Highlights - The Stig, Hammond,May and Clarkson Cross-London Race - Top Gear

the new Mercedes GL it's 17 feet long it's about six and a half feet wide it weighs two and a half tons it is the Chelsea as' of all the Chelsea tractors and I shall attempt to beat him on this it's a specialized series limiting a carbon fiber super-lightweight bicycle it's built on a five-piece monocoque construction with a Body Geometry saddle it's got carbon fiber crankset carbon fiber handlebars carbon fiber brake levers and it's even got its own unique gel-based suspension system now as we race across London in the car on on the bike he will catch a bus around the corner there he will get an underground train to Monument station and from there he will get on the Docklands Light Railway which takes him all the way to the airport so are we ready yes ready let's go excellent hang on hang on there is a fourth way oh god don't tell me a jet pack no carrier jungjie no plasma powered horse no I've got a boat let's go ok what I've got here is a fifty two thousand pound cougar sport racing boat it's got a three and a half litre VTEC Honda engine on the back 225 brake horsepower top speed 75 miles an hour unfortunately on this part of the river sort of chiswick there are many herons and otters so i'm limited to nine miles an hour-ish the speed limit is in force all the way to ones with bridge but from there the Thames has no speed limit at all meanwhile the Stig saw a huge red car approaching and he got on it using something called an oyster card which is useful if you have no understanding of money I'm in a bus lane which is good I can use them however the other TV news is done but it the Monday morning rush hour was slowing James but I couldn't open up the big leader hopeful for one simple reason I've got a way to the light I'm on telly obviously I always wait to the light hello it was time for the state to get out of the big red car after 25 minutes this is how things stood Hammond was alive and in the lead May he was breathing down his neck in second that Stig was third and I was going in the wrong direction on one of the rivers endless and annoying meanders I have to make every mile-an-hour account because my average speed is so low don't pull out don't pull out don't pull out I hate busses stinking horrible things go bit of Christian motoring there that man wanted to pull out let him pull out what comes around goes around he who is last shall be first bali nothing bus-driving bullying not see why don't you just wait and give you passengers a better ride the Stig now in an underground car have noticed that everyone was doing the same thing I was there siding down Piccadilly and joy of Joy's the traffic was horrible as it turned out jams were the least of my problems how crikey it's the rozzers the police only wanted to check the permit for our camera car but it still cost me valuable time so on the basis that stopping here I've lost about three or four minutes in the race and that sort of corrupts the results can we just do four minutes of blues and twos and I'll follow you what I can do is I can give you a fifty ninety to say that I've stopped you and then you can submit that to your superiors as a record of me stopping you what I was pulling further ahead Japan square left right this is no need to be cycle lane one two three metres of it and then I'm back under that bus Hammond hello where are you I'm on the river I just got onto embankment where are you I'm just going past Fulham football club this was bad news Jeremy was now only a minute or so from one's worth bridge where he could put his foot down so although the car was imprisoned by the traffic the boat was coming into play and Stig was closing in too please mind the gap between the train and the packing there we got ones with wish yeah okay I'm on the my live with this was made at this point richard was just eight miles from the airport I had 17 miles to cover but I was going an awful lot faster the Stig was now catching Hammond too and even worse news for the wall in shorts James had cleared the traffic 2025 2018 so frustrating where is Jeremy on his boat we're going through as the river widened I became the fastest-moving man in all of London looking on now come out to 50 miles an hour how can we lose now it simply is not possible at this stage James was last and the Stig was still several stops away from the airport so it was becoming a two-horse race the bends in the river had made my journey seven miles longer but I was now doing a whopping seventy miles an hour I'm here I've arrived coming through fortunately gentlemen avoid caffeine or nothing what gentleman project already Hammond yes I'm Indiana knew how the hell did you do that it's easier on a pushbike you don't get stuck you've ruined Topcu well the last ever show I bent it a bit hang on then what you're saying is I've ruined Top Gear because I weren't on a budget you came second in a boat between is revealed following Top Gear we sat down to see if Top Gear could be salvaged just long as the car beats probably transport with a car god that's a very good point what if the car loses to public we need for public transport to come stone dead last we seen got an answer oh no did he go on a tube underground did he go dark flashing lights did you go on a train whether other people mmm what he's just done is he's gone slower than a boat of the bicycle it was that'll just be good inside there's all number streets to be a bit of smoke come out the top in a minute keep watching fifteen minutes after the Stig James arrived thank you James what have you done the car as an entity ruin lies smashed and broken in front of us because of you he beat you on public transport you

Channel: Top Gear

Views: 1,998,502

Rating: 4.9014778 out of 5

Keywords: BBC, Top, Gear, Car, Drive, Auto, Clarkson, Hammond, May, Funny, Free, Video

Id: CkOzNK4l8KY

Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 03 2008