Man with a van challenge part 1 - Top Gear - BBC

So the producers came up with the plan and said the only way to learn about bands is to go out and buy one and run it. Yes, so they gave each of us a thousand pounds and told us to buy a sign on the van. We write the side of our company. name and then show up to the Top Gear test track here for a series of

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s because I know very little about vans. I did what Hammond had done in the previous test, played it safe and bought a two and a half foot long wheelbase Ford Transit.

The diesel engine apparently only did 77,000 miles and you know how much I paid for it, eight hundred pounds meanwhile James had stuck to his bigger is better theory and bought a huge LVV box fan, James are you filming with us today or are you moving? However, James was more concerned about my written sign. What did you do with that sign? Superior equipment for messengers. Oh messengers, he stopped. I'm an oh, hello, wait, wait, wait, wait, God, that's a stupid thing, that's brilliant, that's not much, was it nine hundred? and fifty pounds and now we have to wait because I'm Bob the Builder, really we who finally arrived, did you like washing it with too hot Isetta?

You have to leave that wind up there because I ran, I'll see what you do. I've run out of space and well, would you do it, which is uzuki super carry, super carry, optimistic title, super market in a super tanker, it's basically a Bedford rascal, it has almost a 900 cc engine, aha, not even 2 16 18 19 seconds, I imagine. that's faster than mine, well, let's see because it's time to continue with the

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s. Here is the first instruction of the day. We start with something you should be familiar with. A quarter mile drag race. Who has the fastest man?

What's that? It has to do with anything that has to be last. In reality, there is a point at which a self-driving van driver cannot afford to waste the day with a tool that is not fast enough. The mid-engine is here, which gives me perfect weight distribution, so Dynamically I'm already ahead. I wasn't expecting much and I like our cameraman, who is used to filming things much faster than this. It is no match for the hamster. Look at his seal. No, dear. Bad call. I just left James and had the same two and a half liter Ford engine, but it had more weight.

Yes, James Clements had risen in the slowest endurance race in the history of motorsports and Hammond had won it, which seemed to please him. Then it was time for challenge number two that a good truck driver must be able to carry. his truck as quickly and efficiently as possible, they must now fill their vehicles with a selection of cargo and deliver it safely to the delivery location. They will be competing with each other. I hope it's a lot of things. I don't like manual work. our load included every detail a man in the van could expect to carry everything from vases to expensive works of art and from double mattresses to legal immigrants three two one maybe a smaller Richard really had a size problem and his room was also quite small the place council Ronny Shepherd James was having trouble with his illegal immigrant so he decided to employ him while Jeremy was being all handsy like, oh that's just keep in mind that loading a van on the surface is a crust slow.

I didn't write. I guess it was like that, how do you say it? You go in front and the Albanians get behind you. I would be under the mattress. You look like mine. You owe me 20 grand. I've finished now. In fact, James had started first, but the winner was first. cross the line and then unload his truck, so I hatched a dastardly plan. I love that empty way. I think I once had a belly panel II. James had driven a few meters forward so he could unload, but he still had problems with the group inside him. therefore, he finished second Helen, well, he looked ridiculous and was last.

I will tell you that we are no worse than the last movers I used, so next challenge, so here we go, possibly the most important skill a van driver should have. What you have is the ability to sit right on the tail of the car in front of you, so now each of you must drive down the track and get as close to the bumper of a Hager in the opposite lane as possible without touching each other. The closer you are, the more points you get Anand went first with Jeremy and I posing as the 40 lane hoggers as he measured the gap between us using a special laser mounted on the back of them, this would be pretty easy in my family, the knees touch the back, it is as if they were following us. by a small insect, it's not scaring me, it's 31.9 millimeters away, which is the latest Qasr schism on your knee.

You could park a bus in that space. Hammond Hammond responded 18.9 ten point three four millimeters, you did it. Sam boiled me next, it was Jeremy with 10.3 millimeters. to beat here it comes here it comes now that's a familiar sight on the road it's unavoidable at 60 millimeters this is the problem with traffic and seeing where the front is it just doesn't cut anything what is it doing with most of my torso out of the window? I had a much clearer view now it's a sentence 82 squats no, that's not bad, he must have bent the bumper silo because it got to minus six millimeters finally it was James' turn and he had an even bigger problem than me, what it says, well, is that so? measuring miles I will go to Romero because James is approaching, slow captain, living up to his name and now the next challenge, land drivers never waste their earnings on vehicle maintenance, so now everyone must change the front door of their own truck.

We will be competing against each other, that is more manual work, yes, there are three, two, one, come on, of course. IV, excuse this, oh look, the producers said no, while the other one went to work with keys. I wasted my wits, I traded that guy, your truck did the trick. soon we were all trying to place the new doors with varying degrees of intelligence, plus the ball, yes, I was the first to finish without using the senator's door instead, don't open it, what comes out says nothing about opening it. naked or self for God's sake, meanwhile, James was taking so long that he ran out of time.

He was just about done with your keys, polishing them anyway, you've given them all the names, Jeff's ribs, yeah, Stephen, keep going.