Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip Page #3

electronic differential.

You can think of it really

like a Porsche GT3,

lightened, hard,

focused, on it, built for this.

The SLS behaving like this is like

Eddie Izzard doing Richard III, it's...

It's almost weird to watch

a pantomime character

become so straight.

Weird and yet brilliant.

Eventually,

we reached our overnight halt

and I went for supper

with my cultured colleague.

What do you mean

you prefer the Lake District?

Well, this is beautiful

It is.

- And to be honest, for me...

- More beautiful than Derwentwater.

Garda's not even the prettiest lake

and look at it!

It's very lovely.

Just scale it down to 75% of that

and then introduce

a bit of drizzle and...

- Is Keswick in the Lake District?

- Ooh, yeah.

What you don't get in Keswick

are these. Have you had one?

- No.

- Have a pepper. Eat.

Eat. Eat it. Go on, you'll like it.

I don't like it.

Then we thought

we'd play our favourite game.

He's got the Ferrari

options pricelist there

and I'm going to guess

how much they cost.

There are quite

a Lot of options available.

Pick some.

Okay. Racing seats with carbon fibre.

I don't know, 600 quid?

L5,184.

- I was a bit under.

- Yeah.

But carbon fibre wheel caps,

on the tyres, you know, on the...

- What, dust caps?

- Yeah.

Carbon fibre dust caps? Tenner.

L480. I thought that was cheap.

- What, for four dust caps?

- Yeah.

L480?

Are the cup holders standard?

There is a carbon fibre

cup holder you can get.

- A carbon fibre cup holder?

- Yeah, you know, it pops in...

Well, they were?600 on

a Lamborghini Gallardo a while back,

so I'LL go a thousand.

L2,112. Yeah, this is amazing.

Really, the car is the cheapest option.

The next day,

we consulted a map and realised

we were just a spit from the fastest

Grand Prix track on the calendar...

Monza.

The Cathedral of Speed.

Because it's so fast,

I've ditched the Ferrari

and upped the ante

to this Pagani Huayra,

still a V12 but now with two turbos.

'Cause what you need here is a missile.

I've gone for a Porsche Cayman S.

- You're just being obtuse.

- I'm not.

You are. You've gone for a Porsche

so you can not go for a 911.

It's just annoying.

This is better than a 911.

- It isn't! A 911 is better than that.

- It isn't.

- Because the 911 has its engine here.

- Yes.

- This is mid-engine.

- Because it isn't a 911.

- No!

- It's better!

Listen, if we were driving around

Cadwell Park, Lydden Hill...

- Yeah.

- Nippy and fizzy, yes!

But not here at Monza. You need power.

You're just hung up on this

- great big long straight.

- Yes.

But there must be

a corner down there somewhere,

otherwise you wouldn't be able

to get down there again.

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