1 00:00:01,336 --> 00:00:04,343 Top Gear S19E03 Wembley to Milan Corrections & sync: Wally73. 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,199 Tonight, I stop for petrol, 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,799 Richard wears some sunglasses, 4 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,560 and James sees some shirts. 5 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,720 Hello. Good evening. Thank you so much, everybody. 6 00:00:32,721 --> 00:00:34,679 Thank you. Thank you. 7 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,119 Now, we begin with this. 8 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,159 It is the Toyota GT 86, a car which has stirred the soul 9 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,239 and indeed the trousers of every petrolhead in the land. 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,719 But, unfortunately, to explain why 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,240 I need to be a little bit boring. 12 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,120 What we have here is a front-wheel drive car 13 00:01:02,121 --> 00:01:06,040 going around Chicago Corner in an exuberant manner. 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,358 If we slow the film down, 15 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:11,960 you can see the front wheels are fully turned, 16 00:01:11,961 --> 00:01:15,119 but the car is ploughing straight on. 17 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,680 This is called understeer. 18 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,920 Now, here we have another car coming around the same corner 19 00:01:25,921 --> 00:01:28,320 in the same exuberant fashion. 20 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,920 However, because this one is rear-wheel drive, 21 00:01:34,921 --> 00:01:37,999 the back end is sliding out of line. 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,119 This is called oversteer. 23 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,600 Now, for reasons that are extremely difficult to explain 24 00:01:44,601 --> 00:01:49,239 to normal human beings, petrolheads prefer oversteer. 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,559 We like the front end to grip and the rear to be all loose 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,839 and that means we prefer rear-wheel drive. 27 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:02,039 But rear-drive cars - Jags, BMWs, Porsches, Mercs - 28 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:07,000 are complicated to make and that means they tend to be expensive. 29 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,479 That brings me back to the new GT 86 - 30 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,280 a rear-wheel drive car that costs just £25,000. 31 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,040 Whoo! Ha-ha! 32 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,799 It gets better. The engine is a flat-four boxer unit 33 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,519 so the pistons go like that and that means it can be mounted low down 34 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,759 and that means a low centre of gravity. 35 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,720 And there's no turbo charger so there's no lag. 36 00:02:49,721 --> 00:02:53,680 Everything about the GT 86 is immediate... 37 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,199 and brilliant. 38 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,080 And I haven't got to the best bit yet. 39 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,680 To make sure that its tail is as waggly as possible... 40 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,399 they use exactly the same sort of skinny little tyres 41 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,600 they use on a Prius. 42 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,719 And what it means is the petrolhead can enjoy some tail-out action 43 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,679 at low, non-frightening speeds. 44 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,880 Look, here we are, 30 miles an hour, well within the speed limit, 45 00:03:36,881 --> 00:03:38,800 and the tail's gone! 46 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,680 You might think it's daft 47 00:03:51,681 --> 00:03:55,039 fitting deliberately ungrippy tyres on a car. 48 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,159 You might think that you'd inevitably crash, but would you? 49 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,400 Well, let's find out. 50 00:04:00,401 --> 00:04:04,479 How hard is it to slide this thing at 80 miles per hour 51 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,560 the wrong way round the Hammerhead? 52 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,879 Not hard. 53 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,519 You could drift this car while reading a book. 54 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,359 So I did. 55 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,199 "Some regard non-echoic irony" 56 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:29,599 "as being produced by semantic reversal." 57 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,480 Interesting point. 58 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,200 Because of the thin tyres, it's obvious the GT 86 was not designed 59 00:04:39,201 --> 00:04:42,559 to set new lap records at the Nurburgring. 60 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,679 And with a 197 horsepower, two-litre engine, 61 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,920 it won't win many drag races either. 62 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,480 What it will do, though, is put a massive smile 63 00:04:56,481 --> 00:05:00,600 on the face of every motoring enthusiast in the world. 64 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,079 It isn't even stupid. 65 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,320 It comes with easy finance and a five-year warranty 66 00:05:16,321 --> 00:05:20,919 and cruise control and Bluetooth and air-conditioning come as standard. 67 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,078 There's a boot too, which is big enough for things 68 00:05:24,079 --> 00:05:26,280 and in the back, a couple of seats. 69 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,078 There are, however, a couple of problems. 70 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,880 One, it doesn't look particularly interesting 71 00:05:34,881 --> 00:05:37,920 and two, it has a deadly rival. 72 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,080 Welcome, everyone, to the Subaru BRZ. 73 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,120 Like the Toyota, it has rear drive. 74 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,600 And a low-mounted two-litre boxer engine. 75 00:05:54,800 --> 00:06:00,359 Like the Toyota, it'll go from 0-60 in 7.7 seconds 76 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,639 and onwards to a top speed of 137. 77 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,000 And the similarities go further than that. 78 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,239 Both cost the same. 79 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,638 They have the same bodies 80 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:18,440 and the same interiors with the same equipment. 81 00:06:18,441 --> 00:06:22,599 They're even built by the same people in the same factory. 82 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,920 You might imagine, then, that it's quite hard to 83 00:06:24,921 --> 00:06:28,200 choose between them, but, actually, it isn't. 84 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,840 Watch, because this is how you do it. 85 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,119 Eeeny meeny miny moe Catch a teacher by his toe. 86 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,520 When he squeals let him go Eeeny meeny miny moe. 87 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,519 Toyota it is. 88 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:59,119 A-ha, now we must find out how fast the winner of our 89 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,640 eeny-meeny-miny-moe test goes round our track and that, of course, 90 00:07:02,641 --> 00:07:06,239 means handing it over to our tame racing driver. 91 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,200 Some say that, following the vote on gay marriage, 92 00:07:09,201 --> 00:07:12,719 he's got engaged to James May's lawn mower. 93 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,599 And that he's become convinced this week that Henry IV is buried 94 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,639 under the Follow Through?! 95 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,000 All we know is he's called The Stig! 96 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,159 And he's off. 97 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,039 Skinny Prius tyres scrambling for grip on the damp track 98 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,118 could make for some big slides. 99 00:07:32,119 --> 00:07:34,720 Let's be finding out here on the first corner. 100 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,960 He's keeping it remarkably tidy so far. That is a bit of a surprise. 101 00:07:40,961 --> 00:07:44,200 ♪ Canada. ♪ 102 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,158 Stig still obsessed with national anthems. 103 00:07:48,159 --> 00:07:50,238 No need to tell you where that's from 104 00:07:50,239 --> 00:07:54,358 and no surprise the GT 86 did go a bit sideways around Chicago. 105 00:07:54,359 --> 00:07:57,838 Right, Hammerhead now. ABS pulsing hard under braking. 106 00:07:57,839 --> 00:07:59,920 Suspect it might oversteer here. 107 00:07:59,921 --> 00:08:02,079 Yes, there it is. 108 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,839 It is very, very tail happy when it's greasy. 109 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,199 Bet Stig's smiling, though. 110 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,440 ♪ From far and wide, Canada... ♪ 111 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,718 Now, will we see a small brown Richard III from the Follow Through? 112 00:08:17,719 --> 00:08:21,480 I think we might. Looking a little bit out of shape there. 113 00:08:21,481 --> 00:08:25,159 OK, now we just have two corners left. 114 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,880 Here we are, little bit of opposite lock going in there to keep 115 00:08:27,881 --> 00:08:30,479 it all tidy and now Gambon. 116 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,398 Here he comes and - guess what? - 117 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:35,040 he's sideways again, but across the line. 118 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,600 It did i...
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