It'd be pretty bold to steal a flashy old car and then try to conceal that by following a Range Rover with an open tailgate and several camera crews...
obviously it was setup and it wasn't an actual police stop, but if you think about it, real police would never think about checking something like that.
The end was great. James and Richard drinking a cold beer together in harmony. If Jeremy had been there, he would have either boasted about his victory or nagged about his defeat.
@@David-ud9ju Because at sea we have real idiots with boats and no license or training. *ESPECIALLY AROUND ITALY.* Kinda surprised some actually showed up since they never seem to catch anyone. So I agree with you about the sea part.
I think the cops stopped them beacuse of cameracar drove with rear-door open and the police considered it dangerous. Top Gear's team have often had this problem
+DJPaulSticks I probably have to agree on that. I was never quite sure about those oversized amber directionals on the front, but compared to today's Christmas oriented LED lights, yes, everything about the Daytona looks beautiful now.
This can be applied to expensive and flashy cars, but not especially beautiful ones. Have you ever seen a lady randomly posing with and FD RX-7, or a classic VW Beetle?
@@leventenagy1933 Well, those to cars aren't beautiful, so of course a woman wouldn't pose next to them. I wouldn't pose next to my mother's Kia Soul either, lol.
The boatride would be ALOT smoother if it was driven by an experienced skipper. May seems to know what he is doing but minimazing that jumping effect isnt his best skill.
This is my favourite episode of Top Gear ... saw it so often, but ecerytime I'd like to jump into the next old italian car and get on the road to Italy ... Longing! Wanderlust!
Karim Adel the odds of that happening are actually quite high. "GT" is a common abbreviation for Grand tour, and they obviously like the sound of saying "the Grand tour" as they said it in multiple top gear episodes.
That town at the end really does paint a good pictuere of life in Western Europe these days. In past decades, those places would have been great. People would have been happy going there andthere would be so many interesting things to do. Now though, they've declined, not only on the Riviera but everywhere. It's as Richard said. "car's still good but the world has changed."
I moved to Saint Tropez because of this video. Best decision ever, this place is heaven on earth. Everything awesome about it 40 or 50 years ago is still here. Now I just need a Ferrari Daytona and my life would be perfect.
" Can I drive the car back from May?". "Yes you can from Hammy lovely lad"............Jezza would have just said NO hahahaha. That car is timeless and so beautiful but it is a nostalgic blast from the past, 180 plus mph that is insane in a car that hasn't got ABS or indeed ceramic disc brakes I just love it...............What did Hammond say about price £200, 000 well in 2 decades time you wont get change out of a cool million that is for sure
Love this top gear journey at the italien-french reviera. so well made and what a car! Makes me so happy and also reminds me of Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in the Pursaders.
Ahhh Italian Police, competent as ever fighting traffic affairs rather than the rampant corruption that is their government. Such a handful bunch of professionals.
air entrapment hulls are what is used on some high speed boats. It looks like a catamaran. It's purpose is to force air between the 2 catamaran hulls in order to create lift, to lift the hull out of the water and reduce hydrodynamic drag. Google DCB boats for some examples.
Great ending. Beautiful car. It's funny... I was in a boat today. It was a little BayLiner at Newport beach but... I guess it counts doesn't it? =D That car is pure style!
thank you, thank you for this video. THANK YOU. It's awesome dreaming and with the SING music, dreams are real. It's absolutely magnificent this car in this riding to Saint Tropez. The only thing i regret is the fact this boys from TG don't like Rolls Royce, because a riding like this should be with this Daytona and a Corniche. Regrets from Portugal
A hint for the designers of such speedboats: HYDROFOILS for a MUCH calmer ride at high speed (which could result in even higher speeds) ... and make them retracteable for the time when the waters are choppy!
why were the cops so butthurt about the cameras? usually if someone (especially a government official) trys to get you to stop filming it is because he/she is doing something illegal that they don't want to show up on camera...
Because they are Europeans. Try to film someone on the street in Germany without getting his permission first and he will teach you a lesson in respect of privacy. Policemen are even more difficult. Italians are just the same.
Thorsten Latz you don’t legally need permission to film/photograph people in a public place where privacy is not expected: beach, shopping mall, park, public street, etc.
@@jk844100 In Germany you do. Called "Recht am eigenen Bild" Right at the own picture (literally translated). My face is my face and I can decide what to do with it. If you shoot an image of some scenery with me in the background, I can do nothing about it, that is not a problem. Because I can expect a certain level of anonymity and privacy even in public. You take a picture of a celebrity from a public road of him walking down his drive way in jogging pants bringing out his trash? Oh my, you are in trouble. You take a picture of said actor when he is out privately with his kids whom he never presented to the public and you shoot his kids? haha.... press photographers who did that have been sued to pay tens of thousands of euros in damages by the actor. Only when a person acts in a way that makes documenting his acts relevant, this is a waiver of privacy (demonstrations, celebrities acting in their role as celebrity, but not in private). Tom Cruise, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence might sit together for lunch in the outdoor area of a German restaurant. Shoot them, you can get in a shitload of trouble. They are not there to present themselves to the public, but as private persons so let them be in privacy even though it is a public place. They walk down the red carpet to present their movie? OK, then you can shoot. I walk down the road, you cannot legally photograph me. I go to a demonstration and participate in the protests, you are entiteled to document the protests and of course me, too. I stand in front of a scenery, you want to take a picture of the scenery and I happen to be in the picture (but clearly not the subject of your photo), perfectly ok. You put me in the center and focus, I can make your life difficult. If I find a picture of mine being used commercially, even I can sue you, make you stop and pay me damages. Street photography is a very grey thing in Germany (and many other European countries).
I like how people think these are actual races, complete with all those drive-bys on the road, and water, as though they had 100 camera crews and not just a bunch of stop & go and repeats.
Now compare that with the Chiron Race between Harris and LeBlanc! Hammond is just happy to have driven a Daytona while Harris was in fact so pissed to lose that he stole the winners beer
Watching the first part, I was really more interested in the boat than in the car. After seeing this part, I'd much rather have the car. Much smoother ride. Still not likely to ever be able to afford it, though.
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It'd be pretty bold to steal a flashy old car and then try to conceal that by following a Range Rover with an open tailgate and several camera crews...
Yeah what were they thinking? theres an expensive old car with a massive camera crew following and filming it, must be stolen!
@@apassionatenerd.3564 probably more likely it was very staged
obviously it was setup and it wasn't an actual police stop, but if you think about it, real police would never think about checking something like that.
#justitalianthings
Agreed they were pretty silly there
"The car's still brilliant, but the world's changed."
Wise words from Hammond there.
agree, just abrilluant quote.
The end was great. James and Richard drinking a cold beer together in harmony. If Jeremy had been there, he would have either boasted about his victory or nagged about his defeat.
Pretty much
If Jeremy had been there, they would have made sure that the car won.
Yeah, Clarkson's the best 😂
@@JoyHoffi Clarkson is a loudmouth bigot
they are drinking heineken what are they thinking
Yeah Hammond was right, not fatest but perfect. Plus he didn't have to smash up his bollocks on a carbon fiber seat riding hard waves.
It was fastest!!! But the police ruined everything. Without it he'd win by 10 minutes
Very true .
@@Firemarioflower Both of them pulled over by the Rozzers
Now I know why pirates always say arrrrr.
LOL
+Ahmad Ihsan haha
Ahmad Ihsan b
You know your going crazy when James may starts to sound like me jeans😂😂
I just got to that part when I read the comment
0:12 The ghost of Enzo Ferrari punishing James for calling the Daytona scrap.
PerryWhyte that’s all he’s got? 😂 Ferdinand Porsche would whoop some Enzo ass 😂
@@bradleyporter5454 except Alois Ruf making himself his own custom Porsche called Ruf CTR Yellowbird, its damn a fast car
Oh look a camera crew and a Daytona. Hey Gianni! Grease up we're going to be on the telly!
Why do we have police patrolling roads (or sea for that matter)? They don't do anything worthwhile; they just cause trouble and annoy people.
@@David-ud9ju Because of GTA
@@David-ud9ju
Because at sea we have real idiots with boats and no license or training. *ESPECIALLY AROUND ITALY.* Kinda surprised some actually showed up since they never seem to catch anyone.
So I agree with you about the sea part.
yeah the one "police officer" was definitely under 18 years old. didn't know Italy needed to scrape the veryyy bottom of the bowl
I feel like right at the end is where Jeremy would cut in with "top gear, a show that thinks the little things count"
Hammond is really passionate when it comes to cars. He would have made a killer salesman :P
blueonblack83 well, what do you think he's doing here?
blueonblack83 He would have sold no car at all - because he would have kept them for himself ;-)
He was actually a salesman for real in his beginning days.
I think the cops stopped them beacuse of cameracar drove with rear-door open and the police considered it dangerous.
Top Gear's team have often had this problem
I like to imagine the camera crew is still in the rover even when they film the boat
Amphibious Range Rover time.
@@jd_the_cat Aren't Range Rovers amphibious from the factory?
@@WanganTunedKeiCar They are.
that shit-eating grin on Hammond's face XD
he knew even if May beat him, he still won the day driving that gorgeous car into that gorgeous city.
Well, of course! There's no way you could lose, even if you lost.
TraustiGeir except for those dirty French cops... that’s always a mood killer
@Mm Mm you do realize you're an idiot and no one gives a shit if it's real or not right?
One of the most stunning classic cars the world has ever seen.
+DJPaulSticks I probably have to agree on that. I was never quite sure about those oversized amber directionals on the front, but compared to today's Christmas oriented LED lights, yes, everything about the Daytona looks beautiful now.
i like the contemporary transitions and graphics they used
That part at 4:58 with Blur's Sing is really pleasant to watch
"how do we know when we're in France? Does the sea become even rougher, like the roads do?"
amazing xD
7:08 cameraman getting distracted lol
James May running?
Joseph Noganosh indeed, very rarely 😁
The second time was he found Dacia Sandero the car he loves hit by a semi truck on season 21
@@shadowhaziq4326 its not season 21 i think its season 14 episode 1
You know you have a beautiful car when ladies pose for pictures in front of it.
Amen!
Ladies? Yes. Thots of nowadays? Not so much.
This can be applied to expensive and flashy cars, but not especially beautiful ones. Have you ever seen a lady randomly posing with and FD RX-7, or a classic VW Beetle?
@@leventenagy1933 Well, those to cars aren't beautiful, so of course a woman wouldn't pose next to them. I wouldn't pose next to my mother's Kia Soul either, lol.
@@Vladpryde thats debatable. I think the rx 7 is a beautiful car
Hammond won simply because 8:30
Oh no, it's the rozzers.
For the money that boat was terrible. I'd call it a rich person's toy, but it's really a rich person's crippler.
The boatride would be ALOT smoother if it was driven by an experienced skipper. May seems to know what he is doing but minimazing that jumping effect isnt his best skill.
If it wouldnt be jumping around like that they could have gone faster too
This boat is also a prototype.
It must be one hell of a ride on calm water though
10 years after the release of this brilliant episode, time flies.
This is my favourite episode of Top Gear ... saw it so often, but ecerytime I'd like to jump into the next old italian car and get on the road to Italy ... Longing! Wanderlust!
3:54 the grand tour !
You did notice it xD
The odds of that happening , wow!
Karim Adel the odds of that happening are actually quite high.
"GT" is a common abbreviation for Grand tour, and they obviously like the sound of saying "the Grand tour" as they said it in multiple top gear episodes.
3:50 u snot
No joke, that Daytona is a thing of extraordinary beauty.
The filming is amazingly good. The contrast between the coolness of Daytona and the battering May takes in the boat...
"The car is still brilliant but the world has changed" Damn such a brilliant line.
Italian policemen driving a german car? I'm sorry but I think they should prove whether they are for real.
Most drive Alfa Romeo's and the ones patrolling the highway drive Lamorghini's.
😂😂
there are only three lambo aventadors and i believe they wrecked one leaving two usable
@@anonymousperson1726 they wrecked their sole gallardo. The aventadors are fine.
They are fake
Annnd..... the winner is
THE CAMERA MAN
0:35 I'd definitely be in love too, driving a classic Ferrari along the riviera.
do you know what song is at 24
seconds
@@vincenzomicheli7315 Un Homme Et Une Femme - Francis Lai
I like how they're drinking heinieken after talking so much about the Mediteranian and the Riviera.
Continental Heineken is a million times better than what we're used to in Britain.
How many tunnels did Hammond drive thru? What a motorway! And May was well & truly broken. But both were nearly arrested for almost nothing.
Would have been better off on with a 50' Sunseeker cruising at 45 knots and enjoying a cocktail than that race boat mess.
That town at the end really does paint a good pictuere of life in Western Europe these days.
In past decades, those places would have been great. People would have been happy going there andthere would be so many interesting things to do.
Now though, they've declined, not only on the Riviera but everywhere.
It's as Richard said.
"car's still good but the world has changed."
Haha! There's Luigi with two black stripes at 7:53! :)
A good skipper knows how to avoid the waves in the best ways and doing so minimazing that smashing against the surface.
+DragonBorn Except this is James May we're talking about.
HAHAHA
Richard: RIGHT! I'm going to solve this situation.
*comes back a second later*
"They've asked us to follow them to the police station."
XD
dangit, italian rozzers...you're mucking everything up
I'd love to drive one.. What a good ending, to a very very perfect day!
Just been to The Senequier, ate a croissant and remembered this episode. St Tropez is amazing, can hardly wait to return next year.
James won! But at the cost of his backside, his spine, and his spirit.... All three were utterly broken that day.
James begging to drive the car on the way back summed it up nicely. He was genuinely in pain when he said "I'm broken!"
I moved to Saint Tropez because of this video. Best decision ever, this place is heaven on earth. Everything awesome about it 40 or 50 years ago is still here. Now I just need a Ferrari Daytona and my life would be perfect.
Really? Because I'd imagine there are a lot of tourists these days
@@sneeuwballa Probably, among them several hot girls i can imagine 😆
Saint Tropez sounds expensive. Actually any coastal city like that along the Mediterranean does.
Saint Tropez is not what it was. It's full of chavvy tourists and the noveau riche with no taste.
@@Firemarioflower lot of hot horny sluts
"I'm in the Daytona, and I'm wearing Shades... so I'm absolutely fine."
0:40 - Andy Williams Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Thx broo
Bro i cannot tell you how much of a legend you are!
At minute 4.58 the face of hammond says everithing about driving an anostonishing car in S. Tropez. And the music from the blur? Uau.....marvellous
Wow that car is worth 3/4 of a million dollars now
@SPECTRE lmao dude 10k pounds then had a lot of value then , don't you know how economics work?
" Can I drive the car back from May?". "Yes you can from Hammy lovely lad"............Jezza would have just said NO hahahaha. That car is timeless and so beautiful but it is a nostalgic blast from the past, 180 plus mph that is insane in a car that hasn't got ABS or indeed ceramic disc brakes I just love it...............What did Hammond say about price £200, 000 well in 2 decades time you wont get change out of a cool million that is for sure
''If this car overheats-well it will, it's old and Italian'' XD XD XD
One of these day's James is going to realize that while he may like sailing, it does not like him
that boat smashing down on the waves looks as comfortable as a dump truck going down a bumpy road
One of my favorite pieces ever about my favorite car EVER.
I bet they asked him "Do you have a license to drive national treasures?"
Love this top gear journey at the italien-french reviera. so well made and what a car! Makes me so happy and also reminds me of Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in the Pursaders.
Ahhh Italian Police, competent as ever fighting traffic affairs rather than the rampant corruption that is their government. Such a handful bunch of professionals.
That's polizia stradale Their job patrolling roads, namely
BBC Top Gear keeps manufacturing masterpieces of its genre. Way to go!
I actually felt the tension when they were arriving.
air entrapment hulls are what is used on some high speed boats. It looks like a catamaran. It's purpose is to force air between the 2 catamaran hulls in order to create lift, to lift the hull out of the water and reduce hydrodynamic drag. Google DCB boats for some examples.
Busted on sea and on road. lol Hopefully they learned to have documentation with the driver if this should repeatedly repeat its self, maybe.
07:09 lol the cameraman couldn't let her go lmao
What the hell its the problem with the police? did they have a reason to pull over the Daytona?
It's Italy - they were probably looking for their mandatory 'tourist tax'
brunoraoni Doesn't matter, if he doesn't have any papers he will get in some trouble after being pulled over.
+Michael Piperni The max speed in highways is 130 Km/H (80 mph) not 130 mph
Maybe the Speed Limit was 70 when he went 75 or 74
Its more than likely that they got pulled to check if they had permisssion and permits for filming.
1:16 Richard ! You are going the wrong way !!! The other way to Saint Tropez ! XD
Congratulations Hammond, you've managed to make forty look like twenty! Not an easy achievement!
it is! Maybe the best challenge I ever saw.
3:53 "Sofia Lollobrigida": when you're not sure if mention Sofia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida ahahah
I am a dedicated fan to top gear and i love cars. it shows some good and funny memories that make ma happy.
Best Pyhrric loss of the entire show! J Hammond got their in style. J May got there first, broken, & pathetic.
Scuttle the XRS and keep the Daytona!
Thanks so much for your help. Much appreciated.
One of my all time favorite episodes of Top Gear. Always brings tears of joy at they end :.0)
Absolutely! I long for those times again (60s/70s) but sadly no more. Great nostalgia though!
I like the sound the boat makes. :D
Remind me to never let James May drive my boat...
He couldn't even escape from a little police raft in the speedboat lol
You're disgusting
that boat sounds nothing like a normal diesel engine, it sounds like a big turbo....amazing!
Its a pleasure to watch a beauty like this Daytona ..
the best show on the top gear yet, love the daytona ferrari
Great ending. Beautiful car.
It's funny... I was in a boat today. It was a little BayLiner at Newport beach but... I guess it counts doesn't it? =D
That car is pure style!
Loved these races!
Car still brilliant, but the world is NOT !
thank you, thank you for this video. THANK YOU. It's awesome dreaming and with the SING music, dreams are real. It's absolutely magnificent this car in this riding to Saint Tropez. The only thing i regret is the fact this boys from TG don't like Rolls Royce, because a riding like this should be with this Daytona and a Corniche. Regrets from Portugal
0:22 Silja line theme!
thank you, was looking for this for ages, nice to know its just some random cruise ship song
@@fancy_pantsy_dt6751 it's Francis Lai - Un Homme Et Une Femme
I'm also in love with this beautiful vehicle. Have been since this aired.
that was a fabulous car. I want to get one of those in my future... if I can afford it.
Hahaaa 6:14 NORMA in St. Tropez, very poshy
"The car is still brilliant but the world has changed"
James:the xrs 428 the best grand tourer
*Having an a uncomfortable ride*
Hammond: having an relaxing time
Funny! 4 min in... The Grand (riviera) Tour...
Therapist: RGB James May can't hurt you
RGB James May: 0:18
Whats the name of background score in 5:01?
i like how when hammond gets to the restuarant and he parks the Daytona, a crowd forms
After that, James May is 7 cm shorter...
Every time James says ARRR cracks me up 😂😅🚤
I LOVE that car!
A hint for the designers of such speedboats: HYDROFOILS for a MUCH calmer ride at high speed (which could result in even higher speeds) ... and make them retracteable for the time when the waters are choppy!
why were the cops so butthurt about the cameras? usually if someone (especially a government official) trys to get you to stop filming it is because he/she is doing something illegal that they don't want to show up on camera...
Because they are Europeans. Try to film someone on the street in Germany without getting his permission first and he will teach you a lesson in respect of privacy. Policemen are even more difficult. Italians are just the same.
Thorsten Latz you don’t legally need permission to film/photograph people in a public place where privacy is not expected: beach, shopping mall, park, public street, etc.
@@jk844100 In Germany you do. Called "Recht am eigenen Bild" Right at the own picture (literally translated). My face is my face and I can decide what to do with it. If you shoot an image of some scenery with me in the background, I can do nothing about it, that is not a problem.
Because I can expect a certain level of anonymity and privacy even in public.
You take a picture of a celebrity from a public road of him walking down his drive way in jogging pants bringing out his trash? Oh my, you are in trouble. You take a picture of said actor when he is out privately with his kids whom he never presented to the public and you shoot his kids? haha.... press photographers who did that have been sued to pay tens of thousands of euros in damages by the actor.
Only when a person acts in a way that makes documenting his acts relevant, this is a waiver of privacy (demonstrations, celebrities acting in their role as celebrity, but not in private). Tom Cruise, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence might sit together for lunch in the outdoor area of a German restaurant. Shoot them, you can get in a shitload of trouble. They are not there to present themselves to the public, but as private persons so let them be in privacy even though it is a public place. They walk down the red carpet to present their movie? OK, then you can shoot.
I walk down the road, you cannot legally photograph me. I go to a demonstration and participate in the protests, you are entiteled to document the protests and of course me, too.
I stand in front of a scenery, you want to take a picture of the scenery and I happen to be in the picture (but clearly not the subject of your photo), perfectly ok. You put me in the center and focus, I can make your life difficult.
If I find a picture of mine being used commercially, even I can sue you, make you stop and pay me damages.
Street photography is a very grey thing in Germany (and many other European countries).
Thorsten Latz I’m speaking as someone from the U.K. so I guess things are a little different here.
@@Kref3 bro can't we vlog in the streets then like we do as youtube vloggers
I like how people think these are actual races, complete with all those drive-bys on the road, and water, as though they had 100 camera crews and not just a bunch of stop & go and repeats.
part 1 title " XSR"
part 2 title: XRS"
hello?
I like how hamond loves the car
7:11 the cameraman goes full pervert..
That's why you become a cameraman
Hardly, there's nothing to see.
+Rocket Raccoon Not another heterophobic feminist..... is it wrong to capture beauty????
The other sea rat may have won the race.
But the Daytona has won our hearts.
Now compare that with the Chiron Race between Harris and LeBlanc! Hammond is just happy to have driven a Daytona while Harris was in fact so pissed to lose that he stole the winners beer
Song at 0:37???? Please, i love it!!!!!!
Can't take my eyes off you -andy Williams
@@memehotep2059 legend
Watching the first part, I was really more interested in the boat than in the car. After seeing this part, I'd much rather have the car. Much smoother ride. Still not likely to ever be able to afford it, though.
Ahahaha that "Grand Tour" reference at 3:47