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  • 1995-01-05T00:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Documentary
A tour of the world looking at other motoring cultures.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1995-01-05T00:00:00Z

1x01 Japan

Series Premiere

1x01 Japan

  • 1995-01-05T00:00:00Z30m

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.

1995-01-12T00:00:00Z

1x02 Vietnam

1x02 Vietnam

  • 1995-01-12T00:00:00Z30m

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?

1995-01-19T00:00:00Z

1x03 Detroit

1x03 Detroit

  • 1995-01-19T00:00:00Z30m

With heavy doses of the music of Motown, Jeremy waxes nostalgic over the glory days of the muscle car.

1995-01-26T00:00:00Z

1x04 Iceland

1x04 Iceland

  • 1995-01-26T00:00:00Z30m

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!

1995-02-02T00:00:00Z

1x05 Italy

1x05 Italy

  • 1995-02-02T00:00:00Z30m

Great architecture, great weather, great food, great wine, and to drive there is to live!

1995-02-09T00:00:00Z

1x06 India

1x06 India

  • 1995-02-09T00:00:00Z30m

The driving test is amazingly simple and takes only a couple of minutes. But nothing can really prepare you for driving in India.

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