Americans React: Can You Beat the Sun Across the UK in a Range Rover? *This Was Unexpected*
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In this video, we react to a daring challenge: Is it possible to drive from John O' Groats to Land's End in just one day? We're talking about traversing over 800 miles across Great Britain, from north to south, in a Range Rover, before the sun sets. Spoiler alert: we still don't know, because sometimes, even the best plans don't quite work out...
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Brand new Range Rover breaks down almost before he gets started. Priceless! 🤣 And then it gets worse!
@Vote.ReformUK Very comfortable, though, and you can even give yourself a chair-massage while you are waiting for the breakdown recovery service.
@@Brian.001pahaha 😅
@Vote.ReformUKI'm voting Reform too. Yey !!! Let's go❤
Should of drove an electric one
@Vote.ReformUK it's not out yet coming this year aledgedly with a really big range
When my aunt retired. That is exactly what she did. She drove all the way around Great Britain all the coast roads as much as she could. She did stop many times, for up to 2 days at a time. To appreciate the beauty of the country.
So she didn’t do exactly that then.
That sounds like an awesome experience! Good for her. :)
@@X22GJPOP means her aunt did exactly what Steve mentioned he’d like to do, (OP didn’t mean John O’Groats to Lands End).
You should find a video if the London to Brighton vintage car race held every year around November. Cars are from 1890s onwards. Are race from central London , to Brighton pier. It's truly amazing to watch.
“I’m in a hotel in New Lanark”, that’s about 15 mins away from me 😅 the walk he takes is around the World Heritage Site mill and the Falls of Clyde
874 miles is a bloody long way on these roads.
You can add 100 miles on for going up and down each pothole.
About 4am and sun down at about 10pm, we live in Cornwall the home of Lands End.
Remember, the UK is further north than some places in Canada so in summer the daylight starts early and days are long, in winter of course they daylight starts late and days are short.
Between, roughly, the 30th of May and 14th of July the UK does not experience true night. Even though the sun does set it is always so close to the horizon that it is only ever twilight, not night, and the sky is always somewhat light. Obviously the farther north one is the longer this period lasts.
Pretty much everywhere in the UK is north of the populated parts of Canada. I'm on the south coast of Dorset, and I'm roughly the same latitude as Calgary.
@@diagl I'm originally from Southampton so south coast too. I spent 2 years working in Edinburgh and the dawn to dusk there was very much longer. Thank goodness for the Gulf stream keeping us warm or we've have winter very much colder, like in Canada and the northern USA.
@diagl I'm on South coast in Dorset too and I honestly didn't know until very recently that UK is actually classed as being Northern Europe . I'm really not very young either. All my life and only recently found this out. SMH.😊✌
It's like the old Scottish joke: "I'm going south to make my fortune." "What, England?" "No, Canada."
fun fact
bicycle record for Land's End - John o'Groats is by Michael Broadwith in 2018, Broadwith completed his ride of the length of Great Britain in a time of 43 hours, 25 minutes and 13 seconds,
covering the 841 miles at an average speed of 19.4mph/31.2km
I'm in Inverness. Doesn't really get properly dark here at the height of summer, perpetual twighlight at night and sunrise is around 04:15, sunset around 22:15. It's quite light for a while before and after these times too. John O'Groats is further North so will have a slightly longer day. Downside, of course is, we have VERY short days in the winter!
In summer it never really gets pitch dark, it’s more like twilight all night. Gets light around 3.30 and gets darkish at around 22.00.
Brand new Range Rover that's probably cost an absolute fortune couldn't even make it out of Scotland without serious issues 🤔🤔😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing .....what a disastrous advert for Land Rover he would be better off in a Nissan....
@@eddievision Haha I had visions of the director of Land rover watching this with his head in his hands near crying haha
@@matt01506 Yes that interior colour did not look right. It would of been better with jet black or dark grey interior instead imo
Aussies say, if you want to drive into the outback you can take a Land Rover. If you want to get home again, take a Land Cruiser.
A lot of people complain about average speed cameras but they are actually really good as they force drivers not to speed and the result is good traffic flow and less congestion.
No it makes drivers constantly watch their speedo rather than the road ahead. That causes accidents!!!!
@@TheSoupdragon1968 cruise control
@@Mean-bj8wp how wonderful, not everyone has it, or likes to use it, or can afford to have a car that has it fitted.....
@@TheSoupdragon1968 most cars these days have it. I have an no issue with checking the speed as only need to now and again really and if you maintain the gap to the vehicle ahead you should be about right anyway. And you have to be over the limit for quite awhile to get a ticket. And lets not forget that speedos are generally out by 10% so if you're double 70mph in reality its 67. Also you can have google maps on which gives am audible signal of you over speed. Average cameras really do work to help congestion and keep traffic flowing. And soon it won't be a problem with the government pushing to have GPS speed limiters as standard on new cars so no one can speed on any road.
@@TheSoupdragon1968if they can’t keep tabs on what speed they’re going without crashing then shouldn’t be on the road… it’s certainly not a reason to get rid of the average speed checks
Orkney and John O'Groats are seriously far north. Like 58 degrees north. The Arctic Circle starts at 60! You're almost in midnight sun territory there. So yeah, technically sunrise at 4am at the summer solstice but it started getting light well before that.
Arctic Circle is at 67°N latitude 🤦♂️
I have 5 Castles/large statley homes within a 30 mins drive; where you will pass numerous Roman villas ancient mounds etc. There's a lot everywhere ❤ oh and the cheese roll hill 15 mins away...
Remember the adage: "In America, a hundred years is a long time. In Britain, a hundred miles is a long way."
American road infrastructure is built to facilitate high-speed, long-distance driving. British roads (as you can see) aren't. The country roads are generally narrow and winding. Even the motorways are specifically designed to avoid long straight stretches, so that drivers must stay alert and can't be lulled into a trance. This means driving in Britain, even if you stick to the motorways, requires more concentration and is more tiring than driving in America.
My husband and I used to travel between Manchester and London several times a year, a drive of something like 250 miles. This is a good five to six hours of driving (depending on traffic) and about as much as you'd want to cover in a day without pushing yourself. It will probably make you laugh in the States when I say we drove 250 miles and were always glad to stop for a break in the middle.
4:52 in the winter it gets dark at 3pm and in the summer it gets dark at 10pm
The Summer Solstice occurs every year between June 20 and June 22 in the UK, marking the moment the sun reaches its highest elevation in the Northern Hemisphere, providing the UK with the longest day of the year. The sun will rise at around 4:44 a.m. Despite being the longest day of the year, the summer solstice does not actually have the earliest sunrise of the year. Generally, the earliest sunrises of the year occurs before the summer solstice. The earliest sunrise is around June 16. The sky lightens 30mins bf sunrise at 4.40 The latest sunset is on June 24 or June 25 at about 21.30 it stays light for a further 30odd mins.
You guys always make me feel really appreciative of the UK, especially since times are really tough here at the minute
Those trigger locks on petrol pump handles are not permitted in the UK
Really? Cos I've definitely used some..
@@dzzopenot in the UK you haven’t
Last time I used a locking trigger was in the late 70's shortly after learning to drive, it was shortly after that time when they removed the option for safety at the pumps.
@@dzzope Nope, they are illegal.
@@dzzope I have used them as well but the lock does not operate on preset amounts of fuel
I was up at 4 this morning and despite the cloud cover it was light- I'm usually in bed for 10 and there is still useable light- today is wet and windy and back to wearing a coat! 🏴
He he 6.38 Steve ducks his head down to look out of the car window. Try looking for videos on 'North Coast 500' also known as 'NC500'. It's a route around the most stunning parts of the Scottish Highlands. Zero People and beautiful scenery for miles and miles.
"Zero people" is wishful thinking now. It's become way too popular.
Hi Steve and Lindsey! To answer your question about how much motorway driving you would have to do, If you were driving to Land's End from John O'Groats, the journey through Scotland would mostly be on non-motorway roads with some short motorway trips. However once you get into England about 80% of the journey is on motorways. Specifically the M6 and the entire M5. Once you get to the end of the M5 at Exeter the rest of the journey continues on the A30.
Returning from Northern Ireland, I drove from the ferry terminal in Stranraer, to South Wales in 6 hours with no stops. That was long enough 😴. Drove from Fraserburgh, Scotland, to Newport in South Wales; but we stopped for short coffee breaks several times so took most of the day.
Years and years ago, French autoroutes with tolls had the average speed limit thing and driving through France (I lived in France and later, Germany) from the UK, I would often see cars parked up _just before the toll,_ so they wouldn't get fined...
The initial garage thought fuel injection issues... but it was 2 seperate his issues , thats day 1 diagnosis stuff
I live in the Central Belt near Edinburgh and that is 56 degrees North. The same Degree of latitude as Southern Alaska. The summers have very long days and very little ,darkness.
We danced at a wedding on the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Northern Scotland, outside at 1am and then wandered home in the light.
The roads are very twlisty and quite narrow by US standards but they are main roads. It’s about a 6 hour drive from Edinburgh to John o Groats. The roads going south after Inverness are mostly Motorways ,all the way south through England but I imagine the roads get narrow again nearer Lands end.
We have a relatively tree free countryside because the sheep deer etc stop the felled woods from growing back.
You can ride a bike across the UK fastest than the sun. There are a couple of annual cycle rides that do just that. They go from east coast to west coast and cover about 200 miles.
South UK sunrise/sunset times (around about).
June 21 (longest day) 04:00/22:00
December 21 (shortest day) 7:45/15:30.
Also the further north you go in th summer months the days are longer, but in the winter they are shorter.
Note that that in the summer months there is light (twighlight) a good 30 or so minutes before/after sun up and sun downs.
Around a month before and after each solstice we gain/loose around 4 minutes a day... Which doesn't sound much but over 10 days that's 40 minutes or over a month is 2 hour's gained or lost.
Right now in summer, it is sunny and bright by 5am in Yorkshire.
In the far north of Scotland it doesn't really get totally dark dark around that time of the year. I'm in Ayrshire which is southern Scotland and even here the dark night is only a few hours long before it starts to get light again
I'm in St Andrews in Scotland and on our longest day, 20 June, the sun rose at 0421 and set at 2204 (4.21 am to 10.04 pm), giving a total day length of 17 hours, 42 minutes and 29 seconds.
there's a channel called 'geowizard' where he travels across the whole of wales on foot in one go in a straight line.. brilliant video. he does some English attempts too
In the far North of Scotland on midsummers day it's only dark for 2hrs and 20 mins.
In mid summer U.K. it gets light around 3:15 am and doesn’t get dark until 10/11 pm.
But in mid winter it gets dark at 3pm and doesn’t get light until around 8am.
3pm? Bullshit, not in the UK.
@@Coolcarting Was there any need for that tone in your response? The far north of the UK starts to get dark around that time.
@@Mykst Thanks !
Definitely starts to get dark at 3pm on a shitty winters day
@@Its.My.Life. 👍👍
I remember the top gear video . Jeremy Clarkson drove a Jaguar . I think Jeremy drove night time till dawn . Of course the Jaguar was new.
Back When my mam used to ski she used to drive from wales to the Alps in the South of France, roughly 950 miles, with stops it took more than a day! With grumpy teenagers in the car she must've hated it but she endured it to take us skiing back before budget flights were a thing
I've cycled Land's End to John O Groats. Took 6 days.
I could hardly move for a week afterwards.
The big problem we have where I live is folk from towns & cities driving way too fast on many of the very narrow winding roads without any thought to anything that might be coming towards them or to anyone who might be walking where there are no footways.
I lived in Glasgow and it would be light about 4.30am at the height of the summer. Also the part of Scotland he left on his journey from is only a couple of degrees south of Juneau, AK so its pretty far north. And in Scotland lakes are called lochs, theres only 1 body of water that I know is called a lake and thats the Lake of Menteith in Stirlingshire. The hotel he stayed at is in is New Lanark Unesco World Heritage site, its a very interesting place.
im from the northeast of england and it currently gets light around 4 am and dark at 10:30 pm
In the UK we used to have the latch on the fuel delivery nozzle, but then they disabled them all. Don’t know why. Maybe too many people driving off with the hose still in the tank.
Daylight depends on the time of year - normally before summer solstice (longest day of the year - this year, it was 17 hours of daylight), it starts getting light at around 04:00, and I noticed a couple of days ago that there was still a patch of light (was still dark, there was just a patch) at around 22:20 (but usually around 21:00/21:30 you would say its night-time).
After solstice, it starts getting lighter later in the morning and darker earlier at night.
Eventually it starts getting light between 07:00 and 08:00 and getting dark at 16:00 in Autumn/Winter.
Very short days - there's been times I've left for work in the dark and come home from work in the dark.
Also where you are in the UK we used to spend our holidays in the outer Hebrides and it never got completely dark in the summer it was still light enough to play outside at midnight
The yellow flower is called Broom, it's a type of shrub. Lived in the highlands for three years and enjoyed that scenery every day. Walked for three days with two friends across the Dava Moor in Morayshire for my Gold "Duke of Edinburgh Award" and we never saw any other people for the whole three days. Our water came straight from the Peat Burns.😊🧡
John O’Groats is not the most northerly point. Dunnet’s head is further..
Went there one summer sweating like anything eating dinner in the car, got out and it was actually freezing.
Weird place lol
As an Australian, I'm guessing the speed limit is 70 mph and at 9:05 that would be a 2 way road
In Scotland there is a circular route called NC500, check it out.
The Jeremy Clarkson one is worth a watch and cannot say i am surprised that the Range Rover had faults as Which Car Magazine always rate it as a poor buy
Regarding the fuel pumps most car pumps you can’t lock off, the leaver is there but they remove the pin but I am a truck driver and a lot of the truck pumps do lock off I assume because it’s longer filling up 😂 great vid as always guys
Yes in the summer our mornings come bright and early, 4am till around 9.30pm. M&S at the petrol station is a common sight as is most other supermarkets as they all tend to have petrol stations and usually compete with fuel prices.
You mentioned what the fella was wearing when he set off . I live on the south coast holidayed in the Lake District one august had to buy warmer clothes when I got there
In Australia they recommend a 15 minute break every 2 hours
Im in scotland , Daylight is about 345 am just now and it gets dark around 1045pm.
0501 sunrise down here SWUK gets light at about 0530/35
70MPH - Motorways and on dual carriageways.
50Mph - (b) Roads.
40Mph - (c) Roads.
However these can change due to traffic build ups, if there is a school, a hospital or how many buildings and people walking near the road.
Hi Steve Lindsey . Check out Quintin Lake he walked the coastal path of Britain 6835 miles over 454 days it took 5 years
The cycling record the length of Britain o groats to lands end is about 43 hours.
The UK coastline is over 11.000 miles depending on if one incudes Islands which can take it up to 19.000 miles. A car journey could be around 4.600 miles.
Frank Lomax completed a 4,690 mile journey around the UK coast in 22 days.
I'm in Northumberland and it's light at about 4 am and starts to get dark 9.30 - 10. In the winter daylight starts about 7.45 and dark by 4ish, it's a nightmare ❤
Unless posted, Speed limits on a road with no street lights is 60 or 70 if it is a dual carriageway (divided highway). With street lights the limit is 30mph. Any other speed limit would need regular repeater signs.
What a great advert for the reliability of Range Rover cars!!, they will be pleased 😁😁😁
There’s a video where someone walked from John o groats to lands
LIGHT AT 3AM IN SCOTLAND ABOUT 3.30-4AM SOUTH COAST
I am doing the length of the south coast tomorrow morning. Kent to Cornwall. Should take about 6 hours. 😎
16:44 - MURPHY'S LAW - Of all the things that could go wrong when roadtripping the length of the UK, the vehicle he's driving is the last thing he needed to become a problem.
The entirety of the UK is further north than Winnipeg in Canada, we’re parallel with parts of Alaska
yes we have loads of M&S at the petrol stations!
We chopped down 1.2 Million Oak Trees to make boats to rule the world, no one thought of replanting them😥
I've done France, north to south, in a day. St. Malo to Nice. It's about 850 miles and I did it on my superbike. The speed limit may have been broken a little bit.
From ireland here 👋 as i am watching this video right now, it is currently 10pm and it is still bright out, it will start getting dark by 11pm-ish. The sun rises at 5am.
And then on the flip side in winter sun set around 3ish and it's fully dark by half past 4. Very depressing 😕
Went on a 874 mile road trip and didn't service the car 1st😂 failing to prepare is preparing to fail😂
It doesn't get properly dark at this time of year in the Far North of Scotland, guys. The Shetland Islands are famous for midnight sun - although that does require the right weather conditions around the equinox, which doesn't always happen... John o' Groats is approximately 230 miles from the UK motorway network, which also only extends southwest as far as Exeter. There are only a few short sections of narrower, two-lane carriageway along most of that distance. In normal road conditions, the first 230 miles should take just over four and a half hours. The motorway system then continues a further 490 miles to just west of Exeter, which in normal conditions should take 8 hours and 15 minutes. The remaining 117 miles (via the A30 of which, all except the last 20 miles is 2-lane dual carriageway), should take 2 hours and 22 minutes - all timings according to the AA, which is one of the national motoring organisations. Hence, the journey includes a total of 490 miles / 8.5 hours on (mostly) 3-lane + hard shoulder motorways (with grade-separated junctions, vehicle restrictions, 70 mph limit) and 347 miles / 6 hours and 40 minutes on A-class trunk routes (of which about 247 miles are on single carriageway trunk roads and the remaining hundred on dual carriageways, both without hard shoulders and some flat junctions, open to all traffic and both with 70 mph limits for cars - except where signposted differently). Actual driving time is therefore about 12 hours, excluding stops and should therefore be possible in daylight from early May through to the end of July.
It gets light earlier up in the north of Scotland
So glad he got out and showed New Lanark, it's a UNESCO world heritage centre. It's a 18th century mill village, in the Clyde Valley. The river Clyde is the river that runs through Glasgow. Lovely wee place, Sophia would love it as it has loads of stuff on for kids. It's about an hour from Glasgow & Edinburgh. This is where us locals go, so when you come add it to your list. It's not all about Edinburgh.
The UK is roughly on the same latitude as Newfoundland in Canada, but due to the pecularities of USA climate and the Gulf Stream, etc. the UK climate is more like the North Eastern states (Maine, New York, Vermont). USA's climate varies from the South West (hottest and driest) to the North East (temperate and wetter) rather than by straightforward latitude alone.
The Caithness region of Scotland has a population of around 26,000 people; you aren't really hitting any urbanisation til you get to Inverness, and then not really til you approach Dundee and Edinburgh. Bear in mind that Indiana is 1.2x larger than the whole of Scotland and has over a million more people.
I dont know the exact time from sunrise to sunset, but it's only dark between 4/5 hours depending on how far north you are
Id estimate round here in the Summer, it doesn't really ever get "dark" even when the sun has set, especially not like it does in winter months. At the moment sunrise is 04:10 and sunset is 21:40 but between those times it never really gets super dark. In contrast during winter sunrise is about 07:30 ish and sun set as early as 16:30-17:00, very dark before you have even left work.
If you want to reset your car ECU on the road, get a 'Carly'/ OBDII reader. They are all Bluetooth now.
There's an annual bike ride called Chase The Sun. It takes place on the longest day of the year (last weekend as it happens); you start at sunrise on the east coast and the goal is to reach the west coast before sunset. So yeah, if you can do it on a bike then you can certainly do it in a Range Rover. (EDIT: I wrote this before I realised he was doing the length of the UK. The bike ride goes from Isle of Sheppey in the east to Weston super Mare in the west, it's about 200 miles).
If you drive the length of the UK you need to go down the west coast of Scotland. From lands end drive west and then south. That's where you will see the most beauty Scotland has to offer. The best beaches and hills in the world (and my home.) 😊
Re the comment at the beginning about the Top Gear stunt, Land's End is the most western point of mainland England, but the most western part of mainland Britain is a headland on the west coast of Scotland, and the most western part of the UK is in Northern Ireland.
I’ve cycled from groats to lands end
I have a discovery and a hyundai atos, was thinking of a road trip in Scotland , so I will be bring the hyundai.
The UK is having a very cool June so far apart from this week
well here in south wales in the uk today then 4:13 am is First Light and Last Light is 10:25 pm if you go to Winter solstice aka shortest day of the year then first light is 7:39 am and last light is Last Light 4:48 pm so huge difference depending on time of the year
It doesn't get completely dark at this time of year but there is officially about 5 1/2 between sunset and sunrise.
I live in Edinburgh Scotland, UK. The sunrise at the moment is at 4:30am and sun begins to set at just after 10pm.
Not so many trees in the UK. Got used for boats and mines mainly I think.
I live in Scotland and we can have daylight right up to 11pm, then it starts getting light again about 3am in the summer months, in the winter months daylight is from 8am and then it starts getting dark again about 3:30pm.!
We also have one of the most rarest habitats on earth in the UK there are 260 chalk streams in the world, and the majority of them - 85% - are in the UK, mostly in southern and eastern England. They only exist when chalk bedrock meets the surface, which is why they're so rare. I have one about 10miles from me its where the river that flows though my town comes from
It always makes me chuckle how differently people in the US think about travel times and distances. "Only 8 hours" is a *huge* journey to us (and many people across Europe). For me, any journey that's more than 2 hours needs to be a weekend trip at the bare minimum 😂
I thought this WAS gonna be Clarkson doing it in a new Jag "Against God".
The speed limit in the UK is basically 30mph in a built up area, 60mph unless otherwise signed on single carriage roads an 70mph on motorways and duel carriages (unless otherwise stipulated)
A lot of people forget we are just an island.
His solution to his car breaking down was to have a kip on the back seat 🤷♂️
It brakes daylight around 0330hrs in summer time near the humber bridge in UK
P.S. guys - should update your About section to include link to your other channel ;)
In the UK on the shortest day, the sun will rise around 3:00 to 3:30 am, depending on how far North you are, and will not set until around 22:30 (10:30 pm) giving up to approx. 17 hours of daylight, again the exact amount will depend on how northerly you are. On the shortest day, the sun will not rise until around 8:00 am and set at (16:00) 4:00pm. We don't have long straight roads in many places as you do in America, so driving distances are more tiring. On a single carriageway, the speed limit is 60MPH on a dual carriageway and motorway the limit is 70mph, unless otherwise stated. 'Built up' areas (towns,cities etc) have much lower limits, obviously, usually 30 or 20 mph.
People have done sponsored walks/runs, biked, from John O’Groats to Lands End!
The average speed cameras are great. They have done avery good job of stopping dangerous driving nd reducing accidents. Speed limits are strictly engorced here. They need to be.
You want to watch the Mac master and Geoff buys cars challenge of John ogrotes to lands end with a cheep diesel car and a Porsche taycan ev car…..
You have to remember Steve and Lindsay the UK is SO much higher latitude that all of the US. The most southerly point in the mainland UK is Lizard Point which is 49.95 N whereas the most northerly point in mainland US in Minnesota is 49.20 N and London is further north than Calgary. John o Groats is level with southern Alaska. This is why we have much longer days in summer and much shorter in winter.