I can't stop watching these old episodes, it's fucking with my head, I just love it.

I like how the steering wheel is already off-centre from brand new.

Saw the thumbnail and was trying to work out when Gerry Adams presented Top Gear.

Remember a base model Metro 1.1c was £7k back in 1991! I learnt to drive in a 1.3 GL Aeroback. 1990 on a "G" Very light and very easy to drive and also very quiet. When it first arrived the 1.3GL Saloon was only £5999. Very cheap considering we brits were ripped off on new cars back then. Most of Europe in general was 20% less for new cars than the UK. A Base model Lada Riva 1300 special with vinyl seats was £3k in 1989.

Kuala Lumpur factory? I am Malaysian and the factory was in Shah Alam which is in Selangor.

Had a mate who ran one as a mini cab - did over 400k miles in it then scrapped it. Nothing wrong with it he was just bored with it. A decision he regretted.

Fascinating how Japanese car owners were looking for something EVEN CHEAPER. Kia/Hyundai represent the whole of Korean car manufacturers now

I had a1990 proton in 1991 1.5 gl cost £4000 had it 6years of hard driving even got a speeding fine and loss of licence on the motorway at 106.5 mph it never let me down sold to a mate £1600 with 70000 miles who had it a few more years and with 165000 miles on the clock it meet it,s maker not bad for a shit car as people say on here and they was base on a old Mitsubishi lancer good cheap motor at the time

Hubnut brought me here.

I AM MALAYSIAN AND PROUD OF PROTON CARS

£8,990 back in 1991 is equivalent to just over £17,000 in today's money (2018). You could get a seriously nice car for that today. Especially if you're looking at the used market.

My sister had a 1990 Ford Festiva that had one mirror, it was on the drivers side. Certainly was legal back then.

Is it just me or did that steering wheel look like it was on crooked when he driving straight

Thanks for the upload. Throwing the fuse into the lake at 2:50 nowdays would have BBC's phones ringing off the hook with people complaining about the pollution and threat to aquatic organisms ;)

What an intriguing underground car to choose as part of a road test :-)

Wondered what that noise was until he said it was a warning buzzer!

@sonyviva308 where is selangor? I was in Kuala Lumpar last year. Just the airport, but i'd will go back there. It looked super flying into it. Authentic and beautiful.

One wing mirror that you adjust by hand…never seen that before!

@willzer808 Selangor is just close to Kuala Lumpur...

Watching it in 2020. There are some Malaysian still drives this car today. Proton GLS (Saga) and Wira is the most durable engine among proton's car before it's downfall on campro cvt nonsense. Proton saga is one of the achievement that can be proud as Malaysian because, it is the first time Malaysia entering car market and getting not a bad review. Now proton getting more ridiculous with super-tech-geely-rebadge car, while engine and air condition is getting worse.

@senortteh thanks for shedding light on this for me mate

I love the music in the blue intro!

A couple of years ago I got overtaken by this model in Malaysia. I was doing 186km/hr.

Chris Goffey had such long tender nails... see the Pug 106 and FIAT Uno reviews was he a Spanish guitar expert or something?

I love the engine policy back in the 80s and 90s. Do you want a 1.2 litre with 80 HP, or a 1.3 Litre with 89 HP, he? You would think car makers would sell a bigger difference like 1.2 with 60, 1.6 with 90 or 2 litr with 120 or something like that.

This episode is from the 1990s. The factory might have moved from then, but then again, what would I know :D

I love this car i want one so bad. 😔

1:45, whats up with that steering angle, he's on a straight road...

Only 4 of these left now.

Had one, brilliant cars

"This base model ..... but it's shorter on equipment than the top of the range model" -you don't say. "It's not a car that will appeal to the enthusiast" another bombshell! This wasn't one of Chris Geoffeys better days...

3:00 - leaks in the boot? - that might explain why there are so few of these things on the road.....

It was basically a rebadged Dodge colt sedan that sold here in the U.S. from 1985-1989, same engines and transmissions though.

Don't you just hate it when you get your nails caught under the seat when adjusting it?

There is a silver one in they next road still running and looking in good condition!! No WONDER we have no car industry.

This video doesn't mention that this was a Dodge Colt in America in the late 80's - and was also sold in the states as the Mitsubishi Mirage.

@pkkwok2008 80's style. Either that or they couldn't be arsed to fit the other one.

why is there only one door mirror? lol

Hmm... Proton's a good brand. Where's it from?

Used to be in Shah Alam......................

Proton don't sell cars in the UK anymore.

Both these cars still taxed both Registered September 1990

doesnt chris gofey run a burger van in cleethorpes, I read it in bella and bella dont lie ;-)

Hyundai/kia seems sooo different from proton now. They looked same back then. Compare Kia stinger / hyundai i30n to whatever proton is making now!

looking back at this it definetly was the better choice to buy an 88 Galant that is now still running and driving flawlessly

1 side mirror ? wtf ?

The steering wheel isn't on straight !!

Proton nowadays is suffering the same fate that befallen British Leyland....

WTF 1 GOD DAM MIRROR isn't that illegal?

I put 4g61t in the hood...the car fly..😁

proton saga iswara aeroback 1.5.

Rather odd how this model Proton never had a proper name - Just Proton 1.3 or 1.5...

YAY CASETTES!!! XD

Mitsubishi Lancer Fiore.

I hate power steering!

1:32 I'm sorry, what? Why would you change your car after 3-4 years? And why downgrade to a Proton? I would have rather had an older Japanese car than a new GLS... Damn consumerism... Also, imagine buying a new car nowadays only to find out there's water in the boot. It would be absolutely unacceptable!!

I use proton waja..thnx proton

Proton is now gone from the UK market

The buzzer sounds like a mosquito.......

That's a Mitsubishi mirage/Dodge Colt

is not was... ^ ^

0:55 just look at the horrible fit and finish of the bumpers and that's on a press car.....

My friend was was run over when he was 6. He got his insurance money when he hit 18 years old in 1991, as it had been in trust. He blew the lot on one of these cars - it lasted him three years. It was literally falling to pieces, failed it’s MOT in ‘94 on absolutely everything and he sold it for about 500 quid.

Remember at the time they were absolute crap, this confirms it.

And I thought Protons in the late 90s were horrible, thank God Aus didn't get these ones.

Good cars but acquired a reputation as a pensioner's car.

Great Mitsubishi Lancer design. Shame it's soo ugly.

A lot of older cars look better with age and many just get even worse with age, this proton is one of them,awful!

Wtf water inside. Never buy such car.

Jeremy Clarkson, on later Top Gears, would have driven that piece of crap with the watery boot right into the canal! Or at least dropped a piano on it.

Proturd.. horrible car

Mitsubishi Lancer Fiore.