"(GUNSHOTS)" "(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)" "(ALARM BLARING)" "(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)" "(GUNSHOT)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "(MAN GRUNTS)" "(GUNS FIRING)" "(WATCH BEEPS)" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "(AIRCRAFT ENGINE WHIRRING)" "(GRUNTING)" "(GROANING)" "(GROANING)" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "(THUDS)" "(ENGINE STARTING)" "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "(TANK GUN FIRING)" "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "(BEEPING)" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "(BEEPING RAPIDLY)" "Great job guys, nice fall." "Ah, lovely." "Didn't need that one." " Thanks a lot." " Thanks, Ben." "Ah, cheers, Andy." "Sweet, thanks." "I'm Ben Collins." "I've been a stunt driver on Batman, Bond, Fast and Furious." "I've also played the masked racing driver on a popular motoring programme called Top... (THUDDING)" "BARRY:" "Hello, Ben." "Thanks for joining me at such short notice." "Oh, it's, it's an absolute pleasure." "Uh, do you not think this would be easier on the phone?" "You will soon understand the need for precautions." "Yep, you're a known paranoid and, uh..." "We've known each other for years, anyway." " And you're certain of this?" " Your name's Barry." "You're the psychotic stunt coordinator, uh, whose got, sort of this massively overblown sense of secrecy." "I brought you here because I need someone with a very specific set of skills." "Okay, go on." "It's a high-profile feature film that requires a high-speed car chase." "Well, you have cable-tied the right man for the job." "(BEEPING)" "BARRY:" "The scene is set at a high-security weapons store, at a top secret location, manned by heavily-armed mercenaries." "Some of the guards hear the sound of an engine roaring to life, and our hero car, with you driving, naturally, leaps up from an underground bay and the chase is on." "The guards, realising it's a rogue vehicle, open fire on the car that's racing through the weapons store, avoiding other vehicles and gun fire." "Armed with blanks?" "BARRY:" "In the main, yes." " In the main?" " With the alarm raised..." "A guard triggers the electric gate to seal the facility." "You, in the hero car, must make it through before the gates close." "Providing you get through, you'll begin to make your escape off-road around the outer perimeter of the store." "After avoiding further gunfire, you will then be pursued by a 4x4." "This means that the hero car must run well off-road." "Okay, I think I can handle that." "Could you just rewind to the part about the blanks?" "BARRY:" "Once you have made your way onto the main road, the car needs the speed to outrun the 4x4." "After this, you'll then be pursued by two further vehicles, yet to be decided by the director." "Any idea what they are, or..." "The last attack will be from the air, either by plane, helicopter or by attack drones." "Naturally, the aircraft will be armed." "With blanks?" "The feature film is set in the present day, so no old stuff." "You have 48 hours to get out there and find me the perfect car for this stunt." "Great." "You've got yourself a stunt driver." "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "Now, although Barry the stunt coordinator's recruitment techniques are a bit unorthodox, to say the least, he does have an exciting mission." "But it's quite a tough one because it's not that straightforward, picking a car that performs just as well off-road as it does on it." "And, I'll tell you now, I'm not picking an SUV." "They claim to be masters of everything, but really, they don't do anything that well." "And the other thing that is playing on my mind is this aerial attack, because whether it's a plane, a heli or a drone, all of them have a massive top speed, and I need something that can outrun it." "But I do know a place where top speed is almost unlimited." "BEN:" "This is Rockingham Motor Speedway, a 1 .5-mile piece of Americana that looks like it crash landed in the middle of the English countryside." "This seven-degree banked super speedway is the fastest of its kind in Europe." "But, it's not just the track that makes it feel like you're in the deep south." "Because Rockingham has a fleet of America's greatest gift to the motorsport world," "NASCARs." "Born out of the days of moonshiners, running illegal whisky at high speed across the southern states." "It's now a multibillion dollar global motorsport empire." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "Now, the secret of NASCAR's success is its sheer simplicity." "Because, here I am, sitting inside a space frame cage, basically covered in steel sheeting." "Up front is a bellowing V8 push rod engine that kicks out 600 horsepower, slaved to the rear axle by this gigantic prop shaft." "It sits on these great, big Goodyear bags of rubber that's gluing me to the track when I wind the engine up." "(THUNDERING)" "Given an open stretch, easily I can bust it past 200." "And that's enough to keep a helicopter or a drone or pretty much whatever it is that is coming at me from an aerial attack, on its toes." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "Gonna get the hammer down, baby!" "Shake and Bake!" "Shake and Bake!" "I just love this car." "It reminds me of the good old days I had here racing in the ASCAR series, when I won the European championship, and set the lap record, which still stands." "So, this NASCAR has super speed, so it gets a massive tick in the box, in terms of evading aerial attack." "And it can maintain those speeds for extended periods, so, another important tick there." "The only thing that is troubling me, when I'm travelling in a straight line," "I have to turn the steering wheel quite a long way to the right." "That's because this car is built to turn left and kind of only left." "So, what I'm gonna do is take it onto the infield and see how it fares when I turn right." "It's so unstable and the brake pedal is so stiff." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "Jeez." "Okay, that wasn't very good or dignified." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "The brakes just aren't designed to be leant on that hard, because you hardly brake on the oval." "Because the wheels are pointing the wrong way, when I turn right, you just get this massive understeer, touch the throttle and the back end lights up, because the axle's pointing the wrong way as well." "It's like driving, I don't know..." "A wheelie bin." "Here we go." "There's another tight hairpin." "I'm dreading this." "Keep turning, keep turning, nothing's happening." " (TYRES SCREECHING)" " Sh..." "(LAUGHING)" "I think I'll be doing that all day long." "I love this baby, but I think I'll have to retire it and find something else." "Something like that looks pretty nice." "(GROANS)" "Now, I know Barry said no old cars, but if it was good enough for Steve McQueen in Bullitt, it'd be rude not to." "Now, this is a bit more like it!" "A proper American muscle car." "The 1965 Ford Mustang was built to chew up road courses like this one." "Now I should have no problem tackling a few lefts and rights." "I love these old cars." "You can feel the heritage of it." "You can smell the leather." "You can smell some gasoline, actually, to be honest." "You've got lots of movement in the Tyre that, really, you can embrace it and drive the car to its limit." "I drove a car just like this one in Fast and Furious, chasing through the streets of London." "Now, that high-pitched sound you're hearing is the inside wheel spinning, so there's obviously..." "There's no lock diff in the back putting traction through both rear tyres, which is not good for making forward progress." "It's, uh, pretty spongy and not really that stable, and the jelly-like suspension..." "Well, you can't exactly say it corners like it's on rails." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "Oh!" "It's all right, granddad." "The beauty of the '65 Mustang, though, is it does look the part, and I'll give it that." "But I don't think I'll get many points for that when I'm under attack from live rounds, from whatever it is that Barry's got in store for me." "And as much as I love this track and these machines, my search is going to have to Cary on elsewhere, because I think that when it really comes down to it, these old boys are going to let me down." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "WOMAN:" "You have one new message." "(ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS)" "BARRY:" "Ben, don't think I'm not monitoring your every move." "I told you, no old cars." "Stop disobeying orders and carry out the mission." "Otherwise, I will be forced to take extreme measures." "(ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS)" "Now, as much as I love old school American muscle cars, those ones just threw up far more questions than answers." "They are totally impractical, fragile even by modern standards." "But, what I do still need is something with the NASCAR top speed that corners like it's on rails." "In short, what I think I need is a supercar." "And there's none more capable or more loaded with technology than the one I'm driving next." "BEN:" "Welcome to the future." "This is the 650S, the latest creation from McLaren and a quantum leap in terms of car design." "Every inch of this technical marvel has been engineered to make it go faster than its rivals." "From the integrated front splitter that creates downforce, to these unique door blades that help generate incredible grip and balance." "And then, there's the engine, a twin-turbo V8 warp drive that propels the 650S to a top speed of 207 miles per hour." "Now, that really is flying machine speed." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "Now, I'm fortunate enough to have driven well, nearly every supercar in the modern era, from Bugatti to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Lamborghini, all of them." "And they all have one thing very much in common, which is that they're different to this McLaren, because this car is truly unique, in that it has liquid suspension, and I'm not joking." "It's got hydraulic fluid that rushes across the suspension very, very quickly, and responds when you need to shore up some support in a corner." "And it's absolutely incredible to drive, because it's so responsive." "And if you're wondering where this mythical technology comes from, well, of course, it comes from Formula 1." "McLaren have been involved at the sharp end since the '60s, and a lot of the active technology on this car was banned from Formula 1, because it was an unfair advantage." "But all is fair in love, war, supercars and stunt sequences." "So their loss is my gain." "And the other good thing about Formula 1 technology is that it's tough." "This car is made from a carbon fibre mono cell body that sits around the driver like a cocoon." "So it's fantastically protective in a crash, as well as giving you the support in the corners." "Now, that should be good for taking a bullet or five, if it comes to that." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "BEN:" "With this kind of technology, the 650S can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in 2.9 seconds, and come to a dead stop in just under 29 meters." "Now, some of those figures are a little bit hard to comprehend, so what I need to do is a practical experiment to show you just how mind-blowing the McLaren really is." "This is an Audi A4 S Line, the kind of car that typically flashes you to get out of the way of the fast lane on a motorway." "It's a tidy little car." "What I'm gonna do is accelerate from 0 to 60, and back to 0 as fast as I can, and I'll jump in the 650S and we'll compare the difference." "So, into sport mode." "Off we go." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "Here we go it's 40, 50..." "And 60!" "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "Ah, pretty good for German engineering." "Very impressive braking." "Now, it's time to hop in the McLaren and see the difference." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "Now, in the Audi, that launch was similar to a sort of fast getaway from the traffic lights." "But in the McLaren, when this launches, its gonna be like a space shuttle." "Apollo 13." "No, Interstellar is a better example." "So, get it into D, set the launch control on." "Okay, so it's ready." "All I have to do is floor it." "And the turbo spools up, it's ready, and I just dump the brake and we're off!" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "BEN: 60." "Oh, the braking, blimey." "Literally, you're peeling the back of your head off the chair, and the next thing is you're trying to keep your nose off the dashboard." "And the distance compared to the Audi, this is half the space." "0 to 60, back to naught in hardly any space at all." "BEN:" "The McLaren certainly has the straight line speed to escape an aerial threat." "But, does it have the manoeuvrability I need as well?" "A striking feature of this car is the aerodynamics." "Of course, McLaren calls it the Active Aero." "Get on the brakes, it pops up like a barn door, acting as an air brake and stabilising the car with extra downforce to push the rear into the deck and give you maximum braking force." "It's like having an R2-D2 on your shoulder, setting X Foils into attack position." "Really incredible." "And it gives you the confidence to attack these corners." "(TYRES SQUEALING)" "At the heart of this ship is an ultra lightweight V8 engine, powered with two turbochargers." "You just hear those spooling up behind you, there's this beautiful whistling sound when you lay down the power." "(WHIRRING)" "This car only takes 5.7 seconds to reach 100 miles an hour." "It's ridiculously fast." "The supercars of yesteryear took that long to get from 0 to 60." "That engine just keeps on pushing this car all the way up to 207 miles an hour." "So I love it." "It seems to be almost unbreakable." "Of course the question is, will it be good enough for Barry?" "Well, stopping power is, well, unbelievable, acceleration, yep, phenomenal." "Handling-wise, it's totally out of this world." "I think the other thing to think about is, uh, off road." "Hmm, that could be interesting." "Right, now, there's an off-road course around here somewhere." "Here we go." "Bit of a ski jump." "Let's give this a try." "Whoa, there's some nasty gravel." "Don't want to chip the paint on this baby." "And I don't want the dust going in the air intake either." "The ride height on the McLaren is not exactly high." "There's a bit of a dip, let's have a..." "Whoa!" " (BEEPING NOISE)" " Oh, oh..." "Well, that's enough." "That's going to rip the splitter off." "Right, I can't get over that." "As painful as it is to admit, the McLaren 650S may not be the ideal tool for off-roading." "So, I think this is going to have to come off the menu." "(SIGHS)" "Sorry, baby, let's get you back off here." "What an amazing car." "The McLaren is just a feat of engineering and design." "It's as good as anything I've ever driven in terms of balance and performance." "And if this chase sequence was purely on the road, with no evasive manoeuvres or hand brake turns, the 650S would be my choice." "But I think I need something with just a bit more all-round capability." "In fact, I think if I drove it up on to the set," "Barry would probably kill me, and then he'd steal the keys." "The thing that is starting to nag me a bit, though, is this aerial attack business." "I really haven't got a clue what I'm up against or how to evade it." "I think I'm gonna have to do some serious research." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "BEN:" "This is the Extra 300 aerobatic stunt plane." "Powered by a 300 brake horsepower engine, it has a top speed in excess of 250 miles per hour." "But it's the sheer manoeuvrability and handling of this thing that makes it the F1 car of air race planes." "And this one has been fitted with two seats." "I think you can probably see where this is going." "My wingman for the day is former RAF fast jet pilot Mark Greenfield." "With over 20 years of aerobatics coaching under his belt, including a stint running the world-famous Empire Test Pilot school, he's a real-life top gun." "(ENGINE STARTING)" " Are you ready?" " I'm ready." "Let's do it." "Okay, power's coming on." "So, that's us airborne." "That did not take long, did it?" "No, not at all." "BEN:" "Once airborne, Mark doesn't hesitate to show me what the plane can do." "(BLEEP)" "BEN:" "Ah... (BEN SCREAMING) I hate you already." "(BLEEP)" "Well, I admit I was, uh..." "Obviously the whole reason of coming up here is to try and gauge how I'm going to fare in a car against something in the air." "And, uh, I'm not sure if I'm feeling as confident after that." "BEN:" "And things generally got worse from there." "Oh, my God." "I don't know what just happened, but I'm glad that it's over." "BEN:" "I was starting to realise I could be in serious trouble." "But, the whole thing with a car is that I can stop, whereas you can't." "MARK:" "Well, it depends what you mean by stopping." "If you can brace yourself and I'll show you how we'll stop relative to the ground in three seconds." "I don't know if I'm gonna like this." "MARK:" "Okay, so that's effectively a right angle turn there." " Yeah" " MARK:" "And so, the movement over the ground was..." "uh, pretty much 0." "I just feel like you've got a whole range of tools with which to punish me while we're up here, and..." "I don't think that I did anything to you in a former life to justify that." "BEN:" "As it turned out, though, Mark had been saving the best until last." "The Cravat, a highly-dangerous aerobatic manoeuvre which sends the plane into a wild spin, twisting around and around in the vertical whilst tumbling at the same time." "Okay, so, we're gonna pull up gently into the vertical, and we're about to go direct..." "MARK:" "How was that?" "I think, what you've done there is, you've taken a boy's dream and you've turned that into a nightmare." "(MARK LAUGHING)" "I have your best interests at heart, but I do want to make sure you understand the capabilities of an aeroplane." "BEN:" "Mark's demonstration has proven to me just how formidable this aerial attack might be." "If we reverse the roles, and you had to choose a car to get away from an aeroplane, what would you choose?" "Well, I'd want something that is very manoeuvrable and very agile and tight turning circle would be good." "Lots of power and something that's camouflaged to match its surroundings." "BEN:" "Next, Mark decided to show me how devastating a strafing run would be at 250 miles per hour." "Here we go, rolling in." "Wow, that's amazing, when you see the ground open up like that." "This is quite low!" "(VOCALISING)" "(LAUGHING)" "BEN:" "There's just no denying it." "A plane is faster, more agile and more lethal than I could ever have imagined." "(EXHALING)" "If Mark had been hunting me in the plane, I would have had nowhere to hide." "Well, thank you very much." "I think I've learned all I need to know about..." "An acrobatic, aerobatic wizard like yourself." " So, I hope I never meet you again." " (LAUGHS)" "Cos if you're working for the other side, I'm in deep trouble." "Oh..." "The ground is still moving under my feet." " You're a horrible, horrible man." " It might do that for a little while." "(SIGHS) Yeah, I'm not doing that again." "WOMAN:" "You have one new message." "BARRY:" "Ben, I hired you to find me a car, not a damn plane." "Stop trying to second-guess me." "That just makes me angry." "And trust me, you do not want that." "(ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS)" "(TIMER BEEPING)" "As unpleasant as that experience was, it has given me some idea of what I might be facing out there." "But I need to get on with this because the clock is ticking." "And it's not helping me with Barry's anger management issues." "Now, the stunt plane has given me an idea about the type of car I might want to choose." "I've got one in mind now for the underground scene that could fit the bill and just about give my attackers the slip." "It's 6:30 in the morning and, as instructed, I've arrived on foot at this dockside, where, apparently, I'll be met by someone, hopefully." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "BEN:" "And that someone is Michelle Westby, a Drift Cup Competitor, and my guide into the world of drifting, the motorsport that's taking the world by storm." " Hi, Michelle." "That's mega." " Hi." " Thank you." " It's a great location..." "And great big space." "It's just like San Tropez, but with concrete." "Beautiful location, lovely smooth surface here..." " Perfect for drifting." " Excellent." "I've got a first lesson for you as well." "I'm gonna take you over now to meet the British Drift Champions, and they're going to give you quick crash course in drifting." " Beauty." "Cool." "Cool." " Let's go." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "So, let me introduce you to JapSpeed Drift Team and their drivers." "MICHELLE:" "First up, we have Paul "Smokey" Smith," "Super Pro Drift British Champion of 2012 and one of the hardest competitors on the scene." "Next up, we have Shane Lynch." "Irishman Shane made the switch from circuit racing to drifting in 2007 and has not looked back since." "So, what I've arranged for you is for Smokey to let you know all you need to know about drifting." " Smashing." " And then you'll be battling it out with Shane after, whilst me and Smokey look on and judge a winner." "Sweet, let's do it." " Smoke." " All right." "Lovely stuff, good to meet you, yeah." "Brilliant." "Shane." "Looks like a biter." "So..." "But we will tangle later, me and you." "Teach you some manners, boy." "Oh, yeah." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "BEN:" "Although my day job involves quite a lot of drifting," "I've never done it competitively." "So I need to know what the judges are looking for." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "That's mega." "And what kind of things are you doing to sort of, like, unseat the other driver, cos you're in attack mode." "You're both in a tandem drift and it's judged by a pair of judges." "So what are they looking for?" "Well, they are looking for general speed around the course." " It's not a race." " Yeah." "But they do like to see you going through the course as fast as you possibly can." "(ENGINE ROARING AND TYRES SQUEALING)" "So speed is important, so it's not all about sliding." "It's not all about sliding." "It's controlling the power and getting that power to the ground..." "Yes, you're spinning the wheels, but you want to be constantly moving forward." "(ENGINE ROARING AND TYRES SQUEALING)" "And what about Shane, then?" "Do you know any tricks to making him uncomfortable?" " If you go in and you're on his door..." " Yeah." "...he'll know you mean business." "And I think that could take the win." "(ENGINE ROARING)" " That's mega." "Very cool." " Yeah." "Now, when I do this with Shane, can I tap him out the way, knock him off?" "Don't crash into him, judges don't like that..." " But you can rub him..." " Is it against the rules?" " Against the rules." " It's not against my rules." " I do it all the time on the track." " (CHUCKLES)" " Really?" " Yeah." "All right, all right." "So, I have to do it fair and square, loads of grip, loads of speed and try and intimidate him." "Yeah, get as close as you can, but don't hit him." "All right." "BEN:" "With the demonstration over, it's time to take the wheel." "(TYRES SQUEALING)" "Well, I don't know how many points I'm going to get for style, but I'm just about making it around this course." "But I don't feel I'm doing it quite as neatly as Smokey." "(TYRES SQUEALING)" "Quayside, loads of toys." "(TYRES SQUEALING)" "This car is just so drivable, it's unreal." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "It feels like you can just kick this thing anywhere." "550 horsepower, it's just so precise." "(ENGINE ROARING AND TYRES SQUEALING)" "You can see why they tune these cars so specifically for drifting." "Everything is just perfectly tuned, but I can't stop sliding." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "This doesn't feel very fast, but it does feel spectacular." "Does feel like I could take it anywhere, maybe even under that truck, give it a go." "Impressive." "This could be the baby." "It's definitely the most fun car I have ever driven, without a doubt." "Loads of power, super precise, I'm sold." " Is that all right?" " That'll do." "Let's take him on, man." "I'm gonna take Shane down the town." " I think you can do it." " You reckon?" " Yeah" " Really?" "I think it's different with one than with two, isn't it?" " Yeah, it's a little bit different." " All right." " We'll see how you get on." " Fair enough." " Where is he?" "That way?" " Over there." "Mystery man." "(EXHAUST ROARING)" "Guys." "Shane, you're to lead." "Ben, you must follow as close to Shane's rear quarter as possible." "Shane, you ready?" "Ben, you ready?" " Go!" " (TYRES SQUEALING)" "BEN:" "Just when our epic battle was heating up, disaster struck." "Shane's super charger on his modified Nissan 370Z disintegrated, resulting in catastrophic engine failure, bringing our competition to an end." "It was just as well, really, because my Silvia wasn't sounding too clever either." "(DIFFERENTIAL CLANKING)" "Broken the diff." "Mind you, my pain is not as bad as Shane's." "This looks like a super charger belt, another piece here." "We could try and knit this together, mate." "That would make a lovely paperweight." "Technically..." "What about that?" "That's default win, isn't it?" " No." " His breakage is worse than mine." " No." " What do you mean "no"?" "Do these things really break this often?" "They do, unfortunately." "That's why we carry spares." "Spares..." "What do you mean "spares"?" " Spares?" " (ENGINE REVS)" "Barry hasn't got time for spares." "Where's he going?" "(CAR ENGINE ROARING)" "These things are very unreliable, clearly." "And that's not gonna work well." "They're also quite slow, because..." "It's great, their drifting, they're amazing, they're spectacular but you're going sideways, you're not going forwards that quickly." "Top speed, 80 miles an hour..." "Where is he..." "Where am I supposed to go?" "Broken car." "I'll follow him." "(TIMER BEEPING)" "That came close, but no cigar." "The drift car made all the right noises, but with that lack of top speed and dodgy reliability," "I'd just be dead meat." "(ENGINE ROARS)" "Adding some heat to the situation is the abusive messages I'm getting on my phone from Barry, and the elephant in the room is the small matter of finding a car that actually can go fast off-road." "It's time to head west." "(ENGINE ROARS)" "BEN:" "Hidden deep within a rural valley in mid-Wales lies over 10 miles of demanding off-road track, a network of punishing gravel roads, which makes the perfect testing ground for this..." "The Ariel Nomad, an insane creation that wouldn't look out of place on the set of a Mad Max movie." "Ten years in the making, this is the latest offering from track day heroes, Ariel, famous for their road-based rocket ship, the Atom." "This machine is their idea of what an off-road vehicle should be, and it might just fit the bill." "Ariel will say that this car will accelerate from 0 to 60 miles an hour in just 3.4 seconds." "Now, that's Ferrari Enzo territory, and if that's the case, these baddy soldier people are in for some serious trouble." "(ENGINE STARTS AND REVS)" "That's first." "And that's second, and that's straight to 62 miles an hour." "Like me, you're probably wondering how the hell it does that." "Well, it's not doing it with brute force, because this engine only pops out 235 horsepower, which is practically a lawnmower." "(ENGINE ROARS)" "Powered by a 2.4 litre Honda engine, and it doesn't have a supercharger or a turbo." "It's just good, old-fashioned torque." "The beauty of it is in the power-to-weight ratio, because the car only weighs 570 kilograms, which is about half a Ford Focus." "65% of that weight is over the rear axle, where you need it for traction because this is rear-wheel-drive only." "I really thought that would kill the steering, but it doesn't." "This thing is so agile, and just fires you out of these corners, it's ridiculous." "Part of the grip story is from these three-way adjustable dampers, and these amazing all-terrain tyres, that just eat the landscape and spit it out the back." "Whoo!" "It's almost easy to forget why I came here in the first place, which is to assess whether this baby has got what it takes to escape an aerial assault." "In terms of sheer straight line speed, 136 miles an hour..." "Okay, it's not the fastest thing in the world, but you could pretty much drive over anything at 80 miles an hour." "The thing that lets it down though, there's just nothing protecting the car's vital parts." "The engine is just covered in the same plastic they use to build traffic cones." "It's hardly bulletproof." "And I'm expecting some serious flak from the sky." "It's with a very heavy heart, but I'm gonna have to say no to the Nomad." "However, I've got one more supercar from the off-road world that might just do the job." "BEN:" "This, as you can probably tell, is a Mini, but it couldn't be further away from the run-of-mill estate agent chariot you see every day in the High Street." "This one competes in the World Rally Cross Championship, one of the roughest and toughest race series on the planet." "(ENGINE STARTS AND REVS)" "Okay, it's time to unleash the fury of this baby." "There's quite a complicated launch procedure." "I've got to hold of my finger over the launch button." "Okay, I've got first gear, gonna turn the anti-lag on." "There we go, I can already feel the power surge." " Here we go." " (ENGINE WHIRRING)" "Oh, my God, it's unbelievable power." "The kick in the back you get is like from a Formula 1 car, that does 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, up to 100 in five." "Absolutely ridiculous." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "This model was originally designed for the World Rally Championship, but then they added an enormous turbo so big..." "Whoa!" "...they had to give it a name." "Its name is Gerrard, and when Gerrard gets angry, you go very, very fast." "It kicks out 500 horsepower, which is twice the Nomad had, lancing itself very neatly through this four-wheel-drive system, just hammering me down this road." "Whoo!" "It's also got this wonderful handbrake, which has rear diff release, which I admit, sounds like some kind of bowel control problem." "What it allows me to do is lock up the rear wheels whilst applying the power and just trim the nose of the car into the corner whilst accelerating, and it's just incredible." "(ENGINE ROARING)" "I'm very reassured by the fact that this car is covered in Kevlar, the stuff they make bulletproof jackets from." "There's a whole shield in front of the engine bay and in the rear quarter panels, so if I do come under fire, I've got some pretty good protection there." "I've got a good feeling about this Mini." "I think this is the one." "Oh, hang on a minute." "Team are calling me in." "That was awesome." "Thank you so much." " Is everything okay?" " No, we need to refuel." "What, did you half fill it or something, or was that a full tank?" " That is a full tank." " You serious?" "I'm serious." "Well, five minutes isn't going to cut a car chase." "There's no way." "This car had everything I wanted, and now I've got to start completely from scratch." "Ugh!" "(TIMER BEEPING)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Hi, Barry." "Ben, don't mention names over a cellular phone!" "And you know why I'm calling." "Have you found me a car?" "Uh, no, not quite." "BARRY:" "What do you mean, "Not quite"?" "Well, I've tested some amazing stuff but nothing that's quite right for the job." "BARRY:" "You really need to sort this." "Fourteen hours, find me that car!" "I will, I promise." "I've got a plan." "Barry..." "Hello?" "Bye..." "Bye, Barry." "Thanks for calling." "BEN:" "Here are the final four cars I'm assessing for this mission." "And to help me make the big decision," "I've brought in stunt driving heavyweight, Martin Ivanov, known as "the Russian."" "A multiple-award-winning stunt performer and driver, we met on the set of Quantum of Solace, and he's the one man I trust when it comes to a car chase." "Martin, thanks for coming all the way from Moscow to test these cars out." "You know the brief." "The first one we've got is the Audi S8, and it should be good because it's, you know, a true action movie favourite." "Yeah, perfect, this is the car." "No more searching needed." "Okay, great, that's good confidence but we have got more in the car park, so, this is just one of the four." "No, no, no, no." "This is the car." "BEN:" "Now, to settle this argument, we need to get out on the track." "The amazing thing with this car is when you get into it, it feels really big, it's like being in a tank but it's so fast with it." "It's got twin-turbocharged, V8 engine, 520 horsepower." "And because it's Quattro, I think it's gonna be almost as good off-road as putting its power down on the tarmac." "So I think you've got a point." "This could be a fantastic car." "But we are gonna test some more cars because I still think one of those ones in the garage could be better than this one." "Yeah." "Let's see." "BEN:" "And here's the next contender." "From super saloon to super car, this is the Noble M600." "This could be a hero or a villain's car with its mean looks." "But this beast is all about killer performance." "Now, the reason I've chosen this Noble is because it delivers true performance in a very, very simple old-fashioned way and I'm talking as basic as horse and cart." "It goes from 0 to 60 in three seconds, and just keeps going until you get to 225 miles per hour, which surely is enough to defeat anything by land, sea or air." "I have to admit, aerodynamics are a little bit light on the Noble, which does make it quite skittish at high speed but it's also what makes it so fast." "Just look what it's like in the corners." "It's just balletic." "And the harder you drive it, the more you get out of it." "I love this car." "I think this could be a winner." "Release the Russian." "I am coming." "I almost feel sorry for Martin, in that I'm going to break his spirit right at the beginning because the advantage this car is pulling on the Audi is sizeable." "It's killing it." "The poise in these chicanes is where I really seem to break away from him." "Martin's car is leaning heavily, blistering its front tyres no doubt, as it tries to keep up with the Noble." "I'm sure he'll get over it on his flight home." "Bye-bye, Martin." "Ugh!" "So much for catching me, Martin." "Where were you?" "This car is a joke." " What do you mean?" " Look at the ground clearance." "BEN:" "It's not that low, is it?" "Your chase will end at first speed bump." "Well, let's go try another one then." "Come on." " Yeah, let's do it." " Grumpy." "BEN:" "Next is the Jaguar F-Type." "A stunning GT, which is giving Aston Martin a run for its money." "It certainly looks the part, but does it have it where it counts?" "This is the Jaguar F-Type S, a supercharged version of the V6 engine, knocking out 374 brake horsepower." "(TYRES SCREECH)" "It's got a shorter wheelbase than that massive Audi, which should give this the advantage in the off-road part of the chase, and it's got some ground clearance, which was the Achilles heel for the Noble." "So, this has got to be a strong candidate." "(TYRES SCREECH)" "Now, unbelievably, in terms of acceleration, the Audi actually has the edge over this Jag, but this has longer legs, and it can stretch them to 171 miles an hour." " And it's great at drifting." " (TYRES SCREECH)" "Which means I can throw loads of smoke in the face of my would-be pursuers." "It's just so much fun, this car." "Ahhh!" "Release the Russian." "Come to papa." "It's much, much more evenly-matched this time." "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "I've got a little bit more pick-up and traction, just coming out of the corners but as soon as we get on these straights, he is closing right up on me." "This does not bode well." "Let's try the old smoking-tyre manoeuvre and see if I can push him back a little bit." "Come on, Jag!" "I've got my foot to the floor." "I can't stop him." "Ahhh, Martin!" "Oh, I thought you'd be smug." " Victory!" " I know what you're gonna say." "I mean, you kind of won, but only in the straight bit." " This is still a good car." " But I won." " All right, well, I've got one more, yeah?" " Yeah, your last chance." "Yeah, you're so tough." "BEN:" "I've saved the best till last." "The BMW M3 is a legend of Teutonic performance." "The M3 has been trouncing its rivals, on and off the race track, for nearly four decades, but is it the all-rounder I need?" "Now this is BMW's brand new M3, the pinnacle of German engineering, a car that even Martin would approve of." "BMW have given this M3 a brand new engine." "They ditched the V8 for a lighter straight 6 turbocharged unit, firing out 425 horsepower." "It's an incredible car to drive." "You've got so much control under your right foot." "Fantastic cornering." "And you can still drive it like an absolute hooligan when you want to." "This car is great." "Deploy the Russian." "You don't know the power of dark side." "Now, instantly, I get the feeling that we're much more closely-matched." "Both these cars have got incredible poise through the corners." "He's hanging on, but it's nothing like as deadly as it was with the Jag." "Even in this big straight, the Audi, I can just see him closing in." "Argh!" "Braked a bit late." "Oh, you're close, Martin, but you're not quite close enough." "Yeah." "Well, that was a workout, but one of these cars definitely is a winner, and I think I'm sitting in it." "Well, I think that was draw, yes?" "I think even you'd agree with that." "Well, hallelujah, let's break out the champagne." "I think this is the winner." "No." "Why?" "Look at the colour." "Under aerial attack, it's perfect target." "(LAUGHS) Well, thanks." "I'm not sure I agree." "Well, I've got to pick something." "If you had to pick any car other than the Audi, which one would you pick?" "Audi." "That's not helpful, is it?" "Because I need to pick one." "BEN:" "This is it, this is the final reckoning." "I think I've made a decision, though, which is it's got to be something else." "(TIMER BEEPING)" "BEN:" "Today is the day of reckoning." "I really thought the BMW had it all, but it just doesn't cover every base, and now I'm gonna go with a car, in my gut," "I'm convinced is the right one." "No more second-guessing." "Let's do this." "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "BEN:" "My final choice is quite simply an icon, a thoroughbred sports car that's pure Hollywood." "The Ford Mustang combines European handling with American muscle, making it the ultimate all-rounder, and an unstoppable force." "(TIMER BEEPING)" "(CAR ENGINE ROARS AND TYRES SCREECHING)" "Rogue vehicle, rogue vehicle!" "(ALARM BLARING)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "(GUNFIRE)" "(ENGINE ROARING)" "(TYRES SCREECH)" "(TYRES SCREECH)" "(TYRES SCREECHING)" "(DIRT BIKE ENGINE REVS)" "(TYRES SCREECH)" "(INDICATORS BEEP)" "(TYRES SCREECH)" "So there you have it, folks, the Ford Mustang GT." "Loads of grunt for getting yourself out of trouble." "It's got a clutch and a handbrake for evasive measures, ample space in the trunk for an RPG 7 and it's super fast off-road as well as on it." "I just hope the sequence was enough to keep Barry..." "Oh!" "(THUD)" "(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)" "(ENGINE STARTS AND REVS)" "(TYRES SCREECH)"