We Attempt 1000 Miles From One Tank Without Leaving The M25! Insane Endurance Challenge.
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- #motorways #m25 #saab
To mark the occasion of hitting 1K subscribers on the channel, we set out on a journey to see if we can get 1000 miles out of a single tank of fuel. We'll be sitting almost exclusively on the M25...stupid... yes... idiotic... yes. It's the ultimate range test... with fuel prices rising almost every day, how far can you really get when you try.
We'll savour all the sights the M25 has to offer, from Clackett Lane Services to the Dartford crossing and the QE2 bridge.
Our Saab 95 laps up the miles but it doesn't quite go to plan and things get complicated towards the end.
Many thanks to everyone who has subscribed and watched our videos :-)
16 hours and 41 minutes on the M25, plus around £140 in fuel and god knows how much in tolls, all four our entertainment. Well done lads, you won another subscriber!
Tolls? No tolls on UK motorways.
@@geoffers158 Dartford Crossing (and the M6 Toll is a Toll one)
@@geoffers158 bridge charge at Dartmouth in ref to this video
@@geoffers158 dart charge...
oh and m6 toll? both toll roads
@@geoffers158 except the dartford crossing charge of £2 each time
this channel is now my go-to replacement for top gear and grand tour
John you deserve 100k subs. Especially with fuel being so expensive, but you're still out here creating interesting and unique content.
We'll get there one day I hope. Thanks for watching :)
Hahah 81k now.
I hope you can pass 100 by the time 12 months is up, that would be super wicked awesome
98k now...getting close!
@@nagoranerides3150 only 300 away.
Now 100k, awesome.
I'm looking forward to the 2023 1000miles challenge!
Next time, higher tyre pressures, oil change before the trip, a double shot of injector cleaner before the trip I reckon you'd just make 1000miles.
Just have a small fuel can in the boot for when you run out!
See you next year!!!! 😁😁
I love this. The way you portray it as “let’s do 1000mi on one tank, that’ll be a piece of piss” and then afterwards doing the maths of what type of consumption you’d have to manage. Brilliant! I remember back when VAG’s direct injected turbo diesels first came out and people were able to do >1000km on one tank and that was seen as revolutionary. 1000mi is another level.
This genuinely was a poorly planned and thought out attempt :D
Thing is though Aiden said 61mpg and every time they showed the computer it was saying 61 or thereabouts 😮 they were fucked over by traffic and closures and diversions and junctions.
With uninterrupted laps, I reckon it could be possible... 🤔 try Christmas Day lmao 😅
Great video, I did 832 miles (home to Gatwick and back twice in one day) on 1 tank in a diesel Auris. Averaged 73mpg and had 2 litres left in the tank. I had a bit of a sweat on come the end!
Nice to see this channel finally starting to grow at a pace it deserves! From 1k to 16.8k in less than a month! I hope it long continues!
Appreciate that, thanks mate
@@AutoShenanigans 45.4k now, pretty impressive in a couple of months!
I wonder if you get a letter from whoever monitors ANPR asking if you're mentally sane doing 9 laps of the M25 round and round and round pinging every camera in order again and again🤣😉 love the video idea!👍
The Dart Charge lot had a nice holiday I hear.
And playing monopoly 😂
I can’t think of anything worse than travelling on the M25 in the first place, let alone doing what your doing. That and the M1 (which is near me) I avoid like the plague.
Hats off to you mate.
It was a silly idea... I wouldnt recommend it.
@@AutoShenanigans Is it less miles going Anti Clockwise ?
@@highpath4776 by approximately pi x the width of the carriageway x 2, so not much.
@@andyjdhurley wonder if motorway distances are measured down the central reservation
Good job. I love that there is grown adults in the world doing things I used to scheme while sat at a desk in school. Keep it up.
Some of us never grew up :D
I watched for the first time today and you’re on 38.4k subscribers now and it’s definitely worth it! Think your narration style and topics not to mention the underlying humour is brilliant. Loved this test despite not hitting the 1000 miles and love the Saab too (being a huge fan of all things Swedish anyway)
Thanks mate, appreciate that :)
I drive on the M25 every night. Always a road closure or two. Usually anti-clockwise is better at night as diversions tend to be shorter. Great video guys 👍
Ha ha 1000 subs!, now 138K well done. Love your videos and humour.
I'd wager that you eclipsed 1000 Kilometres. That's a hell of an achievement - especially given the closures and sodding about you had to do. You've earned yourself another subscriber!
Rounded up its 1385KM. We'll be trying again in the future.. for some reason I want to do 1000 miles on the M25 :D
That is something like 628 miles, without looking it up but going on what I feel is the right answer or close enough.
@@AutoShenanigans it was the traffic slowing you down (burning more fuel for those short didtances ), and the diversions. Going via the tunnel should give better economy (but you always get the hold up at Dartford. Try it on a Bank Holiday ( like 19th Sept NO ONE will be on the motorway that day)
@@AutoShenanigans not far from 100000 subs so think you should try it again for that!
Great video! Love to see Saabs still being used and enjoyed. The perfect cars for heavy mileage. so comfortable!
Jon, (and Aidan) Don’t ever change!
Loved it.
Thanks mate :)
Watching this again, i remember watching it when you had around 3k subs, what an epic challenge
"it's not a thousand is it..." PRAISE BE to that, bringing us the facts I do enjoy your channel EVERY CONTINUED SUCCESS.
This is serious stuff... (possible lie)
@@AutoShenanigans Possibly not?? All the best.
One thousand subs to nearly 100k in less than a year. Congrats!
It's been quite a ride!
@@AutoShenanigans When you hit 100k you should do the last hundred or so miles of this challenge if you can.
Just found your channel Jon.. and I'm binging the living daylights out of it. Very entertaining and amusing.yet informative. 🤣🤣 Fucking brilliant mate 👍
just remember not to forget other people exist, not just you
Just think how relaxed it would be driving on the M25 if all four ringways had been built …
Just awesome! I remember when the motorway was incomplete and called the M16 … in my Dad’s AA book of 1980.
Loving the videos, Jon (and timekeeper) … keep it up!
A hard, but realistic target for your car could be from Staples Corner, up to Glasgow, around the triangle of motorways and back to Staples Corner on one tank….
Love these vids, but this one especially!
Pure bonkers. Keep it up!
I've seen all sorts in other people's cars whilst driving along up high above them. The usual on the phone, laptops, weans battering each other in the back seat, front seat passengers flicking the bean, or giving head. But never in 20 odd years have I seen anyone playing monopoly 🤣🤣 Well done sir, I thought I had seen it all.
We had a lot of time to kill...
Bloody hell, 1000 subs to 100,000 subs in a year! Super impressive!
Fair play on doing that crazy challenge. You have proven that a Saab is an ideal machine for fuel. If you ever go down the road of the extreme challenge again perhaps loop m25 m4 m5 and back. Good luck loved the video and getting into your hidden roads and history videos
Looking forward to the 1 million sub episode...
As I watched this,there are 95k subscribers.
Looking forward to the 100k subscribers special
Video in the planning stages :D
So glad your channel turned up on my UA-cam this evening. Subbed after the first and after watching this know was my kind of channel. Notice your subs have rocketed last 5 days - hoping they keep shooting up.
Lambojagerarris are all well and good but have no room for board games. Old smokey diesels rule!
1000 subscribers just weeks ago. Already near 20k now. Well done. You deserve it 👌🏼
From 1000 subs 2 weeks ago to getting on for 7k today! You’re taking off! Love the idiocy 😀
I give praise to the algorithm for bringing your channel to my attention. Maybe someday I will make it back to the UK and spend time driving around to some of the places you have shown.
“IM IN THE BOOT.. WHOO” loved this video guys 🤣👌🏼 making me consider a Saab 9-5 too, I need an estate car as I’m going from a hatchback and would prefer one over a van for my small business. I’ll keep this on my radar!
Just catching up on your channel. Being a regular user of the M25, you are mental for doing this.
Interesting to realise how useless our road next work is in the small hours. Which you’d have thought they would encourage people to do to avoid congestion.
Great video and hats of to you for attempting.
For mindless motorway silliness, one night I drove north up the M6 from the M54 - in a 40mph speed limit (courtesy of Smart Motorway roadworks in Staffordshire) - in a diesel Renault Clio. I turned round at Manchester because it was just too interesting (and I wanted to get some sleep) and the Clio gave me over 95mpg for that trip. In a less-insane incident, I made it all the way from Dover to Corley Services on the M6 on less than 2 gallons, averaging 62mph and getting about 83mpg. It was a good car when it got into a cruise - seemed to have a super-sipper mode. Now I have a diesel Fiesta which is worse in almost every respect - less power, less comfort. less space and no super-sipper mode on a long cruise - altogether a dreadful car, but I couldn't conscionably pass it on to somebody else, so I'll drive it to death. I may be a masochist, but at least I have scruples.
Public Service Message - the mk6.5 Fiesta is terrible. If you ever get the chance to buy one, don't.
Absolutely mad. I was so rooting for you all too.
I'm watching this 3 months after you uploaded and you're now almost at 50k subscribers. Massive well done! I just recently subscribed and binge wathed your all the service station series.
We use to own an Hyundai i40. Not an interesting car, but a comfy cruiser. We drove it from Glasgow to Southampton and back again on one tank. That was 867miles and there was enough fuel left to take it past the 900mile mark. That was driving at 70mph though with air con. I reckon if it was driven at 55mph with gentle acceleration it could have also achieved 1000miles on a tank.
My home made M25 fact - a lap of the M25 travelling clockwise is a greater distance than travelling anti clockwise.
What what whaaaat!? Explain yourself kind sir...
@@AutoShenanigans Clockwise is a larger radius circle because we drive on the left side of the road 👍 Good video by the way, cheers!
So simple... yet clearly I'm an idiot who didn't think of that.
@@AutoShenanigans I am an idiot who overthought that.
The difference is something around 480m. If you assume that you stayed in lane 1 in each direction with 4 x 11m lanes and a central reservation of about the same width (6 lanes and a central reservation between the car in each direction.) Not done a whole lap, (thank goodness) but I know near Heathrow is wider and they've gone to managed Motorway in large stretches, so I've just averaged at 4 lanes, the width of the central reservation varies so I just guessed at 1 lane so it's probably less than 480. I've not counted Dartford crossing, it's not the M25.
If you were in lane 4 (or 6 - the fast lane) both ways, then the difference is only 70m.
However, the carriageways split a bit to the East of South Mimms near J23, the anti clockwise being shorter. But at J5 the anti clockwise carriageway has a shorter route than the clockwise carriageway. Not sure if the difference is close to 70m, but it might be close. A better estimate of the central reservation would help.
This was calculated whilst being a passenger, stuck in traffic, on the M25.
@@benlee4940 Brilliant analysis, cheers! 👍
860 miles is pretty much 2 x tanks of fuel in the R34 at 50 MPH and 35 MPG.
Congratulations on the 1000 subs chaps and here's to many more!
Cheers mate! Must organise a social... been a while.
16:53 Rover 75 V8 tourer. Rare bit of kit
This video was genius. Monopoly while driving, class!
Can't express how much I hate that road, spent 1hr 10 and did a whopping 10 miles today on it. Great video, love your content
New to the channel and binging your content! Good stuff
I spent that long getting from Llanbister, Powys to Geary on the Isle of Skye. You have both my empathy and sympathy!..... and that was in a Range Rover Discovery and half the miles.
They're not real challenges if they can be done every time, it's trying things that might fail that makes them interesting.
Well done for having the guts to try something actually uncertain.
Several bits to improve mpg: hyperdriving, follow a truck at about 50 yards - you will be pulled along by the lorry and Mpg will go up as there is no drag. Don’t stop - wastes fuel, take the food with you and pee in a bottle. Get a car with adaptive cruse control, so slows and speeds up with the vehicle in front.
I enjoy all your videos, keep them coming.
Great vid! Found your channel yesterday and making my way through the vids 👍
I did 713 miles without stopping in a 2012 VW Touareg TDi on my way from MA to FL on I95. I sipped and nibbled for the 11 hours and could barely get out of the truck when I had to stop due to me and the motor needing facilities !!!
You need a copy of the M25 Jam Buster with you. I used to park on this road in the 1980s and 1990s when it was only 2 or 3 lanes, but had a book that showed alternative routes to miss junctions out. I was also working in Potters Bar when the Milk Snatcher opened the final bit of it. A couple of weeks later I did my first full lap clockwise lap, then another week later did an anticlockwise trip. It took about 2 hours each time.
I have one of those Saabs - same age, same engine, probably the same manufacturing batch as yours. It's a great car - very comfy and reasonably reliable. The best MPG I ever saw was 49.9 and the best DTE just over 950 miles. Strangely, with mine, when the tank is brimmed it shows empty, the opposite of yours.
I regularly do multi-hundred miles journeys with no stops and step out with no aches or pains.
Well, I have now watched all your videos so far! Amazing that you only had 1000 subscribers 9 months ago! Really well done - congratulations on this excellent channel and all those subs since this video came out and I look forward to seeing more! :)
Only just caught up with this video,but I can’t knock your dedication to the channel,you bloody hero,buggered if I’d do it😂😂,we’ll done
Funny how the video is 25 minutes. Great work and content as always Jon!
I hadn't noticed! Thanks mate, appreciate you watching.
Huge congrats on your 100k JPH....it should be a million!!
Happy new year Johnny boy. New sub here. Love the channel and especially the humour. As for the M25 , as an Essex boy, I love it. Everyone cunts it off but without it what you gonna do?
Welcome along. "Cunts it off" is my new favourite phrase.
Nice challenge and thanks for keeping Saabs on the roads
I really hope you get more and more subscribers and get the chance to travel through Europe as well looking at the service stations and sights along the way.
16hrs 41 is around 16hrs 40mins to long that anyone deserves to be on the m25 really. Still a great video keep em coming John
Well done on the 1K ... Onwards and upwards
Thanks mate, appreciate you sticking around!
Well I went to hit the thanks button on your excellent new video on the M something or other and I accidentally hit the wrong button and got this one too. This could have been one of the better episodes of Top Gear. Great stuff!
Cheers mate.. this was quite a mission.. and a pointless expense :D
Motorway closures are a pain but a necessary evil, coming back from Le Mans five years ago,docked at about eight pm at Dover, ran on the M2 , then a closure , divert to M20 for a bit, then a closure, ran on the 25 then the M1 , a closure and diverted onto the A5, back on the M1 and diverted off near Leicester, back on the M1 ,then A50 home, nightmare of a journey , remember sitting in Maccies on the A5 around midnight .😬.
Enjoyed the challenge, Potholes England and the department for lack of transport always win 😉🤣🤣🤣
13:33 White SAAB 9-3 passing you. These cars are fast disappearing. My current ride is a nice low mileage 1999 petrol auto 93 Cabriolet - that does a horrible 19mpg!! Ridiculous, but we need to save these wonderful cars.
Thank you for sharing your crazy antics.
Peace
They are and I think people are starting to realise how much car you get for your money!
You picked the right car with the best seats. I can cover hundreds of miles in my 9-5 (new gen model) only stopping for nature…great video
Harry and Lloyd would have been proud of your attempt! Keep up the fun vids guys.
Watching this 3 months after release, and you have 49k! Bloody well done.
I spotted your Saab and realised you have good taste for a long distance tourer. I drive a 2004 Volvo S80 for the same reason. 😅 Thanks for your excitement to do a 1000 miles on the most boring motorway in the UK. 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗 And hope you had a good sleep after that long drive!
Gaining 78k more in 8 months that’s amazing! You are a fabulous presenter and I love watching your vids… they are educational! 😂🥰
Brave attempt, surprized you didn't get giddy!! Good to see the channel growing makes it all worth while for you. Have a great New Year Bob
Great vid, well done for that 16hours of hell!
You went from 1000 to 25k very fast :) great content
31k
SAAB fest at 13.32. Great video ta
Saab 9-3 and 9-5 are the best cars I have ever owned. The petrol models seem to be most fuel efficient at 82MPH so yeah, not gonna happen on the parked25.
I once hit the bottom of the Dartford bridge at 123mph (2am) in a 1983 Cavalier CDi, slowed her down so I didn't fly off the top !!!
Im surprised the plod didnt nab ya for road-wear. 14hrs on that ruddy road, big ups!
Bloody good effort gents! V impressed. Fantastic channel :)
John the M25 was designed as a six lane motorway, paid for as a six lane Motorway, however only three then four lanes were built.
129K subs! Definitely time to try this again, maybe with a Transit van to slipstream behind?
Love it mate !
Recently found your channel, and its brilliant and I love your sense of humour.
If you ever do the M60 "ring road" I would love to join you and be your co-pilot and afterwards "the drinks are on me" 🤣🤣
(sorry if you have done it already, I'm new to your channel)
You did it, so that we didn't have too........ Sorry you didn't make it
Refreshing channel, informative and packs loads of useful and not so useful but funny fact’s
Better option would be M25, M4, M5, M6, M74, swing around Glasgow, back down to M6, M1, M25, M40, M42, M5, M4.....far more interesting and away from the road to hell for as much as possible....
I like your sense of humour up the informative humorous good work. Andrew
nice one, thanks mate
@@AutoShenanigans I meant keep up the good work 😂
looking forward to the 100,000 mile car journey!, Almost there now with subs.
Yeah not sure how to facilitate that, it's a lot of M25 laps.
This channel is brilliant. Keep up the good work guys!
Congratulations guys
That Chevy pickup at 5 mins in, I know the owner, he’s now got it fully working and restored. Noisy, though! I have some photos of it more recently if you wanted it DMing
Nice to see Badly Drawn Boy havin’ a laugh
Your Saab has very impressive fuel consumption compared to my Volkswagen Passat 2018. I don’t think I could do 860 miles on single tank . BTW it was funny to watch 😂
@ 16:55 - Rover 75 V8 Tourer, rare car, around 100 R75 V8s made, circa 1/3 of these were Tourers. Around 21mpg so there's no way it'd do 1000 miles on a tank!
Also, great video & congrats on 1k subs 👍
I set up an MGF rally round the M25 in 2008 called the Arctic Circle Run. Challenge was a complete lap without stopping, hood down at midnight in early February. As you found out, only way to do a lap without stopping is late at night, in the winter when they're not digging it up. 😂
mad production ur channel gonna get big soon 👏👍
Love this. I drive for fuel economy and it started when I had an old M-reg Vauxhall Astra. I filled up at Exeter and drove all the way to Scunthorpe and back again on one tank of diesel. I drove at 55mph all the way just myself and a friend on the way up and only me on the way back. Filled up at the same station when I got back to Exeter and calculated the fuel consumption and it worked out I managed 72mpg.
Next, in a 61 plate VW Passat estate I drove to Basildon in Essex. Four people in the car, boot packed full and a carriage box on the roof with extra baggage between us and around our feet (except mine of course as I'm driving). Filled up before leaving, filled up in Basildon and that fill up only cost me £25. I drove up doing 60mph. Had to get back quickly on the return trip for medical reasons for one of the companions, drove back doing about 75-80mph and it cost £35.
I can't wait to watch this video!!!
I once managed to get 1,000 miles out of one tank using a VW Passat 2.0 Auto BlueMotion, I was quite impressed with that!
Well done 👍✅✅✅✅✅✅
Pretty sure it's worth another go. Only next time, check for closures... Speed at 56mph, drafting HGVs... And a few well timed cheeky breaks around peak time to smoothen out the traffic.
That was a valiant attempt. Unlucky
July 1st: 1,000 subscribers
August 12th: 25,900 subscribers
Quite the six weeks you've had there!
It's been rather busy all of a sudden!
This felt like old Top Gear; very impressive!
860 miles on 1 tank so that is impressive in itself. Well done lads.
Love your humor and videos! Every day I check your channel you have gained another 1,000 subs :o... Good job! I hope you have something equally as fun for you as driving around the M25 (and the stupid bit in Dartford where the A282 is) when you hit 10k.
It's not reallt that stupid, without it motorway prohibited traffic would have no way of crossing.
1k a month ago.
25k today.
Well done. 👍
A second hand car of this kind would cost maybe £2k…. Has an 800+ mile range, ‘charging’ infrastructure widespread from lands end to John o groats to Ulaanbaartar, 5min to ‘recharge’ from 0 to 100%… and is probably 95% as comfortable and useful a car as the latest EVs. Food for thought.
Good effort lads, so close, I think if the roadworks were not there you would have got it I think.
Well done on 1000 subs!
I think you're right, and we also should have planned a little better.. I think 1000 is doable for sure but it takes sooo long :D
@@AutoShenanigans only ever been on the M25 once at South Mimms to Rickmansworth visiting wife's family and it was busy way back in 2007!
I want the digger drawing! The look on your face says you can’t appreciate real art!
Thatcher walking on the M25! What a missed oppurtunity.