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01:04:55
Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, Mike Skinner
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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.
And a little bit of understeer through there, but nicely tamed.
Super hard-core. 789 horsepower mentalist that thing.
- You're a cretin. - Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Ooh, I say, that was tonn of front-end grip there
and that the boat had been designed by imbecile,
Only a tenner, but, you know, I won something.
When we fire up the jet, this Perspex that I put in here,
- RICHARD: These are the doors. - JAMES: Yes, undercarriage doors.
and you'll end up as Buttons in panto in Swindon.
with a speedboat, powerboat racing licence.
"Oh, nein!"
Oof!
is you can use sleight of hand
with the word "faeces" before.
Being fed by a turbo-charger the size of a wheelie bin.
and gave away the idea of fake blindfold
A modern supercar may be no faster
JAMES: You are a witless dodo!
What about the chine?
OK, we've got ignitor on, bilge pump off,
These are the stabilisation tanks, yeah?
And you can hear the fizz
And it would have a stupid moustache above its number place.
Look what it's done, it's blown two aeroplane over
- And then we'll use the drag of the pontoon to slow us down? - Yeah.
DYNAMO: Yeah. PENN: There's nervousness.
You're then timed over a kilometre,
JAMES: Over the decades, many fearless daredevil
If you overdo it, you're gonna hit a tree,
and then you disengage the fan and the clutch.
So, does that mean the Jag is embarrass by the Bugatti
not terrifying and bathe in an unholy mix of sweat and faeces.
RICHARD: You retract the undercarriage.
I've mend it.
Thawed out.
Now, we've been accuse
No, I reckon they probably said,
DVD hadn't been invent,
and then spear into my left plum.
- Oh, for Christ's sake. - Thought of card out of a shuffle deck.
We were so terrified of having our props stolen,
and got arrest at the airport.
Would you have swam it?
Dials are engage.
We're gonna have a blindfold that can't be fake, which is-- Dynamo.
or whatever that translate into VW money.
I've got a word, it's "shut up".
JEREMY: Eventually, we arrive at the lake.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever been involve with.
It was suppose to have been a four-wheel drive V12,
the stereo shot out of its slot in the dashboard,
JEREMY: ...the stock market had crash.
I bet it handles like a dream!
Which prove that in the last 25 years, we've come nowhere.
I'm imagining pretty high up.
These are the numbers we randomly generate today.
I was fervently hoping that it would, at least, be easy to operate.
the fantastically complicated knobs and buttons and things.
from those four furiously spinning turbos.
Would you mind awfully if you now do some?
And it all went, really, brilliantly wrong.
Now, we go onto the really fast bit, ordinarily.
The only car, incidentally,
and amazingly they're saying it's gonna be even faster,
- Mm-hm. - So you presumably needed some kind of tour...
These are the numbers we randomly generated today.
Keeping it together there nicely.
None of this is based on any scientific reasoning whatsoever.
- Not permanently, but just for now. - (LAUGHTER)
Which proves that in the last 25 years, we've come nowhere.
that could be driven legally on the road,
I literally cannot steer it!
if you wanna read them out loud.
And you're suggesting that somehow we unite them all
This being a car show, occasionally.
would blend in perfectly.
but basically the same.
Now, somewhere in there is a racetrack.
And obviously, no driver aids of any kind.
Well, that'll definitely take its jumper off like that, won't it?
Apart from boating in the south of France.
and then carefully working the throttle
JEREMY: Eventually, we arrived at the lake.
He is possibly finessing it to keep it on the plain.
into the roadworthy shell of the Bond Bug,
That's the furth anybody's been off that track,
OK, we've got ignitor on, bilge pump off,
the shape of the sawn-up bits of tatty old boat
and the world was awash with money.
His slippers got all soggy on the way.
JEREMY: Having proved to my sceptical colleagues
for braving these treacherous conditions to get here.
for amphibious vehicles.
I'm... Well, I'm staggered.
I've got a word in my head for all this, and it's "impractical".
Will you stop making stupid, childish noises!
And terrifying.
JAMES: Over the decades, many fearless daredevils
This is staggering. OK? I've got some of the details.
And you're frightened. You really are.
That's a bit embarrassing.
even on this damp section.
and, as you can see, retractable wheels.
That's unbelievable!
JEREMY: No, it's rubbish and lethal.
It was very uncomfortable.
JEREMY: No, it's rubbish and lethal.
I'm already amazed!
JEREMY: With the ridiculous checklist completed,
It sounds a little bit inconsistent.
Basically, it was time for a stern word
Very neat.