Old Top Gear 1998 - MPG Challenge

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7 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell & Quentin Wilson drive 3 small city cars with 1 gallon of petrol in the tanks to see which goes the longest distance.
Taken from an early 1998 episode of the old format Top Gear

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@AndrewStrydomBRP 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this with today's petrol pricing is a dejavu like feeling, it's almost 3x as much as it was back then now.

@Wasmachineman 7 жыл бұрын

That Securitas part was fucking golden lol

@ewaf88 6 жыл бұрын

Hollywood calls - he's mumbling was better than Arnie's

@michaelkennedy8573 2 жыл бұрын

more relevant than ever today

@FAT8893 6 жыл бұрын

1:01 Suzuki Wendy House. That sounded much better than Wagon R. 😂🤣

@DoubleDeckerAnton 5 жыл бұрын

I love these old topgear episodes from the late 90s...!!! 😆🔝👍

@chryneon6638 2 жыл бұрын

QW, TN and JC are all legends, as for VBH.

@jackcurtis9002 7 жыл бұрын

"Size doesn't matter." Jeremy Clarkson, 1998 05:34

@ewaf88 7 жыл бұрын

Petrol s cheaper than milk - well it was in 1998. Now it's (at Sainsburys) 75p a litre for semi-skimmed.

@mrcaboosevg6089 6 жыл бұрын

Semi skimmed, are you some kind of Labour voter?

@FAT8893 6 жыл бұрын

ewaf88 Not for my country though.

@rarevhsuploads4995 6 жыл бұрын

MrcabooseVG no, it's Skimmed milk for Corbyn's Labour. He'd be New Labour with semi skimmed.

@EinkOLED 5 жыл бұрын

That's why my car now runs on milk instead of petrol. mmmmoooooooo

@kishanjadeja6894 5 жыл бұрын

Idiot... Petrol is £1.20 a litre. Fuel is fucking expensive.

@michaelrawson6261 5 жыл бұрын

Tiff Needell... Wat a legend!!!

@marguskiis7711 7 жыл бұрын

Pretty close to the "new" TG already.

@soggybaguette8457 5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the old Clarkson...

@mikeb6385 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, a car park in Milton Keynes, been there done that...

@benchiaase 7 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this episode when it was on TV! That Wagon R is so memorable hahaha.

@owenglenn4298 3 жыл бұрын

Price of petrol in 1998 = 60.9p/litre

@chrisg7011 5 жыл бұрын

£1.22 per litre...guess it's cheaper that Coke..at the same petrol station.

@m.b9133 7 жыл бұрын

OMG fifth gear and top gear amazing!

@farishanafiah8461 Жыл бұрын

6:15 Yup, still true in 2022. Even with my country's government decided not to subsidize RON 97 petrol, it's still cheaper than a litre of milk even at the cheapest supermarket you can find.

@Ammageddon89 7 жыл бұрын

Cheaper then Milk haha XD not anymore i guess xD

@FAT8893 6 жыл бұрын

Ammageddon89 It still is in my country.

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

Fuel Duty is the primary reason why though. The Oil Companies produce the stuff quite cheaply.

@RoobehTunes 7 жыл бұрын

What do we have here? A 911!

@YasinAdorCB5 7 жыл бұрын

lol Tiff,Quentin and Jeremy in the same page??? are there any more moments of them together

@FAT8893 6 жыл бұрын

Yasin Ador Check out the Top Gear Car of the Year 1997 video.

@yt_consistency 3 жыл бұрын

Looking great Yasin

@ECEAaronXavierLobo 3 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute, Tiff Needell used to be on Top Gear too!? Sick B)

@scottirvine121 3 жыл бұрын

Petrol cheaper than milk haha, the good old days

@FAT8893 3 жыл бұрын

In my country, it still is.

@Finallybianca 6 жыл бұрын

Powwwweeeeerrrrr

@doctorjones300 4 жыл бұрын

Would this be considered as a prototype challenge segment from the well-known Top Gear?

@ChaplainDMK 7 жыл бұрын

Wait 53 mpg is what, 5,5 l/100 km. Pretty impressive what you get today that can do 5,5 l/100 km compared to back then.

@AsekiBekovy 7 жыл бұрын

10% more. Except for Daihatsu, they kept the game up.

@ChaplainDMK 7 жыл бұрын

My moms Giulietta with 140 bhp does 5,6 l/100 km, so I'd say that's a pretty big differance.

@AsekiBekovy 7 жыл бұрын

5,6 l Diesel converts to 6,94 l Petrol... And is nothing special because a) the Diesel is a bit more efficient and b) the bigger combustion chambers (bigger per cylinder) make for a smoother combustion, so additional efficiency. Plus you have longer gearing, better aerodynamics...

@cheesyeurotrance95 7 жыл бұрын

my 70 hp Punto 1.3 diesel does 4,9 l/100 km (57 mpg) and that's actually around town, best I ever got from the car is 2.7 l/100 km (104 mpg, according to the trip computer) by driving 10 kilometers at constant 80 km/h in 5th gear (1900 rpm) on a dual carriageway

@AsekiBekovy 7 жыл бұрын

Yep, the 1.3 diesel punto scores quite well at 51 mpg (US)

@joshdevdoss9041 7 жыл бұрын

The WagonR Is still in production in India. The best selling car in India.

@viruagrawal 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it's definitely not the same car anymore - Chassis, Drivetrain, Interior and Exterior are all new. It's not the best selling car in India either - that's the Maruti Suzuki Alto.

@joshdevdoss9041 7 жыл бұрын

Engineer IRL Yeah True. but when people here upgrade. they go in for a Wagon R. its well.. the second best seller In India.

@viruagrawal 7 жыл бұрын

Some do, I'm sure. 3rd best seller though, after the Swift.

@koolyman 3 жыл бұрын

Lol clarkson started his news bulletin from that time ago!

@gabrielv.4358 4 ай бұрын

Very cool

@ronaldderooij1774 6 жыл бұрын

I drove the last generation Daihatsu Cuore (2009). It used on average 59 mpg. I now drive a Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2 CVT and that does 63 mpg. I drive economically for fun (as a hobby). It is also a kind of perfomance driving. So, I don't think the gentlemen in this video know how to drive an economy run properly.

@Moltenbramley 4 жыл бұрын

Find a new hobby.

@kidzulavolpe8676 4 жыл бұрын

Tiff always look the same lol

@AbuMshMsh 7 жыл бұрын

Tiff is now in fifth gear isnt he?

@martijnbruggers8694 7 жыл бұрын

was, fifth gear is cancelled. they ran out of money.

@FAT8893 6 жыл бұрын

Martijn Bruggers Tiff tweeted on his Twitter account that Fifth Gear will be back.

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

Tiff and Henderson (+ others) were let go from the BBC in the 1st place, because after Clarkson left TopGear to do his own stuff, ratings fell through the floor. Only two other presenters that'd been on TG before 2002 would be carried over, of which James May was the lasting one. Whilst Clarkson didn't create TopGear (Angela Rippen did in 1979), the series was only revived at all, because of him. (the BBC initially having no plan to relaunch the series, rather like Tomorrow's World after Peter Snow & co leaving caused it's ratings to tank)

@kylewaddington1983 3 жыл бұрын

Who more famous out of Tiff Neddle bloke and Jememy Clarkson ?

@Tad1945 4 жыл бұрын

I came here to look at Jeremy hair

@vinkata 4 жыл бұрын

Jeremy is class 🤣

@adampetryszyn1487 4 жыл бұрын

is that the guy from 5th gear

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

Aye, before this era of TopGear ended in 2002.

@boisegameshowguy Жыл бұрын

If only that Daihatsu was available stateside, but they had already gone home to Japan about six years prior to this! Drat...

@Zerobalt 3 жыл бұрын

Is that Bruce Lee on the thumbnail ?

@michaelloach9461 5 жыл бұрын

46.2 mpg from a wardrobe? Im averaging 42.5 from my old 3.0 V6 9-5 TiD. Sommink wrong there.......

@louism.4495 5 жыл бұрын

46 from low pollution petrol vs 42 from the highest polluting diesel ever built . Why dont you use coal then youll get infinity to the gallon.

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

Still lousy fuel economy for a horrid little cramped ecobox made of bacofoil.

@kylewaddington1983 3 жыл бұрын

Where a V8 wen you want one

@matthewarlotte1974 7 жыл бұрын

wtf is going on with tiffs hair oh dear

@Eridu 6 жыл бұрын

2003

@paulillingworth1242 5 жыл бұрын

Shopping trolleys 🛒 and not all that efficient either for light weight tin cans! Blair and cronies made petrol ⛽️ went through the roof in no time too! And caused congestion of which they will plan to charge us for 20 years later!!

@Alexander_l322 4 жыл бұрын

They tax freedom when they tax petrol ,it is a joke how expensive it is now.

@Dazzletoad 5 жыл бұрын

Why do presenters walk and talk like they have end stage Parkinsons disease?

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

1990's BBC camera crews were weird. At one point they had a thing for sweeping angles (thaaasunds of 'em), which made the viewer feel sick. Top Gear post-2002 seemed to have snaffled up some wildlife cameramen, as the quality of camerawork shot up.

@hassankhan384 3 жыл бұрын

and now government wants us to drive crap electric cars that are useless and just pain to even see one on road, second issue road tax is high and gets higher year by year, third so many other charges such as insurance is one of the pain for young drivers and also parking is hard, conjunction charges are higher plus the diesel cars to be charged in London and all the ulez crap. Life is just a shit whole in uk, and mayor of London just making it harder so many charges but where can an average person afford this from ita jsut pain because wages are low its going to be 2021 and avarege wages are £10.50 an hour some played are even below that for student its 6 to 7.50 an hour, how can a young person afford 2k to 4k insurance plus tax, plus fuel plus parking, plus other charges its just too hard. Its been like that back then as well but life was still better then, then today.

@harrypreece6680 3 жыл бұрын

This aged poorly!!!

@FAT8893 3 жыл бұрын

You mean petrol is cheaper than milk? Not in my country.

@nixxxon18 Жыл бұрын

Indeed, today we have oversized, inefficient SUVs even though fuel prices are even higher. We've gone crazy

@dclore 4 жыл бұрын

Lord, the other two (other than Clarkson) are awful...

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much. Tiff is a better racing driver than a presenter, and Quentin... well the less that's said of him, the better.

@SuperiorNo1 4 жыл бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 Quentin Wilson is Brilliant very informative presenter 😈

@jimtaylor294 4 жыл бұрын

^ Depends upon what. He did a handful of genuinely competant peices, but most of the time was an almost comically biased, smarmy and condesending wazzock. Still preferable to Steve Berry though... (a turd in a suit, as he's been described as)