Constant crashing turns you into mini Tony Stark, Getting headbutted by the government regulations for farming will add some grit to your face and then theirs just making Gin.
Well yeah, a new car should smell good. If it doesn’t then you won’t enjoy it, meaning it’s a bad car and that you shouldn’t buy it. It is good to note though that the “new car smell” is actually slightly hazardous as it’s all the chemicals, carcinogens, and car juices coming off of the parts and pieces. Not really much to be worried about, same diff as like Aspartame in soda and radioactive potassium in Bananas.
Also, it should be noted that "smells good" is not the same as dumping a barrel of deodorant and fresheners in it. With those stuff, there's always too much that it would be unpleasant.
8:50 did anyone at Peugeot actually think this through? "No we're not going to give you one of our cars for your reliability survey episode (because they might mock it) so we will say it has broken down." Like.... What? 🙄🤣
@@JoshuaPitts pretty sure the BBC could get into trouble over that, Peugeot could sue for defamation. Not for saying Peugeot is bad, that's an opinion. But lying about contacting them and them refusing to send you a car could be very easily proven to have not happened and could be claimed to be defamatory.
@@esmeecampbell7396 And they’ll counter it in court by saying the show is entertainment, not purely factual. Elon Musk’s legal case was defeated in the merit that it shouldn’t be taken seriously, as it is quite evident.
@@smoketinytom No that worked out in court for a slightly different reason, they were doing a piece on the vehicle and making a joke about it, as part of their widely understood format of testing vehicles and making jokes. Whereas lying about how a company responded in the "factual survey" part of the show (these segments being what allowed Top Gear to be entered and win its infamous 'non-scripted entertainment Emmy' the criteria of which is 'any show primarily to entertain and inform'), and especially lying about giving them the chance to respond respectfully would have a much dimmer view taken of it. I don't doubt that is the excuse they would have to use, but think about it, if it was the case that you could get away with defamation on the basis of claiming it was "entertainment" then people could say or do anything...
@@Nickoboss29 As well as referring to a switch or some other control, 'knob' is a slang term for 'penis' and is used both literally and as a moderate insult meaning 'idiot'. (How severe the insult is depends on familiarity. Amongst friends it's usually just banter.)
I have never owned a car and I'm on a CZcams Top Gear binge. Can't tell if I'm bored beyond belief or if Top Gear really was that amazing. Either way, I'm having a blast!
That situation was 100% set up by the presenters beforehand. They had the Ferrari stat ready and what a coincidence the first guy they asked says he had a Ferrari.
Can we get a compilation of " I didn't mean that"? Like the time James said "you could have a joint" Or the whole "you gave me the baby now get in the back". I would love that
The "I modified my subaru and its unreliable" is very true. Next door neighbour had a gold legacy (estate) which he uses for towing large fishing nets up the beach and other hard work... never went wrong for 10 years, just normal servicing. However my 2 mates and my brother... of the 2 mates one was on his second engine constantly going through headgaskets, The other was on his third engine with a 400hp tune! My brothers RB5 had a stock-ish 250bhp tune and that was reliable, except the first 30 days he couldn't ever get it to start because of the aftermarket immobilisers and the shocks (which are unique to RB5s and expensive) were shagged because... impreza owners.
I don't doubt it. When the TG studio shut down they still had all the old props in a warehouse both large items and cartons and cartons full of set gags
Clarkson: What do you drive sir? Confident guy: A 355! May: *Amazing, every word of what you just said...was wrong* "Your dog would die every fifteen minutes!" that is, if your dog has as many lives as a cat
"like the Porsche 911, a favorite car of mine" It's also a favorite car of Admiral General Aladeen "known for its...somewhat scary handling sometimes" tell that to the World Trade Center
Every time I watch these old clips I just think what the hell were they thinking letting Jezza go! Such a great show and I loved the format, so glad they stuck by each other
@@skonky alfa romeo challenge during the calendar segment in the studio Jeremy was saying "so the best I could come up with is THIS" (shows calendar with the car mostly behind a haystack) it's the way he emphasises the THIS cause usually its something stupid that follows it
The first bit is really interesting because it shows how a good name (Mercedes) can be ruined by people with sharp pencils and calculators that only spit out small numbers...
I would like to say that I my family has had over the last 25 years; 2 Peugeots, 2 Citroens, a Matiz (Chevrolet made), and a Skoda. The one that gave the most trouble was the Skoda. One Peugeot was run for 25 years until it was unsafely rusty, and the other was run for 10 years until the timing belt snapped because the man at the local garage said it didn't replace it, so no reliability issues there. One Citroen was run until is was written off in a crash after 12 years, the other is still running. The Matiz is still a great run-around. The Skoda was at the garage every 3-4 months with a multitude of issues.
I bought a $900 1971 VW squareback for parts, got it running, and drove it for 7 years before buying a w8 passat which has 180k and is going strong. A 50 year old car outlasted some new cars. Thats reliability.
@@sahhull vauxhall are good. Not so keen on the 1.9 diesel engine, (the 120 bhp), but all others I've found brilliant. And like Nicholas said, older cars were built to last 👍
Do these customer surveys still take place? Obviously not through the same hosts, but at least in a way where cars are ranked by the people that own and drive them?
6:34 this is funny, my Uncle had a Merc sedan, forget the number and all, for a number of years which he recently with for an Audi A6, which I love. He does too. But what Richard says here back in 2004 about British Merc dealerships is exactly what my Uncle said about his experience with his Mercedes. The car was alright, had really thin tires that were super sensitive, but he really felt that the dealers would never provide quality service.
TG was much more enjoyable in the earlier series. I don't know who made the decision to have it be more campy with the constant challanges, but it made it stale toward the end of the Clarkson/May/Hammond edition.
VW had dealer problems also! Dealers are not part of or financially legally connected to VW in USA, and most shops can't even perform basic service on new VWs, the dealers pull all kinds of dirty tricks to avoid responsibility and charge you for warrantee work, then not for the work!
If You pause and click 12:48 you can see in the back left side we've got Irish Donald Trump followed by fat Walter White followed by goofy Sheldon Cooper followed by Jordan Peele with Iphone-10 Haircut . In our right side we have unshaved Hitman followed by discount Linus 'tech tips' followed by your English and Math teacher .
Except for when they do from piston slap, rod knock, head gasket failure, rusting suspension components etc. They are pretty reliable actually but to say they are on the same level as Toyota, Honda, or say older Mercedes would be false. I'd put them at about the same level as VW.
I am also quite curious. I'd like to know how the Miata fared, given that the S2k did so consistently well. I'd also like to see if the 2nd-gen Lexus IS was ever included or only the 1st-gen
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It’s funny that they constantly mocked younger chaps for wearing beards and now 20 years later all three have them
Maybe they meant that younger guys shouldn’t have facial hair?
Constant crashing turns you into mini Tony Stark, Getting headbutted by the government regulations for farming will add some grit to your face and then theirs just making Gin.
Jezza hasn't got one. He grew it out, hated it, then sheared it off.
Always behind
Is there a reason for them hating beards? That’s all I see on young guys who can grow one and women love them. Is that just an America thing?
"Best smelling new car" is an often overlooked, but extremely important category of consideration... For me anyway
Well yeah, a new car should smell good. If it doesn’t then you won’t enjoy it, meaning it’s a bad car and that you shouldn’t buy it. It is good to note though that the “new car smell” is actually slightly hazardous as it’s all the chemicals, carcinogens, and car juices coming off of the parts and pieces. Not really much to be worried about, same diff as like Aspartame in soda and radioactive potassium in Bananas.
@@MilkDrinker218 New cars smells like shit imo
I remember Jools Holland saying that when he came on the show
Any car should smell good. Or not like 97.3 cartons of newport
Also, it should be noted that "smells good" is not the same as dumping a barrel of deodorant and fresheners in it. With those stuff, there's always too much that it would be unpleasant.
"Best fart absorbing seat" is an overlooked yet vital category when choosing a new car.
That's why leather seats are not popular anymore
Gotta love Hammond's quick witted humour.
Yeah, 14:45 kills me on a regular basis 😅
8:50 did anyone at Peugeot actually think this through?
"No we're not going to give you one of our cars for your reliability survey episode (because they might mock it) so we will say it has broken down."
Like.... What? 🙄🤣
obviously, based on years of performance, no one at peugeot can 'think' at all
more than likely they didn't actually order one and just said that for a joke
@@JoshuaPitts pretty sure the BBC could get into trouble over that, Peugeot could sue for defamation.
Not for saying Peugeot is bad, that's an opinion. But lying about contacting them and them refusing to send you a car could be very easily proven to have not happened and could be claimed to be defamatory.
@@esmeecampbell7396 And they’ll counter it in court by saying the show is entertainment, not purely factual.
Elon Musk’s legal case was defeated in the merit that it shouldn’t be taken seriously, as it is quite evident.
@@smoketinytom No that worked out in court for a slightly different reason, they were doing a piece on the vehicle and making a joke about it, as part of their widely understood format of testing vehicles and making jokes.
Whereas lying about how a company responded in the "factual survey" part of the show (these segments being what allowed Top Gear to be entered and win its infamous 'non-scripted entertainment Emmy' the criteria of which is 'any show primarily to entertain and inform'), and especially lying about giving them the chance to respond respectfully would have a much dimmer view taken of it.
I don't doubt that is the excuse they would have to use, but think about it, if it was the case that you could get away with defamation on the basis of claiming it was "entertainment" then people could say or do anything...
8:47 the audience got to finally find out what the awful smell in the studio was and breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't on their shoes.
14:49 "There are only two knobs in it... three if you count the one who bought it!" 🤣
Can you explain it?
@@Nickoboss29 As well as referring to a switch or some other control, 'knob' is a slang term for 'penis' and is used both literally and as a moderate insult meaning 'idiot'. (How severe the insult is depends on familiarity. Amongst friends it's usually just banter.)
As an S2000 owner of many years, those surveys give me a nice little, fizzing sensation.
nothing has better fizz than 177kW @ 8300 rpm.
I'm so jealous!
Is it a nice fizzing sensation behind your penis?
I have never owned a car and I'm on a CZcams Top Gear binge. Can't tell if I'm bored beyond belief or if Top Gear really was that amazing. Either way, I'm having a blast!
top gear was that good
Top Gear really was that good. It was a live action cartoon!
Nah youre not alone. Im not a car person butbid tune in to these people even if they only talked about paint
it was that good and better
Where are you from that you never owned a car?
14:52 I still use this line to this day. Great way to end an argument before it starts.
You can tell it wasn't scripted because Jeremy is too busy pissing himself
I probably got that but can you explain the joke?
@@Nickoboss29 he’s saying that there are 3 knobs in the car:
The heater, the blower, and the one that bought the car (James)
@@DrewSavo i understood that but does the knob word actually has other meanings in english?
@@Nickoboss29 yeah it’s an insult. Knob is another word for penis.
these boys actually analyzing figures is strange😂
If that guy really owned a 355 he’d have pulled the keys out to show
Pistonheads custard test
That situation was 100% set up by the presenters beforehand. They had the Ferrari stat ready and what a coincidence the first guy they asked says he had a Ferrari.
Can we get a compilation of " I didn't mean that"?
Like the time James said "you could have a joint"
Or the whole "you gave me the baby now get in the back".
I would love that
So basically a compilation of things they didn't mean to say. Nice.
The "I modified my subaru and its unreliable" is very true.
Next door neighbour had a gold legacy (estate) which he uses for towing large fishing nets up the beach and other hard work... never went wrong for 10 years, just normal servicing.
However my 2 mates and my brother... of the 2 mates one was on his second engine constantly going through headgaskets, The other was on his third engine with a 400hp tune!
My brothers RB5 had a stock-ish 250bhp tune and that was reliable, except the first 30 days he couldn't ever get it to start because of the aftermarket immobilisers and the shocks (which are unique to RB5s and expensive) were shagged because... impreza owners.
10:40 after almost 20 years I seriously hope jezza reveals what is on that bit of paper 😂😂😂
I don't doubt it. When the TG studio shut down they still had all the old props in a warehouse both large items and cartons and cartons full of set gags
Must have been hilarious if Hammond did that goofy ass laugh
“Hyuh hyuh hyuh hyuh”
“90% of the people who said they had a Ferrari, were lying”
What's great about these surveys is that they're technically interesting and funny
Clarkson: What do you drive sir?
Confident guy: A 355!
May: *Amazing, every word of what you just said...was wrong*
"Your dog would die every fifteen minutes!" that is, if your dog has as many lives as a cat
Yeah that guy was definitely bullshitting anyone who actually had a Ferrari would simply pull out the keys to show they were telling the truth.
Last clip was a good way to end the video
I’m not surprised that the S2k is at the top for 2004. Honestly I would definitely be satisfied with owning one.
"like the Porsche 911, a favorite car of mine" It's also a favorite car of Admiral General Aladeen
"known for its...somewhat scary handling sometimes" tell that to the World Trade Center
i wonder if u can do the compilation of when they talked about the "Indestructible Hilux". any time they mention i
14:52 this was the greatest joke I've ever heard I wish I could use this on my friends LMAO
Very good clips. I love it. Thank you.
These guys are just funny great show Cheers me up every time way to go 👍👍🇺🇲🇺🇲✌️
Every time I watch these old clips I just think what the hell were they thinking letting Jezza go! Such a great show and I loved the format, so glad they stuck by each other
The twat sacked himself!
Can you do a compilation of Jeremy clarkson saying "was/is THIS"
i want an example of what you mean, drawing a blank hete
Reminds me of this one czcams.com/video/mJUtMEJdvqM/video.html&ab_channel=incT
@@skonky alfa romeo challenge during the calendar segment in the studio Jeremy was saying "so the best I could come up with is THIS" (shows calendar with the car mostly behind a haystack) it's the way he emphasises the THIS cause usually its something stupid that follows it
good idea, hard to do though
@@incTG you're incT I'm sure you'll find a way lol
14:52 he got him good
I once moved a French rental car that the company I worked for recovered and it did smell very odd
James saying “whats funny” when talking about his fiat panda is me talking about how my cat tried to jump over my head
Miss this so much
The first bit is really interesting because it shows how a good name (Mercedes) can be ruined by people with sharp pencils and calculators that only spit out small numbers...
Would love to see the best of/compilation of the specials
It's funny how nobody could guess which car came last, when the clue is...it's there sitting in the studio....
as someone who had a 2004 daewoo matiz in cyber green for their first car, was honestly the best car ever
I find it ironic that I got an ad for Paris hotels while watching this😂
they live. keep it up!
Last time I was this early, my Mum barely made it into the delivery room!
Some savage consumer advice.
I would like to say that I my family has had over the last 25 years; 2 Peugeots, 2 Citroens, a Matiz (Chevrolet made), and a Skoda. The one that gave the most trouble was the Skoda. One Peugeot was run for 25 years until it was unsafely rusty, and the other was run for 10 years until the timing belt snapped because the man at the local garage said it didn't replace it, so no reliability issues there. One Citroen was run until is was written off in a crash after 12 years, the other is still running. The Matiz is still a great run-around. The Skoda was at the garage every 3-4 months with a multitude of issues.
Chevrolet had nothing to do with the matiz. It was just a rebadged exercise.
Well my Skoda has a mileage of a 104,000 and has been faultlessly reliable, so take that!!!!!!!
Nobody cares
@MyreW35 You cared enough to comment.
I bought a $900 1971 VW squareback for parts, got it running, and drove it for 7 years before buying a w8 passat which has 180k and is going strong. A 50 year old car outlasted some new cars. Thats reliability.
My 20 year old vauxhall combo has done 450,000 miles on its original engine and gearbox.
I bought it as a 6 year old van for £1500.
@@sahhull vauxhall are good. Not so keen on the 1.9 diesel engine, (the 120 bhp), but all others I've found brilliant. And like Nicholas said, older cars were built to last 👍
2:09 fun fact
That bloke deserved everything he got for trying that on!
Anyone know what was on the paper?
the unabombers' manifesto
Think lots of us forget how factual they were in the old days
S2000 is such an amazing car to own.
That lady with the 4wd X type blasted Clarkson 👏.
"you've got a beard" compilation?
Hondas are absolutely amazing ❤️
10:39 I really wonder what Jeremy showed them hahaha
At the start when James may said that the Subaru legacy came 10th that made me happy bcause I have one (sedan in black)
Does anyone know what was on the piece of paper that Jeremy showed Hammond and May but couldn't show the cameras?
10:45 anyone know what the note said?
Do these customer surveys still take place? Obviously not through the same hosts, but at least in a way where cars are ranked by the people that own and drive them?
I had a 2008 Ford Focus. When new the fumes inside would burn your eyes,
10:56
The lads laughed.
10:58
That lass wasn't.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Jeremy Clarkson
🙏🤣😂🙌
They should have had the guy who said FIAT was French come back for one of these.
6:34 this is funny, my Uncle had a Merc sedan, forget the number and all, for a number of years which he recently with for an Audi A6, which I love. He does too. But what Richard says here back in 2004 about British Merc dealerships is exactly what my Uncle said about his experience with his Mercedes. The car was alright, had really thin tires that were super sensitive, but he really felt that the dealers would never provide quality service.
okay so the first two surveys are essentially as old as
well
me
9:14 2004 burning cars in Paris. Is that an annual event?
maybe you can do a short complination of hammonds conversation street intro
Are those survey results still available? I couldn't find them.
I wonder what was on that piece of paper
My parents had an espace a few times in a row. The automatic transmission broke in all of them.
TG was much more enjoyable in the earlier series. I don't know who made the decision to have it be more campy with the constant challanges, but it made it stale toward the end of the Clarkson/May/Hammond edition.
"Subarus dont break" now thats a good joke
Expectation is the issue here.
I'd love to know what the piece of paper that Jeremy had
DO A BOOTLEG ITEMS COMPILATION.
e.g. in cambodia market, the chinese car episode, etc
As an M-Class owner, this hurts 🥲
"Subarus dont break! They'll just go on forever and ever" This aged like milk
What are you talking about? Subies aren't Toyotas, sure, but they're still quite solid... or at least they are when unmodified
Subarus don't break eh? I can tell you some horror stories then
Wish we could see what was on that piece of paper
“That’s probably why they’re burning so many in Paris at the moment at the moment”
Brilliant
Can we have ( if not already ) a comp of jeremy saying
In The World
already exists
My first car was a Chevrolet matriz
No it wasn't...
VW had dealer problems also! Dealers are not part of or financially legally connected to VW in USA, and most shops can't even perform basic service on new VWs, the dealers pull all kinds of dirty tricks to avoid responsibility and charge you for warrantee work, then not for the work!
what was on the paper in 10:41
I just woke up
Ironically enough, that Mercedes' MOT is still valid. Meanwhile, the red Toyota Land Cruiser's MOT expired in 2019.
If You pause and click 12:48 you can see in the back left side we've got Irish Donald Trump followed by fat Walter White followed by goofy Sheldon Cooper followed by Jordan Peele with Iphone-10 Haircut . In our right side we have unshaved Hitman followed by discount Linus 'tech tips' followed by your English and Math teacher .
Now I want a S2000 even more .. but they cost an arm and a leg .
9:07-9:15 Love this comment from Jeremy hahaha
I THIN- Okay what I've got here is
"Subarus don't break"
Except for when they do from piston slap, rod knock, head gasket failure, rusting suspension components etc. They are pretty reliable actually but to say they are on the same level as Toyota, Honda, or say older Mercedes would be false. I'd put them at about the same level as VW.
Is the list of cars still available somewhere?
I am also quite curious. I'd like to know how the Miata fared, given that the S2k did so consistently well. I'd also like to see if the 2nd-gen Lexus IS was ever included or only the 1st-gen
Weird watching top gear and seeing your parents on it 🤣Passat @ 3:48
What's in that paper?
I'm surprised dodge neon isn't in last place
You don't get many in GB so it wouldn't appear in the survey
With my 1969 fiat 500 I am 100% unsatisfied
You could do a LOT worse!
*In the days before Tesla*
2022 … Tesla owners love their cars so much, they would win every time !
What, win the "being on fire" or "driving themselved into fire trucks" segment?
It's a shame they are blind to Tesla shoddy build quality.
Most Tesla cars in the UK are leased.
Funny how Peugeot are making nice cars now.
Now do a classic Top Gear compilation
have made one of clarkson and one of may on old TG, another one of clarkson in a bit as well
French burning their own cars at every turn of the decade , still true to this day 😂
They first point at the XJ as the first car on the list. Then the Sharan is parked next to it and nobody guessed it. Are they blind?
11:49 Brent Weinbach
A "Superb" Mercedes... Probably never been above 5000 revs...
11:50 he murders cats
13:08 If you do that, you will be able to find out whether the car you planning on buying is good...
Or...
FRENCH!
😁
Can we get a compilation of the trio doing manual labour or clarkson complaining about manual labour? Or has that already been done?
think it's already been done
When he said "four inches" I didn't think he was talking about the exhaust...