Building Cars

Season 1

Every 68 seconds a brand new car drives off the production line at the MINI Plant in Oxford. James May goes behind the scenes to bring us this modern miracle in real time. He's joined by Ant Anstead and Kate Humble to reveal the science, engineering and people that keep us all on the road, and see how a car is built from start to finish in a little over 24 hours.

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S1 E1 - Episode 1
March 6, 2016
50min
TV-PG
James May makes friends with an army of diligent robots and busts the myth that British manufacturing is dead. Kate Humble sees if she has what it takes to work on the assembly line and Ant Anstead explores the history and heritage of one of the most iconic cars ever built.
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S1 E2 - Episode 2
March 13, 2016
52min
TV-PG
James May races against the clock on the production line and embraces the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen. Kate Humble heads to Norway to discover why the electric car is King of the Norwegian road and Ant Anstead learns why loading a triple decker car transporter requires nerves of steel.
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S1 E3 - Episode 3
October 21, 2015
52min
TV-PG
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.
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