1 00:00:55,898 --> 00:00:57,898 *THE GRAND TOUR* Season 03 Episode 01 2 00:00:57,975 --> 00:00:59,868 Episode Title : "Motown Funk" 3 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,000 Hello, everybody! Thank you. 4 00:01:04,235 --> 00:01:06,047 Thank you very much. 5 00:01:06,764 --> 00:01:09,797 Greetings, everybody. Thank you so much. 6 00:01:13,708 --> 00:01:15,860 Thanks, everybody. Thank you. 7 00:01:16,766 --> 00:01:19,399 Thank you so much. And, yes! 8 00:01:20,274 --> 00:01:22,688 We're back! 9 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,200 We are! 10 00:01:24,415 --> 00:01:26,720 Now, a lot of people have been saying, 11 00:01:26,798 --> 00:01:30,016 "Why has it taken so long? What have you been doing?" 12 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,352 Well, hopefully we can answer that with this short montage 13 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:39,774 of what you can expect over the next... ahem... 13 weeks. 14 00:01:40,162 --> 00:01:41,602 Do The Strand... 15 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:43,407 ♪ There's a new sensation ♪ 16 00:01:44,540 --> 00:01:46,930 ♪ A fabulous creation ♪ 17 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,360 ♪ A danceable solution ♪ 18 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:53,842 ♪ To teenage revolution ♪ 19 00:01:57,563 --> 00:01:59,790 Is that barrel gonna... 20 00:02:00,001 --> 00:02:02,657 ♪ Do the Strand, love ♪ 21 00:02:03,563 --> 00:02:06,092 ♪ When you feel love ♪ 22 00:02:06,177 --> 00:02:09,810 - Fire everywhere! - ♪ It's the new way ♪ 23 00:02:10,603 --> 00:02:12,412 ♪ That's what we say ♪ 24 00:02:12,553 --> 00:02:13,764 He's gone! 25 00:02:13,842 --> 00:02:14,904 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 26 00:02:15,003 --> 00:02:16,834 Look, hang on a minute. 27 00:02:16,912 --> 00:02:18,373 ♪ Tired of the Tango? ♪ 28 00:02:18,451 --> 00:02:21,232 "The nearest civilisation is a town called Moron." 29 00:02:21,310 --> 00:02:24,881 In order to reach it, you must build the contents of these boxes. 30 00:02:24,975 --> 00:02:27,014 "You have enough food for seven days." 31 00:02:27,092 --> 00:02:29,217 ♪ Dance on moonbeams ♪ 32 00:02:29,732 --> 00:02:30,982 Oh, God! 33 00:02:31,284 --> 00:02:33,475 ♪ Slide on rainbows ♪ 34 00:02:34,003 --> 00:02:35,959 ♪ In furs or blue jeans ♪ 35 00:02:36,083 --> 00:02:39,365 Were this not such a serious situation, 36 00:02:39,506 --> 00:02:41,193 it would be a good laugh. 37 00:02:41,481 --> 00:02:43,614 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 38 00:02:47,150 --> 00:02:48,310 Bear, it's a bear! 39 00:02:48,388 --> 00:02:50,004 Aargh! 40 00:02:54,285 --> 00:02:57,645 There must've been 30 or 40 people in the room when the police arrived. 41 00:02:58,184 --> 00:02:59,770 Whoa! 42 00:02:59,863 --> 00:03:01,973 Clarkson! 43 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,489 Jesus Christ, I'm too close to the edge. 44 00:03:04,630 --> 00:03:05,790 Oh! 45 00:03:09,963 --> 00:03:11,895 - Let's sing a song. - No. 46 00:03:13,843 --> 00:03:17,215 I am sitting where Jim Clark sat! 47 00:03:18,372 --> 00:03:20,677 Going in hard and hot! 48 00:03:23,652 --> 00:03:25,757 - We're fleeing! - OK, flee. 49 00:03:27,212 --> 00:03:29,637 Well, he'll be using a pistol, won't he? 50 00:03:32,012 --> 00:03:34,437 ♪ Do the Strand ♪ 51 00:03:40,033 --> 00:03:41,215 I think... 52 00:03:42,549 --> 00:03:44,084 I think you're gonna like this series. 53 00:03:44,162 --> 00:03:47,520 And I particularly think you're going to like how it begins. 54 00:03:47,598 --> 00:03:50,307 Because even over here, on this side of the pond, 55 00:03:50,389 --> 00:03:55,083 we recognise that Detroit is the spiritual home 56 00:03:55,161 --> 00:03:57,762 to anyone whose communion wine is petrol 57 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,231 and whose heart beats like a big, lumpy, wet V8. 58 00:04:02,379 --> 00:04:05,911 Which is why this week, and it's long overdue, 59 00:04:05,989 --> 00:04:09,227 The Grand Tour is off to the Motor City... 60 00:04:09,403 --> 00:04:11,557 with an idea. 61 00:04:39,563 --> 00:04:42,879 Of course, the whole world knows that Detroit 62 00:04:43,036 --> 00:04:46,037 is now a shadow of its former self. 63 00:04:47,012 --> 00:04:49,947 But we also know that efforts are being made 64 00:04:50,029 --> 00:04:52,668 to bring life back to the ruins... 65 00:04:53,175 --> 00:04:55,600 with urban farms. 66 00:04:57,472 --> 00:05:00,614 Local people are being encouraged to grow... 67 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:04,895 kale and beans and seeds, 68 00:05:05,050 --> 00:05:09,981 in plots like this where houses and businesses once stood. 69 00:05:12,331 --> 00:05:14,066 It breaks your heart. 70 00:05:14,433 --> 00:05:16,528 I mean, this is Detroit. 71 00:05:16,606 --> 00:05:21,051 It shouldn't be a help-yourself, pop-up street allotment 72 00:05:21,129 --> 00:05:24,059 for organic vegan peace hippies, 73 00:05:24,137 --> 00:05:29,903 when it could be a pulsating playground for the petrolhead. 74 00:05:31,590 --> 00:05:35,148 It has the roads, it has the space, 75 00:05:35,419 --> 00:05:37,801 it was built by the rumble of a V8 76 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:41,661 and it should rumble to that sound once more. 77 00:05:44,575 --> 00:05:46,640 So that's what we've come here to do... 78 00:05:48,387 --> 00:05:49,661 make some noise. 79 00:06:23,707 --> 00:06:26,575 These are the toys we'll be using. 80 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:28,934 Three American muscle cars, 81 00:06:29,012 --> 00:06:34,489 all of which have been tuned to a tyre-shredding DEFCON one. 82 00:06:38,735 --> 00:06:43,372 I have the Ford Mustang RTR Spec 3. 83 00:06:45,855 --> 00:06:50,320 Mr Slowly has what's called The Exorcist. 84 00:06:53,422 --> 00:06:56,699 And in his whining Dodge Challenger Demon... 85 00:06:59,604 --> 00:07:02,254 Hammond has an erection. 86 00:07:05,535 --> 00:07:07,778 Ah-ha-ha! 87 00:07:11,806 --> 00:07:13,880 To make this, they took a Hellcat - 88 00:07:13,958 --> 00:07:15,559 I drove one before on the show - 89 00:07:15,668 --> 00:07:17,497 and just made it "more". 90 00:07:17,575 --> 00:07:19,514 More of everything. 91 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:22,747 I have 840 horsepower, 92 00:07:22,855 --> 00:07:24,840 a massive supercharger... 93 00:07:27,215 --> 00:07:29,317 and on the bonnet there, or hood, 94 00:07:29,395 --> 00:07:32,528 that's the biggest hood scoop ever fitted to a production car. 95 00:07:32,606 --> 00:07:33,613 Ever. 96 00:07:37,615 --> 00:07:39,830 Yeah! 97 00:07:39,912 --> 00:07:41,175 Noise! 98 00:07:42,735 --> 00:07:44,074 Noise in the city! 99 00:07:58,872 --> 00:08:01,254 Bloody hellfire! 100 00:08:01,989 --> 00:08:04,004 This car is tuned by Hennessey. 101 00:08:04,082 --> 00:08:06,184 They've taken a standard Camaro 102 00:08:06,262 --> 00:08:08,154 and they've given it 1,000 horsepower. 103 00:08:13,949 --> 00:08:16,348 Jesus Christ! 104 00:08:18,055 --> 00:08:20,785 They haven't touched anything else, only the engine. 105 00:08:20,863 --> 00:08:22,621 Wheels are standard, brakes are standard, 106 00:08:22,699 --> 00:08:24,731 suspension is standard, bodywork is standard. 107 00:08:24,809 --> 00:08:26,697 It's all standard. 108 00:08:26,962 --> 00:08:29,559 Except the power. 109 00:08:34,634 --> 00:08:37,520 Jeez, I can't even steer it. 110 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,277 It's-It's idiotic, honestly. 111 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:46,246 And yea, though I walk in the shadow 112 00:08:46,324 --> 00:08:49,449 of the valley of death, I will fear no evil. 113 00:08:50,028 --> 00:08:52,809 Because I am The Exorcist! 114 00:09:07,012 --> 00:09:10,465 This may look small and delicate 115 00:09:10,543 --> 00:09:13,413 compared to the other two, but be in no doubt, 116 00:09:13,592 --> 00:09:16,270 it has the muscle car credentials. 117 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:17,931 Oh, yeah. 118 00:09:21,095 --> 00:09:25,262 The fact is that the engine in Hammond's car... 119 00:09:25,434 --> 00:09:29,902 is a push rod, two valve, iron museum piece. 120 00:09:30,051 --> 00:09:33,660 And May's car, yes, it has 1,000 horsepower, 121 00:09:33,738 --> 00:09:37,426 but it's running on standard brakes. 122 00:09:38,015 --> 00:09:41,066 This... This is just a little bit cleverer. 123 00:09:41,215 --> 00:09:45,699 They haven't just put a supercharger on it and left it at that. 124 00:09:45,934 --> 00:09:48,488 They've stiffened up the suspension and lowered it 125 00:09:48,566 --> 00:09:50,840 and stiffened the anti-roll bars. 126 00:09:51,135 --> 00:09:54,426 So it can do this. 127 00:09:57,074 --> 00:09:59,419 Jesus H Christ! 128 00:10:01,535 --> 00:10:03,600 And it can do this. 129 00:10:04,415 --> 00:10:07,333 Yes! 130 00:10:07,415 --> 00:10:12,730 This, then, is the Anthony Joshua of muscle cars. 131 00:10:12,941 --> 00:10:16,510 Big and brawny, but it has brains as well. 132 00:10:18,806 --> 00:10:21,103 Then there's its name. 133 00:10:21,236 --> 00:10:23,494 It's the RTR, which stands for, 134 00:10:23,572 --> 00:10:26,384 and I'm not making this up, Ready to Rock! 135 00:10:31,655 --> 00:10:33,853 These three cars, then, 136 00:10:33,931 --> 00:10:36,470 they're the perfect fairground rides 137 00:10:36,650 --> 00:10:40,267 in our perfect petrolhead theme park. 138 00:10:41,242 --> 00:10:43,275 I mean, people travel all the way to Florida 139 00:10:43,353 --> 00:10:44,861 to look at a man in a mouse suit 140 00:10:44,939 --> 00:10:48,350 and watch an implausible train have an unrealistic crash. 141 00:10:48,494 --> 00:10:51,600 Why not come here in your car and do this? 142 00:10:57,175 --> 00:10:58,994 Whoo! 143 00:10:59,411 --> 00:11:01,916 What a day! 144 00:11:10,175 --> 00:11:14,767 I just can't get over James May is The Ex-cre-cist 145 00:11:16,735 --> 00:11:20,670 I am surprised to see you two so upbeat about this trip. 146 00:11:21,041 --> 00:11:22,773 Why do you say that? 147 00:11:22,855 --> 00:11:25,612 Well, you're always saying how much you don't like muscle cars. 148 00:11:26,049 --> 00:11:28,189 Yeah, I just say that to annoy you. 149 00:11:28,529 --> 00:11:29,992 Oh, right. 150 00:11:31,695 --> 00:11:35,345 Nobody intelligent admits that they like muscle cars, 151 00:11:35,463 --> 00:11:39,617 but secretly, deep down, everybody does. 152 00:11:39,783 --> 00:11:41,994 They're like power rock ballads. 153 00:11:42,072 --> 00:11:44,377 I mean, if you're driving along with friends 154 00:11:44,463 --> 00:11:47,736 and Don't Stop Believing by Journey comes on the radio, 155 00:11:47,814 --> 00:11:50,728 you say, "This is rubbish," and you huff and puff and turn it off. 156 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:55,306 If you're on your own and it comes on, you turn it up and you sing along. 157 00:11:55,791 --> 00:11:57,497 You do. 158 00:11:57,681 --> 00:12:02,783 Chaps, did you know mine only comes with one seat as standard? 159 00:12:03,095 --> 00:12:04,853 - Really? - What? 160 00:12:05,299 --> 00:12:07,877 As standard, you get one seat in a Demon. 161 00:12:07,955 --> 00:12:10,119 You can opt to have the others put back in 162 00:12:10,197 --> 00:12:11,869 and it costs you a dollar. 163 00:12:12,111 --> 00:12:14,316 Which seat do they put in as standard? 164 00:12:25,499 --> 00:12:29,244 Eventually, we decided to pull over in our motoring theme park 165 00:12:29,470 --> 00:12:32,430 to see which of our fairground muscle rides 166 00:12:32,605 --> 00:12:34,653 would be the fastest... 167 00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:38,306 in a street drag race. 168 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,918 So what I'm thinking is here, when the lights go green... 169 00:12:48,055 --> 00:12:50,307 What's a quarter of a mile, just beyond the church? 170 00:12:50,385 --> 00:12:51,893 Yeah, something like that. Perfect. 171 00:12:51,975 --> 00:12:54,689 - What if the police come? - Well, he won't. He's in Beverly Hills. 172 00:12:54,767 --> 00:12:57,439 - I've seen the movie. - Why can't we just do this 173 00:12:57,517 --> 00:12:59,720 on a racetrack or a runway like we usually do? 174 00:12:59,822 --> 00:13:01,790 Because we're here to prove that this is a racetrack. 175 00:13:01,908 --> 00:13:05,228 Detroit is empty now and should just be used for this sort of thing. 176 00:13:05,306 --> 00:13:07,682 Yes, yes, but it isn't a real race, an actual racetrack. 177 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 - No, it is! - It is! 178 00:13:08,838 --> 00:13:10,213 This is where the muscle car was born. 179 00:13:10,291 --> 00:13:12,275 - I can't do it. - Why can't you do it? 180 00:13:12,353 --> 00:13:13,900 Because Dodge only lent me that car 181 00:13:13,978 --> 00:13:16,590 if I promised not to do any drag racing on the road with it. 182 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,541 What? That's what it's for! 183 00:13:18,695 --> 00:13:21,166 - I know. - That's literally what it's for. 184 00:13:21,244 --> 00:13:23,338 Yes, I know, but that's the way it is. Sorry.. 185 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:24,767 D'you think it's an insurance...? 186 00:13:24,845 --> 00:13:26,682 - It is, because it's him. - No. It's not. 187 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,064 - Don't want it on the roof. - "Who's driving it?" Richard Hammond. 188 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:30,150 You can't drive it. 189 00:13:30,228 --> 00:13:32,603 It's just what they said and I'm really sorry. 190 00:13:32,681 --> 00:13:35,228 - So, we can't do it, I'm sorry. - We can. 191 00:13:35,502 --> 00:13:37,064 You're not gonna do it without that... 192 00:13:37,142 --> 00:13:39,236 Uh... let me think. Yeah, we are. 193 00:13:39,314 --> 00:13:42,273 Just right... Just right the way, right the way off. 194 00:13:42,892 --> 00:13:46,030 One for all and all for yourselves, that's how it goes, isn't it? 195 00:13:46,112 --> 00:13:51,247 Having decided to make the doorway of a barber shop the finishing line, 196 00:13:51,632 --> 00:13:54,247 James and I prepared for the race. 197 00:13:56,434 --> 00:13:59,864 I'm only doing this to annoy Hammond. I mean, I can't possibly win. 198 00:14:00,044 --> 00:14:01,817 Yes, I've got a supercharged V8, 199 00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:05,817 but it only produces 720 horsepower. 200 00:14:06,575 --> 00:14:10,493 That's 280 less than The Exorcist. 201 00:14:10,598 --> 00:14:14,192 I don't wanna sound like you, but the launch control in this car 202 00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:16,864 is so complicated there's a YouTube video about it. 203 00:14:16,942 --> 00:14:18,950 And I have watched it, but I've forgotten. 204 00:14:19,114 --> 00:14:22,301 Why don't we have a gentleman's agreement to not use launch control? 205 00:14:22,481 --> 00:14:25,731 Well, that might save my clutch, so... 206 00:14:26,295 --> 00:14:28,879 Yes, right. We won't use launch control. 207 00:14:28,957 --> 00:14:30,800 - I've got a manual gearbox. - You can both do it 208 00:14:30,878 --> 00:14:32,073 naked for all I care. 209 00:14:32,151 --> 00:14:33,533 Just get on with it. 210 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:37,442 Oo-ooh, look at Captain Cheerful over there! 211 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:47,200 Air con is off. 212 00:15:09,932 --> 00:15:11,917 May got a good start. 213 00:15:17,455 --> 00:15:19,528 Come on, come on, come on, come on, 214 00:15:19,606 --> 00:15:22,014 there's only a one-car length in it! 215 00:15:22,335 --> 00:15:23,733 Easy! 216 00:15:24,778 --> 00:15:26,348 Bloody Nora, that was close! 217 00:15:26,426 --> 00:15:28,870 But I got a terrible start, so we gotta do it again, May. 218 00:15:33,036 --> 00:15:35,061 Put it in first gear. 219 00:15:40,490 --> 00:15:41,809 Whoa! 220 00:15:45,810 --> 00:15:48,315 I can't do it. It's spinning its wheels. 221 00:15:50,836 --> 00:15:52,871 Woo-hoo, hoo-hoo! 222 00:15:54,255 --> 00:15:57,199 You do know you're both too old for this, don't you? 223 00:15:57,449 --> 00:16:01,692 What, for driving muscle cars up and down the public roads of Detroit? 224 00:16:01,770 --> 00:16:03,778 Because nobody else is using them. 225 00:16:03,980 --> 00:16:05,722 Well, Richard Hammond certainly isn't using them. 226 00:16:08,975 --> 00:16:13,519 Since it was one-all and we were having enormous fun annoying Hammond, 227 00:16:13,815 --> 00:16:16,261 we decided to go again. 228 00:16:16,655 --> 00:16:18,995 What is this, best of 30 now? 229 00:16:19,124 --> 00:16:21,386 What else are we gonna do? 230 00:16:21,535 --> 00:16:23,769 Keep going till one of you wets yourselves. 231 00:16:25,895 --> 00:16:28,394 For the next 17 runs, 232 00:16:28,472 --> 00:16:31,160 the result was always the same. 233 00:16:31,535 --> 00:16:33,831 Thank you very much. 234 00:16:35,532 --> 00:16:37,277 Come on! Come on! 235 00:16:38,878 --> 00:16:40,777 Give up, buddy. 236 00:16:43,683 --> 00:16:44,839 I'm angry. 237 00:16:45,042 --> 00:16:46,604 I'm not giving in, James. One more. 238 00:16:46,682 --> 00:16:48,813 Oh, for God's sake! 239 00:16:49,050 --> 00:16:52,917 I gave him my word I wouldn't use launch control. 240 00:16:53,207 --> 00:16:56,644 I'm simply going to go back on that and not tell him. 241 00:17:02,499 --> 00:17:04,954 That was a good gear change. So was that. 242 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:11,191 But there's just nothing I can do to get up with that 1,000 horsepower monster. 243 00:17:13,628 --> 00:17:16,373 Finally, I waved the white flag. 244 00:17:16,589 --> 00:17:18,511 And then we took a closer look 245 00:17:18,589 --> 00:17:22,570 at the savage beating heart of The Exorcist. 246 00:17:22,815 --> 00:17:25,581 And that's the standard Corvette engine, basically. 247 00:17:25,667 --> 00:17:29,558 - Z06, yeah. - With a supercharger plonked on the top. 248 00:17:29,636 --> 00:17:32,847 - That's there, yes? - Yes, 2.9 litre supercharger. 249 00:17:33,050 --> 00:17:35,738 So the bit they've bolted to your engine 250 00:17:35,816 --> 00:17:38,464 is bigger than most European engines? 251 00:17:38,542 --> 00:17:40,996 - Yes. - So is the one on mine. It's 2.7 litres. 252 00:17:41,074 --> 00:17:44,543 Yeah, not as big. The point is, Hammond, this is The Exorcist. 253 00:17:44,621 --> 00:17:47,236 The job of The Exorcist is to vanquish the Demon. 254 00:17:47,314 --> 00:17:49,775 It's like, you remember in the '60s, I think, 255 00:17:49,857 --> 00:17:51,992 De Tomaso made a car called the Mangusta, 256 00:17:52,074 --> 00:17:54,295 which is Italian for mongoose. 257 00:17:54,377 --> 00:17:56,392 Yes, and a mongoose can kill a cobra, can't it? 258 00:17:56,474 --> 00:17:57,685 That's why they did it. 259 00:17:57,763 --> 00:18:00,075 Yes, but this hasn't vanquished the Demon. 260 00:18:00,153 --> 00:18:02,535 - It hasn't beaten it. - Tell you what. 261 00:18:02,617 --> 00:18:05,992 Why don't you find a racetrack or a runway somewhere, OK? 262 00:18:06,074 --> 00:18:07,592 I'll gracefully bow out. 263 00:18:07,674 --> 00:18:12,802 And we can have a race between good... and evil. 264 00:18:19,277 --> 00:18:25,282 First, though, we decided to find out which of our cars makes the loudest noise. 265 00:18:26,137 --> 00:18:28,872 There were, of course, many possible locations 266 00:18:28,954 --> 00:18:31,089 for this important test. 267 00:18:31,324 --> 00:18:36,962 But eventually, we found one that was absolutely ideal. 268 00:18:50,175 --> 00:18:52,112 What is this place? 269 00:18:52,194 --> 00:18:55,269 Well, it obviously was a theatre. 270 00:18:55,378 --> 00:18:56,912 They built it on the site 271 00:18:56,994 --> 00:19:01,282 of Henry Ford's first ever workshop. 272 00:19:01,977 --> 00:19:04,975 - And when I say theatre... - Oh, wow! 273 00:19:05,057 --> 00:19:06,935 So it was in 1925 they built it, 274 00:19:07,017 --> 00:19:09,895 when Detroit was just about the richest city in the world. 275 00:19:09,977 --> 00:19:12,112 - You can see that. - They can just build that. 276 00:19:12,194 --> 00:19:15,912 And then in the '70s, it was converted into a rock venue. 277 00:19:15,994 --> 00:19:19,232 So, I mean, look at these tickets I've got for it. 278 00:19:19,314 --> 00:19:22,215 - ZZ Top. - ZZ Top and T Rex. 279 00:19:22,297 --> 00:19:24,712 - What a gig that would've been! - It would've been fantastic. 280 00:19:24,794 --> 00:19:27,375 Sly And The Family Stone, Spencer Davis. 281 00:19:27,457 --> 00:19:29,232 Steve Winwood has performed in here. 282 00:19:29,314 --> 00:19:30,975 David Bowie performed in here. 283 00:19:31,057 --> 00:19:33,432 - Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Seger. - This was a serious venue. 284 00:19:33,514 --> 00:19:35,095 Oh, serious venue. 285 00:19:35,177 --> 00:19:37,615 And then, there were some credit card companies 286 00:19:37,697 --> 00:19:39,672 in the offices which are behind that wall. 287 00:19:39,754 --> 00:19:42,375 And they said, "We need some parking." 288 00:19:42,457 --> 00:19:45,135 And just bought it and turned it into a multi-storey car park. 289 00:19:45,217 --> 00:19:47,192 - That's amazing. - Takes the romance out of it. 290 00:19:47,274 --> 00:19:49,072 It's sort of staggering. 291 00:19:49,154 --> 00:19:52,455 It's the birthplace of Henry Ford's business. 292 00:19:52,537 --> 00:19:54,472 - Yeah. - Then a theatre. 293 00:19:54,554 --> 00:19:56,277 It's a car park. 294 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,819 We can bring some theatre back with our noise test. 295 00:19:58,897 --> 00:20:00,712 Actually, there's a kind of poetry to it, it's beautiful. 296 00:20:00,794 --> 00:20:02,712 - Precisely. - Not just bringing the poetry, 297 00:20:02,794 --> 00:20:04,775 also bringing the decibel-o-meter. 298 00:20:04,857 --> 00:20:08,419 Oh, perfect. So you can go and uh... go first. 299 00:20:08,691 --> 00:20:10,455 Why am I going first? 300 00:20:10,537 --> 00:20:13,995 - I just said you can go first. - He did. I heard him say it. 301 00:20:15,074 --> 00:20:17,632 Since the owners feared the noise 302 00:20:17,714 --> 00:20:20,992 from our engines would bring down the crumbling roof, 303 00:20:21,074 --> 00:20:24,095 we were given protective clothing. 304 00:20:24,177 --> 00:20:26,480 We have to put this on because there may be dust. 305 00:20:26,699 --> 00:20:28,547 There will be dust. 306 00:20:30,929 --> 00:20:32,887 Traction off. 307 00:20:32,969 --> 00:20:34,887 I'll just make wheel spin. 308 00:20:35,386 --> 00:20:38,192 Wheel spin, that just makes a huge amount of noise. 309 00:20:38,367 --> 00:20:40,935 - Are you ready? - Yes. 310 00:20:54,457 --> 00:20:56,962 Oh, yeah, check it out! 311 00:20:59,796 --> 00:21:03,550 I can see jack shit. 312 00:21:06,339 --> 00:21:09,282 - God, that's pretty horrible. - How loud? 313 00:21:09,777 --> 00:21:11,912 - Well, at its peak... - Yeah? 314 00:21:11,994 --> 00:21:15,121 125.2. 315 00:21:15,199 --> 00:21:16,916 Well, wait a minute, you don't know, you haven't... 316 00:21:16,994 --> 00:21:19,160 - You're the first to go. - 125? 317 00:21:19,316 --> 00:21:20,737 Yes. 318 00:21:22,066 --> 00:21:23,975 The Who. 319 00:21:24,214 --> 00:21:27,605 Widely regarded to be the loudest rock band of all time. 320 00:21:27,683 --> 00:21:31,089 - Yes. - 126 decibels. 321 00:21:31,497 --> 00:21:35,055 Deep Purple, a mere 117 decibels. 322 00:21:35,137 --> 00:21:38,455 That car is louder than Deep Purple. 323 00:21:38,537 --> 00:21:41,722 But probably a lot quieter than my Demon. 324 00:21:49,737 --> 00:21:52,352 Any minute now, a paramedic will be cutting his trousers off. 325 00:21:52,434 --> 00:21:54,552 He should've taken them off before he got in. 326 00:21:54,634 --> 00:21:56,592 I don't know why he wears trousers. 327 00:21:56,674 --> 00:21:58,632 Here we go. Ready in three, two... 328 00:22:01,270 --> 00:22:02,965 Oh, wait a minute, it hasn't done it. 329 00:22:07,457 --> 00:22:09,605 Easy mistake. 330 00:22:09,734 --> 00:22:12,076 We've all done it - forgotten the key when you're doughnutting 331 00:22:12,154 --> 00:22:15,272 in a Detroit theatre that's been turned into a multi-storey car park. 332 00:22:15,354 --> 00:22:17,282 Everybody's been there. 333 00:22:17,558 --> 00:22:20,824 OK. In three, two... 334 00:22:44,472 --> 00:22:46,897 - 125.2 to beat. - Yeah. 335 00:22:48,628 --> 00:22:50,163 Doesn't make a lot of noise. 336 00:22:50,394 --> 00:22:52,335 118.8, tiptoe boy. 337 00:22:52,417 --> 00:22:56,214 It's got a 2.7 litre capacity supercharger on it! 338 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:57,636 Yeah, but, it doesn't make any noise. 339 00:22:57,714 --> 00:22:59,652 They didn't build it for this, they built it for drag racing. 340 00:22:59,730 --> 00:23:01,956 - And they wouldn't let me do that, so... - Oh, did they? 341 00:23:02,034 --> 00:23:05,215 - How do we know? - Well, they did. 342 00:23:05,297 --> 00:23:08,632 Before this sore point became even sorer, 343 00:23:08,714 --> 00:23:11,122 I sent James off to have a go. 344 00:23:12,571 --> 00:23:14,626 Don't think he's ever done a doughnut. 345 00:23:14,704 --> 00:23:16,645 - No. No. - In his life. 346 00:23:16,740 --> 00:23:21,075 We are about to witness James D May losing his virginity. 347 00:23:21,274 --> 00:23:23,672 Popping his doughnut cherry. 348 00:23:27,325 --> 00:23:29,300 James May, are you ready? 349 00:23:29,796 --> 00:23:32,204 Fire it up in three... 350 00:23:38,257 --> 00:23:40,902 Cock. 351 00:23:47,761 --> 00:23:49,512 Bollocks. 352 00:23:53,097 --> 00:23:57,730 It took him a little while, but eventually he got the hang of it. 353 00:24:11,257 --> 00:24:13,215 What's my score? 354 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,464 Why don't we just go? 355 00:24:15,617 --> 00:24:17,992 - Come on, James, gotta go. - Yep, moving on. 356 00:24:18,074 --> 00:24:19,777 - What was it? - Oh, I've wiped it. 357 00:24:19,855 --> 00:24:22,036 - No, you haven't. - It was 12. 358 00:24:22,314 --> 00:24:24,729 Come on... Why've I got this on my face? What was it? 359 00:24:24,807 --> 00:24:27,753 It was 128, so just 2.8 more than me. 360 00:24:27,831 --> 00:24:29,464 - So more? - Yes. 361 00:24:29,617 --> 00:24:30,855 - Hold that. - Why? 362 00:24:30,937 --> 00:24:32,152 Please just hold that. 363 00:24:32,230 --> 00:24:34,707 Oh, I hate the victory dance! 364 00:24:34,785 --> 00:24:36,792 - I hate the victory dance. - Good, right, let's move on. 365 00:24:36,894 --> 00:24:38,535 How much is your car? How much? 366 00:24:38,613 --> 00:24:40,964 - 98, something like that? - £98,000. 367 00:24:41,042 --> 00:24:42,499 - Yes. - £40,000. 368 00:24:42,577 --> 00:24:44,432 Yeah, but mine's better, so it's more expensive. 369 00:24:44,514 --> 00:24:46,472 - £40,000. - It's faster and louder. 370 00:24:46,554 --> 00:24:49,878 720 horsepower, £40,000. 371 00:24:50,167 --> 00:24:53,282 Am I the only person here who understands muscle cars? 372 00:24:54,987 --> 00:24:57,412 That's a ridiculous thing to say! 373 00:25:00,777 --> 00:25:02,910 Having had a very busy morning, 374 00:25:02,988 --> 00:25:04,895 we were now hungry. 375 00:25:04,977 --> 00:25:08,402 Which, in this part of town, was a problem. 376 00:25:09,617 --> 00:25:12,682 Not an abundance of restaurants around here, is there? 377 00:25:13,379 --> 00:25:16,257 I haven't seen any. 378 00:25:16,335 --> 00:25:18,030 I just noticed a Coney Island Restaurant 379 00:25:18,108 --> 00:25:21,628 but I'm afraid it's been shut for 30 years. 380 00:25:22,666 --> 00:25:25,214 Having failed to find even a takeout, 381 00:25:25,292 --> 00:25:28,415 we started to look for a hotel. 382 00:25:28,593 --> 00:25:30,831 But there wasn't one of those either. 383 00:25:31,154 --> 00:25:34,347 So we decided to buy a house. 384 00:25:38,217 --> 00:25:39,952 Let me show you what we've got. 385 00:25:40,034 --> 00:25:43,415 Handsome vestibule, feature tiled floor, front room here, 386 00:25:43,497 --> 00:25:46,312 feature fireplace, loads of light from all these windows. 387 00:25:46,394 --> 00:25:50,312 This, I would say, use as a dining room because it's adjacent to the kitchen. 388 00:25:50,394 --> 00:25:52,792 Needs the appliances refitting, not a big job. 389 00:25:52,874 --> 00:25:56,495 In there, I would say that's a really handy games room, 390 00:25:56,577 --> 00:25:59,032 TV room, overlooking the garden and the double garage. 391 00:25:59,114 --> 00:26:02,455 Here, perfect for a home office, maybe a snug. 392 00:26:02,537 --> 00:26:05,752 Upstairs four bedrooms, and here's the kicker. 393 00:26:05,834 --> 00:26:09,495 An independent granny flat with its own kitchen, 394 00:26:09,577 --> 00:26:13,392 so Jeremy can live up there semi-independently for as long as he can manage. 395 00:26:13,474 --> 00:26:16,482 And the price? $2,200. 396 00:26:18,417 --> 00:26:21,535 Is that really only... What was it, $2,200? 397 00:26:21,617 --> 00:26:22,935 - Yeah. - 1800 quid. 398 00:26:23,017 --> 00:26:24,135 Amazing, isn't it? 399 00:26:24,217 --> 00:26:26,112 Shall I show you something else amazing? 400 00:26:26,194 --> 00:26:31,215 Captain Slow has fallen for this eco-allotment claptrap. 401 00:26:31,297 --> 00:26:34,792 I haven't fallen for it, and it's not claptrap, it's just a vegetable plot. 402 00:26:34,874 --> 00:26:36,992 - It's only a bit. - Buy food, don't grow it. 403 00:26:37,074 --> 00:26:39,295 - Why not? - That's a farmer's job. 404 00:26:39,377 --> 00:26:42,735 Turning a city into a vegetable garden is ridiculous. 405 00:26:42,817 --> 00:26:45,015 No, who's turned a city into a vegetable garden? 406 00:26:45,097 --> 00:26:46,992 That's what they want to do and you're encouraging them. 407 00:26:47,074 --> 00:26:49,032 Detroit should be for petrolheads. 408 00:26:49,114 --> 00:26:51,655 It should be for massive V8s like our cars. 409 00:26:51,737 --> 00:26:54,375 It's a great idea by a city that's having a bad time 410 00:26:54,457 --> 00:26:56,655 and trying to use its initiative. What's wrong with it? 411 00:26:56,737 --> 00:26:58,272 It's not as if there's any vegetables in the shops. 412 00:26:58,354 --> 00:27:00,992 - New is better. - I am not listening to any more of this. 413 00:27:01,074 --> 00:27:03,095 I am going to go off. I'm gonna find a shop. 414 00:27:03,177 --> 00:27:04,672 I'm gonna come back with burgers. 415 00:27:04,754 --> 00:27:06,872 Well, you can have some curly kale in them. 416 00:27:06,954 --> 00:27:08,392 Bloody allotment! 417 00:27:10,417 --> 00:27:12,432 Just because he's become a vegetarian 418 00:27:12,514 --> 00:27:15,815 doesn't mean that absolutely everybody has to be one. 419 00:27:15,897 --> 00:27:18,952 - Don't be a moron! - Well, I can't get out, he's parked in the way. 420 00:27:27,937 --> 00:27:30,872 Well, on that terrible disappointment, back to the tent. 421 00:27:34,417 --> 00:27:36,655 You asked for it. You asked for it. 422 00:27:36,737 --> 00:27:38,232 We never got the burgers either. 423 00:27:38,314 --> 00:27:39,552 No, we didn't. 424 00:27:39,634 --> 00:27:41,177 We uh... 425 00:27:44,297 --> 00:27:46,432 We shall pick that up later on. 426 00:27:46,514 --> 00:27:50,192 But now it is time to drop the car keys of chat 427 00:27:50,274 --> 00:27:53,295 down the drain of debate... 428 00:27:53,377 --> 00:27:55,632 on Conversation Street. 429 00:28:02,737 --> 00:28:04,135 That's a little weird. 430 00:28:04,217 --> 00:28:06,792 - How'd you do that? - Don't know. Can't remember. 431 00:28:06,874 --> 00:28:11,592 Can I just begin by saying that I think the very concept of incongruity 432 00:28:11,674 --> 00:28:15,152 was defined in that film in Detroit by James May, 433 00:28:15,234 --> 00:28:17,615 the slowest moving man in history, 434 00:28:17,697 --> 00:28:20,495 driving around in a car called The Exorcist. 435 00:28:20,577 --> 00:28:23,352 Yeah, it just doesn't work. "James May is The Exorcist." 436 00:28:23,434 --> 00:28:26,992 No, I mean, if he's gonna have a car, it should be called The Florist. 437 00:28:27,074 --> 00:28:29,482 Or The Organist. 438 00:28:30,937 --> 00:28:32,832 - Simple change to that, The Onanist. - Nice. 439 00:28:32,914 --> 00:28:35,614 - I think The Onanist would work well. - Have you quite finished? 440 00:28:35,692 --> 00:28:36,544 Uh... yeah. 441 00:28:36,622 --> 00:28:38,958 Good, actually I'd like to talk about Motor City. 442 00:28:39,036 --> 00:28:40,939 More specifically, what's happening to it. 443 00:28:41,017 --> 00:28:42,472 I'll tell you what's happening to it. 444 00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:44,632 It is being slowly ruined by vegetable-ists. 445 00:28:44,714 --> 00:28:47,215 - Oh, God. - It is! 446 00:28:47,297 --> 00:28:50,215 There are two million acres of land in Detroit, OK? 447 00:28:50,297 --> 00:28:54,082 Would anybody like to guess how many acres have been given over to allotments? 448 00:28:55,017 --> 00:28:57,552 Six. 449 00:28:57,634 --> 00:28:59,752 - 1,000. - No, it's three. 450 00:28:59,834 --> 00:29:01,295 Three acres. 451 00:29:01,377 --> 00:29:03,552 - And he's driven over two of them. - Exactly. 452 00:29:03,634 --> 00:29:06,015 Yes, and rightly so. It's like cancer. 453 00:29:06,097 --> 00:29:08,055 - It's not like cancer! - It is! 454 00:29:08,137 --> 00:29:11,175 If you said, "I've got two billion cells in my body" 455 00:29:11,257 --> 00:29:12,952 and only three are cancerous so I shall do nothing..." 456 00:29:13,034 --> 00:29:14,695 You don't, you cut them out. 457 00:29:14,777 --> 00:29:17,312 Yeah, but cancer is a serious threat to your health. 458 00:29:17,394 --> 00:29:19,352 Well, so are vegetables. They are. 459 00:29:19,434 --> 00:29:21,480 You do know you're mad? 460 00:29:21,644 --> 00:29:23,272 No, I'll tell you what I'm mad about. 461 00:29:23,354 --> 00:29:25,152 I'm mad as hell about Detroit. 462 00:29:25,234 --> 00:29:29,792 Because in 1960, that was the richest city in America. 463 00:29:29,874 --> 00:29:33,335 The richest. And now it is the poorest. 464 00:29:33,417 --> 00:29:37,352 And no other city anywhere in the world has collapsed that quickly. 465 00:29:37,434 --> 00:29:39,792 What about Hiroshima? 466 00:29:41,377 --> 00:29:42,712 Apart from Hiroshima. 467 00:29:42,794 --> 00:29:44,495 Pompeii. 468 00:29:44,577 --> 00:29:47,575 Yes, apart from Hiroshima and Pompeii, 469 00:29:47,657 --> 00:29:49,735 no city has collapsed as fast as Detroit has. 470 00:29:49,817 --> 00:29:51,792 - It's unbelievable. - Incredible the scale of it. 471 00:29:51,874 --> 00:29:55,527 There used to be 43 car factories in Detroit. 472 00:29:55,605 --> 00:29:56,775 43. 473 00:29:56,857 --> 00:29:59,316 Now two. Just two. 474 00:29:59,425 --> 00:30:02,752 I actually think it's because America won the war, weirdly. 475 00:30:02,834 --> 00:30:04,655 - Vietnam. - Really? 476 00:30:04,737 --> 00:30:06,975 No, I was lying. They lost that one. 477 00:30:07,057 --> 00:30:08,652 Not in all the films, they didn't. 478 00:30:08,738 --> 00:30:11,512 They won in the films but when you add up all the battles they won, 479 00:30:11,594 --> 00:30:13,824 - weirdly they lost the war. - Did they? 480 00:30:13,902 --> 00:30:15,672 No, I'm actually talking about World War II. 481 00:30:15,754 --> 00:30:19,552 At the end of that, Japan had lost its empire, so it lost all its resources. 482 00:30:19,634 --> 00:30:23,232 So they were forced to make compact, economical, efficient cars. 483 00:30:23,314 --> 00:30:25,455 And then the oil crisis hit in 1973, 484 00:30:25,537 --> 00:30:27,232 and the Americans, with their big V8s, 485 00:30:27,314 --> 00:30:30,232 were forced to buy small, compact, economical cars from Japan. 486 00:30:30,314 --> 00:30:32,552 And then realised they were better. 487 00:30:32,634 --> 00:30:36,805 No, I think it's because American cars are too cheap. 488 00:30:36,883 --> 00:30:37,797 Too cheap? 489 00:30:37,875 --> 00:30:39,563 It's a business thing. That's the problem. 490 00:30:39,641 --> 00:30:43,633 Sorry, everyone, I fear we are about to get an economic lecture from... 491 00:30:44,290 --> 00:30:46,385 Chancellor Hammond here. 492 00:30:46,463 --> 00:30:48,984 - Well, no. - The other Chancellor Hammond. 493 00:30:49,062 --> 00:30:52,619 No, you are... Now concentrate, let me put this into context for you. 494 00:30:52,697 --> 00:30:55,414 A lot of supercars have arrived on the scene recently. 495 00:30:55,516 --> 00:30:58,232 I've got pictures of them. This is the McLaren Speedtail, 496 00:30:58,314 --> 00:31:00,272 that's 1,000 horsepower. 497 00:31:00,354 --> 00:31:02,095 Costs £2.1 million. 498 00:31:02,177 --> 00:31:03,912 - And its wheels are odd. - They are. They don't match. 499 00:31:03,994 --> 00:31:07,359 This is the Aston Martin Valkyrie, that's 1,000 horsepower again. 500 00:31:07,437 --> 00:31:09,687 £2.5 million. 501 00:31:09,774 --> 00:31:13,672 This one, that's the Ferrari FXX-K Evo, 502 00:31:13,797 --> 00:31:16,655 1,000 horsepower, £3.5 million. 503 00:31:16,737 --> 00:31:18,695 Best looking Ferrari of all time, that. 504 00:31:18,777 --> 00:31:21,592 - It does look amazing, yeah, - It is absolutely staggering. 505 00:31:21,674 --> 00:31:24,032 However, they've all got 1,000 horsepower, 506 00:31:24,114 --> 00:31:27,415 which means they will all be undriveable. 507 00:31:27,497 --> 00:31:30,072 Yeah, whereas my Exorcist has 1,000 horsepower 508 00:31:30,154 --> 00:31:33,295 and is undriveable for under £100,000. 509 00:31:33,377 --> 00:31:37,055 Yes, and that's... that's exactly my economic point. 510 00:31:37,219 --> 00:31:38,712 They're selling them too cheap. 511 00:31:38,794 --> 00:31:40,180 They're just giving it away. 512 00:31:40,258 --> 00:31:44,000 If American carmakers doubled the price of the cars that they sell, 513 00:31:44,114 --> 00:31:47,855 bear with me, they would double the money that they make. 514 00:31:47,937 --> 00:31:49,832 It's not that complicated when you think about it. 515 00:31:49,914 --> 00:31:51,250 If you follow the logic. 516 00:31:51,328 --> 00:31:54,223 I've said before, the wrong Hammond is in charge of Britain's... 517 00:31:54,414 --> 00:31:56,355 Yeah. It is incredible. 518 00:31:56,433 --> 00:31:57,968 You've got a supply and demand graph. 519 00:31:58,186 --> 00:31:59,887 If you take away the demand axis, 520 00:32:00,017 --> 00:32:02,632 life becomes much easier when it's all just supply. 521 00:32:02,714 --> 00:32:05,192 Precisely. The Hellcat that I was driving 522 00:32:05,274 --> 00:32:07,135 was priced at £67,000. 523 00:32:07,217 --> 00:32:09,352 - Yeah. - People are now selling them, 524 00:32:09,434 --> 00:32:12,375 that same car, second-hand for £120,000. 525 00:32:12,457 --> 00:32:15,592 And one bloke has advertised one for half a million. 526 00:32:15,674 --> 00:32:19,242 So that means they were too cheap and I'm right. 527 00:32:20,817 --> 00:32:22,992 - It is hard to argue with that. - Unassailable. 528 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:25,563 And we don't have time, so let's move it on. 529 00:32:25,641 --> 00:32:28,775 Because you may remember in the very first show 530 00:32:28,857 --> 00:32:30,632 of The Grand Tour in the first season... 531 00:32:30,714 --> 00:32:33,775 I was blown away by a McLaren P1. 532 00:32:33,857 --> 00:32:36,272 Yeah, I do remember. You said it would be faster 533 00:32:36,354 --> 00:32:38,984 than the Porsche 918 and the Ferrari LaFerrari. 534 00:32:39,062 --> 00:32:39,619 Mm-hm. 535 00:32:39,697 --> 00:32:41,735 And, no, wait a minute, it wasn't, was it? 536 00:32:41,817 --> 00:32:45,032 And as a result, the only thing that got blown away was your house. 537 00:32:45,114 --> 00:32:47,535 - That's undoubtedly true. - Yeah. 538 00:32:47,617 --> 00:32:50,472 But the thing is, it remains to this day the most exciting, 539 00:32:50,554 --> 00:32:53,295 most brutal, most visceral car I've ever driven. 540 00:32:53,377 --> 00:32:55,632 And I didn't think it could ever be topped, 541 00:32:55,714 --> 00:32:57,432 but McLaren have given it a bash. 542 00:32:57,514 --> 00:33:02,711 And I thought, "Well, if they've built a car that can out-P1 a P1", 543 00:33:02,789 --> 00:33:05,344 I'd better test it somewhere a bit less... 544 00:33:05,422 --> 00:33:07,615 narrow and a bit less tree-lined 545 00:33:07,697 --> 00:33:10,552 and a bit less covered in deers and badgers than the Eboladrome. 546 00:33:11,817 --> 00:33:15,015 So I took it to the fastest racetrack in Europe, 547 00:33:15,097 --> 00:33:17,642 which is... Actually, anyone wanna guess which it is? 548 00:33:18,257 --> 00:33:20,112 - Monza? - No, not Monza. 549 00:33:20,194 --> 00:33:21,655 - Spa. - Not Spa. 550 00:33:21,737 --> 00:33:22,872 - Do you know? - What? 551 00:33:22,954 --> 00:33:24,895 Do you know? 552 00:33:24,977 --> 00:33:26,112 Of course I know! 553 00:33:26,194 --> 00:33:29,615 - You know? That's unusual. - Why is it unusual? 554 00:33:29,697 --> 00:33:33,512 You didn't know any of the answers on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, did you? 555 00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:35,415 I mean... 556 00:33:35,497 --> 00:33:37,472 I'm just saying. 557 00:33:37,554 --> 00:33:39,615 You didn't. 558 00:33:39,697 --> 00:33:41,192 No. But, no. 559 00:33:41,274 --> 00:33:42,695 No. 560 00:33:42,777 --> 00:33:45,775 They didn't ask me any of the questions I knew the answers to. 561 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,032 - That's what it was. - No, but it's not called. 562 00:33:48,114 --> 00:33:50,632 Who Wants To Know Things Jeremy Happens To Know, is it? 563 00:33:50,714 --> 00:33:52,775 - It's Thruxton. - What is? 564 00:33:52,857 --> 00:33:55,125 Thruxton is the fastest racetrack in Europe. 565 00:33:55,203 --> 00:33:58,070 So that's where I took the new McLaren. 566 00:33:59,177 --> 00:34:00,952 Engine's beginning throttling down now. 567 00:34:02,514 --> 00:34:04,922 And lift-off. 568 00:34:06,457 --> 00:34:07,792 Clear of the tower. 569 00:34:07,874 --> 00:34:09,722 Go with throttle up. 570 00:34:16,817 --> 00:34:19,522 This is the car in question. 571 00:34:21,057 --> 00:34:24,912 And let's begin by giving you some of the headlines. 572 00:34:24,994 --> 00:34:29,592 There's no hybrid drive, like there was in the P1. 573 00:34:29,674 --> 00:34:34,482 But even so, the 4 litre, twin turbocharged V8... 574 00:34:35,337 --> 00:34:39,322 produces 789 horsepower. 575 00:34:41,657 --> 00:34:45,562 And that means it's still pretty fast. 576 00:34:47,337 --> 00:34:48,897 OK, right. 577 00:34:50,337 --> 00:34:52,002 Left foot on brake. 578 00:34:55,314 --> 00:34:56,962 Push launch. 579 00:34:58,897 --> 00:35:00,215 Full throttle. 580 00:35:00,297 --> 00:35:03,042 Boost building, boost ready, we're gone. 581 00:35:07,897 --> 00:35:11,162 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. 582 00:35:13,057 --> 00:35:15,922 That's 120... 150. 583 00:35:16,537 --> 00:35:18,282 Jesus H Christ! 584 00:35:22,297 --> 00:35:25,832 It'll actually do 186 in 18 seconds, 585 00:35:25,914 --> 00:35:28,895 and flat out is 208. 586 00:35:28,977 --> 00:35:31,682 And that's really alarming. 587 00:35:32,457 --> 00:35:34,432 I'm gonna be sick. Ohh! 588 00:35:34,514 --> 00:35:35,977 Whoa! 589 00:35:39,097 --> 00:35:44,162 The thing is, though, that lots of supercars are as fast as the McLaren these days. 590 00:35:45,777 --> 00:35:48,312 Some are even more powerful, 591 00:35:48,394 --> 00:35:51,562 and even more dramatic to behold. 592 00:35:52,977 --> 00:35:55,402 But this is called the Senna. 593 00:35:55,977 --> 00:35:57,695 It's named after Ayrton Senna, 594 00:35:57,777 --> 00:36:00,352 and Ayrton was not a man who spent his evenings 595 00:36:00,434 --> 00:36:04,095 cruising around Harrods at nine miles an hour. 596 00:36:04,177 --> 00:36:07,272 And nor was he a man who spent much time at drag strips, 597 00:36:07,354 --> 00:36:09,312 doing the standing quarter. 598 00:36:09,394 --> 00:36:10,655 No. 599 00:36:10,737 --> 00:36:14,842 Ayrton was a man who made his name at places like this. 600 00:36:16,257 --> 00:36:18,042 Racetracks. 601 00:36:22,737 --> 00:36:26,002 This is what the Senna was built to do: 602 00:36:27,137 --> 00:36:29,072 get round any track, anywhere, 603 00:36:29,154 --> 00:36:33,762 faster than any other road car ever made. 604 00:36:37,257 --> 00:36:39,392 To do this, they had to make it light. 605 00:36:39,474 --> 00:36:42,335 And they have. The doors, for example. 606 00:36:42,417 --> 00:36:44,832 Even though they have windows in them here, 607 00:36:44,914 --> 00:36:49,935 so passers-by can see the driver's trousers, 608 00:36:50,017 --> 00:36:52,095 they only weigh nine kilograms 609 00:36:52,177 --> 00:36:55,055 and that's less than one of Kate Moss's arms. 610 00:36:55,137 --> 00:36:56,792 And then there's the seats. 611 00:36:56,874 --> 00:36:59,815 They only weigh eight kilograms. 612 00:36:59,897 --> 00:37:02,322 I've eaten puddings that weigh more than that! 613 00:37:03,017 --> 00:37:04,712 Go with throttle up. 614 00:37:04,794 --> 00:37:07,375 Having got the weight out, 615 00:37:07,457 --> 00:37:11,162 the Senna's nearly a quarter of a ton lighter than the P1. 616 00:37:11,817 --> 00:37:14,242 They had to think about grip. 617 00:37:15,737 --> 00:37:18,272 They started with a new type of Pirelli tyre 618 00:37:18,354 --> 00:37:22,512 that clings on like a panicky child on a fairground ride. 619 00:37:22,594 --> 00:37:26,215 And then there's this moving rear wing, 620 00:37:26,297 --> 00:37:28,592 which is somehow road legal. 621 00:37:28,674 --> 00:37:31,775 It actually hangs from these pylons, 622 00:37:31,857 --> 00:37:33,832 rather than sits on top of them, 623 00:37:33,914 --> 00:37:36,312 because that improves downforce. 624 00:37:36,394 --> 00:37:39,215 I asked James May to explain why, 625 00:37:39,297 --> 00:37:43,442 but I'm afraid, after three hours, I went into a deep sleep. 626 00:37:45,457 --> 00:37:48,472 The next most import thing when it comes to lap times 627 00:37:48,554 --> 00:37:51,482 is how well it slows down. 628 00:37:52,777 --> 00:37:56,792 I was once in a 24-hour race at Silverstone, 629 00:37:56,874 --> 00:38:00,495 driving a terrible old diesel BMW 630 00:38:00,577 --> 00:38:05,592 and yet I could keep up with a supercharged Jaguar XKR 631 00:38:05,674 --> 00:38:09,375 because I had better brakes. 632 00:38:09,457 --> 00:38:11,912 I'd look at him getting to the end of the Hangar Straight, 633 00:38:11,994 --> 00:38:15,602 thinking, "Why are you braking now, you idiot? You don't need to." 634 00:38:16,937 --> 00:38:21,095 And that is this car's party piece. 635 00:38:21,177 --> 00:38:23,312 To show you how well this car stops, 636 00:38:23,394 --> 00:38:25,802 I've organised a little test. 637 00:38:28,577 --> 00:38:33,162 Right, I'm currently driving alongside a Jaguar F Type... 638 00:38:34,057 --> 00:38:35,392 at 100 miles an hour. 639 00:38:35,474 --> 00:38:38,482 When we get to that cone down there... 640 00:38:40,337 --> 00:38:42,562 we're both going to brake. 641 00:38:44,657 --> 00:38:46,577 Ready? 642 00:39:02,497 --> 00:39:06,282 How can you stop from 100 miles an hour to nothing in that distance? 643 00:39:09,777 --> 00:39:13,975 So, it stops like it's run into a wall... 644 00:39:14,057 --> 00:39:17,442 it's pressed into the road by witchcraft... 645 00:39:18,497 --> 00:39:21,282 it weighs the same as a bag of whippets... 646 00:39:22,417 --> 00:39:26,815 and it has nearly 800 horsepower on tap. 647 00:39:26,897 --> 00:39:30,842 Put all that together and... um, well... 648 00:39:35,737 --> 00:39:38,162 Oh, my giddy aunt! 649 00:39:45,297 --> 00:39:49,842 It doesn't have the savagery of the P1. 650 00:39:50,417 --> 00:39:52,935 The P1 was so scary, 651 00:39:53,017 --> 00:39:57,095 it took me two months to get used to it, 652 00:39:57,177 --> 00:40:00,055 to discover its little foibles. 653 00:40:00,137 --> 00:40:04,855 This, though, even though I'm now in hunkered-down, 654 00:40:04,937 --> 00:40:07,032 tightened-up, vicious race mode, 655 00:40:07,114 --> 00:40:10,522 with the traction control wound right back, 656 00:40:11,337 --> 00:40:13,295 I'm not frightened at all. 657 00:40:13,377 --> 00:40:16,432 I'm starting to push the envelope after 20 minutes. 658 00:40:23,517 --> 00:40:27,629 But you see, through there, the P1 would have understeered. 659 00:40:27,711 --> 00:40:29,955 This just doesn't because 660 00:40:30,037 --> 00:40:33,349 there's no weight to push it out of line. 661 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:38,107 It's like you're driving using nothing but telepathy. 662 00:40:46,637 --> 00:40:49,387 And I'm loving it! 663 00:40:52,757 --> 00:40:54,989 In the past, I've described various Ferraris 664 00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:58,136 as feeling beautifully delicate. 665 00:40:58,285 --> 00:41:02,306 But compared to this, they're like elephants! 666 00:41:06,902 --> 00:41:07,980 Criticisms? 667 00:41:08,113 --> 00:41:11,281 Not many, I mean, the usual McLaren stuff. 668 00:41:11,359 --> 00:41:14,671 When you try to change it from comfort to track to sport to race, 669 00:41:14,753 --> 00:41:17,157 it's all far too complicated. 670 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:22,191 And I know they saved 15 kilograms not fitting air conditioning, 671 00:41:22,273 --> 00:41:26,789 but on a hot day like today, it's quite sweaty. 672 00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:31,829 But who cares? 673 00:41:39,479 --> 00:41:45,309 Honestly, this thing is rewriting the supercar rule book, in my mind. 674 00:42:02,279 --> 00:42:04,277 Unbelievable car, that. 675 00:42:04,359 --> 00:42:06,551 I'm actually proud to be British with that. 676 00:42:06,633 --> 00:42:07,959 What? 677 00:42:09,359 --> 00:42:11,317 - Yes, definitely. - What? 678 00:42:11,399 --> 00:42:15,511 Well, just... while the film was on we've just been online and checked. 679 00:42:15,593 --> 00:42:18,311 Thruxton is not the fastest track in Europe. 680 00:42:18,393 --> 00:42:20,157 - What? - It's not. 681 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,037 - Why isn't it? - Well, it isn't the fastest track. 682 00:42:23,119 --> 00:42:24,911 Well, it's the fastest racetrack in Wiltshire. 683 00:42:24,993 --> 00:42:25,701 It's in Hampshire. 684 00:42:25,779 --> 00:42:27,319 - You don't even know... - It's in Hampshire. 685 00:42:27,397 --> 00:42:29,473 - You don't know where it is. - You don't even know that! 686 00:42:29,551 --> 00:42:33,961 They described themselves as the fastest track in the South of England. 687 00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:35,452 - Not Europe. - After Brexit 688 00:42:35,530 --> 00:42:37,312 - it'll be the fastest in Europe. - Right. 689 00:42:37,437 --> 00:42:39,277 Anyway, whatever, back to your film. 690 00:42:39,359 --> 00:42:41,791 You said "rewriting the supercar rule book". 691 00:42:41,873 --> 00:42:43,637 Those are big words. 692 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,077 Yeah, and they're correct. 693 00:42:45,159 --> 00:42:46,416 - Are they? - No, they are. 694 00:42:46,494 --> 00:42:48,025 No, for once, I am actually... 695 00:42:48,103 --> 00:42:49,831 First time this show I'm right. 696 00:42:49,917 --> 00:42:54,361 Because that car... You remember the Lamborghini Huracán Performante? 697 00:42:54,439 --> 00:42:56,917 - I loved that car. - OK, that blitzed our track. 698 00:42:56,999 --> 00:42:59,711 Absolutely blitzed it, fastest road car ever round there. 699 00:42:59,793 --> 00:43:02,917 I can guarantee the Senna will be quicker. 700 00:43:02,999 --> 00:43:05,511 - Guaran... - Here we go again. Good. 701 00:43:05,593 --> 00:43:07,191 I promise it will be. 702 00:43:07,273 --> 00:43:08,437 I promise. 703 00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:10,671 If it isn't, can we blow up your house? 704 00:43:12,119 --> 00:43:13,837 I haven't finished building it yet. 705 00:43:13,919 --> 00:43:16,151 Well, when you've finished building it, can we blow it up? 706 00:43:16,233 --> 00:43:18,077 Yes. 707 00:43:18,159 --> 00:43:21,773 No, I am so confident the Senna will be faster, 708 00:43:21,952 --> 00:43:23,898 that if it isn't, when I've finished 709 00:43:23,976 --> 00:43:25,335 building my house, you can blow it up again. 710 00:43:25,413 --> 00:43:27,997 You do know that we will? We will do that. 711 00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:29,231 - We will do that. - We will. 712 00:43:29,313 --> 00:43:31,749 We'll wait till you're in. 713 00:43:33,359 --> 00:43:36,191 Let's play the tape, come on. Let's have a look. 714 00:43:36,273 --> 00:43:38,637 There's Abby, and she's off, 715 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,317 flying away from the line like a stabbed rat. 716 00:43:41,399 --> 00:43:43,391 And coming onto the Isn't Straight. 717 00:43:43,473 --> 00:43:47,757 Already carrying some serious speed. 718 00:43:47,839 --> 00:43:50,637 Looking busy at the wheel on the bumpy surface of our track, 719 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,751 but those hydraulically interconnected dampers are doing their job 720 00:43:53,833 --> 00:43:56,149 of keeping it all tied down. 721 00:43:57,559 --> 00:43:59,117 Oh, that is flying! 722 00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:01,911 She's already dropping down into Your Name Here. 723 00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:05,877 Some squeal from the Pirelli P Zero Trofeos 724 00:44:05,959 --> 00:44:08,551 as she carves round there and then it's back on the gas 725 00:44:08,633 --> 00:44:11,677 to unleash that mighty twin turbo V8 726 00:44:11,759 --> 00:44:13,631 for the return run down to the Isn't. 727 00:44:13,713 --> 00:44:17,077 I am feeling confident here! 728 00:44:17,159 --> 00:44:19,911 Right, now hard on those incredible carbon ceramic brakes 729 00:44:19,993 --> 00:44:24,391 for the tight, and technical, Old Lady's House. 730 00:44:24,473 --> 00:44:28,357 No excess weight to drag the nose wide. 731 00:44:28,439 --> 00:44:31,237 And now, on the fast run to Substation, 732 00:44:31,319 --> 00:44:33,751 riding the ruts and lumps with ease. 733 00:44:33,833 --> 00:44:35,757 Two corners left. 734 00:44:35,839 --> 00:44:38,151 More tyre squeal through there, 735 00:44:38,233 --> 00:44:40,157 rear wing doing its thing. 736 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,951 And now a bit of oversteer and across the line. 737 00:44:44,753 --> 00:44:47,391 Looks good, it does look good. 738 00:44:47,473 --> 00:44:48,559 But... 739 00:44:50,999 --> 00:44:52,374 Got everything we need to blow it up? 740 00:44:52,456 --> 00:44:54,191 There it is, there's the Huracán Performante. 741 00:44:54,273 --> 00:44:56,077 1.16.8. 742 00:44:56,159 --> 00:44:58,197 And I have guaranteed it'll be faster 743 00:44:58,279 --> 00:44:59,597 or you'll blow my house up. 744 00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:02,271 And you're doing well on facts this week, so far, aren't you? 745 00:45:02,353 --> 00:45:04,077 How are you feeling? 746 00:45:04,159 --> 00:45:06,877 - Totally relaxed. - Are you really? 747 00:45:08,599 --> 00:45:11,197 Thing is, we haven't got far to go to blow it up, have we? 748 00:45:11,279 --> 00:45:12,511 It's just gonna be over there. 749 00:45:12,593 --> 00:45:15,189 Come on, let's see how fast it was. 750 00:45:15,799 --> 00:45:17,791 Oh, oh... 751 00:45:19,913 --> 00:45:23,109 - Damn! - 1:12! 752 00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:25,469 That is serious. 753 00:45:26,119 --> 00:45:29,917 That's four seconds quicker. 754 00:45:29,999 --> 00:45:32,711 That's quicker than the Vulcan, and the Vulcan isn't even road legal. 755 00:45:32,793 --> 00:45:34,957 That's absolutely amazing. 756 00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:38,071 That is astonishing and we can add it to the list of things that you know. 757 00:45:40,359 --> 00:45:43,997 - Anyway, we must now get back to our film. - Yes. 758 00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:47,151 Earlier on, we decided that Detroit should be 759 00:45:47,233 --> 00:45:49,877 a big sort of petrolhead theme park, 760 00:45:49,959 --> 00:45:53,351 so we went over there with three tuned muscle cars. 761 00:45:53,433 --> 00:45:57,277 So far we've staged a drag race, done some doughnuts 762 00:45:57,359 --> 00:45:59,831 and Jeremy has driven over some vegetables. 763 00:45:59,913 --> 00:46:05,014 And then the next day, we decided that what Detroit really needs is a racetrack. 764 00:46:05,096 --> 00:46:07,397 Yeah, even though it already has two. 765 00:46:07,479 --> 00:46:09,471 Yes, but we wanted something more earthy. 766 00:46:09,553 --> 00:46:12,749 So we headed for the city centre. 767 00:46:31,439 --> 00:46:34,397 As we headed for the downtown area, 768 00:46:34,479 --> 00:46:38,509 I decided to do a bit of muscle car housekeeping. 769 00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:42,751 Can I just ask everybody what your average fuel consumption 770 00:46:42,833 --> 00:46:45,751 has been since we got to Detroit? 771 00:46:45,833 --> 00:46:49,654 Overall, over the whole trip, eight mpg. 772 00:46:49,736 --> 00:46:54,109 Yeah, mine is a healthy 3.9 miles per gallon. 773 00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:56,711 You're joking? 3.9? 774 00:46:56,793 --> 00:46:59,029 Yes, siree Bob. 775 00:46:59,319 --> 00:47:02,871 13 mpg from the Mustang. 776 00:47:02,953 --> 00:47:05,311 Is it a hybrid? 777 00:47:08,599 --> 00:47:11,551 If it had been a hybrid, it would have fitted in very well 778 00:47:11,633 --> 00:47:15,989 with what the centre of Detroit has become these days. 779 00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:21,477 Florist... cafés... 780 00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:25,111 Oh, for heaven's sake, Urban Ramen! 781 00:47:25,193 --> 00:47:27,909 No, no, no, no! 782 00:47:29,359 --> 00:47:33,757 In 1997, in downtown Detroit, 783 00:47:33,839 --> 00:47:36,991 someone put a gun against my head. 784 00:47:37,073 --> 00:47:42,677 Now it's just all hipsters with dogs and bicycles. 785 00:47:42,759 --> 00:47:46,629 If you want to start a tech business, bugger off to San Francisco. 786 00:47:48,319 --> 00:47:51,871 Oh, for God's sake, have you seen this little urban garden? 787 00:47:51,953 --> 00:47:54,397 Oh, no. 788 00:47:54,479 --> 00:47:56,877 Why has he got such a problem with gardens? 789 00:47:56,959 --> 00:47:59,151 Look down there, it's just all greenhouses 790 00:47:59,233 --> 00:48:02,669 full of little artisan... soaps. 791 00:48:02,747 --> 00:48:04,065 There's a Tesla! 792 00:48:04,143 --> 00:48:07,040 There's a bloody Tesla in Detroit! 793 00:48:07,157 --> 00:48:09,511 If only the world were full of people like Jeremy Clarkson. 794 00:48:09,593 --> 00:48:12,277 Then we could have slavery and witch burning. 795 00:48:12,359 --> 00:48:14,671 Right, well, we've established one thing. 796 00:48:14,753 --> 00:48:17,951 The centre of Detroit... that ain't a racetrack, 797 00:48:18,033 --> 00:48:19,974 that's a wholefood market. 798 00:48:20,056 --> 00:48:23,429 We need to get out of here, this is the enemy. 799 00:48:26,919 --> 00:48:29,471 Having returned to the rundown suburbs, 800 00:48:29,553 --> 00:48:34,349 we eventually found the perfect place to build a racetrack: 801 00:48:36,959 --> 00:48:40,709 Cadillac's old Conner Avenue Factory. 802 00:48:42,679 --> 00:48:46,551 For over 60 years, they stamped out the body panels here 803 00:48:46,633 --> 00:48:50,671 for icons, like the Eldorado, the Fleetwood, 804 00:48:50,753 --> 00:48:53,469 and the Coupe de Ville. 805 00:48:56,399 --> 00:48:59,311 If it were up to James, this creaking monument 806 00:48:59,393 --> 00:49:04,269 to the Motor City's decline would be turned into a shrubbery. 807 00:49:06,159 --> 00:49:08,117 But it wasn't up to James. 808 00:49:08,199 --> 00:49:11,911 So it would become a Monte Carlo-style tunnel feature 809 00:49:11,993 --> 00:49:15,389 on our Detroit-themed racetrack. 810 00:49:18,159 --> 00:49:19,831 Right, so what I thought we'd do is 811 00:49:19,913 --> 00:49:22,511 we'd name all of the corners and all of the straights 812 00:49:22,593 --> 00:49:25,877 after various musicians who are from Detroit. 813 00:49:25,959 --> 00:49:30,997 So, for example, put that there, and then this would be Alice Cooper Corner. 814 00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:33,231 - Yeah, nice touch. - And I've got all the faces. 815 00:49:33,313 --> 00:49:36,277 I've got Glenn Frey from the Eagles, Jack White, Madonna, 816 00:49:36,359 --> 00:49:38,111 Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent. 817 00:49:38,193 --> 00:49:39,631 What's that stick for? 818 00:49:39,713 --> 00:49:42,757 Oh, that's um... that's Iggy pop. 819 00:49:42,839 --> 00:49:45,111 - Oh, yeah, it's like he's here. - Yeah, exactly. 820 00:49:45,193 --> 00:49:48,117 Then as we go into the back section over there, 821 00:49:48,199 --> 00:49:51,671 you've got Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Diana Ross, 822 00:49:51,753 --> 00:49:54,357 Sonny Bono, Martha Reeves, 823 00:49:54,439 --> 00:49:56,525 Anthony Kiedis, Smokey Robinson. 824 00:49:56,626 --> 00:49:58,337 You look in the book and you just go... 825 00:49:58,415 --> 00:50:00,618 "They can't all be from Detroit!" 826 00:50:01,142 --> 00:50:03,134 Did you know Madonna was from Detroit? 827 00:50:03,212 --> 00:50:04,698 No. 828 00:50:07,411 --> 00:50:10,564 Because building the track involved heavy machinery 829 00:50:10,642 --> 00:50:12,118 and manual labour, 830 00:50:12,267 --> 00:50:16,389 Hammond insisted on doing everything himself. 831 00:50:18,369 --> 00:50:21,561 That is gonna be a fast corner. 832 00:50:23,759 --> 00:50:27,869 Despite this, though, he soon had everything ready. 833 00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:39,951 Sadly, though, he had got a bit confused about 834 00:50:40,033 --> 00:50:43,189 naming the corners after local musicians. 835 00:50:46,085 --> 00:50:47,530 - What? - Why have you... 836 00:50:47,608 --> 00:50:48,641 Why have you got The Edge? 837 00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,920 Well, you said there was Sonny Bono. 838 00:50:51,020 --> 00:50:52,944 Yes, Hammond, Sonny Bono 839 00:50:53,022 --> 00:50:56,423 and The Edge from the famous Detroit rock band U2. 840 00:50:56,553 --> 00:50:58,159 Exactly. 841 00:51:00,505 --> 00:51:05,134 Because the track had been built by the world's most accident-prone driver, 842 00:51:05,415 --> 00:51:08,911 we thought it best that the God-fearing Exorcist 843 00:51:08,993 --> 00:51:10,591 should christen it. 844 00:51:20,039 --> 00:51:21,439 So bumpy! 845 00:51:24,603 --> 00:51:26,913 What the hell is this? 846 00:51:34,034 --> 00:51:37,224 What's that, some sort of chicane he's put in there? 847 00:51:38,999 --> 00:51:42,671 Whoa, slippery, that's slippery as hell! 848 00:51:42,753 --> 00:51:46,631 What? That... That's unbelievably narrow! 849 00:51:46,713 --> 00:51:49,429 What's he thinking of? 850 00:51:53,839 --> 00:51:55,150 Oh, hello. 851 00:51:56,399 --> 00:51:59,149 Here he comes. 852 00:52:01,255 --> 00:52:06,653 After his run, James couldn't wait to give Hammond some constructive feedback. 853 00:52:06,824 --> 00:52:10,077 I just wanna say, Hammond, you witless dishcloth! 854 00:52:10,159 --> 00:52:12,637 That is the worst racetrack I've ever been round. 855 00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,668 It's slippery, it's full of holes, it's full of obstacles for you to crash into. 856 00:52:16,793 --> 00:52:18,691 - It's narrow. - It's challenging, isn't it? Technical. 857 00:52:18,769 --> 00:52:21,351 It's not challenging. It's only about that much bigger than the car 858 00:52:21,433 --> 00:52:22,911 and it's made of butter. 859 00:52:22,993 --> 00:52:26,677 And... it appears to be full of asbestos waste. 860 00:52:26,759 --> 00:52:28,397 Oh, it is full of asbestos. 861 00:52:28,479 --> 00:52:30,271 - Sorry about that. - Well, thank you! 862 00:52:30,353 --> 00:52:32,509 Close your window. 863 00:52:38,359 --> 00:52:40,751 All of us then set about our practice laps, 864 00:52:40,833 --> 00:52:43,597 on Hammond's death trap. 865 00:52:43,679 --> 00:52:45,511 Thin bit! Oh, God! 866 00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:49,909 I can't see a bloody thing. 867 00:52:52,959 --> 00:52:55,431 My own car doesn't fit round my own racetrack! 868 00:52:55,513 --> 00:52:58,509 What have I done? 869 00:52:59,759 --> 00:53:01,431 Despite the peril, though, 870 00:53:01,513 --> 00:53:03,669 we gave it everything. 871 00:53:06,999 --> 00:53:08,751 And by the end of the session, 872 00:53:08,833 --> 00:53:13,709 there was nothing in it between The Demon and the Exorcist. 873 00:53:14,959 --> 00:53:19,069 The Mustang, though, that was in a league of its own. 874 00:53:25,879 --> 00:53:28,789 ♪ I'm not gonna take it any more ♪ 875 00:53:30,905 --> 00:53:32,345 56.4. 876 00:53:35,489 --> 00:53:36,767 Yes, you're fastest. 877 00:53:36,959 --> 00:53:38,031 Well, of course it's the fastest, 878 00:53:38,113 --> 00:53:40,589 it's a muscle car that handles. 879 00:53:41,547 --> 00:53:45,705 However, these were just unofficial practice laps. 880 00:53:45,783 --> 00:53:48,095 Now it was time for the one-shot, 881 00:53:48,173 --> 00:53:51,369 winner-takes-all real thing. 882 00:53:52,433 --> 00:53:55,437 In three, two, one... 883 00:53:55,519 --> 00:53:58,509 Begin! 884 00:54:03,399 --> 00:54:07,109 Brakes for that bit. Bit of downshift. 885 00:54:19,879 --> 00:54:21,031 Massive bump. 886 00:54:21,113 --> 00:54:22,759 Oh, God! 887 00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:28,999 Hammond. 888 00:54:31,359 --> 00:54:32,839 Slippery. 889 00:54:35,959 --> 00:54:39,469 And here he is. Here he comes. 890 00:54:43,279 --> 00:54:46,029 - I've pooed myself. - Funny noise. 891 00:54:47,399 --> 00:54:51,549 However, the trouser accident had clearly been worth it. 892 00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,071 You've just broken your own record. 893 00:54:54,153 --> 00:54:57,151 - That's remarkable cos... - 59.66. 894 00:54:57,233 --> 00:54:58,717 - Really? - Yeah. 895 00:54:58,799 --> 00:55:00,791 I'm happy with that and I haven't hit any famous musicians 896 00:55:00,873 --> 00:55:03,429 or bits of old car factory. 897 00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:08,469 Next it was the turn of Corporal Crash. 898 00:55:10,439 --> 00:55:11,871 Where's the fire engine gone? 899 00:55:11,953 --> 00:55:14,191 Fire engine's over there, ambulance is... 900 00:55:14,273 --> 00:55:16,151 Oh, we're all comedians today. 901 00:55:16,233 --> 00:55:19,797 Remember, if you lose to James May... 902 00:55:19,879 --> 00:55:22,989 It's more humiliating, It's worse than death. 903 00:55:23,279 --> 00:55:26,589 In three, two, one, go. 904 00:55:30,439 --> 00:55:32,397 Looking for grip. 905 00:55:32,479 --> 00:55:34,391 Turn in neat, crisp by The Edge. Whoa! 906 00:55:36,479 --> 00:55:38,111 Oh, he's gone over The Edge! 907 00:55:38,193 --> 00:55:41,189 Again. 908 00:55:42,159 --> 00:55:44,757 Oh-oh. 909 00:55:44,839 --> 00:55:46,871 - Hammond's lap's going well. - Yeah, isn't it? 910 00:55:48,353 --> 00:55:51,149 So which corner is that he's gone off on? 911 00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:54,349 I mean, obviously it is him. 912 00:55:54,639 --> 00:55:57,229 Amazingly, it wasn't. 913 00:56:03,919 --> 00:56:07,429 Is that Madonna? That's Madonna. I dunno. 914 00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:10,229 Now we're in the open. 915 00:56:11,759 --> 00:56:14,149 Oh, Christ! 916 00:56:15,839 --> 00:56:18,749 Yes, no, Beelzebub's got a bit of understeer there. 917 00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:25,309 That felt good. It felt like a quick one. 918 00:56:26,919 --> 00:56:29,551 Ah, I don't know how to put this to you but... 919 00:56:33,159 --> 00:56:36,511 - No, no, no, no, no. - Yeah, yeah. 920 00:56:36,593 --> 00:56:41,229 Point four of a second slower than James May! 921 00:56:41,599 --> 00:56:43,031 This is what death feels like. 922 00:56:43,113 --> 00:56:44,597 OK, get out of the Demon, 923 00:56:44,679 --> 00:56:46,391 we've done the Demon and The Exorcist. 924 00:56:46,473 --> 00:56:49,189 It's time for the Blue Nun. 925 00:56:49,439 --> 00:56:50,951 - Blue Nun? - Yeah. 926 00:56:54,999 --> 00:56:57,271 Totally pointless waste of time this. 927 00:56:57,353 --> 00:57:03,254 We've established the Mustang is the fastest by an enormous margin. 928 00:57:03,336 --> 00:57:07,229 Um... I'd better go and do it, I suppose. 929 00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:12,351 Jeremy smug in My Little Pony. Are you ready? 930 00:57:12,433 --> 00:57:16,629 In three, two, one, begin! 931 00:57:23,039 --> 00:57:24,159 Ohh, yes! 932 00:57:25,319 --> 00:57:27,271 This is a properly sorted track car. 933 00:57:27,353 --> 00:57:30,389 That's what we're looking at here. 934 00:57:31,079 --> 00:57:32,631 Properly sorted it may be. 935 00:57:32,713 --> 00:57:36,909 But I had a plan that would spoil its afternoon. 936 00:57:37,679 --> 00:57:39,671 - You're running! - I know, but you'll see. 937 00:57:39,753 --> 00:57:42,469 Gotta get down to this corner before he gets back. 938 00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:44,197 Help me tip this over. 939 00:57:44,279 --> 00:57:46,271 - What is it? - It's organic palm oil. 940 00:57:46,353 --> 00:57:47,757 Very slippery. 941 00:57:47,839 --> 00:57:50,469 It's the revenge of the urban farmer. 942 00:57:53,239 --> 00:57:57,109 Into the blind bend. There is Stevie Wonder. 943 00:57:58,639 --> 00:58:01,431 You do know it's palm oil that's ruining life for the world's orangutans? 944 00:58:01,513 --> 00:58:03,197 Only this one. 945 00:58:03,279 --> 00:58:05,757 Come on, come on. 946 00:58:05,839 --> 00:58:08,109 Short shifting into third. 947 00:58:11,799 --> 00:58:14,549 Ohhh! 948 00:58:14,959 --> 00:58:16,671 And on that terrible disappointment... 949 00:58:16,753 --> 00:58:19,469 - For him. - It's back to the tent. 950 00:58:25,119 --> 00:58:26,797 - You! - What? 951 00:58:26,879 --> 00:58:29,871 - I thought it had been you. - Oh, no. 952 00:58:29,953 --> 00:58:31,557 You ruined my lap. 953 00:58:31,639 --> 00:58:34,757 You said Detroit had to be a playground 954 00:58:34,839 --> 00:58:36,591 and that's what I was doing, I was playing. 955 00:58:36,673 --> 00:58:39,237 Listen, can my practice time stand? 956 00:58:39,319 --> 00:58:40,951 Cos that was still the quickest. 957 00:58:41,033 --> 00:58:43,077 That's not how it works. 958 00:58:43,159 --> 00:58:45,391 You can't just say that because you were the quickest in qualifying, 959 00:58:45,473 --> 00:58:47,671 you would have won the race if you hadn't crashed. 960 00:58:47,753 --> 00:58:49,797 - Well, I can say it. - You can say it. 961 00:58:49,879 --> 00:58:51,231 I could say I'm the captain of the English cricket team. 962 00:58:51,313 --> 00:58:53,551 I wouldn't be any good at it. 963 00:58:56,959 --> 00:58:58,877 Ah, well, moving on. 964 00:58:58,959 --> 00:59:00,991 I know where he was going with that. 965 00:59:01,073 --> 00:59:03,997 Anyway, look, in part one of that film, 966 00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:07,951 we said that we would have a race between the Demon and The Exorcist, 967 00:59:08,033 --> 00:59:09,517 a drag race, yeah? 968 00:59:09,599 --> 00:59:11,591 And then it never happened. 969 00:59:11,673 --> 00:59:13,477 Except it did. 970 00:59:13,559 --> 00:59:18,117 Yeah. You see, Dodge said we couldn't drag race it on the street. 971 00:59:18,199 --> 00:59:20,911 But they didn't say anything about airfields. 972 00:59:20,993 --> 00:59:24,717 So after we'd finished at our track, we found one of those. 973 00:59:24,799 --> 00:59:27,031 I bowed out of this, like I said, cos the Mustang 974 00:59:27,113 --> 00:59:29,597 in a drag racing environment's never gonna win. 975 00:59:29,679 --> 00:59:33,351 It became a two-horse race between Sir Crashalot and the Onanist, OK? 976 00:59:33,433 --> 00:59:36,277 But we have a problem. 977 00:59:36,359 --> 00:59:39,711 See, we only have time left in the show, realistically, for one more thing. 978 00:59:39,793 --> 00:59:42,591 We've got the guest segment. This week I should tell you, 979 00:59:42,673 --> 00:59:46,709 it's between Howard from the Halifax adverts... 980 00:59:48,119 --> 00:59:50,157 and Adrian Chiles, 981 00:59:50,239 --> 00:59:54,709 to find the fastest person you don't really hear from much any more. 982 00:59:57,079 --> 00:59:59,071 We'll have a vote, I think. 983 00:59:59,153 --> 01:00:03,069 Who here would like to see the celebrity segment? 984 01:00:06,719 --> 01:00:08,677 There's one over there. 985 01:00:08,759 --> 01:00:10,391 And who'd like to see the drag race? 986 01:00:12,239 --> 01:00:15,871 - Does that mean they're not coming on? - Very much so, James. 987 01:00:15,953 --> 01:00:19,989 So here it is, then, the race between good and evil. 988 01:00:33,559 --> 01:00:35,471 Right, here we go, viewers. 989 01:00:35,553 --> 01:00:40,349 It's either salvation or a world plunged into eternal darkness. 990 01:00:45,799 --> 01:00:49,717 OK, this is it: the race between good and evil. 991 01:00:49,799 --> 01:00:51,511 Are we ready, gentlemen? 992 01:00:51,593 --> 01:00:54,309 - We ready? - No. 993 01:00:55,919 --> 01:00:57,477 What's happening? 994 01:00:57,559 --> 01:00:59,671 I've got a couple of things to do before we start. 995 01:00:59,753 --> 01:01:02,534 Are you saying you can't just drag race this now? 996 01:01:02,616 --> 01:01:06,549 Well, you've gotta do it properly, this is a proper drag racing car! 997 01:01:06,839 --> 01:01:08,317 What is he doing? 998 01:01:08,399 --> 01:01:10,471 This is what you get when you buy a Demon. 999 01:01:10,553 --> 01:01:13,829 Costs you an extra dollar and you get this crate. 1000 01:01:14,839 --> 01:01:16,237 Oh-ho-ho! 1001 01:01:16,319 --> 01:01:17,951 It's like a picnic hamper for men. 1002 01:01:18,033 --> 01:01:20,957 Then, underneath, and to either side, 1003 01:01:21,039 --> 01:01:23,671 I've got boxes with the new EC - I've everything I need. 1004 01:01:23,753 --> 01:01:25,351 - ECU? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1005 01:01:25,433 --> 01:01:28,149 Look at that! 1006 01:01:33,153 --> 01:01:36,951 He's got this enormous crate and some bags 1007 01:01:37,033 --> 01:01:40,357 and tins... full of tools, 1008 01:01:40,439 --> 01:01:43,037 with two space savers and... 1009 01:01:43,119 --> 01:01:44,551 Space saver wheels? 1010 01:01:44,633 --> 01:01:45,957 Hang on. 1011 01:01:46,039 --> 01:01:48,437 Why are you putting space savers on it? 1012 01:01:48,519 --> 01:01:50,511 They're drag racing tyres, they're lighter. 1013 01:01:50,593 --> 01:01:53,797 I don't need grip at the front, just got to steer. 1014 01:01:53,879 --> 01:01:56,431 What else does he have to do, apart from change the wheels? 1015 01:01:56,513 --> 01:01:59,949 Um... he's got a new ECU to fit. 1016 01:02:00,279 --> 01:02:01,551 - Are you serious? - Yes. 1017 01:02:01,633 --> 01:02:03,991 So it's not really a drag racing car at all? 1018 01:02:04,073 --> 01:02:08,189 It will be once he's completely rebuilt it. 1019 01:02:12,879 --> 01:02:15,751 This is an old-fashioned view of television but I think we've lost the moment. 1020 01:02:15,833 --> 01:02:19,151 I think I agree with you. This was gonna be the big end of the show, 1021 01:02:19,233 --> 01:02:20,551 good versus evil. 1022 01:02:20,633 --> 01:02:23,517 I could have walked to the end by now. 1023 01:02:23,599 --> 01:02:27,511 I've gotta take back tyre pressures down to 20 psi. 1024 01:02:27,593 --> 01:02:30,991 Nice fat, squishy contact patch. 1025 01:02:36,799 --> 01:02:41,469 Exactly 25 minutes so far it's taken him to do his quarter-mile run. 1026 01:02:42,159 --> 01:02:44,551 Oh, so, this is where it breathes through its eye. 1027 01:02:44,633 --> 01:02:47,909 Look at that! That goes at the back of its eye. 1028 01:02:48,919 --> 01:02:50,757 So... 1029 01:02:50,839 --> 01:02:52,991 Hammond, that is a significant component. What is it? 1030 01:02:53,073 --> 01:02:55,957 - Air filter. - Does it not have an air filter? 1031 01:02:56,039 --> 01:02:59,909 Yeah, but this is a performance one. It's gonna gulp through air. 1032 01:03:05,319 --> 01:03:07,711 - Right, so that's it, good. - Now I've gotta do the ECU. 1033 01:03:07,793 --> 01:03:11,277 Which goes in here, I believe. I'll have to take that out. 1034 01:03:11,359 --> 01:03:15,654 So he's now got a different ECU just telling the engine to be powerful. 1035 01:03:15,736 --> 01:03:19,109 Right, why didn't they just put that in from the start? 1036 01:03:19,999 --> 01:03:21,511 That's good to go. 1037 01:03:21,593 --> 01:03:24,797 Sadly, though, it wasn't. 1038 01:03:24,879 --> 01:03:28,511 He's now refuelling his car with a special... How many octane? 1039 01:03:28,593 --> 01:03:32,669 It's ethanol and gasoline mixture... um... 104. 1040 01:03:33,439 --> 01:03:36,349 After the refuelling, we hoped he was done. 1041 01:03:37,319 --> 01:03:38,517 But, no. 1042 01:03:38,599 --> 01:03:39,991 Right, hang on a minute. I've got to put it 1043 01:03:40,073 --> 01:03:41,957 in neutral to get that in the middle. 1044 01:03:42,039 --> 01:03:44,071 Hammond, you're taking the whole dashboard off. 1045 01:03:44,153 --> 01:03:47,431 This has to come out because I'm gonna put in a new control panel here. 1046 01:03:47,513 --> 01:03:48,957 I get a new button on it. 1047 01:03:49,039 --> 01:03:52,431 He's taking the whole centre console out, the whole of that. 1048 01:03:52,513 --> 01:03:55,351 He's had to put it in neutral to lift it all off. 1049 01:03:55,433 --> 01:03:56,717 What for? 1050 01:03:56,799 --> 01:03:59,031 Because you can then fit a button, that enables him 1051 01:03:59,113 --> 01:04:02,717 to select what sort of fuel he's running on. 1052 01:04:02,799 --> 01:04:05,431 Why don't they just put that in from the start? 1053 01:04:05,513 --> 01:04:09,997 This all goes back in here, with my new switch gear in. 1054 01:04:10,079 --> 01:04:12,157 It's an hour and seven minutes. 1055 01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:14,631 Actually, you're right, it is. It's over an hour now. 1056 01:04:14,713 --> 01:04:16,277 God! 1057 01:04:16,359 --> 01:04:19,109 There we go. 1058 01:04:21,399 --> 01:04:25,454 Finally, the rebuild of the Demon was complete. 1059 01:04:25,536 --> 01:04:29,349 It was time for the drivers to warm their tyres. 1060 01:04:29,639 --> 01:04:32,991 In three, two, one, burn out! 1061 01:04:47,319 --> 01:04:50,357 Right, your tyres are warm. Are you now ready? 1062 01:04:50,439 --> 01:04:53,551 - What? - Are you ready to come to the start line? 1063 01:04:53,633 --> 01:04:55,557 - No! - What do you mean, no? 1064 01:04:55,639 --> 01:04:58,351 - No, that was just a celebratory burnout. - Oh, jeez, he's got out. 1065 01:04:58,433 --> 01:05:00,951 I've done all the building work, now I've gotta set the car up. 1066 01:05:01,033 --> 01:05:03,477 I've gotta get in the right modes, there's stuff to do, mate. 1067 01:05:03,559 --> 01:05:05,191 Oh, I've had enough. I'm sorry, I've had enough. 1068 01:05:05,273 --> 01:05:06,997 Bye. 1069 01:05:07,079 --> 01:05:09,789 We're never gonna do this. 1070 01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:13,917 So, I need to go into Drag. Drag Mode Activating. 1071 01:05:13,999 --> 01:05:16,311 Excellent. Drag Transmission, Drag Traction, Power. 1072 01:05:16,393 --> 01:05:20,437 So Power needs to go up to 840. 1073 01:05:20,519 --> 01:05:22,311 We are now in High Octane. 1074 01:05:22,393 --> 01:05:23,757 Ho-ho! 1075 01:05:23,839 --> 01:05:25,637 I've never known anything like it. 1076 01:05:25,719 --> 01:05:27,957 With our starter on his way back to London, 1077 01:05:28,039 --> 01:05:29,471 the traffic lights were brought in, 1078 01:05:29,553 --> 01:05:33,349 and finally we were ready to go. 1079 01:05:36,679 --> 01:05:39,469 I'm gonna bust your ass, evil boy! 1080 01:05:39,719 --> 01:05:41,077 Oh, yes. 1081 01:05:41,159 --> 01:05:42,671 What are you gonna do with it now? 1082 01:05:42,753 --> 01:05:45,309 Cos I've seen the film and I wouldn't do it. 1083 01:06:05,599 --> 01:06:07,991 I'm getting ahead! I think I'm getting ahead! 1084 01:06:08,073 --> 01:06:10,469 Come on, Demon! 1085 01:06:17,159 --> 01:06:19,909 Argh, so annoying! 1086 01:06:23,199 --> 01:06:24,317 Urghh! 1087 01:06:24,399 --> 01:06:27,237 Aha! Evil wins! 1088 01:06:27,319 --> 01:06:29,949 Evil wins! Woo-hoo! 1089 01:06:34,839 --> 01:06:37,311 Ye-e-e-s! 1090 01:06:37,393 --> 01:06:38,917 Yes! 1091 01:06:38,999 --> 01:06:40,783 Victory for the Demon. 1092 01:06:40,861 --> 01:06:42,541 Thank you. Ha-ha! 1093 01:06:42,759 --> 01:06:44,799 - Cos I won. - Yes, you won. 1094 01:06:44,924 --> 01:06:47,077 - You did win. Well done. - You noticed, then? 1095 01:06:47,159 --> 01:06:48,182 - Yes, I noticed it. - That I won? 1096 01:06:48,260 --> 01:06:49,942 At the end of the race, my car 1097 01:06:50,073 --> 01:06:52,237 was in front of your car, which means I won. 1098 01:06:52,319 --> 01:06:54,831 Can I just point out, first you had to spend half a day 1099 01:06:54,913 --> 01:06:57,991 rebuilding half your car, and then you had to run it on fuel 1100 01:06:58,073 --> 01:07:00,831 that you can't buy from a normal petrol station. 1101 01:07:00,913 --> 01:07:06,200 Wait a minute, your Excrement runs on that clever fuel all the time. 1102 01:07:06,911 --> 01:07:08,774 I was sort of banking on you not knowing that. 1103 01:07:08,856 --> 01:07:11,364 - Yes, well, I do know. - Gentlemen, gentlemen. 1104 01:07:11,450 --> 01:07:14,997 I think we have to agree, the Mustang is the only car 1105 01:07:15,079 --> 01:07:17,597 here that ticks all the muscle car boxes. 1106 01:07:17,679 --> 01:07:20,877 It's cheap, it's powerful, it runs on fuel you can buy, 1107 01:07:20,959 --> 01:07:23,911 and you can have it with the steering wheel on the correct side. 1108 01:07:23,993 --> 01:07:26,395 You don't get it, do you? You just don't get it. 1109 01:07:26,473 --> 01:07:28,755 A muscle car is supposed to have 1,000 horsepower, 1110 01:07:28,953 --> 01:07:31,477 be undriveable and have a stupid name. 1111 01:07:31,559 --> 01:07:33,917 It's called Ready To Rock! That is a stupid name! 1112 01:07:33,999 --> 01:07:37,114 Listen, Hammond, not only are you the fiscal brain of this operation... 1113 01:07:37,192 --> 01:07:38,208 I am. 1114 01:07:38,286 --> 01:07:41,646 - You're also the resident muscle car enthusiast. - yes? 1115 01:07:41,724 --> 01:07:45,138 So, and I know the answer to this, cos you told me on the plane on the way home. 1116 01:07:45,216 --> 01:07:46,968 Of the three cars, which would you actually buy? 1117 01:07:47,148 --> 01:07:48,352 - Buy? - Buy. 1118 01:07:48,430 --> 01:07:49,662 - With my own money? - Yes. 1119 01:07:49,740 --> 01:07:51,664 - Buy? Myself? - Yes. Yes. 1120 01:07:51,879 --> 01:07:54,551 - It's the Mustang. - There you go, the Mustang. 1121 01:07:54,633 --> 01:07:57,471 And so on that terrible disappointment for you... 1122 01:07:57,553 --> 01:08:01,052 Snowflakes. -...it's time... it's time to end. 1123 01:08:01,130 --> 01:08:04,145 Now, next week it is a Grand Tour Special, 1124 01:08:04,278 --> 01:08:08,317 where we attempt to become the first ever television show 1125 01:08:08,399 --> 01:08:09,991 in the history of television 1126 01:08:10,073 --> 01:08:13,311 to go to Colombia and not use the C-word. 1127 01:08:13,653 --> 01:08:16,109 See you then. Goodbye.