£250 Cheap Car Challenge 

Its easily just more interesting :D

Not too many youtubers reviewing the Porsche GT3 RS at the moment mate.

Did you mean 718 GT4?

Tbh I've always found cars like the Porsche GT3 etc kind of boring to watch. Like we all know the car is awesome to drive and everything works etc. These types of cars are more interesting to watch since you don't know what to expect

Relatable

indeed

Same. One of the reasons I don't watch the grand tour is because they aren't doing the same challenges. Everything feels scripted and fake, and when somebody mentioned it they made a whole episode making fun of the person who mentioned it.

John E. Those are the best.

That wasn’t intentional at all 😂😂

Top Gear has influenced all Automotive media.

Engineering Explained Alex would still manage to park next to it and hit it with the door

they did that in my local sainsburys - I feel disrespected lol

Reading this comment after parking my van at the back of a car park only to find someone still hit it with a shopping trolley yesterday :/

you all dont put the cart back? i mean back to the shop where all the carts are? is this some weird UK/US thing? weird

@@Lars-gu3wi thought that too! We take trolleys back in NZ

you're totally right my friend. i'm from Turkey . Our prizes more bad than you. because of we are comsuming people.

Yeah, no way would you get a used car here in Australia for 250 pounds. Only thing you might get is a civic with a blown headgasket and trashed body. You need to spend at least 1k aud to get something that runs and drives.

I can confirm this as true

Same in the USA!

Because the Swiss hate cars...

I have actually hade such a challenge on this channel myself. Way before others got the idea. It's german, but it has got english subtitles

@@itsbrun5759 O meu irmão tinha um a GPL todo partido e vendeu por uns 1000 e qualquer coisa... É chato ver o quão caros os carros são cá comparado a outros países

@@rodrigomarques8627 Mano não te esqueças da conversão mas sim os carros lá são mais baratos para crl

@@oreimarcio Mesmo assim fds, não arranjas um carro que ande decentemente por menos de 2000€

@@rodrigomarques8627 yup, odeio que a nossa lei de importação seja assim come é... faz-nos ter de pagar preços riduculos por carros ca em Portugal, ou pelo menos esta e a minha explicação para os preços de carros ca, ja agora tambem me chamo Rodrigo Marques :)

@Advocatus Diaboli could just be a wheel speed sensor, worst case abs module, pull it off a junker, fuel could be something as simple as bad spark plugs not burning all the fuel or it running rich from a old clogged air filter, both really simple fixed most likely, all I know is over here in Idaho, that's a 2500$ car in the condition it's in, 3000-3500 with no lights (required for emissions testing)

That's given me an idea. You seen those wheelie bin lifters on rubbish trucks? Get some attachment that fits into the bumper

Yes please

Yes cheap car videos are the best

Sam Jones absolutely love this, next generation top gear 👍

xTony92 That would be awesome, new top gear sucks, these guys need to carry on the awesome legacy

PLEASE DO MORE CHEAP CAR CHALLENGES!!! Maybe even with two or three cars & a nice roadtrip to scotland or whatever

Ironically it was also a Volvo too that he got for that much!

ONE POUND!!!

I once bought a car for £1 when I worked for webuyanycarS.com (a rip off webuyanycar.com) and a lady in central London called us with a Ford ka and I offered the £1 as the fees for us to collect it were higher than it's value so as a gesture the £1 was offered. The car was mint, 1 owner low mileage and when the driver arrived with the car a trader was waiting with £750 who went on to sell it for £1200ish. It's a rarity but as a motor trader it's a story I love to tell. 🤘

@@wannyyydilliamsss ONE POOOOOOUND (bingo balls go all over the floor)

The magic of t.v he probably didn't.

You can get a $100 car that supposedly works in the states

well when u buy a 2nd hand car you pay for like 200,00

In Germany it is even hard to get a car with "TÜV" aka MOT for under € 1.000,-. For just 500,- you get mostly non-working garbage...

That car is probably worth 5000 £ in my country 😂😂😂😂

Sadly unlike the US, in most other countries( most of Europe) 2000$ is the minimum to get a running shitbox....

It does spent £290 on aircon yesterday... 😢😢

Best comment!

@@Tomyates91 290 is still cheap

@@muhammadusama9778 Just from Argos mate.. Was nice last night to sleep for the first time in the last 3 nights! 😂😂

Why is air conditioning so expensive over there holy hell

Me xD

Hahah bingo !

lol

Me

ITS ME WILL me

They are good.. But unfortunately they get along little too much. Top gear guys r supposed to hate each other gut.. Lol

Think they would be brilliant 👏

Talha If this was Top Gear the air cond in that Volvo would be smashed

No. Yanni, Alex and Mat Watson for Top Gear

No

@DroidTech you can easily get a car for 150 euro in europe

Adri García nice rs4

If you could call it a "car".

​@@ElevatedMiata not true. not in most part of europe.

@@lolly166541 hahaha its not the same I think

Eei paha

@@cottarevan2130 i have had mine for 5 years now, i recommend buying one

gti? cool car

No he needed Nissan Sunny Money.

actually sad that someone would do that. But great steal on a great car

Where can you check the MOT?

Luka Poljanic just type ‘MOT check’ into Google and click on one of the links, all you need is the registration number

@@lukap1407 the UK Gov website has a section for checking the MOT history of a car, you can also check if it’s got a valid MOT and is taxed

Migration problems?

@@Gonken88 It's detroit but british.

I live there!

I can confirm that too

@@Gonken88 what's migration got to do with Essex

Haha cynic

And conveniently in Car Throttle merch.

stonks

@@robinp.1362 noice

😂😂

anything for sale with a welded diff

Plenty of old BMW's out there for that price I'm sure or old Mercedes C class.

Gravemind yeah I bought a 2002 bmw 318i for €250

Probably an old miata or something

You can definetely find a chav's e36 with a welded diff for that budget

Thats alot of working things though

We had a beautiful a beautiful Citroën Xantia wich was amazing, everything was working besides everything

Will Brown that’s a proper idea 👍

Will Brown reminds me of one of the top gear challenges

Would be like the old top gear. Amazing idea

*Please do*

Use the volvo for rallycross

should have stopped and offer £250 for the Lada Niva

I think that site might be a bit wrong, as there's a UK owner's club for Ladas and they have quite decent sized meetups - a friend of mine (who is, admittedly, quite, quite mad) has two Rivas and a Niva, all currently road legal, so I know there are definitely a few left.

There’s a few lada 4x4’s in Canada to but they’re stupid expensive for something designed in the 50s

i see tons of Lada's in Lebanon

Привет!

Daddl D so the good top gear, right?

@@danielaranbitskiy5746 no, the best top gear

gamingturtle64 I love you

@@danielaranbitskiy5746 I love you too

This conversion has convinced me there’s good in humanity!

yes yes yes

Top Gear vibes

And gets to somewhere in the north of France like... Mont St Michel without breaking down. Or the cheaper closer UK Michaels mount or go for it and the scottish highlands. Assuming you can afford recovery for 3 shitboxes.

@@raulp202 Yeah, but I think a little inspiration doesn't hurt they can always put their own twist on it :)

@@jacklondon7873 whoever gets further from Britain deep into France.

I had one and it was actually cheaper to insure than my previous Fiesta.... they do rot like a Fiesta though.

Airline Geek sorry should of just said London then

Volvo oddly the estate is cheaper than the saloon to insure probably about twice to 3 times at a guess. Mates quote. Was around 700

In Ireland it's x20 times more

Road Rage it’s £100 a month on a mk2 polo and I’m 20

Yeh. If you do a bit of googling, won't take you long to find out all about it. Monte Carlo or bust baby!

Did ye aye

Chat too much

@@JM-cw1er aye right hardly

Here in the Netherlands most cars are worth €150 just in scrap, so any car is worth atleast €150 +€1 for every day of APK(MOT) it has left.

Hahahaha

Moug MeDuro: What a name 😂😂😂

@john m mate we don't vote for shit our govt and councils do whatever they want to virtue signal regardless of what the people want.

250 just for full synthetic oil

We vote for import tariffs? I don't remember voting on such a thing

thegreatcarraway django unchained reference?

True

Damn

Gregory Court they gay

With benefits

😂

sis🤣

😂😂

I always do that

@@hiiack1442 I kinda look like an idiot when It gets heavy and I can't stop it anymore tho

Who doesn’t.

@@kovi129 good point

In the good old days

This is what Top Gear should have been. Fuck the BBC, online is the way forward!

tbh these videos have replaced top gear for me, its just not what it was

this are my favorites too, show we can have fun for very little money

" I was the first to arrive, ,,,,,,"

Amazing, thanks! Think you'll really like this Friday's episode a lot!

British pounds are worth about double what US dollars are, my friend. So they bought that car for around $400

@@CarsandChris $300* no way near double

@@charliebrayson you're right I'm quoting from 2008 apparently after taking a look at exchange rates

@@CarsandChris I was waiting when someone would realise that😂😂

@@CarsandChris 241 usd and 31 cents

Yet those in there

I was impressed

yeah first time seeing them that affirms first thoughts

Some parts of Essex are nice, but TOWIE has just ruined all of Essex for most people

@@thatguyoverthere531 Essex has had a bad reputation since before the Towie crowd were even born. I suspect Essex was the target of secret government experiments on the humans, with the aim of recreating the missing link between humans and apes. But they went to far, and now even the apes are embarrassed to be associated with Essex! 😉

Yh it’s full of chavs and roadmen who will smash your windscreen for looking at them

@@billycole6255 only in Basildon, places likesouthend would never get involved in that. 😂

w00dmii5t3r lad I’m from Dagenham it’s like it 😂😂

True

England is in crippling debt. 60% of all inhabitants wont last a month if they lost their job

Bastiaan Oskam How? I live in Scotland and we are lower middle class and we have £4k in savings?

Bastiaan Oskam same here in the us, I saw a survey that said most people don't even have 400 dollars in their bank accounts case of a emergency

Alex Rimeisis they’ll make better hosts then the current ones

Alex Rimeisis no Ethan is so boring

Nah bruh scarbruh

I'd rather watch these guys, than watch Paddy and Freddie struggling to speak the Queen's English.

Is it still on?

I noticed that! Reminds me of late elementary school!

It's the clothes

Or as a beater!

@@thatswiss1385 nah he has lots of beaters

Fix it up for a giveaway car. Nice car for a young driver

@@rajaawad13 ye that ain't a bad idea

Or sell for £300 and make your money back

@@baddriversofeasternmarylan2522 it does

@Top Lobster one day of shopping covers more than one day of eating generally fucking genius

@Juan Cortez Muro no

@Top Lobster LMAO

Was the road Tax for the Volvo free? LOL

£40 is my weeks shopping for me lol but"! I only have myself to feed :)

asianskywalker exactly cause now I’m curious what’s wrong with it and how long this V40 will last if used as a daily

Would make for another nice series

Yeah I'm super curious about that too!

Sounds like a Hoovie's garage video

Impossible

🇪🇺

$20 Petrol , £20 Food , £15 T-Shirt that Fits ha ha challenge done

It doesn't have any oil leaks so that is good but has few other issues. Repair immediately (major defects): Nearside Drive shaft joint constant velocity boot split or insecure, no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (6.1.7 (g) (ii)) Nearside Steering rack gaiter missing or no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.1.3 (g) (ii)) Offside Rear Tyre has a cut in excess of the requirements deep enough to reach the ply or cords (5.2.3 (d) (i)) Front Direction indicator slightly discoloured o/s n/s (1.4.A.2f) Nearside Front constant velocity joint gaiter damaged, but preventing the ingress of dirt (2.5.C.1a) Front constant velocity joint gaiter deteriorated, but preventing the ingress of dirt o/s n/s (2.5.C.1a) Hazard warning lamps not flashing in phase, with ignition on (1.4.B.1f) Hazard warning lamps not flashing in phase, with ignition off (1.4.B.1f) Nearside Front Brake hose excessively deteriorated (3.6.B.4d) Offside Windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2) Offside Steering rack gaiter split (2.2.D.2d)

@@MrRohanThomas that was almost 12 months ago though, I wonder how big these problems or any others are now? They all seem very minor. Well worth doing up imo

@@joannaatkins822 True, but if the speedo has gone since then, it does make you wonder what else could've packed in on what is admittedly a 20 year old car.

@@stephandolby speedo may have gone the previous year, as weirdly its not a MOT fail or advisory.

It's because the insurance is extortionate

Easy

Yeah this is a good idea. Do the north coast 500 challenge.

Man I bought a k11 Micra for £200 and I'd happily drive that to Scotland from the south coast of England and back (if you pay for petrol and accomodation ;) ) If you know what you're looking for and don't care about aesthetics (helps if you don't mind working on it yourself too) then you can grab a reliable car for a good price.

Buy a 2004 Mustang GT. Cheap sport car. :)

They want rich celebrities to host and for me they are not that interesting or funny. Remember how terrible the other versions of top gear are like in America, Australia. That is exactly what has happened to the English one. They should completely change the style, make it real not staged, keep it cheap to produce.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I hate those two northern bellends. So annoying.

Itsthe Geo just like might car mods then?

Bobby McBobface 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

MrSBS Racing In Norway you also can find a car that runs for 500 pounds if you look around and check on finn.no often

norway is the diet verision of sweden

Hey!, I seen you on another video!

@@marmite2956 👍

Quanta verità. Il minimo possibile di passaggio sono 270 euro, almeno qui in Friuli. La mia prima macchina è stata una panda da 300 euro, pazzesco.

@@Staples-King davvero io per la mia go speso più di 400 a Firenze

@@cacca8 Dipende come lo fai. Sotto i 55 kw (mi pare) costano tutti uguale, poi va ad aumentare. Io ho fatto l'atto del passaggio in comune (26 cent) e con quello sono andato diretto al PRA. Se passi per un'agenzia pratiche auto (anche solo un ACI) capace che ti buttano su più di 100 euro. Poi da regione a regione cambia. Sta di fatto che è una merda.

Sono d'accordo, sto cercando la mia prima auto da ormai troppo tempo, ma i prezzi per la burocrazia sono davvero troppo elevati, vedere che in questo video riescono a comprare una macchina funzionante, fare benzina e comprare da mangiare usando 250£ fa quasi ridere

​@@nicolascocco7103 Negli UK ci sta proprio la categoria di gente così, si chiamano "Retroriders". Gente fanatica di auto normali anni 80,90 o primi 00, e ci fanno pure i raduni.

That is the kind of pro he is ;)

He was born with it!

Stoo making fun of his umbilical cord

Stop watching Car Throttle and strap a turbo to your Seicento lol

He's ready at all times lol

And money

Or the rear windows, thought they totally sorted it out at Skoda?

Looks like it was all a scam :P

@@boytechnichian they said something about electrical issues

And the tracking is still miles out

And the roof is dirty o.O

I have just got an ok cycle (motorbike) for £20 :D

in india?

@@adityabose334 yo boi

In my country you can only get a little scooter not electric ether 😓(usa)

that's the whole point of this challenge... even the cheapest cars in the UK (Tata) are ~£6000 for a new car... most small cars start around £10k before insurance, tax or any options (e.g. Aygo / VW Up!).... normally an annual service / road tax will cost you £250... the only cars you get at £250 will normally not be roadworthy within a year, unless you spend a LOT of time/money.... probably both! Which makes it fun...

@flip inheck 515k! Shows that if you keep a car well it'll last👌🏼

Josh well yeah but not the v40. It’s not rly a volvo

Shitty ideia man

Yeah they should, but with a real Volvo not that pos v40

@flip inheck Mitsubishi Carisma not Mondeo

Mahel Khan ikr😂😂

Jaketime04 nothing to explain... i don’t live in the UK either... just figure it out... but the joke is brilliant... because i do know Essex.

@@idi0cr4cy What's so funny about Essex? Why not laugh at Middlesex? I don't see how this is funny..

Ottoman Gaming because loads of trash live up there... not all of them...

@@turgut104 I agree what you are secretly saying, everyone out side of essex are dick heads lol