American Reacts May, Hammond, Clarkson "Still, Could Be Worse" Compilation

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  • @lilacfiddler1
    @lilacfiddler1 Год назад +164

    Coal is a much denser fuel than wood, more calorific output per ton, also burns at a higher temperature

    • @rasmusn.e.m1064
      @rasmusn.e.m1064 Год назад +16

      Yeah, in the simplest sense, it's just wood that's been compressed inside the earth.

    • @donallmccrudden4812
      @donallmccrudden4812 Год назад +17

      Plus coal takes up less room compares to wood, so more coal can be stored, so a theirs a longer range

    • @ojonasar
      @ojonasar Год назад +1

      Also depends on what you have available - large forests in the US.

    • @panchomcsporran2083
      @panchomcsporran2083 Год назад +3

      Coal burns 4x hotter, if you have a cast iron stove it won't last nearly as long burning coal (even worse with smokeless coal)

    • @thefowlyetti2
      @thefowlyetti2 Год назад +1

      and its easier to gather/mine than dead wood.

  • @aaroncasey4756
    @aaroncasey4756 Год назад +69

    when jeremy said after argentina he can't sweat he was referring to the prince andrew interview where he claimed some photos of him weren't actually him becuase he supposedly developed a condition where he was unable to sweat after he was narrowly missed by a bullet during the falklands war

    • @ZondaFRoadster
      @ZondaFRoadster Год назад +10

      It was such a nutty excuse.
      "I can't sweat, because I'm a war hero!"

    • @HGmolotov
      @HGmolotov Год назад +10

      It's also a double reference to when the trio got attacked by a mob whilst trying to escape Argentine during the top gear Patagonia special

    • @Sc0tt_e
      @Sc0tt_e 4 месяца назад

      He was building on what James said when he said “perfectly straightforward shooting weekend”

    • @Jcdaking81
      @Jcdaking81 3 месяца назад +1

      prince andrew tried to claim this as a reason it wasnt him with underage girls being supplied by Jefery it didnt wash with the whole off UK

  • @SaintPhoenixx
    @SaintPhoenixx Год назад +50

    I think everyone slowly draws towards May, he's the quietest but by far most knowledgeable and interesting one of the three. He knows more about how a car works than the other two combined and he has such a unique vibe about him. Clarkson's about as nuanced as a sledgehammer but May has an intrigue around him. I'd love to sit with him and have a beer.
    Also horsepower isn't the power of one horse, they can generate around 15HP. 1HP is about what one human can pull.

    • @TheRomanianGamer
      @TheRomanianGamer Год назад +4

      maturing is slowly realising may is the funniest

    • @TheOystei
      @TheOystei Год назад +4

      Important note on the horsepower thing, it was a measurment of the average work a horse could do in a day, not what max power it could do short term, and it was done that way to make the steam engine look more appealing and highlight it's advantages over a horse, namely being it's continious power output over longer periods of time.

  • @JamesChiles
    @JamesChiles Год назад +36

    The first letter on a current UK licence plate will tell you, broadly speaking, which area it was registered in, the next one tells you the location of the DVLA office that registered the vehicle. So, for instance, registrations beginning with S were made in Scotland, SA-SJ is Glasgow, SK-SO is Edinburgh, SP-ST is Dundee, SV/SW is Aberdeen, SX/SY is Inverness. The first two digits signify which 6 month period the vehicle was registered in. There are various reserved letters and combinations for special purposes. Similar schemes apply for vehicles registered under previous systems, where the letters and numbers might be in a different place and signify slightly different things.

    • @kalinaphillips9779
      @kalinaphillips9779 Год назад

      It was so much easier when the first (or previously the last one) letter signified a year in which the vehicle was register.

    • @roygavin8219
      @roygavin8219 Год назад

      The first registration plate, A1, was issued in 1903.

    • @scottirvine121
      @scottirvine121 Год назад +3

      @@kalinaphillips9779 yes but it was primarily changed to spread new car sales across the year, can’t remember the stat but like a third of new cars were sold in august just for the new letter prefix plate

  • @matteohetzy7599
    @matteohetzy7599 Год назад +8

    BTW: That Car is the "mighty" FIAT Panda 4x4 with Steyr-Puch transmission, the off-road version of a minimalistic and utilitarian car. Very beloved in Italy especially for people living or working in remote hardly accessible mountain areas like shepherds, forest guards. especially being very small it can get throu narrow trails where a regular off-road simply can't fit.
    I remember my uncle got one because he had to do maintainance to a plant inaccessible with everything else (except agricultural tractors) because there was a long, muddy and very steep(about 80%) climb, with the need to transport like big water pumps and electric motors (easily 50kg, ~100lb) to be replaced.
    It is compact for sure, but on the Alps I have seen a farmer carring 2-3 veils inside a car like that.

  • @MrFalconhead
    @MrFalconhead Год назад +7

    Aswell as the arrow buttons for 5 second skip, J & L are both 10 sec skip backwards and forwards. If anyone didnt know :D

  • @nedeast6845
    @nedeast6845 Год назад +6

    "still, could be worse" is a very English reaction to life

  • @D25Bev
    @D25Bev Год назад +6

    The train episode is great. They race against each other from London to Edinburgh in a car, bike & train from the same time period.

  • @DanielKjeldal
    @DanielKjeldal Год назад +9

    May is great, he tends to waffle one about things nobody knew could possibly be interesting while doing the most wondrous things from his sphere of interests.
    He has a really great series on toys where he explores toys from his youth and beyond, plus the many technical shows he has done and of course his fantastically chaotic cooking shows.
    Hammond also has some really fun shows, like Brainiac where he has some people do various science experiments in entertaining ways.

  • @SJ19_998
    @SJ19_998 Год назад +2

    Oh and puppy was top gear dog, she appears a few times and lived with Hammond, sadly she's passed since but I loved seeing her on the show

  • @Charlzey1998
    @Charlzey1998 Год назад +1

    9:15 yup, in late 2001 the DVLA introduced area letters depending on where the vehicle is registered so 'V' which is shown on Mays Chevrolet was registered in the Severn Valley (Worcestershire). 'L' covers London, 'C' covers Wales, 'S' covers Scotland, 'A' covers Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 'B' covers Birmingham & The Midlands, 'W' is the South West and so forth. The 2 numbers immediately after the first 2 letters identifies how old the car is. There are 2 sets; September to March & March to September. September to March uses 51 (2001-2002) - 72 (2022-2023) for reasons unknown to me... and March to September uses the exact year 02 (2002) - 23 (2023 current)
    Hope this helps

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 Год назад

      *September to February, and March to August.

  • @susanbearchell6436
    @susanbearchell6436 Год назад +1

    I never get fed up or fast fwd you. I love to watch your reactions

  • @Jamienomore
    @Jamienomore Год назад +1

    I don't have a problem with the huge amount of nonsensicle things you say. The second you pause a video I pause you, move to a bit your not talking and press play. I have to do it a huge amount of times but it's worth it.

  • @blindazabat9527
    @blindazabat9527 7 месяцев назад +1

    James is my favourite too. He has countless shows on everything. He's a real Renaissance man.

  • @kineuhansen8629
    @kineuhansen8629 Год назад +1

    the train clarkson is in is called tornado a rebuilt train and the episode if i remember right is called race to the north hammond is on a black shadow bike and may is in a jaguar xk120/140 cant remember

  • @davepb5798
    @davepb5798 Год назад +9

    A horsepower was based on a dray horse, it is 33,000 pounds, raised 1 foot in one minute, roughly equal to 750 watts.

  • @PiersDJackson
    @PiersDJackson Год назад +1

    Connor, you have the fundamentals of a steam locomotive almost right... at it's simplest coal is burnt in the firebox, that heats water by drawing heated air/exhaust forward to the smoke box and chimney (add superheaters to dry out steam and raise pressure), the steam formed then moves double acting cylinders (2, 3 or 4) which are attached to an axle (or 2), which are then linked together by side-rods. The exhaust steam is released into the smoke box and up the chimney, drawing a draught to pull smoke and heat forwards from the fire box.. some locomotives compound their cylinders, by having small diameter high pressure cylinders exhausting into a larger diameter low pressure cylinders before out through the smoke box and chimney.
    Why Coal and not Wood? The potential energy (calories) by weight, and burning temperature (500°c vs 750°c, wood va coal), also the size of the firebox.

  • @ajivins1
    @ajivins1 Год назад +1

    For May, you should seen James May's Toy Stories and James May's Cars of the People.

  • @stewrmo
    @stewrmo Год назад +12

    Thank God the fast forward button exists. Man, I got 2 mins in! STOP PAUSINNG.....!?!?!!?!😉

  • @J-S.P
    @J-S.P Год назад +8

    That first segment pertains to a 3-way 1939 race between the 1939 Jaguar XK120, the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle(fastest car and motorcycle in 1939) and a steam engine locomotive.
    Edit - it's actually 1949 which I originally put in, but thought I got wrong 😆

    • @steakandkidney3142
      @steakandkidney3142 Год назад

      That'll be 1949.

    • @J-S.P
      @J-S.P Год назад

      @@steakandkidney3142 😆 you know what I DID put 1949, and thought I got it wrong 😆

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 Год назад

      it's called Top Gear Race to the North. The Jaguar was actually registered in 1952, and the steam locomotive was completed in 2008 (to a 1940s design).

  • @shaggybaggums
    @shaggybaggums Год назад +2

    I wouldn't worry about pausing, we're here to watch a reaction after all. If people don't like it they can watch the original video.
    Thanks for the video though, it's fun seeing folks from around the world watching our stuff (among other things such as history and how things work) and I applaud your curiosity.

  • @squirepraggerstope3591
    @squirepraggerstope3591 Год назад +1

    Captain Slow does have a dry witted charm all of his own.

  • @DavidAndrewsPEC
    @DavidAndrewsPEC Год назад +1

    Don't worry, Connor. The reason for reaction videos is to see the pauses and hear the reactions ... it's a reaction video.
    If a person cannot understand that, they're too young to be on RUclips.

  • @Steve-gc5nt
    @Steve-gc5nt Год назад +2

    The little blue car James is in is a Fiat Panda.

  • @martinconnors5195
    @martinconnors5195 Год назад

    James's Mercedes running out of fuel, by the side of the autobahn is absolutely hysterical

  • @RWL2012
    @RWL2012 6 месяцев назад

    9:18 yes, British motor vehicle number plates do have "area identifiers" (albeit where the vehicle was originally, so not necessarily currently, registered), in addition to age identifiers and unique vehicle identifiers. For example, James' Chevrolet Aveo - VO09 CBY - VO (VA-VY) is the allocation for the Severn Valley which is the Worcester/Worcestershire area of the West Midlands in England, 09 means registered between March 1st 2009 and August 31st 2009, and then CBY is that vehicle's unique identifier within the VO09 area/age identifiers.

  • @ojonasar
    @ojonasar Год назад +1

    5:16 - his alternator wasn’t working properly and failing to keep the battery charged, hence the electrics conking out.

  • @YoloMenace001
    @YoloMenace001 Год назад

    Uk licence plate explanation:
    First 2 letters are used for what part of Great Britain the car has been registered in. The 2 numbers after are used for the year the car is registered in. The last 2 digits of the year eg. 18 for 2018 would be used for cars registered between march and augist 2018 while it would be 68 for cars registered between september 2018 and February 2019. The last 3 letters are random.

  • @adammullarkey4996
    @adammullarkey4996 Год назад +1

    Coal has higher energy density than wood, so using coal just means you get more energy from the same volume, which is important for trains, since they have to carry the fuel with them. This is one of the reasons most trains now use diesel, which has even higher energy density, or, better yet, overhead electrical supply, which means you don't have to carry the fuel at all.

  • @galaxspace1
    @galaxspace1 Год назад +2

    In the EU different letters on specific spots on a license plate are used to indicate which area from a country the car is registered in.
    Some countries like Italy put on the bottom of the blue EU stripe the initials of the city if its among the largest ones

    • @Moribax85
      @Moribax85 Год назад

      Slightly incorrect for Italy: we don't put the initials of the city, and we don't put them because they're the largest cities. For example, my car has "PD", that stands for Padova, you could see the initials would be "PA", but "PA" is Palermo. "BG" is Bergamo, the initials would have been "BE", but "BE" is unused, even if there are 3 cities that start with those letters, Belluno, Bergamo, and Benevento (respectively "BL", "BG", "BN").
      So, the 2 letters are not the initials of the city, but a code, and only a selected number of cities have it, their size is irrelevant: Rovigo has "RO", and has around 50k inhabitants, while Giugliano in Campania, with its over 120k inhabitants doesn't, that's because of the administrative structure of Italy. Italy is divided in 20 regions (Tuscany, Lazio, Veneto, etc.), and each region is divided in provinces, from 1 in Val d'Aosta, to 12 in Lombardy. Italy has a capital (Rome), and each Region has one aswell (Venice in Veneto, Milan in Lombardy, Florence in Tuscany, and so on) known as "Capoluogo di Regione", and each province has a capital aswell, known as "Capoluogo di Provincia", and those are the cities where the provincial administration have the offices, including the vehicle registration offices.
      The code you see on italian license plates is the code of the province in which the vehicle was registered.

  • @harleysveltan7724
    @harleysveltan7724 Год назад +1

    9:22 yes you can tell where a car is from by the plate the first 2 letter represent the place of origin and then the two following numbers represent the month and the last digit of the year that the car was produced, the final 3 letters are then randomized.

  • @VXGaming
    @VXGaming Год назад +9

    Argentina was a scary moment for Top Gear, they had a mob chase them out of the country.

    • @locohombreau
      @locohombreau Год назад

      because of the Falklands War and more particularly, the licence plate on Jeremy's Porsche 928 which to some people had a reference to that war.

  • @joecrammond6221
    @joecrammond6221 Год назад +2

    i don't think your pausing too much, it allows you the chance to discuss what you are watching

  • @denzzlinga
    @denzzlinga Год назад

    3:26 it´s season 13 episode 1, from 2009.
    They were asked what the show would be like, if they were doing it 60 years prior. They ansewerd, basically the same, they would take the fastest car of 1949, the fastest motorcycle and the fastest train of the time, and would race it from London to Edinburgh :D
    You can throw anything that burns into a steam locomotive. But coal is burning much hotter than wood, and contains more energy per volume, since it has been compressed over hunderts of thousands of years underground until it bacema hard as rock. It´s the same as with Oil, that contains tons more energy than wood. Burning wood results in more ashes and stuff too, and you need to throw in much much more than coal, so the loco would be much less efficient carrying so much wood arround instead of a couple tons of coal only.

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 Год назад

    They were staying in a caravan, and Hammond ran out of water while having a shower, so had to get some more.

  • @Steve-gc5nt
    @Steve-gc5nt Год назад +1

    There is a way of telling where a car is registered in the UK by the letters on the plate but most people don't realise it and it really isn't important anyway.

  • @aldomir
    @aldomir Год назад +2

    RE: License plate question. First, they're technically called "vehicle registration plates" here in the UK (they are associated with the vehicle, and not the driver - unlike other countries like the US, and much of mainland Europe), and they're colloquially known as simply "number plates". And yes, as of 2001 in England, Scotland, and Wales, there is a distinction depending where the car was first registered on the road - the first letter of the 7 characters. So A = Anglia, B = Birmingham, C = Cymru (Wales), M = Manchester and Merseyside, L = (guess) and so on, and so forth. However in Northern Ireland they have a different system, and I don't know what that is off the top of my head. Hilariously I bought my car from Belfast, NI, and it has the NI plate varient. I just a) can't be bothered to look up how that system works and b) I don't care. All that said you can buy personalised number plates with your own choice of characters on from the official governing body, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). These cost anywhere between a small amount to well into the thousands depending how few characters you have. Maybe someone does have the number plate "1" but something like that would be sold at auction for a heck of a lot of money - probably millions I would imagine.

    • @eozcompany9856
      @eozcompany9856 Год назад +1

      Not that many European countries have plates associated with a specific driver and not a car. That's just a thing for South Europe.

    • @aldomir
      @aldomir Год назад

      @@eozcompany9856 I think it's the case in Belgium at least. I have a friend there and it was him that told me. He bought a new car and had to transfer the plate over because it was registered to his driving licence.

    • @eozcompany9856
      @eozcompany9856 Год назад

      @@aldomir I belive that Belgium, Italy and Switzerland do it but otherwise, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and many others don't. Same with France I think.

    • @arwelp
      @arwelp Год назад +1

      N Ireland uses a system which is basically a continuation of the original 1903 system for the whole of GB and Ireland, where the 2nd and 3rd letters include either I or Z to indicate it was registered in an Irish county, starting alphabetically with IA = County Antrim (Antrim also later got DZ, KZ and RZ) - the numbers run from 1000 to 9999, with the numbers 1000 and where all the digits are the same being considered “cherished numbers” which you pay extra for. The rest of the UK ditched the original system in 1963, and the Republic of Ireland in around 1987.

  • @MKR5210
    @MKR5210 Год назад

    Horsepower refers to the power an engine produces. It's calculated through the power needed to move 550 pounds one foot in one second or by the power needs to move 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. The power is gauged by the rate it takes to do the work

  • @AlmightyCRJ
    @AlmightyCRJ Год назад +1

    A poor Coal can give off around twice the energy per weight from wood. It burns to a higher temperature.
    Wood also can burn unevenly, resulting in sparking cinders going through the exhaust chimney - possibly setting fire to the surrounding area.

  • @jackwalker4874
    @jackwalker4874 4 месяца назад

    Coal is prehistoric wood that got compressed millions of years ago. So it is more dense. Also less likely to throw out sparks.

  • @CharlieyT95
    @CharlieyT95 Год назад +1

    Cold burns at a higher temperature than wood creating much higher pressure in a boiler which generates more power.

  • @totalypeedoff
    @totalypeedoff Год назад +1

    Hello and good evening from the UK ....Horse power = how fast you can hit a wall from a standing start. Then you bring in torque, that equals how far your vehicle would push that wall after you hit it at the same speed.

  • @Poizon-
    @Poizon- Год назад

    Horsepower came about in the 18th century and is based on how much power a pony (not full size horse) normally produces as an average over one minute. But because they can momentarily be stronger then the one minute average they can output approximately 15 horsepower momentarily!

  • @yvplayz7813
    @yvplayz7813 Год назад +1

    16:57 its a fiat panda mk1

  • @caroline4323
    @caroline4323 Год назад +1

    I know I have a stove that I can either stack with coal in the morning and not care till the day after (and the whole flat is warm and cosy) or I need to watch it and put wood in once in a while the whole day. :).
    But others described it better :)

  • @Someloke8895
    @Someloke8895 Год назад +2

    You should watch Jeremy's Ford Fiesta Beach Assault. Also the Train vs Car vs Motorcycle race was called "Race to Edinburgh"

  • @newuk26
    @newuk26 Год назад

    In terms of the licence plates, the first two letters indicate which part of the country the car is from. However that is only true for England, Scotland, and Wales. Northern Ireland has a different plate system to the rest of the UK

  • @schtoff8200
    @schtoff8200 Год назад

    13:45 they wired his brake cable into the horn so everytime he touched the brake pedal, the horn sounded.

  • @sophiegeorge2816
    @sophiegeorge2816 Год назад

    My dad worked on steam trains and he often used to have eggs fried on the shovel in the fire

  • @TheOystei
    @TheOystei Год назад

    17:00
    It's a Fiat panda 4x4 (i believe it to be a 1st gen facelift)
    The Jeremy Corbin reference clarksson made is to the former party leader for the british labor party, so a prominent politican in the UK

  • @Steve-gc5nt
    @Steve-gc5nt Год назад +9

    And the winner of Messiest Intro ever goes to......this one! 😅

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 Год назад

    Some of the letters of the number plate denote where the car was registered, but it can be bought by someone living anywhere. Ireland have different number plates, but England, Scotland and Wales use the same style.

  • @papalaz4444244
    @papalaz4444244 Год назад

    In Argentina they were nearly stoned to death. That's not a joke. They had to run away and abandon their cars.
    You should watch the complete episodes. especially the specials.

  • @FXGreggan.
    @FXGreggan. Год назад +2

    ~17:00 that's a Fiat Panda

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 Год назад

    Coal used to be wood until it was compressed. Coal is therefore more dense and has more potential energy.

  • @adamtoms761
    @adamtoms761 Год назад

    “I would rather be inside Paul Scholes” 😂😂😂😂

  • @colingregory7464
    @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

    The £1500 Italian supercars episode is one of my favourites, along the British Leyland h2h and some bits of the Deep South trip (the Florida race track and the crocodile pond at the end of the straight)

    • @colingregory7464
      @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

      The car was a Fiat Panda
      Jeremy Corbin was a very "dedicated" former leader of the British Labour Party who for various reasons became unelectable

    • @colingregory7464
      @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

      Cycling anywhere near tram tracks is very challenging, if you were bright you would get off and walk (I never did !)

    • @colingregory7464
      @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

      If you make charcoal from the wood it makes it a much better fuel, but coal especially when powdered and blown into the combustion chamber is very effective

    • @colingregory7464
      @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

      For while in the UK you could buy £1 cars (it was cheaper to sell it for nothing than to say to scrap it !)

    • @colingregory7464
      @colingregory7464 4 месяца назад

      Have you seen the V8 Blender clip from Top Gear ?

  • @davestubbs7274
    @davestubbs7274 Год назад +4

    Great reaction as ever . apparently coal was more efficient than wood and was easier to handle. also maybe in parts of the US wood was plentiful in remote areas than coal.

    • @ajivins1
      @ajivins1 Год назад +1

      You'd need a lot more storage space/larger tender if you only burned wood.

  • @lowlygrinder2977
    @lowlygrinder2977 Год назад +2

    I'm surprised he hasn't reacted to Hammond's accident video yet.

  • @RS14988
    @RS14988 Год назад

    "Getting used to the driver being on the right side which is the wrong side"
    On the other hand, it could be our driver's seats are on the right side because it's the correct side :P In all seriousness though, in the UK, we drive on the left hand side of the road, so being on the right hand side of the car means we can see people coming up behind us easier. Also means passengers getting out of the car are less at risk because they get out on the pavement side.
    And your question about needing a different license for different parts of the UK, it doesn't happen. The DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) is run by the government, so it's pretty standard across the board. Also we're a lot smaller than USA so there's no need for so many different rules in different places.

  • @scottyj8112
    @scottyj8112 Год назад

    If you can find full seasons of top gear in the states via a VPN or whatever, for the train race episode it is season 13 episode 1.

  • @chrismatthews2040
    @chrismatthews2040 Год назад

    Coal is denser and simply more calorific than wood, so coal is the premium choice of fuel for steam locos. The UK has historically had large reserves of coal. That's why the railway was invented in Britain, primarily to haul coal around from the mines to the ports.
    Coal is more scarce in the USA, so your locomotives had to be built to handle wood, which was more plentiful - this is why American locomotives have those classic huge wedge-shaped devices on the funnel, which are called smoke arrestors and they stop the unburnt wood embers from floating out and setting fire to the countryside. Coal doesn't do that quite so much so British locos have never needed them, hence the more sleek and elegant shape.
    And technically, I suppose you could use wood inside a coal-firing engine in a pinch, as external combustion engines are less fussy about what they eat than internal combustion ones. But even so, it's best to stick to the fuel the engine was designed for on the whole.

  • @TangibleBelly
    @TangibleBelly Год назад

    I REALLY appreciate the pausing

  • @martinmorgan4215
    @martinmorgan4215 Год назад

    James's car H660GKL was a Fiat Panda and its MOT ran out on 14th Feb 2021.

    • @101steel4
      @101steel4 Год назад

      You'll need to explain what an MOT is. They don't have that over there. Just drive it until it falls apart lol

  • @MKPFave
    @MKPFave Год назад

    All three of them do their own driving stunts. Richard Hammond was badly injured in 2006 when he crashed a jet powered car. He was in a coma for 2 weeks and suffered some brain damage. I think all of them have suffered injuries at some point.

  • @tedroper9195
    @tedroper9195 Год назад

    Serial format AA11 AAA Colour, (front)Black on white, Colour (rear) Black on yellow
    AA= Licencing Area
    11= Period when registered
    the ‘AB01 ABC’ format that was launched in 2001. For example - the ‘AB01 ABC’ example we’ve just used would be a car that was registered in 2001 in the Anglia region. What’s more, the area code also tells you which DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) Office first registered the vehicle

  • @whovianhistorybuff
    @whovianhistorybuff Год назад

    Coal is an energy dense fuel, meaning it burns efficiently, and producesmore heat per weight unit. It also means a coal burning appliance is capable of producing 2x more BTU/hr. than a wood burning appliance, you can fire a steam locomotive with wood but you'd need more of it and have to stoke much more frequently, at speed that particular locomotive needs 30lbs of coal a mile, it would need about twice that for wood, plus wood needs to be dry and kept dry, if it were to rain on the tender wet wood won't burn so well whereas coal will not be so badly effected by water, it also burns at a much higher temperature.

  • @tobiasmills9647
    @tobiasmills9647 Год назад

    The fact that there are states multitudes larger than the UK would make having different number plates completely pointless.
    You can drive from the entire length of England in less than a day.

  • @Tar-Numendil
    @Tar-Numendil Год назад

    Most if not all 18 wheelers have air-ride suspension. I don't know about the drivers, but i've been a passenger with my dad countless times over some pretty rough roads. I never found it uncomfortable.

  • @MrLeighman
    @MrLeighman Год назад +1

    Yes, You are right. You could just use wood but the energy density of coal is a lot highter so it does not take up as much space.

  • @YouVidTuber
    @YouVidTuber Год назад

    The original thought of horsepower was "how many horses would it take to replace this" which as you can imagine, was a completely made up figure.
    But, no reason to change it after having stuck with it this long.

  • @samsativa245
    @samsativa245 Год назад

    They don't have stunt drivers mate, Hammond has almost died twice filming for top gear and grand tour

    • @jackwalker4874
      @jackwalker4874 4 месяца назад

      They did send a previous Stig off of the ski-jump of an aircraft carrier

  • @anthonyholroyd5359
    @anthonyholroyd5359 Год назад

    As others have said - you can run a steam engine off a wood fire (many early U S railroads did exactly that) but coal was
    1. Plentiful and cheap in the UK during the age of steam.
    2. Is a more energy dense fuel that burns hotter. More heat = greater boiler pressure and more power for the locomotive.

  • @Mean-bj8wp
    @Mean-bj8wp Год назад

    That is a Fiat Panda 4x4 and is a brilliant little car. They did do all their driving hence why Hammond crashed a rocket car at over 300mph and nearly died and he crashed an electric car and nearly died and may crashed a evo 10 and nearly died.

  • @debm3041
    @debm3041 Год назад

    When Jeremy is on the steam train, he is on the Tornado, that was finished in 2008 in my home town

  • @paulmurphy5648
    @paulmurphy5648 Год назад

    Horsepower is calculated by multiplying the amount of force (in pounds) by the speed (in feet per second). So, let's say your car's engine can generate 200 pounds of force and move at a speed of 2 feet per second. The engine horsepower would be 400 (200 x 2).

  • @bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling
    @bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling Год назад

    1 horsepower / hp is roughly equivalent to around 745 watts. so for some perspective a toaster would be around 3hp , an olympic track cyclist such as chris hoy could produce a max of 2500 watts or almost 3.4 hp and a person doing a brisk walk might produce around 120 watts or less than 0.2hp

  • @jerry2357
    @jerry2357 Год назад

    Coal has a calorific value of over 30 MJ/kg, but even bone dry wood has a maximum value of 20 MJ/kg (and wood typically has a moisture content of over 10%, which reduces its calorific value). So you need to burn less than two thirds of the mass of coal to release the same energy in combustion as a mass of wood. And, of course, coal is more dense than wood, so the volume of coal is much smaller than the volume of wood needed to give the same energy release.

  • @elnyoutube123
    @elnyoutube123 Год назад +1

    16:58 that's a Fiat panda

  • @Thenerdywalrus
    @Thenerdywalrus Год назад

    The little blue car May was driving is a Fiat panda 4x4, and absolutely cracking little car. I had the normal front wheel drive version as my first car. Tiny 1.0 litre engine and only 45 horsepower but all those horses should have been in a Ferrari. Never had a car that wanted to go fast as much as my panda, not that i could go fast though

  • @Squiddy-go1du
    @Squiddy-go1du Год назад

    He didn’t fight in the Falklands but he did almost get killed in Argentina.

  • @svenpedersen9140
    @svenpedersen9140 7 месяцев назад

    12:50 in. You made me laugh... it actually looks like your chair (upside down) :)

  • @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering
    @jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Год назад +1

    The boat was the New Zealand episode where Jeremy was proving that a hire car is the fastest car in the world as cos it’s not yours you thrash it to hell , he was racing James on a boat to the tip of the north island 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @Moribax85
    @Moribax85 Год назад

    The car you though was a Suzuki, the one that ended on 3 wheels, driven by James May, is not a Suzuki at all, it's the legendary Fiat Panda 4x4, specifically the limited edition "Sisley" version, born in 1987. If you wanna get it used now, almost 40 years after it came out, you better be prepared to spend enough money to get a new car.
    As for Horse Power, yep, that's exactly how it happened: when the steam engine was invented and started to be commercialized, the inventor had to relate it to what the potential customers knew, horse-drawn carriages, so he started saying that that engine had the power of 20 horses. The comparison stuck for any mechanical engine, at least in common language. In scientific language, and so for engineers and legislators, kW is preferred.

  • @frankparsons1629
    @frankparsons1629 Год назад

    The calorific vale of wood is so very much lower than coal, a steam engine wouldn't move an eighth of an inch if you tried wood, instant disaster!! However the fire in a steam locomotive is started with oily rags and "kindling" wood, then the coal is added gradually, building it up over a few hours, it ain't instant, generally you start at 4 in the morning to be ready to rock an roll by 9. Britains Industrial revolution was built on coal, which was used as early as the 1600's and afterwards for smelting and certainly replaced charcoal. Thank you Mr. Bessemer.
    Yes, they are completely bonkers, with a capital "B". Bless 'em. Yep. Its Hammond, he's bonkers as well!

  • @cameronrichardson3108
    @cameronrichardson3108 Год назад

    In old number plates like back in the 60s you could tell where a car was registered by a few of the letters, but now you would just get the name of the number plate printer so if you bought from a dealer more often then not it’d have like Arnold Clark, Carlisle CA1 2EZ or something along those lines maybe a phone number sometimes a GB or Scotland flag and that

  • @salto1994
    @salto1994 Год назад

    Nice reaction. Connor you godda do reactions to the whole special movies from top gear

  • @kossakken
    @kossakken Год назад +1

    Thank god the fast forward button exists. Damn this guy talks a lot.

  • @jamesdignanmusic2765
    @jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

    The three of them basically got run out of Argentina by an angry mob during one of their TV specials, hence the Argentina comment. And the UK doesn't have separate plates for different places but there is a way of working out where a vehicle was registered from the numbers on the plate. You'd have to be a real car-spotting geek to know all the codes! And they do their own stunts - Richard Hammond almost got killed in a stunt several years ago.

  • @rosiesimons9723
    @rosiesimons9723 Год назад

    The car that turned into an underwater vehicle with propellers was in a Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me:
    ruclips.net/video/yeBqf6bYZak/видео.html

  • @omegasue
    @omegasue Год назад

    cars' registration plate in the UK will tell you the county they're from using 2 letters from the alphabet as part of the registration i.e., the Isle of Wight (which used to be DL) is now HW which stands for Hampshire and Wight.

    • @TheOystei
      @TheOystei Год назад

      what county does FE comes from? I have a track car that's exported from the UK that still has it's uk plate on it. iirc the 53 on it would correlate to reg. in 2003?

  • @yorkshirefazer
    @yorkshirefazer Год назад

    coal is much more energy dense than wood. i.e. the same volume of coal contains much more "power" than wood. for reg plates, it usually the first 2 letters that give an indication where the car was first registered. as in anything starting with "y" is usually registered in yorkshire.

  • @10thdoctor15
    @10thdoctor15 9 месяцев назад

    James' Lambo wasn't an EV, the battery was flat.

  • @markpaweena781
    @markpaweena781 Год назад

    Best way to learn about cars is to pull it apart and put it back together.

  • @ukbusman
    @ukbusman Год назад

    Hi Conner, I'm a bus driver of over 20 years and I can tell you your core is shot. We all suffer with bad backs, bad knees, neck pain and over enlarged biceps, all due to firm suspension and bad roads, pot holes etc. Love you whinging at the pause complainers....lol

  • @achvi_rw7095
    @achvi_rw7095 Год назад

    I imagine, that there is water trapped in the wood being the main reason to use coal. But I also assume coal is more dense with carbon than wood.

  • @dnf-dead
    @dnf-dead Год назад

    I worked for a guy who trained gun dogs as a youth and I was allowed to fire a shotgun.... I didn't have it tucked into my shoulder and almost dislocated it...🤣 🤣 🤣

  • @schtoff8200
    @schtoff8200 Год назад

    23:10 yeah, wasn't planned, he broke a very expensive bicycle in the process too.

  • @flopjul3022
    @flopjul3022 Год назад

    9:10 in europe there are countries that have license plates based on the province(France for example) or city/area(Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany...) but tbf there are already country plates with the EU

  • @andrewashdown3541
    @andrewashdown3541 Год назад

    'can't sweat' is a ref to Prince Andrew