Crossing the Channel in Car Boats - Top Gear - BBC
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2008
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Hilarious challenge from the Top Gear boys as they attempt to cross the Channel to France in their brilliant but useless home-made amphibious cars.
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"Oh, sorry mate, the cup sank."
A much bigger concern than the boat van sinking.
well he is British 😄
That was a "gentlemen's" version of answer, to Richard's "that wasn't my fault".
How can they drink tea without a cup?
This line cracks me up haha
Lmao
Just imagine being in the middle of the ocean on a massive cargo ship and hearing someone say “we’ve got a car off the port side”
Well, if the captain is British too, he (or she) ought to take it reasonably in stride.
Nice Pfp bro
in the distance you hear an “open fire!”
The real question who would have the right of way
@@nickg90125 Cheeks pfp bro
Love how May got the cup of tea when sinking. True British spirit right there
That cannot be any more British, floating in the English channel having a cup of tea awaiting rescue
We literally got China addicted to opium, destroyed their Navy, burned down the Emperors palace and took possession of several ports, including Hong Kong, just so we could obtain more tea from them.
Britains addicted to tea is no joke.
I love the part where Aldo rain got you out of Nazi prison
@@AbbaZabbaOlyFrn got stuck in the channel on a self-built houseboat?
Just have a cup of tea and wait for it to all blow over
Clarkson's car is a genuinely impressive feat of engineering.
Sometimes my genius is almost frightening.
© Jeremy Clarkson
Well he's an doctor of engineering so yeah 🤷♂️
@@marnixkamminga8083 lol no he's not
@@jebediahkrimsoncraftleding3012 they gave him an honorable doctorate. That's why he always says he's a doctor of engineering twice
Clarkson’s genius... It generates gravity...
British Soldiers cross the English Channel in order to invade German occupied France. 1944 colorized
Handy Andy or like the film Dunkirk ;)
“SKY SEA SKY SEAAAAAA!”
Final transmission of an English ship after being shot by a German U-Boat
Rommel: "I thought the Invasion might be... bigger! Fire!" :-D
CommandanteRamon wow who knew Rommal was so far from the Africa campaign at that time
Gallius Edan he did command the axis forces on the french cost during d-day
These three men are gifts to humanity.
Agreed.
TheMADGUY50 you know I get depressed every now and then and honestly watching top gear helps. Thanks guys!!!!
Agreed best show ever
600th like
I agree. Even Clarkson in spite of his past mistake of punching a producer.
That "boat van" is probably still somewhere in the English Channel to this day.
It's at the Beaulieu Motor Museum in the World of Top Gear display.
@Just another Person No, it is true. I have seen it. It's there along with Jeremy's Nissan and James' Triumph yacht.
@@scsutton1 do they have the indestructible toyota truck there?
@@ghillepig2 Yes, they do. It's in a display just before you go into the main exhibition hall.
@@scsutton1 travel location added
Civilian ships head for Dunkirk to rescue the British forces. *colorized
Underrated
That's great
French person on the beach: Yeah, over there is Britain. It's a wier-
British Car: *drives out from the ocean*
I've been looking for these comments
three British men come out: we did it!
It's a Nissan so it's Japanese.
That car is a DD sherman without guns and tracks xD
Brritish carr frrom the ocean? I don't carre!
Jeremy: Maybe if we snuck up on it
Richard: Yeah, sneak up on the sea. That's brilliant
i litelary saw this comment just when they said that
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Sounds like something an American would actually believe, after all they believe shooting at a hurricane would stop it...
@@speedometer111 ??
@@speedometer111 what?
I love that Rockstar Games added Jeremy Clarkson's amphibious car to GTA5 and gave it a mounted machine gun.
That's the only thing it needed, and in sure he would've added one had he thought of it
That’s such a jezza thing to do tho honestly
They even added Jeremy’s Quadski as well.
"Japanese craftsmanship with a bit of british engineering and a touch of american ingenuity."
That’s because rockstar games is Scottish and a fan of him
8:36 getting exam results
8:04 when my parents find out and I have to lock myself in the toilet.
3:25 - 3:35 The group of students who didn't study for the final when the teacher hands out a cumulative test.
This didn’t age well for A-level students
I misread the Hell out of that and thought "When my parents find out I've managed to lock myself in the toilet".
Big ship sailors, seriously doing their jobs, suddenly see a car pass by XD
Well, either that's not something you see everyday or what the hell have I been smoking
And then they see the Top Gear trio at the car and understand that they should really watch the next episode.
I don't know why but I laughed my guts out seeing this comment😂
Simgenx lol
A bad reason to quit drinking rum. Drink more rum!
"Sorry mate your cup sank" James May.
Haha. i laugh at that too
+Ahmad Sholahudin Al hasany was literally looking for this in the comment
Gold Star you tried.
The greatest sadness for a Briton
It's , Sorry mate the cup sank" James May
“Have you ever heard of the milk of human kindness? Well, prepare to suckle on it.”
Oof
8:05 As the big ship is off their Port side, technically Jeremy has right-of-way. But I do have to imagine that size also plays a role, that more maneuverable vessels (a pickup truck with an outboard motor) must give way to less maneuverable vessels (a 34,000 ton ferry). But my final answer is that the ferry must give way to Jeremy, as maritime law states that vessels in distress always have right of way, which I would assume extends to vessels that have a 99% chance of being in distress at any second.
'sorry mate, the cup sank' I don't know why but it always makes me laugh
Same mate
Kieran White it gets me too
@LG Work *mum
@@asancoon2363 Hes properly American so he cant say Mum its gotta be simplified
@Aaron Cubitt gunpowder was created by the Chinese, and the folk on the correct side of the pond love it
"Why the bloody hell won't it turn around?!"
*blang*
"Ow."
5:04
It’s called a BOOM for a reason
I love how the smile on James’ face dies as Jeremy tells him they’re going to Dover.
I genuinely like the aesthetics of hammonds, and I believe that if it were in a lake instead of the ocean, I absolutely would drive it, and I want it
So long as it isn’t one of the Great Lakes, those can be as rough if not rougher than the sea at times.
@@cryamistellimek9184 perhaps it would be better suited for a canal
@@F4nta5y I mean Richard does live in Birmingham
the prototype struggled with a reservoir.
@@cryamistellimek9184 true I went on my local watertaxi to go to the Navypier the waves were rough when we got even close
I've watched these challenges many times and they never get old. That's a sign of great entertainment.
@BABY LETZY Haha, yep.
that's more like *bbc fucked up big time* everytime I watch these challenges
Big fax
SAME LOOOO;. I come back every few months..its like watching it for the first time
I'm watching today in 2022!
May's car boat = Titanic (First to sink)
Hammond's car boat = Britannic (Second to sink)
Clarkson's car boat = Olympic (Unsinkable)
May boat didnt sink, it just doesnt came forward xD
@@lennartmoritz942 It did sink once but they got it back up :D
I Love your music
If we think back to the original challange, Hammond sank first, down at the head(bow), similar to the titanic style
Then Clarkson capsized, like the Britannic, and may, the only one that didn't go under, the Olympic
@@MechaFen You're absolutely right. Wow, great imagery.
List of times James got hit in the head by his boat saying, “ow” and “OW”
4:11
4:38
5:06
5:51
Brilliant 😂😂
It sounds like the same sound effect 3 times..
Pineli wow, thanks captain obvious, I knew that before I posted this comment...
@@Noah-M-P Kek.
careful, he's a hero
3:38 Hammond's face when he realises why they're driving to Dover hahaha
GTA5 just stole Jeremy's car and called it the technical aqua
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me. They didn't have any sort of trademark or copyright on the design so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lol same
yeah thats what gta does, they have done that with other cars also, personally i think its kinda cool
flying DeLorean too
@Asian face yeah if you see it in game its really obvious
"I've seen.. Titanic. Got a hole in it, sank!" lmao
quickest summary of a movie ever
Anyone enjoying the old videos to get over the self isolation boredom?
I do
5 months later...
Same!
absofuckinglutly
I think I’ve watched all of them
Help
7:16 "sorry mate the cup just sank"
Lmao 😂😂
7:00 boat sinks, lets have some tea. english people...
You're in the cold sea, carrying a warm drink. If you think the idea of warming yourself up is an oddly British thing to do then your country must be cold.
RhysdoubleU Warm drinks cool you down over time though, your body recognises it's too hot and cools you down by sweating.
Pro Era you sweat more because you're hot
That's us Brits for you
well why not.. you got nothing to lose
if jeremy clarkson could cross the english channel in a pickup, why are their no cheap, reliable amphibious cars?
I doubt there's a market for them.
nobody wants to go to france, apart from to prove a point
Buy the Hovervan!
Theres a perfectly good tunnel to get your car to France!
*****
there's also a perfectly good channel.
Watching this June 6th, 2020. Never forget D-day
Primo victoria
The death of Europe and the birth of cultural marxist Eurostan.
Rodolf Nordmadr based
@@swevixeh yea sure whatever came out of your mouth
Double D-day
I love the dawning realization on May & Hammond's faces when Clarkson says "Dover."
I've always thought Hammonds carboat looked quite cozy :D
If only it weren't so wet
speedometer111 u being homophobic
Kleavers iii
Kleavers doom fang pauldrons
Kleavers what car do you have Hammond
James May: 'It's the third time I've been in this BLOODY SEA' XD
That has to be the best pirate I have ever seen
So it would seem...
@@aheccinlemon6879 Aye Commodore.
So does he plan it all out, or make it up as he goes along?
@@TheGary108 yes
Indeed mate
We didn't realize how lucky we were when we had these three on the BBC. The grand tour is great, but the original chemistry these three had was magical.
They lost a lot of the production talent that made the show what it was when they left the BBC. I also think the relationship between the three became a little strained after the whole debacle. I think May and Hammond were mad that Jeremy got the show canned with his behaviour and it took a while to repair the relationships, I know May kept saying he wanted to stop doing TGT after each series but I guess the Amazon money was too much to turn down.
I really like the grand tour. Skip the star in a car and that crap and just show me the boys
The Titanic in a nutshell:
“...Got a hole in it; sank.”
-Jeremy Clarkson
_Through_A_Blurry_Lens_ i read it exactly at the same moment i heard it😂🤗
Hes not wrong tho👀
I mean, that was pretty much the gist of it
I had such high hopes for the vw bus
if one was to really carry that out till the end it would be nearly perfect, closed roof, all the advantages of a boat, including a place for the girls (:))
TrashureSeeker only problem , not enough power
I knew it would fail moment i saw it lol
Tex I absolutely love Volkswagens and whenever there’s a Volkswagen on a episode I always cheer for it
5:05
“Ow...thing.”
I laughed so hard I almost choked on my coffee. Bless you, James May. Bless. You.
Poor coffee
3:29
I love Clarksons face here. He just realizes how bad all their boats are and the fact he has to cross a 22 mile long channel. I bet he’s just thinking to himself…
“Shit”
They removed the best part where the coast guard flies over them!
Jump out... wrestle Albanians!
Now I wanted to see that part... and no idea why they didn't show it in this video, because here they have: ua-cam.com/video/YVjo6YOT3Zg/v-deo.html
3:49 "mine won't do that" and it's the one it did xD
Well..... 50/50 it was the wrong town....
Car guys might know a lot... but most of us don't know about azimuths
Spoliers 👁👄👁
This is the absolute peak of Top Gear for me - it was still pretty unprecedented TV at the time, the antics didn't feel staged (probably because we hadn't seen stuff like this before as much as anything else), it was just a comfy time knowing you were going to see something amazing every time you tuned in.
"You will now drive to Dover, and then you will cross the channel to France." I can't help but notice the lack of instructions regarding not using the Channel Tunnel, or a cross-Channel ferry.
Is anyone gonna tell this man the Channel Tunnel is a railway tunnel?
Or doesn't even start at Dover?
@@caboose.20 Step 1: Drive to Dover. Step 2: Drive to Folkestone. Step 3: Drive onto train. Step 4: Wait. Step 5: Arrive in France. Instructions followed to the letter.
I don't remember saying anything about the Tunnel not being a railway tunnel, or about it being in Dover.
@@adammullarkey4996 no but you had implied it.
@@caboose.20 I don't see how. I made no comment either way, so, the implication is that I meant whichever I believed to be the correct case (which was that the Tunnel is a railway tunnel from Folkestone, not a road tunnel from Dover).
Why are you taking this so seriously, anyway? My original comment was just meant to be a bit of light-hearted pedanticism, not a serious suggestion that they actually should have used the Tunnel or a ferry.
@@adammullarkey4996 It would spoil the fun and isn't the point. The whole point was getting an amphibious car across the channel, duh
I remember when I first saw this I cried with laughter
I want to watch this episode in full again.
Same man
I was shaking my head in despair, because they could have vastly improved on the designs and prevented some flaws with only a minimal bit of brainpower.
- Clarkson: HYDROFOILS to stabilize the thing which would allow him to actually use more of his massive power.
- May: two side-mounted "keels" instead of cutting open the car for a center mounted one.
- Hammond: bilge-pump and some outriggers to stabilize the vertical design.
It took me milliseconds to figure those out, but they were rubbish on purpose.
R Ward
@@Muck006 You take life too seriously
"Sneak up on the sea.....brilliant."
Richard: "And this is where the girls go. U-up here."
Jeremy: "No, Richard!"
Richard: "In bikinis."
Jeremy: "I'm already seeing the problem. Would you like to step down?"
"ever heard of the milk of human kindness?"
"well prepare to suckle on it now"
Fiberglass technology.. barely tips the scales at over 5 tons :D
We failed!!!
Yay, we lost!!!
Mr. Warmo 69 likes
No we lost
Jeremy: [eyes widen in horror]
James: Is it bad?
Jeremy: Yes.
That bit always makes me burst into a tearful laughter.
_-Neu... not the... he's not makin'tha'up.._ (c)
3:28
Jay Swarrow you good?
The fact that even Jeremy said "Mine won't do that" just shows how scary it is. Not many things can kill Jeremy's notorious confidence like that.
6:31 That feels so wholesome.
4:30
"Meanwhile... back with Captain Pugwash..." I'm crying with laughter 😂😂😂
@@Carbon_Volture Tchaikovsky - March of the Toy Soldiers
@@Carbon_Volture No worries mate
that's the first time ive seen people try and emigrate out of britain
dion woollaston you've clearly never been to spain
MrStig691 what does that have to do with the fact that they live in Spain. Can't emigrate when you're over 65? 😂
Spain mate
@@Hjvinke no you can if your over 65 your going some where to die not to live
It's called Australia.
Clarkson and Hammond: *screaming*
May: ow
7:50
“Beardy! You’re going down!”
LMAO!!
Toyota is REALLY GOOD OFF ROAD VECHICLE
That's a Nissan
Jeremy's jeep is a Nissan Pathfinder
+S.M Taha if you look at the doors and the hood, you'll see they say nissan
+pokemaster123ism Ye and you can also tell by what it looks like he's probably saying it cause he watched the first vid and now he thinks tho is the same keep
But it's a Nissan!
The pirates of the English Channel.
Blackbeard doesn't hold a candle to them
At the bottom of the English Channel, U-boats, battleships, the Spanish Armada, A cabin cruiser with a Honda engine.
Glorious.
Well they did recover the vehicle and now it's on display at the top gear museum
I love how GTA5 made Jeremey's truck for one of their missions!
I REALLY wanna see them do this challenge again. I think they could pull it off a second time. I think Hammond had the right idea, and May just needed the right wind conditions.
Rohin Nair
I meant second time crossing the channel, with more time and a bigger budget to work on their individual projects.
Vladpryde i think they should invest in making the hovervan be able to cross the channel
can you imagine the size of the engines they would need, and the fuel tank lol
epicfail86 I'd imagine a 2 gallon fuel tank wouldn't suffice
blackm4niac They wouldn't make it past the harbor LOL
BUT if they used diesel and fed it into a generator, they could save a lot of fuel
No more top gear
As hilarious as Top Gear should be. Poor James, and his little sailboat-car..
Mate have you commented on every Top Gear video on UA-cam ha ha I swear If see you comment on them Agent Washinton
god dammit Washington your everywhere
Poo poo!
+Agent Washington would have worked if he knew how to actually sail...I could prob have had that thing in perfect trim depending on if it has hiking straps though since no keel.
Paul Rude as a 400 sailor that is a sad sight to see that spinny pole getting bartered on that wall
8:25 - the way Jeremy says "the big scary boats" cracks me up.
4:50 I CAN JUST SEASKYSEASKYSEA!!!
Hammond's got dizzying and more anxiety 🤣
1:20 Clarkson: Now, Richard....I'm already seeing a problem. Would you like to step down?
Richard: Yes.
Clarkson: Stand at the wheel.
Richard: Yes.
Clarkson: Now look ahead.
Richard: ......yeah that is an issue
Prepare to suckle on the milk of human kindness.
Devin du Plessis it just occured to me, that clarkson called himself a tit
Daniel Irvine actually, I believe he called himself Macbeth
too full o’th milk of human kindness he is
It’s gone off, it stinks
Opting for a sailboat when tasked with an amphibious vehicle challenge is the most James May thing imaginable 😂
“You will now drive to… Dover”
The drop of both Jame and Hammonds faces is amazing
"So if Titanic had been filled with foam, it would have been here today" Jeremy Clarkson.
"Riding the wave like a twig" -Clarkson
7:05 sailors in the sea after the Lusitania is torpedoed, 1915, colorized.
I gotta be honest, this is an incredible example of the engineering process. They all set out with the same goal, they each failed in a different way, then they each set about refining their ideas, then tested them again, only to fail once more.
Fail and repeat until you success, that's the old school engineering way.
that moment when he reads the challenge and his eyes go big......
I love it
sunk in the channel, drinks tea, most British thing i've seen in a long time :D
Love it when James hits his head on sail at 4:11, lol
He hits the BOOM, lubber.
6:00 that unenthusiastic ass "yay"
“And there was much rejoicing”
When Top Gear was cool!
Yeah when It was a show with 3 mates mucking around as appose to an overly organised tv programme with Chris Evans trying to be Jeremy Clarkson
8:45 the French are like what the hell are the British doing now?
3:48 "Mine won't do that"
Is the only one to do it
3:28. Their reactions are perfect
"how was your holiday?"
"it was great, we went to the beach...
and the top gear team emerged from the water in a white pick up truck."
"..... w-what?" 0_o
Good one!
How is it that merely a lot of "Ow"s can be such a funny recurring joke?
It's in the verbal part, like his famous "Helleu".
6:52 *The sinking of the Titanic April 14, 1912 (Colorized)*
The Grand Tour needs to do this again properly.
They must get the record!!
I don't know for sure but the record might've changed also the grand tour already got a UK record involving amphibious cars
One Of The Best Examples Of Work From The Golden Trio!!!
Love It!!!
Imagine how much fun it must have been to be on that beach and get to watch the Top Gear guys drive a pickup truck out of the water.
These three managed to cross the channel in a welded amphibious Nissan truck. That's a human feat of engineering and top-class content
“You drop it down in this slot, THATS A WOPPER “ 😂
The look on May and hammonds faces when he said Dover were priceless😂
"i can just see sea, sky, sea, sky, seaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" XXD
@6:01 the most quintessentially British cheer of all time...
4:56 me during puberty
😳
When James dropped the cup i just completely lost it.
Hahaha.I think they're nuts but I admire their perseverance.
Genuinely one of the best episodes of the entire series
Hammond: Hey there's a bit of water in here
(Camera cut)
Hammond and James: *floating on the water with life jackets as the car is sinking*
(Richard can’t see in front of his boat)
“I’ll need a sailing box”
Richard gets me every time 😆
It's like kids in the playground at school; Jeremy to Richard;" While you sink, again," ,"No- not this time"," it will"," it won't", "it just will"," it just won't"...... Brilliant.
Binge watching old top gear this with the boys throughout an entire rainy night is the biggest vibe ever
6:36 Ah good old Top Gear, leaving their comrades behind.