Why I Have to Have a Ferrari | Clarkson's Car Years | Top Gear
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Jeremy Clarkson loves Ferraris! Find out just how much he loves them and what lengths he's willing to go to in order to own one of their supercars.
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I like how everyone is amazed that Clarkson looks 26 years younger in footage from 26 years ago.
Ιs it only 26 years ago?
@@criteriumgaming9457 this was aired in 95'
@@Hey_Loser i was still a concept
Clarkson looks 46 years younger in this video.
I think we're all just surprised he ever looked younger at all.
I was wearing hearing protection/radio headphones while mowing grass next to a 4 lane highway. I heard what I thought was a low flying jet aircraft and looked up from the grass. What I saw was a Ferrari 355 in the passing lane going between 120mph and 150mph passing the other cars like they were standing still. My first assumption was correct,, it was a low flying jet aircraft.
Wait till you hear a Pro-Street Muscle
@@gmain1977 A low flying lawn mower?
@@battlefennec hahaha😂😂😂
Really how dare you embarrasssseeeee yourself so easy
jermaine austin American muscle?
"I knew it was stupid and impractical and expensive, but it made no difference" - story of my life.
Sounds like my last girlfriend
@@overbuiltlimited LMAO
thats how i bought my Alfa Romeo 159. Stil regret nothing :D
Ditto
It’s like owning a dog. SWEEET
I like how Tiff is driving at the end, no one can drive like him on Top Gear, maybe stiggy
Tiff was the Stig😁
Ben Collins was the stig.....
Tyler other stig
Tiff is the 'father stig' 😎
Tiff is stig's older cousin
This is classic Jeremy Clarkson. Watching this in 2019 still doesn't get old. What a man!
Time is flying man, its 2021 ✈️😂
@@bosanceros2465 almost 2022 hahha
2023 on the horizon😢
✌️
He is definitely special. We'll never see another Clarkson. He's that good at what he does.
That''s Tiff 'Needel destroying tires on Jeremy's car. Very nice touch.
And clutch....they wear out on a 355 in seconds
Fifth Gear was a great show.
It was idiotic.
Good old Tiffany.
Back when Ferrari's steering wheels did one job: steer.
+Beolex Beolex And to horn.
Beolex Beolex lol
The true Ferrari steering ends with the 348, the F355 has already power steering
Daww. Ferrari’s steering too complex for your rural mash potato brain to digest. Haha.
What's so bad about never having to take your hands of the wheel?
"I wanted Green."
"Gr....gr...Red."
Gr...gr...reed.
Gred
I noticed that Ferrari maintains the same styling of its mid-engined V8 model for two generations at a time:
308 and 328
348 and 355
360 and 430
458 and 488
The latter generation borrows the same basic shape and design of the previous generation that it's been paired with. It explains why, for example, the 488 looks so similar to the 458, and why the 355 has a comparable shape to the 348, and so on.
We won't see a haul over in styling until the successor of the 488 comes out.
+NSX-R Given your name, the new NSX is an atrocity in that it carries nothing over from the original...
She should be ashamed. Seriously.
+RetroMMA it'll do nothing but make the values of the old ones go up
This is the best Ferrari style
The F355 is essentially a MUCH improved and modernised 348... In other words, they didn't start with a clean slate, but the car was different enough to be distinguishable from its predecessor. The 308 and 328 are pretty much the same car, albeit, the 328 has a larger engine and some minor styling tweaks.
scrfce123 And also vastly more reliable and usable than the 348. ;)
I've been coming back to this film for years. I will own a 355 one day.
Thanks for sharing
Got it yet?
Don't - it will explode and if it doesn't it will cost a small fortune to maintain.
My uncle has one and the timing belt costs 6.000€ to have done
@Edward Oliver yes they drop the engine out through the bottom .
Also I looked it up and that Ferrari that he's driving is still on the road :) and only has just under 13000miles on the clock
The f355 was the last of the analog Ferrari's. After this they were drive by wire. This was also the absolute last of this classic Italian design language. The 360 looks completely different. This is also the first production Ferrari to introduce the F1 style flappy paddle shifters. I'm a big Clarkson fan. Thanks.
The 360 is beautiful though so it's a well taken risk.
@@m1co294especially a 360 spider
ive had the pleasure of driving this car (briefly as i was only 16 and a bit nervous about driving such an expensive car) and going to a track day with its owner. easily the best sounding car ive ever heard and very fast. truly an awesome experience
jeremy is totally right about the 355 being the best car he's ever driven and if you watch apocalypse clarkson you'll see his 355 at the track day sequence of the film which brings together the best cars handpicked by clarkson and two professional race drives at the time
The only Ferrari i would want, a 355 GTS in Fly Yellow.
I drove a 355 on a track day once and I hadn't even got a full lap in when most of the interior fell apart. The glove box fell off, the rear view mirror fell off and everyone squeaked and rattled...but like Jeremy says it sounds incredible and he's right!.
They were poorly made indeed. But still cool cars.
That's just classic Italian craftmanship
Well they fixed that in later years by removing the glovebox.
@@bump_draft 🤣
Same thing happened when I first drove an Alfa and a Maserati. I think it's Italian cars.
Nice car...what's the retail on one of those?
Tom Woy *deep voice* smoke him
+ Austin Wille There always has to be one guy who ruins the joke.
1234 5678 There was no question. There was only a joke.
+KB Quinnell can't there be both? :o
more than youmcan afford pal thata a ferrari...😉
Haha the video is 4:58 minutes long lol. Get it? 458? Ferrari? No? Ill let myself out
+Tim Tereshchuk gosh it was my fb avatar for so long i thought it was me who posted that
+ƃɐʍs uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ǝɥʇ llǝɟ lol
+Tim Tereshchuk *feel
i thought it was funny ... lol
+Tim Tereshchuk illuminati confirmed.
Is it me or does the 355 sound better than the 458? Just seems to have such a more aggressive, screaming exhaust note
I agree. The 458's noise is just "a noise". The 355 on the other hand literally "sings"!
The 355 sounds more raw and less refined yeah. All Ferrari V8's sound gorgeous
Not only sounds better, it also looks better.
It's not just you, that thing made me giggle.
The 355 is one of my all time favorites. Being that it is actually relatively affordable for a middle class person but it brigs you everything you can ask for out of a Ferrari (albeit on a slightly lesser, slower scale). But id have to say 348 > 355 > 458 in the way of engine sound. As they get newer the sound just get more and more uniform. The 458's sound great, but under hard acceleration they just make a steady hum until redline where the pitch gets higher as it revs out but the actual sound is the same boring hum. The older cars werent quite so tame, they screamed and sang rather than steadily humming. Much more of a "raw" sound. They made clanks and bangs when the dogbox shifts, accompanied by crackles and pops from the fuel in the exhaust. They would burble and shake at low revs and the sound you could make at any speed with the clutch and the throttle in those older cars was mesmerizing.
To be fair the new cars only sound "boring" because every little mechanical detail is properly sorted and theres nothing out of line to make any strange noises. But for that reason, i think there will always be a spot in people hearts for old Carb'd monsters. Not only do you get more sound but with carbs you get the smell, you even get the taste lol. An old carb'd ferrari v8 or even an old 240z with the original dual carb i6 would be my dream weekend car. The just sound so much more lively than any direct injection car out there.
Watched this video one thousand times and still get the chills with the sound of this machine
I once entered a competition where 10 statements about Ferrari had to be put into order of importance. In case there was a tie, entrants had to complete a sentence beginning with ‘I’d like to drive a Ferrari because …..’ using no more than 16 words. I didn’t win the competition because my order of importance was different to the panel that chose the order of importance but Jeremy Clarkson did use my winning sentence in one of his Top Gear reviews. My sentence was
‘I’d like to drive a Ferrari because everyone would know I had arrived before I’d even set off’.
Clarkson's wrong, I've seen pensions go up in smokes haha
Great joke
Nice
It still looks so beautiful...
Always will
Jeremy Clarkson: Master of... the unnecessary ellipsis.
It's because of smoking so much he has to take a breath that just happens to be in the middle of a sentence. It just so happens... That it works...
The best
(pause)
In the world.
I'll never forget the day I heard a 355 Challenge running. I was a car groomer as a teenager working at Ferrari. Minimum wage for maximum fun and seeing and speaking with the some really wealthy people. Of course none of them could care less about the lanky little boy washing cars but I was also then used to loud cars, all day everyday....until one afternoon something arrived.
It was a present to the sales manager from Ferrari themselves. He had gone to Italy from New Zealand on business and drove a 355 Challenge on the Ferrari track. He loved it so much they sent it to New Zealand as a gift for being a great dealership manager.
Now at this time we were selling 360s and 430s, but my god! At idle I clearly remember that it was shaking the air inside my lungs, I've never since heard a car that would actually vibrate my internals just idling.
The sales manager being a salesman at heart sold it a week later. The customer wanted it road spec so out came the roll cage etc.
Even at 17 I remember thinking that if Ferrari gifted me a car with such pride in my work id be forever thankful and never sell it.
Cool story dude! I bet you have fond memories of working there!!
So no one's talked about how Jeremy's fingers was covered with wounds after removing the top? ☠️☠️
The F355 was the first Ferrari I ever knew. It holds a special place in my heart.
Just saw one again yesterday and was thinking exactly this ❤
Clarkson's jewfro years.
Max Power no those years are just when he didn’t shave his cranial pubes
That's terrrrrrrible!
is he actually? lmao.
Shut it down
Lol
Funny how this video is 4:58 minutes long and hes talking about Ferraris
jason hutapea You're an eagle eyed chap.
Yup something id noticed too
only the best does it
Holy Shit Yes
The back of this car still haunts my dreams with its perfection....
You mean, haunts you with how nightmarishly UNGODLY it looks???
same
@Wicker 2 Because only the devil himself could've produced something THIS HEINOUS!!!!
It's got the best butt ever.
@@KevinSmith-wp9qs It's a CAR. It doesn't have a butt.
After driving a 360 Spider, I can honestly tell you I now understand what all the fuss is about.
It makes you feel like a rich girl on her sixteenth birthday, you don't even care that people are snapping photos or waving at you because you're so focused and awed with the machine you're in.
And they aren't scary like a quick muscle car or something, it just invites you to go faster and faster and faster... which is a problem since the speedo is absolutely tiny.
The song you hear during the reconstruction part at the ferrari dealership is from Radiohead and is called creep. Ands as it turns out the video clip from that song is exactly 3:55 minutes long, just like the ferrari 355. Coincidence...... I think not!
Me and my dad are Radiohead so we noticed their main song from pablo honey
@@riowarner0617 holy shit can i get an autograph
It’s also really shit and very very depressing
And this video is 4:58
@@CxnstantineII and the mileage on Jeremy's 355 was 5,355.
I miss the old Ferraris. they look so elegant and neat. Unlike nowadays where they're too "In your face".
I know bro IMO this is the best Ferrari ever made.
I disagree i find these ugly
OverSizedMidget If you find this beautiful Ferrari ugly, then I find you ugly.
Shadez Entertainment Ouch...
Oh come on people ! Everyone has their own opinion.
In my opinion, the most beautilful Ferrari, specially the GTS.
Marcello Ribeiro What about the 250 ?
+K onliner Thats a gourgeous Ferrari too, absolutely. But im still in love with the F355, since i was 12, when she came out. Its a childhood love.
I love the 458 but the 355 is still the one I dream about most. However I imagine that if I drove the two back to back the 458 would blow my mind just thinking of how badly it humiliated the 430 in that drag race.
this is still my favorite Ferrari to date. We had one at work a few weeks ago. Man that thing was a fucking blast to drive.
2019 and still want to buy a 355. i heard it's sound in 2002 and i would never forget it in my life
I LOVE THIS! I like how they used radioheads creep in it haha. If only Top Gear now had kick ass songs like this
Would love to see this reviewed one more time using the videography Top Gear is currently using... this car is now a classic, but my passion for this car has not died regardless of all the modern cars and their performance figures.
Totally agree.
You know how much that would be worth if he bought green?
Today a lot more than Resale REd. Have you seen a Verde Zeltweg F355? It's astonishing.
Even the silver 355 is a thing of beauty. So rare, and seems to work better than red on the 355 shape.
This was my childhood dream car. Then I grew up and discovered top gear. So glad Clarkson loved it.
I like how the video quality of this is still good, other youtube videos from that time seem to have deteriorated in quality over time.
If I had that kind of money I would still buy it even if theres no radio, because you got a roaring V8. Now that, thats a great soundtrack to listen to
Worst case scenario put a Jbl extreme in the passenger seat
Was that Tiff at the end destroying Jeremy's tyres?
Sure was!
The 355 makes one of the most amazing car sounds I've ever heard. Just listen to it at 2:48...unreal.
I love his taped fingers after the roof handling :D
I service many make and model cars. And not once I had to remove the engine. That include head gaskets, headers, transmission, water pump, timing belts/chains, intake manifolds, etc...
Always would use good music on their show. Top Gear was really something.
355 is still the best sounding Ferrari ever.
Ehhh 360 and 458 beg to differ
355 kills them all, especially the 458.
+Clayton Cortina hell no, maybe the 360 but definitely not the 458. 355 sounds godly
f50 tho
It sounds good, but not Challenge Stradale good.
Thank you UA-cam algorithm. This is exactly what I needed.
The music selection for this video is impeccable!
Many people can afford them but you have to be ok with the service costs. Minor service is about 5 times the price of regular car each year. Every 3 years its an engine out, belt change, Major Service, costing thousands of dollars. If your 355 has standard exhaust, you'll need to change it as it will be getting ready to burn through by now and if you leave it you can burn the valves and be up for another fortune. If you buy a spider you have to make sure the oil in the rams is level, etc, etc...
Is this the same Ferrari that raced Paul Walker's Supra in FF1
Yup
More than you can afford pal.
Also in FF2
@@jannadrielcervo7753 funny thing is, supras go for more than the 355 does now...
@@SirRobbins Thats 100% false. The cheapest Ferrari you can buy (a Mondial T) is still 40k for a good working one. You can import a TT RHD Mk4 for only 25k and it will have low miles. Nice collector 100 mile examples might go for expensive amounts at auctions with drunk buyers with too much money, but in general a clean Mk4 TT 6 speed Getrag goes for 50-60k, good luck finding an F355 that works well for that money. Please don't spread false information.
Great video. Buying your first Ferrari is a great experience. In fact, I think that it is just as much about the buying process as it is about owning the car. It is to be savored. You must suspend reality and just give yourself to it. You have to disregard the naysayers about how much it costs to buy and run - because they are right. It is irresponsible and a more than a bit excessive. But It is just one of those things you have to take on pure passion. And it is worth every penny.
well this is considered one of the most reliable ferrari's ever made, it was made at the begining of when supercars became actual everyday cars with some practicality. so its actually a pretty nice car. this and the F40 are the only ferraris i would consider owning if i came into alot of money.
but also, servicing these cars doesn't cost a whole lot... servicing these cars by genuine ferrari mechanics does however.. because they know you will pay to not have an idiot hick work on your baby. xD
This original segment made me go out and buy 'Crash Boom Bang' great album and I still listen to it in 2023!
The bandage on the fingers after putting the roof away.
Ingenious and subtle
was that tiff in the car at end ?
I had not noticed before, but I think it was.
probably
Is anyone else's favorite Ferrari an F40 instead of a LaFerrari? And who else likes the 90s and 80s ferraris more than the new ones?
100% agree
MegaLordization Yes. I have a stopmotion about a police chase that involves a Ferrari 355. Its really cool! It will be on my channel hopefully soon!! :D
i agree deffo! i pass ferrari on my way to work everyday sure the cars are nice but nothing compares to the older ones!
Topher Parker
I would love to watch that!
Pretty much most all Italian Cars from 60s to the mid 90s were awesome.
2:50 jeez it revs and revs and revs and revs and....
I keep coming back to this absolute gem. It's signature Clarkson and shows perfectly why he is the greatest presenter of a car show ever, despite him having no clue of mechanics! 5 valves per cylinder don't make an engine rev higher, but he's allowed to not know anything, his enthusiasm is making up for it!
"I have to have one" yep i agree. I got the bug in 2000 as a 5 year old playing need for speed II. Cars have never been the same for me since seeing this beauty.
The guy driving Jeremy's 355 was actually Tiff Needel
100k for that ?? in denmark it would have been that 100k x 3 "taxes"
Surely the most romantic Ferrari in recent times.
Hysterical ending!!! Clarkson, production, editing; fabulous!!!
I like how there was a 246 Dino just parked on the Ferrari lot like any other used model. Back then they were probably asking 60k for it. Now its worth almost a half-million.
2:03 oh yes! That is some wonderful underused bond music!
Where’s it from? I know of an iconic famous South Asian TV shows from the 80s that used it as the theme song.
3:24 He's done 5355 miles, get It??? Ferrari F355?!?!?! Coincidence, I think not!
When Jeremy said “electrocute every nerve ending IN MY BODYY” I felt that
I have driven the berlineta model and the F1 version. My favourite was the berlineta hard top with the challenge rear grill, only problem is you have to do an engine out service, other than that it is a brilliant car a modern classic now and price's for one second hand are going up
That being feeling of being so into a car relatable. Its unethical not practical at all but it's so amazing I got to have one.
However Investing in pension would be smarter
4:44 realising how much replacing the tires will cost
Clarkson, please retest this car :-P
The ALGORITHM says it's TIME
I felt in love with the 355 when i saw JB Goldeneye for the first time.
And watching Famke Janssen driving it probably also did it‘s part.
i recommend to buy one as fast as possible. they will rise in price when they get more rare. i'm now 16 and already trading cars and i hope that one day i can afford a black 355 convertible with a red interior and a manual transmision. that's just my absolute dreamcar. driving on twisty mountain roads... hopely it wont stay a dream ;)
Clarkson and his Afro, priceless....
1:26
Jeremy Clarkson - living proof that men look better, the more they age.
this is a joke right? clarkson has turned into leatherface's twin.
juffurey hahahha and without a job...
MaxFrisch84 Well pop fashion was terrible at that time.
***** clarkson may and hammond are starting their own show outside of the BBC
MaxFrisch84 kinda depends on the man but I’d say quite a few, as long as they maintain a healthy lifestyle, don’t go downhill until about mid 50s
Years ago I bought a 348 GTS Ferrari for £48000 -on my credit cards ! It wasn`t the most sensible way of investing for the future it is true ,but ranting across Salisbury Plain at 3 AM with noone around ,it was worth it . 355`s are a classic.
Always loved this Model😎 Brings Back Memory's of GOLDENEYE
In NYC found one with F1 gear box 22‚999
O:41 - 0:46 me every time I buy something stupid
@4:05 - I've never noticed the Bandages on his Fingers until just now .. haha
White Noise It’s Vaseline
Options list picked by Jezza 1:54
Sport seats
Creme leather
Red inserts
Red stitching
CD Nero
How simple options lists were back in the day.
it's only done 13,903 miles as of June 2021!
4min58sec. Coincidence?
..it has to be..it's a 355..!! ;)
Well seeing as the 458 didn't exist at the time of this video, yes a coincidence.
Calvin Scherbarth 458 might be a technological marvel but it just lacks something for me, it's too technical,not very good looking form the front, kinda soulless.
2020 anyone?
2:45 ... all day long ...
well... a lamborghinni will cost you about double what you could get one of these for, and that would be a 90's diablo (80-100k), and a mclaren would be over triple one of these...
reasonibly you could find one of these today, in america for 35-40k, for power, looks, and handling, as well as fairly good reliability, plus that you can say you own/drive a freaking ferrari, is pretty much the best bang for your buck. as far as cars go.
To this day, the Ferrari 355 is beautiful car. Whether its stationary or blasting through country hills, it is timeless classic. Given its exceptional design and performance, I suspect it will quickly garner classic status, leading to a considerable jump in price.
The length of the clip happens to be 4:58, the 355's current successor
Not true. The Ferrari f430 is
Still one of the greatest Ferraris. I still have mine after 11 years.
K
Is the battery flat... Lol.
3 colours that would fit a Ferrari well:
Red (Yea, the most cliched one)
White (Miami Vice special..)
Black (Ooh yea. Preferably with a slight metallic polish)
And yellow .......
l would go whit White
Silver?
I've loved Ferrari my whole life. It's the iconic bucket list car. It's right up there with my other favorites, Alpine 310, mk1 bmw M3 and M5, 1970 Chevy Camaro Z28, 1959 Buick LeSabre. Etc etc. Just one of the best car brands ever. Reliability is Sketchy on some but when you own one, it's par for the course.
Prepare for disappointment when you actually get one...
This design would still look great today, March 12, 2020. This design is timeless!
I stopped eating my cookie when I hear this Ferarri.
I guess its still hard buying an expensive car, even when you've already got money.
More than you can afford , Pal!
You're supposed to put the top back on when you leave it parked somewhere, as rain is the standard weather in Britain... plus people tend to spit in it.
yeah most people dont realise those costs or think its ok but then when the time comes for a major service they freak out... I have two now and ordered a yellow spider 2 weeks ago, so now its a waiting game for the new toy to arrive. They always say it will take 6 months but Im hoping it will be here sooner.