- Jeremy Clarkson asks if Europe's glamour set still need their jets and helicopters to fulfill a busy day of breakfasting in St Tropez, skiing in the Alps and dining in Turin or if they'd be better off with a car. And it's not just any car because he's testing the new, 1479 horsepower Bugatti Chiron with an epic cross-Europe dash. Also, James May is on the Mediterranean island of Majorca to see if the new Kia Stinger GT is faster than gravity itself with a race against some skateboarders. Plus May joins Richard Hammond to relieve the boredom of office lunchtimes with the all-new sport of car park racing, and another big question is answered in Celebrity Face Off as actor Hugh Bonneville goes against naturalist Casey Anderson to find the world's fastest person who lives with a bear.
- Clarkson recreates a jet set lifestyle, as he finds out what it is like to drive the new Bugatti Chiron, taking it on a journey from Saint-Tropez to Turin via the Alps, with a drag race along the way. Giovanni is Clarkson's butler again. The boot of the Chiron is only so big. Clarkson thinks that people don't need private jets and helicopters anymore since they have the Chiron. 1479 BHP, 261 mph, 8L V16, it is at the edge of what's technically possible, but feels normal (like the Concorde). It accelerates to 180 mph faster than a Toyota hatch gets to 60 mph. Drains the tank in 9 mins flat out. BP 2.5 MM. Tyres are BP 13000. Beats a BMW M4 badly in a drag race. Chiron flows up the mountains, The only way to enjoy it in the alps is to drive it slower than it can go. Clarkson makes his appointment in Turin on time and claims that is it faster than a helicopter. Since Hammond can't fly a helicopter, the claim stands.
May heads to Majorca to test out the Kia Stinger GT (A sporty saloon car, 3.3 L twin turbo V6, 365 BHP, 0-60 in 5 secs, 170 mph, 8 speed semi auto gear box, BP 40,000 (5K less than the equivalent Jaguar or Audi)) in a race against long-board riders (specially designed skateboards that go up to 75 mph) along a mountain road. May has to climb a hill before the time it takes the riders to long-board it down the same distance. May 5:10, Boarders 5:16.
Conversation street: Scalextric is a boring motor game as either the cars go under the furniture, or they keep going round and round forever. Bentley themed espresso cups. the trio look at festive motoring gifts. The gifts are all centered around Hammond's car crash in the Swiss Alps. Slippers that spell ANUS, alarm clock that sets on fire every time it rings, Trousers that don't set on fire. May brings Clarkson a T Shirt that has his lung scan from Majorca, where he was hospitalized with Pneumonia. Clarkson brings May a fridge with a motoring wheel as the door opening handle.
Meanwhile, Hammond and May invent a new motor-sport for relieving office workers of lunchtime boredom. They go to Haughton Hall business park and create a race track out of office supplies on the roads. They chose the Kia Picanto GT for the race car. employees of Storage King and Cura Technical go head-to-head. Pete is the regional manager from Cura (clocks 1:06.16), Darren from Logistics for Storage King (clocks 1:05.97), Nick from accounts for Cura (clocks DNF) and so on. The grand finale has Gav from Purchasing for Storage King and Steve from sales for Cura in a head-to-head race. Steve wins from Cura.
Hugh Bonneville (was in the Paddington films. Loves marmalade and is jailed for a crime his family doesn't think he committed. Is a Tesla owner, loves his car and is part of a Tesla coffee group.) and Casey Anderson (lives with an actual 800-pound bear which it rescued from Montana when it was little, was his best man at wedding, comes to thanksgiving dinners, drinks beer, has a bear girlfriend named Stella. Montana had no driving laws until recently. Just keep between the fences or the ditches.) compete to see which of the two is the fastest driver. Who is the fastest person in the world who lives with a bear. Hugh 1:22.2, Casey 1:18.6.
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