Wheeler Dealers Trading Up

Mike heads to New South Wales and Sydney, a car trading hotspot. Mike goes 'dancing in the dust' with trick-driving Outbackers, treks to the Gold Coast to ride the wave of first generation Mazda RX-7 imports and stumbles across a mint Mark I Ford Escort.

The UK's car market is worth around $50 billion. Movement is Mike's strategy for mining car markets on a road trip through the country. But not before showing off his Australian barn find at a Ford Escort event - can he seal the deal on a $10,000 profit?

Sao Paulo is the heartland of the Brazilian car business, a mega-city bursting with people and cars. Mike makes a pilgrimage to the city which produces the legendary VW Kombi. In the jungle, Mike rumbles with off-roaders and searches for the Chevy Impala.

Mike explores the car culture of Texas where one in every five vehicles sold is a truck - so what better than do a deal with a 1959 Chevy Apache. A '72 Corvette captivates Mike's power-cruise cravings. And Mike sits in a famous $3m Astro-Vette.

Mike knows that Poland is the 'workshop of Europe' with its relatively low costs and high standards of craftsmanship. Where better to ship your E-Type to make the big Zlotys? Mike considers tanks and missile-launchers as part of his plan to fund the Jag.

Mike will go to any lengths to do a deal, even to Cote D'Azur to bring a Lancia Delta Evoluzione through Italy into Milan. Mike relives his youth at the world's largest Vespa event, but can he do the deal that propels him towards a Ferrari supercar?