It is a word deriving from a pre-Columbian language, and comes via Portuguese, not Spanish, so no excuses for “Jag-wah” because it is more like the Spanish word as it is pronounced today. Earliest mentions in English are from the early 1600s, so the word has had plenty of time to be assimilated into English. Look up the pronunciation on Google and it is “Jag-you-er”. This accords with information from Oxford Dictionaries. “Jag-wah” is entirely wrong.
they made a great point in one intro into one of the US videos once. Saying how american engineering in military, space fligh and so on is so amazing, but US cars have never caught on anywhere else in the world and have a absolutely terrible reputation. Having tiny horse power out of gigantic engines is certainly part of it.
"US cars never caught on anywhere else" is such a dumb statement because it's patently untrue and just ignores how many "European" brands are actually American, like Vauxhall and Opel, and how culturally significant American cars were all over the world for most of automotive history. The post gas-crisis malaise years of American automaking are what you're thinking of, and they led to the end of underpowered American land-boats everywhere, including in the US
where the hell did you get any of this they may be american owned but nothing about them is american.Opel is german and vauxhall is british (literally named after the place vauxhall)@@dapeach06
@@dapeach06 I don't think they're speaking of owners but rather the history and skill when talking about European vs American cars. If a company has built cars for 100 years in the UK, the staff is primarily British and the designers are from Europe. It's a European car even if some company on another continent owns it. And even the "US" cars that do sell well outside of the US are mostly not actually designed in the US. Most Fords that sell well outside of the US are based on frames designed in Europe. That being said. There's no denying the classics. There's an almost endless list of classic american cars that people recognize and love. Most people just don't wanna drive them in their daily life.
Yeah, totally ignore A) how most English isn't spelled phoenetically B) how "ua" is pronounced in other English words C) The Nahuatl word for the animal, pronounced "yagwara", where the English "Jaguar" comes from
Jaguar......the clue is the letter in the middle...Jag U Ar. It's part of the simplified English that America adopted, the reduction of syllables from 3 to 2 Ja Guar
19:19 Rolls Royce is owned by BMW. Something we were very good at in the UK, especially during the 80's & 90 (and beyond)'s was selling off national assets or allowing the sale of important private companies.
@@jonathanmulley Rolls-Royce, the car maker, was owned by Vickers from 1980 - 1998. However, Rolls-Royce, the aviation engine company held some of the trademarks, including the brand name and logo. In 1998 Vickers sold Rolls-Royce, the car maker, to Volkswagen. Rolls-Royce, the car maker, also made Bentleys - which are now engineered by VW. But VW didn't get access to the Rolls-Royce name, and could not use it. Instead, Rolls-Royce, the aviation company, leased the rights to the name Rolls-Royce to BMW. A new BMW subsidiary was created with the name Rolls-Royce.
😢 The whole hour would be preferable to be honest, Connor... We can never get enough of these three & the original Top Gear. (& The steering wheel _is_ on the Correct side on the right-hand side of the vehicle.) "OLIVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"❤
this wasn't the original Top Gear. this was the re-launch in 2002(?). Top Gear is around since i think th 70's. And while Jeremy was in it earlier too, it was much more a normal car review show.
@@Thisandthat8908exactly - Top Gear started in 1977 in the Midlands, became a national British programme in 1978 and ran until 2001. Jeremy Clarkson was one of the presenters on that version from 1988 to 1999. The reboot was in 2002, originally with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Jason Dawe, then in 2003 Jason Dawe was replaced by James May, creating the trio that presented Top Gear from then until 2015.
Connor, a mechanical horse power is stated as moving 500lb one foot in one second, or 1lb 500ft in one second. Great channel, merry Christmas and a happy new year from Crewe, Cheshire!
Donut actually got an engineering company to make a horse-powered dyno and horse-powered Honda Civic and found out that a draft horse actually makes 5 horsepower. Therefore, it would take 8 draft horses to make 40 horsepower.
The Merc SLS with the Gull Wing doors is a £200k Car, it has a button to close the Doors :'D Edit: 911 GT3 RS, 911 is just the model (I think it was originally 901 but that clashed with a Purgeot line), GT3 refers to it's racing class (Cup Grand Touring), and RS usually means 'Rally Sport' but in German means RennSport (Racing Sport)
Merry Christmas mate Going to the British accent thing. My friends dad once went to NYC, and was walking around. A big group of black guys crossed the road and came towards him, asking for cigarettes and the time. As soon as he said yes, and started talking they heard his accent and the atmosphere changed. And they were interested in the fact that he was British then they left. He presumed if he was American, something different would've happened.
Don’t understand why yanks say Jagwar and not JagUar, bit like Toob and not tUbe or emOO and not emU, In English the letter U is pronounced like YOU, not OO
You have mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower, which is approximately 735.5 watts. One mechanical horsepower lifts 550 pounds (250 kg) by 1 foot.
The rest of the English speaking world pronounces it "jag u are" because that follows the rules of English pronunciation (check the oxford English dictionary - phonetics). The American pronunciation "jag warre" is unique to the USA and maybe parts of Canada and doesn't seem to follow any understandable rule of gramma or phonetics. Americans often use unique pronunciations of words that make no grammatical sense or follow any linguistical rule of phonetics but because it's what they are used to (and they are American 😄) they always insist they are right! The car was of course named after the big cat (Jaguar) which was being identified, classified and pronounced correctly before America was... well America! The word 'jaguar' comes from the indigenous word 'yaguar', which means 'he who kills with one leap'. So... Um... That's why the British along with most of the rest of the world pronounce it as it is spelt - correctly!
Out of the 3 sportscars, the ferrari and the mercedes are touringcars, the GT3 is a thoroughbred roadlegal trackmonster. The "GT3" nameplate was introduced in 1999 as part of the first generation of the Porsche 996 model range (commonly known as 996.1) as a homologation model for the cars entered in the FIA GT3 cup. As with Porsche's previous 911 RS models, the 996 GT3 was focused on racing, and so was devoid of items that added unnecessary weight to the car. Sound deadening was almost completely removed, as were the rear seats, rear loud speakers, sunroof, and air conditioning, although automatic air conditioning and CD/radio became no-cost optional add-ons. In 2003, Porsche introduced the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, an even more track-focused version of the 996 GT3. RS is short for the German RennSport, literally "racing sport" in English. They are road legal but there is no luxery in this car, anything to drop weight and increase performance.
I'm not sure what Jeremy and Richard were on about with that Rolls. Rolls-Royce are known for their unbeatable quality, they never break. In that sense, it is a great advert, but due to the price that quality brings, it is a bit 'posh'. The Mini is a genius idea.
UKer, but I've always liked the 80s camaro iroc z. My oldest friend had a Pontiac Fiero for a while, and the neighbour had a Firebird 350/5.7 and an old Ford Galaxie (1974 shape) with a 454/7.4 in it. But every car I've ever owned have cornered well which is more fun than muscle.
Gt3rs is basically current highest model of 911 I think. Gt3 is a racing series/spec for production supercar racing. Hammond a is the street legal model based on a racing spec for the car.
because that is exactly how it is supposed to be said.... jag-you-are. its a British brand so its supposed to be said the British way. it isn't supposed to be said like the animal in south america in the American way. for example, it isn't supposed to be said as mazda (maz-da) its supposed to be said as (ma-zoo-da), bmw isn't supposed to be (bee-em-double you) its actually (bay-em-vay). Volkswagen isn't supposed to be said like (Volks-wagon) its actually (folks-var-gen), Skoda isn't said like (s-co-da) its actually (shh-co-dar), Citroen isn't (sit-run) its (sit-row-en). hope this explanation helps you!!! :)
The Nebraska University came up with the original equation for horse power. Its based on how quickly a horse can raise a ton weight. 6 foot. On a pully. It was originally for testing steam traction engines. Then later for combustion engine tractors. They have been measuring horse power there for over 90 years now.
A little late here but just to clarify the 911 GT3 RS thing... Porsche makes a ton of variations of the 911, the GT3 is their track based variant. The 'RS' is the more extreme and exclusive version of that, with carbon brakes, a bigger wing, stiffer suspension and a faster tune. It's second in 911 terms only to the GT2 RS which is a step even further and often referred to as a "widow-maker"
We both drive on the correct side because we drive on different sides of the road. You drive say north on the right side of the high way and south on the left side but the uk is the opposite but we still are both drive closets to the divider.
The correct side is driving on the right side of the car. Fun fact the reason your surposed to drive on the right side is 90% of the world are right handed, thats why in england you drive left side of the road on so your strong hand controls the wheel and your weak hand on the gear. You got to think americans drive with there weaker hand. It also goes back to the time of jousting where they had to have there weapon on there strong side.
The Indian episode holds a special place in my heart as my Hometown is Crewe. Although still the home of Bentley it doesn't get a lot of good press nowadays thanks to the wanton destruction of the town and its history by the greedy local authorities.
Tbf, we can't argue with the idea that left-hand drive is more correct simply because its more common. We just do shit differently because we're an island. It's even quite common for many second-hand cars to be imports from Japan because they're one of the only other large economy that drives on the left-hand side and has a big car industry.
Wea call a Jag that because it's a British company and it was founded being called that and has always been called that.in fact jaguar as a company had a car in the 2019 pride parade in NYC and wrote Jag-you-are across it for Americans to see
😊😅😂 Connor ... Lol... You make I laugh... _You_ are telling _us_ about the writing on the sides of the cars in ol' Alabamy ...?!! Connor... We were watching Top Gear when you were just a toddler !! (My twins are only _27_days_ younger than you & they were toddlers when I watched Top Gear!!!) 😊😅😂❤
I think the thinking behind America engineering is more angled towards size, economy and power. Such a large engine putting out such a small amount of power, such a large car that handles like a dog and the fuel economy of a 40tonner wagon
So a quick manual lesson for dummies 1st gear is used for starting off or for creeping forwards slowly or used for a hill start 2nd gear is used for anything above 5 miles an hour and under ten miles an hour 3rd gear is used as your intermediate gear is anything above 20 and under 30 4-5th gears are for anything over 30+ R is reverse and is pretty self explanatory 😂
American sees someone driving on the other side - Feels sick. Everyone else see's someone driving on the other side - meh whatever we see it all the time of tv.
The Mercator projection, the most popular world map, distorts the size of the shape of landmasses near the pole. This results in Russia looking bigger than Africa. Actually Africa can nearly fit two Russias. In fact, Africa has an area of 11.73 million square miles while Russian one is only 6.6 million square miles.
A better question for 20:25 is why do folks in the states pronounce it jagWar it is JagUah, jaguar the U is clear the W is absolutely not xD, also Sorry if I am late to the party, recommended video based on videos I have watched :)
did he just assume that the "wrong side" steering wheel also only includes manual shifter? oh boy. manual or automatic for any side steering wheel. this is common sense.
Poor ol' Conner, anything better than a Yank tank and he gets upset, and a Jaaag is a Posh car, even the XJS! In fact, you should own a JagUar, that way you may get married before you are 35A Jaaag. 306 BHP 6L V12 149 mph And it goes around bends...
It's a cultural difference. Americans like new stuff while Europeans like quality stuff. I would say modern American society does not have a sense of quality. My personal theory is that American quality was lost in the cold war as from the 50's onwards consumerism became almost a religion in the fight against communism.
Connor it is called the right side because it is the CORRECT side, ask anyone from the UK, Australia. This is where we meet OLIVER, Hammond still has Oliver. The Botswana Special is a great watch. Can’t believe they won’t be doing this sort of thing. Russia is the biggest country on earth. 👍🏻👍🏻
HORSE POWER is calculated by multiplying the amount of force (in pounds) by the speed ( in feet per second). Which " British" accent do you mean !? English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish !? Or do you mean one of the many regional accents of each UK country !? JAGUAR. Look how it's spelled! JAG U AR !! America is the only country to say JAG WAR !! The big cat is called a JAG U AR as well !! Rolls Royce is now part of BMW since 2003.
19:17 sorry to disappoint but rolls royce is a subsidiary of BMW so in fact kind of German. Including the fact that BMW manufactures all Rolls Royce cars so in fact they are all built in germany and not UK
all round the porsche is much better value if you wan't a fast car for driving not showing off, I had a chat with mates saying they would have a lambo over a 458. the lambo is a fancy audi R8. just for showing off.
26:30 fun fact, that Porsche is worth slightly more than the other 2 cars in todays market. And if you're actually in to cars there is plenty of reasons to spend a few thousand bucks more. Infact even millions in some cases. Its not to show how big your wallet is. A singer for example (which is a modified classic Porsche will cost you over a million USD nowadays. But absolutely no one will know what it is unless they're petrolheads. Obviously some cars are notoriously owned by people that wanna show off, but there is a reason why people wanna spend so much money on a car and its not just to brag.
did you guys know: that if someone else did it 1st, its not a crime. Britain too over countries before us, so they worse. yes, we are in a playground and we are all 5-7 years old.
