right so you've probably already seen
the film in the TV show but in case you
happen I'll give you a little reminder
and the idea is this thing is Top Gear's
solution to a problem that's plaguing
Britain's roads namely slow tractors
holding us all up so they've come up
with this quite extraordinary thing it's
called the track tour see what they're
done there and it's such a special piece
of engineering that I wanted to give you
a tour while it's sitting here in the
studio waiting for the presenters to
come in first thing to mention it's
Lamborghini orange obviously these
lights are taken from an aerial Nomad
because it's a racing tractor little bit
of fun why not the whole basis for this
car is the Chevrolet Blazer SUV it's an
American car you might not have heard of
it the engine too is a Chevy a 5.7 liter
v8 producing 500 we hold the track tour
oh these two cherry bomb exhaust classic
boy racer specials twin stats of course
in the middle here you can't see it is a
transfer box taking fuel amber over 1.6
transfer box the idea is because these
rear tires are so massive if you ran the
standard ratios on the three-speed Auto
well it'll be doing about 186 mile an
hour top speed I'm not going anywhere
fast so it's about shortening the ratios
getting the acceleration better and
getting this thing off the line I
mentioned the wheels yeah they're quite
significant aren't they the axle is to
an eight lug axle down here that's a
military spec axle and you need that to
hold the whole thing together the
centrifugal forces when these things are
moving around is absolutely insane the
tires by the way super swampers they
imported from the US you can't buy them
in the UK because they use too much oil
in their production very American I like
that come around the back now you'll
notice a large hole here yeah in the
film there's
a second engine a 1.6 peugeot diesel
engine in there and that drives the
hedge cutter and the plow and all the
other bits and bobs they stick on the
back to make this thing actually useful
and up there well that's a wing taken
from stock car f1 apparently it has
proper downforce well at least with that
given the downforce
that adding weight over the rear axle
this thing was pulling wheelies in a
straight line
let's have a look inside because there's
more gadgets and gizmos right these two
levers over here with blue balls on the
top they called the slew of right so
we've got one for the left wheel one for
the right wheel pull one at a time it's
effectively like a hammer X you can pull
a handbrake turn turn the six months
spin up those rear tires and far off
down the straight essential kit in farm
work if you watched no extras in the
back as well couple pairs of wellies
spades and look you can even take your
other half for a leisurely drive in the
countryside so well thought through
thing this that's all the main bits
there's only one thing left to do and
that's to fire it up and have a listen
you