1 00:00:15,351 --> 00:00:17,351 Sync and corrections by <font color="#ffff00">APOLLO</font> <font color="#00ff00"> www.addic7ed.com</font> 2 00:00:17,390 --> 00:00:19,079 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 3 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,319 Thank you so much. Hello! 4 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,039 Hello and welcome. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,719 Now, even though this programme has taken a terrible battering 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,319 in the newspapers in recent weeks, 7 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,040 we have made every effort we possibly can 8 00:00:36,041 --> 00:00:38,759 to make sure this series is unaffected. 9 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,566 SCATTERED APPLAUSE Thank you. Thank you, really. 10 00:00:42,605 --> 00:00:44,050 Thanks very much. 11 00:00:44,074 --> 00:00:47,799 So, coming up now is a montage of what you can expect 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,760 over the next seven weeks. 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,159 57 miles to the gallon! 14 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,959 So, spacious... and economical. 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,079 Going through the first corner... 16 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,640 And THAT is how a camshaft works. 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,520 Mate! 18 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,319 No-o-o! There's been a bit of a mistake. 19 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:17,660 THAT is the tape we sent to the newspapers 20 00:01:17,661 --> 00:01:19,999 in the hope they'd be fooled into thinking 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,399 that's what we'll be doing. What we're actually doing is THIS! 22 00:01:26,190 --> 00:01:30,989 Oh, no! That's not what I wanted to see in the mirror! Heading to the side... 23 00:01:30,990 --> 00:01:32,375 ENGINE ROARS 24 00:01:35,829 --> 00:01:37,869 There he is! There he is! 25 00:01:39,031 --> 00:01:41,470 Turning left into Acacia Avenue. 26 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,680 Over there. Over there. Go over there! 27 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,719 Buffeting! Buffeting! 28 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,640 He's The Stig's Chinese cousin. 29 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,039 Hold onto your spine. 30 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,880 GROANING Johnson makes a good start. 31 00:02:07,049 --> 00:02:09,568 Come on, you little bugger! 32 00:02:09,671 --> 00:02:12,390 Man alive! Are we getting some shots here?! 33 00:02:12,750 --> 00:02:14,670 Thank you. Just browsing. 34 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:21,339 Stretch it, stretch it, stretch it! Come on! 35 00:02:21,449 --> 00:02:24,040 HE CHUCKLES Ow! 36 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:27,620 How's that possible? 37 00:02:31,580 --> 00:02:35,170 Oh... That was beautiful. 38 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:45,233 All of that is to come, but we kick off tonight with this. 39 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:47,419 Yes, because this is important. 40 00:02:47,420 --> 00:02:52,358 Let's say you want a mid-engine supercar but, for some reason, 41 00:02:52,443 --> 00:02:54,330 you don't want a Ferrari 458. 42 00:02:54,775 --> 00:02:56,519 What is best for you? 43 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,759 Now, naturally, of course, us three could not agree on a solution on this, 44 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,820 so the producer said we had to settle our 45 00:03:03,821 --> 00:03:06,880 differences with a road trip across Italy. 46 00:03:11,180 --> 00:03:16,579 'The meeting point was the beautiful town of Lecce, in the heel of Italy, 47 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,680 'and I was the first to arrive.' 48 00:03:20,722 --> 00:03:24,963 This is the McLaren MP4-12C. 49 00:03:27,261 --> 00:03:31,679 It's a car made with an almost psychotic attention to detail. 50 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,399 It's very technical. It's why, I think, it probably suits me quite well. 51 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:42,240 ENGINE ROARS Then Jeremy arrived in a car that suits HIM quite well. 52 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,839 Morning, shrinking violet. JEREMY LAUGHS 53 00:03:47,491 --> 00:03:48,807 This... 54 00:03:48,862 --> 00:03:51,341 HE COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS 55 00:03:51,389 --> 00:03:53,869 is a Lamborghini Aventador. 56 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,480 What I love most of all about this is that 57 00:03:58,481 --> 00:04:01,479 Audi did all the boring engine and wiring bits 58 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:06,039 and then let Lamborghini go mad with the styling. 59 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,799 It looks better than yours and, therefore, it IS better. 60 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,799 I agree. As a poster, as Lamborghinis always have been, it is superb. 61 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,239 It looks great. 62 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,720 But it's a bit of a dinosaur, to be honest. It is. It is. 63 00:04:17,721 --> 00:04:22,199 It's too big, it's too wide. I'm sorry?! This, you just know... 64 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,399 All they ever talked about was G. They were sitting going, 65 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,079 "How can we make it go round a corner a little bit faster?" 66 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:34,239 It's a supercar. "So give it guns! Let's give it guns! Space rockets!" 67 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,760 This... they will have had seven years of 68 00:04:36,761 --> 00:04:39,279 meetings to get to that windscreen wiper. 69 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:42,100 So it works properly. What's wrong with that? 70 00:04:42,101 --> 00:04:44,919 Lamborghini would've said, "Why don't we use a laser? 71 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,359 "Why don't we have lasers shooting heat onto the windscreen to...?" 72 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,140 That's why I love Lambos. They're mental. 73 00:04:50,141 --> 00:04:51,919 Have you had a lot of pop today? 74 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:57,319 'At that moment, Hammond arrived, in a Noble M600.' Oh, yeah. 75 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,039 So, Hammond... Morning. Let's just get this straight. 76 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,359 You think there are people in the world who are going to say, 77 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,919 "No, I don't want something Italian and exotic. Don't want a Ferrari. 78 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,620 "I want something built on a light industrial 79 00:05:11,621 --> 00:05:14,319 unit in Leicestershire"? No, because... 80 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,940 No, wait a minute. Sorry. You buy this, I think, 81 00:05:16,941 --> 00:05:19,559 because it's got the engine from a Volvo XC90. 82 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,039 No! Yes, the engine may be from a Volvo, but it's made by Yamaha. 83 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,540 It's twin-engine, it's absolutely magnificent, 84 00:05:26,541 --> 00:05:29,039 and this car, above everything else, is light. 85 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,959 Comparing these... it's like comparing me with you. 86 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:38,119 The power-to-weight ratio is insane. 541 brake horsepower per tonne in there. 87 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,719 That's Bugatti Veyron territory, and you know it! 88 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,679 This is going to crush you guys like beetles under its feet. 89 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,000 Soon, our cars started to draw a bit of a crowd... 90 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,340 so the producer said we should leave the town 91 00:05:55,341 --> 00:05:58,120 and go for a little drive in the country. 92 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,680 Bloody hellfire! 93 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,520 HE CHUCKLES 94 00:06:09,198 --> 00:06:11,278 Quite good. 95 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,260 You are probably sitting there, thinking, "Hold on! 96 00:06:15,261 --> 00:06:17,319 Why would I spend £228,000 97 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,479 "on a car with no airbags or anti-lock brakes, made in Leicester?" 98 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,999 But that's missing the point. 99 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,999 If I were to ask those two what the best supercar ever made is, 100 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,879 I know what they'd answer. 101 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:31,319 Ferrari F40. 102 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,799 There's something of the Ferrari F40 about this. 103 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,359 Something to do with the way it rides on the road, the way it feels. 104 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,200 The simplicity of it. 105 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,239 I buy the argument for a flamboyant supercar. I get it. 106 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,319 But maybe there is another way of doing it. 107 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,840 There's a sort of joy in things that simply 108 00:06:52,841 --> 00:06:55,359 work really well, like this gearbox. 109 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,999 It's sort of like a two-stage trigger on a sniping rifle... 110 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,160 you can preload it with half a ball... and then change. 111 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,319 It's very satisfying. 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:12,359 Maybe really anal attention to detail will have a charm of its own. Let's see. 113 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,620 James and Richard can make as many arguments 114 00:07:14,621 --> 00:07:16,879 as they want, but the fact is this. 115 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,799 They're driving about in...
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