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Ex-Top Gear and The Grand Tour host Richard Hammond is in a new sponsored video for Ford's Ranger Raptor again. This time round, he tries to impress his daughters by being a cool dad. Published on the DriveTribe YouTube channel, Hammond proclaims that the 210bhp 2.0-litre, twin-turbocharged diesel Ranger Raptor is a “brilliant family car” and proceeds to show us what he means by sending his two teenage daughters the local shops for some shopping. At the shopping center, we can then see him getting bored while waiting for his daughters to return. After quite some time spent trying to entertain himself, his daughters return from the shops with their loots. Probably sick of talking to himself, he then proceeds to entertain himself by bringing the Raptor through a "shortcut" on the way home. Of course, the daughters have no idea the shortcut is actually an off road track and we can see in the video later that they are probably not going to be happy with all the bouncing about in the truck.

July 04 2008 Richard Hammond and James May's futures at Top Gear are in doubt because of an argument over salaries. Their contracts run out at the end of the month, but they have not yet signed a new one leading to fears they may leave the show. The report in the MediaGuardian revealed that the two stars were unhappy that their salaries weren't more inline with that of the show's main host, Jeremy Clarkson. Clarkson has apparently negotiated a pay rise which includes profit share of Top Gear rights around the world. A source told the Guardian: "Internally there is talk that there might be a chance for the first time that there could be a break up of the team, it has got that bad. "There has been a lot of pulling out of hair, a Mexican stand-off. For the first time it is possible that one or both might leave. They don't want to accept second status anymore. There has been a meltdown in negotiations." http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/car_news_artic...umentid=8796866 Money money money... again...