@@xX_Kyl-E_Xx as i can see it it's a 3000 24V because the rear wheel arches are straight. the EVO 500 had, similar to the Lotus Omega, round Arches. also the EVO 500 had a bigger spolier on the trunk lid.
Pause around 1:35 then you'll see the tell-tale white '3000' sticker under the Omega badge and left of the '24V' one. So it's a late-model 3000 as they got the 24V-Upgrade around 1990, I think. But yeah, that's not a slow car. (Wouldn't call it a tank, though. ~1350ish kg isn't that bad for a sedan)
I have said it so many times, one of the greatest automotive pleasures one can get is driving a slow car hard. We all want and some of us have these amazing fast cars, I think I had more fun redline shifting and tripod cornering my first car, a 107 HP 1987 Dodge Daytona than almost any car since.
I remember my 1.3 Mk2? facelift Polo being tremendous fun everywhere and even better since it only cost me £50 and had super skinny tyres on it which made handling tricky. Lots of body roll! Great fun though
well even if they didnt make them for that purpose, which i doubt. I want one now. my headcanon is that lada built the niva for the sole purpose of hotlapping the nurburgring.
people took the piss out my riva...so i gave it a twin webber conversion...racing cams..sports flilter.. dropped from 0-60 in 15 secconds to 9.2 not bad for 1989
Niva was a first car to start a class of SUV or crossover by the way. First 4x4, high clearance, lightweight and no frame. I still like the look, the should make modern re-edition like new Bronko or smth
My brother had a 240. The previous owner totaled two cars with it and got away with torn rubber on the front bumper. The car was a tank. Sluggish engine,4 speed with overdrive button on the shifter, awful suspension but the car is indestructible .
@@zloychechen5150 heh, my dad took out a lamppost on the parkinglot at his old job with his 940, no damage at all to the car (lamppost was probably a bit loose) When he left, they got him a wooden board with a slot and a photo cutout of a 940, and in front of it on the wooden board one of those small solar garden lamps on a post that looked a bit like a lamppost. You could even push over the lamppost as it was connected with a rubber band.
Maybe, but VAZ vehicles are sold all across the globe (except for North America?) and there's lots of Russians living/born in the UK (especially in London, as much as I've heard/read) so it's not really unusual, plus anyone and everyone can come and drive their vehicles on this track.
@@MDDeGrande1994 There was a company importing them to order from the factory for the UK market - if you didn't mind a left hooker. It was on a 71 plate, so Registered sept 2021 or after
@@MDDeGrande1994 It's unusual in the fact Lada have probably sold a handful of new Nivas in the UK, being only lhd. Yes people live and travel, but you can't deny it IS unusual to see a UK registered Niva going round the Ring. I've seen most makes and models go round but never a Niva.
You just know that half of these are the 'family car', and dad has just decided to have a quick lap to give it the beans on the way home from the school run. Respect!
Did anyone noticed that there's the same license plate for two times? It's GEL NR 8 First in a Toyota Yaris at 3:17 and later on a Renault Twingo at 05:45! Option 1: they just swapped it. Option 2: he crashed the Yaris and came back with the Twingo later that year. :D
it's on the yaris in the first clip too, when they are both together. the twingo has a sticker on the windshield in its second clip that isn't in the first clip, too. I suppose both are owned by the same person/company, but even so I don't think you're supposed to just swap numberplates between your vehicles as you please...
When the Multipla was developed, they set out to make it handle as well as a Bravo HGT. The Multipla has a very wide track, and it handles much better than most would believe. The chassis laughs at the 100-ish horsepower the engine makes.
What an unusual amount of Citroëns in this video, of several different kinds even. Saxo, Xsara, Evasion, AX and the most unusual and rarest of all of them: the BX! What a sight! Thanks for posting! Although that Opel Corsa A actually was pretty quick :-).
Couldn´t agree more! I own a BX GTI as well in this exact color and was totally surprised! They´ve sold 230.000 units in Germany alltogether and there are less than 800 left according to the KBA and maybe 100 are GTI´s. I guess a lot more Ferrari Enzo´s have been on the Nordschleife, than BX´s:)
@@spookywind4133 940's have a relatively flat bonnet/hood and big headlights (TV screens), the 740 has a slightly shallower nose but has a more pronounced bonnet bulge/ridge. 240's as opposed to the 7 and 900's actually have the odd soft radius/curve to body panels rather than being designed by a ruler.
@@spookywind4133 Both good cars, I currently own a 240 saloon and a 940 turbo wagon. Easy to get them up to around 200bhp just with a cheap boost controller.
It's more amusing to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow. this is one of my life mottos, along with: "the important thing is not to accelerate, the important thing is not to brake!"
I will admit that I do dream of taking a Ford F450 and driving on something like the Nurburgring. There are few things stranger than seeing a heavy duty pickup be driven fast and hard.
They're pretty fast because of the power and the weight provides a lot of grip. The 6.0 F350s drive like they want to do 90mph at all times and can do it effortlessly except tight turns. It would probably be a quick lap if driven in the same style as a long wheelbase AWD car or early porsche
Wow that Citroen at 3:31 is doing well. Brought back memories of a guy I knew in my teens who had one and somehow wired in a standard house speaker for his stereo so it'd be bouncing round his boot and sliding around. He used to have his seat so far back because he was 6ft. Sadly he hung himself in the woods near his house, very sad. Good memories of him though, he was a funny guy.
Many viewers seem to be triggered by the fact that the title says "slow cars" and the thumbnail is an Opel Omega 😁(no, it's not a Lotus Carlton). FYI, by "slow car" I mean slow around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, or at least not a track oriented car. Yes, a 300HP opel omega can be fast on the highway, but so can a 1000HP Pickup truck be. Now put them both on the Nordschleife and they won't be as fast as a 125HP Suzuki Swift (with the correct driver of course).
The guy at 1:45 really knows his truck. How much psi to keep the tires at to take advantage of the body roll. Left looked lower than right on the turn, but evened out once out the turn
I believe that's the guy that did a sub-10 bridge to gantry challenge with that bonestock Citroen AX, it looks like the same car. His onboards are on UA-cam.
Gotta love the way the title says slow cars but the thumbnail is one of the fastest road cars of it's day, know for being a crazy fast car that caused multiple police depts to have to retrain their officers in fast pursuit tactics after they received them and they kept crashing them due to how fast they were xD
Years ago I took a mid 90s skoda felicia wagon with over 300,000 kilometers to the nurburgring. There was light rain and I got sideways, the spectators went wild!
@@C9LD as a seville owner, it is possible to power slide but hitting actual drifts are extremely challenging and can only really be done in short bursts, it's weird asf but possible.
@@MagikSpellzz I own a 99 civic (my first car) and a 2014 ford fusion. Despite being an automatic, I slide my ford all the time (rwd), But my civic just wants to turn.😭 Edit: they're both stock
Love it. An AX going round on four pram wheels, several plumber's vans gunning it to get to burst pipes, a Sierra that's rammed full of passengers, a Micra that's only got five more minutes to get the pizza delivered or it'll be a freebie, and some Volvo estates presumably full of wardrobes and chests of drawers! 😎
Das video hat mir sehr gut gefallen, in manchen Ecken hatten die kleinen voll die Nase vorn. Da sieht man was möglich ist wenn man gut fahren kann. Gerne mehr von so zeug!
Fiat Multiplas actually handle damned well, wide track and a semi space frame body shell… Half tempted to get one and sleeper it by swapping the 1.9jtd for the 2.4jtd and changing all the heavy windows out for plexis to drop the centre of gravity a bit.
There's a guy in Portugal modding 2.4JTDs, throwing them into Fiat Bravos and getting a little bit over 300hp out of them, 300hp in a Multipla wouldn't be as fast, but I'll admit it would be a cool thing to see.
The biggest problems of "slow cars" and mostly old cars that were cheap, is the tire width, if you put wider rims and tires you can increase a lot the cornering ability of the car. And second thing is the suspension, if you put stiffer suspension and harder roll bars you can make them even better. Just check how good the ban at 8:13 handled the turn with better tires and a racing suspension.
@@SimonWoodburyForget well said. Bodyroll isn't bad at all if the chassis can take advantage of it. A lot of the older citroens lean heavily but handle extremely well.
Get the most out of whatever car you have 👍♥️ My neighbour, a pro racing driver once challenged me "Let's go to a track. We swap cars, I drive your GM, you drive my sports car. And I'll still beat you!" The average household car is exceeding the limits of most household drivers anyway. I did say I trusted him on that 😅
Cool! What's your neighbour's name? What car and racing serie does he race in? I'm a motorsport enthusiast who wants to get involved in motorsport to become a driver/rider so I'd like to look him up!
If we had more of those old Volvo sport wagons in North America I would buy one in a heartbeat. RWD Manual transmission and more utility than any American pickup truck could dream of.
2:47 Ahh, Renault Kangoo... A stiffer rear end can not be found, and the Megane is not much better. I had the same kind of snap oversteer with one at work, thankfully on a gravel road where I could save it into the next corner. I never told the bosses for some reason.
This channel seems to cover the Nurburgring extensively. Is there a video clip of the whole lap Sabine Schmitt in the transit that she did for BBC Top Gear a number of years ago
you can’t imagine how proud I was especially doing it on this corner. the same evening on our way back to france my friend logged on youtube and we saw ourselves in the video this was amazing
Everytime I see a SUV or Pickup on the Nordschleife, I know the electronics working to keep this things on the road are like: "OMG, what is the driver doing!? Good Lord, we can´t handle this, make it end!"
At 2:28 that old Nissan Micra is the stuff of nightmares for all the BMW boys that think they can drive. That thing looks like some old shitbox but if you look closely, it has barely any body roll and a shitton of mechanical grip. I love it.
As an owner of 115hp 2001 Mini Cooper I had to admit - you can have fun in small, slow car! Fun factor is more avaliable even with smaller speed. When I drive my other, bigger car 120km/h it's just quite silent, comfort driving - in Mini 120 or higher feels like you're doing 180 :D
Some of these aren't even slow cars, just old lol When they came out they were considered quite sporty. That Opel is an Omega 3000, the top of the line Model you could get directly from Opel at the time with 204hp. Sure that's not a lot by today's standards but this car is from the late 80s... Then there's that Xsara VTS which has 167hp. That is well in line with other hot hatches of the time like the Golf IV GTI or the 206 RC/GTi
precisely. people have no idea what "fast" or slow" is in a car, they just look at numbers on a sheet of paper the original Miata had 116 horsepower and though it certainly wasn't a beast by any standard, it was far from "slow". it still had a higher power to weight ratio than many of the old Z cars, and even quite a few of the 70s pony cars. also, you don't need a lot of straight-line speed when you never have to slow down for corners, hehe
@@grahamw56 it's not just similar looking, it's the same as the Lotus Omega or Opel Omega A. They were just sold under different names in Germany and the UK. I meant the Omega 3000 was the top of the line model with an Engine designed and produced by Opel. The Lotus Omega/Carlton has a Cosworth Engine and was one of the fastest production saloons in the world when it was released, only bested by the Alpina B10 BiTurbo
They might have slower cars, but quite a few of them actually know how to drive racing lines. Just having a fast car doesn't make you a good driver it's more about having solid fundamentals and then it doesn't matter what you're driving.
I can never decide if the passengers holding up their phones in vertical mode are filming a rubbish video vertically instead of horizontally or if they are shopping or browsing the Internet.
Actually based on the N-ring observation many of these older and/or cheaper ordinary cars handle hard driven corners better than many modern wannabe sporty cars with too many electronics... This vide is a great proof of that.
i always love seeing slower cars absolutely flying past faster ones, having a fast car only really matters if the driver is also decent enough to take advantage of it, which most drivers cannot at least irl
Anyone else noticed the Yaris at 0:14 and the Twingo at 5:50 both run a German plate: GEL NR 8?? It's even possible to see the cable it's at 5:53. Not nice to see this...
I recall pushing my sister's Citroen AX to the absolute max on the freeway. 140 km/h felt like 240 km/h in that thing. I would have loved to have taken it to the Nurburgring to do some serious cornering.
Some look like "slow" the basic model but aren't,the first volvo spin the wheel exiting the corner,the vw van must be modified too. Saw a vectra A,memories bring me back on 2014 when i got there with mine 🙂
That VW was definitely modified; I drove those things back in the 90s and they were very softly sprung (would lean to one side on fast corners). However, what gave it away on the VW was that the diff appeared to be welded - the driving wheels screeched through the turn in a way that looks (to me) that the inner tyre was trying to rotate at the incorrect speed.
What about the Lada Niva with custom wheels? It probably also has a track-prepped suspension (since it didn't tip over)? Either that, or the driver's steel balls were weighing the vehicle down to keep it planted haha
Toyota yaris and nissan micra is the main reason that our takeaway deliveries are still hot enough to burn our mouth here in the uk plus they change the oil just as often as the deep fat fryers (not very often)
Not only are they fun to watch, I'm pretty sure that all of them are great fun to drive. One of my favorite cars ever was a shitbox that could barely break most speed limits. Loud and driven to the max made it exciting without risking even getting a ticket.
The Twingo RS isn't all that slow. It's a pretty neat little hot hatch for a 1.6 NA. The GT has the 1.2 T in it, with decent tuning capability. Bump that turbo three pot to 150hp, work on every handling spec possible and you have yourself a pocket rocket.
Either I was really distracted or the only twingo here was an mk1, and as far as I know, the most "powerful" engine to equip those twingos was the 75hp 1.2L 16valve. Which, btw, is most likely not the engine that twingo has, since that's a pre 2000 Twingo. That one is probably rocking a 55 hp 8 valve pushrod engine with single point fuel injection, or at best the same engine with multipoint fuel injection.
@@Str4ngerr without too much hassle?! A guy can barely fit his hands in the original engine compartment in order to do an oil change. I really can't imagine any 1.6L swap to be an easy job in this car.
These are much more fun to watch than supercars
For me there’s NOTHING like the visual appeal of an over-financed, under-brained, knob totaling his ego.
@@RedEye19 Well, that is funny too
Every car driven on the edge is fun to watch
Not only to watch but drive too
I'd argue that they're just as fun to drive as well
Driving a slow car fast means that you're having fun for a much longer duration, which is something that i'd always prefer
Much more fun to be on a ragged edge when driving a slow car than to drive a quick car and not get the most out of it
We all love fun here!
*Proceed to run on foot 1 lap on Nurburgring*
And shows that you are a better driver
I saw what you did there ◤¬ ˒̫̮ ¬◥
The Opel Omega GSi isn't a slow car, it's a fast tank
Looks more like a omega 3000 or omega Evo 500
It's badged as a 24V, equivalent to the Carlton GSI in the UK.
The condition looks amazing, compliments to the owner.
@@xX_Kyl-E_Xx as i can see it it's a 3000 24V because the rear wheel arches are straight. the EVO 500 had, similar to the Lotus Omega, round Arches. also the EVO 500 had a bigger spolier on the trunk lid.
@@CommodoreCaravan1981 totally agree, I think that it is an Omega 3000 ❤
Pause around 1:35 then you'll see the tell-tale white '3000' sticker under the Omega badge and left of the '24V' one. So it's a late-model 3000 as they got the 24V-Upgrade around 1990, I think. But yeah, that's not a slow car. (Wouldn't call it a tank, though. ~1350ish kg isn't that bad for a sedan)
I have said it so many times, one of the greatest automotive pleasures one can get is driving a slow car hard. We all want and some of us have these amazing fast cars, I think I had more fun redline shifting and tripod cornering my first car, a 107 HP 1987 Dodge Daytona than almost any car since.
100% True! I have a blast in my little 60HP Fiat Panda everytime i take it through some twisty backroads here in Switzerland.
@@deinemudda6617 Better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow!
I've been driving a mk2 golf gti 8v from 1989 the last 3 months and its always a blast to drive!!
I remember my 1.3 Mk2? facelift Polo being tremendous fun everywhere and even better since it only cost me £50 and had super skinny tyres on it which made handling tricky. Lots of body roll! Great fun though
Miata
The moment I saw that Twingo and Yaris overtaking that Porsche, I knew this was gonna be good.
he didnt have a german licence plate that expains alot
The sideways Multipla was also a highlight
I made me laugh out loud
Lada built Niva to do a lot of things but a hot lap on the Nurburgring probably wasn’t one of them 😂
Yet it wasn't that bad😅
well even if they didnt make them for that purpose, which i doubt. I want one now.
my headcanon is that lada built the niva for the sole purpose of hotlapping the nurburgring.
people took the piss out my riva...so i gave it a twin webber conversion...racing cams..sports flilter.. dropped from 0-60 in 15 secconds to 9.2 not bad for 1989
I wouldn't have done it too fast for me lol
Niva was a first car to start a class of SUV or crossover by the way. First 4x4, high clearance, lightweight and no frame. I still like the look, the should make modern re-edition like new Bronko or smth
Those Volvos 740, 940 and 240 really give an example of what is a long lasting car . Those are truly Supercars!
My brother had a 240. The previous owner totaled two cars with it and got away with torn rubber on the front bumper. The car was a tank. Sluggish engine,4 speed with overdrive button on the shifter, awful suspension but the car is indestructible .
@@TheCerovec if an old volvo is flying into a lamppost, it's the lammpost's problem.
@@zloychechen5150 heh, my dad took out a lamppost on the parkinglot at his old job with his 940, no damage at all to the car (lamppost was probably a bit loose)
When he left, they got him a wooden board with a slot and a photo cutout of a 940, and in front of it on the wooden board one of those small solar garden lamps on a post that looked a bit like a lamppost. You could even push over the lamppost as it was connected with a rubber band.
In Germany WE call them Diesellok
Yes, they can practically lap everybody if pushed.
Extra credit to the bloke in the Lada Niva!
@@DJValor311 You can see the strain of that added weight on the front brakes, though.
Made it better than the amarok
@@suspeh Yes, i think if you don´t have ESP it can´t mess with your line 🙂
Solid Russian build quality!
UK registered 2021 too which is weird as they haven't been sold in the UK for years and years and are no longer made in right hand drive either.
a british registered Lada Niva on the nurburgring? now that is unexpected
Maybe, but VAZ vehicles are sold all across the globe (except for North America?) and there's lots of Russians living/born in the UK (especially in London, as much as I've heard/read) so it's not really unusual, plus anyone and everyone can come and drive their vehicles on this track.
@@MDDeGrande1994 There was a company importing them to order from the factory for the UK market - if you didn't mind a left hooker.
It was on a 71 plate, so Registered sept 2021 or after
In Armenia, Niva races against BMW and Mercedes and feels good😂
@@MDDeGrande1994 It's unusual in the fact Lada have probably sold a handful of new Nivas in the UK, being only lhd. Yes people live and travel, but you can't deny it IS unusual to see a UK registered Niva going round the Ring. I've seen most makes and models go round but never a Niva.
The engineers designing it were probably born because of hot German laps
You just know that half of these are the 'family car', and dad has just decided to have a quick lap to give it the beans on the way home from the school run. Respect!
Omega 3000 24V (with wheels from Lotus Omega) is measured for 0-100 6.95 s, Top speed 246.
One of the fastest, or the fastest, of the regular cars.
I had a white one. Great car.
Once encountered an Omega Lotus back in 2000, he blew away my CRX VTEC 🤣
not exactly slow - lol
@@ReolSPro mine had 270bhp. But 210bhp standard is pretty decent in the early 90s.
The Omega 300 24v and the Lotus versions are totally different animals.
That Volvo wagon wasn’t slow, it was smoking the tire up the hill 👍
Weight transfer.
That's because it could need some LSD. It runs an open differential, so of course it will do wheelspin when turning and accelerating hard.
@@StaelTek yeah, but it's doing this at quite a high speed.
@@StaelTek ... and of course you doing this with your
@@rhd_rwd I can taste your saltiness in my popcorn. Keep going 🍿
Did anyone noticed that there's the same license plate for two times? It's GEL NR 8
First in a Toyota Yaris at 3:17 and later on a Renault Twingo at 05:45!
Option 1: they just swapped it.
Option 2: he crashed the Yaris and came back with the Twingo later that year. :D
it's on the yaris in the first clip too, when they are both together. the twingo has a sticker on the windshield in its second clip that isn't in the first clip, too. I suppose both are owned by the same person/company, but even so I don't think you're supposed to just swap numberplates between your vehicles as you please...
@@isthatrubble Yeah, illegal where I am
When the Multipla was developed, they set out to make it handle as well as a Bravo HGT. The Multipla has a very wide track, and it handles much better than most would believe. The chassis laughs at the 100-ish horsepower the engine makes.
That's why it deserves the gt3 edition in assetto corse mod
@@fahmiperwira Wait for the 1000tipla the youtubers Vilebrequin are making to be finished
1:43 the Lada Niva was impressive
Almost brand new 2021 registration!
Yes
@@robotronuk we are calling it "tested by time".
UK numberplate too, didn't even know they were sold in the UK
@@robotronuk It could only be the date of import and built much older.
What an unusual amount of Citroëns in this video, of several different kinds even. Saxo, Xsara, Evasion, AX and the most unusual and rarest of all of them: the BX! What a sight! Thanks for posting! Although that Opel Corsa A actually was pretty quick :-).
Couldn´t agree more! I own a BX GTI as well in this exact color and was totally surprised!
They´ve sold 230.000 units in Germany alltogether and there are less than 800 left according to the KBA and maybe 100 are GTI´s.
I guess a lot more Ferrari Enzo´s have been on the Nordschleife, than BX´s:)
That BX driver probably had the most comfortable ride around the Ring that day.
I was happy for the BX 😃
C2 vts
The Xsara VTS has every right to be on the Ring. Not a slow car at all
By the way, Opel Omegas are still very popular amongst brazilian drift and race drivers.
Goes to show that you don't need a fast or expensive car to have fun.
2:13 Volvo 940 Turbo Wagon
3:46 Volvo 240 Wagon
5:59 Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon
How can you tell em apart
@@spookywind4133 Easy. No problem. A 740 or 760 is harder or a 940 and 960 but even there it can be easy to see what it is if you just got a few sec.
@@spookywind4133 940's have a relatively flat bonnet/hood and big headlights (TV screens), the 740 has a slightly shallower nose but has a more pronounced bonnet bulge/ridge.
240's as opposed to the 7 and 900's actually have the odd soft radius/curve to body panels rather than being designed by a ruler.
@@eyesodd thanks I’ve been thinking about buying a 240 but I had no idea what all the different numbers meant
@@spookywind4133 Both good cars, I currently own a 240 saloon and a 940 turbo wagon. Easy to get them up to around 200bhp just with a cheap boost controller.
It's more amusing to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow.
this is one of my life mottos, along with: "the important thing is not to accelerate, the important thing is not to brake!"
I will admit that I do dream of taking a Ford F450 and driving on something like the Nurburgring. There are few things stranger than seeing a heavy duty pickup be driven fast and hard.
you must've watched Ken Block's F450 dually drift huh? 😎🤘
@@piuthemagicman No but now I know what I am going to be watching next.
Fucking incredible video, team O’Neil also did an f450 “will it rally”. confirm it will rally but probably only once
They're pretty fast because of the power and the weight provides a lot of grip. The 6.0 F350s drive like they want to do 90mph at all times and can do it effortlessly except tight turns. It would probably be a quick lap if driven in the same style as a long wheelbase AWD car or early porsche
Sierra, Omega A, Vectra A 💪
Great cars 👍
As a Russian i have massive respect for the guy that took his Niva to the Nürburgring
...why?
@@JCBOiii maybe because Lada is Russian? and Niva isn't exactly something you'd bring to a track?
@@purplewastaken exactly
i would love to do that once i get a Lada!
@@roodlaargo it would be fun on a RWD 2107 maybe tuned or on a kalina sport
8:16 that's a sleeper for sure
Wow that Citroen at 3:31 is doing well. Brought back memories of a guy I knew in my teens who had one and somehow wired in a standard house speaker for his stereo so it'd be bouncing round his boot and sliding around. He used to have his seat so far back because he was 6ft. Sadly he hung himself in the woods near his house, very sad. Good memories of him though, he was a funny guy.
What I love is the "A" stickers meaning he is a young licence, but still send his little saxo :D
I’m sorry to hear that
@@da_bosslegend9020 Yes he was a lovely chap. A real shame. I remember him fondly.
Rest in peace to him
A car can take a turn.
A story can take a turn.
A life can take a turn.
Many viewers seem to be triggered by the fact that the title says "slow cars" and the thumbnail is an Opel Omega 😁(no, it's not a Lotus Carlton).
FYI, by "slow car" I mean slow around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, or at least not a track oriented car. Yes, a 300HP opel omega can be fast on the highway, but so can a 1000HP Pickup truck be.
Now put them both on the Nordschleife and they won't be as fast as a 125HP Suzuki Swift (with the correct driver of course).
The guy at 1:45 really knows his truck. How much psi to keep the tires at to take advantage of the body roll. Left looked lower than right on the turn, but evened out once out the turn
thats an SUV i believe
@@roodlaargo "it's an suv 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓"
@@Ac3Mustang because it is? u mad that u didn't know that? i was just correcting you
@@roodlaargo the same damn thing.
@@Ac3Mustang no its not🤣 learn car body shapes bro
3:45 he didn’t even brake, brave man
I believe that's the guy that did a sub-10 bridge to gantry challenge with that bonestock Citroen AX, it looks like the same car. His onboards are on UA-cam.
He knew that braking wouldnt help unless he was gonna come to a stop!
I just love that Sierra and the Omega at the begining!
I'm so proud of seeing so many french cars and drivers. We may not be the first at the finish line, but we're gonna have fun on the way there !
Gotta love the way the title says slow cars but the thumbnail is one of the fastest road cars of it's day, know for being a crazy fast car that caused multiple police depts to have to retrain their officers in fast pursuit tactics after they received them and they kept crashing them due to how fast they were xD
Years ago I took a mid 90s skoda felicia wagon with over 300,000 kilometers to the nurburgring. There was light rain and I got sideways, the spectators went wild!
4:42 That Citroen is badass
Eargazem
did he just drift a fwd car?
@@C9LD as a seville owner, it is possible to power slide but hitting actual drifts are extremely challenging and can only really be done in short bursts, it's weird asf but possible.
@@C9LDpower sliding. using the handbrake lock the rear wheel car will slide for little bit.
@@MagikSpellzz I own a 99 civic (my first car) and a 2014 ford fusion. Despite being an automatic, I slide my ford all the time (rwd), But my civic just wants to turn.😭
Edit: they're both stock
Love it. An AX going round on four pram wheels, several plumber's vans gunning it to get to burst pipes, a Sierra that's rammed full of passengers, a Micra that's only got five more minutes to get the pizza delivered or it'll be a freebie, and some Volvo estates presumably full of wardrobes and chests of drawers! 😎
Nothing but respect and love for those Guys ❤👏🏻
Thumbs up for the red 90's Opel Omega lol
2:55 the front wheel camber on that renault van!
Here in Brazil, the Opel Omega, it's called Chevrolet Omega, it came out here with a Chevy 250 engine, inline 6!!
Thats because during a long time Opel was just the european filiale of chevrolet.
Das video hat mir sehr gut gefallen,
in manchen Ecken hatten die kleinen voll die Nase vorn.
Da sieht man was möglich ist wenn man gut fahren kann.
Gerne mehr von so zeug!
04:00 Classic Ford sagging from the rear axle when people sit there. Miss the old days :D
A cheaper car at it's limits is way more fun than it should be.
Fiat Multiplas actually handle damned well, wide track and a semi space frame body shell… Half tempted to get one and sleeper it by swapping the 1.9jtd for the 2.4jtd and changing all the heavy windows out for plexis to drop the centre of gravity a bit.
Good idea
There's a guy in Portugal modding 2.4JTDs, throwing them into Fiat Bravos and getting a little bit over 300hp out of them, 300hp in a Multipla wouldn't be as fast, but I'll admit it would be a cool thing to see.
The guy in the Xsara got a youtube channel too. Drives really good.
Xsara owner did a lap with Misha, you can see it
@@mrfrancy0154 I know I saw it before this
The biggest problems of "slow cars" and mostly old cars that were cheap, is the tire width, if you put wider rims and tires you can increase a lot the cornering ability of the car. And second thing is the suspension, if you put stiffer suspension and harder roll bars you can make them even better. Just check how good the ban at 8:13 handled the turn with better tires and a racing suspension.
@@SimonWoodburyForget well said. Bodyroll isn't bad at all if the chassis can take advantage of it. A lot of the older citroens lean heavily but handle extremely well.
Pushing a car to its limit sounds way more fun than driving a super car at barely any of its power on this track.
Get the most out of whatever car you have 👍♥️
My neighbour, a pro racing driver once challenged me "Let's go to a track. We swap cars, I drive your GM, you drive my sports car. And I'll still beat you!"
The average household car is exceeding the limits of most household drivers anyway.
I did say I trusted him on that 😅
Cool! What's your neighbour's name? What car and racing serie does he race in? I'm a motorsport enthusiast who wants to get involved in motorsport to become a driver/rider so I'd like to look him up!
If we had more of those old Volvo sport wagons in North America I would buy one in a heartbeat. RWD Manual transmission and more utility than any American pickup truck could dream of.
2:47 Ahh, Renault Kangoo... A stiffer rear end can not be found, and the Megane is not much better. I had the same kind of snap oversteer with one at work, thankfully on a gravel road where I could save it into the next corner. I never told the bosses for some reason.
Bro cut the corner 💀
3:00 that was brilliant, I love how hyped they were too!
as someone who actually loves multipla for its unique look and family friendly interiors, seeing it go all out made me smile and made my day ^^
Unique look, alright. A giant melting marshamallow.
2:05, that VW Amarok is on dealer plates lol
Proefritje?
This channel seems to cover the Nurburgring extensively. Is there a video clip of the whole lap Sabine Schmitt in the transit that she did for BBC Top Gear a number of years ago
ua-cam.com/video/5KiC03_wVjc/v-deo.html Part 2 - the lap
3:09 hahaahhaha They are so proud of the drift 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
you can’t imagine how proud I was especially doing it on this corner.
the same evening on our way back to france my friend logged on youtube and we saw ourselves in the video this was amazing
Everytime I see a SUV or Pickup on the Nordschleife, I know the electronics working to keep this things on the road are like: "OMG, what is the driver doing!? Good Lord, we can´t handle this, make it end!"
Except for the Niva. That thing has not much electronics and yet it handled that corner super fine. 😀
Lada built the Niva to do a lot of things, but a hot lap on the Nuremberg ring probably wasn't one of them.
Its just top slow to slide off the Track. 😄
I like nivas, tho.^^
7:08 When a customer sets a Same Day Delivery and it's already 11:55PM.
Love this, I love how the camera avoids all the actual super cars to focus on the lemons
once heard, "ita more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow"
At 2:28 that old Nissan Micra is the stuff of nightmares for all the BMW boys that think they can drive. That thing looks like some old shitbox but if you look closely, it has barely any body roll and a shitton of mechanical grip. I love it.
0:55 Miata!😍
I also liked how that Cuore lifted its leg.
That Lada at 1:54 looked like it was just about to tip over lmao
As an owner of 115hp 2001 Mini Cooper I had to admit - you can have fun in small, slow car! Fun factor is more avaliable even with smaller speed. When I drive my other, bigger car 120km/h it's just quite silent, comfort driving - in Mini 120 or higher feels like you're doing 180 :D
6:15 lmao
Some of these aren't even slow cars, just old lol
When they came out they were considered quite sporty.
That Opel is an Omega 3000, the top of the line Model you could get directly from Opel at the time with 204hp. Sure that's not a lot by today's standards but this car is from the late 80s...
Then there's that Xsara VTS which has 167hp. That is well in line with other hot hatches of the time like the Golf IV GTI or the 206 RC/GTi
+ almera gti
I think The BX was a GTi as well. Not slow by standards of the time
Don't forget the similar-looking (Vauxhall) Lotus Carlton. Hardly a 'slow' car, by any standards. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Carlton
precisely. people have no idea what "fast" or slow" is in a car, they just look at numbers on a sheet of paper
the original Miata had 116 horsepower and though it certainly wasn't a beast by any standard, it was far from "slow". it still had a higher power to weight ratio than many of the old Z cars, and even quite a few of the 70s pony cars. also, you don't need a lot of straight-line speed when you never have to slow down for corners, hehe
@@grahamw56 it's not just similar looking, it's the same as the Lotus Omega or Opel Omega A. They were just sold under different names in Germany and the UK. I meant the Omega 3000 was the top of the line model with an Engine designed and produced by Opel. The Lotus Omega/Carlton has a Cosworth Engine and was one of the fastest production saloons in the world when it was released, only bested by the Alpina B10 BiTurbo
They might have slower cars, but quite a few of them actually know how to drive racing lines. Just having a fast car doesn't make you a good driver it's more about having solid fundamentals and then it doesn't matter what you're driving.
driver skill tops all
Some of those people weren't messing around. They could really drive!
I can never decide if the passengers holding up their phones in vertical mode are filming a rubbish video vertically instead of horizontally or if they are shopping or browsing the Internet.
Actually based on the N-ring observation many of these older and/or cheaper ordinary cars handle hard driven corners better than many modern wannabe sporty cars with too many electronics... This vide is a great proof of that.
Я ждал момент когда Нива на бок приляжет🤣🤣
Но она проехала лучше. Фольксваген Амарок имел бо́льшие шансы прилечь - у него заднее колесо оторвалось от асфальта
Чуть чаем не подавился,когда ниву увидел,но как не странно,когда амарок заваливал в поворот,нива не такая и плоха😂
@@AlexeySuVa да, Обморок опасно проехал)
That title is so inviting! Lol, drive it like you stole it! Lol, that looks like more fun than the super cars!
8:04 Legendary 😂😂💥
The crowd ROARS!!!!
i always love seeing slower cars absolutely flying past faster ones, having a fast car only really matters if the driver is also decent enough to take advantage of it, which most drivers cannot at least irl
My car is based off of the Vectra C Caravan 6:28 so just imagine that going around the circuit, but it’s a Pontiac G6
Awesome Upload! I Enjoy the Slow cars Slightly More! lol
Hell yeah! I would totally ship my manual Hyundai Elantra '09 in germany to try the famous track! I love this little car
I'll bring my 03 Camry, we can party.
@@mikehall3976 hahahaha hell yeah
@@mikehall3976 I mean it's only $850 to ship a car to germany.... just saying
Anyone else noticed the Yaris at 0:14 and the Twingo at 5:50 both run a German plate: GEL NR 8?? It's even possible to see the cable it's at 5:53. Not nice to see this...
The Omega that was shown, is not a slow car. It was the Omaga A 3000 24v with 204HP.
Something so much more interesting and fun about lower powered cars being driven hard. This is awesome 😎 .
”Straights are for fast cars, corners are for fast drivers”
I recall pushing my sister's Citroen AX to the absolute max on the freeway. 140 km/h felt like 240 km/h in that thing. I would have loved to have taken it to the Nurburgring to do some serious cornering.
Some look like "slow" the basic model but aren't,the first volvo spin the wheel exiting the corner,the vw van must be modified too.
Saw a vectra A,memories bring me back on 2014 when i got there with mine 🙂
That VW was definitely modified; I drove those things back in the 90s and they were very softly sprung (would lean to one side on fast corners).
However, what gave it away on the VW was that the diff appeared to be welded - the driving wheels screeched through the turn in a way that looks (to me) that the inner tyre was trying to rotate at the incorrect speed.
What about the Lada Niva with custom wheels? It probably also has a track-prepped suspension (since it didn't tip over)? Either that, or the driver's steel balls were weighing the vehicle down to keep it planted haha
Toyota yaris and nissan micra is the main reason that our takeaway deliveries are still hot enough to burn our mouth here in the uk plus they change the oil just as often as the deep fat fryers (not very often)
Refreshing video. I might took my 04 Octavia for a spin. 🤣
That Xsara has rally heritage!!!
4:29 as JC would say, 'some poo came out'
It looked like cat litter
Not only are they fun to watch, I'm pretty sure that all of them are great fun to drive. One of my favorite cars ever was a shitbox that could barely break most speed limits. Loud and driven to the max made it exciting without risking even getting a ticket.
Some of these 'slow' cars have the telltale signs of a RollCage - which tells me that they aren't as Slow as we are being lead to be believe.
The Corsa A definitely had one installed.
Lada Niva, Carlton GSI and that spotlessly clean looking white Citroen AX were my faves!
Also some love for the BX and the multiple old Volvos!
Y the AX was my favourite
LOL the opening vid is awesome, a Yaris being chased by a Twingo, both passing a Porsche!
But bro, 2:14 #turbobox isnt a slow car, wtf...
3:00 I do the same thing every day when I come to work with my Citroën saxo and Peugeot 206 +, french cars have chassis designed to do this
The problem are the brakes not the speed.
Couldn’t help but notice that beautiful Porsche flat 6 howl behind the renault at 4:21
The Twingo RS isn't all that slow. It's a pretty neat little hot hatch for a 1.6 NA. The GT has the 1.2 T in it, with decent tuning capability. Bump that turbo three pot to 150hp, work on every handling spec possible and you have yourself a pocket rocket.
Either I was really distracted or the only twingo here was an mk1, and as far as I know, the most "powerful" engine to equip those twingos was the 75hp 1.2L 16valve.
Which, btw, is most likely not the engine that twingo has, since that's a pre 2000 Twingo. That one is probably rocking a 55 hp 8 valve pushrod engine with single point fuel injection, or at best the same engine with multipoint fuel injection.
@@rrs_13 or maybe it has a swap, I think you can fit a K4M in there without too much hassle
@@Str4ngerr without too much hassle?! A guy can barely fit his hands in the original engine compartment in order to do an oil change. I really can't imagine any 1.6L swap to be an easy job in this car.
Me and my mate did the ring in an original Austin Mini 1000 with 38 hp 😂 most frightening 15 minutes of my life.
8:02 was my fav :D :D
Lmao 🤣
ooo man..instead of workin I just watched this whole thing in fullscreeen
3:00 - FWD drift! :D
ahahah it was us
I didn't know I needed this in my life. Most excellent.
8:01 That guy made my day! 🤣