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- Part 1 of 4: Jeremy, Richard and James are challenged to each buy a supercar for less than £10,000 and drive them from Bristol to Slough. But will any of their clapped out motors actually make it there?
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I absolutely love how May literally pulls up in a truck with his car and says
"Is that the best you two can come up with"
The best defense is offense lol
Sigma male mindset
Classic may
I thought he meant it about their joke saying he bought a truck, "is that the best joke you can come up with"
the audacity 😂
“4:48 The battery is discharging, the oil temperature is very high, the oil pressure is very low, the engine temperature is off the end of the scale, I’m running out of petrol, but the clock is correct.”
Always think about the positives James.
"Of course the oil pressure is low, the oil temp is high!"
That's what is going through my head watching this over again but it's still really entertaining. James's car is just as much of a pos as I remember
Hilarious line lol
I was checking the comments and i literaly saw this commemt exactly when he Said that!😂
*gets down from the flatbed truck* "is that the best you two can come up with?". So much positivity indeed.
Or ya ocd to ignore the fact u bought the worst mazarati ever
*”James has bought an AA truck!”*
"Is that the best you two can come up with?"
Aa truck probably would have won...
The truck would have likely got round castle coombe quicker
😂
Supra:1000 hp stock
AA Truck:102292732927 hp stock
If James would have stayed on the AA-truck he would have easily won
That’s why I’m planning on buying an AA truck as my daily driving vehicle.
Well in the points tally Jeremy says “Well James quite frankly you’d have done better if you hadn’t bought a car” cuz he was on -99 points
In the Porsche Challenge, they have to drive to London to Brighton without opening the hood which gives a 5 point loss. Jeremy’s car broke down 7 times and lost like 30 points since he opened the hood 6 times. At the seventh breakdown knowing that he bother losing 5 more points for opening the hood had completed the trip by calling a AAA truck and reached his destination with his car on it.
1 thousandth 😎
Renault
Most of these cars are worth well in excess of £40,000 now. Mental how cars have gone up over the last few years.
+Rocker Rick I was just looking for all of them on sales sites, absolutely insane, the worst condition non running ones still go for 30k +.
Supply and demand...
And condition.
Gretsch86
I actually think the Ferrari Hammond's got was in pretty good condition for it's age.
@@brantleyfoster021 keep in mind this was filmed 10-15 years ago.
Kni
It's still in good condition I think
I just love how they added Greek music whenever james broke down with his Italian car. Absolute legends these three
Is there significance to the fact that it's Greek? I think I may have missed the joke.
@@4hirehiro italians twice tried to invade greece and the greeks beat them twice
@@boki3000 ohhh. ok. i never would have made that connection. were both attempts during WWII?
@@4hirehiro Once in WW2, and one time during the Roman empire times.
greeks then spent the rest of their history trying to be off-brand italians
A genuine, non-scripted mix-up between Maidstone and Maidenhead is the most James thing imaginable
I love how when James exits the AA truck with his car on it, he's so determined and judging their cars, then comes up with "is that the best you've got?".
Furr
Choreographed arm-fold at 2:26
Rocktecho exactly at the same time lol
LOL didnt notice
omfg
ohhhhhh youre right that is in sync
All the years watching this challenge and never noticed this, lol
Why does James always buy cars with electrical problems?
He doesnt like the electrical gadgets anyway .. he is happy when they dont work!
Because he has a "trained eye" as he says :)
DRMADist An eye trained to see only the worst cars
Brendan Sheehy That and buying the slowest car for every challenge they do
Nicholas Skific
Well, he is Captain Slow...
3:40
Jeremy: "That's a lap dancing club"
Richard: "is it?" *checks the camera*
LOL
Jeremy: "Oh, you don't know!" 😏
This is my all time favorite Top Gear segment. These were the cars I dreamed about as a teenager. Great to see an honest assessment, accompanied by hilarious banter and brilliant music choices.
Later they removed the iconic music-pieces for the international or non-BBC-versions and CZcams. It's strange this still has it, and very enjoyable!
Prime Top Gear days, for sure. Love it.
It actually wasn't that honest they admitted they faked a lot of the problems with these cars but it made great TV
💩 on me barry
"No it's not a kit car, it's a Lamborghini............Phillistine." LMBO
Lmao...See!.. I am not afraid too type a letter A that implies the word Ass... you nerd..
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@@jdonnlly I thought it was a Lambo pun
@@jdonnlly this is pretty pathetic
No
"shows what the rest of its worth", that's the funniest thing I ever heard.
Without that engine rebuild, they'd have to give *you* money to get rid of the car. 3000 pounds, to be exact...
@@alphonseforadori3768 ok.
It’s the music
It’s the appearance of the car on the back of the AA truck
It’s Jeremy shouting “James has bought an AA truck!”
It’s Hammonds laugh!
Absolutely unbelievably good scene!!! 😂
The music in the original episode was Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. I don’t know why it was changed.
The wonders of licensing deals my friend. Most likely the license for the old song ran out years ago, so they probably changed it to something they were allowed to use@@GlitchanBlack
I love the shot where they show the Ferrari and Maserati and then the truck in the background 🤣
2:53 😂
@@GlitchanBlackProbably a copyright thing. Music licensing is a finicky business and what is cleared for broadcast might not be cleared for other forms of release.
I’ve got nothing to say either way but if it were a copyright thing I wouldn’t be surprised.
The year is 2019, and this is still the peak of entertainment.
The year is 2020, and this and the grand tour is still the peak of entertainment
It’s 2021, still the same
2022*
2022
2023
In the current issue of Top Gear magazine they were telling how Richard Hammond got the job. He send in a tape of himself in a Batman suit demonstrating a car.
And at his formal audition he started telling stories about his past as a DJ on agricultural radio selling lambs on the air and had everybody in stitches over his self-deprecating humor.
So the failed DJ got the job and the rest is history...
RastaSaiyaman wow that’s rly interesting
He was on Men and Motors before Top Gear
RastaSaiyaman I
He said on Drivetribe that what got him the job was when he said as he was leaving "I'm going back to the Nam... Chelte Nam!!"
That is so British! Legend!
"The owner had spend 10 grand rebuilding the engine in this t hing" ends up blowing it later on in the episode.....job well done?
He said he rebuilt the engine, he never said he did it well.
@@cryamistellimek9184 that's why he sold the whole thing for 7 K lmao, the owner just wanted to get rid of it and stop wasting money
That's because owner was likely an idiot with no money that was trying to rebuild a Maserati on a Cortina budget. $10 grand on a Maserati rebuild is very very cheap - so cheap that it will certainly not be done right.
I always laugh at Hammond’s reaction when Clarkson said...that’s a lap dancing club
He's probably got a membership there
Shoutout to all the legends still watching this legendary trio, these episodes do feel timeless to me, still hilarious to this day
Clarkson’s license plate is JOK 229 - obviously a reference to JOnathan martin setting yorK cathedral on fire in February 1829. I find that offensive that Top Gear this is arson is acceptable.
What an in-depth reference.
Ii love symbolism but that could be sheer chance Xx
@@charlottewilson8740 You have been banned from Argentina
@Richard Liddy *you have been banned from Argentina*
1) I didn't understand anything you said
2) I guess you are one that believes that McCartney is still alive
3) is 229, how the fuck can be a reference to 1829
5:59 Jeremy: "I can't believe someone's put a Ferrari badge on that when it isn't one."
You were saying, Mr. SS badge? 🤣🤣
you do have a point. if that was truly an SS it’d probably be worth more than 7000 quid
@@bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439 I'd have thought so. Funny how it was only worth £7k even after a ten grand engine rebuild which didn't even make an 80 mile journey.
@@leopold7562 no wonder the guy sold it lol
@@leopold7562 Either the guy lied or (also possible) that he botched engine rebuild and just wanted to recover some losses.
@@kariolm2579 There were receipts, so I’d guess the rebuild was done, but you’re probably right about it being a botch job. Odds are, they cut costs by reusing existing parts that were on their last legs, or reconditioned parts, or even dodgy aftermarket reproductions. I’m guessing that Clarkson would’ve known it was a pup when he first powered it up and bought it anyway to prove the point that a ten grand supercar was a really bad idea.
My absolute favorite episodes of Top Gear are when the lads are each given a price limit and a car description to match, and we see what each of them comes up with.
The ship in the background in Bristol is the SS Great Britain--one of the first major ships built of metal, and one of the many achievements of Isabard Kingdom Brunel.
"James had run out of electricity... again."
LMAO
Yeah. It must be a hybrid, mustn't it? Consumes both petrol and electricity. ;)
By far my favorite of all the budget car challenges, next to the British Leyland challenge. The boys each have absolutely STUNNING machines (albeit with glaring technical problems), and a great road trip with a ton of laughs. Jeremy's Merak's engine *literally* disintegrating, James' Urraco constantly losing power, all while Richard's Dino keeps chugging along with little to no problems until it just couldn’t keep going. This one is just great fun.
This one along with the Alfa Romeo challenge.
11 years later each one is 80k
i just love that the official Top Gear CZcams channel still kept these videos up after all these years even after these 3 left. good on ya, guys.
the maserati is gorgeous
they always made great looking cars until The Bi Turbo came along
And it blew up
Sí, y el conductor es tonto!!
And the Lambo. Not often where the Ferrari is the worst car in the group (in my opinion anyway).
Aside from the paint job needing a little work in a couple small places at the front, the rest of it honestly looked really nice. I still think the Dino looked the nicest overall, including the interior.
Good ole Top Gear :) Miss it, though.
Me too. I keep returning to these old bits, rather then watching the "new show".
Jeremy still had brown hair lol
Jeremy J. What happened to the old guys
Jeremy got fired for hitting one of the producers, and of course the others quit with him.
Jeremy J. Yha
“The Italians invented electricity as we know”
😂
Yeah, I used to joke that it was a relatively new hobby for them.
I mean the first electric battery was created by Alessandro Volta
@@shadyyy7490 there was Toyota Concept car names Toyota Alessandro Volta EV back in early 2000s
"James has bought an AA truck!". What a corker of a line!
After watching a few episodes of the other countries versions of Top Gear, it's safe to say that the British one is the best. Jeremy, Hammond and May absolutely make this show.
Well I mean, ALL of the other ones were only started because the "British one" AKA the *original one* was such a massive global success. Seriously, these 3 had done at least 7 seasons of the show before the idea of other countries having their own version of the show in their native language started being pitched, so *of course* this is going to be the best one...
Never mess up with the original one. :D
@@moogle68or it took that long for Clarkson/BBC to sell the rights
@@Doooooooooooood if he sold the rights, he wouldn't have been able to continue doing the show, or at least wouldn't have been in charge, which obviously wasn't the case.
One of the best episodes of Top Gear. I Loved the "old-school" cheap car challenges!
Lmao James may “is that the best you two could come up with” after stepping out the tow truck
Man, performance aside, those are some really good looking cars! The interior is really nice too, I like the vintage dashboard and steering wheel.
That was my father car!!!! So cool to see it in here, again it doesn’t leave us alone in the world of memories passing down onto you guys.
Which one?
@@imad.0129 Source: trust me bro.
Love how despite arriving on an AA truck, and knowing he's going to be mocked, James immediately goes on the attack by mocking the other cars with "Is THAT the best you can come up with?" LOL
Sigma grind set
3:30 Jeremy: DON'T DO THAT TO MY CAR! 😂😂😂😂
That part made me laugh when I was a kid and still does
The soundtrack to this is really incredible, 3 soul bangers in quick succession
Love it when James says he has a trained eye
mattfox14 nice profile pic
Bald headed manc
In all honesty, he was dead right. Merac was in worst shape by far.
James nearly always buys the *least* knackered cars of them all.
Glad the clock is correct tho
Marcin Priorities.
Some modern day road cars don't have clocks that keep accurate time (they often gain time by themselves).
Fun fact, for the CZcams upload many of the music tracks playing in the background have been changed.
In the beginning of this clip "Little Green Bag" remains untouched, but later on more songs are replaced. When the show first aired aswell as in consecutive re-runs the song that could be heard when Jeremy first rolls up in his Maserati is "Rumble" by Link Wray. In this CZcams edition the song changed to a royaltee free tune that only resembles the original. Same is true for the song that accompanies May's first appearance in this scene the original version played "Smoke on the water" by Deep Purple, also replaced by another instrumental.
*"James has bought an AA truck!" * 😂😂😂
These cars are worth considerably more now especially the Lambo
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Vee gan
I like a taste of a show crew when they're choosing cars.
Brilliant!
Fake Ferrari for an old teenager, red Maserati for a boorish guy and black Lamborghini as an elegant piece of metall to mr slow.
Ksart Capt slow
Mr slowly as the Italians call him
“4:48 The battery is discharging, the oil temperature is very high, the oil pressure is very low, the engine temperature is off the end of the scale, I’m running out of petrol, but the clock is correct.”
Always think about the positives James.
I love how they enthuse over their cars at the start, and by the end, its just fire and disappointment. Oh, these three. I do hope they'll yet do some more of this kind of thing.
Who else is here because the Merak was just added to Gran Turismo 7?
Same
Those cars would make a great project.
only 900ish urraco were made in its 8 years of production,its almost impossible To find one for a reasonable price nowadays
Good luck finding parts
Moneypit
Feed them into the great Arc Furnace and rejoice! All 3 are Junk cars.
@@sjowners i know this is an old thread... but, junk is too good of a word to describe these cars. I love the folks say things like "NOW those cars are worth so much money!". it is 2022 and they are still junk. lol
why don't people restore these cars? they are so much better to look at than modern cars.
it takes time and money my friend. you can't just have one
Lung sounds crackles
People can't find working parts for these cars because they produced so few of these. What you CAN feasibly do is use them as a donor car-- old exterior, new interior.
The Maserati is the only one that looks pretty. The Lamborghini looks really blocky and the Ferrari looks really plain, especially in yellow.
Agreed I'm currently starting with my own project car a 1965 Buick Riviera with clam shell headlights it needs some serious restoration its been sitting in the open with the windows down for over 15 years
2:26 the way they cross their arms at the same time, so satisfying
Absolutely classic Top Gear. Unscripted, genuine, hilarious.
I miss the old topgear!
Watched it since the late 1980s!
u wanna medal
@@alandale2830 I woud
Were you a time traveller in the 80s bc the first episode aired in 2002 my guy. You sure you're not thinking of Jeremy Clarkson motorworld?
@@taliesinpotter4097 he means the old top gear, the one that began in the 70s
I agree completely, maintenance must be adhered to, don't let anything fail or fail to fix it right away. I am a firm believer in the car preservation abilities of the heated garage. Not having a garage for your car makes for a car that will only live 25% of its garaged counterpart.
The cars , the banter , the music . Perfection
Love how they played Silver Machine by Hawkwind. Really suited the moment.
I searched for that comment.
5:00 Hawkwind - Silver Machine a great song :)
NSNOfm78 Perfect song for the open road. :)
5⃣:0⃣0⃣ 👩📛 - 🥈 🎰 👑 🎶 :)
5:49 anyone gonna tell them that's a greek song
This is peak top gear when a factual show started to morph into an entertainment one
“Swindon, Reading,-Maidstone” Captain Sense-of-Direction living up to his name
2:32
You cannot tell me this was scripted
2⃣:3⃣2⃣
👆 🚫🔜 💬 👤 👉 👨📛
I love how cars brings people together.
I just love the "Is that the best you two can come up with?" while is he stepping out of the lorry. :D
3:40 "that's a lap dancing club" he instantly knew
"You've got a george car" kills me everytime
same lmaooo
Lost count of how many times I've watched this sequence of clips and still as funny and just downright *enjoyable* they are. But every time I watch again I think it's a bit of a shame Clarkson didn't get chance to run the engine in properly before he gave it some welly. Then again, there'd have been no shower of engine bits at the end 😆😁
James has brought an AA truck 😆
ROFL!
😃😃😃😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
"Snarling past people at 30mph in a car that can top 160. Daft? Yes, of course. But surely only as daft as buying a four-seater and then spending 90% of the time all on your own in it." - Jeremy Clarkson
This is one of my favorites. Hilarious, great acting, great cars, great music.
I have noticed a lot of comments about finding these cars for less than $10,000 and a lot saying it couldn’t be don’t for $15,000 look at the conversions $1.00 is equal to about £0.67 so if you convert it the other way your looking at £10,000 being about $23,000 or so
Taking inflation into account, it's closer to $30k now.
No it would be closer to 16.6k
5:14 that sound of the Maserati sounds amazing.
Hammond when talking about the sub frame-
'.....it's just made of rust' 😂😂 proper made me laugh
1:54 is that May doing a voice over of "the headlamps?"
+TheCJSChannel woah....DUUUUDDEEEE
+TheCJSChannel that was jeremy
+GloomGaiGar No, Clarkson retorted with "They work brilliantly".
+Alexander Coldfur
It might have been someone from the production team.
It's clarkson saying "watch...the headlamps" but the way the audio is cleaned up for wind noise and spliced someone might have overdubbed a bit too much.
this makes me feel so old, all these cars are relatively valuable collectibles now
"Italians invented electricity as we know"
This James' line is poetry.
This was back when Dino's were considered a joke, but they're worth a fortune now. The 1960s ones are selling for half a mill, and 1980s 308s (the Hammond model) can go for £100k+. I bet Hammond's would sell for £50k today
they were so young !
I remember seeing this on TV when it was first aired, I laughed so hard when James turned up on the back of an AA truck!
1:55 they chopped in james saying "watch" then "the headlamps"
1⃣:5⃣5⃣ 👫 🔪 👨📛 💬 "⌚" ⤴ "💡"
All those great classics have at least tripled in value since shooting this episode!
"There's a subframe that holds the engine in and the wheels on. It's made of rust." Doesn't exactly fill one with confidence.
Using Shazam finally revealed the song at 0:56!
Acid Test - Micky Moody
enjoy, fellow searchers!
Brokenlikefour 3 years later, thank You!
I've been looking for this song for years.
I thought it was the end by the doors
@@samuelashton8787 I had the same idea.
Fucking lad
Absolutely classic Top Gear. Unscripted, genuine, hilarious.. ”James has bought an AA truck!”.
5:14 first time i heard that i instantly got goosebumps and still do sometimes. Back when most cars sounded great. (The good old days)
I´ve seen this a few times before but it cracks me up every time when hammond says, "yes James had ran out of electricity... again" hahah
"It's from ASDA. You've got a George Car!"
I couldn't hold my laugh for entire 8mins 🤣🤣🤣 these 3 are just hilarious. 😂
To be fair, James's "trained eye" was correct in saying that Jeremy's car was garbage
But his eye still got him a car that constantly drained electric, either he just didn't care or his eye for that type of thing isn't too good
@@ghillepig2 It depends on whether he knew about the faulty alternator at the time of purchase. An electrical fault like that is not something you can diagnose just by looking at the car.
"I can't believe someone's put a Ferarri badge on that, when it isn't one." Much like the Top Gear name being used by Fred and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.
Or Jeremy's SS badge
To be honest you can't get any of these cars for under $15,000 really.
You can find one. Thing is that you need to do capital repair immediately after you bought it.
If you go to England you can find these at this price, not here in America.
Yep, for 16000 dollars you can find an old supercar for sure. And in the UK there are more of them.
The UK have less respect for old cars and hanging onto them like we do in America. So yes, you can get these cars that cheap there. It's also their home turf. Here in the states? Hardly. More like $50k for ones in the same condition.
Yea they bought them for under 10,000 pounds tho... Which is about 15k USD
Look at jeremys face after he floors it. The reaction is priceless when he see how much it smokes 5:15
One of the best episodes as hard as its to choose...
I personally think these 3 cars look nice. That Lamborghini really looks sexy in black :)
+RoyalRedTiger Aye. And the electrical fault sounds so easy to fix with a soldering iron and a few wiring diagrams.
RoyalRedTiger i like your taste of cars
The car was sold after the episode, and it's probably still around. As MrSupercar said, the alternator not charging the battery is annoying, but very easy to fix.
Your feet are sexy af, I’d suck on those toes
wtf
Man I miss those time when I stayed up late watching the show with my dad despite there would be school the next day
Little Green Bag could fit so many intros in Top Gear. Always love their music choices
I absolutely loved these segments
5:24 "Aye? No it's not a kit car, its a Lamborghini!
...Philistine."
5⃣:2⃣4⃣ "👨📛 ❓ 🙅♂ 👉 🚫 🔌 🚗, 👉 🏎 ❗
....👿."
love that Jackson Sisters tune
James calling that guy a Philistine had perfect timing and context! Hilarious!
I would like to make a vote that this is the best cheap car challenge ever done by Top Gear