*Context thread (for those who don't know);* 0:00 - The license plate on Jeremy's 928 (which read H982 FKL) would cause a group of protestors to ambush the crew in Argentina who believed the plate to be a deliberate reference to the 1982 Falklands War. *The presenters would publicly state that it wasn't,* however there are those who believe that this WAS infact deliberate. Its worth noting that the 928 had *ALWAYS* been registered with the *H982 FKL* plate well before being in the hands of Clarkson. 0:19 - Jeremy would later go on to declare the Lexus LFA as the best car he's ever driven. 0:56 - The S-Type (renamed XF) would launch, looking nearly like the concept car in the picture. Jeremy did not cut his left leg off and beat himself to death with it. 1:27 - The trio were unable to test their respective cars (which included James May campaigning the LaFerrari) around their track, initially due to disagreements between McLaren and Ferrari over how the tests should be run, before being axed for good due to the fracas incident that dismissed Clarkson from Top Gear before such an event could happen, meaning that the "Jennifer" bet would never be fulfilled. All three cars would eventually be given a proper test on the debut episode of The Grand Tour at the Algarve Circuit, where both the Ferrari and Porsche *WERE* infact, faster than the McLaren. The "Jennifer" bet was never acknowledged again. 2:01 - Jaguar nearly attempted a comeback with the C-X75, but pulled the plug before it could go into production. Bugatti would go on to make the *Veyron*, and has yet to make any sort of saloon car (outside of concept cars). McLaren's next car, as mentioned in the clip, would be a joint project with Mercedes-Benz that resulted in the SLR. 2:17 - Jeremy later changed his mind on the 8C, with him considering the eventual production car to be the "most beautiful car ever made", even asking during his review of the 8C if "a car could be art?" He even made a joke about the 8C Spider in a news segment as "just PURE pornography." 2:38 - Top Gear did not end with the three setting off in a big fireball. It also might be a very SUBTLE reference of Clarkson's last appearance on the original Top Gear, where Clarkson (and the then presenters) "exploded" in a big fireball, before cutting to a scene with the presenters all driving off into the distance in their favourite supercars. Clarkson left the show roughly a month later, at the start of 1999. Ironically enough, one of Clarkson's replacements was a short-haired James May, who presented for only a few months before being replaced himself. 2:53 - Despite Richard and James' comments about the Range Rover's poor reliability history, Jeremy's Range Rover ended up being the *most* reliable of the three cars in that special (according to Jeremy). 3:09 - The 4x4 was *not* the third biggest killer in 2020. *Nor do they come with health warnings plastered on the exterior.* 3:29 - James' Lotus had nearly *no* troubles whatsoever during the Patagonia special. 3:41 - Richard would lose control after the finish and crash his Rimac off the hill-climb track. *The only amateur footage available still sucks, by the way.* 4:13 - Poked fun at in the clip itself. *You can guess what happened.* 5:00 - Jeremy had already been dismissed from Top Gear by the time this episode had aired, due to the fracas incident. Though its probably no secret that by the end of his run, Clarkson was tired of Top Gear. 5:10 - Pagani has repeatedly made one-off Zondas since this episode, largely made by customer requests, as recent as 2019. 5:27 - More expensive (and faster) Porsches have been released since then. (Clarkson has also contradicted the "best looking" statement, saying he feels the 928 was the best looking Porsche.) 5:36 - Deliberately poked fun at in the clip itself. 6:31 - Volkswagen are currently the parent owners of Porsche. 6:41 - I ain't 100% on this clip, but my take is that due to the huge growth in Crossover vehicles, more and more customers are buying 4x4s and other similar crossover based vehicles. Its also been suggested that its a sense of irony as one of Clarkson's all time favourite vehicles is the Range Rover. 7:17 - Battery-powered electric cars have completely *EXPLODED* in popularity and sales, and with current projections, will likely continue to become more popular in the coming years. *Though I wish it were Hydrogen-powered cars instead.* 7:28 - There have been several cars since then that have gone around the track faster than the Ferrari Enzo (1:19.0), including the Veyron, which.... 7:39 - The Veyron *DOES* exist, and *DOES* have 1,000 HP. *Also, "Very-on", lmao.* 9:03 - The C6, as James teased at, *flopped.* Citroen were expecting the car to sell around 20,000 per year. *23,384 C6s were sold in its entire run from 2006-2012.* 9:23 - The Mexican ambassador *DID* complain. Whoops. 9:45 - The United Kingdom would eventually leave the European Union, in what's since been coined "Brexit". 10:40 - Since this episode aired, Mercedes have won the Constructors' Championship every year since 2014, with Lewis Hamilton winning the Driver's Championship in each year (except for 2016, which was won by his then-teammate Nico Rosberg, and 2021, which was won by Red Bull driver Max Verstappen.) Also, West Ham are currently doing better than Manchester United in the current Premier League season. 11:34 - Under its Russian ownership, TVR became largely inactive due to falling demand and many of its staff members having been laid off. No new models were made during this period, with ownership of TVR eventually being sold to Les Edgar in 2013. 12:17 - Alfa Romeo would go on to make the 4C, with a Spider variant being released a couple years later. A true Spider successor hasn't been made as of 2021. 13:02 - Lamborghini would eventually go on to make the Urus, which is Lamborghini's equivalent to the Porsche Cayenne that Jeremy mentions in the clip. Ironically, the "Urus" name was trademarked just before the introduction of the Estoque, which is shown in the clip. Unfortunately, the Estoque did not go into production. 13:30 - Jaguar would eventually make a new project that would turn into a new F-Type, which did go into production. 13:48 - The Continental GT would later go on to be the sort of car that WAS, infact, Jeremy's "cup of tea". 14:05 - Jeremy would later go on to give the FN2 Civic Type-R a scathing review, concluding it as "absolutely hopeless". 14:17 - The Panamera is still in production to this day, and was even given a new chassis update in 2017. 14:26 - Lamborghini have made multiple models since this episode's airing that continue to house a V12 engine, such as the Veneno, Centenario, Sian, Essenza, and a revival of the Countach. 14:42 - The dog wasn't eaten. 15:06 - The i8 does not go like a 911, costed more than a 911, and was poorly received by much of the car community. 15:25 - Sadly for Ricciardo, Daniel has likely had plenty of time to look at the back of Lewis' car. Daniel however would get the last lap by posting the fastest ever time in the Suzuki Liana around the Top Gear Track (1:42.2 vs. Hamilton's 1:42.9) 15:47 - See above at 2:17. 16:01 - Ford WOULD go on to sell the V8-powered Mustang in Britain. Ironically enough, the Ecoboost powered model has since been discontinued in Britain. 16:58 - Poked fun at in the clip itself. Whilst the 9-5 shown in question would go on to enter production, Saab would eventually go bankrupt and dissolve in 2012. 18:07 - (As a non-Brit, I'm not familiar with British politics.) Pretty sure that people are still using their cars just as often as they had before, if not perhaps more often. (Its also been suggested that the first half of the clip could be unknowingly referring to restrictions that would later become imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with everything being shut down alongside the strictly-imposed curfews.) The "left-wing dictatorship" rant has also been suggested as having aged like vinegar, with many of the imposed bits that Clarkson rants about actually being implemented by the Tories, who are considered as being "centre-right". 19:09 - Top Gear would eventually reveal the 3-door production model Astra in a later series, and Jeremy WOULD end up eating his hair. 19:43 - Hammond went out of his way to drive a right-hand-drive Mustang as soon as he was able to in an episode of The Grand Tour, clearly showing how excited he was. 20:14 - Kristin Scott Thomas was used for a number of the years as the "test" for where a car would rank on the Cool Wall. As shown in the clip, Kristin's opinions on the cars shown directly contradicted Jeremy's, rendering the Cool Wall irrelevant. (The segment would still be used a few more times throughout the show, however the Kristin Scott Thomas test would never be referred to again.) 21:17 - The United States Grand Prix returned in 2012 at the Circuit of the Americas, where its ran every year since (except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Unfortunately for Jeremy however, there are no sprinklers, there's still steward inquiries, penalties, and no-one slugs it out at the podium. Its also been suggested that it could be in relation to the eventual purchase of Formula 1 by American media giant "Liberty Media" in 2017, which in turn caused a huge upgrowth in popularity for the sport. 21:50 - They didn't kick a couple of barn owls to death for fun. They even jokingly made an apology the following episode in regards to the comment. *If I am missing anything, please let me know!*
5:27 still thinks Porsche 928 is the best looking Porsche 11:34 aged well because kalashnikov made their own car 13:48 said continental gt wasnt his cup of tea but eventually became one of his favourite car
@@Mustang150y 11:34 - The Sagaris was already being worked on just prior to Smolenski picking up ownership of TVR, they were the ones that got it out into production however.
21:17 actually it could refer to Libety Media (an American media giant) purchasing Formula 1 in 2017. Since then the sport has exploded in popularity in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down. Although yes, the steward inquiries, penalties, and prim and proper podium ceremonies still remain.
@@shakul12 if you realy think that your have been and are living in denial beacase veyron did and stil does exist and also haves a sucesor (Chiron). Have a nice day and checking google or some TH-cam videos wouldnt go a miss to properly proof my point 😉
Yeah it wasn't just him, pretty much everyone back in 2012 thought Lewis was utterly stupid to leave a proven title winning team (McLaren) for the best-of-the-rest midfielder Mercedes. Now Mercedes are your only option if you ever want to win titles.
@@rodracer4567 agree with part of that, Mercedes won’t be at the top forever, the reason they are in a close title fight with redbull is because they are focusing on getting the foundations of next years car correct
Yup, luckiest driver move ever imo. Merc shot up to being the best team and Mclaren started making black and red painted tractors instead of racecars shortly after Sir moved
Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
I think that may have been dubbed over as a bit of a joke cuz it never shows the words coming out of his mouth. Ik it has the sound but it may be fake, idk prove me wrong
@@bonafidesmooth Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@Marauder1981 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
It came out a couple of years ago that Mercedes spent seven hundred million euro developing the engine for the then new rules. That was just the engine, not the rest of the car. They told Lewis that and that influenced his decision.
@@karlbassett8485 yup, I saw that too. Still, he had to trust that no one else had done the same. And as it came to be, 8 of the most boring years for me as a fan for the constructors. Had this year been another rout, I might have stopped F1 for a bit. Not since Schumacher at Ferrari had I been so emphatically bored. And I don't need manufactured drama, I just hate 1 team dominance in any sport.
@@karlbassett8485 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 So you're saying someone could be a good person and do good but if they don't worship god they won't go to heaven? Doesn't that make god a bit of a dick? That he would look at someone and say "okay you're a good person but you didn't kiss my ass so you're going to hell"? Why would I WANT to worship someone who thinks like that?
Well.. ya kinda are saying you want manufactured frame just to get the encumbents out - don’t hate the player hate the game, it ;(was) inherent in the rules and prize fund structure to continually reward the top team, accidentally ensuring long periods of dominance (we normally see several years of single team dominance in waves around large packages of redesign)
@@magiclapras Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 No one goes to heaven by being good? That sounds kinda stupid. So if I was a serial killer but believed in Jesus I would get to go to heaven whereas someone who lived their whole life being charitable but was an atheist would be denied heaven and forced to go to heck.
What's upsetting most about the Argentina attack was: they went out of their way to avoid making jokes at the expense of Argentinans, let alone the fact that the whole point of the trip was to mend relationships. Most of their other trips, they spend a good amount of time cracking jokes at the country their visiting's expense, but that time exclusively they avoided doing so... And they get attacked.
And let us not forget that it was all because of a license plate, that according to them referenced a war that they started, because they thought that the Falklands belonged to them even though they have never owned them
@@xyroah If that happened here in the U.S., you could just get a different plate for a small fee🤷🏼♂️ When you register a vehicle here, you're asked if you have a plate for said vehicle. If you say "yes", you pay for whatever services were rendered, and off ya go. If you say "no", they provide you with a brand new one, you pay for it and whatever services were rendered, and off ya go.
19:22 That section is missing a third clip where Jeremy has to eat his own hair. In the original (around 14:20) is that they said it was the 3 door Astra, then showed the 5 door. There's a third clip where they reveal the 3-door and jeremy does eat his hair. EXTREMELY ironic that he complaints about the temperature of the food there.
@@DeanMoxley87 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 So, with that logic, if I work 60 hours a week to provide my family a comfortable quality of life, donate my stock market profits to charity, volunteer at my local soup kitchen, and also help my veterinarian friend, but don't believe in Jesus, I go to hell??? Perhaps I'll become an addict, leave my family, kick puppies, and spit on old ladies, but I'll convert and believe in Jesus. That's how I get to heaven???
There's nothing that can replace these 3. They are like brothers who gets on everyone's nerves but they love each other and what's more I love these guys when they are on our screens. ❤️✌️
They all went through phases of hating or being annoyed by the one or both of the others and/or just seeing it as a job. Shortly after his second divorce, Clarkson started to profusely disliked May and felt very resentful about having to come in. Obviously, after his accidents, they came together to support Hammond. If you watch the show, you can tell by how they're speaking to each other, the camera, and any guests as to whether they're annoyed.
@@Zarzar22 remember Belgian GP? The entire argument of Max being ahead in terms of wins was because he was given one by the FIA. In general they seem to be making F1 more accessible to the americans by turning it into WWE on wheels.
@Bilal Khalid yes, but F1 has a grip around the FIA, if they choose to leave it's over... So when they told Masi that they wanted an exciting finish... so....
@@bbbbbbb51 jeremy clarkson thought it was the best car in the world and so did the stig. They both know a thing or two about cars. They certainly know a damn sight more than you The fact you said that without even mentioning the engine makes me think you’re either stupid or a troll
2:06 “Bugatti is now owned by Volkswagen and are planning to make big saloons like this” What Bugatti actually makes: FASTEST ROAD LEGAL CAR IN THE WORLD
It makes me so sad sometimes how concepts that look so cool end up never being made in favor of some bogged down version that barely resembles it. It makes me even sadder than when companies just completely axe them, because then at least you've gone the honorable route of not making it at all rather than releasing something disappointing. Perhaps the saddest one of all was the new supra compared to the FT-1 concept that it started off as. What a beautiful concept that was, and what a shame that we'll never actually get those on the road due to reasons that were largely not even Toyota's fault
What makes me sad is companies that have no intention of making it a production car but just make it anyway to show what they could do, and then go on to release boring economy car after boring economy car.
It sucks, but at the same time it’s hard to blame them when the concept cars - cool as they are - simply couldn’t be made cost-effectively and/or wouldn’t sell well enough to justify the production line. It’s what usually happens to radical car designs that actually do see production; they tend to be slow-selling novelties.
4:31 for those, who don't know what this is all about: Hammond really got a serious accident in that dragster and a lot of recovery in the next couple of months.
What an educated observation, imagine being let back out again and only being closed down in the first place because of a VIRUS by your CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING government...-_-
3:51 he kinda accomplished the mission there, not quite in the way they were planning. But none the less Rimac is now big time, so job well done hamster
The whole conversation at 18:07 is incredibly meta considering the state of the world since early 2020, they're literally following the playbook step by step
"wear a cloth on your face to help stop the spread of a deadly disease" braindead commenters: "omg this is literally like the most murderous regime in human history"
Tyranny has always operated like this. It just helps when world governments can scare people into doing their bidding instead of thinking for themselves.
15:25 Jeremy: "We got some Formula 1 Fans here, does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask Daniel Ricciardo?" Some Random Fan: "What does the back of Lewis' car look like?" Daniel: "Like this! "🖕
The Irony of including 14:10, which despite JC not liking it later on at road test, his initial impressions were right. It does drive really well. The reason it didn't sell as well as it should have was because of his review reinforcing the public dismay that it didn't have lots more power than the outgoing EP3.
@@alanhillyard1639 what’s funny, is that out here in the states, the 8th generation Honda Civic was a smash hit. The Si was praised for its fun-to-drive handling.
This video just goes to prove the point that none of the presenters on top gear had the faintest idea what they were talking about, and that the real content of the show was the chemistry and comedy between the three.
Exactly, at least 3/4 of the time they were just taking the piss and going for what'd make people laugh or taking jabs at each other. It was lovely while it lasted, ever since a coworker introduced me to these three I've enjoyed it to no end.
@@MrEvan312 Well the Falklands one is true. I showed my Uncle who was in the Royal Marines (he didn't fight in the war but has been to the island) this video and he burst out laughing.
4:05 “You will be on a coin” “You will be on a stamp” 30 minutes later, “You’ll be on an air ambulance..” Three guys, best show in the world & sooo lucky to still be a trio. 👏
The F40 on the left at 7:32 once passed me on the A1 coming out of London. It was weaving in and out of the traffic, but in such a clean and professional way that I did not mind. I thought that at least it was being driven by someone who knew what they were doing. Someone told me later that it belonged to Nigel Mansell...
1:00 Technically he is right, that’s not the ‘S-type’ that is the XF. They didn’t name it the S-type even though it is basically the replacement for the S-type.
Back in 2004, Jeremy said that in 20 years, we'll have road cars capable of F1 performance. Well, we now have the Aston Martin Valkyrie and the Mercedes AMG-One, so that was right.
The LFA was massively overpriced. But it was priced that way because of the small production numbers relative to the development cost. It was also reasonably cool, It never looked outstanding just good. ...And then the hype hit.
@@fngsoap1023 not always about speed. Its about brilliant minds coming together to make a masterpiece. The e46 M3 is the 3rd slowest M3, yet its widely regarded as the best M3
@@AvidUTuber It wouldn't have been overpriced had Toyota not scrapped the aluminum for carbon fiber and used that from the beginning 🤔 Edit: I still want one, like Clarkson drove, in blue.
@@Jeff.78 True, and that was only one of many setbacks. However, I'd still refrain from calling a car that EVERY UNIT SOLD "overpriced." I know people who would give their ferrari collection to get their hands on an LFA. And prices are still going up !
@@noahcheckman8542 IIRC, you're correct. It's rather shocking that such a low-to-the-ground car managed to hold up so well despite the off-road adventures to which they subjected those cars. Of the three brands (Lotus, Ford, and Porsche), I think Ford has the best reputation for reliability, but Hammond's Mustang probably wasn't looked after very well by its previous owner(s).
@@omalleycaboose5937 West Ham is a bad team and Manchester United is a good one. He used that analogy to say Mercedes is bad... Lewis won 6 world championships as of 2021
10:50 it makes me so sad but that's how it is. Alonso went to the worst possible car and Lewis managed to have a sit in the what would later be the most dominant car in f1 history
@@NatiiixLP Australia is the worst though. One of the worst at least. State of Victoria actually had a genuine curfew last year! Sydney right now had the ACTUAL MILITARY walking the streets to make sure citizens are doing ad they're told. Hitler would be proud, honestly.
@@somerandomgamer8504 It seems you're not disagreeing with the timestamp in the video then, but only have a problem with the Hitler joke. Firstly, grow up, it's a joke, get over it. Secondly, it's funny how so many people are quick to use the term "nazi" against people they don't like for whatever reason, no need to go into that, yet have a problem with for example me using their exact logic for a joke here? Tell you want, we don't have a problem here if you can admit that anybody online calling someone a nazi, for any reason, is just as stupid.
@@thfreakinacage But why did you assume he was one of those peope though ? Also ironically the same people calling governements nazis for inticing taking the vaccine are walking row in row with the actual neo-nazis. Also, enforcement came after riots and vandalization. Murder is also not doing as you're told so the government are nazis for prohibiting it lol.
16:02 Id say that aged pretty well, I've seen plenty of mustangs now in the UK, but I can't recall seeing one that didn't have a little 5.0 badge on the wing.
@@pandamilkshake Nah, I think it's the "fast ford" mentality that strikes deep into every Essex man. I'll say a lot of shit about my fellow countypeople, but they do love they Fau'ddz - moreso if they have an ST or GT badge on them.
Hammond crashing the dragster was the turning point where Top Gear became the biggest show in the world. Hammond crashing the Rimac was the turning point where the company became extremely successful.
Hammond on top gear: "Once a mustang becomes right hand drive it's like it's trying too hard" Hammond on the Grand Tour: * excitingly welcomes the first mustang in England *
@@daackmpoy I was more talking about the COVID restrictions limiting travel and, at least in my country, giving curfews. These were implemented by the center-right conservatives/liberalists. In the 00's the conservatives weren't too different from how they are now, only perhaps a bit more eurosceptical. It is just ironic how a seemingly minor disease can make a center-right government 'follow the leftist dictator handbook'. Desperate times and what not.
Missed Jeremy after driving the Bugatti Veyron saying he will never experience that kind of power again. Now you can experience that type of power in an electric 4 door saloon (although without the top speed).
brilliant stuff from both angles, for me as you touched on we need a corberan, carrick type hire similar to what stoke have just done and build. We’d be happy with midtable but just to enjoy the football more
6:31 Yes and no? The acquisition was weird - initially, it was Porsche that was going to buy VW, but then the heads of Porsche managed to convince the Qatar Investment Authority to lend money to VW instead of Porsche so that they could be bought out by them, on the condition that the heads of Porsche got into high-ranking positions at VW, screwing over a lot of short-sellers that were planning on making bank on VW's crisis in the late 2000s and came out as this odd merger.
*Context thread (for those who don't know);*
0:00 - The license plate on Jeremy's 928 (which read H982 FKL) would cause a group of protestors to ambush the crew in Argentina who believed the plate to be a deliberate reference to the 1982 Falklands War. *The presenters would publicly state that it wasn't,* however there are those who believe that this WAS infact deliberate. Its worth noting that the 928 had *ALWAYS* been registered with the *H982 FKL* plate well before being in the hands of Clarkson.
0:19 - Jeremy would later go on to declare the Lexus LFA as the best car he's ever driven.
0:56 - The S-Type (renamed XF) would launch, looking nearly like the concept car in the picture. Jeremy did not cut his left leg off and beat himself to death with it.
1:27 - The trio were unable to test their respective cars (which included James May campaigning the LaFerrari) around their track, initially due to disagreements between McLaren and Ferrari over how the tests should be run, before being axed for good due to the fracas incident that dismissed Clarkson from Top Gear before such an event could happen, meaning that the "Jennifer" bet would never be fulfilled. All three cars would eventually be given a proper test on the debut episode of The Grand Tour at the Algarve Circuit, where both the Ferrari and Porsche *WERE* infact, faster than the McLaren. The "Jennifer" bet was never acknowledged again.
2:01 - Jaguar nearly attempted a comeback with the C-X75, but pulled the plug before it could go into production. Bugatti would go on to make the *Veyron*, and has yet to make any sort of saloon car (outside of concept cars). McLaren's next car, as mentioned in the clip, would be a joint project with Mercedes-Benz that resulted in the SLR.
2:17 - Jeremy later changed his mind on the 8C, with him considering the eventual production car to be the "most beautiful car ever made", even asking during his review of the 8C if "a car could be art?" He even made a joke about the 8C Spider in a news segment as "just PURE pornography."
2:38 - Top Gear did not end with the three setting off in a big fireball. It also might be a very SUBTLE reference of Clarkson's last appearance on the original Top Gear, where Clarkson (and the then presenters) "exploded" in a big fireball, before cutting to a scene with the presenters all driving off into the distance in their favourite supercars. Clarkson left the show roughly a month later, at the start of 1999. Ironically enough, one of Clarkson's replacements was a short-haired James May, who presented for only a few months before being replaced himself.
2:53 - Despite Richard and James' comments about the Range Rover's poor reliability history, Jeremy's Range Rover ended up being the *most* reliable of the three cars in that special (according to Jeremy).
3:09 - The 4x4 was *not* the third biggest killer in 2020. *Nor do they come with health warnings plastered on the exterior.*
3:29 - James' Lotus had nearly *no* troubles whatsoever during the Patagonia special.
3:41 - Richard would lose control after the finish and crash his Rimac off the hill-climb track. *The only amateur footage available still sucks, by the way.*
4:13 - Poked fun at in the clip itself. *You can guess what happened.*
5:00 - Jeremy had already been dismissed from Top Gear by the time this episode had aired, due to the fracas incident. Though its probably no secret that by the end of his run, Clarkson was tired of Top Gear.
5:10 - Pagani has repeatedly made one-off Zondas since this episode, largely made by customer requests, as recent as 2019.
5:27 - More expensive (and faster) Porsches have been released since then. (Clarkson has also contradicted the "best looking" statement, saying he feels the 928 was the best looking Porsche.)
5:36 - Deliberately poked fun at in the clip itself.
6:31 - Volkswagen are currently the parent owners of Porsche.
6:41 - I ain't 100% on this clip, but my take is that due to the huge growth in Crossover vehicles, more and more customers are buying 4x4s and other similar crossover based vehicles. Its also been suggested that its a sense of irony as one of Clarkson's all time favourite vehicles is the Range Rover.
7:17 - Battery-powered electric cars have completely *EXPLODED* in popularity and sales, and with current projections, will likely continue to become more popular in the coming years. *Though I wish it were Hydrogen-powered cars instead.*
7:28 - There have been several cars since then that have gone around the track faster than the Ferrari Enzo (1:19.0), including the Veyron, which....
7:39 - The Veyron *DOES* exist, and *DOES* have 1,000 HP. *Also, "Very-on", lmao.*
9:03 - The C6, as James teased at, *flopped.* Citroen were expecting the car to sell around 20,000 per year. *23,384 C6s were sold in its entire run from 2006-2012.*
9:23 - The Mexican ambassador *DID* complain. Whoops.
9:45 - The United Kingdom would eventually leave the European Union, in what's since been coined "Brexit".
10:40 - Since this episode aired, Mercedes have won the Constructors' Championship every year since 2014, with Lewis Hamilton winning the Driver's Championship in each year (except for 2016, which was won by his then-teammate Nico Rosberg, and 2021, which was won by Red Bull driver Max Verstappen.) Also, West Ham are currently doing better than Manchester United in the current Premier League season.
11:34 - Under its Russian ownership, TVR became largely inactive due to falling demand and many of its staff members having been laid off. No new models were made during this period, with ownership of TVR eventually being sold to Les Edgar in 2013.
12:17 - Alfa Romeo would go on to make the 4C, with a Spider variant being released a couple years later. A true Spider successor hasn't been made as of 2021.
13:02 - Lamborghini would eventually go on to make the Urus, which is Lamborghini's equivalent to the Porsche Cayenne that Jeremy mentions in the clip. Ironically, the "Urus" name was trademarked just before the introduction of the Estoque, which is shown in the clip. Unfortunately, the Estoque did not go into production.
13:30 - Jaguar would eventually make a new project that would turn into a new F-Type, which did go into production.
13:48 - The Continental GT would later go on to be the sort of car that WAS, infact, Jeremy's "cup of tea".
14:05 - Jeremy would later go on to give the FN2 Civic Type-R a scathing review, concluding it as "absolutely hopeless".
14:17 - The Panamera is still in production to this day, and was even given a new chassis update in 2017.
14:26 - Lamborghini have made multiple models since this episode's airing that continue to house a V12 engine, such as the Veneno, Centenario, Sian, Essenza, and a revival of the Countach.
14:42 - The dog wasn't eaten.
15:06 - The i8 does not go like a 911, costed more than a 911, and was poorly received by much of the car community.
15:25 - Sadly for Ricciardo, Daniel has likely had plenty of time to look at the back of Lewis' car. Daniel however would get the last lap by posting the fastest ever time in the Suzuki Liana around the Top Gear Track (1:42.2 vs. Hamilton's 1:42.9)
15:47 - See above at 2:17.
16:01 - Ford WOULD go on to sell the V8-powered Mustang in Britain. Ironically enough, the Ecoboost powered model has since been discontinued in Britain.
16:58 - Poked fun at in the clip itself. Whilst the 9-5 shown in question would go on to enter production, Saab would eventually go bankrupt and dissolve in 2012.
18:07 - (As a non-Brit, I'm not familiar with British politics.) Pretty sure that people are still using their cars just as often as they had before, if not perhaps more often. (Its also been suggested that the first half of the clip could be unknowingly referring to restrictions that would later become imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with everything being shut down alongside the strictly-imposed curfews.) The "left-wing dictatorship" rant has also been suggested as having aged like vinegar, with many of the imposed bits that Clarkson rants about actually being implemented by the Tories, who are considered as being "centre-right".
19:09 - Top Gear would eventually reveal the 3-door production model Astra in a later series, and Jeremy WOULD end up eating his hair.
19:43 - Hammond went out of his way to drive a right-hand-drive Mustang as soon as he was able to in an episode of The Grand Tour, clearly showing how excited he was.
20:14 - Kristin Scott Thomas was used for a number of the years as the "test" for where a car would rank on the Cool Wall. As shown in the clip, Kristin's opinions on the cars shown directly contradicted Jeremy's, rendering the Cool Wall irrelevant. (The segment would still be used a few more times throughout the show, however the Kristin Scott Thomas test would never be referred to again.)
21:17 - The United States Grand Prix returned in 2012 at the Circuit of the Americas, where its ran every year since (except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Unfortunately for Jeremy however, there are no sprinklers, there's still steward inquiries, penalties, and no-one slugs it out at the podium. Its also been suggested that it could be in relation to the eventual purchase of Formula 1 by American media giant "Liberty Media" in 2017, which in turn caused a huge upgrowth in popularity for the sport.
21:50 - They didn't kick a couple of barn owls to death for fun. They even jokingly made an apology the following episode in regards to the comment.
*If I am missing anything, please let me know!*
5:27 still thinks Porsche 928 is the best looking Porsche
11:34 aged well because kalashnikov made their own car
13:48 said continental gt wasnt his cup of tea but eventually became one of his favourite car
@@Mustang150y 11:34 - The Sagaris was already being worked on just prior to Smolenski picking up ownership of TVR, they were the ones that got it out into production however.
18:07 - likely referring to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and it shutting down everything alongside the strictly-imposed curfews
18:07 is defenitely NOT about Covid-19, since that episode has aired long before the entire pandemic
21:17 actually it could refer to Libety Media (an American media giant) purchasing Formula 1 in 2017. Since then the sport has exploded in popularity in recent years and shows no signs of slowing down. Although yes, the steward inquiries, penalties, and prim and proper podium ceremonies still remain.
9:01 Jeremy: “the Bugatti Veyron will never exist.”
Bugatti: **didnt give them a veyron to test with when it came out**
bugatti VERION
@@augustyng VERYON***
How wrong he was
@@tomazikov He was right! Bugatti VeRYon doesn't exist.
@@shakul12 if you realy think that your have been and are living in denial beacase veyron did and stil does exist and also haves a sucesor (Chiron). Have a nice day and checking google or some TH-cam videos wouldnt go a miss to properly proof my point 😉
5:16 "Bye Bye Zonda"
*Pagani launch the brand new zonda special edition for the 500th time*
the zonda is similar to skyrim if you know what i mean
@@rishavganguly92 Or the Porsche 911
Why can't people accept that no knew it would happen back then? People can't foreshadow the future.
@@automation7295 nobody expects them to it’s just funny lol
@@ChrisVillagomez Porsche did 9/11
Funny watching Jeremy critique Hamilton’s move to Mercedes 😂
Yeah it wasn't just him, pretty much everyone back in 2012 thought Lewis was utterly stupid to leave a proven title winning team (McLaren) for the best-of-the-rest midfielder Mercedes.
Now Mercedes are your only option if you ever want to win titles.
@@rodracer4567 agree with part of that, Mercedes won’t be at the top forever, the reason they are in a close title fight with redbull is because they are focusing on getting the foundations of next years car correct
@@motocrazy2012 that's why im worried about next year... merc is gonna show up with a spaceship and we're gonna be back at square 1 again
Yup, luckiest driver move ever imo. Merc shot up to being the best team and Mclaren started making black and red painted tractors instead of racecars shortly after Sir moved
@@acreativename7999 At least they're on the up again
Hammond’s accidents are like self-fulfilling prophecies, he knows it’ll be bad but does it anyways
Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 nah
*foreshadowing*
@@alunesh12345 no thanks
@@alunesh12345 yeah but the automotive gods don't want to see Hammond go out they want to keep him alive for the rest of us
"When will Top Gear end"
"About 5 minutes after us three have set off"
*OOF*
Well thats where it died
It didnt end
But thats when it died and lost its soul
Its now just a zombie
Mumei and Top Gear? One of my people I see
He's not wrong
Is Top Gear still on? I watched the season with Matt LeBlanc but I haven’t bothered to turn on BBC America to see for myself.
Top Gear without these blokes is like the Indy 500 when the CART contingent were uninvited. Still a big property, but not at all the same.
5:00 "I hate working on top gear!" THAT aged so perfectly poor and well.
Why did he leave anyway?
@@DimitriMoreira He punched a producer and got fired XD
I think that may have been dubbed over as a bit of a joke cuz it never shows the words coming out of his mouth. Ik it has the sound but it may be fake, idk prove me wrong
That was from the last episode aswell where he was absent from presenting. By then he had enough as said in an interview.
@@Kalenz1234
Naa, Jezza wasn't "fired".
The universe just does the opposite of whatever Jeremy says…
Jeremy:- Grand tour will soon die.
I will actually prefer universe doing the opposite
so then global warming is irrefutable i guess
I read Jennifer
He's just that silly. He argues wit people much smarter than him and then surprise surprise.
except for SAAB : (
The pre-Rimac run pressure still makes me cringe 🤣
That was epic 😨🥺
I laughed maybe too much along with every time they mention it in gt
in 52 seconds you'll be whatever the equivalent of Hero of the Soviet Union is, but in modern-day Croatia.
Knowing what happens to Richard it’s both hilarious and cringe aff😭😂😂
@@bonafidesmooth Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
i mean jezza was technically correct, the bugatti "veryon" never existed...
I literally read that as "pizza was correct" and I nodded.
Why?
@@dragospahontu it's the Bugatti Veyron, not the Veryon.
@@adrielsebastian5216 aahgg
@@Marauder1981 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
Watching back Hammond's clip about "the biggest accident" just before crashing that dragster is so chilling to watch. So glad he was okay afterwards
The Hamilton move from McLaren to Mercedes was one of the best decisions of his life, full stop. Rolled the dice and best choice ever.
It came out a couple of years ago that Mercedes spent seven hundred million euro developing the engine for the then new rules. That was just the engine, not the rest of the car. They told Lewis that and that influenced his decision.
@@karlbassett8485 yup, I saw that too. Still, he had to trust that no one else had done the same.
And as it came to be, 8 of the most boring years for me as a fan for the constructors. Had this year been another rout, I might have stopped F1 for a bit. Not since Schumacher at Ferrari had I been so emphatically bored. And I don't need manufactured drama, I just hate 1 team dominance in any sport.
@@karlbassett8485 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 So you're saying someone could be a good person and do good but if they don't worship god they won't go to heaven? Doesn't that make god a bit of a dick? That he would look at someone and say "okay you're a good person but you didn't kiss my ass so you're going to hell"? Why would I WANT to worship someone who thinks like that?
Well.. ya kinda are saying you want manufactured frame just to get the encumbents out - don’t hate the player hate the game, it ;(was) inherent in the rules and prize fund structure to continually reward the top team, accidentally ensuring long periods of dominance (we normally see several years of single team dominance in waves around large packages of redesign)
My personal favorite "aged like milk" bit was Jeremy trying to stop Chinese Stig fron attacking the production crew.
4:28 is brilliant
hammond: "...I've got 10k horsepower...and possibly the biggest accident youve ever seen in your life."
future hammond: 😬
That was probably, no exaggeration, one of the most poorly times things ever said by anyone.
@@magiclapras Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 No one goes to heaven by being good? That sounds kinda stupid. So if I was a serial killer but believed in Jesus I would get to go to heaven whereas someone who lived their whole life being charitable but was an atheist would be denied heaven and forced to go to heck.
Future Hammond 😬🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🥴
@@PhilOsGarage Should not have laughed. I laughed anyway.
What's upsetting most about the Argentina attack was: they went out of their way to avoid making jokes at the expense of Argentinans, let alone the fact that the whole point of the trip was to mend relationships.
Most of their other trips, they spend a good amount of time cracking jokes at the country their visiting's expense, but that time exclusively they avoided doing so... And they get attacked.
And let us not forget that it was all because of a license plate, that according to them referenced a war that they started, because they thought that the Falklands belonged to them even though they have never owned them
It’s a war they bloody started and them trying to have some moral outrage is laughable.
The sad thing is there was quiet literally nothing that Jeremy and the then top gear crew could do about the number plate since it was pre registered.
@@xyroah If that happened here in the U.S., you could just get a different plate for a small fee🤷🏼♂️
When you register a vehicle here, you're asked if you have a plate for said vehicle. If you say "yes", you pay for whatever services were rendered, and off ya go. If you say "no", they provide you with a brand new one, you pay for it and whatever services were rendered, and off ya go.
@@Jeff.78 a member of the production team had arranged an alternative, but the number plate number was a coincidence
Top Gear will never be the same.
I haven't even watched since the left.
The chemistry between them is palpable and unmatched
I love how Jeremy went from judging the LFA to loving it
19:22
That section is missing a third clip where Jeremy has to eat his own hair. In the original (around 14:20) is that they said it was the 3 door Astra, then showed the 5 door. There's a third clip where they reveal the 3-door and jeremy does eat his hair. EXTREMELY ironic that he complaints about the temperature of the food there.
Yes I remember that
That was the point of the 19:22 clip, it aged badly because Jeremy actually eats his hair
@@DeanMoxley87 Believe in JESUS today, confess and repent of your sins. No one goes to heaven for doing good but by believing in JESUS who died for our sins. GOD loves you soo much unconditionally.🤩❤🤗
@@alunesh12345 Look man, I'm Christian, but seriously stop spamming this shit.
@@alunesh12345 So, with that logic, if I work 60 hours a week to provide my family a comfortable quality of life, donate my stock market profits to charity, volunteer at my local soup kitchen, and also help my veterinarian friend, but don't believe in Jesus, I go to hell???
Perhaps I'll become an addict, leave my family, kick puppies, and spit on old ladies, but I'll convert and believe in Jesus. That's how I get to heaven???
There's nothing that can replace these 3. They are like brothers who gets on everyone's nerves but they love each other and what's more I love these guys when they are on our screens. ❤️✌️
They all went through phases of hating or being annoyed by the one or both of the others and/or just seeing it as a job. Shortly after his second divorce, Clarkson started to profusely disliked May and felt very resentful about having to come in. Obviously, after his accidents, they came together to support Hammond.
If you watch the show, you can tell by how they're speaking to each other, the camera, and any guests as to whether they're annoyed.
1:46 I don't care about the details of the deal, he's Jennifer now.
He said around our track
@@houssamalucad753 Yup a shootout which never happened. It happened at the Eboladrome
@@rodracer4567 No they did it in the Algarve International Circuit
He's Jennifer and his house got blown up! Talk about a deal!
@@kaidanardono2691 Oh right lol
21:18 That prediction for F1 was spot on, seeing how the 2021 season ended
nah, Lewis was robbed... bad call by Massi
@@isrcinimatic587 Robbed of the race, but he lost the championship at his own mistakes
@@Zarzar22 nah, Baku was thanks to a badly placed button... Brazil was bad luck (he could have gained up to 3 more points in the sprint)...
@@Zarzar22 remember Belgian GP? The entire argument of Max being ahead in terms of wins was because he was given one by the FIA.
In general they seem to be making F1 more accessible to the americans by turning it into WWE on wheels.
@Bilal Khalid yes, but F1 has a grip around the FIA, if they choose to leave it's over... So when they told Masi that they wanted an exciting finish... so....
18:05 it's so sad how this became reality for so many people. Makes think why most people seemed okay with it and didn't question when it happened.
What are people supposed to do against a rising cost of living and the power of monopolistic capitalism?
@@timothydraper3687 power of EU regulations
It’s not fault of capitalism
@@jarekso11 So how come live is more expensive after Brexit?
@@timothydraper3687 UK have its own regulations also but still living in EU is much more expensive than in UK
@@jarekso11 Prove the UK is less expensive than the EU, that the cost of living is cheaper here.
i love how jeremy goes "i just dont understand how this car is 340k" about the lfa.... then calls it the best car hes ever driven when he does
I think that was everyone's opinion of it, absolutely incredible machine but too expensive for anyone to consider buying it
340k was a bargain you'd be lucky to find one under a million USD now.
shows you how spectacularly off the mark hammond was with his review. He completely failed to realise what he was driving lol
@@Hello_there_obiit's not that great of a car. Just rare
@@bbbbbbb51 jeremy clarkson thought it was the best car in the world and so did the stig. They both know a thing or two about cars. They certainly know a damn sight more than you
The fact you said that without even mentioning the engine makes me think you’re either stupid or a troll
2:06 “Bugatti is now owned by Volkswagen and are planning to make big saloons like this”
What Bugatti actually makes: FASTEST ROAD LEGAL CAR IN THE WORLD
No. They make the biggest fastest road legal car. (Tho not anymore)
@@Fujiwara.Takumi1 What is the fastest road legal car then?
@@oliverchilds9453 prius aqua
@@oliverchilds9453 keonigsegg agera rs 1 i think. maybe the keonigsegg jesko tho not sure
@@beningram-eiser6121 officially, the Agera RS, theoretically it's the Jesko
5:04 that episode aired after Jeremy leave top gear (last episode), that was the greatest bombshell.
Rumour is that line was added in post though, dubbed into the editing.
It does sound pretty dubbed
If I’m not wrong in that moment Jeremy have already punched a producer so he just didn’t care anymore
Guys what episode is this from
It makes me so sad sometimes how concepts that look so cool end up never being made in favor of some bogged down version that barely resembles it. It makes me even sadder than when companies just completely axe them, because then at least you've gone the honorable route of not making it at all rather than releasing something disappointing. Perhaps the saddest one of all was the new supra compared to the FT-1 concept that it started off as. What a beautiful concept that was, and what a shame that we'll never actually get those on the road due to reasons that were largely not even Toyota's fault
What makes me sad is companies that have no intention of making it a production car but just make it anyway to show what they could do, and then go on to release boring economy car after boring economy car.
It sucks, but at the same time it’s hard to blame them when the concept cars - cool as they are - simply couldn’t be made cost-effectively and/or wouldn’t sell well enough to justify the production line. It’s what usually happens to radical car designs that actually do see production; they tend to be slow-selling novelties.
11:17 So 10 years ago they had won 182 races... and today they've won 183 so far... Daniel Ricciardo in Monza, Italy 3 months ago...
😂
How about now
@@dominicbeltz9057how about now?
“But it won’t be” “But it might be”. Ready for a compilation.
Well May was right about the Citroen C6, Citroen expected to sell 20,000 a year they sold 23,000 in it's 7 years of production.
That's about 22,999 more than they ought to've sold.
@@JamaicanCastleBullshit. Most comfortable car I have ever been in
"it's a car that never will exist"
Jeremy, talking about the very real Bugatti veyron
4:31 for those, who don't know what this is all about: Hammond really got a serious accident in that dragster and a lot of recovery in the next couple of months.
Who watching this video wouldn’t have known that
@@vaughnsigal4560 Cocks
@@vaughnsigal4560 me 🙂
@@Kirito_2016 weirdo
@@vaughnsigal4560 who was unaware that Hammond crashed?
The Stalin comparison is worryingly apt today 👀
Bang on!
Totally.
Green dictators. They sell us the future but they smell of past, a dark past.
What an educated observation, imagine being let back out again and only being closed down in the first place because of a VIRUS by your CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING government...-_-
Someone needs to do more research on Stalin 🙄
3:51 he kinda accomplished the mission there, not quite in the way they were planning. But none the less Rimac is now big time, so job well done hamster
I love how at 7:00, even though he looks (relatively) young, it's still on the same property as the farm he currently lives and farms.
Except that house isn't there anymore 🙃
So he always lived on this farm but only recently started farming on it?
@@marcoprins4880 L comment
@@marcoprins4880 That's not a farm. That was Jeremy's house that was blew up on The Grand Tour. Jeremy would get the farm around 2008
He punched the producer for his fans
2:49
It didn't happen
@404 TV Clarkson didn't punch anyone
@@Nickoboss29your right, he assaulted a producer.
The whole conversation at 18:07 is incredibly meta considering the state of the world since early 2020, they're literally following the playbook step by step
That’s the comment I was looking for .. so true !
It is
They also destroyed the farmers, which they are doing too now.
Increase censoring, check
Polarise societies, check
etc
"wear a cloth on your face to help stop the spread of a deadly disease"
braindead commenters: "omg this is literally like the most murderous regime in human history"
@@ohutchie Fat divorced middle aged american men, Everywhere in this side of youtube
Tyranny has always operated like this. It just helps when world governments can scare people into doing their bidding instead of thinking for themselves.
3:29 hearing the WEF being mentioned in an old top gear was one of the most jarring things I've hear in a long time
I'm not easily amused but James swtiching back and forth between past and present tenses was pure gold.
3:56 Hammond nearly became a martyr lol.
I want to start a petition that tells drivetribe to show JC, RH and JM this video and record their reactions 😂😂
1:21
15:25
Jeremy: "We got some Formula 1 Fans here, does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask Daniel Ricciardo?"
Some Random Fan: "What does the back of Lewis' car look like?"
Daniel: "Like this! "🖕
18:27 the foreshadowing of this is amazing
Yh it really is
I don’t live in the UK so I don’t get the foreshadowing, unless this is a reference to COVID
@@pokemaster123ism France as well
@@pokemaster123ism Never let a good crisis go to waste. -Rahm Emmanuel
The Irony of including 14:10, which despite JC not liking it later on at road test, his initial impressions were right. It does drive really well. The reason it didn't sell as well as it should have was because of his review reinforcing the public dismay that it didn't have lots more power than the outgoing EP3.
Na, it really doesn’t. Especially not when compared with what came before or after but imo they weren’t/aren’t great either
@@alanhillyard1639 what’s funny, is that out here in the states, the 8th generation Honda Civic was a smash hit. The Si was praised for its fun-to-drive handling.
I thought this was absolutely ugly, still do, even if it's a better drive. Why I'll never own a Panamera😁
Car journalists throughout the UK put the type r over cooper s, focus st and golf gti at that time. In the end it didn't age well
Absolutely love this because you actually have to know what else happened for this to be as good as it is
This video just goes to prove the point that none of the presenters on top gear had the faintest idea what they were talking about, and that the real content of the show was the chemistry and comedy between the three.
Exactly, at least 3/4 of the time they were just taking the piss and going for what'd make people laugh or taking jabs at each other. It was lovely while it lasted, ever since a coworker introduced me to these three I've enjoyed it to no end.
@@MrEvan312 Well the Falklands one is true. I showed my Uncle who was in the Royal Marines (he didn't fight in the war but has been to the island) this video and he burst out laughing.
That’s why they call em “shows”
Starting on Jeremy being straight faced and trying not to spark fury and then cutting to the Falklands plate still has me in stitches 0:03
@0:50 - Jeremy: I just don't understand this car
Many months later... Jeremy: This is the greatest car in the world and I love it!
4:05
“You will be on a coin”
“You will be on a stamp”
30 minutes later,
“You’ll be on an air ambulance..”
Three guys, best show in the world & sooo lucky to still be a trio. 👏
"I don't understand this car"
Proceeds to become his favorite car of all time
The F40 on the left at 7:32 once passed me on the A1 coming out of London. It was weaving in and out of the traffic, but in such a clean and professional way that I did not mind. I thought that at least it was being driven by someone who knew what they were doing. Someone told me later that it belonged to Nigel Mansell...
1:00 Technically he is right, that’s not the ‘S-type’ that is the XF. They didn’t name it the S-type even though it is basically the replacement for the S-type.
Also it didn't come out exactly like the picture, really close considering it was a concept promo, but not exactly.
@@volundrfrey896 exactly
How exciting!
18:20 wow, they wouldn't really have thought that this would happen
Yep. WW3 is being contested .. although the people are busy taking selfies and 'waiting for things to get back to normal'
And they're fully on board with it now.
Depressing how far I had to scroll to find this comment
@@JellyMyst because they didn't think it would be so bad
Where are the badly aged moments? This is gold!
1:14 That ended up being the Jaaaag XF, didn't it?
yes
XJ I think
@@SecretAsian27 both tbf, the xf is just a bit bigger
im thinking of the XE, screw jag and their identical names
2:32 Jeremy calls the 8C hideous yet praises it’s looks in the review
I've never seen a man be such a contrarian to himself
@@jammeslive4050 it looks different in real life
Back in 2004, Jeremy said that in 20 years, we'll have road cars capable of F1 performance. Well, we now have the Aston Martin Valkyrie and the Mercedes AMG-One, so that was right.
The LFA was massively overpriced. But it was priced that way because of the small production numbers relative to the development cost. It was also reasonably cool, It never looked outstanding just good.
...And then the hype hit.
One just sold for like 1.5 million USD
LFA MSRP $388,000 quarter mile 11.7 secs
GTR MSRP $80,000 quarter mile 11.3 secs
No justification there
@@fngsoap1023 not always about speed. Its about brilliant minds coming together to make a masterpiece. The e46 M3 is the 3rd slowest M3, yet its widely regarded as the best M3
@@AvidUTuber It wouldn't have been overpriced had Toyota not scrapped the aluminum for carbon fiber and used that from the beginning 🤔
Edit: I still want one, like Clarkson drove, in blue.
@@Jeff.78 True, and that was only one of many setbacks. However, I'd still refrain from calling a car that EVERY UNIT SOLD "overpriced." I know people who would give their ferrari collection to get their hands on an LFA. And prices are still going up !
Oof that Saab part at 17:15 hurt haha
18:30 Jeremy makes the best call of anyone in the last 100 years.
The Saab clip at 17:00 was amazing, never seen it before.
1:14 I‘ve never realised that Clarkson is wearing a prothese on his leg and wasn‘t able to kill himself.
Jennifer Clarkson
Fact
18:27 welp, he sure hit the nail on the head with that one
"Lots of trouble, usually serious" 😂😂
Didn't that car end up having the least trouble out of the three cars in that special?
@@noahcheckman8542 IIRC, you're correct. It's rather shocking that such a low-to-the-ground car managed to hold up so well despite the off-road adventures to which they subjected those cars.
Of the three brands (Lotus, Ford, and Porsche), I think Ford has the best reputation for reliability, but Hammond's Mustang probably wasn't looked after very well by its previous owner(s).
That was being said when I was a lad and I'm coming up for 70!
“When will top gear end “ - the day these blokes walked off the show, never been close to this good since 🥺
I think this is one of the best top gear compilations ever 🤣🤣
James' bit about the Saab was pure gold 🤣
Bye Bye Zonda aging poorly is even funnier when you find this video three years after it was posted and they’re STILL advertising the final Zonda
9:47 Yeah that aged brilliantly.
17:00 The Saab news was/is for me (maybe) the best commentary I've ever seen or I'll see in the whole Top Gear/Grand Tour series.
10:50 wow did that not age well
you just pulled the big guns on that
I don't understand
@@omalleycaboose5937 West Ham is a bad team and Manchester United is a good one. He used that analogy to say Mercedes is bad... Lewis won 6 world championships as of 2021
@@hunnt825 hey West Ham went top of the league!
@George Saddington I don't understand pls explain
Hahaha.... Top Gear’s presenters irony coming back to bite them in the behind. Hilarious. 😂 Thank you for this great video!
10:50 it makes me so sad but that's how it is. Alonso went to the worst possible car and Lewis managed to have a sit in the what would later be the most dominant car in f1 history
18:36 Literally Australia right now... all three things. Incredible.
Literally every country in the world for the past year and a half.
@@NatiiixLP Australia is the worst though. One of the worst at least. State of Victoria actually had a genuine curfew last year! Sydney right now had the ACTUAL MILITARY walking the streets to make sure citizens are doing ad they're told. Hitler would be proud, honestly.
@@thfreakinacage Yes, Hitler would be proud... Of your stupidity. Because that's simply not true.
Signed, someone who just fucking went to the CBD.
@@somerandomgamer8504 It seems you're not disagreeing with the timestamp in the video then, but only have a problem with the Hitler joke. Firstly, grow up, it's a joke, get over it. Secondly, it's funny how so many people are quick to use the term "nazi" against people they don't like for whatever reason, no need to go into that, yet have a problem with for example me using their exact logic for a joke here?
Tell you want, we don't have a problem here if you can admit that anybody online calling someone a nazi, for any reason, is just as stupid.
@@thfreakinacage But why did you assume he was one of those peope though ? Also ironically the same people calling governements nazis for inticing taking the vaccine are walking row in row with the actual neo-nazis. Also, enforcement came after riots and vandalization. Murder is also not doing as you're told so the government are nazis for prohibiting it lol.
The Hamilton Mercedes take is hilarious has anything ever aged so badly.
16:02
Id say that aged pretty well, I've seen plenty of mustangs now in the UK, but I can't recall seeing one that didn't have a little 5.0 badge on the wing.
Yeah...you can get stickers for that. Like the people who get a BMW 1 series and stick an aftermarket M badge on it.
@@pandamilkshake Nah, I think it's the "fast ford" mentality that strikes deep into every Essex man.
I'll say a lot of shit about my fellow countypeople, but they do love they Fau'ddz - moreso if they have an ST or GT badge on them.
4:23 that’s the bit where Hammond nearly lost his life in the dragster that would have killed him
10:33 was rather prophetic
21:20 We tried, Jeremy, ooooh lord we tried, that was the one time a tire war almost gave us something good
Hammond crashing the dragster was the turning point where Top Gear became the biggest show in the world. Hammond crashing the Rimac was the turning point where the company became extremely successful.
So... to be sucessfull you just need Hammond crashing something
Rimac was Grand Tour
*said with adenoids*
Hammond on top gear: "Once a mustang becomes right hand drive it's like it's trying too hard"
Hammond on the Grand Tour: * excitingly welcomes the first mustang in England *
This is great for those who are in the know but having either a news panel or clip of the punchline would have made this even funnier
I really love that you need the context to understand most of it. Thanks for not making it obvious. ❤
"You'll be on a coin."
On a stretcher, more like.
12:37)) Is that a llama in the background?!
"battery-powered electric cars will soon die altogether"
Oof. This line hits worse every year🤣
I think this prophecy is still not yet done
James is always right, and electric cars are still young
Battery cars didn't die.
One did exploded, though.
@@silvy3047 Even if battery-powered cars die, it won't be hydrogen that replaces them. Godawful material with no redeeming properties to speak of.
18:30
One of Clarkson's predictions coming true for once.
Ironically enough, implemented by the center-right government...
@@the_tactician9858 how left was the political scene at the time for that to be considered center-right? Honest question I'm not from Britain.
@@daackmpoy I was more talking about the COVID restrictions limiting travel and, at least in my country, giving curfews. These were implemented by the center-right conservatives/liberalists.
In the 00's the conservatives weren't too different from how they are now, only perhaps a bit more eurosceptical. It is just ironic how a seemingly minor disease can make a center-right government 'follow the leftist dictator handbook'. Desperate times and what not.
@@daackmpoy Basically Oberlin.
2:58 | Well-aged
I immediately thought of Richard explaining oversteer and understeer in the 'science corner'.
Ah yes the Bugatti Very-On
Bugatti Not Very-on
Don’t know how you found all these moments but well done. I’d love to see poorly aged moments about more things other than top gear.
"You will be on a coin, or a stamp.."
...or a fire extinguisher 😂
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Missed Jeremy after driving the Bugatti Veyron saying he will never experience that kind of power again. Now you can experience that type of power in an electric 4 door saloon (although without the top speed).
So not really the same thing is it then?
*Veryon
So you cant experience that same kind of power again?
brilliant stuff from both angles, for me as you touched on we need a corberan, carrick type hire similar to what stoke have just done and build. We’d be happy with midtable but just to enjoy the football more
Clarkson in the studio: Alfa is not great.
Clarkson when driving one: Gorgeous
Magnificent
Eyewatering
Exquisite
Staggering
*I WANT ONE REALLY BAD*
Because when hes not driving one he remembers how terrible they are
But when he drives one, he realizes he doesnt care. He loves them, warts and all
Watching this in 24 and still remember watching everyone one of these episodes 😂
18:28 Aged like a fine wine
Television will never be as good as this now they have stopped working together.
6:31 Yes and no? The acquisition was weird - initially, it was Porsche that was going to buy VW, but then the heads of Porsche managed to convince the Qatar Investment Authority to lend money to VW instead of Porsche so that they could be bought out by them, on the condition that the heads of Porsche got into high-ranking positions at VW, screwing over a lot of short-sellers that were planning on making bank on VW's crisis in the late 2000s and came out as this odd merger.
the squeeze was fuckin legendary