Dy to go.
Ready to go?
-Let's go, plaid!
-All right.
-Whoa!
-Woo!
[jay]
good heavens.
[tires peeling]
[franz]
that always puts a smile
on your face.
It does, it does.
Yo!
Tonight on jay leno's garage:
Oh yeah, this comes alive,
here we go.
Hello!
We test the limits of some
very limited editions.
I'm sure there are easier jobs,
but I can't think of any.
We'll hit the road
with a few rarities.
This doesn't belong to me,
the owner doesn't know
-I borrowed it, so we just--
-shh, he'll never see this.
[jay]
and make tracks with folks
who really break the mold.
[trevor]
either people don't use
their blinkers at all,
or they just leave them on
for the entire journey.
That's right.
I'll also visit
one-of-a-kind places.
It's the first power station
in downtown los angeles.
Now, it's turned into
a nightclub.
[trevor]
it's jumping off, my friend.
[jay]
with a few unique faces.
[tom]
ooh, this thing rips.
-So, get on in.
-I'm a little cramped.
-If you can, that is.
-Well, let's race, man.
[jay]
'cause an episode like this,
it's gonna go bad.
Everything happens right now!
It happens right this second.
[whirring]
[mellow music]
you know, there was a time
when electric cars
looked like they had
a pretty limited run.
But nowadays,
they reflect the future.
Today we're at
one of the first places
electricity was produced
in los angeles,
the higgins building,
about to give
an electrifying young talent
an exclusive look
at an electric car
he's really gonna love.
Come on.
I brought you here
because of the cars
we're driving today,
there's kind of
a tenuous connection.
This place was built in 1911,
and it was built by a guy
with a big copper magnet,
one of these guys, and I believe
it's the first power station
in downtown los angeles.
-Oh, wow.
-But, like so many things,
it just sort of
fell into disrepair,
-then it became a nightclub.
-Yeah,
it's the natural lifecycle
of ever power station, jay.
[jay]
that's right, they become--
they become nightclubs.
In fact, I understand
hoover dam right now,
they're starting to put
tables and chairs in.
-It's jumping off, my friend.
-Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Hoover dam nightclub.
And speaking of jumping off,
I'd say trever noah's
comedy career
has really done just that.
Known best for hosting
the daily show,
this insightful comedian
is at the top of his game.
Oh, and did I mention
he also loves cars?
A lot.
Oh, this is way better
than the daily show.
[chuckling]
[revving]
-have a seat.
-Thank you very much, sir.
[jay]
well, what we have today,
mercedes-benz has sent us
two of their latest
electric cars,
top of the line.
I think you'll be fascinated
by it, because I know you like
-electric vehicles.
-I love electric cars, yeah.
I like nothing more than
an electric car for two reasons:
One, I spent a lot
of my youth fixing cars,
so I don't miss
any part of an engine.
-Right.
-I don't miss spark plugs.
-Right, you don't--
-I don't miss carburetors.
-Right.
-I don't miss anything.
You love that stuff,
you always--
well, I like the mechanical as--
you know, with electricity,
you never really know
why it broke,
'cause electric things degrade.
-Yes, right.
-Mechanical things break.
So, when something's 'a-ha,
look, you see?'
the wheel fell off,
or the thing broke.
With electricity,
I don't know why
-it's not getting there.
-I'll take it.
Every car that I owned
growing up,
whether it was
a vw gulf, vw bug,
a mini cooper, the original one,
you knew what the car
was thinking
while it was driving.
-That's what I don't miss.
-Right.
[trevor]
so, remember--you know
when your car would--
you're going up a hill
and your car's like,
"ahh," and then you're
doing this, like, "uhh."
I don't like knowing what
my car's thinking or feeling.
-Really?
-I just wanna go
-where I'm going, jay.
-Just going where you're going.
[trevor]
yeah, just going
where I'm going.
I like the no noise,
I like the efficien--
I love the torque,
the instant on, instant off.
I see people buying cars
and they're like,
"this car, its top speed
you're never gonna drive--
never.
Give me a car
that has a top speed
of 100 miles an hour,
but give me nonstop torque.
Well, a little more than 100.
[chuckling]
when this is over
I'll take you out.
But, I got something today,
it's the latest electric
from europe, and I think
you might get a kick
-out of this.
-I'm excited.
-Come on, let's go take a look.
-Let's do it.
[intense music]
[jay]
peep the new mercedes eqs,
the very definition
of first-class luxury
in an all-electric sedan.
Designed to be the flagship
fully electric car
for mercedes-benz,
the eqs is stacked.
It comes with
either a 329-horsepower
rear drive powertrain,
or a 516-horsepower
all-wheel drive setting.
And boy, does this electric car
have some bells and whistles.
The new mercedes eqs sedans
have navigation
with augmented reality,
a huge 56-inch hyperscreen,
intuitive driver suggestions,
and of course
massaging front seats.
Ya gotta have that!
This has so many features.
It's got
artificial intelligence.
It kind of studies you
and finds your ha--
I mean, it's crazy,
you can get a--
this'll give you a massage,
here, hop in.
-You take this one.
-All right.
I'm always wary when a car's
gonna know who I am, jay.
-Yeah, it knows who you are.
-It might tell me
things about myself
I don't wanna know.
Oh, look at that,
it knows my name.
Look at that.
[upbeat rock music]
[chuckling]
let's put our foot down,
see what it does--oh!
[whooshing]
it accelerates very nicely.
-Oh, wow, that is nice.
-I could get used to this.
You have all the advantages
of the s class
with the luxury interior.
I mean, there are
so many things, you--
it'll give you
a hot stone massage.
I don't know what that is,
I'm not sure if I want one
while I'm driving,
'cause I think
-I might fall asleep.
-I think your blinker's on, jay.
Yeah, well hey, I'm old.
[chuckling]
[trevor]
my favorite thing
about driving in america:
Either people don't use
their blinkers at all,
or they just leave them on
for the entire journey.
That's right, that's right.
now, I know you're a modest guy,
but I saw this in the paper
the other day, so I don't mean
to embarrass you,
but tell me about this--your--
your foundation
just won an award.
-Tell me what that's all about.
-Yeah,
that was really quite an honor.
You know, I started
the trevor noah foundation
in south africa.
I've always loved
what education did for me.
One of the biggest hurdles
for everybody in life
is just education.
-Right.
-You know, I don't think
it should be an optional thing,
I think everybody
should be allowed
to access information
so that they can become
the best version of themselves.
And so, you know,
there's schools
that have no money,
and so what we started doing
was helping these schools
access government grants
that had already been
earmarked for them,
but they couldn't access,
so then we would come in
and we give them
everything they need.
A wall, a fence, a computer lab.
We try to get everybody
in the school meals.
Sometimes kids are not stupid,
they're just hungry, jay.
-That's all it is.
-I know, that's true,
and you know something,
I'm not naive to say
that racism doesn't exist,
obviously it does.
But, I think a lot of racism
is also based on classism
and education, 'cause the less
people have in common,
the more divided we are.
Definitely.
[mellow music]
[jay]
listen, you know,
I am so happy for your success.
It was really fun when you
first came on the tonight show
you were just a kid
from south africa.
To see you be so successful
and get your own show,
and start a foundation
and help other people,
it's really terrific,
so thank you for, uh,
proving the american dream
can come true.
Thank you, jay leno,
for having me, man.
Thank you for being
the first person
to give me a late night spot,
thank you for being
one of the first people
to believe in me,
and thank you for being
the first person
to trust me with
their lamborghini to drive,
-I really appreciate that.
-And that's
the most important one.
[laughing]
thank you, my friend.
[upbeat music]
I'm on my way to famoso raceway,
which is outside
bakersfield, california.
It is a drag strip, literally,
kind of
in the middle of nowhere.
I'm driving a tesla,
it's mine actually.
I'm on my way to meet my friend
franz von holzhausen.
He is the chief designer
for tesla.
He's the guy behind the model s
and the cybertruck.
He wants to show me the latest
and greatest that they've got.
In fact, we're gonna try
and set a record today
for the fastest
production vehicle ever made,
so, uh, this is
gonna be interesting.
[energetic music]
-franz.
-Jay.
-How are ya?
-I didn't even hear you coming.
[jay]
that's right, so this is it?
-This is the new plaid.
-Very nice.
It looks a little more muscular,
-fair to say?
-Yeah.
[jay]
actually I'd say
a lot more muscular.
Feast your eyes on the all new
tesla model s plaid,
with 390-mile range
and more than 1,000 horsepower.
It also has
the quickest acceleration
of any vehicle, gas or electric,
in production.
I'd say the future
looks pretty limitless.
Obviously the family resemblance
is similar,
but kinda like, uh, you know,
my grandfather
came to this country,
he was this tall,
then my dad was this tall,
and now I'm taller
than both of them, you know,
so each generation
-gets a little bit better.
-But yeah, the cars
-got a little bit wider.
-Right.
-Better handling overall.
-Well, let's talk about
what I like, 'cause I pretend
that I bought this
for the fuel efficiency
and the environmental fact,
but it's also the fact
that it was, at the time,
the fastest production
in the world, and that's what
we're gonna try to do
-with this today, correct?
-Absolutely.
Well, let's discuss
what we have here.
This is a dual motor,
which seemed
incredible at the time,
a motor front and back.
This is tri-motor,
two in the back.
-Two in the back.
-One in the front.
-Okay.
-Yeah, so all three motors
are carbon-sleeve motors.
It's new,
never been done before,
invented by tesla,
and that just allows you to have
constant power
until you run out of room
or you run out of speed.
The cd8, the frontal area
of the car increases,
but we managed to get
the coefficient to drag lower,
-so it's 0.207.
-Right.
To understand coefficient drag,
whatever car you drive now,
go down the road,
just take your foot off the gas,
and you feel--you'll feel
the wind stopping you.
-Exactly.
-I mean, that's what
coefficient drag does for you,
and of course you get
-better mileage, yeah, yeah.
-Better range, exactly.
[jay]
now this has the same batteries
as this, different?
[franz]
same batteries, they're cells
that are cylindrical.
There's just fewer of 'em.
The pack is more efficient,
it's easier to build,
and it's really designed
around maximum performance.
-It's better thermodynamically.
-Right.
[franz]
it stays at optimal temperature,
and you can do better runs
-on the track.
-And you guys make
-your own batteries, correct?
-Yeah.
[jay]
well,
so it's all done in house.
-Yeah.
-Before tesla, electric cars
are always teased about
being golf carts on wheels...
-Yeah, I know.
-...And being slow,
and they're really the ones
that turned it around.
[franz]
well,
radically turned it around,
'cause I think you'll experience
how fast this car is.
Yeah, I'm curious to see,
you think we'll
-set a record today?
-I think so.
-All right.
-I think you will.
-Let's give it a shot.
-Yeah, let's try it.
[jay]
of course,
before we set any records,
I'm gonna need to
familiarize myself
with the controls,
and believe me,
I'm more than ready
to give this thing a shot.
[upbeat music]
well, first off,
it feels very familiar,
which is good,
it's not like it's jumping
from one brand to another,
so that's very familiar.
The yoke takes a minute to
get used to, the steering wheel.
It's not a steering wheel
anymore, is it?
[franz]
it's not a steering wheel,
and it really--you know,
it puts your hands
in the right driving position
-for spirited driving.
-Right, right.
[franz]
but, also it's great
when you're in autopilot,
and you don't need
the wheel anymore,
you don't need
this thing in your way.
[jay]
right, now mine is 0 to 60
in just about 3,
maybe a hair under 3.
-What is it here?
-Well, let's take it
to the drag strip,
I think we could find out.
[jay]
all right, we'll go back
to the drag strip,
-we'll see what it does.
-I think you'll be
-pretty impressed, though.
-I'm impressed now.
-Let's go, plaid!
-All right.
-Whoa!
-Woo!
[jay]
good heavens!
[tires peeling]
coming up:
I'll get an exclusive look
at the legendary
limited edition porsche
that's been six decades
in the making.
Oh yeah, this comes alive,
there we go.
But first, I'll put
this tesla to the test,
and see if I can write myself
right into the record books.
Wow!
Back at california's
famed famoso raceway,
I have the great privilege
of taking
the new tesla model s plaid
on a quarter-mile run
to see if I can set
a new world speed record.
Get these stupid gloves on,
hello.
But, ill-fitting gloves aside,
I got my work cut out for me.
You know, some of the fastest
quarter-mile production cars
include bugatti veyron
super sport,
the porsche 918 spyder,
and the mclaren p1.
The record holder right now
is bugatti chiron sport,
clocking in at 9.4 seconds
in the quarter mile.
Now, let's see how fast
tesla's plaid 4-door sedan
can get me
to the checkered flag.
[franz]
all right, jay, this is franz.
-You're ready to go.
-Ready to go?
[beeping]
[revving]
[dramatic music]
wow, that's amazing.
Curious to find out my score,
so let's see how we did.
-How did we do?
-Awesome, look at that.
-What was it?
-9.247.
That's a world record, man.
That was awesome.
-Woo!
-I didn't do anything!
World record, there we go,
how about that?
Until somebody breaks it.
I'm sure there are easier jobs,
but I can't think of any.
[laughing]
-I'll take it.
-Very cool, well thanks
-for the opportunity.
-Of course,
-you can come any time.
-Now I gotta buy one, come on!
[franz]
yes, you gotta buy one.
Very impressive, great job.
[jay]
well, I gotta show it,
gotta hold it up.
-All right, yeah, there you go.
-Here you go, see there you are.
[intense music]
my little celebration
may be very limited edition,
because now it's time
for tesla's own
professional test driver
to give it a shot
and see how he does.
Good luck, pal.
[beeping]
[revving]
[whooshing]
[dramatic music]
-wow.
-What's the time?
-9.23.
-Oh, very good.
[franz]
amazing, that's a record.
He won easy, 9.234.
[jay]
and come to think of it,
I did have
a meatball sandwich for lunch,
and this professional driver
can't be more than
I mean,
one hundredth of a second.
Come on, I was robbed!
You know,
losing makes me hungry.
-Let's go.
-I'll meet you guys
back in burbank.
[mellow music]
they say legends aren't born,
they're made,
and there's a legendary car
I've only heard about.
The ideal marriage
of german engineering
and italian design,
a car that should've been built
almost 60 years ago,
but wasn't...
-Wow.
-...Until now.
[whirring]
[beeping]
looks great, spike.
-Hi, jay.
-Meet my friends,
comedy writer spike feresten
and lawyer paul zuckerman.
They host a podcast
spike's car radio,
and co-own this spectacular
limited edition
-Ah, it's beautiful.
-Thank you.
[jay]
I can see why I mistook it
for an alpha when I saw it,
'cause it has that italian look.
It's so funny, because something
just looks italian,
I don't know what it is,
what makes it--you know.
Like what we always say
about p*rn*graphy,
I know it when I see it,
I can't describe it,
but I know it when I see it.
-Exactly.
-And that's what it is, I mean,
it's almost
a perfect combination
of italian styling with
german precision engineering.
It sort of begs the question,
it's so incredibly beautiful.
Why would this not have been
an immediate hit?
Did porsche not wanna
build an italian body?
I mean, what was the reason why
it did not go into production?
[spike]
here's what happened:
For reasons unknown
the car was never built,
but flash forward to 2015,
zagato is doing
a digital archive.
They open up a file drawer
and these pictures come out,
and they call up
porsche and say,
"well, we didn't
build this in 1958,
why don't we build it now?"
and they commissioned
the zagato coupe project.
Really something, so--
okay, so how did you guys
come to acquire,
how did that happen?
It was in porsche panorama,
which is the official magazine
of porsche, and they did
a 6 or 7-page spread on it,
and I saw that porsche
had sanctioned
-and blessed the project.
-Right.
[spike]
they'd given them permission
to put the porsche emblem on it,
and we saw this photograph
of the car,
and he said, "you gotta buy
that [beep] right now."
[chuckling]
we had discussed, we--
we share cars.
It gives us
plausible deniability
with our wives, so when a wife
opens the garage door,
and said, "who's car is that?"
-I said, "it's zuckerman's."
-and then, vice versa.
-Oh, I see.
-Right.
[spike]
so, we never get in trouble.
We bought a car in Italy
that was then brought over,
-61356 with a bt5 body.
-Right.
[spike]
they pulled off the steel
and zagato, in their shop,
-made this aluminum body.
-Oh, I see, so this wasn't
merely write a check, get a car.
You guys had to
find a donor car.
-Yes.
-Oh, okay.
[spike]
exactly how it would've
been done in '59.
[jay]
right, well it's just great,
it's just great.
We have to take it for a ride,
can I drive it?
I'd love to have you drive it,
but if, you know,
you're gonna drive our car,
maybe we could drive
something you have here?
Uh, well let's see what we got.
Come on.
Guys, what do you think?
-It's a little big.
-How about this beauty?
-Not sporty enough.
-How about this one?
-I'm a little cramped.
-I got something
-that's just right.
-All right.
[jay]
this is a car I consider
to be the holy grail
of early porsches,
this is a 1963 carrera four-cam.
John willhoit,
the guy who built your engine.
-That's right.
-This is his car.
He built it
back in the early '70s,
it's really fast,
it's just a fantastic car.
-It's beautiful.
-It's got the sunroof,
it's got all the options,
it's got the racing seats.
-So, who wants to drive?
-I'm gonna drive.
I'm gonna get rubber
in all four gears in this baby.
[jay]
all right,
you're gonna be driving.
[spike]
he would've
destroyed that thing.
[jay]
yeah, that's what I thought.
While paul tries
to sue us for defamation,
it's time for
spike and me to see
what these limited edition cars
are really like to drive.
[whirring]
[whooshing]
boy, we couldn't ask for
a better day to do a drive, huh?
-Oh, it's perfect.
-This car really is set up
for a cross-country tour,
you've got your radio
and the radio works.
You've got your clock
and the clock works,
and you've got a sunroof.
Like, to me, that's it,
now it's road trip time.
[jay]
I love the center exhaust
you have on this one.
-Yeah, it's perfect.
-I mean, I could drive this
to san francisco,
this is fantastic.
You know, so many cars now
are styled like committee.
This is like
one or two guys' vision
of what a car should be,
and that's what I love
about the italians: It's gotta
be good-looking first,
then they figure out
how to get you in it later.
[chuckling]
[spike]
I think of that car
as a rolling piece of art.
Rather than hang a painting
on your wall,
now you've got something--
a painting you can drive
that the world
appreciates in the same way.
To me, yes,
it takes a lot of talent
to do a painting,
but to make something
that's as beautiful
as a painting
and is functional and works,
I find that
even more amazing.
We got a little bit
of a straightaway,
let's put our foot in
and see what it does.
[revving]
oh yeah, this comes alive,
here we go.
Hello!
[whirring]
-very nice.
-Oh yeah.
[engine humming]
wow, it's fantastic.
We got two little
gentlemen racecars here.
[chuckling]
you can feel the lightness
in that car, can't you?
-Yeah, yeah.
-I mean, you could just
-steer it like this.
-I love that exhaust!
Yo!
There ya go.
[revving]
yeah, this car delivers
a great sound, too.
Man.
Wow, that is fun.
[jay]
spike, I wanna thank
you and paul
for letting me drive
this amazing car.
You guys did
this whole thing on faith,
and you just send money
to a foreign country
and hope that it gets there,
but it worked,
and when it works
it's fantastic.
Thanks again.
Thank you for having us on,
it's been a real treat
-driving this four-cam.
-Come on, let's put our foot in,
-let's go.
-All right, let's do it.
[whirring]
-coming up:
-I had a wild night
with me, brent,
and donatella versace.
[jay]
I'll see just how much trouble
a getty and I can get into.
Let's keep that
between you and I.
[whirring]
[jay]
buckle up, folks,
it's time to assess and caress
with donald osborne.
[jay]
once again we have three
extremely rare,
limited edition cars.
I am wearing a very limited
blue-on-blue denim
first popularized in 1869,
and still popular to this day.
Any limited edition things
you're wearing, donald?
[donald]
well, jay, I'm wearing
a limited edition watch,
I'm wearing
limited edition shoes,
and a limited edition belt.
[jay]
oh, all right.
[donald]
other than that,
it's just the usual
serial production donald.
[jay]
all right, well, tell us about
the three vehicles we have.
[donald]
jay, we've got a 1939
alfa romeo 6c 2500 sport.
A 2014 mercedes
sls black series,
and a 1978 aston martin
v8 vantage canadian.
Okay, where do you want
to start?
-Let's start with the alfa.
-Okay.
[donald]
of course, this is one of 13
built in 1939 and 1940.
The 6c 2500,
which stands for six cylinders
with 2.5 liters
of displacement.
Really great
race-winning engines.
These were cars
that were built
in very limited quantities
for very wealthy people
many of the bodies were done
by italian coach builders
who were independent,
and none more dramatically
than this car,
which has a body
by carrozzeria touring,
in their patented superleggera
or superlight construction.
[jay]
it's amazing,
I've driven this car,
I've put a lot
of miles on it.
It's one
of the few pre-w*r cars
that drives
like a post-w*r car.
You'd think this was like
something from the '60s.
It's one-finger steering,
lightweight.
Just a fabulous,
fabulous automobile.
Really a work of art.
Let's move on
to the next one.
Which one
are you going to next?
We're going to go
to the aston martin.
This is one of my favorite
of the astons,
especially of this period.
Obviously, I love the db4s
because of their
italian design connection.
Again, a car that's bodied
with the touring superleggera
body work technique on license.
But this car
is sort of everything
that you sort of want in sort of
the british bulldog thing.
This is almost
the british camaro.
They came late
to the v8 game,
but when they came
they came with a vengeance.
This car,
in 1978 when it was introduced,
was the fastest road car
you could buy.
It's capable of 170 miles
per hour.
It's faster than the countach.
This is
an amazing performing car.
And this particular model,
because we're talking about
rarity today,
is what's known
as a canadian vantage.
The canadian
aston martin importer
decided that he wanted
to have a car to sell
that had the look of the vantage
spec cars being sold in europe,
the high performance cars
sold in europe,
with the hood bulge
and the ducktail spoiler.
So he special ordered
eight cars
to be built
for the canadian market,
four with automatic transmission
and four
with the manual gearbox.
This is one of the four
manual gearbox cars,
and this particular model
has been further upgraded
to a six-liter x-pack spec,
and that's what makes
this particular car
so important and so desirable
in the collect car market.
But the leather and the wood,
all the things
you expect in an aston,
with this amazing performance.
[jay]
and these cars
were called four-seaters
primarily for insurance reasons.
A four-seater car
was considered a family car,
so the insurance rates
were less.
It wasn't considered
as sporty as the two-seater car.
If you sold this same car
with the backseat out,
your insurance rate
would probably double,
-wouldn't it?
-Well, it would.
And speaking of
insurance rates,
let's talk about the last of
our limited edition cars here.
The mercedes sls black series.
[jay]
they really are
fantastic automobiles,
and they do recreate and give
you an honest interpretation
of what the original car
was like.
'cause I have one,
I've driven 'em both,
and it does feel
like a better, faster,
stronger version
of that car.
[donald]
and it is something
very interesting, too, jay,
because this was not
just to celebrate
the original 300sl road car.
They went through a lot
of trouble in this car,
not only
the 622-horsepower engine,
which is quite considerable
for the time,
but also lowering the gearbox,
using lighter weight materials
to really make this
a much higher performance car
than the standard model.
They made 132 of these
for the u.S. Market,
so, rather rare.
And globally,
the total number
of cars they made
was under 500 cars.
So, it was a very interesting
thing to see a manufacturer
not only take their heritage
and reinterpret it
for the modern age,
but also go to the trouble
of actually making a car
that is designed
to perform better,
not simply a marketing trick
with a great look.
[jay]
all right,
now you want my opinion
of what the order is here, eh?
Correct.
Which of these three cars
has appreciated the most
in the last five years?
[jay]
I would say alfa romeo.
Mercedes.
Aston martin.
So, you go with
the hometown car...
-That's right.
-The alfa romeo.
-Right.
-Hm.
[jay]
comin' up, we'll find out
which limited edition
made the largest gain
in value.
And then,
watch comedian tom segura
learn a very valuable
life lesson.
-What's this?
-Now they seem a lot smaller
in person.
[announcer]
and we're back
with donald osborne.
[donald]
so, the three cars
we have here today,
our 1939 alfa romeo
Our 2014 mercedes benz
sls black series.
And our 1978 aston martin
canadian vantage.
Which of these three cars
has appreciated the most
in the last five years?
Five years ago, if you could've
found one of the eight
aston martin v8 vantage
canadian models,
it might have cost you $200,000.
Today, this car
would be $425,000.
The mercedes sls black series.
Five years ago, this car
would have been $400,000.
Today, it's $498,000.
So, it's a contemporary car
that's actually appreciating
-in value.
-Right.
[donald]
the alfa romeo,
five years ago, would have cost
a million dollars.
Today it would cost you
$2.25 million to buy that car.
So:
[jay]
okay, but I'll take--
I'll take my win
on this one.
For a moment.
-Jay.
-No idea
what he's talkin' about.
[rock music]
in rosamond, california.
This your first time
at willow springs.
-Yeah, I've never been here.
-Oh, well,
you're in for a treat.
I'm with comedian
tom segura, folks.
Tom is a big fan
of exotic cars,
and we're about
to blow his mind.
We've got aston martin
and bugatti today.
-Bugatti?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[tom]
dude, I've never seen
a bugatti in person.
[jay]
oh, well, yeah.
[majestic music]
[music distorts]
[grim music]
what's this?
They seem a lot smaller
in person.
Actually, this is
a three-quarter size replica
of the famed bugatti type 35,
and it's just remarkable.
Handmade in the uk,
the little car company,
as it's called,
made 500 of these
picture-perfect replicas
so all generations could
experience what it's like
to drive
such a limited edition car.
Yeah, the steering wheel
even pops off.
Let me show.
Here you go.
Here you go.
-Hop in.
-Okay.
-Um, all right.
-Actually,
they're made
by a company in England,
the little car company,
and they do miniature versions
of full-size cars that are
electric.
-This is the aston martin.
-What?
[jay]
yeah, see? And this is
the type 35 bugatti.
Actually, this is
scaled down from a--
they scan
an original bugatti
and they make it exactly
the same but smaller, but...
[tom]
this actually looks amazing.
[jay]
your first time at willow,
right?
-First time, man.
-So you don't want
-something too powerful.
-That's true, that's true.
[jay]
this is where they filmed
ford v ferrari.
[tom]
I loved that movie,
and I'm assuming that this can
hit those kind of speeds.
[jay]
oh, no problem.
-Woo, oh, yeah, yeah.
-Well, let's race, man.
[jay]
yeah, yeah,
we can race.
-Are you gonna get in that?
-No, I've got a bugatti too.
-Oh, you do?
-Yeah, I'll go get mine.
In fact, follow me.
-We'll race.
-Okay.
Is yours bigger?
-Don't worry about it.
-Okay.
[mellow music]
-yeah.
-Yeah.
-It looks real.
-It's amazing, man.
I feel like a real gentleman,
you know?
[jay]
yeah, these are like
gentlemen racers.
Yeah, exactly.
This thing is 2.5-liter,
just about a hundred horsepower.
[tom]
that has a hundred horsepower?
[jay]
oh yeah, yeah.
[tom]
holy [bleep].
[jay]
three valves per cylinder.
[laughs]
[tom]
this is awesome.
[jay]
is that thing flat out now?
[tom]
I'm bobbin' on this thing
right now, yeah.
[laughs]
this is it.
[jay]
a lot of history in this track.
I mean, it's been here
for years and years.
You know, most tracks
go out of business
because of urban sprawl
and the housing developments
keep moving further
and further out.
[tom]
not here. Are there actual,
like, big races here still?
[jay]
oh, sure, they have big races
here all the time.
Every weekend
there's a race here.
I think we're setting a record
for the slowest lap ever
of willow springs.
[tom]
that would be pretty amazing
to have the record.
[majestic music]
[quirky music]
[jay]
when did you first
get into automobiles?
[tom]
well, first, like, toys, right?
Like the little toys.
And then I bought
every magazine.
You know, motor trend,
road and track, car and driver,
all that stuff.
I just loved cars,
I loved cars.
And then, of course, I just
wanted to drive everything,
so as soon as I got
an opportunity to,
I would jump into any car that
somebody would let me drive.
[jay]
now you've got
some pretty cool stuff.
-No vintage stuff though, huh?
-No vintage, no.
Now, I was supposed
to get my dad's 1956 mg.
-Oh, very nice.
-And he was like,
"this will be yours,
this is your inheritance."
and I was like, "great!"
and then I went home
to visit him last year
and I opened the garage
and I go, "where's the mg?"
and he goes,
"oh, I sold it."
[jay laughs]
I go, "I thought that was mine."
he goes, "yeah, I forgot."
[jay]
oh, that's funny.
[tom]
you forgot my inheritance?
[jay]
yeah, there you go.
[tom]
I can't get over this thing,
though, man.
This is so fun.
[jay]
we gotta get one for your kids.
[tom]
I can give this one
to my kids.
-Yeah.
-Just hook me up, jay.
Come on, man,
you got a bunch of cars.
-Let me have this one.
-Yeah, yeah,
if it was mine
I'd give it to you.
[tom]
all right, thanks,
that works for me.
[jay]
in fact, it's easy for me
to give it to you
'cause it's not mine.
[tom]
well, there. Then it's a deal.
[jay]
I actually got a surprise
for you.
-Really?
-I got a real car
I think you're gonna enjoy.
[tom]
oh, I would love that.
Does it go
over 15 miles an hour?
-It does.
-Okay.
[jay]
to be continued...
[engine humming]
comin' up...
Oooh, [bleep].
[jay]
comedian tom segura
lives out his racetrack dream.
Ah, my god.
I could do this all day.
[jay]
for more cool cars,
go to jaylenosgarage.Cnbc.Com.
Who just drove his first lap
in a baby bugatti.
I have never gone so slow
in my life.
[tom]
not me. That was
the fastest I've gone.
[jay]
let's see
if he can handle something
with just a little more oomph.
okay, now I realize it
was kind of a cruel trick
with the tiny bugatti...
-I mean...
-But you're a good sport.
-Thank you.
-So I got you a gift.
-Brand new aston martin.
-That's what's up.
-I think you'll like that.
-This goes over 15 miles
-an hour?
-Goes way over 15 miles an hour.
You know, I like aston
because they're real cars
-that are sports cars.
-Yeah.
[jay]
it's comfortable, you know,
it's got the luxury interior.
But you'll be surprised
how well it handles.
I want you to take it out
on the track.
-I get to drive?
-Yeah, it's yours.
-Go. Go crazy.
-Let's do it, man.
-Give it a shot.
-Let's do it.
-Oh, snap.
-Oh, yeah,
I think you'll like it.
[marvels]
-give it a shot.
-Oh, man.
I get to get in?
I get to drive?
[jay]
yeah, you're on your own.
[tom]
oh, man. Cannot wait.
-Yeah, have fun.
-Okay.
Thanks, bud.
[engine revs on]
-ford plus and go.
-All right.
[engine humming]
I think he should have
taken that one.
[engine revving]
quick, quick, quick, quick,
quick, quick, quick.
Woo...[bleep].
[engine humming]
[jay]
lookin' good out there.
I mean, 500 horsepower,
twin-turbo,
Eight-speed transmission.
First impressions?
What do you think?
[tom]
this thing rips.
I love it.
It's so comfortable.
I feel like
I'm driving a cadillac.
Like comfy seats.
Super powerful.
[engine revving]
super responsive.
Fast as bleep.
[dramatic music]
incredible steering.
I want one.
oh, man.
One more lap.
One more.
[groans]
oh yeah.
Ah, my god.
[rock music]
I could do this all day.
[chuckles]
this thing is incredible.
[jay]
comin' up: I know an italian guy
who knows a guy.
The perks of having
your own car show.
Only in la would people say,
"you know this lamborghini is
really a good everyday driver."
[engine revs]
[engine humming]
now if you're ever trying
to sneak into a place
and you don't want
to be noticed,
you don't want anybody
to know you're there,
don't take this car!
This is a lamborghini sian.
This is one of 63.
Based, I guess,
on the aventador.
Certainly, this is the last gasp
of the famous lamborghini v12,
which has sort of become
the small-block chevrolet
of Italy.
By that I mean
it's an engine
that's been around
for 48, 50 years,
has been in
every possible application,
and it's just
incredibly powerful
and incredibly reliable
and incredibly fast.
This one has a bit of a twist.
It's got a supercapacitor,
which is like a battery but
it weighs less than a battery.
It's connected
to the transmission.
And what it does
is it spins the transmission,
which spins the engine,
which forces everything
just to sort of move faster,
add more torque.
Adds about, oh, 34 horsepower,
something like that,
bringing the total
of this thing to 819.
And it's all seamless.
It's not technically a hybrid,
but it uses the supercapacitor
and the electric engine
to just make it
even more powerful and better
than it is.
It's a way to get around
having to use turbochargers.
You know, lamborghini always
likes normally aspirated motors,
and this is a very clever way
to do that.
The supercapacitor
is right here,
right behind me.
You know, normally with
a transmission like this,
you would get that:
[demonstrates jerky
transmission sounds]
well, what that does is,
the electric motor
torques its way through there,
for lack of a better word,
so it eliminates that.
So it literally feels like
a dual clutch transmission
slam shifting.
'cause watch,
when you, uh,
when you put your foot
on this thing.
[engine revving]
yoo!
See what I mean, yeah, it just--
everything happens right now.
It happens
right this second.
First rule of filming:
Never show the speedometer.
I'm on my way
to meet an actor
who is a huge fan
of italian car--
well, everything italian,
actually.
His name is balthazar getty,
and, uh,
yeah, it's that getty,
he's related
to the getty family,
that whole deal.
But, uh,
he's a lot more than that.
Come on.
[engine revving]
[dramatic music]
[beeps horn]
besides being the great-grandson
of oil tycoon j. Paul getty,
balthazar getty is known
for his early start in hollywood
as star of the 1990 movie
lord of the flies,
and he's worked as an actor
and musician ever since.
[mellow music]
-how are you, my friend?
-Good. Yourself?
-Well, that's very italian.
-Yeah.
[jay]
I love the abarth.
Aren't they wonderful cars?
[balthazar]
ah, amazing.
This is the car
that saved Italy.
[jay]
yeah, well, you know,
that's what I love
about italian style.
It's sort of like the mini
was in England, you know,
it was just timeless,
it was genderless,
it was ageless.
It just had that sort of appeal
to everybody.
[balthazar]
yeah, you know,
what I have in Italy
that I love is the panda.
-Oh, sure, sure.
-Yeah, the panda is--
if you go to Italy,
you can go down
some incredibly windy,
rocky road
that you think no car would be
able to get through.
And there's a 20-year-old panda.
-Where in Italy are you?
-In tuscany.
-Oh. Oh. That's beautiful.
-Yeah, yeah.
Now, you have
some italian blood?
We're irish
masquerading as italians.
Yeah, yeah, and you can always
pull that off so easy.
[laughing]
yeah, but, no,
my family's been in Italy
for many years,
and we've adopted it
as our, you know,
our second country
and love it there.
My grandfather fled there
in the 1800s,
but that's okay.
-Different reasons.
-Yeah, different stories.
-Different story.
-Different time.
But let's get
back to cars again.
Now, you're a lamborghini guy.
[balthazar]
well, recently I am, yeah.
I got, uh,
the huracán, the evo,
-and I just love it.
-Oh, it's a wonderful car.
Yeah, I love the styling of it,
but I also love that
you can drive it every day.
I mean,
you're not gonna bottom out
every time
you go up a driveway.
[jay]
well, I've got a couple
of huracáns over here.
This doesn't belong to me.
The owner doesn't know
I borrowed it,
-so we just--
-shh.
-He'll never see this.
-He'll never know.
Come on, let's get in the car.
-I want the orange one.
-You got it!
See, it's all who know.
[balthazar]
apparently, you know
some people in high places.
[jay]
I know an italian guy
who knows a guy.
Hop in.
[intense music]
[engines rev on]
[birdsong]
[engine humming]
you know, in some ways I prefer
this to the big aventador
because
it's rear-wheel drive only,
it's lighter,
it's smaller,
and I love the sound
of that v10.
[engine humming]
-it's a more modern engine.
-I'm with you.
It's not so stiff where
you feel every single bump.
-Right, right.
-I feel like this is, uh,
-this is an everyday driver.
-Yeah.
[balthazar]
I mean, I love the aventy,
but it's just--
it's massive, it's so wide.
But only in la
would people say,
"you know, this lamborghini is
really a good everyday driver."
it doesn't get more--
you don't see a lot of guys
in cleveland goin',
"yeah, my lamborghini
-is my everyday driver."
-yeah, maybe let's keep that
between you and I.
[engines humming]
[rock music]
[jay]
now you're a musician
as well, correct?
Yeah, I'm a musician,
a producer, and a dj.
And I have
a little record label
called purple house records.
Have you met
some of your heroes in music?
[balthazar]
yeah, I've been able to.
Um, I had a wild night
with me, prince,
and donatella versace.
Oh, that's funny.
[balthazar]
uh, yeah, I'm not sure
I need to say much more.
So which is crazier:
Movie business,
tv business,
or record business?
Which has the most pitfalls,
do you think?
Uh...
Wow.
That's such a tough one.
It's, really,
I've been focusing on fashion.
I have a line
called monk punk.
So you know
what I'm gonna say?
Fashion is probably the
trickiest business out there.
-Why is that?
-It's just incredibly shallow
-in many cases.
-And when you're in
show business,
that's sayin' a lot.
[laughs]
yeah.
[jay]
balthazar, this has
been great, my friend.
Thanks so much
for doing our show.
We really appreciate it.
Oh, I thank you, jay.
It's been a pleasure, man.
-I'm a big fan.
-Come by the shop any time,
my friend.
I'm gonna take this lambo
and take off.
-I'll see you later.
-All right, man, take care.
[engine humming]
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Leno does car and motorcycle reviews on classic cars, super cars like the McLaren P1, restored cars, vintage and sports cars.
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