Grosser vs. Corniche: Old Car CHALLENGE | Top Gear - Part 2
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- Part 2 of 2. With the score at 2-1 to the Grosser, Jeremy Clarkson and James May take their cars to London for what seems like the easiest test ever. But trying to park a huge car in a tiny space isn't as simple as it seems.
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James's reaction to reading Jeremy's last service bill is just classic. First the shock, then him trying to say it before collapsing into that fantastic James May smoker's laugh.
It sounds like an empty can of spray paint, doesn't it?
@@doktorspock8910no
Lol, Every time I read an exorbitant amount, I always pronounce it like James does.
What did he do - buy you a Golf? I'm dead XD
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0:50
Jeremy: There was quite a lot needed doing, if I'm honest.
James: What did they do buy you a Golf? :D
Codename 47 nearly heard it was 50000 pounds
that line and may's laugh had me in hysterics
It was May's laugh after deliver of that line that sealed it........
*an Golf
This is the single funniest moment in TG ever.
4:49 Jeremy’s confused french is everything 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
*Brings Merc to service centre*
Mechanic: Ah, I see the problem here. You need to change the Volkswagen Golf in your engine bay.
Well , I heard if you aren't carefull with the 600s window switches , you can break someone's finger.
“Ze problem ist im ze motor”
“Hast ju money - lotz off ze money”?
I swear, this simple challenge is one of the most entertaining ones that TG has ever attempted. I'll have that Grosser...as soon as I overthrow a government.
That too.
Jonas Kaye that sounds easier.
4 years later and this comment is accurate as hell
You don't understand how busy London is
lol
I love how often they agree with each other here. "Two cars in one space, that's just selfish."
"In my Britain, that would be punishable by six months in prison."
*in May's britain.
@@aliabdallah102 in San Francisco there would be 4 more motor cycles in there.
@@oldrrocr I'd just hit all 4 of em and park.
*may not my
When the 3 of them are together May and Clarkson tend to be more antagonistic toward each other and apart they will call each other the biggest oafs. But when they are together without hammond they tend to be more agreeable than they think.
The horn race bit remains one of my favorite Clarkson moments ever... and I've watched _a lot_ of top gear
“Now that’s a horn!” Best line ever 😂😂
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 "...and it got us thrown out."
Jezza: "It comes down to two choices then, camp"
May: "Or camp commandant"
May's timing is nye impeccable.
I don't get that. Would you explain?
@@derlangsame4471 Corniche makes you funky. While the Größer makes you feel like you've been gassed millions of people at a concentration camp
@@derlangsame4471 yeah
@@derlangsame4471 camp is another world for gay and a camp Commandant was the commander of a concentration camp
Timestamps?
2:43; In May's Britain, that would be punishable by 6 months in prison..
8 years later and it is May's Britain... ;)
Wrong May.
Al P sadly
Al P I was gonna right that in comments :(
@ObviouslyKieran britain's gone may
Stupid May
"May's Britain"
little did he know...
well we now have PM May and chancellor Hammond and Leader of opposition Jeremy, everything is going well
Siyao Qin hahahaha
Aaand its gone
Didn't turn out so well, did it?
@@genjijr.9937 Maybe they should present the next season of Top Gear, let's face it, they're all about to lose their current jobs!
7:31 I love the builder going “Come on! Pump it, James! Pump it!”
Also what James says at 7:20 😆
"Soon though without executing anyone, we were in the west end"
The Real Top Gear, missed but never forgotten.
So technically , in the east end government would execute anti communists?
6:35
What on earth did Mercedes Benz put into the Grosser when they were designing its horn system? A fog horn? XD
+CHammer I think that horn might even qualify as a war horn, being that loud.
+CHammer
Siren to get your airforce moving and bomb some disobedient subjects..
+CHammer I think they had an oil tanker in mind ...
They added a chamber of bullfrogs behind the headlights. That's what you are hearing.
+Lord Apophis That was the mating call of the Cargo Ship. They got thrown out before all the cargo vessels in the Channel converged on the garage.
Both are absolutely awesome, but i'd take the merc.
Yeah, that horn is just brilliant
Yeah, that Merc's horn is just ridiculous. I mean, only the Germans would put a train horn in their cars....gotta love it.
I'd take the royce
I'd take the royce
I'd take the royce
“Is Max Mosley on that list?”
Hammond’s brief line was easily one of the funniest
Son of Sir Oswald Mosley, Baronet and founder of the British Union of Fascists.
No it's worse.
@@carlbirtles4518And even HE wasn’t on the list! I’m absolutely baffled by that.
@@FlashoftheBlades John Lennon wasn’t on the list either.
Just some dictators and a portly rock and roll singer.
@@carlbirtles4518 Guess the list was too long for the board.
“If you’re theory is correct, you’re either going to murder millions of people, or you’re going to die on the bog trying to get 500 cheeseburgers out of your poo chute” 😂😂😂😂 May always has the best one liners
Possibly the best line he has ever said on top gear
Camp...
...or Kamp Kommandant
Kinda wish when the audience laughed that Clarkson had just gone "Don't know what you lot are laughing at, I don't see any cheese burgers around here."
John Lennon had a 600.
So, 600 owners would either murder millions of people, die on the toilet or get fatally shot by a religious nutcase.
@@polarisukyc1204 what does the second half mean? "... you’re going to die on the bog trying to get 500 cheeseburgers out of your poo chute"
"You wouldn't do that to most '600' drivers, mate. You'd be in the boot without your head."
Oddly, on a Top Gear DVD Jeremy is driving James' Rolls-Royce with James in the boot!
George Jacob that one from "worst car in the history of the world episode" ive remember that one 😆
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@@shadowhaziq4326 At least Jezza showed mercy on James by leaving his head on.
I love how Clarkson, Hammond, and May could always turn the most random everyday life moments into excellent entertainment
scripted
@@basshead. that is the point of the original comment.
+Bada Bada Nope.
@@basshead. He meant the script is written in such a way a mundane task turns comedic.
@@dbclass4075 The whole show is fake.
4:10 i just checked, a Mercedes 600(not sure if swb or lwb) is about 554cm whilst a standard UK parking bay is only 480cm in length
It's a swb 600 grosser, lwb had a window between the front an rear doors and it were called "Pullman"
4:02 this is the best bit 😂😂
James has such a smokers laugh!!
Surely it's Jeremy?
***** All the Top Gear presenters smoke, they've admitted to it.
***** I know he does but it was laugh that really gave it away to me
Purple Alex Actually Richard said he quit.
KV2 Power Oh, did he? Good for him :)
That sounds so sarcastic but I don't know how else to word it xD
"Jezza help! I'm gonna get raped or something".
-May.
sonyviva308 v
pretty accurate in modern day London
I'm not too happy about that comment to be honest, and I'm surprised it came from may
@@thegamingsushicat5349 Why?
@@sumandhabolkar2819 she's a fairy
0:52 "What did they do? Buy you a Golf?"
Capt. Slow and master of comedic response
James and Jezza trying to play for parking in London is golden. ‘What was the matter with money’ hit the nail on the head jezza
"now that`s a horn!" XDDDD
VanZone Gaming Indo k
It was funny that they threw him out.
I respect the LFA in your profile pic
Funny Part Is @ 6:37
@@alfredsnyder4
Myself favorite part of the TV show
watching this challenge brings smile to me. its like watching completely different two best friends messing around. they are completely different but somehow they are bound together.
+88thetruth88
lmao
+Abul Hoque you failed
+Hanif Purbaya "Jezza help help!" also gave me that feeling.
Did anyone else just laugh so hard at James’ ‘Eh?’ and duck laugh at 0:36? 😂
James said “eh” not Jeremy
@@Moakmeister No Jeremy said eh
@@jacobrumens9601 No, it's James. It's James' voice. Jeremy's face doesn't move at all at that part, plus it'd make no sense for Jeremy to give a surprised "Eh?" to a bill that A) He already knows the price of, and B) He's not even reading at that current moment.
@@OcsttiacYour right it was James. I just didn’t notice that.
Clarkson: "It really comes down to a simple choice: Camp..."
May: "... Or Kampfkommandant!"
Nope, "Camp commandant".
Kampf in german means battle though.
Thijs Rikkerink yes but cam cause concentration camp
@@thijsrikkerink6333 it means struggle actually
@@Lazbotable it's either battle or struggle, depends on the context, since German tanks during WWII usually had "Panzerkampfwagen" in their names and it doesn't mean Armored Struggle Vehicle.
"Chairman Margaret Clarkson fantasy." I can't stop laughing at that for some reason.
If anyone here doesn’t understand the joke;
Chairman: Chairman Mao Zedong
Margaret: Margaret Thatcher
I was about to take a sip of my coffee but just before i did i died of laughter at 7:23
This is what Grand Tour needs to do again, simpler cheaper challenges with classics in UK/Western Europe (even with serviced cars), it's still tons of fun to watch, and it's done in a few days and wont completely wear them out!
Very late reply but totally agree, as much as I love the international specials my absolute favourites are the challenges in old cars in grey British weather
This is pretty close to what they did for Eurocrash (albeit more in Central / Eastern Europe) and that was their best episode in a while (the whole wax Nigel Mansell bit was hysterical), so you may be onto something.
@@Adam-fj9px The BBC has claimed that they own the concept of the three boys doing cheap car challenges so that's why they're limited with what they can do.
The Mecedes is a dream car, perfect quality, classic elegance, technically far ahead of its time. The Rolls is not perfect, technically hardly comparable, but it has charisma and soul ... I like both ...
Holy crap the Merc horn.
They've used a bit of audio post-production wizardry (called simply Turning Up The Volume) to make it seem louder than it is.
Still funny, though :)
@@dunebasher1971 bruh... Trust me... It's actually really really loud... Enough to fill the total car park with frustrating people and enough to make ears bleed when standing near...
@@abishek4300 it has to be that loud because it doubles as an emergency attention horn :D
I think Mercedes accidentally fitted the foghorn from a cruise ship onto the Grosser.
more likely, the Bismarck
"Accidentally"
🤣 The Merc has 2 horns so you can create the illusion of 2 cars honking even though it's only 1 that is doing it.
The Horn of the rms queen Mary
Lets be straight here...
A Cruiseship.. is garbage. Its a floating GUT draped in white powered by peoples ability to FART. Damn things have as much character as a gas bubble and less dignity than Queen Elizabeth's cat tossing up a hairball.
A STEAMER... is where that horn came from.
*spits*
"Oh has it gone in your mouth?"
"...yes it has"
😂😂😂
Just admit mine's the superior car
Jeremy's face waiting for James' reaction to the service bill is priceless
I've just watched this for the 500th time and I keep on going back to the horn bit, gets me every time...
"You're either going to murder millions of people or you're gonna die on the bog trying to get 500 cheeseburgers out of your poo chute." Best line ever.
0:33 Look at Clarkson's face while he's waiting for May's reaction!
The way Jeremy says ‘Shut up!’ always makes me laugh! Followed by the apparent fog horn that lives in the Mercedes.
7:32 pump it James pump it -Random construction worker
I love his enthousiasm! He's ready to help in an instant!
Camp or Kamp Kommandant 😂😂😂
OMG I miss these guys. Car review shows have nothing on the old TG.
James & Jeremy listening to the automated voice on the phone cracks me up everytime.
I do enjoy these simple less elaborate challenges from Top Gear of yesteryear, so spontaneous and impromptu.
I WANT THE HORN FROM THAT MERC!
You can actually buy it - my friend's dad has a daewoo matiz with it
hollycrapitsjean123 Tell him he's epic and history will remember him.
TraustiGeir It'd be even better if it were a Toyota Prius.
Matt Smith OR a Gee-Whiz
hollycrapitsjean123 Perhaps a Smart Car's in order?
I'd have the Kamp Kommandant over the Camp.
hmdwgf "So you're gonna either murder millions of people or die on the bog trying to get 500 cheeseburgers out of your poo chute."
You are a dictator.
Love how they went to a gas station for tea with their ultra luxury cars
Clarkson's face when he realises he has the mother of all horns. Childish and golden.
Pay for parking by phone? What silliness ; P
5:16
Pay for parking?!?!?!?!? Who pays for parking??? What a silliness...
ikr
Adam K ah the British
Yeah, I'd just park without paying. Not my damn fault they don't want to take my money.
Adam K Have you tried calling that number to see if it is real.
7:15 "Jezza help, help, help! Just push it, I'm going to get raped or something."
I am a bmw man myself, but that Merc is so cool and hilariously overkill. It is awesome
OMG. This was filmed in around 2008 and these cars were worth £25k. I've just checked and the Grosser fetches between £40-170k.
The capital appreciation is awsome!
I saw a mercedes 600 sell on eBay this year for £128,000
If you add the 15k service bill to the 25k buying price of the Mercedes, you are at 40k ...
that can't be in perfect working condition, each one of those hydraulic switches or latches alone cost over 10k$ to fix according to leno
@@DefinitelyNotAdolfHitler maybe that's where the capital appreciation comes from
In other words, nearly enough appreciation to cover the maintenance bills...
6:30
I simply cannot get over that horn. I thought he was being dramatic earlier in talking about how loud the horn was. My god, that's the greatest thing ever.
6:30
"Sorry...Sorry...Sorry..."
"WA-beep!-ER!"
Van drivers :D
Wankers
4:59 "hit everything" lol
Is the granie solution for everything
“Chairman Margaret Clarkson fantasy”
one of my personal favourite things James has ever said
5:05 We haven't paid...we've been thwarted!
6:35 HOOOORRRNNNNN!!!!!
6:40 "thats a horn" must funny part
2:42 "In May's Britain, that would be punishable by 6 months in prison."
That means something else entirely, now!
How?
@@Athenstrainman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Theresa_May
"Can you help I feel like I'm going to get raped" hahahahha
The merc is beautiful, but has the highest running costs ever.... jay leno has one on his channel and he tells you horror stories about the prices.....
TheYorkMan Maybe they weren't in that condition when bought, hence Jezza's "service" bill of £15,000.
TheYorkMan Notice, I put the word "service" in quotes.
TheYorkMan I did not use quotes to highlight the word. Nor would I. I used them to signify that I was _quoting_ the word.
TheYorkMan I'm getting the impression that you missed the bit in English at school where they taught the correct use of quotation marks.
TheYorkMan Quotation marks are NOT used for emphasis. That is a classic error.
4:50 when jeremy speaks french it becomes the funniest thing ever
1:05 Look at you in the back of your Beemer, is like a businessman, not a dictator LOL 😂
3:29 That's the same sound i make, when i accidentally click on a non-BBC Top Gear video...
i love the way the guy shouts "PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN!!!" and he's pushing a car which has run out of petrol...clever!
Clarkson's face at 5:34 had me in stitches😂😂😂.
Legit like a confused puppy looking for help
2:30 The smug mobile is called a G-Whiz and it was made by an Indian company called Reva Electric
0:38 There's no need for a duck whistle with that laugh, what was that??
Some say that its his real laugh
Tamir Burstein That sounded like a n introduction to The Stig!
Some say, the Stig stole his laugh, and replaced it with a duck...
Zacho789 0:54
Don't smoke kids
I thought, "Gee, Idi Amin must have owned one of those!"
I was right.
5:59 Man, how I’d love to have that E31 8 series... AND that Mercedes B I G. That’s a dream garage right there.
4:15 ah yes my favourite car, the mercedes big.
"AEYYY?!"
god, so unintentionally British - around 7:00 minute mark all the builders start shouting... Perfect
3:29
Right on mate, spoken what we were all thinking.
Absolute scholar of a man.
Jeremy: "well what would you like me to do?"
Homeless cyclist man: "BLRAGH"
6:41 Now thats a horn !
"...now that's a horn!"
"We were chucked out."
"What did they do, buy you a Golf?" Gets me every time. Imagine that. xD
The 600 was an incredible creation but MB never made money from it. The Rolls Silver Shadow and Corniche, on the other hand, went on to be a great commercial success.
Sure the 600 Grosser might’ve never made MB money, but regardless, that’s one of thing about the 600 Grosser I admire: it’s uniqueness. Sure the Corniche went on to become a commercial success, but they’ll have been a dime a dozen, in my honest opinion. The 600 Grosser won’t be everywhere and it might be quite expensive to service, but what you get is a unique experience in wafting along in one. Handling is also impressive given its size and weight. The 600 Grosser was indeed a magnificently incredible creation that carries a certain dignity and classiness to it. That said, I’m certain the Rolls is also a good car, but something about the Grosser just makes it all the more special to me.
07:51 Jeremy: Has it gone into your mouth?
James: Yes it has!
I almost died of laughter!
Rule 34. It gets everywhere. (Oooooooooh Matron)
‘Annoyingly the instructions were tiny… very tiny!’ 🤣🤣
If I had to choose one of the two, I'd take the sneaky BMW E31 at 5:58.
fantastic episode! I enjoyed it more than usual! Excellent!!
I died when Clarkson did the horn
One of the few multi-part videos where the 2nd part has even more views then the 1st.
2022 and still the best thing on the tube. Their comradery was and is, I can only assume, amazing. Such characters.
Peace.
Really liked this challenge. This was great to watch!
The 600 hands down.
i can't help but feel bad for jezza at 5:32
they forgot 2Pac at the corniche, was his favourite car
i realy love these guys
Sometimes they are funnier without Hamster.
6:35 I never get tired of listening to that horn. It sounds more like one you would find on a lorry!
6:35
James May; "Look at him living out his Chairman Margaret Clarkson fantasy". Ha ha ha, had me in stitches 🤣!
1:10 Margaret Clarkson 😂
The Elvis bit killed me.
thetravinator9 rip
I really want the mercedes. Just for the love of it, the luxury, and THE HORN! OH THE HORN IS AMAZING!
Those 3 guys are simply the best and you just can't replace them... Just can't
Good to see they were recognised on the street. "Come on James, pump it"
6:37 literally when people come in front of me in car games