Top 10 Most Evil Cars Of All Time (Kind Of)
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In which @IntergalacticBinman and I look at some of naughtiest, baddestist and most EVIL cars in all of history.
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Béla Barényi - en.wikipedia.o...
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I've had to trim out a whole bit about the BMW X5M because a company called MediaCube have decided to claim it is auto generated content they won. Quite how and why they think this I do not know, but they are clearly making a spurious claim on work Binman and I did. Rather than pay them one iota I've had to trim the segment out.
At least it was the symbol of over consumerism that fell victim to hostile consumer practices. Aka people being terrible
Jukin Media is another parasitic vulture that does this. They make more money for other people's work than most other IP-squatters I know. Sorry you got hit by scumbags.
My non AI one-cell cannot compute what you are saying but it sounds bad. People do some crappy things to each other.
AI is not very good at identifying content.
May the people who run MediaCube suffer from, in your own words, inability to afford school fees and private health care under the 3rd generation.
The Montego was fitted with an exceptional anti theft system. It had ‘Montego’ written on the boot.
Highly efficient
Otherwise known as the Montenogo around these parts
My dad had the MG Montego EFI. As a younger man I was allowed to drive it and easily managed a ton on the A6. Nothing to my knowledge fell off during this escapade.
Loved this. Great vid
@@edenbreckhouseah, it had all fallen off previously?
I loved the video, specially your sexy nakid fire dance, truly you are a master of such arts, was very impressed.
Ssshhhhhh! Goddaminit, the surprise!
Was very painful, especially that bit with the lightbulb, but worth it overall
👀 how is the pig able to see this video before in premieres in the US. EXPLAIN YOURSELF SUSAN
Because the Pig has Powers.
@@HardThrasherThe Pig knows...
@@HardThrasherfantastic...now please do a similar video on aircraft.
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, a German company what they were doing between 1933 to 1945.
I am pretty sure the Krupp was unable to hide what it was doing at that time. Due to books like The Arms of Krupp.
Japanese companies have a similar history - like asking what Mitsubishi manufactured in Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
I’m not saying I fully expect this video to be 100% French cars, but it could be and they’d deserve it.
So the mob who provided hitler his cars and the mob that built engines for his aircraft get a fucking pass ey?
I like French cars, they're weird but cool
@@HardThrashermy dad was a renault and peugeot dealer for 30 years.
French cars fed me for the first 20 yewrs of my life. I love the older ones. Not so much the modern iterations. 🇦🇺
I'll be honest, I quite like the French cars too, though the original Citroën Picasso looked like a slug.
@@HardThrasher Though I do also like the French stuff, and the French in general, I was half expecting some of the Russian shitmobiles of the 60's to feature.
Binman’s SUV rant may be the most perfect description of the flaming turd that is the SUV
Glad to read that I'm not the only sane person left on the planet.
To be fair, the original idea of an SUV wasn’t that bad, basically just a crew cab pickup truck with a permanently attached bed cap, turning it into essentially a station wagon with some real towing capacity; unfortunately, that purpose has been almost completely abandoned (I’m pretty sure I’ve seen more work trailers being towed behind motor homes than by modern SUVs), and most modern SUVs combine few of the strengths but all of the weaknesses of minivans, crossovers, and full-size pickup trucks.
It’s nice to know other people hate the disease known as the suv
Well done for calling out the abominations that are "Performance SUVs"
For when you want to drive your kids to school in a bulldozer, but also want to plank it through a school zone.
Yup, the madness of late-stage Capitalism built into rolling monuments.
Stupid, underperforming, wastefull and expensive all at the same time.
SUVs should never have gotten more technologically advanced than the Jeep YJ.
Truly an oxymoron: Performance or Utility - pick one!
Porsche Cayenne is actually extremely capable in terrain, and blisteringly fast on road. They are very decent cars.
I love that the bros LazerPig pointed me to are working together on stuff. Honestly can't emphasise how brilliant his subscriber special was.
With you on the SUVs. When I went to Florida a couple of years ago, the vehicle the rental company tried to saddle us with was stupidly massive on the outside, yet so poorly laid out on the inside that if couldn't carry the five of us. Incredibly stupid.
Clearly, all the extra space inside the TARDIS is harvested from the inside of SUVs
Please, tell us the make & model.
I agree wholeheartedly. SUV's are dumb as heck. Whatever happened to the minivan? What was so wrong with them? They are basically the same as SUVs only they actually have legroom.
@@AlphaCentCom something by Nissan? All I know is that the back had two stupid armchairs the size of a childs car seat instead of a normal bench seat. I could just about wedge my arse in, but my knees were under my chin an my ear pressed against the ceiling. I'm 6'6, so I'm no stranger to being cramped in a car, but this was clearly made for someone in the 5'2 range.
@@MartynWilkinson45 asll Japanese cars are designed for people in the 5'2 range. I'm only 6' and haven't driven a Japanese car that has a comfortable driving position for more than 40 minutes.
The escalation from rally cars and land rovers to Cuntmobiles was a wild ride, and I am totally here for it.
Enver Hoxha and his Grosse, name a more iconic duo. Some people thought him bunkers, but I just say he's free, out here banning colour TV there's nothing crazy about me....
Conspiratorial nutjob before it was cool
Props for calling out Grandmaster EH.
That was an awesome episode, guys. I loved watching it! Totally went from 0-100 from a rebadged chrysler to a dictatormobile
Did not expect a hardthrasher intergalacticbinman collab but I’m all for it
First thing I drove after my driving test was my father's RS200 'company car'. I stalled it no less than 8 times, then drove it very slowly up a country lane. Also it sounded like a bag of spanners on idle. But as a 17 year old I instantly won the 'who's dad had the best car' in the sixth form comp.
I will admit to quite liking the Chrysler 300, and damn nearly bought one back in the day
I saw a 300 that had Bentley badges on the bonnet, wheels and boot.
You do know they produced the Lancia Voyager as well? Truly horrible levels of badge engineering. My neighbour has one.
Honestly it was a better move than rebadging FIAT puntos, which they did as well because if you're going to dilute a brand might as well go all in.
As a Midwest Yank, I concur almost anything touched by the wrinkly, age-spotted hands of Chrysler stunk
This was great! Entertaining, funny, and educational. HardThrasher talking about cars was such an exciting change-up. Quality all around.
good show lads
never expected to see a team up of two of my favourite laserpig introduced small content creators
The BMW XM rant was fucking legendary lmao
I do hope Project Satan makes the list. The steering wheel from Hitler's staff car. The left turn signal from Charles Manson's VW. The windscreen wipers from the car that played Knight Rider. Not to mention Ed Begley Juniors electric motor, the most evil propulsion unit ever conceived!
Sadly not
@@HardThrasherI suppose being fictional it didn't really qualify. Shame.
Haha I watched that very episode last night and instantly thought of project satan when I saw this fine video.
Loved the video! Honestly had no idea not being a huge car nerd about Ford, that’s just crazy! 😬 great colab hope to see more!
Pinto? The 'acceptable casualties' machine?
@@JoshSweetvaleWas that the one when they decided fixing the cars lethal design flaws was costlier than paying out to victims families so they just left it as is? Surprised it didn't make the list tbh.
Probably because he's lying
Well done you set out to make a top five, turned it into a top 10, then accidentally picked the last two together and turn it into a top 8. 10 out of 10, no wait 8 out of 10... This is your own faults!
I’d love these guys to present the news together. It would be funny and entertaining, yet informative as well. Better still, I could actually watch the news without having my faith in humanity shattered at every turn.
There's a great story of a police officer arresting a hippie in 1968 at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
"Long live the proletariat!" yells the hippie.
"I am the proletariat!" replies the police officer.
I have to agree with binman, I dispise the very idea of a SUV. Mostly because everyone in Sicily who owns one thinks that all other motorist on the road are a inconvenience and park like absolute twats.
You'll find that isn't limited to Sicily.
I can't imagine how they fare in those tiny old European towns and streets. Its bad enough here in 20 year old garages where they need two spots to park *and still stick out into the street*
Unfortunately, I will support any bill that bans that damned class of cars (even if it bans offroaders unintentionally).
SUVs are the Devil's Work
@@madkoala2130You and me both friend. The quicker those things are banished to the annals of history, the better.
"North Korea's answer to the Cardassians"
This is so fitting, if only for the fact that I can see Gul Dukat owning one of these Mercedes.
100%
Probably with a bar and lots of Kanar in the back
I don't think ** those ** Cardassians were meant.
I can hear Jeremy Clarkson weeping with joy and admiration for the outstanding work the 2 of you have done, this is the quintessential top 10 / 8 most evil cars of all time and I hope and pray that Top Trumps creates a card version(obviously it will need to be increased in numbers) but I'm sure they can expand it with a host of French Italian and former eastern block models
Dear Lord so called HardThrasher, tapestries are hung. People are hanged.
Love the vid as always
The old dear had a montego estate, the power steering and brakes had their own union. The union would decide when either one of those systems worked.
All in or all out. Mostly.
2 words "British Leyland"
and here's more words to elaborate on those 2 words: ive never seen wiring in a vehicle that bad. the fact that all the wires were wires with copper in them instead of just reconstituted spaghetti was befuddling relative to how the rest of the system was devised and implemented. a burglar who steals car stereos and hotwires cars would do a better job handling the wiring.
Lucas Electronics: the true "Lord of Darkness".
SUVs are evil, but the light trucks masquerading as cars are more evil. Exempt from car safety and emission regulations and thus pushed by the car manufacturer's marketing departments as they're more profitable, they're dangerous and harmful and should be torched on sight.
An outstanding combination of one of my favorite subjects with two of my favorite personas, here on CZcams! Bravo, gentlemen, bravo! That being said, I could probably concoct an equally diabolical and wretched list of automotive abominations, simply choosing from amongst the American cars of the Malaise Era. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this immensely, so I tip my hat. Cheers!
I'm glad the Model T managed a mention. The parallel between Ford and Musk is "interesting".
I am a bit surprised that the early swing axle Chev Corvair did not get at least a dishorourable mention. Not many cars have had a book written about how sh*t they were, and launched a political career for that book's author. As can be said for a few of the other cars in the list, it could have been quite OK, were it not for how stupid and greedy the GM management were.
Not really my thing to do a deep dive into the Corvair but I think it has been a bit maligned vs. other death traps
@@HardThrasher There is a big difference between the early examples of the Corvair and the later ones.
I might note that as a child I was asked to "drive" one to relocate it in the driveway. Not that this qualifies me in any way, but it did spur a long-term interest in the knowing everything I could find about the car, although AFAIK they were never imported into Australia.
The early rear suspension used was, like the Beetle, the big mistake in the design - only having a joint at the inner end of each half-shaft. Simply expressed, this results in excessive camber change for both cars - and that was one of the dangerous elements of the VW design that you did not mention. Right from the prototype Beetles used for testing they were noted as demanding a different approach to cornering, and some care with driving in general.
Braking in corners was a no-no for both cars.
As with the Beetle, later Corvairs had a "proper" double jointed half-shaft, with positive locating arms for controlling the vertical movement of each wheel. That avoided the rear wheel "tucking under" in corners (I nearly managed that once with my Beetle, and I saw a fellow from my school roll his when being indiscrete in a corner). The ones with double link suspension are the Corvairs (and Beetles) that people really like, and yes, they were _miles_ better.
According to Nader, GM made the problem with the first type Corvairs *much* worse with their recommended tyre pressures - "normal" pressure at the rear due to the heavy engine, 16psi in the front! That gave a "soft ride" but almost guaranteed an "air-out" roll if the driver went into a corner at a speed above walking pace (an exaggeration of course, but Nader's book was called "Unsafe At Any Speed" for good reason). VW was not _as_ bad because the engine unit was not as heavy, and they recommended quite normal tyre pressures.
On the other hand - these were both early examples of all-independent suspension in a everyday, affordable car.
Although small by the US standards of it's time, being a bigger, heavier car than the Beetle meant that the Corvair was a nice, quiet, smooth-riding car to drive sedately in. And it's dashboard push-button 2-speed automatic encouraged that approach.
The VW could not claim that!
As far as i have gathered, Unsafe "At Any Speed" was much less a dig directly towards the Corvair, more so a dig towards the Auto business not doing the right thing in terms of building safer cars, just that it happened to mention the Corvair as an example. Then again this is only stuff i have heard from people who've actually read the book rather than reading it myself so do take this with a grain of salt.@@John.0z
It's unfortunate that particular political career went in such a weird direction in recent years.
Unsafe at Any Speed was a bullshit book written only to launch an obscure and particularly useless attorneys political career. He used a Ford test movie for his central understanding of a competitors car. It was embraced by an equally moronic press of the time, who never had an issue in making up damaging stories to hurt the big three (yes, the Pinto was no more likely to explode then any other compact car of its time, the Audi 5000 did not accelerate on its own, nor did the GM pickups explode without the addition of literal press added explosives).
This is the single best CZcams video I’ve seen this entire month. The fact that it just so happens that today is my birthday is just the icing on the cake. Thank you for making such an excellent video.
Happy birthday!
Was the Montego a car? More of a rolling shed with all the comfort and weatherproofing that suggests.
Luxury velor seats in the XL
Brilliant ...love yours and the Bin Mans stuff..
Hilarious and educational in equal measures ..
Agreed Clarkson would make one hell of a dictator ...
amazing video! so unique, fun and interesting! :) love to see it!!
I've nothing to add other than saying that I love your dry sense of humour.
I just found your videos and I've binged them all 2 or 3 times. Keep it up!
Glad you like them!
Everything said about the XM is basically my exact opinion, word-for-word. I DESPISE THAT GODDAMN CAR.
" You wanna have a horn race?"
Insert Battleship Fog Horn noise
"NOW THAT`S A HORN!!!"
We missed a trick....
This is the content I live for.
Also, subscribed to the binman. Gold: from both of you.
Pretty good list. I would have included the Ford Pinto, or at least the pre-modified model that would erupt in flames in a rear ender roasting the occupants alive. The Beetle, I love those cars, have owned one. Shame about its associations.
Slam the Pinto over safety, and advocate for an unstrapped/non-camber compensated swing axle vehicle having no air bags, no shoulder belts, no catalytic converter, puffing clouds of blue smoke after only a summer season or two due to trash piston rings and inadequate air cooling? Lol... Nazi Junk. I hope every Bug owner crashes on those skinny radial tires in a light rain storm due to their own motor oil spewed all over the pavement.
When I was 17ish, a friend bought a Pinto. We did an inspired rattle-can flame paint job, a la 50's hot rods. But of course, we had the flames coming out of the back of the car. The custom license plate saying KA BOOM was the finishing touch.
Except the Pinto was no more likely to burn than any other car of its size at the time. Nothing but a campaign of absolute lies by the media. The information on it is not hard to find, but the big lie on the Pinto still lives on.
Elon Musk wishes he was Henry Ford bc at least Henry Ford made a successful business product.
"Space Oddity" impelled me to look up "what was David Bowie's favorite car?" and the answer is that he apparently loved the Jaguar E-Type. So there you go.
He also owned a Merc 600 Landaulet (the long one with the rear soft top) that was originally owned by the president of Sierra Leone.
The alert was in my breakfast in tray and I was happy! Anticipating an as usual highly informative and entertaining presentation 😂
When Binman started talking about SUVs while showng The G, it made me think that G-class is perfect Darth Vader. He is a villain indeed, but the most adored one. He started as basic Swiss army off-roader, who never fought with anyone and got under the influence of great evil, The 90s Russia. Then it slowly became car of choice of doctors and university professors who just wanted The G, while there were bigger and eviler cars on the market. So he went out into the night almost seeing the light.
Then some soccer mom complained it that has no cup holders and it killed a child after she hit him with it at 3mph. So Disney stepped it and made it look a kit car
I don't think I've seen anyone mention it but I adore how Binman introduces dictators in the Grosser section. Sounds like a pro wrestling ring announcer introducing a evil heel
Volkswagen bug, designed by Adolf Hitler for Charly Manson and Ted Bundy.
I absolutely love the content from both of you. You play off of each other so well too that I hope to see more collaborations.
Also I'd like to submit for your consideration, possibly one of the least evil cars I've ever owned. I drive a 2016 Ford Focus SE with a six speed manual transmission. I get an average of 34+ Miles per Gallon and it shifts like a dream. It's got a 1.0 Liter 3 cylinder engine made in Romania that's turbo charged too all shit. So once you get the turbo going, this quite tiny (by American standards) front wheel drive bullet can really take off.
Ironically they have to ship the engine from Romania to Dearborn, Michigan where you'll find that the general sentiment of unionized labor is quite a bit more popular than it was back in old Mr. Ford's day.
I had that car, I'm from Romania. Nice handling, good mileage if one kept it tame. The turbo would kick in at 1800 rpm if I remember correctly, then it's on to 5500 rpm (max power 125 HP)
Probably the 1 single astoundingly good think Henry Ford did, was he assisted Carl Edvard Johansson in the popularization of Gauge Blocks. It's absolutely criminal that everyone knows the name of Henry Ford and Edison and Tesla, but nobody knows Johansson. The gauge block is up there with the Haber-Bosch Process, the Bayer Process, and the WHEEL as one of the most important inventions in history, because it makes everyone's measurements the exact same. He also made it, by executive order, that the Inch is exactly 25.4mm, instead of 25.399999mm or whatever it was before
HardThrasher, Intergalactic Binman, and Lazerpig are the ultimate trifecta of entertaining history CZcamsrs. So glad I found all of you.
Oh the Lancia Stratos so lovely, so winning, so completely undrivable in my hands 😹
Oh utterly lethal to meer mortals
That was quite funny! Though my parent was complaining about how loud you were. I almost told her "Mercedes made cars for dictatoooorrrrs" but then I realized I drive the old one whoops.
My list of most evil cars
1- Volkswagen Beetle (for what you described)
2- Ford Pinto (exploded in rear collisions due to accountants)
3- Trabant 601 (can’t recycle)
4- GAZ-23 (made just for the KGB in the 60’s)
5- Lancia Beta (for killing the reputation of Lancia in the 70’s)
6- Ford Police Interceptor (for certain communities these strike fear into the general public especially in its SUV form)
7-Nissan Qashqai (for popularising the crossover in the UK)
8- Pontiac Aztek (for being the ultimate design by committee)
9- Ford Mustang Mach-E (for being everything that’s currently wrong with the car industry even more so than BMW XM)
10- Land Rover Defender (for the reasons you described)
Brilliant! Such joy watching, or rather, listening to your lip-smackingly delicious monologues! ❤❤❤
Putting the XM on the list is very valid. I hate it so much and it's killed M for me now.
I know right? And like, does this mean all those awesome M3s over the years were somehow not M cars and this piece of shite is?
Here's an anecdotal link between Ford's quality v cost principle and the disastrous Daimler-Chrysler marriage. I had the dubious honour of delivering a pre-launch W210 E-class to Jeremy Clarkson (one of many brief interactions I had with him whilst handing over keys to cars he would then make unjustifiable and unsupportable rude comments about). The test that then appeared on Top Gear had him commenting on the build quality of Mercedes and demonstrating it by repeatedly pushing a button on the dashboard whilst saying: "...and I can do this all day long and it won't break!". As usual, he was wrong. The W210 was the first car the bean counters in Detroit managed to get their hands on before it went into production. The resultant shift in balance between build quality and warranty claims led to Mercedes taking a nosedive down the JD Power rankings.
Those rally cars were great! I rode in one or two of them.
PS lancia engines dropped out due collapsing engine mountings.
They were Italian, of course they fell apart :)
The European mind cannot comprehend the beauty of the 2004 chevy tahoe
When I saw 2 Chryslers in the thumbnail I knew this video was for me.
Considering when VW paid out one million DM to Tatra they were well on their way to selling millions of Beetles. Considering these engineers spent the 1940s working for the German & British Armies who wouldn’t let them make any, because a Kübelwagen isn’t a Beetle not even a little bit (even those ones they knocked out for the Gestapo) in the same way a Porsche 356 isn’t either. Pretty sure they couldn’t believe their luck that somehow between Bomber Harris, Die Nerobefehl and Morganthau they left Wolfsberg standing and then wandered off.
My parents had a Montego when I was little. The gearbox randomly fell out one morning.
Makes own proud to be British
The dodge joke should have been a blinking neon light that says dodge
For an idea of how crazy things got with Group B rally cars there were credible allegations that some teams were replacing _fire extinguishers_ with _secret nitrous tanks._
Im impressed how bmw was able to make such a heavy car look so bad, it somehow weighs about twice the weight of my 1951 packard 300 while looking at least 15 times worse.
*Sigh* Guess I'll have to watch all of IntergalacticBinman's videos now. I also quite enjoy Ed's Auto Reveiws for car history, usually time periods and types of cars. I share a similar distaste for most SUVs, just buy a hatchback or minivan depending on how much space you need, maybe a small truck if you can find one.
That was a ride and a half. Well done both.
Brilliant ! Thank you.
Thx for the GenX rant, I needed that after my , boomer we have at home, commmited a colossal f-up, as only boomers can. yesterday......again.
Thankfully he's not actually in our home, but he might end up in a different type of home......
PS: you left Josef Ganz out of the list of people F. Porsche stole from and had to settle with.
In Switzerland in this case, Josef Ganz was an exiled Jew.
Thanks for nailing VW.....everyone I knew in high school eventually rolled their VW's over. Including me. Terrible car. Did Ralph Nader go after the death trap VW? Nope, he demonized the Corvair. Which wasn't prone to roll over at 20 miles an hour on a curvy mountain road like the love bug loved to do. Borman's revenge on us....
Solid video
I would follow Binman into death valley to support his hatred of the XM.
It might be one of the worst cars ever made.
My top 5 most evil cars, least evil to most:
5. Mercedez 600 Grosser: reason for the ranking: the bulletproof v12 has probably prevented a lot of Truly horrible dictators (as listed in the vid) assassinations, and kept them in intimidating comfort & luxury while their people suffered, But, it also was used by some great musicians, and it's unlikely to have ever directly been involved in killings, unlike the rest of this list.
4. Franz Ferdinand's car. Was a part of starting ww1 & has supposedly killed many people since then, only not 1 because it's manufacture didn't kill anyone (as far as we know), and it's not directly responsible for ww1, or any of the deaths in a world war, unlike #1.
3. Little Bastard (yes that's it's actual name), James Dean's deadly porsche 550 Spyder, customized by legendary designer George Barris. It definitely killed at Least 3 people, though it may have killed as many as 18, as it's supposedly cursed parts filtered through automotive circles, before mysteriously disappearing forever. However, a lot of it's evil is apocryphal, which is why it's only #3.
2. The Black Volga. Even if you don't subscribe to the horrifying tales this vehicle was involved in throughout eastern Europe, it was a common vehicle of the kgb and secret police in various countries. And the many tales of kidnapping and horrific child & minority murder are suspected to be based, at least somewhat, in fact. Its #2 because majority of it's kill count is unproven, despite it's likelyhood.
1. The original nazi vw beetle. Speaking of tools of violent regimes, as discussed by yall, this vehicle helped fund the nazi war machine, sell the lies of the nazis economic benefits to the german public. It probably was used to run over Lot of minorities, and it was Definitely made through frequently deadly slave labor in factories & concentration camps.
Don't forget the use of the Ford Falcon by the Argentine secret police when they were torturing and "disappearing" people. I suspect several other Latin American right wing dictatorships pressed them into service as well, but Argentina's use thereof is the best documented. Check out photos of the infamous Naval Mechanics School that Videla and others used as a torture centre during the "Dirty War" or Operation Condor, and at least one or two of the photos will feature a black Ford Falcon parked outside.
Might be worth checking out the fleet choices of Pinochet's Dina or Stroessner's secret police in Paraguay. Which may have included black Ford Falcons as well.
I feel I should mention my old Austin Allegro 1750, truly the British Christine of its time. It would mysteriously turn it's own hazard lights on (surely a warning not to approach), the brakes would either throw you towards the windscreen or do nothing depending upon mood, and it's final act of terror was releasing its own handbrake and rolling into my neighbours wall, demolishing it in the process. When I finally scrapped the bastard thing I like to think it lurked around the more shadowy parts of the scrappy, terrorizing unsuspecting parts pickers and maybe buggering the odd scrapped Ford Fiesta until it was finally crushed and recycled into bits of a Nissan Sunny.
I'll be honest, I came within a gnat's nadger of picking the Allegro, it was a strong 2nd in Austin's hall of shame
@@HardThrasher A white R-reg Allegro was one of our family cars growing up. Weird thing. Thankfully it was long-gone before I started driving lessons!
I've always thought that learning to drive in a shit car makes you a better driver, as you learn to adjust for its innate crapness and better, more modern cars are easy in comparison. Mind you, I've had a few crap cars. Mini Mayfair Automatic, Reliant Rebel and a Regal 21E, Austin Maestro.... My Honda Jazz is luxurious in comparison to the cars of my youth @@hairychris444
@@HardThrasher I knew a west country lad who had an Allegro and he thought it was the dogs bollocks!!! Everybody else though he was a Charlie Uninform November Tango.
About the only mildly cool thing you could do as a 17 year old driver of shitty underpowered rustbucket 1970's cars was let the horrible un -powered steering wheel spin in your hands to self centre as you exited a corner.
BL stopped that malarkey by fiting a square steering wheel.
Even the colour schemes available eg Harvest Gold and Sandglow were based upon body excretions.
Perfect timing because I’m having an insomnia episode right now so at least you going to keep me entertained
Thats me sorted when the kids go to bed Thursday then, cheers buddy.👍
I think the triumph acclaim makes the montego look benign, at least Austin selling a budget family car was in character. Triumph went from the dolomite, Toledo and TR7 to making a boring, reliable Honda before immediately dying of shame. To be totally fair to the montego it did serve it's penance once the UK was done with it since the Chinese spent 20 years making it worse in every conceivable way
Strong contender I grant you
80s Japanese styling matches to 80s British build and design....not good
Ah yes, The Chrysler 300. A car for drug dealers who couldn’t afford Cadillacs and people who’s credit score was just good enough to buy something other than a Charger
Lovely, lovely video. It left me thoroughly entertained, and it sure has a future as background noise to chortle at!
Hahahahaha! Some minor errors on the way, but comedy gold! Thank you for making me forget the unstoppable rain and people missing their own deadline (forcing me to work all night instead).
The Aussie and the Pig with Lazers sent me here. I'm enjoying it.
that was terrific
I want to note that Henry Ford was the first person to institute the 5-day, 40-hour work week...because the unions would have killed him if he didn't.
Could not agree more about SUV’s…at least the beetle and the evil merc have some character
I am ambivalent about SUVs. As the default ride of the helicopter parent suburbanites, they are overweight and thirsty. However, I live on the Canadian Prairies, and they are a pretty good winter vehicle, if equipped with an oversize battery, good windshield wipers, and top quality snow tires. If your driving includes rural distances, sliding off the road can be life threatening; a few people every year freeze to death. Since my life includes some rural motering, our vehicles include a 4x4 pickup and an AWD SUV equipped as above mentioned.
There is a saying that the ONLY THING made in England that DIDN'T SUCK ..........was a vacuum cleaner!
This was brilliant mate 😂
Thanks pal
The US Car & Driver magazine called the Hummer "the Dick Cheney of automobiles." For context, youngling-slaughtering Darth Vader had better street cred at the time & still does.
I loved every second of this, was laughing all the way. Keep up the great work Y'all are funny and entertaining while surprisingly educational. The best kind of education since well America doesn't have that.
Very good..Porche section was particularly interesting. It might be worth expanding on!
I beleive that is happening as we speak
Smashing the like button on the suv segment
Glad you included Clarkson on that list. Just like dictators and sith, he is always seeking more power.
Well indeed sir it is a good day to see you post, please pass my congratulations onto Jenkins for him probably carrying you onto another victory
Other than the comment about the Defender being crap off road, which it definitely isn't, the rest of it is spot on.
Good work fellas
You had me at SUV
Dude this was awesome! Also that bmw is atrocious.
A very amusing video, keep it up old man, if you can.
Well done - when you started on about Austin I rember the Austin Marina -we used to have a bunch as rental cars (Vancouver Canada 70's) and I think I broke the wobbly gear shift in every one of those junkers - combined with Lucas "the Prince of Darkness" wiring lol
Nice list. I'd like add to it: Virtually any American car built between 1974 and 1985. We just could not grasp the idea of making smaller lighter cars. 5liter cars making 150hp. They were big and fat and slow, made out of compressed rust, and imploded at 80k miles.... and I loved them so. Which only makes them even more evil. (I had a 7.5 liter luxury coupe that only made 215hp. Pathetic)
And the suspension was made of marshmallow.
I love a muscle car but the standard saloons were terrible
@@HardThrasher Ugh. Don't get me started. Turn wheel hard to port, nose dive body roll to starboard, swing port, tire squeal, wheel hop ... a whole song and dance.
The Beatle was also a fave of US serial killers like Bundy. The design had an evil hangover.
Great Vid. And a bit more of childish asumptions dashed👍