Episode list

It was born on the streets of South Africa, and it's now an insanely popular motor sport. It's car spinning, where - in the townships around Johannesburg - old BMWs carve out ballet like moves in special, purpose built arenas. There are no prizes; it's all about show and reputation. Fail to please the crowds and you're booed off.

In the 1950s, Californians began adapting cars to drive just inches off the ground. Now, it's a scene loved by millions across the U.S. and Latin America. Elvis is in Mexicali with the guys of the Aztlan Car Club, bringing his F1 skills to hopping, a sub-genre of lowriding in which cars "hop" on their rear axle. One of Los Angeles's top teams is in town, and to see whose car can go highest they've challenged the Aztlan Car Club to a hop-off.

It's the most powerful motorsport in the world. In tractor pulling, monster machines pull a huge sledge down a one hundred metre track. Whoever gets the furthest is the winner. Elvis teams with two old-time pullers - Geoff Garrett and Richard "Turbo" Vincent - but the wheels come off when Elvis and the guys fall foul of the new health and safety conscious rules of the sport, resulting in a whole new build from scratch.

It's one of the fastest growing motorsports in Scandinavia - racing second-hand, souped-up cars around mud and tarmac tracks. In Sweden with the boys from Misty Racing, Elvis uses his racing experience to turn a scrapyard Saab into a Folkrace car, but limited by strict financial rules, designed to keep the sport affordable to all, he's allowed just £500 to transform his junkyard jalopy into a racing machine.

The rusting American Buicks, Chevys and Dodges have become symbols in Havana, and now have spawned a new sport - drag racing, Cuban style. Elvis teams up with amateur dragster, Freddy, to make Freddy's '56 Chevy capable of defeating the island champion, but spare parts are impossible to find, as cars are mostly patched together, and the face-off is in just seven days' time.

Take a wooden boat designed to carry rice along the Thai waterways - then customise it with engines cannibalised from motorbikes, cars or jet skis, to produce a boat that hurtles along at 90mph, piloted by madcap racers with no helmets, safety harnesses or fear. Thailand's long-tail racing lets Elvis develop a plan to build a race winner by giving the engine a bit more grunt. The boat will compete at one of Thailand's biggest annual events.