BIGGEST AMERICAN CARS REACTION | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

My mom had a giant black Buick in the early 80’s. I remember a tornado dropping a full size tree roots, dirt, everything on its roof. When the tree was removed the car barely had a scratch. She was so mad because she hated that car and wanted it totaled so she could get the new car.

Let us not forget that some cars featured on the list such as the Impala and El Dorado also impart instant pimp status, whether or not it was requested from the factory.

Had me a 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark IV about 10 years ago. She was big and beautiful!

My parents had a 73' Olds 98 4 door when I was a teen. The 232.4 inch = 19 feet is correct, and it was 6 feet wide. It rode down the highway so smooth, it was like sitting on your sofa. I also can say you can fit at least 3 grown men in the trunk, well boot as you call it. I'm 6' tall while replacing the stereo speakers I could lay in it comfortably with my head at the back seat and just my feet hanging over the rear bumper.

Those bench seats made for someone having to sit in the middle in the trucks. The guy sitting by the passenger window would yell at some guy walking on the sidewalk and then duck. Making it look like two guys sitting next to each other. That was always good for a laugh.

I had a 1972 Lincoln continental back around 2000. Nothing like going for a cruise with 6 of your closest friends. The thing was a beast.

I had a 1976 Pontiac Bonneville in the mid 80's. Red with white top and white interior. The specs say it was 225.27 inches long so it puts it right in the middle of these rides. The suspension was crazy smooth and I member vividly driving to and from high school with 9 of us in it every day and don't recall anyone complaining ever about room.

I’m old enough to say that am radio was amazing. 8 track tapes were an earth shattering leap of technology. That’s a fact !

Love those front and back sofa seats. Before seatbelts, used to cram-in 9-10 people in a car.

I was a 70s kid, and on long road trips I used to lay across the back window deck of Mom Ford Galaxy to nap.

Every year classic car owners from across the country all gather down in south Mississippi where I live for cruising the coast. It's like a week or two where all these classic car owners come down and everyone hangs out and shows off their cars every year. Real laid back fun environment.

vinyl was just a style choice by the buyer, but they also hid seams/welds. when you have a roof that's an acre of steel, vinyl helps keep down the rain noise as well. i never realized this until i yanked my padded vinyl roof off. it was like sitting in a lawn shed during a hail storm.

I had the red Thunderbird back in the 70's. Great car. I also had the Lincoln Continental Town Car. It was absolutely huge and could seat 8 or 9 people. The electric sun roof once opened felt like a convertible it was so large.

You guys are right. These cars were huge hunks of metal and when you got hit by one of these babies, YOU GOT HIT!

The nice thing about the 8-track was that it played on a loop and you never had to turn it over. The bad thing was the tapes didn't last very long and were prone to dragging.

The trucks with the big fenders on the bed was called a stepside bed, the ones with flush fenders are called fleet side beds.

Having driven a 1972 giant Impala all through 1978 and a slightly smaller Malibu Classic afterward (the car in the famous boombox scene in Say Anything), you can imagine how shocked I was to be driven in a tiny Fiat in Chorley, Lancashire, during my junior year abroad. I felt like I was in a golf cart. The size differences were immense between US and European cars then. Not so much now.

Growing up around big cars, we would measure the boot by the number of bodies you could put in there. Sneak into drive in movies that way. 😂❤️

Land Yachts! As an old guy, I can go back to 4-track tape decks too. The 8-track was about the size of a decent sandwich and went into the player about an inch or two so you had this big plastic cartridge hanging out. Not many lasted through serious cruising and playing before you'd pull it out and tape would be stuck and start unraveling. But the 8-track was such a step up from the 4's nobody cared; throw it away and get another.

I remember the seats in these kind of cars were more comfortable than your own living room couch.

If anyone was wondering what the price of gas was in 1974-75 for these monster cars i paid 25 cents a gallon (4 liter in a gal for you metric farts.) My 1974 Corvette cost me $ 7400 and today that same car in decent condition would be around $20,000. Some of these cars hold their value well. Just go back 2-3 years before my car and you cannot touch a Corvette for under $50,000 cash. Try and find a Corvette rear slit window for under $100,000 on the internet...good luck.

OMG, my first car was a 1973 Impala Custom Coupe. I got it in '78 when my parents got a new car. My baby was dark green with a white hard top. It was a two door and those doors were huge. She also rolled along at 110mph even at 5 or 6 years old. She also fish-tailed a lot, especially at higher than usual speeds. When you stepped on that V8 350 you felt that thing jump.

I grew up during that era. You'd often hear "can I borrow your [land yacht]?...I've got a hot date with Chrissy on Friday". His dad's Honda Civic wasn't going to provide the...err....wiggle room. Paradise by the Dashboard Light...that required more than ordinary footage.

My step dad bought one of those 1975 buick electra park avenue 255’s in the mid 1980’s. He was a mechanic and bought it for to either fix and sell or for the 455.5 cubic inch motor. I forget which, but he fixed it up and sold it. I remember riding in it a few times. It is, by far, still the quietest, smoothest, and softest vehicle I have ever been in. I remember riding in the passenger seat while he drove while reaching under the dash to work on the cruise control. I had to tell him to turn slightly left or right while he worked while going down the highway. It was so quiet and smooth, that when he asked how fast we were going, I yelled 100 when I looked at the speedometer! He bolted up straight and slammed on the brakes! It had felt like we were coasting down hill at about 20 mph in a modern car. I remember a feature the vehicle had that he also had to fix. Each seat had a switch that was triggered by a persons weight. It would prevent the car from starting unless all occupied seats also had the seatbelts connected. You can imagine the frustrations owners had as the cars aged and those switches failed.

My first car in 1999 was a 1984 Buick Royale. It was huge. Once a cop pulled me over for running a red light and said "what are you doing driving this big ass boat?" . That car rode smooth, it had fake wood paneling on the inside, and a push-button radio. The back seat was like a small sofa. Loved it.

I had a 91' Lincoln mk VII as my first car. It wasn't as much of a boat when it was made but I got a hold of it in 06' and by then it was considered a pretty big car, especially for a coupe. Had a 302" V8 with some intake and exhaust mods and a limited slip differential and came standard with an airbag suspension. It rode smoother than anything else I've ever driven. The big upside was that, as a teenager, I could fit 5 or 6 people in the backseat pretty comfortably. It was the perfect car for getting to and from parties and to keep the party going in between, or just cruising around getting up to no good. The one time we all decided to go to a drive-in movie I had eight people in the cabin and four in the trunk, with blankets and pillows to make it more bearable. I probably could've gotten close to twenty people in there if I'd tried. Loved that car. It was a mustang on steroids with better suspension and leather.

I grew up in Buffalo, New York in the 1970's. Prior to the late-70's a middle-class family at that time was considered to "have it made" when the family had a large color TV, big station wagon, and a kid off to college. Just like "That 70's Show." By the time 1978-1979 came around, a recently retired couple often had a luxury car like a Chrysler, Cadilac, or Lincoln as a status symbol. Loved these huge cars! We often joked that they were powered by five pounds of Uranium.

I can only think "America F_ck yeah!" looking at these car.

I remember when I was a kid my neighbor had a big ass old car nicknamed "LABAMBA" and they took out the back seat and replaced it with a household love seat sofa; it was pretty sweet!

My mother's '69 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham was huge as well. We couldn't close the garage door even with part of the wall at the front end removed. It had a 472 cubic inch (7.7 liter) engine that developed 375 BHP and 525 ft/lbs (712 Nm) of torque. The rear seats were huge. You had a full armrest with your own ash tray and lighter built in. There was a fold down center arm rest as well as a fold down floor foot rest. There was also an adjustable reading light just over your shoulder. It only got about 10 miles per gallon around town but did an acceptable 17 mpg on the highway which wasn't bad considering gas was only 31 cents per gallon back then. The AM/FM radio came with a 12 speaker sound system and the interior was so well damped that road noise rarely intruded. Truely a lap-of-luxury car to travel in. Ours was painted in the dark mafia brown and brown interior. Love that car to this day. Oh and you could fit 12 people in the trunk to slip them into the drive in.

8-Tracks played stereo on four sections. It would play in a loop, or you could press a button to switch sections. Each section often had approximately three songs (around 15 minutes if I remember) and so the cart could hold around two typical LPs.

I had a 1973 Impala in the late 1970s and I absolutely loved it. The ride was really smooth. Sucked down gas quickly, though.

Owned a '68 Lincoln Continental in the early 90s. Was 221 inches long with a weight around 5500 lbs. It was cadaver blue with a 460 c.i.d. motor. Got a horrible 13 mpg on the highway and about 8mpg in the city. Think of the fuel people ran through at that time before the federally mandated hwy speed limit became 55 in 1974. Prior to then, each state regulated their speed limits and some states had theirs as high as 80! Anyway, a few fun features of my 68 was leather bench seats in the back and front...with the front bench being electric slide adjustable! It came with suicide doors (meaning the rear doors opened on a rear hinge from right to left like an old timey carriage). The speedometer wasn't your standard circular dial or half moon dial that saw your acceleration needle move in an arc, but instead was an elongated thin rectangular display that had the needle move horizontally in a slide rule fashion. It also had no hood ornament because there was talk of a possible federal ban on car hood ornaments in the late sixties that obviously never came to fruition, but Ford played it safe just in case. Named that land boat "Rosie" after the AC/DC song Whole Lotta Rosie.

My youngest sister's first car was that red Cadillac convertible. It was used car bought in the mid-eighties. Looked just like that one.

My first car, a 1973 Chrysler Newport, was purchased for $100 in 1988. It's not on this list, but the #1 car on the list is the same year and maker as my Newport. It had automatic windows that only worked sporadically, and I remember driving in hail and rain not being able to get the windows up. It bounced for about a minute after driving over any bump and if you did not wear your seatbelt, you'd slide out of the driving position on sharp turns. I could sit 4 adults across the front seat bench and would easily hold 10 people in the trunk/boot, which was nice for sneaking people into the drive-inn theater. Being so pure, I would not have direct experience with this, but the back seat bench was like a bedroom with a twin bed and made for an excellent location for sticky/awkward teenage fumbling.

Grandma drove a Buick Electra (IDK the year) but when this car came on the screen I immediately recalled the smell of grandma's car. As a kid I'd climb in the rear window and could lay down and nap whilst grandma drove around town.

My 2x brother-in-law (my sis and I married brothers) is a big-ass car guy. About 20 years ago, when he had his mid-life crisis, he got a Lincoln Continental. He loved that car. One time all of us sisters (there were still 5 of us then) had gone Christmas shopping in the middle of an ice storm. We stopped to drop off my sister on our way home and got stuck in their driveway. Kim fell getting out of the car and Bill came rushing out of the house in his house shoes, not to help Kim, but to stand in front of his Lincoln to be sure it didn't get hit when my sister gunned the engine to get out of their driveway. We laughed like loons at how he stood with his arms raised out to his sides as though he'd die protecting that thing. He just drove 300 miles to buy a vintage Cadillac his son's father-in-law told him about. Low mileage, great shape. He's a happy man. :) By the time my mother bought a 1977 Mercury Marquis, it was about half the length of my dad's 73 LTD. Those were the days!

I could move my whole apartment in the trunk of my dads Cadillac ! I wish we kept that car ugh 😂

My grandfather had the 70’s Lincoln Continental in red. I loved how the back looked like a clock. I got to sit in it but never got to ride in it, he died before I was born. It was eventually sold in excellent condition when my grandmother died 10 years after my grandfather.

Nice video; cool to see Brits reacting to some classic American cars! The 'vinyl roof' thing was a way to make people think (at first glance, & from a distance), "Oh, cool, a convertible!" ... without paying the premium price of a convertible! JIC you're interested ... these cars were one of the reasons 'power windows' and also 'power locks' became pretty much standard on any 'full-size' car, by 1980. From the driver's seat there was no way you could lean over and manually crank a window up &/or down, or work the 'lock-pulls' either, way over on the passenger side! P.S. - back then, any auto-paint that was 'metallic' raised the price noticeably ... especially if it was 'Cadillac Gold'. I know because my girlfriend had her newly-purchased *used* 1975 Mustang Ghia completely re-painted in it; it cost her $1000! Several months earlier I had my 1974 Mustang Ghia totally re-painted in a *very* nice bright red; it cost me a little under $500! Somehow, she managed to talk her parents into paying for the paint-job!

My mother had a '73 Centurion sedan. In the winter my stepdad always backed it into the driveway and when the snowplow went by and left a 3ft's snowdrift at the end of the driveway he'd just drive right through it. Screw shovelling!

My friend, Blaine Jenkins, was the head of interior design at Oldsmobile. He designed the interior of the 98 Regency, as well as the 66 Impala SS, Chevy Corvair, and Mako Shark show car. Brilliant time in American automotive history. James May would be so proud :).

Yes, I agree. It would nice if whomever created this video could have put a modern car next to these behemoths to give us perspective.

Back in the late 60's a black salesman at the company where I worked had a bright yellow Cadillac Coupe De Ville . He had replaced the vinyl roof with a black shag outdoor carpet . It looked like an Afro . He was a former jazz musician from New Orleans with a lot of style who sold to all of the clubs in Harlem . He sold more champagne than any other salesman in New York .

Ford's 8-track was a quadraphonic system, meaning each channel had a different track, so you could hear the vocals in the front right speaker, bass guitar in the left, drums in the left rear and guitar or backup vocals in the right rear.

When I was little, my grandmother had a 1987 Cadillac Fleetwood. Quite a long car, it was the car I learned to drive in

My favorite car from my teen years that I drove was a 1986 Lincoln Town Car. I wasn't fast, but if you were gentle with the go pedal when you could get gas for 89-99c per gallon, it wasn't bad on fuel and it rode like a dream. Bumps in the road were barely felt. My friends liked to give me shit about having a 'grandma' car, but when it was time to go 'riding around', something that was a weekend staple in small towns in America back then (Late 90's), everyone ended up piling into my Lincoln. It would seat 6 very comfortably and would hold 8 without too much trouble, especially if 4 of them were ladies. Add in to the fact that police barely looked at it because it didn't look like something a teenager drove and it was the perfect car for a bunch of late teens on a boring weekend smoking some grass and having a couple drinks.

As a single young man, I owned the T-bird and the Cadillac Coupe Deville...solid white with white leather seats and padded top......holy shit what a car that was. It floated down the road.

These cars had awesome power steering. You could steer them with one finger and their suspension felt like you were floating down the road. You barely feel any bumps in the road.

Prior to the 1980s the only people that have New Cadillacs and Lincolns, where the people who could afford to write a check for them ... As in had the money in the bank to purchase them out right not finance them. Back then they were more of a status symbol, and quality was much greater. Now they're just shiny more expensive Fords and Chevys.

My mom still has her Cadillac Fleetwood De Elegance. The backseat is like a light blue velvet couch!

My Mom owned a '74 225 for several years. I took it out to the movies a couple times and both times my date and I had a wonderful time in the front seat, while our friends had just as much fun in the back. There was easily enough room for four adults in each seat. As badly as the engine was restricted by emissions standards, it could still accelerate to 120 mph in a full-mile run and sustain it for at least 40 miles.

I have a 1965 Ford Galaxie 500.....LOVE that car. It is a big ole land yacht at 209.9 inches and parking can be fun, but man is she sweet. Compared to these though I was driving a mid sized sedan! Cant even imagine driving a car 2 foot longer than my 500!

I drove 2 of these. Not shown, I had a 68 Plymouth Coronet with a 383 and it was a huge car to drive on mountain roads. I got my driver training with a 1971 version of the Buick. The front was so long when we drove down hills, you had to wait for the front to drop down so you could see the road in front of you. Kind of scarry for a new driver. Finally, my friend owned the 1972 Lincoln shown and I often had to drive him to the airport and back. It was a land yacht for sure but drove very smooth and the seats were great for road trips from San Diego to LA to pick up stereo deals. I miss the bench seats as not all buckets fit us as well these days.

The Lincoln was a great car for us kids. Mom couldn't reach around and smack us in the back seat! The Mercury Marquis was also a huge car. Ours had a 429" engine and for a big heavy car it would roast the tires...when I was driving at least....

My grandparents had a big old Thunderbird and my father had an LTD. I remember a lot of my early childhood spent sleeping spread out full across one of those old bench seats on family car trips down the coast to Florida or up to Canada so we put that room to use.

"Nobody chooses a tan car. They give you tan." Louis CK.

I still have my ‘71 El Dorado ragtop. she’s my two-and-three-quarter-ton topless tank. predating epa emasculation, her original 501 cid generated 305 bhp. now, she’s an 830bhp restomod.

In 1988 I learned to drive in '76 Cadillac Coup Deville. I failed the parallel parking part of the test. It wouldn't even fit in my parents garage. It was a beautiful black with a red pinstripe.

Lee Iacocca, developer of the Ford Mustang, put the rear tire bubble and the Rolls Royce type grill on the Mark III, IV, and V.

My mom's first car was a 1974 Pontiac Ventura. It was red with a black stripe down the center. It had bigger tires in the back. Sadly she had to sell it in the late 80's(we were dirt poor back then) for $1,200. It was in absolute great condition. Today it would be worth about $40,000+ to a collector.

There's kind of a dirty little secret about those vinyl roofs that's rarely brought up or even thought of unless you're into bodywork; a lot of vehicles used them, literally, to hide body seams and welds without needing to fill them flush. On several of the largest car platforms you would have a seam on each of the pillars (A and B pillars towards the top, sometimes bottom... C pillar usually mid to bottom) and a seam would run across the roof either near the B pillar or a short ways further back on the roof. That's a LOT of fill or lead, and the smoothing process takes time. The only way to avoid that is to either use a larger stamping that avoids seams but can be more expensive per unit, or to simply hide the evidence with polyurethane foam and stretched/stitched vinyl.

The Lincolns and Cadillacs were expensive luxury cars. The others were just regular midrange cars.

I owned a 1973 Chevrolet Impala coupe and the only way I could reach the passenger window crank was to lie down across the bench seat. Since doing that meant I couldn't see over the dashboard, I'd have to pull to the side of the road and stop whenever I wanted to raise or lower the passenger window.

the 70's marked the beginning of the end for Detroit several events made Americans take gas milage into account and American manufacturers were ill equipped to compete with smaller imports and we got crap like the Ford Pinto Chevy Vega AMC gremlin and the monstrosity 4 cylinder Ford Mustang 2

My first car was a 1965 Pontiac Catalina, that was bought new by my grandfather, then my second eldest brother bought it, then my third eldest brother bought it, then finally I bought it in the late 1970s, drove it for a few years and sold it to my neighbor who drove it till about the late 90s early 00s. Oh and I sold it for what I paid $150.00.

I had a 1969 Ford LTD I drove in my 20's in the 80's, we crammed 10 people in that thing on party nights.

Had a 1970 Caddy Calais with a 472 monster under the hood. Got 6 mpg 🤣 But it would smoke the neighborhood kids rice burners all day every day.

My friend had a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. That thing was a 2 door car that was over 20ft long. It was huge.

The first car I actually owned was a 1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille with the 472 V8. Had it painted midnight blue with new white pleather interior with blue velour insets. Man, what a sled. First car I ever broke a hundred mph in. I also owned a 1976 Buick Electra 225, which was the biggest standard-production car that Buick ever made. Have you ever heard of a Mohs? They were an American float plane manufacturer who started building a few handcrafted luxury cars on the side. 500-cid International engines and upholstered on the outside. No foolin.'

Remember my dad had a 71 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham when I was a kid the car was so smooth down the highway he was going 115mph and didn't even know he didn't pay attention

My 67 chevy truck didn't come with a factory radio. It didn't come with door arm rests, interior rear view mirror, power steering. Some farmer went into the dealership and said give me five weeks.

My brother had an Oldsmobile 88 Electra and let me drive it when 18 - this thing could carry 18 people and when you made a turn you had to plan for it. I drove it once and said no thanks!

There were tons of high colored cars all through history before the 70's. The 60's especially had purples, cherry red, grabber green and yellows.

My dad was a Ford employee! He had a 76 Thunderbird and a 77 Lincoln Continental!

I drove a 1969 Dodge Polara on the California Highway Patrol. The speedometer went to 120 mph, but it would pass 140 (estimated) if it was in good mechanical condition. Used it to catch those doing 120-140

They were sweet rides, I was a lil kid but I had seven uncles and they and their friends had a couple of these. Really loved driving to the next state in them.

The vinyl roof was to mimic the convertible look for those that did not want or could not afford it.

Ah, this video makes me miss my '90 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham which was truly one of the last of the land yahts. Biggest car I've ever driven at 221 inches...not as big as these, but it was in the ballpark. Comfy drive!

My car in High School was a hunter green Delta 88 (I believe it was a 73) with a white vinyl roof and a white glued on white racing stripe. I could lay down in the back seat. I had 7 people sit across the back and 6 in the front. I got rear-ended at a stop light by a brand new sunbird which was totaled and all i had was a few scratches on the bumper.

Geez the last one is like a tank. You needed your own barrels of oil to run them. Still....gorgeous machines.

Hey Daz you once said your wife owned a ford expedition suv. Well I looked it up bumper to bumper length on that was 204inches. These old cars were up to 2ft longer lol

My first car was a 1984 Ford Crown Victoria LTD. My only complaint was that the gas pedal would occasionally freeze up overnight in the winter.

What really amazed me when I lived in Japan in 1973/1974 was that these giant Lincolns were the preferred car of Yakuza (gangsters). They were too big to fit in many smaller, narrower Japanese streets. But if you saw one coming down a street where it would fit, you knew it was a local crime kingpin.

The Buick Electra 225 is affectionately called the "Deuce and a quarter"

8:50 I thought a fuse went off. My grandpa had that thunderbird I think and remember the back of the car was very comfortable given how much luggage was back there too for a Canada to Florida road trip.

I think Daz is on the right track there. This is a review of a lot of American cars, so they have hoods and trunks. If there were Aston Martins, Jaguars, and Rolls Royces in this list, they would have bonnets and boots. Colloquialisms travel and when in Rome. . . . you measure things in Rome units. Also, we all know the truth. Early 20th century, we were still struggling in black and white. Then we found Technicolor and that's when having a brown, beige, or gray car was edgy and stylish. Then reality updated its graphics card and got some more ram and now we have a full pallet of color. This is common historical facts, blokes. It's even documented in our films.

Chrysler Imperials have been used in the recent past as demolition derby cars because they are so big and have a really tough front bumper with reinforcement....Great piece love looking at all these gladiators of demolition derby.

We used these big boots to sneak friends into to the drive-in theater. No joke. Bodies.

These have recently been reincarnated in modern giant SUVs and ever-growing 4-seat pickup trucks.

Now you ruined my Christmas by making me feel really old because I remember when 8-tracks were the latest/newest thing. The Buick Electra probably wasn't "brown", it was probably called "bronze" or something. When I was in high school and college my Mom had a 1959 Plymouth Sport Fury (think massive tail fins) and my Dad had a 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix. I'm surprised if neither turns up (still watching). The vinyl roof was supposed to look like a convertible without being one.

Vinyl roofs just looked a lot better than a metal roof.

My 82 caddy is my girls, 8 body trunk, column shift and great bench seats

My second car un 1995 was the 76 Ford Thunderbird, I remember when it snowed every time cars would rearendme they had to pry their frontends off my car and my car had no damage. It was a beast of a car. Everytime I drove it I gad ti put 5liters of oil in I kept at the least 2 cases of oil in the trunk. It had the 8 track tape player and a CB radio, dark blue shag carpeting plush seats.

When I was a teen in the 80s a friend had a 78 Bonneville. We could fit 11 in it easily with 2 in the trunk.

Quite a walk down memory lane.

The last care was 19.6ft, aka 5.97 meters! To compare: the average car today is 14.7ft or 4.48 meters.

I owned a 1970 Buick Electra 225. That 455 motor was powerful but sucked gas, getting 8 MPG but it did have a 26-gallon gas tank.

I think it was lear that invented the terrible 8 track cartridge.it was a continuous loop of tape 2 channel on 4 tracks, when it got to the end of one loop it would click over to the next track, unfortunately it meant your song would be chopped up , the speed was poor and the sound was terrible because the tape head was never aligned very well.they were playback only but some had fast forward and some really fancy home versions had record feature.

Vehicle size is measured in inches and some have coupe in the name. The US is a state of mind though.