
Top Gear
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 2002
- 60 min
- 1,459 Views
Hello! Thank you, everybody, thank you,
and welcome to what is a Top Gear Special,
a two-part adventure
around the heart of Africa.
We were each told to buy
a second-hand estate car
here in Britain for not more
than 1,500 quid.
And then we were told to report,
with our cars,
in a small village in rural Uganda.
So, you've seen Sir David
Attenborough's take on Africa,
now it's time to see ours.
'I was the first to arrive
and I was feeling a bit nervous.'
As you can see, I've gone for
a BMW 528i, and on the internet,
it looked fantastic.
But, I've now had the chance to
examine it more closely,
and one or two things are giving me
cause for concern.
For example, it's got a manual gearbox.
Now that tells me the previous owner
was the sort of chap that
likes to take it to the max
between gear changes.
Secondly, the front tyres are Pirellis,
the back tyres are made by a company
So that tells me
it's been run on a tight budget.
I don't know what the challenge
is going to be,
but I'm going to be doing it like that.
Hang on, that is the throb
of a turbocharged flat-4 engine.
A sound which, all over the world,
heralds the imminent arrival of a moron.
'And it did here, too.'
It's Richard Hammond, everybody,
who I suspect has started to dye his hair.
See what you think.
Hammond!
And there it is.
It is, yes.
Well, there can be only one word.
Legend. Subaru Impreza WRX estate.
And driven by emeritus professors
all over the world.
Yes, yes. No, no.
Just hang on. Here's my thinking.
I don't know what challenges face us
Subaru stands for
Toughest-Thing-On-The-Planet,
WRX stands for world rallycross,
which the Impreza just owned.
It's all there. Four-wheel-drive,
turbocharged estate.
But you're going to look stupid doing it.
I don't have to look.
I know I'm wearing double denim,
and that is a mistake,
but you've got Daktari trousers on,
and the wheels of the agri-yob.
Actually, it looks a bit like you.
What?
You know, small, and with
a sort of surprised expression.
"A tree!" Yes.
"A house!"
Well, then, that's perfect.
My face in that car.
Honestly, I'm so chuffed.
This time, I've done this right.
Big boot. Practical.
Practical?
So, what have you got?
528i, rear wheel drive, 2.8 straight-6.
How many miles has it done?
151,000. This, though, is the last
of the mechanical 5-series.
After this, they started using computers.
This is simple, mechanical
engineering. Anywhere, listen.
Yes?
James isn't here. No.
No surprises there.
I know for a fact what he's got.
Go on.
He'll have a Volvo.
Yeah.
He'll have gone... Yes, yes, yes.
Because you know he's got
no imagination at all.
'As it turned out, James did have a Volvo,
'but not the sort of Volvo
we were expecting.'
That isn't an 850 R, is it?
It is, it is!
That's a bold call!
Gentlemen. Yes?
You bought an 850 R?
It doesn't matter, it's a Volvo.
This defines the estate car. Nothing
else is an estate car, only this.
Have you seen the tyres on an 850 R?
Well, there aren't any.
It has tyres.
It's just a thin veneer of paint
on a wheel.
But they're high-performance tyres.
It's a high-performance car.
I know. It does 146mph.
Do you remember
British Touring Car Championships?
These were great fun to watch.
Yes. And they were on dirt tracks,
weren't they? No.
Racetracks. Yes.
Do you think when Volvo sat down to
the design the 850 R,
they said, "Now, Africa."
"We need to try
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