Hallo and welcome to Fifth Gear
This is gonna be a very special show
We staging the most exciting "car vs plane" race ever
To give the new porsche boxster s the tougest test
Jason races the Limousine that faster than the super car
his is quick
Jonny went to Norway to see how the new Ford Focus ST handles in one of the greatest road in the world
Just want to take off the whole time
And Tiff finds out which tires are going to save you next time it rains
But first,let me introduce you to these bad boys
This is the largest civilian jet display team in the world
Basitive France,the 7 pilots use precision flying techniques take them wingtip to wingtip at 500mph
The team fly 39 fight jets
They can produce nearly 2tones of frust and pull up to HG
in the ultimate test of speed and precision
I've taken one of them on in the greatest car vs plane race you've ever seen
But first we need to choose one of the 7 pilots to race against me
And for that I .................. using a very ... car
Well,the boys.This is a Porsche boxster s
it's powerful,accurate and ... since you know all about
We are going to have a competition to see who is the fastest
This is the Start
Who foot down to the bottom
slide around the box
come through to the middle
once on the corner
and then power all the way back
fastest wins
he winner will then get to race the jet against me and the car
first,I showed the routes
the new boxster has all new body work, new engines and a competely provided shacy
which porsche claims and proves handling
steer in first gear
roll the...
There is no better way of testing that with an obsticle course
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and through the finishing line
with a 3.4litre 6 cylinder engine. The top speed at 170. This is the fastest boxster ever.
and almost as fast as his big brother--the 911
But with short overhangs before and bigger 19inch wheels, the car should be more stable and ... for ... to handle
let's see
JXX who flys plane no.1 is up first
they all get 1 1 each and I'll time them all from the passenger seat
and offer some guidence
we need to going this way
lovely
well done
you went sideways for a long time and smoke
the 6 speed manual takes 5.3s to get to 62mph
ALthough you can avoid such wrong gear issues by optik for the 7 speed Doppelkupplungsgetriebe
you gonna to be the quickst
I hope
It seems to be very easy to ride
the new car is 35 kg lighter than it's previers seser
and has 315 hp,5 more than before
it makes for lively combination
you don't fried the getrieb of course
i think the getribe is having a little warm
Do you like this vs plane?
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can we try again?
not with me in the car
the new boster s has equipped itself brilliantly
its stable,predictable handling and..............
the result's time
boys,none of you have got mechanical sympathy?
I've got a headache and feel sick
thanks so much
I'm gonna start with the person who is the slowest
And that is
GXXX
30.7 in 6th place
And then we have joint 4th position.
And taht goes to FXXX and SXXX
OK,so it's the dann to the top 3
in 3rd place
with time of 26.0
is DXXX
so 2 of you left
where are you PXXX and SXXX?
hands up
and the fastest of you is
PP
And I hope you fly better than you drive
SO,we have oue pilot for der boxster vs jets
Still to komen on FG
Jonny reviews the location of one of the world's greastest driving roads.
Do you got a list of roads to drive in your life time?
this is gonna to be on that.
and to find out how well a hybrid drifts.
the flick was too big
And now,ladies and gentlemen
May I introduce you to the spelendid Fifth Gear team test.
today ,the team tested the new hybrid Lexus GS450h
this luxury saloon is powered by a v6 petrol engine and an electric motor,give a total of 286bhp
costingÈçÍ¼
it's a rival for tradition desiel saloons
like the BMW 5series and Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse
isn't it an all new Lexus GS£¿
...ly ,the brand new car
WHAT?
I've seen this before
This look like ...
you got a really good point.because I can't work out if it is new or not
it's not neu
there's nothing about this make you stand out"wow,that's the neu Lexus"
this is the 450h,so this is the hybrid
why means?does it,mr.geek.that it can go to London for free.hybrid
actually you can't go to London for free.
Suddenly you can't do it any more
for any car that lease above 100 g per km CO2 in that big old v6 petrol kicks more than 100g
125,says it
as soon as I sat inside though
i realized there is where the money has been spend
stitch on that gear lever
there is really nice
it is actually really nice inside it
the top and all material are wonderful
Look at this.This is lovely
look at this wooden cover .....
I think they spend thousands of manhours on these sorts of thing
just beautiful ,quality,stylisch cabin.we are all very impressed
this is like driving in a gentlemen's club
what's that?
It's a mouse
you can aim for where you want to go
then fire
understate it luxury
i like that
Lexus is made aim with to engineering more driving invovements
so,been Jason told,.......drive it
the whole point is,is it fun to drive as you know BMWs and AUDIs and MERCs
they stuck exactly 6000 revs
firstly,what Jason and I immediately noticed was this CVT transmission
it is constently very......instead of you keeping in a gear and the revs going up and down
it picks a rev band,the gearing goes up and down
you get a very strange feeling in that
the engine makes exactly the same noise
all the way from sail 30 mph
all way to 120
no matter you manual or auto,you get 6000 revs
God,that's weird
It get another black mark for fuel economy
The Lexus is figured 45miles per gallon sounds very good for big lexury car
but BMW535diesel has even more power and does 52miles per gallon
watching Tiff and Jason,I thought that is a slightly awkward handling car
he's done a running slick
she's not very nice
a bit slow
that's a heavy ... as well
I don't know if I've drifted a hybrid on the show before
just when do it
it got leer of electronics you can't turn off.
there is always some clever japanische person under the dashboard not allow you to have any fun
I don't know if you are trying hard enough
usually those boys can turn it in
get the back sliding sideways,and hang on to a lovely drift
all right,I'll get it flick in
OMG
I'm not for you to get the mark
the flick was too big
it's not a really sporty drive
but i like it
it might not suit to be frown around the track
but the Lexus GS450h is an actually luxury limo
but it was not as sporty as we were hoping it to be
the Lexus GS450h gets 8
50grand is a lot of money,and you can get a more efficient BMW 5series that will cost you less
and for that reason
I'm going to give the Lexus 6
so the GS
it's exceptional teuer inside
it's a lot of money though
and it doesn't looking interesting enough
it doesn't drive that well as a driver's car
50 grand
drive another jaguar XF or merc E-KLASSE
i'm gonna give it 7.5
well,i didn't think i've liked it
but i do
8.5
which gives the Lexus GS450h a team test score of 30 out of 40
next, tires
they are the only thing that connect your car to the road
and Tiff is going to show you just why you shouldn't cut corners when buying them
a car's total grip on the road is limited to just 4 patchs,very big than the palm of our hand
so you might imagine how hard each of these to work to keep 1.5 tones of metal from sliding off the road
understand just how crucial the tires are
so when it comes to replacing them,the decision you make is a very important one
so we are gonna to use this very typical familie car
to try out 3 different ranks of tire
on very different prices
first,i'll test the new set of ECO tyres from EURO's biggest tire manufacture--continental
a full set cost 330p
there are more than 300 tire-brands to choose from
and i want to see how a middle price compares
the set by Czech company M cost 200p
finally,i'll try a set of part worn tires
perfect legal, good enough to get you through MOT
and a very attempting 60q for the set
every day driving in the dry
weren't shau many differences
so we are going to the limit
corns will die today,that's for sure
the first of our 2 tests on specially wetting track is to see how fast i can corner in low grip condition
first up,the standard fit--C
the line-change test at 70
in to my high speed test corner
how would the M costing 130p less compare
i'm not getting out these corners as quick as i was in standard tire
try the line-change 70mph
and i'm telling you M gripping me more than it was for the C tire
with less grip,the car's safty system has to brake harder to keep me safe
and they hold me back in the high speed corner as well
the tracktion scrunch the speed right at 66 on that lap
i didn't manage to maintain the same speed
which indicates the tires were sliding more
don't in the car likes these tyres as much as it like Cs
so what do you think of the part worn tires
goverment figure shows millions of secondhand tires bought each year
law says they must have at least 2mm of tread
really good
you never quiet sure you get a matching set
now the shock we went to is actually 5 tires in our size
they are all different brands
2 of them are winter tires
winter tires have a soft ...
and a more ingresive tread pattern
to offer batter grip in slipy conditions
although this one was damaged
a part worn can't be sold if the cut is more than 25mm long
this was on the limit
I'm not quiet sure if it spend 4 different types of tires
maybe I've been pulling left or right
but it doesn't
right.the line-change at 70
and if you were think of the little cut in the rear end
tire is going to let it go
and that makes me think of
generally if you have part worn
you have the wheel where they've been
would you like to put your family in the back
and start throwing the car off a corner
right.up to a high speed test.high turn in 70mph
running wide.we've run very wide
to 61
the worse of 3
we found that the difference in wet cornering speed was almost 10mph between the cheapest and the most expensive tires
perhaps as you expected
but the result of the second test "wet braking"was going to throw up a shocking result
we've tried the standard fit ECO Cs first
as we got to exactly 40.
wait for the green cone
exactly the 40
brake
this is a very very slipy surface
very very
it won't stop actually
and we have mark with that cone
next,we test the mid-priced Ms
40mph,same speed
wait foe the cones
hit the brakes
I think we would win here
stop shorter
in fact,they stop 7.7m earlier
time to test the PWs
and 40
handle hard
it's like a wow
it's slowing very well
amazingly, they stop 13.2m sonner tahn the standard fit tires
showing you just how impressive the grip of winter tires can be when it's slippery
even if you were fitted in a couple of old ones
although personally I only recommend buy new for total piece of mind
as for why the most expensive tires took the longest distance to stop in the wet
it is to do with with the trade off between consumption and grip
tires like these ECO Cs are optimized for low rolling resistance
and therefore,the best fuel economy
the mid-priced ... is optimized for grip
but its extra drag went necessary beats feul efficient
a million pound is spent by the tire industrie on researching development every year
and C tell us that their very latest tires provide better grip and economy
but what this test reviewed is the rubber of a lebel as an ECO tire engined improving mpg