There's are loads of these old Top Gear's on youtube, and it's a legal requirement that there has to be at least one comment on each video, saying something along the line of your comment. Top Gear used to be informative, Top Gear was better without those 3 idiots, Top Gear was better without comedy skits (that's the ubiquitous yank comment that has to be included every 5th video), Top Gear used to talk about the cars, so on and such.
There's more info on the Internet about cars then there were on TV 30 years ago. Give em a break, Top Gear would be dead if it weren't for the famous trio.
Turnipage..... Top Gear died 2 decades ago. It had ceased to be relevant and JC 'reinvented it' in his own image as 'New Top Gear'. But I still adore the 'old' show.
We think we have it bad now 🙄. Somebody writing in back then complaining about car adverts. DEAR SIR I RECENTLY LOOKED AT A ADVERT OF A VAUXHALL CAVALIER JUMPING OVER SEVERAL CARS , THIS IS VERY MISLEADING, I ONLY MANAGED 1 CAR AND NOW MY CAR IS KNACKERED ,AND I AM CURRENTLY IN HOSPITAL 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This may be an old episode of an old show, But Jackie makes a very important point - smoothness. Truthfully very few people have it or even understand what it is. I was forced to think about it and change my habits - i drove a taxi cab. I've also driven scaa showroom class on good tracks. Went through the drivers school and took the test and passed. But it's very different with a full field of cars all trying to get positions of advantage at speed. Takes a while to gain confidence at speed in a field at speed. What Jackie said about smoothness is something very few really even think about. Most of us jerk our cars around and think that is an expression of control and prowess, it really is just not that at all. Feeling the g forces build and ebb as you move around corners with the reduction of throttle and increasing throttle as you approach an apex then allowing drag to slow you with a gear change to set up for the next corner. So many little nuances the car exhibits as it moves around on the road surfaces. Are you coming into a corner too hot and scrubbing speed with brakes and tire friction? Or too slow and try to make up for it with angle and throttle. Do you approach a stop light at speed and sharply brake? Or see the light will change and coast to the stop line with little brake effort? No time is lost with the latter method, brake pad wear along with tire heat and wear is reduced by using it. How about gravity center, where is it and how can you manipulate it to gain control and or traction? do you think about these things when you drive? Or do you just drive as you always have, it was good enough then and seems fine now. Most people never push the car they own to it's limits or even know what those limits really are. Or how much harder it can be driven with some thought and practice - as safely as going much slower. Driving is physics. Gravity friction drag momentum and time
The ball-in-the-dish seems to be the inspiration for Initial D's water-in-the-cup. Similar principles, completely different difficulties as one is going up a mountain course, where one has to take into account gradient change as well as throttle and steering control.
These shows are great. They are informative and they are what a car show should be about, not blowing things up or knobbing around in 150,000 sports cars that most cannot afford to another lavish part of the world that no ordinary run of the mill person will go to. Real topics, affordable cars that are reviewed that the average man/woman may want to buy. We have to rely on owners video reviews on popular common cars now to get the honest real world opinions and what the car is like to live with on a daily basis
I took my test back in those days, and I was hyper nervous right up until the test, from there on in I was really calm. So it's unfortunate for these people who are still a bag of nerves while their test is underway.
Imagine the sort of person that takes the time to write a letter of complaint about an advertisement for sporty cars being to much performance-orientated. Now Imagine this person lives next door to you...
I feel bloody sad for those people who paid a small fortune for an intensive driving course and only 2 out of the 8 passed their test. What kind of driving instructor continually keeps grabbing the steering wheel anyway? No wonder that poor woman had an attack of nerves and pulled out. What a bloody cowboy racket! I took an intensive course in Preston over two days in 1990 and passed no problem.
It does seem a bit crazy I could driving I'm a Land Rover as good as anybody I could not drive in heavy traffic at 20 mph without being nervous as f***. completely different he thinks he's f****** Rambo on public roads if military skills worked in real life there wouldn't be so many homeless on the street I'm from a successful military family you're told to ignore the failures like it's their own fault I would imagine he takes the same attitude with driving tests I know my Grandad does with just about anything your souffle could fall it's your own fault lol
I don't know why so many Fast bois come out of Scotland usually race drivers are posh maybe there is literally nothing to do in Scotland but race and the obvious golf my Grandad was a Air Force guy for a bit they weren't posh growing up but again he really like going fast. we were taught Graham Chapman's engineering principles among other things big passion for teaching in my people far more common than going fast I just don't see the point when video games exist pretty much for that way since the 90s v-rally. my first racing love was that now terrible coloured Subaru grown by the surgeon on dirt Colin McRae I think if I was going to race it would be rallycross or umm Cros ralle as it would be in Gaelic
Oddly enough, me and Mrs Perkin were talking about the Renault Alpine/GTAs tonight. I clearly remember the shopping mall in Croydon (when there was only one) offering one as a prize in a raffle. Still think they look sorta good. Cheers for the upload :)
People who have nothing better to do than write in and complain about mundane things like adverts really annoy me. They are always dull people with empty lives, and never the sort of person these adverts are trying to attract in the first place, but obviously appeal to the people who these cars are aimed at. Even if they are made to change advertising tactics as a result, it's not going to stop fast cars being made. Probably those same people who complain about nudity on TV. No one is forcing you to do, buy or watch anything you don't want to. So just let those who do get on with it.
Wow this episode of top gear from the year I was born is terrible. Bring back Clarkson, Hammond and May. And on that Bomb Shell if top gear is going to be like this with the new presenters- it will be as much fun as genital warts
if it doesn't show something extreme every 10 seconds the boys get bored on their pillows or don't get their genitals size increment emulation quite right..
***** Old top gear wasn't bad, just a different format, more adult oriented, for adults of those times, nowadays top gear have some good stuff, like the specials, but it's just doing silly things with fancy cars, comedy stuff, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with the inner child.
