"Tanner Foust:" "Now, on "Top Gear"..." "Rutledge Wood:" "This is it." "The epic battle!" "Oh, Adam's gonna crash." "We head to Minnesota to find out what it's like to drive in one of the harshest environments in the country." "No!" "Oh, oh, oh!" "Oh, ho!" "[Wind whistling]" "Tanner:" "Minnesota, home to the most brutal winters in the lower 48 states." "Temperatures here can get as low as negative 60 degrees Fahrenheit." "Driving in winter here is as tough on cars as it gets, so many of the locals have cheap second cars just for the frozen months called winter beaters." "But which is the ideal vehicle to get you through until spring?" "With only $2,000 each, we went to Baudette, Minnesota, to find out." "Ohh." "Wow." "It's a lot colder than I thought it would be out here." "I can't feel my feet." "This snow is so thick." "Where are the cars?" "There they are." "Oh, I didn't count on that." "Adam Ferrara:" "Our cars had been left out on a froze lake overnight." "So it was obvious what our first task would be." "I bet you I can get my car out of that mound down that logging road and out of the woods before you." "Not a chance." "That sounds like a race." "Sounds like a race to me." " You ready?" " Yeah." "3, 2, 1, go." " Oh." "Wait." " Go." "[Adam laughing]" "Let's give it a smaller..." "Heavy snow." "Ooh!" "Ha ha ha!" "I hate the snow." "We just got here." " Ohh." " Wait." "How do you know which car is which?" "That's not my car." "Your car yellow?" "Yellow." "That's me." "Come on, baby." "That's a lot of snow." "There it is." "Did you get a 300 ZX, seriously?" "You're damn straight I did." "In a Blazer?" "That Blazer's not gonna make it 100 yards." "And a Subaru, Rutledge." "Any more predictable?" "You guys are gonna watch me drive out of here." "Ok." "Please start." "Aha!" "I've gained entrance." "Come on, baby." "Come on, baby." "Start." "[Engine starting]" "She starts." "[Engine starting]" "Yes!" "Yes." "Oh, no." "Rutledge is moving." "How is that possible?" "Oh, Subaru." "Oh, look out." "[Engine cranking]" "[Engine starting] Yes!" "It's alive." "Adam:" "Come on, baby, bite." "Bite!" "The damn 4-wheel drive isn't working." "Come on, come on, come on, yeah!" "I'm comin' to get you, Rut." "Comin' to get ya." "[Engine revving]" "Come on, come on, come on." "As soon as I make it up this steep hill with rear-wheel drive..." "That's what I'm talkin' about right there." "[Engine revving]" "Hey!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "I'm out!" "I'm out." "Tanner:" "We made our escape and the race was on." "[Brakes squealing] Uh-oh." "Uh-oh." "Ice." "We're ok." "We're ok." "Oh, ho!" "Oh, look at Tanner." "[Engine revving]" "Climb up." "Climb up." "Climb up it." "There you go." "[Engine revving]" "Oh, this is huge!" "Ohh, look at that." "Whoa." "Oh, look at me." "Scandinavian flip." "I got your number, Subi." "Ha ha!" "It's ugly, but it works." "Oh, look at this hill." "Whoa!" "Whoa." "Subaru." "Get that all-wheel drive out of the way." "Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" "That is what I'm talking about." "I am the greatest rally driver that there has ever been." "Ha ha!" "Eh?" "Eh?" "I mean, the whole winter beater concept is awesome." "Instead of getting a brand-new set of tires for your car that you might put in the ditch anyway, you get a whole different car." "If you wreck it, you just ditch it." "For the same money." " For about the same money." " Disposable." "Yeah, with the winter beater, who cares?" "You scratch it, you dent it, doesn't matter." "You know what you need in a good winter beater?" "You need a nice strong heater," " Good." " Yeah." "And all-wheel drive." "Just like this beautiful 1998 Subaru Legacy GT." "This is the perfect winter beater." "Sure, it's got 200,000 miles on it." "But again, beater." "I don't care." "I disagree, my friend." "What you need is ground clearance, 4-wheel drive, like the '98 Chevy Blazer S-10." "Oh!" "And guess what." "I can put it into rear-wheel drive." "You know how I do that?" "Just by pushing a button." "Does it work?" "It works sometimes, yeah." "Ok, you guys have gotten this all wrong." "What you need is something that's fun." "That is what the '91 300 Z is." "Rear-wheel drive is just fine as long as it's got a good balance to it, like a nice sports car." " Question." " Yeah." "What if you live up a hill?" "Rutledge:" "Great question." "What's next?" "Hypothermia's next." "My heater's still going." "I'm getting in." "[Truck horn honks]" "Rutledge:" "Our next challenge was 30 miles away, just outside the small town of Baudette." "Oh, I love to hear that boxer engine." "Choo!" "This car is perfect for winter." "It's all-wheel drive, which means the power is split up between the wheels." "The idea is to get more power down to the ground when you need it and less when you don't." "Unlike Tanner's choice of winter beater." "[Laughing]" "When you're driving on ice and snow, most of the time, you're not accelerating really hard." "Most of the time, you're steering and braking, and a nice low center of gravity and good suspension that the 300 Z has, all the things that make it a great performance and racing-type car also make it a good winter car." "So, what do guys who plow driveways use?" "They use trucks." "What does the sheriff department use?" "Trucks." "The highway department?" "Trucks." "You know why?" "Because they work." "They're the proper car for winter." "You got plenty of ground clearance, body-on-frame toughness." "I am high up." "I got visibility." "4.3 liter v6." "190 horsepower." "On the fly 4-wheel drive." "Sometimes." "After 20 minutes, we pass through the town of Baudette." "Rutledge:" "Look at that huge fish." "And my choice of a winter beater was making more and more sense." "Look around." "I see nothing but trucks, gentlemen." "Nothing but trucks." "You mean full-size, like real trucks?" "Not little pretend S-10 type trucks, right?" "It's still a truck." "Body on frame, 4-wheel drive, Mr. 'Bu." "I think you guys are just going to have to admit for a good winter car, you need all-wheel drive." "No, you need 4-wheel drive, and you need a truck." "I'm not sure about that." "I mean, the all-wheel drive's gonna help you accelerating, and that's it." "The braking and steering part probably does more harm than good." "Yeah, you're right." "People are really hurting themselves with 4-wheel drive in the snow." "Tanner:" "A few minutes later, we arrived at the location of our next challenge, and it looked intimidating." "A.E.T. turning in right here." "Follow me." "Adam:" "Baudette automotive enviro testing facility is where car companies come from around the world to put their new vehicles to the supreme test of winter survivability." "This massive 820-acre site has everything required to bring a new vehicle to its knees." "If our old cars could survive here, we'd succeed in our challenge to find the ultimate winter beater." "This place is incredible." "Look at all this snow." "Oh!" "Adam's gonna crash." "Adam's gonna crash." "Rutledge:" "Oh, there goes... oh!" "There goes Adam." "There goes Adam." "Hee hee!" "What happened there, Adam?" "4-wheel drive didn't help?" "I'm right with ya." "[Snickering]" "That was awesome." "I could almost hear you inside the car." "[Imitating Adam] I..." "I got it." "I got it." "I got it." "[Laughing]" "[Laughing]" "Tanner:" "Nice 4-wheel drive, Adam." "How much fun is this place?" "It's a winter wonderland." "Aw, totally." "This is where, like, all the manufacturers come." "They test tires." "They got ice pads and snow pads and circles and off-road courses." "Which is like they built the place specifically for the Blazer." "Whatever." "Rutledge:" "To see if our $2,000 winter beaters were up to the task of handling the toughest conditions, we test their braking and handling on a course covered in ice and snow." "You guys are in trouble." "This was made for the Subaru." "You know what?" "I'll go first." "Do it, killer." "We would start out on a long straightaway to gain speed, then brake to enter a hard left." "A slight downhill slope was followed by an uphill climb and an off-camber turn, which would take us to a nasty 180-degree hairpin, looping us back to the finish line." "I would love to beat Tanner at this." "I would love to beat Tanner at anything, but especially, especially this." "[Engine revs]" "Are you ready?" "I'm ready." "3... 2... 1, go!" "There we go, baby." "Look at him." "Late for school." "Boom, second gear." "Oh, this thing is fast." "He's doing about 50 Miles per hour." "That is way too fast for this." "Tanner:" "He's braking, going through the first gate." "Yes, she's rotating." "It's all ice, it's all ice." "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Oh, no!" "Ohh!" "Adam:" "Coming up..." "We go wheel-to-wheel with some mad men on an ice track." "This is the most fun" "I have ever had in a car." "And it's the ultimate winter beater versus a snowboarder." "Tanner: "Top Gear" had sent us to baudette, Minnesota, to find the perfect disposable winter car." "That's a lot of snow." "So far, Rut won the first challenge." "And now we were competing in a braking and handling challenge on an ice course, and Rut's $2,000 Subaru was in trouble." "Oh, oh!" "Ha ha!" "Oh, no!" "Ohh!" "Oh, I hit a snow bank." "[Laughing] He spun out." "Tanner:" "He's going." "Ok, ok." "Let's send her this way, down through the grass." "All right, now we're cookin'." "It's ok!" "Hello." "Oh!" "Face slapper." "Ow!" "Swattin' some bees." "Ok, gotta get up to second here." "There it is." "Ok, up through the snow." "Come on, Subaru." "Come on, baby." "Come on." "Whoo!" "All right, a little bit sideways here." "Ohh." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, there it is." "Oh, oh, oh!" "Did he catch the cone?" "No, he didn't get the cone." "Unbelievable." "Come on, baby." "Here it is." "Ok, once around the cone." "That's all we gotta do." "Get ready to set the clock." "Step back." "Step back." "Here he comes." "Don't know if that's fast or not." "I don't know if it's good, but it's there." "Whoo!" "Well, you're alive." "How about that?" "Somehow, you managed to get your ass out of that bank." "Yeah." "It was a nice pirouette, though." "You kind of swung around." "You looked... you looked like a big girl in a hammock." "I carried a little bit more speed into that first turn than you probably should." "But, you know, she just kept diggin' and just pulled her way right out." "All right, well, here's the good news." "153.13." "Whoo!" "Tanner was up next, and the wisdom of choosing a rear-wheel drive car for the snow and ice was about to be tested." "Tanner:" "Always keep the back tires on snow." "That's gonna be the key." "And this whole little last gate that's kind of off-camber and weird, that's gonna be a tough one." "All right, you ready?" "Time to beat is 1:53." " 1:53." " Ready." "Count him down." "3, 2, 1, go." " That's it." " Really?" "Yeah, that's it." "Well, that... that sure looks like a fun winter car to me." "[Adam laughing]" "So little drift." "Try not to spin the tires." "Come on." "Come on!" "Fourth gear." "The speedometer hit 100 miles per hour." "That is awesome." "I've never wanted him to hit a snow bank more than I do right now." "On the inside." "Ooh, a little bit of understeer there." "Oh!" "He's just walking." "That's not fun at all." "He's barely moving." "All right, in through the gate." "A little off-roading." "Boy, it came down hard into that, didn't it?" "[Laughing] Look at that." "Up the hill she goes." "You can make it." "Don't get stuck." "Don't get stuck!" "Yeah, made it!" "That's what I was worried about." "Oh, now, this part's tricky." "And also this kind of weird off-camber turn." "Oh, oh!" "Here he comes." "There it is." "He's in there." "Oh, no." "Oh, no, I'm stuck." "I'm stuck." "Come on." "Don't get stuck." "Don't get stuck." "Oh, son of a... oh, is he stuck?" "He's not gonna make it." "Ha ha ha ha ha!" "He's not gonna make it." "He's backing up." "No!" "You can do it." "Come on!" "It's not the car, it's the driver." "[Imitating Tanner] All-wheel drive, 4-wheel drive." "Who needs that?" "I'm runnin'." "[Laughing] He's gonna get out." "There you go." "[Laughing]" "What's my time?" "You're at like 1:30." "Once around the cone." "Come on, I can make it." "Oh, I hope he doesn't fall and just totally bust his ass." "[Both laughing]" "Come on." "Now, remember." "Don't tell him he's gonna lose." "Come on, you can... oh, it's so close." "You're almost there." "Go home." "Bring it out." "No!" "I'm gonna walk." "In a blaze of glory." "Oh, no." "You're gonna totally beat my time." "[Laughing]" "What was my time?" "3 days, 4 hours." "Come on!" "Are you kidding?" "It was over 2 minutes over there." "You're a mess." "You know what would probably help you?" "There's some..." "there's some courses you can take that will help you with car control in winter conditions." "Yes." "Those would be really." "It's called steamboats ice driving." "Yeah." "I know a guy who used to be an instructor there." "Do you want me to use the Subaru and pull you out?" "I was up next, and with the 4-wheel drive functioning again, the Blazer was perfect for this challenge." "If he doesn't put it in the bank, it's gonna be pushed out." " He will." " If it's in 4-wheel drive, he's got a chance." " Fire it up." " All right, let's go." "Uh-oh." "[Click]" "Is that the starter?" "Start it up!" "[Clicking]" "One minute." "It's not gonna start." "Let me guess." "It doesn't work." "It's not gonna start." "No, no, no." "I just need a jump." "You got cables?" "No." "You're on the line." "That's ok." "I just want..." "it's the battery." "I just need a jump." "Just give me a jump." "Seems like you worn down the battery." "I'll give you a push." "We'll push you." "Put it in neutral." "No, you can't pop-start it." "It's an automatic, you dope." "We just need you to get across the line before we... it's a beater." "Who cares?" "Can you put it in neutral?" "You can't pop-start it." "It's an automatic." "Look, just give me a jump and I'm ready to go." "Just give me a jump." "With the failure of Tanner's Nissan to complete the course and Adam's inability to even start his Blazer, it was another victory for my Subaru." "[Honk]" "Ok, that's nice." "That's fun for everybody." "It's a party now." "An hour later, with Tanner's z pulled out of the snow and Adam's Blazer back up and running, we headed deeper into the proving grounds for our next challenge." "Whew!" "It's cold." "Yes, it is." "A bit brisk." "What in the hell ae we doing here?" "We'd arrived at cold cell 203b, a testing chamber designed to freeze cars at brutal temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees." "So to test our cars' heaters and built quality, we'd get 5 minutes to warm up with the heat on before parking in the cold cell." "Whoever could stay in their car the longest would win." "The temperatures we'd be facing were dangerously cold." "Oh, good, medical staff." "That's... that's what we need." "How are you?" "So we had a crew of emts standing by in case of emergency." "What happens to the human condition at minus 40 degrees?" "You'll lose function in your hands, in your feet." "The blood will start moving to your core to keep your heart, your lungs, your vitals warm." "Is there like a certain feeling that your body gets before you start to get hypothermic?" "You'll start shaking." "That's when you know hypothermia is kicking in." "Let's say that we get to our bail-out point and we want out." "What do we have to warm us up?" "Heat packs, blankets..." " Any whiskey?" " No." "I read online once that alcohol is not good for hypothermia." "Do you know what is, though?" "What?" "Oddly enough, skin-on-skin contact inside of a sleeping bag." "Which one of you is willing to save me with skin-on-skin contact should I fall victim to hypothermia?" "When's the last time you shaved your back?" "I'll miss you." "Well, this is disappointing." "While one can imagine Rutledge's back hair keeping him warm on a cool fall day, it's tough to imagine temperatures as low as 40 below." "Ohh!" "Holy cow, that's cold!" "Ohh!" "It's hard to breathe." "So we headed into the cold cell to see what were were in for." "This is so cold, you know what you could do?" "Take a cup of hot water and you just..." "Whoosh!" "Ha ha ha!" "Whoa!" "It turns to ice that quickly." "Dude, what are we doing here?" "It's like breathing in pins." "Ok, let's go." "I've had enough." "To ensure that it was our cars' heating systems and not the thickness of our winter coats being tested..." "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Aah!" "Really?" "We were told to strip down before getting back into our cars." "Oh, (Bleep)!" "It's so cold!" "Ooh!" "Oh, (Bleep)!" "V-v-v-v... ohh..." "Oh, God." "Oh, please, please." "[Revving]" "Oh, 5 minutes of heat." "It's like burning." "It's so cold it burns." "The heater doesn't work that good." "[Revving]" "After 5 minutes of warming up, we headed in to our frozen coffins." "Holy crap, it looks cold in here." "All right, here we go." "I am in the cold cell." "[Buzzer]" "[Clanking, whirring]" "Ok, guys, here we go." "Engines off, in 5... 4...3... 2...1." "Car's off." "And turning the engine off." "Ok." "Goodbye, heat." "This is the dumbest idea ever." "I don't know about you guys," "I am just..." "I'm warm as could be." "This Subaru must be really well-insulated, really good winter beater." "Well, I'll tell you, the Blazer, it's like a sauna in here." "Oh, my gosh." "Tanner, you're earth control?" "No." "Are you hitting the brake?" "Are you thinking about getting out of there?" "What?" "No, I'm in here for the night." "Are you kidding me?" "I was just stretching out a little bit." "But after a few minutes, the freezing air is beginning to take its toll on all of us." "It's... it's getting cold in here pretty quick." "Ohh..." "I'm getting a sunburn." "It's nice and warm." "O-ok, the windows are frosty." "I know they said if you rub it, it could fall off." "As the minutes ticked away and the in-car temperature plummeted, we began to resort to desperate measures." "Oh, my God." "[Indistinct]" "Oh, the radiation is probably so unhealthy, it gives a person brain lock." "Ohh..." "Tanner, look in your rearview mirror." "Is Rut's car moving?" "Yes, it is." "You think he's having a stroke?" "What's happening back there?" "Oh, there it is." "There it is." "Like a gym." "It's like a home gym in here." "Rut's 2 1/2 pull-ups may have raised his temperature a little bit, but it was no match for the freezing cold." "I think we've been in here about 10 minutes, fellas." "How's things going in the 'bu, Rut?" "I don't think that there's any dairy or milk product that would spoil in the car." "Yeah, I mean, I can hear the car cracking around me now." "As we approached the 15-minute mark, the temperature in our cars had dropped to 8 degrees." "I'm just trying to not be the first one to give up." "But let's be honest..." "I got a beautiful wife, so unlike Tanner, I'm not trying to land a chick from this show, so I..." "I think I'm just gonna bail." "Subaru's awesome." "I'm out." "It is so cold!" "I gotta go, go, go!" "I gotta go!" "I need to go!" "Need to go." "As I warmed up in the cozy embrace of the EMTs," "Adam and Tanner continued to battle it out." "I can't feel my fingertips or my face." "I know." "My toes are gone." "Fingers are next." "In order to save my extremities, it was time for plan B." "It's cold." "It's cold." "This is getting serious." "Goosebumps are not working." "I chose poorly." "This is not my idea of car performance." "We were in the frozen plains of northern Minnesota, competing to see who had the best winter vehicle." "Subaru!" "Come on, baby." "Rut had won two challenges so far, but he was the first to quit in the cold cell task." "I need to go!" "I need to go!" "Now after over 25 minutes in an industrial freezer at negative 38, it was down to me in the 300 ZX..." "And Adam in his Blazer." "I chose poorly." "This was not the ideal car." "Uhh!" "Uhh!" "Oh, Adam's out!" "Ohh!" "Oh, it's cold!" "Close that, man." "It's cold!" "It's freezing in there." "Jeez!" "I'm out." "My Nissan had taken it." "But inside, Adam was struggling." "[Beeping]" "Are you really shaking like that?" "Have a seat." "Have a seat over there." "So on the advice of the EMTs, we decided to call it a day." "The next morning, it was zero degrees as we drove across the test facility to our final challenge." "My Subaru was in the lead with two wins, followed by Tanner's Z with one." "Adam's Chevy matched the temperature." "When we got to our destination, we found out we weren't alone." "Whoa, guys, what in the hell's going on here?" "Holy crap." "Wow." "Those are some serious machines." "So what are we doing here?" "I think you can pretty much guess." "Yeah." "Your winter cars will now face the ultimate winter challenge." "Competing in a wheel-to-wheel race on a frozen course." "And adding to the difficulty of racing on the ice, we'd also be competing against these..." "Minnesota's best ice drivers." "And because it was an all-around test of our cars' abilities, we decided to make it winner-takes-all." "The first vehicle to complete 5 laps wins." "Simple enough." "Unless you're 2-wheel drive, just 3 laps will do." "It doesn't say that." "It doesn't say that." "I mean, it could have." "But it doesn't." "The Subaru has basically won everything." "Gentlemen, 4-wheel drive, fully functional." "The Blazer is ready to kill the both of you." "No way." "We got a race car, we got a race." "It's on." "This is good stuff." "I'm stoked." "How are you stoked?" "You've been sliding all over the place." "I know." "I just got a feeling." "No, I think I can get a better grip out here now." "You can tell by the surface." "The temperature." "You have a feeling you can get better... what did you do?" "You studded the tires." "He studded the tires." " That's cheating." " Yeah." "The whole point was to get a winter beater just as it is and use that." "You can't stud the tires." "What's wrong with you?" "These are the tires that came with it." "I spent like 10 bucks on the studs." "They didn't come with the studs in them." "It's still a winter beater." "Trust me." "Well, you know, there's a penalty for cheating." " Yeah." " What?" "This is ridiculous." "Look how happy he looks dragging a trailer." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "You guys are idiots." "Who puts a porta-john on the back of a sports car?" "You guys ready?" "[Revving]" "Here we go, in 5... 4...3... 2...1..." "Go!" "Here we go." "Good launch!" "Good launch!" "Oh, Adam's is..." "Adam's pushing 'em already!" "How did Adam get that hole shot so fast?" "Holy crap." "Out of the gate my 4-wheel drive had kicked in and sent the Blazer charging ahead." "While Tanner's Nissan porta-potty was left in a cloud of my [Indistinct]." "Son of a..." "I'm dead in the water." "Good speed." "First turn." "First turn." "Good speed." "Good speed. [Indistinct] That's it." "Ha ha!" "I passed one of the killers." "I have dropped a few positions already." "I'm sliding." "I'm sliding." "Oh, jeez." "Whoa!" "Tanner's in the back." "That's the good news." "Is this porta-john full or what?" "Don't wreck it." "Don't wreck it." "Holy crap!" "Really?" "Oh, thanks, that's what I need, just a light dusting of snow in my face." "Go!" "You big... how is Adam in the lead?" "That's lap one." "Lap one." "By the end of the first lap," "Adam was way out in front of me and Tanner." "This is so sketchy." "I basically can't see anybody." "There's just snow everywhere." "What is happening?" "I missed the turn again!" "Whoa!" "Oh-ho!" "Whoa, I'm in the bank!" "I'm in the bank!" "Oh, this is so much harder than it looks." "This, uh... (Bleep)!" "My Nissan was struggling, and with only two laps down..." "Adam was already filling my rearview mirror." "I'm about to get lapped." "I'm coming to get ya!" "Come on, Adam, I dare you to pass me." "Uh-oh." "The trailer's stuck." "I'm gonna catch Tanner with the (Bleep) house on the back." "Ha ha!" "All right, I'm losing the trailer." "I'm ditching it." "Hey, that's cheating!" "Come back here, Rutledge, you son of a..." "With my lightened load..." "Oh, no!" "Where am I going?" "!" "And one small slip-up from Rut..." "Come on!" "I was back in the hunt." "Oh, I'm coming to get you, you..." "Really?" "Come on, damn it." "Oh, with my all-wheel drive." "Oh, I shop at whole foods." "Ok, that's 3." "3 laps!" "Go, go, go, go, go." "Come on, come on, get in there." "When I erased Adam's one-lap advantage on lap 3..." "I'll win this round!" "I'm coming to get ya!" "I was already tasting the victory beer." "Come on, go, Subaru!" "Subaru!" "Oh, this is the most fun I have ever had in a car." "Last lap!" "Last lap!" "With one lap to go, Tanner completely regained his ground, and he was on the warpath." "I can't believe how close I am to Rutledge." "There you are, you son of a..." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Tanner tail!" "Whoo-hoo-hoo!" "Coming for you, Adam!" "You can't pass me now." "Get thee behind me, Satan." "Ha ha!" "Hoo hoo hoo hoo!" "Ha ha." "[Indistinct shouting]" "Whoo-hoo-hoo!" "This is blinking'." "This is it..." "the epic battle of beaters!" ""Top Gear" had sent us to northern Minnesota to find the perfect winter beater." "So far I've won our race through the woods and the braking and handling test, and Tanner won the cold cell challenge." "Now we were on the final lap of a 5-lap race around a 1 1/2-mile frozen track." "Amazingly, Adam was in the lead." "Last lap!" "Last lap!" "This is it... the epic battle of beaters!" "Hoo hoo hoo hoo!" "No, you're not passing me." "It's not gonna happen." "Oh, yes!" "Oh!" "On the inside!" "Can he do it?" "Oh!" "No, he can't do it." "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "Ohh!" "This is so cool!" "[Indistinct]" "Into the final turn I had one last chance to overtake Adam and hold even with Rut on the leader board." "La la la!" "I know what you're trying to do." "Oh, did it happen, Adam?" "Come on!" "Bring it!" "Ohh!" "Noooo!" "You son of a..." "Oh ha ha ha ha ha!" "He is gonna be so mad." "With Rut doing my dirty work, victory belonged to my ship." "Ha ha!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "That's 5 laps!" "That's 5 laps!" "[Honk honk]" "Tanner was having the rare experience of coming in last." "So how does a race car driver deal with losing?" "Put a porta-John on the car." "That's a good idea." "Ha ha ha!" "He's so angry." "How are those studded tires treating you?" "All the studs are shot out." "And there's Subaru paint on it." "Hey..." "Racing, man." "So this was winner take all." "I was the winner, so it's all mine." "The Blazer is the best winter beater." "When it's working." "When it works." "It's working now." "Yadda yadda yadda." "Don't yadda me." "I'm just saying." "So technically, Adam may have one, but each of our cheap winter beaters had pretty much survived all the challenges that Minnesota had thrown at them." "But what sort of winter car would you go for if you really had some dough?" "I went to Colorado to find out." "If it's winter and you're rich and you actually like the snow, you probably come to a place like this, the exclusive playground of Breckenridge, Colorado." "The average home price in this neighborhood is $5 million." "In fact, Kevin costner's place is right there." "So, if you spend your winters with this elite company, what kind of winter beater could you have?" "According to Bentley, you should have one of these." "This is a 2013 Continental GT." "It was a twin turbo v8, 500 horsepower." "It'll go 188 Miles an hour..." "And go 0 to 60 in 4.8 seconds." "Say you have a Veyron or anAventador or a Zonda and God forbid it snows." "You're not gonna drive one of those around in the slush and the salt." "If you want to get to your $5 million estate, you're gonna need something "cheaper."" "Something all-wheel drive." "[Waltz playing]" "And the all-wheel drive is the reason" "Bentley says the continental gt is the ideal car for snow and ice." "To test that, I was driving up a mountain to go head to head in a race against a champion snowboarder." "This car in no way whatsoever resembles anything like my winter beater of choice, the Nissan 300 ZX." "It's nice." "It's comfortable." "It's expensive." "It's comfortable..." "It's expensive..." "And it's nice." "And, as with all Bentleys, you get a lot of luxury, to separate you from the less fortunate people outside." "We've got double-paned glass with a film in between to block out sound." "The leather inside this car is from cows specifically bred in Norwegian countries or northern Germany where there's less biting flies, so there are very few imperfections in the cow skin." "And the clock, of course, is by breitling, to match perfectly with your $8,000 wristwatch." "The Continental GT is a far cry from my Nissan, as is the new v8, which replaces the w12 that up until now all continentals have had." "Bentley claims their push to the v8 is all about eco-consciousness and efficiency." "But with the fuel prices in Europe, sometimes, especially in the U.K. Reaching $9.00 a gallon, you can kind of see where their head's at." "But the fact is, with a nearly 3-ton car," "Greenpeace isn't going to send you any medals this thing." "But driving a Bentley has never been about saving the planet." "Ok, let's face it." "People buy a Bentley because they want to look and feel, well, rich." "But what a lot of Bentley owners may not know is that this is basically just an Audi with a really, really nice interior." "That's right." "Underneath all this old-school British luxury beats a German heart." "The 1998 Bentley was bought out by the Volkswagen group, owners of Audi, Lamborghini, and Bugatti." "And this $200,000 car has the engine and all-wheel drive system of the $70,000 Audio A8." "But that's actually not a bad thing." "But if they're gonna use the Audi engine and use so much of the drive train, why not use the best part of the A8, which is the aluminum chassis?" "It would save so much weight on this car and make it even faster." "Once you really are able to open those turbos up, it's unbelievable how fast this thing swallows the real estate, even if it is icy and snowy." "What amazes me is how this reminds me of the audi quattro I had in college." "That was my ice track car." "That was the car I learned car control with." "The Bentley really does have the good parts of the Audi DNA." "And if there's one thing an Audi can do, it's get through snow." "So far, the Bentley has taken every bit of snowy road" "I've thrown at it and eaten it for breakfast." "So I've decided to take it a little bit out of its comfort zone, to a place no card-carrying Bentley owner would ever find himself... a snowboard terrain park." "But not just any terrain park." "This is the olympic training center, copper Mountain." "And I'm not just gonna find out if I can get to the bottom of the terrain park," "I'm gonna find out how fast, by racing it against a snowboarder." "This is Benji Farrow." "Benji is a member of the U.S. snowboard team and an olympic hopeful in 2014." "So, that should make him pretty good." "You know, it's an expensive back bumper, so try not to run into me at the bottom, all right?" "I don't think that's gonna be a problem." "If I bump into you, yeah, I don't know," "I'm probably not even gonna feel it." "It's gonna be like a squish." "I have a feeling my edges are a little sharper than your car." "Whatever, Benji." "Just try not to scratch her." "Love me some purple." "Our race would be over a course 1,000 yards long, with a gradient slope of 26 degrees, covered with several feet of snow." "This could put the all-wheel drive system to a serious test." "I'd have to slalom around 5 flags before crossing the finish line, while Benji could take any route he wanted over the jumps at the terrain park." "All right, Benji, you've got the name of a dog, and I am going to race you." "So this was it." "Over 5,000 pounds against barely 160." "500 great horsepower..." "Against, well, one small man." "In 3... 2...1..." "Go!" "We went to Baudette, Minnesota, to see if our choice of winter beaters could withstand everything that winter could dish out." "Now I was about to race the ultimate winter beater, a $200,000 Bentley against a professional snowboarder." "In 3... 2...1..." "Go!" "Oh, really great, we're slipping..." "Than I thought it would be." "I will not be beaten by a man named after a dog." "Ohh!" "Ooh!" "We're gonna be good." "Oh, my God." "Ooh!" "[Indistinct]" "Despite the Bentley's all-wheel drive system, its 5,000-pound weight was making it difficult to control." "I have to slow down so much for these gates." "Watch this." "[Indistinct]" "Can you believe... ohh!" "Let's win for the Bentley!" "With only 500 yards to go, it was neck-and-neck." "Ooh-whee, ha ha!" "[Indistinct] 0 to 60 in 4.7 seconds." "[Indistinct]" "I got something I want to...[Indistinct]." "Oh, I'm almost running him over!" "With 200 yards to the finish," "Benji took the lead." "But it wasn't over yet." "Yeah, that's right, that's my kid!" "Ohh, (Bleep)!" "Yeah!" "Yeah... that [Indistinct]!" "Unbelievable!" "[Indistinct]" "That's what I'm talking about." "Benji, I am so sorry." "Oh, man, we're gonna have to put a leash back on you and take you home." "The Bentley Continental with its new v8 and all-wheel drive system may have sent Benji back to the pound... ok, last dog reference... but it still had one surprise left for me." "It's one thing to go down the terrain park, trust me, it's another to be able to climb right back up it." "I am so blown away by this car right now." "Proving beyond a doubt that the ultimate winter beater is the Bentley Continental GT."