Japan is in love with the car, and the people there spend a fortune on customizing their cars. But with over 5 million cars in Tokyo alone, don’t expect to get anywhere.
Making due with the leftover cars from Russian assistance and Americans scrambling to get out, in Vietnam, if it moves, it’s a car, and it’s fine. Only in Vietnam will you find a used to be Ford Galaxy that has been modified to seat 20 – without getting any bigger. But things are changing and the Vietnamese while driving bicycles and scooters are dreaming of owning their own Mercedes Benz. Will their culture survive?
With heavy doses of the music of Motown, Jeremy waxes nostalgic over the glory days of the muscle car.
Iceland is a diamond in the rough. Very rough! To live there takes a special kind of crazy. From driving up vertical cliffs in 1000 hp nitrous breathing vehicles, to trekking over glaciers and even over open water, the people of Iceland say, “Why not?”. Why not indeed!
Great architecture, great weather, great food, great wine, and to drive there is to live!
The driving test is amazingly simple and takes only a couple of minutes. But nothing can really prepare you for driving in India.
The Monaco Gran Prix was conceived as a global magnet for the world’s plutocrats. You need to be a lot more than just rich or famous to garner any attention here. You need to be a monarch. Or a grand prix racer!
Jeremy travels to Cuba home of some of the best, and worst car stories in the world. Revolutions, communism and proximity to the US make Cuba and interesting enigma. And the cars in Cuba are no exception. American cars, or what look like them anyway with Russian Lada engines. Car enthusiasts in Cuba overcome the lack of spare parts, body pieces expensive automotive fluids, with determined ingenuity. And they do so in the face of oppressive government restrictions against private enterprise that takes even more ingenuity to get the job done. They are not Italian or German super-cars, but they are engineering marvels none the less!
Many cultures have a love/hate relationship with the automobile. Not the Swiss. Take your fancy gas-guzzling environment ruining car park it. Preferably somewhere else.
In the Australian outback, you need a vehicle that will get you from your home, to your local shop, which is likely to be hundreds of miles away. And if you’re lucky, there will be a dirt road to follow. And watch out for the road-trains! And you though Mad Max was fiction?
In Texas, the #1 selling car, isn't a car. It’s a truck. Even with technology, you just can't take the cowboy out of Texas.
Give a Bedouin tribesmen a wad of money, and what do you get, a stable of fast cars!
This 1 hour episode of MOTORWORLD shows us the best bits from Clarkson's series about travelling across the world (Iceland, India, Cuba and the USA) sampling the different ‘car cultures’.
Jeremy Clarkson speaks with Jackie Stewart and Damon Hill about british racing engineering and drives the Lancer Evo rally car with Richard Burns.
