-tech...
0:01:37 > 0:01:39..with the exhaust bark of a mad dog.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45But actually it turned out to be fat and useless.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50REALLY fat.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53With two people on board, it weighs nearly two tonnes.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00So look what happens when you put it in a drag race with a BMW M4.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03ENGINES REVVING
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Three...two...one...
0:02:05 > 0:02:06go!
0:02:10 > 0:02:13The BMW just walks away.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20I have 40 more horsepower than he does and I'm being humiliated!
0:02:26 > 0:02:30The enormous weight means it's no good in the corners, either.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I have got many, many different settings in here
0:02:35 > 0:02:40and I've got G-SHIFT control, whatever that is.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43And VDIM.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48I've got STANDARD, ECO, SPORT S,
0:02:48 > 0:02:52SPORT S+, something called SLALOM.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Doesn't matter which one you select,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57you just get yards and yards
0:02:57 > 0:02:59of wearisome understeer
0:02:59 > 0:03:03and then a lot of electronic interference.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06There is, however, another setting in the RCF
0:03:06 > 0:03:09which makes it even worse.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13If you put it in SPORT+ and then push this button here...
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Look! I'm now in EXPERT mode.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17It says it there.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21I have told the car that I am an expert.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24I don't need the electronic stuff, I can manage.
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Oh, God!
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Lurchy. That's the word I'm looking for there. Lurchy.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46It's really struggling to deal with the weight.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Come on!
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Why are you doing that?!
0:03:51 > 0:03:54I'm an expert, look. Look how I'm going round this corner.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59That's an expert use of the... Oh, I'm on the grass.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05The simple truth of the matter is you can put John Prescott
0:04:05 > 0:04:07in a pair of running shoes...
0:04:07 > 0:04:09but it won't make him an athlete.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13I really don't like this car.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I don't like the way it looks, I don't like the way it goes,
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I don't like the way it feels.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21But what really annoys me,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23what really gets my goat
0:04:23 > 0:04:28is that I know Lexus can do so much better.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41A few years ago, they gave us the LFA.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48A car which, I'll admit, has many faults and irritations.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57The seat belt, for example, is incredibly difficult to do up. Um...
0:04:57 > 0:05:00There are no cup holders, it's impossible to plug your telephone
0:05:00 > 0:05:03or whatever into the stereo system,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06and the fuel tank is the size of a disposable lighter,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08which means you have to fill up every five minutes,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10and then you have to get out,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13and then it takes you a week to do your seat belt up again.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16I still haven't done it!
0:05:16 > 0:05:18It's like giving myself a prostate exam.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24But these little things pale into insignificance
0:05:24 > 0:05:28when you unleash its astonishing V10 engine.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31ENGINE REVVING
0:05:38 > 0:05:42It produces 552 horsepower.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48That means 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03It also means a top speed of 202
0:06:03 > 0:06:08and, even more amazingly, it revs from idle to the red line
0:06:08 > 0:06:12in an almost unbelievable 0.6 of a second.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22But the best thing is the noise.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24ENGINE ROARS
0:06:24 > 0:06:28It sounds baleful, it sounds like a wild animal that's...
0:06:28 > 0:06:29sad about something.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34"Oh, nooooooooo!
0:06:34 > 0:06:37"I've got my paw stuck!
0:06:37 > 0:06:38- REVS BLIP - "Ow!"
0:06:38 > 0:06:40REVS BLIP
0:06:40 > 0:06:41"Ow!"
0:06:41 > 0:06:43- REVS BLIP - "Ow!"
0:06:43 > 0:06:47This is what I was looking for in the new Lexus,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51a sense that the engine is actually alive, that it's a sentient being.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56And there was more I was looking for, too.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01The LFA does not have an EXPERT facility,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04or a G-SHIFT thing, or VDIM.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11It corners well because it's well-engineered.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18And it's light - very light.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28TYRES SCREECH
0:07:29 > 0:07:32And I love the way that it feels so violent and raw.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43This car is simply out of this world.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50And look at the difference in styling.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55See how one looks like that stupid food that's drizzled in jus
0:07:55 > 0:07:56and served on a bed of stupid beans
0:07:56 > 0:08:00to idiots in over-priced restaurants.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04And the other is as simple as a freshly-picked blackberry.
0:08:07 > 0:08:13I know that this costs five or six times more than the new RCF,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17and I know it's full of carbon fibre and all sorts of clever engineering
0:08:17 > 0:08:20that you can't reasonably expect to find
0:08:20 > 0:08:23further down the fiscal food chain,
0:08:23 > 0:08:28but surely they could have captured the spirit of this car, the essence,
0:08:28 > 0:08:33its soul, and transplanted that into the RCF.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Surely they could.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Or maybe they couldn't.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Maybe the LFA is so good,
0:08:43 > 0:08:47not even the people who made it know how to make it again.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:08:58 > 0:09:02- Um, you said you were going to give it a spanking.- Yeah.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04But you gave it a kicking.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Well, it's rubbish. It is absolutely rubbish. In fact, it's so bad
0:09:07 > 0:09:09I'm not even going to bother getting the Stig to take it
0:09:09 > 0:09:12round the track, it would just be a complete waste of time.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Oh, now, we ought to bring you up to speed with the latest in car news.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Okie-doke.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19A new Skoda coming out, it's called the Superb.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21There it is, mainly for mini cabbers.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24But what you really need to know is underneath,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26if you peel away the body, it's basically a Golf, OK?
0:09:26 > 0:09:30There's another new Skoda, the Octavia vRS -
0:09:30 > 0:09:31that's a Golf as well.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34New Audi, RS3 Sportback, here it is.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36That's a Golf.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38New Skoda Fabia.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39- Ah, is that a Golf? - No, that's a Polo.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Is it? Oh, it's confusing. - It's not confusing.- It is.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No, it's not, it's really, really simple.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48All cars are basically a Golf underneath or a Polo,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51or a Fiat 500,
0:09:51 > 0:09:55except for this - this is the Citroen DS5.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58That's basically a Peugeot underneath.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00And the Fiat 500X, that.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04- Well, is that not a Fiat 500? - No, that's an Alfa Romeo.- Is it?
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Anyway, that's cleared up this week's motoring news for you.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Moving on, do you remember that six-wheeled
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Mercedes G Wagon that I drove? The six-wheel drive thing.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Yes, in the desert, yes, yes. - Yeah, a massive thing.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Well, Mercedes have now announced that they're making
0:10:17 > 0:10:19a four-wheel version of it.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Oh, there it is. - There, look at that.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24So they've made a four-wheeled version of the six-wheeled version
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- of the four-wheel car they already had?- I think it looks great.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Massive wheels made possible by portal axles so it's raised up.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34It's got about 422 brake horsepower, I think it is,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36from its V8 twin turbo.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38It is quite costly.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40£200,000 for that.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42AUDIENCE GASPS I know, I know,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46but, if you look closely, it's got side pipes! Oh, yes!
0:10:46 > 0:10:49And, all of a sudden, ladies and gentlemen, Richard Hammond
0:10:49 > 0:10:51has become uncomfortable in his trousers.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Well, I love... I do love side pipes.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56I can tell that from the shape of your front pipe!
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Oh, is it showing? Sorry.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Now, philosophy news.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Everybody...
0:11:02 > 0:11:06No, don't groan, because I know it sounds dreary but...
0:11:06 > 0:11:09driverless cars are coming, as we know,
0:11:09 > 0:11:11and somebody pointed out this week -
0:11:11 > 0:11:13and I think it's rather a good point -
0:11:13 > 0:11:16that they will have to make, from time to time, ethical decisions.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19What, like, should we cancel Third World debt?
0:11:19 > 0:11:22No, James, not that. You're driving along, OK?
0:11:22 > 0:11:25And you're heading towards an accident. You're not driving, you're
0:11:25 > 0:11:27sitting there. You're heading towards an accident, it's going
0:11:27 > 0:11:30to be fatal. The only solution is to swerve onto the pavement,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32but there are two pedestrians there.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35What does the car do?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Wow, is this the Moral Maze or something?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39No, it's a genuine thing.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Cos, basically, you will have bought a car that must be programmed,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46in certain circumstances, to kill you.
0:11:46 > 0:11:47It will go, "Well, there's two there,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50"there's only one person in me, "I'm going to kill him."
0:11:50 > 0:11:52And you'll just have to sit there as the lorry comes
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- and there's nothing you can do. - Well, maybe driverless cars
0:11:55 > 0:11:58will have to come with, like, an override button.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Just a big button with "ME" on it. So, in a crash - save me!
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- Just hit that.- Or maybe it could have a sliding scale.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07So you can say, look, if there's a load of children on the pavement
0:12:07 > 0:12:10obviously don't run them down, but cyclists...
0:12:10 > 0:12:12LAUGHTER
0:12:12 > 0:12:16We are in dark territory here, aren't we?
0:12:16 > 0:12:20Well, the interesting thing is all of us are programmed,
0:12:20 > 0:12:22because we're humans, cos we're animals, basically,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25to look after ourselves. Self-preservation always kicks in
0:12:25 > 0:12:29- and you will swerve away from danger.- Not necessarily.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Well, now, you say that, but recently scientists conducted
0:12:32 > 0:12:34an absolutely awful, genuinely awful experiment,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36but with a very interesting result.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39They got a load of monkeys with their babies and put them in a box,
0:12:39 > 0:12:42and then they heated the floor up - this actually happened,
0:12:42 > 0:12:44you know, I'm just reporting -
0:12:44 > 0:12:46they heated the floor up till it became really unbearable
0:12:46 > 0:12:51and all of the monkeys picked up their babies and held them.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54But when the floor got hotter and hotter until it was absolutely
0:12:54 > 0:12:57unbearable, every one of them put the babies down and stood on them.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59GASPING AND GIGGLING
0:12:59 > 0:13:02I'm... I'm surprised...
0:13:02 > 0:13:05I'm surprised you didn't save this for the Christmas show, mate.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07LAUGHTER
0:13:07 > 0:13:10What a lovely story, what a nice tale(!)
0:13:10 > 0:13:11I love a story!
0:13:11 > 0:13:14I'm just saying, these driverless cars, everybody goes,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16"Aren't they clever? They can stop at red lights."
0:13:16 > 0:13:19They are going to have to face all sorts of things,
0:13:19 > 0:13:20like who do I kill now?
0:13:20 > 0:13:23We are programmed to look after ourselves and these driverless cars
0:13:23 > 0:13:25are going to be programmed to do the maths and say,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28"A lot of people over there, I'm going to kill you."
0:13:28 > 0:13:30And whether to stand on a baby monkey.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33LAUGHTER
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Now, Brooklands, world's first purpose-built racetrack,
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- do you remember it? - Well, no. He will.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Oh, yeah, he will, obviously.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43We've got some footage of it here to remind everyone.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45This was just outside London, and look at it,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47everybody walked fast and were in black and white in those days.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51And you went, unbelievable, look at this, 120mph on the banking.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55And then there's James May, look, in his pedal car.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57And then it was just fantastic.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01But the war started, they built an aeroplane factory on the circuit
0:14:01 > 0:14:03and that was the end of that.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Ever since, there's been a group of enthusiasts who want Brooklands
0:14:06 > 0:14:09to reopen, and last week, actually, they were given a grant
0:14:09 > 0:14:12by the lottery people of £4.6 million.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14And I just think that's going to be brilliant.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Get that back - Astons, Bentleys belting around at the weekend,
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Fotherington Sorbet wheel-to-wheel with the Duke of Wyndham.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24It's a very good idea for an appealing Sunday afternoon,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27watching the toffs kill themselves.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29You just pop down the A3 on a Sunday afternoon,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32"Let's go and watch the Earl of Bradford's head come off."
0:14:32 > 0:14:35- How much did you say they'd been given?- £4.6 million.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Well, that's not enough, is it? The shopping centre next to our office
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- cost one and a half billion. - Yes, exactly, it isn't very much,
0:14:41 > 0:14:43you're quite right, well spotted, Hammond.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47In fact, all they can afford to do with that is rebuild
0:14:47 > 0:14:49the start/finish straight.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Hang on, just the start/finish straight of a race circuit
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- is not much use in itself.- No.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Unless they spend all 4.6 million on lottery tickets.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01It's lottery money, they can take the grant, spend it on lottery tickets
0:15:01 > 0:15:05- and win a lot more.- Good thinking from Richard Hammond there,
0:15:05 > 0:15:08he's saved motor racing for the nation.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Now, I know this is a car show, but please bear with us,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14because I want to talk about this.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17It's one of those watches that's worn by people
0:15:17 > 0:15:19who play golf and do business.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24And they're always banging on about these pins that you can see here.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28Yeah, they say that if they pull those pins out, the watch will send
0:15:28 > 0:15:31their precise position to a team of professionals
0:15:31 > 0:15:33who will come and rescue them.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37So, if they're out climbing a mountain or rowing across an ocean...
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Which they aren't, cos they're playing golf and doing business.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42But if they were doing those things and something went wrong
0:15:42 > 0:15:46- then, thanks to their watch, they'd be OK.- Ah, but would they?
0:15:46 > 0:15:50To find out, the producers decided that one of us should be dumped
0:15:50 > 0:15:53somewhere with minimal kit, with virtually no food,
0:15:53 > 0:15:58somewhere very, very remote to see if the system works.
0:16:34 > 0:16:35Well...
0:16:37 > 0:16:39..that's it.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43I am now marooned here,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46wherever the hell here is.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Bloody hell.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57My only hope now is my watch.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00So...it's time.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Undo this.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07There.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09And then pull that bit out...
0:17:10 > 0:17:12And that's it done.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Pulling those pins activates a distress signal that's picked up
0:17:19 > 0:17:22by a LEOSAR Low Earth Polar Orbit Satellite,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25which then forwards my exact coordinates
0:17:25 > 0:17:27to a central command centre.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30The team here then scramble the nearest highly-trained
0:17:30 > 0:17:35search and rescue unit, who arrive at my location within hours.
0:17:38 > 0:17:43Sadly, however, today the scramble command has not been sent
0:17:43 > 0:17:46to a highly-trained search and rescue unit.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48HAMMOND PANTS
0:17:57 > 0:17:59..running on petrol.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02It's a brilliant idea, and I'm not sure the Ferrari does that.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05I think it does, but I think they're just being honest about it cos
0:18:05 > 0:18:08they're recognising that it's a means of improving the efficiency.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11- Is that your bag ringing? - BEEPING
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Oh, I think this is the signal from our esteemed colleague
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Richard Hammond. - Is it? Where is he?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Wait a minute. He would appear to be in...Africa, is it?
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Let's have a look.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26No, I think you'll find that is...
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Canada.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Specifically, the Rockies.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Crikey! Um...actually, that is quite serious.
0:18:33 > 0:18:38We really do need to get on this, James, so, excuse me...
0:18:38 > 0:18:40could we see the pudding menu?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Right.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47That bit suspends off this bit.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54That watch transmits for 24 hours.
0:18:56 > 0:18:57And then that's it.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05Right, so this is the mountain, there's my tent.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Mountain, trees, hills. This is all we are.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10There's a cameraman, a sound recordist
0:19:10 > 0:19:13and a bloke from the office, and he's just a media luvvie.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17I know you think there's a five-star hotel
0:19:17 > 0:19:20just down there, but there's not.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Nothing else. There's no survival experts here.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Fact of the matter is I'm completely stuck
0:19:27 > 0:19:29until Yogi the bore and Boo-Boo get here.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Knowing we were his only hope,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36we had some important decisions to make.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Raunchy apple fritters sounds quite interesting. Or pancake with cheese.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42James, James, James.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46You know in the colonies, Australia, South Africa, America,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Canada and so on, everybody loves pick-up trucks, yes?- Yes.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Well, why don't we get a pick-up truck to go and rescue Hammond in?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Because pick-up trucks generally only have two seats
0:19:56 > 0:19:58and there would be three of us when we've rescued him.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Why don't we get two pick-up trucks, one for you, one for me?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04It would A, increase our chances of finding him,
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- and B, there'd be a seat to get him back in.- But...
0:20:08 > 0:20:14In Thunderbirds, inevitably 1 and 2 kind of went first,
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- didn't they, always? - Yeah.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Alan and... No, not Alan - who drove Thunderbird 1?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22- Scott.- Virgil. - No, Virgil was 2.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26- Was he 2? - Scott was 1,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Virgil was 2, Alan was 3,
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Gordon was 4... - Gordon!
0:20:31 > 0:20:35In Canada, the temperature was a bitter minus 10,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37so I urgently needed some warmth.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47What would have been wrong with giving me a lighter?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Can't get my fire lit.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Cold beans.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55They're a bit frozen in the middle.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03'Having finished our lunch...'
0:21:03 > 0:21:05I'm not sure about the red, you know.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08'..we went to book some flights to Vancouver.'
0:21:09 > 0:21:13- OK, you've actually just missed the last flight out today.- Have we?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Yeah.- Oh, what a rotten bit of luck. Shall we go and get another drink?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19There's a Delta one that leaves at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Don't like Delta's seat upholstery.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Would you go from Manchester?
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Manchester... No, you know, this is the BBC,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29it think it would be idiotic to go to Manchester.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31I mean, that would be just stupid.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33There's Lufthansa.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Stewardesses wear trousers.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- There's one from Gatwick which goes via Calgary if...- Gatwick?!
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- He doesn't like Gatwick. - I hate Gatwick.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43WOLF HOWLS
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Out there somewhere...
0:21:52 > 0:21:54..there are...
0:21:54 > 0:21:56bears.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00As many as 180,000 black bears.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I can't remember what it was, about 15,000 grizzlies.
0:22:09 > 0:22:10ICE RATTLES
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Freezing.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21In the morning I was cold and exhausted from lack of sleep
0:22:21 > 0:22:23but, most of all, I was anxious.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Any minute now.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Any minute.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36I mean, they've had 24 hours.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40I mean...24 hours.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45You can get anywhere in the world in 24 hours, surely.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Where the hell are they?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- I can't remember... - James.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- It's stopped beeping. - Well, yeah, it would.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Why would it?- Cos the watch thing only transmits the distress signal
0:23:11 > 0:23:16for 24 hours, then the battery runs out.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Seriously? - Well, yeah, it's only...
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Well, did you make a note of where he was?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Well, no, I didn't. You've got the thing.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27Well, I... I remember he was on something called...
0:23:27 > 0:23:31I think it was Wolf Mountain, and you go up Bear Pass.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Sounds grizzly.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- HE LAUGHS - That was a good joke.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38No, actually, do you know the biggest problem
0:23:38 > 0:23:40is not bears and wolves.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Cougars. Loads of cougars.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Well, that's all right, then. - No, not that sort of cougar.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Actually, a "Grrrr!" That sort of cougar.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50- Oh, you mean like a big cat thing? - HE SNARLS
0:23:52 > 0:23:54As I couldn't move from the spot
0:23:54 > 0:23:57where the watch had transmitted the distress signal,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01I was hard at work trying to make my life here more comfortable.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10I want somewhere to sit.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13I can't sit on the snow so I'm building a shelter.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21HE STRIKES FLINT
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Spark, you- BLEEP.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29There we go, we have fire.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35'And, with my supplies dwindling, I also needed to think about food.'
0:24:36 > 0:24:39"Animals for food.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42"Guinea pigs.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44"All animals can be a source of nourishment.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48"A few, including worms and insects, can be collected with little skill."
0:24:59 > 0:25:04I'm bored, I'm cold, I'm unhappy, I'm hungry, I'm scared.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Ahh! Ahh!
0:25:06 > 0:25:08And I don't want to be wearing a hat!
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Just for a minute. Oh.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16'To alleviate the boredom and stave off the cold
0:25:16 > 0:25:20'I tried to make some SAS-style pine needle tea.'
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Ah!
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Ow! Ow!
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Ow! Where are they?! Just where?!
0:25:37 > 0:25:41'Unfortunately, we were a little bit delayed at Vancouver Airport...'
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Yes, of course.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46'But eventually we made it to the car park,
0:25:46 > 0:25:50'where our pick-up truck rescue vehicles were waiting.'
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- James?- Yeah.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13That's not a light, that's a collapsed sun, isn't it?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Yeah, never mind that, look.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Mine actually comes up to my nipples.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22I didn't realise it was... And do you know what the other thing is?
0:26:22 > 0:26:25If I actually find Richard Hammond, I'm not going to see him, am I?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26I'll just run straight over him.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Have you noticed something else about mine?
0:26:29 > 0:26:32This entire vehicle is a transportation device
0:26:32 > 0:26:34for its own spare wheel, look.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- That's all the back's for! - That's really stupid.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- It's preposter... - Look at the size of it.- Look at it!
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Anyway, listen, we've got everything we need here.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44I've got a big warm coat, I've got a massive car,
0:26:44 > 0:26:47a rough idea of where Richard Hammond is.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Yeah, so let's go...
0:26:48 > 0:26:52into Vancouver, get a hotel, good night's rest,
0:26:52 > 0:26:53get rid of this jet lag.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02It's not funny. I don't know what...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04They've got to get here tomorrow.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Morning. Early.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Um...
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Hold on.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Hold on a minute.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Can I just make something clear?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35That's the first time I've seen this film and, um, I'm sorry,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37you two went into Vancouver?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40- Well, yes. - To get rid of your jet lag?- Yes.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41No, tiredness kills, Hammond.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Haven't you seen those signs on the motorway?- Exactly.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46What annoys me as well here is that you chose to do it
0:27:46 > 0:27:49- in big American pick-up trucks. - Well, that's a good idea,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52because we hardly ever do big American pick-up trucks on Top Gear.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54I know, I'm always campaigning to do them.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56I know, and in part two of the film
0:27:56 > 0:27:59we do them extensively on many different types of terrain.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Yes! Without me! LAUGHTER
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Oh, this is unbelievable! I've never heard such ingratitude.
0:28:04 > 0:28:085,400 miles we travelled to come and rescue you.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12- In slow motion.- Yeah, but we thought you liked tenting!
0:28:12 > 0:28:14I do, in the Lake District where there's a bit of drizzle
0:28:14 > 0:28:16and you can go out for some cake -
0:28:16 > 0:28:20not on top of a mountain at minus ten, surrounded by bears!
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Well, we'll find out later on if Richard Hammond manages to be
0:28:23 > 0:28:25grateful about any of this but, er,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28now it's time to put a Star in our Reasonably Priced Car.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Now, funnily enough,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32my guest tonight spent quite a lot of time in Canada as well.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Is she an ungrateful, angry little man?
0:28:34 > 0:28:38No, no, she isn't, actually. She is the star of both The X-Files
0:28:38 > 0:28:42and The Fall - ladies and gentlemen, it is Gillian Anderson!
0:28:42 > 0:28:45CHEERING
0:28:48 > 0:28:51- I'll kiss you. - I hope so.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54CLARKSON LAUGHS
0:28:54 > 0:28:57Excellent. Thank you so much for coming!
0:28:59 > 0:29:01So you can remember my name throughout the show?
0:29:01 > 0:29:04No, it goes on there. Eventually it goes on there.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06But I did have to look whether it was a J or a G.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Now, one of the things that amazes me is you today joined
0:29:09 > 0:29:13a very small band of people who have been on this show.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16- Including...- By doing the worst time ever...
0:29:16 > 0:29:19- We'll get to that later.- OK!
0:29:21 > 0:29:22How did you know? No, no, no!
0:29:24 > 0:29:28- Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Cowell, Michael Gambon and you.- What?
0:29:28 > 0:29:31All... Everyone's offered a car and driver to come down here
0:29:31 > 0:29:33- but you said no, no, I'll drive myself.- Yeah.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36- And you did drive yourself. - I did drive myself.- Very rare.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Have you got a problem with drivers or you just like driving...?
0:29:39 > 0:29:41- I just like being in control, I think.- Really?
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Ultimately, no, I do like dri... I drive everywhere,
0:29:43 > 0:29:46- I drive everywhere. - You grew up in England, didn't you?
0:29:46 > 0:29:48A lot of people have been very surprised to hear you
0:29:48 > 0:29:50- talking with an English accent. - Yeah.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53- But you actually did grow up, grew up... Was it London?- London.
0:29:53 > 0:29:54- You grew up in... - Crouch End and Haringey.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58- But then you learned to drive in America.- At 16.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02At 16. And it was a Volkswagen family that you'd come from?
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Well, when we were living in London we had a Beetle,
0:30:05 > 0:30:09an old original body Beetle, the skinny ones with the pointy tops.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11And then when we moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan,
0:30:11 > 0:30:14we got what's called a Rabbit which I think a Golf...
0:30:14 > 0:30:17A Volkswagen Golf is a Rabbit.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19- An actual rabbit.- Yeah, yeah, but I think they're the same thing.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21No, a rabbit's...not a car.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24That's what I, that's what I, that's what I...
0:30:24 > 0:30:26- It does exist.- Yes, it does.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28So, anyway, you grew up in the UK, ended up in America,
0:30:28 > 0:30:31ended up acting, obviously, so presumably you end up in Los Angeles
0:30:31 > 0:30:36- at some point.- Yes.- What car did you have once The X-Files had taken off?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Well, while I was, I don't know why, but when we were shooting
0:30:39 > 0:30:45in Vancouver, I had a Boxster, um, and then while we were in LA,
0:30:45 > 0:30:50I did a commercial and they paid me in a car and I got to choose a car.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53So I chose an old body 911.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- 911?- Yeah. - I'd have gone for a Veyron.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00Well, I'm sure that the budget, uh, restricted me to a degree.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03- Oh, I see, it wasn't like ANY car. - It wasn't ANY car, but, yeah.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06- So you're a fan of the 911 Porsches? - Yes, very much, yeah.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08What is it that you like about 911s?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Um, I liked about that particular car,
0:31:11 > 0:31:14I liked how much you could feel the road in it.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16It felt, you know, it's a very basic car.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19I always think they're popular in America cos 911's what you dial
0:31:19 > 0:31:21- if you crash.- Yeah.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23- AMERICAN ACCENT:- So what do I... Oh, I know, there's a number.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26- Cos it's the same thing.- That's not bad. That's not a bad accent.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29I'm better in the south... but that's about it.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32So have you got lots of speeding tickets or are you...?
0:31:32 > 0:31:34- I've had a few.- You have?
0:31:34 > 0:31:37The nicest, um, the nicest thing that ever happened
0:31:37 > 0:31:40was in Canada on Christmas Eve in Vancouver.
0:31:40 > 0:31:45I was properly speeding and a policeman pulled up beside me,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48drove in front of me and slowed me down and then
0:31:48 > 0:31:51he put his hand out the window and gave me the thumbs up.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53And that was it. What's properly speeding?
0:31:53 > 0:31:55- Probably about 110. - Miles an hour?
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Yeah. How many tickets have you got? Do you get a lot of tickets?
0:31:58 > 0:32:01- I've just got my first in 35 years.- No!- Yeah.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04LAUGHTER
0:32:04 > 0:32:07You know when you've got an innocent face like mine,
0:32:07 > 0:32:10you don't like to cause offence, which I don't, then you get...
0:32:10 > 0:32:13- I smell bull- BLEEP. - It was...
0:32:13 > 0:32:14LAUGHTER
0:32:14 > 0:32:17The other one you had in Los Angeles,
0:32:17 > 0:32:21- didn't you have a Land Rover? - I had a Defe... Yes, I did.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26I, um, I fell in love with the idea of having an old-fashioned
0:32:26 > 0:32:31Defender, a red one with a cream top and it was as much the look of it
0:32:31 > 0:32:34- as anything else and they're a- BLEEP - pain in the arse to drive.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36LAUGHTER They are.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39The wheels are this big and they turn, you have to turn the whole...
0:32:39 > 0:32:43- And there's no shoulder room at all. - No, I bought it for about 12,000,
0:32:43 > 0:32:48I put about 35,000 into it,
0:32:48 > 0:32:52and I sold it on a celebrity auction for 12,000.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55Cos it's only recently they've started making cars...
0:32:55 > 0:32:57- BRUMMIE ACCENT:- "Oh, right,
0:32:57 > 0:32:59"you want them to last and work? We never thought of that!"
0:32:59 > 0:33:02- They are quite reliable now.- You and your accents, very impressive.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04- Well, you know... - Was that Australian?
0:33:04 > 0:33:07LAUGHTER
0:33:08 > 0:33:13Anyway, it's time now to talk about your lap. Cos...
0:33:13 > 0:33:17- My 2,765 laps. - Well, it was a bit like that.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21You have set a record - most amount of laps done.
0:33:21 > 0:33:25Cos most people come down and do seven or eight. You...
0:33:25 > 0:33:29- What? Really? - Yeah. You did 22.- Oh!
0:33:30 > 0:33:34- I'm going to be brutally honest with you.- No. I... No, what?
0:33:34 > 0:33:40Well, your first five were all over two minutes.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42- Right. - Which is, um...
0:33:42 > 0:33:44- Yeah, off the... - Well, crap.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47It sucked at the beginning.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49It was wet and I couldn't even I couldn't see the lines
0:33:49 > 0:33:52and I got three hours of sleep last night, that doesn't help.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56- Um...- Right, wet, couldn't see the lines.- Three hours' sleep, yeah.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59- Body working OK? Oh, stick shift on...- Oh, no, frozen shoulder.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02- OK, so that's good one, two, three...- But that... They're not,
0:34:02 > 0:34:03yeah, excuses!
0:34:05 > 0:34:06- So.- Yeah, yeah.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08Would you like to see your lap?
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- Yes.- Would everyone else like to?
0:34:11 > 0:34:14- AUDIENCE:- Yes! - Here we go, let's have a look.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16TYRES SCREECH
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Whoa, that's a lot of power on the...on the start there.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24That's a dirty look.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29Keeping it tight, very tight through there.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Tyres being tortured.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38- Here we go.- This is good, this is really good.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40SHE LAUGHS
0:34:40 > 0:34:42And yeah, it is wet through there.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Well, moist.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49- My foot's on the floor. - Is it?
0:34:49 > 0:34:51Right, now the Hammerhead.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54Are we going to be too brutal through here?
0:34:54 > 0:34:58We are a bit, little bit too much gas.
0:34:58 > 0:34:59But held it all together nicely.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02Keeping it in the middle of the road on the way out
0:35:02 > 0:35:03and, oh, that was a gear change.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07I thought I turned on climate control.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Don't get distracted with the Follow Through looming.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Yes, nicely, that's very nicely done.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15And, oh, very quiet and smooth.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Here we go, only two corners to go.
0:35:18 > 0:35:23Oh, that was a sudden gear change there and only Gambon left.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26Very nice through there and across the line.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29CHEERING
0:35:31 > 0:35:33So, ha-ha!
0:35:36 > 0:35:39Bearing in mind, as we've established,
0:35:39 > 0:35:44that your first five laps of your 22 were about here.
0:35:44 > 0:35:50- Yeah.- Two minutes. Where do you think you came in the end?
0:35:50 > 0:35:53I think I'm probably still below Jack.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56- What, slower than 1.54.5? - I don't know what that means.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00- One minute... - I know what that means.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- It's a unit of time. - I know.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Well...one.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08- Yeah. - So you improved.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Yes!
0:36:12 > 0:36:14..40...
0:36:14 > 0:36:15Oh! Oh!
0:36:15 > 0:36:17AUDIENCE: Ooh!
0:36:23 > 0:36:24- ..Eight...- No!
0:36:24 > 0:36:25..Point five.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27- Oh- BLEEP!
0:36:27 > 0:36:30And it was mildly moist. Which is actually...
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Oh, wow, yes! I beat Charles Dance!
0:36:36 > 0:36:39You beat Charles Dance, you beat Joss Stone,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41you beat Kiefer Sutherland.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46- That's a reboot! - That is quite something.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50- Wow.- Yeah, that's one of the fastest wet times we've ever had.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54- Or mildly moist. I think it is. - It was more than mildly moist.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58I'll be the judge of what's moist and what's not.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00LAUGHTER
0:37:00 > 0:37:03- And that was mildly moist. - OK.
0:37:03 > 0:37:10I know what, you are easily not only the fastest wet lap, but also...
0:37:10 > 0:37:12- most improved.- Oh.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14So, ladies and gentlemen, Gillian Anderson!
0:37:14 > 0:37:18- CHEERING - Brilliant, that's good.
0:37:22 > 0:37:27Now, tonight Jeremy and I are using two huge American pick-up trucks
0:37:27 > 0:37:30to rescue Richard Hammond, who's been abandoned
0:37:30 > 0:37:34on a freezing cold mountain top in the Canadian Rockies.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37We pick up the action after we'd had a good night's rest
0:37:37 > 0:37:39in a downtown Vancouver hotel.
0:37:51 > 0:37:57We set off before dawn, not knowing exactly where Hammond was.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00But we did know he was at least 400 miles away.
0:38:00 > 0:38:03So, we had plenty of time to get to know our vehicles.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11I am driving a Ford F-150 pick-up truck,
0:38:11 > 0:38:16which is, by miles, the bestselling vehicle in America.
0:38:16 > 0:38:21Ford sells one of these things every 35 seconds.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24And that's only in America, remember - 35 seconds.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30If you were to park every F-150 that's ever been made
0:38:30 > 0:38:35since 1948, side by side - not end to end, side by side -
0:38:35 > 0:38:38the line would stretch round the equator...
0:38:38 > 0:38:40twice!
0:38:42 > 0:38:46The reason it sells so well is simple - it's cheap.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50You can have an F-150 with an automatic gearbox,
0:38:50 > 0:38:52cruise control, air conditioning
0:38:52 > 0:38:55and a 350 horsepower V8 motor,
0:38:55 > 0:38:58for the equivalent of £20,000.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02Now, that's what we pay in Europe for a Vauxhall Astra diesel.
0:39:06 > 0:39:12By comparison, my pick-up truck is a sales disaster.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15What I'm driving here, viewers, the Silverado,
0:39:15 > 0:39:19the Chevrolet Silverado, is the second bestselling pick-up truck.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22They only manage to shift one of these every minute.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26I'm amazed Chevrolet are still in business.
0:39:29 > 0:39:34Meanwhile, very far away, my third day on the mountain was beginning.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38I didn't sleep last night. I was cold all night.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41I'm going to have to get more firewood.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46The thought of that, swinging that axe again.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48It's probably a good diet, this.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50You'll see it on This Morning at some point.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52AS LORRAINE KELLY: Well, what you need
0:39:52 > 0:39:54is to be abandoned by two good friends.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57Well, when I say good friends, I mean bastards.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Look, that's what I call a breakfast,
0:40:04 > 0:40:07- thank you very, very much. - Ah, that's perfect.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15After our winter-warming breakfast, we were back on the road
0:40:15 > 0:40:19and delving once more into our pick-up trucks.
0:40:19 > 0:40:24I'm going to be honest with you - this is no ordinary F-150.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27This is the top-of-the-range Raptor model,
0:40:27 > 0:40:31which has been beefed up, supercharged and intercooled
0:40:31 > 0:40:33and then renamed Velociraptor,
0:40:33 > 0:40:37by a company called Hennessey, makers of the Venom,
0:40:37 > 0:40:42one of the fastest road cars the world has ever seen.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49So, the 6.2-litre V8 that I have under the bonnet
0:40:49 > 0:40:55produces - ahem - 623 horsepower.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58That's 212 more than standard.
0:40:58 > 0:41:02And that makes it quick - alarmingly quick.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06ENGINE ROARS
0:41:06 > 0:41:08Listen to that!
0:41:08 > 0:41:10It's like a jet.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16While Jeremy was in a supercharged rocket ship,
0:41:16 > 0:41:20I was riding a wave of low-down grunt.
0:41:20 > 0:41:28I have at my disposal a 6.6-litre turbo-charged V8 diesel engine.
0:41:28 > 0:41:33It develops 765 lbs/ft of torque.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37That's more than one of those Supersport Bentley Continentals.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41I also have the Z71 off-road pack,
0:41:41 > 0:41:43which means I get a lot of under-body strengthening,
0:41:43 > 0:41:46beefed-up dampers and it has as standard
0:41:46 > 0:41:49a sophisticated four-wheel drive system.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52I think for International Rescue, this is like Thunderbird 2.
0:41:52 > 0:41:56It's the one that does all the really serious, proper work.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04With 52 hours gone and International Rescue
0:42:04 > 0:42:10nowhere in sight, I was resorting to extreme measures to find food.
0:42:10 > 0:42:15This is the snare. It just tightens, like that.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19I lay this on the rabbit trail, which is here.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Foot, caught, rabbit - dinner.
0:42:24 > 0:42:25There.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27Apparently the way you bait it...
0:42:27 > 0:42:29is with pee.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32VELCRO RIPPING
0:42:32 > 0:42:34UNZIPPING
0:42:38 > 0:42:39Another layer.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42Two...
0:42:42 > 0:42:43UNZIPPING
0:42:43 > 0:42:45Four...
0:42:45 > 0:42:47UNZIPPING
0:42:48 > 0:42:50What if a bear comes now?
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Meanwhile, James and I, keen to be ready for any emergency,
0:42:56 > 0:43:00had decided to buy VITAL rescue equipment.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03Why? What's... What's that bit there for?
0:43:03 > 0:43:05It's a can opener, bottle opener.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07- What a...- You need a bottle. - It's a bottle opener.
0:43:07 > 0:43:11It opens beer! Yes, we want them!
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Is that...? That's worth having, isn't it?
0:43:13 > 0:43:15- What is it? - Scrapy, scrapy, brushy, brushy.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17You don't need a brush.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20Well, OK, saw the brush off. I can't buy just one end, can I?
0:43:20 > 0:43:22There you go, see, there's just one end.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26- But you might as well have a brush as well.- No, you don't need a brush.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29WOLF HOWLS
0:43:29 > 0:43:31I haven't made these...
0:43:31 > 0:43:34exactly like the ones in the book
0:43:34 > 0:43:38cos I once saw Ray Mears make snowshoes
0:43:38 > 0:43:41and they were more like this. WIND HOWLS
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Aaagh!
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Cold!
0:43:57 > 0:43:59REALLY COLD!
0:44:04 > 0:44:07That's it. That's where I peed.
0:44:07 > 0:44:08No rabbit.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17It's all rubbish! Nothing works!
0:44:20 > 0:44:22- Where the- BLEEP- are they?
0:44:22 > 0:44:26MUSIC ON RADIO: More Than A Feeling by Boston
0:44:26 > 0:44:28# More than a feeling
0:44:28 > 0:44:32- # More than a feeling - When I hear that old song... #
0:44:32 > 0:44:36I have my seat heater on, it's very nice.
0:44:37 > 0:44:42I really am starting to DEEPLY like my Velociraptor.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45This reminds me, and you're going to think I'm mad but it's true,
0:44:45 > 0:44:51it reminds me of a 1992 supercharged Aston Martin -
0:44:51 > 0:44:53they're very similar.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55I used to LOVE that car.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57This looks like rather an attractive small town,
0:44:57 > 0:45:01I wouldn't mind stopping for something like a cappuccino.
0:45:02 > 0:45:07By mid-afternoon, there was still no sign of Yogi and Boo-Boo.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10So I prepared myself for a third night in the open.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15And if you want to write to the BBC
0:45:15 > 0:45:18and say this is some rare type of tree
0:45:18 > 0:45:22and has to be preserved, you can stick it up your arse!
0:45:23 > 0:45:26I'm sick of the sight of this place.
0:45:26 > 0:45:30- I'm a television presenter from Birmingham, not Bear- BLEEP- Grylls!
0:45:33 > 0:45:38Despite our best efforts, James and I were still more than 150 miles
0:45:38 > 0:45:40from our friend and colleague.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43Night was falling, the roads were getting worse
0:45:43 > 0:45:45and there was another issue.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49Sit-rep - James May does not like driving in the snow
0:45:49 > 0:45:52and has now REDUCED his speed...
0:45:52 > 0:45:54to about three.
0:45:54 > 0:45:57To annoy him as much as he was annoying me,
0:45:57 > 0:46:01I decided to ignite my collapsed sun.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02Right.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06- YELLS:- CLARKSON!
0:46:06 > 0:46:08CHUCKLES QUIETLY
0:46:08 > 0:46:12I've never, ever encountered a light like that on the front of a car.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15Seriously, very funny, but could you turn the big light off?
0:46:15 > 0:46:17Only when you speed up.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21- YELLS:- Turn the- BLEEP- light off!
0:46:23 > 0:46:27It was a long, horrible drive, but mercifully,
0:46:27 > 0:46:29when we were just ten miles from Hammond,
0:46:29 > 0:46:32we found a lodge where we could spend the night.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38And the next morning, I came up with a plan.
0:46:40 > 0:46:42Hammond is ten miles away
0:46:42 > 0:46:45and 4,000ft above us. So...
0:46:45 > 0:46:47we have a race.
0:46:47 > 0:46:51And if you get there first, you DON'T have to rescue him.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57- Come on, that's an incentive. - No, you're right, it is, isn't it?
0:46:57 > 0:46:59So if you don't get there first, you have to drive, what,
0:46:59 > 0:47:0015 hours back to Vancouver
0:47:00 > 0:47:02with Richard Hammond in your pick-up truck.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05Can you imagine driving 15 hours back to Vancouver
0:47:05 > 0:47:09with him either dead or bad-tempered?
0:47:10 > 0:47:13- Where the- BLEEP- are you?!
0:47:13 > 0:47:18I peed in a bottle in my tent last night and it felt dirty!
0:47:18 > 0:47:19Enough!
0:47:21 > 0:47:24With a good breakfast under our belts,
0:47:24 > 0:47:27James and I were planning our routes.
0:47:27 > 0:47:30So Hammond is around there, that's where the signal came from -
0:47:30 > 0:47:35from his watch. So if I go up what I think is Wolf Pass,
0:47:35 > 0:47:38the corpse of Richard Hammond will be around here somewhere.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41It's slightly longer, but it's only a little bit longer,
0:47:41 > 0:47:46but I'm avoiding that massive rise there. I'm going to go that way.
0:47:46 > 0:47:49- Are you ready, May? - I've never been more ready.
0:47:49 > 0:47:53Three, two, one...BEGIN!
0:47:53 > 0:47:55ENGINES ROAR
0:47:59 > 0:48:02This is an interesting race, it really is,
0:48:02 > 0:48:05because although our pick-up trucks...
0:48:05 > 0:48:07appear to be the same,
0:48:07 > 0:48:10but actually they're not the same at all.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14His is all about strength and torque
0:48:14 > 0:48:16and this is all about speed and power.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21And then there's our driving styles. James's is very...
0:48:21 > 0:48:24slow and methodical and full of maths.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26Mine's more sort of...
0:48:26 > 0:48:28ENGINE ROARS AND WHINES
0:48:28 > 0:48:31..put your foot down and hope for the best.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34LAID-BACK MUSIC
0:48:34 > 0:48:36Traction control is on.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40Thumbs outside the wheel - that's the other off-road tip.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Absolutely gorgeous scenery.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45Hammond will have been having a lovely time looking at this.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48It's like being in a spa.
0:48:48 > 0:48:49BLEEP!
0:48:49 > 0:48:51HE GRUNTS
0:48:55 > 0:48:57YOU...are going on there!
0:49:01 > 0:49:04HE BREATHES HEAVILY
0:49:05 > 0:49:09In the Ford, I'd decided to use one of God's highways.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha!
0:49:21 > 0:49:24Rivers, as we know, are level, unless they're waterfalls.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27Just hope we don't encounter one of those.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31There's my camera. Yeah,
0:49:31 > 0:49:33I can now see...
0:49:33 > 0:49:34what I'm doing.
0:49:38 > 0:49:39Two miles completed.
0:49:39 > 0:49:42No serious problems.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44THUD!
0:49:44 > 0:49:45Jeez!
0:49:45 > 0:49:47CLUNKING
0:49:47 > 0:49:48Yes, good work.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55I love my pick-up truck! I really love it.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59Both of us were now off the beaten track
0:49:59 > 0:50:02and full of steely determination.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11Come on, Jeremy, you need to get there first.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16Thunderbird 1 is power-sliding.
0:50:17 > 0:50:18Ooh, yes!
0:50:20 > 0:50:23This is called "wrestling with the controls".
0:50:25 > 0:50:27Whoa!
0:50:29 > 0:50:30Ohh!
0:50:31 > 0:50:34# Silverado
0:50:34 > 0:50:38# Why don't you come to your senses? #
0:50:38 > 0:50:41Temperatures and pressures all in the green.
0:50:42 > 0:50:47This is shouting and power versus thought and torque.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49Come on!
0:50:49 > 0:50:52I've got some rooster tails now.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55Oh, ho, ho, ho!
0:50:55 > 0:50:59Good news, Hammond, the Velociraptor works well in these conditions.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02Where is he? Where is he?
0:51:08 > 0:51:11MIMICS JEREMY AND JAMES "Hello." "Hello. I'm James."
0:51:11 > 0:51:14"Oh, I'm Jeremy. Shall we be friends, James?"
0:51:14 > 0:51:16"Yes, let's be best friends for ever and ever."
0:51:16 > 0:51:18"Right, James, I must tell you all about myself.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21"Actually, that's my favourite hobby, telling people how WONDERFUL I am."
0:51:21 > 0:51:23"Oh, really, Jeremy? That's funny
0:51:23 > 0:51:24"because I AM brilliant at everything."
0:51:24 > 0:51:27"Are you?" "Yes, I am, but I'm very modest." "Are you?"
0:51:27 > 0:51:29"Yes, that's why I drive a yellow Ferrari." "Do you?"
0:51:29 > 0:51:31"I drive everything better than everybody else.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33"Let's have another friend
0:51:33 > 0:51:35"but let's leave him to die on a mountain top, shall we?"
0:51:35 > 0:51:37"That'd be funny. Then we could look really cool..."
0:51:37 > 0:51:40Knowing that Hammond would be on high ground,
0:51:40 > 0:51:43I was now climbing...
0:51:43 > 0:51:44hard.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50ENGINE WHINES AND ROARS
0:51:55 > 0:51:59God, I love this thing! Really, properly do.
0:52:05 > 0:52:09All day yesterday, this was an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12Now it's a Group B Audi Quattro.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21On my route, I too was climbing.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30Do your stuff, Z71 pack.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34You can actually feel the wheels going,
0:52:34 > 0:52:36"Is it this one? Is it that one?
0:52:36 > 0:52:39"I'll put a bit of power there. I'll put a bit to that one."
0:52:42 > 0:52:45But as we climbed past 4,000 feet,
0:52:45 > 0:52:48the going started to get REALLY tough.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
0:52:55 > 0:52:56Thunderbird 2 is still go.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03Keep those revs up, keep the wheels spinning.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06Come on, Jeremy, you need to get there first.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09I do not want to drive back to Vancouver
0:53:09 > 0:53:11with my Velociraptor
0:53:11 > 0:53:15being soiled by Hammond's cheesy, decomposing bottom.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20"Oh, my head's come off." "Has it?"
0:53:20 > 0:53:22"Well, a man threw a knife at me but I caught it in my teeth.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25"Literally, my head came off." "Oh, but I'm OK."
0:53:25 > 0:53:26Oh, are you(?)
0:53:26 > 0:53:29In the cock! Ha!
0:53:29 > 0:53:30Right in the nads!
0:53:30 > 0:53:33Look at that! Jahhh!
0:53:33 > 0:53:35# Driving along
0:53:35 > 0:53:37# Singing this song... #
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Come on.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45# ..Something in a winter wonderland. #
0:53:45 > 0:53:47- CLUNKING - BLEEP!
0:53:47 > 0:53:53Situation update, viewers. Bit too close to the edge there. Um...
0:53:53 > 0:53:57I've got to be careful how I move otherwise I'll fall into the valley.
0:53:57 > 0:54:00Still, could be worse.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04Whoa! Oh, no!
0:54:05 > 0:54:08BLEEP! BLEEP!
0:54:09 > 0:54:10Whoa!
0:54:13 > 0:54:17Faced with the prospect of having to rescue the world's angriest man...
0:54:17 > 0:54:21- Where are you, you pair of- BLEEP - middle-aged- BLEEP!
0:54:21 > 0:54:25..James and I had both decided to rip out our own fingernails.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27Ow!
0:54:27 > 0:54:28Ow!
0:54:30 > 0:54:33This made progress MUCH easier.
0:54:34 > 0:54:39That feels good. Temperatures and pressures still in the green.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42With snow chains fitted, you're supposed to be gentle,
0:54:42 > 0:54:46but luckily my colleague doesn't know what that means.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48RATTLING
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Dig and claw, dig and claw.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53Come on! Digging.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55Damn and blast!
0:54:55 > 0:54:58ENGINE WHINES
0:55:02 > 0:55:04Come on!
0:55:04 > 0:55:06COME ON!
0:55:06 > 0:55:10No, you want to do this, you don't want Richard Hammond in you.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13- HISSING - Oh, no!
0:55:15 > 0:55:17The news was grim.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21BLEEP!
0:55:28 > 0:55:32You are genuinely a bit of a desperado here, Silverado.
0:55:32 > 0:55:33Loving that.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36And loving that as well.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39I'm still coming, Richard Hammond.
0:55:39 > 0:55:41And you know what? So was I.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48We are under way. Three wheels on my wagon
0:55:48 > 0:55:50and I am still rolling along.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52Come on, machine.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56Where the hell is James May? Where is May?
0:55:58 > 0:56:00Bit of beans there.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02Slightly less beans there for the climb.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07ENGINE ROARS
0:56:08 > 0:56:12That's an engine. It's not a plane, it's a car. It's...
0:56:19 > 0:56:21That's got to be them!
0:56:22 > 0:56:24YELLS: Where the bloody hell have they been?!
0:56:26 > 0:56:28Come on. Do it.
0:56:28 > 0:56:30Claw.
0:56:30 > 0:56:32Stop panicking, just...
0:56:32 > 0:56:34ease it off.
0:56:34 > 0:56:36Really struggling.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Really struggling here.
0:56:38 > 0:56:39Come on!
0:56:44 > 0:56:48It's Hammond! Hammond is there!
0:56:48 > 0:56:51How can it have taken that long?!
0:56:51 > 0:56:56May, bad news. You're going to have to take Hammond back to Vancouver.
0:56:56 > 0:57:00That's a powerful vehicle, that is a go-anywhere car.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03- So where the- BLEEP- have you been?
0:57:03 > 0:57:07And he's in an appalling temper, absolutely shocking.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10Where are you going? Well, now what?!
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Oh, that's your rescue, is it?!
0:57:16 > 0:57:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:57:19 > 0:57:22SPEECH DROWNED OUT BY APPLAUSE
0:57:22 > 0:57:23Hold on.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27THAT was shocking!
0:57:27 > 0:57:30I have seen Thunderbirds and I never saw Alan
0:57:30 > 0:57:33flying along, listening to Boston, eating a bar of chocolate.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35- No, you say that... - Neither did I see
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Virgil suggesting they stop for a cappuccino -
0:57:37 > 0:57:39they were both focused on the job in hand.
0:57:39 > 0:57:45Yes. But in that film, we did prove that your watch system works
0:57:45 > 0:57:47and both James and I
0:57:47 > 0:57:50completely fell in love with our pick-up trucks, didn't we?
0:57:50 > 0:57:51Yeah, no, this is a very good point.
0:57:51 > 0:57:53Because, let's be honest, for 12 years
0:57:53 > 0:57:56we've looked down our noses at big American pick-up trucks.
0:57:56 > 0:57:58But having spent quite a few days in them,
0:57:58 > 0:58:00we ended up completely besotted.
0:58:00 > 0:58:02It's the value that staggers me.
0:58:02 > 0:58:07Because American pick-up trucks are exempt from the gas guzzler tax,
0:58:07 > 0:58:09they are spectacularly cheap.
0:58:09 > 0:58:10Yeah. I'm surprised actually
0:58:10 > 0:58:13there aren't more people importing them over here.
0:58:13 > 0:58:16Yeah, well, I think the problem is a car - vehicle, I should say -
0:58:16 > 0:58:19this size wouldn't really work in Britain.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21And there's another problem. Excuse me, Hammond.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23I think if you put something in the back,
0:58:23 > 0:58:25every time you pull up at a set of red lights
0:58:25 > 0:58:27someone is going to nick it.
0:58:27 > 0:58:29Yeah, you're dead right. You're dead right.
0:58:29 > 0:58:32But even so, I maintain, my Silverado, it was brilliant.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34Well, it was, James, but let's be honest,
0:58:34 > 0:58:37it didn't actually reach the top of the mountain, did it?
0:58:37 > 0:58:39No, I wasn't going to mention that.
0:58:39 > 0:58:41Actually, just before the end it did break a driveshaft.
0:58:41 > 0:58:43Yeah, I did wonder if you were going to mention that,
0:58:43 > 0:58:45because it wasn't in the film.
0:58:45 > 0:58:48In the end, neither Thunderbird Fat nor Thunderbird Slow
0:58:48 > 0:58:51- actually rescued me. - That is true.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53No, an actual rescue person had to come and save me.
0:58:53 > 0:58:58And can I just talk about the four days - FOUR DAYS - of misery
0:58:58 > 0:59:00I endured whilst you two dawdled from breakfast
0:59:00 > 0:59:02to breakfast in your heated trucks.
0:59:02 > 0:59:04No, I'm sorry, there isn't time.
0:59:04 > 0:59:06And on that bombshell we really must end.
0:59:06 > 0:59:09Thank you so much for watching. Good night!
0:59:09 > 0:59:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:59:11 > 0:59:14MUSIC: Jessica (Top Gear Theme)