1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:16,359 Tonight, James asks a girl for a favour. No. 2 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,919 Richard listens to a man. 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,440 And I polish a bishop. 4 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:28,919 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 5 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,999 Hello, good evening! 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,719 Hello, thank you, everybody, thank you. Now. 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,679 New cars come out so fast these days, 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,759 sometimes it is difficult to keep up. 9 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,279 Nissan, for example, said the other day that over the next six years, 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,719 they will be bringing out a new model every six weeks. 11 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,919 Happily, however, there are some car companies, 12 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,839 usually Italian ones, that won't be rushed. 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,279 That like to take their time, have some lunch. 14 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,519 And nobody is better at this than Lamborghini, 15 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,440 as Richard Hammond shall now explain. 16 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,599 When it comes to their big V12 cars, 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,879 their flagship battle cruisers, 18 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:21,160 Lamborghini really, really like to take their time. 19 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,399 Just these four - the Miura, 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,400 the Countash, the Diablo... 21 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,279 and the Murcielago, span half a century. 22 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,520 And now, at last, there's a new one. 23 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,920 It's called the Aventador. 24 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,439 It costs £248,000. 25 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,039 And it's the closest thing to a stealth fighter jet 26 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,240 that you'll ever see on the road. 27 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,480 It even has a starter button that's straight out of Top Gun. 28 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:16,599 The current boss of Lamborghini said recently that in the old days, 29 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,679 the order of priority for Lamborghini was top speed, acceleration, 30 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,480 and handling, in that order. 31 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,839 The thing is, for this car, 32 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,159 he says that order is the other way round. 33 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,079 Handling comes first, with top speed being given a lower priority. 34 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,920 So, let's find out just how low a priority that is, shall we? 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Whooooa! Waaaah-hah! 36 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,519 0 to 60, 2.9 seconds. 37 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,640 So they still care about acceleration, then! 38 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,839 220 kilometres an hour, 39 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,120 250! 40 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,560 260! 41 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,400 270. 280 kilometres. 42 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,359 Oh! 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,279 290 kilometres an hour. 44 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,960 Oh my God! 45 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,600 Oh, OK, and relax. 46 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:24,000 If that's them giving top speed a low priority, bring it on! 47 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:29,999 Flat out, the Aventador will do 217 mph... 48 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,400 which makes it faster than the old Murcielago. 49 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,799 How Italian is that? 50 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,320 ITALIAN ACCENT: No top speed, OK, 270, no more, no more than that! 51 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:51,320 This pulverising performance comes courtesy of the Aventador's massive 6.5 litre engine... 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,919 their first all-new V12 for almost 50 years. 53 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,560 But what's surprising is that they bothered to make one at all. 54 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,119 You see, these days, a lot of carmakers are shying away from bigger engines. 55 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,479 BMW's new M5, for example, will have a V8 instead of a V10. 56 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,119 AMG are ditching V12s in favour of V8s. 57 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,399 It's called moving with the times. 58 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,159 But that's not so easy with a big Lamborghini. 59 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:24,559 A V12 is kind of its signature dish, it defines the car. 60 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,599 And the engineers insisted that whatever happened with the Aventador, 61 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,719 it had to have a V12. 62 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,920 And, of course, the by-product of a V12 is lots of horsepowers. 63 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,400 This has got 691 of them, which in Top Gear maths is 700. 64 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,599 That power is fed to all four wheels 65 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,319 through a unique design of flappy paddle gearbox. 66 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,719 It can change in less than 50 milliseconds, which... 67 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,240 I can't demonstrate that even if I blink an eye. 68 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,239 There are other high-tech features too. 69 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,599 We're in strada mode right now, which is for the road. 70 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,080 Let's put it in corsa, track mode. 71 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,120 Whoa, hang on! 72 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,840 All right, fella, all right! 73 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,280 That's absolutely brutal! It kicks you in the back of the head. 74 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,559 And now we're in corsa mode, 75 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,559 let's find out how they've got on with their new number-one priority... 76 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,800 handling. 77 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,519 Traditionally, always the scariest part of testing a big Lambo. 78 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,680 OK, here we go, I'm nervous. 79 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:46,560 I'm OK. 80 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,160 Still on the track. 81 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,079 I'm in a V12 Lambo, I just threw it at a corner at insane speed, 82 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,800 and it went round. 83 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:12,479 So why am I not buried in row 85 of that 747? 84 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:17,359 This is partly because the grip is just unbelievable. 85 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,479 Also it's got push-rod suspension which is very clever, 86 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,280 and unheard of in an road car - that's F1 stuff. 87 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,239 So even when it's coming under some pressure, like that, 88 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,599 the steering is just... 89 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,240 It's just... I'm turning a dial. 90 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,239 So, whilst the Aventador looks as Miami Vice mental 91 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,400 as everything else in its family tree, it's now a serious player. 92 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,399 The noise it makes is spirited rather than deafening. 93 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,679 The chassis is made from carbon fibre, not pig iron. 94 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,199 The air-conditioning works. 95 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,840 It's a proper car, rather than a machine that wants, most of all, to kill you. 96 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,560 And that makes me a bit sad. 97 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,759 Basically, what's missing is that Lambo fear factor, 98 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,439 that knot in the stomach test pilots must have felt in the '50s 99 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,320 when they headed for the sound barrier in unproven jet aircraft. 100 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,360 Of course, you might think that's a good thing. 101 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,840 To be honest, I'm not so sure. 102 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,840 If a big Lamborghini is all about pantomime, drama, theatre, which it is... 103 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,359 then I want people watching 104 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,399 not just to go, "Wow, that's a stunning-looking thing." 105 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,159 I want them to look at me inside and think, "Whoa, there goes Chuck Yeager Hammond. 106 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,239 "He's brave." But in this, I'm not being brave. 107 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,319 It's as easy to drive as a big Audi, that's the truth of it. 108 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,519 I finally understand what they mean by that, is it Helsinki syndrome? 109 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,479 When people who've been kidnapped, 110 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,600 when they're released, miss their kidnappers. 111 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,039 I don't know that I want to be in a big, loud V12 Lambo 112 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,919 that doesn't every now and again try and kill me. 113 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,800 I miss that. 114 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,519 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 115 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,199 Very good. It's beautiful but it's just not... 116 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,359 I think he made a mistake. 117 00:08:30,...
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