BMW M135 Vs VW Golf GTI | Top Gear | Series 21 | BBC
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2014
- On a very wet track, Jeremy sets out to prove why the BMW M135 is a better car than the VW Golf GTI. But should he be so sure? Clip taken from series 21 episode 5.
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"I could win this in reverse"
BMW: Aight, bet.
lol
lmaoo
Was reading your comment before I saw him spinning and actually thought he would seriously try that :D
Its a hammer if:
- Its a tool
- James wouldn't use it
- Not a spanner
So, Hammond?
@@FarmYardGaming Nah he cant lift it.
@@anonnona6940 Nah, I'm sure the orangutan could lift the Hamster!
Its a hammer if: - Not a spanner.... correct spelling, right?
Revolution no the grammar is wrong not the spelling
‘I could win this in REVERSE.’
Careful what you wish for, Jeremy.
You’ll end up reversing...
should use a DAF for that contest :p
Into a tree, but at least you won’t see it when you die
Instant karma LoL
Love it when Clarkson spins out he doesn’t look scared just dissapointed
@@dallasmellsop5488 well you say that...ive seen it happen to one in front of me on the M25. It was raining and we were going straight, an incline, @90mph. The road was quite busy...it span off across 3 lanes...how it missed every car is beyond me.
@@dallasmellsop5488 me too...i was gone because it happened right in front of me
Wait, what? It's obvious that he just aquaplaned and was shitting his britches. No one would stage a 100mph spin for a car review, unless you were suicidal. The whole him being biased afterwards isn't something you should be taking seriously.
Notice his left hand just before spin.
Dallas Grantley when get my links to it and give me proof
4:38 ah yes , someone finally answered my question
Yeah, totally relatable
you don't say
Jeremy Clarkson knows his audience
And terrorist watchlist
GTIs are dangerous cars
"Saw it off with a hammer"
Exactly, when I heard it I checked the comments to see if anybody else had noticed too!
i noticed it evreybody did
+Earl Cee So iam not the only one
lol same here
it's the only tool he knows.
"both come standard with many things"
Still my preferred car reviewer
They know we dont care about all the fancy menu option. Its so thoughtful.
He actually reviewed the M135i in his newspaper column, gave it 5 stars, loved it, said "Hate this car? Then you hate driving." Nuff said.
I know right... you could tell after 2011 that they were selling out themselves.
Its like this about many cars some you really dont like and 3 years later you realize they are fantastic 🤷🏻♂️
@@michaelsvk1355 The Golf is a good car because it's such a good blend of practicality and performance but the BMW is even better because it sacrificed a little bit of practicality for a lot more driving enjoyment. Big engine, loads more power, rear wheel drive, good manual and great auto available. Top spec ones are baby luxury cars. They are fantastic for people that can't justify a full on two seater sports car but also don't really need the rear seats or boot space too often.
@@pgr3290 we didn’t get the m135 in the US…. but! mk7r versus m135i i’m sure the mk7r is light years ahead in every which way. not even to start on the tuning capabilities of the ea888 motor.
@@niallcorcoran4437 Well then you'd be wrong. The Mk 7 Golf R is boring in truth, front biased all wheel drive, 2 litre 4 cylinder engine that sounds mediocre. It's fast, but in a way that elicits little excitement. The BMW on the other hand is more unique for hot hatchbacks. Firstly it has a rev happy three litre straight six driving the rear wheels as standard, and an Xdrive option with rear biased four wheel drive. In other words, it'll slide about unlike the Golf with a purity of balance the Golf does not possess. Both manual and a superb (ZF8) auto slush box auto are available. It has more power stock than a mk7 Golf R (322bhp for the facelift versus 306 for the facelift R), more torque (332lb/ft plays 280) and still very tuneable. 400 horsepower was easy. In 2016 the N55 engine was replaced by the same configuration B58, which had even more power (335bhp with 369lb/ft) and was even more tunable and stronger, having a closed deck. This was dubbed the M140i. A remap equivalent of about $750 with no hardware changes on an M140i is approx 415 horsepower. With minor bolt ons costing perhaps $2000 it is 450 horsepower.
After this point we have established that none of the 3 presenters can drive in a straight line
Richard crashes, Jeremy spins and May can't even get to the starting line
F
Only americans know how to drive in straight line
@@nous1056 Americans can only drive in a straight line. And even then things go wrong alot of the times...
Morsurator ya don’t come here people suck at driving
@Simon Roscoe oh right, my bad. :')
"Is by sawing their legs off,
with a hammer"
*holds up saw*
hilarious!
Clarkson loves hammers
Legend says, he uses a hammer to cook food
Was looking for this comment😂😂😂😂😂
Ugh the world needs og top gear now more than ever
Or you always have the repeats on Dave....
try Throttle House UA-cam channel. a bit more serious but feels like vintage Top Gear (seasons 2-10).
@TheSoulEater121 it's not cancelled as far as I know.
@@ubergrendle Agreed.
BBC needs an epidecteny up it arse
Jeremy:
*proceeds to drift*
Also jeremy:
*spins out while driving in the straight line*
Drag racing is harder than it looks.
Driving in a straight line in a bmw is harder than it looks
@@arthurherman1046 why exactly did he lose it? It's wet, I know. He's going very fast. Yes. But was it his input or something inherent in the car?
@@WillArtie that was just bmw doing its rear wheel drive magic in wet road conditions
@@arthurherman1046 no it wasn't lol
i love Jeremy's face when he span off, like most people would be shitting themselves losing controls in the rain at 120 mph, and going from concrete to grass to concrete to grass... but clarkson just kind of accepts it and sits there very calm, its funny
It's also smarter to let off the steering wheel/brakes etc at that point the cars going to stop but if you keep fiddling with it you can make the spinout worse or even cause it too flip
Well, there was nothing to hit.
Nah your completely wrong, that's how men look when their waiting to die
Nothing to hit and nothing to possibly overturn the car.
@@fifthbusiness1678 he could've flipped the car and that would be quite dangerous
Racing cars in the rain. A UK tradition that hasn't caught on in the U.S.
+Richard's World With Traction Control Off ... XD
+Richard's World No thanks. Too many people here who can't even drive in dry conditions, let alone in the rain.
+Richard's World In Seattle.
I've seen dummies in the US drag race in the rain. One car hydroplaned and hopped a curb and crashed into a bush.
Like Clarkson did in this video? ; )
Honestly one of the best reviews on top gear. Showed perfectly how the bmw is a lot of fun to drive and is very fast but how the VW wins on practicality and as an everyday car while still having pretty solid preformance
2 great cars
This head-to-head track test reveals exactly why Clarkson (along with his crew behind the camera) are so good at making a car review entertaining. He could just tell us that the Beamer has less space in the boot and barely any leg room in the back seat, but he doesn't. Instead, he spends more than a minute (4:38 - 5:54) messing about with a nuclear warhead and sawing a leg off of a mannequin. Sometimes he staggers even himself with his genius.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
"The interior is like James May's sock drawer"
Best statement
no, "saw it off with a hammer" is
is it smelly and sticky?
"Be more expensive to insure a pencil sharpener"
"Prussian aristocrat"? As a Bavarian, I feel offended!
@@bobbyturner6008 in Polish translation it was "Bavarian aristocrat"
Every tool for Jeremy is a hammer.
well he uses them all in approximately the same manor as a hammer.
Noticed... but somehow he nails it, regardless of what tool he's using :)
He probably hasa hammer collection at home.
Laurynas S. Top Hammer, coming soon
Laurynas S. No, Jeremy loves any hammer.
BMW is from Bavaria, calling it a Prussian is like calling a Scott a Saxon.
A Scott?, Scott is a name you mean a Scot. Don’t correct others if you canny get things right yourself.
Obviously my phone added the extra t, cause I usw german auto-correction, you ficken Kant
@@zensmylie5393 He says after placing a comma behind a question mark...
Alright fair enough tbf though how was I to know you were using German autocorrect.
@Axyo The comma was accidental but good observation.
My old Cupra had the same differential and it was absolutely amazing how quickly you could get it round a roundabout.
Lmao, Jeremy going full initial D. "I can take the lead any time I want, I have the power."
I think he's been saying power longer than initial D has....
like*
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English is my second language but, "Sawing their legs off with a hammer" cannot be right.
That's because it isn't right. It's a joke.
@@grand-dadmiral funny how u didn't get his joke.
Jeremy is a man of word : He said he could do the drag race in reverse, then he did it while spinning
Since nobody really answered it - Jeremy is a big fan of hammers, with the implication that a hammer can solve anything. It's a running joke on Top Gear. He's holding up a saw and pretending it's a hammer as a sight gag, or basically a visual joke.
Nono it is sometimes we call saws hammers and sometimes we say we want to ‘hammer’ something when we want to cut it in half
“Jeremy...
S🅱️INNALA”
Well, Se🅱️astian used to be a 🅱️MW driver
I like how Clarkson just ''oooh the BMW is so good, so fast, best care ever'', then aften he lost control of the car, ''naa I´m changing to Volkswagen golf''. XD
and immediately decided it was better
@@tshepokofi3957 Totally, he swished opinion in mere seconds.
I love how when Jeremy loses control and slips off the road he is so calm 😂😂like.. Just watch his face.. He's just like "oh great. Hey look at the grass. LA LA LA just crashing again.. Oh there goes the bumper.. That's fine.. I have insurance"
...that was more of a hope this thing doesn't flip and kill me focused on not dying face...
Wolfy Bumper didn't go anywhere.
Wolfy Its top gear, its all staged. Probably wasnt even a crash just a spin at 20mph
DoesItReallyMatterWhatName? Hmmm.. staged? No. Planned/expected? Maybe.
Have you seen the stig when he crashed the koineggsegg?
Khaled Hossam 90% of what topgear does is staged. This particular situation goes against my understanding of physics, if someone starts spinning on 120mph, the result is likely to be much worse.
did he say "saw their legs off with a hammer" 0_o
Nice :P
Nice :P
+Kameron Lovell I think this is why Clarkson failed so miserably fixing up that guys backyard.
I'd say!
+Kameron Lovell he said "saw their legs off with a hammer" Kappa
As a 35i driver I can say it’s single handedly the best car I’ve ever drove it’s an unbelievable amount of fun it’s impractical yes but the gti would not give the sense of enjoyment this absolute beast gives me I wouldn’t change it for the world
I finally got I one in the summer and I agree. I love it!
Exactly theyre just smile machines, I have the 3 door and although the rear seats are utterly pointless the car is so charming that it doesn't even matter
All the comments are 3 years ago. UA-cam algorithm is time travel.
yES
yES
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Computer says no....
I drive an m135i. In wet if you turn off traction control your going to die real quick. The acceleration is brutally quick and wheels spin in 4th gear.
Move out The way With shitty tires everything is possible. For example I had old winter tires in summer on type r Civic and it spun the wheels in 3rd gear without clutch kicking, like I couldn't accelerate at all :D
What a jok bmw is quick 🤣
And why this should be a problem? Is't colled fun
Try 5th gear in a Callaway sledgehammer
And that's why you buy the xDrive version. Drove the M140i xDrive on an icetrack here in Finland and i've never had as much fun in a car. Ever. And i probably never will.
I think they shoulda compared the 135 against the Golf R, not the GTI. Just my opinion though
yeah you're right, don't know why they tested the gti when the R has similar power and price to the BMW
Price .
i agree with you power wise but at least in europe the 135i and the GTI are similar in price.
yes your right, xdrive vs Golf R
I agree. The X-Drive M135i and Golf R in these awful conditions would have made for a brilliant comparison. I'm a big fan of the M135i. I've been a passenger and driven one in Germany. The engine is simply majestic. The best way I can describe it that it's like a high-performance Diesel and a naturally aspirated, six cylinder petrol engine all in one. Anyone who owns one, will understand what I'm saying. Put a BMW LSD there and you've got a baby M car. Great car.
I did the same with my m135i
210 km on the highway with 5 lanes thankgod…
Turning 360 degrees spinning as soon i went 210 … sold the car immediately….
Jeremy: “First car in 30 years to have real wheel drive
Clio V6: Am I a joke to you?
Also is the 2006 bmw 130i M sport not RWD too
The Clio V6 is very very good (driven one) but the one thing it's bad at is storing stuff in the rear, which is what hatchbacks are supposed to be good at, also it doesn't have rear seats... Because they put the engine there.
130i M sport is also very very good simply because it is a FR RWD (Front mounted engine, Rear Wheel Drive), but it's more of a 5-door compact-wagon'ish in size, looks and function.
Yes there is the BMW M140i PE and it is a hot hatch but 1) Only a handful of the M140i PE's were ever made, very few people (60, to my recollect) ever get to own one (and thats assuming none of them have been crashed/scrapped so far), and 2) Too pricey.
The (affordable) RWD hot hatchback Jeremy is referring to is the 1988-1994 Nissan 200SX (I've driven a tuned example and yes it was bonkers) and even with inflation considered it was way cheaper than any of the aforementioned modern equivalent alternatives, it's way lighter, way less power (when stock, not so much when you remove a bling and adjust a blong) so it's cheaper to insure.
And it's a cult car with a massive following which the NPC-like (again, fast AF, but thats all they got) BMW and Golf wont have, and while yes, the Clio V6 is legendary, look at the prices, it's what we call unattainable (25k for an almost decently good one) so these cars (minus the Clio) will be... forgotten.
Excluding the Clio V6, bring one of these new BMW's or Golf's to a car meet and everyone goes -.-
Bring a Golf R32, or Nissan 200SX or Golf MK.I Rabbit or MK.2 Synchro (w/16v swap) or BMW 1602/1802/2002 or Clio V6 (yes I said we'd exclude it but you'd defend it to the death anyway so I might as well give an inch now than a mile later) to a car meet and everyone does that whole gushing rainbow meme thing.
ToreDL87 I don’t know how you can call the bmw not a hatch. The rear door is a hatch so it has a hatch on the back. Therefore it’s a hatch back. Also you can pick them up for around £5k which is very affordable indeed
He said hatchback and Clio V6 is closer to classic sports car as it is mid engine with only 2 seats, while BMW 1 is an ordinary car that you can use for everyday life. And only like 3000 of Clio V6 were made, which makes them less affordable even than Alpine lol
@@lbnewell23 Not a hatch because the sheer size of that car dictates otherwise, just look at that thing, I revise my statement from calling it a wagon to calling it a SUV, too heavy, too long and too wide, and dare I say, too powerful, completely useless around the bends & corners on narrow roads, it has a hatch in the back but it's not a hot hatchback, they're meant to be zippy and toss-able and revving in the corners, not boating around the bends PRAYING to the gods there wont be oncoming traffic!
The 140i PE fits the bill size-wise, but too few were ever made and commands prices more than 5k, and there's the weight to take into consideration, and way too much engine.
The Clio is really good,(if not a bit too little contact with the front wheels, especially at higher speeds, not that I ever broke the speed limit with it ehrm ehrm ehrm ehrm) but too few were ever made, and that rear mounted engine makes it useless for exactly what it's meant to do, they should have gone F/R with it, and the price.. In terms of how quick it picked up value as a cult car, after it went out of production, it beats even the JZA80 Supra, again, great car, IMO it should be a government mandate that EVERYONE have one at least once in their life, I can't praise it enough, BUT, it doesnt fullfill it's supposed role, it looks like a hot hatchback but you cant toss stuff in the rear boot (because it doesnt have one) and go for a spirited drive.
Again, Golf R32, Nissan 200SX, Golf MK.1/2 are absolute UNITS.
Heck, I own one and don't like bragging about my sh*t, so wasn't going to say it, but what about the 3dr "AE86" Toyota Corolla GT 1983-1987? over 350000 were made and enough are left that the average person can get one, it's got the 200SX beat by how many knows about it, it's RWD, has Limited Slip 1.6 Twin Cam so not enough to get killed but enough to have fun.. and the intake SOUND!!
And in terms of aftermarket parts support/community/helpfulness etc over all, the BMW community is put entirely to SHAME (and I own a BMW and I know how to google parts, go to forums, find dedicated facebook groups etc), heck it wasnt until recently someone (RacingDiffs) came up with a Limited Slip for the regular 188mm E46 diffs, and I can't praise them enough, but why did BMW not offer Limited Slip diff for the regular E46??? WHY??? Arguably the most easily attainable late 90's/early 2000's RWD chassis today and they botched it up!
Meanwhile, the "crappy" Corolla & 200SX has always had like pff 10 different brands that offers fully adjustable Limited Slip diffs to choose from, and thats assuming you manage to blow up the diff it has (which is easily rebuildable), and that's before we get into engines, transmissions (there are 3 different companies that offers dogbox racing transmissions, 4 different companies that offers custom transmission gear sets) and final gears, not to mention the rear axle swap kits that are available.
Most hot hatchbacks ever made were absolute legends and units in their time, heck, new types of motorsports and new types of classes in motorsports were created with them, everyone could get one when they were made, they are collectable as heck, and still completely attainable for the average person, without getting into debt, given motivation and application of simple economics by laying off useless subscriptions, stop adding to your flat cap collection+changing flatphone every second and stuff like that.
Damn, I miss this fool :/
be back soon with the grand tour 👍
Car crash
Bryony Christmas when did he get into a car crash?
Imran Isak ppppp
Bryony Christmas um, no, he was fired
Jeremy is a man of word : He said he could do the drag race in reverse, then he did it while spinning
"Prussian aristocrat"? As a Bavarian, I feel offended!
it's jeremy's general behavior. he is always offensive.
If you feel offended it mean that you are an idiot!
Negrean Andrei No, you just don‘t have a clue about German history and geography. Saying something is Prussian when it‘s Bavarian is like saying Whiskey is from England.
Genau so fühle ich mich aktuell auch xD
Saupreißn...
Standout Punch
Es ist mir neu, dass in meinem geliebten Bayern Englisch gesprochen wird 😂😂😂
“Sawing a leg off with a hammer” is genuinely the smartest thing I’ve ever heard
0:56 shows a clear image of dash with the amber DSC (traction control) OFF light.
3:14 shows the exact same video (identical time of day, trip meter and odometer) but with the DSC OFF light blacked out. There is, however, a mouse pointer in the image just between the "i" and the "e" in the "Efficient Dynamics" portion.
3:17 shows that the DSC was indeed switched off while he was driving at high speed.
DSC switched off while doing a high speed run on an extremely wet track. There's a word for that.
Nice try, Jezza and Top Gear.
Its called aquaplaning. As soon as that happens, traction control doesnt mean anything. So yea..
i dont think you are all that familiar with the VW interior. As far as quality materials and workmanship goes the VW is very well made. I was crossshopping the 228i with the Golf....i went with the Golf as performance was very closely matched but the Golfs practicality was impossible;e to ignore..... less money more options
Top Gear is scripted anyways, the winner was clear before the test. It's meant to entertain, not to be a truthful representation.
I think Jezza said that word a few times as he was spinning round and going backwards :p
sport mode + = dsc off no(?)
Wow, he is so strong in his years. I remember when we had to lift warheads like this. They as heavy as they look.
It wasn't an actual warhead probably just an empty box. They aint gonna out warheads to people lol.
The production of these episodes is so top notch...👍💯
2:30 - 2:38
Imagine Clarkson as a blacklist in NFS Most Wanted
Damnnnn ure right😂😂😂😂😂
Try the pepega mod then
He is in pepega mod
Jeremy clarkson:
RWD- Check
TCS- Off
DSC- Off
Rain- Check
Okay lets have a drag race!!!
POWER!
I guess someones feeling a bit depressed.
It was so fake lol
Dallas Grantley proof?
I dont think it was necessarily faked, but it wasnt realistic either.
Uncambered runway with mases of standing water and lots more rain falling.
BMW forums have also suggested the car was probably on runflats,and they're crap.
@@dallasmellsop5488 in what was was it fake, he was going totally straight and then the car just took a hard left... it’s an auto so you can’t clutch kick it and it has an electric handbrake so you can’t just yank it, he didn’t turn the wheel in any direction and you can hear he didn’t add any extra throttle as he was already flat out. You can see how wet it was an I’m sure that runway has a ton of bumps from constant use.. like there’s almost no way they faked that...
5:30 "sawing their legs off with a hammer"??
Whats wrong with that?
Hammers fix everything!
lu3ky Chye hammers don’t “Saw”
"sawing their legs off with a hammer"
Now...I’m American
But did at 5:30 did he say sawing their legs off with a *HAMMER?*
In the UK we call a, I think in the US it’s known as a “saw”, here it’s called a hammer! :)
@@GangsterDolphins then what's a wooden dowel with weighted metal head that's used for driving in nails called? Sounds like Clarkson had a brain fart
Here in the UK if you are known for being useless at DIY as Clarkson is, you deliberately refer to your tools by the wrong names , hope this clears up the confusion.
@@ashleybuck6508 yessir
5:27 sawing their legs off with a hammer. A hammer you say? hmm ...
It's a running gag in Top Gear that the only tool Clarkson ever uses is a hammer.
Therefore, if he's using a tool, it's a hammer. No arguments.
HerraTohtori and really calling them tools is kind of generous because in his hands any "hammer" if more of a WMD.
I just noticed, lmfao. Clarkson you witty little shit.
I love how calm Jezza was when he spun out at 120mph. He just let it happen. That’s the best thing to do in that situation
I went from this very GTI with the performance pack to the LCI M135i. 2 different beasts. The golf always felt safe and planted, very difficult to unsettle it when gunning, and it felt plenty fast enough. The m135i however is significantly faster, a totally different beast. It has so much power going through the rear wheels you can get a little squigly in a straight line. It's far more exciting and an astronomical degree more involved to drive; not for the faint hearted. If you want a drivers car with more power than you'll ever need for a public road - m135i (old 6 pot, not so much modern 4 pot). If you want a safe A to Ber with reasonable fuel economy that's also quick - golf all day.
Exactly. 135i for the fun factor. Just be responsible and respectful on public roads. I'd pick the BWM for sure.
@@Jim_AC Absolutely, spirited driving when it's safe to do so only!
@@sib1272 Rather have an RS3, faster than a m135i and also a lot safer. I'd rather have fun from performance rather than have a car that's "fun" because it's unstable. There are plenty of RWD cars anyway with better performance and won't try to kill you the moment you push it a little.
The 135 is the better car to me. Amazing fun, and it keeps you on high alert all the time. I drive a 335i right now and its the same thing. What an amazing toys
@@Chair991 but its in a completely different price bracket.
is anyone gonna compliment that clarkson is actually a realy good driver xD
that's literally his job
I have an m135i and have never spun out at 120mph. It's a 5 door though. Yep thats the issue, 3 door.
The Ironman i go even faster and im still alive (240). Also have 5 door. Drives great.
This idiot Clarkson put it in Sport Plus, and shifted manually! I did 245km/h in a 120i M-Technik with the ZF 8-speed. No problem. Every corner on the Autobahn could be done flatout, traffic taken out of the equation
what has manual shifting to do with losing traction in a straight line?
The Ironman he just hydroplaned on the rain most likely
3 or 5 makes No difference wheelbase is the Same and normal roads dont have Aquaplaning Like an airfiled
They chose not to compare it to the A45 AMG because they knew it would have completely defeated them! These cars are hot hatches. The A45 is a hot missile.
If you watched the actual episode, clarkson said that theA45 AMG was too expensive to be compared. Even if it was better in every aspect
the A45 is what you call a Super Hot Hatch
Summer Doge Well that's a stupid reason, it's an amazing car and it's not a good reason not to review it... It could have been the conclusion. Especially when we know they had the car.
***** yes but you can't compare the cars in totally different price range, it would have been pretty silly to do that, they said AMG was better than the two in every aspect but they wouldn't give such money for a hatchback ...when they said that this video begins...
FOUSTE95 Yes, but watchers of Top Gear will never see what it's really like then... They'll have to watch my videos instead :P
3:17 he loved that that looks so fun
Coming back to this video now, Golfs are like the benchmark for performance hatch for many people but that Beamer could be one amazing "Sleeper" and with RWD it's just awesome. No one would know, it looked so unassuming. Just my opinion.
***** Top Gear is for people who can intelligently decide between comedy and realism. Motor Trend is for those who can't discern such differences.
Which, obviously, you can't.
***** That's the only response your limited inbred brain could come up with?
Enjoy your block.
***** Didn't delete your comment.
Actually, I was trying to reply to it when YT said "ERROR, Try again later, baddie".
That was the most comfortable crash ever. Jeremy looks like he's looking around for parking rather than skidding over wet tarmac and grass.
It did look fun, didn't it?
Turns traction control off in the wet (sport+), spins out, blames the car 🤔
He didn't blame the car, he was just trying to win in reverse. 3:05
I think the BMW would win easy with DSC on
@Sad Trophy Wife i LOVE lexus but they can never match the performance of a bmw. They’re always a bit numb but never gonna break or break traction to be fair
@Sad Trophy Wife lol lexus is as sporty as a casio watch is classy. only lfa..
"Is by sawing their legs off,
with a hammer"
*holds up saw
Can’t believe the golf gti being 7 years old has aged so well
9 years old. It was introduced in 2013,well in South Africa
Still look like a modern car just on the market car. some cars will keep their looks. especially now with those stupid looking patternlike strange fronts or "details" lot of car manufactors are being lazy or got the same designer... look at the Polo... its just a scaled down golf looks stupid. while they look cool, its hard to see whats a polo or golf nowadays
@@Underp4ntz_Gaming_Channel wtf fuck you're talking about?
the new polo looks great.
"Both come as standard with many things" i love way he always says Many Things
"There's no torque steer or understeer" **understeers around corner**
For a FWD car that's very little understeer indeed. I drive one of these too and from experience it really does take a hell of a lot of speed round s tight bend to feel any.
@@neilmoulang90 no it really is not
luke m yes but you don’t get any in the bmw and none is better than a little bit
@@lbnewell23 granted. But you could say the same about VW/Audi having no snap oversteer on normal road conditions. On a track it's fine, but anywhere else, most inadequate drivers will be in for a surprise .....
luke m inadequate drivers drive with the traction control on and trust me the computers do not allow wheel slip let alone snap oversteer
That track looked quite wet, aquaplaning was surely going to happen 😆
3:23 That face though when he thinks he’s gonna flip😂😂
he was scared also to hit camera crew i think
youcef319 yeah that wouldn’t have gone over well with their insurance company if he took out the camera crew in a rented vehicle
Can someone tell me why that happened? He was going straight? How dose the car spin out going straight? Did he yank the steering wheel slightly?
Because his tires were spinning so quick they had no more grip on the road and the car started 'floating' over the water. And then your car starts spinning and you have absolutely no control left, you could see it as ice skating.
Oh so it was aquaplaning pretty much? Maybe if he had some thicker, wider tyres that wouldn't have happened? Or was it just because of RWD?
It seemed like the BMW entered aquaplaning conditions earlier than the VW. Most likely because it was simply traveling faster, but there could also be other factors in play.
It could also be that the BMW just happened to hit a puddle that the VW didn't. Maybe the BMW simply had inferior tyres with less water-clearing capability. Maybe the BMW had tyres with wider contact patch, making it more susceptible to aquaplaning.
The crux of the matter is that the BMW was traveling too fast for the prevailing conditions and the amount of water on the runway, ended up aquaplaning and with no control, while the VW did not.
What happened is called Aquaplaning
Lewis Jones I think wider tyres just make aquaplaning worse...
The BMW tried to kill Jeremy... and for that alone it wins! :-D
Seriously though, anybody who drives a BMW knows not to switch the DSC off in the wet, or that can happen! Silly, silly man.
It hit a pond.. At that speed even he's DSC is on he is going to spin out .
+Strider Sky So how is the VW a better car if the BMW outperforms it in everything and by a large margin on the "fun" aspect? The GTI is a torque- and understeering little hatch 18 year olds drive, the BMW is a weapon.
Strider Sky The 1 series might have a little less space, but that doesn't mean it's not practical. The M135i is based on a regular 1-series which is a hatchback after all. And I bet you with the adaptive suspension it's more comfortable to drive than the Golf.
It's a poor man hot hatch? Haha, you make no sense. What's a rich man hot hatch then, a Ferrari FF? If you want a fun car that is most certainly practical in every day life, there is nothing wrong about the M135i. If you want a understeering, slow Golf that pollutes like a train and is powered by a toy engine, go ahead and get the Golf, which is truly the poor mans hot hatch in this comparison.
+Strider Sky I'd have the 135i definitely.
it looks more mature and the shape is unique imo.
the sound of the 3 litre.. the extra poke... the obvious build quality...
+Strider Sky in any kind of case for that money I want a premium brand bmw interior is way better , fun is present plus every woman would prefer the bmw by brand rather than a vw. Bmw looks are way better outside than vw , the vw dal on the outside and feels like a normal hatchback nothing special really distinguishable and on the inside bmw are still better not that vw has bad interior but yeah .
2:58 ,,,, ''GOoD NOisEEE!!''
You gotta love him hahahaa
Looking to get one of these 2 cars and I find this vid to be great in every way. Reminds me of the time when top gear used to be great.
Well, the nuke warhead is important. I'll go for GTI
Mike Mercado Great if you work for the North Korean government or for Isis.
Increase smiles. Help nature. Avoid Human's Problems.
Nuclear weapons are a hoax
I liked as he was spinning out the BMW chime started ringing 😂
I haven't looked at anything from this show in a while. I also suffered two car accidents which caused me a lot of memory loss so this is also like watching it again for the first time for me. God everything was so beautiful during the production of this show. The lighting, the soundtrack, the commentary, the presenters. It's the same men we know on GrandTour but, it's just... different. They seem to focus more on the comedy, not the art. I feel like these men had a huge impact on the way auto manufacturers started to look at their cars, I think their opinions alone might be why we have some of the options we do now. Something about this made me feel a feeling I haven't felt in a long time, and it felt good, it made me feel alive. Now I'm just left with the comedown emptiness of my life and the friends I had during this time in the shows production, they are gone or dead now. I guess life is about experiencing things, emotions, the sensation of living and it's ups and downs. My cars are the only thing that's kept me sane through the madness in this world. God's speed James, Jeremy, Hammond, thank you for reminding me why I was put on this earth.
You loved TG so much you emulated Richard Hammond twice!
@@TitaniusAnglesmithYo chill 💀
Damn mate, that’s hard. Having one is bad enough, but two? I can’t even imagine. Hope you’re doing better now
5:21 Roni size - brown paper bag absolute tune
I have decide to call every thing a hammer. I'm going to clean the snow with a hammer. I'm going to make sure my wife doesn't get pregnant buy putting on a hammer. I'm going to get out my hammer it's raining. I'm going to dust my room with a hammer. Sounds so manly. I got a new ihammer 6s
+GhettoMist
XDDDDDD
I'm gonna clean my clothes with a hammer.
max mustermann LOL Thats even better
Thanks. But the Idea is worth gold XD.
- "How did you do that? The baby isn't crying any more."
- "With a hammer."
Lol thats amazing.
+GhettoMist You have a tiny hammer though.
5:27 "saw their legs of with a hammer" 😂😂😂😂
To call a BMW 'Prussian' is the equivalent of calling someone from Aberdeen 'English'
Would you prefer to revert back to the 300 states or remain united under Prussia?
@@Beatty36901 I wouldn't wanna revert back, but I don't see how that is relevant to the point. Just because a number of regions are united under the dominance of one region, doesn't mean that all the other regions become part of that dominant region. Bavaria isn't part of Prussia, Scotland isn't part of England. Most often, a higher political entity is formed, in these cases Germany and the UK.
5:00 Funny thing is the golf R is AWD and has the same rear space.
man.. finally i have found a car that can fit all my nuclear warheads in the back
yup they will sell very will in iran
Great video. I just kicked up a new mk7 gti and I LOVE it. I went from a supercharged MOPAR to the gti and I have zero regrets. It's nowhere near as fast as my charger was, but it's pure driving fun. I smile every time the turbo kicks in. My insurance was cut by 2/3 as well! VW did an amazing job with the 7th gen gti. I'm excited to see what's in their future!
This is the first vid of topgear j have watched and ever since i became a fan of the three.
Here just to watch the Warhead transport part. Best comparison IN THE WORLD.
This is the best comparison.... PAUSE.... in the world.
oh, boy. I'm already missing this show
Fair play to Jeremy for keeping his cool so well while going sideways at over 100MPH. I would probably have dropped a load in my jocks if I'll be honest, lol. Definitely not his first rodeo, that's for sure.
I am sure it was all expected and done in a controlled environment.
He's on a racetrack with nothing else to hit, what should he be afraid of?
@@TimothyJavier rolling over you dummy
@@dracula2611 that car has pretty low center of gravity, plus it's wet so all the wheels are gonna do is slide
@@TimothyJavier fair point
He had the traction off in those conditions, not so smart 😂
"Both will be reliable and long lasting as edinburgh castle" laughs in BMW
If you were stupid enough to believe that recommended oil change intervals - every 40k as BMW said are good idea, then yup
Good times back than when the 135i had a straight 6 like it has to be in a performance bmw 👌🏻
"Be more expensive to insure a pencil sharpener" 😂😂
The poise in that spin was so amazing. Stiff upper lip n all that.
The M135, 140 and 2 series equivalents are genuinely scary in the wet. I could feel mine getting quite twitchy in the rain, in a straight line on the motorway recently. It's widely known that they're very unpredictable in bad weather.
What width and type of tyres was yours on out of interest?
4:30
Vision One by Röyksopp
I just got a mkVI GTI and am loving it. Wouldn't want anything faster. As an every day driver, it's the tits
+lalala kieran Friend of mine bought one, too. It had 46,000 miles on it and the valve chain jumped. And another one owns a MK6 somethingsomething TDI with 50,000 miles and it's on the third turbocharger and second valve chain. Honestly, I'm healed from Volkswagen.
+BrakeHorsePower92 Valve chain? You mean timing chain? If you're going to diss something, make sure you're at least educated in the slightest way.
+BrakeHorsePower92 THat seems a little false or the driver is just shitty.
+Bobby Goertz never heard of an valve chain before :D
Bobby Goertz
Yes, that's what I mean. Sorry for not knowing every technological term in a foreign language. And I'm not "dissing", I'm just laying out the facts I've been giving about these two cars of the MK6 Golf generation.
I like how fast Jeremy Clarcson can change is mind about things. And the things he do, he do it with so much humor when he bashes something. I love that guy!
Yes, especially thanks to the VW paid ad. ;)
"by sawing their legs off with a hammer"
I love how he spun the BMW doing 120 in a straight line, but when he overtook the GTI he was going 125+ and maneuvered around the GTI at the same time didn't spin then. proof @1:56
Just got my GTI last weekend... LOVE IT!
Was it a mk5 he was driving
Harry Tom no this is the mk7 gti, but they have made an episode about the mk5 too
M3gekje ok thanks
me to my GTD7 LOVE IT:-)
Same! Got a mk6 this past 4th of July - best feeling car I've driven in in my 13 yrs driving
I drove a MK7 GTi with a manual, and I gotta say, that gear lever nut I found it to be a nice touch
“By sawing their legs off- with a hammer”😂😂
I'd still pick the BMW
Hell yeah brother, BMWs are so much fun
CarHub everybody knows that you should not drive 200 kph in heavy rain I don’t think it was a fair conclusion cars can aqua plain
How on Earth could get out of control with BMW...? I don't belive that... I drive this model in heavy rain weather and well Yes if you dismiss all safe control systems you could be drift but when systems is on ten we could get out of the Road.... VW more pay Mr Clarkson?
@@inzyniermagister2096 yeah of course you will pick the bmw just because of the brand... but please show some respect to the GTI ... it has the power, it is practical, it is cheaper... one word.. GTI is for everyone.
That may have been overdramatic, as TG always is, but it is inarguable that a front wheel drive is more stable, even though rear wheel drive may be more fun. To each his own i would say.
I think he shit his pants
what happened there with the BMW at 120 MPH was "aqua-planing" or "Hydro-planing". It needed proper grippy tires - with deeper grooves (winter tires) to drive that fast in such heavy rains. I was driving 170-180 KMH on twisty German highway, in heavy rains with full grip.
Funny how there's no GTI behind him when he spins. The magic of editing.
M135i the ultimate driving machine as long as you have ESP on in the rain 😂
Whats really interesting - Time he starts dragrace in which he was Hydroplaning 2:58 / ( i-.g Aquaplaning) 1:10 pm on the Board Computer - Then he leaves the Car and switches to the GTI - R - But the Drifting Scene on 1:35 The Time on Board Computer is 1:11pm. So he went back in the bmw again after he nearly "crashed by accident" and does spinning and drifting moves in the car that nearly killed him?. Also the Time Stamp when he hydroplanes makes no sense 12:59 PM ( 3:14 )but thats like 10-11 minutes back in time when the race starts?. Little hint - also the rain drops on the door - drift scene vs crash scene , watch them. But the destroying fact is the watch on his arm. switch to 1080 p and watch the time on his clock. 3:22 vs 0:58 . - He had this accident 10 minutes before and they took it for a nice manipulation game with you :D .
That is called editing. Aspergers much?
@@ronaldderooij1774 That is called VW paid ad.
Good old times when there was 3 door golf. I dont remember when was the last time i saw 3 door golf
02:49 "After this incident, I switched to Golf GTI". Of course, since he crashed BMW, there was nothing else left to drive...
😂😂😂 interesting how fast Jeremy changed his mindset on the Golf GTI😂😂