Top Gear - Arriving in style - Spitfires!

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  • @JonThomas92
    @JonThomas92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +929

    This is almost as good as sending a Police truck to pick up the Aussie Top Gear guys from the air port.

    • @braeeee_
      @braeeee_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      *better, for struthid sake it has a spitfire!

    • @joshuadebole6114
      @joshuadebole6114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's better spitfires and a db5

    • @TheJimmyaustin
      @TheJimmyaustin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@joshuadebole6114 it’s a db6

    • @rainbowappleslice
      @rainbowappleslice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I honestly think this one is better but their both amazing

    • @yannicklindelauf5271
      @yannicklindelauf5271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I couldn't stop laughing when they picked them up in a prison van i almost pissed myself i was laughing so hard

  • @ralphjackson2518
    @ralphjackson2518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    The best part is the Luftwaffe March plays when the germans arrived

    • @Jack-hg1hq
      @Jack-hg1hq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yep, if you know the film then this whole bit is just perfect

    • @Jack-hg1hq
      @Jack-hg1hq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Joe bloggs yes but it was composed to be played when the luftwaffe were on screen so it's not nothing to do with them, they still play it for them now

    • @ralphjackson2518
      @ralphjackson2518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Joe bloggs it's rather explicitly the Luftwaffe theme in the movie.

    • @ralphjackson2518
      @ralphjackson2518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Joe bloggs dude, chill out, and go rewatch the film. I know it's called aces high, but even in the freaking commentary is referred to as the Luftwaffe march or theme. It's rather explicitly their leitmotif.

    • @carltonleboss
      @carltonleboss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe they used the German national anthem in the actual episode

  • @mmouseav8r402
    @mmouseav8r402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    As a half-German, this is awesome. The Spitfire is one of the prettiest airplanes ever made.

    • @musicbruv
      @musicbruv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I may be a bit biased but I also think the Spitfire is a beautiful aircraft. it does not look like a killing machine.

    • @BirkinIdk
      @BirkinIdk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You know the Spitfire was developed by the Royal Air Force right?

    • @musicbruv
      @musicbruv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BirkinIdk It was developed by Supermarine.

  • @EriAirlangga
    @EriAirlangga 7 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    Producer: "You're representing the BBC. You can't just turn up and go on about the war."
    *Arriving in Spitfires with Battle of Britain tune*

  • @seanieboi3100
    @seanieboi3100 6 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    'You can't just turn up and go on about the war' *James May smiling maliciously*
    Me: 'Holy shit, this is going to be good.'

  • @blackorange5091
    @blackorange5091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    Germans when they hear a Merlin engine flying over their heads:
    *Ah shit, here we go again*

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Brits when they hear a HE-111 over their skies: *ah shit, here we go again*

    • @OrionsWarriorUK
      @OrionsWarriorUK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@MausOfTheHouse when you say us Brits are like "here we go again". Do you mean winning? Hahaha

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OrionsWarriorUK yes I do.

    • @charlespletzke8311
      @charlespletzke8311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MausOfTheHouse off to the Bomb shelter we go!

    • @ardvark84
      @ardvark84 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      WW2 ended in 1945 so it's been over 75 years of German people or any people in fact NOT looking up at Spitfires. Great majority of people who actually seen Spitfires doing their things are dead and young people look down to their phones. Even as a joke it doesn't work. Merlin engine is a legend today but back then it was just a tool to kill poeple. And not the only one. Quit being one of those people who say "we won the war", you didn't even exist at that time.

  • @NLMOVIE12
    @NLMOVIE12 7 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    If your opponent arrives in a Spitfire,
    you have lost.

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s either loose the race or get stir at from the skies

  • @cameronschmid4773
    @cameronschmid4773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    0:23 I love how casual Jeremy is.
    "Obviously we needed somewhere to stage this."
    "Ah, yes, and I suggested in the skies above southern England."

    • @panduwidagdo7051
      @panduwidagdo7051 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      And also May, "Belgium, which is country invented so that Britain and Germany would have somewhere to sort out their differences".

    • @cameronschmid4773
      @cameronschmid4773 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pandu Widagdo lol you right. Also the smile James gives after Richard says "about the war."

    • @andrewlothian1568
      @andrewlothian1568 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cameron Schmid m

  • @khaccanhle1930
    @khaccanhle1930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I remember watching this when it first came out. When they cut to the spitfires, I Jumped out of my chair and burst into a laughing cheer.

  • @aredub1847
    @aredub1847 5 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    "don't mention the war"

  • @tommyleesheils2061
    @tommyleesheils2061 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    The only acceptable way to meet anybody German.

    • @raptorjesus3894
      @raptorjesus3894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What about in a T-34 tank with Katyusha blasting?

    • @autismo721
      @autismo721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@raptorjesus3894 even better. A BT-2 . Just jump in and drift a little.

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How about a lancaster?

    • @alistairwalker2850
      @alistairwalker2850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What about with the entire 1966 England National Football Team?

    • @jojoreztorc0396
      @jojoreztorc0396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What about a horde of B17’s, b24’s and P51’s?

  • @shankarbalan3813
    @shankarbalan3813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Come on Biggles Come on Algy ....absolutely just phenomenal references to Capt W E Johns and that lovely inspiring music from The Battle of Britain. This just has to be the best grand entrance ever.

  • @simonjackson7269
    @simonjackson7269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The sound of those Merlins send shivers up my spine!!!!

    • @dafoex
      @dafoex 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps second only to the Rolls Royce Olympus engines of the Vulcan

  • @shopldt538
    @shopldt538 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is the class this show had. To turn up anywhere in three spits is just pure class. Awesome entrance.

  • @hanscombe72
    @hanscombe72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Sabine: so sad to hear of her passing. Still remember her driving a van around the Nürburgring.

    • @generichuman2044
      @generichuman2044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh no. What happened to her?

    • @kuzman36
      @kuzman36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@generichuman2044 she past away due to sickness. There are Too Gear tribute about her,looks on YT

    • @paleoph6168
      @paleoph6168 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@kuzman36 "Too Gear" 💀

  • @erikerice9068
    @erikerice9068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I don't care what anybody says, that's one of the greatest entrances of all time.

  • @manfrombritain6816
    @manfrombritain6816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I love the German presenters for playing along with this. Good sports!

    • @elsden722
      @elsden722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's honestly amazing they weren't "oFfEndEd" 😆 really good show from them, big respect 👍

    • @ciptapradja2814
      @ciptapradja2814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol. They literally knew this would happen. Sabine knows jeremy.

    • @aredub1847
      @aredub1847 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i mean, the uk is a 3rd tier country these days. let them have their jollies.

    • @elsden722
      @elsden722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@aredub1847 why are you a dickhead?

  • @donaldboyer8182
    @donaldboyer8182 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I never get tired of watching this clip. The music and the planes!

  • @alternativebassist
    @alternativebassist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Someone at some uncertain time in some uncertain BBC planning department office looked at their colleagues and said: "why don't we have them arrive in spitfires?" And I hope that person got a raise.

    • @fives2155
      @fives2155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same

    • @alternativebassist
      @alternativebassist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      J M ngl that’s a lot of cringe you’ve gone with there. If half of all your whining about the “Marxist” (lol) BBC was true they’d never have green lit this. You do realise they actually produced this right?

  • @orkstuff5635
    @orkstuff5635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The 'Invasion Stripes' on the wings are the icing on the cake :-D

  • @boscochou9710
    @boscochou9710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This one never gets old.

  • @johnofgaunt9337
    @johnofgaunt9337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    As a German i have to say this point goes to Britain.

  • @roconnor01
    @roconnor01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thank you for the fun and happy memories you gave us all with your sunny personality Sabine. R.I.P.

  • @rmstitanic8163
    @rmstitanic8163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Achtung Spitfire!....Bloody Marvellous!

  • @shepleonard8695
    @shepleonard8695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    "We're on our own. We've been playing for time. And it's running out!"

  • @shankarbalan3813
    @shankarbalan3813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This is beautifully produced and with great style and humour as well. The cues and analogies drawn are absolutely fantastic. Well done old TopGear....but the show is OWNED by Clarkson, May and Hammond. No one comes close to these three rascally, irreverent yet extremely likeable fellows.

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Like how Jeremy went in for the greeting kisses with the Nuburgring woman, then May went in to do the same, but she rejected it and saluted xD

  • @lt_darkseekerantique3911
    @lt_darkseekerantique3911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Never fails to bring a smile to my face

    • @rodgeyd6728
      @rodgeyd6728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Timeless classic 👍

  • @Wisconsam2117
    @Wisconsam2117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Meanwhile on the ground, "Ach Scheiße, Jetzt geht es wieder los"

  • @josephlewis9237
    @josephlewis9237 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I miss Sabine. I liked her when she was on Top Gear. She was so much nicer than I was expecting her to be.

    • @ItsSpeltChayce
      @ItsSpeltChayce ปีที่แล้ว +8

      She was an extraordinary person. She will be missed and remembered forever

  • @allenshibu8631
    @allenshibu8631 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The skies over southern England.... That is good quality

  • @johnfellows2867
    @johnfellows2867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    The beautiful Sabine, very sadly missed RIP

    • @oloferiksson5181
      @oloferiksson5181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Spitfires to the theme from Battle of Britain, epic, but yeah, the forever Queen of the Nürburgring is what really made my eyes get a little misty.

    • @ZACKMAN2007
      @ZACKMAN2007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They should put a statue of her in the Nurburgring

    • @Morris2182
      @Morris2182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ZACKMAN2007 you are not wrong, she was amazing, so much fun and always smiling and cheerful. I miss her

  • @Wisconsam2117
    @Wisconsam2117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This remains one of my favorite bits from any television series to exist.

  • @Zanox-bp3ob
    @Zanox-bp3ob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "we're on our own, we're playing for time, and it's running out!"

  • @co2oblivious627
    @co2oblivious627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Adding the music from the movie The Battle of Britain, was a great touch to this.

  • @TheAquarius1978
    @TheAquarius1978 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    There is no sound on this world that can beat the " symphony " of that V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin.

    • @MikeTheBike58
      @MikeTheBike58 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TheAquarius1978 damn right

  • @MikeTheBike58
    @MikeTheBike58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The sound of those spits together gets me everytime.

  • @PhilbyFavourites
    @PhilbyFavourites 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    1:06 Sabine (god rest her soul, what a sport she was) I could shut my eyes listen to her words and see her as the elegant blond haired senior German pilot in the Battle of Britain where they sit down for a grand meal and toast their skills and fallen colleagues.

  • @TJSaw
    @TJSaw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    “Could’ve been worse. We could’ve come in the back of Bobby Charlton.”
    😂😂😂

  • @Cage2053K
    @Cage2053K ปีที่แล้ว +48

    'Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few'

  • @robashley8216
    @robashley8216 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I can imagine the Germans thinking when they saw the Spits coming in was "Oh no, not again..."

    • @dynamo1796
      @dynamo1796 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The Germans spotting the invasion markings: "Ah scheiße!!"

    • @JimmyS.25
      @JimmyS.25 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They were probably rather sad they didn't bring their 88's 😅

    • @michaellohmeier6427
      @michaellohmeier6427 ปีที่แล้ว

      If we had known we would have brought our ME262, just for the sake of having fun.

  • @dcarbs2979
    @dcarbs2979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Upstaging the Germans will never grow old!

    • @neinnein9306
      @neinnein9306 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pray to the channel !!!

  • @joeyed96
    @joeyed96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    RIP Sabine Schmitz

    • @fridanystrom6463
      @fridanystrom6463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May she rest in peace 😣

    • @SamhainBe
      @SamhainBe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Such a loss...

  • @SunnyD1865
    @SunnyD1865 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Flying a spitfire with the Battle of Britain theme playing is one of the few ways of meeting a German
    Other options include "flying a Lancaster with a strange barrel attatched while playing the dambusters theme" or "flying a mosquito while playing the 633 squadron theme"

    • @cortaxdk1675
      @cortaxdk1675 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      DriftFC3S lmao

    • @unclejoeoakland
      @unclejoeoakland 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How about riding in on the cupola of a Sherman?

    • @titan_2244
      @titan_2244 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      unclejoeoakland or a churchill

  • @LouieNeira
    @LouieNeira 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I still get chills when I hear those engines and watch the flyby!

    • @TheFagerlund
      @TheFagerlund 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should play *WAR THUNDER* if you like the sound of those engines and the flyby so much, there are numerous Spitfires in the game and you can choose between numerous countries who served in WW1 and WW2 including the vehicles respectively the countries which you get to choose from are *USA* *Germany* *USSR* *Great Britain* *Japan* *China* *Italy* *France* And last but not least *Sweden* i do got to mention that there are some grinding needed because there's a research tree for every type of vehicle

  • @DeanJWolter
    @DeanJWolter หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Anyone else realize they’re pulling up to a German tracks to meet three German residents in british spitfires? Sensing a theme
    I also just realized the theme playing while flying was the theme for the “Battle of Britain” movie

    • @Stickleback
      @Stickleback 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      that`s what it was all about.

  • @ethanmcfarland8240
    @ethanmcfarland8240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    This the most British thing ever

    • @DavidHh1969
      @DavidHh1969 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup

    • @braeeee_
      @braeeee_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep. And we're proud of it. Have a problem? Sure you have independence and burgers. But we have spitfires!

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brae Jordan G-CDJK
      It wasn’t meant to be an insult..

    • @antonyd6649
      @antonyd6649 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brae Jordan G-CDJK Tad too patriotic to take that as an insult aren’t you?

    • @braeeee_
      @braeeee_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antonyd6649 or maybe you shouldve considered I was joking?

  • @p0ck3tzzz
    @p0ck3tzzz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    uploaded from 2010 yet people are still watching this and commenting on it. everyone sure does miss old top gear

  • @HarryHoward
    @HarryHoward 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is the most British thing ever! And I am so proud!

  • @gobind46
    @gobind46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I have said it once and I'll say it again- these 3 are the coolest guys in the world.

    • @bailey9435
      @bailey9435 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      do you mean the 3 coolest guys...... in the world

    • @gobind46
      @gobind46 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bailey9435 lol I read it in his voice .

  • @craigpennington1251
    @craigpennington1251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    What an entrance! Jump out of a Spit and jump into an Astin Martin.What a marvelous job and they also get paid.Just the ride in a Spitfire would be more than enough for me. Very cool stuff guys, very cool.

  • @jonnnyren6245
    @jonnnyren6245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    It wouldn't be surprising James was excited about this because he has engaged the Germans many times especially as Squad Leader of No. 55 Squadron RAF or the Hammersmith Cockerspaniels Squadron during World War II and yes, he did defeat the legendary but mostly idiotic commander of the Luftwaffe's Gorilla Regiment Generalfeldmarschall Jeremy von Clarkson in the North Africa campaign.
    And he won the Victoria Cross after the war.

    • @Hesitatedeye
      @Hesitatedeye 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      then he introduced Princess Anne to a Reliant Scimitar

  • @Flyboy207
    @Flyboy207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Man… I know it was a big joke, but to see those three Spitfires in formation just gives you goosebumps… and that’s from a Yank.

    • @twotailedavenger
      @twotailedavenger ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Understandable considering the Spitfire and Mustang were essentially blood brothers by war's end.

  • @luvr381
    @luvr381 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Good to see at least one of those Spitfires had invasion stripes.

    • @freakyflow
      @freakyflow 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Happy to see a Canadian maple leaf on it too

    • @fourthpanda
      @fourthpanda 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      why?

    • @freakyflow
      @freakyflow 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why what the leaf? Because Canada flew spitfires We also built the Lancaster and Mosquito fighter / bomber and sent them and Food First aid Ammo Rubber Metal and Troops and other resoruces over sea with are own ships and men of the Navy while under fire from German U-boats both ways while bring back Old, Sick, Wounded POWs Young, Women from England. We were the first to clear are missions In Normandy at a high price facing the best of the enemy mixed in with German tanks
      We were the first to have Native Code Talkers As my grandfather spoke Cree French and English and was apart of the D-day landings As his great great great great great grandfather done with King william and the Normans in 1066 or His great grandfather done with the Vikings and the attack on france......Or in short to Honor the past

    • @JamesWillmus
      @JamesWillmus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because the Canadians in WWII were damn good pilots, that's why.

  • @whyamihere7489
    @whyamihere7489 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Hahahaha the looks on the Germans faces when they flew over 😂😂😂 "not again"

    • @alanb9443
      @alanb9443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except they probably didn’t even fly over. Notice how there is never a direct shot with the Germans and planes together you never see both at the same time. Those spitfires are based in the uk and are 70 years old. I doubt they flew those planes to Belgium. I suspect the plane bit was shot in the uk and then they asked the Germans to pretend the planes were there and edit it together.

    • @neinnein9306
      @neinnein9306 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alanb9443 there is no place here for some reality.. its just emotions. ;)

  • @saabaton169
    @saabaton169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I hate to say it as a car guy, but damn the merlin's sound bloody amazing

    • @OGBootleg
      @OGBootleg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They say that "there is only one other thing in the world that sounds like a Merlin, and that's another Merlin"!

    • @MunkEMann
      @MunkEMann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's still a rolls royce.

    • @saabaton169
      @saabaton169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MunkEMann rolls royce cars and rolls royce engines have absolutely nothing to do with each other

    • @musicbruv
      @musicbruv 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@saabaton169 Rolls Royce cars use Rolls Royce engines.

    • @saabaton169
      @saabaton169 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@musicbruv rolls royce cars are owned and manufactured by bmw and assembled in the UK, though with brexit I imagine not for long whereas rolls royce engines split years ago and became government subsidized towards the end of the cold war and they share nothing in common apart from the name with each other

  • @robleary3353
    @robleary3353 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Don't care how many times I've seen this, still makes me laugh!... Lucky sods getting to fly in a Spitfire!.....

    • @filtonkingswood
      @filtonkingswood ปีที่แล้ว

      You can too... just bring a cheque for five grand.

  • @jaccovandijk9279
    @jaccovandijk9279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    No, no, no, Jeremy... I’m afraid we really cannot fit the guns back in and fire some blanks at them, just for a good laugh. 🤪

  • @anomalyp8584
    @anomalyp8584 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My God those spitfires...so majestic! And scary if they would be coming for you

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you're scared of them you have no business facing them

  • @jimgomez5396
    @jimgomez5396 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    One of the greatest opening scenes ever!!

  • @forbeshutton5487
    @forbeshutton5487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "Don't mention the war"
    -Basil Fawlty

    • @Flyboy207
      @Flyboy207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      “I mentioned it once but I THINK I got away with it…”

    • @scsutton1
      @scsutton1 ปีที่แล้ว

      "You started it!"

    • @trooperdgb9722
      @trooperdgb9722 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scsutton1 "No we didn't!" "Yes you did..you invaded Poland!" Classic stuff.

  • @alanwayte432
    @alanwayte432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Sabine RIP ❤

  • @laurenswitte8483
    @laurenswitte8483 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That is really in style! I am not even a Brit and even I started smiling when I saw those Aston Martins!

  • @Trains-With-Shane
    @Trains-With-Shane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I don't know how much money or unnecessary red tape it cost the BBC to put that together. It was worth it. The Ron Goodwin piece playing couldn't have been more perfect. Tally-Ho Gents!

  • @minecraftdominator394
    @minecraftdominator394 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just love how Captain slow has that grin

  • @threalMrT76
    @threalMrT76 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Spitfires and Aston Martins!!!!!! I'm in Heaven!

  • @paulbradford8240
    @paulbradford8240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The sound of those engines never fails to raise the hair on the back of my neck.

  • @lordflashheart3706
    @lordflashheart3706 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I love how Clarkson's Spit has a larger canopy. To better fit his brilliance, of course.

    • @Abbyyaann
      @Abbyyaann 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂🤣

    • @SR71ABCD
      @SR71ABCD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To fit him, because he's fat, not tall.

  • @lordschaumloffel9234
    @lordschaumloffel9234 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Oh man, the aston martin sound is great. but the roar of the spitfires is unbeatable. what a symphony!

  • @roberthorst5790
    @roberthorst5790 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    rip sabine schmitz

  • @cap-xh5hy
    @cap-xh5hy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Top 10 hardest flexes in world history

    • @J3roen16
      @J3roen16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you stig

  • @MrVonKruger
    @MrVonKruger 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Yes, I suggested we did it in the skies over Southern England..."
    Best. Line. Ever. Of All time.

    • @benwaguk
      @benwaguk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MrVonKruger I laughed so hard at that line 😂

  • @FinlayMorris
    @FinlayMorris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    It's even better when you know that the song at 1:24 is the battle of britain theme

    • @aimnotjouk734
      @aimnotjouk734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also the 0:56 german theme

    • @FinlayMorris
      @FinlayMorris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aimnotjouk734 ah yes the Luftwaffe March

    • @aimnotjouk734
      @aimnotjouk734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Ian Turner yep

  • @thatsbigdave
    @thatsbigdave 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Two people in this video that are dead now Sabine Schmitz the racing driver and also the spitfire pilot with the letters OUV on the middle spitfire pilot is Carolyn Grace who was killed on 2nd December in car crash. R.I.P to them both

  • @oddbod8655
    @oddbod8655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Creasing myself laughing..genius.
    Oh the sound of those Merlin engines!

  • @xavierblackler5861
    @xavierblackler5861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    We're on our own, playing for time. And it's running out 😂🇬🇧

    • @alistairwalker2850
      @alistairwalker2850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HiiighAsAKite Battle of Britain is the best British movie about the War. period

  • @86Vili86
    @86Vili86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Still brings tears in my eyes.

  • @daniel030570
    @daniel030570 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This is so great, I never saw it, They getting to the meeting on Spitefires, after taking on Aston Martin cars , just like Bond, who care what happened at the race, that was fantastic to see this morning, it’s really makes my day even if it happens long before today. Thank you

  • @danielwang2956
    @danielwang2956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Tune in next week for our grand arrival in Nagasaki on B-29 bombers

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think that would end well.

    • @ph89787
      @ph89787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Could be worse. Showing up in Honolulu in an A6M Zero.

    • @banditmc12
      @banditmc12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ph89787 arriving in London in a 109

    • @dontcare3049
      @dontcare3049 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@banditmc12 it would be a 111 109 never hurt London

    • @banditmc12
      @banditmc12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dontcare3049 why not a dornier as well if we are being pedantic

  • @nume1981
    @nume1981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Gotta love these guys....

  • @alistairwalker2850
    @alistairwalker2850 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “We could’ve come in the back of Bobby Charlton” That joke was the cherry on top for this whole scene

  • @gmctech
    @gmctech 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    F*ck yeah.... Clarkson's Spitfire had a Maple Leaf on it! :) made me grin ear from ear because my great Uncle from Nova Scotia, Canada was a Spitfire pilot! :) :) :)

  • @michaelk19thcfan10
    @michaelk19thcfan10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Rolls Royce Merlin the original sound of freedom.

  • @adamsmyth1156
    @adamsmyth1156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I mean, it could have been meaner, they could have arrived in a Lancaster.

    • @notaspy3751
      @notaspy3751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Imagine Clarkson at the guns XD

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It would have been better, still

    • @charlesharper2357
      @charlesharper2357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Germans could have arrived in a Tiger tank...and squashed TGs cars...

    • @haraldlorentzen40
      @haraldlorentzen40 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@charlesharper2357 Nope, as the only Tiger 1 that can still run is at The Tank Museum, Bovington UK. The others are static displays.

    • @charlesharper2357
      @charlesharper2357 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@haraldlorentzen40
      Stop being a jerk...

  • @ArdiOye
    @ArdiOye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Damn! Can't beat the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin.

  • @jannespor8178
    @jannespor8178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    1:40
    *Hammond:* "Niemczy, Niemczy! Na dole."
    *May:* "Nie widzę ich. Gdzie?"
    *Hammond:* "Na dole, na prawo."
    *May:* "Idźcie na nich! Bijcie ich!"
    Clarkson: *"Stop that Polish chatter!"*

    • @richardphilpott1013
      @richardphilpott1013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "And steer two, three, zero!"
      "Repeat please!"
      "I say again, two, three, zero!"

    • @jannespor8178
      @jannespor8178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@richardphilpott1013 Repeat please!

    • @richardphilpott1013
      @richardphilpott1013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jannespor8178 For crying out loud - two, three, zero!

    • @yveaux500
      @yveaux500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@richardphilpott1013 Repeat please!

    • @richardphilpott1013
      @richardphilpott1013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yveaux500 Now just shut up the lot of you, and follow me. Unless you’re blind as well as……Oh God strewth!

  • @aelfdog8491
    @aelfdog8491 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The Germans were probably saying: "Achtung Spitfire!"

  • @Selvikus
    @Selvikus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    RIP Sabine Schmitz....

  • @stayontarget4550
    @stayontarget4550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I haven't watched top gear in years, but OMG... Three Spitfires. This was one of my favourite things they ever did. I mean, how cool is that. The budget for this show must have been eye watering. The organisation and clout required to get probably the only three, dual seat Spitfires in the UK, together at once, get agreement from the owners to fly across them across the Chanel... pretty amazing.

    • @magiccyclone
      @magiccyclone 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't go over the channel, they're in Duxford airfield.

  • @chenyaosong9185
    @chenyaosong9185 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Rolls Royce Merlin Engine! Pure British Sound lol

    • @CamoDrako
      @CamoDrako 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A close-relative of the V12 in the Aston DB9

  • @kilianfirebolt
    @kilianfirebolt ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Im german and i loved this, big respect to britain

    • @daverbenson4834
      @daverbenson4834 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm English and German....We Should Never Had Fought...Never Again 😪

  • @SC-en5nl
    @SC-en5nl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "Come on, Biggles! Come on, Algy!"

  • @FunteX
    @FunteX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    R.I.P Sabine . . .

  • @buolindo8795
    @buolindo8795 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    At least they didn't arrive in a Lancaster 😂😂

    • @hugomilson6778
      @hugomilson6778 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Heinkel

    • @GSXRI300
      @GSXRI300 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      that would have just a tad much

  • @paulrawlins5868
    @paulrawlins5868 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Those Merlins...

    • @Numetalfan01
      @Numetalfan01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      27 litres of pure Britishness.
      Followed by 1 x 4 litre, 2 x 4.7 litre Astons
      I'll have a cup of Tea and Croissant, ta.

  • @Boris-xx7dw
    @Boris-xx7dw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nothing sounds like a Merlin of griffin engine , that is the sound of freedom .

  • @roccospagnuolo7855
    @roccospagnuolo7855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    This made me feel patriotic and I’m not even British

    • @obiwankenobi3375
      @obiwankenobi3375 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      are you apart of the commonwealth

    • @James-jl4jt
      @James-jl4jt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It makes me feel embarrassed to be British. We’re obsessed with a war that ended 75 years ago where we played second fiddle to the Russians and Americans

    • @raggeragnar
      @raggeragnar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@James-jl4jt : Well , Clarkson wanted to settle it in the skies over southern England , so I believe they are aiming at the battle of Britain , even though the Spitfires have D-day markings. THAT was one of Britains finest hours.

    • @jones6613
      @jones6613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@James-jl4jt be proud... it’s a good thing Britain won the war

    • @James-jl4jt
      @James-jl4jt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jones6613 yes on the one hand it’s definitely something to be proud of. But on the other hand it’s time we stopped dwelling on it so much and moved on given how long ago it was, especially when you look at how both the german and japanese economies have eclipsed that of britain since total ruin in 1945.

  • @saabturboguy
    @saabturboguy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    love the way they blended that in

  • @BLKSHiEP2
    @BLKSHiEP2 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm not British, (From the US) but that is one of the BEST introductions on TopGear that has been done!!! Seeing three Spitfires swooping down with the music in the background is GREAT!!! We have the American TopGear which cannot hold anything to the original BBC editon.

    • @TheCoomer
      @TheCoomer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you watch the film 'Battle of Britain' the music is soo much more. Makes you proud to be British.

  • @bobpage6597
    @bobpage6597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    1:57.....Canadian Spit - notice the Maple Leaf badge up front below the cockpit! :)

    • @justanobadi6655
      @justanobadi6655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well one of the main characters (collin) is a Canadian RAF pilot

    • @cannedpiss5178
      @cannedpiss5178 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      nice spot. do you know anything about these, like if they were modified for canadian service? cheers! :)

  • @RickPeake01
    @RickPeake01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Listen to those merlins spit .. wow 👏