(CHEERING)
(CHEERING INTENSIFIES)
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
Hello!
-Hello, peoples!
-Hello.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, everybody.
And in this show...
James stands in a park,
I panic in a shop...
...and Richard is touched
by a man.
(LAUGHTER)
All that is coming later.
It is not!
(LAUGHTER)
Yes, it is. But first,
we start with this.
This is the new Ford GT,
and we have had thousands
of letters from people,
all asking the same thing -
"We know it's fast,
very fast,
but is it faster
than an airliner?"
Well,
not thousands of letters.
Er...no, not thousands
of letters.
-You mean, none.
-Yes.
We've had no letters at all.
But I was interested in
finding out anyway,
so this week, The Grand Tour
is off to New York.
And here it is.
(ENGINE REVS)
Deep inside the concrete
canyons of Manhattan...
...the fastest,
most beautiful,
most expensive car
Ford has ever made.
Some are saying that
it's just a 647-horsepower
racing car for the road,
but actually,
it's a lot more than that.
First things first -
it is very practical.
It's got a boot which is
the exact same size
as the glove box
on a Renault Clio,
so you can get your luggage
in easily.
And unlike the previous GT,
it's got doors that
you can open in a car park
cos they go up
rather than out.
And you can get inside
even if you have a head.
However,
the seat doesn't move.
In order to get comfortable,
what you have to do is
move the steering wheel
to where you want it
and then you move the pedals.
Pull this sort of
ratchet strap here, and...
Right.
Is that...
Is that fixed?
(ENGINE ROARS)
The problem with this
moving-pedal arrangement is
that when I push the brake,
how do I know whether
I'm applying the brakes
or just pushing the pedal
further away?
How do I know
whether it's locked?
I don't!
After some nerve-racking
city-centre miles
with a swallowy Adam
in my Big Apple...
(GULPS)
...I arrived in Central Park,
the start point of the race
that no one's been
asking about.
And dressed like
everyone else,
my rival was waiting.
There he is, Mr Slowly.
-Morning.
-(GRUNTS) Hang on.
Right, what's the plan?
Well, we're going to find out
whether it's faster
to fly or drive
from here
to the Canadian border.
-Fly.
-Well, you say that,
-but if you look on a map...
-(MOUTHS SILENTLY)
...you, because you're not
using a car,
will have to go from here
in Central Park
on a train to JFK,
then fly to Buffalo
and then use a bus
to get to the finish line
at the Niagara Falls, where
I'll be waiting for you.
You won't be waiting for me.
I will. This thing does
216 miles an hour!
Yes, I know, but where,
between there and there,
are you gonna do
216 miles an hour?
Yes, but you've got to spend
two hours at JFK being
touched inappropriately
and giving them
your toothpaste.
Anyway,
you've got a handicap.
-What handicap?
-Here it is!
(JAMES SIGHS)
Seriously?
I thought he was in hospital.
No, you mean you hoped he was
in hospital, but he isn't!
He's come all the way
out here.
He's keen
to get back to work.
So I've become a carer,
is that what you're saying?
Yes. Morning, Hammond.
-Morning, chaps! How are you?
-We're very well.
You do know this is
a race car, don't you?
Yes, apart from the fact
it's got indicators
and a rear-view mirror and...
Yeah, but it was built
to go racing,
and you do know racing cars
never work on the road.
After an hour in this,
you'll be scared
you're gonna to die.
After two hours, you'll be
scared in case you don't die.
Shall we just
get on with this?
(ENGINE RUMBLES)
-Ready?
-Yes!
(LAUGHS) What was that?
-Nothing, nothing.
-That looks tremendous!
I've got it up again now.
That was in its V-Max mode.
Right. Ready, steady...
Yes.
(ENGINE RUMBLES)
Go.
He hasn't got a chance,
has he?
He has if you just
stand there. Let's go!
It's this way, come on.
There we are,
leaving the park.
This is good.
Come on, Hammond.
Yeah, good teamwork.
Come on!
Oh, it's good to be back!
JAMES: As this was a race
between the car
and public transport,
we'd be using two subway
trains, the AirTrain to JFK,
a plane to Buffalo and then
two buses to the finish point
at the Niagara Falls.
Clarkson, meanwhile,
had a simple 420-mile thrash
from one side of
New York State to the other.
(ENGINE ROARS)
Yes! They're green on 89th.
And they're green on 90th.
We are screaming along now.
There are some steps here.
Can you manage?
Yes! Er...
Hammond, there's more.
"Start to begin. English.
Fast MetroCard. Cash".
Not everybody gives
a running commentary
as they get a card,
most people just do it.
Finally, I'd been caught
at a red light,
but that was OK because I had
an important call to make.
CUSTOMER-SERVICE REP:
Thank you for calling
JetBlue. How may I help you?
Good morning,
my name's Jeremy Clarkson.
You have a James May
and Richard Hammond
booked on this morning's
flight from JFK to Buffalo.
Sure. Do you have their
confirmation number, and can
you spell their last names?
I don't have
a confirmation number.
What I can tell you is that
they've been accidentally
booked by the office
into business class.
That's not company policy,
so could you drop them back
down to economy?
Sure, let me take a look.
OK, I will make this update
in their reservation
and we will email you
a confirmation.
Is there anything else
we can help with?
No, not for the moment,
thanks. Thank you very much.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, I'm on form this morning!
As was
the world's worst carer.
(TICKET BARRIER BLEEPS)
JAMES: Come on!
With the world's clumsiest
driver stuck in a barrier...
...I was getting used to
the monster
that was powering me
through Manhattan.
I used to own
the old Ford GT,
and that was a brilliant car
in every way
apart from the fact that
it was the size
of a football pitch,
I knocked myself out
every time I closed the door,
I couldn't see
what was coming at junctions,
and it had
such a small fuel t*nk
that it could only go about
six yards between fill-ups.
This new version, however,
is completely different.
It is longer than
the car I had, and wider
and harder to see out of,
and incredibly,
the fuel t*nk's even smaller.
It only holds 12 gallons.
And that means that
on this 420-mile race,
I'm gonna have
to fill up...twice.
Eek.
It also has literally
the hardest ride
of any car I've ever driven.
I know New York's roads are
atrocious, but this is stiff.
This is... This is
stiffer than Ron Jeremy.
(ENGINE ROARS)
Meanwhile...
This is us.
Other than throwing myself
down the stairs,
this is all I've got.
Right, we missed that one.
JEREMY:
In the GT, I was already
leaving Manhattan.
Right, we've got to go across
the Georgy Washington Bridge.
Heading for New Jersey.
Annoyingly though,
my storming progress
was about to be halted
by roadworks.
(BEEPING HORNS)
This traffic's worse than
I thought it was going to be.
Come on!
Er...James?
Nothing, don't worry.
-What?
-Nothing.
Yeah, but it means both of
them, not just this one.
Come and see the man
without a disability
sitting in the special seat!
-Ow!
-There's nobody else disabled
down here.
I'd be better if I could sit
in that special seat
that's reserved for me.
It's reserved for
disabled people.
-Like me!
-You're not disabled!
Temporarily, yes, I am!
You're not disabled, you've
had a playground injury
as a result of your own
half-wittedness.
-Oh!
-That's not disabled.
I'm surprised you don't
do more charity work
with the differently abled.
-(NEXT CAR BEEPS)
-Yes.
Lot of love for the fast Ford
here.
There always is, of course,
cos they're seen as sort of
blue-collar heroes.
That said,
this one is $400,000.
You can actually have
two Ferraris for the price
of one of these. Two!
Meanwhile,
Hammond was heading for
the next subway train
with the help
of Captain Compassionate.
JAMES: Come on, come on,
come on! Come on!
Come on!
That's gone, then. Yeah.
What happened there is,
basically,
we missed the train
because you don't know
to slow down when it says
"finish" across the road.
-Oh, nice!
-Sorry to put it
bluntly like that,
but that's exactly
what happened.
JEREMY:
I, meanwhile,
was off the bridge,
and at last the GT had some
space to stretch its legs.
Right, now, the roads are
opening up a bit,
time to see
what this V6 can do.
Right, here we go -
opening the taps!
(ENGINE REVS UP)
Bloody Nora!
Aagh!
What a machine!
What an astonishing engine!
It's a turbo-charged V6,
not a V8,
which it should be
in a Ford GT,
and it shares 60% of its
components with the engine
in a Ford pick-up truck.
Yet somehow, it feels
like a mad Caterham
when you put your foot down.
(LAUGHS)
I also love the way they
haven't messed around with
the sound this engine makes.
There's no
electronic trickery,
no artificial
barks and bangs,
it's just a raucous,
deafening racket.
JAMES: As Jeremy deafened
himself in New Jersey,
we had finished
with the subways
and were about to board
the train to the airport.
-The train will be
in three minutes.
-Thank you.
I'm gonna call May,
see how they're doing.
PHONE COMPUTER:
Who would you like to call?
vag*na.
(LINE RINGS)
I've had to change his name
in my contacts.
It's not normally vag*na,
it's worse than that.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello, it's me. You rang.
JEREMY:
You'll have to really speak
up, my car's quite noisy.
I want to know,
what time do you get to JFK?
(LOUDLY) We will get to JFK
in 25 minutes' time.
This is embarrassing,
you're making a scene.
I'm hoping to get the
11 minutes past one flight.
-Hello? May!
-(BEEP)
You know what? He's done some
Bluetoothing, hasn't he?
Oh, look.
-Oh.
-That's not worked, has it?
(CRUTCHES CLATTER)
What a bloody noise,
honestly!
-What can I do about it?
-Put some springs in them
or something.
On the freeway,
I was falling even more
under the spell of the GT.
This car was
actually developed
by a team of just 20 people,
and they did it under the
radar of Ford's management.
They had no idea
it was going on.
Their only contribution to it
was insisting it had
a little sort of glove-box
thing down here
in front of the seat
so that when
they were testing it
on the streets of Detroit,
they had somewhere
to store their Glocks.
And it does actually feel
like it was put together
by a small team.
It doesn't feel like
the product of
a mass-market manufacturer.
There's nothing subtle
or damped or gentle
about anything it does.
I just love it!
JAMES: On the AirTrain,
we too were finally
making swift progress.
-That's quite good, isn't it?
-That's excellent.
JAMES: How fast would you say
this was going?
It's probably 60mph.
RICHARD: That's great!
Observe - the train is
going faster than the cars.
Not my car, it wasn't.
As we are now
in the steady cruise,
I've put it in "comfort",
and I can relax.
The office has provided me
with an audiobook,
which will help me
do just that. Here we go.
JAMES (NARRATING):
I knew innately that
loosening them meant
turning them anti-clockwise,
a tiny hairspring
that contracted...
JEREMY:
Sadly, it turned out to be
a James May talking book
on how to mend things.
JAMES (NARRATING):
What I didn't appreciate
at the age of five
was the facility that the
freshly wound mainspring had
for completing the
disassembly process for me,
and as a quantum event
at that. It was there...
JAMES: Having reached JFK
in no time at all...
...Hop-Along Hammond was now
slowing us down again...
...so I decided
to speed him up.
You do realise this is not
a self-propelled one,
it hasn't got
the big wheels,
you'll have to push me?
-Yeah, that's all right.
-Cool.
It's better than listening to
that clink-chink-clink noise
for the rest of the day.
You've really suffered, mate.
I don't know how
you've put up with it.
Thank you.
-I'm just gonna do a quick
brake test.
-Yeah.
-(SQUEAKS AND CRUNCHES)
-(RICHARD GRUNTS)
Yeah, they work.
JAMES (NARRATING):
Off came the back,
suspiciously easily,
I would now realise.
More screws lay within,
and on I went,
like one of Carter's
archaeologists...
How did he stay awake
to read that out?
He's reassembling
an alarm clock,
and he's made
an audio book of it.
Oh, God!
JAMES: With Hammond
now on four wheels,
we were doing well.
This is so easy!
SECURITY GUARD:
Take everything from
out of your pockets, please.
However...
(BLEEPING)
Well,
I left them back in the...
I can't get in there
without crutches.
You were complaining.
I didn't think you wanted
them any more.
-You gave them away!
-You're in a wheelchair.
It's like a reserve
parachute, you don't go,
"I'm not using that".
We haven't got the crutches.
Please may we go through?
OK.
RICHARD:
It may have been OK for him,
but it definitely wasn't OK
for me.
All right,
so I'm gonna go ahead,
I'm going to give you
a pat-down today, OK?
-All right, sir.
-The pat-down consists of
me starting from the top
all the way to the top
of your feet.
For your sensitive areas,
I have to use
the back of my hands
in a sliding motion,
from your waist,
going down over your groin
and across your groin
as well,
then sliding my way
down your leg, OK?
(ENGINE ROARS)
Sitrep - 300 miles to go,
and I've been doing
16.4 miles to the gallon,
and I'm on the motorway.
That's not bad.
I mean, it's not a prize,
but it's not bad.
They should be at JFK now
having their penises touched
and deodorant confiscated.
I'm gonna go up and down, OK?
I'm going down.
I'll go up and down one more
time at the top of the leg.
JEREMY: At this point,
I decided to make life even
worse for Hammond and May
by making another call
to their airline.
CUSTOMER-SERVICE REP:
Thank you for calling
JetBlue. How may I help you?
Really sorry
to trouble you again.
It's Jeremy Clarkson here.
I spoke earlier about
downgrading Mr May and
Mr Hammond to economy class.
-Yeah.
-If I could tell you,
in confidence - they've both
just come out of rehab.
So on the flight,
could you make sure
the attendants don't
give them any alcohol?
Thank you
for letting us know.
I will go onto the
reservation and make a note
and give it
to our in-flight crew.
We will make sure
to accommodate
this special request.
Thank you
for your understanding.
OK, goodbye.
PHONE COMPUTER:
Calling vag*na.
-(PHONE RINGS)
-Hold on.
-Hello?
-Where are you?
We're at JFK.
How far have you got?
I've done 153 miles.
-153?
-Yeah.
Right, well,
this is where we catch up.
We're about to board
the 500mph shuttle.
How long's your flight?
One hour and 15 minutes.
Righty-ho.
I could literally...
I might stop
and have lunch in a minute.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll see you at the end
and keep a beer warm for you.
You definitely will need
a drink if you get
to the end, I assure you.
Got to go now -
important work.
-Goodbye.
-(LAUGHS)
Economy and no drinks!
I am so
gonna win this today.
JEREMY: Calls over,
I put my foot down
and went back
into the noise zone.
(ENGINE ROARS)
(CHEERING)
Honestly...
...you would not believe,
you simply wouldn't believe
the noise that
that car makes.
It's just...
It's just so relentless.
I can't imagine
having to put up with that
endless bellowing drone.
Yeah, it's a dreary drone.
Just going on and on
and on and on.
You think you had it bad,
I was travelling
with a handicap!
(LAUGHTER)
James, it's not 1950.
The correct term these days
is "a disabled".
He's not disabled,
he's just clumsy.
What?
Actually,
on that whole point,
able-bodied people
like to think that
everything that could be done
to make life easier
and convenient for disabled
people has been done,
but when you find yourself
in that position,
you realise it really,
really hasn't.
The Grand Tour -
a show that cares.
(LAUGHTER)
This week
it's disabled people
and next week we're doing
people who are BLT.
Erm...that's a sandwich.
What is it I mean?
You mean, LGBT.
Yes, that.
That's what I meant, not BLT.
Er...anyway...
It's lesbian, gay, bacon
and tomato - that's the one.
That's my favourite sandwich,
and we're doing that
next week.
Later on, though,
we'll be picking the race up,
so don't go away.
Absolutely, there'll be
more of that later.
But now it is time for us
to lean
on the lamppost of chat,
in Conversation Street.
(LIVELY JAZZ)
(LAUGHTER)
Right, yes, now -
Formula One season is over,
and as we all know, I'm sure,
Lewis Hamilton is
world champion,
and well done, him.
I think we all agree on that.
I'm sure the Baby Jesus
was very pleased.
-I don't doubt it.
-They're like that.
They're close.
For me though, the highlight
of the entire season
was on the podium in Mexico,
where Kimi Raikkonen set what
I think is a new world record
for the longest
chug of champagne.
-Did he?
-Honestly.
Everyone else is
spraying it round.
Back of sh*t...
(GULPS)
I thought, "I know
the Finns like a drink,
but he must have
a titanium throat!"
Imagine the burp he did
afterwards, a whole bottle.
It's staggering.
I think the problem is
for most people,
champagne on the podium
is a ritual,
but for Kimi Raikkonen,
it's just another drink,
and he hasn't had one
for at least two hours.
I often wonder - you know
in Abu Dhabi, on the podium,
they're given rose water,
not champagne?
If Kimi's coming 3rd,
he's thinking,
"I've got to go on the podium
for 20 minutes
and drink rose water."
(REVS DOWN)
"Oh, no, I'm 4th.
Straight to my motorhome
and have a beer".
-Tuck in!
-I mean, he is a Finn!
That's what they do.
Anyway, self-driving cars.
We're told they're coming.
-Yes.
-We were told this week,
actually,
that there's a problem.
In cities like New York,
and I guess other cities
around the world,
people who drive them,
indeed the cars themselves,
are going to be bullied.
-Bullied?
-That's what they're saying.
Obviously, these cars will be
programmed to never run over
a person, OK?
Which means you can just go
and stand in front of them.
I mean, you could.
You could do better than
that, you could probably
herd them a bit.
I could herd them
and I would herd them.
Can you imagine
how sanctimonious
the man sitting in his new
self-driving car is gonna be
with his paper?
"I'm not driving,
I'm just reading the paper
while it drives me home."
If you just go, "Back up!"
It'll be going,
"I mustn't run him over!"
Back him into a river.
That's what I'd do, I would.
They'll have all those
algorithms on board
for moral decisions as to
what they're gonna do.
-So carry a fake baby.
-Good plan!
Walk up to it,
the car will think,
"Fake baby or fat, smug man
in a business suit?"
- He's going in the river.
- This is exactly right.
That would be tremendous.
Sadly, I don't think we're
going to see anything like
an autonomous car
until long after we're dead.
No, I couldn't
agree with you more.
They are years and years and
years away, decades away.
It's such a complicated area
to apply what is
essentially robotics.
You're dead right
about robotics.
I don't yet have a robot that
could make me a cup of tea,
which is quite simple,
or bring me my slippers.
-Just domestic stuff.
-Sex robots aren't here yet.
That's people from Essex,
isn't it?
(LAUGHTER)
There's a TV show about that,
isn't there?
-Anyone from Essex?
-Orange Sex...
You're from Essex? There's
a sex robot here, look.
RICHARD: Hiya!
That's what he thinks of you.
I don't, personally.
That's amazing.
It's incredibly convincing!
Can you go like that...
Can we stop this
conversation? It's gonna
go somewhere wrong.
The way I'd sum this up
is this.
Somebody says,
"We've made this
self-driving car, brilliant."
I will take him to Bolivia,
put him at the bottom
of Death Road
and say, "Sit in it,
reading your paper
while it drives you up there,
passing all the buses
with the 1,000-foot drop.
If you're prepared to do that
and you can reach the top
with no poo in your
underpants, I'll buy one."
"Enjoy reading your newspaper
on the way".
It's not gonna work.
No, right - "Agh!"
That's covered
self-driving cars.
We needn't worry.
Shall we move it on?
Yes. Moving on.
Interesting news this week -
Jeremy has been approached
to be the ambassador...
-Oh, yeah!
-...for a vineyard
-in the South of France.
-Yes, I have.
What are they thinking?
Imagine a better job
than that.
-Oh, yeah.
"I am the Ambassador
for Chateau (MUTTERS)."
How's that going to go?
"Where is the Ambassador?"
"He's out the back,
completely clattered,
where he always is."
You're not an ambassador,
you're a customer!
Sorry - he's out the back
with pneumonia.
-Ambassadorial pneumonia.
-Still droning on about that?
I don't know how
it's going to work though,
cos the problem is,
the three of us have never
had a commercial tie-in.
You may be surprised
to hear this -
we dress ourselves.
(LAUGHTER)
No, he doesn't mean we
put our clothes on ourselves.
We're not sponsored by
a clothing company.
I know you'll be staggered
to hear that.
-Model's own.
-Yes, this is it.
I go into a shop and I
choose these and I buy them
with my money,
watches and everything.
We buy everything ourselves.
That's why we don't know
how it works,
the commercial stuff.
Actually, it's funny
you should mention that,
because you know that
pink-and-purple-striped
rugby-shirt thing
I've had for years?
-Yeah.
- You know the one I mean.
-It's a top.
-I know, yeah. Top?
-It's a top.
-Did you say, "top"?
-It's a top.
-It's not a top!
It's not a shirt,
it's not a T-shirt.
Hammond, I've never said this
before and I promise
I'll never say it again,
but I'm with James May
on this.
-A man cannot wear a "top".
-Ordinarily, no,
but that is... Technically,
it's a hooped top.
Anyway, that's not the point.
I was at an event once,
and a man sidled up to me,
took me to one side.
He was from Gant, the big
American clothing company
-that made that thing
originally, the shirt!
-Top.
He begged me, he said,
"Please stop wearing it."
And then...
It got better than that.
He says,
"If you stop wearing it,
you can have as many
free clothes as you like."
But I still said no
because I'm an arse.
(LAUGHTER)
Hey! What about...
Why don't we do...
-What?
-Reverse sponsorship.
It's just occurring to me.
You know Levi's once said
I'm ruining
the Levi reputation?
-They did!
-Because I always
wear Levi's.
Why don't I say to them,
"Give me 100 grand,
I'll wear Rounders"?
-Erm...
-What about watches?
I'm going to sit like this,
and I'm going to say
something deeply offensive
to millions of people
around the world, Omega!
(LAUGHTER)
Unless you send me 50 grand,
and I'll wear a Rolex,
which is the watch of choice
for all the world's arses.
I'm not a lawyer...
-Mm-hm?
-...but isn't that extortion?
It is extortion.
It just is.
I've got a better idea.
Why don't we say to people,
they can put in bids
to put their logo on
the bottom
of Richard Hammond's car?
Because the chances are...
(LAUGHTER)
Yes!
Thank you!
-Thank you.
-Imagine the commentary.
"Here comes Richard Hammond.
Oh, no, he's gone off!
Pepsi".
(LAUGHTER)
-That's a very good idea.
-Moving on.
That's the end
of Conversation Street.
We must move it on
with this.
Imagine what it's like
to be a car designer.
You love cars,
you always have.
Your school exercise books
were full of
drawings of cars.
You worked hard,
you got to college,
learned about geometry
and proportions
and classicism and airflow
and legislation.
Then one day
you get your qualification,
and you land your dream job
somewhere like Mercedes-Benz.
And you spend
your first four years
designing the new seat-belt
release button
for the A-Class hatchback.
Exactly, or a tailgate handle
for a van. Ooh!
It's not exactly what
they dreamed of as kids,
is it, car designers?
Which is why they
occasionally get bolshie
and they say
to the management,
"Look, would you please let
us do something interesting?"
And that is obviously
what's happened
with the new Mercedes GT R.
(ENGINE ROARS)
You just know the designers
have said, "Can it be green
and can it have a mouth that
could be used
for sifting krill
and can the bonnet
be nine miles long
and can it have bits
of the Battlestar Galactica
on its gills?"
The bosses obviously thought,
"They're being idiotic."
But to keep them sweet,
they let them get on with it.
The upshot is a car
that only really appeals
to those that have
a mental age of eight,
and that's me
and every other man.
It even makes
a childish noise.
-(RUMBLES)
-(LAUGHS)
Just brilliant!
Unfortunately however,
because the stylists
were allowed
to do what they wanted,
the engineers then
stuck out their bottom lips
and said they wanted
a free hand too.
The trouble is that
unlike car stylists,
who are flamboyant
and usually drunk,
car engineers
tend to be very sensible.
You can tell this just by
looking at their trousers.
So they fitted this with
all sorts of sensible stuff.
It's got a flap, for example,
which lowers itself
from the bottom of the car
when you're going quickly
to reduce the air pressure
down there.
That literally sucks the car
into the Tarmac,
giving you more grip.
Then there's
the traction control,
which you can turn off
using this button here.
Then you can decide how off
you'd like it to be
using this piece of Lego
here.
You turn it that way, and
it's really very off indeed.
Then you swivel it round, and
now it's only slightly off.
I never knew "off"
was a variable thing,
but there you go.
Other things - well, the body
is made from carbon fibre
and titanium and magnesium
to make it light.
And it's got two
Venturi tunnels at the back
and short gearing
and four-wheel steering.
There's so much techy stuff
on the GT R, in fact,
that it is really...
(LAUGHS) ...very fast
and extremely well
sorted out.
The turning, thanks to
the four-wheel steering,
is incredible,
and when you go through
Dentalcare Swindon,
run by dentists for patients,
it's like a small
and very eager dog.
Then you've got the gearbox,
which I think was designed by
Mystic Meg
because it always
seems to know
what's going to happen next.
It is uncanny!
But the best thing is
the braking. You ready?
Watch this.
Has my face actually
come off? It has, hasn't it?
Small wonder, then, that
the GT R holds the lap record
for rear-wheel drive cars
at the Nurburgring,
and that is its problem.
Because AMG Mercs aren't
really supposed to set
lap records.
They're not supposed to be
particularly fast.
You buy an AMG Merc
cos you want it to do this...
...make a lot of noise
while sliding through a
cloud of its own tyre smoke.
In an AMG Merc,
you don't want to go round
a corner crisply at 150,
you want to go round smiling
and sideways at about 27.
And there's another thing
too...
...the engine.
It's a twin turbo-charged V8,
which produces 577
horsepower, and that's a lot.
But exactly the same engine
in an E-Class saloon
produces
more than 600 horsepower.
So why not use that engine
in here?
The only possible reason
is that soon,
there'll be a more powerful,
even faster version
of this car,
so why buy this one now?
It's a good question.
I wouldn't.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
So, who would buy a car
like that?
I don't know,
I've never met anyone
who I think would like that
car, would want to buy it.
Besides all that,
if you want something
that feels like a Porsche,
why not buy, say, a Porsche?
Because Porsche are really
good at making Porsches.
RICHARD: They are.
-Yeah.
They're so good
at making Porsches
that since you filmed that,
their new GT2
has gone round
the Nurburgring
faster than the GTR.
The worst thing is,
that's the first time I've
ever filmed an AMG Merc
and finished the day
on the same set of tyres
I started with.
And I don't like that.
I want an AMG Merc to eat
its own feet in every corner.
That's what it's for, yes.
Anyway, if you are
the sort of person
who wants to buy
a shouty, lime green car
that looks mad
but actually isn't,
then you'll probably
want to know
how fast it goes around
our Eboladrome.
Yeah. Last year,
that would have meant
handing it over
to the American.
But we're not using him
any more,
because he didn't like
coming to England.
And because
you all hated him.
(CHEERING)
-Well, that too.
-Little bit.
But the point is,
we needed a replacement,
we needed a new driver.
And we've spent
the last nine months
auditioning everyone
we could think of.
Former F1 drivers,
rally drivers, stunt drivers,
test drivers,
until we ended up
with the fastest.
And here she is.
Right, here we go.
JEREMY: And she's off.
Tidy start, no wheelspin,
full power
from the twin-turbo V8.
To the first corner.
Will she lift?
No, it didn't sound like
she did.
Right, second corner,
balancing the car nicely.
God, that thing
looks planted.
Right, here we go,
this is the tricky bit.
Let's have a look how she's
getting on round here.
Ooh, that thing
looks planted!
And quick.
She's on the raggedy edge
on the down-changes.
(TYRES SQUEAL)
Michelins squealing in pain,
but that is...
Let's have a look.
Yeah, inch-perfect.
Now, back onto the Isn't.
She really has only one
throttle position here,
and it is in the carpet.
Lifting now, and into the
Old Lady's House complex.
Working the low-speed grip
through there.
Yeah, and back on the gas for
the bumpy run to Substation.
Showing no mercy down there.
Leaving the braking
nice and late.
Tidy line through
the second-to-last corner.
Just Field of Sheep to go.
Really on it through there,
and across the line.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
That was an impressive lap,
but let's see
how fast it was.
Here we go.
Past the... Oh, it's quicker.
-Yes!
-(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Bloody hell!
1:18.7. That is quick.
Yeah, it is, and she is
an incredible driver.
She's a phenomenal driver,
absolutely phenomenal.
We are delighted
to have her on board.
But now it is time to move on
to Celebrity Face-Off.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yes. And once again
it is an international event
as baseball takes on cricket.
In short,
we're trying to find out
who is the fastest person
in the world
who earns a living
from throwing and catching
small balls.
So would you please welcome
Kevin Pietersen
and Brian Wilson.
(APPLAUSE)
JEREMY: Gentlemen!
Hello, sir.
-Kevin, how are you?
-Good.
Good. Have a seat.
Brian. Good to see you.
That is a look!
That is a look
you've got going there.
First of all, thank you
very much for coming.
Thanks for having us.
And let's begin
with a simple one, OK?
Actually, it's not
that simple.
Kevin, could you explain
to our American viewers
what cricket is?
I think I'm very lucky,
we've got...
I'm bored already actually!
-No, go on, have another
bash.
-No.
Just cos I don't like it
and it gives me hay fever.
Go on.
Yeah, it's very difficult.
For American...
I play a lot of golf with
a lot of American people
and they literally,
after two minutes,
tell me to go away,
swearing at me,
because how can you play
a game for five days
and not get a result?
But there's T20s
that Brian knows about,
he's been to India,
he's played T20s in India,
and it's a pretty cool game.
-I reckon you could do a T20.
-No, I couldn't.
With cricket, you stand there
in the outfield,
the ball,
super-heated from re-entry,
is coming, "Ah, ah, ah,"
and then it always lands
right on the end of your...
-"Gah!"
-That finger?
-Yeah, and everyone shouts.
-That's convenient.
Everybody shouts,
and you drop the ball,
and you're batting
and some enormous man...
It's miserable, it goes on,
as you say, five days.
Actually, before we move on,
perhaps you could explain
to the British viewers
what baseball is.
It's not much more exciting.
JEREMY: I've seen...
-It's a little faster.
I've seen clips of it
in films,
like Good Will Hunting,
there's a scene of it.
It's rounders.
-Now, I just learned...
-It is rounders, isn't it?
I just learned
what rounders was today,
and in all fairness,
no, no, it's not like that.
Men play this sport as well.
Can you be drunk
while playing baseball?
-You can be, I guess, yeah.
-Cos you are...
Everyone is in cricket,
I presume.
We're all piss-heads.
Cricketers are piss-heads.
The great
celebrated cricketers,
the Flintoffs, the Warnes,
piss-heads.
BRIAN: Piss-heads?
-Piss-heads, yeah.
JEREMY: It's OK.
-You can say that?
Or as we call them,
ambassadors.
With pneumonia.
That's what it is.
I was astonished
to read the other day
about the England
cricket team and how...
Actually, the Australian
cricket team as well,
I presume it's the same
in South Africa,
is how much drinking went on
at the "tea break".
Yeah. There's a world record
for the amount of alcohol
consumed on an aeroplane
by a cricketer from Australia
for the Ashes,
and there was an Australian
cricketer drank 52 beers
on his way over
from Australia.
That's aggressive.
That's aggressive.
That's a big amount.
-That's a big amount.
-That's a lot of drunk.
Now, we must move
on to cars, if we may,
-having covered the sport.
-Sure.
Maybe begin with you, Brian,
OK?
You had,
I think it's fair to say,
an inauspicious start
to your driving career.
It wasn't the best start, no.
So, 16, got my licence.
First day, I got a speeding
ticket, that was expected.
Second day, though,
it's about 1am,
apparently we have a curfew
I didn't know about,
you have to be in bed
by a certain time.
As a 16-year-old,
I'm thinking, "No, I don't."
So I rolled through
the stop sign,
and I see the blue lights,
and I'm thinking,
"I'm in a '94 Thunderbird,
this is a V8 engine."
So I speed.
Now I'm getting
in a police chase.
-Now the adrenaline's going.
-Second day?
BRIAN: The second day.
I'm driving around
my neighbourhood,
and I accidentally hit
an electrical box
and the power goes out
and I feel really bad.
But I left this guy
in the dust.
Like, I got all the way
to my driveway.
But because
I turned the keys off...
The car was a*t*matic lights.
So the cop
just followed the lights
and arrested me in my
driveway, my front yard.
And so what do you get
for that, for...
What do you get?
You get to go to jail,
you get a free ride.
And I'm amazed
they pull you over,
cos you look like
an accountant, I mean...
This is a slow Tuesday.
See me on the weekends!
So, Kevin, your first car
was a Nissan...
-Pulsar.
-Which is a bit boring.
It's not as good as his
V8 Thunderbird, is it?
It is boring, apart from
a couple of gadgets.
I got a couple of gadgets
that were put in
by my late grandfather.
And in South Africa, the
crime rate's pretty severe,
so there was a switch he had
put underneath the ignition
you had to flip before
you could turn the car.
If you didn't flip it
within 20 seconds, the car...
Would explode, k*lling
everybody within 40 yards.
-That's safe!
-The South African way.
There was another one,
every time you put it into
reverse, "Doo, doo, doo."
I'm a cool 18-year-old
driving around Durban,
I put it in reverse, everyone
goes, "Where's the (BLEEP)
truck?"
It was a little red
Nissan Pulsar,
"Doo, doo, doo, doo,"
out of it.
So really, you're basically
a slightly more wild driver.
Did you not buy a police car
at one stage?
I did have a police car.
And I did get
pulled over in that. So...
Again, why would you
get pulled over?
It wasn't my fault, though.
They said I was trying to
impersonate a police officer,
which I wasn't, it was just
a cool car to drive in.
I may have pulled a friend
over as a joke.
-But who wouldn't?
-Did you have sirens and all?
Yeah, you have sirens.
Have you ever gone anywhere
in a car
and not been pulled over
by the police?
Just thinking, going back
to the sporting thing,
when you played cricket
briefly in India,
you managed to get
into trouble with that one.
-Yeah, and felt really bad.
-Really?
So, well, where I was,
it was just a large field
and there might have been
100 games going on,
all the kids
from around local playing,
and they said,
"Hey, you wanna try?"
So no one tells me
any of these rules,
so there's these
three little...
-What do you call, wickets?
-Wickets.
-Stumps.
-"OK, what do I do?"
They give me this
paddle-looking thing,
and like, "Just stand there,
and then this guy's
gonna throw to you."
He throws it, it hits
the ground, I'm like, "What?
That's a bad pitch."
And it hits the wickets,
and all the kids start
laughing at me.
"What are you guys laughing
at? Give me another sh*t!"
So I stand up, pff,
just absolutely destroy it.
It leaves the park, it hits
an apartment building,
and I'm just like,
"I'm the greatest!"
The guy that brought me there
told me
that's the only ball
that they have.
And immediately
I just went, "Oh.
I feel terrible."
"We've had that ball in our
town for three generations."
-They would have.
-Treasure it.
Now, going back to cars,
you, at one stage,
as I understand it,
had a Vauxhall Vectra.
I did.
And you said
to our researcher
when they called you
the other day,
"I have nothing particularly
interesting to say about
that."
I've been known to be
a straight-sh**t.
Put it there.
I once had to do a TV show
where I was asked
to review one of those,
and couldn't think of
a thing.
It was four wheels
and a (BLEEP) seat.
Why did you have one?
The team were sponsored
by Vauxhall.
You were sponsored
by Vauxhall?
Oh, I'd have gone and done
another sport.
Now, we must get
on to why you are here.
Obviously, you're only
the second group of people
we've had around the track.
-How was it out there?
-It was...
I found it comfortable
on the tar,
but as soon as we veered
off there, it was difficult.
-It was intimidating.
-Is it?
I (BLEEP) loved it!
There were grass clippings
all over the car,
I just took it off-road
a little bit, it was fun.
Yeah, I've been hearing.
We can get it mended
for next week.
Kevin, we're gonna see
your lap first.
OK, let's bring it up
and see how you got on.
JEREMY: Is that
a slow-motion start?
Oh, no, you're building up
speed as you cross the line.
Come on, Kevin!
JEREMY: Ooh, that's
a determined-looking face.
Clipping the corner,
but keeping two wheels
on the track, nice to see.
Yes, you've done what I do.
You brake there
and then you've got
a slingshot
into what we're calling
the Difficult Bit.
That's when it goes
really skatey as you...
You've really gotta pay...
Ooh, I say,
that's rather good.
For a man who grew up
with a Pulsar.
Kevin, you absolute numpty!
JEREMY: Right, oh, look at
that, it's got the tail out.
KEVIN: Yeah, got the tail
out, got him going good.
JEREMY:
Traction control saved it,
now you can floor it
through to Difficult Bit 2.
KEVIN: Oh, she's going
all right.
-Nicely done.
-That was tough.
-Yeah.
JEREMY: It is a tough bit.
This is really slippery
when you come back
on the Tarmac,
you think that's OK,
and it isn't.
Tyres being
absolutely tortured,
that's looking nice.
Right, onto the straight.
Come on, baby!
Come on, baby!
JEREMY: It's more exciting
than cricket, way more!
As is being asleep.
Were you flat-out
through there?
KEVIN: I was flat-out
through there, then
I messed this up.
JEREMY: Ooh! I'm not...
KEVIN: Yeah, I messed it up,
I missed the curve.
Ballsy flat-out through there,
but you crossed the line,
you did it.
(APPLAUSE)
I got it. Time?
So...
Time?
-Patience.
-Time?
You're a cricketer,
we know you have patience.
OK.
Because what else
is there to have?
-It wasn't bad.
-No, it looked OK.
-Brian.
-Yes.
-Want to see his lap?
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
Come on, let's see Brian's.
KEVIN: Oh.
JEREMY: Right, no creeping
across the line.
And here we go! Yee!
JEREMY: That is a colourful
comb... That's a...
Cheat. He's cheating! Cheat!
He's a cheat!
JEREMY: It's not
Formula One,
we won't penalise him for
this, we have no stewards.
KEVIN: Oh!
JEREMY: Oh, my God!
Coming in hot!
Holding it well, though,
and, I must say,
that is exuberant.
He's on fire!
JEREMY: Into the gravel cell,
the banked gravel corner,
nicely done through there.
Look at those stones
coming off the back of that.
Difficult Bit 2.
Floor it.
JEREMY: You don't think this
is gonna be slippery but it
is.
Every time, that happens.
Nicely held, though, Brian.
You really do get around.
And there he is, onto the
main straight and relaxing.
Yoo!
JEREMY: Well, not
completely relaxing.
Were you flat through here,
as well?
AUDIENCE: Ooh.
BRIAN: I took it...
JEREMY: Flat-out,
that's good.
Braking hard.
Not bad at all.
And there we are, across the
line, that's both of them.
(APPLAUSE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Right. Now, I've got
your times here.
I'll tell you one thing,
they're very, very close.
So you were kind of smooth
and crickety.
-Yeah.
-You were kind of exuberant.
-Yeah.
-They are ridiculously close.
-OK, here we go.
-The suspense.
-I mean, come on.
-Yeah.
-k*lling me.
-OK, Kevin.
-1:17.2.
-1:17.2?
So at the moment,
you're the fastest man
who's ever been
round our track.
-Until...
-This precise moment.
Until about 30 seconds.
(APPLAUSE)
Brian Wilson...
-Ooh.
-1:17...
AUDIENCE: Ooh.
-Point one.
-Give it to me.
-..five.
-Damn it!
-Ah!
-Seriously, 0.3 of a second.
-(APPLAUSE)
Well done, sir.
-That's close.
JEREMY: That is nice.
That is a nice result,
I'm very pleased with that.
And there we are,
you are still the fastest man
who's been round our track.
You have come a long way
for nothing.
Thank you.
JEREMY: Literally nothing...
-Much appreciated.
So, honestly, I mean
it's been an absolute joy
-having you both here...
-Came here for the sheep.
Yeah, no, take one home.
So there we are,
ladies and gentlemen,
Brian Wilson, and the fastest
person who makes a living
by throwing and hitting
and catching small balls,
-Kevin Pietersen!
-(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
KEVIN: Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Right.
Now, this week
we are having a race
from Central Park in New York
to Niagara Falls,
and it's Jeremy
in the new Ford GT
against James and me
in a whole selection
of public transport.
Yes, and when
we left the action,
Jeremy was miles ahead
in the car,
slowly going deaf
from the drone of the engine.
But now we were
about to haul him in
as we boarded
the flight to Buffalo.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
(BANG)
RICHARD: Ow!
JAMES: Sorry.
Get out of the way. Get out
of the way, I'm in a race.
(ENGINE ROARS)
Hello. Hello.
Don't get in the way
of someone
who's just given up
a 43-year smoking habit.
JEREMY: Meanwhile...
JAMES: Has he got to go
in that?
MAN: Yes.
OK, see you on board.
STEWARD: Welcome aboard.
-Hello. Thank you.
Oh, God.
Hello. Hello.
Yeah.
OK.
JEREMY: Having covered
160 miles,
the GT's tiny t*nk
was now nearly empty.
This is a splash-and-dash.
Right, petroleum.
Oh, please let it not be
one of those stupid
American ones
where I've gotta pay first,
I don't know how much I want.
Sadly, it was.
No. Not a debit card.
I haven't got one... Ah.
What?
PA: All exits are marked
with a sign overhead...
It's very unusual
having business class
at the back, isn't it?
Imagine what it's like
at the front.
Must be sort of like there.
It's quite good if you sit at
the back in business class,
survey the whole aeroplane.
This is an Embraer 190.
I can tell you a bit about
these actually.
PA: Prepare for departure.
Oh, dear, you can't,
he's talking.
JEREMY: Hello. Can I...
The pump says...
It's just coming up
"not approved".
Does it have a chip?
It's probably the chip.
How do I pay? Cos...
I'll turn the pump on,
you pump what you need
and I'll let you run
the card when you're done.
Thank you so much.
If you talk like Hugh Grant,
you can get anywhere.
Any minute now, Richard
Hammond and James May
will be thinking,
"Mmm, a beer, I think."
(CHUCKLES)
Anyway, here we go,
let's catch him up.
Definitely.
I think we should celebrate
our progress right now,
as we're moving so well.
-Hello.
-Hello.
JAMES: Hi.
-Can we have beer?
-Two beers, please.
-Let me see.
So, as it turns out,
unfortunately I won't be able
to serve you any beer today.
Can I offer you a water,
Coke, Sprite?
-You've got no beer?
-No, I'm sorry.
Wine. Wine? Two glasses
of wine? White wine.
I'm not quite too sure why,
but unfortunately
I won't be able to.
Can I get you
some other beverages?
JEREMY: However, while they
were squashed and thirsty,
there was no getting round
the fact
that they were doing 500mph,
and I wasn't.
Come on, fellow Ford driver,
get out of the way, please.
You've got a Ford!
We are gonna be
reeling him in now.
We're not gonna get stuck
behind anything.
-No.
-In traffic.
No. Nobody is gonna have
a puncture.
Or shed the load
from a pick-up truck.
No.
JEREMY: My biggest problem,
though,
was the woeful
lane discipline.
And you're gonna stay in
that lane, are you, really?
Undertaking.
This is allowed in the
United States and America.
You can see why. People
don't use their mirrors.
It was a problem.
And then there was
a bigger one.
What the hell's this?
I'm in a traffic jam.
A bloody traffic jam. No.
PA: We're about to begin
our descent
into the Buffalo airport.
We'll be on the ground
shortly.
Look.
Is there a fat idiot
in a very fast Ford?
-Nope.
-Good.
(HORN SOUNDS)
Why is there a traffic jam?
And it's a bad one.
Look, we're all stopped.
Come on. Come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Chair, please.
JEREMY: Oh, sh*t.
There we go. I'm in.
Blimey! Yeah, that is...
I am safe.
JEREMY: Incident.
There's been an accident.
There's the problem. Jesus.
We have some time to make up.
Seeing an accident like that
normally slows you down,
but I couldn't do that.
I was upholding
the honour of the car.
They should be landing
in about ten minutes.
(PHONE RINGS)
Oh, no.
JEREMY: May? You've landed?
-Yes! Yes.
-James, too loud. Too loud.
-sh*t.
JAMES: Where are you?
I'm 130 miles from Buffalo.
(LAUGHS) He's 130 miles away.
Well, you better
get a move on then
in your 200 and whatever
it is mile-an-hour car.
I... Oh.
JEREMY: That's...
-Keep going.
Oh, for God's.... Shut up.
JAMES: Bye.
Right,
where do we get the bus?
JAMES: We now only had a
couple of dozen miles to go.
We'd catch a bus
into Buffalo
and then another
to the finish line
at the Niagara Falls.
Trying to think
where this went wrong.
George Washington Bridge,
that didn't help.
The accident and the
traffic jam that resulted,
that didn't help.
But I think the main problem
is that Jet Blue
managed to do
an hour and 15 minute flight
in an hour.
-(BEEPING)
RICHARD: Oh, I say.
JAMES: Oh, I see,
it folds out like that?
RICHARD: That's very clever.
JAMES: Here we go.
RICHARD: Thank you.
JAMES: Aligned.
-There's a wheelchair
section right over there.
-Thank you very much.
Come on. Yay!
The Tr*mp enthusiast
has pulled over!
Right, let's find out
where he is.
(PHONE RINGS)
It's Mr Bell End.
Hammond, where are you?
Leaving the airport on a bus.
Right. Well,
I'm 90 miles behind you.
(LAUGHS) You're gonna
have to make that up
in no time.
How far are you
from Niagara Falls now?
23 miles.
RICHARD: I'd say
you could be doomed.
Good luck,
we're getting closer. Bye.
He's never gonna do it.
Oh! I don't want this car
to lose, I properly love it.
It's just so exciting.
All the things that make it
bad and annoying
make it brilliant
and exciting.
The noise, and the ride,
and the roughness.
It's just raucous, raw,
bareback, unplugged energy.
I want it to win,
I want it to b*at the plane.
But to do that, it
would have to do 113 miles
in the time it takes a bus
to do 23.
(BELL RINGS)
PA: Stop requested.
JEREMY: Luckily, however,
buses have other people
on them.
JAMES: I don't like this bit.
What do you do?
You just have to sit here.
Yeah. Bus travel
is tricky to like, isn't it?
And we've gotta stop
and change buses,
and if we lose ten,
15 minutes waiting for
the next bus...
I know, it's not in the bag.
76 miles.
(BELL RINGS)
PA: Stop requested.
Who pulled the...
Well, it is a bus with...
Can't be rude to customers.
Nobody else pull the string
until we've got off, please.
Let's just go all the way.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello. Where are you?
I think about 55 miles away
from the finish line.
-55?
-Yeah.
Right, this is
gonna be close.
Have you not got
to Buffalo yet?
No, no, we're in Buffalo,
but we haven't got
to the bus change point.
Oh, really? Oh!
Does your bus keep stopping?
Well, of course it does,
it's a bloody bus!
I haven't been on one
since I was eight.
That kept stopping.
I thought, "I won't go on
another one, they're stupid."
-They're still the same.
-Bye-bye.
(BEEP)
JEREMY: Amazingly,
I was still in the running,
but my furious pace meant
I had to make a decision.
Do I drive like Al Gore would
want me to drive, at 55mph,
and possibly make
the finish line
without having
to fill up again,
or do I floor it,
go really quickly,
and have a quick
splash-and-dash?
Do I risk running out...
Oh, no, I can't.
RICHARD: Meanwhile,
not that far ahead,
we had reached
the bus station.
And James, incredibly,
was doing running.
JAMES: Where the hell is it?
Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls.
48, look.
It's that one there.
In we go.
Right, we need
a swift departure.
Hello!
Oh! He's missed the ramp.
This is so irritating.
I've got 35 miles to go,
that's all,
but I'm not gonna make it
on the fuel,
I just know I'm not.
I'm gonna have to fill up.
Argh!
-So, 15 miles from here?
-Yeah.
It's 35 miles.
Four gallons will do it.
That will do.
PA: Now approaching
Mohawk Street.
No need to stop.
No, no need to stop,
we're all fine.
Ah, roadworks!
-Ten miles, Richard Hammond.
-Ten miles to go?
Yes, joy of joys,
two actual lanes open.
(HORN BLARES)
Get a bloody move on!
12 million people a year
visit Niagara Falls.
Do they?
I want them all to get in
Jeremy's way, but not ours.
Yes, Niagara Falls.
No, no, no. No, a toll. Argh!
Luckily, though,
I had an electronic pass,
which made paying
much faster.
See, Hammond,
it's right there. See it?
-Yeah.
-See the spray?
RICHARD: Yeah.
(HORN TOOTS)
It's not working. No!
Right.
-(BELL RINGS)
PA: Stop requested.
-Is this it?
-This is our stop.
-Yeah.
-Right.
(PANTING)
Four miles.
-(PANTING)
-Are you gonna have
a heart att*ck on television?
Yeah.
Don't wanna lose this.
What's it say there? "Falls".
(PANTING)
Right, this is it.
Where the hell are they?
(PANTING)
There's the
observation tower.
There is the
observation tower,
that's where I'm headed.
Dicky wheel. (PANTING)
Ah! Oh! I have been turned
into Richard Hammond
by six hours in that car.
(PANTING)
This is it.
There's the bridge thing.
Oh, God. Jesus.
-In we go.
-Howdy.
Ooh.
Oh, God,
so it all comes down to,
is he the other side
of this barrier?
Can you get that door,
Hammond?
Yeah, I got it, got it,
got it.
Oh. Hang on. Oh. Look.
Let me sit down, sorry.
Put the brake on.
How long you been here?
Long enough
to do some nice pictures
-and some Instagram work.
RICHARD: Oh, good.
JEREMY:
Why are you so tired?
I've been pushing him uphill!
RICHARD: He doesn't like it.
-He's actually sweating.
-He's been running!
-I've run on the internet.
I thought he might have
a heart att*ck.
James May is going to die
live on TV.
I'm gonna do it here,
just talk amongst yourselves.
(PANTING)
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
The gloating gets worse.
So there we are, the answer
to the question that no one
was asking is:
Yes, the Ford GT
is faster than an airliner.
No, it's faster than a bus.
And it crippled you
and made you deaf.
He didn't exactly arrive
in tip-top shape, did he?
No, but hang on,
that's because I had to
push him around all day,
and it was like having
a massive wheeled suitcase
with an opinion
that pointed at things
like Rommel all the time.
He was the only one who had
a comfortable day, actually.
-You were.
-You were.
Cos the honest truth is,
that Ford GT went through
a city and on a motorway,
and neither
of those environments
is where it's really at home.
Yes, like I said in New York,
it's a racing car.
Yes, which is why
I'm going to get one
brought over to the UK
and later I'm gonna thrash
it round the Eboladrome.
-You're gonna do that?
-As opposed to?
Well, uh...me?
People wanna know
what it's like on a track,
not what it's like
on its roof.
And on that terrible
disappointment, for you,
it's time to end.
Thank you so much
for watching, goodnight.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
02x02 - The Falls Guys
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with "The Grand Tour". A show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars. Follow them on their global adventure.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back with "The Grand Tour". A show about adventure, excitement and friendship... as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it's even a show about cars. Follow them on their global adventure.