Renault Espace Convertible Challenge - Top Gear - BBC

Behind these doors we had created a masterpiece, as you can see. Hammond has done a very thorough job here of anchoring the roof at the front. We have replaced the glass that was broken and obviously gets under this. It's not a safety feature, there's the James folding arrangement that lowers everything down, but it's the rear where we're really happy because what we've done is cut the tailgate in half so you can come back with heavy purchases and unpack all these Tomas. no more than five or ten minutes and then we have placed it here so you can open everything and load the trunk.

Yes, there are one or two rough edges here, for example, but overall we're very proud of it. see how good our roof would be in real conditions, the production team came up with a series of tests, first

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, yes, actually, let's do it, professor, I have no idea what this

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is. One has to drive the car with the roof up at high speed. 100 miles an hour without anything breaking or falling, but obviously we couldn't do this on the road, so we went to Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, where there is a two mile banked circuit, it's been a good squeak, are you ready ? guys, yeah, primed and ready, here we go, let's do 3536 laws an hour, there's a little draft here from these windows and look things were going well until we got over the 50 mile per hour barrier / yeah, okay, stay with 6566, I'm his part, I'm structurally integral to the room, so we would survive that and Richard and I decided to lower the ceiling.

James said this would take just a moment. Julia Peak and where does that go? can work see from a distance she looks at the next jellyfish now you should go to Woburn Abbey Safari Park and drive your

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through the wildlife enclosures the outhouse you don't want to worry about the queues anyway the monkeys you have to worry about Are you watching the lion monkeys go because they are Barbary ape monkeys and they have really fierce teeth like this? If you were locked in a phone booth for half an hour with a monkey or if you were alive there, would you go, what would you do? go for the lion, no, because monkeys in confined spaces, those Barbary robbers, panic and become incredibly violent.

I love the way James thinks that monkeys are somehow the biggest danger we'll face in the next hour of our lives, Woburn usually thinks so. We don't allow

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s in their dangerous animal enclosures, but they were so impressed with the structural integrity of ours that they made an exception: the African lion, six tons of muscle and teeth. Anyone from Woburn has been fed these lines. Excuse me, it's Jeremy again. You said it was a day of famine, so when did you last eat? Yeah, but if you mention monkeys, I'll throw you out with him. It looks like I said a sandwich box with the lid half open.

Fortunately, the Lions had other things in mind with my point of view. We left the Lions and headed towards the danger of the monkeys, but then a really big one appeared, that's easy, yes, you have to stay there after you. We had to leave with our roof mascot still in place because it was time for our final challenge. Modern convertibles. They are capable of passing through automatic car wash machines. Now you must do the same with your car. The car was selected for the test. It was new. It had cost the owner a million pounds and had the latest technology to provide the power of cleanup from a category 5 hurricane Does anyone else suddenly get a little?

Yes, I'm terrified, I'm scared, it's pretty cold tonight too, isn't it? Yeah, there, ice cream, that's got the heat on a little bit. Yes, I'm not nervous, no, no, no, it is. okay, it'll be good, just you know, flap a bit, my confidence is going down, there's a slight fog coming into the car, no, that's just condensation, it's a bit of fog through the meeting though, that's fine in Drysdale right now, they have a bad bad bad feeling about this there's a pretty big roller going up through the windows the Roofus who bought a flower is on fire don't fight you