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The Grand Tour » Season 2 » Breaking, Badly

01:04:55

Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, Mike Skinner

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Plot summary

The presenters discuss new sport cars by various companies, jumpers and the speed of pigeons vs blackbirds during Conversation Street. Clarkson unsuccessfully sets out to prove that mankind has not significantly improved over the last 25 years by testing the Jaguar XJ220 and the Bugatti EB 110 Super Sport, the fastest supercars from the early 90s, both of which set slow times at the Eboladrome when driven by Eaton. The trio tries to break the UK speed record for amphibious vehicles by building one of their own. Clarkson oversees his idea of combining a Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engine from a Nimrod jet and a speedboat with a Suzuki Jimny. However on a nearby lake, Clarkson and May have to abort their run after achieving only 3 mph (5 km/h) and nearly sinking. Hammond and May then go on to build a vehicle of their own by combining a Bond Bug with the engine of a personal water craft nicknaming it the "Pond Bug". Competing on Coniston Water during Coniston Power Boat Records Week, Clarkson, being the only one with a speedboat licence, operates the "Pond Bug" and achieves an average of 47.81 mph (76.94 km/h), setting a new UK record. After performing a series of magic tricks, Dynamo and Penn & Teller compete to become "the fastest magician in the world", with Penn & Teller prevailing on a snowy track.

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