Despite all negative behaviours and comments I still think Clarkson has completelly no match in auto-program's field. You can just feel he's passionate about automotive and the way he presents causes that even people who aren't that much into cars could easily enjoy this. I have just watched trailers of the new Top Gear and although I wish all the best to the new presenters, for me there is only 1 king of this industry. I hope Clarkson along with May and Hammond will keep providing us with top class automotive programs like this pearl.
That was the problem. His passion for all things deemed ungreen was his undoing. Now if Clarkson had raved about Venezuelan great-tits and the lesser-spotted Japanese knee-trembler on the edge of extinction, he'd have been knighted long ago.
He's actually done some seriously good non-automotive documentaries too. Jeremy Clarkson - Inventions That Changed The World Jeremy Clarkson's The Victoria Cross: For Valour Jeremy Clarkson's the Greatest Raid of All And he did a great on on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, recommended if you can find a version of youtube which hasn't had the sound mangled, lost half the program missing...
Its a shame his Top Gear persona ruined him for so many people. They dont realize just how passionate he really is about cars, even the ones he pretended to hate on Top Gear.
Music list... 1:32 Simple Minds - Waterfront 2:26 Human League - Don't You Want Me 3:17 Phil Collins - In the Air 3:41 Duran Duran - The Reflex 4:19 + 5:11 The Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern 6:11 PhD - I Won't Let You Down 6:54 Duran Duran - Girls on Film 8:15 Diana Ross - Chain Reaction 9:09 Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It 10:29 + 11:00 Ultravox - Vienna 12:17 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes 13:51 + 15:03 Howard Shore - Road Research Laboratory (Soundtrack to Kronenberg's "Crash") 16:35 + 17:32 + 19:46 Happy Mondays - Loose Fit 20:59 Butthole Surfers & Dust Brothers - Tybalt Arrives You're welcome.... and I only had to Shazam 2 of them!
Thanks a ton for all that info on the songs, I've been wanting to add a couple, particularly the Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern and Happy Mondays - Loose Fit to my skateboarding playlist :-]
I agree. They really keep me from moving on to a different video. This is also just how a car show should be done. Take my word, I live in the States. I know a thing or two about idiotic television.
You know it mate, ‘Talk Talk - Life is what you make it’ is one of my favourite songs.. always has been and I’m 24 now, watched this live at the age of 6-8 or whatever, Clarkson is king.
The spot where Clarkson swaps the old hoover for the dyson is so late 90's. I remember when my mum got one. It changed the colour of the carpets in the house the first time we went round with it. I've never seen so much dust in my life. Twas one hell of an era.
@@derekheeps1244 Never even heard of them. Hard to think the Dyson (for all their problems) has ever been beaten when it comes to its ability to extract dust from carpets. They have monster suction and they beat the bits out of the carpet fibres at the same time.
@@derekheeps1244 lmao werent they like a grand I remember a kirby salesman in our house demonstrating the kirby and what it could do a few phone calls to his general manager area manager and several incentives the kirby came in at a cool 250 quid rofl and after that he gave up
I've watch this same episode about 1000 times each year, Am still not bored of the 80s music in the background and the induction noises of the 80s hot haches that are still good even today and are quicker even with out a turbo on some models.
Have to say Clarkson is the WORLDS BEST motorcar presenter, journalist, whatever you want to call it, so nice to see and hear him instead of all the RU-vid wannabees presenters with their unimpressive videos..
I dont care how old this is, I thought I had watched everything Jeremy Clarkson, every Top Gear every Grand Tour, and then I found this! and I will watch them all!
One group of motorsport competitors and enthusiasts will remember the RS200 very well - most of them ended up in Rallycross, as did many of the Metro 6R4s.
I was lucky enough to see two RS200's on the road as a kid and chased after one to catch it at the traffic lights for a better look. Feel very privileged to have seen road versions.
"Ive got a Cossaie". Still one of the most beautiful styled cars ever with a perfect stance. If I had a spare 50 grand too buy a low miles standard RS Escort Cossaie I would
Not sure about that, original cossie 3dr I think has the looks over an escort cossie, but all Ford's of the eighties we're good looking, RS 200 RS turbo, injection special Capri. And an escort cossie is only a cut down RS 4x4 Sapphire with escort panels nail on.
My dad had 2 in the early 2000, a dark emerald green one and a dark blue one. But also a silver RS2000 cossie replica. I have no clue what ever happened to them, nor has he, unfortunately.
Amazing how the original GTi and the 205 still look very good, with all those simple uncluttered lines. They look good and mostly different from each other...too much nowadays regulations which make them all look the same.
Jeremy has stood the test of time for over 30 years, retains high credibility and has no other match or equal. No wonder he has a stunning new tall skinny beautiful girlfriend. Top man.
I remember when Northumbria Poilce got some, one came to my parents house after someone tboned my dad. My jaw was on the floor. Funnily enough they also got one nicked from their garages in Kilingworth LOL
@7:16 I just love watching these two blokes in the pub top trumping each other like little kids! Reminds me of all the car conversations I had with my friends back when I was going to school! 😜😂🤣
Haven't seen this before. What a nice piece of work by Clarkson with some real heart in it. Loved the music as well as the cars. And the Golf v Escort pub debate was hilarious.
god I miss those days, Escort Xr3I and RS turbo, Peugeot 205 1.6 and 1.9 GTI, Renault 5 GT Turbo, Golf GTI, Fiat Uno Turbo, hell even the Citroen AX GT was fun as hell/
Enjoyed this video, brought back memories, I had a pug 1.6 gti, 1.9 gti three mk2 golf gtis' 16vs escort rs turbo mk1 white one, nearly bought a lance intergrale evo 2, loved hot hatches!!!
Owned a 1986 Golf GTI when but a 19 year old GI in Germany (1988). Worth every penny the insurance sucked out of my meager paycheck. Still love the memory of that car!!!
My family had a Peugeot dealership back in the hay day of the 205 GTi. Got to drive them and a fantastic car it was. Shame they’re not seen on the road these days.
Ah yes the good old 80's. Spent many enjoyable hours reading countess car magazines trying to decide Golf Gti, Peugeot 205Gti or Ford XR3i. Went for a Mk II Golf GTi 8v eventually and several years later also had a Peugeot 205 Gti. Still have a Mk II Golf Gti 8v. There was something about them that I just love and can't be without one in my car fleet.
The original Mini wasn't truly a 'hatch' - it hasn't actually got a hatchback; it's got a weird sort of 'tailgate' set-up. However, the first Mini is far more significant than being 'just' the first hot hatch - it was the first mass-produced front-drive sideways-driveline car. The original Mini is the origin for every mainstream modern car in the world! Before the Mini, cars were built with the driveline set longitudinally, driving the rear wheels with a driveshaft - in contrast, the Mini's ultra-compact 'sideways' drivetrain left the passenger compartment undisturbed, which produced an incredible amount of passenger space, in a genuinely tiny car. This car single-handedly re-wrote the rule-book for cars.
+Stephen White Amen! Alex Issigonis was The Man, and truly an engineering genius he was! Came up with an at-the-time completely original platform which as you say became the basis for most cars ever since! And he did it using a maximum of existing parts from the predecessor BMC C-block and such!
Funny you should say that Stephen- when Jezza started talking about the first hot hatch, I immediately thought of the Mini, especially the ones in the Italian Job. I though that was rather obvious but absolutely no mention of them.
Fiat were the geniuses with the gear box clutch and differential set up 1st seen on the 1964 Autobianchi primula. Dante giacosa genius Fiat then applied the primula set up on the 1970 127. Ford basically used the same Fiat setup on the Fiesta 1977 then enlarged for Escort. Though ford did experiment on FWD in the 60s on the Taunus derived setup. Even offering a US version nothing like the Fiat setup. Whilst the mini ( I own a few ) is a packaging masterpiece it is far from perfect from a service. Allot of friction and side forces on the crank shaft thrust washers. Drive line gears. Plus shared oil. Its layout was inspired by J.W. Christie who built FWD engine in sump layout between 1904 - 1909. Datsun had a similar set up in the cherry though I dont know much about them. The Fiat layout took over and was copied as it was simpler, separate lubrication could be made cheep and endlessly adapted. Yes I admire the mini but equally the Autobianchi Primula and Dante's genius. You could say the 127 was the 1st hot hatch in standard form nippy and zingy. One of the most amazing FWD transmissions was the 1966 Toranado Oldsmobile FWD used in the 67 Cadillac and strong enough to be used unaltered in the 10,000lbs GMC motor home and still the chain drive would last.
The group B problem is sadly simple and (publicly) was misinterpreted: safe distance. Many are quick to blame the car or the driver, but at no time is standing at the middle of (or even at the near perimeter) a rally track a “safe” option. Not to say don’t do it, if you’d like, but more so don’t expect that such an act doesn’t come with a very very high risk
I’ve watched this more times than I’m comfortable admitting and i can’t help but highlight one thing: why did we blame the car when the spectator safety regulations were far and away a more pressing issue......?
Exactly. The crash happened because of idiotic spectators blocking the road and this wasn't an uncommon occurrence. I'm just shocked it didn't happen sooner. Not the fault of Ford or Santos but rather the fault of event organisers for poor crowd management and ultimately the fault of the idiots standing in a place which should have only been occupied by rally cars. Also, Clarkson made out that the RS200 crash ended Group B but the classification was axed in May after the crash of Toivonen and Cresto's S4 and their untimely deaths at Corsica.
Because unfortunately the cars were blamed by a media that have no interest in rallying until something goes wrong. Rally fans know the cars weren't the real issue.
@@skylined5534 well I think Group B's days were numbered anyway after the Portugal crash and I wouldn't have been surprised if FISA (the FIA at the time) were looking for an excuse to end it anyway. Then of course Toivonen's crash happened and they sadly had a perfect one. I do still think the cars played a part though. I think Toivonen in an interview in that Corsica rally said that the cars were so fast the drivers were struggling to keep up with them. "I mean, this is crazy!" Röhl and I think Vatanen also said that given how fast the cars were and how Insane the crowds were an accident like the one in Portugal was pretty much inevitable
Like the above comment mentioned, I'm surprised that something like what happened in Portugal hadn't occurred before that. Crowd safety for Group B was non existent. Some of the more rowdy spectators would even try and touch the cars as they were speeding past. Toivonen's fatal crash in Corsica just finished it off. It gave Balestre the perfect reason to say enough is enough.
but they are packing huge punches.. the Civic Type-R and Seat Leon Cupra now boast 300hp.. so does the Focus ST .. people asumed they were going to die today due to stricter and stricter enviromental rules and fuel cost and they have achieved now the power amounts of what Porsche 911s and Ferraris had in the early 90s.. and they come with mechanical warranty and are daily-car capable
why? it's an older car with older engine and older tech. and the type r is fwd and much heavier. it's like the s2000. not the fastest any more but still a legend on the track and still one of the best rwd cars out there, a classic.
Well, I don't know, petition Exxon to jack up oil prices and maybe VW will bring the Up over here and Honda will make a break version of the S660 and send that on over.
This is my first car back in 1999, a GLI and I really love,the gear link is troubled at times and some rust. The leather is great. Its beautiful because it is a designer's car in fact by Karmann.
Thought the Alfasud might be worth a mention, especially as the Golf owed everything about its packaging to the Sud which I believe, in spite of its well known faults, was better looking and loads more fun--wish Alfa could reissue them today :-)
All hot hatches now are boring, these cars are so much fun, the mk1 gti, 205 gti and the cosworth. Manufacturers now think that a hot hatch needs to have 250 bhp minimum and clever front suspension to accommodate. Lightness is key and a hot hatch should have no more than 200 bhp if it's front wheel drive!!! the last really great hot hatch was the civic type r EP3
Sam Power Agreed, manufacturers have become obsessed with NCAP ratings and kitting out every single car with countless unnecessary toys, so we're left with the bloated, overly-heavy, too-tall homogenous mediocrity that's everywhere now.
Hot hatches need to be simple, light, be very similar to the stock car, and be decently quick. Look at earlier Peugeot's, e.g the 205/106 GTi, absolutely fabulous cars and such amazing fun to drive.
'89 GTi 1.8 16v jetronic and '90 GLi 2.0 16v motronic would have to be the two cars that I have owned that were beyond fun to drive...... I miss both very much. Sold the GTi to buy my 2001 GTi 1.8t and sold the '90 GLi to buy my 1999 Audi A4 1.8t Quattro. Now the 2001 GTi was ok, but the '99 A4 was phenomenal! But those MKII's were still better. Easy, simple, fast and cheap to make fast.
+Adrizz5447 Try a MK1 MR2 dude, try it, it's SO much better. I bought mine off of a friend of mine who had bought a MK2 GTI in stead of it, something he regretted ever since.
I had the pleasure of using a Rover Montego perkins diesel saloon fitted with a extra button instead of a blank for a wash wiper it didn't have for a year, they tried to steal it a few times without success lol, it was the fuel pump cut out button left flush with the other buttons when parked.
The Vauxhalle Chevette was a rebadged Chevy Chevette sold through all the GM subsidiaries. I believe the base car for the engineering was the Opel Kadett. So, no Jeremy, the Germans still get all the credit.
Yeah, I think Vauxhall just fitted bigger engine to this car and adjusted suspension, but the all the parts were already engineered in USA or Germany so, not really a British engineering, more like British tuning :)
Halcyon days. Don’t think we’ll ever see these types of fabulous cars again. And we surely won’t get as excited about cars as we did in the 80’s and 90’s. Kids today just want an Uber……or an electric scooter. Bleuch.
Carson Red Yeah it probably is, but modern rules and regulations make it almost impossible to make a car like the Cossie. Much like most the other great cars of the past.
Cheryl Cold actually there legitimately was less people on the road. Every year there are more cars on the road (thanks to our ever growing population across the world).
Sorry, no. It's based on the Chevette, a car "designed" and "developed" in Detroit. My first wife had an '80 and I worked on it myself. A lot. Vauxhall and Opel and Holden (and SAAB for a while) are not the same company. They are owned by the same company. Big difference. It's like saying Jaguar and Volvo were the same company in the 2000s. They weren't.
It's frustrating that Clarkson essentially made out that the RS200 killed group b. Some of the spectators and photographers were to blame for the car losing control and had they not been milling around all over the road and getting in the way the RS200 likely wouldn't have crashed. Toivenen's death a few months later was really the final straw though and various drivers including Walter Röhrl voiced concerns about the various dangers present in Group B including wayward spectators.
I'd seen the RS200 at the Earls court motor show, while working for Rover. I would always have a RS200 over almost any car of that type - I am a bit old now though.
K38 FMC, registered 24th November 1992, is currently taxed and MOT'd until January 2017. :-) I wonder if it will make it to its 25th birthday next year?
first cars i had in the late 80's was an Opel Ascona 2.0 followed by a mk2 capri 3.0s. never really got into the hot hatch thing closest i got was prob a honda prelude or a rover 220gti, which was a lot better than i expected.
nexgenhippy the closest I got to a hot hatch was a 1989 Honda CRX-si I got for free (sort of. It was repayment of money I gave to my father to buy his truck which he had sold out from under me when some else offered him more money then I could give) when I was 16. I hated it. It was to low to the ground and I didn’t really fit in it. I traded it for an 1989 Mazda 929 (what a pos). Less then a year later I got a 1973 AMC Javelin/Amx (which I still own 20 years later) and never looked back, though I did have a 1989 Shelby Daytona Turbo that I learned to drive stick on (miss that car and the only turbo car I have ever owned).
I guess 4 WRC wins just doesn't make the cut. Well it is a Brit centric show and only a handful of the 5000 or so they made probably ever went there, did they even make any in LHD?
