Megafactories

- Season 1

(2007)

The Harley Davidson V-Rod can go from 0 to 90 kph in 3.52 seconds. Visit the Harley-Davidson factory in Kansas City to see the makings of one of the company's most revolutionary bikes to date.

The Apache is one of the best known attack helicopters in the world. Inside the Boeing plant in Mesa, Arizona, they show how it has evolved from the Huey in Vietnam into a modern digital airborne masterpiece.

The Abrams tank, apart from being one of the most powerful land weapons systems in the world, is also a recycled vehicle, rebuilt from the ground up, rather than being built new. At 70 tonnes, there are few heavier tanks.

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Get inside the famous House of Porsche and see how they create the Porsche 911, one of the most influential and recognizable vehicles in the world. Every distinctive element is manufactured at the Zuffenhausen factory in Stuttgart, Germany, a historical industrial monument. We'll examine the Porsche factory's innovative system of lifts, elevators and bridges, which conveys car bodies 50 feet above a public highway.

Visit the Jaguar factory in Castle Bromwich, England as we uncover the design secrets that gave life to the new XJ.

Wished for by many and owned by few, Koenigsegg has become one of the greatest limited edition, hyper cars in the world. Each car is hand built in a quiet Swedish factory that doesn't look anything like a car production plant.

Each new version of the Actros is custom made by Mercedes Benz, to incorporate the latest in customer demands, and world wide emission and other legislative constraints. This results in quite a test for a factory that builds a truck every two minutes.

A look inside Ford's most modern production facilities - the Dearborn truck plant in Michigan, where the Ford F150 is built.

A visit to the huge Frito Lay facility, where they get through a million pounds of potatoes a day to make crisps in preparation for the fourth of July.

Porsce wanted to do something that they have never been done before in sports car history. At their state of the art $200million factory, they design and build the controversial four door Panamera that divided sports car fans worldwide.

Join charismatic CEO Dany Bahar in Norfolk, unlikely home of the Lotus mega-factory, as he unveils plans for their latest super car, the Evora.

With unprecedented access to Williams F1's futuristic development factory, we reveal the ins and outs of Williams FW33 F1 car.

Only 1.5% of India's population own a car. Ratan Tata wants this to change, and sets about designing and building the worlds cheapest car, in order to offer the same solution to India, as Henry Ford did for America.

The cutting edge research and development by one of the largest tire companies in the world that manufactures everything from car and motorcycle to jumbo jet tires and now focuses on a new tire design that will increase mileage for cars.

MV Agusta is a legendary Italian motorcycle manufacturer. Purchased by a father and son team, the company bets its future on a brand new motorcycle design. Based in Varese, Italy, the MV Factory produces the new MV Augusta F3.

For almost 100 years, Australia's Howard and Sons have been making fireworks. The secrets of their success have been handed down over the generations. Taking the company in a new direction, Andrew and Christian Howard along with show designer, Stuart Bensley, compete in the 2011 International Festival Des Feux in Montreal with a new pyrotechnic musical.

A rare look inside the Corvette Mega Factory which produces the ZR1. It is said to be the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive Corvette ever built and it has been positioned to compete against the best that Europe has to offer.

Travel to the Lamborghini factory in SantAgata Bolognese, Italy, to see first hand the birth of a Supercar, the Lamborghini Aventador. The factory builds the car almost entirely by hand including its engine and body. The car is also painted and assembled by hand, including installation of the famous Lamborghini scissor doors.

Shown is the plan and operation of MINI Plant Oxford by following the production of the new MINI Coupé through body in white, paint, and assembly. Plant managers discuss the challenges of building a MINI every 68 seconds while adjusting to the new Coupé model.

The Gumpert Apollo is a $1 million street legal racing car. One of the fastest cars on Earth, and one of the most exclusive, it is hand built, with the best materials and technology available, in Germany.

For 20 years, Lexus has been synonymous with quiet, efficient, luxury. Now they have launched their first petrol sucking supercar - the Lexus LFA. 325kph and 0-100kph in 3.8 seconds, it's anything but understated. This is the construction story behind the ultimate Japanese supercar. Hand built at the LFA Works in Toyota City, Japan, this car is 65% carbon fibre and powered by the highest revving production engine on the road. At $375,000 it's also the most expensive Japanese road car ever.

A look inside Nissan's mega factory, where cutting edge aerodynamics, hi tech engineering and a handcrafted V6 engine create a mass produced super car, envisioned to be direct competition to Porsche, Lamborghini and others.

Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk is out to create the world's first manufacturing plant for the fully electric car. Details of Model S mass production.

A car worth a million Euros? Horacio Pagani has designed one. With unsurpassed power, performance and luxury, the finest possible raw materials, and every single one of its components a work of art, the Huayra is the best there is.

Redesigning the iconic Porsche 911, the company produces a virtually brand new 7th generation vehicle in terms of size, design and performance. They unveil the Porsche 911 Carrera S.