Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip Page #2

You're looking at a balcony

that was in a story... Story!

Made up by a man

who you said you don't like.

I hate William Shakespeare but it's...

Come on!

It's not real, it's a story.

It was pretend.

You're on a tour of Europe,

you need to see stuff.

I'm on a tour of Europe, in a Ferrari,

except I'm not in a Ferrari,

I'm standing here

Looking at an old building.

Happily, a big crowd of

Italian Top Gear fans then stopped him

from getting into some old theatre

so we could get back on the motorway.

If he's going to ruin this road trip

by stopping off to look

at old things that don't move, I'll...

I should've

remembered, of course,

Hammond isn't going to want

to do anything cultural

and he isn't going to want

to eat anything interesting.

It's like travelling around

with a garden chair.

I therefore decided

to annoy him some more.

- Hammond?

- What?

Shall we turn off here?

What, now? Why would we?

Well, because I'm bored of driving on

motorways, I want to go on other roads.

Is there an old pile of bricks

or a gate that once featured

in a fairy tale down here?

No, no.

It's driving but just on nice roads.

We're not going to look at Hansel

and Gretel's handbag or something?

In fact, we were heading

for the Italian Lakes,

a sparkling jewel in the golden crown

of our perfect journey.

And soon I realised that cars like these

on days like these

have been used before,

at the beginning of. The Italian job.

I know just the music we need

for this bit of our drive.

Cue the Monro.

Ooh, this is pretty,

Looking at all of these Italian things

from my Italian grand touring supercar.

We just have to be careful that

if we go into a tunnel,

we don't hit a bulldozer.

Oh, that's just... Oh!

This is just magnificent.

But soon the real reason

for turning off became apparent.

As the roads became more twisty,

the Ferrari was becoming

more of a handful.

Oh-ho! Oh!

Uh, just need to be a bit careful about

unleashing 730 brake horsepower.

It's actually more than an F1 car

and I'm conscious of that right now.

Help! Oh!

Oh! Yeah.

I wasn't scared

I have no doubt

that the Ferrari is faster than this

but this is just nicer to drive

'cause it's less frightening.

With the F12, Ferrari have

given you everything you need

to have an incredible drive

or get yourself into

a very great deal of trouble.

Get a racing driver in this car

and he will tell you,

"Yes, that is a real car. "

It's not been tamed for people

to park at the golf course

and talk about in the bar.

It's amazing how different this is

to the standard SLS,

which would be wobbling its

bottom all over everywhere.

This isn't because of its

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