The only thing better than Jeremy Clarkson is James May...while being irritated by Jeremy Clarkson 🤣

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@@jamesrobert4106 Nailed it 👌🏻

Its a shame his Top Gear persona ruined him for so many people. They dont realize just how passionate he really is about cars, even the ones he pretended to hate on Top Gear.

The grand tour

I completely agree. I couldn't care less about cars but yet here I am. Its as if he's mad for the job!

I love that he is one of few who isn't afraid to tell any manufacturer that they made a s**t car.

That was the problem. His passion for all things deemed ungreen was his undoing. Now if Clarkson had raved about Venezuelan great-tits and the lesser-spotted Japanese knee-trembler on the edge of extinction, he'd have been knighted long ago.

He's actually done some seriously good non-automotive documentaries too. Jeremy Clarkson - Inventions That Changed The World Jeremy Clarkson's The Victoria Cross: For Valour Jeremy Clarkson's the Greatest Raid of All And he did a great on on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, recommended if you can find a version of youtube which hasn't had the sound mangled, lost half the program missing...

Jeremy Harris I was thinking the same. it teletransports to the era.

I agree. They really keep me from moving on to a different video. This is also just how a car show should be done. Take my word, I live in the States. I know a thing or two about idiotic television.

I've never used shazam this much.

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You know it mate, ‘Talk Talk - Life is what you make it’ is one of my favourite songs.. always has been and I’m 24 now, watched this live at the age of 6-8 or whatever, Clarkson is king.

Your mum clearly never managed to get a Kirby ; predecessor to Dyson and known as 'metal Mickey'

@@derekheeps1244 Never even heard of them. Hard to think the Dyson (for all their problems) has ever been beaten when it comes to its ability to extract dust from carpets. They have monster suction and they beat the bits out of the carpet fibres at the same time.

@@derekheeps1244 lmao werent they like a grand I remember a kirby salesman in our house demonstrating the kirby and what it could do a few phone calls to his general manager area manager and several incentives the kirby came in at a cool 250 quid rofl and after that he gave up

@@zoidberg444 You are very much mistaken

@@chucky2316my mum bought a kirby. i cut my brother's hair (scalped him ) with it in the school holidays 😂

You legend !

Thanks a ton for all that info on the songs, I've been wanting to add a couple, particularly the Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern and Happy Mondays - Loose Fit to my skateboarding playlist :-]

God Bless you! Thanks a lot!

Can you do this for his "Clarkson's Car Years - How Japan Took Over The World"

Thank you.

I was lucky enough to see two RS200's on the road as a kid and chased after one to catch it at the traffic lights for a better look. Feel very privileged to have seen road versions.

@Br M There were a few secret projects that did just that, It was too hot to handle as the turbo brought up boost it lost it's grip due to wheelspin,

Worlds best? I've seen better, more informative presenter than him. But then, he's rather influential so there's that.

"Best in the world"

@@FAT8893 Exactly. This whole programme whilst enjoyable was full of glaring errors.

Absolute numptie

I could ; no 6.9 , no 190E 2.3-16 ( we didn't call them cossies , which was a slang term for swimming costumes , no class

I can - Carol Vorderman with her massive knockers out

There is no A in Cossie .

Not sure about that, original cossie 3dr I think has the looks over an escort cossie, but all Ford's of the eighties we're good looking, RS 200 RS turbo, injection special Capri. And an escort cossie is only a cut down RS 4x4 Sapphire with escort panels nail on.

@@derekheeps1244 is, coszah (mouth open) as you hear yourself say it ;-)

My dad had 2 in the early 2000, a dark emerald green one and a dark blue one. But also a silver RS2000 cossie replica. I have no clue what ever happened to them, nor has he, unfortunately.

People are weird. You're proof of that.

+datasilo uk No, you're not. I'm loving the tunes :D

+Bob Bobbson It is "Loose Fit by the Happy Mondays." :)

Lol that what I was about to comment

The real crowd killer

sadly not anymore its MOT expired in January 2019 i wonder what happend to it

I remember when Northumbria Poilce got some, one came to my parents house after someone tboned my dad. My jaw was on the floor. Funnily enough they also got one nicked from their garages in Kilingworth LOL

Which was a nice car actually fun to drive. But you've never sat in one so how could you know ;)

Proper MG's are nice cars , well engineered , and have a following , clearly more mature than you are .

Zero credibility. He's just funny.

There many spectator involved accidents in Group B. Rally cars today are half as powerful as those 600 HP monsters.

The only sports worth watching are the ones where a chance of death is involved.

+Scott Ruggels ...I dunno, death isn't something to be joyed about.

Ben Ward No, now it's Golf R.

Ben Ward only in the mk1 and mk2. later it was the 205, civic eg6 vti, xsara vts, Type R...

Bollocks. Renault set the benchmark with the 4 and 5 Gordini.

Ben Wilson True.

And later, the Ford Focus St

+Stephen White Amen! Alex Issigonis was The Man, and truly an engineering genius he was! Came up with an at-the-time completely original platform which as you say became the basis for most cars ever since! And he did it using a maximum of existing parts from the predecessor BMC C-block and such!

Funny you should say that Stephen- when Jezza started talking about the first hot hatch, I immediately thought of the Mini, especially the ones in the Italian Job. I though that was rather obvious but absolutely no mention of them.

Fiat were the geniuses with the gear box clutch and differential set up 1st seen on the 1964 Autobianchi primula. Dante giacosa genius Fiat then applied the primula set up on the 1970 127. Ford basically used the same Fiat setup on the Fiesta 1977 then enlarged for Escort. Though ford did experiment on FWD in the 60s on the Taunus derived setup. Even offering a US version nothing like the Fiat setup. Whilst the mini ( I own a few ) is a packaging masterpiece it is far from perfect from a service. Allot of friction and side forces on the crank shaft thrust washers. Drive line gears. Plus shared oil. Its layout was inspired by J.W. Christie who built FWD engine in sump layout between 1904 - 1909. Datsun had a similar set up in the cherry though I dont know much about them. The Fiat layout took over and was copied as it was simpler, separate lubrication could be made cheep and endlessly adapted. Yes I admire the mini but equally the Autobianchi Primula and Dante's genius. You could say the 127 was the 1st hot hatch in standard form nippy and zingy. One of the most amazing FWD transmissions was the 1966 Toranado Oldsmobile FWD used in the 67 Cadillac and strong enough to be used unaltered in the 10,000lbs GMC motor home and still the chain drive would last.

The original Mini was absolutely a saloon car. Tiny, but still a saloon car.

The words you're looking for is Transversally mounted. Not "sideways-driveline".

Exactly. The crash happened because of idiotic spectators blocking the road and this wasn't an uncommon occurrence. I'm just shocked it didn't happen sooner. Not the fault of Ford or Santos but rather the fault of event organisers for poor crowd management and ultimately the fault of the idiots standing in a place which should have only been occupied by rally cars. Also, Clarkson made out that the RS200 crash ended Group B but the classification was axed in May after the crash of Toivonen and Cresto's S4 and their untimely deaths at Corsica.

Because unfortunately the cars were blamed by a media that have no interest in rallying until something goes wrong. Rally fans know the cars weren't the real issue.

@@skylined5534 well I think Group B's days were numbered anyway after the Portugal crash and I wouldn't have been surprised if FISA (the FIA at the time) were looking for an excuse to end it anyway. Then of course Toivonen's crash happened and they sadly had a perfect one. I do still think the cars played a part though. I think Toivonen in an interview in that Corsica rally said that the cars were so fast the drivers were struggling to keep up with them. "I mean, this is crazy!" Röhl and I think Vatanen also said that given how fast the cars were and how Insane the crowds were an accident like the one in Portugal was pretty much inevitable

Like the above comment mentioned, I'm surprised that something like what happened in Portugal hadn't occurred before that. Crowd safety for Group B was non existent. Some of the more rowdy spectators would even try and touch the cars as they were speeding past. Toivonen's fatal crash in Corsica just finished it off. It gave Balestre the perfect reason to say enough is enough.

It's the JC's Cossie, it will last until the first owner's 100th ;).

looks like it will, taxed and mot'd til January next year

Jn br that's awesome

Currently sorned with the mot expiring jan 2019

MOT July 22

but they are packing huge punches.. the Civic Type-R and Seat Leon Cupra now boast 300hp.. so does the Focus ST .. people asumed they were going to die today due to stricter and stricter enviromental rules and fuel cost and they have achieved now the power amounts of what Porsche 911s and Ferraris had in the early 90s.. and they come with mechanical warranty and are daily-car capable

I find it a huge shame that the original nsx is now slower than the 2018 type r

why? it's an older car with older engine and older tech. and the type r is fwd and much heavier. it's like the s2000. not the fastest any more but still a legend on the track and still one of the best rwd cars out there, a classic.

@@hazzaknox1069 it's not a shame, it's progress

Well, I don't know, petition Exxon to jack up oil prices and maybe VW will bring the Up over here and Honda will make a break version of the S660 and send that on over.

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+Adrizz5447 Try a MK1 MR2 dude, try it, it's SO much better. I bought mine off of a friend of mine who had bought a MK2 GTI in stead of it, something he regretted ever since.

not a patch on a Cossie mate.

+InvisibleYetVisible it's the best effort they ve made since the famous cossies.

Carson Red Yeah it probably is, but modern rules and regulations make it almost impossible to make a car like the Cossie. Much like most the other great cars of the past.

It's available in Europe aswell, not worth the €52'000

+MechV In Germany, it is around 40k€

I think so, The Opel Kadett C City ?

+fredmachine it was the Opel kaddet for the rest of the world and in the uk it was the Vauxhall chevette

yup Vauxhall and Opel are actually the same company

Sorry, no. It's based on the Chevette, a car "designed" and "developed" in Detroit. My first wife had an '80 and I worked on it myself. A lot. Vauxhall and Opel and Holden (and SAAB for a while) are not the same company. They are owned by the same company. Big difference. It's like saying Jaguar and Volvo were the same company in the 2000s. They weren't.

Rich Sackett Vauxhall and Opel make the same cars, just whit a different badge.

kaiser5102 I'm french, and i agree, it's obviously one of the best cars in the world. Let's not forget the veyron though

Dédé LABINOUZE and still a great car, ; yes but the veyron is a little bit out of my price range :P vive la france !

Dédé LABINOUZE I guess we can say the Tundra is the best truck the USA has ever made.

kaiser5102 What about the Citroen XM?

Rory Schlarb wut ? Oh i get it, you're part of those guys who think that bugatti is a german car manufacturer x)

Yeah the French put great emphasis on their suspension systems and with the exception of the cheap cars also their seats.

@@marklittler784 audi rs , Mercedes amg ,maybach,Porsche , had french,, seats ,doors pannels,dashboad, (made in France,, faurecia,,)

You sound like you have the exact same taste in cars as I do 😃 if u wanna nerd out over cars my Kik is MichaelNeeS4

Michael Nee I am car journalist, and I really like Delta Integrale and Cosworth machines.

And Stratos :)

DatIrishGuy The one and only 037 :D

Except the Golf GTI worked didn't it? The Cossie and the Delta spent more time parked.

Sam Power Fiesta ST is great tho

Everyone says so, I've never driven one but would like to!

Sam Power Agreed, manufacturers have become obsessed with NCAP ratings and kitting out every single car with countless unnecessary toys, so we're left with the bloated, overly-heavy, too-tall homogenous mediocrity that's everywhere now.

Hot hatches need to be simple, light, be very similar to the stock car, and be decently quick. Look at earlier Peugeot's, e.g the 205/106 GTi, absolutely fabulous cars and such amazing fun to drive.

And they all need to have FWD, which is just not something everyone likes. Not that I hate FWD because I like CTRs.

It's hip dude you don't get it.

Blasphemy

***** what he really mean was the statement which used so often by early top gear series, "still, could be worse"

people then wouldn’t have been doted by Dieselgate, now postproduction would have been restructured to omit more of Volks’ GTI in favor of what had been held back.