James May, Kate Humble and Ant Anstead broadcast live from inside Mini Plant Oxford, one of Britain's biggest and busiest car factories, where a new car drives off the production line every 68 seconds. James May looks at the use of robotic technology and investigates the claim that British manufacturing is dead, while Ant explores the history and heritage of one of the most iconic cars ever built, and Kate Humble reports on the use of electric cars in Norway
The team reveals what it takes to build thousands of different cars a day, as a car that started the manufacturing process yesterday drives off the production line for the first time
The MINI plant in Oxford is one of the biggest in the UK, building over a thousand cars a day. In this episode James tests his wheel fitting skills on the assembly line and learns how to engineer the sound of a car door. Kate gets to the bottom of how manufacturers test car seats and Ant heads to Germany to put his faith in a driverless car on the autobahn.
