Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld | Japan S01E01 Airdate | 5 January 1995 Please Like and Enjoy! WATCH EVERY EPISODE ON DAILYMOTION: www.dailymotion.com/playlist/... FULL episodes playlist on youtube: • Jeremy Clarkson's Moto...
🤔not convinced if that.... .... not convinced Japan could ever claim to have a 'Golden Age, automotively speaking. In other words, the nail that gets hammered down, serves as a lesson to the other nails, revealing the limit of what a nail can do,..in Japan. In other Other words, Japanese Car Culture, has always been mostly made of the shiny bits any PepBoys sells...as veneer to the lack of actual car culture.
lol same. For once RU-vid recommendations delivered some gold! All it took was tons of 80s and 90s nostalgia vids and a bunch of Japan vids to tell it what I really wanted.
Its funny how this is 1995 and he shows a car with a rear facing camera and says its not important while here we are today and most luxury car come standard with one.
You kind of prove his point. the rear camera isn't important. How many would buy an ugly car just because it has a rear camera? How many wouldn't buy a beautiful car that doesn't have one? The answer is spot on... it's not important. Especially since he's talking about a car's desirability. You might as well be talking about an auto dimming rear view mirror. Or fog lights...
Hey man, what a coincidence I actually found your channel two days ago and now I can't stop watching your videos. Japanese car culture really is amazing. Can't wait to see more documentaries and perhaps even a film about the culture 😉. Keep up the good work man and you'll definitely go far👍
@@maineiacman What a ridiculous thing to say, some of the most reliable cars built are newer German cars, take the F20 and F30 BMW's for example, topped the reliability charts for their segments, the W211 Mercedes E-class as well, super reliable to the point that they routinely do 1 million kilometers without significant work being done to them.
I'm as Gen Z as anyone, and my main sources of entertainment are ironic/surreal memes and RU-vid Shorts. This is unlike anything I've ever seen. This is so 90's yet it somehow remains fresh. This series has it all: Insight about cultures, insight about cars, insight about how the world functioned in general during that time, and it's topped off with some amazing cinematography and a killer soundtrack. It's honestly a privilege for me to watch this decades after it has aired.
@@RobbSoul The 90s in my opinion as a teenager was great. We got to live the old school life younger, and slowly got brought into the tech age. Dial up AOL and message boards. Not everyone had a computer in their house yet, and cell phones what few were around if it all had minute plans. Free friends and family after 7 lol... SMARTphones are in my opinion what ruined society....
It's the type of design, that doesn't look astounding at first, but gets better and better with time. They become classics. Just wait 10 years, and the gen 5 Supra will be orgasmically beautiful. Now there's too many nostalgia, novelty, change phobia factors for people to actually look at the car, like they will 5 - 10 years from now.
It's crazy to think that now the r32 is one of the most influenceive cars to ever come out of Japan and is hard to find a good example of one for under 150k
Don't know if it's my age or the prices but I could not give 2 sh!ts about em anymore. Would still get one over 90% of other cars at original prices though.
150k? LMFAO. You can get a R34 for that money and those are even more overpriced. 60k will get you a really good R32. They are extremely overpriced. Get an EVO for half and you get a more reliable lighter car.
The styling of the GT-R is what made me fall in love with it, I don't know what he's on about. Yes, it's not flamboyant and wild and exotic, but that's all for the better. It doesn't need to be, because it's what it does that's what it wants to show off. The best cars look more normal than the ones that claim to be the best.
Yeah I dont know why he said it doesnt look good. I think it looks great. Sure there are a hell of a lot of boring japanese cars out there, but there are some seriously beautiful ones as well.
This is probably the only time I've seen footage of the Mid Night club and it's out of course it was something that Clarkson managed to get his hands on
Thanks for posting this series. I've never seen it before and look forward to watching them all. On a side note, it's hard to believe that kid who slide off the mountain while drifting would now be in his late 40's. :-/
I came to Japan about the time this was made, and stayed, For the cars,... and other reasons too. Now settled in the countryside with some of the most fantastic driving roads, and some very good cars with which to enjoy them. Thanks for the upload, nice and clear.
Ronald Stonecipher that was just a random style that popped up in a rural part of Mexico not the whole country dumb fuck a lot of people dress nice af in mex way better then the Italian mafias
Hello,I'm Japanese and I love this video so much. It good education video for English and every thing is gold in this time Japan. I'm proud of Japanese and love Jeremy Clarkson. This Episode very amazingly explained well about Japanese car culture in 90s. Now in Japan... so boring.
Not really. The Civic Type R, Toyota Supra, GR856, GR Yaris, Lexus LC and RC, Nissan GTR and Fairlady... Japanese companies are still putting out some good cars. The GR86 is actually really hard to buy in America because people keep ordering them as soon as they become available to pre-order.
20:44 I must say even those Yakuza guys were well behaved and courteous.. . when Jeremy starated questioning that Yakuza... I thought he will pull out a gun from his suit pocket.
Yakuza crew members are well behaved with people that don't cause them any sort of treat (well japanese people are usually like this, it's part of their culture) I'm sure BBC called them asking for a fast meet up just to ask why they like Mercedes so much, it's such a innocent question really, no need for them to use aggressive force.
@@Filipe1020 Surely people would go out of there way NOT to cause the Yakuza trouble? Causing trouble for the Yakuza would be like just signing your own death warrant.
@@yeastxtract1853 Mate, you can't just say that without the sauce. For those wondering it was a 1956 Buick concept car. The Centurion. It replaced the rear view mirror and was used at all times rather than just reversing. It never made it to production. This first production car to have one was in 1991 with the lovely Toyota Soarer.
Even as old as this is, he's still right about the design of the cars. The Datsun 240z is the first and last truly beautiful, artfully designed car out of Japan. Sure, they've got curves now and look pretty, but they're pretty for the sake of being pretty and maybe some aerodynamics. The 240z had heart. It flowed like the curves of a beautiful woman. You got a visceral feeling of beauty looking at it, much like Alpha Romeo, Ferrari and the like.
How could you say the 240z is the last beautiful car when there are other nice looking cars from Japan that came out around the same time or so. - Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 - Toyota Supra (mark four) - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution - Subaru WRX STI - Toyota AE86 - Acura NSX (First and Second generation) - Toyota MR2 - Honda S2000 - Nissan Silvia - Mazda RX-7 (Both the FC and FD) - Nissan GT-R - Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 - Honda Prelude - Mitsubishi Eclipse 1999 - Mazda RX-8
Charlie Yang Only the RX-7 and the Evo 10 deserve to be on that list. Then add the LFA. Plus, the second generation NSX doesn’t count since it was designed and built in Ohio, USA (so it’s an American car).
@@whishiwhooshi5783 Out of your list the only reason many of the original 90s cars look so good is their additional body kits to differentiate them from their plain boring base models. The rear of a Silvia S13 is one of the most boring generic rears of any car and the MK4 is bulbous and ugly apart from it's tail lights in my opinion. A Mazda and Honda put more flair into their designs and still do today along with a resurgence of good design from Toyota Recently and but generally most Japanese cars from the 90s were very conservative in their styling to the point of being generic and boring. Have you ever seen a base model GC8 Impreza, it's just a "car" and most Subaru's except for the legacy line have been what I would consider not attractive designs. What makes many of these so loved and notable now days is their history and place in popular culture especially with their blank canvas that is great for modding and reliability. As designs go I can very much see Clarkson's point of view.
@@elsden722 Can't you put the missing words together in your mind to understand it? 95: Japan is in love with car(s). 17: Almost no one can afford to buy a pass to drive t(h)rough Japan(ese) roads. (probably meaning some toll booth pass.) You really must suck at playing that Clue/Cluedo board game.
@@rafaeloda why the fuck would I want to be good at a board game instead of being able to speak properly? Not my fault I couldn't understand incomprehensible shit?
Yeah, totally agree with you. The interior could be better though. I mean the car is awesome, but those checked fabric seats like in my grandpa's Ford Scorpio doesn't do it justice.
2:52 I currently have an imported '96 Toyota Celica in storage with aftermarket wheels and the writing on the wheels are as follows: "Gewalt hyper speed gear, super round design, arrows new weapons'. Tremendous.
I come back and watch this every couple months, it’s some of the most entertaining 23 minutes on RU-vid. My brother’s going to Japan right away and I hope for his sake the car culture is at least a bit like this still
funny how Clarkson lambasted how unimaginative and unexcited Japanese cars are, and how Japanese LOVE a Bentley, then years later James May tells you to get a MX5 in Car of the People. How time changes things.
Lennart, which part of japanese auto industry is OWNED by the french? Nissan? They own like 43% of Nissan shares, and in return, Nissan holds a 15% stake in Renault. Both companies live off from each other. So, do you understand the meaning of "ownership" at all? That's why it's called Renault-Nissan ALLIANCE , not Renault Group. Stick that to your head.
They can be actual Yakuza members, even they do have PR members and Yakuza isn't necessarily filled with criminals but if you mess with them they mess with you, it's the Cosa Nostra idea basically.
well yakuza members mostly wont cause troubles to normal folks when you run into them in the streets. I often look at cars on the street and a few occasions the yakuza owners would engage in short conversation with on on car stuff
@Matteo Ricci Don't believe the weeb hype. The Yakuza will shake you down if they think there is profit just as quickly as any other organized crime faction. They ain't dumb.
This video is a great timestamp of Japan at its zenith....right after the bubble had burst five years prior in 1990. Japan was still coasting upwards at this time due to investments made when it had big money. These investments put Japan ahead of the rest of the world in technology, industrial might, and quality. Thus the amazing Japan super cars of the late 80s and 90s.
Love Japanese cars from the 80's and mid 90's! I actually like them better then today's cars in terms of style. I like Current and last gen Mazdas. But for the most part Japanese cars tend to blend in with Korean and American cars these days.
Interesting. This aired originally the day before I first flew / moved to Japan. I left the US on 1/6/95 and arrived on 1/7/95. 10 days later, the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit at 5:XX am. Amazing bit of nostalgia in that sense.
This really was an amazing time for Japanese cars. There's a reason so many young men in America (or maybe all over the world?) drove or wanted to drive kitted out Hondas and Acuras. I had a Civic Si coupe and later a CRX Si. Both were so much fun to drive.
German cars don't break down. If he would know what happened to German cars after the 90's Breaking down is pretty much the only thing they do these days
@Andy Peek I don't understand why they took the 3.0 BMW engine over the 3.5 Toyota engine. I'm sure that the 3.5 is more reliable even if BMW and Toyota renewed the 3.0
@@TAOSEELE They took the BMW because developing one on their own would have rise the cost around 100k pounds (so I heard) so to keep the cost down they made a deal with BMW who already had the engine.
Alot of people associate Japan with anime, but that's not what i think of when I hear Japan, what i hear CARS, AMAZING DESIGN and AFFORDABLE FUN THAT'S NOT A HOOKER.
anime/manga industry only became known abroad after 2004-5 - and exploded in popularity by 2010. Pre 2000 people remembers Japan for other stuff - discipline, loyalty, hard workers, efficiency and a very rich history filled with internal battling (sengoku era) and global isolation due to its location. Of course, after world war 2, mostly for cars and electronics. They simply produced them faster and better than anyone else, even if the original ideas wasn't theirs.
@@travosk8668 referring in a broader manner, you're probably thinking about 80s and 90s dubbed anime such as dragon ball, pokemon, or even 00s naruto or one piece - not the whole subculture itself. that only began it's true globalization after the 00s (mainly because viewers back then saw these shows in the 90s, dubbed) and especially 10s, where the industry itself began to also gear merchandise throughout the rest of the world.
