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Alex Gonzalez Ooooooh that burn

Lol

@Sean Kim With a tall long haired man or tall geography teacher.

That's a paraphrase of something Churchill said: "An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing and Clement Attlee got out."

"A car has arrived with a casualty on the bonnet, it must be Jeremy Clarkson"

Wow, American cars are made for a smooth ride and not meant to go fast? Sin! Wow, British cars break down even when you've just done a ton of work on them, and get worse when you try and fix them again and will probably be in the shop for 3 years? What amazing cars!

@@whenwhen2284 it is really a british car thing to break down, the only cars that worked and british people liked for their comfort, performance, reliability and price were Fords, whether it was a Transit or an Escort, or a Mondeo or a Fiesta...

@@user-bv1gq8jj6b I didn't say British cars are the only ones to break down, most British Leyland cars weren't very good

@@whenwhen2284 that's true, but old Jags, Astons, Lotuses and Vauxhalls weren't reliable at all

@@user-bv1gq8jj6b Most old British cars aren't reliable. People say old Cadillacs and Lincolns weren't reliable, but there's still tons of them still on the road. I have had friends in Britain who only saw British Leyland cars in repair shops and no where else

Kills me to this day lol

That’s saying something lol

😂

@@techno1561 That’s what the S in SD1 stands for.

@@GamerKing50 "Sieve Door 1"

@@ConceivedIsland”Open the Sieve Bay Doors, Hal.”

I wonder how much that had to do with Jeremy's "secret weapon," the sun roof. Seems like maybe the others' cars didn't leak so badly because they duct taped all the holes, albeit poorly, holding the water in with air pressure of all things... And then Jeremy opened a giant hole in the roof. 🤔

A bit hard to pay for the looks with that one

it actually worked perfectly, cuz it was bought fully restored, top gear themselves removed gas from suspension side to make it look that way but it worked perfectly and was bought in perfect condition

@@robertdrowning6717 the princess isn't even that ugly I don't see why people say it is, at least it doesn't look like an allegro or a beetle

Erander: Really?

@@LOVEMUFFIN_official yep they bought it off guy in britain who restores these to perfect conditions and broke suspensio intentionaly

Jason1920 Yep 😂😂😂

Nice

Sentences like that are why I neither understand nor like British English

@@austinmensen6965 Great Britain... Rule Britannia !...what happened to this Great Empire... stull best country in the world.... Union Flag feared and respected for centuries..know as the 'butchers apron'. and for good reason.. and I'm Cymru

Austin, you made an important mistake. In England, most people speak English; the clue is in the country's name. In North America, many people speak U.S. derivatives of English. Collectively, they speak U.S. English, or English (U.S.A.). Neither is 'better' than the other; they're different, but to tell English people that they speak British English (which doesn't exist), whilst you speak English, is insulting. Remember, too, that people, in what became the USA, almost finished up speaking German. English was chosen by a majority vote of 1. If that had been a minority vote of 1, then would they be telling German people today that they speak 'European German' whilst you speak German? It's doubtful. Thankfully, they chose English, because if German were the lingua franca in the USA, who would Germany have sided with in WW1? That 1 vote made a huge difference to world events a century or so later, and that difference persists. British people generally like US citizens, and the opposite also pertains. That irritating argument about tea was consigned to history by people on both sides of the Atlantic more than a century before any of us were born! And it's absolutely irrelevant in international dealings today. People in the North American colonies would have been allowed to continue to tread their own path, irrespective of the political events which unfolded back then, much in the ways in which Canada, Australia, New Zealand, various colonies in Africa, Asia, Central America and Oceania are doing today. It's an unstoppable natural progression for all empires. All of us, irrespective of nationality, creed, colour, or whatever, need to foster friendship with people from other lands, rather than antipathy; it makes a much better life (and world) for all participants. Variety is the spice of life, after all. Have a really good 2019.

When?

@@babydriver6473 1970s

@@dl5498 I think he means a timestamp

you cant die from being locked in a leyland car. There is always enough air getting in and out through panel gaps and door seals. And you dont starve or dry out either because you have enough time to kick your door open from the inside.

@@doktorhund6926 Death by heatstroke is still on the table. Cars get to 76 degrees on a hot sunny day.

Hill starts like that give me lots of anxiety...

​@@jamestorrens645nobody who drives a clutch likes any hills like these. NOBODY.

@@SNOWDUDE13 You're wrong, I have no problems with hills in 2000 Honda Accord 1.8 :D

I know i'm kind of late to the party here, but No clutch, The Austin Princess used in this episode had an automatic transmission. if you watch the full episode (S10 E7), during the "power lap" section at around 41 minutes in Hammond says "(laughing) it's just a rubbish sight" to which Clarkson replies "It's Automatic as well".

@@mountainbiker9307 nerd

Absolutely correct!

best comment yet

I see that you have Descartes as your profile picture. You have my respect.

Hilarious, AND TRUE!!

LMAOOO

This is what based james sandwich

*c h e e s e*

*C H E E S E*

I love cheese

@@thytor756 me too

Well said Nard dog.

I guess if you are really enjoying something it’s in the good days

anassmouha2 or a new car

I like the green Lada lookalike, I would drive that so hard

...And the best thing to happen to TV.

They got people wanting to buy at least some of them, so no.

@@glurak888 Triumph Dolomite. Most Triumphs were pretty shit lol. Brought to you by a Triumph owner.

Ayyyy

:I

lol

Stealth t

Stealth ba dum tsssss

Two separate doors fell off as well.

Alex McNamee I miss when we had Top Gear.

elucidate same

This is one of the funniest clips I've seen.

qwasd0r I missed when Top gear had Clarkson, Hammond and May

I know

Same.

U miss the "damned"

They are on a show called "the grand tour" it's on Amazon prime video, and it's great

I miss them too. I have still been watching Top Gear with the new guys.

they haven’t gone anywhere

A Rover SD1 doing a burnout…. Now that’s a miracle!

Michael Benitez They were the one who consumed the drink made in the V8 blender.

Well I think it's just his tolerance is high for anything really, there’s a video of him eating a bull's penis and rotten shark with Gordon Ramsay, and he didn’t complain at all and just said "You disappoint me Ramsay."

@@enderjed2523 "I've got the name for it: 'The Bloody Awful'!"

Sigma may

James does a lot of sailing and boating on the open water, his cold tolerance is likely more advanced.

Translation: Get off. get off. Get off.

Lol

*HMMMMMMMHMHHHHHHH*

Thank god they are all mates

Translation: *CLARKSON YOU INFANTILE PILLOCK*

Or the Euro Egg Cap test! And not to mention the incident with Jeremy's finger, the requirement for the AA Lurpak...

Please send the time stamp

@@charliesmithdrummer please tell me what happend in these incidents?

vids from older youtube era had a 10 mins limit, probably edited to keep it under that timeframe

Best musical tune of the decade that was 😂

ikr I love it 😁

Lmao, that remark is so Clarkson

Martins Dakteris So Jeremy Clarkson

Martins Dakteris čau latvieši arī skatās top gear

Martins Dakteris it has a 'dad' numberplate 😂

How about "Oh this is a bloody good tea, sir!"

The KebabRemover28 fuck you your name has made me crave kebab

@@IlGonfaloniere No that's more 1800s Victorian English. We say "Now that's a proper brew" or "Nice Cuppa'"

That's what Napoleon said at Moscow.

The KebabRemover28 Most English people aren’t like that at all, that’s just a stereotypical expectation

my dad had 3 SD1's , 2 regular ones and then a Vitesse. The first one was so bad they gave him another one. that second one was so bad, they gave him a trade up deal for the Vitesse. The Vitesse spent so much time at the dealership for various electrical defects, that we drove a Jaguar XJS car car from the dealership while the Vitesse was in the shop.

that just adds to its charm lol

Ever heard about the Pacer bus?

I had a TR8 that was fricking wonderful fun, 1 number more and you might've enjoyed it more?

Still, it probably had more personality than anything reliable!

Btw what if he put a cigarette in the snorkel

Or as he calls them "fag ends."

And beer too

Nah, brown is just a 70s color.

Coincidentally, he's the only one who did not complain about the cold.

It required precision and a gentle foot. Both things May does well.

It's an automatic

He just pressed the throttle lol.

They still work on the occasional special for the grand tour.

@@rempanda not any more

+SirDeanosity The word "tank" was originally applied to the military vehicle as a decoy of sorts... they didn't want people knowing it was an armored fighting vehicle, so they let on it was for carrying water.

You are worse than my dad.

I think that comment drains the last of the humor from this subject.

+moosemaimer Tanks for the info!

Water we doing in this thread?

well how did he drown?

You don't.

It will take more than that

😅

@Squadron266 Yes nobody saw the video so you had to say that.....*rolls eyes*

I'd love to know how bad the weight balance is on that car for it to be going uphill on a steep grade and have the back wheels lift off the ground enough to wheelspin.

XrGrimreap3rX you could go swimming in that princess

+XrGrimreap3rX Well, no, it'd break down on the way there. Remember, it's still an Austin Princess.

+Klonoa Flint water would be cleaner when it leaked out than when it went in, methinks...

Hilarious

He did that more or less in the last episode of the grand tour

KeroChu Kawasaki which is mostly a DAF ;)

+jules leenders Dennis, mostly.

+KeroChu Kawasaki that is not a car ... is a truck.. and is a rebaged DAF...

+TheSteelGamer No it's a Leyland T45 truck that was made by British Leyland before it was sold off to DAF. DAF adopted the truck & rebadged it & carried it on for a while.

Leyland made some of the best trucks and buses of that era. It was not until the car segment started to drain funding from the commercial segment that the decline began. They literally didn't miss any possible mistake!

I suspect our Aussie brothers and sisters might look at the P76 and disagree

TheRealConcertKing I made one called SWEEET

😂😂😂😂

Or a sperm bank

Or the bucket I have next to my bed when Noro decides to pay me a visit 😂. Which it rarely does

TheRealConcertKing .

msul78 Right there with you bro

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+ Ayah, but it Shafeek

+msul78 this is the wrong video for you cuz it is not sad

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+DrMcMoist Yeah it looks adorable.

+DrMcMoist LOSER

Of all the comments I've ever left on RU-vid that I felt might irk someone enough to insult me; I wouldn't have guessed it would have been this one.

DrMcMoist Well you should get better taste in cars then. Because your comment deeply offended me

You really shouldn't start a sentence with 'because'.

Doesn't it say it in the description of the video?

it's ep 6 and it's in the description

It was Ep.7 in the box set I have, and when I placed this comment the details weren't in the description.

+Alex Green wish I read this comment before watching the whole of episode 6 lol

+Alex Green Jamey May wasn't in Season 1, his first appearance is in S02

Woahh never noticed that!!

It is normal for Rover!

Shane Fell "He's come back to Longgridge!"

Take is a optional safety feature.

Shane Fell No wonders Mike Hailwood died in this car. :(

DoctorBohr I was quoting Jeremy Clarkson. And why did the the other two not lose doors then?

Tan Gre I loved it even more when the piece of cheese won in the end :)

In the grand tour Jeremy eats cheese

Good catch. Surely part of the script though?

Yep, and James May on drive tribe embraced this good old joke 😀

“I’ve never seen that before”... XD

Torpedoes on starburt ;)

Welcome to listening school.......... And you failed

Grafer90 APB is that an ASDF reference to "Welcome to standing up school.......... And you failed"

Lalnable Hector yes...

BBC= Bring Back Clarkson &company

BBC= Bring Back Clarkson &company

bring back clarkson and company movement. see that, that is funny and we like to watch it not the new one

Antti-Jussi Vuori clarkson is back

Clarkson just died btw.

Because he's the only one of the three that isn't?

AwesomeAlligator Why? What is appropriate about it?

Funnily enough the 3500 was criticised by journalists for the amount of wind noise in the cabin when it was launched in 1976.

@@applejuice5272 Also BL could not produce enough of them when launched and dealers had a waiting list The most sold variants were the 2300 and 2600 six shooters launched later after the V8.Great cars built under financial difficult times by the group.To me the best looking car BL ever built.

WEOOOW

It’s all faked. I also read that the gas was drained out of the Princess’ suspension to appear if it had leaked. And of course the door falling off was scripted. BL cars were nowhere near as bad as TopGear made them out to be.

In which case I would’t have wanted to be the person who paid for it! A) Only sold it for £1000 and B) the trio wrecked it 😂😂

As if they'd fill a fully restored car with water 😅

Did the rear doors stay on?

@@Shakes-Off-Fear yes - always! 🤣🤣🤣