QW has really disappointed me, I was a big fan of him for the specific reason he loved classic cars like I do. Now to me he is just a big traitor, he has definitely been bought 💵💷
He’s such a hypocrite- does anyone else remember his show “The Cars the Star”. Therein lies the problem: Quents own star has fallen. He’s no longer relevant. So maybe he’s pimped himself out - selling his values - to top up his retirement pot??
🤝 perfect explanation 👍 The actual solution would be along the lines of kei cars for normal people, and massive road tax for the status symbol buyers and ‘throwaway’ buyers.
As sold, sure. But as the grid won't be able to support even half the mileage we cover today with a majority EV fleet, unless we increase nuclear power or shut down other modern conveinences to save power... we're stuck with less miles driven. A very practical solution to a problem the leeches, a.k.a. the "elites" have: how to keep people isolated, docile, and unfree.
The thing is; he, like me, is old. We've heard varying versions of scare mongering for decades. None have come anywhere close to true. I'd like someone to ask him why he thinks it's different this time.
Geoff, your dreams are weird and Quentin Wilson is a traitor to classic cars and a snake oil salesman. Everything you said is right and the problem with EVs is not misinformation as we all know and the car-buying public is not stupid. Wilson should shut his gob. 👍
Wilson will probably go into politics soon. He has all the qualifications- a love of money over principles and an ability to talk BS with a straight face.
@@cornishhhGood point, it’s just a pity that they never stuck to that original premise of electric vehicles however as in it was designed to run on easily replaceable and relatively cheap lead acid batteries which were designed to be changed every few years as a “service item” Unfortunately that’s not the case with modern lithium ion powered vehicles in which they are “ life of the vehicle” items and as such leave vehicles classed as “BER” (beyond economic repair) at the end of the battery life cycle, effectively causing a tonne of scrap which may otherwise have nothing wrong with it, it’s just such a terrible waste of resources 👍
He's an ex second hand car dealer who has found a better scam. In other questions, "Why is a solicitor lying to me?" Or, "Why is an estate agent trying to rip me off?" Or "Why does it go dark at night?"
Quentin's column in Classic Cars magazine carries a piece that says 'Quentin Willson had a 10-year stint presenting the BBC's Top Gea, has bought and sold countless cars and has cemented a reputation as everyone's favourite motoring pundit'. Why doesn't the blurb mention that he and his brother both have convictions for winding back the mileage on cars he sold? He is a convicted swindler.
He's 'everybody's' 'favourite ' pundit ?? 😅🤣😂😄😆😅 . I'm an everybody,.He's a knob and certainly NOT mine ! Says it all about the Bertie Bullshi% Comrade corp .
During the war bromine was put into the water. Tech more advanced now, it drops from the sky, gets injected into farmed animals & fish, and us mixed into manufactured foodstuffs.
@@chrispark9343 The evidence is in QW's own words - always 'misinformation', never about specifics. What misinformation? Range anxiety? Give us some facts; unreliable infrastructure? show that we can rely on public charging; poor residual values? show us figures which refute the claim.
@@JamesSmith-qs4hxOne can only hope the owners kept ownership of the original mechanics - particularly the engine and gearbox. I'd hate to think the owner of the 308 GTB I saw did, since he's destroyed the value of his classic car converting it to electric.
Mr. Wilson has made a calculated decision that for him his income will come from shilling for the EV crowd. He has no loyalty to classic cars other than to pull a few bucks on the side writing for classic car publications. You are 100% correct that it makes no economic sense to purchase and own an EV for most people. Everything points to leasing strategies. But what happens to all of these leased EVs at the end of the lease? The secondary used vehicle market has depreciated these EVs to the point that no one wants them, and no independent mechanic shops are willing to repair these, so no "man off the street" can afford to take on ownership even if the entry price of a used EV (coming off a lease) is attractive. At this point, the EVs are simply expensive throw-away electronic heaps of do-do. And no foreign countries (Asia) want to import these heaps because they already are generating their own piles of do-do. The only thing that might possibly save this tragedy in the making is if EVs could be economically recycled. The US government has outright subsidized and otherwise made huge monetary "loans" to all kinds of EV recycling startups. Some of these companies have been around for as long as 10 years with no signs of success. Most of these EV recycle start-ups were created by EV executives from Tesla who got in early and then cashed out (who the heck could put up with Musk for very long and then know that Musk will end up firing them anyway? Better to get out while the getting was good). If you think that any EV from today will survive and thrive on some market 30 years down the road as a classic car you seriously need to get your head examined. All the EVs of today (and the past 10 years of production) are going to end up in environmentally unfriendly piles of toxic trash.
a russian/estonian businessman i did work for some years back told me the yanks gave russia piles of dosh to "dismantle and make safe" nuclear powered navy craft, he said the money for each ship was distributed among the crew according to their status ie the captain got a big wedge and the cabin boy not much! nothing was spent on decommissioning, i suspect it's the same with evs!
The decided to fire all the knowledgeable staff who designed and built the engines it seems and hired in cheap labour who have never designed or built a engine. Most of the people at the top of these companies have also come from backgrounds not associated with the car industry or mechanical engineering.
@Journey_Awaits Ford were one of those betting on a all EV future until they realised that their vehicles were setting on fire and weren't selling that quickly
I had a signed photo of QW, I idolised him when I was younger. I especially liked The Star is the Car program. I can't stand him now, and I used that photo as kindling to light my coal fire.
I’m 71 years old..I have owned a few cars along the way, Mini, Triumph Spitfire, MGBGT, Honda Civic Type R and currently a Mazda Mx5. The electric car is not the future…it does have its place in our current…pot holed world….but not for me. I don’t have enough years left to worry about it…. But I’ll stick with my Mx5.
As someone far less well seasoned, I agree. I'd rather drive the most humdrum car (such as a Toyota Corolla) until life's end than be stuck with an EV. That, and a world where there aren't classic MG's, Triumphs, Jag's & more on the roads, would be much the poorer.
There is stuff out there on the interweb that suggests a gentleman named QW was in Coalville Magistrates Court in 1988 for selling cars that had their mileages altered. No idea if it's true. Probably just misinformation!
It is 100% true, the Sunday Mirror covered the story, as did the local paper. He was prosecuted for 8 offences, including a service book with false entries!
Quentin Wilson, I remember on Top Gear Classic Cars video in 1992, he tested a few cars told the pros cons and values of each car, one car he tested was his own car a Daimler SP250 in white, at the end end of that test he says ' he loves this car, I will never sell it, I'll be buried in it' I wonder if he still owns the Daimler
It's money dear Geoff!! This planet has been warming up and cooling down for MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS and even more MILLIONS of years, and you are not going to make the slightest bit of difference by throwing your pension pot away on an electric car. Keep the classics on the road. Great Channel Geoff!!
A colleague just had an insurance renewal for his tesla. He's married father of 2 and it jumped up to £3000. He's had it 2 years and trading it in for an Octavia Vrs £350 to insure it.
@@HunkumSpunkum not much information married father of 2 does being married or having 2 children make any difference. Location, no claims, age, gender, vehicle? The tesla's are not cheap to insure, but how many cars go 0-60 in 3.9sec. I insure a skoda enyaq iv80 for £291 fully comp for the year. I think that's cheaper than ICE for a brand new car with 204hp
What you get paid for a few magazine articles and what you get for working for the Man to push the whole Net Zero Lie, may shed some light on QW's new enthusiasms.Geoff.
Yup. Smarmy yuppie nobs of a feather, flock together. Saying that as someone with a family member that went to that school too, albeit over four decades prior (whom also thinks Bliar is a money grubbing >bleep
Quentin, is doing rather nicely. He recently bought a mansion on the Tiddington Rd here in Stratford - The most expensive road in the midlands. Also has dug out an underground car park underneath with a car lift.
I see he still hasn't sold his huge house on Avenue Road in Stratford (just reduced from £2.25 million to £1.975 million - he bought it for only £245k in 1998!!) I didn't realise he has recently bought another mansion - does this mean he can afford to buy a mansion without needing to sell his existing house first? He clearly has accumulated a lot of wealth and he missed the big money era of 2002 onwards Top Gear. I doubt QW earned more than £50k a year on TG in the 90s.
I currently have a 2016 Seat Leon FR diesel and I can get 63-64mpg driving at 65mph. Gets me over 600miles a tank... absolutely no way i'm getting rid of it!! Keep up the good work Geoff!!
Let’s be perfectly frank, Quentin Wilson always did have a dodgy Brylcream and raincoat vibe about him. Say what you like about Clarkson, but he’s never been smarmy or suspect in a shill sort of way. Indeed, he’s even been accused of destroying entire brands, and thinks nothing of rubbishing any model by any maker. I get a different, but similarly solid feeling from James May. Conversely, the Hamster for me belongs in the same box as the serially irritating Tiff, and every other personality bypass inserted into the car world coverage business - on TV. Online however, we have so many genuine car and bike reviewers, it’s almost unfair to mention only a few. But we all respect Harry (for so many good reasons), Jack at Number 27, and of course our very own Geoff (T) Buys Cars. All three are actually very different from each other in multiple ways. However, they have one important thing in common: They cannot be bought. So, far be it from me to suggest that we all seek out every opportunity to call out the GROSSLY HYPOCRITICAL oily Quentin, and all the other dishonest EV-angelist shills on Farty Charged etc. but it might be a bit of fun. Men were meant to hunt. Hunting is good training for war. Everything we hold dear is being threatened. We are at war. It’s a man’s job to protect the castle. The castle is clearly under attack. Maybe it’s our responsibility to shut this nonsense down once and for all? You decide. Peace 🏴 No, there’s no irony. Peace has to be won. Peace has to be maintained.
As soon as they put ECUs and fancy electronics into cars, around about 1996, they ruined the car industry. Now cars that were built in 2005 it is not possible to buy replacement electronics for some cars. So many expensive modules for suspension, airbags, engine management , position sensors, Abs , it is now about electronics not mechanics. I have a member of my family living in Switzerland and sometimes I drive there, but that would not be feasible in an EV of over 800 miles in one run. The Classic cars from 40 years ago can be maintained at home, no electronics and have not had any serious impact on manufacturing or environment because of their longevity. In fact there is now lots of businesses supplying goods and services to keep these historic vehicles alive and well. Petrol and diesel prices are high only due to 70% at least of the cost being government taxes. Politicians are incompetent fiddlers, always wanting to restrict the public. .
Count Quentula was a car trader, he started in journalism writing 'car dealer diary' in a magazine called Buying Cars (later renamed Car Choice, and bought by Haymarket and merged into Autocar) in about 1989. Then he went to Top Gear.
Geoff I’m almost 50 and I’d love to buy a cheap jaguar from the 60’s. We can get the cars away from the super rich and get them back on the road. I go on about my daily driver a 1965 Chrysler Valiant AP6 it’s 60 years old next year and I love driving it. No trailer queen I drive her as much as I can.
We are going to have to get like the Cubans with old cars and keep them going forever one way or another. EVs are not cars in the traditional sense. They are electrical appliances with computers and software which are designed for rapid obsolescence.
@@dudmanjohnin South Africa you see many cars from the 70s and 80s looking pristine . The dry climate means almost zero rust ….the enemy of the UK classic and old car owner .
My thoughts exactly.I have a Daimler 250 V8 and a 68 Jaguar 340, those values have been frozen for a few years now. We all have one so no mega market. 😮😮😮
Never did like Quentin Wilson, always came across as smarmy. I had a friend who met him once, and said much the same. He's no friend of classics, unless they're the high end ones he and his rich friends can afford..
I have an 18 plate volvo s60 t4, (So 2L turbo petrol). No hybrid gubbins or anything like that and it absolutely wiped the floor with that xc60 hybrids mpg. On the motorway I get between 55 and 60 mpg depending on how heavy my foot feels that day 😅
My petrol 1.0L Kamiq got me down to Interlaken from the south east on one tank - 583 miles. Admittedly I cruised at 65, but rather this speed than having to stop and charge 2 - 3 times.
The best way to treat Mr Wilson, is to ignore him. He is forgetting that he is only in his present privileged position because of his one-time 'love' for classic cars. I'm sure we all know someone whose 'enthusiasm' has ultimately been proven to come down to money. For most of us who have a passion for older vehicles, it really isn't about money at all, but about nostalgia , recreation and enjoyment. We really should not be deifying the likes of Wilson, neither should we get too upset when we discover that they are not all they appear to be. Let's just carry on enjoying what we have from day to day, and prove that the enthusiasm and passion of a huge family of like-minded enthusiasts is far more powerful than one man's love of money and kudos.
Was at a motorcycle repairers the other week , an electric scooter had one cell fail in the battery pack. The replacement battery pack was more than the value of the scooter, the owner said he was going back to petrol as he could not afford the repairs bill . Modern cars have too many silicon chips designed in which have reduced reliability and increased repair costs !
Landfill, along with the expired wind turbines. They can't shift used EV's off the forecourts, so are being sent to auctions. QW is an absolute tosser!!
Lets get down to details, I own 3 SAAB'S. 95 2.3 estate 80,00 miles.a 93 carlsson 2.8,24000 miles.a 93 2.8 v6 40000 mls. Given the pleasure to own these cars,they have no internet connection, they travel 400 mls on a full tank,they will not have a 10 year failure of a propulsion battery [no child labour with suffering] These cars are designed to last-200,000 miles, so it saves the planet. People changing their cars to keep ahead of their friends etc are supporting the strain on wasteful energy. Just to say that I can only drive one at a time ! Thanks for listening to a senile 90 yr old.
When facts are interpreted into misinformation; that’s where the problem starts. I don’t have a Nokia 3310 now, because something better came along, and I didn’t receive a tax credit to get a smartphone nor was I mandated into getting a smartphone. The smartphone was just a better product. Great video Geoff
Heard from a very good source that Porsche are having massive issues with Taycan battery packs and they are wanting to take £15,000.00 of your English pounds out of your bank account to 'fix' the problem. Misinformation, NAH its a load of bollocks is EV ownership.
Geoff - I can top your Quentin Wilson dream. I dreamt I was in a Range Rover eating sausages with Jeremy Clarkson and laughing a lot. Nobody was driving the car but it was moving. That's it. This was years before Clarkson's farm I might add! And Teslas.
Both Quentin and Jonny drank the cool aid and have become addicted. That WEF money sure is intoxicating. As are the free Teslas that Elon gives to Quentin in exchange for favourable reviews. It's the fire cover-ups that get to me. Back in the day, Quentin would have been all over that like a cheap spiv at an auction for high mileage cars.
Oh, that'll be why Johnny Smith is presently dumping a shed load of cash into having an Austin Allegro sleeper built with a Honda K20 motor in it then, will it? He built the Flux Capacitor electric drag car, from a 1974 Enfield, using battery packs designed for the Huey Cobra helicopter from the Vietnam War era, which a mate with a 'cough' contract with the US military managed to source for him, and has a Honda Insight hybrid, which is 25-ish years old. He's really pushing modern EVs, so he is.
My neighbour has a company car, previously he had a diesel Audi but his employers have decided to go to a hybrid fleet, so he now has an EV Ford Focus. Officially his employer intimated that the change from Petrol/Diesel to hybrid was due to their desire to improve their 'carbon-footprint' and their 'green credentials' but the company purchases it's fleet outright and the fleet manager told my neighbour privately that they had looked at going to full battery-only EVs but the resale value was pathetic..
@@palerider7708 The EV agenda is not working is an EV a good replacement for an I.C.E vehicle l don't think so we're as a Hybrid is so far superior replacement for an EV
The reliability issues you mention affecting modern ice cars, I fully believe is down to environmental restrictions not only on the vehicles themselves but on production methods and production plants.
Geoff your dreams are weird. P.s. if I don’t make it to the end of your other excellent videos it’s because the truth is depressing me and I wish I didn’t know the things we do sometimes. Keep up the good work 👍🏼🙏🏻
