Step inside the world's most impressive industrial sites as this fascinating series explores the manufacturing stories behind iconic vehicles and products.  They may look sleek and shiny when they come off the conveyor belt, but every iconic product begins life as a mere collection of parts. Join us in the new series of Megafactories as we don protective gear and enter the epic manufacturing plants behind the planet's biggest brands, revealing their unique construction secrets.  Upcoming episodes include:

AGUSTA SUPER CHOPPER

The AW139 is the fastest selling medium class helicopter in history.  It’s made near Milan, Italy at the Agusta Westland Factory.  Today the plant is thriving but 20 years ago it was close to ruin.  The Berlin Wall had fallen and the military orders that kept the company afloat had dried up.  The decision was made to create a new generation of helicopter for the 21st Century: more powerful, faster and more technologically advanced than any before it.  Meet the craftsmen who make this 15 million Euro dream machine the helicopter that shook the world of aviation.

DUCATI MULTISTRADA

Ducati are the Ferrari of the two-wheel world… famed for racing, and high-speed, high performance, road bikes.  But with a massive recession looming, Ducati needed to enter the wider motorcycle markets of Tourers, City Bikes, and Off-Roaders to guarantee their future. Which new market would this little Italian company, famed for innovation and risk taking, choose?  The answer stunned the motorcycling world. Ducati would attempt the impossible. Harnessing their race bred technology to build ONE TRANSFORMING machine that could shape shift between ALL these very different types of motorcycle. The “Four Bikes in One” Ducati 1200 Multistrada!  But would it work? And would anybody buy it?