If he'd thought about it in advance,
Richard would have found a quarry in which he could test his action-lifestyle Nomad.
But he hadn't. So...
(HORNS BLARING)
Yeah, we've...
I don't feel I'm exploring the outer reaches of this car's potential
in this traffic.
JEREMY: Because I had satnav, I fared better.
And found the perfect road
to open the taps in this brilliant little TT.
(REVVING)
Oh!
The engine in this car is an absolute masterpiece.
You've got as near as makes no difference
400 horsepower.
And then there's that sort of deep bass drum of torque all the time.
And listen to the noise it makes. It sounds like...
(ENGINE ROARING)
It sounds like...
um...what does it sound... It sounds like...
It's like... It sounds like a bear that's trodden on a plug?
No, a bear would go "ow", wouldn't it?
Soon I'd got it worked out.
Oh! Listen to that.
It sounds like a happy hippopotamus.
(GRUNTS)
Now you would imagine that putting
this much power and this much torque in an Audi...
RICHARD: Hey, Jeremy, do you have to put your phone in flight mode
when you drive one of those?
Bob the Builder appears to be here in his scaffolding. Anyway, as I was...
Would you mind checking round your feet to make sure there's nothing on the floor?
As I was saying, you would imagine...
Have you folded your tray table away ready for when you stop?
You would imagine that putting this much power and this much torque in a TT
would make it wayward and out of control, but no...
Have you pointed out the lavatories?
There's nothing for it, I'm gonna have to lose him, get out of radio range.
Right, Hammond, goodbye, I'm losing you now.
He probably thinks this is just a dune buggy with a number plate
that's no good on the road.
I shall now prove that he's wrong.
Charge!
Well, it looks like we've got ourselves an unscripted race here.
Ha-ha-ha. Oh. Oh.
Hang on a minute, wait.
Oh...
What?
Where's the road gone?
(WIND WHISTLING)
If we'd sent scouts out last week to check it out like we usually do,
we'd have known about this and we wouldn't have done it.
-But we didn't. -No.
-So we didn't. -No.
But the fact is, I really want to show you how fast this is.
I-I'd like to see it in my mirror,
but there's just one other thing before we do that.
-What? -I'd really like a jumper.
So, the situation is, we're gonna have a race
after we've bought him a jumper.