As an American, I have little use for royalty, but I admire Queen Elizabeth II in so many ways. I think the modern monarchy reached its pinnacle in her.
Not just driving him around; driving fast, cornering hard, not always looking at the road while discussing women's rights, and doing it all in a heavy armoured range rover. I've seen photos of it. The Queen's expression as she bears down on the photographer is classic.
the queen doesn't have a driver's license because the driver licenses basically just say "the queen says i'm ok to drive". but since she's the queen, she can just say "im good to drive" if she's ever stopped.
Reminds me of a Doctor Who episode where they basically had to find someone in a future Britain who was *not* a subject of the British Crown. That person? The Queen herself, of course.
The Sultan’s collection was not 700, but rather… an uncomprehendingly fleet of over 7,000! I believe he had the world’s largest Rolls Royce collection (over 450?)!
The Sultan actually came up in a high school history or Geography class, with the teacher telling us he was rich, considered young abd attractive (this was in the mid 90s, and eligible. Sure he's married, but he Muslim, so he's allowed to have as many wives as he wants. I mean, what cleric would be bold enough to prohibit him from marrying someone? Sure, you might have to convert, but I don't see that stopping the truly interested.
Thank you. Now I can't get it out of my head!! All I can see now is Queen Elizabeth giving the royal family a masterclass in rally driving across the royal lawns. 😂
So I used to own a black Audi RS4 when I lived in Johannesburg, that car was hi-jacked at the point of an AK47 barrel by a rather polite Zimbabwean fellow, he had a team of 5 other guys, all armed with AK47 rifles with him in various positions around the road I lived on, I complied and survived the encounter (if they were South African "Tsotsi`s" I would have been killed just for the fun of it), a few months later I was approached by a South African Police officer with some photo`s of my car and a photo of the VIN number off a plate on the windscreen, turns out that my car was stolen to order, taken over the border in Zimbabwe and given to one of Mugabe`s kids girlfriends as a gift... Many many more "Luxury" vehicles that were hi-jacked in South Africa ended up in use as Mugabe regime official transport...all taken by Zimbabwean Special Forces inside South Africa`s borders...
@@jeffdroog with 18 000 car jackings a year in South Africa it could be a long running series, just like "The Walking Dead"...plenty of people walking around that country that could very easily lose a game of Tic Tac Toe to an actual zombie...
@@jeffdroog I'd actually love to watch a show on South African crime and the whole disaster going on there. But it wouldn't fit the political narrative of the people who run TV networks.
The queen was awesome...There's a bunch of pictures of her being shown around Nick Mason's collection and she's genuinely excited about the 250 GTO. Also not long before her death she was in her yellow outfit, spotted a yellow Ferrari 458 and she took a picture next to it, giggling like a child still! Great lady. PS the Brunei collection picture full of Ferrari's isn't his, that was taken at I believe one of the mille milia's around 15 years ago. His collection is enormous however.
I wonder if she was a Top Gear viewer? Participating in the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" competition was probably too silly for royal protocol, but I like to think she would have enjoyed it thoroughly.
@@suedenim I'd like to think so and I think she'd have enjoyed coming on the show as well...For all Clarkson's silliness he'd 100% be genuinely respectful.
@@cathyb1273 Mercedes Benz currently has a Rose Gold metallic paint option for some of their vehicles. I'm no Barbie pink or pink fan, but it looks stunning. I prefer purple cars.
It seems to me that if you need to show off your wealth by plating everything in gold, it’s a declaration of insecurity and poor taste. Doubly for rulers where most of the citizens are poverty level. It’s like asking to be shot
To say they "gave" it a v12 implies they pulled a v12 off the shelf and stuck it in there. Toyota *made* a v12 for the Century. The difference between buying a suit off the rack and having a suit tailor made.
The norwegian royal house has a 1939 Buick Roadmaster Serie 81C that was gifted to crownprince Olav during a lager visit in the us in 39. It has a good story aswell
American here, so I don't really care one way or the other about monarchies in general. But, on a more personal, individual level, I absolutely adore Liz! Sure, she was all posh and proper. But, she was also a master of trolling and shade throwing, and she had an epic sense of humor! 🤣
she is useless, she has one job, to make sure government doesn't steal everything not nailed down and she failed, royalty has no point if it's not keeping government honest, and it's MY money she's spending by the way, not hers.
Same. I have found I don’t care one way or the other about the British monarchy anymore. I was just a huge supporter of “Queenie, as a friend of mine calls her.
Same. I have found I don’t care one way or the other about the British monarchy anymore. I was just a huge supporter of “Queenie, as a friend of mine calls her.
Stan Chesley, the Cincinnati lawyer who earned the nickname "the master of disaster" after suing companies like Union Carbide after the Bhopal, India disaster, was a friend of my grandfather and would eat breakfast with him every Sunday at a Perkins restaurant in the 70s and 80s. One Sunday in 84 or 85 Stan pulled up in a new Silver Shadow. After breakfast me, my brother and my dad were checking the car out and I said it didn't really have that Rolls pizazz. Stan said "that's why I like it, it doesn't stick out, it looks like a Chevrolet." We had a good laugh about that on the drive home!
As a very young man, I had a Ford Galaxie 500 for about a minute and a half. It was a '64, standard top. To call it 'family size' is... I mean, the US Navy is a "family", right?
The Queen was such a BOSS. I always admired her so much, after learning about her service in the war. What a dedicated, smart, tough lady, Britain got a real winner in her. May God rest her soul.
I have more respect for Queen Elizabeth than all the american president put together. She talked the talk and walked the walk. Yank presidents are just all show and no go.
Worth noting that not only is the Toyota Century is the car of the emperor, it's always what Mr. Toyoda himself drives. (Although as company president and lover of cool cars, his has been performance tuned by Toyota's racing division, GRMN)
The Sultan of Brunei drove a Mini Cooper S as a 17 year old student at Victoria Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All the chrome trimmings in/on the Mini were gold plated.
Modi also travels in the front seat of Range Rover as seen during the recent Indian republic day, also these purchase decisions are handled by his security divisions afaik
It should be noted that while the Gen 3 Toyota Century parade car is as you described, the hard top models used by the Emperor are the 2nd generation cars that have a V12 among other slight differences.
Ford didn't describe engines in terms of liters until the 80s if I remember right. I was surprised the former president of Uruguay who drove a Volkswagen Beetle didn't get on the list.
I had a factory unit opposite Harlow Windscreens in 1985. One day an absolutely massive black American car turned up, it was a Cadillac, and honestly truly huge. It turned out it used to be President Franco's of Spain!
I was an Army MP in the 1970s and my favorite sedan was the Galaxy 500, V8 with full police package. Only one car ever got away from me, a TransAm. But only because it cornered better and I went off the road.
Most of the cars the Sultan of Brunei has are not worth as much as they used to be. So many are slowly rusting away with the interiors getting moldy and now falling apart with them all needing full restoration work to be done on them to be of any real value anymore.
The Toyota Century is NOT fuel efficient; it gets about 10mpg in urban use (and I know, as I've had one for several years). The Imperial version is heavier and purported to deliver 5-6mpg in town. And ALL Imperial Centuries (thre are several) are right-hand drive!
@@IrishMike22 it's the car in the video, and you seem to epitomise why americans have a reputation for being a bit well, simple minded. the car in the video.
@@IrishMike22 I'm American and I know what a Toyota Century is. It's on the list of cars I want to own. Even if you don't know what a Century is, if you're American you should understand what miles per gallon means.
They also missed Putin's Aurus. At the other extreme I think some of the smaller Pacific island nations have bicycles for their heads of state. There is also a minor error as the Prime Minister of India is head of government but the Indian President is the head of state.
That picture of the collection of ferrari enzos is not actually from the sultan's collection but from a ferrari enzo rally back in 2004 it always gets confused as his personal collection just thought i'd mention
This video has a lot of errors. One instance is where he was talking about Indian ex pm Manmohan Singh and the picture was his, but the name next to the picture shows Narendra Modi. A hurriedly put together video for the sake of views is my guess.
Yup, and he lives on a farm outside of the capital. Have not thought about him in a long time, so I'm not sure if he's still around (he was pretty old) but I've been told he's even cool with meeting people who just want to come and chat. I was only in Uruguay once, for a short trip, but I would've loved to talk to him. Really interesting guy from what I understand with very unique political views that take some points from both sides.
There was a US president, I think it was LBJ, who had an amphibious car. He was fond of pranking passengers by driving straight into a lake without telling them.
You know I just realized, I never thought I'd pay for a Simon Whistler Patreon but I totally would if he had to do what we suggested. Like we could say I want you to cover (insert topic) in the style of (side projects, business blaze, ect.). Make him do mad uncomfortable ones for Patreon only.
When Pop Benedict XVI visited Cuba in 2012, the US embargo against that country meant that Canada supplied the Popemobile. It was specially upgraded by the RCMP and CSIS (Canada's secret service). Following the Pope's visit there, the car was returned to Canada - with almost all of its operational gear replaced with cheap knock-off after-market parts....the original custom parts having been sold off on the black market - including the security upgrade devices.
The Popemobile in the Leyland motor museum in... Leyland, Lancashire, is superb! Used by Pope John Paul II on his UK visit. It's massive, and you can get in it.
I have no idea how the sultan keeps that rolls running they’re known for leaking out of every inch of the car and as soon as you plug one another forms I guess endless money helps but the fact it’s still used is impressive that fancy suspension barley works on the normal models I couldn’t imagine plating it in gold and using it
Is that 'suspension barley' used to make beer? I think you should learn to spell and proof-read before making an idiot of yourself in the comments section, don't you?
That's standard for armoured cars of the fancy kind, just like emergency breathing apparatus. Regular military armoured cars just make do with either sinking, or just having a whacking great bilge pump to counteract all the leaks.
Protection from nuclear and biological attacks just means it's over pressurized. The higher pressure in the cabin forces air out through any leaks in the seals so nothing can seep in.
I love the fact that Queen Elizabeth was driving around that pompous, misogynistic asshole who won't let women drive in his country. She certainly had a way of throwing shade at people in the most "posh" ways possible. I can't imagine his face when he realized "Shit, this is really happening and I'll have to smile and wave and look alright with it - WHAT THE HELL ARE THE PEOPLE AT HOME GONNA THINK!?" but I'd like to imagine he was looking like he was about to shit himself - partly from fear of the driving, but mostly from the fear of what his countrymen were going to think. Badass move, Lizzie. *BAD-friggin'-ASS!*
"Military Spec" or "Military Grade" Some say it means simply going with, the company that can get the specs into the thing the Military ordered, the cheapest.
I'm amused by the fact that the auto captions refer to the Popemobile as the Pokemon bill. Also on the self retracting emblem - in the late 80s or so when the big car emblems were still a thing, people took to stealing them in big cities and wearing them on those chunky gold necklaces. Obviously the more expensive the car the more clout, but they weren't above stealing them from everyday Chevys and Fords either. First switch was to a connected one on a tough spring (the originals were made to break off in a crash or something), and then ended up in the flat emblems that are common now. Not sure if the Rolls retracting one was due to that problem or was more for putting it down to decrease wind resistance originally, but the end result isn't much different. The only ones I can think of that might still be on new vehicles here are the ones for Mack trucks, but I don't really pay that much attention.
I'm not a fan of Catholicism as a whole but I really respect Francis' humbleness, It says a lot that most leaders on this lists are riding around in luxury vehicles with enough defense to rival armored tanks, if that's the measures you have to take to seperate yourself from the commoners maybe you need to reevaluate your positions
I Remember seeing in the 2000's the US or UK offered to install a 50-caliber machine gun for extra security on the popemobile, the pope very politely declined and said thank you but was concerned with the look of it....
If we looked at how much shenanigans a country got into, by judging how many concerns they have over the safety of their leaders, I wonder exactly what corruption level America would have vs the other countries. Like who’s MOST concerned about being attacked? How would we stack you against other countries. Some of these countries seem to have no concerns at all.
I know the Indonesian King requires that his car be put into a bubble tent completely isolated from the outside whenever it is parked. It is kind of an ingenious way to stop people easily sabotaging or just getting too close without having to spend a crap load on security, park the car, erect the bubble tent, seal it, place a couple of guards on watch and the car is pretty much secure from moderate level threats while parked. Also the Japanese Emperor's car was the inspiration for the Regalia in Final Fantasy 15 which is the royal prince's car.
@@mauricehan2594 You are correct. Sultan was the word I was looking for. Images of this are easy to find since it was recently featured in a Warner Herzog documentary.
im torn, between some French va va voom and a big slab of yanky muscle, both stir my loins in different ways, so it all depends on the owners policies lol
The Toyota Century is known colloquially as the "Japanese Rolls Royce". Only a handful of people are qualified to paint a Century. As is customary in Japan, the more luxurious variants have their seats covered in a woollen material, not leather. I hope that's just fog, not pollution, that Modhi Bhai is walking around in. All of Hassanal Bolkiah ibni Omar Ali Saifuddien III's taste is in his mouth. Good grief, Charlie Brown! I'd rather have had Mrs Betty Windsor drive me around than her husband!
correction the base weight of the Toyota Century is 6,640 LBs thats 898 LBs heavier than a 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine granted the Toyota Century actually comes with a 5.0 IGZ FE V12 Toyota's only V12 option that's actually incorrect for fuel consumption on a Century in the US it gets 12.2 MPG and with a 25 Gallon tank only goes 305 miles. mind you for example a top of the line 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera Targa would be worth nearly 200,000 in 2023
Is there a Pope Boat??? It’s not walking on water but… also the pope jeep looks fun… I think that was when the pope was in Panama City Beach for Spring Break 2013… I would have a Presidential Hover Craft…
Queen Elizabeth II driving the king of Saudi Arabia around is a epic piece of world history. What a boss move.
Agreed its like a Royal F you mate!
I mean she was quite literally showing a guest around her property.😄😄
As an American, I have little use for royalty, but I admire Queen Elizabeth II in so many ways. I think the modern monarchy reached its pinnacle in her.
Plus I like to think she was rubbing in all her grass and trees. "Look at all this greenery, desert prince. Smell that fresh air!"
Not just driving him around; driving fast, cornering hard, not always looking at the road while discussing women's rights, and doing it all in a heavy armoured range rover.
I've seen photos of it. The Queen's expression as she bears down on the photographer is classic.
the queen doesn't have a driver's license because the driver licenses basically just say "the queen says i'm ok to drive". but since she's the queen, she can just say "im good to drive" if she's ever stopped.
Also she doesn't drive around much these days.
She doesn’t have a passport either.
What best is she driving the Saudi prince and women couldn't drive in his country at the time 🤣🤣
Reminds me of a Doctor Who episode where they basically had to find someone in a future Britain who was *not* a subject of the British Crown. That person? The Queen herself, of course.
Plus, as head of the judiciary, she was immune from prosecution
I don’t know why I find bodyguards jogging alongside the head of state cars so funny to watch but here we are
The Sultan’s collection was not 700, but rather… an uncomprehendingly fleet of over 7,000! I believe he had the world’s largest Rolls Royce collection (over 450?)!
Yes…. that was seven THOUSAND!
..and most of them are rotting away (not just figuratively but literally decaying) inside private buildings that has little to no climate control.
His unbelievable decadence makes me wonder why the people of Brunei haven't revolted. Abject poverty is still commonplace there.
Gotta wonder how much of Brunei's considerable oil revenues went to purchase and maintenance of the collection.
The Sultan actually came up in a high school history or Geography class, with the teacher telling us he was rich, considered young abd attractive (this was in the mid 90s, and eligible. Sure he's married, but he Muslim, so he's allowed to have as many wives as he wants. I mean, what cleric would be bold enough to prohibit him from marrying someone? Sure, you might have to convert, but I don't see that stopping the truly interested.
I can’t get the image of the queen driving through a field yelling “Come on, power!!!” out of my head.😅
Thank you. Now I can't get it out of my head!! All I can see now is Queen Elizabeth giving the royal family a masterclass in rally driving across the royal lawns. 😂
Theory has it Jeremy Clarkson was her passenger, she said powwwer and he said speeeed
@@mlee6050 Fastest Defender………..in the world.
So I used to own a black Audi RS4 when I lived in Johannesburg, that car was hi-jacked at the point of an AK47 barrel by a rather polite Zimbabwean fellow, he had a team of 5 other guys, all armed with AK47 rifles with him in various positions around the road I lived on, I complied and survived the encounter (if they were South African "Tsotsi`s" I would have been killed just for the fun of it), a few months later I was approached by a South African Police officer with some photo`s of my car and a photo of the VIN number off a plate on the windscreen, turns out that my car was stolen to order, taken over the border in Zimbabwe and given to one of Mugabe`s kids girlfriends as a gift...
Many many more "Luxury" vehicles that were hi-jacked in South Africa ended up in use as Mugabe regime official transport...all taken by Zimbabwean Special Forces inside South Africa`s borders...
Can't wait for the silver screen adaptation of this thrilling story.
@@jeffdroog with 18 000 car jackings a year in South Africa it could be a long running series, just like "The Walking Dead"...plenty of people walking around that country that could very easily lose a game of Tic Tac Toe to an actual zombie...
@@jeffdroog I'd actually love to watch a show on South African crime and the whole disaster going on there. But it wouldn't fit the political narrative of the people who run TV networks.
The queen was awesome...There's a bunch of pictures of her being shown around Nick Mason's collection and she's genuinely excited about the 250 GTO. Also not long before her death she was in her yellow outfit, spotted a yellow Ferrari 458 and she took a picture next to it, giggling like a child still! Great lady.
PS the Brunei collection picture full of Ferrari's isn't his, that was taken at I believe one of the mille milia's around 15 years ago. His collection is enormous however.
I wonder if she was a Top Gear viewer? Participating in the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" competition was probably too silly for royal protocol, but I like to think she would have enjoyed it thoroughly.
@@suedenim I'd like to think so and I think she'd have enjoyed coming on the show as well...For all Clarkson's silliness he'd 100% be genuinely respectful.
@@550LMS she and James would make a perfect tea party buddy
Am I the only one who doesn’t think the gold plated Rolls is not very impressive looking?😳 Just don’t think gold translates well to a car color
I agree, it looks like a badly painted Barbie car, but less pink.
@@cathyb1273 Mercedes Benz currently has a Rose Gold metallic paint option for some of their vehicles. I'm no Barbie pink or pink fan, but it looks stunning. I prefer purple cars.
It looks like a mustard car that needs washing, imo
It's those rims that really deal the killing blow I'd say. They're far too large and thin and look like tacked-on gold tinfoil.
It seems to me that if you need to show off your wealth by plating everything in gold, it’s a declaration of insecurity and poor taste. Doubly for rulers where most of the citizens are poverty level. It’s like asking to be shot
Fun fact: The Toyota Century is the only Toyota to ever be give a V12 engine in the company’s history.
To say they "gave" it a v12 implies they pulled a v12 off the shelf and stuck it in there. Toyota *made* a v12 for the Century. The difference between buying a suit off the rack and having a suit tailor made.
i guess the moral of the tale is, the less you piss people off, the lower your mpg bills.
The norwegian royal house has a 1939 Buick Roadmaster Serie 81C that was gifted to crownprince Olav during a lager visit in the us in 39. It has a good story aswell
I really liked the trike President Dwayne Elizondo Camacho drove during his entrance to the presidential building
We should introduce some of today's leaders to some Friday Night rehibilate, rehabalation, Rehabilitation!!
He's ROCK HARD for America!
That's Five-time Smackdown Champion, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, to you!
@@xaderalertFive-time Smackdown champion + former porn star.
American here, so I don't really care one way or the other about monarchies in general. But, on a more personal, individual level, I absolutely adore Liz! Sure, she was all posh and proper. But, she was also a master of trolling and shade throwing, and she had an epic sense of humor! 🤣
she is useless, she has one job, to make sure government doesn't steal everything not nailed down and she failed, royalty has no point if it's not keeping government honest, and it's MY money she's spending by the way, not hers.
Same. I have found I don’t care one way or the other about the British monarchy anymore. I was just a huge supporter of “Queenie, as a friend of mine calls her.
Same. I have found I don’t care one way or the other about the British monarchy anymore. I was just a huge supporter of “Queenie, as a friend of mine calls her.
pre ww2 she was a supporter of nazi ideology, her son is a pedo, her wealth comes from theft and slavery... ye real nice old lady
Stan Chesley, the Cincinnati lawyer who earned the nickname "the master of disaster" after suing companies like Union Carbide after the Bhopal, India disaster, was a friend of my grandfather and would eat breakfast with him every Sunday at a Perkins restaurant in the 70s and 80s. One Sunday in 84 or 85 Stan pulled up in a new Silver Shadow. After breakfast me, my brother and my dad were checking the car out and I said it didn't really have that Rolls pizazz. Stan said "that's why I like it, it doesn't stick out, it looks like a Chevrolet." We had a good laugh about that on the drive home!
That's crazy! I grew up in bhopal and live within 5km of that Union Carbide plant.
One would immediately assume that anyone driving that gold car would have to be named, "Tainty McTaintface" or sumpin'. 😳😂
...or Deejay Eeeziiiyy Squeeezzziiieee
goldy mcgoldbars?
Only in British service lol.
As a very young man, I had a Ford Galaxie 500 for about a minute and a half. It was a '64, standard top. To call it 'family size' is... I mean, the US Navy is a "family", right?
My parents got 4 kids along the back seat, they weren't small lol
The Queen was such a BOSS. I always admired her so much, after learning about her service in the war. What a dedicated, smart, tough lady, Britain got a real winner in her. May God rest her soul.
I have more respect for Queen Elizabeth than all the american president put together. She talked the talk and walked the walk. Yank presidents are just all show and no go.
Worth noting that not only is the Toyota Century is the car of the emperor, it's always what Mr. Toyoda himself drives. (Although as company president and lover of cool cars, his has been performance tuned by Toyota's racing division, GRMN)
The Sultan of Brunei drove a Mini Cooper S as a 17 year old student at Victoria Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
All the chrome trimmings in/on the Mini were gold plated.
6:30 "Galaxie" is also the name of a good song about the car by Blind Melon, and the video was pretty entertaining, too.
Can we have a Car-o-graphics!?
Queen Elisabeth ll, what a legend.. i am not british, but miss her too. without her, the royals are no longer interesting that much...
0:40 - Chapter 1 - The emperor's toyota royal
3:10 - Chapter 2 - Vaclav havel's humble renault
4:30 - Chapter 3 - Narendra Modis's 2022 Mercedes maybach
6:10 - Chapter 4 - Chile's classic Ford galaxie
7:55 - Chapter 5 - Brunei's golden rolls royce
9:20 - Chapter 6 - The pope mobile
11:55 - Chapter 7 - The queen's wip Land rover defender
what would be your choice good sir/ma'am
@@jayamd3579 Panhard Dyna X (for the more humble) or Panhard Eclipse (for the more luxurious)
@@jayamd3579 I know I wasn't asked, but something with presence and history would be great. Duesenberg Model SSJ would be a good choice.
Modi also travels in the front seat of Range Rover as seen during the recent Indian republic day, also these purchase decisions are handled by his security divisions afaik
It should be noted that while the Gen 3 Toyota Century parade car is as you described, the hard top models used by the Emperor are the 2nd generation cars that have a V12 among other slight differences.
Ford didn't describe engines in terms of liters until the 80s if I remember right. I was surprised the former president of Uruguay who drove a Volkswagen Beetle didn't get on the list.
Today I found out how odd it is that we still use those classic Ford Galaxies in Chile. Never really questioned it until now.
Say what you will about the British Monarchy and the Royal Family but it's un deniable that Elizabeth II is most defiantly a certified legend.
I had a factory unit opposite Harlow Windscreens in 1985. One day an absolutely massive black American car turned up, it was a Cadillac, and honestly truly huge. It turned out it used to be President Franco's of Spain!
1:05 I know Simon doesn’t know this but “moving castle” is an anime reference. Im not so sure people really call the car that
what a howl.
Simon really seems to have enjoyed making this video! I suspect he’s one of us. I wonder what else Simon has in his garage besides that Volvo. Hmm….
I was an Army MP in the 1970s and my favorite sedan was the Galaxy 500, V8 with full police package.
Only one car ever got away from me, a TransAm. But only because it cornered better and I went off the road.
Hans Modrow, the last president of GDR, drove around in a Lada Samara.
Most of the cars the Sultan of Brunei has are not worth as much as they used to be.
So many are slowly rusting away with the interiors getting moldy and now falling apart with them all needing full restoration work to be done on them to be of any real value anymore.
I'll always remember the queen driving around in a Landover .
Tom Scott and Simon Whistler should do a crossover.
The Toyota Century is NOT fuel efficient; it gets about 10mpg in urban use (and I know, as I've had one for several years). The Imperial version is heavier and purported to deliver 5-6mpg in town. And ALL Imperial Centuries (thre are several) are right-hand drive!
Mostly Americans here bud and I can tell you NONE of what you wrote means anything to us...dafuq is a Toyota Century? 🤣
@@IrishMike22 it's the car in the video, and you seem to epitomise why americans have a reputation for being a bit well, simple minded.
the car in the video.
@@IrishMike22 Speak for yourself.
@@HarryNicNicholas Only our liberals.
@@IrishMike22 I'm American and I know what a Toyota Century is. It's on the list of cars I want to own. Even if you don't know what a Century is, if you're American you should understand what miles per gallon means.
I am partially deaf and so have the auto-subtitle generator on. Instead of Popemobile the subtitle read, Pokémon Bill. 🤣
Nothing quite says you put people first than driving around in a gold plated Rolls Royce!
Yep and just to top it all off you make it as ugly and over-the-top as possible. Have a great day.
When have politicians ever put the people they serve first?
So, I guess we could've called her "Lead Foot Lizzie..."
The gold rolls Royce is a ceremonial car. It was used to be used as a wedding parade.
Are you also a car enthusiast? I would love to hear you do something about cars. Supras, Typhoons/Cyclones, M5 V10s etc etc
Simon you fellow Volvo owner, kudos! This was a really interesting video indeed
Queen to the Saudi Prince: "Get in, sit down, buckle up, and hang on! I'm driving and you can't tell me I can't!"
Meanwhile the Dutch Prime is riding a bike whilst eating an apple XD
Doesn't the king occasionally fly a commercial jet for KLM in order to keep up his pilot's license, or something like that?
@@VisibilityFoggy don't know if he still does but he did for sure
Surprised you did not include "The Beast"
They also missed Putin's Aurus. At the other extreme I think some of the smaller Pacific island nations have bicycles for their heads of state.
There is also a minor error as the Prime Minister of India is head of government but the Indian President is the head of state.
Don't forget the bike of the Dutch royal family.
Im pretty sure the Century has (or had) a 6L V12 that was basically two 2JZ motors joined together.
The 1st and 3rd generations are v8s, the 2nd generation has the v12
That picture of the collection of ferrari enzos is not actually from the sultan's collection but from a ferrari enzo rally back in 2004 it always gets confused as his personal collection just thought i'd mention
This video has a lot of errors. One instance is where he was talking about Indian ex pm Manmohan Singh and the picture was his, but the name next to the picture shows Narendra Modi. A hurriedly put together video for the sake of views is my guess.
@@hg.chetan the japanese don't have god s either, but kami.
Yes more car videos. The way you explain it is just better than everyone else😂
that Gold RR is ridiculous
Remember the President of Uruguay kept his own car while in office- a 1978 Volkswagen Beetle....
Yup, and he lives on a farm outside of the capital. Have not thought about him in a long time, so I'm not sure if he's still around (he was pretty old) but I've been told he's even cool with meeting people who just want to come and chat. I was only in Uruguay once, for a short trip, but I would've loved to talk to him. Really interesting guy from what I understand with very unique political views that take some points from both sides.
yeah The Sultan driving a solid gold Brick indeed
RIP your majesty....
There was a US president, I think it was LBJ, who had an amphibious car. He was fond of pranking passengers by driving straight into a lake without telling them.
It was an "Amphicar" , popular in the 60s.
I'm an auto glass tech and I just did a bumper to bumper replacement on a Maybach s600. What a nightmare.
You know I just realized, I never thought I'd pay for a Simon Whistler Patreon but I totally would if he had to do what we suggested. Like we could say I want you to cover (insert topic) in the style of (side projects, business blaze, ect.). Make him do mad uncomfortable ones for Patreon only.
When Pop Benedict XVI visited Cuba in 2012, the US embargo against that country meant that Canada supplied the Popemobile. It was specially upgraded by the RCMP and CSIS (Canada's secret service). Following the Pope's visit there, the car was returned to Canada - with almost all of its operational gear replaced with cheap knock-off after-market parts....the original custom parts having been sold off on the black market - including the security upgrade devices.
I think you should have mentioned José Mujica, Uruguay's President, who had 0 f***s to give and drove a VW Bettle
The Sultan of Brunei is, according to some sources, believed to have seven THOUSAND cars, not seven HUNDRED ;)
The Popemobile in the Leyland motor museum in... Leyland, Lancashire, is superb! Used by Pope John Paul II on his UK visit. It's massive, and you can get in it.
Thanks
Nothing says "I trust in god" better than few inches of bulletproof glass
7:40 no way in hell that Fidel rode with Pinochet, that's gotta be Allende
7:44 Castro visited Allende not Pinochet. Weird this wasn’t spotted before
Good point. I don't imagine that Castro and Pinochet would have gotten along well.
Yeah, that was weird.. Or not if you're trying to make people comment on a video 😅
Nice video ;)
Could the Sultan's Rolls be any more tacky?! It looks like something you would see coming from that old TV show "Pimp My Ride".
Yo I put gold on your gold so you can flex while you are flexin'
Simon gotta tell you, Imo your graphic designer invariably find pictures of you that literally say more than 1,000 words. 🤣❤️
If it's only gold-plated, a car that incorporates real gold is gonna be heavy af.
you forgot about the Queen's 1978 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI State Limousine
Theres a good band called Galaxie 500. I have to assume they got their name from the car.
The Toyota Century has a Screaming Chicken Emblem as seen in the Doug Demuro Video ;)
I'd just be happy with a 2CV, but then I do love the silly little french car... :P
Ha, in the US, the 2CV is famous for being the car Billy Joel crashed into a lady's house on the way home from having too many drinks at a bar.
I have no idea how the sultan keeps that rolls running they’re known for leaking out of every inch of the car and as soon as you plug one another forms I guess endless money helps but the fact it’s still used is impressive that fancy suspension barley works on the normal models I couldn’t imagine plating it in gold and using it
He's wealthy enough not to care about such trivial things.
Is that 'suspension barley' used to make beer? I think you should learn to spell and proof-read before making an idiot of yourself in the comments section, don't you?
The suspension is made by Citroen.
The sultan is not a collector, he is a HOARDER. So many of the cars, many of them one of a kind commissions, have been left to rot over the years.
8:29 the dictator market was softening 😂😂
Fiat Panda or Seat Mirabella. Same car, but sold under seat brand had different name.
Cool episode ❗💯
Pope under Glass!
am i the only one thinking they might be bullet proof and bomb proof but are they water proof at the bottom of the river?
That's standard for armoured cars of the fancy kind, just like emergency breathing apparatus.
Regular military armoured cars just make do with either sinking, or just having a whacking great bilge pump to counteract all the leaks.
Protection from nuclear and biological attacks just means it's over pressurized. The higher pressure in the cabin forces air out through any leaks in the seals so nothing can seep in.
I love the fact that Queen Elizabeth was driving around that pompous, misogynistic asshole who won't let women drive in his country. She certainly had a way of throwing shade at people in the most "posh" ways possible. I can't imagine his face when he realized "Shit, this is really happening and I'll have to smile and wave and look alright with it - WHAT THE HELL ARE THE PEOPLE AT HOME GONNA THINK!?" but I'd like to imagine he was looking like he was about to shit himself - partly from fear of the driving, but mostly from the fear of what his countrymen were going to think. Badass move, Lizzie. *BAD-friggin'-ASS!*
"Military Spec" or "Military Grade"
Some say it means simply going with, the company that can get the specs into the thing the Military ordered, the cheapest.
I'm amused by the fact that the auto captions refer to the Popemobile as the Pokemon bill.
Also on the self retracting emblem - in the late 80s or so when the big car emblems were still a thing, people took to stealing them in big cities and wearing them on those chunky gold necklaces. Obviously the more expensive the car the more clout, but they weren't above stealing them from everyday Chevys and Fords either. First switch was to a connected one on a tough spring (the originals were made to break off in a crash or something), and then ended up in the flat emblems that are common now.
Not sure if the Rolls retracting one was due to that problem or was more for putting it down to decrease wind resistance originally, but the end result isn't much different.
The only ones I can think of that might still be on new vehicles here are the ones for Mack trucks, but I don't really pay that much attention.
The "Beastie boys" come to mind, VW badges went missing everywhere 😂😂😂
I'm not a fan of Catholicism as a whole but I really respect Francis' humbleness, It says a lot that most leaders on this lists are riding around in luxury vehicles with enough defense to rival armored tanks, if that's the measures you have to take to seperate yourself from the commoners maybe you need to reevaluate your positions
I Remember seeing in the 2000's the US or UK offered to install a 50-caliber machine gun for extra security on the popemobile, the pope very politely declined and said thank you but was concerned with the look of it....
The Pope riding around surrounded with bullet proof glass doesn't seem to show much faith.
Hi Simon. There is an error in the video. When you showed a picture of the former PM of India, the name displayed is of the Current PM.
If we looked at how much shenanigans a country got into, by judging how many concerns they have over the safety of their leaders, I wonder exactly what corruption level America would have vs the other countries. Like who’s MOST concerned about being attacked? How would we stack you against other countries. Some of these countries seem to have no concerns at all.
Unfortunately this attitude can end in tragedy, as with the former Japanese PM.
Of course Simon drives a Volvo haha. Cracking cars but it very much fits the architect vibe.
Does anyone know what the mascot was on the bonnet of QE2's Land Rover?
I know the Indonesian King requires that his car be put into a bubble tent completely isolated from the outside whenever it is parked. It is kind of an ingenious way to stop people easily sabotaging or just getting too close without having to spend a crap load on security, park the car, erect the bubble tent, seal it, place a couple of guards on watch and the car is pretty much secure from moderate level threats while parked.
Also the Japanese Emperor's car was the inspiration for the Regalia in Final Fantasy 15 which is the royal prince's car.
There is no Indonesian king lol
There are tons of Indonesian Sultans though.
@@mauricehan2594 You are correct. Sultan was the word I was looking for. Images of this are easy to find since it was recently featured in a Warner Herzog documentary.
@@AnefAthens Thanks I had a feeling king was the wrong term.
Except that there are no more sultans in Indonesia. You might be referring to Brunei or Malaysia.
Well,the Japanese surrender of 1945 clearly specified The Emperor must renounce his Divine status.
im torn, between some French va va voom and a big slab of yanky muscle, both stir my loins in different ways, so it all depends on the owners policies lol
The Toyota Century is known colloquially as the "Japanese Rolls Royce". Only a handful of people are qualified to paint a Century. As is customary in Japan, the more luxurious variants have their seats covered in a woollen material, not leather.
I hope that's just fog, not pollution, that Modhi Bhai is walking around in.
All of Hassanal Bolkiah ibni Omar Ali Saifuddien III's taste is in his mouth. Good grief, Charlie Brown!
I'd rather have had Mrs Betty Windsor drive me around than her husband!
Does the gigantic air pollution in India count as a chemical weapon attack?
Who remembers the Dockers and their gold(painted?)Rolls?
OK, I'm not into British Royalty, but props to the queen for driving, and from your explication, actually having a good time.
correction the base weight of the Toyota Century is 6,640 LBs thats 898 LBs heavier than a 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine granted the Toyota Century actually comes with a 5.0 IGZ FE V12 Toyota's only V12 option that's actually incorrect for fuel consumption on a Century in the US it gets 12.2 MPG and with a 25 Gallon tank only goes 305 miles. mind you for example a top of the line 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera Targa would be worth nearly 200,000 in 2023
A US gallon is smaller than a British gallon, it depends on the country.
Is there a Pope Boat??? It’s not walking on water but… also the pope jeep looks fun… I think that was when the pope was in Panama City Beach for Spring Break 2013… I would have a Presidential Hover Craft…
The Japanese sun goddesses son looks like the guy from 16 candles movie from the 80's ...Long Duck Dong