The place that never rains rained when the Brits got there. I think the reason that Britain is such a rainy country is because of the people not the natural climate.
Every time a video title starts out with "we..." I think *We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place*
I know how you feel, except I can’t say anything as I saw Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld drive past me as I was mid-argument with my mother a few years ago. You’re lucky as you can say I KNEW I SAW YOU and luckier as you weren’t arguing with your mother at the time. Memories....
As a Californian who drives a convertible and lives your vacation story every day, you two are adorable. I'm so glad you had the California/American experience here, and we welcome you back anytime!
Just to be clear, you were at a car rental place at an airport in one of our biggest cities. Car rentals in most of the rest of America are not like this. The last time I got a car rental I had to wait around for nearly an hour while they processed paperwork before getting a key to a vehicle they happened to have on the lot (not even the type I'd originally asked for)
As a californian, you're 100% correct. If i could see the horizon and it's straight ahead i'd be doing 100+ easily. I've also got experience driving that fast already, so it wouldn't be a new experience for me (you can get away with it driving on the bridges on the bay, one of which is 7 miles long with nowhere for anyone to meter from), but that's still THE place where the stereotype of the speeding american in the countryside is from
how do you only go 65 on a rural road in a mustang in the US? the cops expect you to go at least 10 mph over. No way you're getting pulled over if you're going under 80 and you're in control.
Wouldn't the cops get suspicious that someone is driving THAT carefully. IN a Mustang. ON the freeway... They OBVIOUSLY have SOMETHING to hide and want to avoid attention...!😂😂
The "grab a car from the right section" model only really happens at car rental lots that get a really high volume of business with relatively few classes of vehicles, like airport lots. If you go to the same company's smaller lots you will typically get the keys in the office and have a your pick of a fairly short list of vehicles. With that said, in my experience, you can expect a lot less paperwork in the US than in Europe if dealing with anything dangerous like cars, guns, and other deadly weapons.
You realize that people in California are now going to be saying "give it some beans" ... and then it will spread throughout the state, and every other state in the US, because you have a lot of fans over here. Oh, and I wish I'd known you were out here. I really want to meet you guys.
What Matt was saying about the clouds is true, the mountains and clouds in southern California and Arizona do some really weird stuff. Clouds do cling to the mountains and get pulled down the ridgelines. Some places in Arizona, if the weather's right, you can literally drive through a cloud on the highway.
hmm, that might be how car hire works in LA, its never worked like that for me in Pennsylvania.. they give you the keys indoors and then go out with you to point out the dents (or lack of same) similar to UK..
Jess Robinson I've rented cars in LA a few times with various rental agencies and it's always worked the Pennsylvania/UK way for me too. Their experience is confusing.
BEAAAANS, so sad the channel is dead, like all the content was so lovely. If you ever are back in a situation where you feel that creating a new episode would be appropriate: go for it!
oh you brits, going 55mph on a long empty strip in a mustang. If you're not familiar with mph, in california the normal road speed limit is 40mph which means everyone goes 50 mph. The freeway's limit is 60 though you won't get pulled over unless you're going 20-40 faster than traffic, which means everyone is going 75-90.
Its a bit dicey but even if you do get a ticket for speeding you got a 9/10 chance of getting away with it because the courts are far too busy and people really don't trust the police, never met someone who's had to pay for a ticket they contested after 20 years of living out here.
As an inverse to the 'Brits getting rained on in LA' thing, I am from a part of the US where most of our precipitation is either terrifying thunderstorms or snow. I enjoy gentle rain and almost never get to experience it. The one week I visited Portland was the one week that summer when Portland got no rain. Weather is a fickle lover.
As an American, that's not standard for car rental, the pick one in a certain area thing and drive away is something only a few companies do. Your European rental experience is a fairly average American experience.
Not really, there are usually a few car rental places that let you pick a car out of the lot. I have always had a choice if I wanted it when renting cars and I have been all over the country. In the UK, choice is usually not an option, you get the car that was automatically assigned to you, which is usually a basic compact with minimum options.
Funny thing is, we had someone from near Harrogate visit here in the Netherlands and he actually said "Let's give it some beans", chuckling softly to himself. Reminded me of this video.
You guys passed through where I live - Lancaster / Palmdale. Hope you guys enjoyed the 14 freeway, and our little lake in Palmdale. I think the vitamin shop in the clouds photo is right next to the best buy near 10th and Avenue P. That's cool.
American SUVs are essentially family trucks for people who have too much money and like wasting too much gas. A more "sensible" option tends to be almost any non-performance oriented brand of car, minivan, etc.
Oskar Martin I think they make a lot of sense if you have a relatively large family and need to still have the capability of most trucks. So long as it's being used to its fullest, I don't think it's wasting fuel in the slightest. I can understand that they don't really make any sense for a couple of guys touring California, though.
SUV are not sensible in any way shape or form. They are powerful, heavy and bug vehicles usually with poor brakes and suboptimal suspension, VERY gas thirsty and VERY prone to accidents because of the high mass and high center of gravity.
No, that’s like California freeways anyway :) Like the speed limits are like ~60mph on most freeways, but as long as there isn’t traffic, you’ll be doing around 70-80...
If you're ever out in that area again make sure to check out Blackbird Park. It is the home of what you might expect by the name, an SR-71 Blackbird among other aircraft. While things like Edwards are off-limits for the most part there are tons of awesome aeronautical and space related stuff open to the public in the area.
6:50, always vegetation, it ain't death valley, rains every once in a bit, snowed twice when I lived around there. IRL Got a lot people that looked at thousands of bushes and hundreds of trees and would call it "barren as the sahara"
And found a military installation that was surprisingly easy to surreptitiously drive into, then much more difficult to surreptitiously drive out of. Although still not very difficult, or not as difficult as you might expect for a military installation.
On the way in, there was nothing more than a sign saying you're entering a military thing. No physical barrier and, while you might assume that you aren't allowed to go onto the military thing, the sign didn't actually say so. There was some plausible deniability, though I was happy not to test it.
My wife and I did this in 2002 when we traveled to San Fransisco, rented a convertible. But our Mustang was red and we drove through the red woods and Muir Woods.
Things my Dad says for accelerating: Give it some beans! Give it some beef! Rag it! Razz it! Give it some (erm...) laldie! (Yes, thats right) You wouldn't think he's a 50 year old man with a Japanese Sports Car...
"We got to the speed limit quickly..." - has to be the most British thing ever said about driving in that car in the desert.
And then they were passed by everyone on the road except semis.
funny enough still illegal in america to accelerate too fast.
@@MossSquid what? How?
@@michellegoede2258 It's called Exhibition of Speed
@@owenvogelgesang7314 sorry for being late to the party, but i thought that was only for if you squeal the tires.
The place that never rains rained when the Brits got there.
I think the reason that Britain is such a rainy country is because of the people not the natural climate.
@Cubert Pigg or cursed
We always bring the weather with us, everywhere we go.
@Cubert Pigg Drizzle spirits. Nothing as cool as storms. Or Gods.
@@samsowdenwazzock
"and now, through the power of editing, we can do 55 miles per hour" ~ jeremy clarkson
Legendary 😂
@Vihaan Talluri one of the best episodes
@@Ryansanders80 series/episode numbers?
@@ruaridhusher4373 series 19 ep 2
I know the exact episode you’re referencing 🤣🤣🤣
James May said “give it the beans” when he drove the Veyron Super Sport on Top Gear.
Beans.
Beans
Beans
Every time a video title starts out with "we..." I think *We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place We flew a kite in a public place*
Bum ba dum bum
I SAW YOU GUYS AT THAT WALMART I WAS THINKING THERE IS NO WAY YOU GUYS WOULD GOT TO PALMDALE AND NOT IN A CONVERTABLE
I mean these people go everywhere.They move across countries just to film one video.
PALMDALE GANG
I know how you feel, except I can’t say anything as I saw Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld drive past me as I was mid-argument with my mother a few years ago. You’re lucky as you can say I KNEW I SAW YOU and luckier as you weren’t arguing with your mother at the time. Memories....
I nearly got ran over by philip schofield once, he was also driving a convertible,
Coders in Cars Filming Fun-Facts
I JUST SAW TOM'S SNAPCHAT FROM THE BEACH, MATT AND TOM HAVE A PLAIN BLUE AND A PLAIN RED TOWEL.
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything so perfect.
What's Tom's Snapchat?
@@georgelloydgonzalez tomscottgo but I dont think he uses it anymore
The instant space is mentioned, Matt reverts to a seven year old
+Phil Cooper Yep! --Matt
*smiles creepily*
To be fair, he's not alone in that...
+Matt and Tom
Nothing wrong with that, Good SIr!
As a Californian who drives a convertible and lives your vacation story every day, you two are adorable. I'm so glad you had the California/American experience here, and we welcome you back anytime!
California is not welcoming.
11:50 I LIKE SPACE!
That was the best quote from matt ever, because of his tone alone.
BEANS
(just because.)
Although, to be fair, "Mustang beans" sounds like horse farts.
Yep. It does. Someone had to point it out.
Beans
Beans. (Just because)
I was looking far that comment
Just to be clear, you were at a car rental place at an airport in one of our biggest cities.
Car rentals in most of the rest of America are not like this. The last time I got a car rental I had to wait around for nearly an hour while they processed paperwork before getting a key to a vehicle they happened to have on the lot (not even the type I'd originally asked for)
u looked like a pair of aunts that won the lottery hahah 4:33
thelma and louise (1991)
@@TwilightEpiphany Colorized
In Southern Ontario, we say "Give er' the beans"
So
Beans
Beans
5:25 wait, I thought you said that "All phone should be in silent"?
Slow Mo Guys say "Give it the beans"
I was looking for this
Sub to Train Stuff.
11:50
I like space!
I laughed so hard. Matt you sound like an existed 4 year old. It's brilliant.
Excited?
Did the mustang have no name, and did it feel good to be out of the rain?
Good comment
i'm two years late, but this is excellent. well done, sir.
"We were somewhere near barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" -parralel universe tom
You drove a Mustang through the Desert in America and didn't speed? Sorry, guys you did it wrong.
You don't say
I'm an American and I approve this message.
As a californian, you're 100% correct. If i could see the horizon and it's straight ahead i'd be doing 100+ easily. I've also got experience driving that fast already, so it wouldn't be a new experience for me (you can get away with it driving on the bridges on the bay, one of which is 7 miles long with nowhere for anyone to meter from), but that's still THE place where the stereotype of the speeding american in the countryside is from
They like to not get into trouble when they're travelling, so I can understand why they didn't do anything to do so
That was Matt's cell phone? I thought he got a point and a ding.
Parking lot labeled by type? Pick which one you want? Keys are in the car? Sounds like Matt and Tom went to National.
how do you only go 65 on a rural road in a mustang in the US? the cops expect you to go at least 10 mph over. No way you're getting pulled over if you're going under 80 and you're in control.
Wouldn't the cops get suspicious that someone is driving THAT carefully. IN a Mustang. ON the freeway... They OBVIOUSLY have SOMETHING to hide and want to avoid attention...!😂😂
@@MichaelBerthelsen Hell even just a bit outside LA the cops will buzz you going 20 over the speed limit.
I nearly shouted in frustration. The whole point of sports car convertible on empty desert road is to gun it.
"We drove through the Californian desert in a mustang"
CGP grey: hold my beer
Also:
BEANS!!!!
If I was stuck in the desert behind a mustang that wouldn’t go above 65 mph I would lose my mind
I never saw the falcon 9 with humans for refrance. THAT THING IS HUGE!
The "grab a car from the right section" model only really happens at car rental lots that get a really high volume of business with relatively few classes of vehicles, like airport lots. If you go to the same company's smaller lots you will typically get the keys in the office and have a your pick of a fairly short list of vehicles.
With that said, in my experience, you can expect a lot less paperwork in the US than in Europe if dealing with anything dangerous like cars, guns, and other deadly weapons.
You realize that people in California are now going to be saying "give it some beans" ... and then it will spread throughout the state, and every other state in the US, because you have a lot of fans over here. Oh, and I wish I'd known you were out here. I really want to meet you guys.
It’s so fun seeing you going though a lot of places I have been
What Matt was saying about the clouds is true, the mountains and clouds in southern California and Arizona do some really weird stuff. Clouds do cling to the mountains and get pulled down the ridgelines. Some places in Arizona, if the weather's right, you can literally drive through a cloud on the highway.
hmm, that might be how car hire works in LA, its never worked like that for me in Pennsylvania.. they give you the keys indoors and then go out with you to point out the dents (or lack of same) similar to UK..
Jess Robinson I've rented cars in LA a few times with various rental agencies and it's always worked the Pennsylvania/UK way for me too. Their experience is confusing.
There is a company called National that does it that way, they tend to run that direction.
I’ve been to Oregon where it was like go out, pick ya car a go. But I’ve also been to Maine where it works similar to the UK
The bromance here is tangible.
These videos are so delightful. I love watching cool people be happy about stuff.
I am so insanely jealous of their adventures by now🙃. Does Tom even have something on his bucket list anymore.
BEAAAANS, so sad the channel is dead, like all the content was so lovely. If you ever are back in a situation where you feel that creating a new episode would be appropriate: go for it!
Just as you started talking about the wind turbine sounds, a plane flew overhead! Thanks for the immersive experience
oh you brits, going 55mph on a long empty strip in a mustang.
If you're not familiar with mph, in california the normal road speed limit is 40mph which means everyone goes 50 mph. The freeway's limit is 60 though you won't get pulled over unless you're going 20-40 faster than traffic, which means everyone is going 75-90.
Its a bit dicey but even if you do get a ticket for speeding you got a 9/10 chance of getting away with it because the courts are far too busy and people really don't trust the police, never met someone who's had to pay for a ticket they contested after 20 years of living out here.
Drove past cops with radar doing 85 in a 65 zone. They couldn't care less.
*Random German passig by that laughs at 90mph*
I don't think they are familiar with the California Basic Speed Law
hello from Germany!
As an inverse to the 'Brits getting rained on in LA' thing, I am from a part of the US where most of our precipitation is either terrifying thunderstorms or snow. I enjoy gentle rain and almost never get to experience it. The one week I visited Portland was the one week that summer when Portland got no rain. Weather is a fickle lover.
+Anya Thurmes Come to the UK in winter, you'll get all the drizzle you want, and more! --Matt
I'm from a place with that same wild weather as you and I had the same experience in Seattle!
God, back when it was reasonable to be excited about SpaceX.
i mean, i’d say it’s still reasonable to be excited about spacex, it’s just that it’d be accompanied by some grumbling about elon
7:15 Big, fluffy clouds sounds like something a toddler would say
As an American, that's not standard for car rental, the pick one in a certain area thing and drive away is something only a few companies do. Your European rental experience is a fairly average American experience.
Not really, there are usually a few car rental places that let you pick a car out of the lot. I have always had a choice if I wanted it when renting cars and I have been all over the country. In the UK, choice is usually not an option, you get the car that was automatically assigned to you, which is usually a basic compact with minimum options.
The Best Purple I’m gonna say, that car rental is common in most larger cities (at least I think). Correct me if I’m wrong
Huh, that's not how it works in San Deigo. We have the exact same system as LA and Arizona has that too!
11:47
gonna gif that
SPACCCEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Linky linky
I've heard Gavin Free from Slow Mo Guys/ Achievement Hunter say "give it some beans," so that's at least one other Brit
Funny thing is, we had someone from near Harrogate visit here in the Netherlands and he actually said "Let's give it some beans", chuckling softly to himself. Reminded me of this video.
You guys passed through where I live - Lancaster / Palmdale. Hope you guys enjoyed the 14 freeway, and our little lake in Palmdale. I think the vitamin shop in the clouds photo is right next to the best buy near 10th and Avenue P. That's cool.
Beans. Definitely beans. And having given a rental Mustang some beans in California/Nevada, I found they've restricted them to 115mph! :-)
Oh, and you can get in Edwards AFB on an arranged tour but you have to book a long time in advance. You can drive into Mojave as well.
Tom, sensible and SUV don't go together. Just remember that.
Magnus Buinevits
Why not?
American SUVs are essentially family trucks for people who have too much money and like wasting too much gas. A more "sensible" option tends to be almost any non-performance oriented brand of car, minivan, etc.
Oskar Martin
I think they make a lot of sense if you have a relatively large family and need to still have the capability of most trucks.
So long as it's being used to its fullest, I don't think it's wasting fuel in the slightest.
I can understand that they don't really make any sense for a couple of guys touring California, though.
I thought it was Sensible Utility Vehicle
SUV are not sensible in any way shape or form. They are powerful, heavy and bug vehicles usually with poor brakes and suboptimal suspension, VERY gas thirsty and VERY prone to accidents because of the high mass and high center of gravity.
beans, innit?
Goin' through the desert in a mustang with no name, It's good to be out of the rain.
BEANS
(Kingston, Tasmania, Australia, via Kambalda, Western Australia)
Matt is adorable when he gets excited about something.
Beans! (not so far away from Bro, Sollentuna, Sweden.)
65 miles per hour you think is fast? Highways in NJ 65 is the limit and you'll be moving like 70-90 ALWAYS unless you're stopped in traffic
No, that’s like California freeways anyway :) Like the speed limits are like ~60mph on most freeways, but as long as there isn’t traffic, you’ll be doing around 70-80...
The speed limit is higher in the UK.
In Germany Theres No Speedlimit lmao
7:40 shoulda gone to the old AFB houses, open to the public, has a nice park . My HS had a graduation ceremony there.
3:02 as a Canadian having visited both Hawaii (US) and Ireland ( EU) the hawaiian car rental was a significantly easier process than the Irish one
If you're ever out in that area again make sure to check out Blackbird Park. It is the home of what you might expect by the name, an SR-71 Blackbird among other aircraft. While things like Edwards are off-limits for the most part there are tons of awesome aeronautical and space related stuff open to the public in the area.
With that name I would have just expected blackbirds...
At the Science Center in LA, they have the Space Shuttle Endeavour on display. Thing's freaking cool.
I saw Matt on the tube last week - he's just as smiley in real life, it's almost disconcerting :).
The bounciest man on the underground
we were somewhere around barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the beans began to take hold
Kin't you hear that? This is beans country!
well, beans
2:50
Lived in CA, never heard keys in the car and you choose one.
Always had to wait in a queue (even if pre-booked and paid) and was assigned a car.
Matt looks so incredibly happy next to that rocket xD
well anyone who's seen Top Gear and or Grand Tour will have heard "beans"
The story of returning the car almost became a parody of "how I met your mother"
6:50, always vegetation, it ain't death valley, rains every once in a bit, snowed twice when I lived around there. IRL Got a lot people that looked at thousands of bushes and hundreds of trees and would call it "barren as the sahara"
Good for you Matt! You are were on a great American Road Trip!
BEANS!
Or welly, or jandal, or plugger, or stick.
Jeremy Clarkson used the expression "give it the beans" when he drove the Bugatti Veyron. So there Tom! :P
Apologies from California @tomscott @unnamedculprit We really needed the rain :)
beans.
Holy beans, Batman!
6:05 (I don't know if they get that we all drive almost 4 times the speed limit because they're outdated)
It was nice and green on the Arizona side then, too... I spent a few days wandering around looking at plants.
And found a military installation that was surprisingly easy to surreptitiously drive into, then much more difficult to surreptitiously drive out of. Although still not very difficult, or not as difficult as you might expect for a military installation.
On the way in, there was nothing more than a sign saying you're entering a military thing. No physical barrier and, while you might assume that you aren't allowed to go onto the military thing, the sign didn't actually say so. There was some plausible deniability, though I was happy not to test it.
I feel like the title should be "We drove a Mustang in the California Desert."
*below speed limit
I think this is. Mediopassive voice? Not sure if it counts as that, but that would be things like "soup that eats like a meal".
"We drove a car in a desert"
"We drove a car in a desert"
"We drove a car in a deeeesert"
we flew a kite in a puuuublic space!
They rode through the desert in a car with a horse name (I can't figure out how to maintain scansion and accuracy simultaneously)
"Pick a car, any car."
Beans
"I liKe spACe" -Matt 2017
BEAN IT
Here in Rostov we say give me beanssss many times it mean I hungry
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Yeahhhh boiiiiiiii
Omg i wish people drove the speed limit around Southern California. 70 mph and other cars will give you bad vibes for going so slow.
Some stretches of I-5 in Oregon are wild. I’ve been doing 80 and have cars rocketing past like I’m stationary.
Matt, you need to make a "Dear moon" video. Go fly with that starship!
"BEANS!"
Beans...
I'd say "Give it some wally", but I knew what you meant. Or "Hoof it". I'm Australian.
Make sense, it's just an expression I've heard. Probably been saying it wrong all along!
Wally? Give it some welly!
I'd say either crunch it or llawrio'r peth (Welsh)
Hoof it!
Welly* as in a boot. Foot down.
James May from the grand tour uses the fraze "give it some beans" a lot
many beans
Beans! (U.S. believe it or not.)
beans! I feel like I heard it on top gear
My wife and I did this in 2002 when we traveled to San Fransisco, rented a convertible. But our Mustang was red and we drove through the red woods and Muir Woods.
Things my Dad says for accelerating:
Give it some beans!
Give it some beef!
Rag it!
Razz it!
Give it some (erm...) laldie! (Yes, thats right)
You wouldn't think he's a 50 year old man with a Japanese Sports Car...
Your dad Scottish? That's a Scottish thing to say "Gi'e it lalldie!"
Gee it lalldie!
James May - beans
You only got a taste of California clouds, here in the bay area we get real life god rays, and yes they are as beautiful as you think.
"Sensible SUV" oooh the irony
"Give it some beans" I've heard a lot as an American so idk
I appreciate the interrobang in the description
BeANs
BEANS
beans below
bEANS
When life gives you beans
Beans.