WILL THE UK’S CHEAPEST CAR MAKE IT 500 MILES TO PARIS? 

Re turbo edith????

Alex mate, you're flying low in the CV add.

He got a bit excited while filming and forgot to zip up.

DON’T put the suspension at the lowest setting to drive her! We owned one and the owners manual really did stress this!! 😮👍👍

I love Edith! Desperately wanna take my Mk1 Saxo VTS to France 🇫🇷🇫🇷

It's the inter-personal and inter-car blend that makes it a thing..

Like old Top Gear, only with shit boxes, Shit Gear :D

Car entertainment channel?

Is this the fabeled Bottom Gear?​@@Mad.player

Agreed I knew people who wernt into cars but loved top gear for the comedy. Alex is doing the same. Awesome

I would love to see the little BX looked after. I always loved how they looked. The suspension in them was amazing, you wouldn’t feel the road in it.

Also there are a few good people on RU-vid/ the web who are good with these upndown and the bx project come to mind.

I'm sure that they would fix up the BX. If they weren't far too busy acting like 10yr old boys on a school trip. Just to make folk like myself laugh 🤣

The engine in mine blew up in 1998.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Taylor laughing his tits off makes it 10x funnier😂😂

@@sebvds8366yeah🤣

I didn't laugh at all... I nearly lost a lung😂 That whole bit got me on the seek bar back several times 😂😊

@@skylined5534 seek bar back?

Crotch Watch.

that is f*cking hilarious tho ..

French cars are for pooftahs. Real men drive trucks with 7.4 liters of displacement

I agree my £150 Clio is the most reliable car I've ever owned 3 years nearly 40k miles and never gone wrong, and I've spent about £40 on it in that time 😂

The 406 is in its own league, a different kind of beast. £450 is a bargain, we had 2 in the family purchased for £3000 and £4000. One of them is still driving around somewhere in Eastern Europe 10 years later :D

I bought my 406 3 years old with 90k miles for £1800. 10 years later it was traded in and got £400 back. Totally reliable with standard maintenance.

My Peugeot 205 diesel was €200 and had 350,000kms on the clock when I bought it, I then drove it to Italy, to go and see the F1 at Imola, and back via Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands back to the U.K. with 3 mates and a boot full of beer and wine, the car is still going strong today.

Good luck for 2024! And hope you get out the hospital soon ❤

What's also funny is they drove this car with barely any coolant in the cylinder head. Because the head is higher than the radiator, there is a second bleed screw on the thermostat housing (just below the intake pipe) and every time the radiator has to be refilled, you bleed the rad, then bleed the thermostat.

@@AutoalexCars thanks Alex and team!

You arent even allowed to laugh in hospital? Like they go out of their way to be miserable

Get well soon bud

Couldn't have put it better Dan, these roadtrips feel like the kind of trips I would do with my mates if we had a) the time and b) some spare cash and c) our wives' approval...

What a gift. Your a legend mate

I grew up in one of these, me and my 4 siblings jumping between the back seats and the boot on trips. Such a great little car to have been in. All my friends used to be blown away watching the Bx rise up before it took off 😂 The old fella was a football coach for years, many a time a full team of 8/9 year olds were taken from game to game in this yoke 😂😂😂 back when seat belts weren’t a legal requirement 👍

@@flipacoin3593 thanks for sharing that. I love hearing people’s Bx stories

​@@RollingRust I was never very keen on French cars - the sort of Airfix kit build quality always put me off although I was subsequently partially converted by a friend who owned (for a long time - about a decade) a Citroen CX 2.5T Prestige and a smaller one, I can't recall the model except to say it was white with a wonderfully period brown interior and a charming, distinctive and quite peppy little horizontally opposed I think 1.2 litre engine.... I don't recall the year for either but I did at least 3 or 4 quite long trips in the CX (which now I think about it, could well have been an E reg - 1987?) and in fairness, despite its approaching 170000 miles, seemed to have retained full possession of every single one of the 168horses which they were apparently delivered with brand new. The enormously spacious rear used to make me snigger, primarily due to the immensely louche and camp quilted black leather back seat - but also the copious leg room. I believe French presidents of the era were ferried in them and it's not hard to imagine someone like Giscard-d'Estaing or Chirac rolling around back there with their mistress after a light lunch in the countryside!! My piano teacher in the 1980s had several Renault 4s which I'm sure had a sort of wrist action gearshift sprouting from the dashboard but I may be mistaken - and a fling of mine around 1990 had a white 1.7litre Renault 5 which let him down on Fulham Bridge when the clutch cable snapped. My parents stringently avoided them, instead maintaining a pointedly Swedish and German policy - my absolute earliest memories are of my mother's backfiring NSU - I was then far too young to understand her joke about non-specific urethritis. She subsequently had several Beetles and I think 3 Golfs, terminating in a 1989 GTi just before the big bumper version of that came out. For school trunks my dad had several Volvo Estates but after my brother and I had finished with all that, they were quickly replaced with a veritable string of BMWs, noticeably because of a tax-free - and heavily discounted - perk thanks to a minor diplomatic position which allowed for one car per year - meaning that 6 months after taking delivery, he could go order the next one from Park Lane (the only outlet which handled that type of sale) because they took a reliable 6 months to come from the Factory, this meaning he'd catch it exactly 12 months later, confirming to the letter of the rules - and being the 90s, were the halcyon days where even a 5 series Touring - never mind X5s - were not available for love, money or your first born child - and this commanded insane resale values. I think to preserve the appearance of at least a MODICUM of decency, however, they used to ask him oh so politely, if he wouldn't mind awfully disposing of the "old" one separately simply to avoid the potential embarrassment that the value of the by-then one year old, sub 10000 mile and admittedly as good as new, never thrashed, fully UK (not grey import) garaged car, was substantially more than the price of the brand new one that was lined up!!!😂 I digress, apologies ❤ My only other brushes with anything French (in the automotive sense, I should add - I make no such claims concerning the human encounters 🤭😎) was someone in my year's father had a Renault 25 V6 which I would sometimes see when, as a day boy, his dad would drop him off each morning and you could hear the slow throb of its motor and the slur of the gearshifts at a maximum of about 1800rpm cos of the typical dad driving! There were some friends of the Headmaster near Aix-en-Provence who each year would take a pupil who wanted to do a French exchange. It was a couple with two sons, the younger of which, Bertrand, was my age. I recall zooming around on the back of his tiny scooter which even as skinny 15 year olds, with 2 of us on it used to struggle a bit with the hilly terrain - one of my favourite phrases I learned that summer was "Je sens la moteur"😆 Anyway, his parents had some fairly ancient Renault 18 - or 16? It was bright yellow and thus duly christened by me as "La Poubelle Jaune" Although Bertrand's mum laughed, to this day I can't quite work out if she genuinely found it amusing - or was otherwise merely being an extremely polite hostess and was actually deeply offended by my cocky, thoughtless and wholly inappropriate rudeness🤔🫣🤗 More innocent times - anyhoo, the least I can do I guess is now go and have a look at your channel🤓❤️

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Same here :) . drove it a bit as a teen and tbh enjoyed it. That self levelling was fantastic with the caravan!

And watching her drop it 🫡

@@user-dj1js9oh5g that’s a different memory mate haha

She had a lovely rear end then?

hope the front suspension went up as well😁😁

I couldn't tell if they were saying BX, Dx, or VX

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​@@BlackLines I remember hearing about it before Christmas last year. Maybe little vlad should have got Diaper Don to hook him up.

Learned to drive in one of those great motor!!

I still driving one every day but it does have a turbo only done 245000 almost run in now

If you bought it in Wigan, and it lasted 3 years, it was probably 2 cars welded together!

@@mrlister2000haha

My dad's was E609 PWW. 1.9D same colour as this one. Dad says it was at about 270,000+ when sold on. Fond memories holidaying to France driving us all from North Yorkshire.

My dad's was D760vnl. I remember him getting it over 100 going down an extremely long hill. It died when the handbrake gave up parked on a steep drive and it smashed its way through a gate and onto the street, written off for destroyed rear quarter.

My dad had an Citroen Berlingo 1.9 first production year with the XUD. The damn thing whent past 700 000km before he scraped it.

@@Gravstein what year because I have a 1.8 XUD in my 205 from 95

I remember our neighbor getting one of these, when he and my dad wanted to change wheels they were very confused why the rear wheels weren't locked by the handbrake and thought it was broken lol

The front calliper on a BX is basically the same as a 205 GTi rear calliper, except it uses seals compatible with LHM and not brake fluid.

@@hughparris2073 yes correct ( ish) I say ish because yes same calliper but the seals fitted worked with LHM “AND” brake fluid, NOT INSTEAD OF as you seam to think, so (1) there weren’t many 1.9gtis in scrappies back then lol ( 1.6gti had drums) and (2 ) brakes with LHM seals work perfectly with normal brake fluid, although it’s important to note that doesn’t work the other way round, ie if you put 205 callipers on a BX the seals would not work with LHM fluid. Also the 205 calliper had a far smaller piston ( it was a rear brake not a front brake after all, and in a light tin can of a car with sod all weight in the back) bx better in most other applications tbh than 205, tbh 1.9 gti was over engineered (S1 and S2 RS turbo for instance still had drums and same standard power as 1.9gti ( 130bhp) even ones chipped to near 200bhp still stopped ok on rear drums when really with them having more weight it would have made more sense for rear discs, but still ford didn’t find it necessary and tbh it wasn’t, but I digress lol,not that it matters much at all or makes any difference but to get the best out of BX on the rear you used an adjustable brake bias valve or pedal box but that was defo not mandatory as it worked well either way with or without that) So as I said, front callipers were first things to go in the scrappies off these :) I’ve been there and done it mate ;)

AAAAY thank you for the ❤️ guys! Greetings from Germany and have a wonderful new years!

Literally what I've been thinking, I've only started regularly watching them (although I had seen the video of Alex getting his XJR last year), the chemistry between the three of them literally reminds me of Clarkson, May and Hammond, and really made me think that this is the new (top gear like) trio😅

Comments like this suddenly remind me that I'm old 😂

Old school bosch pumped dturbo conversion

@@MultiBruce3 Or an RB or LS swap would be hilarious 😂

Tesla swap it but put a speaker in the engine bay with a recording of the old diesel sound. Really confuse everyone.

i remember a mate buy one of those and driving to his garage to drop the engine in a Pug 105 GTi only the french would use the same colour cable for everything in a loom.!!