1 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,259 Sync and corrected by <font color="#ffff00">APOLLO</font> <font color="#00ff00"> www.addic7ed.com</font> 2 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,179 Hello and welcome to a Top Gear special. 3 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,599 You join us in Downing Street for a very good reason. 4 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,279 You see, shortly after coming into power, Mr Cameron 5 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,879 noticed that Britain was, in essence, bankrupt, 6 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,719 and that to solve the problem 7 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,559 we needed to do more business with India. 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,159 He has a point, because it turns out we sell more to Ireland, 9 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:45,199 that has a population of 4.5 million than we do to India, 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,679 that has a population of 1,000 million. 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,799 It's actually even worse than that. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,599 It turns out that we sell even less to India than the Belgians do. 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,639 So, we contacted Downing Street and offered to go over to India 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,639 and run a trade mission on the nation's behalf. 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,439 I have here a personal letter reply to us from David Cameron himself. 16 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,879 "Dear Top Gear, thank you for your letter. 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,039 "Whilst it's true I'm keen on us to build on our ties out there, 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:16,159 "sending you three is not quite what I had in mind. 19 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,120 "The Foreign Secretary did wonder instead 20 00:01:18,121 --> 00:01:20,079 about a fencemending trip to Mexico." 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,479 "Basically, my message is this..." 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,919 "you do the cars, we'll do the diplomacy." 23 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,320 Here he comes now. 24 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:34,760 Stay away from India. 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,679 Well, that was unequivocal. 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,399 Well, we're going to ignore the Prime Minister. 27 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,599 What we're going to do instead is to buy three second-hand British 28 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,959 cars, and then to head over there with a very simple objective... 29 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,120 to rescue Britain. 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,799 'The start point for our trade mission was Bombay. 31 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,280 'A vibrant, teeming mass of 20 million potential customers.' 32 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,759 I am the first to arrive, and as you possibly wouldn't expect 33 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,479 I don't appear to have done this quite right. 34 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,399 This is a Series-1 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow from 1976. 35 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,599 Some of you will be saying, "You should have brought a modern Rolls-Royce." 36 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,199 There's two reasons why I couldn't... 37 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,719 firstly, I had a budget of just £7,000. 38 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,679 Secondly, a modern Rolls-Royce is of course a German car, 39 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,599 whereas this one was hand-wrought in Crewe in a factory that used 40 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,559 to make Merlin engines for Spitfires out of the finest 41 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,879 British car-making materials. 42 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,280 It is her Majesty the Queen, with a tax disc, and lovely carpet. 43 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,599 'At this point Jeremy arrived... ' Behold. 44 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,479 '..in easily the most inappropriate car it is possible to imagine.' 45 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,999 You stupid man. What's wrong with it? 46 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,639 We're here representing Britain, and all that's great about Britain, 47 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,239 and you have brought along a Jaguar XJS, 48 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,999 almost certainly our country's most historically unreliable car. 49 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,639 This is the celebration model. 50 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,999 Is it a celebration of production finally coming to end? 51 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,919 60 years of Jaguar. 52 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,879 Special wheels, special colour-coordinated bumpers, 53 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,359 four-litre, straight six engine. 54 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,959 That thing has a reputation for stopping. 55 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,880 James, as I recall the braking system 56 00:03:32,881 --> 00:03:36,079 and steering is controlled by hydraulics. That is right. 57 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,439 Now, if this car were to break down in the Rolls-Royce factory, 58 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,159 next to the team that built it, they wouldn't be able to mend it. 59 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,999 You're in India. Yes. If your hydraulics go wrong, you are out. 60 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,920 You are an embarrassment to the nation. 61 00:03:48,921 --> 00:03:51,159 And can I just say, this vinyl roof, 62 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,399 he's just put the final over the guttering. 63 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,519 This is not an advertisement. 64 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,519 If you were advertising Millets' tenting... 65 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,599 This car helped cement the very special Anglo-Indian relationship. 66 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,519 How? The favoured car of the maharajas. 67 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,919 They sold hundreds of cars to India. Only because Jaguar wasn't around. 68 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,799 All of the maharajas would have had XJSs. They wouldn't. They would! 69 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,959 'At this point, something very small arrived... ' 70 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:17,760 '..in a Mini!' 71 00:04:17,761 --> 00:04:20,359 God, that's an absolute beauty. 72 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,239 That's quite a good idea, actually, but don't tell him. 73 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,599 Hammond, you idiot. You idiot. What?! Is that a good idea, is it? 74 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,359 Is it a good idea? It's genius. 75 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,879 Just to clarify what this is, it's a classic Mini Cooper Sport. 76 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,680 One of the very last ones built, in fact. 77 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,719 Year 2000. That is immaculate. 78 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,879 That is pretty tidy. It really is. 79 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,879 This is India, though. It's a big old place, 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,319 and this is a small old car. 81 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,079 Come on, lads, you both know it is the home of the small car. Was. 82 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,079 No, it still is. What matters most in India is how big it is inside, 83 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,519 how small it is outside, and how many people it carries. That's racist. 84 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,239 What?! When India was emerging, 85 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,679 they saw the car as a tool, 86 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,839 but now that India HAS emerged, 87 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,119 and is one of the economic superpowers, 88 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,839 everybody is going to want something with a great, long thrusting... 89 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:11,319 No, what happens next is the country grows out 90 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,639 of the great, long thrusting, and they come back to wanting, 91 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,999 yes, style, and practicality, and convenience...? Look at it! 92 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,119 Yes, but we are trying to say that Britain is a great country, 93 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,279 and has things to offer to a country which has succeeded. 94 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:28,439 Such as this... No! ..not a tired old Jaguar, and that's a Shadow? It is. 95 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,879 How far do you think he's going to get in that? 96 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,959 Well, I think he's probably finished, isn't he? That's it. 97 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,199 Let's see. 'Hammond and May then ganged up on my Jag.' 98 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,199 I should point out the bits that will go wrong. Yes. All of those. 99 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,279 Yeah, yeah, yeah. See all of those relays and those connectors? 100 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,639 Made in the Midlands, they will go wrong. Cooling system will go wrong. 101 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,960 It's OK, some of the relays are made in Spain. 102 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:57,199 'We'd find out soon enough if we'd made the right choices, 103 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,159 'because ahead lay a 1,300-mile journey 104 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,999 'on some of the most dangerous roads in the world. 105 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,560 'And then up into the brutal high passes of the Himalayas. 106 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,279 'But first, we had to get to know our cars 107 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:18,519 'on the streets of B...
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