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In this episode of The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have a question about how fast the cars were 25 years ago. They put the Jaguar and the Bugatti to the test. They have a (by themselfes created) racetrack, where they test al kinds of cars. They have time stamps of the different cars that they have been driving on that track. They wanted to see if the cars ,from 25 years ago, were faster than the supercars nowadays. The Jaguar and the Bugatti didn’t succeed and placed themselfsels on place number 24, just above the Volkswagen GTI. The Jaguar had a time of 1:35:0 and the bugatti drove a 1:37:0.
Then there was another part of the show. They call it “Conversation Street”, where they talk about the new Z4 concept of BMW and a new concept of Mclaren. This part is always filled with jokes. The only downside is that it doesn’t really last long, it’s often 5 to 10 minutes long.
The third part is always “Celebrity Faceoff”, where two/three famous people race against each other on that same racetrack. They always drive a Jaguar F type. I don’t really like this part of the show so I often skip it. This time the guests were: Dynamo and Pen and Tyler (all magicians)
Then in the fourth and final part of the show they want to break the UK record of fastest, amphibian, road legal car (the record is 39 mph). At first Jeremy was the project leader and built a car out of a fighter jet, old boat and an old Suzuki. This plan failed horribly, when Jeremy and James tried it and the car only went 3 mph. They were very upset because of this so James and Richard fired Jeremy as a project leader and let him make some tea. James and Richard made a new contester out of a 3 wheel car, retreavable wheels and a jetski. When they arrived at the location, they were arguing about who was going to drive the thing. James and Richard don’t have a seagoing driving license so Jeremy had to do it because he did had one. When he was going in the water he wanted to express that 85% of the people attempting this died. He couldn’t really steer and the instructions were very complicated. But he did finally cross the line and broke the record.
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