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*THE GRAND TOUR*
Season 03 Episode 11
Episode Title: "Sea to Unsalty Sea"
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- Thank you so much.
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They're a rowdy bunch.
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Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
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Hello, and welcome to what
is a Grand Tour mini-special.
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It's all based around here
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in this rather troubled
part of the world.
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You've got Syria and Iraq and
Iran, sort of at the bottom.
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And then at the top
you've got Russia.
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But in-between you have this
sliver of peace and prosperity.
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And that got us thinking.
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You see, if you live on
the shores of the Black Sea
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and you're partial to
a bit of fish, you're fine.
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But...
What if you like bream?
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You see, bream likes fresh water.
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And the Black Sea is salty.
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The nearest fresh water is all
the way over here in the Caspian.
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And that is a thousand
kilometres away.
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Yeah, so we were wondering, if you have
to drive all that way for your supper,
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what would be the best car?
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Obviously, you'd need some
sort of GT, but which one?
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The new Aston Martin DBS? The
new Bentley Continental GT?
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Or the newerer BMW 8 Series?
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Now this is exactly the sort of question
this show was designed to answer.
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So, this week, we took
The Grand Tour to Batumi,
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in the former Soviet State
of Georgia.
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The meeting point was
on the shores of the Black Sea,
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and naturally enough James
May was the last to arrive.
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In the new BMW 8 Series.
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God, it doesn't look anything like as good
in the flesh as it did in the pictures.
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It is disappointing in the metal.
I'm afraid that's the case.
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- And brown!
- What?
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- Brown!
- It's sunburst orange.
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- Mate, that's a brown car.
- Sunburst orange.
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- It's brown!
- Orange!
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- It looks very like a Toyota.
- It doesn't.
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Is it on delivery wheels - are
they specially for delivering it?
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- What are you talking about?
- Those little wheels
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they can move it around on.
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That's what I mean. They're
not big enough, are they?
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- Can you have a 22-inch wheel?
- No.
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- Why not?
- Why would you want a 22-inch wheel?
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- It would spoil the ride.
- It would fill the arches.
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- Yeah.
- Ooh, ooh, ooh!
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And I suspect...
criminal offence.
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- What?
- Anyone who puts an M badge
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on a BMW that isn't an M BMW
has to go to prison.
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So this is one of those
M cars that isn't an M car.
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- They've done that before.
- No, it's not the M8.
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- Why does it say M8 on it?
- Because it's the M Sport, in effect.
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So M Sport just means
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- not an M, doesn't it?
- Yeah.
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But it's in-between the M
and the normal cars.
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That's why you have M Sport
5 Series, for example.
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This is like Elton John's
Greatest Hits
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without Your Song
or Tiny Dancer on it.
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James, I don't want to be
childish about this now...
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- Do you not? But you're going to.
- I hate your gear lever.
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- I love it.
- Look at it!
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I think that's fantastic.
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And the rest...
it's a horrible gear lever
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in a boring interior.
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That's contemporary
and tasteful.
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Let's look at yours.
What have you got?
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You've got the new Bentley
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that's the same
as the old Bentley.
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Apart from being
a completely new car.
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- Yeah, but it looks the same.
- It doesn't look the same.
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It's complete... different front end.
Different size.
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- No, it looks like an Aventador.
- Different back.
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- No.
- It's a completely new car.
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This monochrome Union Jack
applied by Germans?
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Yes?
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There is
some German involved.
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- Chassis? German.
- Yeah.
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- Engine? German?
- Yeah.
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Oh, no, the Germans have done
all the tech and engineering.
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That'll... No, wait,
it will be brilliant.
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What?
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It's a bit... I use the word
advisedly - it's a bit camp.
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- It's not camp!
- It is.
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- What's camp about that?
- It's all pleated and
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leathery and... Urgh!
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It does give
good occasion, that.
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That is a special event.
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Does Liberace pop up
out of the centre console
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and play the piano for you?
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You see, the reason I'm not
having a go at your interior
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is my Aston has been delivered
with Birmingham spec.
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- That's horrible!
- Ooh, that's quite vivid, isn't it?
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I mean, worryingly for you,
I quite like that interior.
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You like that? Exactly.
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So this is...it's a DB11.
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Well, no. It's the DBS.
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- Superleggera.
- Because it's very light, isn't it?
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- Is it?
- That's what superleggera means, yeah?
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It's 72 kilograms lighter
than a DB11.
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And no more expensive.
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- It's a bit more expensive.
- How much more expensive?
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- It's £67,000 more...
- Yes.
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-...than the DB11.
- How much is it?
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A lot.
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Is it something like a
quarter of a million pounds?
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- No!
- What is it, then?
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- A little bit less.
-230?
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- A bit less.
-225?
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- Yes.
- Mine's £100,000.
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It's contemporary
and it's modern.
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It's no good saying, "It looks
Japanese" as if that's a slur.
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- The Japanese advanced the car massively.
- No, no, that just means...
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Eventually,
we decided to stop arguing
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and drive from here
on the Black Sea
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right through Georgia
and Azerbaijan
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to the Caspian for a nice
piece of grilled bream.
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Funny thing is, I've no idea
what to expect on this journey.
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I mean, I've seen the
Grand Prix from Azerbaijan
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and I've seen Borat.
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Hmm... Which is it?
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I don't know what the roads
are gonna be like.
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I mean, should we be doing
this in pick-up trucks?
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Or tanks?
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I mean, this is
the former Soviet Union.
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It doesn't look it,
but it is.
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Whatever. The roads
at this point were fine.
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So, we could get to know
our cars.
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The question I really want to
answer on this journey is this:
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How can the DBS be worth
£67,000 more than the DB11
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when,
from where I'm sitting...
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they appear to be
exactly the same.
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At first, you're forced
to say, "Well, it isn't."
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This interior
simply isn't good enough
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in a £225,000 car.
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Just not even close.
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You look at the Bentley and
you go, "That is an interior."
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It's chintzy, but it's...
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fabulous.
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However, as we left the city,
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the DBS's true colours
started to shine through.
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This is by far the most powerful
car here, and the lightest.
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And the most
sort of aggressive.
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And yet it just glides along,
in GT mode,
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which I'm in now -
Grand Touring mode.
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It's like a hovercraft.
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Whooosh!
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I'm driving
a twin-turbo-charged VI2.
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I can go 211mph.
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And I can whisper at 70.
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But when you shift from
GT mode to Sport mode,
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it's a very different animal.
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Ready?
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Jesus Christ. Whoo!
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Right, there's
a small difference there
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between the DB11 and...
and this.
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I'm afraid you're going to have
to face facts, both of you.
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You're in wheelbarrows
and I'm in a spaceship.
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Ahh.
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An old man imagining
he's James Bond.
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The thing is, if we're going
to talk about long-legged,
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luxurious,
continent-crossing GT cars
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we're talking about Bentleys.
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They're the definitive GTs.
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Whisper-quiet,
velvety-smooth,
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a hint of
massive power waiting.
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626 horsepower
under my right foot.
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Ooh-hoo, my word.
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Ha-ha!
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But the GT car,
first and foremost,
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has got to be
a nice place to be.
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Because, by definition, you're
going to spend a lot of time in it.
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And this
is a fine place to be.
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This finish on the centre
console - this metal here -
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is aluminium that's been
milled in the same way
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that they mill aluminium inserts
in the back of expensive watches.
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If I press this button here I can
rotate between my different screens.
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Oh, analogue dials
and clocks!
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In the centre of the dash,
thank you.
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The problem for me with the
Bentley and the Aston
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is that they're actually a bit
too hung-up on being British.
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It is a bit of a British disease.
We can't shake it off.
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We're obsessed
with phoney heritage
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and the meaning of tradition.
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It's all just nonsense,
really.
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Actually, if you want to talk
about heritage and traditions
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then the BMW
has the strongest.
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It's still made in Munich
by the same company.
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They make their own bits.
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And some of those bits
are very good.
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It has a 4.4-litre
twin-turbo-charged V8,
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developing 523 horsepower.
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It also has four-wheel drive,
rear-wheel steering,
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and adaptive anti-roll bars.
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It has an eight-speed
gear box.
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It's not twin clutch, but it is
flappy paddle, and it is very sharp.
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There we go -
drop it down to three.
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This is a proper car.
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Not tinsel!
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After James had
finished his interesting lecture
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on what's wrong with Britain,
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May started to think
about buying some fruit.
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Anybody need a lemon?
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Er...
No, I'm all right, thanks.
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I don't want... Oh, hang on, they've
all had the same idea here, look.
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Lemons on the right.
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There can't be
another lemon stall.
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Seriously...
It is - it's more lemons.
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Why doesn't someone go, "Right, everyone
is selling lemons on this piece of road,
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we're gonna sell furniture."
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Also, as a general rule,
you don't need many lemons,
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whatever you're making.
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We must have driven past,
what, 10,000?
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There's some more here
on the right.
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Well, that's one evening with Richard
Hammond's gin and tonic intake.
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Just trying out
the voice activation system.
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Always worth a laugh.
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"Enter country."
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Please
say the name of the country.
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- Georgia.
- Malta. Accepted.
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- I don't want to go to Malta.
- Would you like to enter a destination?
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- No.
- Please say the name of the country.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of the desired country.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of a country.
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For example, England.
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Georgia.
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Please say the name
of the desired country.
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Say the name
of the country as one word.
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For example, France.
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Yes. Georgia.
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Cancel.
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Even though our cars didn't
recognise Georgia as a country,
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we soon arrived
in the town of Gori.
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The birthplace
of Joseph Stalin.
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Look at that -
is that a Stalin museum?
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Can we just have a look?
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Yeah, we can have a look.
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Trouble is, when you tend to go
into a building owned by Stalin
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you rarely come out again.
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In the museum grounds
we found the house
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where the Soviet dictator
grew up.
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So Stalin sat at that table in the
morning, when he was a little boy.
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- Yes.
- And said, "One day when I grow up
243
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I want to be
the nastiest piece of work
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the world has ever seen."
245
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And the parents
would have said,
246
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"There's a little boy
in Austria
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and he wants to be the
nastiest piece of work.
248
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But we think, son, you can be an even
nastier piece of work." And then he was.
249
00:13:38,111 --> 00:13:40,439
"You can be whatever
you wanna be, son."
250
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"If you wanna be the biggest
bastard the world has ever seen."
251
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- Bastard is a good word.
- And his mum said to him,
252
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"Are you sure you wouldn't like to
follow your father and be a shoemaker?"
253
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"No. I want to murder
20,000,000 people."
254
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He was actually sitting right here in his
little shorts and his little moustache.
255
00:13:56,331 --> 00:13:57,966
That is really
weird, though,
256
00:13:58,051 --> 00:14:00,036
isn't it, to think
what started in here.
257
00:14:00,771 --> 00:14:03,646
I've broken Stalin's house.
258
00:14:03,731 --> 00:14:06,080
-- Jeez,
I'm going to the Gulag.
259
00:14:06,205 --> 00:14:09,275
James!
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00:14:09,392 --> 00:14:12,947
"I've broken Stalin's house!"
261
00:14:14,731 --> 00:14:18,486
Outside, we checked
out the statue of Stalin.
262
00:14:18,571 --> 00:14:21,146
Which that night
caused a debate between...
263
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well, two of us.
264
00:14:25,931 --> 00:14:29,799
The man who beat Hitler
is from your town,
265
00:14:29,908 --> 00:14:33,026
so obviously, as they have done,
you put up a statue to him.
266
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But then it turns out
267
00:14:35,131 --> 00:14:37,346
that he's an even bigger
mass murderer,
268
00:14:37,431 --> 00:14:39,206
so do you take it down?
269
00:14:39,291 --> 00:14:42,026
Eee, it's tricky, that one.
It's very tricky.
270
00:14:42,111 --> 00:14:44,506
Can we talk about our cars?
271
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No.
272
00:14:46,171 --> 00:14:48,095
I'm not interested
in the war.
273
00:14:48,181 --> 00:14:49,766
Well, it's more than the war,
Hammond.
274
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This is the sort of pivotal
bit of 20th-century history.
275
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It affected the whole world.
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- Right. Well, I'm off to bed.
- What?
277
00:14:57,361 --> 00:14:58,970
- I'm off to bed.
- Going to bed?
278
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I'm going to bed.
See you in the morning.
279
00:15:00,611 --> 00:15:03,744
We must have bored him, cos he's
left some of his gin and tonic.
280
00:15:04,091 --> 00:15:06,260
After some more
considered debate
281
00:15:06,346 --> 00:15:08,572
about the town's
Stalin's problems,
282
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I had a brainwave.
283
00:15:12,211 --> 00:15:14,908
I tell you what,
that statue...
284
00:15:15,131 --> 00:15:17,447
maybe we
could take it down for them.
285
00:15:17,588 --> 00:15:20,086
- Make up their minds for them.
- Exactly.
286
00:15:20,260 --> 00:15:21,533
- Do you know...
- Cos they're...
287
00:15:21,666 --> 00:15:23,517
This whole town, big dilemma.
288
00:15:23,635 --> 00:15:25,666
Do you know what it's like?
It's like someone who has
289
00:15:25,751 --> 00:15:28,385
an old piece of furniture
that they don't really like,
290
00:15:28,588 --> 00:15:31,080
but they can't throw it away
because it was their grandma's.
291
00:15:31,166 --> 00:15:32,877
But we'll go
and throw it away for them.
292
00:15:32,963 --> 00:15:34,226
And then
they're actually glad.
293
00:15:34,311 --> 00:15:36,886
Cos there's no question they
shouldn't have a statue...
294
00:15:36,971 --> 00:15:37,769
Course you shouldn't.
295
00:15:37,939 --> 00:15:39,986
I mean, I can't remember
the town in Austria,
296
00:15:40,072 --> 00:15:41,306
not Germany,
where Hitler was born.
297
00:15:41,391 --> 00:15:45,486
But I bet they haven't
got a statue to him...
298
00:15:45,674 --> 00:15:50,546
And so, that night, when the
town's people were fast asleep...
299
00:15:53,651 --> 00:15:55,346
Kill the lights.
300
00:15:55,432 --> 00:15:57,207
Hang on.
Where is it? Where's...
301
00:15:57,391 --> 00:15:59,330
No, I meant...
302
00:15:59,416 --> 00:16:02,011
- I may have overdone that bit.
- I meant turn them off.
303
00:16:02,267 --> 00:16:04,465
Can you put the ladder...
Put the ladder... No.
304
00:16:06,051 --> 00:16:08,564
- You go up the ladder.
- I know. Put it on the back.
305
00:16:08,650 --> 00:16:10,926
That is his back.
306
00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:12,986
Right. Right.
307
00:16:14,711 --> 00:16:16,606
Open it.
308
00:16:16,783 --> 00:16:19,426
Come on.
309
00:16:30,411 --> 00:16:33,056
The next morning
as we were saddling up,
310
00:16:33,189 --> 00:16:36,486
Richard Hammond
had a question.
311
00:16:37,051 --> 00:16:40,326
Why have you put Nigel
Mansell's head on my bonnet?
312
00:16:40,681 --> 00:16:43,086
I thought
you'd like it. You know.
313
00:16:43,728 --> 00:16:45,299
British racing driver,
British car,
314
00:16:45,385 --> 00:16:46,439
I thought
it would be appropriate.
315
00:16:46,525 --> 00:16:47,861
It's a bold statement,
isn't it?
316
00:16:47,947 --> 00:16:49,872
You've got a famous
Brummie in the car,
317
00:16:49,958 --> 00:16:51,666
and on the front of the car.
318
00:17:05,451 --> 00:17:08,626
Nigel Mansell must have been
a big name around here.
319
00:17:08,711 --> 00:17:10,846
A lot of people
looking at him.
320
00:17:10,931 --> 00:17:12,946
Was Nigel Mansell
popular here?
321
00:17:13,031 --> 00:17:15,726
Yes. Global superstar, mate.
322
00:17:15,811 --> 00:17:17,346
Global superstar.
They love him.
323
00:17:17,431 --> 00:17:19,470
- Why? Are people pointing?
- Yeah.
324
00:17:19,556 --> 00:17:22,066
They must have been
into racing or something.
325
00:17:22,151 --> 00:17:24,106
Did Nigel
ever race a Bentley?
326
00:17:24,191 --> 00:17:27,646
No, mostly Williams
is what he's famous for.
327
00:17:27,731 --> 00:17:30,266
Oh, yeah, that might be
what's confusing people.
328
00:17:30,351 --> 00:17:32,446
That's why they look puzzled.
329
00:17:32,531 --> 00:17:34,946
I'd quite like to be
Richard Hammond.
330
00:17:35,210 --> 00:17:37,415
Life is so much simpler.
331
00:17:38,852 --> 00:17:43,353
Our next destination was
a racetrack 70 miles away.
332
00:17:43,493 --> 00:17:46,586
And because James and I
had racist satnavs...
333
00:17:46,671 --> 00:17:50,251
we were taking guidance
from the man up front.
334
00:17:50,618 --> 00:17:52,446
Which was a mistake.
335
00:17:52,603 --> 00:17:55,970
Hammond, we've definitely
been round here before.
336
00:17:56,212 --> 00:17:58,326
If you wanted me to be
in charge of navigation,
337
00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:00,786
you shouldn't have glued Nigel
Mansell's head to my bonnet.
338
00:18:00,871 --> 00:18:03,376
I'm trying.
339
00:18:03,548 --> 00:18:08,345
Eventually, Hammond managed to stumble
across the highway leading out of town.
340
00:18:08,631 --> 00:18:11,665
But things
didn't really get any better.
341
00:18:13,307 --> 00:18:17,282
Why are we going so slowly?
I'm being overtaken by trucks.
342
00:18:18,649 --> 00:18:22,725
Well, Nigel Mansell's head
gets in the way of road signs
343
00:18:22,811 --> 00:18:24,746
and I have to crane round him
to see them.
344
00:18:24,831 --> 00:18:26,368
And I don't want
to miss them.
345
00:18:26,454 --> 00:18:29,346
There's a sign there to
Tehran, which is in Iran.
346
00:18:29,431 --> 00:18:31,235
We're not going to Iran.
347
00:18:31,342 --> 00:18:34,917
Well, I don't know. I can't see
the bloody signs, because of Nigel.
348
00:18:37,806 --> 00:18:40,173
Now I've been overtaken
by an orange van.
349
00:18:40,478 --> 00:18:43,086
Everybody filming us.
This is embarrassing.
350
00:18:43,171 --> 00:18:45,406
We're going to be
all over the news.
351
00:18:45,491 --> 00:18:49,806
Hammond's gonna read it and say, "That
wasn't Nigel Mansell, you bastards."
352
00:18:50,134 --> 00:18:53,345
It was somebody called
Josephine Stalin.
353
00:18:54,345 --> 00:18:58,376
Eventually, I found
what I reckoned was our turn-off.
354
00:18:58,851 --> 00:19:01,650
- It's down here.
- No, it's not down here.
355
00:19:01,962 --> 00:19:04,681
We'll go down this bit and then
there'll be a bigger road again
356
00:19:04,767 --> 00:19:06,846
and we'll be there.
357
00:19:06,931 --> 00:19:10,436
And that is
exactly what didn't happen.
358
00:19:15,171 --> 00:19:18,056
Aaargh! Hammond!
359
00:19:18,275 --> 00:19:21,446
Ooh,
I've just grounded out!
360
00:19:21,531 --> 00:19:23,712
Yeah, that happens a lot
on main roads.
361
00:19:25,331 --> 00:19:27,985
The DBS is actually
five millimetres lower
362
00:19:28,087 --> 00:19:31,962
than the DB11 which, of course,
is marvellous on a road like this.
363
00:19:32,048 --> 00:19:35,290
Aaargh!
364
00:19:35,811 --> 00:19:39,836
Still...at least things
soon got worse.
365
00:19:40,811 --> 00:19:43,446
That man is armed.
366
00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,086
Another man
with a machine gun.
367
00:19:47,171 --> 00:19:50,837
OK. A lot of people
with machine guns.
368
00:19:54,267 --> 00:19:58,086
A local then explained to me
exactly where we were.
369
00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:02,032
It's the border
that isn't a border.
370
00:20:02,611 --> 00:20:04,353
You look on here, right?
371
00:20:04,439 --> 00:20:05,790
- We're here.
- Yeah.
372
00:20:05,876 --> 00:20:08,431
Yeah? That is the border
373
00:20:08,517 --> 00:20:11,066
between Georgia...and Russia
374
00:20:11,151 --> 00:20:15,212
as recognised by...
most people in the world.
375
00:20:15,394 --> 00:20:19,409
But the Russians reckon...
it's here.
376
00:20:19,696 --> 00:20:21,966
So, well, what they do,
377
00:20:22,051 --> 00:20:24,610
is they put this barbed-wire
fence up...
378
00:20:24,741 --> 00:20:27,056
At night they move it.
379
00:20:27,431 --> 00:20:28,686
Right.
380
00:20:28,771 --> 00:20:31,478
- The Russians move it?
- The Russians move it.
381
00:20:31,775 --> 00:20:34,478
So you go to bed at night,
you're living in Georgia,
382
00:20:34,564 --> 00:20:37,686
you wake up in the morning -
you're Russian.
383
00:20:37,771 --> 00:20:39,166
But people live here.
384
00:20:39,251 --> 00:20:41,646
And this is a rural spot
in the middle of nowhere.
385
00:20:41,731 --> 00:20:44,086
What if somebody did this in
Ross-on-Wye where I live?
386
00:20:44,171 --> 00:20:46,586
Yeah, what if you suddenly woke up
and the Welsh suddenly decided...
387
00:20:46,671 --> 00:20:49,993
It's about the same sort of distance.
"Right, you're in Wales."
388
00:20:50,431 --> 00:20:55,657
We then met an actual
casualty of this border dispute.
389
00:20:57,331 --> 00:20:59,392
Sir, are you Georgian?
390
00:20:59,478 --> 00:21:01,586
TRANSLATOR
SPEAKS GEORGIAN...
391
00:21:01,671 --> 00:21:03,836
THEY SPEAK GEORGIAN...
392
00:21:30,689 --> 00:21:32,506
Can you come across here,
though?
393
00:21:32,591 --> 00:21:34,916
TRANSLATOR SPEAKS GEORGIAN...
394
00:21:39,931 --> 00:21:42,516
Are there
Russian soldiers over there?
395
00:22:02,371 --> 00:22:07,064
Sadly, because we're The Grand
Tour and not the United Nations...
396
00:22:07,150 --> 00:22:10,853
all we could do was remove
Nigel Mansell's head,
397
00:22:10,946 --> 00:22:14,766
sack Hammond as navigator...
398
00:22:14,851 --> 00:22:18,220
and resume our search
for the racetrack.
399
00:22:21,011 --> 00:22:23,566
And once
we found the right road
400
00:22:23,651 --> 00:22:26,386
James started to attract
some special friends.
401
00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:28,706
In their BMWs.
402
00:22:28,791 --> 00:22:31,415
Holy moly!
403
00:22:32,331 --> 00:22:35,962
Have you seen what's sticking
out of the bonnet of that thing?
404
00:22:39,571 --> 00:22:42,775
He's an emeritus professor
at Tbilisi University.
405
00:22:42,931 --> 00:22:45,746
He studies Latin and Ancient Greek.
406
00:22:50,371 --> 00:22:53,286
That's how he gets to work
in the morning.
407
00:22:53,642 --> 00:22:55,783
Oh, James,
there's another one.
408
00:22:55,869 --> 00:22:57,915
Oh, this one's even better.
409
00:23:01,091 --> 00:23:03,506
I've never felt more like
a gooseberry, Hammond.
410
00:23:03,591 --> 00:23:05,046
I know what you mean.
411
00:23:05,131 --> 00:23:07,546
And we're spoiling
the moment for him.
412
00:23:10,611 --> 00:23:12,906
Oh, this is great!
413
00:23:12,991 --> 00:23:16,596
Ha-ha-ha!
Ah, they're everywhere.
414
00:23:18,811 --> 00:23:21,666
Having parted company
with James's fan club,
415
00:23:21,751 --> 00:23:24,634
we eventually arrived
at the racetrack.
416
00:23:34,811 --> 00:23:37,517
Built in the days
of communism...
417
00:23:37,603 --> 00:23:40,705
it hosted some terrible
and boring races,
418
00:23:40,791 --> 00:23:44,868
until the Soviet Union
and it fell apart.
419
00:23:46,517 --> 00:23:48,346
A few years ago, though,
420
00:23:48,431 --> 00:23:50,996
it was brought back to life.
421
00:23:57,731 --> 00:23:59,386
Now, what you've gotta
remember:
422
00:23:59,471 --> 00:24:02,517
715 horsepower is...
423
00:24:03,541 --> 00:24:05,216
a huge amount.
424
00:24:05,302 --> 00:24:08,564
That is a cathedral of power!
425
00:24:08,754 --> 00:24:11,624
119, 122, 129,
426
00:24:11,710 --> 00:24:13,005
136!
427
00:24:13,091 --> 00:24:15,846
God, that is so quick.
428
00:24:15,931 --> 00:24:18,071
And the best thing is,
it's old school.
429
00:24:18,532 --> 00:24:21,134
All of that power
goes to the rear wheels.
430
00:24:21,220 --> 00:24:22,993
There's no...
four-wheel drive.
431
00:24:23,118 --> 00:24:24,923
There's no
four-wheel steering.
432
00:24:25,009 --> 00:24:27,706
There's no fancy trickery.
433
00:24:27,791 --> 00:24:29,686
Oh, look at this.
434
00:24:29,771 --> 00:24:32,346
Drifting with the
traction control on.
435
00:24:35,434 --> 00:24:36,594
Yessss!
436
00:24:37,291 --> 00:24:38,806
We like this.
437
00:24:38,891 --> 00:24:40,986
And with
the traction control off...
438
00:24:41,071 --> 00:24:42,786
I liked it even more.
439
00:24:48,571 --> 00:24:51,066
Look at that. Hah, ha-ha!
440
00:24:53,531 --> 00:24:58,706
The DB11 was the first Aston I've ever
driven that felt good...on a track.
441
00:25:02,651 --> 00:25:03,906
And this is the second.
442
00:25:07,691 --> 00:25:09,806
Jesus, what a car!
443
00:25:11,535 --> 00:25:15,985
Uh, Richard Hammond driving
around in Chatsworth House here.
444
00:25:19,131 --> 00:25:22,970
This engine - this
twin-turbo, six-litre W12
445
00:25:23,056 --> 00:25:25,970
is actually the all-new
engine out of the Bentayga,
446
00:25:26,056 --> 00:25:27,931
but set up specially
for this car.
447
00:25:28,025 --> 00:25:31,166
Putting out
626 brake horsepower.
448
00:25:31,251 --> 00:25:33,726
And it's mounted further back
in the car than before.
449
00:25:33,811 --> 00:25:35,626
And the front wheels
are further forwards.
450
00:25:35,711 --> 00:25:38,386
Which gets it closer
to 50-50 weight distribution.
451
00:25:38,471 --> 00:25:40,886
And there's the keyword:
weight.
452
00:25:40,971 --> 00:25:43,306
There's a lot of it.
453
00:25:43,391 --> 00:25:45,306
Two and a quarter tons of it.
454
00:25:45,391 --> 00:25:48,866
So for it to stand a chance
of doing anything sporty,
455
00:25:48,951 --> 00:25:52,686
it's all about
controlling that weight.
456
00:25:52,771 --> 00:25:56,186
To do that Bentley has
equipped the Continental
457
00:25:56,271 --> 00:25:59,926
with an arsenal
of high-tech weapons.
458
00:26:00,011 --> 00:26:02,466
Torque vectoring,
four-wheel drive,
459
00:26:02,551 --> 00:26:04,786
superfast
adaptive suspension.
460
00:26:04,871 --> 00:26:06,836
And active diffs.
461
00:26:08,491 --> 00:26:11,066
All of which means
this big old Hector
462
00:26:11,151 --> 00:26:14,366
can, to use appropriate
Bentley parlance,
463
00:26:14,451 --> 00:26:16,506
pick up its skirts and run.
464
00:26:18,591 --> 00:26:20,876
Ooh, lovely.
465
00:26:26,331 --> 00:26:28,546
The guy who designs the
traction control for this car
466
00:26:28,631 --> 00:26:31,426
is apparently a drifting champion.
467
00:26:31,511 --> 00:26:33,886
And you can tell.
468
00:26:33,971 --> 00:26:35,626
He's built a Bentley
for himself.
469
00:26:38,211 --> 00:26:41,024
I swear...
470
00:26:41,110 --> 00:26:42,806
Ha-ha-ha!
471
00:26:42,891 --> 00:26:46,689
It's... It's indecent
asking it to do that.
472
00:26:47,411 --> 00:26:49,466
Meanwhile, in the BMW,
473
00:26:49,551 --> 00:26:52,916
I too had been
leaning on the electronics.
474
00:26:54,011 --> 00:26:56,246
Previously on the road
I had this set up
475
00:26:56,331 --> 00:26:58,426
in my version of Sport,
which you can program.
476
00:26:58,511 --> 00:27:01,306
And I had the steering on
comfort, and the ride on comfort.
477
00:27:01,391 --> 00:27:04,426
But now...
I have it in Sport Plus.
478
00:27:07,915 --> 00:27:10,966
I have the least power - 523.
479
00:27:11,051 --> 00:27:13,846
I have the lowest
power to weight ratio.
480
00:27:13,931 --> 00:27:17,103
Look, it's a meaty engine
with lots of low-down grunt.
481
00:27:17,372 --> 00:27:19,087
I can dig deep.
482
00:27:21,673 --> 00:27:24,009
Combine that
with the four-wheel drive
483
00:27:24,095 --> 00:27:25,786
and the four-wheel steering,
484
00:27:25,871 --> 00:27:29,636
and the 8 Series
is exactly what you'd expect.
485
00:27:31,291 --> 00:27:35,337
It's easy. It's a BMW.
It feels like a BMW.
486
00:27:35,705 --> 00:27:37,274
It's so easy, in fact,
487
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:39,282
that while going past
the pits,
488
00:27:39,368 --> 00:27:41,048
I noticed something.
489
00:27:41,564 --> 00:27:43,246
There's a bloke
with a stopwatch there.
490
00:27:43,332 --> 00:27:46,470
Does that mean they're actually
taking times? I presume it does.
491
00:27:46,782 --> 00:27:48,751
They were.
So, all of us
492
00:27:48,837 --> 00:27:52,579
decided to concentrate
on some hot laps.
493
00:27:53,851 --> 00:27:56,356
Bouncing over
the kerbs there.
494
00:27:57,051 --> 00:27:59,826
Unleashing it - and bam!
495
00:27:59,956 --> 00:28:01,801
More speed.
496
00:28:04,211 --> 00:28:07,306
Come on. Come on, turn.
Grip. Grip, grip, grip, grip.
497
00:28:09,791 --> 00:28:12,314
The brakes, the turning...
498
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:14,694
the acceleration...
499
00:28:15,233 --> 00:28:17,878
all absolutely...
500
00:28:18,173 --> 00:28:19,813
brilliant.
501
00:28:21,735 --> 00:28:23,720
What happens here?
502
00:28:24,685 --> 00:28:27,204
Stay wide, dab of brakes...
503
00:28:28,531 --> 00:28:31,290
now bean it.
504
00:28:31,595 --> 00:28:33,676
Is this the fast one
or the slow one?
505
00:28:35,171 --> 00:28:38,407
God, it can pick up.
It just charges.
506
00:28:41,531 --> 00:28:44,246
0-60 in 3.4 seconds,
507
00:28:44,331 --> 00:28:47,478
which is...
absolutely mind-boggling
508
00:28:47,564 --> 00:28:49,735
in a car this big.
509
00:28:50,061 --> 00:28:52,596
Send it in.
510
00:28:52,853 --> 00:28:55,358
-- Oh,
collecting a bit of kerb.
511
00:28:58,171 --> 00:28:59,860
These brakes
are gonna get hot.
512
00:28:59,962 --> 00:29:02,634
These are the largest steel
brakes on any production car,
513
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,986
but I'm still asking
a lot of them.
514
00:29:08,821 --> 00:29:12,345
Eventually we pitted
to see how we'd done.
515
00:29:12,558 --> 00:29:14,553
- No surprises here.
- Go on.
516
00:29:14,639 --> 00:29:16,474
- Aston was the fastest.
- Oh, God.
517
00:29:16,574 --> 00:29:19,076
- No, but obviously by an enormous margin.
- Fair enough.
518
00:29:19,271 --> 00:29:20,726
- Yes.
- Two minutes, yes?
519
00:29:20,811 --> 00:29:22,466
- Two minutes dead, pretty much.
- Faster by two minutes?
520
00:29:22,551 --> 00:29:23,846
No, no. Two minutes.
521
00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:25,319
Here's the interesting one,
though.
522
00:29:25,405 --> 00:29:26,748
The former President
of Georgia
523
00:29:26,834 --> 00:29:28,233
when this track
was reopened,
524
00:29:28,413 --> 00:29:30,740
a few years ago -
he set a time.
525
00:29:30,873 --> 00:29:33,389
- Did he?
- Yeah. In a Formula 3 car.
526
00:29:33,811 --> 00:29:36,014
Two minutes five dead.
527
00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:38,226
That's the President
of Georgia.
528
00:29:38,412 --> 00:29:40,686
- So, James May.
- Yes?
529
00:29:40,771 --> 00:29:43,166
Were you faster or slower,
do you think,
530
00:29:43,251 --> 00:29:45,006
than the President
of Georgia?
531
00:29:45,091 --> 00:29:46,783
Do I have to be the
President of Georgia if I...
532
00:29:46,869 --> 00:29:49,286
No.
I'm gonna say I was slower.
533
00:29:49,592 --> 00:29:51,706
- You're absolutely right.
- But... -
534
00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:53,655
Here's something interesting.
535
00:29:53,780 --> 00:29:56,014
You were only point-eight
of a second slower
536
00:29:56,123 --> 00:29:58,666
than the President of Georgia
and he was in a Formula 3 car.
537
00:29:58,751 --> 00:30:01,373
Do you think you were faster
than the President of Georgia?
538
00:30:01,531 --> 00:30:04,806
I'll be honest, I'd very,
very much like to have been.
539
00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:07,553
- James May, you did 2:05.8.
- Yes.
540
00:30:07,651 --> 00:30:09,522
- Richard Hammond.
- Yes? -Two minutes...
541
00:30:09,608 --> 00:30:10,726
Yes?
542
00:30:10,811 --> 00:30:13,006
Four...point eight.
543
00:30:13,091 --> 00:30:15,228
- So you're only a second quicker.
- Ohh.
544
00:30:15,314 --> 00:30:16,440
That's the closest
you two have
545
00:30:16,526 --> 00:30:18,228
- Yeah, that is.
- ever been. Oh, hang on.
546
00:30:19,569 --> 00:30:22,126
A text. Oh, God. Mr Wilman.
547
00:30:22,211 --> 00:30:23,986
How does he know
when we're all sitting...
548
00:30:24,071 --> 00:30:25,806
It's uncanny.
549
00:30:25,891 --> 00:30:27,131
- Go on, then.
- Right.
550
00:30:27,217 --> 00:30:30,764
I've seen how fast you can go
in your cars on a flying lap.
551
00:30:30,850 --> 00:30:32,350
- Yes.
- Now we shall see
552
00:30:32,514 --> 00:30:35,586
how fast you can go when
you're bursting for a pee.
553
00:30:35,671 --> 00:30:37,206
- What?
- Really?
554
00:30:37,291 --> 00:30:40,226
Right, each of you will drink
three pints of water,
555
00:30:40,311 --> 00:30:42,246
wait 20 minutes
556
00:30:42,331 --> 00:30:46,912
and then see how much
your times improve.
557
00:30:51,131 --> 00:30:54,569
Soon, we were
ready to begin the test.
558
00:30:54,655 --> 00:30:58,541
Right, so we drink these, and
then when we've drunk all three,
559
00:30:58,642 --> 00:31:00,967
-start the timer?
- Yeah.
560
00:31:07,611 --> 00:31:09,876
- That's disgusting.
- Mm.
561
00:31:11,091 --> 00:31:13,436
It's just revolting,
this stuff.
562
00:31:16,271 --> 00:31:19,016
Women drink this,
you know, for fun.
563
00:31:22,662 --> 00:31:25,167
- Couldn't we have done it with wine?
- Shut up.
564
00:31:27,291 --> 00:31:28,426
Oh, God.
565
00:31:28,511 --> 00:31:30,846
- Have you finished?
- I'm going.
566
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:32,506
How have you done that?
567
00:31:32,591 --> 00:31:34,916
Why are you
so far ahead of me?
568
00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:42,026
The thing is, this is quite
an interesting test,
569
00:31:42,111 --> 00:31:46,286
because when I drive normally,
I drive on the motorway at 70mph.
570
00:31:46,371 --> 00:31:49,726
- Of course you do.
- When I need a pee, I'll do 180.
571
00:31:49,811 --> 00:31:51,906
- This test is unfair.
- Why is it?
572
00:31:51,999 --> 00:31:54,834
Well, my capacity is
smaller than you two.
573
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:55,615
Er...
574
00:31:55,701 --> 00:31:59,342
Plus, it's got to go less distance to my
stomach, then less distance to my bladder,
575
00:31:59,428 --> 00:32:00,706
and then less distance
to my chap.
576
00:32:00,791 --> 00:32:02,725
- But...
- What? -We're older.
577
00:32:02,811 --> 00:32:05,061
- Yes.
- And you have wooden bladders.
578
00:32:05,147 --> 00:32:07,346
When you get older... Younger
viewers may be interested in this.
579
00:32:07,431 --> 00:32:09,926
It comes on more suddenly,
doesn't it?
580
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:12,846
I can do the nights still. I
don't need to get up in the night.
581
00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,906
Mind you, that's prostrate
cancer, isn't it?
582
00:32:14,991 --> 00:32:16,886
- Is it?
- Yeah, it is. It's a sign.
583
00:32:16,971 --> 00:32:19,288
You know with prostrate
cancer, they tell you
584
00:32:19,374 --> 00:32:22,311
you've got to put your finger in your
back bottom and have a rummage about.
585
00:32:22,397 --> 00:32:26,892
Now, never having done that, I don't
know what it should feel like normally.
586
00:32:26,977 --> 00:32:28,512
- So I don't know...
- No, it's the doctor.
587
00:32:28,597 --> 00:32:30,147
That's why you
get the doctor to do it.
588
00:32:30,264 --> 00:32:33,352
- No, it says check yourself.
- You don't back on to your own digit.
589
00:32:33,437 --> 00:32:35,552
- It's... That's what it says.
- It isn't.
590
00:32:35,637 --> 00:32:37,772
Posters say,
"Check your anus."
591
00:32:37,857 --> 00:32:40,972
I've never seen a poster that says,
shove your finger up your arse. I just...
592
00:32:41,057 --> 00:32:43,472
Well, I've never understood it
cos it does say in the adverts,
593
00:32:43,557 --> 00:32:45,152
check yourself,
prostrate cancer.
594
00:32:45,237 --> 00:32:47,881
No, you check yourself for
testicular cancer, you spanner.
595
00:32:47,967 --> 00:32:50,084
You rummage your nuts about
to make sure there's no...
596
00:32:50,170 --> 00:32:51,512
- That you can do, yes.
- That's correct.
597
00:32:51,597 --> 00:32:53,183
No, that's what you
tell your wife.
598
00:32:53,269 --> 00:32:56,152
Mercifully, my
20-minute wait was soon over.
599
00:32:56,237 --> 00:32:58,532
Four, three, two.
600
00:32:58,617 --> 00:33:00,962
- One.
--Goodbye.
601
00:33:02,977 --> 00:33:06,972
Ooh, no, that hurts.
602
00:33:07,057 --> 00:33:11,072
- Three, two, one. -
- I'm out of here. Good luck.
603
00:33:11,157 --> 00:33:14,232
Ooh, it is starting.
And running's unwise.
604
00:33:23,417 --> 00:33:26,472
I don't need a wazz.
I don't need a wazz.
605
00:33:28,657 --> 00:33:31,522
Oh, God, it's...
it's interfering.
606
00:33:32,977 --> 00:33:34,832
Aah... aah...
607
00:33:34,917 --> 00:33:37,402
Come on. Come on!
608
00:33:47,857 --> 00:33:50,252
I'm not thinking about it.
609
00:33:50,337 --> 00:33:52,682
I'm just
not thinking about it.
610
00:33:54,257 --> 00:33:57,932
Need a wee.
Braking, braking hard.
611
00:33:58,017 --> 00:34:02,162
Oh, it's worse going through the corners
because it all sloshes to one side.
612
00:34:03,177 --> 00:34:05,812
Oh, God.
613
00:34:08,377 --> 00:34:12,172
If Williams
had given their drivers
614
00:34:12,257 --> 00:34:15,362
three pints of water before
every race last year,
615
00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:18,442
they'd have won everything.
616
00:34:19,617 --> 00:34:21,962
Oh, God,
I'm living in my bladder.
617
00:34:23,977 --> 00:34:26,322
Don't relax!
618
00:34:28,937 --> 00:34:31,282
I'm never gonna make it.
619
00:34:45,897 --> 00:34:47,152
That'll do. That'll do.
620
00:34:47,237 --> 00:34:50,012
Just...
621
00:34:50,097 --> 00:34:53,172
Can't run.
622
00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:55,672
It's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen.
623
00:34:55,757 --> 00:34:58,292
What? Who's in there?
624
00:34:58,377 --> 00:35:00,152
- James.
- Bugger off, I'm having a wazz.
625
00:35:00,237 --> 00:35:02,292
- Hurry up.
- I'm having a wazz.
626
00:35:02,377 --> 00:35:04,872
Just hurry up! I'm going
to go in a minute.
627
00:35:04,957 --> 00:35:06,672
Oh, he's...
628
00:35:06,757 --> 00:35:08,812
Right, that's it. Let me in.
629
00:35:08,897 --> 00:35:10,832
Oh, God, there's more!
630
00:35:10,917 --> 00:35:12,172
Oh, God.
631
00:35:12,257 --> 00:35:14,232
It's just awful. When you...
632
00:35:14,317 --> 00:35:18,092
Listen, mate, James
is in there and I'm first.
633
00:35:18,177 --> 00:35:20,132
You ain't getting in
ahead of me.
634
00:35:20,217 --> 00:35:22,292
- It's fine. Just relax.
- There's no way.
635
00:35:22,377 --> 00:35:23,672
It is awful, though, when
you get to the door,
636
00:35:23,757 --> 00:35:26,652
your body's saying,
yes, time to go.
637
00:35:26,737 --> 00:35:28,232
- But then you can't.
- Stop talking.
638
00:35:28,317 --> 00:35:30,072
Why aren't you bothered
anyway?
639
00:35:30,157 --> 00:35:33,912
Well, I solved the problem,
second corner.
640
00:35:33,997 --> 00:35:36,172
- Oh, yeah.
- So...
641
00:35:36,257 --> 00:35:38,612
- James...
- I'm having a wazz.
642
00:35:38,697 --> 00:35:41,072
Yes, I know. I've got the times.
It's quite interesting.
643
00:35:41,157 --> 00:35:43,892
You were a second slower
on that lap.
644
00:35:43,977 --> 00:35:45,812
I'm desperate for a slash.
645
00:35:45,897 --> 00:35:48,352
Do you think
you were faster or slower?
646
00:35:48,437 --> 00:35:50,052
I don't care.
647
00:35:50,137 --> 00:35:52,172
- Richard Hammond...
- J...
648
00:35:52,257 --> 00:35:55,672
your original lap, two
minutes four point eight.
649
00:35:55,757 --> 00:35:58,092
- Your new lap...
- Stop talking.
650
00:35:58,177 --> 00:36:00,522
- Two minutes...
- Yes, whatever.
651
00:36:01,217 --> 00:36:02,892
Zero point five.
652
00:36:02,977 --> 00:36:04,612
You were slower as well.
653
00:36:04,697 --> 00:36:06,632
Because I was concentrating
on not doing what you've done.
654
00:36:06,717 --> 00:36:09,932
Yeah, well, that's interesting.
Because I did what I did, look at that.
655
00:36:10,017 --> 00:36:11,552
How interesting is that.
Exactly the same.
656
00:36:11,637 --> 00:36:13,932
- I mean, I was basically...
- James!
657
00:36:14,017 --> 00:36:16,472
- Hurry up!
- I was point three of a second slower.
658
00:36:16,557 --> 00:36:18,882
But basically the same.
659
00:36:24,977 --> 00:36:27,432
After our
important day's work,
660
00:36:27,517 --> 00:36:31,352
I cleaned myself up and we
headed into Tbilisi,
661
00:36:31,437 --> 00:36:33,072
Georgia's capital,
662
00:36:33,157 --> 00:36:38,172
for something you can only
get in this country.
663
00:36:38,257 --> 00:36:42,372
You see, the thing is, America
gave the world aviation.
664
00:36:42,457 --> 00:36:45,112
Germany gave it the car.
Britain gave it the internet.
665
00:36:45,197 --> 00:36:50,952
But Georgia's contribution was
much more profound and important.
666
00:36:51,037 --> 00:36:55,682
You see, Georgia
gave the world... wine.
667
00:36:57,857 --> 00:37:02,652
They've been making wine
in Georgia for 4,000 years.
668
00:37:02,737 --> 00:37:08,322
It's such a big thing here, they now
have spas where you can bathe in it.
669
00:37:16,137 --> 00:37:18,552
- How does it feel?
- Tremendous.
670
00:37:18,637 --> 00:37:20,652
This is wine.
671
00:37:20,737 --> 00:37:23,390
That's the great thing about that.
He doesn't need a plug.
672
00:37:23,476 --> 00:37:24,314
No.
673
00:37:24,493 --> 00:37:29,308
He will simply lower himself
down and consume his bathwater.
674
00:37:29,417 --> 00:37:31,132
If I were to take
the plug out now,
675
00:37:31,217 --> 00:37:33,712
would you panic and try and
drink it all before it went away?
676
00:37:33,797 --> 00:37:36,212
Hang on, I just need to rinse my hair.
Hold on a minute.
677
00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:37,624
- He's actually going to wash...
- Oh, God, he is.
678
00:37:37,710 --> 00:37:39,728
- ..his hair in wine.
- Oh, no, he is!
679
00:37:40,373 --> 00:37:42,368
Oh, God,
I got some in my mouth.
680
00:37:42,539 --> 00:37:44,434
James, do not
fall asleep in the bath.
681
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,845
- OK.
- He's going to.
682
00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:50,652
Now I can relax.
683
00:37:50,737 --> 00:37:53,082
Ooh...
684
00:38:02,217 --> 00:38:05,432
The next morning, we
went for a drive around Tbilisi,
685
00:38:05,517 --> 00:38:09,483
one of the coolest cities
we'd ever been to.
686
00:38:12,617 --> 00:38:15,101
Who is this on his horse?
687
00:38:15,257 --> 00:38:18,976
According to the sign, it's
King David the Builder.
688
00:38:19,447 --> 00:38:22,182
- What?
- Better than Eric the Chemist.
689
00:38:23,772 --> 00:38:25,382
The last builder I had
working on the house
690
00:38:25,468 --> 00:38:26,483
didn't look like that.
691
00:38:26,678 --> 00:38:28,806
He certainly didn't
turn up on a horse.
692
00:38:29,952 --> 00:38:32,347
We then found a flea market
693
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:36,098
and decided to test the boot
space in our grand tourers
694
00:38:36,184 --> 00:38:39,229
by picking up
a few souvenirs.
695
00:38:42,217 --> 00:38:43,912
I'm not sure
696
00:38:43,997 --> 00:38:47,232
they would have been
able to win a war like this.
697
00:38:47,317 --> 00:38:50,905
This is a Russian wall clock.
698
00:38:50,991 --> 00:38:54,348
It says Moscow on the dial.
It works.
699
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,471
-- Is
it a Soviet one? -Yeah.
700
00:38:57,557 --> 00:38:59,668
A Soviet cine-camera.
701
00:38:59,825 --> 00:39:01,432
Now, come on.
702
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,375
How much is
the record player?
703
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,247
I'm going to do a selfie.
704
00:39:12,788 --> 00:39:16,723
I like the way that they've captured
the lustfulness of the lady dog
705
00:39:16,809 --> 00:39:19,973
and the wistfulness of James.
706
00:39:20,059 --> 00:39:22,418
Having done our shopping,
707
00:39:22,504 --> 00:39:25,043
Hammond and I
were soon back at our cars
708
00:39:25,129 --> 00:39:28,104
and filling up the boots.
709
00:39:28,388 --> 00:39:31,363
- What have you bought?
- A giant pair of jugs.
710
00:39:31,449 --> 00:39:32,904
Georgian wine jugs.
711
00:39:33,018 --> 00:39:35,753
Do you know what the Georgian
is for wine jugs?
712
00:39:35,917 --> 00:39:37,215
- No.
- Norks.
713
00:39:37,301 --> 00:39:38,536
- Is it? Is it?
- Yeah.
714
00:39:38,622 --> 00:39:39,838
So you've got
two giant norks.
715
00:39:39,924 --> 00:39:41,811
Yeah. A guitar and a clock.
716
00:39:41,897 --> 00:39:44,092
And I'm very pleased
with my purchases.
717
00:39:44,177 --> 00:39:46,512
What's with the trombone,
or whatever it is?
718
00:39:46,597 --> 00:39:47,972
Well, it won't fit.
719
00:39:48,057 --> 00:39:51,012
With my record player and my
bird and my gas mask...
720
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:53,472
That's a striking piece.
Well, put it on the back seat.
721
00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:55,652
- Quite small.
- It will go on...
722
00:39:55,737 --> 00:39:57,852
The back seat
will accommodate that, look.
723
00:39:57,937 --> 00:39:59,992
- He's going to be critical.
- Oh, my God!
724
00:40:00,077 --> 00:40:01,872
There you go.
Told you he would.
725
00:40:01,957 --> 00:40:04,480
Do Aston Martin describe
that as a back seat?
726
00:40:04,566 --> 00:40:05,613
Yes.
727
00:40:05,699 --> 00:40:07,512
I wouldn't call it
a leather pouch.
728
00:40:10,377 --> 00:40:11,668
I can't argue...
729
00:40:11,754 --> 00:40:14,660
- I can't argue with him.
- It's not acceptable.
730
00:40:14,753 --> 00:40:16,301
- Are you actually in?
- Yes.
731
00:40:16,387 --> 00:40:19,362
- Head room?
- No.
732
00:40:19,448 --> 00:40:22,283
That is absolutely hopeless.
733
00:40:22,369 --> 00:40:26,426
Anyway, the interesting thing
about the Aston Martin is...
734
00:40:26,512 --> 00:40:30,347
- I've got quite a lot to say.
- I need to get out now!
735
00:40:30,433 --> 00:40:32,488
At this point,
James came back.
736
00:40:32,746 --> 00:40:35,521
After a very ambitious
shopping trip.
737
00:40:35,607 --> 00:40:37,622
Could you hold
the porcupine, please?
738
00:40:37,957 --> 00:40:39,612
Yak goes in first.
739
00:40:39,697 --> 00:40:41,532
You won't...
How big is that boot?
740
00:40:41,617 --> 00:40:43,972
- It is actually really big.
- It's unnecessarily big, actually.
741
00:40:44,057 --> 00:40:45,592
- It's too much boot.
- It's a grand tourer.
742
00:40:45,677 --> 00:40:47,910
It's for taking luggage as
you said only the other day.
743
00:40:48,034 --> 00:40:51,261
His Master's Voice
will go there.
744
00:40:51,361 --> 00:40:54,116
And then the Spanish
man-o-war...
745
00:40:54,310 --> 00:40:59,065
I then came up with a plan to
get rid of what wouldn't fit in my car.
746
00:40:59,259 --> 00:41:00,274
I bought you a present.
747
00:41:00,477 --> 00:41:01,692
You're a musical man.
748
00:41:01,777 --> 00:41:03,668
That's very thoughtful
of him, actually.
749
00:41:03,754 --> 00:41:04,969
Thank you.
750
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:07,192
With our souvenirs
loaded up,
751
00:41:07,277 --> 00:41:09,482
we got back on the road.
752
00:41:26,761 --> 00:41:28,912
Lot of rattling in here.
I'm a bit worried that
753
00:41:28,997 --> 00:41:32,672
my big jugs are going to rub
against my clock and ruin it.
754
00:41:32,757 --> 00:41:37,712
I thought you jammed your clock
between the jugs, so that it wouldn't.
755
00:41:37,797 --> 00:41:41,282
Finbarr Saunders
And His Double Entendres.
756
00:41:44,455 --> 00:41:47,129
Soon,
we arrived at the border.
757
00:41:50,459 --> 00:41:54,949
Where Europe stops
and Asia begins.
758
00:41:59,326 --> 00:42:03,324
So there we are. Bye-bye,
Georgia, the birthplace of wine,
759
00:42:03,437 --> 00:42:05,572
and hello Azerbaijan,
760
00:42:05,657 --> 00:42:09,121
the birthplace of something
very nearly as important.
761
00:42:09,734 --> 00:42:12,324
Oil.
762
00:42:12,547 --> 00:42:14,762
It was first discovered here
in the third century.
763
00:42:14,848 --> 00:42:17,803
Marco Polo wrote about it
a thousand years ago.
764
00:42:17,889 --> 00:42:20,121
He said it didn't
taste very nice.
765
00:42:20,266 --> 00:42:22,651
The oil industry began here.
766
00:42:22,737 --> 00:42:26,676
This was the first country in the
world to develop offshore drilling.
767
00:42:26,762 --> 00:42:30,647
But, weirdly, we are struggling
to find a petrol station.
768
00:42:32,994 --> 00:42:35,449
This meant
we had to back off a bit.
769
00:42:35,535 --> 00:42:40,100
Which prompted some smug
eco-sermons from Hammond and May.
770
00:42:41,495 --> 00:42:43,970
As we're now in the cruise,
771
00:42:44,188 --> 00:42:45,763
my car can do
a very clever thing.
772
00:42:45,894 --> 00:42:48,223
Its W12 can shut down
six cylinders
773
00:42:48,309 --> 00:42:50,544
and run as a V6
to save fuel.
774
00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:54,504
And you can get
as much as 30mpg,
775
00:42:54,621 --> 00:42:57,027
but actually that's quite
a lot for a 2.2-tonne car.
776
00:42:57,113 --> 00:43:00,738
And more importantly, it means I
get a 500-mile range out of a tank.
777
00:43:00,951 --> 00:43:05,346
What I can do is I can put it in Eco
Pro mode, which I'm just doing now,
778
00:43:05,432 --> 00:43:09,031
which shuts down some vital features.
Not the engine fortunately.
779
00:43:09,117 --> 00:43:11,215
And I have an active grille.
780
00:43:11,301 --> 00:43:13,160
The flaps open
when they need to
781
00:43:13,246 --> 00:43:16,457
and then shut for better aerodynamic
efficiency when they're not needed.
782
00:43:16,546 --> 00:43:19,348
So this is all hi-tech stuff
we're doing.
783
00:43:19,477 --> 00:43:22,312
Jeremy,
what's your Aston Martin got?
784
00:43:22,574 --> 00:43:24,772
Well, between 40 and 80
785
00:43:24,857 --> 00:43:28,452
it'll shut down six of the
cylinders and run as a straight six
786
00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:31,812
until the catalytic converter
on the shut-down bank gets cool,
787
00:43:31,897 --> 00:43:34,632
then it starts that bank up again
and shuts the other one down,
788
00:43:34,717 --> 00:43:38,562
alternating to make sure everything
is at the optimum temperature.
789
00:43:39,356 --> 00:43:42,112
Ha-ha!
They weren't ready for that.
790
00:43:42,848 --> 00:43:44,232
Happily, at this point
791
00:43:44,317 --> 00:43:47,882
we finally found
a fuel station.
792
00:43:48,391 --> 00:43:50,426
Oh.
793
00:43:50,512 --> 00:43:53,621
Now, that's an oil company
name I wasn't expecting.
794
00:43:55,215 --> 00:43:56,650
Really?
795
00:43:56,892 --> 00:43:59,787
I know this is childish
but it says...
796
00:44:02,737 --> 00:44:05,712
- I wish we had Turd Petrol in Britain.
- I really do.
797
00:44:05,797 --> 00:44:08,132
Turd Petrol!
798
00:44:08,217 --> 00:44:10,952
Why don't they
sponsor a Formula 1 team?
799
00:44:11,037 --> 00:44:13,145
Powered by Turd!
800
00:44:13,231 --> 00:44:15,387
- Think of the skid marks.
- Think of the commentary.
801
00:44:18,377 --> 00:44:23,152
Back on the move, we started to
soak up the local motoring culture.
802
00:44:23,238 --> 00:44:25,885
Which didn't take long.
803
00:44:28,806 --> 00:44:32,161
Lada, Lada
804
00:44:32,363 --> 00:44:34,283
and Lada.
805
00:44:36,030 --> 00:44:38,285
Lada, Lada, Lada.
806
00:44:38,557 --> 00:44:39,692
Lada, Lada.
807
00:44:39,777 --> 00:44:42,312
Three Ladas there,
a Lada there,
808
00:44:42,397 --> 00:44:44,252
two Ladas there.
809
00:44:44,337 --> 00:44:45,672
If there's
a Lada owners' club
810
00:44:45,757 --> 00:44:47,732
in Azerbaijan,
it could be massive.
811
00:44:47,817 --> 00:44:51,152
"What Car?" must have been a
very thin magazine over here.
812
00:44:57,817 --> 00:45:01,512
At the next town, May
and I wanted to pull over.
813
00:45:01,597 --> 00:45:04,372
And Hammond didn't.
814
00:45:04,457 --> 00:45:05,952
It's all very nice
jollying around
815
00:45:06,037 --> 00:45:07,772
but these are GT cars.
816
00:45:07,857 --> 00:45:09,592
We've got
a couple of miles in them.
817
00:45:09,677 --> 00:45:13,032
We've got miles to go.
We need to get a move on.
818
00:45:13,117 --> 00:45:16,092
The town, however,
was called Ganja.
819
00:45:16,177 --> 00:45:21,202
So obviously May and I wanted
to experience the architecture.
820
00:45:43,497 --> 00:45:46,012
- You know I'm building a new house?
- Yes.
821
00:45:46,097 --> 00:45:47,648
I think I've got
the scale of it wrong.
822
00:45:47,734 --> 00:45:48,521
Really?
823
00:45:48,607 --> 00:45:50,272
Mm. I think it needs
to be more like this.
824
00:45:50,357 --> 00:45:51,558
This. I like the arch.
825
00:45:51,644 --> 00:45:55,089
I think the Cotswolds needs
this kind of architecture in it.
826
00:45:55,175 --> 00:45:57,830
Can we stop stopping off
to look at things?
827
00:45:58,097 --> 00:46:01,552
The whole point of this trip is to
prove that these powerful GT cars
828
00:46:01,637 --> 00:46:04,492
can devour continents and
we're not devouring any miles.
829
00:46:04,577 --> 00:46:06,252
- Ooh.
- Well, we need to get going.
830
00:46:06,337 --> 00:46:07,872
You do know that these
aren't actually quicker
831
00:46:07,957 --> 00:46:09,612
than any
other type of car?
832
00:46:09,697 --> 00:46:11,064
- What?
- No, in the real world.
833
00:46:11,150 --> 00:46:12,799
I mean, these feel great.
That's why we like them.
834
00:46:12,885 --> 00:46:15,978
It's nice having a powerful car, etc.
But in the real world
835
00:46:16,064 --> 00:46:19,059
they don't go any faster or
slower than any other type of car.
836
00:46:19,237 --> 00:46:20,972
- But they go faster.
- They don't.
837
00:46:21,057 --> 00:46:23,912
What? Those Ladas we've been
overtaking endlessly since we got here.
838
00:46:23,997 --> 00:46:28,872
You're saying that my twin turbocharged
Aston Martin is no faster than them?
839
00:46:28,957 --> 00:46:30,892
Not in the real world.
840
00:46:30,977 --> 00:46:33,752
I'll demonstrate it to you,
tomorrow.
841
00:46:33,837 --> 00:46:35,737
Oh, God.
842
00:46:41,897 --> 00:46:44,492
Right, May,
what is your thinking?
843
00:46:44,577 --> 00:46:48,042
Well, I've bought this
Renault 9. It's the GTL.
844
00:46:50,617 --> 00:46:52,892
And I've flown Abbie
out to drive it
845
00:46:52,977 --> 00:46:56,432
and we're going to drive 50 miles to
a place called the Garden of Paradise.
846
00:46:56,517 --> 00:46:59,492
Why can't we just
go where we're going?
847
00:46:59,577 --> 00:47:02,792
Cos I just said we're going to the
Garden of Paradise. It'll be nice.
848
00:47:02,877 --> 00:47:05,392
- So Abbie gets a two-minute head start.
- Mm-hm.
849
00:47:05,477 --> 00:47:07,032
You won't be
able to catch her.
850
00:47:07,117 --> 00:47:09,132
- We will.
- You won't.
851
00:47:09,217 --> 00:47:11,072
- A two-minute head start...
- Yes.
852
00:47:11,157 --> 00:47:13,516
And you think we can't
catch her up in 50 miles?
853
00:47:13,614 --> 00:47:14,637
Exactly.
854
00:47:14,723 --> 00:47:16,461
That's not in good condition.
855
00:47:16,547 --> 00:47:18,232
It wasn't very expensive.
856
00:47:18,317 --> 00:47:19,632
Start the engine, please.
857
00:47:23,029 --> 00:47:24,365
- Oh, well.
- Oh, well.
858
00:47:24,451 --> 00:47:25,842
Oh, we're in trouble now.
859
00:47:25,928 --> 00:47:28,152
- Right, you ready?
- Purrs like a kitten.
860
00:47:28,237 --> 00:47:29,972
In three, two, one...
861
00:47:30,057 --> 00:47:32,692
Go! -
862
00:47:32,777 --> 00:47:35,792
- Professional racing driver.
- She's good. She's good.
863
00:47:35,877 --> 00:47:38,672
- You've bought a dog.
- It doesn't work!
864
00:47:40,797 --> 00:47:43,602
- There.
- Ooh.
865
00:47:47,417 --> 00:47:49,392
So James May's experiment...
866
00:47:49,477 --> 00:47:52,592
Is an Aston Martin DBS,
twin turbo,
867
00:47:52,677 --> 00:47:56,922
faster than an ancient
rusting Renault 9?
868
00:47:58,257 --> 00:47:59,732
18 seconds.
869
00:47:59,817 --> 00:48:03,442
Stop sounding excited about
this ridiculous escapade.
870
00:48:05,177 --> 00:48:07,522
Two, one, begin.
871
00:48:11,257 --> 00:48:14,676
Right, let's get this charade
over with, shall we?
872
00:48:14,762 --> 00:48:17,153
And prove that James is mad.
873
00:48:17,247 --> 00:48:20,872
The point of having a GT car with tonnes
of power is it makes you feel good
874
00:48:20,957 --> 00:48:23,282
and it's nice.
But it's not quick.
875
00:48:26,457 --> 00:48:29,852
All cars in the real world
go at the same speed
876
00:48:29,937 --> 00:48:33,472
because how fast they go is
dictated by external factors,
877
00:48:33,557 --> 00:48:34,972
not the car itself.
878
00:48:35,057 --> 00:48:36,972
Traffic lights,
speed cameras,
879
00:48:37,057 --> 00:48:38,792
other cars,
pedestrians crossing.
880
00:48:38,877 --> 00:48:42,402
All these things
just bunch everybody up.
881
00:48:44,817 --> 00:48:48,752
If you have a powerful engine in your car,
you can get home at night more quickly.
882
00:48:48,837 --> 00:48:52,032
Which means you spend more
time with your children.
883
00:48:52,117 --> 00:48:57,532
Which means they're less likely
to grow up as glue sniffers.
884
00:48:57,617 --> 00:49:01,152
Soon we were out of
the town and on the motorway.
885
00:49:01,237 --> 00:49:04,292
But there was a problem.
886
00:49:04,377 --> 00:49:08,292
These speed cameras,
they're at every 100 yards.
887
00:49:08,377 --> 00:49:10,272
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
888
00:49:10,357 --> 00:49:13,192
But Abbie has got
the same problem.
889
00:49:13,277 --> 00:49:16,092
She's not
getting away from us.
890
00:49:16,177 --> 00:49:19,362
- No, but we're not catching her either, are we?
- No.
891
00:49:22,177 --> 00:49:27,192
Once we got off the motorway, though,
Hammond and I splashed the brown roadblock
892
00:49:27,277 --> 00:49:29,602
and got cracking.
893
00:49:34,049 --> 00:49:36,412
Abbie is a brilliant driver.
894
00:49:36,497 --> 00:49:39,512
Make no mistake. She's
a lot better at it than me.
895
00:49:39,597 --> 00:49:43,372
But I've got 14 times
more horsepower.
896
00:49:43,457 --> 00:49:45,712
All I had to do
to catch her, then,
897
00:49:45,797 --> 00:49:47,632
was overtake everything.
898
00:49:47,717 --> 00:49:49,492
But that wasn't easy.
899
00:49:49,577 --> 00:49:52,472
Single unbroken line.
Can't overtake.
900
00:49:52,557 --> 00:49:53,732
Can't overtake.
901
00:49:53,817 --> 00:49:55,732
Right, we're stuck
behind a Lada.
902
00:49:55,817 --> 00:49:58,162
Oh, God, car coming the other way.
903
00:50:00,137 --> 00:50:02,492
Oh, come on,
come on, come on.
904
00:50:02,577 --> 00:50:04,992
And there's Jeremy Clarkson
behind a lorry.
905
00:50:05,077 --> 00:50:06,332
As I am.
906
00:50:06,417 --> 00:50:09,602
Yeah, that's what you need.
907
00:50:14,617 --> 00:50:17,212
Town...
908
00:50:17,297 --> 00:50:19,312
Oh... What are you doing?
909
00:50:19,397 --> 00:50:22,772
You dithering half-wit.
910
00:50:22,857 --> 00:50:26,672
In James' real world, we
weren't getting any breaks.
911
00:50:26,757 --> 00:50:29,312
Oh, great. Digger.
912
00:50:29,397 --> 00:50:31,972
Oh, God.
913
00:50:32,057 --> 00:50:35,962
Whereas up ahead,
Abbie was in scythe mode.
914
00:50:43,217 --> 00:50:45,892
Oh, come on!
915
00:50:45,977 --> 00:50:49,052
Right, Lada...
Lada, Lada, Lada.
916
00:50:49,137 --> 00:50:53,592
It's like they're releasing them every
seven seconds coming the other way.
917
00:50:53,677 --> 00:50:56,852
Oh, good. Red light.
918
00:50:56,937 --> 00:50:59,282
Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
919
00:51:02,297 --> 00:51:05,832
Nine, eight, seven, six,
920
00:51:05,917 --> 00:51:07,652
five, four,
921
00:51:07,737 --> 00:51:09,332
three, two...
922
00:51:09,417 --> 00:51:11,992
Hello, chaps.
Waiting at the lights?
923
00:51:12,077 --> 00:51:14,972
Oh, Christ.
924
00:51:15,057 --> 00:51:17,832
Mercifully, though, we were
soon out of the town
925
00:51:17,917 --> 00:51:20,242
and onto the open road.
926
00:51:25,377 --> 00:51:27,592
Freedom!
927
00:51:27,677 --> 00:51:28,932
Yes!
928
00:51:29,017 --> 00:51:31,532
Splash the Lada.
929
00:51:31,617 --> 00:51:34,432
Another one.
930
00:51:34,517 --> 00:51:36,842
It's clear.
931
00:51:38,937 --> 00:51:44,032
But then, with just 10 miles
to go, everything got rural.
932
00:51:44,117 --> 00:51:47,082
Hammond, cows, cows, cows!
933
00:51:51,977 --> 00:51:54,832
As things became
even more rural,
934
00:51:54,917 --> 00:51:58,252
the Aston started
to have a problem.
935
00:51:58,337 --> 00:52:00,152
It's barely moving.
What's he doing?
936
00:52:00,238 --> 00:52:02,105
Can't you pick it up a bit?
937
00:52:02,191 --> 00:52:05,932
It's bumpy and the
camber is all over the shop.
938
00:52:06,017 --> 00:52:09,192
Yeah, it's not perfect but
it's drivable. Come on!
939
00:52:09,277 --> 00:52:14,172
Hammond, I've got 715 horsepower
and only rear-wheel drive.
940
00:52:14,257 --> 00:52:16,882
Right, this is ridiculous.
I'm going to come past.
941
00:52:19,537 --> 00:52:23,362
I've got torque vectoring,
four-wheel drive. It can handle this.
942
00:52:26,977 --> 00:52:30,282
Meanwhile, further
back in the Eeyore W...
943
00:52:32,297 --> 00:52:34,842
I bet you she's still
two minutes ahead.
944
00:52:38,777 --> 00:52:41,212
Why have you stopped?
945
00:52:41,297 --> 00:52:44,792
Because there's an entire
farm coming towards me.
946
00:52:50,777 --> 00:52:53,692
It's a river of wool
and lunch.
947
00:52:53,777 --> 00:52:55,512
Please don't
scratch my Bentley.
948
00:52:55,597 --> 00:52:57,322
Please don't scratch
my Bentley.
949
00:53:02,717 --> 00:53:03,977
All right?
950
00:53:10,777 --> 00:53:14,392
As we approached journey's
end, the road surface improved.
951
00:53:14,477 --> 00:53:18,762
So we could both unleash
our massive horsepower.
952
00:53:22,734 --> 00:53:24,432
So here we are,
ladies and gentlemen.
953
00:53:24,517 --> 00:53:26,232
Richard Hammond's
on a mountain road
954
00:53:26,317 --> 00:53:28,122
in a Bentley going quickly.
955
00:53:29,017 --> 00:53:31,362
So nothing can go wrong here.
956
00:53:34,057 --> 00:53:36,242
We've got to have
closed the gap by now.
957
00:53:37,897 --> 00:53:40,692
No offence, Abbie,
but you're not having this.
958
00:53:40,777 --> 00:53:43,832
The finish line at the
Garden of Paradise was close.
959
00:53:43,917 --> 00:53:48,352
And as we entered the outskirts,
the patio of paradise,
960
00:53:48,437 --> 00:53:50,762
Abbie was in sight.
961
00:53:52,017 --> 00:53:54,032
The race we knew
would be ours
962
00:53:54,117 --> 00:53:56,672
but then it turned out
that actually
963
00:53:56,757 --> 00:54:00,442
the finish line
was in the 14th Century.
964
00:54:01,817 --> 00:54:04,252
Oh, my word.
965
00:54:04,337 --> 00:54:06,152
Getting narrow, very narrow.
966
00:54:08,257 --> 00:54:09,652
Oh, I don't know how much
967
00:54:09,737 --> 00:54:11,552
a carbon fibre chin spoiler
is on one of these
968
00:54:11,637 --> 00:54:13,072
but I bet it's a lot.
969
00:54:15,617 --> 00:54:18,682
Abbie, however, wasn't worried
about that sort of thing.
970
00:54:23,817 --> 00:54:28,922
That's the sound of a crow
rubbing against a Russian stereo.
971
00:54:34,165 --> 00:54:36,120
That was not good.
972
00:54:36,206 --> 00:54:39,321
- Hello.
- Hammond, I'm beached.
973
00:54:39,577 --> 00:54:42,162
I'm going to find
another route.
974
00:54:45,817 --> 00:54:48,162
Oh, is it really round here?
975
00:54:49,377 --> 00:54:51,932
A lot of noise
from the boot now.
976
00:54:52,017 --> 00:54:54,232
Meanwhile,
I'd found another route
977
00:54:54,317 --> 00:54:56,512
that wasn't much better.
978
00:54:56,597 --> 00:54:58,892
Oh, God.
979
00:54:58,977 --> 00:55:03,812
James May's ideal motor race,
this. I'm doing four, three.
980
00:55:03,897 --> 00:55:06,352
By this stage
I knew I'd lost.
981
00:55:06,437 --> 00:55:09,672
So I needed to
come up with an excuse.
982
00:55:09,757 --> 00:55:11,992
Are these for the head?
983
00:55:12,077 --> 00:55:13,612
A hat.
984
00:55:13,697 --> 00:55:15,792
This is not
Bentley country now.
985
00:55:15,877 --> 00:55:19,772
This is really
Land Rover territory.
986
00:55:19,857 --> 00:55:22,562
James May, you are
a bloody idiot.
987
00:55:23,169 --> 00:55:25,752
Sit-rep, man arrived
at the window,
988
00:55:25,837 --> 00:55:30,762
took 30 units of currency
away and I now have this hat.
989
00:55:33,737 --> 00:55:39,532
Eventually Hammond and I found Abbie's
victorious Renault at the finish line.
990
00:55:39,617 --> 00:55:42,869
And then what was definitely
several hours later,
991
00:55:42,955 --> 00:55:44,850
May turned up.
992
00:55:44,936 --> 00:55:46,431
Oh, here he is.
993
00:55:46,517 --> 00:55:48,842
Oh, God.
994
00:55:50,857 --> 00:55:53,112
- Who won, then?
- We did!
995
00:55:53,197 --> 00:55:55,932
- Did you?
- No. No. We didn't.
996
00:55:56,017 --> 00:55:58,852
- He went hat shopping.
- I did. Look.
997
00:55:58,937 --> 00:56:01,196
- Really?
- It took him ages choosing that one.
998
00:56:01,282 --> 00:56:03,742
Honestly, we must have been...
How long were we hat shopping?
999
00:56:03,828 --> 00:56:05,406
Must have been a good half
hour to get the right one.
1000
00:56:05,492 --> 00:56:08,321
Well, half an hour with the black
one and then I didn't like it.
1001
00:56:08,485 --> 00:56:10,232
That does not happen
by accident.
1002
00:56:10,317 --> 00:56:12,292
That sort of thing
takes time.
1003
00:56:12,377 --> 00:56:16,092
Anyway, this does prove, does it not,
that fast cars, yes, they're great,
1004
00:56:16,177 --> 00:56:17,872
but they're not fast.
In the real world
1005
00:56:17,958 --> 00:56:20,352
a Renault 9 is as fast
as an Aston or Bentley
1006
00:56:20,437 --> 00:56:21,792
-or a BMW.
- Ow! Agh! Agh!
1007
00:56:21,877 --> 00:56:24,612
- What?
- Ohh! There's been an accident.
1008
00:56:24,697 --> 00:56:26,012
There's no other word for it.
1009
00:56:26,097 --> 00:56:27,792
- The... My... Look.
- You've ruined your crow.
1010
00:56:27,877 --> 00:56:31,732
The crow's beak's
come off and base.
1011
00:56:31,817 --> 00:56:35,772
But more... Look. That all
was in me a minute ago
1012
00:56:35,857 --> 00:56:37,052
and now it's not.
1013
00:56:37,137 --> 00:56:38,312
Why's it coming out of you?
1014
00:56:38,397 --> 00:56:41,612
Because half the crow's face
went in there
1015
00:56:41,697 --> 00:56:43,572
-when I picked it up.
- It attacked you?
1016
00:56:43,657 --> 00:56:45,392
That was a really priceless
ornament, that.
1017
00:56:45,477 --> 00:56:46,596
That's a real shame.
1018
00:56:46,682 --> 00:56:47,854
That's coming out at a rate.
1019
00:56:47,940 --> 00:56:49,767
I reckon you've probably got
three, maybe four minutes.
1020
00:56:49,853 --> 00:56:51,002
That's a pint.
1021
00:56:51,127 --> 00:56:53,463
It's not a pint. It's
spread out thin on the floor.
1022
00:56:53,549 --> 00:56:56,492
If this were you there'd be
bloody helicopters coming,
1023
00:56:56,577 --> 00:56:58,832
-trousers being cut off.
- Yeah. I'd be out of here by now.
1024
00:56:58,917 --> 00:57:00,812
I'm just getting on with it.
Go and have a look
1025
00:57:00,897 --> 00:57:02,832
-how much damage you've done in yours.
- Mine'll be fine.
1026
00:57:02,917 --> 00:57:05,402
I won't have done any damage
in the Bentley.
1027
00:57:06,657 --> 00:57:09,002
Oh, God!
1028
00:57:12,457 --> 00:57:15,212
- Go on, say it.
- I've lost my jugs and my clock.
1029
00:57:15,297 --> 00:57:17,642
All I've got is this ring.
1030
00:57:22,017 --> 00:57:26,432
With James' unrealistic
real world test out of the way,
1031
00:57:26,517 --> 00:57:28,512
we continued heading east
1032
00:57:28,597 --> 00:57:33,882
and eventually we arrived
at the fount of everything.
1033
00:57:47,057 --> 00:57:50,192
The cradle of humankind
is in South Africa.
1034
00:57:50,277 --> 00:57:53,332
That's where we began
as a species.
1035
00:57:53,417 --> 00:57:57,312
But the cradle of everything
that makes us special
1036
00:57:57,397 --> 00:57:59,212
is here.
1037
00:57:59,297 --> 00:58:04,312
The things that we make out of
what's coming out of the ground here
1038
00:58:04,397 --> 00:58:06,772
boggles the mind.
1039
00:58:06,857 --> 00:58:09,332
Toothbrushes, crayons,
1040
00:58:09,417 --> 00:58:11,512
heart valves, parachutes,
1041
00:58:11,597 --> 00:58:12,972
anti-freeze.
1042
00:58:13,057 --> 00:58:16,552
Vinyl records,
cassette tapes,
1043
00:58:16,637 --> 00:58:19,492
CDs, training shoes.
1044
00:58:19,577 --> 00:58:21,952
Guitar strings, balloons,
1045
00:58:22,037 --> 00:58:24,672
sunglasses, life jackets.
1046
00:58:24,757 --> 00:58:27,972
Anaesthetics,
enamel, dentures,
1047
00:58:28,057 --> 00:58:30,472
prosthetic limbs, shampoo.
1048
00:58:30,557 --> 00:58:33,192
Disposable ballpoint pen,
1049
00:58:33,277 --> 00:58:34,712
smartphone,
1050
00:58:34,797 --> 00:58:38,332
face creams, deodorants.
1051
00:58:38,417 --> 00:58:40,362
Lipstick, fishing rods,
1052
00:58:40,448 --> 00:58:43,276
electric blankets,
insect repellent,
1053
00:58:43,362 --> 00:58:45,232
umbrellas, roofing.
1054
00:58:45,317 --> 00:58:48,212
Light switches, dishwashers,
1055
00:58:48,297 --> 00:58:50,452
John Travolta's face.
1056
00:58:50,537 --> 00:58:53,392
Antiseptic,
food preservatives,
1057
00:58:53,477 --> 00:58:55,512
basketballs, putty,
1058
00:58:55,597 --> 00:58:58,492
motorcycle helmets, boats,
1059
00:58:58,577 --> 00:59:00,172
soft contact lenses.
1060
00:59:00,257 --> 00:59:03,192
The crackly bottle
your water comes in.
1061
00:59:03,277 --> 00:59:06,312
Fan belts, satellite dishes,
1062
00:59:06,397 --> 00:59:08,722
Frisbees, heat,
1063
00:59:09,857 --> 00:59:11,452
light.
1064
00:59:11,537 --> 00:59:14,072
And most importantly of all,
1065
00:59:14,157 --> 00:59:18,242
the amber nectar
of the gods, petrol.
1066
00:59:20,257 --> 00:59:23,032
Oil is so important
here, in fact,
1067
00:59:23,117 --> 00:59:26,642
they've built a spa
where you can bathe in it.
1068
00:59:28,617 --> 00:59:31,952
It was like the wine spa
we found in Georgia,
1069
00:59:32,037 --> 00:59:35,312
apart from in every way.
1070
00:59:38,057 --> 00:59:40,992
- Is that really crude oil?
- Yeah.
1071
00:59:41,077 --> 00:59:43,192
I feel like a guillemot.
1072
00:59:44,457 --> 00:59:46,892
Any minute now some woman
with hairy armpits
1073
00:59:46,977 --> 00:59:49,832
will take me to a yurt and
wash me down with Fairy Liquid
1074
00:59:49,917 --> 00:59:51,184
and say,
"Look what we found."
1075
00:59:51,270 --> 00:59:53,452
- Where's our baths?
- We've only got the one bath.
1076
00:59:53,537 --> 00:59:54,872
You're not getting in here
with me.
1077
00:59:54,957 --> 00:59:56,632
Well, I'm not
getting in after you.
1078
00:59:56,717 --> 00:59:58,512
- Why not?
- Are you kidding?
1079
00:59:58,597 --> 01:00:02,682
Well, because that would be full
of your scabs and dandruff...
1080
01:00:04,897 --> 01:00:07,832
The next day,
after I'd been scraped clean,
1081
01:00:07,917 --> 01:00:10,802
we set off
for the Caspian Sea.
1082
01:00:13,337 --> 01:00:16,152
And since we were almost
at journey's end,
1083
01:00:16,237 --> 01:00:20,002
it felt like a good time
to sum up our cars.
1084
01:00:22,457 --> 01:00:24,472
All the things a car
has to excel at
1085
01:00:24,557 --> 01:00:27,132
to be a good GT car,
1086
01:00:27,217 --> 01:00:30,212
luxury, comfort,
power, style,
1087
01:00:30,297 --> 01:00:33,172
make for just
a good car of any sort.
1088
01:00:33,257 --> 01:00:35,592
And this new Bentley
Continental GT
1089
01:00:35,677 --> 01:00:39,492
is a very, very,
very good GT car.
1090
01:00:39,577 --> 01:00:43,052
But it has surprised me
beyond that.
1091
01:00:43,137 --> 01:00:47,952
At the track, when two and a quarter
tonnes of car felt nimble and agile.
1092
01:00:48,037 --> 01:00:51,992
But above all else
it's about this interior.
1093
01:00:52,077 --> 01:00:57,132
This is just a nicer place to
be than anywhere else.
1094
01:00:57,217 --> 01:01:01,092
Got to say it...
This thing is a masterpiece.
1095
01:01:01,177 --> 01:01:03,652
They've absolutely nailed it.
1096
01:01:03,737 --> 01:01:06,362
And it deserves to wear
its flying B.
1097
01:01:07,097 --> 01:01:09,442
What a thing.
1098
01:01:17,697 --> 01:01:21,092
So, my BMW. Now, when
we started this trip,
1099
01:01:21,177 --> 01:01:23,772
I merely thought
it was rather good.
1100
01:01:23,857 --> 01:01:26,932
But now... I'm pretty much
in love with it.
1101
01:01:27,017 --> 01:01:31,372
And most of that, to be honest,
is because of that V8 engine.
1102
01:01:31,457 --> 01:01:33,972
It's smooth,
it's quiet, it's unobtrusive,
1103
01:01:34,057 --> 01:01:37,472
but then you just knock it down a
few and give it a bit of shoe...
1104
01:01:38,697 --> 01:01:40,392
See? It becomes sonorous.
1105
01:01:40,477 --> 01:01:42,652
Its voice becomes
more heartfelt
1106
01:01:42,737 --> 01:01:45,792
and it tingles through the steering
wheel and through my buttocks.
1107
01:01:45,877 --> 01:01:47,092
It's lovely.
1108
01:01:47,177 --> 01:01:48,452
And the other thing...
1109
01:01:48,537 --> 01:01:50,292
And I know this is
going to sound
1110
01:01:50,377 --> 01:01:52,512
a little bit sort of
#FirstWorldConsideration
1111
01:01:52,597 --> 01:01:56,612
but it's only £100,000.
1112
01:01:56,697 --> 01:02:00,952
Considerably less than half
the price of the Aston Martin.
1113
01:02:01,037 --> 01:02:04,442
It also looks better
and it's made by Germans.
1114
01:02:05,337 --> 01:02:06,737
Buy this.
1115
01:02:15,257 --> 01:02:17,572
It's been a great trip, this.
1116
01:02:17,657 --> 01:02:19,832
A couple of things
we've learned on the way...
1117
01:02:19,917 --> 01:02:23,136
No.1, Georgia, hidden gem.
1118
01:02:23,222 --> 01:02:24,757
Tbilisi in particular.
1119
01:02:24,981 --> 01:02:29,282
And No.2, pottery is much
sharper than you might imagine.
1120
01:02:30,817 --> 01:02:35,052
Then there's the DBS
and that is tricky.
1121
01:02:35,137 --> 01:02:38,152
It is as fast as hell
and it's comfortable
1122
01:02:38,237 --> 01:02:41,692
and it looks sensational.
1123
01:02:41,777 --> 01:02:43,792
It's a hugely appealing car
1124
01:02:43,877 --> 01:02:50,522
but is it worth £70,000 more than
the also hugely appealing DB11?
1125
01:02:52,177 --> 01:02:54,522
And I don't think it is.
1126
01:02:56,457 --> 01:02:58,092
I just don't think it is.
1127
01:02:58,177 --> 01:03:01,992
Maybe if they'd fitted an interior
that made you feel special
1128
01:03:02,077 --> 01:03:04,608
like the interior does
in the Bentley,
1129
01:03:04,756 --> 01:03:07,592
I'd have a different view,
but they didn't.
1130
01:03:07,677 --> 01:03:10,322
So I don't. Sorry.
1131
01:03:12,417 --> 01:03:16,112
After a stunning drive
through the tip of the Caucasus,
1132
01:03:16,197 --> 01:03:21,602
we eventually arrived in the
jaw-dropping capital of Azerbaijan.
1133
01:03:30,937 --> 01:03:32,432
Here we are. Baku,
1134
01:03:32,517 --> 01:03:36,802
where there is, let's be
honest, some architecture.
1135
01:03:39,977 --> 01:03:42,322
I mean, look at that.
1136
01:03:44,017 --> 01:03:46,012
A British architect
did that,
1137
01:03:46,097 --> 01:03:48,512
my favouritest building
in the world
1138
01:03:48,597 --> 01:03:50,922
by a long way.
1139
01:03:53,537 --> 01:03:56,555
These cars are now looking...
well, I'd call them heroic.
1140
01:03:56,641 --> 01:03:58,563
James would say disgusting.
1141
01:03:58,656 --> 01:04:03,412
James May, how annoyed are you
by the dirtiness of your car?
1142
01:04:03,497 --> 01:04:05,712
-- I was just saying
that we're in disgrace.
1143
01:04:05,797 --> 01:04:08,172
Because this is a shiny,
spangly city.
1144
01:04:08,257 --> 01:04:10,232
We should make our cars
shiny and spangly.
1145
01:04:10,317 --> 01:04:12,492
It only takes a minute
to clean them.
1146
01:04:12,577 --> 01:04:14,072
These look like
they've done work
1147
01:04:14,157 --> 01:04:16,482
and battled
and fought through.
1148
01:04:17,497 --> 01:04:19,842
No, they look dirty.
1149
01:04:26,577 --> 01:04:30,522
Ooh, hello. This is a bit of
the Grand Prix track.
1150
01:04:31,937 --> 01:04:34,072
Of course, they have the
Grand Prix here now.
1151
01:04:34,157 --> 01:04:37,972
Why don't we do a lap
of the Grand Prix track?
1152
01:04:38,057 --> 01:04:41,832
Well, because I doubt you can.
It's not just a track, is it?
1153
01:04:41,917 --> 01:04:45,792
Well, why don't we do a drag
race on the main straight?
1154
01:04:45,877 --> 01:04:50,072
Because it's a city. You
can't just do a drag race.
1155
01:04:50,157 --> 01:04:52,802
What if we asked
really nicely?
1156
01:04:55,177 --> 01:04:59,612
As Hammond didn't have an answer
to that, I did ask really nicely.
1157
01:04:59,697 --> 01:05:03,232
And the next day they really
did close off the main straight.
1158
01:05:03,317 --> 01:05:07,162
So we could have
our important drag race.
1159
01:05:13,217 --> 01:05:16,012
The Aston should
absolutely cream this.
1160
01:05:16,097 --> 01:05:18,841
On paper it's faster to 60
and it's more powerful.
1161
01:05:18,927 --> 01:05:20,224
And it's lighter.
1162
01:05:20,310 --> 01:05:23,682
But it's rear-wheel drive
and it's a wet track.
1163
01:05:24,977 --> 01:05:28,852
I have four-wheel drive
and launch control.
1164
01:05:28,937 --> 01:05:32,442
My only slight worry is
James has got them as well.
1165
01:05:35,417 --> 01:05:38,432
Here's my prediction. Their four-wheel
drive systems and launch controls
1166
01:05:38,517 --> 01:05:40,872
will get them
off the line quickly.
1167
01:05:40,957 --> 01:05:45,522
And then once I've got the power
down, I'll just become a missile.
1168
01:05:49,777 --> 01:05:52,072
This is not a race
to see who wins.
1169
01:05:52,157 --> 01:05:55,832
It's a race to see which one
of my colleagues loses.
1170
01:05:58,889 --> 01:06:01,234
OK, here we go.
1171
01:06:11,097 --> 01:06:13,442
And we are away!
1172
01:06:14,537 --> 01:06:16,882
Can't get the power down.
1173
01:06:17,937 --> 01:06:19,812
Whoa!
1174
01:06:19,897 --> 01:06:24,002
Oh, I feel it slithering, that
four-wheel drive doing its job.
1175
01:06:25,696 --> 01:06:29,289
Whoa! OK...
1176
01:06:31,337 --> 01:06:34,562
Bentley's reeling me in. I
don't think he's going to do it.
1177
01:06:35,497 --> 01:06:37,842
Come on, BMW.
1178
01:06:38,817 --> 01:06:41,092
Yes!
1179
01:06:41,177 --> 01:06:43,332
Where's Jeremy gone?
1180
01:06:43,417 --> 01:06:47,025
Interesting building here.
It's a government building.
1181
01:06:47,181 --> 01:06:49,006
I'm just going to
have a look at it.
1182
01:06:50,065 --> 01:06:52,140
Yeah, nice.
1183
01:06:52,577 --> 01:06:57,682
Having looked at the building,
I decided to have another go.
1184
01:07:00,777 --> 01:07:04,352
But still the Aston
would not behave.
1185
01:07:04,437 --> 01:07:06,652
Oh, my...
1186
01:07:06,737 --> 01:07:08,737
Oh, jeez.
1187
01:07:13,377 --> 01:07:15,297
Victory!
1188
01:07:18,137 --> 01:07:19,912
So is it just
all over the place?
1189
01:07:19,997 --> 01:07:24,292
I'm using about a quarter
throttle and it's sideways.
1190
01:07:24,377 --> 01:07:26,732
It's not brilliant, is it?
1191
01:07:26,817 --> 01:07:30,472
Well done for getting permission
but not so good on the weather.
1192
01:07:30,557 --> 01:07:34,232
I therefore decided that
before we tried again,
1193
01:07:34,317 --> 01:07:37,452
I should do something
about the weather.
1194
01:07:37,537 --> 01:07:40,152
So I got us
and all our crew vehicles
1195
01:07:40,237 --> 01:07:44,242
to drive up and down the
track to try and dry it out.
1196
01:07:45,177 --> 01:07:48,452
This took quite a while.
1197
01:07:48,537 --> 01:07:52,152
Jeremy, on that
first run, did some poo come out?
1198
01:07:52,237 --> 01:07:56,432
Difficult to keep the poo in when
your anus is as well oiled as mine.
1199
01:07:56,517 --> 01:08:00,172
How dry are we going to be
able to get this track?
1200
01:08:00,257 --> 01:08:02,212
It's drying out
on James' side.
1201
01:08:02,297 --> 01:08:04,072
If we do another run
with me there...
1202
01:08:04,157 --> 01:08:07,032
- Be all right.
- Well, it's hardly real world, is it,
1203
01:08:07,117 --> 01:08:10,802
choosing which bit of the road you
drive on to make your car faster.
1204
01:08:13,577 --> 01:08:16,432
As that is in fact exactly
what you do in a race,
1205
01:08:16,517 --> 01:08:18,672
I ignored him
and lined up
1206
01:08:18,757 --> 01:08:22,202
for our third attempt
on the dry line.
1207
01:08:23,817 --> 01:08:27,392
So, BMW, Bentley or
the surface-to-air missile.
1208
01:08:27,477 --> 01:08:29,842
Which will win?
1209
01:08:36,617 --> 01:08:38,497
Amber.
1210
01:08:42,177 --> 01:08:44,522
Ohh!
1211
01:08:45,457 --> 01:08:47,842
It's a great start.
1212
01:08:48,937 --> 01:08:51,832
Jesus! It's still doing it.
1213
01:08:51,917 --> 01:08:54,242
80mph, 90mph.
1214
01:08:55,417 --> 01:08:56,992
Oh, it's going
sideways again.
1215
01:08:57,077 --> 01:08:58,972
Oh, my...
1216
01:08:59,057 --> 01:09:00,977
Ohh!
1217
01:09:02,417 --> 01:09:04,337
Oh, jeez!
1218
01:09:05,897 --> 01:09:08,922
- Reel him in, reel him in.
- Come on, BMW.
1219
01:09:10,657 --> 01:09:13,040
Oh, bugger!
1220
01:09:16,097 --> 01:09:20,992
Well, there we are. The Aston was by
far the most exciting to look at there.
1221
01:09:21,077 --> 01:09:22,212
As usual.
1222
01:09:22,297 --> 01:09:24,562
So now let's get some lunch.
1223
01:09:32,057 --> 01:09:35,722
And moments later
we found our grail.
1224
01:09:38,741 --> 01:09:41,515
There we are, look, 50
feet below sea level
1225
01:09:41,601 --> 01:09:44,154
and we have arrived
at journey's end.
1226
01:09:44,679 --> 01:09:46,892
The Caspian.
1227
01:09:46,977 --> 01:09:52,042
The largest inland body of
water in the world.
1228
01:09:55,417 --> 01:09:57,992
Our journey is complete.
1229
01:09:58,077 --> 01:10:00,402
Let's get a bream.
1230
01:10:12,457 --> 01:10:15,012
A bream's fish?
1231
01:10:15,097 --> 01:10:17,712
No, Hammond, they're cows.
Of course they're fish!
1232
01:10:17,797 --> 01:10:19,732
I don't like fish.
1233
01:10:19,817 --> 01:10:22,832
- Well, on that terrible disappointment...
- For him.
1234
01:10:22,917 --> 01:10:25,242
Mm...back to the tent.
1235
01:10:28,657 --> 01:10:31,072
Why did you say "Back to
the tent," you idiot?
1236
01:10:31,157 --> 01:10:34,152
Um... Oh, right, um...
It just slipped...
1237
01:10:34,237 --> 01:10:36,572
I've got biscuit.
1238
01:10:36,657 --> 01:10:39,792
- You don't do that.
- It slipped out. -Never do that.
1239
01:10:39,877 --> 01:10:43,352
It gives us a chance at least
to say how good GT cars are.
1240
01:10:43,437 --> 01:10:45,292
- I love them.
- Mm.
1241
01:10:45,377 --> 01:10:47,132
Engine at the front and all
the power you need.
1242
01:10:47,217 --> 01:10:48,392
They're everything
you want in a car.
1243
01:10:48,477 --> 01:10:50,392
I agree. The BMW
was the best as well.
1244
01:10:50,477 --> 01:10:51,692
- Eh?
- Yes, but, James,
1245
01:10:51,777 --> 01:10:53,072
why don't you tell
the ladies and gentlemen
1246
01:10:53,157 --> 01:10:56,212
about the BMW's
lane departure system?
1247
01:10:56,297 --> 01:10:59,292
You know, the one that keeps you in the
white lines when you're driving along.
1248
01:10:59,377 --> 01:11:01,595
Yeah, well, the thing is,
it was a pre-production car.
1249
01:11:01,681 --> 01:11:03,629
It had a slight glitch in it.
You couldn't turn it off.
1250
01:11:03,715 --> 01:11:05,871
And it's quite annoying on
the road because it does that.
1251
01:11:05,957 --> 01:11:09,812
But on the track, the problem is
that you aim for a perfect apex
1252
01:11:09,897 --> 01:11:12,612
but the car thinks, he's
about to have an accident.
1253
01:11:12,697 --> 01:11:14,912
It just throws you back into
the middle of the track again.
1254
01:11:14,997 --> 01:11:16,552
It was extremely irritating.
1255
01:11:16,637 --> 01:11:19,672
There was that, which you moaned
about a lot, and the gearbox.
1256
01:11:19,757 --> 01:11:21,732
Yeah, the gearbox, well...
1257
01:11:21,817 --> 01:11:25,532
The problem there is, the display
on the dash, there's two of them.
1258
01:11:25,617 --> 01:11:27,654
One of them says what
gear you've selected...
1259
01:11:27,740 --> 01:11:28,500
Mm.
1260
01:11:28,586 --> 01:11:31,812
...but the other one says what gear
the car thinks you should be in.
1261
01:11:31,897 --> 01:11:33,507
So, again on the track,
you'll be driving along,
1262
01:11:33,593 --> 01:11:34,712
going, here comes
a left-hand bend...
1263
01:11:36,417 --> 01:11:39,352
right down to second and
the car would go, seventh?
1264
01:11:41,377 --> 01:11:43,552
- That is annoying.
- It's basically just Germans
1265
01:11:43,637 --> 01:11:45,552
saying, "The Englander
knows nothing here."
1266
01:11:45,637 --> 01:11:47,012
Exactly.
1267
01:11:47,097 --> 01:11:48,809
But it was bloody fast,
the BMW.
1268
01:11:48,895 --> 01:11:49,821
It was excellent.
1269
01:11:49,907 --> 01:11:51,668
But I still think the
Bentley was the best.
1270
01:11:51,754 --> 01:11:53,352
- It was the best.
- I agree.
1271
01:11:53,437 --> 01:11:54,932
- What?
- I agree.
1272
01:11:55,017 --> 01:11:56,352
Look, I really like
the DBS, OK?
1273
01:11:56,437 --> 01:11:57,772
It was a fantastic car.
1274
01:11:57,857 --> 01:11:59,192
I like the DB11 as well.
1275
01:11:59,277 --> 01:12:00,392
And the Vantage.
1276
01:12:00,477 --> 01:12:03,212
But for doing that journey...
1277
01:12:03,297 --> 01:12:05,192
- I'd choose the Bentley.
- Wait a minute,
1278
01:12:05,277 --> 01:12:08,872
haven't you just recommended the
Aston Martin DBS to a friend of yours?
1279
01:12:08,957 --> 01:12:10,672
Yes, I have.
1280
01:12:10,757 --> 01:12:14,312
- And has he since bought one?
- Yes, he has.
1281
01:12:15,537 --> 01:12:17,472
And on that terrible
disappointment, for him,
1282
01:12:17,557 --> 01:12:20,491
it's time to end. Thank you
so much for watching. Goodbye!
1283
01:12:51,700 --> 01:12:54,963
Sync corrections by srjanapala