Was the primary reason for leaving old Top Gear. When presented with yet another mass produced, boring car, he couldnt think of anything interesting to write about it.
@jemimallah I bet you're the life and soul at a party. I was making a tongue-in-cheek comment about the environmental subjects that dominated the 90's that have mostly been forgotten about now. That was all. Though I'm glad I could provide you with something to comment on so that you can prove to the comment section of TH-cam how clever and educated you are. You wouldn't seem like such a douche without the last sentence but, alas, you clearly couldn't resist. Keep the insults to yourself, bud, there's no need for it.
Actually the diesel is better for the environment compared to the petrol, takting a look at the CO2 emissions. But the issue with diesel it contamines the air in cities. This leads to diseases like lung cancer.
It’s hard to comprehend those cars he’s reviewing were at the time “latest models”. It’s like he’s reviewing bangers but they were actually desireable at that time.
The difference is, those cars were simple, reliable and worked. Cars of nowadays are beautfiul, complicated and don't last. Many cars of nowadays won't go much over 150k miles, cars from back then wouldn't have problems with such numbers.
I'm not a fan of VW at all, but they are still leading the pack on clean diesel today. They cheated, yes. They faked their results to be even cleaner than they are, but the fact is, even if they didn't fake their tests it's still one of the most advanced engines today. So don't be a sheep and just bash VW as the worst polluters in the world, the're not that bad. (But they deserve to be joked about :) )
it's nothing to do with how the BBC was or is, Top Gear just wasn't intented as an entertainment show pre 2000 and they changed that in the 2002 reboot.
They changed it because Top Gear tanked and became boring. You can't deliver just facts - you can get that from a book. Top Gear 2002+ combined facts with entertainment and humor. There's a reason why Car&Driver isn't filmed anymore - nobody watches it. All you are given is just facts.
Well, the mainstream opinion against the diesel is the "clatter" sound. Sure, the gasoline engine seem to be more sophisticated and quiet. However, gasoline engines are less energy efficient than diesel engine. For instance, a standard model Bugatti Veyron engine produces 3000 hp, but 2/3rd of it goes out in wasted unused heat, and "only" 1000hp goes to pavement. Sure, 1000hp is well enough, but think of the energy that is being wasted. You could probably heat several family homes for one quick stint in a Veyron. That's why in marine engines, locomotives, big trucks diesel is used, because I think it has about 60% efficiency. For comparison, steam engine would be around 10% efficiency, gasoline engine is about 30%, then you have the diesel, then I believe you have the electric engines. What I would actually like to see is to have a diesel electric car. Diesel electric locomotives have been around since late '30s in U.K. They got the concept right to this day. I believe, before going fully electric with cars, a diesel-electric should be a natural progression. You'd have efficiency, range, and would not depend on connecting wires to your car. Also, if there were diesel-electric-battery hybrid, you could use dynamic breaking to use your wheels as energy generators to feed the resistors to make the electric motors slow down your car, or feed the energy to charge the battery. Sure, all these hybrid technologies sound expensive and complex to implement. But when done in big numbers, it could be well feasible. For fun though, give me a gasoline powered Honda S660, with rear-engine, rear-wheel drive, 6-speed manual stick shift transmission, and no annoying touchscreens in the center of the dash. What a wonderful car. Japanese don't export the Kei cars though, which is sad, because we end up with a total embarrassment: the Smart.
Both true , and untrue. Juvenile antics are now unshocking ; have always been tedious , ( though they are expertly done by the ' three ' , if that's a ' skill ' ) ; and were never the equivalent of knowledge.
@@heathstjohn6775 We naturally drifted away from TV and video being a source of information. Now it is all on paper or text and film is just for entertainment. Reading is a much better source for knowledge the trouble is now-a-days that for every legitimate piece of information online there are 50,000 pieces of made up crap. They are better at entertaining so that is the direction they went.
@@SirNarax "... Naturally drifted away from tv... as a source of information...": I'll remember that thought: thanks. I hope, then, knowing that (largely)-true truth, you aren't funding corruption at a cost of £157.50p a month to the BBC. Could you reassure me, please ?
It's good we have those old videos of "experts" saying things. "Diesel to remain a niche market" is comparable to "You won't need more than 640kB of RAM". That's how reliable their opinions are.
yk 47 in 1998 the factory near me paid 9.70 a hour 3 months full pay sick a year and 33 holiday days a year it now pays 8 pound a hour no sick pay and 28 days holiday
@@ehc1327 pfff whatever. You either sell diesels or drive one. The fumes they produce, cause cancer. We all know it, though perhaps the impartial BBC can't mention it so boldly.
@@LexTNeville fumes do but soot doesnt I dont know why you're so triggered, you get soot with almost anything that burns. Look at the inside of an old chimney if soot caused cancer then anyone with a fireplace would be at risk. I also think its weird you would accuse me of working for "deisel companies" just for pointing that out lol
@@i-series8596The euro didn't exist when this episode was filmed, but nowadays fuel is about 120pence/litre at the cheapest for petrol and 125pence/litre for diesel. Here the prices are less than half of that, at 38.7p/l and 43.0p/l respectively. Seeing as the pound and euro are almost even now because of impending Brexit, I'd say it's pretty similar
Who cares if they cheated! Governments cheat and steal everyday and they don't like competition. But would rather still have diesel engine over gas any day.
@@ndg9367 I agree. Not than I am a fan of VW cars at all. In my experience the reliability is questionable. Outside of warranty they're very expensive to put right. If you must have a German can the I suggest a BMW. In relation to the emissions cheating, VW did nothing wrong. The authorities set down the very very precise way it must be driven to meet the requirements of the test. So VW designed the cars to do this. We all know that all cars will emit more in general mixed usage than official figures suggest. There' no news here. I, too, prefer modern diesel engines over spineless petrol alternatives.
That was the whole point of New Top Gear. Old Top Gear was effectively an information show about buying or selling cars, and would just do reviews and points of interest like this video. New Top Gear was entertainment.
Va Sr The new format was launched in October 2002. They also tried to maintain some relativity to normal cars initially, presenting market trends, testing affordable new models etc, but this only lasted for a few seasons before dropping even the last bit of car journalism.
so why is the new 'style' called top gear? It is a completely different program aimed (presumably) at a completely different audience. Its informational content is zero.
@@carldudley3262 Basically Old Top Gear died a few years before New Top Gear was released. This break between them allowed Top Gear to move away from the hard car journalism of the old format and reinvent itself with the more stunt and showpiece heavy format we are familiar with today. However, as stated above the initial content of New Top Gear still had a decent bit of car journalism and it was only later that they completely abandoned those segments. Also, keeping the name allowed the BBC to take advantage of the existing audience from old Top Gear; meaning they wouldn't need to work as hard to get an entirely new car program off the ground.
@@matthewyabsley At least it tried to be informative and not puerile. The old style top gear was so much more useful. The new top gear should have been called someting different , I would not dare to offer a suitable title
@@carldudley3262 - Have you been on the crack pipe again? Read the comment thread. Nobody even spoke to you, or about you. This is your first comment in this conversation thread. Do you want me to call that special number printed on your medical bracelet for you?
+karelpipa so verry true man.hahaha i was surprised to hear global worming in 91.now 2016 and still say to prevent global woarming.thats other way to we normal ppl pay taxes.
This is Clarkson, Hammond and May combined into one. In 2000 Jeremy split into 3. 2002 two of the splits joined top gear togheter, and in 2003 the third split, James May joined them. This is the greatest episode in tv history and would last for 13 years. In 2015, Jeremy didn't renew his contract with bbc and Richard and James got fired.
Sensible thoughts , stupid thoughts : each is the parent of the NEXT thought ; we choose which we encourage. I prefer the man in this youth , than the put-on youth in Clarkson's man : it and he were more dignified. Juvenile behaviour in a mature man is as visibly aging to the male as ( on wet days , too , mostly ) , shorts are on a man : the only difference between their wearers and their five year-old sons shouldn't be just the length of the shorts.
It makes you realise that Clarkson is a canny journalist playing to a market. He's not the idiot he often appears to be, he's just good at playing one. Diesels have become popular partly because they've improved and partly because fuel costs have gone up so much in nearly quarter of a century. He got wrong thing slightly wrong - It isn't actually necessary for diesel fuel to be cheaper to buy than petrol - it just requires that diesels do more to the gallon and - provided you do the extra miles to exceed the purchase price of the car - the diesel will work out cheaper. Diesels are now pretty much mandatory for company cars for this reason. Interestingly enough, though, a lot of Taxis are now the (Petrol) Prius Hybrid.
+Rapscallion2009 there are areas in the city where you can only go with hybrid/lpg/electric cars. that's why. also for a cab driver who needs space a bottle of gas in the trunk will not only use up space but also scare customers who are afraid of gas blowing up.
The only reason a cab company or any company buys a Prius is because they buy them in bulk, and they get a hefty tax kickback on the purchase for "being green".
Yes because 4 litres of diesel are more expensive than 4 litres of petrol...also the Prius Hybrid requires practically no maintenance, the brakes don't wear out as fast etc...
Rapscallion2009 Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) has allegedly a IQ of 170, makes sense because not many people could become as successful as him playing dumb unless they had the brains to do it properly
This has nothing to do with the CCP as it was actually the US that raised the issue. VW was caught cheating in 2015 using software that made the disel engines meet emission requirements during testing but emitted up to 40% more Nitrous Dioxide emissions (which is harmful to breathe in) than allowed in real driving when it knows there is no tests
@@trenttalley924 Dude I hate the Chinese government but you're very delusional if you think that a German environmental shortcut caught out by the US is their fault.
@@hyper_5pace902 _"-It wasn't my fault i was smoking crack while driving! That cop, trying to pull me over, made me swerve before i hit that unicorn!"_
Ik who would’ve thought anal probing from my uncle would become a daily thing? He spits on his gloved-fingers and inserts two at a time, he says he’s checking to make sure I’m healthy. What a great guy
Clarkson punched out one of the people responsible for ensuring Top Gear made it to the telly each week. This tends to throw a terminal spanner in the works of a TV show.
@@jakers2923 just refresh rates, people need negativity in their lifes so they project it onto something else and TH-cam takes alot of that.. if you don't like TH-cam then go create your own app
Many arguments for and against the diesel from 1991 sound the same we now have for the electric car. 1. Better for environment 2. cheaper fuel 3. more reliable 4. too expensive 5. needs lower tax to leave nice market.
Do bare in mind, you're comparing a 4litre twin turbo charged V8 to crummy 4 cylinder crappy turbo cars, some of which don't have ECU's. Considering they got about 70-80bhp from 1600cc, and today we get 90-100ish bhp from the same size diesel engines, we haven't come far at all
Nope, it would have been called "illuminati time travelling confirmed corona hoax diesel ruines tesla they suck out babies adrenochrome!!" all in caps and then an explenation how it is weird that someone made this today and yet jeremy looks 50 years younger even though hes 30 years younger. Nice chatbait though, sadly Im the only one who likes to troll the trolls.
My dad had one too. It was a hideous plastic car whose suspension was constantly breaking. I think if you weren't back to the house we had then you would still see the hydraulic oil stains on the driveway 🤣
Because he is, Clarkson created the Chatacter Clarkson, racing around the planet cracking jokes and sticking 2 fingers up to the establishment, because that's what the goons like. In private he's known to complain about Teenagers speeding through the town where he lives and illegal parking, calling out for higher parking charges to keep the riff raff away from the area he lives. But why not, his opinions on the tv are purely what's been decided the audience wants to hear, his private life is almost the opposite. Posh restaurants, first class flying etc
Arguing about diesel and petrol is like arguing about tea and coffee. While tea is made from leaves, coffee is made from beans. And tea is an infusion. Coffee is of course the diesel of hot beverages, in the same way that petrol is the tea of fuels. You can't run a car on either tea or coffee, and drinking petrol or diesel would make you very poorly indeed. It is also interesting that there was a car called a bean at the turn of the 20th century, and of course we must not forget the Ford model T. It is also significant that you hardly ever see a diesel motorbike, and most bikers favour tea over coffee. Except Lambretta owners.
...because diesels typically need bigger displacements and forced induction in order to maximize their efficiency..? Motorcycle engines are usually below 1000cc, two stroke and two to four cylinders. I got your analogy from the start until you went off on a wild tangent in the middle, not sure what you were trying to say there...
Plus a diesel will go to the moon & back 3 times before being clapped out. Given an empty road a diesel will happily cruise at the same speed without variation. So you coul trundle up the N6 without shifting the throttle
It's funny how Jeremy Clarkson and the Volkswagen Golf have both changed in the same way over the last 30 years. They've both ballooned out to twice what they weighed in their prime, the once angular features have become covered by layers of useless flab and they sound like they can perform a lot better than they actually can.
@Povilas Kuznecovas In the UK, when fuel was in gallons, the Budget typically put 2p extra tax on a gallon (a few grumbled). Then the price was set in litres and the Budget typically put 2p extra tax on a litre (a few grumbled). Hardly anyone noticed (a nearly 5x tax increase) and it stuck.
@Povilas Kuznecovas Tax is 58p/litre on both petrol and diesel (including biofuels), but then 20% Value Added Tax (VAT) is added onto the price of a litre, including the fuel tax previously added. Something like 2/3 of the pump price is probably tax.
oh yeah, I know a few more, millenniumbug, oilcrisis, greenhouse effect, arms race, and they all cost us lots of extra taxmoney and now we have Covid. I bet you and I gona payfor it.
You hit the point right there, put the population in fear or guilt, and they won't moan about tax increases. It's an old trick every government uses over and over again.
Ah the past. When you watched TV and learned things instead of idly passing the time watching explosions. I found that genuinely interesting. Also interesting to note that Clarkson is an eloquent and intelligent man (he’s learned to hide it well…)
It's amusing how this video begins, talking about the problems, or perceived problems, with diesel and what companies are doing about it. Then @1:25 he says Volkswagen are leading the purge! For those who aren't aware, a couple of years ago Volkswagen got caught fiddling their test results on their own diesel cars which showed the emissions were far higher than they had reported, and as a consquence the company has paid hundreds of millions of pounds in fines (checking with a quick Google, it might actually be far more than that). Incidentally, despite not owning or particularly liking cars, I find the old proper Top Gear show much more interesting than what it became in the 21st century.
well.. Diesel and petrol are not so different. Diesel smoke is bad for humans. But its heavy smoke and immediately falls on the ground. While petrol smoke. Is quite invisible but its also harmful. Its like 10x more bad for atmosphere
nothing is good. And electric cars lime tesla isnt perfect also. Companies like that harm earth even more to make those big ass batteries wich have to be changed every 5 years.
@@mantasookinavicius5154 People say electric cars are clean but they forget the batteries need charging, meaning even more fuel is being pumped through the power stations.
@@PF-gi9vv In addition there simply isn't enough lithium produced for EVs to become widespread and replace petrol/diesel cars. Hydrogen cars look promising but the technology isn't quite there yet. Right now the best solution seems to be to invest more in public transport and discourage people from driving but I doubt the government would ever do that because it would mean a radical reshaping of the way our society works.
But not funny Talking about rubbish. Stupid cars. Why? It's like a documentary. But not freak show about f**king cars Don't like this way of show. No I lost all people and all chances with women - by talking about. Cars... That's idioty!
It got dropped in the late 90's after being on for years because a lot found it boring. They then rebranded it slightly, though it was still quite informative in the first season of the new era, when they had a chunky lad with Hamster and Clarkson; then they dropped him, May came in who Clarkson knew from old Top Gear, and started getting outrageous - and it took off as the world wanted shiny fast expensive things and explosions, over actual informative choices on what sensible car the average accountant would buy like here.
The funny thing is, I'm actually listening and taking in all of this information from 1991 like it's relevant today. Here after the end of The Grand Tour. Cheers Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow ❤
30 years later I can confirm diesel are the best, cheap, reliable and fun to own if you live the city life. See you in 30 more years with the verdict on how well electric cars have hold up.
1991 the year I was born when Clarkson was a matured car journalist.... 30 years later Clarkson : a 9year old boy trapped in a 60year old car journalist body...
This is back when Clarkson and May were one organism. Only later did they split.
Really?
Yes
Was May ever young, or did he split as a old grumpy man?
Hahahah 😂😂😂
When they split may must of took Clarksons hair in the process 🤣
I don't know who this person is, but he looks like Clarkson, talks like May and sounds like Hammond.
Well, it is Clarkson. He is just younger
It's their true form.
@@ChaseMC215 it's a joke
It's all 3 of them before they split.
@@ChaseMC215 r/woooosh
"VW are leading the environmental charge" That didn't age well.
They are now, since they are switching to fully electric cars.
@@unicorntomboy9736 They arent leading it though... Tesla are
@@Blackhawk211 I am happy that internal combustion engine and hybrid cars will be banned in 10 years.
@@unicorntomboy9736 No it's not. And if it were to be banned either we will probably be independent otherwise I'm getting the fuck out of this country
@@kr_nxa6500 same
To give you a perspective, in this video Jeremy was 31 (now 60) James was 28 (now 57) and Richard haven't even finished college was 21 (now 50)
Can't imagine James in his 20s, I always think he was born as a 50 year old.
Yea time and ride wait on no man. It's amazing that they still going
I don’t think James and Hammond were in this series
@@louissanderson719 i never said they were i was just stating their ages at the time
Are you the real Shia Lebouf? U seem to have an authentication tick ✅
Damn so he actually was a car journalist once..
This type of TV doesn't happen much anywhere and the world is worse for it.
Yes he was I remember watching old top gear they have come a long way...
Curtis Duncan search up Tom Scott on TH-cam. Anyone still looking on TV for quality content these days is living in the 00’s
He was even once a games journalist...
@Johny2bikes duh I wanna see blow up not old man talking boring stuff we want violence more cool
1:43 - a bit of real Clarkson escaped there
THE BEGIN
@Dacia Sandero guys the attention seeking, illogical side? i actually do agree with you there
He sounds like Boris johnson
@@jhkk1269 most people that give Greta attention are ones like you.
Oh, that's so surreal! I've always seen current Clarkson and young Clarkson as different people in my mind
1991: Clarkson talking about boring things
2019: Clarkson mocking May for being boring
And 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012 etc : Clarkson mocking May for being boring
He sounds a lot posher than he does now as well lmao
we don't have the same definition of boring dude..
Was the primary reason for leaving old Top Gear. When presented with yet another mass produced, boring car, he couldnt think of anything interesting to write about it.
He probably had mid-life crisis in the 28 years between
„Meaning less acid rain“, thats something I haven’t heard in a while.
“Less pollution” is still a lot of pollution.
I thought that! Acid rain was all the rage in the 90's before being overshadowed by the hole in the Ozone layer >.
@jemimallah I bet you're the life and soul at a party. I was making a tongue-in-cheek comment about the environmental subjects that dominated the 90's that have mostly been forgotten about now. That was all. Though I'm glad I could provide you with something to comment on so that you can prove to the comment section of TH-cam how clever and educated you are. You wouldn't seem like such a douche without the last sentence but, alas, you clearly couldn't resist. Keep the insults to yourself, bud, there's no need for it.
I think it was low sulfur petrol and diesel that sorted the acid rain?
First it was global freezing, then acid rain , then global warming and now climate change. Give it another decade and it will change again.
Hamster was 20 when this was made. Imagine a 20 year old hammond. He was probably about 3 feet tall
He still is only 3 foot tall!
He had long hair!!!!
First of all its Hammond not hamster, and you ain't much taller
@@andersvassli2349 why you watching this, get a life.
hamster... hmm...
1993, the Goverment telling us to buy diesels because of the environment.
2019, they are now telling us diesels are bad for the environment.
,
They want the diesels. I like diseals as i drive tractors so im on red diseal.
Actually the diesel is better for the environment compared to the petrol, takting a look at the CO2 emissions. But the issue with diesel it contamines the air in cities. This leads to diseases like lung cancer.
@RaxxHubNut only if your personal fuel economy is also less than 20 years ago
Probably to drum up more business for the oil petroleum industry because diesels will run on stuff we don't make with oil
Jeremy Clarkson is doing James May's work.
@Amine WOOF yes he was in 1999, he was one of the main hosts of the og top gear.
Jeremy May doing James Clarckson’s work
Even has the same hairstyle
@morkymorkism joking* moron* oh the irony
@morkymorkism i can tell seems like you never went, in* shit*
It’s hard to comprehend those cars he’s reviewing were at the time “latest models”. It’s like he’s reviewing bangers but they were actually desireable at that time.
I’d still take an old golf over anything
I still drive that same golf every day. Only mine is 1985 and there is still around 67 000 of them dailiy driven in my country.
The difference is, those cars were simple, reliable and worked. Cars of nowadays are beautfiul, complicated and don't last. Many cars of nowadays won't go much over 150k miles, cars from back then wouldn't have problems with such numbers.
@@Hoch134 true that - I think that’s the modern issue with all technology - aesthetically pleasing but fragile af!
@@Hoch134 Nah, cars from back then were usually buggered after 100k. It's the ones from the late 90s and early 00s that won't die.
LOL Volkswagen leading the pack on clean diesel.
Could you imagine VW selling a Golf today that takes 16s to reach 60mph lol.
Zastava Koral time :P
😂
Well, cleaner then a steam locomotive that is 😂
I'm not a fan of VW at all, but they are still leading the pack on clean diesel today. They cheated, yes. They faked their results to be even cleaner than they are, but the fact is, even if they didn't fake their tests it's still one of the most advanced engines today. So don't be a sheep and just bash VW as the worst polluters in the world, the're not that bad. (But they deserve to be joked about :) )
Back when jeremy was forced to read off a script
Back when Jeremy wasn't attacking his cooworkers.
More like when he wasn't playing a constant caricature of himself in order to make money
Back when he wasn't funny and the show had an extremely small audience
it is naive to assume him and his cast never did in the first place.
@@ben9579 When Top Gear was a PROPER programme.
Back before cigarettes lowered Jeremy's voice an octave or two.
That's just the accent the BBC made people talk with because his normal voice comes out at 1:44
@jonny j that's the point you bellend
@jonny j Yea.. it is realy weird if old man have deeper voice than young boy... It is pure science :D
@@nevimnereknu5623 Clarkson wasn't a mere boy at this age, and statically men's voices grow higher with age and women's lower with age.
@@nevimnereknu5623 young boy? hes at least 30 in this are you joking
Finnaly , a Top gear episode where i can afford any car presented. 2021 ftw
lol same
Jeremy looks like he's in his 20s but actually he is 31 years old here and today he as a 59 years old looks like 70 yo... :D
Deawon Smoking does that to you :P
@@ianweber9248 And being british, just joking :D
And smoking diesel...
Or not smoking diesel.
@@teslakiller6959
What happens wen ye taste exhoost foom,
K, I’ll ‘ave a whiff
*’Ery Noice*
Clarkson talking reasonably and about diesel... incredible!
KamilMB the BBC were a lot stricter back then. To think Jeremy JOINED in 1988 and Top Gear started 11 years prior in 1977, haha
Must be his twin brother no one ever spoke about.
it's nothing to do with how the BBC was or is, Top Gear just wasn't intented as an entertainment show pre 2000 and they changed that in the 2002 reboot.
Incredibly boring too.
They changed it because Top Gear tanked and became boring. You can't deliver just facts - you can get that from a book. Top Gear 2002+ combined facts with entertainment and humor. There's a reason why Car&Driver isn't filmed anymore - nobody watches it. All you are given is just facts.
3 things here have changed so much. Clarkson, Top Gear, and diesel engines.
True
What about the diesel powered Audi LeMans cars?
Well, the mainstream opinion against the diesel is the "clatter" sound. Sure, the gasoline engine seem to be more sophisticated and quiet. However, gasoline engines are less energy efficient than diesel engine. For instance, a standard model Bugatti Veyron engine produces 3000 hp, but 2/3rd of it goes out in wasted unused heat, and "only" 1000hp goes to pavement. Sure, 1000hp is well enough, but think of the energy that is being wasted. You could probably heat several family homes for one quick stint in a Veyron. That's why in marine engines, locomotives, big trucks diesel is used, because I think it has about 60% efficiency. For comparison, steam engine would be around 10% efficiency, gasoline engine is about 30%, then you have the diesel, then I believe you have the electric engines. What I would actually like to see is to have a diesel electric car. Diesel electric locomotives have been around since late '30s in U.K. They got the concept right to this day. I believe, before going fully electric with cars, a diesel-electric should be a natural progression. You'd have efficiency, range, and would not depend on connecting wires to your car. Also, if there were diesel-electric-battery hybrid, you could use dynamic breaking to use your wheels as energy generators to feed the resistors to make the electric motors slow down your car, or feed the energy to charge the battery. Sure, all these hybrid technologies sound expensive and complex to implement. But when done in big numbers, it could be well feasible. For fun though, give me a gasoline powered Honda S660, with rear-engine, rear-wheel drive, 6-speed manual stick shift transmission, and no annoying touchscreens in the center of the dash. What a wonderful car. Japanese don't export the Kei cars though, which is sad, because we end up with a total embarrassment: the Smart.
In order: Fatter& balder, Lamer, just as filthy.
And Britain being in the EU HAHAHAHAHA!
This looks like something we wouldve been shown in yr 10 science
Question 8: Which two countries impose a lower tax rate on Diesel fuel?
@@Tumbleflop This is so accurate wtf.
More information in this 5 minute video than in the last 10 seasons of Top Gear....but way less entertaining lol
Both true , and untrue. Juvenile antics are now unshocking ; have always been tedious , ( though they are expertly done by the ' three ' , if that's a ' skill ' ) ; and were never the equivalent of knowledge.
@@heathstjohn6775 We naturally drifted away from TV and video being a source of information. Now it is all on paper or text and film is just for entertainment. Reading is a much better source for knowledge the trouble is now-a-days that for every legitimate piece of information online there are 50,000 pieces of made up crap. They are better at entertaining so that is the direction they went.
@@SirNarax "... Naturally drifted away from tv... as a source of information...": I'll remember that thought: thanks.
I hope, then, knowing that (largely)-true truth, you aren't funding corruption at a cost of £157.50p a month to the BBC. Could you reassure me, please ?
@@heathstjohn6775 Huh? I am not British or part of the commonwealth so, no?
@@SirNarax Oh, I see; understood.
Thanks anyway for taking interest enough to reply.
Best to you.
jeremy clarkson looks like every female teacher from my childhood
My cute teachers looked like Richard Hammond
guerrillafish he looks like young slash
1:44 it's the later jeremy voice just showing up
Ciaran55 Haha well spotted.
Cigs starting to take their toll.
Yeah
😂
Must be all the diesel soot
It's good we have those old videos of "experts" saying things. "Diesel to remain a niche market" is comparable to "You won't need more than 640kB of RAM".
That's how reliable their opinions are.
Experts on tv are just whomever the tv studio could find that have some kind of connection to the topic beyond a layman
Back when Clarkson didn’t sound like a diesel himself from smoking a pack a day.
He still smoked, it just hadn’t got to him at this point….
39p a litre for petrol lmao literally cheaper than a litre of water.
+Junaid Mohammed Isn't it still though? In Canada bottled water is about 1.5-2.5 times more expensive.
+coast2coast00 depends where you go or what brand... Tesco you can get 2L of water for 17p. but if you want Evian for 1L it's around £1.20
Junaid Mohammed 39p a litre of petrol and I was earning the same per hour as I do now lol
Before inflation...
yk 47 in 1998 the factory near me paid 9.70 a hour 3 months full pay sick a year and 33 holiday days a year it now pays 8 pound a hour no sick pay and 28 days holiday
Jeremy Clarkson. Talking about the ENVIRONMENT.
*faints*
Only if its a argument against Diesel
Sounds like he's lying through his teeth about it though. 'Rumour car fumes cause cancer', 'unproven'. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
@@LexTNeville he was referring to soot and it is unproven
@@ehc1327 pfff whatever. You either sell diesels or drive one. The fumes they produce, cause cancer. We all know it, though perhaps the impartial BBC can't mention it so boldly.
@@LexTNeville fumes do but soot doesnt I dont know why you're so triggered, you get soot with almost anything that burns. Look at the inside of an old chimney if soot caused cancer then anyone with a fireplace would be at risk. I also think its weird you would accuse me of working for "deisel companies" just for pointing that out lol
Imagine how many millions of cars have been scrapped because no one wanted them. Even though they were roadworthy that could still be on the road ….
5:25 can we just take a moment for those fuel prices! 😍
Whats that in Euro?
In euro?
@@i-series8596The euro didn't exist when this episode was filmed, but nowadays fuel is about 120pence/litre at the cheapest for petrol and 125pence/litre for diesel. Here the prices are less than half of that, at 38.7p/l and 43.0p/l respectively.
Seeing as the pound and euro are almost even now because of impending Brexit, I'd say it's pretty similar
@@JackFellOver I didn't think of that, but thanks!
@@i-series8596 0.43 Euro
for a litre of petrol, that's using today's conversion mind. Back then it was more like 0.64 Euros.
1:43 We briefly hear Clarkson's later voice breaking through
Jeremy Clarkson seems like that kind of person who was never young, just born into this world middle-aged and gray haired
he looked young here cause he was, wtf are you on about ?
This kinda reminds me of the Electric Vehicle debate we have these days
As always it's some beaurocrat that gets to decide if our personal choice of fuel suddenly becomes twice as expensive for no reason.
"diesel cars are said to be cleaner than petrol cars"
That hasn't aged well
Depends on the engine. Its a shame VW ruined its reputation for those who were following the rules.
@@tomjackson1045 They all cheated.
Every single German manufacturer has now been proven to have cheated. Diesel engines should never have been put into cars.
Who cares if they cheated! Governments cheat and steal everyday and they don't like competition. But would rather still have diesel engine over gas any day.
@@ndg9367 I agree. Not than I am a fan of VW cars at all. In my experience the reliability is questionable. Outside of warranty they're very expensive to put right. If you must have a German can the I suggest a BMW.
In relation to the emissions cheating, VW did nothing wrong. The authorities set down the very very precise way it must be driven to meet the requirements of the test. So VW designed the cars to do this. We all know that all cars will emit more in general mixed usage than official figures suggest. There' no news here.
I, too, prefer modern diesel engines over spineless petrol alternatives.
Back when they talked about cars that normal people can afford.
I want to know only about cars I cannot afford
That was the whole point of New Top Gear. Old Top Gear was effectively an information show about buying or selling cars, and would just do reviews and points of interest like this video. New Top Gear was entertainment.
Va Sr The new format was launched in October 2002. They also tried to maintain some relativity to normal cars initially, presenting market trends, testing affordable new models etc, but this only lasted for a few seasons before dropping even the last bit of car journalism.
so why is the new 'style' called top gear? It is a completely different program aimed (presumably) at a completely different audience. Its informational content is zero.
@@carldudley3262 Basically Old Top Gear died a few years before New Top Gear was released. This break between them allowed Top Gear to move away from the hard car journalism of the old format and reinvent itself with the more stunt and showpiece heavy format we are familiar with today. However, as stated above the initial content of New Top Gear still had a decent bit of car journalism and it was only later that they completely abandoned those segments. Also, keeping the name allowed the BBC to take advantage of the existing audience from old Top Gear; meaning they wouldn't need to work as hard to get an entirely new car program off the ground.
0:50 Jezza showing concern about acid rain and the environment? Is this the same Clarkson? Lol
ELPaso1990TX he went grey worrying about acid rain, now he thinks "fuc it"
He was reimagined for the reboot.
MatchstalkMan He also evidently became more cynical and "c'est la vie"as he got older, same goes for his writing in his column in the Times
MatchstalkMan You sure he didn't just change? LoL
In 2002 Clarkson switched career from journalist to entertainer.
I love watching these, all those cars take me back to being a teenager lol
This was like a video you where made to watch in class
This was still a fairly modern style of broadcast for the time, the rest was much more boring.
@@matthewyabsley At least it tried to be informative and not puerile. The old style top gear was so much more useful. The new top gear should have been called someting different , I would not dare to offer a suitable title
@@carldudley3262 - Have you been on the crack pipe again? Read the comment thread. Nobody even spoke to you, or about you. This is your first comment in this conversation thread. Do you want me to call that special number printed on your medical bracelet for you?
I know that it's Jeremy speaking, but for some reason I hear James Mays voice.. lol
Connor Campbell I can just hear him driving and saying ‘buffeting’
Clarkson talking global warming back in 1991, wow! :-)
+zapfanzapfan it was invented right after the global cooling has failed. So far, it did not happen.
+karelpipa Yeah, global warming is a hoax because it got cold this winter, right? ;-)
+zapfanzapfan absolutely not.. its because theres a lot of money involved in global warming industry
Yeah, those poor poverty stricken Koch-brothers... they never stood a chance against the trillion-dollar treehugger-industry...
+karelpipa so verry true man.hahaha i was surprised to hear global worming in 91.now 2016 and still say to prevent global woarming.thats other way to we normal ppl pay taxes.
Remember when people were up in arms all the time over "acid rain"? What a load of tripe that was.
Who remembers acid rain ? At the beginning of the 90s that stuff was supposed to kill us.
Since the low sulfur fuel has been introduced the problem slowly disappeared
Just like global warming is going to kill us now
@@ganeshjain88 2030.
Ganesh Jain not yet ;D
COVID -19
Before all of the smoking, all that smoking made his voice deeper
1990's cars: 3:45 ...so there is less electronic...
Today's car's: 😂😂😂
This is Clarkson, Hammond and May combined into one. In 2000 Jeremy split into 3. 2002 two of the splits joined top gear togheter, and in 2003 the third split, James May joined them. This is the greatest episode in tv history and would last for 13 years. In 2015, Jeremy didn't renew his contract with bbc and Richard and James got fired.
How did we come from Jeremy talking about environment to things like crashing a building on a car???
Money
Sensible thoughts , stupid thoughts : each is the parent of the NEXT thought ; we choose which we encourage. I prefer the man in this youth , than the put-on youth in Clarkson's man : it and he were more dignified. Juvenile behaviour in a mature man is as visibly aging to the male as ( on wet days , too , mostly ) , shorts are on a man : the only difference between their wearers and their five year-old sons shouldn't be just the length of the shorts.
@@heathstjohn6775 ok
@@wmascolin Hello.
Thanks for the interest, but I don't know what you're expressing.
Heath St john I think he’s trying to express that you’re a bit cracked mate
NO ONE wants a Diesel, everyone NEEDS a Turbo-Diesel.
The 6.2 Detroits in old C/Ks are pretty sweet
What an amazing quote
Well done. Sort
Nah Petrol forever 😊
Zac Golus get out
@@ZacGolus Nah cycling forever you lazy people
It makes you realise that Clarkson is a canny journalist playing to a market. He's not the idiot he often appears to be, he's just good at playing one.
Diesels have become popular partly because they've improved and partly because fuel costs have gone up so much in nearly quarter of a century. He got wrong thing slightly wrong - It isn't actually necessary for diesel fuel to be cheaper to buy than petrol - it just requires that diesels do more to the gallon and - provided you do the extra miles to exceed the purchase price of the car - the diesel will work out cheaper. Diesels are now pretty much mandatory for company cars for this reason. Interestingly enough, though, a lot of Taxis are now the (Petrol) Prius Hybrid.
+Rapscallion2009 there are areas in the city where you can only go with hybrid/lpg/electric cars. that's why. also for a cab driver who needs space a bottle of gas in the trunk will not only use up space but also scare customers who are afraid of gas blowing up.
The only reason a cab company or any company buys a Prius is because they buy them in bulk, and they get a hefty tax kickback on the purchase for "being green".
Yes because 4 litres of diesel are more expensive than 4 litres of petrol...also the Prius Hybrid requires practically no maintenance, the brakes don't wear out as fast etc...
Rapscallion2009 Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) has allegedly a IQ of 170, makes sense because not many people could become as successful as him playing dumb unless they had the brains to do it properly
@@lazrussanschei5372 What difference is there in the brakes on a hybrid?
"VW is leading the charge" Oof, that aged like fine milk
This has nothing to do with the CCP as it was actually the US that raised the issue. VW was caught cheating in 2015 using software that made the disel engines meet emission requirements during testing but emitted up to 40% more Nitrous Dioxide emissions (which is harmful to breathe in) than allowed in real driving when it knows there is no tests
@@trenttalley924 Dude I hate the Chinese government but you're very delusional if you think that a German environmental shortcut caught out by the US is their fault.
Lol, still, Jeremy _was_ right though.
@@hyper_5pace902 _"-It wasn't my fault i was smoking crack while driving! That cop, trying to pull me over, made me swerve before i hit that unicorn!"_
0:28
29 years later we use gloves for different reasons
Ik who would’ve thought anal probing from my uncle would become a daily thing? He spits on his gloved-fingers and inserts two at a time, he says he’s checking to make sure I’m healthy. What a great guy
@@europeankid98 is he accepting new clients?
@@joshuakozee5719 haha
Brilliant cars, diesel at 43p, and Clarkson on Top Gear. What went wrong?
Clarkson punched out one of the people responsible for ensuring Top Gear made it to the telly each week. This tends to throw a terminal spanner in the works of a TV show.
Doesn't explain cars being crap, and fuel being expensive.
43p then would be around 70-80p now. due to inflation.
43p then would be around 70-80p now. due to inflation.
Driven Junkie, haha, yep, pretty much.
It took 28 years for this to come on my recommendations.... i know this as i was born in 1991 😂😂😂
TH-cam is only like 12 years old tho, it couldn't recommend you something before it was found ermmm
@@johnstones339 you know how TH-cam works... 120 views and 500 likes... 🤣🤣
@@jakers2923 just refresh rates, people need negativity in their lifes so they project it onto something else and TH-cam takes alot of that.. if you don't like TH-cam then go create your own app
@@johnstones339 wtf lol
Lucky you. I wish I was born in 1991.
5:18
Holy shit look at those prices
Inflation is crazy high, fiat quickly becoming worthless.
They missed the 1 of the beginning..
Brothers and sisters, we have gathered here today because of TH-cam algorithm.
Hahahaha
Many arguments for and against the diesel from 1991 sound the same we now have for the electric car. 1. Better for environment 2. cheaper fuel 3. more reliable 4. too expensive 5. needs lower tax to leave nice market.
38.7 pence for a litre of petrol, my god how far web come with increased taxes lol today it's 112.9 a litre.
MadCowGoMoo Inflation, about 80p per litre back then in todays money
*****
Inflation as a result of fiat printing is really just another hidden tax.
MadCowGoMoo "4 star" lol ..... I'd forgotten about 4 star...
MadCowGoMoo I was thinking the same about the cost of petrol!
Matt Gerrard What about 2 star and 5 star?. I remember when petrol was about 70p per gallon. I was only a kid then :)
5:22 Diesel is 43p a litre! Oh how times have changed! Hahaha
Well that's mostly inflation, the price has gone up just not by that much
@@n1thmusic229 come back and say that again
@@gehrkegehrke2000 I would, but it'd be a lie
@@wulfhere83 43p is about 74p adjusted for inflation. Diesel is currently around £1.85 a litre.
@@MrNobbyify 2.4 euro per litre where I live
"large capacity engine"
"1800cc"
I think we have different definitions of "large"
it was large for the size of the car.
(compared to the 1100 petrol, I know the 205 engine bay can take a V6 swap but that's another matter.)
Large cuz It's a midget car 😂
@@KS-xo3oh I was surprised when my huge 5,7 Hemi appeared to be a small block..
@@KS-xo3oh the base petrol/gas engine in the 205 was a 1.1 I think, maybe even a 4-cylinder 1.0, so the Diesel being a 1.8 _was_ "large"
@@KS-xo3oh In Britain an economy sized engine can be as small as 998cc and double up to be found used in a washing machine, even hairdryer.
The Citroen Turbo-diesel BX estate was a fuel efficient car. And very comfortable too with its hydraulic suspension. A great car.
And now we have 350hp 1000nm AUDI SQ8
Diesels have come a long way .
435 HP mate
Andrzej Nowak oo my bad
Do bare in mind, you're comparing a 4litre twin turbo charged V8 to crummy 4 cylinder crappy turbo cars, some of which don't have ECU's. Considering they got about 70-80bhp from 1600cc, and today we get 90-100ish bhp from the same size diesel engines, we haven't come far at all
Mk 8209 still sound awful though! I’ll stick to my smooth as silk straight-six cylinder BMW 440i Coupe!
Abul Mamodo no ur wrong
Vw 1.6 tdi puts out 140hp
Fiat 1.6 tdi puts out 148 hp
A simple remap will make them go to near 160
Clear, clean, precise and to the point, why can't ALL top Gears be this good?
I've just figured out where the inspiration for Alan Partridge came from..
Aha!
@@applejuice5272 knowing me knowing you..
If this was made now the title would be:
Top Gear 2020 - Buying an old diesel
Nope, it would have been called "illuminati time travelling confirmed corona hoax diesel ruines tesla they suck out babies adrenochrome!!" all in caps and then an explenation how it is weird that someone made this today and yet jeremy looks 50 years younger even though hes 30 years younger. Nice chatbait though, sadly Im the only one who likes to troll the trolls.
Imagine going from this to claiming lorry drivers kill hookers and punching a producer in the face only Clarkson LMAO
Claiming???? Isnt it a fact
Citreon BX first car I remember my dad having, loved that car in my then 5 year old way.
My dad had one too. It was a hideous plastic car whose suspension was constantly breaking. I think if you weren't back to the house we had then you would still see the hydraulic oil stains on the driveway 🤣
Jezza sounded posh back in the day :p
And so did James May
He is a little posh boy, that;s why.
Because he is, Clarkson created the Chatacter Clarkson, racing around the planet cracking jokes and sticking 2 fingers up to the establishment, because that's what the goons like.
In private he's known to complain about Teenagers speeding through the town where he lives and illegal parking, calling out for higher parking charges to keep the riff raff away from the area he lives.
But why not, his opinions on the tv are purely what's been decided the audience wants to hear, his private life is almost the opposite.
Posh restaurants, first class flying etc
@@adrinathegreat3095 what are you talking about he always has been the archetypical public school snobby arrogant obnoxious twat
1991 “diesels are a bit slow”
2021 BMW 550D “am I a joke to you?”
Arguing about diesel and petrol is like arguing about tea and coffee. While tea is made from leaves, coffee is made from beans. And tea is an infusion. Coffee is of course the diesel of hot beverages, in the same way that petrol is the tea of fuels. You can't run a car on either tea or coffee, and drinking petrol or diesel would make you very poorly indeed. It is also interesting that there was a car called a bean at the turn of the 20th century, and of course we must not forget the Ford model T. It is also significant that you hardly ever see a diesel motorbike, and most bikers favour tea over coffee. Except Lambretta owners.
...because diesels typically need bigger displacements and forced induction in order to maximize their efficiency..? Motorcycle engines are usually below 1000cc, two stroke and two to four cylinders. I got your analogy from the start until you went off on a wild tangent in the middle, not sure what you were trying to say there...
How has this only got 43 upvotes 😂😂😂
[[[ *_Dragonier_* ]]] Usually two-stroke? Not for the last 50 years in sizes more than 200cc.
Plus a diesel will go to the moon & back 3 times before being clapped out. Given an empty road a diesel will happily cruise at the same speed without variation. So you coul trundle up the N6 without shifting the throttle
OMG.... 38.7 pence for a litre of petrol!!!!!! Oh.... so many problems in my finances would be solved with a return to 1991 prices!
MARTY LETS YOU BACK ! GET THE DELOREAN
bmused55 I'm guessing only the prices should come back, not your income...
Yeah I was paid £3.07 for bar work back then too.
Min wage is nearly £9 per hour now.
That’s around 82 pence when you adjust for inflation.
Yeah and the average salary was about £12.5k.
Petrol quadrupled in price quicker than that car makes it from 0-60
It's funny how Jeremy Clarkson and the Volkswagen Golf have both changed in the same way over the last 30 years. They've both ballooned out to twice what they weighed in their prime, the once angular features have become covered by layers of useless flab and they sound like they can perform a lot better than they actually can.
Its quite funny seeing diesel being marketed as more green and now we are phasing it out because its less green.
38p a litre. Damn.
Daylight robbery
Povilas Kuznecovas 67.5p per litre is tax now. Bonkers
@Povilas Kuznecovas In the UK, when fuel was in gallons, the Budget typically put 2p extra tax on a gallon (a few grumbled). Then the price was set in litres and the Budget typically put 2p extra tax on a litre (a few grumbled). Hardly anyone noticed (a nearly 5x tax increase) and it stuck.
@Povilas Kuznecovas Tax is 58p/litre on both petrol and diesel (including biofuels), but then 20% Value Added Tax (VAT) is added onto the price of a litre, including the fuel tax previously added. Something like 2/3 of the pump price is probably tax.
I remember when Acid Rain was the big worry
Yeah, and after that it was the hole in the ozone layer.
oh yeah, I know a few more, millenniumbug, oilcrisis, greenhouse effect, arms race, and they all cost us lots of extra taxmoney and now we have Covid. I bet you and I gona payfor it.
@@henzelmen It's almost like they want us in a perpetual state of fear.
And CFCs
You hit the point right there, put the population in fear or guilt, and they won't moan about tax increases. It's an old trick every government uses over and over again.
diesel has less to go wrong... those were the days!
ha. Tell me about it. My Mondeo ST TDCI wrote itself off because of diesel engine runaway a few months back!
Now there's all these damn DPFmobiles...
+Philip Keeling I had one too had a shit load of problems. Injectors, pulleys,subframe you name it
+Roger Frean Old diesel's are great. Mine runs like a dream and it has 170k miles on :D
Hey, my 190TD is mechanically very sound after 260K miles. Its the electrical system that shit the bed.
Clarkson was so much better when he was being sensible, he sounds almost learned. I wish they still made car shows like this.
He's droning on like May.
And now we have BMW and their 3.0L diesel producing 381hp and no black smoke whatsoever...
Thank you technology
S3BB3S except when the dpf regenerates/discharges, which happens regularly.
It happens still , but not all the time only if regen start working or filter goes bad. Diesel still is dirty crap.
wickedroman your life is crapy crap, go drive Punto kid
My 245 bhp 3.0l R6 330xd is amazing. Strong, cost efficient, fast, 5 seats, reasonable trunkspace and good looking. I wouldnt want it differently.
Still stinks as always
I wish I could get nearly 11 litres of diesel for £4.86p
those where the days
in serbia, 1L of fuel cost same as the minimum hourly job wage. so stop complain how expensive the fuel is in your country
11 liters wont get you far, why not wish for a full tank
MrJanizPetke yap
MrJanizPetke i am mechanical engineer, do you have jobs for me there :D
Ah the past. When you watched TV and learned things instead of idly passing the time watching explosions. I found that genuinely interesting. Also interesting to note that Clarkson is an eloquent and intelligent man (he’s learned to hide it well…)
This feels like an alternate universe.
Love that haircut.. fits perfectly to a Diesel engine!
A Volkswagen as an example of a clean diesel car. "that one didn't age quite so well"
It's amusing how this video begins, talking about the problems, or perceived problems, with diesel and what companies are doing about it. Then @1:25 he says Volkswagen are leading the purge! For those who aren't aware, a couple of years ago Volkswagen got caught fiddling their test results on their own diesel cars which showed the emissions were far higher than they had reported, and as a consquence the company has paid hundreds of millions of pounds in fines (checking with a quick Google, it might actually be far more than that). Incidentally, despite not owning or particularly liking cars, I find the old proper Top Gear show much more interesting than what it became in the 21st century.
3:36 Holy crap! It’s an AA guy that’s actually getting PHYSICAL instead of just plugging into the OBD port 😱
I can't wait to call them out in my 98 diesel mercedes with no obd
I remember my parents were so proud when they switched to diesel. Saving the environment.
Now they are trying to tell us if you go vegan you are Saving the environment.
well.. Diesel and petrol are not so different. Diesel smoke is bad for humans. But its heavy smoke and immediately falls on the ground. While petrol smoke. Is quite invisible but its also harmful. Its like 10x more bad for atmosphere
nothing is good. And electric cars lime tesla isnt perfect also. Companies like that harm earth even more to make those big ass batteries wich have to be changed every 5 years.
@@mantasookinavicius5154 People say electric cars are clean but they forget the batteries need charging, meaning even more fuel is being pumped through the power stations.
@@PF-gi9vv In addition there simply isn't enough lithium produced for EVs to become widespread and replace petrol/diesel cars. Hydrogen cars look promising but the technology isn't quite there yet. Right now the best solution seems to be to invest more in public transport and discourage people from driving but I doubt the government would ever do that because it would mean a radical reshaping of the way our society works.
At the 1min 20sec mark RIchard Hampster Hammond is in the pram crossing the street.
What is this a car show based on facts and vehicles and not personality- how refreshing
Shocking to see the (low) fuel prices at the end of the video!
It'd be amazing to live with those prices today
43p per litre for diesel back then. Can we go back in time so I can fill my car up for £25??
This shows Jeremy was once a very good motoring journalist. Pleasant, knowledgeable and informative.
But not funny
Talking about rubbish. Stupid cars.
Why?
It's like a documentary. But not freak show about f**king cars
Don't like this way of show. No
I lost all people and all chances with women - by talking about. Cars...
That's idioty!
What's the point where Top Gear finished being an information show and started to be SO FUNNY?
It got dropped in the late 90's after being on for years because a lot found it boring. They then rebranded it slightly, though it was still quite informative in the first season of the new era, when they had a chunky lad with Hamster and Clarkson; then they dropped him, May came in who Clarkson knew from old Top Gear, and started getting outrageous - and it took off as the world wanted shiny fast expensive things and explosions, over actual informative choices on what sensible car the average accountant would buy like here.
Old Top Gear = Young Clarkson!
The environmentalists killed the most efficient engines in the world. Good going greenies!
The funny thing is, I'm actually listening and taking in all of this information from 1991 like it's relevant today. Here after the end of The Grand Tour. Cheers Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow ❤
30 years later I can confirm diesel are the best, cheap, reliable and fun to own if you live the city life.
See you in 30 more years with the verdict on how well electric cars have hold up.
Best of city life, and transport out of city mind you!
38p a liter lol. Those were the good old days. I remember gas being 78 cents a gallon in 1997. Took 10 dollars to fill up my shitty econobox.
82p adjusted for inflation today, still..
I was looking for the first comment that mentioned fuel prices 😂
Ha has, Jezza's accent in these early days. 😂 So posh.
1991 the year I was born when Clarkson was a matured car journalist....
30 years later Clarkson : a 9year old boy trapped in a 60year old car journalist body...