these guys are old, but the show is still only going to get better. Imagine them in their 90's half senile and ranting at each other incomprehensibly. that's going to be great.
It's a safety device similar to the "alerter" on railway locomotives. If the driver doesn't do anything - such as blow the horn - for too long a time, the emergency brake automatically applies. In Italy, if you haven't used the horn in over 40 seconds, it's assumed you've passed out.
I guess the honks were added in post as it is forbidden to honk. Of course the rules are there for foreigners, not Romans. But it is a lot quieter in Roma "today" than 40 years ago.
I had to laugh at how well James adapted to the Roman madness and his Italian isnt cringeworthy either..... I'll stop there before I do something unforgivable and hint at some form of admiration for Mr May....
Last time I was in Rome I hired a Ducati and rode around for a week. Was heaps of fun and enjoyed the bike friendly traffic. What I didn’t enjoy was getting a surprise in the mail at home. Apparently motorbikes can’t ride in bus lanes in Rome like we can here in Sydney…… Still, riding a duke in Italy was something special.
The last time I was in Rome I discovered that, if they don't want to, Roman drivers don't stop for anything - traffic lights, policemen, accidents, probably sink-holes! Doesn't matter, they're not stopping. As a pedestrian, the only way to cross a road was to find a small child or a mother & pram who were crossing and hurl yourself after them. Only things for which a Roman driver would actually stop.
I was in Italy back in 1999, Rome and Florence. Still in high-school by a couple years. Loved the low drinking age of 16 lol! Even walked into a family picnic and they welcomed me as family! My family still cracks up to this day about that!
@@username8644 Looool when me and my family were in Arles my father told as a joke to a waiter to serve me a Pastis shot (he ordered it for himself obviously) and the waiter proceded to give it to me no hesitation (I was 13 years old), now I know why.
I remember driving on the autostrada near Naples. There were three lanes. And suddenly the traffic stopped. So obviously the cars spread out into about 5-6 lanes. Even though there were still just markings for 3 lanes.
As Italian i can understand your "fear". For work I drove from Cosenza to Bologna and fortunately the driving disorder of Rome and Naples does not exist in all of Italy. xD
In 1977 I visited my sister in Milan when I was all of 16 years old - one night while out shopping, she asked me to drive as her car (a teeny tiny four seater two door FIAT) was a stick shift (of course) and she wasn't completely comfortable driving in heavy, stop and go traffic and it happened to be snowing. Absolutely bonkers - there weren't any real rules to follow save no contact and not driving against the traffic. Teeny cars and cabs would pull up to intersections or even stop lights three and four abreast, lightly revving their engines and looking both ways for a break in traffic to pull out. Buses did pretty much whatever they wanted and were given wide berth. Cabs were the cowboys, constantly jostling and weaving expertly through the chaos. Traffic lights are the opposite from USA/North America, i.e. red means go and green means stop (they're for the pedestrians) and single lane roads were just a suggestion. Everybody raced from one intersection/traffic light to the next and the hand signals and gestures were fast and furious. Roundabouts were terrifying but as long as you had good spacial awareness, nerves of steel and consistently good turn signal skills you were OK. She still giggles about it when I mention it to her. A great memory.
The problem with the romans is that they're fully commit 99% at trying to demostrate they are better than you, even when you are simple enjoying free time. It consume their existence and it's very sad, because they have good side too. One of that is that they are hard, but human sentiment driven. This make them amazing in storytelling and talking.
@@s4cells4cell7 i lived one year in rome and i was too stressful. I was spending all the day in the car, i was going crazy and anywhere i went there was always a ton of people
Too many "funny" (not so funny) bits, besides those looong minutes about penalty kicking, tea preparing and a "Scottish" enclave. Didn't they find enough things in Italy to show? 😑
this beautiful woman could drive me anywhere she wants. italian women are born natural beautiful. unbelievable. most of them dont need any makeup to look amazing. the landscape, the temperature, the people, the food, the architecture of the buildings, i fckn ❤️ italy. if i get time some day i‘ll learn their language too.
So Mr. Slowly has a pretty Italian lady taking him around Rome. I've had worse days. I remember years ago seeing an interview with a Roman taxi driver, trying to tell the journalist about how to drive in Rome. He said - "Drive to make them afraid". This also applies to much of Quebec.
If you are a adrenaline junkie then get a fixed price taxi from the airport to Rome. Those drivers are utterly nuts and i bet they are all recording their time and bragging who is fastest:D
Italian women are famous for being charming, elegant and beautiful. Yet, the charme, the cheerfulness, the expression and the light in the eyes, the happy laughs, ... just overwhelming. The calm way Guia Scognamiglio holds James May's arm when walking...Absolutely lovely.
I used to live for a couple of years in Rome. When I taken my friends to Italy, to Rome exactly, an my friend was driving, we left the motorway, and after the first crossroad he stopped the car and told me that he is not going to drive anymore in Rome :D for me is a chaos, but everybody knows that chaos and everybody knows what to expect from other road users for a foreign this basically madness
Sat down to watch this show the other night and as it got started my seventeen year old daughter says, “Ooooh James May, he’s such a GILF” I turned to her all wide eyed and said, “Isn’t he just!”
You can easily see how Guia is nervous about James's driving. Also, I'm Italian (from Milano) and I can say the "continuous honking" is just one of the usual bulls... stereotypes, even in Roma.
@@carminemartino1197 Era un'abbreviazione di una "parolaccia". Lo so perfettamente che cosa sono i bulls e i bullies. E se leggi bene la frase capirai che "bullies" non c'entrerebbero nulla.
Sono l'unico ad averlo notato? Guardate il minuto 35 e 50 secondi, dietro James nello sfondo appare una figura mooolto ambigua. Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.
When i lived there , you either quickly adopt the local (lack of) driving etiquette or you ll never get anywhere. re: moped drivers... they are nuts. first weekend my buddy took me to the beach on a moped . i was riding bitch without a helmet of course. this psycho overtook a bus in a blind right turn and i swear my elbow was rubbing on the side of the bus while we almost got killed by the oncoming traffic... fun times...
I used to drive trucks to Linate, Milan. No-one stops for Anybody..., Pedestrian crossing? Cars have right of way..., Trams trump Everything. I saw a truck get demolished by a tram, because the truck had turned right, but, into the trams path, but, the tram kept going. Parking; if you are working all day, park against the kerb..., part-time worker.., double-park, and, if if you need to shop, well, just Stop..., regardless if the traffic stacks up behind you. Madness!
Trams never stop if a car goes in their way, tahts happens everywhere in the world. As for the huge number of dickheads driving in Italy you are completely right, they make me want to throw a rock to them everytime I'm trying to cross the road.
I learned to drive a car driving from Florida to Connecticut, going through thunderstorms down south to near blizzard going through Baltimore/Washington DC then through frigid New York City. I had driven only motorcycles and tractors in Cornwall- apparently the Celt is very adaptable. Now Boston, is the tricky one- there are no rules and they haven’t even got the decency to swear at you where you are going wrong. What didn’t adapt was the diesel VW Dasher. The Maryland snow storm iced up the radiator and it didn’t like that, seizing a couple of weeks later necessitating the purchase of a Subaru. After picking up the newer vehicle I was left in a loaner car, in a town I didn’t know, in the dark, during another snow storm while the (ex now) wife buggered off into the whiteout in the Subaru.
Been to Rome. Nice for a visit. Only. Of course a Roman is going to say Rome is Italy and Italy is Rome. But I prefer Alto Adige aka South Tyrol. Your nerves and car will last longer there, in stunning scenery.
According to my Italian neighbour, driving in Rome is very much about parking and getting your windscreen wipers, hubcaps (or alloy wheels), headlights and/or headlamps stolen while you briefly leave your car 😕.
To James May, the producers and the editors of series 2. In episode 3 when James is standing in front of Lake Campotosto and talking to us viewers (starts at time code 00:35:40), a transparent 'ghostlike figure' suddenly appears in the background coming out from the trees on the left and starts walking to the right for a duration of ca three seconds. Starts at time code 00:35:50. What is it? Double exposure? The real deal? I have seen the streaming episode several times so it's not a manipulation by some viewer.
In Rome, I found the constant honking more a sign of communication rather than a sign of aggression like we see it as in the UK. Took me a while to realise this as I didn’t see anyone get out of their car and smash the other person’s windshield in.
My interpretation is a bit different. Like the taxi driver who floored it, hit the horn and waved the bird out the window, whilst shouting "fanculo!" at pedestrians crossing the street.
i had a italian lady in her 50s taking me to a hotel a few years ago and driving a 5 speed standard it was music in driving wow , she did double clutch and stop for a moment to check her motor belts making sure they werent broken . amazing driving.
@@littlebigjohn69 99 % of italians where I drive have no idea how a roundabout works haha . I guess there must be that 1 % that actually understands things hahaha. Mind you , ITALIANS love their cars !!
I used to like James May especially as we're the same age. When he was doing the pull apart and rebuild programmes. But this is a notch or four down from that, May on an all expenses paid jolly up around Italy with the usual entourage, doing the slightly grumpy, slightly reluctant "Top gear" asides to camera. Freddie Dobbs is doing a much more interesting and honest equivalent. Without all the bollex of it being an ordeal. Clarkson makes it entertaining, May comes across as a lefty media knob.
What stresses you out the most whilst driving? 🧐
Not having a license
Bad drivers!!!
Other drivers or woman drivers
Thinking Richard Hammond might be coming the other way .
Indonesian traffic.
these guys are old, but the show is still only going to get better. Imagine them in their 90's half senile and ranting at each other incomprehensibly. that's going to be great.
Most of us will also be in the "Senile and ranting" area of life. So, it will be ok :oD
jezzas not making it past 68
Hammond crashing some rare car in his 80's and back presenting soon after
They've been doing that for years!
@@thereisnospoon52 and it keeps getting funnier!!
If you don't honk your horn in 40 seconds your car actually turns off in Rome
Sounds exhausting
It's a safety device similar to the "alerter" on railway locomotives. If the driver doesn't do anything - such as blow the horn - for too long a time, the emergency brake automatically applies. In Italy, if you haven't used the horn in over 40 seconds, it's assumed you've passed out.
I guess the honks were added in post as it is forbidden to honk. Of course the rules are there for foreigners, not Romans. But it is a lot quieter in Roma "today" than 40 years ago.
Unless you're on the phone whilst overtaking an overtaking car! Though probably best to honk anyway! 🤣
in India the interval between two honks is 10 seconds
I had to laugh at how well James adapted to the Roman madness and his Italian isnt cringeworthy either..... I'll stop there before I do something unforgivable and hint at some form of admiration for Mr May....
*THIS MESSAGE WAS WRITTEN BY JEREMY CLARKSON*
Guia was absolutely the best thing about this show. I'm in love with her.
What's her whole name?
@@Adklmtlh Guia Scognamiglio
That mole though.....felt like it was staring at me.
Last time I was in Rome I hired a Ducati and rode around for a week. Was heaps of fun and enjoyed the bike friendly traffic.
What I didn’t enjoy was getting a surprise in the mail at home. Apparently motorbikes can’t ride in bus lanes in Rome like we can here in Sydney……
Still, riding a duke in Italy was something special.
Any tips on which company you used? We're visiting rome in october. Looking to rent a motorbike or at least a good size scooter
@@mrme2483 sorry mate, I just happened upon them when walking around. We were staying not far from Trevi, so google might be your friend.
The last time I was in Rome I discovered that, if they don't want to, Roman drivers don't stop for anything - traffic lights, policemen, accidents, probably sink-holes! Doesn't matter, they're not stopping. As a pedestrian, the only way to cross a road was to find a small child or a mother & pram who were crossing and hurl yourself after them. Only things for which a Roman driver would actually stop.
They have priorities.
Pizza. Just hold pizza when you're crossing the road, and you'll be safe.
Approach red light, roll over line, you now have priority over the 5 lanes of traffic, wave your arms in the air and honk at everyone! Seems legit :)
If you go to Napoli it's even worse :D
@@anuardossybi usual BS from food-obsessed americans...
I was in Italy back in 1999, Rome and Florence. Still in high-school by a couple years. Loved the low drinking age of 16 lol! Even walked into a family picnic and they welcomed me as family! My family still cracks up to this day about that!
90s were the best in Italy
@@username8644 Looool when me and my family were in Arles my father told as a joke to a waiter to serve me a Pastis shot (he ordered it for himself obviously) and the waiter proceded to give it to me no hesitation (I was 13 years old), now I know why.
The scarest thing I ever did was drive in Naples. Stop lights ment nothing, lane markers ment nothing and they drove waaaaay too fast!
You're right Naples is mental and the worst in Italy.
I remember driving on the autostrada near Naples. There were three lanes. And suddenly the traffic stopped. So obviously the cars spread out into about 5-6 lanes. Even though there were still just markings for 3 lanes.
@@Tjalve70 ...that's normal in Italy, in the city too...... unfortunately 🙈🙈
As Italian i can understand your "fear". For work I drove from Cosenza to Bologna and fortunately the driving disorder of Rome and Naples does not exist in all of Italy. xD
@@valeriogreco5963 ...it does exist in the rest of Italy but not quite as bad.
In 1977 I visited my sister in Milan when I was all of 16 years old - one night while out shopping, she asked me to drive as her car (a teeny tiny four seater two door FIAT) was a stick shift (of course) and she wasn't completely comfortable driving in heavy, stop and go traffic and it happened to be snowing. Absolutely bonkers - there weren't any real rules to follow save no contact and not driving against the traffic. Teeny cars and cabs would pull up to intersections or even stop lights three and four abreast, lightly revving their engines and looking both ways for a break in traffic to pull out. Buses did pretty much whatever they wanted and were given wide berth. Cabs were the cowboys, constantly jostling and weaving expertly through the chaos. Traffic lights are the opposite from USA/North America, i.e. red means go and green means stop (they're for the pedestrians) and single lane roads were just a suggestion. Everybody raced from one intersection/traffic light to the next and the hand signals and gestures were fast and furious. Roundabouts were terrifying but as long as you had good spacial awareness, nerves of steel and consistently good turn signal skills you were OK. She still giggles about it when I mention it to her. A great memory.
James is like that one guy who tries to look Italian but realizes he's British
Every third person from London
That's exactly who he is
@@dilfs.9196 I like your username
Richard Hammond is that one bloke that tries to look American but realizes he's a hamster.
@@Pilcrepus lmao 😭😭😭
With a guide like her I can travel the WORLD...🤠🇿🇦
Italians are crazy. Especially at night there are so many mopeds going in and out of traffic extremely fast.
Yes as an italian i can confirm lol but i guess that also in uk saturday nights must not be the best
Everyone wants to be Rossi
0:41 “the roman way is the best way to be italian”
Any northern Italy guy like me:
Hold my polenta
The problem with the romans is that they're fully commit 99% at trying to demostrate they are better than you, even when you are simple enjoying free time. It consume their existence and it's very sad, because they have good side too. One of that is that they are hard, but human sentiment driven. This make them amazing in storytelling and talking.
@@s4cells4cell7 i lived one year in rome and i was too stressful. I was spending all the day in the car, i was going crazy and anywhere i went there was always a ton of people
james in a fiat panda never gets old
Terrific series, loved the translation sequence and interaction with the crew.
absolutely loved the show - it was pure joy to watch!
Too many "funny" (not so funny) bits, besides those looong minutes about penalty kicking, tea preparing and a "Scottish" enclave. Didn't they find enough things in Italy to show? 😑
@@carloduroni5629 it is very expensive to film in Italy.
What was your favourite part of the series? th-cam.com/video/vn2UrhpsiaI/w-d-xo.html
@@thegrandtour difficult question - maybe episode 2 when james was acting!
@@dragospahontu So, why not film "May in Italy" all in England?
this beautiful woman could drive me anywhere she wants. italian women are born natural beautiful. unbelievable.
most of them dont need any makeup to look amazing.
the landscape, the temperature, the people, the food, the architecture of the buildings, i fckn ❤️ italy.
if i get time some day i‘ll learn their language too.
calm down mate.. you must have your beer goggles on.
@@petesmitt nope. i‘m perfectly fine dude. not my problem if you couldn‘t recognize a beautiful thing if you see one. 🤷♂️
@@VerrueckterKerl85 She's 😍
It is very understandable why she's your guide James, an Italian beauty.
It was my first time in Rome earlier this year, I must say that their driving style is very similar to driving in Manila... but faster.
So Mr. Slowly has a pretty Italian lady taking him around Rome.
I've had worse days.
I remember years ago seeing an interview with a Roman taxi driver, trying to tell the journalist about how to drive in Rome.
He said - "Drive to make them afraid".
This also applies to much of Quebec.
Thought the Italians were really weird ,, people untill I went there ,, they are fantastic !!!!! have no other words for them
I wanted him to open the clip by saying "HELLO"! that would be soo amazing
I loved being in Rome, because I chose to walk everywhere.
It's the only way to see such an interesting place.
If you are a adrenaline junkie then get a fixed price taxi from the airport to Rome. Those drivers are utterly nuts and i bet they are all recording their time and bragging who is fastest:D
Tried that. The fixed price was just a suggestion...
@@arosnett it’s not, you should have complained.
Taxi drivers bragging who's the fastest? Not the other way around? You sure?
Damn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
James May in a Fiat Panda with a beautiful woman by his side navigating one of the most fabulous cities in Europe. Bliss!!
May is a legend!!
Are you kidding me??? James May was driving around my house and I didn't notice his presence??? I'M SHOCKED 🤣
In Italy the driving rules are more like "guidelines".
Poorly adhered to guidelines
Am italian and I can say rules are only there to decide who's right in the case of an accident
Subtle suggestions, if you get bored
In India, our rules are-
Oh wait. Do we even have rules??
He looks quite sophisticated with the facial hair and glasses. Haven't checked up on his newer shows yet, may do that today.
I wish I could watch this series for the first time again.
I'm deffinitely gonna start using the "you're making me unhappy" handsign
I have been to Italy in the Rome City❤️❤️ it was Bella🇮🇹👍
James you drove in Mumbai with a Rolls Royce. Driving in Rome is just a piece of cake !
Absolutely Love this Series , Veramente fatta per Bene
Its Amazing that James May drove Via Casilina, Via Tor de Schiavi e Scalo San Lorenzo….those are literally The same roads I pass by 🤣🤣
the most important rome-style driving, always keep 💁🏽♂️ in every situation
Ma che cazz?! Cosa ci fanno insieme la Guiona nazionale e James???
Mammamia! Che bel crossover episode!
Italian women are famous for being charming, elegant and beautiful. Yet, the charme, the cheerfulness, the expression and the light in the eyes, the happy laughs, ... just overwhelming. The calm way Guia Scognamiglio holds James May's arm when walking...Absolutely lovely.
So pretentious
@@sekhmet7774 Would you elaborate your idea a bit?
She is lovely! 😍😍
Can't wait to see 'our man in germany' 😉
"I'm sorry sir, ze gate is closed."
Hello viewers, I'm in Berlin right now which is t- **gets stabbed**
I used to live for a couple of years in Rome. When I taken my friends to Italy, to Rome exactly, an my friend was driving, we left the motorway, and after the first crossroad he stopped the car and told me that he is not going to drive anymore in Rome :D for me is a chaos, but everybody knows that chaos and everybody knows what to expect from other road users for a foreign this basically madness
You must take them to Napoli or Palermo: that’s boss level of driving
Questa irregolarità del traffico riguarda solo l'Italia o riguarda alcune regioni?
Fantastico Bim .
Sat down to watch this show the other night and as it got started my seventeen year old daughter says, “Ooooh James May, he’s such a GILF”
I turned to her all wide eyed and said, “Isn’t he just!”
Saluti dall'Italia!!! Spero che ti sia piaciuta
Greetings from Italy!!! I hope you enjoyed
You can easily see how Guia is nervous about James's driving.
Also, I'm Italian (from Milano) and I can say the "continuous honking" is just one of the usual bulls... stereotypes, even in Roma.
Bullies, non bulls. Bulls sono i tori
@@carminemartino1197 Era un'abbreviazione di una "parolaccia". Lo so perfettamente che cosa sono i bulls e i bullies. E se leggi bene la frase capirai che "bullies" non c'entrerebbero nulla.
@@carloduroni5629 ah giusto, non avevo capito cosa tu intendessi dire
In Naples it's definitely not a stereotype
Sono l'unico ad averlo notato? Guardate il minuto 35 e 50 secondi, dietro James nello sfondo appare una figura mooolto ambigua. Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.
really enjoyed this episode. we need more of this fantastic young lady!
When i lived there , you either quickly adopt the local (lack of) driving etiquette or you ll never get anywhere. re: moped drivers... they are nuts. first weekend my buddy took me to the beach on a moped . i was riding bitch without a helmet of course. this psycho overtook a bus in a blind right turn and i swear my elbow was rubbing on the side of the bus while we almost got killed by the oncoming traffic... fun times...
James yet again resisting the urge to get hold of the work of the divine potter
I believe a lot of folks here would suggest to come to their city to experience rough driving, me, I would refer to St. Petersburg, Russia
"We think being Roman is the best way to be Italian." I see this stereotype really does apply to all capitals in all countries...
Excellent point.
it kinda is, rome is exactly in the middle of italy, we have the northern money and the southern flavour of life, the best of the 2 worlds
Rome feels to me like capital by a mistake, Milano seems to me far more appropriate. 👹😎
@@Honzimus thank God Milano is not the capital. And I'm not from Rome
Also because Rome is one of the worst administrated cities in Italy 🤷🏻♂️
I live there and I got the driving licence back in 2019, still learning how to survive in some situations 💀
Questa irregolarità del traffico riguarda solo l'Italia o riguarda alcune regioni?
I used to drive trucks to Linate, Milan.
No-one stops for Anybody..., Pedestrian crossing? Cars have right of way..., Trams trump Everything.
I saw a truck get demolished by a tram, because the truck had turned right, but, into the trams path, but, the tram kept going.
Parking; if you are working all day, park against the kerb..., part-time worker.., double-park, and, if if you need to shop, well, just Stop..., regardless if the traffic stacks up behind you.
Madness!
Trams never stop if a car goes in their way, tahts happens everywhere in the world. As for the huge number of dickheads driving in Italy you are completely right, they make me want to throw a rock to them everytime I'm trying to cross the road.
Now you have to go only a couple hours further south and re-learn how to drive in Naples
James have driven in Rome before as part of the trio, this is just padding the show with some car related stuff, but still I did watch and enjoy it.
I learned to drive a car driving from Florida to Connecticut, going through thunderstorms down south to near blizzard going through Baltimore/Washington DC then through frigid New York City.
I had driven only motorcycles and tractors in Cornwall- apparently the Celt is very adaptable.
Now Boston, is the tricky one- there are no rules and they haven’t even got the decency to swear at you where you are going wrong.
What didn’t adapt was the diesel VW Dasher. The Maryland snow storm iced up the radiator and it didn’t like that, seizing a couple of weeks later necessitating the purchase of a Subaru. After picking up the newer vehicle I was left in a loaner car, in a town I didn’t know, in the dark, during another snow storm while the (ex now) wife buggered off into the whiteout in the Subaru.
she is absolutely fantastic
Ready to have your baby
@@RealMTBAddict 🤣
Been to Rome. Nice for a visit. Only. Of course a Roman is going to say Rome is Italy and Italy is Rome. But I prefer Alto Adige aka South Tyrol. Your nerves and car will last longer there, in stunning scenery.
As much as I wouldn’t like to give Jeff Bezos any of my money I really need to watch this show to its fullest
It looks great! 😄 And the lady is beautiful! 😄
Been al over Europe but Rome is my favorate at heart.
Why does this feel similar? Oh, I Live in India💀
According to my Italian neighbour, driving in Rome is very much about parking and getting your windscreen wipers, hubcaps (or alloy wheels), headlights and/or headlamps stolen while you briefly leave your car 😕.
James is making a pretty lady laugh. There's hope for all of us
This is brilliant!😄👏
Repeat the same test in Naples.
To James May, the producers and the editors of series 2. In episode 3 when James is standing in front of Lake Campotosto and talking to us viewers (starts at time code 00:35:40), a transparent 'ghostlike figure' suddenly appears in the background coming out from the trees on the left and starts walking to the right for a duration of ca three seconds. Starts at time code 00:35:50.
What is it? Double exposure? The real deal?
I have seen the streaming episode several times so it's not a manipulation by some viewer.
James is totally hitting that
Hell yeah! I didn't know this already came out.
Last I saw James lives in inner London, that is enough to prepare for Roman driving.
More May!
Even more May! 👀 th-cam.com/play/PLSXPYspKybUdik8nwidjdpLncdqF5qDqg.html
That seemed very civilized tbh
Did anyone else's jaw drop when they saw Guia?
A lesson in sign language, priceless.
In Rome, I found the constant honking more a sign of communication rather than a sign of aggression like we see it as in the UK.
Took me a while to realise this as I didn’t see anyone get out of their car and smash the other person’s windshield in.
My interpretation is a bit different. Like the taxi driver who floored it, hit the horn and waved the bird out the window, whilst shouting "fanculo!" at pedestrians crossing the street.
@@tqracing maybe there isn’t that fear of getting your head caved in there?
Great episode
welcome to Rome James, where you have to drive on offense, never on defense 😄😄
I think I need lots of lessons in roman driving
there is only 1 rule in Italy, who breakes, loose ... i loved May in Japan, in Italy its even better ...
As a non Italian driving in ITALY I can tell you guys ... ROME IS FUCKING MENTAL !! I mean Italy in general is crazy but ROME is ... just HELL !
i had a italian lady in her 50s taking me to a hotel a few years ago and driving a 5 speed standard it was music in driving wow , she did double clutch and stop for a moment to check her motor belts making sure they werent broken . amazing driving.
@@littlebigjohn69 99 % of italians where I drive have no idea how a roundabout works haha . I guess there must be that 1 % that actually understands things hahaha. Mind you , ITALIANS love their cars !!
Can’t wait to watch this
I know this question is a bit out of context but may I ask if anyone knows what’s the brand of James’s eyeglass frame? Love the style.
That girl is fab!!!
I don't recall seeing her previously but I do remember author Massimiliano Mursia from some episodes ago
Mmh…I don’t know, me neither…That episode with Eleazaro Rossi maybe?
Not sure who had a more enjoyable time, Captain Slow or the bellissimo Ms Guia?
James may in a panda yay 😁
Bellissima
She is gorgeous.
😍
I never wanted to be James May before this.
My God !
Guia is a Mediterranean goddess 😍
Full name
@@N0Xa880iUL Guia Scognamiglio
@@nemopropheta2313 You're the man. Not all heroes....
@@nemopropheta2313 Wait, when I typed Guia the rest came up as first result.
@@N0Xa880iUL Because, in Italy, she's a famous actress
The first rule : brake using horn is more efficient than using brake pedal
I’m in Rome right now, the driving is insane. No rules do what ya want point and shoot.
I wish they came in istanbul to make a episode
Still not as hard as driving in India on vacation. This is easy work in comparison
Driving with Italian passion 🤭🤣
0:36 hey girl calm down
I tend to use a different hand signal for "you're making me unhappy"
I used to like James May especially as we're the same age. When he was doing the pull apart and rebuild programmes. But this is a notch or four down from that, May on an all expenses paid jolly up around Italy with the usual entourage, doing the slightly grumpy, slightly reluctant "Top gear" asides to camera. Freddie Dobbs is doing a much more interesting and honest equivalent. Without all the bollex of it being an ordeal. Clarkson makes it entertaining, May comes across as a lefty media knob.
Never thought Italy is so similar to India in terms of crazy driving
The Indians seem to have a genuine death wish but the Italians do it with a smile and lots of finesse
Didn’t see many accidents
I think naples driving style is more similar
National treasure
This was awesome love James and the girl was beautiful and charming too
Rome driving looks like chaos