Back in ‘97 I had a Renault 5 GT Turbo, 118hp and 830Kg, that was an absolute rocket ship, a mini with 160 and around 680kg is fantastic, properly quick car.
I miss Earl’s Court Motor Show. After seeing all the cars downstairs, used to love going upstairs buying stuff like model cars. Before the days of online shopping. Loved it. A good day out.
I agree...Quentin is annoying, but Steve Berry is downright nauseating. Hopefully he has been gainfully employed since TG, doing things like announcing for wrestling matches or as a train announcer.
@@RoadCone411 Aye. He was once described as "a turd in a suit". A bit harsh perhaps, but being familiar with an individual that looks & sounds just like him; perhaps also accurate.
8:02 Couldn't have agreed more, especially with modern cars of today have way too much electronic sensors. Here in Malaysia, it's a common sight seeing 1990's and 2000's car still being driven on the road.
In one of Clarkson books, he recalled the fun he had with Quentin, and laughing about what Steve Berry would crash that week. Remind you of the beloved TG?
Loved it with Quinton Clarkson and Tiff, good old fashioned car reviewing , Jeremy was a bit posher in those days lol not the big hooligan he is now, still love the big guy, straight talker, that will do for me
Some people may scoff but this incarnation of the programme was a definite improvement on the William Woollard/Chris Goffey days. I remember one episode they talked for a full 10 minutes about the legroom in the back of a VW Passat.....
This is like where I used to work. We had a fellow that weighed extensively. He drove a Geo Metro. I told him if he had an accident, they would have to peel the car like a banana to get him out of it. It was amazing to see him get into the thing. That dude filled it up on the inside. We all told him to please get a bigger car.
Nice to see more folk uploading these old clips, far more informative than the newer show, not that the new programmes bad, but I personally prefer the older format, call me old fashioned, all it really needed was some of the new shows wit and funny events.
agreed. a REAL mini. what started it all. ( well for minis anyways. and a FAST mini to boot. these things are FUN to drive. ive always disliked tiny cars, but got my hands on a smart car and what appeared to be a mini, pickup. weird looking thing but fast , fun, and handled great.
"In 1989, Magellan Navigation Inc. unveiled its Magellan NAV 1000, the world's first commercial handheld GPS receiver. These units initially sold for approximately US$2,900 each."
"What the customer wants is their old Golf, but a little bit better". Truer words have rarely been spoken. Well, what I really want is an Audi S5 GC, but I can't afford to pay twice as much.
That Astra was probably a better car than the current one. Nobody aspires to driving a Vauxhall these days, and thats where the company is failing. Too much competition with more desirable brands. Everyone seems to be worried about their own image these days, and obsessed with being seen in the right labels, or having the right badge on the car. An obsession with trying to live up to a certain lifestyle they see on TV, in magazines and on the internet, instead of being happy in themselves. Sheep, following everyone else. In the old days, British car buyers would, in the main, traditionally buy Ford, Vauxhall, Rover etc, with a few buying imported French, German and Japanese cars. Saloons and hatchbacks, only the wealthy bought 4x4s. The SUV/crossover segment didn't exist, so it was easy for the likes of Vauxhall to get the bulk of the sales. No its all about trends, fashion and lifestyle. For a lot of people, a car is more than just a means of getting from A to B. Its an extension of their own personality, and convincing themselves they are living a better lifestyle by driving a certain brand, where in reality, nobody else gives a shit.
You're absolutely right. Carmakers these days should work on their image as well as in their product. To me, Vauxhall makes great cars nowadays, truly nice designs with fine driving dynamics and very good value for money but some of their past products were dismal and some peoble seem unable to forget. I mean, Vauxhall lost its place as the second best selling car brand to Volkswagen, and this is while VW's image took a huge hit with the Dieselgate thing. Vauxhall should improve a lot its street cred and not sell cars just based on discounts, that's just short sighted.
I.. I honestly don't know. 160 is a lot for a go kart. I think I just found the way he says it, like it's a Bugatti, that cracked me up. You know how you sometimes can't sleep at night because you can't stop thinking about that embarrassing thing you said to that girl at the dance like ten years ago.. this is one of those moments.
I really don't see how that "new" Astra looks similar to the one before it,. I know Top Gear likes that sort of joke but it needs to make sense when used.
5:46. VW was absolutely right - and everyone that didn't trade in their 1st gen Ford Focus on a 3rd gen (we never got the 2nd gen in the U.S. with a Ford badge on it) knows exactly what they meant. There were 15 or so of us in my high school in a Focus racer's club (none of them were more modified than having painted brake calipers), now of the 12 that I still talk to, 8 of us own Mazda3s and 3 have Chevy Sonics because they are exactly that, the same but better than our Focuses.
Top gear should go back to making episodes like this because they're trying to be what they used to be with the trio but it just ain't happening. A show like this reviewing cars properly would be better
Clarkson in that Mini hits the nail on the head EXACTLY explaining what's wrong with these 'ricers'. Removing the interior and adding solid shocks might take off a tenth of a second to your 0-60 time or your laptime, but in the process you have now made a car that you can;t possibly live with.
Whatever happened to Top Gear? It morphed into 3 blokey blokes having a laugh in daft vehicles all round the globe, at vast expense. Now it's worse than ever. Am I getting old? Clearly!
august the 1st is that time of the year when the next year of registration kicks in. for instance if this video is from 1997, ( after august 1st ) the new vehicle registration in the showrooms will be a P plate..... what the presenter was pointing out was that a surplus of cars that DOES NOT sell by august 1st the following year, can not be sold as brand new, but nearly new surplus
2:35 1.4 liter engine, 160 horsepower engine... that’s exactly what my Fiat 500 Abarth has. Crazy how revolutionary this was back in the day, and now we have mass produced city cars with this power everywhere.
Yes, like most prototypes they decided they'd added too much and had to reduce some of the features. For the finished market model they decided to lose the northern accent and reduce the overall size by 20%.
The guy at the convention seriously disturbs me.I feel like he haves some serious medical condition by the way he talks and his body launguege suggest that he is a serial killer.
You do realise the mini was like 600kg so that is a rough guess about 300 bhp per ton , Golf R or S3 are about 200 bhp per ton so yes its going to be a very quick car i guess quicker than the the afor mentioned.
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Back in ‘97 I had a Renault 5 GT Turbo, 118hp and 830Kg, that was an absolute rocket ship, a mini with 160 and around 680kg is fantastic, properly quick car.
Quick until the head gasket blew maybe!
They weren't as quick as people make out.
@@bobroberts7029 They were at the time.
I wonder how nostalgic Clarkson feels when he see these old reviews.
I miss Earl’s Court Motor Show. After seeing all the cars downstairs, used to love going upstairs buying stuff like model cars. Before the days of online shopping. Loved it. A good day out.
I'm glad they didn't bring that shouty man over to new Top Gear.
Wdym?
I agree...Quentin is annoying, but Steve Berry is downright nauseating. Hopefully he has been gainfully employed since TG, doing things like announcing for wrestling matches or as a train announcer.
@@RoadCone411 Aye. He was once described as "a turd in a suit". A bit harsh perhaps, but being familiar with an individual that looks & sounds just like him; perhaps also accurate.
Haha! 2020 and the Astra still looks the same. 😂
^ As in still looks naff... aye that's true XD.
Jeremy Clarksons like what 6"5" and he fits in a mini
Every mini includes a spatial displacement teseract.
Peel P45
John DAWSON he was 6’5 at his max, now he’s 6’4
@@TheOmniforreal 6'3
@@martinleonardosantacruzmol1493 6'5" at 30 , 6'4" at 59
I love how the BBC were dishing out content that literally anybody can do now - 50 min coverage of the motor show? Mad how times change.
'Literally anybody'. So...anybody, you mean. Idiot.
This is when they started letting Jeremy be Jeremy and the beginning of a beautiful thing!
Skodaman2 Oh, _he_ most definitely isn't, but what he does from here most certainly _is_.
Skodaman2 whats hair colour got to do with it? Grow up.
'New' Top Gear was the Clarkson years surely? Evan et al were 'Neo New Top Gear'? Old Top Gear was the golden years.
@@abcbcde9985 Incorrect. Its Old Top Gear, Top Gear, then Grand Tour. We do not speaketh of Chris Evans or Matt LeBlank unless we have to.
@@davidtuttle7556 but what about this new new top gear ?? with a comedian, a cricket star, and a driver!
Watching this in 2020 is like waking up the morning after the night before....
It is quite funny looking at those pristine, newly presented 90's cars considering how they look like now...and what they cost
8:02 Couldn't have agreed more, especially with modern cars of today have way too much electronic sensors. Here in Malaysia, it's a common sight seeing 1990's and 2000's car still being driven on the road.
That mini was fab!!
In one of Clarkson books, he recalled the fun he had with Quentin, and laughing about what Steve Berry would crash that week. Remind you of the beloved TG?
🧒❤
Great episode. More real-world than the modern episodes, but with plenty of humour from JC.
Loved it with Quinton Clarkson and Tiff, good old fashioned car reviewing , Jeremy was a bit posher in those days lol not the big hooligan he is now, still love the big guy, straight talker, that will do for me
That guy reviewing the Astra... is that Richard Hammond's dad? LOL
They look and sound, nothing alike
@@afrog2666 Its the high pitched excitement which is similar.
He is Steve Berry.
He was their resident motorcycle expert.
He also anchored Top Gear on the Radio on Saturday mornings.
deovision was wondering too😂😂
lololol
160 hp go cart... im in!
Me too i bed that would show a Golf R how its done
The format is old but I used to like TG when it was like this.
I prefer the older format, they actually inform you without looking like a massive advert
YES
@@theginjaninja132 HAHAHAHAH most people don't actually want to be informed anymore. If you are reading this, you are an exception to "most people"
The BBC should have gone back to this format of the show when Clarkson got sacked
@@theginjaninja132 Basically what Fifth Gear is/was
At the Ford Ka, the steering wheel, the bumpers and the tires didn't rust.
Some people may scoff but this incarnation of the programme was a definite improvement on the William Woollard/Chris Goffey days. I remember one episode they talked for a full 10 minutes about the legroom in the back of a VW Passat.....
haha. The good old days.
This is like where I used to work. We had a fellow that weighed extensively. He drove a Geo Metro. I told him if he had an accident, they would have to peel the car like a banana to get him out of it. It was amazing to see him get into the thing. That dude filled it up on the inside. We all told him to please get a bigger car.
I have a 1969 restored Mini Cooper S in Perth Australia... done about 50,000 miles from new.
BigJulie how is the mini viewed in OZ I expect it looks very small vs holdens and pickups
@@sunsetvlogs5500 send me an email aardent@iinet.au
aardent@iinet.net.au..... sorry
It's funny to think 20 years ago they have the opposite problem as we do now
Steve Berry, the most irritating presenter in Top Gear history...
AR1G3 get that man some decaf.. seriously
More so than Matt LeBlanc?. Btw as an American, I'm sorry for that on.
Poor man was trying to do his job as professionally as possible. Dont be jealous
I think he just being normal. It's pretty much like some youtube car reviewers.
As someone whom knows a man that looks & sounds like him... I think irritating, is an understatement.
Clarkson getting excited over 160hp. Unheard of 😂
Actually he would even appreciate nowadays as well, Because this mini is so light thus higher power to ratio ^^
Nice to see more folk uploading these old clips, far more informative than the newer show, not that the new programmes bad, but I personally prefer the older format, call me old fashioned, all it really needed was some of the new shows wit and funny events.
That mini is so cool
Mark Ellis if your a midget
I'm tall and I still fit in my mini lol
I really wanna go back to the time where you could buy a new rover
Well Land Rover still exists and they were actually the real original Rover company. The Rover that went broke was basically a renamed Austin.
New mgs?
5:26 Awwww I miss my old Xsara. It was such a good car :'(
My mum had one in 13 and it sounded like a bus but we drove it until 2015 and no service was required
This car is awesome. I am blinded by love.
RIP TOP GEAR.
agreed. a REAL mini. what started it all. ( well for minis anyways. and a FAST mini to boot. these things are FUN to drive. ive always disliked tiny cars, but got my hands on a smart car and what appeared to be a mini, pickup. weird looking thing but fast , fun, and handled great.
Still the cutest little car on earth Is the original mini despite its age
I didn't know aby car was capable of nav in 1997!
Minidisk player too :'D
Pingman still have a player, love minidiscs
Luxury cars have had sat navs long before, at least by 1990.
"In 1989, Magellan Navigation Inc. unveiled its Magellan NAV 1000, the world's first commercial handheld GPS receiver. These units initially sold for approximately US$2,900 each."
You should watch tomorrows world. Electronic Navigation was being experimented with in the 70's but it wasn't like how it is today.
Old Top Gear, back when Clarkson's head wasn't so big that he couldn't fit it inside The Albert Hall.
thanks for uploading these videos .
"What the customer wants is their old Golf, but a little bit better". Truer words have rarely been spoken.
Well, what I really want is an Audi S5 GC, but I can't afford to pay twice as much.
LOVE THE GREEN MINI........ PERFECT SET UP
a friend of mine has one of those Golf s there and he kinda brags with in 2020. Mindblowing
That Astra was probably a better car than the current one. Nobody aspires to driving a Vauxhall these days, and thats where the company is failing. Too much competition with more desirable brands. Everyone seems to be worried about their own image these days, and obsessed with being seen in the right labels, or having the right badge on the car. An obsession with trying to live up to a certain lifestyle they see on TV, in magazines and on the internet, instead of being happy in themselves. Sheep, following everyone else. In the old days, British car buyers would, in the main, traditionally buy Ford, Vauxhall, Rover etc, with a few buying imported French, German and Japanese cars. Saloons and hatchbacks, only the wealthy bought 4x4s. The SUV/crossover segment didn't exist, so it was easy for the likes of Vauxhall to get the bulk of the sales. No its all about trends, fashion and lifestyle. For a lot of people, a car is more than just a means of getting from A to B. Its an extension of their own personality, and convincing themselves they are living a better lifestyle by driving a certain brand, where in reality, nobody else gives a shit.
Spot on Ern
You're absolutely right. Carmakers these days should work on their image as well as in their product. To me, Vauxhall makes great cars nowadays, truly nice designs with fine driving dynamics and very good value for money but some of their past products were dismal and some peoble seem unable to forget. I mean, Vauxhall lost its place as the second best selling car brand to Volkswagen, and this is while VW's image took a huge hit with the Dieselgate thing. Vauxhall should improve a lot its street cred and not sell cars just based on discounts, that's just short sighted.
And that's why I'll hang on my rover
Love the old minis and love the old top gear
I.. I honestly don't know. 160 is a lot for a go kart. I think I just found the way he says it, like it's a Bugatti, that cracked me up. You know how you sometimes can't sleep at night because you can't stop thinking about that embarrassing thing you said to that girl at the dance like ten years ago.. this is one of those moments.
1997,when Clarkson could fit in a mini...
I miss my Mini, and if I had had that Mini then I would have been missing it even longer because I would have totalled it a lot sooner than I did.
I miss my Astra MK.2 GTE
Better to have Crashed and Lost than never to have had a decent and amusing car....
The Golf still holds up
Wish I were born in the 80s
I want that mini. I want it now.
Did he just say Vauxhall Ashtray?
+Byteblock Definitely.
😂
He's not wrong
Top gear when it was a car program for real people with real world budgets
The shift gate on that Mini is fucking brilliant.
Always thought he looked like Dougal from Father Ted... That would have been sooooo funny having him as presenter.
the Isuzu Vehicross honestly looks great today, it's like the world got weird enough to suit it.
The plate on that old mini now sits on a 2020 John Cooper Works mini!
his voice never changed
I really don't see how that "new" Astra looks similar to the one before it,. I know Top Gear likes that sort of joke but it needs to make sense when used.
The Astra still looks the same in 2020.
1997 looks like what I imagine 1977 looked like.
the Corvette is not ugly, few cars are as sleek and smooth
Mr.Bean is drooling when he saw that. But alas he can't buy one of these.
5:46. VW was absolutely right - and everyone that didn't trade in their 1st gen Ford Focus on a 3rd gen (we never got the 2nd gen in the U.S. with a Ford badge on it) knows exactly what they meant. There were 15 or so of us in my high school in a Focus racer's club (none of them were more modified than having painted brake calipers), now of the 12 that I still talk to, 8 of us own Mazda3s and 3 have Chevy Sonics because they are exactly that, the same but better than our Focuses.
Top gear should go back to making episodes like this because they're trying to be what they used to be with the trio but it just ain't happening. A show like this reviewing cars properly would be better
THANK YOU for this!!!!!!!
It’s like a very restrained Jeremy
As opposed to Jezza in a Viper.
Clarkson in that Mini hits the nail on the head EXACTLY explaining what's wrong with these 'ricers'. Removing the interior and adding solid shocks might take off a tenth of a second to your 0-60 time or your laptime, but in the process you have now made a car that you can;t possibly live with.
Ricers don't get gains...
Cars have certainly changed since this video. so has Clarkson.
Anyone know if that fabulous 50K Mini is still knocking around somewhere?
i rang the number at the end, there's a guy crying saying something about losing Clarkson over hot food.
I want that Mini!
New vauxhall, my nipples tingle with excitement!! Only interesting part of Jezza's bit on the mini.
Wonder how the 160 hp 1380cc 16v Twin-Cam engine would perform in a Midas or an MG Midget.
Whatever happened to Top Gear? It morphed into 3 blokey blokes having a laugh in daft vehicles all round the globe, at vast expense. Now it's worse than ever. Am I getting old? Clearly!
That MX-5 tho
And my god they were still making the Mini. Imagine buying one in 2000
august the 1st is that time of the year when the next year of registration kicks in.
for instance if this video is from 1997, ( after august 1st ) the new vehicle registration in the showrooms will be a P plate..... what the presenter was pointing out was that a surplus of cars that DOES NOT sell by august 1st the following year, can not be sold as brand new, but nearly new surplus
1997 was the change to an "R" plate.
Thanks dophtrains2.
Should kept the mini original interior like a sleeper.
Jeremy looks huge standing outside the mini and then small when inside it wtf
2:32 Air filter goals : D.... 1 air filter per cylinder!
2:35 1.4 liter engine, 160 horsepower engine... that’s exactly what my Fiat 500 Abarth has. Crazy how revolutionary this was back in the day, and now we have mass produced city cars with this power everywhere.
Is not the point... 160 in a car that light is what makes it wonderful... I bet that thing is like 1800 lb..
"There's also a triple-denim disaster of a Clarkson"
My first thought at seeing this.
At the start of that bit I thought someone had hand-built a 2/3 scale mini.
I want that fast mini
I need a mini fast
It is nice seeing the Astra there in showroom condition, they are all rusty now, driving around... :(
was steve berry the prototype for Richard Hammond?
Yes, like most prototypes they decided they'd added too much and had to reduce some of the features. For the finished market model they decided to lose the northern accent and reduce the overall size by 20%.
@@HighHoeKermit Lol I thought so.
@@HighHoeKermit 20% more like 50% and added a little high gloss finish with whitewalled ennammeled bits.
wonder what hed think of the mighty car mods mini they built with a honda vtech engine.
Liking the little Mini
@TopGearrules How come you liked it so much?
When top gear was still about cars and not smashing cars with pianos and ramping power boats into shopfronts.
Nice mini and TG was still good
car salesman must of loved this
of?
In English it is "must have".....my good man.
I have to say that it wasn't the smartest idea for TV show about cars to employ cameraman from porn studio.
The guy at the convention seriously disturbs me.I feel like he haves some serious medical condition by the way he talks and his body launguege suggest that he is a serial killer.
There is just one person that he wants to kill.
He's got a bit of the American Psycho about him..
@@liverush24 Not anymore, I've retired 😎🙋♂️
Back when satellite navigation was still two words.
was that burgundy mini ever produced? looks so nice, that interior is so perfect
German Andres Moreno Rojas it’s a modified cilinder head from a bmw bike, you can buy it from a company called KAD for around 5k
2:51 this sounds like my grandmother .
🤣🤣🤣
This video doesn't go with the other one that is listed as the other half.
so cool!
mini
Thanks!
Back in the days when 160hp was much :D
True and fair. Although it would still feel like a lot in the Mini :)
You do realise the mini was like 600kg so that is a rough guess about 300 bhp per ton , Golf R or S3 are about 200 bhp per ton so yes its going to be a very quick car i guess quicker than the the afor mentioned.
Damn so strange seeing them so young and innocent
Very first song? "Dreaming is free" Or something? Please help!
@@D711-n6e Thank you vm!
Luckily enough Morris marinas all came with a complimentary bus timetable,,
2.49 jeremy clarkson face XD