American Reacts May, Hammond, Clarkson "Still, Could Be Worse" Compilation 

Yeah, in the simplest sense, it's just wood that's been compressed inside the earth.

Plus coal takes up less room compares to wood, so more coal can be stored, so a theirs a longer range

Also depends on what you have available - large forests in the US.

Coal burns 4x hotter, if you have a cast iron stove it won't last nearly as long burning coal (even worse with smokeless coal)

and its easier to gather/mine than dead wood.

It was such a nutty excuse. "I can't sweat, because I'm a war hero!"

It's also a double reference to when the trio got attacked by a mob whilst trying to escape Argentine during the top gear Patagonia special

He was building on what James said when he said “perfectly straightforward shooting weekend”

prince andrew tried to claim this as a reason it wasnt him with underage girls being supplied by Jefery it didnt wash with the whole off UK

maturing is slowly realising may is the funniest

Important note on the horsepower thing, it was a measurment of the average work a horse could do in a day, not what max power it could do short term, and it was done that way to make the steam engine look more appealing and highlight it's advantages over a horse, namely being it's continious power output over longer periods of time.

It was so much easier when the first (or previously the last one) letter signified a year in which the vehicle was register.

The first registration plate, A1, was issued in 1903.

@@kalinaphillips9779 yes but it was primarily changed to spread new car sales across the year, can’t remember the stat but like a third of new cars were sold in august just for the new letter prefix plate

thanx, i did not know that.

*September to February, and March to August.

That'll be 1949.

@@steakandkidney3142 😆 you know what I DID put 1949, and thought I got it wrong 😆

it's called Top Gear Race to the North. The Jaguar was actually registered in 1952, and the steam locomotive was completed in 2008 (to a 1940s design).

Slightly incorrect for Italy: we don't put the initials of the city, and we don't put them because they're the largest cities. For example, my car has "PD", that stands for Padova, you could see the initials would be "PA", but "PA" is Palermo. "BG" is Bergamo, the initials would have been "BE", but "BE" is unused, even if there are 3 cities that start with those letters, Belluno, Bergamo, and Benevento (respectively "BL", "BG", "BN"). So, the 2 letters are not the initials of the city, but a code, and only a selected number of cities have it, their size is irrelevant: Rovigo has "RO", and has around 50k inhabitants, while Giugliano in Campania, with its over 120k inhabitants doesn't, that's because of the administrative structure of Italy. Italy is divided in 20 regions (Tuscany, Lazio, Veneto, etc.), and each region is divided in provinces, from 1 in Val d'Aosta, to 12 in Lombardy. Italy has a capital (Rome), and each Region has one aswell (Venice in Veneto, Milan in Lombardy, Florence in Tuscany, and so on) known as "Capoluogo di Regione", and each province has a capital aswell, known as "Capoluogo di Provincia", and those are the cities where the provincial administration have the offices, including the vehicle registration offices. The code you see on italian license plates is the code of the province in which the vehicle was registered.

You'd need a lot more storage space/larger tender if you only burned wood.

Not that many European countries have plates associated with a specific driver and not a car. That's just a thing for South Europe.

@@eozcompany9856 I think it's the case in Belgium at least. I have a friend there and it was him that told me. He bought a new car and had to transfer the plate over because it was registered to his driving licence.

@@aldomir I belive that Belgium, Italy and Switzerland do it but otherwise, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and many others don't. Same with France I think.

N Ireland uses a system which is basically a continuation of the original 1903 system for the whole of GB and Ireland, where the 2nd and 3rd letters include either I or Z to indicate it was registered in an Irish county, starting alphabetically with IA = County Antrim (Antrim also later got DZ, KZ and RZ) - the numbers run from 1000 to 9999, with the numbers 1000 and where all the digits are the same being considered “cherished numbers” which you pay extra for. The rest of the UK ditched the original system in 1963, and the Republic of Ireland in around 1987.

because of the Falklands War and more particularly, the licence plate on Jeremy's Porsche 928 which to some people had a reference to that war.

The car was a Fiat Panda Jeremy Corbin was a very "dedicated" former leader of the British Labour Party who for various reasons became unelectable

Cycling anywhere near tram tracks is very challenging, if you were bright you would get off and walk (I never did !)

If you make charcoal from the wood it makes it a much better fuel, but coal especially when powdered and blown into the combustion chamber is very effective

For while in the UK you could buy £1 cars (it was cheaper to sell it for nothing than to say to scrap it !)

Have you seen the V8 Blender clip from Top Gear ?

They did send a previous Stig off of the ski-jump of an aircraft carrier

You'll need to explain what an MOT is. They don't have that over there. Just drive it until it falls apart lol

This is close to correct - there's Horse Power (Hp) which is that raise a weight to a height in a second. Then Brake Horse Power (BHp) which is the measurement of power at the wheel in the road - the dynometer. Shaft Horse Power (SHp) is similar but used for stationary and marine engines, so turbines. Indicative Horse Power (IHp) is a calculated form of how many actual horses at median capacity could the engine replace.... so with Steam Tractors the rebuilt/replica Case 150Hp is actually SHp, whilst the numerous Fowler, Aveling and Porter, etc 4Hp are IHp. Finally in Britain there was Taxable Horse Power (THp) which was nothing to do with power, but a calculation based upon the diameter and number cylinders multiplied by a standardised irregular fraction. Hence a Morris Oxford was taxed as 10Hp, but produced 55 BHp.

@@PiersDJackson Thank you for clearing it up. lol. I was just just typing what I learned at Uni over 20 years ago after coming home from the pub. lol. I wasn't looking for it to be 100% accurate. I thought that it would be close enough for a RU-vid comment. But I forget that YT comments have to be 100% accurate or you get a reply saying it isn't. Hahahaha. I mean you no disrespect. I'm just having a bit of a laugh about YT comments and replies in general.. Hhahaha. If it seems that I'm being sarcastic I'm not.