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!
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.
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
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..
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’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.
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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
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!
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.
That RPM "screen" isn't actually RPM, either; the engine is off, it cannot possibly be sourcing the bar input from RPM. Since it's actuated by the throttle with the engine off my guess is that just a sort of TPS(throttle position sensor) relabeled as RPM by Aston Martin. British engineering!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Remember being stunned when those came out. Now they are classily dated and futuristic at the same time. $170k then and the same corner lights as MkIV Midgets and LR Series III's. Love it!
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.
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.
Inflation figures given on shows like this (especially financial info drops) are always wildly inaccurate. $170k 35 years ago is $370k today? Not even close. Firstly the rich don't feel inflation they just charge 5% -10% more per year each year to compensate. The little guy feels inflation. In 1965 (60 years ago) a beautiful 3 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood cost $15k. Same (exact same) house today goes for $60k 60 years old. New house with the same specs costs $300k. That's 20 times the cost. That's actual inflation. Minimum wage was $1/hr. Today, 60 years later, it's about $8. Let's do some math... SHOCKING TRUTH: At 5% inflation your buying power is halfed every 13 years. So in 30 years it is 1/4 what it was. In 60 years it is it is 1/16 what it was. A 1960s DOLLAR spends like $16 today would. $40 per week in the 1960s spends like $640 in today's money. Get the picture? Minimum wagers make HALF of what they should after inflation and live in an environment where everything is twice as expensive. Now the big guys keep milk and egg prices low to reflect a "low inflation rate", but truth is very different. They want you poor and oblivious to it, so the other half of your wage you give to them you won't miss. Ever wonder why in 1950 the wealthiest man in the world had a vast fortune of $50m? Today that title goes to men who have $200bn -$300bn. That is five to six million TIMES more than Howard Hughes had in 1950. Talk about inflation !!! The vast wealth is from the wealthy FALSELY using fake inflation numbers and stealing half the wage of every person on earth. Just food for thought. Hell is not hot enough for some people, but they will get to enjoy it anyway.
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.
Agree with Tim, by all means stick something aftermarket in if the original packs up - but something in keeping like an old 80's unit which would look crazy, or, leave original in, and install a modern one in a discrete place like the centre console storage, doesnt screw up the past version of the future and you get your modern day sound quality.
@@zamanraja9531 shit makes me wonder your not reading the speedometer lmfao 😂😂😂🍄, it has an arrow or it points where it's at on the fuel level. Pretty cool fact.
Doug is the type of guy who goes to Boston to see a Kansas concert and Kansas to see a Boston concet. His favorite song is "More than a feeling is just dust in the wind".
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.
I saw one years ago and not realising it was an Aston Martin thought it was some sort of kit car made for a joke And that was just the look of it on the outside
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.
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.
I used to drive 30 years ago. There are many electrical system failures, and if you open the left and right windows at the same time, the fuse will break, so I had a Japanese mechanic replace all the electrical parts and wiring with Japanese ones, and the failures stopped and the fuel economy improved. There were a lot of problems, but it was an exciting car that made me forget about it.👍
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.
@@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.
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.
Plush is the word and the leather is probably butter soft even after all these years but the quality of the stitching is atrocious even by north american standards....the console stitching looks like it was done by a myopic 87 year old from kent.....
It's just you because it looks like they used all the bad things and all the bad leather they had left in the factory at that time and that they used everything on this car to get rid of the trash because this interior dosn't have any luxury standards AT ALL.
Not crazy at all. These cars are SO MUCH MORE CAR then this fellow reports. I have road in a Lagonda, and i was impressed. I still would love to own one.
@@CAPTKELLYify yeah something about this car has grown on me and I think its actually a nice car for the 80s 😂 looks better than the bentleys and rolls from this era
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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 ...
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??
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
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
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
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... :)
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
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
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.
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”
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
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..
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
"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 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
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.
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
Screens make it seem like you're in Fallout 3.
yep pip boy dashboard was my first thought
😂😂😂😂
Or war games
"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
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
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
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.
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
When a Lotus Esprit and a Lincoln Town Car really love each other very much…
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
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.
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.
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 says Aston Martin under the fuse box lid.... Do I get an Internet point?
Sure! 🥰
Haha yes!
cms1138 no
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
@Ivana NotyersIts 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).
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????
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
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.
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.
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.
"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
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
Not surprised the fuse panel is on the dash...
Brits have never been able to design a reliable automotive electrical system
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
Those PiPboy gauges are friggin awesome!
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.
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*
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.
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
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!
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 batmobile from the 80s only had one screen, this thing has three! Take that batman.
:(
Kapow!
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.
Im sorry officer I can't tell my speed the old TV is flashing like it is having a seizure
I bet that the officer would have a look and roll in the street laughing and they wouldn't even notice you driving away.
@@stylis666 LOL that would be the plan 😁
Frame rate of the camera, it's actually not flickering
a problem more commonly seen with LEDs, but the other screens look fine in the recording, maybe it actually looks that fucked up
That RPM "screen" isn't actually RPM, either; the engine is off, it cannot possibly be sourcing the bar input from RPM. Since it's actuated by the throttle with the engine off my guess is that just a sort of TPS(throttle position sensor) relabeled as RPM by Aston Martin. British engineering!
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
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.
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
*The Doug DeMuro of cars*
Supraman Lol
Best comment of the bunch
Sorry, but no. The car at least *LOOKS* cool.
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!! 👏
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
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
Has to be one of the coolest cars ever, so incredibly 80s
Doug Demuro, the kind of guy to ask his wife to give him a prostrate exam and make direct eye contact the whole time.
Okus Sidenote,LOL
Okus Sidenote
If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
that’s not possible
Okus Sidenote gay
Doug, the kind of guy who loves the look of an anteater.
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
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.
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
If Doug was a car.
...he'd be a taxi
Aztec
I'd like to say he'd be an AMC Pacer, but those were actually cool in a way.
Doug the type of guy to play mokey sound effects for every single animal
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.
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
No anteaters were harmed during the making of this video.
Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central Yeah but many Ants were sacrificed to get this to youtube.
Zot zot zot
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
Remember being stunned when those came out. Now they are classily dated and futuristic at the same time. $170k then and the same corner lights as MkIV Midgets and LR Series III's. Love it!
Still my personal dream car....
This car looks like the Pizza Hut logo
ForgottenLevels lol, it does
Lmfao good one
Accurate 😂
hahahahaha ❤😂u made my day, BTW tomorrow Im not working and I wasn't in pizzahut for years, I know where I'll go
It does, and it came first. HMmmmmmmm . . . I smell a lawyer.
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
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.
Inflation figures given on shows like this (especially financial info drops) are always wildly inaccurate. $170k 35 years ago is $370k today? Not even close. Firstly the rich don't feel inflation they just charge 5% -10% more per year each year to compensate.
The little guy feels inflation. In 1965 (60 years ago) a beautiful 3 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood cost $15k. Same (exact same) house today goes for $60k 60 years old. New house with the same specs costs $300k. That's 20 times the cost. That's actual inflation. Minimum wage was $1/hr. Today, 60 years later, it's about $8. Let's do some math...
SHOCKING TRUTH: At 5% inflation your buying power is halfed every 13 years. So in 30 years it is 1/4 what it was. In 60 years it is it is 1/16 what it was. A 1960s DOLLAR spends like $16 today would. $40 per week in the 1960s spends like $640 in today's money. Get the picture?
Minimum wagers make HALF of what they should after inflation and live in an environment where everything is twice as expensive. Now the big guys keep milk and egg prices low to reflect a "low inflation rate", but truth is very different.
They want you poor and oblivious to it, so the other half of your wage you give to them you won't miss.
Ever wonder why in 1950 the wealthiest man in the world had a vast fortune of $50m? Today that title goes to men who have $200bn -$300bn. That is five to six million TIMES more than Howard Hughes had in 1950. Talk about inflation !!! The vast wealth is from the wealthy FALSELY using fake inflation numbers and stealing half the wage of every person on earth.
Just food for thought. Hell is not hot enough for some people, but they will get to enjoy it anyway.
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
Whoever stuck that aftermarket radio in this car, shame on you
Tim Beck dumbest comment I’ve read on this video
muhammid ali the type of dumbass to put a tacky aftermarket radio in a rare priceless Aston Martin
Tim Beck tbh I agree with muhammid ali. I’d stick an aftermarket radio in it.
Agree with Tim, by all means stick something aftermarket in if the original packs up - but something in keeping like an old 80's unit which would look crazy, or, leave original in, and install a modern one in a discrete place like the centre console storage, doesnt screw up the past version of the future and you get your modern day sound quality.
"Priceless" Isn't 10k are you kidding me? lol
Left and right fuel doors, genuinely should put this on all cars 😂
Yeah not gonna lie az old as this is, they were prettt smart back then becuase that would be amzingly convinient
Trus me the amount of time I go the pump I’m like shit wrong side 😂😂
@@zamanraja9531 shit makes me wonder your not reading the speedometer lmfao 😂😂😂🍄, it has an arrow or it points where it's at on the fuel level. Pretty cool fact.
Yeah, cool! My 62 mercury monterey had it in the center of the back under the license plate, but I guess that would be considered unsafe today.
Or just put them behind the license plate like old muscle cars, you can still park at either side of the pump.
Doug is the type of guy who goes to Boston to see a Kansas concert and Kansas to see a Boston concet.
His favorite song is "More than a feeling is just dust in the wind".
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
What? No infotainment touch screen where I can spend 20 minutes on just to turn on the AC? No I don't want it.
Al H. It was the 1980s. What do you expect?😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
But you do still get a digital dash thou :p
Roman Bukins That's nice considering its age though.
I saw one years ago and not realising it was an Aston Martin thought it was some sort of kit car made for a joke And that was just the look of it on the outside
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.
These now outdated screens are the exact reason why the Bugatti Chiron opted for a more simple interior.
Yep, all these cars today with ''modern'' screens and displays will be so old in a few years.
Yeah, just like the cars with "modern" navigation and infotainment screens in the mid twothousands nowadays
and what can you find left and right next to the speedometer of a Chiron...
Or EVERYTHING without a screen at all will look extremely dated anyway. There will likely be no new cars in 20 years with a standard gauge
UCreations i wrote simple, not screenless.
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.
I used to drive 30 years ago. There are many electrical system failures, and if you open the left and right windows at the same time, the fuse will break, so I had a Japanese mechanic replace all the electrical parts and wiring with Japanese ones, and the failures stopped and the fuel economy improved. There were a lot of problems, but it was an exciting car that made me forget about it.👍
You forgot to say you 6'3.
Lmaooo right
hahaha
"Doug's gotta let those hoes know what's up" - some guy on another video
tuqan, would you rather have him use bananas as scale?
This car was designed for normal sized folk not Americans.
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
It looks like someone did the blueprint in wrong aspect ratio
Best comment of this video.
"We should go to Aston Martin and demand that FREE first service we never got!" lol he says it with such enthusiasm
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 most hilarious thing about this car is that there is a super-rare long wheelbase version.
There's also an estate (wagon) version. Google will find it.
looks like somethin you’d see in the cyberpunk game
Once he showed the single spoke steering wheel I thought that as well
"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.
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.
Is it just me, or is that interior simply gorgeous?
TemuzLM it is! Love old fashion interior designs. Most modern designs just dont compare
Not just you! It's unique and cool and I like it. Kind of a cyberpunk vibe.
it's simply garbage
Plush is the word and the leather is probably butter soft even after all these years but the quality of the stitching is atrocious even by north american standards....the console stitching looks like it was done by a myopic 87 year old from kent.....
It's just you because it looks like they used all the bad things and all the bad leather they had left in the factory at that time and that they used everything on this car to get rid of the trash because this interior dosn't have any luxury standards AT ALL.
The T-RST is the Tripometer Reset button. Also, on the climate control, I believe the "green" zone is just the outside vent.
I never knew I needed different horn tunes, but I do now.
I know this sounds crazy but this was my dream car in 1985.
Nothing crazy about it.
Its actually one of the better looking cars of the 80s, especially interior wise imo
I can relate. I've always loved performance sedans. This is the British Quattroporte.
Not crazy at all. These cars are SO MUCH MORE CAR then this fellow reports. I have road in a Lagonda, and i was impressed. I still would love to own one.
@@CAPTKELLYify yeah something about this car has grown on me and I think its actually a nice car for the 80s 😂 looks better than the bentleys and rolls from this era