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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2008
- Clarkson, Hammond and May set out to prove that British Leyland made some good cars back in the day. Featuring three popular British made family cars of the 1970s and 80s - The Rover SD1, the Triumph Dolomite, and the Austin Princess, but can they survive the boy's rigorous testing? Subscribe: bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear
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"A car has arrived with nobody behind the wheel, it must be Richard Hammond"!
That was an amazing roast
Alex Gonzalez Ooooooh that burn
Lol
@Sean Kim With a tall long haired man or tall geography teacher.
That's a paraphrase of something Churchill said: "An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing and Clement Attlee got out."
"A car has arrived with a casualty on the bonnet, it must be Jeremy Clarkson"
"You've been lapped by Captain Slow."
"In an Austin Princess full of water."
Kills me to this day lol
That’s saying something lol
😂
Hearing him talk about American cars "Rubbish, slow, too big". Hearing him talk about UK cars "Doesn't work, doesn't work, leaking, incredible"
Wow, American cars are made for a smooth ride and not meant to go fast? Sin!
Wow, British cars break down even when you've just done a ton of work on them, and get worse when you try and fix them again and will probably be in the shop for 3 years? What amazing cars!
@@whenwhen2284 it is really a british car thing to break down, the only cars that worked and british people liked for their comfort, performance, reliability and price were Fords, whether it was a Transit or an Escort, or a Mondeo or a Fiesta...
@@user-bv1gq8jj6b I didn't say British cars are the only ones to break down, most British Leyland cars weren't very good
@@whenwhen2284 that's true, but old Jags, Astons, Lotuses and Vauxhalls weren't reliable at all
@@user-bv1gq8jj6b Most old British cars aren't reliable. People say old Cadillacs and Lincolns weren't reliable, but there's still tons of them still on the road. I have had friends in Britain who only saw British Leyland cars in repair shops and no where else
Jeremy commenting about James’ car:
“It should’ve been called the Austin colander.”
Also Jeremy:
*uses two tanks full of water and loses a door*
@@techno1561 That’s what the S in SD1 stands for.
@@GamerKing50 "Sieve Door 1"
@@ConceivedIsland”Open the Sieve Bay Doors, Hal.”
I wonder how much that had to do with Jeremy's "secret weapon," the sun roof. Seems like maybe the others' cars didn't leak so badly because they duct taped all the holes, albeit poorly, holding the water in with air pressure of all things... And then Jeremy opened a giant hole in the roof. 🤔
Despite all of the razzing that the others give him, James’s Princess is the only one that really worked (semi) consistently.
A bit hard to pay for the looks with that one
it actually worked perfectly, cuz it was bought fully restored, top gear themselves removed gas from suspension side to make it look that way but it worked perfectly and was bought in perfect condition
@@robertdrowning6717 the princess isn't even that ugly I don't see why people say it is, at least it doesn't look like an allegro or a beetle
Erander: Really?
@@LOVEMUFFIN_official yep they bought it off guy in britain who restores these to perfect conditions and broke suspensio intentionaly
"Lapped by Captain Slow in an Austin Princess full of water..."
Nowhere else in the world would you *ever* hear that sentence. This is why I love Top Gear!
Jason1920 Yep 😂😂😂
Nice
Sentences like that are why I neither understand nor like British English
@@austinmensen6965 Great Britain... Rule Britannia !...what happened to this Great Empire... stull best country in the world.... Union Flag feared and respected for centuries..know as the 'butchers apron'. and for good reason.. and I'm Cymru
Austin, you made an important mistake. In England, most people speak English; the clue is in the country's name. In North America, many people speak U.S. derivatives of English. Collectively, they speak U.S. English, or English (U.S.A.). Neither is 'better' than the other; they're different, but to tell English people that they speak British English (which doesn't exist), whilst you speak English, is insulting. Remember, too, that people, in what became the USA, almost finished up speaking German. English was chosen by a majority vote of 1. If that had been a minority vote of 1, then would they be telling German people today that they speak 'European German' whilst you speak German? It's doubtful. Thankfully, they chose English, because if German were the lingua franca in the USA, who would Germany have sided with in WW1? That 1 vote made a huge difference to world events a century or so later, and that difference persists. British people generally like US citizens, and the opposite also pertains. That irritating argument about tea was consigned to history by people on both sides of the Atlantic more than a century before any of us were born! And it's absolutely irrelevant in international dealings today.
People in the North American colonies would have been allowed to continue to tread their own path, irrespective of the political events which unfolded back then, much in the ways in which Canada, Australia, New Zealand, various colonies in Africa, Asia, Central America and Oceania are doing today. It's an unstoppable natural progression for all empires.
All of us, irrespective of nationality, creed, colour, or whatever, need to foster friendship with people from other lands, rather than antipathy; it makes a much better life (and world) for all participants. Variety is the spice of life, after all.
Have a really good 2019.
4:00 can we just appreciate the clutch control
Hill starts like that give me lots of anxiety...
@@jamestorrens645nobody who drives a clutch likes any hills like these. NOBODY.
@@SNOWDUDE13 You're wrong, I have no problems with hills in 2000 Honda Accord 1.8 :D
I know i'm kind of late to the party here, but No clutch, The Austin Princess used in this episode had an automatic transmission. if you watch the full episode (S10 E7), during the "power lap" section at around 41 minutes in Hammond says "(laughing) it's just a rubbish sight" to which Clarkson replies "It's Automatic as well".
@@mountainbiker9307 nerd
"This had central locking?"
- Yes
"Didn't people used to get trapped in these and die?"
- Yea!
When?
@@babydriver6473 1970s
@@dl5498 I think he means a timestamp
you cant die from being locked in a leyland car. There is always enough air getting in and out through panel gaps and door seals. And you dont starve or dry out either because you have enough time to kick your door open from the inside.
@@doktorhund6926 Death by heatstroke is still on the table. Cars get to 76 degrees on a hot sunny day.
I saw this video tagged as "no mature content" and I'll be damned if that doesn't neatly sum up these fellas in a nutshell
Absolutely correct!
best comment yet
I see that you have Descartes as your profile picture. You have my respect.
Hilarious, AND TRUE!!
LMAOOO
"and he brought a piece of cheese" - Jeremy Clarkson
This is what based james sandwich
*c h e e s e*
*C H E E S E*
I love cheese
@@thytor756 me too
This was the very first episode of Top Gear that I ever watched back in 2008. I was roaring laughing when Jeremy’s door fell off. Been a fan of these 3 ever since 👍🏻
Two separate doors fell off as well.
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."
This era Top Gear was brilliant.
Well said Nard dog.
I guess if you are really enjoying something it’s in the good days
I miss the time when Top Gear was this funny
Alex McNamee I miss when we had Top Gear.
elucidate same
This is one of the funniest clips I've seen.
qwasd0r I missed when Top gear had Clarkson, Hammond and May
I know
"And he`s brought a piece of cheese" :D
ikr I love it 😁
Lmao, that remark is so Clarkson
Martins Dakteris So Jeremy Clarkson
Martins Dakteris čau latvieši arī skatās top gear
Martins Dakteris it has a 'dad' numberplate 😂
"Lapped by Captain Slow in an Austin Princess full of water" is one of the best sentences in TV history
James was the only one who didn't complain about the cold water
Michael Benitez They were the one who consumed the drink made in the V8 blender.
Well I think it's just his tolerance is high for anything really, there’s a video of him eating a bull's penis and rotten shark with Gordon Ramsay, and he didn’t complain at all and just said "You disappoint me Ramsay."
@@enderjed2523 "I've got the name for it: 'The Bloody Awful'!"
Sigma may
James does a lot of sailing and boating on the open water, his cold tolerance is likely more advanced.
"And I checked to make sure James' snorkel was still working"....... HMMMHHMMMHMMMMM!!!
Translation: Get off. get off. Get off.
Lol
*HMMMMMMMHMHHHHHHH*
Thank god they are all mates
Translation: *CLARKSON YOU INFANTILE PILLOCK*
Ah. So that is a carpool.
Ayyyy
:I
lol
Stealth t
Stealth ba dum tsssss
4:21 sickest burnout EVER period
A Rover SD1 doing a burnout…. Now that’s a miracle!
The fact that a 360 P UA-cam video from 14 years ago has 17.4 million views really speaks to how great this show was
Clarkson: The door’s come off!
May: That’s quite a big panel gap you have there.
Sigh. I miss these 3.
Same.
U miss the "damned"
They are on a show called "the grand tour" it's on Amazon prime video, and it's great
I miss them too. I have still been watching Top Gear with the new guys.
they haven’t gone anywhere
-Car's value before top gear challenge : 1100 pounds
-Car's value after top gear challenge : 0 pounds
Top gear is the worst thing to happen to a used car
anassmouha2 or a new car
I like the green Lada lookalike, I would drive that so hard
...And the best thing to happen to TV.
They got people wanting to buy at least some of them, so no.
@@glurak888 Triumph Dolomite. Most Triumphs were pretty shit lol. Brought to you by a Triumph owner.
Can’t believe they edited out the bit where he opens the door and the door card is wedged in the frame 😂😂
Or the Euro Egg Cap test! And not to mention the incident with Jeremy's finger, the requirement for the AA Lurpak...
Please send the time stamp
@@charliesmithdrummer please tell me what happend in these incidents?
vids from older youtube era had a 10 mins limit, probably edited to keep it under that timeframe
Best musical tune of the decade that was 😂
These guys should do one last episode for old times sake. Legendary trio.
They still work on the occasional special for the grand tour.
@@rempanda not any more
7:37 The water in James's car looks like 25 years of cigarette smoke and farts.
Btw what if he put a cigarette in the snorkel
Or as he calls them "fag ends."
And beer too
Nah, brown is just a 70s color.
Coincidentally, he's the only one who did not complain about the cold.
Imagine some retired Leyland workers, sitting in their living room, watching the show and remembering exactly which parts they used to assemble, which might leak and why
Jeremy's banter about James' car being a block of cheese and having brown interior WHEREAS his own having similar yellow paint and plum interior gets me everytime. How he didn't see that is beyond me.
Must say that James May made an impressive start uphill after the handbrake test
It required precision and a gentle foot. Both things May does well.
It's an automatic
He just pressed the throttle lol.
"That's not gone well! Sorry!" Might be the most English thing I've ever heard.
How about "Oh this is a bloody good tea, sir!"
The KebabRemover28 fuck you your name has made me crave kebab
@@IlGonfaloniere No that's more 1800s Victorian English. We say "Now that's a proper brew" or "Nice Cuppa'"
That's what Napoleon said at Moscow.
The KebabRemover28 Most English people aren’t like that at all, that’s just a stereotypical expectation
My favourite segment was the suspension test on cobblestone; the look on James' face as the eggs in the colander above his head begin dripping upon him is priceless 🤣
3:54 thats hilarious
Gives new meaning to "driving a tank".
+SirDeanosity The word "tank" was originally applied to the military vehicle as a decoy of sorts... they didn't want people knowing it was an armored fighting vehicle, so they let on it was for carrying water.
You are worse than my dad.
I think that comment drains the last of the humor from this subject.
+moosemaimer Tanks for the info!
Water we doing in this thread?
" There is no-one behind the wheel . It must be Hammond "
Died of laughter😂😂
British Leyland couldn't build a car to save their mother's life. I had a 1979 Triumph TR7 automatic. I got it used in 1982 as my college graduation present. Worst maintenance ever. Went through 2 starters, 3 alternators, 1 fuel pump, front brakes twice in one year. Coolest looking piece of crap I've ever owned.
my dad had 3 SD1's , 2 regular ones and then a Vitesse.
The first one was so bad they gave him another one. that second one was so bad, they gave him a trade up deal for the Vitesse.
The Vitesse spent so much time at the dealership for various electrical defects, that we drove a Jaguar XJS car car from the dealership while the Vitesse was in the shop.
that just adds to its charm lol
Ever heard about the Pacer bus?
I had a TR8 that was fricking wonderful fun, 1 number more and you might've enjoyed it more?
Still, it probably had more personality than anything reliable!
6:09 it’s not every day that you activate the wipers and the water is on the OTHER side of the windscreen.
How do we breathe?
It doesn't say.
well how did he drown?
You don't.
It will take more than that
😅
@Squadron266 Yes nobody saw the video so you had to say that.....*rolls eyes*
"Bucket of magnificence" is the name of my new band.
TheRealConcertKing I made one called SWEEET
😂😂😂😂
Or a sperm bank
Or the bucket I have next to my bed when Noro decides to pay me a visit 😂. Which it rarely does
TheRealConcertKing .
Looking back on these videos. I can't believe it's been 14 years since I watched this for the first time. Brought me so much happiness and couldn't thank these guys enough. The absolute best team. If only we could travel back in time and watch again for the first time. Sigh.
4:08 You can't really script this and that is why it's so awesome.
I'd love to know how bad the weight balance is on that car for it to be going uphill on a steep grade and have the back wheels lift off the ground enough to wheelspin.
James car could be used to transport water to poor African communities.
XrGrimreap3rX you could go swimming in that princess
+XrGrimreap3rX Well, no, it'd break down on the way there. Remember, it's still an Austin Princess.
+Klonoa Flint water would be cleaner when it leaked out than when it went in, methinks...
Hilarious
He did that more or less in the last episode of the grand tour
British Leyland did make a good car. That fire engine.
KeroChu Kawasaki which is mostly a DAF ;)
+jules leenders Dennis, mostly.
+KeroChu Kawasaki that is not a car ... is a truck.. and is a rebaged DAF...
+TheSteelGamer No it's a Leyland T45 truck that was made by British Leyland before it was sold off to DAF. DAF adopted the truck & rebadged it & carried it on for a while.
Leyland made some of the best trucks and buses of that era. It was not until the car segment started to drain funding from the commercial segment that the decline began. They literally didn't miss any possible mistake!
May's plate saying 'DAD' 😂
1:11 love this momment
You truly can not replicate these three hosts' chemistry. They made Top Gear what it is to all of the fans of the show.
I was 17 when this aired. Man I miss them days. Didn't know how good we had it.
"oh no his door has came off" part had me laughing so badly
That smug face Jeremy pulls at 0:40, gold
THE DAMN DOOR'S COME OFF!!!
It is normal for Rover!
Shane Fell "He's come back to Longgridge!"
Take is a optional safety feature.
Shane Fell No wonders Mike Hailwood died in this car. :(
DoctorBohr I was quoting Jeremy Clarkson.
And why did the the other two not lose doors then?
The Dolomite Sprint is actually a fantastic looking little car. I'd love to see a fully restored one.
+DrMcMoist Yeah it looks adorable.
+DrMcMoist LOSER
Of all the comments I've ever left on UA-cam that I felt might irk someone enough to insult me; I wouldn't have guessed it would have been this one.
DrMcMoist Well you should get better taste in cars then. Because your comment deeply offended me
You really shouldn't start a sentence with 'because'.
One of THE best episodes of Top Gear ever. The moment where the door card stays in place whilst the rest of the door opens still cracks me up to this day
2:52 THATS WHAT THE AUTOMATION TEST TRACK IN BEAMNG IS BASED OFF OF
This is almost making me cry now.
msul78 Right there with you bro
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+ Ayah, but it Shafeek
+msul78 this is the wrong video for you cuz it is not sad
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For those looking for the full episode it's S10E7
Doesn't it say it in the description of the video?
it's ep 6 and it's in the description
It was Ep.7 in the box set I have, and when I placed this comment the details weren't in the description.
+Alex Green wish I read this comment before watching the whole of episode 6 lol
+Alex Green Jamey May wasn't in Season 1, his first appearance is in S02
2021...
Still love these guys!
The 3 best automotive presenters in television history...
Is it only me or someone else also noticed that numberplate of May is ''DAD'😂😂
"Imagine filling out the insurance claim on that?!
'Well how did you drown?'
'This is gonna take more than just that little box...'"
😂😂😂
1:30 Clarkson: And he’s bought a piece of cheese 😂
Yep, and James May on drive tribe embraced this good old joke 😀
Great stuff and I really miss the original Top Gear format. So many great clips from them. No other combo of presenters will ever come close to replicating what these 3 had.
Well this really brings back memories. In the hot summer of 1976, when i was 9 years old, my dad drove off one day in his yellow Triumph Dolomite Sprint with black vinyl roof and returned a couple of hours later in the first ever Rover SD1 I’d seen. It looked like the future. Coincidentally it was the 3.5L V8 in yellow. He didn’t have the sunroof of Jeremy’s car but it looked awesome. Oh, and a few days earlier he had come home with £1000 in cash (to pay the deposit), showed it to me and said the immortal words “you’ll never see this much money again”. He was my hero for getting the SD1 but was wrong on that point. Today i drive a 3.5L V8 just like my dad, except mine’s a Lotus Esprit and TBH it’s “not exactly standard”. Ah, memories. Oh, and my son has done the school run in the Esprit for a few years now (pandemic aside) so hopefully he’ll view me one day the way i see my dad from 1976.
4:23
It sounds like the Millennium Falcon dying.
4:18 Smokescreen Deployed xD
“I’ve never seen that before”... XD
Torpedoes on starburt ;)
9:25 Alaska airlines flight 1282
I love how they do the water test. Jeramy’s door falling off was the icing on the cake of comedy
As soon as he said "And he's brought out... A piece of cheese" I lost it laughing XD
Welcome to listening school.......... And you failed
Grafer90 APB is that an ASDF reference to "Welcome to standing up school.......... And you failed"
Lalnable Hector yes...
5:05 Can't believe that couple on the right side of the screen are just snogging away rather than watching the hilarity in front of them.
Good catch. Surely part of the script though?
I vividly remember this episode from when I was a kid. When Jeremy's door fell off during the cobble road I completely burst out with laughter and always do when I see it even though I could probably recite this episode word for word.
Everyone: mentions memorable moments of the clips, misses the old top gear, etc.
Me: focuses on the woosh at 0:09
Woahh never noticed that!!
At 6:54 I think Richard was trying to say I'm a whale.
Pro tip, late 60's-70's British cars were very reliable and well made IF you got one that wasn't assembled in the UK. here in New Zealand they used to assemble them here for the local market. The build quality was excellent and they were as reliable as anything else on the road at that time although the odd oil leaking still persisted XD. I guess its because it avoided the union issues the UK was having at that time
I suspect our Aussie brothers and sisters might look at the P76 and disagree
There's water spraying out of even the door lock! (at 6:33)
Really miss these guys, absolutely hilarious...they got me, over the years, to watch stuff that I never would have otherwise😁!!! Living in England, during Desert Storm @ RAF Upper Heyford, in the USAF...I'm certainly familiar with a lot of cars they trash😁
0:47 no one behind the wheel it must be Hammond.. hahahahahaha
And he's bought a piece of cheese....One of my favorite ever top gear lines
Tan Gre I loved it even more when the piece of cheese won in the end :)
In the grand tour Jeremy eats cheese
6:44 when bokoblins spot you in breath of the wild
The drumbeat at 4:07 is a bucket of magnificence!
Lesson learned.
If you want to buy an old British car, just ignore Hamster and ol' Clark', and listen to Captain Slow.
"Lapped by Captain Slow. In an Austin Princess full of water"
7:50 I just laughed there because Jeremy's accent changed
Kudos to the production team. The music playing when James pulls up in his ' piece, of cheese ' is just perfect lol.
It's the theme tune to the "Terry & June" programme Clarkson refers to when he's roasting James about the car
@@themancuniancandidate2744 Thank you ! Makes sense lol
“Quite a panel gap you’ve got there” camera pans to the car with a door missing 😂😂😂
2020!!!
It was a honour to watch these guys throughout the year. No one can beat them. There will never be a car show lie this ever again. Thank you for good memories and showing the world what true friendship is.
9:17 "It's looking good"
Famous last word
How appropriate that James' registration plate says "DAD" ^^
Because he's the only one of the three that isn't?
AwesomeAlligator Why? What is appropriate about it?
0:57 that WOW
WEOOOW
4:18 *the moment a Rover SD1 turns into a jet plane and is spooling up for takeoff*
James' car's registration plate would cover the cost of all three cars - just saying...
This just proves how brilliant old TG was with these 3 guys, and how bad new TG is without them.
notice how one of the fire trucks is a Leyland, lol
Clarkson - "Watch this.."
Hammond - "Yeah... I'm going to"
--- Cloud of Smoke ---
Hammond - "I've never seen that before"
"Jeremy, it's not filling up."
"YESS IT IS"
There was a big surprise at 9:20
Absolutely amazing how well the Dolomite fits Hammond, and how well the Princess fits May 8-)
Apparently after the Princesses owner sold them the car he got a phonecall from the production team asking how they could release the hydrogas out of the suspension.
"you weren't supposed to blow the bloody door off!"
The old seasons of Top Gear are really some of the greatest TV shows ever produced by BBC. Well done team!
I just love how Hammond summarised our society in 5:56. :D
Jeremy and Hammond roasting James car was pure gold. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I lost it.
This excerpt is from the very first episode of TopGear I had ever watched back in late 2007. I literally laughed until I cried. Since that fateful day, I've not been quite right.
I'm glad your with us
What was so good about old TG with these 3, was the genuine enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction they got from each other’s total failures😁😁😁😁
6:15 *LOOK AT CLARCSONS FACE!!!!* 😂😂