The spot where Clarkson swaps the old hoover for the dyson is so late 90's. I remember when my mum got one. It changed the colour of the carpets in the house the first time we went round with it. I've never seen so much dust in my life. Twas one hell of an era.
@@derekheeps1244 Never even heard of them. Hard to think the Dyson (for all their problems) has ever been beaten when it comes to its ability to extract dust from carpets. They have monster suction and they beat the bits out of the carpet fibres at the same time.
@@derekheeps1244 lmao werent they like a grand I remember a kirby salesman in our house demonstrating the kirby and what it could do a few phone calls to his general manager area manager and several incentives the kirby came in at a cool 250 quid rofl and after that he gave up
Despite all negative behaviours and comments I still think Clarkson has completelly no match in auto-program's field. You can just feel he's passionate about automotive and the way he presents causes that even people who aren't that much into cars could easily enjoy this. I have just watched trailers of the new Top Gear and although I wish all the best to the new presenters, for me there is only 1 king of this industry. I hope Clarkson along with May and Hammond will keep providing us with top class automotive programs like this pearl.
That was the problem. His passion for all things deemed ungreen was his undoing. Now if Clarkson had raved about Venezuelan great-tits and the lesser-spotted Japanese knee-trembler on the edge of extinction, he'd have been knighted long ago.
He's actually done some seriously good non-automotive documentaries too. Jeremy Clarkson - Inventions That Changed The World Jeremy Clarkson's The Victoria Cross: For Valour Jeremy Clarkson's the Greatest Raid of All And he did a great on on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, recommended if you can find a version of youtube which hasn't had the sound mangled, lost half the program missing...
Have to say Clarkson is the WORLDS BEST motorcar presenter, journalist, whatever you want to call it, so nice to see and hear him instead of all the TH-cam wannabees presenters with their unimpressive videos..
One group of motorsport competitors and enthusiasts will remember the RS200 very well - most of them ended up in Rallycross, as did many of the Metro 6R4s.
I was lucky enough to see two RS200's on the road as a kid and chased after one to catch it at the traffic lights for a better look. Feel very privileged to have seen road versions.
Haven't seen this before. What a nice piece of work by Clarkson with some real heart in it. Loved the music as well as the cars. And the Golf v Escort pub debate was hilarious.
god I miss those days, Escort Xr3I and RS turbo, Peugeot 205 1.6 and 1.9 GTI, Renault 5 GT Turbo, Golf GTI, Fiat Uno Turbo, hell even the Citroen AX GT was fun as hell/
@7:16 I just love watching these two blokes in the pub top trumping each other like little kids! Reminds me of all the car conversations I had with my friends back when I was going to school! 😜😂🤣
Ah yes the good old 80's. Spent many enjoyable hours reading countess car magazines trying to decide Golf Gti, Peugeot 205Gti or Ford XR3i. Went for a Mk II Golf GTi 8v eventually and several years later also had a Peugeot 205 Gti. Still have a Mk II Golf Gti 8v. There was something about them that I just love and can't be without one in my car fleet.
My family had a Peugeot dealership back in the hay day of the 205 GTi. Got to drive them and a fantastic car it was. Shame they’re not seen on the road these days.
I’ve watched this more times than I’m comfortable admitting and i can’t help but highlight one thing: why did we blame the car when the spectator safety regulations were far and away a more pressing issue......?
Exactly. The crash happened because of idiotic spectators blocking the road and this wasn't an uncommon occurrence. I'm just shocked it didn't happen sooner. Not the fault of Ford or Santos but rather the fault of event organisers for poor crowd management and ultimately the fault of the idiots standing in a place which should have only been occupied by rally cars. Also, Clarkson made out that the RS200 crash ended Group B but the classification was axed in May after the crash of Toivonen and Cresto's S4 and their untimely deaths at Corsica.
Because unfortunately the cars were blamed by a media that have no interest in rallying until something goes wrong. Rally fans know the cars weren't the real issue.
@@skylined5534 well I think Group B's days were numbered anyway after the Portugal crash and I wouldn't have been surprised if FISA (the FIA at the time) were looking for an excuse to end it anyway. Then of course Toivonen's crash happened and they sadly had a perfect one. I do still think the cars played a part though. I think Toivonen in an interview in that Corsica rally said that the cars were so fast the drivers were struggling to keep up with them. "I mean, this is crazy!" Röhl and I think Vatanen also said that given how fast the cars were and how Insane the crowds were an accident like the one in Portugal was pretty much inevitable
Like the above comment mentioned, I'm surprised that something like what happened in Portugal hadn't occurred before that. Crowd safety for Group B was non existent. Some of the more rowdy spectators would even try and touch the cars as they were speeding past. Toivonen's fatal crash in Corsica just finished it off. It gave Balestre the perfect reason to say enough is enough.
Owned a 1986 Golf GTI when but a 19 year old GI in Germany (1988). Worth every penny the insurance sucked out of my meager paycheck. Still love the memory of that car!!!
All hot hatches now are boring, these cars are so much fun, the mk1 gti, 205 gti and the cosworth. Manufacturers now think that a hot hatch needs to have 250 bhp minimum and clever front suspension to accommodate. Lightness is key and a hot hatch should have no more than 200 bhp if it's front wheel drive!!! the last really great hot hatch was the civic type r EP3
Sam Power Agreed, manufacturers have become obsessed with NCAP ratings and kitting out every single car with countless unnecessary toys, so we're left with the bloated, overly-heavy, too-tall homogenous mediocrity that's everywhere now.
Hot hatches need to be simple, light, be very similar to the stock car, and be decently quick. Look at earlier Peugeot's, e.g the 205/106 GTi, absolutely fabulous cars and such amazing fun to drive.
Sorry, no. It's based on the Chevette, a car "designed" and "developed" in Detroit. My first wife had an '80 and I worked on it myself. A lot. Vauxhall and Opel and Holden (and SAAB for a while) are not the same company. They are owned by the same company. Big difference. It's like saying Jaguar and Volvo were the same company in the 2000s. They weren't.
first cars i had in the late 80's was an Opel Ascona 2.0 followed by a mk2 capri 3.0s. never really got into the hot hatch thing closest i got was prob a honda prelude or a rover 220gti, which was a lot better than i expected.
nexgenhippy the closest I got to a hot hatch was a 1989 Honda CRX-si I got for free (sort of. It was repayment of money I gave to my father to buy his truck which he had sold out from under me when some else offered him more money then I could give) when I was 16. I hated it. It was to low to the ground and I didn’t really fit in it. I traded it for an 1989 Mazda 929 (what a pos). Less then a year later I got a 1973 AMC Javelin/Amx (which I still own 20 years later) and never looked back, though I did have a 1989 Shelby Daytona Turbo that I learned to drive stick on (miss that car and the only turbo car I have ever owned).
Halcyon days. Don’t think we’ll ever see these types of fabulous cars again. And we surely won’t get as excited about cars as we did in the 80’s and 90’s. Kids today just want an Uber……or an electric scooter. Bleuch.
'89 GTi 1.8 16v jetronic and '90 GLi 2.0 16v motronic would have to be the two cars that I have owned that were beyond fun to drive...... I miss both very much. Sold the GTi to buy my 2001 GTi 1.8t and sold the '90 GLi to buy my 1999 Audi A4 1.8t Quattro. Now the 2001 GTi was ok, but the '99 A4 was phenomenal! But those MKII's were still better. Easy, simple, fast and cheap to make fast.
+Adrizz5447 Try a MK1 MR2 dude, try it, it's SO much better. I bought mine off of a friend of mine who had bought a MK2 GTI in stead of it, something he regretted ever since.
The Volkswagen Golf is the most important car ever made I would say the handling is just something else, even the cars that are based on the golf like the Seat Leon it feels like the steering wheel is connected to your brain…
I had the pleasure of using a Rover Montego perkins diesel saloon fitted with a extra button instead of a blank for a wash wiper it didn't have for a year, they tried to steal it a few times without success lol, it was the fuel pump cut out button left flush with the other buttons when parked.
Before Go Pro was the hand held camera. Over bonnet shot of the "Cossie" brill. I've owned 3 Golf GTI and 1 Peugeot 205 1.8 GTI they cost under 3000 quid. great times.
I should just point out that the Escort Cosworth and RS2000 were solely designed by Ford's European division, so they technically aren't American cars at all.
toypop the Escort Cosworth was sold in the us as the Merkur XR-ti but as an up market touring car (expensive) and in limited quantities (imported from Germany). It was only in RWD. It sold poorly and only lasted a few years in the US. They are now rare (but not very desirable or collectible) and you never see them on the road. The only places I’ve ever seen one was at a car show and junkyard (and I’ve seen more in the junkyard).
Not much love for the Sunny GTI-R from Clarkson here. A brief look for a few seconds for what is probably the second best Hot hatch that generation. If he didn't love the R34 GTR as much as I do, I would swear he hates foreign cars. (No I don't work for Nissan)
Loved my MKI GTI, but I'd take a Mazda 323 GTX over any 1980s GTI German or French! 140hp vs 90hp and AWD. It was the WRX of it's day but sadly we only got 1200 or so in the states.
Thats true airscholar and it shows in their dealerships.andrew x good point there man,especially since those cars are gems but if ford had brought the escort cosworth over when it came out then it wouldve been my first car without a doubt.
Every time I start thinking that an adult owned, stock 88-91 si would be a sweetie of a daily, I then think of turboing it, then think a lowered 2wd xj Cherokee would be more fun, then fall to the fox. I like my e36 coupe, but the next beater has to be a fox.
Matthew Bush I had an 89 CRX-Si in December of 1999 (I was 16). I hated it (too low to the ground, I barely fit in it at 6’2”) even though I kinda got it for free (was owed money and the car was the payment even though they got it as payment for work they did) and it was showroom stock and in great condition (it was only 10 years old at the time and only had maybe 30-40,000 miles on it). I traded it for a Mazda 929. I’ll only regret what traded the car for, not that I traded it.
Do you know which is the XU8 T engine? It's Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 engine, coming from the XU family of PSA street engines. To say that the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 of Gr. B of rallies doesn't have a single piece of the Peugeot 205 of street isn't exactly like that (in fact the bodywork started from that of a three-door 205 cut in half to which a rear subframe was welded where the engine, gearbox, transmission and rear suspensions were housed, among many other differences of course), even though it was a "prototype" of a competition car that faithfully followed the Group B regulations, not like Audi that was a road car prepared and enhanced (conceptually it was a Gr. A) according to orders of the "supreme boss" of Audi competition at that time Ferdinand Piëch. This detail was what prevented Audi from being as competitive as the Peugeot and the Lancia (037 and Delta S4 later). The proof is that the Peugeot practically, except on rare occasions and in very special circumstances, always beated him.
If FIA would think a little bit abut safety in 80s the Group B would not be banned. But car constructors made cars faster but more and more less safer.
Being only 22 I never even knew that car existed until seeing it in forza horizon 4, judging by its 220hp and 4wd I'm guessing it was another rally homologation model in the same ilk as the Integrale and Escort Cosworth?
I had a VR6; dynamically fantastic, but why we keep banging on about German reliability I’m really not sure. After 80k they just keep going wrong. Still love them.
The spot where Clarkson swaps the old hoover for the dyson is so late 90's. I remember when my mum got one. It changed the colour of the carpets in the house the first time we went round with it. I've never seen so much dust in my life. Twas one hell of an era.
Your mum clearly never managed to get a Kirby ; predecessor to Dyson and known as 'metal Mickey'
@@derekheeps1244 Never even heard of them. Hard to think the Dyson (for all their problems) has ever been beaten when it comes to its ability to extract dust from carpets. They have monster suction and they beat the bits out of the carpet fibres at the same time.
@@derekheeps1244 lmao werent they like a grand I remember a kirby salesman in our house demonstrating the kirby and what it could do a few phone calls to his general manager area manager and several incentives the kirby came in at a cool 250 quid rofl and after that he gave up
@@zoidberg444 You are very much mistaken
@@chucky2316my mum bought a kirby. i cut my brother's hair (scalped him ) with it in the school holidays 😂
Despite all negative behaviours and comments I still think Clarkson has completelly no match in auto-program's field. You can just feel he's passionate about automotive and the way he presents causes that even people who aren't that much into cars could easily enjoy this. I have just watched trailers of the new Top Gear and although I wish all the best to the new presenters, for me there is only 1 king of this industry. I hope Clarkson along with May and Hammond will keep providing us with top class automotive programs like this pearl.
The grand tour
I completely agree. I couldn't care less about cars but yet here I am. Its as if he's mad for the job!
I love that he is one of few who isn't afraid to tell any manufacturer that they made a s**t car.
That was the problem. His passion for all things deemed ungreen was his undoing. Now if Clarkson had raved about Venezuelan great-tits and the lesser-spotted Japanese knee-trembler on the edge of extinction, he'd have been knighted long ago.
He's actually done some seriously good non-automotive documentaries too.
Jeremy Clarkson - Inventions That Changed The World
Jeremy Clarkson's The Victoria Cross: For Valour
Jeremy Clarkson's the Greatest Raid of All
And he did a great on on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, recommended if you can find a version of youtube which hasn't had the sound mangled, lost half the program missing...
Have to say Clarkson is the WORLDS BEST motorcar presenter, journalist, whatever you want to call it, so nice to see and hear him instead of all the TH-cam wannabees presenters with their unimpressive videos..
Worlds best? I've seen better, more informative presenter than him. But then, he's rather influential so there's that.
"Best in the world"
@@FAT8893
Exactly. This whole programme whilst enjoyable was full of glaring errors.
15:10 “It plowed into a wall of spectators”
Mustang: THATS MY UNCLE GUYS THATS MY UNCLE
One group of motorsport competitors and enthusiasts will remember the RS200 very well - most of them ended up in Rallycross, as did many of the Metro 6R4s.
I was lucky enough to see two RS200's on the road as a kid and chased after one to catch it at the traffic lights for a better look. Feel very privileged to have seen road versions.
I thought that RS200 was fast, but this is absolutely…..astonishing!
Great cars, great music. Who could ask for more?
I could ; no 6.9 , no 190E 2.3-16 ( we didn't call them cossies , which was a slang term for swimming costumes , no class
I can - Carol Vorderman with her massive knockers out
It’s a shame the first Lancia Delta Hatchback is rarely or never mentioned/seen. I’ve owned a 1.3 LX and still have an HF Turbo 1.6, both Great cars.
15:14 even back in the day Ford couldn't keep 'em away from the crowds
Lol that what I was about to comment
The real crowd killer
Clarkson.... Absolute Legend!
Absolute numptie
19:00 classic icon TV. Plus I cannot be the only one enjoying the 80s music.
+datasilo uk No, you're not. I'm loving the tunes :D
+Bob Bobbson It is "Loose Fit by the Happy Mondays." :)
This soundtrack is SOO GOOD!! Just like the cars! Well, expect for the MGB
Which was a nice car actually fun to drive. But you've never sat in one so how could you know ;)
Proper MG's are nice cars , well engineered , and have a following , clearly more mature than you are .
Haven't seen this before. What a nice piece of work by Clarkson with some real heart in it. Loved the music as well as the cars. And the Golf v Escort pub debate was hilarious.
Thanks for a great upload. Early Clarkson is still great to watch.
The music choice - nice!
love the 80's music!
god I miss those days, Escort Xr3I and RS turbo, Peugeot 205 1.6 and 1.9 GTI, Renault 5 GT Turbo, Golf GTI, Fiat Uno Turbo, hell even the Citroen AX GT was fun as hell/
Much maligned, but absolutely flippin' brilliant. Mega Thank you Jezza 😁👏👍
"Clark will be back in a mo". What even is that sentence?
@7:16 I just love watching these two blokes in the pub top trumping each other like little kids! Reminds me of all the car conversations I had with my friends back when I was going to school! 😜😂🤣
Ah yes the good old 80's. Spent many enjoyable hours reading countess car magazines trying to decide Golf Gti, Peugeot 205Gti or Ford XR3i. Went for a Mk II Golf GTi 8v eventually and several years later also had a Peugeot 205 Gti. Still have a Mk II Golf Gti 8v. There was something about them that I just love and can't be without one in my car fleet.
My family had a Peugeot dealership back in the hay day of the 205 GTi. Got to drive them and a fantastic car it was. Shame they’re not seen on the road these days.
I’ve watched this more times than I’m comfortable admitting and i can’t help but highlight one thing: why did we blame the car when the spectator safety regulations were far and away a more pressing issue......?
Exactly. The crash happened because of idiotic spectators blocking the road and this wasn't an uncommon occurrence. I'm just shocked it didn't happen sooner.
Not the fault of Ford or Santos but rather the fault of event organisers for poor crowd management and ultimately the fault of the idiots standing in a place which should have only been occupied by rally cars.
Also, Clarkson made out that the RS200 crash ended Group B but the classification was axed in May after the crash of Toivonen and Cresto's S4 and their untimely deaths at Corsica.
Because unfortunately the cars were blamed by a media that have no interest in rallying until something goes wrong.
Rally fans know the cars weren't the real issue.
@@skylined5534 well I think Group B's days were numbered anyway after the Portugal crash and I wouldn't have been surprised if FISA (the FIA at the time) were looking for an excuse to end it anyway. Then of course Toivonen's crash happened and they sadly had a perfect one.
I do still think the cars played a part though. I think Toivonen in an interview in that Corsica rally said that the cars were so fast the drivers were struggling to keep up with them. "I mean, this is crazy!" Röhl and I think Vatanen also said that given how fast the cars were and how Insane the crowds were an accident like the one in Portugal was pretty much inevitable
Like the above comment mentioned, I'm surprised that something like what happened in Portugal hadn't occurred before that. Crowd safety for Group B was non existent. Some of the more rowdy spectators would even try and touch the cars as they were speeding past. Toivonen's fatal crash in Corsica just finished it off. It gave Balestre the perfect reason to say enough is enough.
Because the Fia bosses would never take responsibility
"He drove his around in reverse".
😂😂😂I peed a bit😂😂😂
A ford hits a crowd of people? That's not a surprise...
There many spectator involved accidents in Group B. Rally cars today are half as powerful as those 600 HP monsters.
The only sports worth watching are the ones where a chance of death is involved.
+Scott Ruggels ...I dunno, death isn't something to be joyed about.
Owned a 1986 Golf GTI when but a 19 year old GI in Germany (1988). Worth every penny the insurance sucked out of my meager paycheck. Still love the memory of that car!!!
Ford Escort RS Cosworth - Everything we do, is driven by you.
I had a 205 1.9. Loved it!
God I love the passionate applause at the end
One of modern TVs genius presenters.
Peugeot 205 was the last great car ever made by any Frenchman.
kaiser5102 I'm french, and i agree, it's obviously one of the best cars in the world. Let's not forget the veyron though
Dédé LABINOUZE
and still a great car, ; yes but the veyron is a little bit out of my price range :P vive la france !
Dédé LABINOUZE I guess we can say the Tundra is the best truck the USA has ever made.
kaiser5102
What about the Citroen XM?
Rory Schlarb
wut ?
Oh i get it, you're part of those guys who think that bugatti is a german car manufacturer x)
Fun fact: Pininfarina had NOT done the 205, it is an in-house Peugeot Design. Pininfarina has “just” done the 205 Convertible…
I'm getting old not only did I have 3,of those cars I listened to talk talk
What a great programme! :)
The last time I went over the Buttertubs there was similarly heavy traffic. Something should be done about it!
All very historical.....many thanks
All hot hatches now are boring, these cars are so much fun, the mk1 gti, 205 gti and the cosworth. Manufacturers now think that a hot hatch needs to have 250 bhp minimum and clever front suspension to accommodate. Lightness is key and a hot hatch should have no more than 200 bhp if it's front wheel drive!!! the last really great hot hatch was the civic type r EP3
Sam Power Fiesta ST is great tho
Everyone says so, I've never driven one but would like to!
Sam Power Agreed, manufacturers have become obsessed with NCAP ratings and kitting out every single car with countless unnecessary toys, so we're left with the bloated, overly-heavy, too-tall homogenous mediocrity that's everywhere now.
Hot hatches need to be simple, light, be very similar to the stock car, and be decently quick. Look at earlier Peugeot's, e.g the 205/106 GTi, absolutely fabulous cars and such amazing fun to drive.
And they all need to have FWD, which is just not something everyone likes. Not that I hate FWD because I like CTRs.
that pub looks like one i went too in the 80"s in henley,
Thank you for the educational purposes video, i learned many things about various educational learnings.
Clarkson is a great presenter/journalist. Ford need to make a come back. Ford GT.
The new mustang look good.
Jeremy is the best EVER
PEUGEOT 205 GTI!!!!!!!!!
Love him , with all his warts
Wasn't the Vauxhall Chevette more or less based on the Opel Kadett? So in the end, it still goes back to Germany :D
I think so, The Opel Kadett C City ?
+fredmachine it was the Opel kaddet for the rest of the world and in the uk it was the Vauxhall chevette
yup Vauxhall and Opel are actually the same company
Sorry, no. It's based on the Chevette, a car "designed" and "developed" in Detroit. My first wife had an '80 and I worked on it myself. A lot. Vauxhall and Opel and Holden (and SAAB for a while) are not the same company. They are owned by the same company. Big difference. It's like saying Jaguar and Volvo were the same company in the 2000s. They weren't.
Rich Sackett Vauxhall and Opel make the same cars, just whit a different badge.
first cars i had in the late 80's was an Opel Ascona 2.0 followed by a mk2 capri 3.0s. never really got into the hot hatch thing closest i got was prob a honda prelude or a rover 220gti, which was a lot better than i expected.
nexgenhippy the closest I got to a hot hatch was a 1989 Honda CRX-si I got for free (sort of. It was repayment of money I gave to my father to buy his truck which he had sold out from under me when some else offered him more money then I could give) when I was 16. I hated it. It was to low to the ground and I didn’t really fit in it. I traded it for an 1989 Mazda 929 (what a pos). Less then a year later I got a 1973 AMC Javelin/Amx (which I still own 20 years later) and never looked back, though I did have a 1989 Shelby Daytona Turbo that I learned to drive stick on (miss that car and the only turbo car I have ever owned).
Cossie and Delta Integrale done it best...
You sound like you have the exact same taste in cars as I do 😃 if u wanna nerd out over cars my Kik is MichaelNeeS4
Michael Nee I am car journalist, and I really like Delta Integrale and Cosworth machines.
And Stratos :)
DatIrishGuy The one and only 037 :D
Except the Golf GTI worked didn't it? The Cossie and the Delta spent more time parked.
Halcyon days. Don’t think we’ll ever see these types of fabulous cars again. And we surely won’t get as excited about cars as we did in the 80’s and 90’s. Kids today just want an Uber……or an electric scooter. Bleuch.
'89 GTi 1.8 16v jetronic and '90 GLi 2.0 16v motronic would have to be the two cars that I have owned that were beyond fun to drive...... I miss both very much. Sold the GTi to buy my 2001 GTi 1.8t and sold the '90 GLi to buy my 1999 Audi A4 1.8t Quattro. Now the 2001 GTi was ok, but the '99 A4 was phenomenal! But those MKII's were still better. Easy, simple, fast and cheap to make fast.
D
+Adrizz5447 Try a MK1 MR2 dude, try it, it's SO much better.
I bought mine off of a friend of mine who had bought a MK2 GTI in stead of it, something he regretted ever since.
The Volkswagen Golf is the most important car ever made I would say the handling is just something else, even the cars that are based on the golf like the Seat Leon it feels like the steering wheel is connected to your brain…
I had the pleasure of using a Rover Montego perkins diesel saloon fitted with a extra button instead of a blank for a wash wiper it didn't have for a year, they tried to steal it a few times without success lol, it was the fuel pump cut out button left flush with the other buttons when parked.
Before Go Pro was the hand held camera. Over bonnet shot of the "Cossie" brill. I've owned 3 Golf GTI and 1 Peugeot 205 1.8 GTI they cost under 3000 quid. great times.
Remember the Ford ad, everything we do is driven by you, soon became everything we do is nicked from you.
What I would give to go back to the mid 90s
All them cars I lusted after when I was young in the 80's! I had an XR2 which I loved. Could beat most cars at the lights in it ;)
I had a 1987 GTI. I have to agree with Clarkson. The car can function as basic transportation, but you could have lots of fun.
Back in the day my mate had an integrale and we raced an escort cozie from scarbrough to whitby, i shat myself 🙂🙂 good ol days..
Who won?
"If you try to think of a fast Ford from this period, only one name comes to mind..." Mustang GT.
Richard Rowe An 80s Mustang - you're joking, right?
Mutecoat LOL...well, not stock. But when was the last time you saw a stock 5.0 Mustang?
Being from the UK, they exist only in photographs for me - but fair enough.
Edit: Stock or otherwise!
Richard Rowe I dunno there was the Escort GT, the EXP turbo, and the Thunderbird Turbo.
Mutecoat I STILL can't believe that the U.K. didn't EMBRACE the Probe 24V/GT. Such a great little car! Fucking Cheeseman....
Anyone else amped for the New Focus RS!
+pbfloyd13 kind of but not because i want 1
clarkson history that i am dont even know..tq....
Chuck in the ad for Fawlty Towers lol, seems so much older than 2000
15:35 now THAT was a surprising effect!
I'n betting he made this episode just so he could drive his old Cosworth Escort again !
Perfect allegory, Dysons always fall apart like 205s
This show tends to end rather abruptly.
What is this song 16:42
+drgoodman8 Happy Mondays Loose Fit 12" mix :)
+Andy Egerton thanks man
yeah thanks man
Cool track
"Hi!
Buy!
Please?"
Michael Opnv if I was old enough then and in Europe, I would have bought 3.
I should just point out that the Escort Cosworth and RS2000 were solely designed by Ford's European division, so they technically aren't American cars at all.
toypop the Escort Cosworth was sold in the us as the Merkur XR-ti but as an up market touring car (expensive) and in limited quantities (imported from Germany). It was only in RWD. It sold poorly and only lasted a few years in the US. They are now rare (but not very desirable or collectible) and you never see them on the road. The only places I’ve ever seen one was at a car show and junkyard (and I’ve seen more in the junkyard).
Quality
Program about hot hatches and they don’t even mention the Renault 5 GTI !! 😂
I love your hatches! Plenty of room for my dog.
Not much love for the Sunny GTI-R from Clarkson here. A brief look for a few seconds for what is probably the second best Hot hatch that generation.
If he didn't love the R34 GTR as much as I do, I would swear he hates foreign cars.
(No I don't work for Nissan)
15:57 HI! BUY! Please? XD
Song at 9:20?
Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
Talk Talk- "Life's What You Make It"
Loved my MKI GTI, but I'd take a Mazda 323 GTX over any 1980s GTI German or French! 140hp vs 90hp and AWD. It was the WRX of it's day but sadly we only got 1200 or so in the states.
Thats true airscholar and it shows in their dealerships.andrew x good point there man,especially since those cars are gems but if ford had brought the escort cosworth over when it came out then it wouldve been my first car without a doubt.
This episode makes me want to get my hands on a Cossie Escort. Way better than the Mazda based one we got here in the US.
All this just makes me so thankful NONE of these abominations ever made it to the land of the free.
Surprised these were never released on DVD.
100 people were or are MGB owners 😂
RS200, the car that ended Group B Rallying as we know it.
OHHHH SHIT!!! Fawlty Towers is next!!!
Americas hot hatch in the 80s the 5.0 fox body mustang
***** there were 3 door hatch models too, not only coupe.
MrDreamcastx And for the 70s- the AMC Gremlin X :DDD
Yep. In 1987 I had to decide on a used GTI or a used 5.0 hatchback Mustang.
I chose the 5.0 Mustang and still drive it.
Every time I start thinking that an adult owned, stock 88-91 si would be a sweetie of a daily, I then think of turboing it, then think a lowered 2wd xj Cherokee would be more fun, then fall to the fox. I like my e36 coupe, but the next beater has to be a fox.
Matthew Bush I had an 89 CRX-Si in December of 1999 (I was 16). I hated it (too low to the ground, I barely fit in it at 6’2”) even though I kinda got it for free (was owed money and the car was the payment even though they got it as payment for work they did) and it was showroom stock and in great condition (it was only 10 years old at the time and only had maybe 30-40,000 miles on it). I traded it for a Mazda 929. I’ll only regret what traded the car for, not that I traded it.
I had a 2.0 manta carbed version. My mate had a new golf gti it blew my manta off the road. Despite being 1.6. My choice would be golf or 206
Do you know which is the XU8 T engine?
It's Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 engine, coming from the XU family of PSA street engines.
To say that the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 of Gr. B of rallies doesn't have a single piece of the Peugeot 205 of street isn't exactly like that (in fact the bodywork started from that of a three-door 205 cut in half to which a rear subframe was welded where the engine, gearbox, transmission and rear suspensions were housed, among many other differences of course), even though it was a "prototype" of a competition car that faithfully followed the Group B regulations, not like Audi that was a road car prepared and enhanced (conceptually it was a Gr. A) according to orders of the "supreme boss" of Audi competition at that time Ferdinand Piëch. This detail was what prevented Audi from being as competitive as the Peugeot and the Lancia (037 and Delta S4 later). The proof is that the Peugeot practically, except on rare occasions and in very special circumstances, always beated him.
If FIA would think a little bit abut safety in 80s the Group B would not be banned. But car constructors made cars faster but more and more less safer.
love how almost all the footage from the early 2000's is dark and gloomy lol
Song about fuel injection was amazing
Remember the peugeot 405 Mi16
the fuck were people at 12:42 thinking?
10:20 oh nice, an Evangelion hoover
In this era the only thing England invented was Strikes
If only Lancia had produced a RHD Delta Intigrale for us Brits. At least we got the Pulsar GTiR, one of the beat cars I've owned hands down.
Being only 22 I never even knew that car existed until seeing it in forza horizon 4, judging by its 220hp and 4wd I'm guessing it was another rally homologation model in the same ilk as the Integrale and Escort Cosworth?
Lancia did make RHD Delta Integrales, its rare though. I think most were 8 valve models. Not the 16 valve ones.
There is no doubt that the Ford escort rs cosworth was and is the pinacle of hot hatchbacks.
The Golf came out in 1974 and the Chevette came out in '75.
The Golf Gti didn't come out until 1976.
The A112 Abarth came out in 1971.
GTP Liquid Good point!
I wonder why this series was never released on DVD?
i think the 1st ever hot hatch is the mini cooper
Goodnight
This video is a bit of alright.
and it took peugeot "just" 10 years to finally have an answer... funny fact, I prefer the 309 Gti from the same era xD
Would the original Mini be the first hot hatch?
+Bryce Hale If it were a hatchback, maybe.
+Bryce Hale
no because it not a hatchback
+Bryce Hale The Mini is technically a saloon.
+Bryce Hale Depends, some people think it was while others don't agree.
for the super mini class its the A112 Abarth
or a 11 CV Commerciale with a 15 CV swap
Ultravox!
I had a VR6; dynamically fantastic, but why we keep banging on about German reliability I’m really not sure. After 80k they just keep going wrong. Still love them.
So the Vauxhall Chevette HS/HSR is basically a precursor to the VXR/OPC range then?
+David A yes