S1 E1: Volkswagen Mega Factory
Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes at the biggest car factory in the world where workers use cutting-edge engineering and the latest technology to build a new car every 16 seconds.
42 minutes
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Richard Hammond explores some of the biggest and most prominent structures and discusses how these engineering marvels were conceptualised and created.
Director: Matthew Wortman
Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes at the biggest car factory in the world where workers use cutting-edge engineering and the latest technology to build a new car every 16 seconds.
42 minutes
Richard Hammond climbs aboard the U.S. Air Force's biggest cargo plane, an airborne behemoth that uses cutting-edge engineering and the latest technology to fly vital equipment and heavy-duty military vehicles across the planet.
42 minutes
Richard Hammond joins the crew of one of the biggest ships on earth, a monster cargo vessel that uses cutting-edge engineering and the latest tech to deliver vital materials on a non-stop 28,000 mile voyage.
42 minutes
Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on the planet, to reveal how cutting-edge engineering keeps this record-breaking 2,722-foot-tall skyscraper standing straight in precarious desert sands.
41 minutes
Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes of a new, groundbreaking football stadium to uncover how high-tech engineering has created a cutting-edge innovation: a retractable soccer field that rolls back to reveal a world-first NFL field.
42 minutes
Richard Hammond travels to one of the most remote places on the planet, a giant oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. His special access reveals the cutting-edge engineering behind this high-tech facility and its record-breaking drills.
41 minutes
Richard Hammond meets the engineering team that runs one of the biggest dams on Earth, a cutting-edge behemoth that uses the latest technology to withstand the weight of 200 million tons of water and power an entire city.
42 minutes
Richard Hammond goes behind the scenes of the world's longest underground railway connection to uncover how high-tech equipment helps engineers blast through solid rock to create a cutting-edge train line over a mile beneath the earth's surface.
41 minutes
Richard Hammond investigates the cutting-edge machine technology that makes the world's biggest engineering projects possible, and with special inside access, he reveals what it takes to operate this high-tech equipment.
42 minutes