£1500 PERFORMANCE CARS: ARE THEY WORTH IT? 

What mods have been done on Mini cooper s... Looking to tune my Mini R53 as well.

So... There's.. Alex - a 'Richard Hammond' (No other reason.. Just, short really) 😉😛 Rory - a 'James May' (REALLY enthusiastic, but, erm... 😉👍) and Taylor - 'A Clarkson' (A big fella, who's quite... 'Destructive' and "It just needs more POWAAAARRR!" 😉👍) Hahahaa 😎🇬🇧

Top Gear on a budget, awesome 😂

What’s the car on the left of the thumbnail?

@@turbo_marc Mini Cooper S ('S' stands for Supercharger')

I'm feeling it as well. These videos are pure gold.

Same, so glad he gave it a go.

He is a conman he ripped off some woman for that mx5

@Matt Hargreaves underpaid her by at least 2k

@Matt Hargreaves she probably felt pressured. Either way he in the wrong. Conman

Only cheap in the uk.

Agreed they are my favourite videos

They are, but they're doing so many at one time that I can't keep track of which series is which. Before re-readinf the title I expected to see Tavarish and Matt in this video.

​​@@Emira_75 I really like Tavarish I first came across him on hoovies Garage. When he did the challenge in a Audi A6 all road adapted for off road in all different colours general grabber tyres and normal coil spring suspension. Hope we get to see him again.

@@alphatrion100however insurance ain’t cheap 💀

Swear Top Gear challenges used like £500 cars 😂

@@NooZzleZ For little more than comedy factor though. For Top Gear to do a video like this one, they'd have taken supercars worth hundreds of thousands.

@@NooZzleZ inflation and stuff

hahahaha you think I can afford a older mini. A grand for the timing chain and nearly a grand for the fuel pump and other engine related problems. Yeah no

You mean what every car youtuber is trying to do these days? It's getting tedious.

Same thing in continental Europe. Nothing good under 15k and not that many to choose from 😔

They’re cheap for a reason 😅

They are cheap for a reason, they have expensive problems and usually rust lots of it being in the UK with our salt roads and very wet climate

Very uncommon to find under £6k in the UK

​@@interceptor-ss8kb rust isn't that much of a problem with Z4s. Z3s rot much, much worse. I own the e85 variant and the costs aren't as expensive as some people make out

Yes❤

It would but it’s a race to whoever buys the Transit first.

It’s the most reliable part of the car :)

I feel ya. Just acquired an e46 325ci. Lovely car besides being scared it might blow up any day.

@@timhawkins1493 m54 e46 are solid though

Love mine but I wouldn't say good on fuel tho😂

Ive had 2 r53s now. Loved both of them. I get 35mpg out of mine driving normally but does dissapear when hammering it.. The way i see it is why put fuel in boring cars

@@Bombastic_Spasticexactly, smiles per gallon not miles! Not sure how Taylor managed 43mpg

@@joeprince3585 oh no, I know mates with V8s that get better fuel economy

​@@Bombastic_Spastic I've had an R53 as a daily for nearly 5 years now, the fuel economy is shockingly poor on them for the performance you get. I love it, but fuck me it's bad on fuel.

Totally agree. Peak top gear vibes. Keep it coming guys!

Yes I was thinking that all the way through all the videos I have watched. Its a Top Gear...tribute? Rip off? It feels that way sometimes with some of the phrases, such as - "Do you know what?" and then a fact. All I need to hear was someone going - "Oh Cock!!" or "That has not gone well" or "POWWWEEEERRrrrrrr!!!!!!!" and it could be Top Gear. With three different blokes arguing and mucking about. Either they have watched all the Top Gear episodes and are doing a sort of hommage, knock off, or its accidental to a degree. After all you cant have three blokes and three different cars doing testing without it feeling like T.G. I did think though, that the horsepower test and some of the road trip such as the fuel test were direct rip offs or ideas lifted straight out of the Clarkson era show. They did the fuel test on the economy run to Blackpool episode and the horsepower test on more than one occasion. Fair play to these three though, they are more natural and have better chemistry and are less annoying then the terrible Flintoff version of the series. Keep it up fellas....

Nah not leagues ahead of the Z4

i thought it was funny when he said he daily drives it and it's good on fuel , even the owners clubs laugh how bad the mpg is

Last in fuel economy because it was modified, dont think it would be last if it was stock

@@LikeBoost42 Nah even with it stock R53s are absolutely shocking on fuel. Off boost it doesn't make a difference because under low throttle there's a bypass valve for the supercharger. Keeping it at a steady pace the MPG should basically be identical. As far as I know Taylors is still on the stock map, just has an intercooler and a smaller supercharger pulley. If it's had a remap then that's a different matter. Though funnily enough I've actually read that remapped R53s can actually get better fuel economy, the stock map makes them run very rich.

As a previous R53 owner, there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t think about that sweet supercharger whine, the excellent handling…and the sky high petrol bill I had 😂

Do you mean scrapping the MX5 👍

There's already videos of him building Phil, do we really need another MX5 😭

@@grantmail4112 Or selling it on. I agree, MX5 would be boring.

I have the BBR super 200 kit on mine - so much better than stock with the extra 50bhp or so.

you can tell how jealous the others are by how much they rag on it

@@productdesign9626 I think they’re tagging on it because they’re shit, such a unbelievably boring car only a middle aged woman would love

@@CarsandtheirParts my Autocruss club would tend to differ. So would every single person I have ever taken for a drive in mine. What do you drive that's so much more exciting?

They do in the UK also realistically!

it has 200k miles...

@@BlackLines even that will cost at least 6000£

@@BlackLines the engine mileage is the last concern with BMW's. If the motor is done you just drop another in it in no time. The body on the otherhand is the main concern. Don't tell me a rare example of an already expensive car just happened to be showed up for 1.5k lol.... There are very few of coupe versions of this model, most of them are convertible.

@@adamfarkasbdp there's a couple of 3.0i manual coupes on AutoTrader right now for 4.5k, nowhere near 10-15k. Pretty sure a ropey one could be had for much cheaper.

@@BlackLines that's still 3 times the price they say they got it for With MOT!

My mini was actually £1300! It does have a couple of little issues though!

It was cheap as it had timing chain issues, if he couldn't fix that himself it would be an expensive trip the garage

​@@joem8213 The timing chain actually isn't that expensive to fix. A good quality kit is about 150-200 and about 4-5 hours labour. It's not 'cheap' but it won't set you back thousands.

​@@MrManBuzz there was the small matter of having to remove the entire front end including engine to change the clutch too...

My mate does timing change for $650😂❤

I went from Swift to a R53. After the R53 I probaly move to Swift Sport. It may have not have the same luxury but I love the low costs and reliability on Suzuki cars. Is a Swift Sport as fun to drive?

Better than your shit mx5

My NC MX5 doesn't give close to what theirs gets either

They were only doing highway driving, so you get much better results.

If you reset mpg average in highway... doing constant 70mph will givr you 43 mpg

@@keithvlogs1 No chance in my NC1 Miata

I'm rooting for the bmw but only because I hate mini's and mx5's the older mini's I absolutely love. The bmw ones don't interest me at all. A mazda rx7 rx8 are great 2.0 petrol mx5 is awful. It may as well be a 2litre diesel. Would actually probably have better performance.

Aka Jeremy Clarkson

Same here in Egypt , those cars are not cheap at all ..

Even an mx5?

@@Toby-ox9pt it would cost me 2 years total salary, fuck our economy.

Was going to say the same. How dare 2 cyclists want to use the same road!

I think people forget most cyclists also drive. I love cycling as well as driving and was very disappointed to hear that remark.

I think a penance is required. Everyone involved in this video (including the editors who decided not to remove those remarks) to try the life of a cyclist. I’ll be going on a couple of hundred mile ride at some point in the next couple of months - a long day ride. That’s your penance. Match me.

The moment Taylor lost all my respect. It's one thing that he thinks like this, it's even worse that they decided to cut it into the video. Why can't we be car enthusiasts without the stupid hate for cyclists.

Agreed, it quite literally puts cyclists' lives in danger. There will be impressionable car enthusiasts watching this, perpetuating the "animosity" between car drivers and cyclists. It puts lives in danger because rather than encouraging patience and mutual respect it does the opposite, putting cyclists in a different "class" to road drivers. I am a cyclist and a car enthusiast, I know of people that have been killed while cycling, I have been in dangerous situations myself. There is no need for this from a popular RU-vid channel.

I’m from the uk, and my NC2 mx5 cost me 7k 🤣