Yes, I heard him say that. Whats wrong with people on here these days ? Yeah, lets pretend nobody heard anything so I have to post it on here just in case. FFS every man and his wife keeps doing this, its boring.
As amazing as this bit is, the first few seconds are always what I remember most. James just flatly busting out 'it's called the influenza' out of nowhere gets me every time lol.
I find it borderline criminal that they decided to change cameras to not show james the whole time he laughed at 1:46. Yes Clarkson eagerly nodding is funny but I’d love to see how James looked while laughing.
I'm reminded of the Walkie-Talkie in London that supposedly set someone's shop on fire with it's power to reflect the sun into a beam capable of melting cars and creating fires.
Top Gear in 2012: You can just unplug electric cars Auto Engineers: ...or can you? Moral: Top Gear solved yet another world crisis by prompting the invention of locking plugs
Doesn't change the fact that you can buy a shit ton of bike locks walk up to a store with handles and just go, you're closed, you're closed, and you're closed
@@johnnyxrcfc I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure a lot of them don't, there are certain 3D printed components you can buy/make to lock different plugs into different ports. Could be wrong though. Edit: I am 🥴
At college one of our friends had a Fiat 500 Autobianchi van which was parked nicely in the Students' Union car park. We manhandled it from the parking bay to between two concrete pillars, with about an inch clearance front and rear.
Not really. Sparks that could form during unplugging with the cable is still powered will be unpleasant. The lock ensures to not allow unplugging before it is safe to do so.
Nah actually that's a pretty shitty asshole thing to do Poor people gotta get tonwork somehow, and when you do that it fucks up their day, maybe thier week, maybe it runs their month. You don't know.
Me and my friend Daniel locked up my friend Davids bike once and the next day we met up and he said "Someone locked up my bike and I don't know what to do" Daniel and I were just dying
once I parked my ford fiesta, I came back 5mins later it was facing other way, this was in middle of the night, in little village, where I didint saw a single person
When I was like 12 years old my big brother got one of those U shaped bike locks and locked it round my neck when I was asleep. It was loose enough not to be a choking hazard but tight enough to be impossible to get off. I had a bike lock around my neck for a whole day.
Allegedly, after this clip aired Renault had to launch a press release where they specify that, thanks to the way the plug is locked to the socket, only the car's owner can plug and unplug it
How sad that you couldn't mess someone's day up. Such a shame they weren't late for an important meeting. It would've been so funny, if they couldn't get their children from school on time. I hate people like you.
When ever someone asks me “why do you watch top gear?” Or “why do you enjoy Jeremy clarkson?” I always show/send them this clip, it demonstrates the whole show at once
my ex lived in an apartment where someone had a plug in hybrid, and every time i walked by it in the parking lot i would unplug it. they eventually found a way to put a lock around it so you couldn't unplug it
One of my childhood pranks, when I was out shopping with my Mum and we were on the escalator, I'd be a few steps behind her so she couldn't see, when I got to the end of the escalator I used to press the emergency stop button and walk off. XD
Im so happy manufacturers have thought of this ahead of time on most cars. I had a spark EV that if unplugged and the car was still locked it would blare the alarm, my i3 has a locking pin that prevents the handle from being removed and all charge point public chargers will notify you via text your vehicle has been unplugged so you really have to try to be an arse with plug in cars.
@@TraceLight Careful, if you do manage the severe the cord and remove some of the insulation, you will be electrocuted. This is critical on fast charging stations. The locking ports are less on tampering, and more on safety concerns on unplugging the cord while still energised.
Ah classic. The old twig brushing lines of cars to set the alarms off too. I used to always ride different bikes to college myself, and lock the thing up outside a random factory or service garage - alternating them at random - down the street therefrom; so nobody would know which was mine XD.
I keep coming back to this clip; it's bloody hilarious. I don't remember the bit that James and Jeremy said. James, you psycopath, that's hilarious. The one Jeremy did was also very funny. I'm pretty sure you can do it with a classic Mini.
Me and my friends do that bike lock thing all the time downtown. People usually get really mad, but these locks are so crappy that you can yank them open with your bare hands. And once they realize that, they usually get even madder because they know they can't really peg us for doing anything wrong. So they usually throw the lock on the ground and ride off in a huff. Hours of fun!
Hammond was the kid who was always caught.
And then snitched on the others
@@heneedsomemilk2877 I see him as the guy who would snitch on only one person in the group.
nah, he just doesn't like being in trouble. The other two love it
Ye
Short legs, always the slowest to get away
One of the rare times James and Jeremy are in harmony.
We're not saying you should do that, we're saying you can do that.
One of my all-time favorite Clarkson lines
James: * pfffvffvffv *
"Now..."
one of the all time Clarkson lines
And you will do that
James May: "Don't unplug people's electric cars because when they see the range just says: *2,* it's not funny" *proceeds to piss himself* 😂
First reply pog
"Were not saying you should do that, we just say you CAN do that"
@@lan8401 😆💦👖
@@dr6124 Which one?
Charging cable locks in so you can’t unplug it.
the seriousness in James' voice when he says "they've got a new car it's called the Influenza" kills me every time
Ikr he was so smooth with it lmao
Doesn't bother to even really fix it either. Amazing.
How many times do you have to watch it?
*"YOU'RE JUST A YOBBO!"*
Yes, we heard that, you dont need to write it down.
No he absolutely does
Yes, I am.
@@oddities-whatnot you're new to the Internet, aren't you?
@@Sergeantmajormario just because TH-cam comments are a shithole doesn't mean everyone is 'new to the internet'
The funniest thing is that James May owns a Tesla
Oh no. Ohhhh no!
One day he'll be in a hurry to go somewhere, and he'll run out to his car and find his range says 2. The whole of Hammersmith will hear His" OH COCK!"
@@redmr2na I think that's the most used and most popular quote of James May
Edit: And best
@@redmr2na hahaha, that will be a sight to see
It's Hammersmith, isn't it? I'm going unplugging....... 😁
"because when they come back they find out their range just says 2"
"It's not fun-HAHAHAHAH"
Kills me every time
Where not saying you should do that we’re saying you can do that pfpfpfpfpfpfpf
"No, you shouldn't"
Yes, I heard him say that. Whats wrong with people on here these days ? Yeah, lets pretend nobody heard anything so I have to post it on here just in case. FFS every man and his wife keeps doing this, its boring.
That "D O N K" got me
"52 year old children?"
underrated line in this video 😂
As amazing as this bit is, the first few seconds are always what I remember most. James just flatly busting out 'it's called the influenza' out of nowhere gets me every time lol.
I think of that line every time there's a new car with a silly smug name.
I find it borderline criminal that they decided to change cameras to not show james the whole time he laughed at 1:46. Yes Clarkson eagerly nodding is funny but I’d love to see how James looked while laughing.
Imo t's even more of a crime than unplugging electric cars, locking bikes, throwing bricks through windows and setting shops on fire combined.
What if you combined the two actions and locked peoples electric cars to the charger while they’re charging?
Ery noic
Unplug the car and use a bike chain to chain the car to the charger
@@tylerkulchinsky2167 HAHAHA
@@tylerkulchinsky2167 use a bike chain to chain a bike to an electric car
@@tylerkulchinsky2167 Steal the fucking battery
"Throw a brick through their window or set fire to their shop."
Americans: Both, both is good.
I'm reminded of the Walkie-Talkie in London that supposedly set someone's shop on fire with it's power to reflect the sun into a beam capable of melting cars and creating fires.
@@dright928 every time i think i'm stupid i think of the walkie talkie and i remember i'm not THAT stupid
@@dright928 Holy shit I want a Walkie Talkie like that
it was a mostly peaceful brick throwing
Lmao 😂😂😭
Never have I seen a full room of grown adults laugh at "2" and it actually being amazing
"It's not fun- HAHAHAHAHAH"
0:37 Clarkson did the same thing to James in the Columbia Special! It was just as funny as he said XD
Oh yeah XD
Dermot Moynahan did that to Jeremy while he was in the Peel P50 at a stoplight.
*” Y O U ‘ R E J U S T A Y O B B O ! “* 😂
1:40 - 1:55 😂
Top Gear in 2012: You can just unplug electric cars
Auto Engineers: ...or can you?
Moral: Top Gear solved yet another world crisis by prompting the invention of locking plugs
Or were just showing how ignorant they are.
Or the engineers maybe thought about plugs about 5min and realized that the car could be unplugged and the cable stolen and thus made the cables lock.
@@jojodroid31 Or it was done as a safety issue due to 250kW of power needing to be stopped before pulling the plug.
Doesn't change the fact that you can buy a shit ton of bike locks walk up to a store with handles and just go, you're closed, you're closed, and you're closed
damn.
And thus, Elon Musk was inspired to have Tesla chargers lock in the ports.
All electric cars lock in their port as far as im aware
@@johnnyxrcfc I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure a lot of them don't, there are certain 3D printed components you can buy/make to lock different plugs into different ports.
Could be wrong though.
Edit: I am 🥴
@@Troy_K my mom has one of the shittest cheap electric cars on the market, and even that locks in the charger
@@odinvik7821 Okay, maybe I'm wrong then.
Yet another to buy a Tesla.
0:59
america: "hey! good idea!"
Blame those “peaceful protesting” cucks
@@Awfulfeature someone's window got a brick through it
@@Awfulfeature The cops incited the riots.
@@Theredtail95 Ah yes, cops will be much friendlier now after "peaceful rioters" smashed up people's businesses for no reason
Hammond: “I SHOULD THROW THIS BRICK AT THEIR WINDOW AND SET FIRE TO THEIR SHOP”
I’m on the floor XD
Me and a friend actually thought of that all of our childhood but we couldn't get matches...
I heard him say it, you dont need to write it. WTF.
@@oddities-whatnot He wrote it for the deaf.
@@killerdinamo08 Someone's going on a ranting spree lmao
Someone in the US: I don't mind if I do!
At college one of our friends had a Fiat 500 Autobianchi van which was parked nicely in the Students' Union car park. We manhandled it from the parking bay to between two concrete pillars, with about an inch clearance front and rear.
0:54
Lady at the back has absolutely done it before
She knows what's up
"We're not saying you SHOULD do that. We're just saying you CAN do that"
"You're just a Yobbo!!!" I'm crying😂😂
As of now, in england we are having an issue where people steal those cables instead
*thanks james*
Good. EV drivers need to be taken down a peg or two.
Bloody pious bitches
Is it bad that me and my friends do the bike lock thing
Michael Pace yes
As long as you do it to your mates and not a stranger, you good.
Chaitanya Rao agreed
Yes. Very. Get some help.
@@chaitanyarao5546 And as long as said mates are good spirited about it.
Otherwise it's just bullying.
I feel that after watching this, car manufacturers probably realised that they needed locks on the chargers...
Not really. Sparks that could form during unplugging with the cable is still powered will be unpleasant. The lock ensures to not allow unplugging before it is safe to do so.
James May: It's not funny
Also James May: Laughing whilst saying it's not funny
This combined with the joint in a bus comment makes me think tJames spent all his excitement in his youth! Sounds great to hang with him.
Walked past an electric car on charge last week and genuinely had to restrain myself 😂
I had an electric car but switched back to petrol after someone kept cutting the charging cable while it was parked outside my house.
You wouldn't have been able to unplug it because the cables lock in place.
This clip is pure top gear. If someone asks what is so great about top gear, show them this clip.
buying bike locks and locking up other peoples bikes is really funny tbh
I really really want to do it once but I don’t know if you can live my life like normal with that feeling ever again
Try using string and they get 20 m away and then over the bars
Nah actually that's a pretty shitty asshole thing to do
Poor people gotta get tonwork somehow, and when you do that it fucks up their day, maybe thier week, maybe it runs their month. You don't know.
@@biggmackthewackslack6654 of course reflecting back at it now I completely agree with what you're saying but when I was 13 it was really funny
Me and my friend Daniel locked up my friend Davids bike once and the next day we met up and he said "Someone locked up my bike and I don't know what to do" Daniel and I were just dying
1:20 I love the idea of a viewer seeing this and just losing it over the mystery of 78' finally being solved.
Me: (trying to concentrate on my test)
My friend: (doing a stupid face)
Me: 1:44
Easily one of my favorite segments of the trio. Abso-bloody-lutely brilliant.
once I parked my ford fiesta, I came back 5mins later it was facing other way, this was in middle of the night, in little village, where I didint saw a single person
1:27
The "DUNK" is what gets me every time
When I was like 12 years old my big brother got one of those U shaped bike locks and locked it round my neck when I was asleep. It was loose enough not to be a choking hazard but tight enough to be impossible to get off. I had a bike lock around my neck for a whole day.
Allegedly, after this clip aired Renault had to launch a press release where they specify that, thanks to the way the plug is locked to the socket, only the car's owner can plug and unplug it
"Oh yes, my bicycle is o...* donk *"
hey swift i want you to keep making videos in always like watching them (: 👍
ok pg
@@swift7493 no srly i want to see more of your videos im always happy to watch (:
And with that he never uploaded again
This is the best bit of the whole show
Ive done this in LA, its the funniest shit ever
Not as funny as pickle rick
@@josaphatfebrianj.f_works2838 true
Why coz everyone drives Teslas?
You're just a YOBBO! 😂
The chemistry between the three is just marvelous
Saddest thing is that I actually tried doing this on my Mini Countryman E. And.... It wouldn't come unplug. Because it's locked.
because they saw this clip and designed it so you couldn't unplug it, asshat.
@@Theredtail95 yea man.
How sad that you couldn't mess someone's day up. Such a shame they weren't late for an important meeting. It would've been so funny, if they couldn't get their children from school on time.
I hate people like you.
@@wojciechmuras553 Indeed it is sad.
But it's alright because I did it on my own Mini
@@wojciechmuras553 Or couldnt be there for a loved one's final moments before they passed away...
The way May scrunches his face when he laughs at 1:44
James cracking up at the end always gets me 😂😂😂
This is the perfect example of what top gear was this fully explains it
Man, I haven't laughed that hard at a video in a LONG time!
James mays face at the end LOL
"Let's just throw a brick through their window or set fire to their shop!"
Funniest thing I've heard since this show disappeared from Netflix
Its on Amazon Prime
This is one of the greatest Top Gear moments of all time
by far one of the best clips
This is one of the funniest and genuine moments of top gear
When ever someone asks me “why do you watch top gear?” Or “why do you enjoy Jeremy clarkson?”
I always show/send them this clip, it demonstrates the whole show at once
0:56 YOURE JUST A YOBBO!!!!
-hamster
My neighbour has a hyundai ioniq that I always unplug in the hope they will buy a real car
My mate just bought an electric car thanks for the idea James 😂
Fun fact: James doesn't believe in electricity...
“YOU’RE JUST A YOBO!”
The funniest part of this was James taking a second to imagine what he was saying
"It's really not funny pffff"
my ex lived in an apartment where someone had a plug in hybrid, and every time i walked by it in the parking lot i would unplug it. they eventually found a way to put a lock around it so you couldn't unplug it
Good man!
0:55 "*Y O U ' R E J U S T A Y O B B O*"
I know a trend where people go trough a district and puncture all SUV tires, must be similar idea behind it 😂
Ill see you lads at the charging stations
One of my childhood pranks, when I was out shopping with my Mum and we were on the escalator, I'd be a few steps behind her so she couldn't see, when I got to the end of the escalator I used to press the emergency stop button and walk off. XD
One of the best electric hate moments combined with jezzas hate of bikes
Im so happy manufacturers have thought of this ahead of time on most cars. I had a spark EV that if unplugged and the car was still locked it would blare the alarm, my i3 has a locking pin that prevents the handle from being removed and all charge point public chargers will notify you via text your vehicle has been unplugged so you really have to try to be an arse with plug in cars.
That takes the fun out of it
@@KiwiSpartan01 For pranksters, yes. Not for owners, though.
Guess we have to try harder ;)
@@TraceLight Careful, if you do manage the severe the cord and remove some of the insulation, you will be electrocuted. This is critical on fast charging stations.
The locking ports are less on tampering, and more on safety concerns on unplugging the cord while still energised.
you cant unplug them without the card. renault has locking pins inside the socked
Way too kill the mood. 😒
One of the students at our school had a bubble car. It was easy to pick it up and put it where it couldn't be driven out.
Ah classic. The old twig brushing lines of cars to set the alarms off too.
I used to always ride different bikes to college myself, and lock the thing up outside a random factory or service garage - alternating them at random - down the street therefrom; so nobody would know which was mine XD.
I would lock a bike up witha combination lock then leave a maths equation for the code
That is absolutely brilliant.
This is one of the funniest clips from the news.
16 year olds would be the ones unplugging random EVs in parking lots
I keep coming back to this clip; it's bloody hilarious.
I don't remember the bit that James and Jeremy said.
James, you psycopath, that's hilarious.
The one Jeremy did was also very funny. I'm pretty sure you can do it with a classic Mini.
It’s funny because none of them even thought about the possibility that chargers would lock in place
Electric cars nowadays have a lock on the cable. I think, it's entirely because of this episode of Top Gear.
Not really. It is to prevent unplugging while the cable is still powered. Sparks can be unpleasant.
On Tesla cars which need an adapter for most chargers you can unplug the charger and the adapter is the only bit which remains locked into the car.
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"it's not funny" then proceed to instatenously laugh
God I miss these 3!
The influenza 😂😂😂
Chargers should have a key to lock it in place
i love it when he said you just A YOBBO🤣🤣🤣
Me and my friends do that bike lock thing all the time downtown. People usually get really mad, but these locks are so crappy that you can yank them open with your bare hands. And once they realize that, they usually get even madder because they know they can't really peg us for doing anything wrong. So they usually throw the lock on the ground and ride off in a huff. Hours of fun!
Car: Renault Fluence Z.E
James: Renault INFLUENZA
Yes, I already know that, I just watched the video !!!
@@oddities-whatnot Gosh you're actually miserable
the funniest segment ever
And now yobo going around unplugged electric car became a thing in my country since we don't have law against this kind of behaviour for now.
renault fluence/influenza
1:10 we do a little trolling
The updated model of the Influenza will be the Renault Covid-19
Now I know my future leisure plans
The "influenza"? Why has no body picked up on this? Did I hear James May wrong?
No, he said influenza. Clarkson corrected it in the video.
Funny, image the look on James face when we comes back to his car and it's on 2 LoL.
too bad the charging plugs are locked in when the owner leaves the car xd
I did the bicycle lock thing, relatable, LOL
Haven't laughed so much in a long time
Офигенный окуп фармишь!
And this is why you should always let the air out the tires of every car you see.