Having been a Captain at an airline for 30 years, I can assure you that one of the engineers was either a pilot or aircraft engineer. There are many features and names that mimic aircraft switches of the time. The Standby switch is a prime example.
david abdo People said the same thing when colored screens came out. they probably felt the same way when this aston was new, there will always be new styles and trends and new ways and tech to make these styles and trends come alive
I can only imagine the incredible mess of wires that absolutely must be hiding behind that dashboard. I do recall that this car was a production nightmare for Aston Martin!
I had the honor of seeing one of these up close at a childhood friend's house (a friend of his father owned one) in the '80's. At that time it seemed like the coolest car I have ever seen. Watching this review today, nearly everything about this car's design seems like an afterthought.
It is odd I imagined Doug reading all these then at the end I imagined him saying “Now this Doug tops the Doug score at 97, giving no competition to the rest.”
T RST= Trip reset.... I used to 3 of these and used to drive from London to Italy every month. The Series before this model had the mono post steering wheel.. just lay your hand on it and drive steer... great motorway cruiser... That and a Michelin restaurant guide was all you needed! Great fun..
I’ve had a really bad week but this video has really made me feel better. It’s well made, informative, interesting and most importantly absolutely hilarious in a very respectful way. Thank you. I’m British and yes, this car is weird.
Having owned one of these in 1985, in the exact same colour inside and out, I can confirm that was, and will still be, the most horrible thing ever. It retailed at £75,000 in UK in 1982 and I bought it with 5,000 miles for £25,000, such was the distain in which it was held. The seats were uncomfortable, it was not fast, or economical, 12 mpg, the engine sounded like a washing machine, with a turning circle of a boat, could not turn into narrow London streets with doing a 3 point turn, after 2 weeks I had to get rid of it, dumped it for £23k and glad to be out of it, never mind about anteater, I was called Lady Penelope or Parker for 2 years after, do not feel you missed anything not having this piece of junk.
@@sc1338 and so to probably are ossified Dodo droppings unique when it comes down to it. Rarity can sometimes be a blessing especially when cars of a much maligned design are being discussed. Usually, V8 engines have a pleasingly distinctive exhaust note - here though, local diesel V8 engined Chevrolet Ambulances being a disappointing exception.
Maybe the car wasn't designed with European cities in mind, but rather meant for the American market 😉 American cities are generally a bit more spacy than European cities. Don't try to drive through downtown Amsterdam with a Ford F-150 😉 But I would have expected from Aston Martin that it would have made the Lagonda more sportive in the sense of technique. Now it is mainly a car for American motorways in the era of the 55 mph speed limit.
Ra London. . Wow I feel you ...I'm not in your social economic circle but wow This beast has a tremendous depreciation rate. . As an American this car would be a bear to maneuver around your roads & Streets !. Is very big even by American Standards ; it seems As if you need a tugboat to guide it into a parking space . And the eccentricities are probably not c the price of worthiness as well. In terms of "Pounds" as opposed to dollars in 1982 that must have been a alot of cash to pay for unusual exclusivity.
Story time: I live in Wales and I was driving along the coast one day along a small country road and from behind I hear a roaring v8 and a Aston Martin Lagonda passes me going at least 90 mph, me expecting it to be something completely different was completely baffled and I have loved these things ever since.
So what did you do? Just allow him to pass? You didn't tromp on the gas it and make a race of it? No? Well you're sure arent from kmy area. Forget it. There would be a battle royal just to say we raced and possibly ran off the road a car like that. Actually I saw two lagondas in the eighties and early 90's in Manhattan and they sure did attracted instant adoration by passersby who didn't know what it was, but the knew it was something very special and expensive.......
I don't know how the 70's version compared, but as a kid in the 70's just having my license, I just absolutely loved this body style and especially the front with all the lights. Thanks for this review. It just shows how some car companies wanted to be unique to all the other cars out there. How wild! Thanks again.
The fuel door on both sides I really like that feature. Never heard of that but that's brilliant. For when there's a long line at the gas station it don't matter what side you pull to. The equivalent of that was found on my larger body on frame cars until the early 1990s. My uncle once owned a 1990 Cadillac Brougham and I remember him tilting down the license plate to fill its gigantic fuel tank and I remember having to do it rather slowly as it nears full to prevent spills. 😀 I think this was rather common older GM cars, but I've seen that on a lot of Buick's and Cadillac's.
13:45 It's normal for cars at that age that the rear windows don't go down completely. It's a child safety thing, so the kids don't fall out. 17:33 Porsche 944 and Jaguar XJS had the same location of parking brake.
When I first saw a Doug review on youtube i was like wtf is this... Now he has become my favourite youtuber and i watched almost all his reviews. I love how he does it his own way. Yes, i'm a big fan. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Since you're the emperor, can you grant me citizenship to The Netherlands. I just need to learn Dutch and I'd pass the assimilation tests. Then I would just need an auto tech job then ship my toolbox and bicycle lol. One day..... One day.
The most amazing thing for me is the fact they used the cheapest switches and buttons we kids could find as radio amateurs for soldering our home made radio kits. Best are the two switches with the snowflake and the hazard sign. I used many of them in my electronic circuits.
The hazard and snowflake switches are especially hilarious. Did they just send the most useless guy on their engineering team to radio shack without specific instructions? Did he also just buy whatever was on clearance and pocket the rest of the petty cash they sent him with?
Around 1980 had the unique opportunity to work with an automotive genius named Brian Refoy and his company Javelina Systems redesigning the digital dashboard in Series 2 Lagondas. Javelina Systems was located in a metal building inside another metal building in the middle of a cotton field in Frisco Texas to keep Detroit spies from finding out what was going on inside. Early Series 2 Lagondas had an incredibly badly designed (English) electronic dashboard that was the biggest tangle of wires you can imagine. Intensely complicated, failure-prone and always on the edge of catching fire, the original digital dashboard was the Series 2’s Achilles heel. It HAD to be fixed. Without needless detail, the task of solving the Series 2 digital dashboard disaster fell to Brian Refoy, the aforementioned automotive savant. The spiderweb of wires was dramatically reduced, the fire hazard was corrected and several features were enabled. IIRC all Series 2 Lagondas passed through Brtian Refoy’s shop prior to being completed and sold. Some notes: Lagondas were built with their primary customer base Arab oil sheiks. They were not designed to be driven, they were designed to be driven IN. The driver was most likely a chauffeur. Hence some control placements. That is also why the sunroof is over the BACK SEATS. All Lagonda engines were hand-built by one of two Aston-Martin master engine builders. You could tell who built the engine by listening to the exhaust. The three CRT displays were initially designed for McDonnell-Douglas F-15 fighter cockpits. It’s very bright in the Arabian desert and visibility in high ambient light environment was a hard to meet specification. We tried several Optical Coating Labs offerings before discovering the F-15 displays. The displays could be updated by changing DRAMs so different languages as well as yearly model updates were a simple matter of changing the DRAM. We also had a talking dash feature but I didn’t see you use it. Fun days. ETA: I will look in my notes to see if I can find the "T Reset" control function.
Yes that is true on some British cars but not all now the same statement you made about British cars can also be applied to American manufactured cars The Aston Martin Lagonda is no Rolls Royce or Bentley and when it first came out it was cutting edge tech which is now found in most modern day cars
I actually had a chance to drive one of these when I was a valet in Newport Beach CA. It was a Series II without the digital displays. I preferred the series II interior because it was much cleaner and futuristic. I always remembered this car because it was so unusual and luxurious at the time. I also got to drive a Ferrari Testarossa, several Ferrari 308s, Porsche 930s, a bunch of 911s and BMWs including M3s and M5s. That was such a fun job especially for being a teenager.
The T-RST button is the tripometer reset. I've always loved the Lagonda too! Amazing car! You pushed it. When you showed the screen again after you pushed the button, the trip miles meter was showing 0 miles.
I read this after I had commented the same thing, but I must give you credit for beating me to it. I noticed the trip meter after he mentioned it as well and it clicked instantly.
"You push down the brake pedal and there's an enormous amount of travel and it doesn't really slow down all that well." Something of a drawback in a brake pedal.
I'll buy that car when I want to decorate my yard with fancy junk. Plus, it's a four door sedan, a bigger home for rats wherever it's junked. Aston Martin management, Why build expensive crappy cars, just as well build a Yugo.
As a 6 year old, one of my presents in 1976 was the Observer book of cars. Something, probably only Brits would understand. What a great time for wild cars. The Lagonda, Countach, Panther 6, AC 3000ME and the unloved 308GT4 which I adore. If I win the Lottery, the Lagonda and GT4 will be me in my dream garage.
Weird indeed , the maintenance folder shows that. The Lagonda is notoriously unreliable, especially the electronics. The first cars had regular crt screens that didn't like to be in a car at all. I have seen several for sale over the years and a defect-free Lagonda is a very rare thing.
Doug is the most entertaining and funniest car reviewers around. He deserves his immense success. Levity, airiness, lightheartedness, unseriousness always wins people over.
"Oh, nice, is that your Lagonda?" "Yes it is!" "The back windows only go most of the way down, right??" "Uh. Yeah." "Hell yeah dude, nice, nice. Anyway, have a good one!"
Ya, and then others be like.... " So, what does this butto..........ahhhhhh!!!!!" Haha!! Sucka didn't know that button was the seat ejection mode! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Came here to say this. Same thing I thought of and it came to mind almost immediately lol. Though not sure I would've thought of it had I not noticed the trip odometer in one of the CRT screens.
It is amazing to think about how many designers and executives at Aston Martin had to agree and say :"Yes, I agree and approve this car, here take my signature"
@@christofferrasmussen6533 You were wrong in assume I was calling this car ugly. The cars I had in mind were cars like a Taurus or an Escort. Next time don't get so emotional.
I think it’s pretty interesting in terms of retrofuturism. Back then, people thought this is how future cars will be. Just check the tv shows. And iy did evolve into modern day displays (eg the two issues dough mentions can be software fixes over the internet. Class video as always Doug. Through you I understand cars!
Those are probably electrostatic deflection CRTs, like used in old oscilloscopes. It's a miracle the electronics driving them are even partially still functional. New capacitors would probably fix them up. Also, whoever put that crappy aftermarket radio in it should be ashamed of themselves.
two things: 1) the fusebox front-and-center on the dash, intentionally or not - is a superb design joke at the general expense of British cars from the mid-1970-80s and their hit-or-miss reliability. 2) if you think this is weird, Doug ....then you need to get a load of a Citroen DS :)
I notice the fuse boxes under the bonnet were Lucas. As the joke goes "Joe Lucas - The prince of darkness". I am adding my vote for the Citroen DS. In the 1970s my friends mother had one, complete with the swivelling healights, that I went in every week.
T RST could be the Trip Reset. I noticed the trip readout was at 000 so you won't see anything change. You'll have to put a few miles on the trip readout to try it.
What you people have to understand is this car first went on sale in 1976, digital calculators were only just coming on the market ,yes it seems incredibly outdated now but in 1976 the dashboard of this car must have been so futuristic I love this car it's a design classic a piece of art.
David B. My friend's rich uncle had one which I sat in once. As a 20 year old who had only ever experienced a series of 1960's Mini's, Escorts, Ford Populars and Ford Anglias, it seemed to me the most stunning piece of futuristic high-tech. I was completely blown away by it!
In 1976 digital calculators, electronic digital calculators, portable electronic digital calculators and pocket-sized electronic digital calculators had been in use for years and the prices had come down. Scientific and specialized calculators were also becoming quite common. Parents were even buying pocket calculators for their kids and math teachers were watching out for them as they were considered cheating. Let’s not forget too that this car was made a decade later, not 1976, and such electronic displays were commonplace by then. I first saw digital dash displays on a 1982 Lincoln. The only thing uncommon about this car’s displays is they used what appear to be CRT monitors rather than purpose-built vacuum fluorescent displays. Also, it seems like Aston Martin couldn’t figure out how to do an electronic odometer that was capable of maintaining its count for the life of the vehicle, even tho various American cars had that in their 1985 models.
@@ethanlamoureux5306 true, in '81 my secondary school had very slimline pocket calculators with LCD screens which were solar powered and even then, that was established technology from the 70's. In a car of that budget, using small CRT displays like those used in a Commodore SX-64 or a number of portable stereos of the era to display basic information really doesn't seem that futuristic, it's just current of that period but in a car. I'm quite surprised that they used physical switches and not flat-panel membrane buttons. To me, the exterior design is the stand-out aspect of the Lagonda. Love it or hate it, it's unique.
im from the UK but when i was a kid in the 80's i lived and went to school in Oman. one day my dad took me to the airport and was shown a 24kt gold Lagonda. the car was black but had gold wheels gold grill and badges, and the inside was nearly all gold lol there were actually two of them brought in that day but i only saw one. i was aloud to get into it as well and is one of my childhood memories i will never forget. the car blew me away and iv been in a lot of amazing cars due to growing up in Oman.
Doug, I so agree with you. This is the most outrageous, fascinating, and stunning car I've ever seen. I still remember the first time I stumbled upon this gem back in 1982 when I was a paperboy collecting a bill from one of my clients. He was a car nut that dedicated his home as a shrine to the automobile. I shared my love of cars with him and he took me on a tour of his home which was packed wall-to-wall in nearly every room with brochures of just about every car model of that day and going back at least ten years. When he showed me the Lagonda Series 2 with the single-spoke steering wheel, my 12-year-old mind was blown away! Then when he shared that the pop-up headlights were pneumatic and not mechanical like "those crappy ones on the Corvette," my love for the car began to deepen. I must have read that brochure cover to cover multiple times reading every detail down to the copyright information. While the technology looks dated now it was crazy futuristic back then. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, came close to it! When I asked my client if he had ever seen one, he chuckled with the response, "No, these are far too expensive to just be seen anywhere. Only the richest of the rich will ever be able to see one let alone purchase it." Heck, we lived in the heart of Silicon Valley where Benz, Porsche, Bentley, Rolls, and all the other expensive badges were a daily occurance! To his credit, I have never seen one in the "wild" but hope, like you, to be able to one day to enjoy having the immense privilege to. What a car!
Hey Doug :) Not sure if you'll read this comment.. Ever.. I know you get thousands. I just have the idea, that from viewers point of view would make your videos WAY more interesting: When you taking cars for test drive, instead of viewing your face (nothing wrong with it), I would rather see how you see the road, the dials, the steering wheel. Sort of drivers POV - please, let us experience driving of really cool cars you're making your videos about. Thanks boss :)
You can edit the speeding out, one guy I watch puts cameras all over the car so he can cut between them, just to give a little more interest than 'man driving car' view, but i definetly think a POV shot would be good, although not always easy to mount a camera to catch both the dash and view out front, because there is a Doug in the way.
This is a perfect example of a car designed by committee. I have a copy of Car magazine from April 1983, featuring the model upgrade that Doug was featuring in this episode. They said, and I quote,. ".. Quite honestly, it is difficult to find any aspect of this car that isn't woefully terrible. Almost any and every feature that you would expect, for it's price and prestige, to reflect it's status - is impossibly awful.. ..from it's ridiculously tiny boot [trunk] to its ugly and error prone dashboard, and given that the car is huge, how the hell is the interior space so tiny? It's like an inside out TARDIS. Huge on the outside, smaller on the inside. The Austin Allegro has more rear legroom and wider seats, the Cortina has better headroom, the Mini Metro has room for a suitcase, and it's not exactly an earth shatteringly pleasant drive considering its lixury status. When all is said and done, I find it hard to believe that anyone with any sense of intelligence, will shell out the kind of money that will buy you a really good Bentley (leaving you enough change to buy a Mercedes for the wife), on a truly awful car like a Lagonda." I I think that says it all really.
I had to go searching for an answer online, the T-RST switch happens to be the time reset button it resets the clock. Got the answer from a previous owner of one of these cars in the 80s.....he had to find out on his own as well.
I fell in love with the Lagonda when it first came out, read a story in some car magazine that raved about it's handling and power. Also in the same story was a tale of a Lagonda driver on a country road, just flying when he crested a hill and plowed through the trailer of an 18 wheeler.. the driver stops the car and casually inspects the damage because he really wasn't sure what just happened(as I remember it).
I think the dual fuel tank fill points is genious. Theres times when tons of pumps are full and you gotta swing your car all the way around to orient it correctly. The two fill ups completely solves this aforementioned issue. Should be on every car...
@@frontsidegrinder6858 l m dead serious. The fill tank hole is on the left on my car. Of course it s’more convenient to choose a left hand side pump but if l have only right hand side pumps left l ll have to park closely and align accurately the rear bumper with the hose. It s better than waiting. And in our gas stations (France) the hose is just long enough but to be fair most of french motorists don’t know about that
I have discovered it! I asked Aston clubs lagonda clubs no one could answer even owners didn’t know because the chances of it working are basically zero. The green section is for fresh air! I asked an actual British mechanic and he informed me of its notorious nature.
I had read about this auto when it was available. What I read was pertaining to the other model that you touched on. It had touch sensitive controls and I think that they got rid of them and they were replaced by this model as you've shared with us. I was an architectural designer with my office on Sunset Blvd. in the Sunset Plaza area. The Shams Pahlavi (Iran) visited the antique story that was a part of our office. She pulled up right in front of our offices and came in to take care of some business. A very gracious lady. However, I could not take my eyes off of that car. I really loved the design of it. Stunning. But, as you pointed out - what were they thinking! I had no idea that the interior controls were so odd and unhelpful. The British!! Ron Smith; Pasadena, CA.
indeed...both my Toyota 4Runner and Subaru Forester have those, as well as every car I have ever owned save one: my Jeep Wrangler hard top had no way of defrosting the glass. I think it's funny that it doesn't because there is a wiper motor on the rear glass so there is electricity for a defroster.
What is wrong with that Doug? He hates every cool thing on this car. These green displays. Those weird switches. He has no idea what "T RST" is. That MUST be the trip meter, what else? He thinks rear window heating is something special. Has he never seen a car before? He clearly had a bad day.
LegendaryGamingChannel I wish I had a photo or a vid. It was hard to believe. I think he was an alien hunter or something. He's gotta be on the web by now. This was over 10 years ago. In Yoga, Tokyo.
Truth to be told, he does say he rates all cars to modern standards anyway, which puts even supercars of late decades lower than modern sedans lower in performance.
It’s insane what effort people put into taking care of sim cars, just got a 2000 accord and it’s got EVERY receipt from maintenance and even gas records of how much was spent, how many MPG and how many gallons
Not only is it way more quirky, it is also significantly rarer than the F50, I challenge you to find a 30 plus year old Lagonda, which will start, and then actually propel itself, in the rain.
Brian Westfield -yes, I hate seeing cheap plasticky modern head units in retro cars. Too busy, too many flashy lights. A high-end period Alpine would look much better and sound almost as good. Hell, I'm restoring an 82 Volvo 240 which is hardly a prestige car on this level but I still sourced the correct OEM cassette deck for her. Anything else in that lovely simple angular 80s dash would have looked ridiculous. And you can have most things adapted to take a 3.5mm input now, so you're not stuck listening to old tapes or AM radio.
Richard Edwards agreed. It’s such a shame. The car otherwise looks well kept. The owner should have stayed with a period correct head unit. Such an odd decision.
Never thought I would see anyone review this amazing looking vehicle from the 70's - a truly space age design at the time I always thought. Nice one Doug.
There’s so many bonkers choices in this car. The fact it’s like 5 metres long but has so little leg room. Those digital screens are just hilarious and when they finally pack up the car becomes undriveable.
@@kampfmeersau Haha yeah, was about to mention the Multipla. I don't mind it but it sure put alot of people off when it was released. As a wedge and Bertone fan the Lagonda is the coolest looking luxury car in my eyes.
@you build it we destroy it - I always thought of the Tercel as the kind of car that people just end up with, rather than choosing to buy it. Sort of like the Plymouth Sundance.
8:46 this answered the one question I’ve been searching for. *A CAR WITH FUEL FILL CAPS ON BOTH SIDES FOR ONE TANK DOES EXIST!* Damnit, I need one of these. 🤣🤣
Indeed. Unique, full of intrigue, fuller of itself, annoying, overstated, under-engineered, ultra-glitchy, and appears oblivious to the needs and realities of its customers... Yes, this would be the one.
Ladies and gentlemen... peak quirk.
Doug DeMuro FIRST COMMENT ON YOUR COMMENT,
Right, I could see a half chub
Can you review the Citroen 2cv?
Doug DeMuro the Lagonda is the king of quirks
Doug is the Daddy of quirks
Weird = cool ...
This is the car we all used to draw in grade 3.
Lol - true.
Brilliant reply
My thoughts exactly!!
Grade 1 for me
That's the new Tesla
Having been a Captain at an airline for 30 years, I can assure you that one of the engineers was either a pilot or aircraft engineer. There are many features and names that mimic aircraft switches of the time. The Standby switch is a prime example.
Dedicated Flightsim player.
Apparently the folks that did the F-15 instrument display help design the screens in this car. See ua-cam.com/video/JFLPeWM-fOk/v-deo.html
same story as the Vector W8 then
Car was designed by William towns. Wasn't a former pilot
@@pwatom22 nice little gem
Those gauges perfectly explain why the chiron has no screen
Sanitynot I mean it does have a digital gauge. But I get your point.
You’re so right!
david abdo
People said the same thing when colored screens came out. they probably felt the same way when this aston was new, there will always be new styles and trends and new ways and tech to make these styles and trends come alive
U can replace them with modern lcd screens.
@@Sadik15B
Then it won't be original
I can only imagine the incredible mess of wires that absolutely must be hiding behind that dashboard. I do recall that this car was a production nightmare for Aston Martin!
Probably a maintenance nightmare for the owners, too!
You had to get it repaired at Radio Shack
If something broke you had to hope a UFO 🛸 would pick it up and return it working again.
Not surprising. This has to be some of the worst engineering I've ever seen, especially given the price.
@@mikemcculley You evidently have a limited knowledge of cars that have been made then
You can just tell that car has probably seen over a ton a cocaine back in its day.
sithlordsoup just like Doug
Best comment
It was owned by Dr. Rockso
I thought it was Dr. Feelgood.
that's the second reason why there's a brief case in the trunk
it looks like a pizza hut logo lmao
Lol 😂😂😂. I just couldn't help checkung it
The perfect car to drive while listening to synthwave music.
haha lmao :SDAGF
holy shit
How high are you??
10:43
"Pardon me sir, do you have the time?"
"４：６８ ＡＭ"
Lmfao😂😂😂😁 why I read it like a cheesy 80s film robot M U S T. C O M P U T E.
It must be 4:68 AM somewhere
When you need an extra few minutes in the day. Take your ultra fast LAGONDA👌
It's actually 5:08
which is 5:08; ie 9:04p
I had the honor of seeing one of these up close at a childhood friend's house (a friend of his father owned one) in the '80's. At that time it seemed like the coolest car I have ever seen. Watching this review today, nearly everything about this car's design seems like an afterthought.
i can’t be the only one who thinks that the screens are still sick
I think they're cool. If nothing else they were unarguably ahead of their time since all cars are losing real instruments these days.
Sam Kovács yeah they’re really cool lol
This shit is dope as fuck
Looks like inspector gadget car
to me, it looks like someone bolted 3 PIP boys (from the fallout games) into the dashboard... :)
Doug DeMuro's _Doug Score_
Weekend Category:
*Styling* : 9/10 - Haven't seen him wearing socks & sandles
*Acceleration* : 10/10 - He talks pretty fast.
*Handling* : 10/10 - Handles himself well.
*Fun Factor* : 10/10 - He's fun to watch.
*Cool Factor* : 9/10 - Nerdy in a cool way.
_Total 48/50_
Daily Category:
*Features* : 9/10 - Displays plenty of geeky features.
*Comfort* : 10/10 - Very comfortable watching Doug.
*Quality* : 10/10 - Delivers quirks to viewers regularly.
*Practicality* : 10/10 - Doug is very practical.
*Value* : 10/10 - Gives valuable info for free!
_Total 49/50_
*Doug Score: 97/100*
Tim Michaels LMAO
It is odd I imagined Doug reading all these then at the end I imagined him saying “Now this Doug tops the Doug score at 97, giving no competition to the rest.”
I would love to daily Daddy Doug if you know what I mean
This is the greatest thing ever.
Did you just Doug score Doug
12pm : it's late I should go to bed
4:68am : still watching Doug videos
Augusto Pinochet I’m up at 3:68 AM
I'm up at 5:98 AM
12pm is midday ;)
Augusto Pinochet I know I already responded to this but no joke, I always fall asleep watching his videos at night.
11.86am
T RST= Trip reset.... I used to 3 of these and used to drive from London to Italy every month. The Series before this model had the mono post steering wheel.. just lay your hand on it and drive steer... great motorway cruiser... That and a Michelin restaurant guide was all you needed! Great fun..
"What time is it?"
"4:68 pm."
25 or 6 to 4.
So you can actually show everyone that his car is *ahead of its time...*
Thanks, I'll see myself out.
@@klausstock8020
good one lmao
Cackle, Cackle Cackle
Ah yes 4:68 p.m. my favourite time
The head rest pillow is a nice feature. On long trips, the driver can sleep while he’s driving.
niqqa you funny at party
With the auto pilot feature engaged
Oh wait a minute what auto pilot? Because there is none!!!!!
So the driver could sleep? Sleeping was the designer of this "car" also because you can't draw something this UGLY if you are awake and sober.
It's there for customers who test drove it.. because they'd faint when the price was announced
Looks like the car is in italics.
GonnaSin lol u right bro
GonnaSin yep. You nailed it. Weird car
GonnaSin i dont get it
Aston Martin _Lagonda_
GonnaSin looks like an old bmw 850i uglier sister
I’ve had a really bad week but this video has really made me feel better. It’s well made, informative, interesting and most importantly absolutely hilarious in a very respectful way. Thank you. I’m British and yes, this car is weird.
Doug’s the type of guy to say “let me squeeze right past you”
Doug the type of guy to shower after a Fart
Ethan King underrated
That's a very midwestern phrase I say that alot
Doug, the type of guy who drops his pants and drawers around his ankles to use a urinal.
Typa guy who eats mayonnaise. By itself. With a spatula.
Having owned one of these in 1985, in the exact same colour inside and out, I can confirm that was, and will still be, the most horrible thing ever. It retailed at £75,000 in UK in 1982 and I bought it with 5,000 miles for £25,000, such was the distain in which it was held. The seats were uncomfortable, it was not fast, or economical, 12 mpg, the engine sounded like a washing machine, with a turning circle of a boat, could not turn into narrow London streets with doing a 3 point turn, after 2 weeks I had to get rid of it, dumped it for £23k and glad to be out of it, never mind about anteater, I was called Lady Penelope or Parker for 2 years after, do not feel you missed anything not having this piece of junk.
It’s a very unique car though. I like your taste
@@sc1338 and so to probably are ossified Dodo droppings unique when it comes down to it.
Rarity can sometimes be a blessing especially when cars of a much maligned design are being discussed.
Usually, V8 engines have a pleasingly distinctive exhaust note - here though, local diesel V8 engined Chevrolet Ambulances being a disappointing exception.
Maybe the car wasn't designed with European cities in mind, but rather meant for the American market 😉 American cities are generally a bit more spacy than European cities. Don't try to drive through downtown Amsterdam with a Ford F-150 😉
But I would have expected from Aston Martin that it would have made the Lagonda more sportive in the sense of technique. Now it is mainly a car for American motorways in the era of the 55 mph speed limit.
Ra London. . Wow I feel you ...I'm not in your social economic circle but wow This beast has a tremendous depreciation rate. . As an American this car would be a bear to maneuver around your roads & Streets !. Is very big even by American Standards ; it seems As if you need a tugboat to guide it into a parking space . And the eccentricities are probably not c the price of worthiness as well. In terms of "Pounds" as opposed to dollars in 1982 that must have been a alot of cash to pay for unusual exclusivity.
Still too much. You got gypped.
I can imagine going into my local AutoZone: "Umm... Do you guys have a bonnet release sensor for a 1987 Aston Martin Lagonda?"
Manuel! I'm so sorry, he's from Barcelona.
4x4 or 2wd? Lol
I got it!
@@HiVizCamo don't mention the war ..
When I worked at Kragen Auto years ago I had a guy ask for a radiator cap for a Lotus. I was able to get it for him...I was shocked. It was $95 bucks.
Gotta love the thighbuster handbrake when it’s engaged, gives it a more of a personal feel to the driver when they park on a hill
I always loved this car for some reason. They had one for 11,000 used nearby some time ago. That’s some serious depreciation
zollotech has been spotted
Probably cost $11,000 for a tune up too.
I'd be a buyer except the electronics are scary to contemplate.
Should have bot it for 11k.
zollotech should of bought it
"How many switches should we put into this car?"
"Yes"
"How many headlights should we place?"
"Yes"
Story time: I live in Wales and I was driving along the coast one day along a small country road and from behind I hear a roaring v8 and a Aston Martin Lagonda passes me going at least 90 mph, me expecting it to be something completely different was completely baffled and I have loved these things ever since.
So what did you do? Just allow him to pass? You didn't tromp on the gas it and make a race of it? No?
Well you're sure arent from kmy area. Forget it. There would be a battle royal just to say we raced and possibly ran off the road a car like that.
Actually I saw two lagondas in the eighties and early 90's in Manhattan and they sure did attracted instant adoration by passersby who didn't know what it was, but the knew it was something very special and expensive.......
Was it the white one I once saw in those parts by any chance?
I don't know how the 70's version compared, but as a kid in the 70's just having my license, I just absolutely loved this body style and especially the front with all the lights. Thanks for this review. It just shows how some car companies wanted to be unique to all the other cars out there.
How wild! Thanks again.
This is the cheapest looking expensive car I have seen in my life.
NorwegianNightmare haha helt enig
You must not have seen many other cars from the 80's
Those bad sun visors are the clincher, looks like they got that from a 60s Lada or something.
Believe me in 80s that's cars looks like a space ship. It looked futuristic then.
NorwegianNightmare caddilac: “hold my GM plastic dashboard”
When you tell her you have an Aston Martin and you pick her up in a lagonda
She 💯 fucks in the back seat for sho
Lol
And if she isn't a dipshit will realize how cool you are.
King T the 2nd still more valuable than a lot of other Astons out there today
Lol
I love the screens, they were developed for the Hawker Harrier jump jet, Aston Martin used the same supplier.
I would love for a modern car to have CRT screens for displaying information, despite the pain they would be to repair / replace.
The fuel door on both sides I really like that feature. Never heard of that but that's brilliant. For when there's a long line at the gas station it don't matter what side you pull to. The equivalent of that was found on my larger body on frame cars until the early 1990s. My uncle once owned a 1990 Cadillac Brougham and I remember him tilting down the license plate to fill its gigantic fuel tank and I remember having to do it rather slowly as it nears full to prevent spills. 😀 I think this was rather common older GM cars, but I've seen that on a lot of Buick's and Cadillac's.
Doug the type of guy that sings to his plants when he waters them.
LaRusso best one I've seen in a while
LaRusso you don't?
I know this is a joke but I actually do this:(
LaRusso and review their quirks and features
What if I told you singing to them actually helps them grow better?
Show's ant eater:
M O N K E N O I S E
I mean what sound does an ant eater even make?
@@Zerospawnn depends on how hard you rev it.
Think that was actually a chimp, which aren't monkeys technically.
The two fuel caps, left and right, that feed the same tank - that’s actually brilliant? Why don’t they do this with contemporary cars?
zeto hd why tho
y tho
@@Patrick3183 so you can go either to the left or right at the pumps... doubles your chances when the pumps are busy at the gas station
@Its a nice practical touch on a luxury car, but I can see why they don't do it on daily drivers
This would save me a lot of time
13:45 It's normal for cars at that age that the rear windows don't go down completely. It's a child safety thing, so the kids don't fall out.
17:33 Porsche 944 and Jaguar XJS had the same location of parking brake.
Regarding the parking brake, the Volvo Amazon and the Volvo 140 series had them on the same location (at least the older 140 series).
When I first saw a Doug review on youtube i was like wtf is this... Now he has become my favourite youtuber and i watched almost all his reviews. I love how he does it his own way. Yes, i'm a big fan. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Dutch Emperor ik ook
Since you're the emperor, can you grant me citizenship to The Netherlands. I just need to learn Dutch and I'd pass the assimilation tests. Then I would just need an auto tech job then ship my toolbox and bicycle lol. One day..... One day.
Me too
He's kind of this cross between Andy Rooney, Julia Child and Richard Nixon. I watch for the mannerisms.
send me $1.000.000 i'll grant acces
The most amazing thing for me is the fact they used the cheapest switches and buttons we kids could find as radio amateurs for soldering our home made radio kits. Best are the two switches with the snowflake and the hazard sign. I used many of them in my electronic circuits.
Right? They look unbelievably cheap. Especially compared to the backseat AC control made of actual metal.
Very british
Fool
The hazard and snowflake switches are especially hilarious. Did they just send the most useless guy on their engineering team to radio shack without specific instructions? Did he also just buy whatever was on clearance and pocket the rest of the petty cash they sent him with?
Outstanding
Around 1980 had the unique opportunity to work with an automotive genius named Brian Refoy and his company Javelina Systems redesigning the digital dashboard in Series 2 Lagondas.
Javelina Systems was located in a metal building inside another metal building in the middle of a cotton field in Frisco Texas to keep Detroit spies from finding out what was going on inside.
Early Series 2 Lagondas had an incredibly badly designed (English) electronic dashboard that was the biggest tangle of wires you can imagine. Intensely complicated, failure-prone and always on the edge of catching fire, the original digital dashboard was the Series 2’s Achilles heel. It HAD to be fixed.
Without needless detail, the task of solving the Series 2 digital dashboard disaster fell to Brian Refoy, the aforementioned automotive savant.
The spiderweb of wires was dramatically reduced, the fire hazard was corrected and several features were enabled.
IIRC all Series 2 Lagondas passed through Brtian Refoy’s shop prior to being completed and sold.
Some notes:
Lagondas were built with their primary customer base Arab oil sheiks. They were not designed to be driven, they were designed to be driven IN. The driver was most likely a chauffeur. Hence some control placements. That is also why the sunroof is over the BACK SEATS.
All Lagonda engines were hand-built by one of two Aston-Martin master engine builders. You could tell who built the engine by listening to the exhaust.
The three CRT displays were initially designed for McDonnell-Douglas F-15 fighter cockpits. It’s very bright in the Arabian desert and visibility in high ambient light environment was a hard to meet specification. We tried several Optical Coating Labs offerings before discovering the F-15 displays.
The displays could be updated by changing DRAMs so different languages as well as yearly model updates were a simple matter of changing the DRAM. We also had a talking dash feature but I didn’t see you use it.
Fun days.
ETA: I will look in my notes to see if I can find the "T Reset" control function.
Newman Lofland do you know what ETA means in the normal sense or are you using some meaning i dont know?
I assumed T-Reset meant trip reset. The tripometer in the right display was reading 000. I found the dash the most interesting part of the vehicle.
Newman Lofland Extremely interesting! Thank you for your input.
Brandon Whitter Urban dictionary: "Edited To Add" abbreviated. Used frequently by bloggers when adding something to a post.
Yes that is true on some British cars but not all
now the same statement you made about British cars can also be applied to American manufactured cars
The Aston Martin Lagonda is no Rolls Royce or Bentley and when it first came out it was cutting edge tech
which is now found in most modern day cars
When a Lotus Esprit and a Lincoln Town Car really love each other very much…
Screens make it seem like you're in Fallout 3.
yep pip boy dashboard was my first thought
😂😂😂😂
Or war games
"What's going on with the tachometer?"
"I reprogrammed it to play Oregon Trail"
"You have died of Lagonda fumes".
Lmao!
jtb1990419 more like “cocaine overdose.”
It would be cool if you could play a nice game of Chess or some Tetris on those screens.
Doug, the type of guy to give a Lagonda a 10 for cool factor
MTB Addict oh no, he didn't really did he?! Oh god
MTB Addict there is a reason it’s called A DOUG SCORE
I agree with doug. As soon as I saw the screens I knew it was cool.
Dickho Internal just be happy he didn't compare it to an isetta 😂😂!
I'm not surprised.
I actually had a chance to drive one of these when I was a valet in Newport Beach CA. It was a Series II without the digital displays. I preferred the series II interior because it was much cleaner and futuristic. I always remembered this car because it was so unusual and luxurious at the time. I also got to drive a Ferrari Testarossa, several Ferrari 308s, Porsche 930s, a bunch of 911s and BMWs including M3s and M5s. That was such a fun job especially for being a teenager.
The T-RST button is the tripometer reset. I've always loved the Lagonda too! Amazing car! You pushed it. When you showed the screen again after you pushed the button, the trip miles meter was showing 0 miles.
I wondered - thanks, I think you solved that mini-mystery. :)
I read this after I had commented the same thing, but I must give you credit for beating me to it. I noticed the trip meter after he mentioned it as well and it clicked instantly.
Apparently never was 7 months ago.
Pretty obvious. RST is reset. What T-thing can you reset in a car?
@@voornaam3191 Its sexuality?
ACTIVATE TRANS MODE!
;P
I think we all know “Green Air” puffs pot smoke into the cabin and starts playing the Grateful Dead.
MetalJesusRocks Can you connect an Atari 2600 to the infotainment screen?
MetalJesusRocks love your videos!
Nah it only has hookups for a Sinclair zx series. This is a british car.
Thank god Phish wasn't around back then.
Fancy seeing you here.
"You push down the brake pedal and there's an enormous amount of travel and it doesn't really slow down all that well."
Something of a drawback in a brake pedal.
Funniest comment here!
😂😂😂👍
I'll buy that car when I want to decorate my yard with fancy junk. Plus, it's a four door sedan, a bigger home for rats wherever it's junked. Aston Martin management, Why build expensive crappy cars, just as well build a Yugo.
You want to live forever?
Chinese made brake pedals
As a 6 year old, one of my presents in 1976 was the Observer book of cars. Something, probably only Brits would understand. What a great time for wild cars. The Lagonda, Countach, Panther 6, AC 3000ME and the unloved 308GT4 which I adore. If I win the Lottery, the Lagonda and GT4 will be me in my dream garage.
For those wondering, “T RST” resets the time and space continuum.
This was funny
Ohhhh T[ime] R[e]S[e]T
😄
_TAKE MY MONEY!_
Less amusingly but actually true it resets the Trip counter, as you can see on one of the screens its says Trip 000 as he's already pressed it
Ohhhhh T[rip] R[e]S[e]T
😄
The modern CD player is killing the interior..
The interior has been dead since it rolled off the assembly line lol
that interior was horrible from the start, it looks like an 80s american car
@@tecc9999 It feels like the interior of an Oldsmobile on an acid trip.
It was already dead
It's not even that modern lmao
A British made car made in the 80s still working ? That is really wierd
Haven't you seen the massive folder full of all the repair and service (and fuel) bills?
It’s been maintained very well as shown by that large folder that can’t top the quirks and features of doUG dEMuRO
Weird indeed , the maintenance folder shows that. The Lagonda is notoriously unreliable, especially the electronics. The first cars had regular crt screens that didn't like to be in a car at all. I have seen several for sale over the years and a defect-free Lagonda is a very rare thing.
there's probably more pages in service records than miles on the odometer. lol.
Bentleys are built to last a 100 years...
Doug is the most entertaining and funniest car reviewers around. He deserves his immense success. Levity, airiness, lightheartedness, unseriousness always wins people over.
Hilarious! By the way, the"T RST"-button stands for "trip-reset", in order to put your daily mileage back to o, so there you go, and drive safely!
This was my guess!
Ah yes
Doug, classic American
Correct.
you can see at 12:08 the trip says "0 0 0" Doug must've reset it lmao
T rst = trip reset
Jaishankar Iyer Beat me to it.
Exactly! Doug, How hard could it be??? (wink wink)
no it means all Doug videos start with T
GoodDay lol 😂😂👍
Jaishankar Iyer That was the first thing that I thought of too. Perhaps Doug tried that and it didn't work, or, he's just an idiot????
"Oh, nice, is that your Lagonda?"
"Yes it is!"
"The back windows only go most of the way down, right??"
"Uh. Yeah."
"Hell yeah dude, nice, nice. Anyway, have a good one!"
Lmaoooo I was just thinking that when he brought that up as a piece of cars and coffee trivia
Ya, and then others be like....
" So, what does this butto..........ahhhhhh!!!!!"
Haha!! Sucka didn't know that button was the seat ejection mode! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha I'll have that fun fact convo with yeah hahaha
Hahaha I'll have that fun fact convo with yeah hahaha
Hahaha I'll have that fun fact convo with yeah hahaha
Hi Doug, unless you have already figured it out, i am guessing that the ' T RST ' button is for resetting the trip computer ?
Came here to say this. Same thing I thought of and it came to mind almost immediately lol. Though not sure I would've thought of it had I not noticed the trip odometer in one of the CRT screens.
With all these cars you will have T RST issues.
Same here. Trip Reset would make sense.
This is what a Lotus Esprit would look like if it were built by Buick
The Lotus Park Avenue
Lotus was owned by GM during the Esprit years lol.
Exactly... excellent observation!😊
Brilliant.
Damn I've been sitting on the can for 33 minutes.
Glad to see I'm not the only one!
Hope everything comes out alright.
@@paddyoak1 It did, thanks for your concern. It was indeed a sight to behold!
LMAO same
enjoy your piles
It is amazing to think about how many designers and executives at Aston Martin had to agree and say :"Yes, I agree and approve this car, here take my signature"
Looks like something my grandma would drive. I've always wondered why some companies make ugly ass cars.
It’s a real life Homer.
@@fukkitful Ugly? It's cool as fuck, go drive your sleek supercars somewhere else... Oh wait, you can't afford one.
@@christofferrasmussen6533 You were wrong in assume I was calling this car ugly. The cars I had in mind were cars like a Taurus or an Escort. Next time don't get so emotional.
@@timesupgr.8471 I’M RUINED!!!! The biggest blunder since New Coke.
I think it’s pretty interesting in terms of retrofuturism. Back then, people thought this is how future cars will be. Just check the tv shows. And iy did evolve into modern day displays (eg the two issues dough mentions can be software fixes over the internet.
Class video as always Doug. Through you I understand cars!
Those PiPboy gauges are friggin awesome!
Those are probably electrostatic deflection CRTs, like used in old oscilloscopes. It's a miracle the electronics driving them are even partially still functional. New capacitors would probably fix them up.
Also, whoever put that crappy aftermarket radio in it should be ashamed of themselves.
themaritimegirl radio probably crapped out years ago and it was cheaper to install an aftermarket one
Celso Vera I would rather not listen to anything if that's the case.
maybe they wanted a aux input
That Alpine was the shit back in 1992 though.
In english please
two things:
1) the fusebox front-and-center on the dash, intentionally or not - is a superb design joke at the general expense of British cars from the mid-1970-80s and their hit-or-miss reliability.
2) if you think this is weird, Doug ....then you need to get a load of a Citroen DS :)
or an SM
and the citroen ds also has a single pillar or "spoke" steering wheel
there is a lot of citroën with that kind of steering wheel like the gs, 2cv, ami, visa, sm, cx, bx, ax... you get the idea
I notice the fuse boxes under the bonnet were Lucas. As the joke goes "Joe Lucas - The prince of darkness". I am adding my vote for the Citroen DS. In the 1970s my friends mother had one, complete with the swivelling healights, that I went in every week.
Ralphie's father from A Christmas Story would have loved the fuse box placement.
T RST could be the Trip Reset. I noticed the trip readout was at 000 so you won't see anything change. You'll have to put a few miles on the trip readout to try it.
Spot on 👌
Well spotted that man!! 👏
What you people have to understand is this car first went on sale in 1976, digital calculators were only just coming on the market ,yes it seems incredibly outdated now but in 1976 the dashboard of this car must have been so futuristic I love this car it's a design classic a piece of art.
Thanks for your comment Steve I'm glad there's at least one other sensible person out there who knows the score.
David B. My friend's rich uncle had one which I sat in once. As a 20 year old who had only ever experienced a series of 1960's Mini's, Escorts, Ford Populars and Ford Anglias, it seemed to me the most stunning piece of futuristic high-tech. I was completely blown away by it!
In 1976 digital calculators, electronic digital calculators, portable electronic digital calculators and pocket-sized electronic digital calculators had been in use for years and the prices had come down. Scientific and specialized calculators were also becoming quite common. Parents were even buying pocket calculators for their kids and math teachers were watching out for them as they were considered cheating. Let’s not forget too that this car was made a decade later, not 1976, and such electronic displays were commonplace by then. I first saw digital dash displays on a 1982 Lincoln. The only thing uncommon about this car’s displays is they used what appear to be CRT monitors rather than purpose-built vacuum fluorescent displays. Also, it seems like Aston Martin couldn’t figure out how to do an electronic odometer that was capable of maintaining its count for the life of the vehicle, even tho various American cars had that in their 1985 models.
@@ethanlamoureux5306 true, in '81 my secondary school had very slimline pocket calculators with LCD screens which were solar powered and even then, that was established technology from the 70's.
In a car of that budget, using small CRT displays like those used in a Commodore SX-64 or a number of portable stereos of the era to display basic information really doesn't seem that futuristic, it's just current of that period but in a car. I'm quite surprised that they used physical switches and not flat-panel membrane buttons.
To me, the exterior design is the stand-out aspect of the Lagonda. Love it or hate it, it's unique.
It was designed by a guy, who before designed seats (and Aston Martin DBS), and it really shows.
Wife:Your ten min late.
Me: No its 8:65
Wife: I hate when you on Logonda time!
iAlmost popped a blood vessel laughin at this comment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This made me laugh.
Lmao!
You're a legend
Wow, I need sleep. I saw 8:65PM and thought *yup, that's a normal time*
It says Aston Martin under the fuse box lid.... Do I get an Internet point?
Sure! 🥰
Haha yes!
cms1138 no
im from the UK but when i was a kid in the 80's i lived and went to school in Oman. one day my dad took me to the airport and was shown a 24kt gold Lagonda. the car was black but had gold wheels gold grill and badges, and the inside was nearly all gold lol there were actually two of them brought in that day but i only saw one. i was aloud to get into it as well and is one of my childhood memories i will never forget. the car blew me away and iv been in a lot of amazing cars due to growing up in Oman.
That dash is a Fallout nerd's dream...
brutforce100 It straight up looks like 3 PIP BOYs in the dash.
If you like quirky cars the lagonda, bmw z1, 1979 holden hurricane
Doug, I so agree with you. This is the most outrageous, fascinating, and stunning car I've ever seen. I still remember the first time I stumbled upon this gem back in 1982 when I was a paperboy collecting a bill from one of my clients. He was a car nut that dedicated his home as a shrine to the automobile. I shared my love of cars with him and he took me on a tour of his home which was packed wall-to-wall in nearly every room with brochures of just about every car model of that day and going back at least ten years. When he showed me the Lagonda Series 2 with the single-spoke steering wheel, my 12-year-old mind was blown away! Then when he shared that the pop-up headlights were pneumatic and not mechanical like "those crappy ones on the Corvette," my love for the car began to deepen. I must have read that brochure cover to cover multiple times reading every detail down to the copyright information. While the technology looks dated now it was crazy futuristic back then. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, came close to it! When I asked my client if he had ever seen one, he chuckled with the response, "No, these are far too expensive to just be seen anywhere. Only the richest of the rich will ever be able to see one let alone purchase it." Heck, we lived in the heart of Silicon Valley where Benz, Porsche, Bentley, Rolls, and all the other expensive badges were a daily occurance! To his credit, I have never seen one in the "wild" but hope, like you, to be able to one day to enjoy having the immense privilege to. What a car!
Sven Rafferty loved reading this
Took me more than the time of the video to read this comment
@@aishamuzaffar2866 I like to be thorough about my amazing experience on an amazing car. :)
Corvette have pneumatic pop-up headlights even in 60's
@@UliMuliko that's right, they did use vacuum rotating headlights. Frog eyes were common on them. :)
Doug, the type of guy to say, "Thank you!" when someone sneezes.
Justin bless your soul.
Justin Y.? Get out of here okay? Edit: Sorry? I guess? I was out of my mind a couple of hours ago
HAHAHAHHA
You'd say "Thank you!" a lot too if people mailed you left and right for you to fulfill all your dreams and get paid while at it.
Found your alt bitch
Not surprised the fuse panel is on the dash...
Brits have never been able to design a reliable automotive electrical system
The batmobile from the 80s only had one screen, this thing has three! Take that batman.
:(
Kapow!
Hey Doug :) Not sure if you'll read this comment.. Ever.. I know you get thousands. I just have the idea, that from viewers point of view would make your videos WAY more interesting: When you taking cars for test drive, instead of viewing your face (nothing wrong with it), I would rather see how you see the road, the dials, the steering wheel. Sort of drivers POV - please, let us experience driving of really cool cars you're making your videos about. Thanks boss :)
WheelsAndMotors Ive thought this too, lot of car people use this style. I wonder if it’s so you don’t see them breaking the speed limit. Lol
You can edit the speeding out, one guy I watch puts cameras all over the car so he can cut between them, just to give a little more interest than 'man driving car' view, but i definetly think a POV shot would be good, although not always easy to mount a camera to catch both the dash and view out front, because there is a Doug in the way.
spudit2003 that would be super cool. Maybe a little bit too hype for a Doug video.
How about the car driving over Doug’s head ?
yeah like having two camera angles ( cause I still wanna see doug talk ) but great idea
Doug the type of dude to shut the fridge with his hips.
Future Stein another classic right here, bless your soul, man.
Future Stein another classic right here, bless your soul, man
Lmfao! Best comment!
another classic right there, bless your soul, man.
That and other valley-girl moves.
This is a perfect example of a car designed by committee.
I have a copy of Car magazine from April 1983, featuring the model upgrade that Doug was featuring in this episode.
They said, and I quote,. ".. Quite honestly, it is difficult to find any aspect of this car that isn't woefully terrible. Almost any and every feature that you would expect, for it's price and prestige, to reflect it's status - is impossibly awful.. ..from it's ridiculously tiny boot [trunk] to its ugly and error prone dashboard, and given that the car is huge, how the hell is the interior space so tiny?
It's like an inside out TARDIS. Huge on the outside, smaller on the inside. The Austin Allegro has more rear legroom and wider seats, the Cortina has better headroom, the Mini Metro has room for a suitcase, and it's not exactly an earth shatteringly pleasant drive considering its lixury status.
When all is said and done, I find it hard to believe that anyone with any sense of intelligence, will shell out the kind of money that will buy you a really good Bentley (leaving you enough change to buy a Mercedes for the wife), on a truly awful car like a Lagonda."
I I think that says it all really.
I'm sure someone's said it already, but T RST is the trip reset.
good comment
Some other guy had remarked that it was the clock reset
I had to go searching for an answer online, the T-RST switch happens to be the time reset button it resets the clock. Got the answer from a previous owner of one of these cars in the 80s.....he had to find out on his own as well.
Time reset
And you can see it's been reset.
T RST = Trip Reset
I figured that, when i saw the trip at zero. :)
grishman5000 Nice. I thought it was traction control
All hail the Lagonda king
I thought this was common sense
Yup I was just about to comment the same thing
I fell in love with the Lagonda when it first came out, read a story in some car magazine that raved about it's handling and power. Also in the same story was a tale of a Lagonda driver on a country road, just flying when he crested a hill and plowed through the trailer of an 18 wheeler.. the driver stops the car and casually inspects the damage because he really wasn't sure what just happened(as I remember it).
Has to be one of the coolest cars ever, so incredibly 80s
the person who bought that car back in the days 😎 what a boss . Thanks for another cool video
No, a true boss would have bought a Countach or a Testarossa, not this piece of crap
I think the dual fuel tank fill points is genious. Theres times when tons of pumps are full and you gotta swing your car all the way around to orient it correctly. The two fill ups completely solves this aforementioned issue. Should be on every car...
Granted its probably expensive as all get out to design it that way but i enjoy the thought.
Most of the time the hose is long enough to reach the opposite side
@@Boss_Tanaka i hope you are not serious
@@frontsidegrinder6858 l m dead serious. The fill tank hole is on the left on my car. Of course it s’more convenient to choose a left hand side pump but if l have only right hand side pumps left l ll have to park closely and align accurately the rear bumper with the hose.
It s better than waiting. And in our gas stations (France) the hose is just long enough but to be fair most of french motorists don’t know about that
All stations have hoses that can reach around
I have discovered it! I asked Aston clubs lagonda clubs no one could answer even owners didn’t know because the chances of it working are basically zero. The green section is for fresh air! I asked an actual British mechanic and he informed me of its notorious nature.
I searched for this thank you for posting it
Makes sense in hindsight
I had read about this auto when it was available. What I read was pertaining to the other model that you touched on. It had touch sensitive controls and I think that they got rid of them and they were replaced by this model as you've shared with us. I was an architectural designer with my office on Sunset Blvd. in the Sunset Plaza area. The Shams Pahlavi (Iran) visited the antique story that was a part of our office. She pulled up right in front of our offices and came in to take care of some business. A very gracious lady. However, I could not take my eyes off of that car. I really loved the design of it. Stunning. But, as you pointed out - what were they thinking! I had no idea that the interior controls were so odd and unhelpful. The British!! Ron Smith; Pasadena, CA.
This car, is pure 70's style.
Rafael Santos_7 Doug needs to be wearing a leisure suit in this video.
It's a 1987 model
Grey Matters they started selling it in the 70’s
wedge styling is 80`s trend. so, the car was made futuristic for 70`s with a mind to be in a trend by 80`s.
pure 70's style is the Cadillac Eldorado of that era, esp a pimped one
Yes, the rear window has heating coils running through it. That's how rear window defrosters have worked for as long as I can remember...
indeed...both my Toyota 4Runner and Subaru Forester have those, as well as every car I have ever owned save one: my Jeep Wrangler hard top had no way of defrosting the glass. I think it's funny that it doesn't because there is a wiper motor on the rear glass so there is electricity for a defroster.
What is wrong with that Doug? He hates every cool thing on this car. These green displays. Those weird switches. He has no idea what "T RST" is. That MUST be the trip meter, what else? He thinks rear window heating is something special. Has he never seen a car before? He clearly had a bad day.
@@voornaam3191 i think you forgot to watch half the video. He absolutely loves this car lmao
This Lagonda would have made a good Bond car during the 1970's.
I can imagine Roger Moore driving this elegant futuristic car
jepp. for Bonds first car crash at the beginning of the movie
And Roger Moore could have used those screens in the interior of the car as radars or maps
Q would have had to spend a long time explaining to James the options, extras in the interior
Elegant?
Yea, he drives it into the ocean and drowns.
Dough is hopelessly non-mechanical. "the carbureted one i could imagine are harder to keep going (than early 80's EFI)" haha classic!
Doug, the type of guy who reviews cars for a living but rides a bike to work for a greener future...
Rex B Barkin' What are you saying
xDerTopflappen yeah I don’t know what that guy was saying either
I saw one in Tokyo with a thousand antennas on it. The dude had all kinds of funky computer equipment in it.
R A D G a r a g e do you have a vid or a picture
R A D G a r a g e what kind of computers did they look like?
LegendaryGamingChannel I wish I had a photo or a vid. It was hard to believe. I think he was an alien hunter or something. He's gotta be on the web by now. This was over 10 years ago. In Yoga, Tokyo.
R A D G a r a g e wow lmao
Doug is the type of guy to knock a Ford Model T for not having an infotainment system.
Yeah, Ts are so boring, you can´t update your instagram while driving
Truth to be told, he does say he rates all cars to modern standards anyway, which puts even supercars of late decades lower than modern sedans lower in performance.
Well that's just dumb
It’s insane what effort people put into taking care of sim cars, just got a 2000 accord and it’s got EVERY receipt from maintenance and even gas records of how much was spent, how many MPG and how many gallons
Dealer: "hey Doug, we have 1 of only 21 Ferrari F50s"
Doug: "do you have something quirkier in a rainy day color?"
Not only is it way more quirky, it is also significantly rarer than the F50, I challenge you to find a 30 plus year old Lagonda, which will start, and then actually propel itself, in the rain.
The Tesla cyber truck makes this look like a jaguar e-type in comparison.
Lmaoooooo
That shit is ugly.
@@kamallb4650 So is the cybertruck
@@esrb6576 I was talking about cybertruck😬
@@esrb6576 pretty sure that's what he was saying
I can’t believe that an Alpine headunit was installed. Sticks out like a sore thumb.
Brian Westfield -yes, I hate seeing cheap plasticky modern head units in retro cars. Too busy, too many flashy lights. A high-end period Alpine would look much better and sound almost as good. Hell, I'm restoring an 82 Volvo 240 which is hardly a prestige car on this level but I still sourced the correct OEM cassette deck for her. Anything else in that lovely simple angular 80s dash would have looked ridiculous. And you can have most things adapted to take a 3.5mm input now, so you're not stuck listening to old tapes or AM radio.
Richard Edwards agreed. It’s such a shame. The car otherwise looks well kept. The owner should have stayed with a period correct head unit. Such an odd decision.
Brian Westfield WRONG .Alpine was huge in the 80s and fits in perfect
thomascampr yes I know alpine was huge in the 80’s. But IMHO this model was The WRONG choice for this interior.
Better source some replacement transmission mounts or the cassette deck will be the least of your worries.
Never thought I would see anyone review this amazing looking vehicle from the 70's - a truly space age design at the time I always thought. Nice one Doug.
There’s so many bonkers choices in this car. The fact it’s like 5 metres long but has so little leg room. Those digital screens are just hilarious and when they finally pack up the car becomes undriveable.
Pontiac: The Aztek is the weirdest car, ever.
Aston Martin: Hold my ale.
Fiat: Hold my bottle of wine, here's the Multipla!
@@kampfmeersau Haha yeah, was about to mention the Multipla. I don't mind it but it sure put alot of people off when it was released. As a wedge and Bertone fan the Lagonda is the coolest looking luxury car in my eyes.
@@kampfmeersau hold my grappa 😀
Aye the Aztek, may be unusually shaped, but then again, so is the Mk01 Fiat Multipla.
But the Pontiac Aztek isnae a car... ...It's a 4X4, period
@you build it we destroy it - I always thought of the Tercel as the kind of car that people just end up with, rather than choosing to buy it. Sort of like the Plymouth Sundance.
the green on the climate control is for when u smoking on that good gas
You don't smoke gas stupid.
Comment of the year! Lmfao!
@@gello8518 talking about weed they call weed gas sometimes.
All cars should have the green climate control option which pumps weed into the car.
@@gello8518 Why Surrrrre ya can there Griffie my freind.
8:46 this answered the one question I’ve been searching for. *A CAR WITH FUEL FILL CAPS ON BOTH SIDES FOR ONE TANK DOES EXIST!*
Damnit, I need one of these. 🤣🤣
"If the weird car world was a country, the Lagonda would be its king" -Doug DeMuro
I know I'm going to be the only person here to say the Lagonda is good looking.
christdragon your not the only one. It is rather unique.
If Doug DeMuro was a car, it would be this one
*Faktus Kaktus* No, not quirky enough.
LOL!!
I always saw him as more of a Range Rover with a carmax bumper to bumper warranty personally.
Indeed. Unique, full of intrigue, fuller of itself, annoying, overstated, under-engineered, ultra-glitchy, and appears oblivious to the needs and realities of its customers... Yes, this would be the one.
Nah he would be a Pontiac aztek
Doug nailed that accent when describing the man who demonstrated the seatbelts 😂