大世界之旅（2016）

The Grand Tour S03E14

Part 4 May 6, 2021, 12:16 p.m.

to get everybody to fall in love with its new mid-sized family saloon.
才能让所有人都爱上这新款中型家庭车
It was something they'd done before.
他们故伎重演
Make a fast version.
造运动版的
What they came up with was this...
他们造出来的就是这个
...the Sierra RS Cosworth.
Sierra RS 考斯沃斯
A car that could do 150 miles an hour.
一辆极速241公里的座驾
It was 1986. Lots of cars could do 150, but not a Ford.
那是1986年很多车能开上241 但不包括福特
That was madness. BMW and Mercedes could not believe it.
简直疯了宝马和奔驰根本不敢相信
This was the gardener coming into the parlour and kicking the baron's teeth out.
像是园丁冲进客厅踢掉了男爵的牙
The blue-bloods were being absolutely battered by this -
蓝血贵族被这个蓝领工人
the blue-collar worker.
狠狠教训了下
The Sierra's muscle came from Cosworth.
Sierra的肌肉来自考斯沃斯
The British engine builder
英国发动机制♥造♥商
whose most famous Formula One V8
最引以为傲的当属F1的V8发动机
had taken a staggering 176 Grand Prix victories.
拿下了176场F1冠军
They took a drab, cast-iron saloon car engine
他们把一台乏味的四门车用铸铁发动机
and fitted it with an aluminium twin-cam head,
装上了铝合金双凸轮轴缸盖
a turbo the size of a dustbin,
垃圾桶那么大的涡轮
and turned it into a masterpiece.
创造出一件惊世巨作
It was built to be a hard-working unit, this.
这是一台高负荷的发动机
As you can tell.
你能看得出来
The interesting thing about this engine, is if you look carefully
这发动机最有意思的地方如果你仔细看
you can see there's a second set of injectors
你能看到这有第二组喷油嘴
that weren't actually connected to anything.
但完全没连上任何东西
They were installed because Ford knew they'd be necessary
这是因为福特知道当车主们在家庭车里
when they did what they always did with their family cars...
做他们经常做的事时就很必要了
go racing with them.
那就是赛车
With those injectors engaged, and bigger turbos fitted,
连上那套喷油嘴大涡轮上身
the race cars were churning out a massive 525 horsepower.
这赛车能喷发出525匹马力
They were unstoppable.
他们战无不胜
The Ford Sierra Cosworth,
福特Sierra 考斯沃斯
the top touring car of the day.
今日的最佳房♥车
In its day, the Sierra won 84%
在Sierra参加过的比赛中
of races it entered.
84%都获胜了
84%.
84%
And that makes it the most successful racing car ever made.
这使它成为史上最成功的赛车
I'd love to meet a driver who raced one and didn't win.
我倒想见见开这车但没赢的车手
"Right, so I had absolutely the best tool for the job,
"好了我有世界上最好的装备
and everyone else has won with it except me.
别人都赢了就我没赢
I'm fired, aren't I?"
会被开除吧"
To keep the road-going rocket ship
为了让这路上火箭
pointing mostly in the right direction,
基本开向指着的方向
it got beefed-up suspension, a limited slip diff,
它有更硬的悬挂限滑差速
and its most famous feature...
还有它最著名的东西
...that massive back wing.
这个大尾翼
And that wing says everything about the Cosworth.
这尾翼完全就是考斯沃斯对奔驰和宝马
Compared with grown-up things from Mercedes and BMW,
那种成年人车型的态度
it said, "Ah, sod off!
它说着 "啊滚开吧
I don't care what you think about me."
我才不在乎你怎么看我呢"
But it was also there for a reason,
但它的存在是有意义的
to make actual downforce.
产生下压力
Which, according to men called Gav
根据一个叫盖文的哥们
in every flat-roof pub in the country,
在全国各个小酒馆里所说
meant the Sierra could drive upside-down
这Sierra能在隧♥道♥里
on the roof of a tunnel.
车底朝天开
I'm not sure about that.
我不太确定啊
This thing is still pretty lively.
这货还是很活跃的
It brings out the worst in you.
它能激发你最坏的那一面
This is like a really bad mate.
就像是个非常坏的好哥们
You know, the one you absolutely love
你非常非常喜欢他
but nobody appreciates you hanging around with him.
但没人喜欢你和他鬼混
Cosworth turned the Sierra into one of the most desirable cars on the planet.
考斯沃斯把Sierra改造成这个星球上最让人渴求的车
And because it only cost 17 grand,
但只要价17000英镑
six grand less than a BMW M3,
比宝马M3便宜了6000镑
your local builder could have one.
所以当地的建筑工也买♥♥得起
However, while everyone wanted Ford's latest working-class hero,
但是虽然所有人都想要福特最新的工人阶级英雄
not everyone was prepared to pay for it.
但不是所有人都想花钱来买♥♥
Joy riders... Joy riders...
偷车贼偷车贼
Joy riders in a stolen Sierra Cosworth...
偷车贼驾驶着Sierra 考斯沃斯
...driving around a Newcastle housing estate...
在纽卡斯尔的住♥宅♥区
The high-performance vehicle is the twoccer's favourite.
这款高性能车是偷车贼的最爱
In the late '80s,
80年代晚期
car crime saw a massive spike.
偷车犯罪极度猖獗
And the Cosworth was at its tip.
而考斯沃斯则是其顶峰
Here was a car with the performance of a supercar
这辆车有着超跑的性能
and the locks of a shed.
以及破房♥子用的门锁
If you had five seconds and a screwdriver,
你要是有5秒钟和一把螺丝刀
you too could have a Sierra Cosworth.
你也能有辆Sierra 考斯沃斯
And whatever you did next, the fuzz couldn't catch you.
而且不管你接下来做什么条子都追不上你
Ford tried to get on top of things,
福特也想把事情做好
by stripping off the wing,
他们把尾翼拆了
and putting the firecracker engine
把那爆竹一样的发动机
into a sober, four-door shell...
塞进了朴素四门的外壳里
...to make this the Sierra Sapphire Cosworth.
创造出这款 Sierra Sapphire 考斯沃斯
But it didn't work.
但没啥用
If anything, the crims were grateful.
罪犯们更感激福特了
"Oh, thanks, back doors.
"噢谢了有后门
Makes it easier for the lads to get in after a bank job."
抢完银行兄弟们更容易进来了"
But ultimately... What?
但最终啥
Oh, for God's sake!
这天杀的
Things got so bad by the early '90s
到90年代初情况已经糟到
that the Sierra Cosworth was five-and-half times more likely to be stolen
Sierra 考斯沃斯被盗的概率比别的车型
than any other car.
高5.5倍
There were many owners who reported being followed by criminals,
有车主报告说他们被罪犯跟踪
waiting for them to park so they could nick it.
等他们停好车就把车偷了
That would take the edge off the pleasure of owning it, if I'm honest.
老实说这会把拥有这辆车的快乐完全湮没掉
Ford got so desperate,
福特非常丧气
they dropped the price of the Cosworth by £7,000 -
他们把考斯沃斯的价格降了7000镑
the value of an entire Fiesta -
一辆嘉年华的钱
just to shift the things.
只为了清存货
And even that didn't work.
但那样也不行
There were numerous reports at the time of Cosworth owners
很多它的车主都说
receiving insurance quotes that were more than the value of the car.
他们的保险费比车价还高
And eventually, insuring a Sierra Cosworth
最终要给Sierra考斯沃斯上保险
became not just expensive but impossible.
变得不只是贵而是不可能
They were uninsurable.
它们没法上保险
But by then, it didn't matter.
但到那时已经没关系了
The Sierra Cosworth had done its job,
Sierra考斯沃斯已经完成了使命
just as the Lotus Cortina had done 25 years earlier,
就像路特斯Cortina 25年前所做的
by making an ordinary family saloon seem impossibly cool.
让一辆家用车变得不可思议的酷
Honestly, I was flipping drooling.
说真的我口水都要滴下来了
It's a legend of a car. Absolute legend.
车史传奇了确实是传奇
I was drooling, watching.
我看着就流口水
I absolutely loved...
我真心喜欢
I adored the Sierra Cosworth.
我真心爱慕Sierra考斯沃斯
It was brilliant. Fabulous.
真是美妙极为美妙
Absolutely fabulous, but I need to do a bit more documentary work.
大好车但我要再继续纪录环节了
I think you should. The Cosworth wasn't the most important thing
我觉得也是 Sierra上最重要的不是发动机
about the Sierra. The most important thing was,
它在历史上最重要的
the Sierra changed the Labour Party.
是它改变了工党
Really? It genuinely did.
真的么确实如此
A young Tony Blair was out canvassing one day,
年轻的托尼·布莱尔一天在外宣讲
saw a man washing his Sierra on the drive,
看到一个在车道上洗Sierra的男人
sort of went up to him.
他就过去聊了
The Labour Party policy back then, as now, actually,
工党那时候的政策其实和现在一样
was to get the man out of his car and back where he belonged on a bus.
是把人从车里拽出去扔回他该在的公交车里
Yes. Tony Blair realised this guy didn't want to go on a bus.
对的托尼·布莱尔发现那人不想去坐公交
He wanted a better Sierra, faster Sierra, Sierra with headrests.
那人想要更好的Sierra 更快的有头枕的
So he went away and he created New Labour
所以他回去创立了新工党
as a result of that conversation.
这是那次谈话的结果