Top Gear, 1983 (Series 11, Episode 1) 

Nearly all TV programmes used to be more intelligent.

Before that TWAT HAMMOND wrecked it all.

I so agree with this, I dont dislike Clarkson or May, but I am not keen on the hamster, Top Gear has lost its way, the old fashioned petrol heads want to learn about the engineering and specs involved, its not all about the speed or crashing cars like today's Top Gear. I do love flipping bangers, its way better than car SOS or wheeler Dealers, but its nowhere near as popular, because its the thinking mans car show, if you have not seen it, its well worth watching.

lol hell no u want ppl to sleep... true petrol heads must be like 10 percent out of the old 2002 top gear viewers, nah boring we want to see challenges races and cool cars and specials, @@colinsdiecast164customs

It was dumbed down, like nearly all TV shows.

You must very old I have no idea wot you are saying

Fifteen of us know exactly what you’re saying :) Apart from the practical ramifications… I’m intrigued by how a ‘hard’ mechanical (hydraulic) system can operate in a ‘springy’ way to absorb bumps. It was explained quite nicely in the video by likening it to the action of coordinated muscles. However, our cars today still employ some kind of elastic element (be it a steel spring, or an air spring). I can only assume that the active system was never quite active enough? The video captured from inside the test car seemed to show a fairly choppy ride…

The current presenters knowledge is non existent

Tim Youn

The new topgear is awful trash.

Well Clarkson era Top Gear is more infotainment compared to the previous predecessor, at this point they're two different shows now Now I have watched little of post-trio Top Gear aside from knowing how crap Evans was so I'm gonna asume they've reverted back to pre-trio era TG?

Absolutely, that's because she was an ACTUAL journalist.

That doesn't surprise me.

Its taken me years to get around to searching out his name, like the one guy who did tomorrows world at the time, they were in a class all of their own, you were always interested in what they were saying, because they believed in what they were doing and put it across so well. Nobody has ever done it better, so things just went backward from then!

Sorry... That's Cranfield Nr Bedford

Yep, he also completed the paris to dakar race aswell

I got monty python vibes at 3:00 ish just how it pans into him and the random grassy location. And now for something completely different

Looks like escort rear lights proper parts bin shitter

Agreed, and so were the viewers

That is such a shame, i was going to ask if anyone knew what happened to these vehicles. How did you find out that they're both gone?

Toyota saloon dead in 1996 and the hatch in 1999

How do you mean?

He was hired for his driving abilities . Bloody good driver, ex grand prix .

He is still alive and in his late 60s..He is currently presenting the true successor to the original Top Gear.Fifth Gear with all his colleagues from the original Top Gear save for Jeremy Clarkson

Pup-Draco-3332 - i think i saw him on a london tube one evening and, if it was he, he was a midget. not tall at all as he seems on t.v.

DES FITZGERALD As of Jan 2019 he is still alive. He was born in 1939, will be 80 this year.

@@1948DESMOND you tend to shrink in old age. At least 2 inches from what you were in the youth

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Rich E As Clarkson would say, his heart beats once every hour.

Rich E Certainly! Driving around an aerodrome in a 'Cold Lotus' while having a speaking style more reminiscent of a 'Open University' programme than Top Gear would put anyone into comatose. Keep driving his 'Cold Lotus' should wake it right up again.

I suspect they would be trying to work out what the 'dating' angle would be for the show - even Clarkson missed that one, or was that why he engineered his dramatic exit?

True, I hate new cars, back then cars were good, real engines not the todays crap engines that break alot and now also some coming in electric which even worse. Why cars aren't made like they used to be just with better saftey thats it we don't need crap tv screens and parking aids and all that bullshit, just make a relible car with saftey no need technology.

@@hassankhan384 Cars now are far more reliable than cars from the 1980s and they are safer too. I agree though, that there is far too much attention paid these days to superfluous technology and I don't like the blandness of SUVs which look much the same.

@@simonrich3811 yes that's true that cars are more safer but reliable I would say that because yes back then due to distributors and stuff they used to fail but not all cars, and some did last long only issues was due to snowing alot cars used to get rust more then now days as it barely ever snows, also now days cars are ugly even if I said car from 2001 would be better then today car because then cars already had alot improved from 80s cars as 90s fuel injection and better engines were made also more saftey had been kicking up then.